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[QUOTE=Robert D. Robot;5814499]A is for Antedeans (a handsome race )
B is for Berengaria VII (Spock states 'Here be Dragons')
C is for Captain (Rank)
D is for Donatra, Commander
E is for Elim Garak
F is for Forced mindmeld
G is for Gomtuu
H is for Holoaddiction
I is for "I... have had... enough... of YOU!!!"
J is for Jupiter (Largest Planet on the Sol System)
K is for Krenim Imperium
L is for Legarans
M is for M-5
N is for Nova Class
O is for Omicron Ceti III
P is for positronic braaaaaiiiinnnns
Q is for Q, who thought the USS Enterprise-D was quietly quaint.
R is for "Regards to Captain Dunsel."
S is for Second Star to the Right (And straight on 'til morning.)
T is for T'Pol touches tentative Tripp Tucker therapeutically
U is for United Star Ships (assorted)
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Date: June 23, 2011
Recording of Webinar: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p12551179/
Informatics for Librarians
Harold Lehmann, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Health Sciences Informatics and Pediatrics, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Lehmann, is a professor and board-certified general pediatrician with doctoral training in biomedical informatics. His research area has involved evidence-based medicine and clinical decision making, so he comes to today's session with much affection for the library community. He has also founded many of Johns Hopkins' health sciences informatics training opportunities ranging from an undergraduate course, through post-baccalaureate certificates, masters, a new PhD, and post-doctoral training. Along with Nancy Roderer, he is figuring out what the ideal educational experience would be for librarians regarding informatics and looks forward to hearing suggestions from the group.
Nancy Roderer, MLS, AHIP, ACMI - Professor and Director, Health Sciences Informatics and Director of Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Ms. Roderer is a professor in the Division of Health Sciences Informatics in the School of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She serves as Director of the Welch Medical Library and Director of the Division of Health Sciences Informatics. Professor Roderer is a graduate of the University of Dayton (Mathematics and Computer Science) and the University of Maryland (Library and Information Services and Computer Science). She has previously pursued her interests in understanding and facilitating information use and in integrated information management through both operational and research activities at Columbia and Yale Universities, including service as Co-Principal Investigator of IAIMS projects at both institutions. Professor Roderer's research and teaching focuses primarily on the information behavior of health sciences personnel and on developing systems and services to better meet the needs of that community.
Mary Lou Glazer, MLS, AHIP - Chief, Medical Library at Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Adjunct Professor at Dowling College, Northport, New York
Ms. Glazer graduated from Long Island University - C. W. Post with a Bachelors degree in Accounting and from CUNY Queens College for her Masters in Library Science. She is now completing a Clinical Informatics certificate program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was a fellow at the National Library of Medicine Bioinformatics Program at Woods Hole, MA. Mary Lou Glazer has been the Chief of the Medical Library at the Northport (NY) VA Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs for over four years and also teaches library research at several local colleges.
List of previously presented web conferences on subjects such as marketing your library and NN/LM updates.

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text: Waylon Jennings at the Performance Centre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1976. Jennings, who died in 2002, was an accomplished singer, songwriter and musician. As a youngster he played with Buddy Holly - and gave up his seat in the fateful plane to J. P. Richardson, who was suffering from a cold. The flight that carried Holly, Richardson and Ritchie Valens crashed, on the day later known as The Day the Music Died.Picture: Henry Horenstein/W.W. Norton Ltd


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By The Pressure Positive Co.
The Pressure Positive Company is pleased to announce the addition of The Original RAW-DOCK™ Companion Tool to their product line of deep muscle self care tools.
By Valerie DeLaune, LAc
Author and instructor Valerie DeLaune will be presenting on trigger points at three conferences in 2012, and will also be touring teaching workshops for health care professionals in Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.
By Valerie DeLaune, LAc
Trigger Point Therapy for Repetitive Strain Injury: Your Self Treatment Workbook for Elbow, Lower Arm, Wrist, and Hand Pain will be released May 3, 2012.
By Valerie DeLaune, LAc
New book released "Pain Relief with Trigger Point Self-Help"
By Lotus Publishing
Pain Relief With Trigger Point Self-Help is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to treat their own pain and other trigger point-related symptoms.
By The Pressure Positive Company
The Pressure Positive Company is pleased to announce that they have partnered with TMJ Pain Solutions, LLC to offer the MyoFree® Solution, TMJ and facial pain self care tool in the Pressure Positive deep muscle self care product line.
By Ira L Shapira DDA, D,AAPM, D,ABDSM, FICCMO
Dr Ira L Shapira is a Neuromuscular Dentist who uses neuromuscular dentistry to treat chronic headaches and migraines. He frequently utilizes a technique utilizing vapocoolant sprays to instantly relieve pain as part of the diagnostic interview.
By The Art of Touch Massage & Bodywork
The Art of Touch healing arts center, a massage clinic in Largo FL, commemorates its 2 year anniversary. They are offering a promotion to new and existing clients.
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St Lucia Shore Excursion: A Tour of St Lucia
We've selected the best candid trip photos submitted by our users to help you decide if the St Lucia Shore Excursion: A Tour of St Lucia is right for you. Make the most of your next trip to St Lucia with Viator's exclusive Photo Galleries.
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Scenic overlook in St. Lucia
August 2013
My boyfriend and I stopping for a photo op with our cruise ship in the background; our gracious driver Prince was an excellent photographer for us!
mud bath at Sulphur springs
June 2012
we didn't try it, but many others did
Sulphur prings
June 2012
hot and bubbling and a little smelly
hole in rock
June 2012
we ask the drive, but he said there was no special name for this odd hole in the rock
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View of the Pitons, one is partially covered in clouds
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Adam Kolbeck, 3, launches marbles at an easel as the Bridge Center's Traci Swink, left, and his mother, Amanda, watch him Thursday at the Kolbecks' home in Hewitt. The Kolbeck's are participating in the P.L.A.Y. Project through the Bridge Center.
Autism rates climbed nearly 30 percent between 2008 and 2010 and have more than doubled since the turn of the century, according to the study released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
One in every 109 Wisconsin children is affected by autism, while one in every 68 children is affected nationwide.
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Today's post is dedicated to all those little finds I snagged at Goodwill for potential wall art. Most of them needed mini-makeovers. This is what one of them looks like now.
There's my little helper in the background.
A close up shot to see all the pretty details.
Aren't they just darling? I love their crisp, clean look. These little babies will be making their home in the voice studio for a gallery wall I'm going to attempt. I'm laughing already. Might be really great or just a plain bust. Gotta try! Tell me what you think. You like the pretty whiteness? That's it for now. Please come back and remember to be kind to one another.
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When word comes in that a Lord of the Outer Night has been sighted for the first time in decades, Warden Harry Dresden is assigned to infiltrate its city with a precise strike team and dismantle the ancient vampire's stronghold. Given his track record for punching above his weight limit, however, will that plan stick or will they end up fighting the near-god itself? AU-pre Changes.
Categories: The Dresden Files
Characters: Harry Dresden, Jared Kincaid, Molly Carpenter, Thomas Raith
Genres: Action/Adventure, AU, Drama, Humour
Ships: None
Warnings: Contains Spoilers, Mild Adult Language, Mild Adult Violence, Sexual Content, Strong Adult Romance, Strong Adult Violence
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Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
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When Harry Dresden awoke that morning, a distant warning bell was echoing in his head. The kind of thing that usually alerts a Wizard that bad things are lurking in the day ahead. How bad? Try an elder god knocking on his front door, the timeline recently fractured and barely patched back together again, and the threat of the Outer Gates crumbling. Can he find a way to fix it all, and is he still even the same man he was when he went to sleep the night before?
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Characters: Harry Dresden
Genres: Action/Adventure, AU, Drama, Fantasy
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Wonderful World of Animation Art Gallery
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Peanuts (c. 1970s/1980s)
Production cel of Charlie Brown, Lucy Van Pelt, Violet, Schroeder and Linus.
He did it again! Great scene of the gang, super facial expressions.
There is a small tear of .5" extending from the lower left peg hole, which is not uncommon for studio-handled production material and can easily be matted out.
The size of this piece is 12 Field (11"x13") and the size of the image is 2.5" h x 5.25" w.
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Can the Obama administration really be better than the Bush administration?
Enemies of the State – Traitors of our Nation,
Can it be that the State itself has become traitorous,
Defiant to the brave, bold ideals of Democracy
Set into motion through acts of Colonial Terrorism?
The noble ideals of our Forefathers are hereticized
By an increasingly tyrannical political machine.
The mewling infant cries of this New World Order
Resurrecting the philosophies and nightmares of the 3rd Reich
Subcutaneous G.P.S. chips and National I.D. Cards
Become tools of the new broken cross' masters
Republicans and Democrats, the new Socialist taskmasters,
Screaming for change: "Give up your liberties for freedom!"
While the only threat to the citizens stands on a pulpit before the Stars and Stripes
Preaching that he was "….not born in a manger, but on Krypton."
With the building of so many F.E.M.A. camps
Scattered across our Nation like Nazi concentration camps
And talks of a Homeland Security Force – a U.S.S.S.
How far can we really be from mass round-ups and executions?
The double and triple tiered prison cars are already on the rails
Ready to transport 'civil dissidents' to the camps for imprisonment;
The American populace quickly becoming the
Commies of the Red Scare and the Nazi's Jews.
Have we truly become the Land of the Feeble and the Home of the Enslaved?
Have we become the Socialist States of the New World Order?
God save the Free! God save the U.S.A.!
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ISSUE Project Room Radio
Pat Spadine, Ashcan Orchestra
In this interview from Clocktower Radio, Eve Essex talks to composer Pat Spadine about his story-driven, genre-defying, deliciously sensual, multimedia "opera", Apollo's Accidental Answer, which appears in its final form at ISSUE Friday, June 27, 2014.
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ISSUE Radio: Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul
Recorded live in June 2013, percussionist Eli Keszler and saxophonist Ashley Paul perform a duo as part of the PAN_ACT festival. Keszler's bowed crotales and cymbals resonate within Paul's altissimo sustains and drastic pitch bends. The split tone combinations from these instruments is surprising and overwhelming, creating continuously shifting, multi-layered harmonics and intense inner ear sound.
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ISSUE Radio: Tony Conrad solo
A pioneering force behind the evolution of minimalism, violinist and composer Tony Conrad's performances employ a droning, mesmerizing performance idiom of long durations, amplification, and precise pitch to explore new worlds of sound. In this recording, Conrad performs live on solo violin in celebration of ISSUE Project Room's 10th anniversary, recorded live in July 2013.
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ISSUE Radio: The Ashcan Orchestra
Using a medley of instruments from children's hand bells to found objects, The Ashcan Orchestra led by composer/performer Pat Spadine perform live at an ISSUE show in November 2012. The D.I.Y. ensemble adopts ideas of grander ends from humble beginnings.
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large selection of organicsPosted on 07 / 23 / 2014
This small chic grocery store is a ten-minute walk from the lovely Kew Gardens. It has a surprisingly large selection of organic produce, organic grains and cereals, organic prepared foods and snacks, organic meats (men), and health supplements. Everything is astonishingly expensive (for example £4 for a raw organic vegan gluten-free oatmeal cookie half the size of my palm).
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Moving funeral for loving Churchdown dad and friend Paul Stroud
Posted: November 23, 2012|
FINAL goodbyes were said to dedicated dad Paul Stroud yesterday as friends and family remembered a loving husband, son and companion – with a mischievous streak.
It was standing room only at Gloucester Crematorium as hundreds turned out to pay their respects to the 31-year-old, who died this month after he was diagnosed with cancer in May.
Those who spoke at the service were not short of tales of adventure to share but it was his dedication to wife Vikki, 25, and their young children Harry, four, and Ella, 18 months, which shone through all the tributes.
Paul's dad Tim said: "He was born on January 30 1981 and announced his arrival by interrupting my favourite TV programme, Hill Street Blues. It was also the worst night's weather we'd seen in years; I drove to the hospital with my head out of the window because of the fog.
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"I knew from that moment he was going to be my best mate but that he was going to be someone always doing things his own way."
Aged four, Paul, or 'Stroudy' as we was also known, turned the power back on in the family home while his dad was working on the circuits.
"I got 240 volts, was thrown across the room and it was that day that I introduced Paul to some colourful language," he said.
There was no doubt from that day on what Paul, from Churchdown, would become - an electrician.
Tim added: "He faced his fight with great courage. We are allowed to cry today but not for long, because it's not what he wanted."
His love for his family was rivalled only by his passion for Gloucester Rugby. Many mourners at the funeral, which Paul himself had organised, wore Cherry and Whites shirts.
Some of his favourite music was played too, including He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by The Hollies, Jerusalem and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
A trust fund has been set up for Harry and Ella, who also had Aerosmith's I Don't Want to Miss a Thing played in their dedication.


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the transplastic series tells a fictional story:
in a world made of plastic and synthetic matter,
a fertile ground is laid for transgenic creations.
natural fibres recover the plastic as in an
immunological response: nature grows from the
plastic and overpowers it.
this collection encapsulates many concepts
explored throughout the campana's trajectory;
revisiting material clashes with a more mature
approach. it refers back to the premise,
used in 2000 with the 'shark chair',
to challenge contrasts: of nature and plastic,
cold and warm, textured and smooth surfaces.
at the end of 2005, the preceding years of
research evolved in an organic fashion by
transforming into a
collection of 31 prototypes that are to be
displayed for the first time at albion gallery
in london.
regular chairs, multiple-seating chairs, lamps,
illuminated meteors, clouds and islands have been
created by taking advantage of the elasticity of
natural fibre. taking as a starting point plastic
chairs, water containers and rudimentary wood
stools, natural fibre extensions were added,
altering the original form.
the pieces subsequently took on a geographic
dimension through organic shapes, adding value
and comfort to the original base material.
all the pieces are handcrafted with a very
typical brazilian fibre, 'apuí'.
the extraction of this fibre helps preserve and
control the biodiversity of the forests as apuí
suffocates and kills the trees from which they
grow. these fibres are removed manually,
without any tools or processes that may harm
the trees. the fibre is an analogy for this series
of work; the wicker begins to grow from the plastic,
suffocating and drawing nourishment from it,
reinforcing the original theses of the fictional
story fernando and humberto campana have
chosen to tell.
in the past, all the brazilian terraces and
semi-outdoor cafes were furnished with wicker
pieces. over time, these were gradually
substituted for the more practical and long-lasting
plastic ones. the campana brothers have chosen
to play with this idea and bring back the old
tradition of wicker furniture in a hybrid,
playful manner.
'when I go to the workshop where part of the
transplastic collection is being manufactured,
I feel passionate with the possibilities of this
I am discovering an elasticity in this project that is
very fulfilling. and to me it has a special meaning
because when I left law school, I used to make
wicker baskets. it has taken me 20 years to
mature this idea and to take back on this material
that appealed to me in my first steps as a
designer.' humberto campana says.
the campana brothers have also been invited by
the V&A (victoria and albert museum in london)
to design their garden, which will run parallel to
the campana's exhibition at albion gallery.
the installation at the V&A will open on the
21 july and run until 14 october 2007.


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Lunar New Year 2013
Lunar New Year 2013 takes place on Sunday, February 10. It is based on cycles of the lunar phase and for the Chinese it is also known as the 'Spring Festival'. Chinese New Year celebrations begin the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day and provide an opportunity for families to get together for dinner. Food will include pork, duck, chicken and sweet delicacies and the family will end the night by setting off firecrackers. This year (2013) is the year of the snake.
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Subdued start to Tibetan New Year
Tibetans in the region around Xiahe, Gansu province, which has been a focus of self-immolation protests against Beijing's rule, marked a low-key Tibetan New Year yesterday, with many saying celebrations were inappropriate while the burnings continued. The Tibetan New Year is supposed to be a time for celebration, but many Tibetans in Xiahe said there would be no entertainment this year. "It really isn't appropriate because of the self-immolations. So we're not marking the new year," said a Tibetan man who gave his name as Dorje. Reuters
Cancelling fireworks ignites mixed reaction
The Guangzhou city government's decision to save money and cut air pollution by not holding a Lunar New Year's Day fireworks show for the first time in 19 years drew a mixed response from residents, the Southern Metropolis Daily reports. Some said the change was a step towards a more environmentally friendly holiday, but others said they were disappointed it was cancelled. Stephen Chen
Japan's gift to help patrol troubled waters
Japan plans to donate patrol boats costing US$11 million each to the Philippines, ramping up regional efforts to monitor China's maritime activity in disputed waters, the Nikkei business daily said. Both countries are locked in separate territorial disputes with China. AFP
China's ping-pong diplomat dies
Three-time world table tennis champion Zhuang Zedong, a key figure in the groundbreaking "ping pong diplomacy" between China and the United States in the early 1970s, died on Sunday. He was 72 and had struggled with cancer since 2008. Zhuang, born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, married pianist Bao Huiqiao in 1967. They divorced in 1985 and in 1987 he married Chinese-born Japanese Sasaki Atsuko. AP, Xinhua


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'History' Archives
On this Day: October 20, 1803
U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase On this day in 1803, the U.S. Senate approves a treaty with France providing for the purchase of the territory of Louisiana, which would double the size of the United States. At the end of 18th century, the Spanish technically owned Louisiana, the huge region west of the Mississippi that had once been claimed by France and named for its monarch, King Louis XIV. Despite Spanish ownership, American settlers in search of new land were already ... Full Story
On this day: October 19, 1781
Victory at Yorktown Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution. Lord Cornwallis was one of the most capable British generals of the American Revolution. In 1776, he drove General George Washington's Patriots forces out of New Jersey, and in 1780 he won a stunning victory over General Horatio Gates' Patriot ... Full Story
On this Day: October 18, 1767
Mason and Dixon draw a line On this day in 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia. The Penn and Calvert families had hired Mason and Dixon, English surveyors, to settle their dispute over the boundary between their two proprietary colonies, Pennsylvania and Maryland. In 1760, tired of border violence between the ... Full Story
On this Day: October 17, 1931
Capone goes to prison On this day in 1931, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and 1930s. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899 to Italian immigrants. He was expelled from school at 14, joined a gang and earned his nickname "Scarface" after being sliced across the cheek during a fight. By 1920, Capone had moved to Chicago, ... Full Story
On this Day: October 16, 1859
Oct 16, 1859: Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. Born in Connecticut in 1800 and raised in Ohio, Brown came from a staunchly Calvinist and antislavery family. He spent much of his life failing at a variety of businesses--he declared bankruptcy at age 42 ... Full Story


text: July 15, 2012: Gov. Rick Perry says Texas will not take part in the federal mandate to expand the Medicaid program in the state saying that he "will not be party to socializing health care and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our limited government." How will this affect our healthcare?


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2014 was year of big successes (Frozen), milestones (Hello Kitty's 40th) and industry-changing innovations (3D printing). Here's a recap of the news that shaped the year.
Two video games for SEGA's new Sonic the Hedgehog brand, Sonic Boom, have launched at retailers across the U.S.
Tomy, the global master toy partner for SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog, has launched the all-new Sonic Boom toy line exclusively available at Toys 'R' Us.
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It's quite simple really…
Weird topic? Perhaps. Don't get the point wrong though. It's not to condone making someone pee themselves. It's just one really good way to do it.
So what is the answer? Laughing. It is incredibly simple. Laughter is the best medicine for a lot of illnesses whether they are physical, mental or emotional. It gives us better blood circulation, it helps get our cells healthier and it helps to distract us from our stresses of life. Through all of these good things, yes, it can make us urinate.
Have you ever been laughing so hard that you wanted to use the bathroom? Unfortunately some people don't get to experience this. You saw right, this is unfortunate. Laughing is a sign of being happy. There are some individuals who rarely laugh. This could be because of their situation or their personality. Amazingly enough, there are some people in terrible circumstances that are still able to laugh – this is to be commended.
Laughing no matter one's situation is a healthy thing. This doesn't include laughing at other people. Laughing at oneself however is a good way to deal with life sometimes. You shouldn't have to stop yourself from laughing. It doesn't matter if everyone else thinks that you are silly or otherwise. This is good for the body. It's not really recommended that you try to pee yourself, but you get the point.
There are so many good things that can come from laughing. If you urinate then you wouldn't be the first. If you make someone else do that then at least you made them happy for a while. You can check it out yourself if you want – not to make someone pee, but the benefits that you and others can get from laughing. You might be amazed at what you find. When you do find out, go have a laugh for yourself and share it with your friends.
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In order to build a team, we must first form bonds.
Take atoms for example. An atom is the smallest building block of everything that exists today. Everything!
To become everything you see and touch, atoms must work together. They need to bond with other atoms. Atoms that don't bond are …well… just atoms.
Each atom is special, unique and awesome, but you can't have ice cream, puppies and all the other wonderful things in this world with one single atom.
For an organization to grow, you must create bonds within and amongst your teams.
Your working environment is where you and your team are building every day – products, services, experiences, etc… An organization's team is also built – formed, stormed and normed before they perform – during business hours.
That's when transactions take place, agendas are set and goals are accomplished. However, you must create solid bonds before you can successfully build and efficiently grow a business.
Authentic Team Building for work – a critical part of the Team Bonding process – typically occurs in a relaxed, stress-free atmosphere where people can feel comfortable to break the ice and form relationships with those around them.
The workplace may not always be the most conducive environment for Team Bonding to develop. With deadlines, budgets and other demanding tasks, the workplace is often not the stress-free atmosphere associated with bonding.
For example, my high school soccer coach demanded a team that would provide victories. We spent countless hours on the field, building our game-strategy and improving our skills. However, he always said that "we are only as strong as our weakest link," and, in a way, he knew that in order to be a great team, we had to have great chemistry as well.
He recommended that we partake in as many bonding activities as we could, such as weekly "spaghetti dinners" and car-wash fundraisers. That way, on the field we built a strong, reputable soccer team that was largely supported by the bonds we created with each other off the field.
TeamBonding uses the "power of play", which provides a fun and friendly connection experience often (but not always) outside of the office to create bonds. Remember those "spaghetti dinners" I mentioned? Well, Recipe For Success highlights some powerful culinary TeamBonding programs. What better way to experience team building for work than bonding over food?
With a multitude of different programs that cultivate Team Building for work – from a GoTek Scaventure to a charity bike build and everything in between – each experience will leave your office positively buzzing. These experiences help cultivate greater bonds, which in turn will lead to growth. Like atoms, we must bond before we can build.
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This week, the Hattiesburg American will feature profiles of candidates running for municipal office in Petal.
Elections in the Friendly City this year will take place under new ward lines and see the election of seven aldermen, after the census showed the city's population had grown beyond 10,000 and a change in government was required.
Among the races, incumbent Mayor Hal Marx faces a challenge from Randy Walker, while incumbent Ward 1 Alderman David Clayton and incumbent Ward 2 Alderman Steve Stringer are running unopposed. ...


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Heart of Wisconsin Genealogical Society is getting ready to start its fall 2013 meetings, held at the McMillan Library in Wisconsin Rapids, in the multi-purpose room on the main floor. The meetings start at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome. On Sept. 10, Rhonda Whetstone will share some of her writing and thoughts on local history; on Oct. 8, Andy Barnett from McMillan Library will share some interesting resources connected with Google Maps and their uses. We also will be trying something fun and new for our members with swapping our brick walls. Come and discover how to do this; we will revisit it in February.
We hope you will join us for the programs. A business meeting will be held after each program.


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Bonefish Grill, owned by the Tampa-based restaurant company that also operates Outback Steakhouse and Carrabba's Italian Grill, is looking to hire 100 workers for its Merritt Island location.
The upper-scale restaurant chain is scheduled to open Nov. 12 at a site in front of Merritt Square Mall formerly occupied by Uno Chicago Grill. It's Brevard County's first Bonefish Grill.
OSI Restaurant Partners owns Bonefish Grill, along with Outback, Carrabba's, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar and Roy's. ...


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Sonoma County planners are recommending that the state be prevented from charging new day use fees at beaches up and down the coast on the grounds that doing so would limit public access and violate local and state laws.
The highly-anticipated recommendation provides ammunition for fee opponents. They include county Supervisor Efren Carrillo, whose district includes the coast and who Thursday vowed to fight the fee proposal "on every front."
"You absolutely have to draw the line and protect what I'm describing as a fundamental interest of the people of California, which is access to public beaches," Carrillo said.
California State Parks applied for a county coastal development permit to install 15 new self-pay machines at beaches on the Sonoma Coast. The application does not spell out any fees but parks officials previously said they plan to charge visitors $8 for parking.
State officials say the new fees are necessary to keep the beaches open and to reopen others as the park system grapples with budget cuts and a deferred maintenance backlog of more than $1 billion.
"Our budget situation remains critical," Roy Stearns, a spokesman for state parks, said Thursday.
But Carrillo predicted the state will "have a very rough road ahead through the planning process." State parks rescinded similar fees in 1990 amid strong local protest.
The beaches where the new fees would apply include Stump Beach, Russian Gulch, Blind Beach, North Goat Rock, Goat Rock Arched Rock, South Goat Rock, Shell Beach, Portuguese Beach, Schoolhouse Beach, North and South Salmon Creek, Campbell Cove, Bodega Head Upper and Bodega Head Lower.
The county Board of Zoning Adjustments is scheduled to take up the state's permit application Jan. 17.
Carrillo said the proposal likely will end up before the Board of Supervisors, whether as a recommendation for approval or on appeal.


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Ukraine not on the agenda as IMF gathers
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks during a media briefing at the IMF Headquarters, on April 10, 2014 in Washington, DC. Director Lagarde spoke about their agenda for the 2014 Spring Meetings that are taking place now and will end on Sunday.
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are set to open their annual spring meetings. It will be a busy weekend for finance ministers and economists who are visiting Washington from all over the world. Dozens of panels and speeches are on the agenda, but none are about Ukraine, a country the IMF has offered billions of dollars.
According to Ken Rogoff, former IMF chief economist, right now, "the geopolitics overrides what the finance ministers and the central bankers think."
But at a gathering of policymakers from close to 200 countries, it is bound to come up.
"I think it's going to be talked about behind closed doors," says Barry Eichengreen, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.


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This 4 night stay on the banks of the Selinda Spillway is focused very much on walking. You'll spend the first night at Motswiri Camp before heading out on foot with your professional guide for a couple of nights at Motswiri's fly camp - Kala Bushcamp. You'll explore this vast concession on foot with an occasional boat trip and 4WD game drive too. The fourth and final night is then spent back at camp.
This safari can be combined with any of our other Botswana fly-in safaris to make a longer trip. It can also easily be combined with a visit to Livingstone in Zambia or Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe to see the Victoria Falls. See our trips to Livingstone or trips to Victoria Falls for examples of the add-on options, as well as the costs.
This is an individual trip, and can be tailor-made and adapted to suit you.
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The mayor of riga suggested to put a monument on a place of a collapse of the shopping center
A monument to all died on the spot collapses of shopping center maxima in the latvian capital. About it he wrote on the page to facebook. Besides, the mayor suggested to forbid any construction on this place in the future. The president of latvia andris berzins, acting on saturday on the latvian television, i called the tragedy in the riga shopping center "massacre" and i demanded to punish the guilty. According to him, which brings delfi responsible for the tragedy many, and it is necessary to involve independent experts in investigation from abroad. Articles in a complete silence in riga continue to sort blockages in the failed supermarket: the reporting to "lenty.ra" according to recent data, as a result of a collapse of a roof and walls in shopping center 52 persons were lost, 40 suffered, from them 29 are in hospital. As ushakov in interview to one of local tv channels told, under blockages can be to 16 people, reports ria novosti news agency. The shopping center maxima collapsed in the evening on november 21. At first in the building the roof fell off. After a while, when rescuers already worked at a scene, one of walls fell. Among lost the three rescuers who were in the building during a collapse of a wall. Due to shopping center maxima collapse in latvia the three-day mourning is declared: on november 23, 24 and 25 all entertaining actions are cancelled. On saturday in the 10th mornings in the country there passed a moment of silence in memory of victims. In solidarity the next lithuania and estonia also declared a day of mourning on november 24.


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Dr. Barbara N. Malone newest member of growing pediatric ENT team
Minneapolis, Minn. – (June 6, 2013) – Barbara N. Malone, MD, has joined Children's ENT and Facial Plastic Surgery, a part of Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. She will be practicing at both Children's – Minneapolis and Children's – St. Paul, where Children's has opened a new full service ENT clinic. Dr. Malone is highly regarded in the regional medical community for her expertise and long standing commitment to the care of children with disorders of the head and neck.
She is no stranger to Children's, having been a member of its professional staff for nearly 25 years. In that time she has served as chief of staff, chief of surgery, chief of peer review of the anesthesia and surgical pathology division, and as a director on the Children's board.
Dr. Malone joins Children's growing ENT team which now includes four physicians, a nurse practitioner, two audiologists and a speech pathologist. A second nurse practitioner is slated to start later this month.
In the past year, Children's has expanded to offer full service ENT care at both its Minneapolis and St. Paul hospital campuses, through Children's ENT and Facial Plastic Surgery. As the only otolaryngology practice in the Upper Midwest devoted exclusively to pediatrics, the ENT program diagnoses and treats a variety of ENT problems – from common to complex.
Children's works closely with other specialists to provide interdisciplinary care in its clinics, including cleft and craniofacial, plagiocephaly, vascular anomalies, velocardiofacial syndrome, head and neck cancer clinic, and recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. Children's also offers prenatal counseling for cleft and craniofacial conditions. Some members of the team will work at both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses.
"At Children's, one of our goals is to provide more children access to pediatric ENT expertise," said James Sidman, MD, medical director of Children's ENT and Facial Plastic Surgery. "This expansion of our staff and the opening of a clinic in St. Paul better positions us in the community to meet the pediatric needs for simple to complex otolaryngology care."
More information about Children's ENT and Facial Plastic Surgery, including clinic staff, locations and hours, can be found here.
About Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Serving as Minnesota's children's hospital since 1924, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health care organizations in the United States, with 381 staffed beds at its two hospitals in St. Paul and Minneapolis. An independent, not-for-profit health care system, Children's of Minnesota provides care through more than 12,000 inpatient visits and more than 300,000 emergency room and other outpatient clinic visits every year. Children's is the only Minnesota hospital system to provide comprehensive care exclusively to children. Please visit childrensMN.org.


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"Dreaming of castles in Spain" is a happy expression for thinking of wonderful things. Here are three locations which are all castles in their separate ways.
Poble Naturista El Fonoll is a deluxe resort in the countryside west of Barcelona, with a row of fine buildings like a castle on a hill. We watch the members prepare and enjoy a paella meal, and we tour some of the features of the resort, like the camping area and the spring-fed swimming pool.El Templo Del Sol has a reception building in the style of the Moorish castle of the Alhambra. This resort is located on the coast south of Barcelona and features a beautiful beach, three huge swimming pools arranged like steps, and an enormous hot tub.Finally, Palacio Pignatelli, a real castle in the heart of Barcelona, contains a museum dedicated to the works of Salvadore Dali. Suzana and Shannon tour it in the nude and enjoy a naked walk in the streets outside.
They model for four artists of the Royal Artistic Circle, and finally Shannon dances naked tango with her friend Sarita in the beautiful Hall of Mirrors. 50 mins.
An organized protest on Belongil Beach with about 500 people showing up to join in the fun. Demonstrations of body percussion and chanting, music and dancing filled the day. 55 min.
Klara and Barbora enjoy a naked day out to a green valley, doing yoga on the way and playing games when they arrive. Petra and Katka enjoy a naked afternoon with lots of people in a pub.
For a cold day out, Klara and lovely Ivana build a fire and then get naked as the cottage warms up, to enjoy naked massage and dancing. Finally, Jenny goes out on a lovely warm day in Australia, swimming in a beautiful pool, dancing, running, and playing the day away.
...the Olympic City 2000, also rowing and tandem bicycling in the Royal National Park near Sydney and the Bondi Beach Nude Surfing Contest with over 30 competitors and 1000 spectators! 50 min.
The law in our society asserts that the naked body is offensive. This video shows how wrong the law can be. Suzana visits a delicatessen in Barcelona just like any other customer, except that she is completely naked. She chats with the staff and serves some customers, then walks happily naked outside.Shannon takes off her clothes in the same delicatessen, chats with the customers and poses for photos, and walks a long ways outside. Enjoying the attention, she walks further and further along more and more crowded streets.
She walks naked into a clothes shop and tries on several dresses, enjoying the fact that she doesn't need to squirm around in a stuffy changing cubicle. She buys a dress, but puts it in a bag and walks out naked.Happy to expose herself more and more freely, she walks all the way around a city block past two crowded squares, and even stops to buy a bottle of water and leisurely drinks it, reveling in the fact that crowds of people are looking at her. During all this time, lots of people take her photo, and she happily poses with anyone who wants. Everyone loves to see her naked body, and no one is offended by it. 58 mins.


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St. George City Technical Department employee Brady Earnshaw paints a wall Thursday in a hallway outside the newly remodeled cat room at the St. George Animal Shelter.
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Floating Concrete Shell and Honeycomb Structures
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This topic contains 49 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by ellmer – http://yook3.com 1 year, 7 months ago.
April 4, 2014 at 4:38 pm #23293
I also ran across a more recent concrete barge, the oil drill "ship" Orlan :
The Orlan platform is being used to develop the southwestern flank of the main Chayvo zone from offshore. This reinforced-concrete substructure can easily withstand pressure from gigantic ice ridges that can reach as high as a six story building.
Links to Orlan here.April 4, 2014 at 6:26 pm #23294
Ocean, take note: In researching how to attach things to the floating concrete, i have seen 3 ways of doing approximately how this place does it. In common with post tensioning, the cable is threaded thru pvc pipe embedded in the pour, and the opening in each floatie is sealed as the pieces are pulled together. To aid replacing the cable if it deteriorates, the seals are also removeable and replaceable. For allowing movement, the cables are simply kept tensioned with springs. In the case of this company, the cables are in one plane and form a hinge to allow each section to float up and down with swells, but resist differential lateral motion. A deduction i made is the cable must thread thru the shell portion of the concrete, and not thru the crushable honeycomb portion (or the embedded poly foam). I also deduce the aluminum this company uses as the form perimeter is there so the top edge corner of the concrete is not damaged if the hinged joint is in the trough of a swell, which would place intense pressures and some rubbing motion on the top edge of the concrete. Essentially then, there is no concrete-to-concrete contact, the floats touch each other via the aluminum surround, which also would hold the fenders and any other accessories of the dock. And i deduce a "spring box" could be in each floatie for attaching to an existing floatie, without requiring an entire preexisting dock system be rethreaded, and this would be useful for semi-permanent dock-ups.
Now…… how is the aluminum surround kept in place on the concrete? Is it simply attached to aluminum rebar thru the pour to the aluminum on the opposite side? What about corrosion from the concrete and trapped salt water?April 5, 2014 at 12:20 am #23295
I thought of something like that,…My idea was to also use cables and run them through a whole in the middle of BIG spherical fenders, but no springs. The cable are run through holes in the topsides, half way between the gunnel and the waterline. Just tie up the cables really tight and the spheres will take care of the rest. BUT, this system will work up to a certain sea state. In big storms it might fail.
It all depends of the size and shape of the floats and the size and shape of the raft up you will achieve with those floats. If it's a long dock, like you showed above, it will collapse in a storm. If it's a compact "finished product" it will hold. I did introduced a design here few years ago that is scalable and will hold pretty good, again, up to a certain sea state.
The floaties depicted here are 200′ LOA or bigger. The bigger they are the less need to untie during a storm due to their massive displacement. There are infinite type of configurations:
Mobile: http://wiki.seasteading.org/images/9/98/006.JPG
Breakwater: http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/Image:010.JPG
Star: http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/Image:008.JPG
Cross: http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/Image:011.JPG
Etc: http://wiki.seasteading.org/images/5/5f/009.JPG
To keep it on the safe side, all the above modules are self propelled and can be disconnected in case of a big storm, so they don't start banging into each others and compromise the whole raft up structural integrity, and they will ride the storm by themselves.
Plus if one of them want to "secede" from the "union" they can just goApril 6, 2014 at 5:46 pm #23298
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Guys this is more or less the point where we "definitly lost it" when the topic was discussed a couple of years ago. And everyboy who has a slight idea of marine engineering went away. Remember what we are looking for is a structure that can stand maintenance free for at least 200 or better 2000 years – if we can not get there, "real estate on the ocean", "cities on the ocean", "societies on the ocean" will just not happen because they will not have "solid enough foundations" that give them the timeframe necessary to develop. So forget any "steelcable with spring tension and that universe of solutions" …
We need something that is simple to build, simple to handle, lasts for ever in marine ambient… no steel components in tubes, no springs, no exotic and untested materials as structural components…
This leaves us pretty much with concrete honeycomb and shell construction as only feasible solution…
No "boating concept" like "break up in a storm", "run for safe harbor in a storm" can be applied to a city. You can not handle around things that have tousands of tons of mass in storm conditions…this is a concept error.
What we need is something that can take what ever comes up and give shelter to its inhabitants in any condition that comes up it is as simple as that.
The structures we are looking at as "role model" are floating concrete structures with a 30 year service record and cero deterioration reported.
http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t46256297/concrete-structures-in-the-north-sea/April 6, 2014 at 8:48 pm #23299
But Ellmer, you are going back to building Rome, or Venice, in a day, on one platform, ready for everyone to move in. It's not going to happen.
What might happen is someone finds a way their family can be safe out on the water in all conditions, and another family rafts up, and then another family. And then hundreds of people. And then they are making money and decide to form a legal union and pool money like a condo, and make a single floatie big enough for all of them. This may not be the most efficient way to float 100 people at once on the water, but so far no one has build a safe floatie for a hurricane, or intentionally physically gathered 100 people to make one working society.April 6, 2014 at 9:06 pm #23300
The "theme" is supposed to be floating concrete structures…At this point I don't understand what kind of structure you are talking about. It floats but "no boating concept" and "it cannot be handled because of its huge mass" so,…is it anchored, or what? Do you have a design in mind? I mean, it is really unclear what you envision here, other than something really huge that will cost $ billions but cannot be defined yet in terms of shape and functionality.April 7, 2014 at 7:15 am #23301
This is the key problem for all surface floating structures if they do not reach a size where they stop tracking the waves of the open ocean (400m) there is no chance to establish a suitable living space on a surface float. The only way to place something small in the open ocean that does NOT track the waves is putting it below the surface. There is a good reason why nature in 500 million years never developed a surface floating animal or plant to colonize the empty watersurface. All animals that live in open ocean do it submerged for good reasons. So if you want to combine family house size and open ocean you need to think in submerged solutions. Family house sized surface floats are ok for protected bays – the Tanka, Uru, Moken, do it for at least 1200 years now – without transcending to something more than a "marginized floating community in protected bays". So what is the benefit in being a "modern Tanka". This is exactly what "live aboard yachties" do in anchor bays around the world. If it becomes big, it becomes annoying, and the city running the show moves the "floating slum" away by regulating it out of existence.
You need to do something DIFFERENT than houseboats and boats in general or ocean colonization will not happen.
This is especially true since Neil Sims provided us with a JOB for a family in open ocean. Drift cage aquaculture.
Check especially the part where Neil Sims is talking of the oceans way to break things that float on the surface (like the yacht being tossed around while following the cages for months) and proposes to run ocean drift cage ventures submerged "like a space station".
The choice for open ocean is – build it really big – or build it submerged – there is no other choice for putting living space on the open ocean.April 7, 2014 at 7:39 am #23302
This line of designs (submerged) definitly provides wave tracking free living space in open ocean and can survive any hurricane. Other than surface floats that need size to create stability in waves, this kind of "submerged living space bubble" is just fine in "family house size".
Can be free floating and mobile or have a tension anchor, whatever is convenient for the business model.
On the other hand a surface floating concept would start as a small Ramform in a protected bay (brokering shore side interests) and when it reaches sufficient size to go oceanic (400m) it will no longer depend on the bay and its protection and become a true global player that can move to any spot on the liquid planet surface.
In ANY case the structure will be a floating concrete shell or honeycomb structure that has a maintenance fee service life of 200 years (probably 2000 years).
Tubular structures can be designed for a hydrostatic load of 500m with a 1:3 safety factor, spheres can be designed of a depth of 1000m with a 1:3 safety factor. This opens the possiblility to untap 99% of the planetary volume (the oceans) for human living space and activities.
In this context also check :
The captain nemo float out:
ORES 30m diameter concrete spheres in the ocean feasiblility cost MIT…
http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t56101129/concrete-sphere-wind-energy-storage-sistem/April 7, 2014 at 11:10 am #23303
If you truly believe that "You need to do something DIFFERENT than houseboats and boats in general or ocean colonization will not happen", and that different thing is submerged structures, than you should go for it and make it happen.April 7, 2014 at 3:17 pm #23304
Ocean, I am all over it… google up : ocean colonization key player network…houseboats just lead to this…
see: Tanka, Moken, Uru, Floating Neutrinos, Richi Sowa,…millenia of "no transcendence to a powerfull floating city" you really need to go out of protected bays and the marginized floating communities segment. A business development plan is key – not just floating out something…April 7, 2014 at 4:04 pm #23305
Ellmer said
A business development plan is key – not just floating out something…
But what business plan? There is no one out there to do business with. There is no reason to be out there, so selling space on seasteads is not a business model. You cannot build a city with individual underwater homes or businesses, how will you ever get out of the house or down to the business? I cannot wait on someone with a $billion to provide a place for me to be out there, because 1) they won't do it, and 2) they'd charge more than i can pay. Maybe the people who with "no transcendence to a powerfull floating city" simply want to life peacefully with no political drama.
Edit: i think we need a way for people to rent/lease/buy Ocean's scheme, modified so they can tolerate a small hurricane, or burn tons of fuel to outrun it.April 7, 2014 at 11:48 pm #23306
I am not going to argue here AGAIN and AGAIN about floating vs. submerge, $ billion offshore start up vs. close to shore incremental and modular, etc. I never said that offshore seasteading will be done on houseboats. All I said is that for starters, experimenting with seasteading on a low budget and close to shore, houseboat(s) and ferrocement floats around them are the ideal, cheapest solution.
Lease, rent or buy, is less important. In the beginning, the idea is to get people to participate and have some fun on the water while realizing the difference that an aquatic daily existence can make in their lives. Eventually, they will become the future seasteaders and investors.
I'd rather have have 50 people investing $20,000.00 and ran various business on THEIR seastead as owners-partners than 2 investors for half a million each for the same seastead. In fact, I would never consider participating in any seasteading venture based on somebody's else "big wallet". I don't work for anybody but myself and I don't plan to change that at all, seasteading or not.April 8, 2014 at 6:19 am #23307
Ocean, i don't think that there are "versus discussions" of the kind you are talking about, fact is, that when we colonize the oceans the 99% of the planet space volume of the underwater world will be part of it and all kind of technologies will be part of it, all kind of structure sizes will be part of it.
There is no discussion that clutter the surface of the open ocean with houseboats like Aberdeen Harbor will not happen for the reasons anybody remotly knowledgable in marine affairs can name.
Therefore to speak of a "seasteading start up" while using houseboat technology that depends on bays and repeats Aberdeen Harbor (on minor scale) is a long shot. It is a bit "solving the problem of ocean colonization by NOT solving it" and repeat what has not solved it for 1200 years (Tanka houseboat floats).
The reason why things like this (Khalifa port) recieve attention and finance is because they have "potential".
The reason why tings like this do NOT recieve attention and finance is because they have no potential.
What differentiates VENICE from a Tanka floating village is the "fleet dominating mediterranean trade". The business model. Not the floaties. It does not matter what the initial size is, it does not matter what the wallet or share of a backer is, the only thing that matteres is, that there is a "Ongoing Dynamics of Potential and Business".
Definitly you can create business dynamics when doing single family floats in a protected bay. For example tourism developments like this…
The key is to avoid the Tanka stagnation … potential for development to other things than a floating slum is important.
If a proposal does not get attention and finance it is important to analyze why that is so – improve the proposal and try again to get attention and finance. This is what developers do.April 8, 2014 at 8:07 am #23308
There is no discussion that submerged seasteading will not happen for the reasons anybody remotely knowledgeable in marine affairs can name.
There is no "houseboats technology" and there is no "repeat Aberdeen Harbor" cluster fuck to talk about.
There is no proposal, no finance and no developers here.
If you want to built the Next Venice or the Next Underwater Seastead Empire don't waste your time in trying to convince me. Just do it. I already said that.April 8, 2014 at 6:26 pm #23309
Khalifa port was not built because it has potential. It was built, as an ISLAND, to serve an existing purpose. The need for a larger, deeper, better sited commercial port existed. It was not built for potential.
Show me any reason someone would build any seastead off the south coast, east coast, or west coast of the usa. So far the only reason anyone has gone out there with big money is because there is proven oil to drill for, not because there is potential for it.
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