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I have been asked to review the "Home Décor Resource" page by One Kings Lane. One Kings Lane is one of my most favorite places to visit online. I love to check out their stylish furniture, home décor and much more (they are pretty pricey for my wallet, so my visits consist of lots of Ohhs... and Ahhs... with some drooling too).
There Home Décor Resource page is full of interesting contents; anything from historical informative articles to helpful tips all about furniture. I found many interesting articles. Let me name a few that I like: "DIY Stain-Proof All Your Chairs", "What Type of Chair" and "How to Incorporate Statement Furniture Into Any Room"
If you have been reading my blog for a while, you probably know that I love finding furniture at garage sales and thrift stores and then refinish them. Here are a couple chairs that I refinished in the past...
This was a chair that I found at a garage sale for two dollars! (you can read the whole article here
"How to Incorporate Statement Furniture Into Any Room" it was like hitting the nail on the head.
Whatever you might be interested in about furniture, I bet you will find some pretty interesting articles at the "Home Décor Resource" page!
Saturday, January 11, 2014
One Kings Lane Home Decor Resource Page Review
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by David Wisniewski
Retold from traditional sources and accompanied by David Wisniewski's unique cut-paper illustrations, Golem is a dramatic tale of supernatural forces invoked to save an oppressed people. It also offers a thought-provoking look at the consequences of unleashing power beyond human control. The afterword discusses the legend of the golem and its roots in the history of the Jews. A Caldecott Medal Book.
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Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham is 59, singer Stevie Nicks and drummer Mick Fleetwood (3rd coolest grampy behind Leonard C & Neil D) are both 61, and bassist John McVie is 63, but they certainly don't look their age (must get the number of their personal trainers, and whomever takes care of their skin), or act their age. Our parents are slightly older, but there wouldn't be a chance in helga that they could rawk out as much or as hard as Fleetwood Mac still does, let alone stay up past 10pm. Wees was kinda reluctant to see them in the first place, see-sawing for years before finally biting the bullet and buying tickets, and after basking in their eternal glow last night, the only question is why did we wait so long to add them to our 'see them before they or we die' list (McCartney's up next)? That questions stings a little harder now knowing that vital member Christine McVie retired juss a few years back... although they still gave big love to her tunes, but sadly, not to our personal flavorite Mac track 'Hold Me'. No matter, as the remaining members brought their A+ game, as 'Tusk' kicked it more than a Tusken Raider and 'Go Your Own Way' had us clapping more than all the people in the world with gonorrhea. We hactually woke up this morning and were still clapping. Our non-stop thinking had nothing to do with tomorrow, and was all about last night. Btw, the Clintons totally ruined that song. Btw, Carrie Fisher totally looks like Stevie Nicks, but unfortch she hasn't aged as gracefully. And btw, Mick Fleetwood totally ruled the school in The Running Man
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Carolyn Logue's political soul mate is Republican Mike Huckabee. No wait, it's Democrat Mike Gravel. Hold on, it's actually Michael Bloomberg...
Carolyn Logue's political soul mate is Republican Mike Huckabee. No wait, it's Democrat Mike Gravel. Hold on, it's actually Michael Bloomberg, New York City's independent-leaning mayor.
Those three very different options for president turned up when Logue, a business lobbyist in Olympia, tried three online candidate-match games, which claim to identify the candidate who best fits your own beliefs.
Presidential candidate-match games are proliferating on the Internet. Few, if any, existed a decade ago. Now a quick Google search brings up at least a half-dozen.
USA Today is doing one in partnership with ABC News, which calls its version of the game Match-O-Matic. There's the Candidate Calculator sponsored by VAJoe.com, which bills itself as an online community for military members and veterans. Or there's SelectSmart.com, where you can also look for your best match in everything from a dog to a religion.
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Think it's outrageous that anyone would pick a president that way?
Millions of Americans go online each year in search of a date, a spouse or partner, a new career or a new home. Why not a president?
It's hard to say how seriously people are taking the candidate-match games. As one reader said after completing the VAJoe.com game, "Depends on how much drinking I've done on what candidate I get back."
And the games don't seem to do a very good job of factoring in a candidate's leadership skills, personality and electability.
Still, some pollsters and Internet experts predict such games will continue to multiply, and, over time, become more sophisticated and accurate.
Patricia Moy, a University of Washington professor who studies political communication and media effects on public opinion, sees both promise and peril in that trend.
The games, she said, provide a "fun way to navigate the morass of political information" that people face.
But Moy worries that some groups will use them to bend public opinion — similar to the way some pollsters today are paid to ask misleading questions designed to "push" people, rather than gauge their true opinions.
Most of the online match games use a similar multiple-choice format. Readers are asked their views on a list of issues ranging from the Iraq war to waterboarding, abortion to gay marriage. Some games ask readers to rate the importance of each issue.
Then, with one click of the mouse, the games spit out the names of candidates whose stances most closely match the person's answers.
The Seattle Times enlisted four people from across Washington's political spectrum to put three games to the test. Their results were all over the map.
Tom McCabe, executive vice president of the Building Industry Association of Washington and an outspoken conservative, said his favorite candidate right now is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. But none of the games listed Huckabee as the best choice for McCabe.
Alex Hays, head of the Mainstream Republicans of Washington, is a big supporter of Republican Sen. John McCain. While one game matched him with McCain, another said he aligned with three Democratic senators — Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
"Good God," Hays exclaimed when a third game suggested Ron Paul, the former Libertarian nominee who is now running as a Republican. "Now that's a kick in the head."
Logue got similar results: all conservative Republicans on one game, all liberal Democrats on another.
Only Andrew Villeneuve, a liberal blogger and founder of a think tank called Northwest Progressive Institute, found any consistency among the games. All three said his closest match is Kucinich, a congressman from Ohio and a Quixote-esque candidate for president. Villeneuve said he agrees with Kucinich on a lot of issues, but is torn between two other Democrats, Obama and John Edwards.
In a few instances, some strange matches popped up. SelectSmart.com includes the names of all known candidates and even potential candidates.
McCabe's No. 5 match was parody-conservative Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central. And Logue's No. 2 match was a write-in candidate named Kent McManigal, whose Web site shows him wearing buckskins and quotes him saying, "I think I would make a better caveman than a cog in the machinery of modern life."
That should make for a great bumper sticker.
Research has shown that, in choosing candidates, voters rely heavily on visual cues and the opinions of friends and family, said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Rainie and some pollsters predict that — in the age of YouTube and MySpace — online candidate match games will be able to factor in many of those intangibles.
During the 1996 presidential election, Pew researchers found that less than 5 percent of Americans relied on the Internet for most of their political information. By 2004, it was nearly 1 in 5.
"And it's just grown exponentially from there," said pollster John Zogby. "God knows where it will be next year."
According to the counter at VAJoe.com, more than 1.7 million have used the Candidate Calculator. And former Alaska Sen. Gravel — can you say fat chance? — has more matches than any other candidate.
More than 500,000 have done USA Today's match game. The paper doesn't keep track of people's matches, but gives them an opportunity to comment online.
Some readers were delighted to find that they matched up well with their favorite candidate. Others were alarmed — or baffled — at the names that popped up.
"By my answers … I should be voting for Duncan Hunter," one person wrote. "Who the bloody hell is Duncan Hunter?" Another said he knew more about "Donald Duck's three nephews — Huey, Duey and Looey [sic]" than about the three candidates he came up with.
Others scoffed at those who took it so serious.
"If you are actually using this to determine who you will be voting for, you shouldn't be voting," one person wrote.
Catalina Camia, politics editor at USA Today, said the goal was to come up with something fun that will attract more readers — or, as she said, "get more eyeballs onto the [Web] site." But she said the game also serves a journalistic purpose.
"We are not telling people how they should vote," she said. "We wanted our readers and users to have a tool to help them understand the issues and where the candidates stand."
Camia said it took more than four months to develop the paper's 11-question match game. But if they had it to do over again, she said, they probably would include a broader range of issues.
McCabe said he was surprised that none of the three games he tested asked, "Do you want someone who goes to church? Do you want someone who believes in God? … And certainly in the primary, that drives people."
Villeneuve said the match games do not factor in a candidate's emotional appeal.
"Most Americans don't pull out a scorecard and run the math on a host of issues when it's time to vote," he said. "People vote who can they identify with, who they feel they can trust."
Curt Anderson, who runs SelectSmart.com out of his home in Oregon, acknowledges the shortcomings. He said he's a devout liberal who probably lines up most closely with Kucinich, a man Anderson says he can't envision as president.
"But I didn't want to include a question like, 'Would you vote for a candidate who is elflike?' " Anderson said.
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Good Luck Charlie: Spendy
Hai there! *waves*
So everyone knows the complicated relationship of Spencer and Teddy.
I was very sad when they had to break up. Do you know how complicated that relationship has been? Cheating, just staying friends, getting back together, breaking up again... And then that relationship just goes away.
I shipped them since the beginning, they liked each other since the first episode!
I know Spencer had to go to college. All of this conflict is good for the series, but just...
Assuming you saw the episode, Beau took Teddy out for a date right?
And Beau likes Teddy, and Teddy kinda likes Beau back.
But then this promo:
Spencer is BACK! I really hope that Teddy chooses him.
I know that he cheated on her, and that's why a lot of people want her to be with Beau instead.
But Teddy and Spencer had a very rocky relationship, and it would be nice if it all paid off with a smooth end. Also, Bridget Mendler and Shane Harper are dating in real life! Their characters should have a happy ending.
Oh, and did I mention that in that episode where the Duncan family goes skiing, the physic said that Teddy would meet the "love of her life" on that trip?
Spencer was there. Beau wasn't.
Spencer is the love of Teddy's life, okay? Period.
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In this project, I was lucky enough to work directly with Karen Kane and her design team to come up with a shop in shop concept for her shops in Macys, Dillards, and other major department stores. Here you can see 3 different concepts for an A-location (20' x 20' with a wall), B-location (10' x 20' with a wall), and C-location (10' x 20' without a wall). My team and I also created a computer rendering and 3D model of an A-location.
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Google is your friend. This page http://www.trademarkia.com/latido-73818672.html gives you lots of information. It might also be useful, be blowed if I can tell
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Social Exclusion and the Desire to Reconnect
Version of Record online: 1 NOV 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00383.x
© 2011 The Authors. Social and Personality Psychology Compass © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Volume 5, Issue 11, pages 919–932, November 2011
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How to Cite
DeWall, C. N. and Richman, S. B. (2011), Social Exclusion and the Desire to Reconnect. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5: 919–932. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00383.x
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People have a fundamental need to belong that, when satisfied, is linked to a variety of indicators of well-being. The current article discusses what happens when social relationships go awry, namely through social exclusion. It seeks to resolve discrepancies in the literature by proposing that responses to social exclusion depend primarily on the prospect of social acceptance. When people feel socially excluded, they want to regain acceptance and thus may respond in ways that can help them do so. When the possibility of acceptance is not forthcoming, however, socially excluded people become selfish and antisocial. Evidence for this pattern was found at behavioral, cognitive, and biological levels. The motivation to gain acceptance may drive people to engage in negative health behaviors, such as smoking. Thus, excluded people demonstrate sensitivity to possible social acceptance, but they can exude an air of selfishness and hostility when there is no possibility of satisfying their need to belong.


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Angular variation on my FORM/FUNCTION poster.
I think I like this one better, actually...
I think I like this one better, actually...
Thank you Paul. You've got the gift and know how to use it.
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Heist (codename) Main character development and evolution. More here > [link]
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What's not to love about fireplaces on wintry nights? They provide not only decorative appeal, but practical benefits as well: warmth, of course, and a favorable effect on home resale value. But for all the joys they bring, fireplaces also entail important concerns, safety and energy efficiency chief among them. And while wood-burning masonry fireplaces are the type that most readily come to mind when you picture hearths in the home, there are several other kinds, each with its own set of pros and cons. Indeed, fireplaces give homeowners a lot to think about, but when you're sitting beside the warm glow of flickering flames, doesn't it all seem so worth it?
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Man shot by officers has criminal record, Oklahoma City police say
A man shot by police officers Thursday in an Oklahoma City parking lot has been arrested and remains hospitalized in serious condition, police report Friday.
Jerry Ray Pierce, 35, was arrested on two complaints of assault with a dangerous weapon as a result of the incident, Capt. Dexter Nelson said.
Pierce has a criminal record that includes a previous armed assault on Oklahoma City police officers, Nelson said.
He said the officers who shot Pierce are 30-year police veteran and supervisor Lt. Mike Hutchcroft, and officer Tyler Bartlett, both of the Santa Fe Patrol Division. The officers have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Police were called Thursday afternoon to check the welfare of a man walking in the middle of traffic at SW 59 and Walker Avenue, Nelson said.
After officers arrived, Pierce went into the Buy For Less Buy-Super Mercado parking lot and took an aggressive posture toward the officers. He aggressively lunged at the officers as they tried to speak to him, Nelson said.
He said Pierce extended a lock blade knife in his hand and both officers fired their weapons in self-defense. Pierce was hit multiple times and was taken to a hospital, where he remains in serious condition, Nelson said.


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Guest Post: The War Between Credit And Resources
Submitted by Gregor McDonald via Peak Prosperity,
The Federal Reserve is probably not ready to take the aggressive plunge into Nominal GDP Targeting, but it likely will.
Such a policy, which received wider attention during Ben Bernanke's Congressional questioning last year and was also highlighted this year in a paper delivered at the Jackson Hole conference (Woodford, opens to PDF), has not caught any visible traction with Washington policy makers possibly because it's seen as either too radical, or simply too new.
However, after four years of broad reflationary policy (and another year to come) failing to meaningfully spur U.S. employment growth, the Fed may be willing to try such measures by late next year, 2013.
Indeed, given the Fed's recent announcement of open-ended quantitative easing (QE), one can already anticipate the incremental move towards Nominal Gross Domestic Product (NGDP) Targeting, which has as its central belief that an aggressive and open-ended promise to pursue growth at the expense of inflation is the booster required to push a structurally broken economy back to normal trend. Moreover, in contrast to Bernanke's swift rejection last year of NGDP on a conceptual basis, Bernanke discussed the idea in friendlier terms during his post-Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) news conference.
What's 'exciting' about the emergence of NGDP Targeting into mainstream economic thinking is that, once implemented, it will provide a real-world test of reflationary policy's final effort to combat the forces that have led to the end of strong, economic growth. The appearance of the Woodford paper (link above) further highlights the reality that endless amounts of cheap capital will be provided to restart economies, now that we are in energy transition, with the world having lost its cheap oil. The battle between credit and natural resources will be renewed.
What will be the effect on global natural resource extraction in an era of NGDP Targeting?
Simple. All of the remaining fossil-fuel BTUs will be extracted on an accelerated basis, and governments will race to provide the capital to do so.
The Post-Abundance Era
It makes sense that just as the era of abundance is coming to an end – an era which dominated developed world economies over the past 250 years – an enthusiastic, vestigial embrace of Abundance would pour forth from culture. Books such as Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think and also The Coming Prosperity have appeared in a flourish, all in the past year.
Is it not telling that this outpouring has occurred just as it has become crystal clear that prices of resources were not – even in the post-2008 era – returning to levels of the prior decade?
It is either lurid or tragic that assertions of abundance would flower after energy prices endured a price revolution, agriculture prices did the same, and purchasing power and incomes in the developed world entered decline. The repricing of the planet is a super-trend that has endured for more than 10 years now, and it has wreaked havoc on just about every asset class from stocks to housing. While observers currently cheer stabilization in such prices, it's worth noting that the S&P 500 first reached current levels more than 12 years ago. Therefore, each unit of the stock market buys less of everything. So much for abundance.
It is additionally rather galling to be harangued by Abundance Theorists at a time when OECD economies have essentially failed, both in their financial systems and their ability to produce jobs, and are instead now producers of poverty. As purchasing power declines in the West against energy and food, what can Abundance Theorists possibly be thinking? It is not as if the industrial revolution in the Non-OECD is producing higher quality lives either, as countries like China convert themselves into waste dumps of coal-fired and chemical pollution, and India sees pluralities of its population continue to go without electricity or a reliable water supply.
Abundance would mean that globally, energy is so plentiful that it would be too cheap to meter. On the contrary, global energy prices – and in particular, food prices (which are strongly linked to energy prices) – have completely broken out of long-term trend lines to the upside.
There is no better measure of the aggregate loss of purchasing power against resources than the advance that poverty has made in the past 10 years, especially in the United States. While it's true that various policy choices have exacerbated income inequality in the West for over thirty years, such explanations were more satisfying from 1975-2000, during a long period of efficiency gains in the economy. As it happens, the U.S. Census Bureau has just released fresh data on U.S. poverty, and while not a surprise, it does not make for pleasant reading. U.S. poverty is at its highest levels since 1993, but the current level -- 15% -- is very near the highs of the last 40 years:
Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959-2011
(Source - The U.S. Census Bureau)
Some observers have commented that the U.S. poverty rate is actually "not as bad as it seems" because of food stamps, various state and federal assistance programs, unemployment insurance, and other financial aid that the government now provides to the poor. These are collectively known as "transfer payments." However, the income bracket requirements to be placed in the poverty category have such a low ceiling that it seems likely that U.S. poverty remains undercounted. From recent news coverage of the poverty figures at the San Jose Mercury News:
Although the poverty rate didn't rise, the median household income for all Americans declined 1.5 percent to $50,100 in 2011. That was an 8.1 percent decline from 2007, before the recession began, and 8.9 percent lower than the 1999 peak. To be classified as poor in 2011, a family of two adults and two children would have had to make less than $22,811. Some economists had predicted Wednesday's annual report would show the poverty rate hitting its highest level since 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson announced his war on poverty. The fact that the numbers instead leveled off after three consecutive years of increase was a relief to some. Still, the persistent poverty is troubling: the 15 percent poverty rate ties with 2010 as the highest since 1993 and one of the highest since the government began measuring poverty.
There is a certain unreality to a measurement that deems a family of four with an income above $22,811 to not be in poverty. How, exactly, could one live as a family of four in these United States with an income of $24,000 or even $26,000 and not be in poverty? For such a household, energy and food prices alone would dictate either a very poor diet, or the need for government assistance in utility and transport costs, or both. Indeed, a new unreality in our accounting now marks many areas of economic life in the U.S. in the post-Abundance era.
Unreality in Energy Costs: The Ethanol Example
Analysts have pointed out for years that a significant portion of the military budget is devoted to the safety of global oil supply, and thus each barrel of oil has "external" costs that the user does not pay at the pump, but instead pays as a taxpayer. This is undoubtedly true.
So what policy has the U.S. pursued in an era when military costs and the price of oil are even more onerous? The policy of mandated ethanol.
Mandated ethanol in the U.S. has done nothing to lower gasoline prices (which are, of course, driven entirely by oil prices) regardless of ethanol content. Moreover, the energy content of all organic material, in this case corn, is so low that by the time the process of converting corn to a liquid is complete, so many other energy inputs have been required that the net energy pick-up is incredibly small. In order to escape the reality of structurally higher oil prices, the U.S. has diverted enormous capital and other resources to a program that is largely symbolic. But billions in tax credits have been devoted to grow and support an industry that could simply not make it without such support, primarily for two reasons: one, because the low energy content of corn does not provide enough profit to pay all entities in the production chain; and two, because ethanol makers are essentially refiners and do not ultimately control the cost of their feedstock (corn).
Ethanol policy has been underway since 2006, when the price of oil had started its price revolution. And aggressive reflationary policy in the US has actually been underway for 12 years, not just the past four years, when the near-zero interest rate policy was first employed (1.00% interest rates). These two policies are an example of how institutions and economies will grapple with both the loss of cheap energy and the tremors such a loss sends out through an economy. Trying to battle, hold back, and generally thwart secular changes in prices and carrying capacity with patchwork solutions not only is destined to fail, but brings with it myriad other consequences.
For example, because the economy was already experiencing energy limits in the early part of last decade, instead of spurring organic growth, reflationary policy simply distributed into the fixed assets of housing. That was confirmation that other barriers to growth were already becoming embedded.
Reflationary policy produced a greater quantity of resources, nor cheaper resources.
Similarly, in ethanol policy, instead of reconfiguring transportation systems or investing in rail, the U.S. foolishly wasted billions trying to produce more liquids when the real problem was the quickly escalating cost of oil supply. As we now understand, agricultural production is not free, but instead tied very much to fossil fuel costs. So the dream of escaping from high oil prices by running large-scale food-to-fuel programs is destined to fail.
No Carbon or Green Solutions at Sufficient Scale Coming
But if you think these measures are desperate, we have only just begun to push energy and financial systems beyond their capability.
The launch of QE3 (and similar measures by the European central bank (ECB) in Europe) is like the crack! of a starting-gun to human psychology that carries the following, urgent message: Hey, humans – go get those resources quickly, before someone else does! Indeed, the most powerful lever for monetary policy remains our capacity for social competition. The open-ended promise to pursue a faster rate of growth at the expense of inflation, mal-investment, bubbles, and the environment places a new and fast pressure on human economies to perform.
Those who are concerned about the environment and climate change should also read the onset of QE3 and the inevitability of NGDP Targeting as the start of the next big leg of resource extraction. And, accordingly, of CO2 production.
While the dream of a green energy transition persists, however, no such transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is taking place at sufficient scale or speed to effectively shift human economies to new energy architectures. We already have sufficient and clear data in our possession to know with some degree of certainty how energy transition is currently proceeding. In short, while wind and solar resources are growing at near-exponential rates, they remain such a small portion of the global energy mix that even in the best case scenario just 15% of the global powergrid will be free of fossil fuels roughly 20 years from now.
Displacing that much of the powergrid with renewables will indeed be an achievement, but unfortunately, the recoverable reserves of natural gas and especially coal are sufficient to fund incremental growth for at least another 20 years. Even if we project a mostly flat global economy for the next two decades, the energy-funding requirements to run a flat global economy will still necessitate that we extract enormous volumes of fossil fuels each year. And that is precisely what will happen as long as aggressive reflationary policy is pursued.
Accordingly, any global effort to place carbon taxes on economies or to agree to other climate treaties will largely be token and symbolic. In Part II: What Happens Once We've Burned All the Resources?, we will take a look at the remaining reserves of natural gas and coal, and roughly model the composition of energy inputs to the global powergrid as economies transition increasingly away from oil. Also, now that it's clear that this reflationary policy will carry on for years and years to come, we will take a look at a rough calendar as new programs roll out in Japan, the EU, and the U.S. Those who predicted Infinite QE have now been proven correct.
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I tore both of those poverty charts apart. They both converge, for 1 reason. Growth is (in) fact contracting.
Coming from a "Free Market" trading weave, it's clear that natural resources need to be used in a more "judicious" way.
RESPECTFUL inquiries only, please.
Our children, and theirs, are so fucked...so that we can each drive a 2 ton car 30 miles to work each day. I thought it would be a conservative view to look at lessening our reliance on burning down the forest as we go, but the REpublicans say it's not, so I guess it isn't.
You think rothschilds came out of the woodworks in 1980s to get back into banking for fun?
Aldous: is there a backstory I'm not aware of? Can you clue me in please? Thanks
Somebody read the last chapter of Agenda 21
only if people are worthwhile.
but me thinks reality is more like Idiocracy
It always pays to look at the labels, at least in a Zombieocracy
Let me start by saying this: You're the muppet.
Gasoline is hitting new highs not just on the West coast. On every coast.
gas is hitting highs or dollar hitting lows?
Arabs are not getting richer, Americans are getting poorer...but the truth is America IS a poor country.
It looks like defending $1780 on gold is getting tough for 'the manipulators'.
They may drop back and defend $1800. They will probably pull out all the stops
and go for broke [ which is what I'm hoping happens to these SOBs ] because
after $1800, there is only weak resistance at $1900 and then it's to the moon,
Lunar Gold
The number of Americans working from home has soared 41 percent in the last decade.
-Take a guess why.
Independent consultant working from home = unemployed liquidating assets on ebay
The race for resources, especially energy resources, has been going on for some time, back to the late 19th century at least. For a few years, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the West had its way, and the race for global resources was carried out largely in terms of the global financial system that America had established (and modified / reneged on) post World War II.
Now, however, with the financial system teetering on the brink of chaos, the West is effectively offering made-up printed money for real-world, finite resource in their attempt to allocate global resources to themselves. This is not going to result in some "rise" in commodity prices, some slow decline into poverty for billions of people, some muddle-through-slow-growth recovery, or some Japanese-like economic malaise for decades. Oh, no. This is going to result in war... just as the race for new world gold did in the 17th century, just as the race for resources did in 1914, in the 1930s (Italian wars of expansion, Japanese wars of expansion), in 1939, in the Pacific in 1941, the American invasions of the Middle East.
There is only one outcome to this situation, and that outcome is war... full-blown, all-out, global conflict over resources, especially energy resources. Do not think for one minute that this is going to end any other way.
There is only one outcome to this situation, and that outcome is war... full-blown, all-out, global conflict over resources, especially energy resources. Do not think for one minute that this is going to end any other way.
I think you're basically right, but it won't be full deployment by the nation-states.
I'm thinking distribution networks will decay faster than "central power" can manipulate remote resources. Long-term relatively low-intensity regional skirmish.
Everyone on Earth can easily get a rifle, but there are still only a few thousand entities who can employ "world-class" mass-death technology.
Ten hyenas against a million rats.
Yes. Supply chains will crack first. Already seeing a rise in defaults on contracts to deliver in the agriculture sector. Shit gets real when the food stop showing up, not before.
The best thing about his article is the title! That encapsulates the problem very well! It reminds me of the description of the struggle between the savers and speculators, with the speculators obviously winning, because their advantage is based on fiat money, being made out of nothing. Similarly, credit is created out of nothing, as a claim on real resources. The real resources obey the laws of nature, which primarily say that there is no free lunch, and no free waste disposal. I.e., nothing can be created out of nothing, and nothing can be sent to nothing.
If one believes in those ideas, as the basic, best first approximation of our current understanding the laws of nature, then the conservation of energy rules all, including that the transformations of energy are directed by itself, in ways that also follow the principle of the conservation of energy. If one believes in the conservation of energy, and matter, and the preservation of information, in as much as information is tied to any energy, then fiat money is obviously fraud, backed by force.
Privatized fiat money is a crazy cult, that became our state religion, because it was backed up by the power of the assertions of sovereign governments. I.e., one must obey the law by paying one's taxes in legal tender. Thereby, counterfeiting was legalized, and the power to do that was delivered to private banks. Therefore, the entirety of our credit system is the struggle of money backed by murder, to command natural resources.
There is still a vast, vast natural abundance, but ONLY if we adapt our human ecology and industrial ecology to operate within, and according to, the ways that natural ecologies have evolved. ... We are, sort of, doing that. However, the "sort of" is due to the difficulties that our murder system depends on deceits, and thus, our money system has been able to become runaway frauds, without effective checks and balances.
The degree to which bullshit reigns totally supreme is the degree to which all of us are in deep shit!!! The degree to which impossible ideals, and false fundamental dichotomies, are able to dominate the political process is the degree to which we are controlled by HUGE LIES.
Since our money system is fundamentally fraudulent (but the overwhelming majority of us refuse to face the fact that the only way to fix it requires simultaneously changing the murder system too) EVERYTHING directed by that monetary system is like building something using a bent rubber ruler, on top of an eroding foundation of sand!
We make an apparently endless series of incredibly stupid decisions, like to now subsidize ethanol production. Of course, it fits that, historically, when that mattered more, and might have made sense, alcohol prohibition was implemented to criminalize and stop that from happening. Historical research indicates that the women's temperance movement was massively funded by the big oil interest of that time, and the same group of plutocrats, back then, were also overwhelmingly dominating the funding of all the rest of the politics. Thus, we are now swinging, like an insane pendulum being pumped, from the absurdity of criminalizing ethanol, to subsidizing ethanol.
As an aside, the same argument can be made about criminalizing cannabis. It was BECAUSE hemp is the single best plant on the planet for people, for food, fiber, fun and medicine, that the law became based on a propaganda campaign that "marijuana is almost as bad as murder." Therefore, one of the better possible renewable resources was criminally suppressed, and still is! Again, follow the money through the funding of politics to understand how and why it happened that the drug war is 75% against marijuana.
MY POINT is that that can still be understood through the energy laws, and general systems theory. However, it MEANS that human societies end up being controlled by their biggest bullies, who get to promote their bullshit as the dominant social stories, which thereby control that society.
Therefore, our decisions are NOT based on any overall rational assessment of what would be best for the most people, for the longest time. They ARE based on who is the best, in the short-term, at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence. I.e., our real decisions are made inside the context of higher order, non-linear functions whereby energy is conserved, directing its own transformations. through a combined money/murder system.
WE COULD scale up green solutions enough, IF we integrated them into a system of alternatives. However, the keystone to such a system of alternatives would have to be alternative death controls. It is absolutely impossible to sustain endless exponential growth of anything, unless the basic laws of nature could be repealed.
What we empirically observe, and always experience, is that is NOT possible. Instead, what actually evolves are dynamic equilibria, in the form of ecologies, which provide checks and balances to stabilize what is sustainable, over the longer term. Of course, that is precarious!!!
Anyway, I liked this article, for all the points which it actually did make. However, as usually the case, my critiques are based upon where it stopped, and therefore, upon what it did not say ...
This article indicates how insanely evil ethanol production has become on the global level:
... Analysis by Oxfam of several thousand land deals completed in the last decade shows that an area eight times the size of the UK has been left idle by speculators or is being used largely to grow biofuels for US or European vehicles. In a report, published on Thursday, Oxfam says the global land rush is out of control and urges the World Bank to freeze its investments in large-scale land acquisitions to send a strong signal to global investors to stop "land grabs". "More than 60% of investments in agricultural land by foreign investors between 2000 and 2010 were in developing countries with serious hunger problems. But two-thirds of those investors plan to export everything they produce on the land. Nearly 60% of the deals have been to grow crops that can be used for biofuels," says the report. ...
" It was BECAUSE hemp is the single best plant on the planet for people, for food, fiber, fun and medicine,"
You should have seen my 'neighbor' last week. He grows dope in a barn. He's constantly stoned.
Anyway, I saw him with gauze bandages wrapped around his arms, with bandages on his neck and face.
He woke up at 2:00 A.M., was cold, and poured rubbing alcohol into his wood-burning stove, and lit it.
The resulting explosion left chunks of flesh hanging from his face, neck, and arms.
You talk about 'ZOMBIES'.......wow, smoke some more, DUDE! WHAT FUN!
There are NO chemical substances that cure stupidity! However, it is plainly obvious that alcohol makes people become far more stupid than hemp does. It is clear that alcohol prohibition backfired badly, and that pot prohibition is backfiring badly. The question is not whether consuming cannabis makes an individual more or less stupid, the question is whether criminalizing cannabis is a stupid idea!
Cannabis has diffuse effects throughout the body. It tends to be a general amplifier. If you were stupid before you chronically consume cannabis, you will probably become chronically stupider. If you were creative before you occasionally consume cannabis, then you will occasionally become more creative. If you hate doing something before you consume cannabis, you will probably hate doing it more after you consume. If you like something before you consume cannabis, you will probably like it more, after you consume. It depends on you as an individual, and your individual situation, inside of a complex risk/benefit comparison, where the balancing of the risks and benefit is severely skewed by the criminalization.
Your argument from anecdote has no merit. The FACTS are: Hemp seeds are the single best plant source for protein and oil for human nutrition, as well as most other animals. Hemp plants are a source of high quality fiber and biomass, which have many agricultural advantages. Before cannabis was criminalized, it was one of the most widely cultivated crops, for a long, long time, because it was useful. Indeed, the Latin words Cannabis sativa translate into English as useful hemp. One property of consuming the psychoactive resin on the flowers is it often produces euphoria. It feels like fun. Finally, the value of medical marijuana is beyond reasonable doubt.
Research on the history of pot prohibition in light of those facts demonstrates that the domination of the funding of the political processes by a fraction of 1% of the population were the reasons why it was possible for huge lies that "marijuana is almost as bad as murder" to become the basis for the laws, despite the fact that marijuana has never killed anyone. (Although, I will concede that stupidity has killed a lot of people.)
I stand by my assertion that it was BECAUSE hemp is the single best plant for people, that it was criminalized, in order to put hemp industries out of business, so that they could not compete with other industries. That was done by the people who benefited from profiting from their inferior products, which otherwise would not have been as profitable. Criminalizing cannabis was the single simplest symbol, and the most extreme example, of the general pattern of SOCIAL FACTS, that our society is controlled by huge lies, backed by lots of violence, which is designed to benefit the few people at the top of the social pyramid system that deliberately made and maintained that system. Those pyramidion people were primarily the international bankers, who benefited the most, all the way around from criminalizing cannabis. The biggest banks benefit by skimming the cream of the profits off of the illegal drug business, by laundering the drug money. The fascist plutocracy in general benefits from having more excuses to build a fascist police state to protect itself from the people, while that fascist plutocracy advances its overall agenda, against the interests of the vast majority of the people.
75% of the war on drugs is the war against marijuana. The war on drugs segued from slavery and racism, and still primarily accomplishes the same objectives, through coded language that enables the drug war to primarily become a war on visible racial minorities, and poor young people in general. The war on drugs was a special case of the overall social system: DEBT SLAVERY, BACKED BY WARS BASED ON DECEITS.
Of course, the "truth" makes no difference to systems based on lies backed by violence, therefore, whether or not what I say is correct and can be proven tends to be irrelevant. Our society generally maintains deliberate ignorance and wilful blindness, which is the most evil form of stupidity. There may be irony that there is no other group which is rendered more stupid by marijuana than the government, except if one perceives that the best organized gang of criminals, the biggest gangsters, the banksters, actually control our government. From that perspective, pot prohibition is a great success for them! Just not for anybody else but them, and the people who work for them, that are paid with the money those banksters make out of nothing, as public debts, to pay for the war on drugs, and all the other insane wars.
The article brings to mind Ben's response to Ron Paul as to the nature of gold ("tradition" vs money). I don't think Ben was necessarily lying when he said he doesn't think gold is money. Money is something that Ben can print at will, gold is not. If he lied in his response to Rep. Paul's question it would be when he stated that Treasury bills are not money, since they are the primary currency used between central banks for non-overnight transactions (f/x reserves). However, in fairness to Ben's sense of self importance the creation of Tbills is done at the will of the State's Treasury, not its Central Bank. Central Bankers are nothing more than hired help to those who direct the State. To quote J.P. Morgan, "I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do." To promote the phrase to the level of TPTB, "I don't know as I want a central banker to tell me what I cannot finance. I hire him to tell how to finance what I want to do." Gold is a relic of a barbarous age when TPTB had to find some suckers to loan them gold to finance their acquisition of other (non-gold) resources . In this more "sophisticated" age TPTB simply order their Central Bankers to print the money, which is seamlessly passed on to their muppets through decreased purchasing power. The new suckers are built into the system and do not have to be found or convinced to participate.
The war between credit and resources. The war between money and wealth. It's a matter of persecutive. Credit and money are the opposite faces of the heads-I-win, tales-you-lose trick of the central banks to support the State's ambitions. If Money (or credit) was wealth to TPTB then there would be fewer wars, as TPTB could simply have their Central Bankers and Treasurers print wealth or issue credit. TPTB measure wealth (and power) in terms of the means of production (raw materials, factories, infrastructure, muppets, and energy resources). Muppets, however, measure wealth (and power) in terms of money. Gold (and precious metals generally) are the overlap of the two measuring systems (lead and brass also overlap but my time is short today).
If you build your society around a resource that you think will be cheap, and it's not cheap, it doesn't matter what you use for money. You're screwed. Economics is religion; geology and biology are not.
but...but...but...I thought the Debt Brother lifted all his people out of poverty, already?
Funny how this article took off on a tangent about energy, when it could have looked more in general at consumer behavior.
Can the Fed force consumers to spend by devaluing their savings? I think it is more likely to drive consumers to ramp up their savings efforts while also decreasing their standard of living through higher costs for food and fuel.
Question. Is the war for value creation being waged between on-the-groundn scarce resources vs. full (as in unlimited) faith and credit monetization... as measured within a consciousness of confidence or has the nature vs. nurture argument finally been settled in the back of your brain?
Contributed by Blankfiend, of Fibs and Waves. Treasury Secretary Geithner thinks of your money as a first-loss buffer for the financial system. He counts on you being too involved with your iPhone to notice. In 2009, he launched PPIP to revive the MBS market - using your money as a first loss buffer. On Christmas Eve 2009, he opened your wallets to cover unlimited amounts of GSE losses. Well, he is at it again.
Gregor sez:
... the energy-funding requirements to run a flat global economy will still necessitate that we extract enormous volumes of fossil fuels each year. And that is precisely what will happen as long as aggressive reflationary policy is pursued.
The assumption is that the 'aggressive reflationary policies' are going to work. Right now, the central bankers are 'pissing in the wind'. NGDP targeting is a mirage, the promoters don't have any idea how central banks work -- or don't.
To increase NGDP, central banks must offer offer unsecured loans: 'new money' to create inflation. Central banks are collateral constrained: if a central bank offers unsecured loans under current conditions (insolvent banking systems) they don't create inflation, they become insolvent themselves ... just like their banking clients and for the exact same reason! In the place of 'reflation' there are depositor runs (underway). This is because there are no real lenders of last resort, only a constellation of banks destroyed by leverage. Carried forward, there are runs out of the currency and system collapse (see 'euro').
The economists are either fools or greater fools, they could see the truth if they bothered to look out their windows!
If they saw the truth they would have to acknowledge peak oil which puts paid to all their fantastic nonsense. Reflation is a certain-to-fail attempt to regain vanished capital. We've gained nothing of value for it, what remains is largely inaccessible: what Gregor and NGDP economists suggest is that expanding central bank balance sheets will make vanished capital magically appear.
Not only is the capital gone, the needed 'new credit' does not exist. Tomorrow's central bank credit is yesterday's private sector credit. There is nothing new under the sun, nothing but a conjurers trick to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Vanishing resources does not allow for them to be depleted faster. This is the 'rising prices creates reserves' argument that is facially defective. Easy to extract resources are already gone -- this is why there is a crisis in the first place, why prices are higher (scarcity premium = rationing by price). Meanwhile, consumption infrastructure is also stranded by same high prices. This in turn unravels the credit that supports the high prices (as is underway in Europe).
Not only do high prices strand but so do low prices. High prices adversely effect consumption. Low prices adversely effect extraction. At some point both prices are the same ... then it's game over, bitchez.
Either rationing by price works or it doesn't. The point of Gregor's article is that rationing by price exists ... either price rationing works or it doesn't. If it does then fuel prices must decline (rationing cuts demand). If it doesn't the outcome is physical shortages (resources out of reach). These shortages are permanent, by the way (bitchez).
In Europe, China and elsewhere, property speculators are going bankrupt: real estate is a fuel consumption enterprise. We witness the death ride of the automobile industry. Enough of world's demand is collapsing right this minute to knock $10 a barrel from the crude price even after 'easing-nonsense' by all central bankers.
Rabbit out of a hat, indeed. Get rid of the cars, bitchez!


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AVM new filler by ShikiAriandriNightWatch
©2012-2016 ShikiAriandriNight
here is a quick doodle filler page for our online manga a Vampire's Melody.
Link to online manga : [link]
Link to online manga : [link]
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and i'll check out the manga!!!
and i'll check out the manga!!!
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Oh my god *nosebleed*
I still practice my art and i take '' new AVM filler'' for layer do you would like to see the result or I erases this ^^ (sorry I do not think this time )
lovely OwO
Can't wait for the next chapter! >w<
punishment is sweet and tasty.
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i read it it was good cant what for the next
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Welcome to the Bass Player Association website.
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- 1st Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
- 1st Slovenia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the thirteenth Eurozone country.
- 1st Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
- 1st 93rd Rose Bowl: #8 Southern California beats #3 Michigan, 32-18
- 1st 36th Fiesta Bowl: #9 Boise State beats #7 Oklahoma, 43-42 (OT)
- 2nd 73rd Orange Bowl: #5 Louisville beats #15 Wake Forest, 24-13
- 3rd National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
- 3rd 73rd Sugar Bowl: #4 LSU beats #11 Notre Dame, 41-14
- 4th The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
Event of Interest
7th Phil Jackson wins his 900th game as a head coach, becoming the fastest coach to reach 900 career wins
- 8th 9th BCS National Championship: #2 Florida beats #1 Ohio State, 41-14
Film and TV Awards
9th 33rd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Eva Longoria win (TV)
Event of Interest
11th Author J. K. Rowling finishes the 7th and last Harry Potter novel in room 552 of the Bamoral Hotel, Edinburgh
- 12th Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
- 13th Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened as something triggered aerosols to form at a furious rate.
- 15th Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
- 15th 64th Golden Globes: Babel, Forest Whitaker, & Helen Mirren win
- 17th The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
- 18th The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm off the coast of Devon, England.
- 19th Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
- 21st Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark.
- 21st AFC Championship Game: Indianapolis Colts beat New England Patriots 38-34
- 21st NFC Championship Game: Chicago Bears beat New Orleans Saints 39-14
- 22nd The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
- 24th 55th NHL All-Star Game: West beats East 12-9 at Dallas, Texas
Event of Interest
28th 95th Men's Australian Open: Roger Federer beats Fernando Gonzalez (7-6, 6-4, 6-4)
Event of Interest
28th 95th Women's Australian Open: Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova (6-1, 6-2)
- 28th 23rd Sundance Film Festival: "Padre Nuestro", directed by Christopher Zalla, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
- 31st Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
Famous Weddings
- 9th "Ugly Betty" actress Ashley Jensen (37) weds actor and writer Terence Beesley in a ceremony in the woods of Big Sur, California
Famous Deaths
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- 1st A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- 1st Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
- 1st Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
- 1st Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
- 1st Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
- 1st Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
- 1st Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
- 1st Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
- 1st Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
- 1st Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
- 2nd Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
- 2nd David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
- 2nd Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
- 2nd Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
- 2nd Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
- 2nd Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
- 2nd Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
- 2nd Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
- 2nd Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
- 2nd Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
- 2nd Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
- 3rd William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
- 3rd Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961-1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
- 3rd Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983-2001 (b. 1924)
- 3rd Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
- 3rd Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
- 4th Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
- 4th Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
- 4th Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat) (b. 1923)
- 4th Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
- 4th Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
- 4th Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
- 4th Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
- 4th Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
- 4th Ben Gannon, Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952)
- 4th Helen Hill, American independent filmmaker (b. 1970)
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- 5th Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
- 6th Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
- 6th Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
- 6th Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
- 7th Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
- 7th Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
- 8th Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
- 8th Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters), dies at 84
- 8th Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
- 8th David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
- 8th Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
- 9th Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
- 10th Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
- 10th Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
- 11th Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
- 11th Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
- 11th Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
- 12th Sir James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
- 12th Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
- 13th Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
- 13th Danny Oakes, racecar driver (b. 1911)
- 14th Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
- 14th Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)
- 15th Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
- 15th James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
- 15th David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
- 15th Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
- 15th Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
- 16th Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
- 16th Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)
- 17th Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
- 17th Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
- 18th Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
- 19th Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
- 19th Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
- 19th Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
- 19th Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
- 21st Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
- 21st U;Nee, Korean pop artist (b. 1981)
- 22nd Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
- 22nd Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
- 22nd Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
- 23rd E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
- 23rd Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
- 23rd Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)
- 24th Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
- 24th Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
- 24th Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
- 26th Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
- 26th Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
- 27th Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
- 27th Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
- 28th Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
- 28th Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
- 28th Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
- 28th Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
- 28th Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
- 28th Emma Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (b. 1892)
- 29th Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
- 29th Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
- 30th Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)


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Long ago in 1372 A.D., there was a wealthy elderly woman named Penh living near the banks of the four river fronts. Her house was built on a plateau east of a hill. One day, heavy rains flooded the area. Daun Penh (Grandma Penh) went down to the dock and saw a koki tree floating towards the river bank. The strong fronting tides kept the koki tree floating nearby that particular river bank.
Daun Penh and her neighbors all agreed to build a temple with a thatch roof on the hill. The four Buddha statues were placed in the temple, while the statue of Divinity was kept in a shrine at the east base of the mountain, for she thought that the statue was from Laos because of its appearance and name "Neakta Preah, Chao" which is what is has been called ever since.
After the temple was built, Daun Penh invited monks to stay at the base of that hill. Since then, it was been called Wat Phnom Daun Penh, also presently known as Wat Phnom.
The city fell to the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975. The city's small class of skilled or educated professionals was systematically murdered by Pol Pot, or driven into exile.
Tuol Sleng High School was taken over by Pol Pot's forces and was turned into the S-21 prison camp, where people were detained and tortured. Many others starved to death as a result of failure of the agrarian society and the sale of Cambodia's rice to China in exchange for bullets and weaponry. The former high school is now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, where Khmer Rouge torture devices and photos of their victims are displayed.
Choeung Ek (The Killing Fields), 15 kilometres away, where the Khmer Rouge marched prisoners from Tuol Sleng to be murdered and buried in shallow pits, is also now a memorial to those who were killed by the regime.
The Khmer Rouge were driven out of Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese in 1979, and people began to return to the city. Vietnam is historically a state with which Cambodia has had many conflicts, therefore this liberation was and is viewed with mixed emotions by the Cambodians.
The capital of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, is located at the confluence of three rivers - the Mekong, the Bassac and Tonle Sap. The city is divided into three sections - the north, an attractive residential area; the south or the French part of the city with its ministries, banks and colonial houses; and the centre or the heart with its narrow lanes, markets, foods stalls and shops.
Cambodian currency is Riel. US dollars are as commonly used as the Cambodian Riel
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i watched apsara dance in Siem Riep. yes i read a brochure about Cambodian Children's Life Association but the performance was held in the National Museum, I'm not sure its the same association with the Veiyo Tonle Restaurant's traditional or not.Other comments
Hi Aisa. I will be in PP next month and found your tips, thank you, those are for good to me. Siem Reap also, I come back to your pages later :) Cheers from Finland.
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The two students, a sophomore and a junior, shared a University Towers apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan were raided by the FBI and had several items confiscated for further investigation including laptops, hard drives, unnamed video game systems, credit cards, a cell phone, undetermined paperwork and other computer equipment.
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Federal Court records show that the FBI is investigating gold farming and its apparent connection to terrorism. In this case, agents were looking for online transaction records associated with WoW and a number of other web sites such as the Chinese gold-farming website gameusd.com, eBay, PayPal and the United Services Automobile Association.
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Constructed in 1925, Hartbeespoort Dam has become a mecca for water sport enthusiasts and anyone looking for a fun-filled vacation from the city.
Surrounded by the majestic Magaliesberg mountain range, the dam is perfect for para-sailing, windsurfing and jet skiing. More adventurous activities nearby include paragliding, hang-gliding or hot air ballooning. The scenic beauty, fun activities and places of interest makes Hartbeespoort Dam an instant recommendation for every traveller.
Buffelspoort Dam is located on the northern slopes of the Magaliesberg, and provides a beautiful spot for fishing.
A lovely clean dam for fishing and skiing, Buffelspoort Dam is most commonly known as a great place to hook large carp. The dam is best fished with a boat.


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According to the foresters of Parks Canada there are three life zones in the Columbia Mountains: "Rainforest, Snowforest, and No Forest."These life zones are where CMH Heliskiing happens. Mountain guides and heliskiers divide the mountains a little differently, but the differences are largely semantics. However you break it down, the wildly different life zones of the Columbia Mountains are fundamentally connected to the kind of terrain you'll encounter on a heliskiing or helicopter snowboarding vacation.
Mountain guides break it down into Below Treeline, Treeline, and Alpine. Each zone has features that appeal to both beginner and expert powder skiers. Here is a photographic and descriptive tour of what skiers of differing ability levels can expect from each zone:
Alpine: The original inspiration for heliskiing. It's all about stunning views, big vertical, leaving tracks on gorgeous peaks and oceans of snow, and skiing past glaciers and massive mountain walls of snow and rock. On a summit to valley run at CMH, the alpine is usually a 500- to 1500-metre elevation band.
- Beginner Powder Skiers will enjoy the freedom to turn wherever they want, without the pressure of trees or terrain features.
- Expert Powder Skiers will enjoy the high speed carving on steeper unbroken faces.
Treeline: Quentessential Canadian heliskiing terrain. You get both views into the alpine, and technical tree skiing features like wind rolls and snow mushrooms - and the most massive snowpack in an already snowy region. On a summit to valley run at CMH, treeline is usually a 200- to 400-metre elevation band.
- Powder skiers and snowboarders of all abilities will enjoy the diversity and beauty of the treeline zone. Even within the safety limits of staying near the guide's tracks, experts can ride over the jumps, drops and steeps formed by the tree islands and moraines, and beginner powder skiers and snowboarders can ride the lines of least resistance.
Below Treeline: This is where the new school of heliskiing goes off. When the CMH guides began exploring the steep tree runs of the Monashees, they stumbled onto one of mankind's most amazing contrivances: floating effortlessly downward through a steep forest with snow pouring around every millimetre of your body - with a helicopter to take you up for another round. On a summit to valley run at CMH, the Below Treeline zone is usually a 500- to 1500-metre elevation band.
- Beginner Powder Skiers would be wise to choose an area with tree skiing that is suitable for weaker skiers. The Cariboos, Bugaboos, Kootenay, Adamants, and Revelstoke have a plethora of tree skiing terrain that is great for weaker tree skiers.
- Expert powder skiers and snowboarders will need no introduction to know that charging the deep powder through an old growth rainforest with CMH is pretty much as good as life gets. Rippers will be happy at any CMH area, but the Monashees, Gothics, Cariboos, Revelstoke, Bobbie Burns, Galena and Kootenay are legendary for aggressive tree skiing.
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