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is linseed oil an ok preservitive for the outside of the tbh? i like the look of the natural wood, and want to leave it with out painting it, just wanted to know if the wood treated with linseed oil will hurt the bees at all.
is linseed oil an ok preservitive for the outside of the tbh? i like the look of the natural wood, and want to leave it with out painting it, just wanted to know if the wood treated with linseed oil will hurt the bees at all.
It won't hurt the bees once it's dry. It doesn't do a whole lot to protect outdoor wood, but its a whole lot better than nothing. There are outdoor polyurethane varnishes that would be better protection. If you like it, go for it.
When I coated my TBH's I made a mixture of 1lb of beeswax to 1 litre of boiled linseed oil. I heated the mixture until the beeswax disolved in the oil and "painted" the TBH with the warm mixture. Repels water like crazy. I just painted the outside of the hive, not the inside. Be careful when heating the oil and there is no need to boil it. f it slops over onto the element you can have a really nasty fire in no time.
Hello Umbriel, that recipe that used linseed oil and bees wax sounds great I will have to try it some time. Thanks for publishing it. I have been using "boiled linseed oil" for quite some time. I found that after extensive drying (weeks or more) it will take a primer and over that latex paint. My greatest concern is endgrains and the edges of the supers.
Thanks again, take care and have fun
I apply my linseed-beeswax hot. Just heat it in a double boiler and then apply it with a brush. It soaks into the end grain much better, and gives an nth more protection to the wood.
One more thing you can do for endgrain situations is epoxy the endgrain.
It will wick into the endgrain and prevent the wood from sicking moisture into it.
As an amatuer woodworker, it has always outlasted anything else I have tried.
After appication of the epoxy, it can then be coated with whatever you want: paint, primer, etc.... or left alone. The rest can then be coated with the oil/wax mixture.
I mixed about 16 oz of boiled linseed oil and 12 oz of bee's wax in a slow cooker crock pot.
What a mess! and results I did not enjoy. Sacrificed the paint brush. The finish was extremely waxy and dirt would stick to it like glue, while handling it was just as bad. On a hot day I wound up removing the top layer of THICK wax with a putty knife. Seems OK now. So I caught a swarm and they are defending it rather well. I won't do it again, although I really like the look of wood. Might try straight linseed oil next year and just wax it with furniture paste wax, like Johnson's ORIGINAL, not the "new & improved". Or paint.
To use the boiled linseed oil/beeswax mixture, apply like any other oil finish. Apply liberally and keep working the "pooled" areas onto the areas that are
soaking it up and appear "dry". Keep doing this for about 30 min.. After that
wipe all excess off with paper towel. It will take a few towels since they
become saturated. The trick is to have no pooling on the surface, just like
a "hand rubbed oil finish".
Please note that my last post was a year ago. I would not do it again. Looks real funky now, darken and black splotched look. Naw, I'll go back to painting them pretty colors, just because.
A word of caution to anyone working with linseed oil, danish oil etc.
The rags or paper towels that are used are very dangerous.
Working on a commercial finishing job, I had been carefull
to collect all the paper and rags from the jobsite.(BECAUSE OF THE DANGER)
Got busy with something else and left them in my surburban in a cardboard box, that I had intended to soak down and dispose of.
"Tonto" my German Shepard awoke me that night or we could have lost a truck and perhaps more.
Parked just outside of the garage my truck had smoke pouring out the open window and the back was filled with smoke.
What was left was a large black smoldering mass which had almost burned thru the plywood floor of the truck.
No doubt it would have burst into flame shortly.
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Yea the warning on the bottle says something to that extent, I am happy with the finish the oil/wax mixture gave me, I think it has to be HOT like 100c to soak in and make a nice waxy finish, one hive I did it wasn't very warm when applied made some spots sticky and crusty-ish, would be nice to paint hot wax on with a roller then scrap them down "if you had lots of beeswax"
For those who have had success using linseed oil and wax (paraffin or bees wax) what is the ratio of linseed oil to wax? Any tips for ensuring success in the finished product would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
I have used 20:1 with success. As far as spontaneous combustion, I have not seen that mixture heat up on the rags and paper towels after cleaning up.
The wax will blend at a lower temp then I find makes a nice finish, I usually heat until its nice and hot 100c ish then paint and let dry for a few days, if I don't heat it enough it wont soak in, dried to a plastic/hard wax texture.
I wouldn't risk leaving rags soaked in linseed oil around for sure.
I agree with what everyone has said about the linseed oil and wax mix. The proper ratio is 20:1 and must be kept warm to go on correctly. I put mine over a camp stove outside and dip my brush directly in the pan. Pick a warm day to do it or the wax sets up so quick that it doesn't work very well.
Another alternative is 100% pure tung oil. Tung oil is food safe and I know you can pick it up at Rockler woodworking stores and there are a few places you can order it on the internet. Unlike linseed oil, tung oil dries to a hard finish. I have recently started using it so I don't know the long term viability of it yet. It has a similar dry time to boiled linseed oil in that it will probably take a couple of days to fully cure. Setting it out in the sun will help to speed the drying time. Make sure you are using 100% pure tung oil as any others will have things that are not healthy for the bees. It may need a recoat once a year but should be easy to do and not bother the bees plus it is 100% natural and green finish. Anyway, I hope that helps.
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Thanks for the reply. Do you heat the tung oil? Any idea how it holds up on outside applications?
I get the tung oil warm as it seems to soak in better and is a little thinner to aid in soak in. I just use a hot water bath, like an old cottage cheese container inside a larger container of hot water. Seems to work pretty well.
I can't yet say from my own experience how it will hold up long term outdoors but it seems to do well so far. I would get at least three good coats on if possible. I think a once a year recoat would be a good idea as well. Let it sit in the hot sun to dry as that will get the nicest finish. Let me know how it goes.
I was thinking of trying tung oil, didnt know it needed to be heated too, thanks for your post.
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(003) Welcoming central 2-room apartment near Nollendorfplatz
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TV, Midi-set, generous space for luggage and clothes. Full equipped kitchen with electric stove, fridge, dishes from wine glass to frying pan, cutlery, coffee machine and a toaster.
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The apartment is right on Nollendorfplatz, overlooking the uBahn station. It was clean, tidy and well laid out. The sofa-bed in the living room was lacking covers. The kitchen was very well equipped despite its small size. It was particularly nice to find that tea bags and milk had been provided. The kitchen window was badly cracked.
The bathroom/toilet is also small and somewhat cramped. It was clean and tidy. The bedroom was sparsely furnished but entirely adequate. The bed was comfortable.
The living room was a bit to warm at times: despite it being Summer and pretty warm the radiators were warm in the evenings so the windows and doors had to be opened to keep the room at a comfortable temperature. The bedroom was much cooler.
The location is great. The area is lively and relaxed at the same time. Maaßenstraße is lined with bars and restaurants. Winterfeldplatz has a regular market with good fresh produce. There is a good, well stocked supermarket right below the apartment. One can be in the heart of the tourist areas in minutes.
As the apartment is on a busy street expect some noise at night: it was not a problem at any point. Just sitting on the balcony looking over the city was a nice relaxing to spend some time.
I would certainly book this place again were it available.
L'appartamento è in una posizione perfetta di West Berlin perché vicinissimo alla stazione della U-Bahn di Nollendorfplatz e in mezzo al vivace quartiere di Schoeneberg con supermercati, bar, rIstoranti, club, locali notturni. E' arredato in modo semplice ma funzionale. Era pulito e ordinato.
Il problema principale però è stato che la connessione Internet WLAN non funzionava per niente (e il proprietario lo sapeva già al nostro arrivo) ed essendo il periodo di Pasqua non era possibile farla riparare. Abbiamo speso diversi soldi per poter connettere il nostro PC in altro modo. Nonostante Wimdu ci abbia alla fine accordato un piccolo rimborso, abbiamo perso diverso tempo e avuto difficoltà per questo aspetto che per noi era fondamentale.
Un altro piccolo problema è che c'era una sola copia delle chiavi mentre noi eravamo due persone che a volte giravano in modo indipendente per cui dovevamo sempre accordarci in anticipo su chi doveva rincasare per primo.
Ich hatte das Apartment für 5 Tage gebucht als es noch mal richtig Sommer war. Es war alles da, was ich brauche, die Einrichtung ist freundlich. Im Wesentlichen habe ich dort nur geschlafen und morgens gefrühstückt, den Rest des Tages war ich auf Achse. Gut, das Gebäude macht von Außen nicht den allerbesten Eindruck, ein Hochhaus direkt neben dem Kaiser Supermarkt. Cool war, dass der Markt durchgehend geöffnet hat::)) In der näheren Umgebung sind sehr viel schöne Restaurants, Cafes und Bars, ein sehr lebendiges Treiben rund um die Uhr. Das ist dann vielleicht auch der einzige Nachteil, es ist relativ laut, viel Straßenverkehr am Nollendorfplatz. Für mich war das kein Problem, ich habe das rege Treiben und die Vielfältigkeit sehr, sehr genossen. Ich hatte mir für die Zeit einen Vespa Roller gemietet, so habe ich noch mehr von der zentralen Lage profitiert. 5 Minuten zum Potsdamer Platz oder zum Kurfürstendamm, die A100 schnell zu erreichen, alles wunderbar. Die Abwicklung mit Martin war auch super, hat alles sehr gut geklappt, die Hinterlegung des Schlüssels oder wenn sonst was war. Preislich war es jetzt nicht ganz so günstig, lag vielleicht auch an der IFA.
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Cozy place, good location.
At first I worried, as I saw a lot of negative comments about WIMDU and I had already paid. However, I was very positively surprised and quickly put at ease:
The responses from the website were prompt and professional. The apartment was clean and the interaction with Martin was excellent. Pick up of the keys was friendly and professional. The apartment had everything I needed and was in good order. Location is ideal; very central to public transport, cafe's, shops. The apartment quiet and around the corner there is action, if that is what you like.
One minor matter, which is why I give it 4 stars and not 5 (I think 4.5 stars is realistic): The blinds on one window (shower+ toilet) needs replacing. The rest of the apartment is in excellent shape. I can highly recommend Martin and the apartment.
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The apartment was in a great location, near food shopping, etc and near the transportation network - S - Bahn.
We had what we need for the week's stay. Shower head needs a small repair and we were not able to turn on TV--but maybe that was our problem.
Heike met us and was very helpful in assisting us with baggage when we arrived and when we left.
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We spent 7 nights in the apartment. The location is superb (not in the center, but nice and quiet neighborhood). Gabi was so kind and gave us the keys, even when we got there a bit late. Supermarket, U and S stations and bus, literally 1 min walking. The apartment is spacious for 2 people, clean, and with all the amenities you can need, including extra towels and sheets. The kitchen is big enough to eat in there, and very clean. Bathroom small but enough to feel confortable. The only bad thing I would say about the apartment is that the mattress is old and not so confortable (but we survived). No problems with the wifi and hot water. I would repeat without doubt...but more happily if they change the mattress.....XD
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In the past, wastewater plants were expected to have a useful life of 25 to 50 years, depending on climate, soil, and other conditions. But the time has come to start thinking of an indefinite useful life.
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This will save taxpayers millions in rehabilitation and replacement costs, and it also enables the city to use the modified approach for its Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) 34 report and claim an indefinite life for the $32 million asset. With advanced materials and methods, and a deeper understanding of their structure and behavior, agencies can extend the life of facilities indefinitely, making replacement or major rehabilitation rare.
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Anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacteria such as Desulfovibrio desulfuricans in the gelatinous slime layer on interior walls produce H2S when they metabolize sulfur from organic matter in the wastewater. Other bacterial populations convert H2S to sulfuric acid, which attacks concrete, metallic, and other reactive materials. Climate (warmer regions are at greater risk), water temperature, abundance or paucity of dissolved oxygen, slope in pipelines, retention time, and wetted surface area all influence H2S generation.
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Hello Dee, I have contact a bee institute in Germany where they testing and breeding bees on 4.9mm cells for some years also.
Have you studied why your hives survive even if theyÂre mite infected?
Do you know exact the reason why this happen or is it a result of many different ways and you find it out by a lucky chance?
IÂm not familiar with test on bees, queens and cells they made on the institute but there a few thinks they discovered why it can work and many times not.
One reason I heard that small bees producing much less pheromones on the 8th day than bigger bees and the Varroa goes by the smell from that pheromone on the 9th day into the cells. More pheromone, more interest to go into the cells.
On tests they neutralized the smell totally and no mite entered the cell.
A second reason the find is, that the Africanized bees breeding only 20 instead 21 days and most Varroa are not fully developed and canÂt reproduce again.
IÂm not a scientist thatÂs why I say it simple. A combination of both is a possibility why bees live and survive with the mites.
Do you have blood from Africanized bees in your colonies? What does happen in the long run when you sell queens or colonies to someone else and they breeding with non-Africanized drones? Have you any results?
I would be interested to buy queens for myself and other beekeeper in our association. Can you give a guarantee that the bees will survive here over the years only on small cells or do I need drones from Africanized bees?
The scientists say if breeding queens and they get fertilized with drones like this it will work, but if youÂre a beekeeper on a different locality with other drones, it doesnÂt work. After a few years the effect is gone and even the bees in 4.9mm cells have a hell of trouble to survive without a treatment.


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A visiting twelve year old niece [t'w'eenager according to her Dad], provided the impetus to re-visit the UNESCO heritage site of Elephanta, after close to forty years!
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The Elephanta caves on Elephanta [Gharapuri] island house ancient carved Siva temples, dating from about 6th century though the exact origins are obscure. The main sculpture - Trimurthi is the official emblem of the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation. There are also remnants of 2000 year old Buddhist stupas which have not been fully excavated. It is believed that the exquisite panels in the Siva temples were carved into rock cut caves during the reign of the Konkan Mauryas, as per the Aihole inscriptions of the Chalukyan King Pulakesin II
More details from the Archaeological Survey of India at http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_whs_elephanta.asp
MTDC's pdf brochure of the last Elephanta festival has useful information and images: http://www.maharashtratourism.gov.in/mtdc/html/maharashtratourism/MTDC_Festival/Images/Brochures/Elephanta_Festival.pdf Regrettably, the Festival is now discontinued.
High resolution Google Earth maps are at
The trip:
Aiming to beat Mumbai's infamous November heat, we arrived at the Gateway of India at 0745 only to find out that the first ferry to Elephanta would depart at 0830hrs
While we waited, a very fancy speedboat arrived alongside us disgorging its even fancier occupants, who had to walk through our boat to disembark at the steps in front of the Gateway. One would have had to be blind not to notice that the disembarking ladies were dressed to kill in figure hugging micro mini dresses and stiletto heels. Most intriguing.
The outward boat ride:
A few more Elephanta bound passengers arrived, about 40 in all, and we eventually set off. A hazy morning sun, fresh sea breeze and colourful launches in the harbour provided a perfect start to the trip. We got excellent views of sea gulls, the Naval dockyard and INS Viraat, followed by the peculiarly named Butcher Island and the Cross Island oil terminal in the middle of the harbour, before reaching Elephanta Island jetty exactly an hour later
The Elephanta express train:
A quaint toy train [Rs 10 return] - The Elephanta Express [my description] awaited us at the jetty for the few minutes 400m ride to the foothills. This cute train boasts a faux steam engine, with diesel generated 'steam'. We took a ride as a novelty, walking is actually faster! An entry tax [Rs 5] is collected just before the approach to the old British built stairway leading up to the caves.
The heritage stone staircase:
The 10 foot wide stairway is an attraction in itself, being made up of thick solid black stone bricks with beautifully rounded sidewalls about 1m high. It is in excellent condition. Both sides, the entire length, are lined with assorted handicraft and souvenir vendors. Cheap plastic sheeting constitutes a rough roof. I do not know why, as the entire route passes under dense tree canopy. Perhaps it is to keep the ubiquitous Elephanta monkeys away.
Tickets to the caves [Rs 10] must be purchased from the ASI booth at the upper end of the stairway, where the useful ASI publication "World Heritage Series - Elephanta" is also available @ Rs100
Onward to the caves:
The first thing that hits you is the sheer extent of defacement - ruthless, wanton, evil and mindless. It is unimaginable that anyone, no matter how bigoted or perverse, would want to destroy these priceless works of art. A very Talibanesque like, Bamiyan style destruction. Not a single panel or detail remains intact. Added to that, modern day vandalism of the "Bunty loves Pinky" variety. To make things worse, restoration work is downright slipshod. Instead of using original material, ordinary cheap cement plaster, along with what looks very much like POP has been utilised. The ASI or whoever was responsible, has certainly not done a proper job. I am surprised that the British who were otherwise so particular about preservation of heritage, did not attempt a scientific restoration of these monuments. A professional restoration project is urgently in order, before further deterioration sets in. According to a watchman at the caves, recent earthquake tremors led to further damage.
Despite the mutilation, the magnificence of what remains is overwhelming. It is not hard to imagine what it must have been like in its days of glory. Lord Siva as Sadasiva or Mahesamurthi / Trimurthi in the Main Cave is sublimely breathtaking. An aura of timeless tranquility pervades.
As not many visitors had arrived, we were fortunate to enjoy the entire panorama to ourselves for a reasonable period. A panel depicting Lord Siva as Ardanarisvara is on the left and a panel depicting Gangadhara is on the right as you face the colossus. The Trimurthi itself consists of Aghora as the left face, Tatpurusa as the centre and Vamandeva as the right face, again when facing the statue. [All tbis gleaned from my nieces perusal of the guidebook]. No words or camera can ever capture the timeless ethereal effect of this sculpture.
The remaining caves are a bit of a let down being either totally defaced or incomplete.
The pathway alongside the caves gives a good view of the emerald blue Elephanta check dam in the valley and the slightly higher hill on the other side. Better not to look over the cliff edge, as you will see mounds of assorted plastic rubbish, as though this is the designated Elephanta caves site garbage heap
The cannons of Cannon Hill:
At the end of this pathway, we came across a handwritten sign pointing to Cannon Hill next to a barbed wire fence across a small trail. The soft drink vendor there invited us to partake of some fresh lime juice and told us to simply lift up the wire and go through!
A short trail through light evergreen forest with a few butterflies in attendance, brought us to the remnants of a stone fortification. We took a short cut uphill to surface at a remarkably well preserved black iron cannon on the top of the hill. Excellent views from this point of Gharapuri Village and the JNPT beyond. The cannon is on a metal platform which looks like it could still rotate. Staircases led down to a cluster of rooms, one of which led into a passageway through which we emerged some 40ft lower down the hillside. A short walk led us to the Lower Cannon and a view point facing the main Elephanta Jetty.
By now, the mid morning heat was getting uncomfortable, hats notwithstanding. Proceeding downhill, we came to a junction of sorts, where a vendor beseeched us to partake of some fresh lime juice
After our refreshment, we followed the 'official' Cannon Hill broad trail which emerged near the MTDC restaurant on the right side of the top of the heritage stairway. MTDC also has a couple of rooms available here for day use. Night halts are not permitted.
Hot and perspiring, we bought some cool cucumbers from a local vendor. Within seconds, a very menacing monkey appeared, only to be met by an equally aggressive snarl from my cousin who is used to dealing with simians. That put paid to Mr Monkey. We did however share the end bits of our cucumbers. Other than that one incident, the monkeys did not trouble us - contrary to internet information.
On our way down, we browsed the souvenir stalls picking up an Amar Chitra comic of Elephanta for my niece and a few other odds and ends
By this time, the crowds and the heat had increased considerably and we decided it was time to head home. Walking back to the jetty, we admired lush mangroves and colourful fishing boats. The Elephanta "Express" chugged along its bent track alongside the road, chock full of tourists waving to be photographed! Of course I obliged.
A pleasant 45 minute boat ride returned us to our starting point - the Gateway of India. Welcome back to Bombay.
Tip: Take the first boat at 0830 to avoid crowds and heat. Wear comfortable footwear and carry a hat. It is not necessary to carry food or water, as there is plenty of both, available cheaply, everywhere on the island. Binoculars will be much appreciated on the boat ride and from the top of Cannon Hill.
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Award winning Halloween display
BRISTOL, Tenn. - It is a spooktacular sight on Greiner Drive in Bristol, Tenn.
One house is covered in lights and decorations as the Eckley family, and their neighbors, get excited for Halloween.
The Eckley family is pulling out all the stops to make this year's Halloween show the biggest yet.
Ghouls, skeletons and zombies welcome neighbors to 104 Greiner Dr.
"I like the one that lifts up the gravestone," said Addison Coleman, a next door neighbor.
Addison is friends with Eckley's youngest daughter and the two of them put Addison's favorite skeleton together.
"His body came together but his arms weren't there so we had to figure out how to attach them and then we finally found out how to get the gravestone together," Addison said.
The gravestone-skeleton is one of the many new additions to the display this year.
"A few of the monsters, we did a couple more columns, and we have a singing skeleton which seems to be a big hit," said Brian Eckley.
Eckley even built the archway greeting visitors into the cemetery in July 2013.
He told us all of this was all inspired by one of his daughters four or five years ago.
"My daughter who was probably six at the time was upset because we weren't getting trick-or-treaters in the area," he said.
Eckley told us that hasn't been a problem since they started the project.
"We have some folks who walk in the neighborhood every night and they like to stop and see if we've added anything, if anything has changed from one night to the next," said Eckley.
"I like that little cemetery," said another neighborhood kid, Kyler Hunt.
Kyler has already been past this display at least four times this season.
"This is one of the best places with Halloween decorations in Bristol," he told us.
It took them about 20 hours to set up the display, said Brian Eckley.
Their project came in second last year in a contest held by the magazine Halloween Haven.
You can see the display between 7-10:30 p.m.
Eckley told us they will start taking it down at the end of the weekend.


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With only a limited time in sri lanka we decided to get moving ASAP so after a huge breakfast of curries, bread and tea (of course) that came to about $1.50 we were off to see some temples.
Being cheap we decided to not hire a driver (like everyone seems to be doing) and instead taking public transport. After all where we were going was only 70kms and cost both of us a $1.
Well after a nail biting 3 hours!! We made it to Sigaraya - in essence it is Sri Lankas version of Ayres Rock - that is, a temple complex on a huge rock. To be honest it looked amazing but then we found out it would cost us $22 EACH to get in. While we had an idea of this cost we were hoping that the book was mistaken - not so
To be honest it was great, wonderful views and some amazing frescoes BUT $22 worth it was not especially when I had climbed it and came back in 1.5 hours.
We hoped on the local bus back to Kandy, but on our way we decided to stop at Dumbulla which had some caves with Buddha's and frescos - well you wouldn't believe about it but the tourism board decided to double its price for whities from $5 (still a rip off) to $10!!!
At that moment I almost chocked on my curry. Again the locals got into it for free.
Well Nic was sent in to see it and get some pics after being shown by me how to use the camera in low light. After coming back it was obvious that Nic would never win any awards for photography :) but she said they were nice.
After spending most of our days budget on temples we had a quiet night and went to bed
The Elephant
The next day was my birthday and what better way to celebrate ones birthday than go to an elephant orphanage
The last thing that happened during our stay was that while walking towards the river with all the elephants down the main street (about 50ish) we passed a small kid who had a whicker basket what kept on saying 'picture Sir'. After saying no thanks he popped the lid of the basket and up jumped this huge frigging cobra which the kid then 'whacked' on the head to calm it down, Nic almost fainted.
As it was my birthday we decided a little celebration was in order so we headed off to the local pub to have some beer - to be honest, the lankans know how to make a decent drop and the view over kandy lake was wonderful.
The tooth temple issue
The most famous thing in Kandy is a temple called the 'temple of the sacred tooth', as it contains 'the tooth of the buddha'. The Lankans are crazy for this temple and music, drumming and screams of religious ecstasy can be heard from its high walls all day.
It is so famous those crazy tamil tigers decided to pull atruck up next to the temple a few years ago and blow it up - sorta like they do in Iraq
Again those crafty folks at the tourism board were aware of the temples popularity with whities so decided to slap a $5 fee on us getting in. HAHA HA not likely we said. We had heard from one of the tuk-tuk drivers that if you went to the early punju (celebration) at 6.00am, the ticket man wouldn't be there and you could get in for free - Score!!
So we were up early on our last day in Kandy and quickly made our way to the temple, going through TWO body frisks and metal detectors before we even got into the temple complex.
I can tell you what there is nothing like trying to get into somewhere for free - the adrenaline was certainly pumping and lucky for us the ticket booth was empty so we harried pass. We started lining up with the locals and proceeded to the tooth. Well it certainly looked impressive but as we only got about a 5sec look at it before being told to move on we really can't commit anymore than that. What a joke, moreso that at any other time it would have cost more than $10. We got the hell out of there before a guard figured out we hadn't of paid. What was funny though was that several people made the comment that we 'had got in for free' - this was followed by an all knowing smile. Obviously the locals weren't dumb as to why this tourists were up at 6.00am.   ;
The bloody Indian Visa Escapade
After this we waited for the 'calm' Indian consulate to open so we could pop in and drop off our visa. Well we got there when it opened put we certainly weren't going to just drop it off. Unless all the Lankans before us dropped dead. Not to mention there visa cost $5 and was ready the same day. So after three hours and asking very nicely for the visa to be ready by Friday as our flight was going on Saturday we got our bags and headed to tea country. &nbs p;


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NY Senator Urges Increased Public Wi-Fi Security.
NY Senator Urges Increased Public Wi-Fi Security
Sen. Schumer (D-N.Y.) calls on popular websites to default to HTTPS
If Senator Charles Schumer gets his way, popular websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon will default to more secure protocol -- HTTPS instead of HTTP -- to prevent identity theft in Wi-Fi hotspots like coffee shops and libraries.
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From Ketchup to Cotton, 'Most of the Things You Buy Have Been Touched by Slavery'
The Obama Administration has partnered with a California nonprofit to help companies ensure their supply chains are free of slave labor—less than two weeks after the White House left aid funding in place for countries it knows are doing next to nothing to combat human traffficking.
Slavery Footprint, an Oakland-based group, made headlines last year with a website that guides consumers through a short, interactive graphic that guesstimates—based on purchase patterns—how many slaves work to support the respondent's quality of life.
Now Slavery Footprint is part of a multipronged approach by the Obama Administration to curb human trafficking—the modern-day term for human slavery.
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Dubbed Made in a Free World, and launched on stage at the Clinton Global Initiative as a Champion of Action, the innovative Slavery Footprint tool is designed to help companies "identify high risk areas for forced labor within their supply chain [and] work with independent auditors to address those risks," according to a release.
Moreover, Made in a Free World aims to guide multinational corporations toward "ethical procedures for sourcing materials" and to recognize industry leaders in the combating of forced labor.
"The reality is that slavery is at the bottom of most of the supply chains that support our lives," says Dillon. "Most of the things you buy have been touched by slavery."
Essentially, Made in a Free World's leverage comes from the power of the free market—consumer choice, brand enhancement—to steer companies away from slavery-tainted suppliers.
"Our first line of attack is to work with these top brands," Justin Dillon, the founder and chief executive of Slavery Footprint, tells TakePart. "It's working. Companies are stepping up."
Dillon notes that slave-labor practices have been linked to everything from Florida-grown tomatoes to electronics manufacturing in China to cotton harvesting in Uzbekistan, where suppliers have been accused of exploiting child labor.
"The reality is that slavery is at the bottom of most of the supply chains that support our lives," says Dillon. "Most of the things you buy have been touched by slavery."
As Dillon works to partner with companies on the Made in a Free World initiative, President Obama this week touted his administration's commitment to end human trafficking.
"I recently renewed sanctions on some of the worst abusers, including North Korea and Eritrea," Obama said Tuesday during a speech in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative.
"We're partnering with groups that help women and children escape from the grip of their abusers. We're helping other countries step up their own efforts. And we're seeing results," he added. "More nations have passed and more are enforcing modern anti-trafficking laws."
Obama also signed an executive order that tightened federal contracting rules in a way designed to prevent federal money from going to fund human trafficking. "We will have zero tolerance," Obama said in his address. "We mean what we say. We will enforce it."
Due diligence alert: On September 14, Obama gave a pass from sanctions and cuts in foreign aid to Libya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, the Central African Republic, Kuwait, Papua New Guinea and Yemen—seven of the globe's most egregious hosts for human trafficking and child soldiers. Six other slave-running countries received partial exemptions.
Dillon says that while governments work to enforce new laws, or circumvent them, consumers and the companies they buy from can do their parts too.
"There hasn't been the consumer will to push further," he says, pointing to the tendency of most people to prefer low prices over responsible manufacturing.
That apathy has begun to change, though, as consciousness grows through initiatives such as Fair Trade and, potentially, Made in a Free World.
In the meantime, more than 20 million victims of human trafficking around the world are working for you, whether or not you acknowledge their labor.
Are you brave enough to take the Slavery Footprint challenge? Leave a tally and your thoughts about it in COMMENTS.


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Just seen this article where they want to ban printable firearms, someone made one that fired 6 rounds before something broke, so they want to ban it already
Click, print, shoot: Downloadable guns possible
By JASON DEAREN, AP
SAN FRANCISCO Downloading a gun's design plans to your computer, building it on a three-dimensional printer and firing it minutes later. No background checks, no questions asked.
Sound far-fetched? It's not. And that is disquieting for gun control advocates.
Rep. Steven Israel, D-NY, said the prospect of such guns becoming reality is reason enough for the renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act, which makes illegal the building of guns that can't be detected by X-ray or metallic scanners. That law expires at the end of 2013.
At least one group, called Defense Distributed, is claiming to have created downloadable weapon parts that can be built using the increasingly popular new-generation of printer that utilizes plastics and other materials to create 3-D objects with moving parts. University of Texas law student Cody Wilson, the 24-year-old "Wiki Weapons" project leader, says the group last month test fired a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle one of the weapon types used in the Connecticut elementary school massacre which was built with some key parts created on a 3-D printer. The gun was fired six times before it broke.
Though no independent observer was there to verify the test, a short video clip showing the gun firing and breaking was posted to YouTube. Federal firearms regulators said they are aware of the technology's gun-making potential, but do not believe an entire weapon has yet been made.
"What's chilling is that last month a group of kids used a 3-D printer to actually manufacture (key parts) of the AR-15 and fire six bullets," Israel said. "When the (act) was last renewed in 2003, a gun made by a 3-D printer was like a Star Trek episode, but now we know it's real."
Even with gun control pushed to the top of the national political conversation, Wilson is steadfast about reaching his goal of making a fully downloadable gun. This weekend, he and his partners plan to print four new lower receivers the segment of the gun that includes the trigger, magazine and grip. He keeps three of these AR-15 parts one black, one white and another green in his tidy student apartment in Austin, TX.
Wilson acknowledged there still are many technical hurdles to creating a complete gun from a 3-D printer and provided no estimate on when his goal might be reached.
Special Agent Helen Dunkel of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which helps enforce gun laws, said the agency is familiar with Wilson's project. She didn't offer an opinion but noted there is nothing illegal about making many types of guns at home. Exceptions would be high-powered weapons like machine guns and those not detectable by airport scanners.


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1884: Barely five years after the first successful test of the incandescent light bulb, a group of individuals interested in the fast-emerging field of electricity meets in New York to start a new organization. They call it the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Like the Homebrew Computer Club that would come nearly a century later, […]
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Apple: The 64-Bit Question
There's been an interesting sideshow in tech land since Apple (AAPL) unveiled the iPhone 5S last week: Does having the first 64-bit microprocessor in a phone mean anything?
The iPhone 5S comes with a new microprocessor, the "A7," which replaces the "A6" chip in the iPhone 5. The A7 brings a new "instruction set architecture" from ARM Holdings (ARMH), the "v8," replacing the A6's "v7" architecture, although the CPU core for the A7 is designed by Apple, as opposed to the v8 CPUs that ARM licenses to many companies directly. That is because Apple is among a select group of companies with a so-called architecture license to ARM's technology.
In the presentation last week, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller remarked that A7 is twice as fast in integer and graphics performance compared to the A6, although he didn't directly attribute the bump in speed to 64-bit technology.
But with Apple touting the iPhone 5S as the only handset in the world with 64-bit capability, something of a debate ensued.
Noted tech commentator Patrick Moorehead was among those quoted as saying there is no great benefit at this point to having 64-bit, given that 64-bit's main benefit is to use more than 4 gigabytes of DRAM.
The iPhone 5 had only 1 gig of DRAM, and analysts expect the 5S may have 2 gigs at most. Hence, Moorehead and others point out there seems to be little immediate benefit.
But then there was a piece by Aaron Souppouris of TheVerge last week, writing that 64-bit is "a bigger deal than you think" because "Extra registers — tiny units of storage inside the processor — let the A7 crunch numbers more efficiently, improving performance significantly for tasks like encoding and decoding video."
And yesterday, former ARM employees Andrew Hodkingson, Steve Revill, and Ben Avison wrote in The Guardian that the main benefit may be management of the phone's "virtual address space":
Perhaps the biggest issue, though, is virtual address space. This refers to the way that the operating system in the device "views" its whole world. No current major smartphone or desktop/laptop computer OS uses the physical addresses of installed RAM directly. Instead, virtual addresses are used. There's a memory map that translates between the two, detailing how the virtual address space translates to the physical one.
Global Equities Research's Trip Chowdhry, who on Monday penned an item saying that 64-bit puts Apple way out ahead of Google (GOOG) and its partners such as Samsung Electronics (005930KS), on Wednesday penned another item, saying there are immediate benefits to 64-bit in handling of instructions:
To appreciate 64 Bit architecture, one needs to look at is from the micro-electronics perspective Each word in a microprocessor is 32 Bit, if you expand it to 64 Bit, you can load 2 Words from Registers into the 64 Bit CPU in just one Instruction. This has the effect of almost doubling the clock speed of the CPU, when compared to 32 Bit CPU Further, the load on the Instruction Bus is cut into half. Bus is what connects the Registers to the CPU. This has the effect of almost doubling the load that CPU can process.
My conversations with chip industry folk in the last week suggest the truth is a mix of these various views: There is no immediate benefit to 64-bit processing, per se, but the bump of Apple's iPhone to the v8 ISA does have benefits. And, 64-bit processing may set up Apple well for future large-memory devices.
Linley Gwennap, head of microprocessor research firm The Linley Group, tells me in a phone conversation that the initial benefit of 64-bit processing in the iPhone 5S will really come from the implementation of the ARM v8 architecture, which "cleans up" some drawbacks of the v7 devices.
There's no immediate need for a 64-bit chip to get some 64-bit benefits, notes Gwennap, given that the v7-based processors could already use ARM's "NEON" instructions to perform 64-bit arithmetic.
But, Gwennap tells me, there will be a benefit to being able to surpass 4 gigabytes of memory before too long.
"Tablets will likely go to more than 4 gigabytes in a couple of years," he asserts. And phones will follow, even though some think 4 gigs is too much memory for handsets.
"In one sense, 64-bit can be seen in the iPhone as laying the groundwork for higher memory capacity in the iPad, and eventually, the iPhone," contends Gwennap.
Gwennap dismisses Chowdhry's claims about 64-bit's ability to load multiple words, or to double the CPU "load":
The assertions are almost universally incorrect. Doubling the width of the integer registers does not double compute speed. If you load two values (A and B) into a 64-bit register, chances are you want to do something different to them, for example A=A*5 and B=B+1. These two calculations still take two instructions (and therefore two clock cycles), and in fact you need A and B to be in separate registers to make this work. If you happen to want to do the same calculation on two values (A=A+1, B=B+1), you can load them both into a NEON register and use the SIMD instructions to do that--this works the same in old 32-bit ARMv7 or new 64-bit ARMv8. So no real gain there. Regarding the instruction bus, most modern CPUs already load more than one instruction per cycle. Cortex-A15 loads 4 instructions at a time and decodes 3 instructions per cycle. (Apple A6 probably has a similar design.) Changing the width of the registers has no effect on the instruction bus. According to Apple, performance on the A7 is 2X that of the A6 even on applications that run in 32-bit mode on both processors. The CPU itself has been redesigned to significantly boost performance. (BTW, looks like A7 has two cores, not four.) The improvement between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the same application is typically around 10%. The good news is the 2X gain should apply to nearly all applications, although for simple apps the difference won't be noticeable.
Similar skepticism is expressed by Dr. David Patterson of U.C. Berkeley, who along with John Hennessy, literally wrote the book on microprocessor architecture (as well as coining the term "reduced instruction set computing," or RISC, as in Advanced RISC Machines (ARM)).
In an email exchange, Patterson this week told me claims of performance benefits from 64-bit of the kind Chowdhry expresses are wrong:
Not valid at all. Confusing what is called implementation from architecture. You can have 64 bit data width implementation paths even with a 32-bit address architecture.
Instead, much like Gwennap, Patterson cites the A7's value as correcting "old 32-bit ARM shortcomings ,(v7), which they fixed in new ARM (v8)" and "Also, set the stage for bigger memory systems in the future, perhaps to enable merger of tablet and laptop OSses (x86=>ARM)."
He elaborates,
ARM v8 did 2 things 1) Made the address much bigger, so that it can directly address more than 4GB of DRAM, which is not yet an issue for mobile devices 2) Cleaned up the instruction set by discarding features accumulated like barnacles over last 25 years of ARM use. Basically, there was a well-known list of weaknesses for ARM V7 (including only 16 registers instead of 32 is all other RISC architectures) that were fixed in ARM V8. Thus, V8 programs likely run faster than V7, as the new instruction set leads to better processors and better compilers. So, I presume they did it for 2), as the amount of silicon for 64-bit processors vs. 32-bit processor is a tiny part of a System on a Chip that empowers mobile devices and the code like ran faster.
The view that Apple is setting itself up to unify its 64-bit development on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is shared by Ian Ferguson, the head of segment marketing for ARM. Ferguson tells me the advantages of 64-bit won't really be apparent until applications come to the platform using memory addressing above 4 gigabytes:
Just purely from a phone space, we don't think 64-bit brings anything of real meaningful value to today's set of applications. Based on what we've seen with how code runs on processors, you're not going to say that moving from 32- to 64-bit doubles the speed. It just doesn't work like that in the real world. But, when you think of Apple as a Tier 1 PC OEM, a lot of it is about aligning software efficiencies to development efforts across their portfolio. It's about having a common platform for them from PCs to tablets down into the phone space. There are efficiencies in terms of having all that on 64-bit.
ARM expects other companies with an architecture license like Apple to follow suit next year with their own v8-based chips. Indeed, Samsung was quick to say its next device will support 64-bit processing. At the same time, for those without such a license, ARM will be offering its own v8 CPU, the "Cortex-A50" family of CPUs, which has two members, the "A53" and the "A57."
But v8 has two "modes," 64-bit, and 32-bit. Whether and how soon end users will actually experience 64-bit in v8-based chips will depend on the extent to which Samsung and others actually think it adds anything:
A50 devices will show up relatively early in the year; in terms of buying at retail, maybe late '14, early '15. We think the processors will be just run as very high-performance 32-bit, at first. As people want to run more memory, they [manufacturers] may open up use of the 64-bit mode. Obviously, Apple is a phenomenal marketing company. Will this change the marketing dynamics? Will people feel compelled to move quickly? I think the jury is still out on that. It will take a few more quarters before we know if that's going to happen or if people will stay running 32-bit code. From a technical standpoint, it will come down to finding apps that need more memory. If we need to go there and add more memory, maybe that pushes the phone into that 64-bit mode. But you can't ignore the marketing dynamics as well. With last week's announcement, they may move quicker, rather than for a specific technical reason.
And there you have it. I would note that much of what Gwennap, Patterson, and Ferguson have told me aligns with remarks by John Gruber, who pulled together many of these themes in a post Tuesday.
Also today, Jefferies & Co.'s Peter Misek endorsed the view that 64-bit processing may be about tying together parts of Apple's platform. In a note to clients, Misek writes,
Apple has increasingly made iOS and OS X a blend of the best features of each. We think it makes sense over time to combine the underlying code base, reducing Apple's R&D and improving the user experience in a multi-device environment. In our "One to Rule Them All: iOS and OS X" (8/2/11) note, we estimated a merged OS in 2016. With the sooner-than-expected 64-bit app processor, now we estimate it could occur in 2015.
Apple shares today are up $8.64, or 1.9%, at $473.32.
Update: Researcher Carl Howe of The Yankee Group was in touch this afternoon to say that while he appreciates the points made in the article, another element should be kept in mind with respect to 64-bit, and that is the fact that Apple provides application developers both the development platform and the chip at the same time.
Writes Howe,
ARM V8 not only makes the processor registers *wider*, but it provides *twice as many* of them. I agree with the experts that the performance benefit of the wider registers is small. However, having twice as many registers is a pretty big deal. Processor registers can provide data to the processor in one processor cycle (that's very fast). Main memory, on the other hand, usually takes many cycles to provide data to the processor, making main memory very slow by comparison. Twice as many registers mean that apps compiled for the 64-bit architecture will run much faster than those compiled for 32-bits. What I think confuses everyone about this topic is that in the PC era, all processor performance was measured based on binary compatibility, where the same binary application file was run on processors from ancient 80386s to modern Intel Xeons, even as the processor architectures changed. However, in the mobile era, and particularly on Apple platforms where Apple supplies the development environment as well as the platform, developers can compile their code to different binaries for differing architectures (and in fact, Apple's development tools will compile both versions by default and put them into one app package). That means that the same Infinity Blade app may run one set of binary code optimized for a 32-bit iPhone and another set of code optimized for 64-bit on an iPhone 5S. This is very different from the PC world, and many hard core processor experts miss this difference. My bottom line: compute intensive iPhone apps compiled in Apple's latest development environment will run significantly faster on 64-bit iPhone 5Ss than on 32-bit iPhones. This performance improvement comes from the compiler having 32 fast general purpose registers in which to store intermediate results instead of just 12. This performance boost won't be seen when you run a 32-bit version of the app, but Apple's development tools produce both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so iPhones will always run the version that works best. For hard data demonstrating this phenomenon, see some of the following benchmarking results: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5


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Why Buy the Cow...Oh Wait, Women Aren't Cows, Debra Macleod
Matthew Bellissimo | Posted 04.01.2014 | Canada Living
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In her article titled "Don't Live With Your Boyfriend If You Want To Get Married," Debra Macleod provides her reasons for why she thinks couples should not make the cohabitation commitment before the man decides to "put a ring on it." Macleod refers to herself as a "relationship expert." She may want to reconsider that title.


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The following resources will help you enhance your understanding and use of student response systems (aka "clickers"). While some of these resources are generic to all student response systems, others are specific to the i>clicker brand that Ball State University supports.
Technical Help for i>clicker
Instructional Support Materials
Articles, Books, and Websites
Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments, by Derek Bruff. Jossey-Bass, 2009.
i>clicker User Community
On the Use of Clickers at CU
Clicker videos from CUs Science Education Initiative
"Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best Practice Tips," by Jane Caldwell. Life Sciences Education, Vol. 6, 2007.
"Designing Effective Questions for Classroom Response System Teaching," by Ian Beatty, et al. American Journal of Physics, January 2006.
Teaching with Classroom Response Systems
A collection of articles explaining clicker use in various disciplines
An excerpt from a video by Eric Mazur about clicker pedagogy
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Lynda de la Vina
Business dean named to '100 Most Influential Hispanics'
By Wendy Frost
Associate Director of Public Affairs, College of Business
(Nov. 5, 2005)--Lynda Y. de la Vina, dean of the UTSA College of Business, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine in its October 2005 edition. The magazine has published the listing since 1983.
De la Vina also is the Peter Flawn Professor of Economics and executive director of the Center for Global Entrepreneurship in the UTSA College of Business. She is the first woman to serve as UTSA College of Business dean and the only female Hispanic business dean in the University of Texas System.
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She also received within the last few months two prestigious appointments to a governmental advisory committee and a national fellowship program. De la Vina was recently appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to the 17-person advisory committee for the newly created Emerging Technology Fund. The $200-million fund was created to foster innovation, research and job creation in emerging high-tech industries.
This fall, de la Vina was named one of 10 fellows in the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Kellogg Leadership Fellows Program. The program is designed to identify and mentor the next generation of higher education leaders. The fellows receive mentoring, training and networking support throughout the yearlong program, which includes intensive workshop sessions and forums throughout the United States.
De la Vina has developed a strategic plan for the College of Business that includes raising the academic profile of the college to become one of the nation's best business schools and creating national distinction through strategic threads of excellence. She has enhanced Latin American partnerships, raised funds for two endowed professorships and developed alliances with other nationally and internationally recognized institutions.
She has led a distinguished career in academic and government service. The first Mexican-American woman at the secretarial level of the U.S. Treasury, de la Vina was appointed deputy assistant secretary for economic policy and served from 1998 to 2001. She is a member of the board of directors of the Center for International Private Enterprise, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Operational Technologies, a technology company that she co-founded.
De la Vina received her master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Rice University and her bachelor's degree in government and economics from UT Pan American. She was the first Mexican-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States.
The UTSA College of Business is the largest undergraduate business program in the University of Texas System and one of the 40 largest business schools in the nation. With more than 6,000 students, the college offers a broad portfolio of programs at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level. The College of Business is accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.


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Iraq War veteran, West Point graduate and peace activist Paul K. Chappell discusses how he learned at West Point and in the army that world peace is possible. He explains how military history shows that human beings are not naturally violent. He also debunks the "Gandhi myth" and describes how waging peace is strategically superior to violence in solving our national and global problems.
While on active duty, Chappell wrote two books, Will War Ever End?: A Soldier's Vision of Peace for the 21st Century and The End of War: How Waging Peace Can Save Humanity, Our Planet, and Our Future. He is also the author of Peaceful Revolution: How We Can Create the Future Needed for Humanity's Survival.
After leaving active duty in November 2009, he began serving as the Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA. He speaks throughout the country to colleges, high schools, veterans groups, churches, and activist organizations.


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The town of Puerto Maldonado lies about 600 miles east of Lima, Peru, but locals call it the Wild West. Gold-buying offices line its main avenues. Bars fill the side streets, offering beer and cheap lomo saltado—stir-fried meat and vegetables served with rice and French fries. Miners and farmers motorbike into the sprawling central market to stock up on T-shirts and dried alpaca meat. Garbage and stray dogs fill the alleyways. There's a pioneer cemetery on the edge of town, where its first residents are buried.
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And Puerto Maldonado is booming. Officially, it has a population of 25,000, but no one can keep up with the new arrivals—hundreds each month, mostly from the Andean highlands. Residents say the town has doubled in size over the past decade. There are only a few paved roads, but asphalt crews are laying down new ones every day. Two- and three-story buildings are going up on every block.
Puerto Maldonado is the capital of Peru's Madre de Dios region (similar to an American state), which abuts Bolivia and Brazil. The area is almost all rain forest and until recent decades was one of South America's least populated and most inaccessible areas. But today it is a critical part of Latin America's economic revolution. Poverty rates are dropping, consumer demand is rising and infrastructure development is on a tear. One of the biggest projects, the $2 billion Inter-oceanic Highway, is nearly complete—and runs straight through Puerto Maldonado. Once open, the highway is expected to see 400 trucks a day carrying goods from Brazil to Peruvian ports.
Later this year a consortium of Brazilian construction and energy companies plans to start building a $4 billion hydroelectric dam on the Inambari River, which starts in the Andes and empties into the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado. When the dam is completed, in four to five years, its 2,000 megawatts of installed capacity—a touch below that of the Hoover Dam—will make it the largest hydroelectric facility in Peru and the fifth-largest in all of South America.
The Inambari dam, pending environmental impact studies, will be built under an agreement signed last summer in Manaus, Brazil, by Peruvian President Alan García and Brazil's then-president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In a joint statement released afterward, the pair praised the deal as "an instrument of great strategic interest to both countries." At first, most of the dam's electricity will go to Brazil, which desperately needs power to feed its economic expansion—a projected 7.6 percent in 2011, the fastest in nearly two decades. Over 30 years, the bulk of the electricity will gradually go to Peru to meet its own growing power demands. "The reality is, every year we need more and more energy," says Antonio Brack Egg, Peru's environmental minister. "We need hydropower."
But the dam will also change the Inambari's ecosystem, already damaged by decades of logging and mining. The river level will drop, and whatever water is released will lack the nutrient-rich sediment on which the lowland wildlife—and, by extension, the Madre de Dios region—depends. Meanwhile, the 155-square-mile reservoir created behind the dam will displace about 4,000 people in at least 60 villages. And this dam is just one of dozens being planned or built in what has been called a "blue gold rush," an infrastructure spree that is transforming the South American interior.
Development of the Amazon basin, managed correctly, could be a boon for the continent, lifting millions out of poverty and eventually bringing stability to a part of the world that has known too little of it. But in the short term it is creating new social and political tensions. How Peru balances its priorities—economic growth versus social harmony and environmental protection—will determine whether it joins the ranks of middle-class countries or is left with entrenched poverty and denuded landscapes.
Madre de Dios claims to be the biodiversity capital of the world. Fittingly, Puerto Maldonado boasts a Monument to Biodiversity. It is a tower that looms over the middle of a wide traffic circle near the center of town, with a base ringed with broad concrete buttresses, mimicking a rain forest tree. Between the buttresses are bas-relief sculptures of the region's main activities, past and present: subsistence agriculture; rubber, timber and Brazil-nut harvesting; and gold mining—oddly human pursuits to detail on a monument to wildlife.
I was in Puerto Maldonado to meet up with an old friend, Nathan Lujan, who was leading a team of researchers along the Inambari River. After getting his PhD in biology from Auburn University in Alabama, Nathan, 34, landed at Texas A&M as a postdoctoral researcher. But he spends months at a time on rivers like the Inambari. For the better part of the past decade he's been looking for catfish—specifically, the suckermouthed armored catfish, or Loricariidae, the largest family of catfish on the planet. Despite their numbers, many Loricariidae species are threatened by development, and on this trip, Nathan was planning to catalog as many as possible before the Inambari dam is built.
The river Nathan showed me was hardly pristine. It serves many purposes—transportation, waste removal, a source of food and water. Garbage dots its banks, and raw sewage pours in from riverfront villages. Much of Puerto Maldonado's growth (and, though officials are loath to admit it, a decent share of Peru's as well) has come from the unchecked, often illegal exploitation of natural resources.


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text: I am afraid that during a recent application of Bondo outdoors, Boba has taken a tumble. A gust of wind pushed him over the edge of the surface I was working on and he fell cheek first into my deck. I hate winter in the Northeast, and now, it's personal! In any event, here is his current state; I will attempt to revive and repair him. Oh yes, we can rebuild him!!!!


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Hope College will present its annual Concerto and Aria Concert featuring student soloists performing with the college's orchestra on Friday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The public is invited. The five soloists were selected through a competition held last October. The students are: senior Matthew Brown of Flint, French horn; senior Jenna Buck of Elburn, Ill., soprano; junior Jordan Ippolito of Pray, Mont., soprano; junior Kelsey O'Brien of Glen Ellyn, Ill., oboe; and senior Alec Norkey of Jackson, violin. The Hope College Orchestra is directed by Mr. Richard Piippo.


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Family to host benefit for missing boy
MONUMENT, Colo. - The family of a missing boy will host a benefit to raise awareness and money for the 13-year-old. Dylan Redwine went missing on Nov 19th while on a court-ordered visit to his Dad's Vallecito home.
Dylan's mother, Elaine Redwine, and 21-year-old brother, Cory Redwine, shared what life is like at home without the teen.
"When I was younger and he was born, he was always tattling on me. I grew to love him and every day I became appreciative of being a bigger brother. I really took on and loved playing that role, you know, being an older brother," said Cory.
It's been 55 days since Cory's younger brother went missing.
"When they gave us the flier and in big, bold letters it says missing, and Dylan's picture is right underneath that. That's when it really sank in that this is real," said Cory.
Elaine and Cory agreeded, it's hard to put their feelings about Dylan into words.
"It's a feeling, as Cory said, that you can never describe. An emptiness, a loneliness, an uncertainty," said Elaine. "You never want to have to be in our situation. And you know I've always sympathized and empathized with every mother, every father, every family that's gone through this. Now that it's hitting home, it's an emotion you can never describe."
Elaine said life at home will never be the same until Dylan comes home.
"We're a unit and without him we're missing a very big piece of us," said Elaine.
Elaine and Cory said their family will be all together again.
"He's still alive in my mind. That will never change. I'm always going to be hopeful that I'll see him again, no matter what and that's all I really have to hold onto right now," said Cory.
"I believe in Dylan, I believe in Dylan's strength, I believe in Dylan's mind. I believe in Dylan and I believe in all we taught him, I have faith in him," said Elaine. "I can't give up on Dylan, I will never give up on Dylan, he's my baby."
Cory said the outpouring of support he's seen brings him hope he will get to hug his brother again.
"It's amazing from it going from Durango to La Plata County to Colorado to the United States, it's been unbelievable to watch," said Cory. "Whether that's just putting something on Facebook to helping out on search parties to making fliers, it's unbelievable the support we've got from the entire nation."
The "Dinner for Dylan" Benefit will be hosted at Lewis Palmer High School on Jan. 17. It is open to the public and no pre-registration is necessary. Attendees can pay cash or checks at the door. The cost is $5 per person or $20 per four-person family.
The money raised will go to a reward for information that will lead to Dylan. A family member told KRDO NewsChannel 13 that money could be used to hire a private investigator to continue searching for Dylan if it comes to that.
Dylan Redwine is described as 5 feet tall, 105 pounds, blond hair, blue eyes and fair complexion. He was last seen wearing a black Nike shirt, black basketball nylon shorts, black Jordan tennis shoes and a two-tone blue and white Duke Blue Devils baseball hat.
A tip line has been set up specifically for the search for Dylan Redwine at 970-382-7511.
The Durango La Plata Crime Stoppers also has a cash reward for information leading to Dylan. Crime Stoppers can be reached at 970-247-1112.
Citizens may also call the hotline for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE LOST (1-800-843-5678).


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The process of, during sex, grabbing the base of the penis and pulling the skin back to tighten it around the shaft, making it sensitive, in order to decrease the amount of time to have an orgasm.
The flight attendant was knocking on the door while I was having sex with Molly, so she used the Florentine Method to wrap it up.
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I would pay special attention to this section:5.2.6 Collectors acquiring NFA firearms for their personal collections by acquiring dealers' licenses and paying NFA special tax. Some NFA firearms collectors, who are not engaged in any firearms business, have been known to acquire a GCA license to deal in firearms and pay the NFA special tax to acquire NFA firearms for their personal firearms collections. They do so for a number of reasons: (1) to acquire firearms from nonlicensees residing out-of-state; (2) to circumvent requirements imposed on individuals to provide their fingerprints and photographs in order to receive NFA firearms and law enforcement certifications authorizing their receipt of such firearms; and (3) to avoid NFA transfer tax on firearms they receive from FFLs/SOTs.
Warning: These transactions violate the law and can only lead to trouble for the collector. In these instances, the collector has committed Federal felonies by falsely stating on a license application and special tax return that the collector intends to conduct a firearms business. Any NFA firearms received tax free by the collector are subject to transfer tax and the collector's receipt of the firearms tax free violated the NFA. As held in ATF Ruling 76-22, these transfers are unlawful and the firearms received are subject to seizure and forfeiture.


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Town Square
The Government We Deserve
Original post made by Cindy Cross, Parkside, on Aug 29, 2011
It is hard not to be cynical as you see the same problems that plague our society being dealt with in the same hapless manner. But who has created this seemingly unbridgeable divide? We have.
It is interesting that every bill that comes to a vote before congress is divided by party, and not on the merits as to how it will or will not benefit Americans in general. Take for instance the legislation that is derisively called: Obama Care. Many Californians do not have medical coverage, although they have jobs and pay taxes the same as those insured by their employers, the state or federal government.
Although the bill did not meet the objectives of the socialist left-wing communists, and has been reviled as a fascist takeover by the ever encroaching government who wants to create death panels for granny by the fanatic right, it did win 60 votes and was signed into law by the president…only to be contested in the courts and used as a platform for those who want it repealed. In essence, our government is like a cancer eating itself instead of a dynamic body that actually improves the lives of those it represents. Nothing accomplished as usual.
Same with the debt ceiling debacle; the political body consuming itself by actually putting the economic welfare of the country on the line because of a small faction of the Republican Party holding the country hostage to its insane demands. This resulted in the unnecessary downgrading of our national credit rating.
Not only have we voted these do nothing politicians into office, we have kept the bar low in terms of the standards in which they serve us. It is also telling that the majority of our representatives are lawyers, former business executives and career politicians. Our best and brightest are nowhere to be found in public service, instead we have half-wits and half-term governors setting the bar.
The Fed chairman just recently stated that a big part of our economy being stuck is the result of our politicians not being able to act as responsible adults. Again, we voted these people into office and we have allowed ourselves to be put into a black or white, right or left, Hannity or Colmes view of our world – which it isn't.
Comments (7)
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 29, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Can somebody please explain to me what the above article is about?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 29, 2011 at 9:37 pm
No, I can't. Sorry. Would if I could.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 29, 2011 at 10:13 pm
I am at a loss as well.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Aug 29, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Who ever this Cindy Cross is, she is making Lindsey Lohan look like a genius.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Aug 30, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Seems clear to me....if you vote for a democratic or republican candidate you are voting for the insanity in Washington to continue.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 30, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Cindy Cross complains and does not offer any solutions. Bill suggests who we should not vote for, but does not offer who we should vote for.
I'm still at a loss for the thread.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 31, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Happy that they're college graduates! They can esplain it: Happy that they're college graduates!
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The Humming Tree
Book by: Mickel Mais
Status: Finished
Genre: Other
Chapter1 (v.1) - The Humming Tree
The Humming Tree
The lost man brought her under a sky of green wisps, held together by only the slimmest of branches. The gestures he made to all that surrounded them held her attention, but the feelings that she had thought to have lost now emanated from the wisps, freeing her spirit.
The child sat in a cold, metal chair, her mind absent from where she was, her eyes fixated on the clean-shaven man dressed in crisp, white robes standing a few feet in front of her. He seemed to be speaking with a young woman who wore a face of premature age. With each response, the fine lines etched into her once-beautiful face moved to a sad dance, along with other sad, more deeply etched lines. The atmosphere of the uncomfortable, mint-painted room grew heavier and heavier. The girl slid her hands slowly up and down the chair's handles, observing how slick and shiny they were. A sudden, and dramatic, movement from the woman refocused her attention, once again, to the adults in the middle of the room.
"I'm sorry Ms. Bellevue, but there was nothing more we could do. We've tried our best, but there was no way to recover any of her hearing; however, the amnesia may be temporary." explained the doctor. She's staring at me, he unconsciously noted, spotting the deep, emerald eyes in the corner of his vision. The woman standing in front of him continued to quietly sob. He contemplated whether or not to try to console her, but was still distracted slightly by the young girl's prodding eyes.
"What happens if Kami doesn't get her memory back? And what if she does? How am I supposed to explain to my baby that she will never hear her mother's, let alone anyone's, voice again? Oh, God…" Ms. Bellevue began to sob louder. She covered her face with her hands and unconsciously thought to herself, she's staring at me, noticing her daughter's curious eyes scanning her actions.
"Ms. Bellevue, you do realize it could have been much worse. Kamille is lucky to have survived with the injuries she's suffered." The doctor reminded the mother once again.
Kamille adjusted her shoulder strap. She could tell that the woman had become offended by something, but what it was, she didn't know. The two were speaking a language that was familiar to some part of her mind, though inaudible to her ears. A headache began to take root as she tried to focus on who the people were and why she was here. Whenever she would get up, the man would turn to her and move his mouth, once again speaking that silent language, while gesturing towards the seat with his hands until she sat back down. Kamille was thirsty, she was hungry, and she was confused. I just want to go home, she systematically thought to herself before realizing that she didn't know where home was. Kamille tucked a part of the white, filmy gauze that was wrapped around her head back behind her ear after it had fallen in front of her eyes.
Minutes passed and, while Kamille fidgeted with a large bandage stuck to her arm, the line-etched woman bent slightly near her and gestured for her hand. Subtle feelings of trust caused the girl to react with a soft grip onto the woman. They walked together like this through the geometric doorframes, strange feelings, such as what had guided Kamille's hand, were tangible, but still hidden enough away in the blurry shadows of her memory to be pulled upon. The doctor followed, up until the glass doors that moved when approached. This had caught Kamille's glance as the wonder of such a reliable thing poked at her mind, just long enough for her to not notice the doctor giving the older woman a small, rectangular piece of paper.
Ms. Bellevue placed the business card into a pocket within her purse and snapped it shut. She nodded to the man and softly spoke, "A good day to you, Dr. Claigh." With that, and several prescriptions, she left the mint building and was hit with the stale air of a windless, Californian afternoon. Daughter in hand and valuables slung on shoulder, Ms. Bellevue felt a little more in control as she walked towards her car, shining like new. She opened the door for her young one and waited so she could buckle her in.
Kamille's eyes gazed upon the passing smudges of what could be referred to as civilization, never focusing on one thing for long. The city she was in seemed to have, once, been slightly impressive, but now was in a sad and empty state. These dreary feelings seemed to be reflected in the people who roamed the streets, usually alone, who Kamille caught a glance of here and there. She was surrounded by clouds of metal and smoke, of flesh and dreams, and of concrete and glass, but still felt a creeping sensation of being stranded. Stranded in her mind and in a place that played no sound or passion, Kamille looked from car, to person, to building, searching for any others that were stranded. She looked to the woman in the mirror and met her eyes, recognizing that same sense of abandonment that Kamille felt. This woman was also stranded, but somewhere far from Kamille, in a place where she could never be.
Ms. Bellevue looked in the rearview mirror at the leaf-eyed girl staring back at her. A car honk from behind quickly snapped her attention from a memory and back to the road. Ms. Bellevue drove along the lines that were marked by only a faint layer of paint upon asphalt, a layer so thin and so easily unseen.
"It feels like it was only yesterday…" Ms. Bellevue began before remembering who her audience was. "Damn you, Jak."
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One of the stars of the original Star Wars trilogy says he asked director George Lucas if he was "nuts" when he said he was planning a third trilogy in the popular sci-fi series.
Lucas announced on Tuesday he was selling his company LucasFilm to Disney for $4.05 billion, and that included a series of new Star Wars films - the first hitting cinemas in 2015. Lucas will act as a creative consultant on the new films.
But Mark Hamill - who played Luke Skywalker in the first three Star Wars films, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - says Lucas told him about his plans back in August.
"Last August (George) asked Carrie and I to have lunch with him and we did," Hamill told Entertainment Weekly.
"I thought he was going to talk about either his retirement or the Star Wars TV series that I've heard about - which I don't think we were going to be involved in anyway ..."
Hamill said he asked Lucas if he was crazy.
"So when he said, 'We decided we're going to do Episodes VII, VIII and IX,' I was just gobsmacked. 'What? Are you nuts?!'," Hamill said.
"I guess he wanted us to know before everybody else knew. He said, 'Now you can't tell anybody!' Even now I'm nervous about saying anything. I just don't know!"
Hamill said he had mixed feelings about the Star Wars series continuing after the "happy ending" of Return of the Jedi.
"I can see both sides of it. Because in a way, there was a beginning, a middle, and an end and we all lived happily ever after and that's the way it should be - and it's great that people have fond memories, if they do have fond memories.
"But on the other hand, there's this ravenous desire on the part of the true believers to have more and more and more material. It's one of those things: People either just don't care for it or are passionate about it.
"I guess that defines what cult movies are all about. We'll see."
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An old Maori meeting house and carvings worth about $6 million are being readied for auction.
It is the second time Te Tiki a Tamamutu wharenui and its 126-year-old carvings have been offered for sale in the past two years.
In 2011, a tender price of between $8 million and $12 million was accepted but the tender, believed to be from Te Arawa iwi, fell through.
The wharenui, carved by Rotorua's master carver Wero Taroi and his apprentice Tene Waitere, was removed from the Taupo Spa Hotel last year.
This week, the owners listed the rest of the Spa Hotel's land, business and buildings with Bayleys' agent Paul Dixon.
But the wharenui and its carvings will stay in storage until Webb's Auction House confirms an auction date.
Webb's managing director Neil Campbell said it would be the largest sale of Maori carvings in New Zealand. He believed it should be sold to Te Arawa iwi.
"We always hoped the iwi would acquire it and bring it to life," Campbell said.
The wharenui was carved in the 1860s for the Ngati Tuwharetoa chief Hohepa Tamamutu. In 1886, it was sold to a European and used as a "novelty tea house".


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It's been nearly a decade in the making: In 2001 the American Public Works Association (APWA) notified Columbus, Ohio, that the city would host its 2009 annual convention, or "Congress." Now that it's just months away, Randy Bowman isn't subtle about his enthusiasm, happily describing one project after another that his home town has completed since the announcement eight years ago.
And most have several things in common: They were designed with an eye toward sustainability and built through public-private partnerships.
In February, Bowman was named administrator of the newly created Division of Mobility Options. "It's targeted toward active living and encourages mass transit to reduce congestion and improve air quality," says the president of the association's Ohio Chapter. "Public-private partnerships are part of the city's strategy for succeeding with sustainable projects."
Two such projects are highlighted in workshop tours on Wed., Sept. 16:
In 2007, the local Historic Resource Commission approved the city's $44 million proposal to replace the 70-year-old multiple-span, open-spandrel, concrete-deck arch Main Street bridge with a single-ribbed steel arch inclined at a 10-degree angle. The bridge has one 18-foot-wide pedestrian/cyclist path and a 35-foot-wide, three-lane deck for vehicles.
"The bike path actually cantilevers away from the vehicular portion of the bridge deck," Bowman says. "It has organic qualities."
To make streets accessible for all users rather than just vehicles — an urban planning concept called "complete streets" that's the subject of proposed U.S. House of Representatives legislation — the city spent $6.8 million converting Gay Street in the central business district from one-way access to two-way access. "It's not just a work environment down here, but a place to live," Bowman says. "The city is being more deliberate in accommodating all users of all ages of all abilities all the time."
Efforts to convince the association to bring its convention to Columbus were successful because of the support of elected officials as well as the local visitors and convention bureaus, Bowman says. "There always has to be one major champion," he explains. "We've had one person who has been with this ever since there has been interest in applying as a host city." In this case it was a consultant who didn't even work for the city but is a member of the state's APWA chapter who saw the city's potential as a host.
Fundraising was key once Columbus was selected. The state chapter's organizing committee raised $200,000 to include a welcome center in the Greater Columbus Convention Center, buy and personalize T-shirts for volunteers, and pay for refreshments for vendors and exhibitors.
The convention center is at the south end of a revitalized entertainment district called Short North. "It's a groovy, cool place to go," says Bowman. "Walk it to see what we're doing in this highly urban corridor to promote urban living." Along the main route, High Street, visitors are likely to walk under steel arches decorated with LED globe lights made to look like old-fashioned light bulbs.
Part of High Street spans Interstate 670, but pedestrians would never know it as they cross from Short North to the adjacent Arena District. Columbus partnered with a real estate firm to create an overpass that was widened to accommodate private retail development situated on 75-foot extensions from the street over the interstate.
"It was a wonderful partnership between the state, feds, local business community, residents group, and city leadership," Bowman says. "We hope people see a big city that's retaining its young professionals."


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Man remains in jail after 2nd arrest in a week
July 3, 2013
A man remains in custody in county jail on $500,000 bail after being arrested for the second time in a little more than a week.
Craig Stephen Cortez was arrested Friday after deputies responded to a report of an assault at a residence in the 15000 block of Julia Ranch Road, off Greenhorn Road.
Cortez had reportedly broken the victim's nose and made criminal threats, according to dispatch reports. It was not clear what led to him allegedly punching the victim.
Deputies responded to the residence at about 5:30 p.m. and tried to take Cortez into custody.
He reportedly fought with deputies and injured one of them. The deputy sought treatment, but the extent of the injuries was not known as of press time.
Cortez was arrested on suspicion of battery causing serious bodily injury, battery on a peace officer, resisting arrest and causing serious bodily injury, and making a criminal threat.
He also had been arrested on June 20 after a detective from the Major Crimes unit questioned him in connection with a burglary.
Cortez, 49, was found to be in possession of a loaded firearm and was arrested on suspicion of being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. He was booked and released on $50,750 bail in that case.
He has racked up nine felony cases in Nevada County, according to court records, most recently in 1999.
To contact City Editor Liz Kellar, email email@example.com or call 530-477-4229.
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