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In the middle of 2012, Emily Simonian was at a crossroads. Though she had released her first EP, Pale Green, the year before, she was already unhappy with the direction her career was headed. Her delicate, jazzy piano-laden songs were technically proficient and appealed to her personal tastes, but they were missing the extra element that would nab a wider audience. She took a year off to write and reboot, and now the Yorba Linda-born, Huntington Beach-based singer/songwriter is ready to unleash her brand of spunky pop music to the masses.
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There I was, dreaming again. Maybe the topic came from thinking about my straightbred commercial cowherd a lot that day. The calves weaned as heavy as last year despite the drought, and they stayed healthy in the lot. The cows bred back to where I had to sell more just for age to make room for better heifers coming in that would intensify the best of my cow families. It was good for cash flow and genetic improvement.
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Dealing with Human Wastes in Uncertain Urban Environments
After the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti nearly 1.5 million people in the capitol were living in camps without access to sanitation. In response to the crisis, international agencies installed thousands of toilets within weeks. However, the absence of waste treatment facilities in the country further complicated the sanitation response.
The first treatment facility constructed post – earthquake was a thermophilic composting site designed to treat the wastes from 20,000 earthquake victims living in camps. Despite multiple hurricanes, a cholera epidemic, and political unrest, the SOIL composting facilities have treated over 500,000 gallons of human waste in the past three years, converting it to pathogen free compost, over 10,000 gallons of which has been sold for use in agriculture and reforestation projects.
The experience of thermophilic composting in Haiti is unique in scale and duration and can have global implications for waste treatment in both emergency and development contexts. The simple infrastructure requirements relative to more advanced technological approaches allow for rapid implementation in the wake of a disaster. The infrastructure itself is not dependent on an energy source and materials for construction can be sourced locally. Additionally, the straightforward operation and maintenance facilitate locally managed repairs and on-going service provision.
Thermophilic composting of human wastes in uncertain urban environments: a case study from Haiti (PDF), SOIL Haiti.
The Energy Performance Gap
The energy performance gap refers to the failure of energy improvements, often undertaken at great expense, to deliver some (or occasionally all) of the promised savings. A study last year of refurbished apartment buildings in Germany, for instance, found that they missed the predicted energy savings by anywhere from 5 to 28 percent. In Britain, an evaluation of 50 "leading-edge modern buildings," from supermarkets to health care centers, reported that they "were routinely using up to 3.5 times more energy than their design had allowed for" — and producing on average 3.8 times the predicted carbon emissions.
Researchers have generally blamed the performance gap on careless work by builders, overly complicated energy-saving technology, or the bad behaviors of the eventual occupants of a building. But a new study puts much of the blame on inept energy modeling. The title of the study asks the provocative question "Are Modelers Literate?" Even more provocatively, a press release from the University of Bath likens the misleading claims about building energy performance to the Volkswagen emissions scandal, in which actual emissions from diesel engine cars were up to 40 times higher than "the performance promised by the car manufacturer."
Read more: Why Don't Green Buildings Live Up to Hype on Energy Efficiency?
The Most Sustainable Power Source on Earth
A human powered student room. Image: Golnar Abbasi.
- A human can generate at least as much power as a 1m2 solar panel on a sunny day.
- Unlike solar and wind energy, human power is always available, no matter the season or time of day. There's little need for energy storage.
- Unlike fossil fuels, human power can be a clean power source.
- Unlike solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries, humans don't need to be manufactured in a factory.
- Unlike all other power sources, human power increases as the human population grows.
- Human power is an all-round power source. Humans not only supply muscle power that can be converted into mechanical energy or electricity, they also produce thermal energy, especially during exercise. Finally, human waste can be converted to biogas and fertiliser.
Human power is the most sustainable power source on Earth.
Quoted from Human Power Plant, a work-in-progress by Low-tech Magazine and Melle Smets. More about the project later.
The Screenless Office
Current interface culture is dominated by a few large corporatate players: google/Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft. For many of us who spend countless hours working, socializing and amusing ourselves while using technical media, these powerful players have a huge influence on our experience of everyday life. Our perception of the world around us and how we see ourselves in, it is mediated by the decisions of a few privileged managers, programmers and designers, mostly male and white on the west coast of the United States. To suggest any other way of living in a networked society is to risk being percieved as blasphemous, uncool, out-of-touch, escapist or simply absurd. These interfaces have become so embedded in our conception of reality that we now have a crisis of the imagination, where it is difficult to even think of anything different.
Removing the screen is a radical gesture denying conformity to the dominating forces of contemporary interface culture. By getting rid of the display, we force digital text and images back into the old conventions of print culture. While this might have a superficial, nostalgic appeal, more importantly, it puts us into the role of acting like amateur media archeologists, investigating the history of modern visual, literary and bureaucratic systems both technical and social. At the same time, by taking newer forms of digital media and packing it into the old container of print, we open up a new experimental field of analog-digital hybrid forms. Our goal is to discover and invent novel ways of living in the digital world which might be more informal, expressive and embodied.
The Screenless Office is a system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display. It is an artistic operating system. The office presents a radically alternative form of everyday human interaction with media. It is constructed using free/libre/open hard- and software components, especially for print, databases, web-scraping and tangible interaction. Currently, it exists as a working prototype with software "bureaus" which allow a user to read and navigate news, web sites and social media entirely with the use of various printers for output and a barcode scanner for input. While our existing software allows for interesting new ways of consuming media, we are currently working to expand the system to make it capable of publishing content and thereby, enabling a provocative possibility for active participation in contemporary social life.
Quoted from: The Screenless Office. Via Jeu de paume espace virtuel, May 2017.
Gin Poles
"A gin pole is a simple and traditional method for raising a timber frame by hand, and straightforward solution to a site with little crane access. It's constructed from a long, straight pole with a block and tackle hanging from the top, and two guy lines (in our case, come-alongs) that help to counter the weight of the pole and the timbers, and locate the posts in their mortises."
"Sometimes the oldest technologies provide the best solution for the job at hand. From wedges and ramps to pulleys, I am surprised at how right my physics teachers were about the ubiquity of simple machines. When applied purposefully, with careful consideration, these approaches can be safer, simpler and cheaper. While I appreciate the romance associated with historic contraptions, ultimately, romance is not the reason we employ them."
Read more: I'll take a gin pole, straight up, Preservation Timber Farming.
No Tech Reader #12
- The moral and ethical weight of voluntary simplicity. [Simplicity Institute]
- Just enough is plenty: Thoreau's Alternative Economics. [Simplicity Institute]
- Like start-ups, most intentional communities fail — why? [Aeon]
- A sacred light in the darkness: winter solstice illuminations at Spanish missions. [Conversation]
- Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich countries. [The Guardian]
- The birth of a wooden house. Via Fernando Spalding.
- Primitive Technology: Termite Clay Kiln & Pottery.
- Happy People, A Year in Taiga. Via Jon Batzel.
- Japanese Tiny House on Wheels.Via Ed Carey.
- Thousand-year-old windmills still in use. Via Rick Otten.
No Tech Reader #11
- God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism. [The Guardian]
- Should you feel sad about the demise of the written letter? [Aeon]
- A year without a byte [code.flickr.com]
- When power is low, I often hack in the evenings by lantern light. [joey hess]
- Olimex Open Source Laptop. [hackaday]
- Why we can't look away from our screens. [NYT]
- Why I am not going to buy a cellphone. [Aeon]
- Forget smartphones — the Nokia 3310 is still the mobile of the future. [The Guardian]
- Pause! We can go back. [New York Review of Books]
- And their eyes glazed over. [Aeon]
- The analog spaces in digital companies. [New Yorker]
Links via Roel Roscam Abbing, Aaron Vansintjan & Mark van den Borre.
Craftsmanship in Greece Today
For centuries craftsmanship, the predecessor of industry, has shaped culture and everyday life. Crafted products show region-specific, social, political and economic conditions as well as cultural and religious characteristics. During several trips cultural worker and artist curator Laura Bernhardt, and photographer Benjamin Tafel have undertaken a search for traces of the still active craft workshops in Greece.
In dialogue with a selection of protagonists the project examines their situation, their emotional relationship with their profession and their prospects. The result is a series of portraits that show the artisan in relation to his or her profession and the current situation of upheaval. How important is the traditional value that is passed on from generation to generation, from hand to hand? How is the artisan connected to his or her profession in these times of crisis?
The authors are less interested in a nostalgic view but rather focus on the rediscovery of crafted products, their appreciation and the artisans' emotional relationship to their profession. What is the meaning of low-tech in times of economic crisis and how can small businesses survive with few orders? The different views of the artisans' stories created a portrait of an era that can point to the past as well as to the future.
Read more: From Hand to Hand: Stories about Craftsmanship in Greece Today. Via DAMN. Thanks to Sara Dandois.
Bicycle Powered Thresher
Farmhack has complete instructions for making a bicycle powered thresher. It works on various crops including dry beans, wheat, rice, rye, einkorn, and lupine, and threshes about one pound per minute.
This is the first of three tools for small scale grain processing. The other two tools are the bicycle powered fanning mill and the bicycle powered de-huller/flour mill.
Unlike some "hacks" for small farmers, the Grain Bikes don't solve an acknowledged problem so much as create new opportunities for small farmers. Dry beans and grains are non-perishable, can be sold, eaten, or planted to avoid seed costs (such as rye for cover crops), and, the labor for processing them can be shunted to the winter when more time is available.
The Sustainability Problem of Digital Currencies
Bitcoin is back in the spotlight these days thanks to some wild price movements and central bank meetings. The decentralized currency has recently been trading over its all-time high of $1200 on some exchanges. But the higher the price goes, the more it exacerbates bitcoin's dark side: shocking levels of electricity consumption.
In 2015, I wrote that bitcoin had a big sustainability problem. Back then, each bitcoin transaction represented roughly enough electricity to power 1.57 American households for a day— approximately 5,000 times more energy-intensive than a credit card transaction. Since it's been two years, it's time for an update.
Updated calculations with optimistic assumptions show that in a best-case hypothetical, each bitcoin transaction is backed by approximately 90 percent of an American household's daily average electricity consumption. So even though that's still about 3,994 times as energy-intensive as a credit card transaction, things could be getting better since 2015.
Unfortunately, it's more likely that things are getting worse. A new index has recently modeled potential energy costs per transaction as high as 94 kWh, or enough electricity to power 3.17 households for a day. To put it another way, that's almost enough energy to fully charge the battery of a Tesla Model S P100D, the world's quickest production car, and drive it over 300 miles.
Read more: A Single Bitcoin Transaction Takes Thousands of Times More Energy Than a Credit Card Swipe, Christopher Malmo. Thanks to Renaud d'Avout d'Auerstaedt.
Hacking Consumer Electronics: The Low-tech Way
The paragraphs below are taken from "100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation", a book that's not available on WikiLeaks but on Amazon. Written by a retired Navy Seal, Clint Emerson, the book describes skills "which all rely on low-tech or no-tech tools, because complicated instructions are the last thing you need when facing imminent peril".
Skill No.55: TURN A SPEAKER INTO A MICROPHONE
"Stashing a voice-activated recording device in a target's room or vehicle is relatively simple, but without sound amplification, such a setup is unlikely to result in audible intelligence — a proper audio-surveillance system requires amplification via microphone. In the absence of dedicated tools, however, the Nomad can leverage a cell phone, an audio jack, and a pair of headphones into an effective listening device."
"Because microphones and speakers are essentially the same instrument, any speaker — from the earbuds on a pair of headphones to the stereo system on a television — can be turned into a microphone in a matter of minutes. The simple difference between the two is that their functions are reversed. While a speaker turns electronic signals into sound, a mic turns sound into electronic signals to be manipulated and amplified…"
"Any small recording device can be employed, but using a phone set to silent and auto answer as a listening device has two advantages: It captures intelligence in real time and does so without the operative having to execute a potentially dangerous return trip on target to collect the device…"
From: "100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation", Clint Emerson, 2015.
In Defense of Degrowth
"The idea of degrowth is contentious, often misunderstood, and (perhaps paradoxically) growing in popularity. In this book, Giorgos Kallis, one of the movement's leading thinkers, presents an accessible, inspiring, and enjoyable defense. The book's chapters—a compilation of his opinion essays, newspaper articles, blog posts, and 'minifestos'—range from topics such as eco-modernism, the history of economics, science fiction, the Greek crisis, and Hollywood films.
The book also features debates and exchanges between Kallis and degrowth detractors. In defense of degrowth is intended as an introduction for the curious, a defense against the skeptics, and an intellectually stimulating conversation for those already convinced but willing to learn more."
In Defense of Degrowth can be downloaded as a free e-book.
Rebooting Energy Demand: Automatic Software Upgrades
When and how we upgrade our computer software used to be in large part our own decision. Today, it's increasingly decided by software vendors themselves, who have automated this process through downloads. Automated software upgrades can increase energy use in different and unexpected ways, without any action from the user.
Before the advance of networked devices and automated software upgrades, the energy use of an appliance was rather predictable, because the features of such devices were static. Now, manufacturers can unilaterally decide to send out an upgrade that increases data and also energy use for all devices.
More and more consumer products are controlled by networked software: what does this mean for energy demand, and exactly who is responsible for increasing consumption? Although increased energy demand will be attributed to consumers, in fact they have little control over it.
Read more: Rebooting Energy Demand: Automatic Software Upgrades, an article I wrote for the UK's DEMAND Centre. Picture: eBay.
Medieval Heating System Lives on in Spain
The Meseta Central is a vast plateau in the heart of Spain with long, cold winters and short, scorching summers. The locals say that there's "nine months of winter" and "three months of hell". The region has little trees, so heating (and cooling) has always been a challenge.
In the early middle ages, the Castillians developed a subterranean heating system that's a descendent of the Roman hypocaust: the "gloria". Due to its slow rate of combustion, the gloria allowed people to use smaller fuels such as hay and twigs instead of firewood.The Gloria
Remarkably, the gloria is alive and kicking. Several villages, especially in the wider region around Burgos, still have houses with subterranean fireplaces of which some are in working order.
In January, my friend Pedro took me to his uncle's house in Hontangas, a tiny village at some 100 km from Burgos. The uncle, now in his late sixties, fires the gloria once every morning during the "nine months of winter".
A gloria heats one or at most two different rooms, usually kitchen and/or living room. The firebox is located outside the house, often in a courtyard but sometimes on the street. The wall above it is black from soot. The chimney is on the other side of the heated room.
The warm exhaust gases from the combustion heat are led through one or more ducts that run under the floor of the heated room(s), and then rise through the chimney. The floor and the walls slowly radiate this heat into the room. In summer, a natural air current in the gloria cools the room(s).
The expression "estar en la gloria" (to be inside the gloria), meaning that someone feels happy and comfortable, refers to this medieval heating system.
The obvious downside of the gloria is that you have to get outside in the cold to "turn on" the heating, first thing in the morning. This takes about 20 minutes. Vine cuttings are added first, followed by some firewood.
When the fire is burning well, the firebox is covered with a some metal plates to slow the combustion rate and keep the heat inside. One firing suffices for a day of warmth.
The gloria is related not only to the hypocaust but also to the Korean ondol and the American "crimean oven".
Low-tech Baby Care
Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is the brainchild of Colombian pediatrician Edgar Rey, who introduced it to the Instituto Materno Infantil in 1978. It was an idea born out of desperation. The institute served the city's poorest—those who lived crammed in the rickety makeshift dwellings in the foothills of the surrounding mountains. At the time, this was the biggest neonatal unit in all of Colombia, responsible for delivering 30,000 babies a year.
Overcrowding was so bad that three babies would have to share an incubator at a time and the rate of cross-infection was high. Death rates were spiraling, and so too was the level of abandonment. Many young, impoverished mothers who never even got to touch their babies found it easier just to take off.
Scouting around for a solution to these problems, Rey happened upon a paper on the physiology of the kangaroo. It mentioned how at birth, kangaroos are bald and roughly the size of a peanut—very immature, just like a human pre-term baby. Once in its mother's pouch, the kangaroo receives thermal regulation from the direct skin-to-skin contact afforded by its lack of hair. It then latches onto its mother's nipple, where it remains until it has grown to roughly a quarter of its mother's weight, when it is finally ready to emerge into the world.
This struck a chord with Rey. He went back to the institute and decided to test it out. He trained mothers of premature babies to carry them just as kangaroos do. Working alongside his colleague Hector Martinez, he taught them the importance of breastfeeding and discharged them just as soon as their babies were able. The results were remarkable. Death rates and infection levels dropped immediately. Overcrowding was reduced because hospital stays were much shorter, incubators were freed up, and the number of abandoned babies fell.
Read more: Kangaroo care—why keeping baby close is better for everyone, Ars Technica. Thanks to Tim Miller.
Military Complexity: Lasers or Longbows?
As military capabilties have evolved, so too have their complexity. Indeed, they are in a symbiotic relationship in that advanced military capabilities are both a product of and dependent on a complex network of resources, products, services and organisations.
A comparison of the manufacturing requirements for the traditional aboriginal spear and the F88 Austeyr assault rifle provides an example of how complexity has increased.
Arguably, there is an exponential increase in complexity because the manufacture of modern military equipment is dependent on a number of other industries, such as finance, telecommunications, information technology and energy.
The networks that support military capabilities are a subset of the broader global economy, implying that advanced military capabilities cannot exist without the underlying economic base to support it.
A Roman general, planning and conducting a battle had relatively few considerations to make. The battlefield was small enough in size that he could observe most of it; his capabilities consisted of infantry, archers, chariots and cavalry, with some catapults. His communications consisted of runners, liaison officers and perhaps a few signals, such as bugles or flaming arrows.
The equipment of his army was simple; it required a relatively simple industrial base and regional supply chains to support it. Much of the equipment used could be repaired by the army, often from materials available in the immediate area. The relative complexity of a Roman legion was low.
A military organisation today has a much more complex task. First, the number of capabilities is an order of magnitude greater than that of the Romans, with a vast array of capabilities. These capabilities allow operations to be conducted globally, in the air, on land, at sea, over the electromagnetic spectrum and in space.
"Complex military technologies might not be the best acquisition strategy for defence forces in the future"
The industrial base to support this is global in nature, often involving thousands of companies and a complex supply chain. Comparing a modern military with the Romans clearly identifies that not only have the capabilities of militaries increased but so have their complexity.
In a prosperous world economy, this is not of concern. However, in a world economy at risk of synchronous failure, it gives rise to a paradox of military technology. The paradox of military technology states that while increased complexity in a military force results in increased capability, it also increases the likelihood that the capability will be unavailable for use because of the collapse of the complex supply chain required to maintain the capability.
The implication is that complex military technologies might not be the best acquisition strategy for defence forces in the future. Defence forces who manage to reduce complexity levels are likely to develop significant advantage over those militaries that continue to focus on ever more capable but also more complex capabilities.
Quoted from: "Lasers or longbows? A paradox of military technology", The Australian Defence Force Journal (PDF 6.4 MB, page 44).
The Slingshot Channel
The Slingshot Channel is a dedicated YouTube channel that covers rubber powered launchers in each and every detail.
Thanks to Edwin Gardner.
Rebuilding, Testing and Documenting Self-Made Wi-Fi Antennas
Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi revisits the histories, origins and uses of self-made Wi-Fi antennas. Many of these designs were once shared through home pages that no longer exist and are now only partially accessible through the Internet Archive. It is a combination of pots and pans, dishes and cans through which people from around the world give shape to their collective dream of making an alternative internet.
This project tries to revive these designs by rebuilding, testing and documenting them. The antennas serve as an interesting point of departure to think about the internet's infrastructure and how day-to-day users could potentially influence its shape and use.
Most of the antennas result out of the idea of wireless community networks, an idea which emerged shortly after the commercial introduction of Wi-Fi equipment in the early 2000s. These grassroots initiatives aim to build alternative network infrastructures, often on a peer-to-peer basis and without the need for costly wires. Such network infrastructures can be found on rooftops, balconies and windowsills and can cover large distances by broadcasting from building to building.
They are built for a variety of reasons, sometimes to provide broadband connections in areas where there are none, to make censorship free alternatives to the internet or to share the costs of a single internet connection.
More: Roel Roscam Abbing's website (pictures) & Lídia Pereira's booklet (drawings, PDF).
Previously: How to Build a Low-tech Internet.
Solar Concentrator with Inflatable Mirrors
We are reaching an important milestone in the Testfield: the high-precision membrane mirror that we have been working on for the last two years, is standing. A team within the technology group has designed and built a prototype solar concentrator by innovating and developing the inflatable membrane mirror technology first introduced by father and son Hans and Jürgen Kleinwächter several decades ago. The present advances are the result of a dedicated team within Tamera working in cooperation with Jürgen Kleinwächter, SunOrbit (Germany) and supporters in India and Australia.
Our prototype mirror uses 0.1mm thick reflective polymer films inflated with air pressure, over a lightweight aluminium frame, achieving high optical precision cheaply and with very low embodied energy. It has an effective optical aperture of 4m2, concentration of over 1000 times, reaching over 1000 degrees Celsius, and has applications ranging from round-the-clock cooking with storage, through ceramics, metalwork and lime burning for waterproof clay buildings, to photo-catalytic fuel production from water and CO2. Future concentrators will undoubtedly take the technology further.
Many challenges in the components and sub-systems have been overcome over the last two years. Now we will start to see how the system really functions as a whole. We have progressed from unstable wooden experiments to a simple, lightweight aluminium framework, developed a deflectometric mirror analysis technique using computational photography, built a tool to weld flouropolymers together (basically welding Teflon to Teflon), designed and fabricated a dual-axis tracking construction, and invented a robust technique to evenly tension membrane films. We are looking forward to testing and tuning the complete system. System tests will start now, as we continue to complete the details.
Quoted from: High-precision Membrane Mirror Research in the SolarVillage Testfield of Tamera, August 2016.
Previously: The bright future of solar powered factories.
The Pirate Book
The Pirate Book offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy. It contains a compilation of texts on grassroots situations whose stories describe strategies developed to share, distribute and experience cultural content outside of the confines of local economies, politics or laws.
These stories recount the experiences of individuals from India, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Mali and China. The book is structured in four parts and begins with a collection of stories on piracy dating back to the invention of the printing press and expanding to broader issues (historical and modern antipiracy technologies, geographically specific issues, as well as the rules of the Warez scene, its charters, structure and visual culture…).
The Pirate Book. Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, 2015. Picture: a code wheel, a type of copy protection used on older computer games.
Thanks to Melle Smets.


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The Strange DreamEdit
In a strange setting, Yuno finds herself in a maze, running from a maniacal red cloth chasing her! She does not know what is happening and why, and that causes her to trip over a small red statue of Yoshinoya in a maid outfit, smacking her nose on the ground. As she rises up in pain, the nightmarish abomination closes in on her.
Yuno wakes up immediately as it gets it. It was only a dream...
A Late MorningEdit
Yuno has apparently fallen asleep whilst doing some assignments/papers with the television on. Noticing the weather and the immediate time, she rushes to get ready for the day. She gives her little caterpillar a quick visit, asking it when it will turn into a butterfly, and scurries off for school. She stops at Miyako's door and wakes her up. To Yuno's surprise, Miyako did not wake up late due to studying, but rather sleeping for a solid twelve hours!
Getting down to the first floor and relieved that they could make it to school on time (the perk for living close to the school), they find Hiro in the back of the apartments watering some herbs. Yuno misheard what Hiro comments about what she was doing and apparently misinterprets 'herbs' as 'harp'.
We're Taking the Exams!Edit
Yuno is in class and is almost ready to take her first exam for one of her classes! ... except she finds that she has a knead-able eraser instead of an ordinary eraser. After getting the eraser ready, she receives the test and begins filling in her answers. Not long since starting the exam, she realizes that apparently all of her answers so far has been marked 'A'. Checking her answers, she still came up with all 'A's', and falls into despair, assuming that she has been doing the whole exam incorrectly.
Yuno's next exam is for art... with the exam done by none-other-than Ms. Yoshinoya. It starts out strange with the first two questions about identifying historical figures, and even more questionable as the third asks for her to identify the Principal and his actual name. Of course, apparently no one in the class knows his name, and in unison all write down Moai. Following those initial questions, the exam slowly morphs into a survey, as noted by Yuno. Starting out with favorite artists, paintings, and sculptures, the later questions devolve to listing strengths of the students' beloved Yoshinoya-sensei (that question itself was for fifty points!).
During these scenes, the Principal has been doing plenty of activities that are accompanied on his praise for the summer season.
Yuno begins to doodle on some of the pictures on the exam when it appears as she has finished her exam. She notes that most other students sounded like they were drawing on their exams as well (it is an art class, after all). The temptation was hard to resist, Yuno thought; the temptation even spread to Yoshinoya, who then proceeds to doodle on the chalkboard.
The bell rings and Yoshinoya tells the students that their exams were over as it concludes the end of their semester. The student with the lowest grade on the exam, she notes, will have their paper shamefully displayed outside of the school gates. The students are outright furious, and to their satisfaction the Principal comes to their room to scold Yoshinoya on their antics.
After dismissal, Yuno goes up to Miyako by the classroom windows and asks how she fared on the exam, which the blonde nonchalantly tells Yuno of her poor performance due to her plans of summer distracting her.
The Summer at the Hidamari ApartmentsEdit
Miyako is on the roof of the building, preparing herself to get a tan! A stray cat happens to be accompanying her, and they both sleep atop of the apartments. When Yuno comes knocking on Room 202, Miyako apparently awakens and flings herself down to the second story. At this time, she has tanned well; Yuno asks why Miyako had herself tanned, to which she responds by saying tans help one look healthy during the summer. Yuno sees something around Miyako's midriff and see a smudge. Wiping it off, it reveals an adorable little mark of a cat's paw.
The two get going downstairs and talk about either summer scares (frights) or summer flights. Apparently, both girls had one or the other in-mind.
Sae is busy making alien noises to a small blade-fan when the underclassmen come into Sae's room unannounced, completely embarrassing Sae as the guests either tried to tell Sae that what she was doing was normal or tried to stop laughing so hard. Sae scolds them for their intrusion, and while busy trying to hide her delight when the other two told her that they wanted to visit Sae for fun, Miyako sneaks into one of Sae's drawers. In it were old manuscripts Sae had worked on. As Miyako begins reading aloud whatever she was reading, Sae tries to get her to stop (with futility), and Yuno on the side gets herself some old stories to read (aloud). All of excitement only adds to the feeling of heat, and thus Sae brings up the desire to get to a pool.
Pool Party!!Edit
Yuno seems terrified on going to the pool, which the others ask why. Since Yuno is a saw (no, actually, hammer - She cannot swim), Miyako brings out her inflatable pool for use on the apartment property. Why did Miyako have an inflatable pool lying around? Turns out, her parents gave it to her in case her apartment lacked a tub for bathing.
Sae provides Miyako a bathing suit as the blonde only had a school swimsuit. The provided swimsuit consisted of a bikini bottom and a shirt, as apparently Sae did not want the well-endowed Miyako to complain that the top was too tight... and things got awkward as Sae and Yuno realized what they were talking about. As the girls get the pool ready, Yuno was tasked to inflating the pool. No one ever told her that they had a manual pump to inflate the pool, and so Yuno tried inflating it with the power of Yuno's lungs. The task was involuntarily switched to Miyako's, who remarked that she would be content with having a resume containing mastery of pumping an inflatable pool with a manual pool pump. She is such an expert.
Getting into Hiro's room, the three girls stumbled upon one of Hiro's weight-loss antics: this time, a sauna in the middle of summer with a hotpot. They asked Hiro to join them, but they then decided to go without her. They begin splashing around the pool for some time before losing interest, and they eventually rejoin Hiro to have nabe as lunch. As they sat for a meal, they touched briefly on their favorite nabes and titles of authority over nabe (of all things). Eventually... no one was able to bear the heat inside Hiro's room, and they all rushed outside to the pool (yes, Hiro changed to a swimsuit of her own).
As they lay on their backs in the wading pool, they discussed prime bodies of water for enjoying the beach and such food around. Yuno takes this time to bring up her dream her had earlier.
Time to End the Day... and Mr. WormEdit
Yuno takes a refreshing bath with an ocean-scent, remembering of her bizarre dream. Leaving for bed, she then noticed that Mr. Worm appears to be hatching from its cocoon. Everyone later gathers around the scene, and they all bear witness to Mr. Worm... as... Mr. Moth. They all panic at the moment, allowing for the newly-winged insect to fly away from an open window.
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Spicy Korean Potatoes
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Recipe by Domestic Princess
This is a copycat of my favourite side dish at my regular Korean restaurant. It's simple and divine. Just add more hot sauce if you like it spicy. I teamed this up with my Korean Cucumber Salad (Ol Namul).
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 medium potatoes
- water
- 1 -2 tablespoon korean hot sauce, Available at any Asian Supermarket (KoChuJang)
Directions See How It's Made
- Peel potatoes and chop into bite-sized blocks.
- Bring water to pot and boil.
- Add in potatoes when water is boiling. Cook for about 5-10 mins (or when soften - check by poking fork through potato). Make sure not to overcook!
- Drain water and put potatoes into a container.
- Drizzle hot sauce over cooked potatoes and mix well.
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Florida and Daytona Postponed on Wednesday
Teams will play two seven-innings games on Thursday night
By Thaddeus Krzus / Florida Fire Frogs | June 14, 2017 4:03 PM ET
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (June 14, 2017) - The Florida Fire Frogs and Daytona Tortugas' doubleheader was postponed due to inclement weather on Wednesday night at Osceola County Stadium. The two teams will play a twin bill on Thursday, beginning at 3:05 p.m. The doubleheader will feature two seven-inning contests, and gates will open at 2:00 p.m.
Fans with tickets to Wednesday night's games can exchange them for any remaining home game for the 2017 season.
RHP Enderson Franco (1-4, 8.46) and RHP Andres Santiago (0-2, 6.75) toe the rubber for the Fire Frogs, while it has yet to be determined who will take the mound for the Tortugas'. Coverage of the doubleheader will start at 2:50 p.m. on the Florida Fire Frogs Broadcasting Network.
Thursday is "Thirsty Thursday" at the ballpark, where fans can enjoy 12 oz. beers and sodas for just $1.
About the Florida Fire Frogs
The Florida Fire Frogs are the Advanced-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves and compete in the Florida State League. The Fire Frogs play their home games at Osceola County Stadium, located at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Fla. For more information, please visit www.FloridaFireFrogs.com, and follow the team on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.
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May - October On the 1st Sunday of the month, starting on Sunday 7th May 2017 all the way up to Sunday 1st October 2017 we will be hosting a craft fair with lots of lovely stalls full of handmade goodies. Read more »
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Almond Fresh Fudge Cake With Creamy Chocolate Frosting
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This easy chocolate cake is rich and dense, and surprisingly easy to make.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3⁄4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 3⁄4 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup strong freshly brewed coffee
- 1 cup almond fresh vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- frosting
- 3 1⁄2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted roughly
- 2⁄3 cup cocoa
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3⁄4 teaspoon almond extract
- 5 tablespoons almond fresh vanilla
Directions See How It's Made
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease and line the base of a 10" round cake pan with baking paper.
- Sieve dry ingredients and set aside.
- In a separate bowl mix wet ingredients. Combine wet and dry ingredients and mix until combined.
- Pour into pan and bake until cake springs back when lightly touched (45–60 minutes).
- Cool and frost.
- Sift together confectioners' sugar, cocoa powder and salt.
- In a separate bowl mix together butter, vanilla extract, almond extract, and a third of dry ingredients. Add additional third of dry ingredients with 2tbsp (30 mL) Almond Fresh and mix until thoroughly incorporated.
- Add last third of dry ingredients and 2 tbsp (30 mL) of remaining Almond Fresh and mix until thoroughly incorporated. If frosting is too stiff add an extra tbsp of Almond Fresh.


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- For $149, you get bottle service with two bottles of Skyy Vodka (a $300 value).
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Located near the ASU campus in the Mill Avenue District, Wasted Velvet situates dancers and social drinkers in a lively lounge-style nightclub spiked with plush surroundings and hints of industrial décor. Velvet benches span the length of exposed-brick walls in the evening arena, providing bottle-service groups with ample room to comfortably bond over two bottles of Skyy Vodka. On the opposite wall, the lengthy bar hosts a coterie of quick and energetic mixologists skilled in the cocktail-crafting arts. Smoldering rose hues and glints from amber chandeliers surround dancers on a large, central floor as live DJs infuse popular songs with heavy dance beats and positive subliminal messaging.


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Nice hotel! Stayed two yrs. ago lobby done over and very nice. Was not happy with check-in, shared I was there two yrs. ago. No welcome back and given a lousy room at first!! WHY?!? Was given a room right away, but again no welcome back, glad you're here.
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- The Courtyard hotel in Silver Spring, MD, is located in the middle of an exciting new mixed-use redevelopment project encompassing four city blocks in the heart of Downtown. This inside-the-beltway hotel offers everything you need to work and play, including free high-speed internet access, iPod docking stations, luxury bedding and an array of business services. Located just across the street from Discovery Communications' worldwide headquarters, this Silver Spring, Maryland, hotel is readily accessible by car and mass transit, and is recognized as a vibrant addition to the community. Guests will enjoy a bounty of retail, dining and entertainment opportunities- all within easy walking distance from our downtown Silver Spring hotel. Some of the major corporations and businesses nearby include the American Film Institute's Silver Theater, Round House Theatre, Discovery Communications, FDA, NOAA, Bethesda Naval Medical Center, and Walter Reed Hospital. We look forward to you welcoming you to our hotel suites in Silver Spring, Maryland ... more less
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Hotel Agroturismo Es Quatre Cantons Majorca, This rural hotel occupies a large mansion with a swimming pool, surrounded by 10,000m² of gardens and patios. Rooms feature their own terrace, free Wi-Fi and a private outdoor entrance. The rooms at the Agroturismo Es Quatre Cantons all offer air conditioning and heating, 衛星テレビとミニバー. Es Quatre Cantons has a bar and a restaurant, serving local cuisine. Guests can also enjoy dining on the covered terraces. Free private parking is offered at the Agroturismo Es Quatre Cantons. The property has a rural location near Binissalem, のみ 26 km from Mallorca's Son Sant Joan Airport. (Hotel Agroturismo Es Quatre Cantons Majorca hotels 予約).


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No-contract carriers are becoming extremely popular as people are getting fed up with paying high wireless costs of the big contract carriers. MVNO's (mobile virtual network operators) like StraightTalk, and others no contract carriers like Tracfone, Net10, Boost Mobile, Cricket and MetroPCS, offer much of the same quality of service since they use the same networks.
Straight Talk seems to be the one everyone is switching to since its popular $45 per month plan offers unlimited talk text and data. The big question, though is there a Straight Talk Family Plan that makes sense for families to switch to?
Is there a Straight Talk Family Plan?
Straight Talk does not offer a family plan at this time. So if you were with an ATT family contract plan and wanted a cheaper alternative, you'd have to pay the full $45 per line with ST. A $30 plan is available, but only for non-smartphones like flip phones.
For a family of 4, the average monthly wireless cost on a contract plan is around $200. If that family were to switch to StraightTalk, it would cost about $180. A savings of $20 per month ($240/year) is pretty good, but is it the best wireless deal for families?
The Advantage of Straight Talk
Straight Talk's big advantage for families is that you can have unlimited minutes, texting and web access at a very affordable price where those features would be not affordable for every line on a contract plan with ATT, Verizon or T-Mobile.
The biggest problem Straight Talk is families with 4 or more lines on the account. At that point the savings start to dissipate and it starts to not make as much sense to move the entire family over especially if you have lines that don't need unlimited voice,data or texts.
Looking For an Alternative to ATT's Costly Contract Plan
This biggest reason people are moving to no-contract carriers is cost savings. People with 1 or 2 lines on a contract account with a major carrier can save hundreds and possibly a thousand of dollars per year by switching to an unlimited plan with a no contract carrier.
For Example: 2 lines on a 700 minute Att Family plan with 3GB of data each and unlimited texting will cost $160/month. That same setup with StraightTalk would cost $90/month, plus the advantage of no limits. A no-brainer for sure.
ATT's much touted Mobile Share plan is equally bad. For the same 2 lines, it's $90 for 6GB plus $35 for each line, totaling the same $160/month.
Whats the Best Alternative to a non-existent Straight Talk Family Plan?
For families with multiple lines on their wireless accounts, there are 2 plans that stuck out to us as having major advantages over contract plans and even StraightTalk Unlimited Plans. They are Walmart Family Mobile and T-Mobile Value Plan for Families.
Walmart Family Mobile Wireless Family Plan
Walmart's own Family Mobile Wireless Plan runs on T-Mobile's nation-wide network and offers huge cost advantages to families with multiple lines. To start with, it offers unlimited voice, messaging and data, comparable to StraightTalk.
The first line on the account is $45/month. But the great advantage of this plan is that for each additional line you add to the plan, it's $35/month.
In our ongoing example, the same family with 4 lines, the total monthly cost would be $150, easily beating contract plans and even beating the StraightTalk Unlimited plan by $30 per month.
The Bad News about Walmart Family Mobile Plans
The Walmart Family plans start out with 3G data for up to 250MB and then it drops to 2G data. Yes i said 2G! And to make it worse, the 250MB limit on 3G is accumulated across all the lines on the plan, meaning collectively. So, you'll hit it pretty fast with a family.
These data speeds are not really acceptable unless you don't plan on using data that much or have Wifi everywhere you go. A definite bummer and a deal breaker in my opinion.
The other major problem with the Walmart Family Mobile plan is that there is would be extra data charges if you happened to roam outside of T-Mobile's coverage area.
T-Mobile Value Plans for Families
T-Mobile's Value plan is a contract plan. But it caught our attention because of the major cost savings for families with 4 or more lines.
Their big play is that if you bring your own phone, they offer much cheaper monthly options. Another advantage is that every additional line after the first 2 only cost $5 each and can add 2GB of data for $10 per line. There are also no data overages, so in reality, the 2GB limit is not limited at all, it'l throttled down like Straight Talk would do.
In our example of 4 lines, the first 2 lines would be unlimited talk, text, and web for $100, then each additional line is $5 plus $10 for 2GB of data and unlimited texting on all lines. The total is $130 for 4 lines with comparable service to the other plans.
The only downside to this plan is that you have to sign a 2 year commitment with a Early Termination fee of $200 per line.
The Best Wireless Plan for Families with 4 or More Lines
T-Mobile's Value Plan for Families seems to be the diamond in the rough that many families are looking for to help save them money on wireless costs. Despite the fact that there is a 2-year contract you have to sign, the monthly cost savings for families with many lines seem to make up for it.
Their lowest cost of $130 for 4 lines easily beats Walmart Family Mobile ($150), Straight Talk Family Plan ($180) and ATT's Family and Mobile Share Plans ($160+). Of course all of these costs are without tax added, so be sure to plan for that.
T-Mobile's Value Plan for Families
What are your thoughts? Has anyone found better and cheaper plans for families?


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Cycling UK
Cycling UK Local Groups & Cycling Clubs
- CTC East Midlands Region
- Kettering CTC
- Milton Keynes CTC
- Leicestershire and Rutland CTC, including (Beaumanor Rally)
- Coventry CTC
- Cambridge CTC
- Stevenage and North Herts CTC
- Treads - Northampton based Mountain biking and Road cycling club
Local Shops & Suppliers
- Pitsford Cycles, Brixworth Country Park NN6 9DG
- The Bikeshed, 12 Park Square, Kings Heath, Northampton NN5 7LQ.
- Phil Corley Cycles, Milton Keynes MK12 6HS
- George Hall's Cycles, Market Harborough LE16 9HE
- Roy Pink Cycles, Newport Pagnell MK16 8HE
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- Cycle Northants - useful source of information regarding cycling in Northamptonshire.
- Road Safety for cyclists by ROSPA, especially the article on Sharing the Road Together: Drivers and Cyclists.
- Safer Cycling hints and tips by the Bike Storage Company.
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London market report
Gary Dugan from Barclays Wealth Management reports on trading on the London market.
TranscriptALI MOORE: Straight to the markets now, which defied the overnight trend on Wall Street. The All Ords was buoyed by higher oil, gold and copper prices. The ASX200 also rose by about a quarter of a per cent. In Japan the Nikkei hit a threemonth closing high, as bluechip exporters, like Canon rose. Hong Kong recovered some of yesterday's losses, with gains from Petro China and other oil stocks. The Dow, of course, opened shortly, at 11,345. That's down on concerns about the economic outlook and the higher oil prices.
Well the London market is already trading and Gary Dugan, from Barclays Wealth Management, is following the action.
Gary Dugan, thanks for talking to us. What's happening in early trade?
GARY DUGAN: Well, initially we were in a positive territory, taking our leave from the performance of Asian markets. But more recently, in the last few hours, the markets have fallen by about a half of a per cent; a big turnaround, really, from the positive tone we started earlier, and largely due to geopolitical problems, with the Iranians apparently having bought the remaining oil rig down on the Gulf.
ALI MOORE: Is that an indicator of what we're likely to see when Wall Street opens shortly?
GARY DUGAN: I think so. I think we'll see Wall Street down. We don't really have much economic data around, so there is nothing that can really drag us higher for the moment, unless we get some good corporate news later in the day. But for the moment I think people are just wanting to watch the geopolitics and hope for better news from the economic data as we go through the next couple of days.
ALI MOORE: What's all this geopolitical news meaning for commodities, particularly oil?
GARY DUGAN: Well, the oil price has risen to a fourday high. We're up probably about $1 to $2 over recent trading sessions. I think the oil price had fallen too far anyway, as people thought the oil would come back on the back of potentially slower global growth. But we can see the oil price higher, and that, again, has got people concerned that maybe there is more inflation in this than higher interest rates, and therefore markets should fall back.
ALI MOORE: Finally, of course the big story here, locally, is Telstra. Would overseas institutions have any appetite, do you think, for more Telstra?
GARY DUGAN: I'm sorry to say that I doubt it. I think if you look at the company dynamics, with question marks over dividend policy, or downgrades to profit forecasts recently, that's bad news. Secondly, there is not much appetite for telecom companies globally. Thirdly, I think there is a hesitation of international investors to buy the Pac Rim, or the Pacific Rim markets for the moment, largely because they believe they're very sensitive to higher interest rates around the globe.
ALI MOORE: Gary Dugan, thank you very much. It's going to be a hard sell. Thanks for talking us.


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Sweet, energy-efficient ranch!
Situated on a .3 acre plot in the Country Way neighborhood of Barre, City, this property is conveniently located 3 minutes from downtown, 8 minutes to the interstate, and 10 minutes to all local shopping areas. A vinyl split rail fence wraps around the spacious northern facing back yard with pirate ship themed play structure. The east side of the house has four raised garden beds with a quality top-soil. The west side driveway is comprised of sure-pack gravel, and has a new rough-cut timber framed shed to house outdoor necessities. New solar panels are placed on the northern side of the house, allowing for dawn-to-dusk solar generation, enough to power 120% of the homes energy needs.
Buyer's Price: $138,500.00*
Market Price: $180,000.00
Downstreet Investment: $41,500
Type: Single Family Ranch
Year Built: 1999
Finished Square Footage: 1,232
* Must meet income eligibility. Contact Downstreet for details.
Total estimated monthly cost: $1135.35
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