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Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of Tasmania, is publishing a series of provocations. Our authors ask where does Tasmania's future lie? Has it reached a "tipping point", politically, economically and culturally? Thinkers, writers and doers from Tasmania and beyond, including members of its extensive diaspora, challenge how Tasmania is seen by outsiders and illuminate how Tasmanians see themselves, down home and in the wider world.
A steady drumbeat of purportedly bad economic news from Tasmania has been seized on by mainstream politicians and pundits to drive home a standard Economics 101 lesson.
Economies must grow or they are doomed.
The prescribed medicine takes two rather different forms. The standard neoclassical remedy is to cut taxes, eliminate red tape, downsize government, and let the market work its magic.
In contrast, a Keynesian approach promotes deficit financing to stimulate the economy and regenerate business confidence.
Before we swallow either pill, it would be prudent to get a third opinion.
Even using conventional economic measures, Tasmania remains one of the best places in the world to live.
Consider the following. Tasmanians' average per capita income in purchasing power parity terms is about $31,472. While certainly lower than the Australian average ($42,112), if ranked as a country, Tasmania would still be in the world's top 30.
True, Tasmania's unemployment rate of 7.3% is greater than Australia's (5.1%). But the state is well below European (11.3%) and OECD (8.0%) averages. It is also well below that paragon of market virtue, the United States (8.1%).
The state's debt is minuscule. Projected debt for 2013 is $134 million which, for a $24 billion economy, gives a debt-to-GSP ratio of less than 1%. Few other OECD economies come close.
In modern economic discourse, the growth mantra drowns out measures of fairness. It should be noted, however, that Tasmania has a low Gini index (0.238) indicative of an egalitarian society. This measure is substantially below the coefficient for the United States (about 4.0).
Luckily, Tasmanians recognise how well they are actually going. An August 2012 EMRS survey of community attitudes reported that almost 90% were satisfied or very satisfied with their own life and personal circumstances. Similar high percentages were reported with regard to standard of living and level of personal happiness.
So, as a broad generalisation, Tasmanians are doing fine, thank you very much.
This is not the same as saying that no Tasmanians are hurting. The shake-out from the bursting of the woodchip bubble, for example, has affected the forest sector heavily, especially in the state's northwest.
More generally, a recent study by Tasmania's Social Inclusion Commissioner suggested that around 13% of Tasmanians live on or below the poverty line.
Asking the right question
The trick is to figure out how to improve the lot of those who are doing it tough without dismantling all that makes living in Tasmania worthwhile: stunning natural beauty, safe communities, affordable housing, low traffic density, rich culture, and superb food and wine to mention but a few.
Asking the right question
There is so much wrong with modern economic theory that it is entirely understandable that it asks — and then answers — the wrong questions about national and regional economies.
A central problem is that, at its core, modern economics whether neoclassical or Keynesian has little interest in either social capital or the physical processes that underpin the operation of the market.
With regard to the latter, as ecological economists have clearly demonstrated, the operation of national and regional economies depends on physical, biological and chemical laws.
Production and consumption fundamentally involve the conversion of matter and energy. We know from the Second Law of Thermodynamics that this is a one-way process. Production and consumption use up low-entropy energy sources — such as coal and oil — leaving in their wake not only the (not-always) useful products (which deteriorate over time) but waste and pollution.
The waste and pollution are disposed of in the earth, air and sea. The more we produce and consume, the more waste and pollution there is, unless there are accompanying gains in "eco-efficiency".
Labour efficiency is not the issue here. It is throughput efficiency. Less material, less energy, less waste and less transportation per unit of output is what is required. The market only haphazardly delivers this kind of eco-efficiency, as even the World Business Council on Sustainable Development recognises.
While some producers are working hard to be more eco-efficient, marketers, advertisers, fashion designers, promoters and yes, even governments, are busy stimulating us to consume more and more indiscriminately. In the race between the two, eco-efficiency clearly seems to be the loser.
From an ecological economics perspective, therefore, the right question to ask is not why Tasmania's economic metrics are lower than the rest of Australia's and thus require either market or state stimulus, but whether the state is beginning to live within its ecological means.
Answering the right question
Is Tasmania on the path to sustainability? One way to answer this question would be to calculate the state's ecological footprint.
Ecological footprint analysis measures how much annual biocapacity (land and sea) a region has at its disposal to produce the resources it consumes and absorb the wastes it generates.
If a region's annual consumption continuously exceeds what can be produced from its available biocapacity, then the region is living beyond its means and needs to modify its production and consumption profile to bring it back into balance.
Ecological footprint analysis is now well established, following the publication of Our Ecological Footprint by Rees and Wackernagel in 1996. It is being used to compare countries and regions within countries.
Australia fares very badly in international ecological footprint comparisons. As a nation, we consume about 6.6 global hectares per person per annum, ranking us 8th worst in the world behind Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Denmark, USA and Belgium.
If the whole world consumed like Australia, we would need three Earths instead of the single one we have.
Is there anything more unrealistic than that?
A few Australian states and territories have calculated their own ecological footprints. In 2008, the Government of Victoria released a report that concluded "The average Victorian requires 6.8 productive hectares to support their lifestyle…. This level of consumption is unsustainable and places significant pressure on the natural environment" (page 3).
The key elements contributing to Victoria's high ecological footprint were food (especially processed foods) (28%), services (22%), residential energy use (16%), goods (14%) and transport (10%).
Sadly and surprisingly, no ecological footprint has been calculated for Tasmania. How would it fare, if one were done? An inter-temporal comparison might demonstrate it has embarked on the bumpy journey towards real rather than rhetorical sustainability.
Several unique features about the island state suggest that its ecological footprint might be lower than Australia's or Victoria's. Compared to Victoria, we can note that Tasmanians:
produce much of their own food
have a sustainable energy mix of hydroelectricity and wood heating
earn and spend less
spend fewer hours a day in cars and traffic.
These features may mean that Tasmania's economy is more sustainable than Australia's overall as well as than most other states in Australia. For comparative purposes, it is not unreasonable to think that Tasmania might rank similarly to New Zealand, which is currently 35th in the ecological footprint league tables.
We won't know of course until a detailed study is conducted.
Of course, if Tasmania were to have a similar rank to New Zealand's, there would still be no room for complacency. Tasmanians would still be consuming more than four productive hectares per capita per annum: the required level for global sustainability is 1.8 hectares. But while there would be some distance to travel, the analysis would indicate that Tasmania is on the path to sustainability while the rest of Australia is lagging behind.
That would all paint a rather different picture of where we are, where we need to go, and the policies that might get us there.
This is but a third of this analysis. For the rest, read on The Conversation, here
Fred Gale (BA, MA, PhD) is Associate Professor, School of Government, University of Tasmania. His research interests are national and global environmental governance and sustainability economics focussing on the political economy of forestry. Assoc Prof Gale is the author of THE TROPICAL TIMBER TRADE REGIME (Palgrave Macmillan 1998), SETTING THE STANDARD (UBC Press 2008) and GLOBAL COMMODITY GOVERNANCE (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He has edited three books: NATURE PRODUCTION POWER (Edward Elgar 2000), CONFRONTING SUSTAINABILITY (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Studies Press, Yale University) and PULP FRICTION IN TASMANIA (Pencil Pine Press, 2011).


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We had previously blogged that the judge in the administrative action against the landfill refused to close the landfill despite complaints from 100 residents over the past 3 weeks. NJ.com is now reporting that the judge is now giving the landfill 48 hours to completely cover the facility and show that the odors are contained, or it will be shut down. The current court action still doesn't compensate residents for the odor nuisance they have suffered up to now.
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My work is supported by affiliate commissions (more info). By Steve Benjamins • Updated May 9 2017
Moonfruit's interface is outdated. It looks like it was built 15 years ago (which is incidentally when it launched). One reason why it looks outdated is because the website editor is built in Flash— an outdated technology with plenty of it's own problems and quirks (which you'll notice when you scroll, select text and enter inputs in Moonfruit).
Moonfruit is a blank canvas editor— which means you can drag elements anywhere on a page. Unfortunately the blank canvas editor is not well done. For example, there is no snap to grid— which can make aligning elements a pain. Other website builders such as Wix and WebsiteBuilder.com have made much better blank canvas editors.
Here's an example of how the blank canvas editor works poorly. When I added another page ('Blog') to my website, the navigation overflowed into the right margin— making my website completely out of alignment!
In order to fix my overflowing navigation I had to go into support and search (I couldn't figure out how to fix it!). It turned out I needed to turn on something called Page Master in order to move the nav. So I did. But the problem is Page Master turned off my page so I could no longer know where the margin was! Gah!
Overall Moonfruit just feels unpolished. For example, here's one of my pet peeves: in this screenshot there are what looks like radio buttons— but they actually function like checkboxes. This is so unnecessarily confusing— it's design 101 stuff!
You can write posts, save drafts, tag posts, set publishing dates for posts, allow comments and more. So there's features and functionality to create a blog. Unfortunately the blog looks pretty poor. Show Screenshot
Moonfruit provides the basics, but not enough for me to say it offers full ecommerce. For example, you can create products with variations, put those products in categories, set promo codes and customize basic shipping settings. But unfortunately there's not much beyond that— for example you're limited to Paypal Express for payment gateways (which means the checkout system will always be off of your website) and you can't customize the email receipts customers get. Show Screenshot
It's a bit confusing to use (took me a few minutes to figure out how to add new fields) but it works. You can add text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and even let users upload files. Forms are sent to an email address (but don't delete that email because form submissions aren't saved elsewhere) and there isn't a way to customize the form success message. Show Screenshot
No. (Example: photo gallery images appear blurry on retina screens.)
No widgets that integrate with mailing list services such as Mailchimp or Constant Contact.
By deleting everything from the Page Master, you can start a website from scratch. Moonfruit includes 12 navigation menus that you customize as a starting point. Show Screenshot
There is a Soundcloud widget but no official Moonfruit audio player.
The first step in building a Moonfruit website is selecting a theme. Unfortunately the only way to change your theme once it's selected is to delete your site and start again! This is a poor workflow ... most people will want to test several themes before choosing one, but Moonfruit locks them into one!
I was able to pay and cancel Moonfruit with ease using a quick, simple web-based interface.
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The avalanche near Salt Lake City last year that carried enough rock, dirt and debris to bury New York's Central Park under 66 feet of rubble was North America's largest such disaster in modern history, according to University of Utah scientists.
The April 2013 rockslide sent 165 million tons of debris into a nearly mile-deep pit where it cracked bedrock and triggered unprecedented earthquakes, the researchers said in a newly published study. (AP)
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This page provides you with instructions on how to extract data from the Facebook Ads API and load it into Amazon Redshift. (If this manual process is a bit more involved than you'd prefer, check out Stitch, which can do all the heavy lifting for you in just a few clicks.)
Pulling Data Out of Facebook Ads
The first step of getting your Facebook Ads data into AWS Redshift is actually pulling that data off of Facebook's servers. You can do this using the Facebook Ads Insights API, which is available to all Facebook advertisers. Note that Facebook also offers an API for managing and placing ads, but that is not relevant for extracting reporting data.
The data you extract from Facebook Ads API reports can be quite granular, allowing you to see things like impressions, clickthrough rates, and CPC broken out by time period.
Sample Facebook Ads Data
Below is an example of what a response from the Facebook Ads Insights API might look like for a specific campaign over a specified time period.
"data": [
"impressions": "1862555",
"adset_name": "My ad set",
"cost_per_action_type": [
"action_carousel_card_name": "My Carousel Card 1",
"action_type": "app_custom_event.fb_mobile_activate_app",
"value": 0.093347346315861
"action_carousel_card_name": "My Carousel Card 2",
"action_type": "app_custom_event.fb_mobile_activate_app",
"value": 0.38324089579301
Preparing Facebook Ads Data for Redshift
Now comes the fun part: mapping the data that comes out of each FB API result into a schema that can be inserted into a Redshift database. This means that, for each value in the response, you need to identify a predefined datatype (i.e. INTEGER, DATETIME, etc.) and build a table that can receive them. The Facebook Ads API documentation can give you a good sense of what fields will be provided by each endpoint, along with their corresponding datatypes.
Inserting Facebook Ads Data into Redshift
Once you have identified all of the columns you will want to insert, you can use the CREATE TABLE statement in Redshift to create a table that can receive all of this data.
With a table built, it may seem like the easiest way to add your data (especially if there isn't much of it), is to build INSERT statements to add data to your Redshift table row-by-row. If you have any experience with SQL, this will be your gut reaction. But beware! Redshift isn't optimized for inserting data one row at a time, and if you have any kind of high-volume data being inserted, you would be much better off loading the data into Amazon S3 and then using the COPY command to load it into Redshift.
Keeping Data Up-To-Date
What happens tomorrow when you have thousands of new impressions and want those incorporated into your Redshift database as well?
The key is to build your script in such a way that it can also identify incremental updates to your data. You can set your script up as a cron job or continuous loop to keep pulling down new data as it appears.
Other Data Warehouse Options
Redshift is totally awesome, but sometimes you need to start smaller or optimize for different things. In this case, many people choose to get started with Postgres, which is an open source RDBMS that uses nearly identical SQL syntax to Redshift. If you're interested in seeing the relevant steps for loading this data into Postgres, check out Facebook to Postgres
Easier and Faster Alternatives
If all this sounds a bit overwhelming, don't be alarmed. If you have all the skills necessary to go through this process, chances are building and maintaining a script like this isn't a very high-leverage use of your time.
Thankfully, products like Stitch were built to solve this problem automatically. With just a few clicks, Stitch starts extracting your Facebook Ads data via the API, structuring it in a way that is optimized for analysis, and inserting that data into your Amazon Redshift data warehouse.


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I believe in a deity of some sort--I don't believe in the specific deity of any one religion. I believe all religions are an attempt at understanding that metaphysical creator.
Atomic energy are produced by lot of energy?it can be very dangerous some times.the first making of atomic bomb was very horrible. But sometimes it can be very useful
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Tends machine that winds binding around boned hams: Threads binding string through winding shaft and starts machine. Impales boned ham on spiked pilot. Pushes lever to engage winding shaft with pilot and steps on treadle to wind string spirally around ham. Holds ham between hands during winding to maintain its round shape. Stops machine, cuts and ties string, and removes bound ham.


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Located in the South Park Historic District, at 1434-1446 Wayne Ave. Owned by Edward Mittman
Built by W.H.H. Ecki in 1929, the Ecki building is an expression of the Spanish Colonial revival applied to the "arcaded commercial block" popularized after California's Pan-American exposition of 1915. Very little Spanish commercial architecture remains in Dayton, if indeed much was ever built. In addition, the Ecki building is South Park's only surviving commercial block.
Throughout its history, the Ecki building has housed a kaleidoscope of independent small businesses. Its first occupants in 1930 were a beauty parlor, a dry-cleaners, a furniture store, a Kroger grocery, a dentist and a drugstore. The second floor was home to the Knights of St. John, a Catholic charitable organization. The second floor later hosted Camilla Schad, elocutionist, and the Julian Dancing Academy, before being rented as individual apartments.
In recent decades, urban decline has taken it's toll on the Ecki building. As staple neighborhood businesses moved to suburban shopping centers, they were replaced by thrift shops, video arcades, and vacancies.
In 2002, despite inner-city development in the area surrounding the Ecki building, it sits vacant – a victim of fire and neglect. The building sits at a crossroads, philosophically as well as physically. Whatever fate, it will continue to reflect America's attitude toward our urban landscape. The building may soon be demolished to become another statistic in bulldozing the past. Or it may be saved and refurbished, to carry on the revitalization of neighborhood small business in the inner city.


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Delivered Dietary Intervention for Children With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Baylor College of Medicine
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First Posted: April 20, 2011
Last Update Posted: August 2, 2017
NASPGHAN Foundation
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Chumpitazi BP, Cope JL, Hollister EB, Tsai CM, McMeans AR, Luna RA, Versalovic J, Shulman RJ. Randomised clinical trial: gut microbiome biomarkers are associated with clinical response to a low FODMAP diet in children with the irritable bowel syndrome. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Aug;42(4):418-27. doi: 10.1111/apt.13286. Epub 2015 Jun 24.


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Modern Cuff in Gold, Rose Gold, & Silver
Have fun with your Fitbit fashion! Pull together a polished arm party with this modern cuff bracelet. We love the feminine open cuff combined with a structural cube and cone adorning each side. This jewelry layers perfectly with our bracelets for the Fitbit. Lightweight and great for everyday wear, these stunning bracelets are malleable so you can squeeze them to fit anywhere along your wrist. Wear it alone or stack it up. One size fits most.
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This hat begins with the band, it's worked back and forth in rows, but joined at the end of each round, then turned to create the ribbed effect. The rise of the hat is then worked even, in the round without turning. The crown of the hat can be made in 2 wayslacy and open, or in ridges, matching the band. They're so comfortable and easy to make. BASIC SKILLS NECESSARY chain double crochet single crochet slip stitch decrease: sc2tog GAUGE 11 single crochets through the back loop = 4" [10 cm]; 2 stitch repeats and 2 row repeats = 4¾" [12 cm] in rise pattern. SIZING / FINISHED MEASUREMENTS 20 (22½, 25)" [51 (57, 63.5] cm) circumference


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The AggreGAYtor: August 6
What happened today in gay? Here's your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
By David Estlund,
12:30PM, Wed. Aug. 6, 2014
Houston gets hankey-panked, Ginsburg sees what's up, and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster experiences its first heresy, as your AggreGAYtor strengthens hir smile.
The Good
Houston will keep its LGBTQ protections, which is old news, but this time Mayor Annise Parker is accused of "hankey-pank."
Marriage equality keeps moving up through the nation's courts, with surprisingly consistent results so far.
Et tu, Texas? (Lookin' good, Paul Huddleston.)
The Bad
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sees LGBTQ progress while women's rights erode.
It turns out the trans woman who was raped in a private prison awaiting ICE processing was not even being held in a women's facility.
The Fugly
A group of anti-gay activists have grossly offended the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and will soon be struck with the fury of His noodly appendage.
Utah's attorney general is using the same old tired defenses to uphold marriage inequality.
It Came from the Tubes
David Estlund, June 1, 2015
David Estlund, May 29, 2015
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JLoA #15 Spoilers Ahoy!
Well, it's been discussed, hinted, teased since Jason appeared on the scene, but today it's finally official - he's a Leaguer! Gehenna might technically be, too, but what do I know? I'm excited. I've long thought that this was the right move. Jason now has a book to call home and is in the hands of a writer with obvious affection for the character.
And that's two you owe him now, Big Blue!
Today also brought a bit of clarification in the form of Countdown to Final Crisis #21, where we see that Stein isn't MIA. He's back and recovering from being kidnapped, which isn't exactly new territory for him lately. It will be interesting to see what role he will take going forward.


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Remember getting those art kits of black paper with a wooden scratching pencil for slowly unearthing an amazing image? These mini art sets were great for car trips because you could spend hours scratching away at the plain, black paper to reveal some lovely, vibrantly-colored pictures underneath. This is exactly what iScratch Color is all about. You get to virtually, by simulation, scratch away the black to uncover some beautiful images done up in eye-catching, hot colors. There are so many designs from which to choose. No big instructions here, just simply use your finger to get to the heart of the drawings. All you have to do to keep your art forever is make a simple tap, or conversely shake to erase for hours of artistic fun. So give your kids or yourself a bit of entertainment next time you are enjoying some idle hours, and see just what magic you can conjure up with iScratch Color.
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Darlington School offers an innovative, more customized approach to early childhood education. Students who would traditionally enroll in pre-k, kindergarten or pre-first are instead part of Darlington's Early Learning Academy, a progressive program in which instruction is based on the students' individual needs.
Students in the Early Learning Academy work collaboratively on big ideas and break out into small, performance-based groups for the core areas of reading, writing and arithmetic. This allows Academy teachers to build a directed, customized curriculum that takes into account various levels of performance and builds on the students' strengths.
The Early Learning Academy exposes all students to three highly qualified teachers who are team teaching a dynamic, cohesive curriculum. The standards, scope and sequence of the curriculum are vertically integrated with Darlington's entire academic program, providing a solid foundation for a successful academic career at the school. Additionally, students are exposed to the teaching and learning styles that are best suited for their individual needs.
The teachers work as a team so that all students are studying the same topics at the same time, but at different levels. For instance, students may come together as a group for a lesson on weather and then break out into smaller, performance-based groups for reading and math activities that support the weather lesson. A 4-year-old student may be reading at the 5-year-old level, but may need extra support in math. The Early Learning Academy makes it possible to customize the student's day based on his or her needs, in addition to promoting independence and self-control.
However, because developmental and social growth are just as important as academic progression, a portion of each student's day is spent in a structured, traditional classroom environment with one teacher who is the point person for parents. This traditional classroom time gives children the opportunity to spend time with peers of the same age, which is a critical part of their social development. During this time, they go to enrichment classes and focus on topics such as life skills and character education.
According to Academic Dean David Powell, "This is the next logical step in differentiation for us. Our goal is to build more creative, collaborative learners by meeting the children where they are and pushing them as far as they can go. Each student will make – at the very minimum – a year's progress from the point he or she came in, but this ability to customize the program will actually allow students to go even further, progressing at a pace that is comfortable to them."
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So our job now is to work with the people of the world to create together a world that works for all of us.
O yeah? How do we do that?
We do that by creating a context. Creating a context allows for people who take positions in opposition to you to become a primary source to help you achieve your objectives—even as they appear to be the opposition! They actually assist you in your creation by being subsumed in and included as a vital part of the process in the wider context you create.
The context we are currently creating has to include things like the Donald Trump presidency, the right-wing takeover of Israel by Likud, Brexit and other awful things that are manifestations of angry lying nut cases trying to "bring back" some bullshit illusion about the past projected to work better in the future. We include and work with all these formerly unfortunate people to actually bring about the creation of a new progressive world order. Oughta be nothin' to it, huh?
The first step is to get a distinction first pointed out by Werner Erhard in a 1977 brochure about The Hunger Project. It is about the difference between taking a position and creating a context.
The following brilliant quote is an excerpt from Practicing Radical Honesty: How to Complete the Past, Live in the Present and Build a Future with a Little Help from Your Friends. (I wrote that book. I am smart. I was brilliant to recognize Werner Erhardt's brilliance and I am brilliant in seeing how it applies so bigly now. See! I am just like Donald Trump!)
The Story about Creating a Context
In 1977, Werner Erhard started a project to end starvation on the planet by the year 2000. He wrote a brochure. In 1978 the brochure was published, clearly defining the objectives of what Werner and the other founders had named The Hunger Project. This was possibly the best brochure written during the twentieth century. In this unlikely place- the middle pages of a brochure- there occurred one of the most brilliant syntheses of the twentieth century's evolution of thought–in linguistics, philosophy, and the study of the mind.
A segment from that brochure follows a couple paragraphs below, and it gives us the key to dealing with all the trumped up bullshit of the regressives who are trying to take over, and who will soon (within months) wreck the world wide economy and unless we do our job, could possibly destroy the God damned world as we know it in the next couple of years.
A coalition of regressives and progressives is like a big ball of fishing worms fucking. They are all slimey and wrapped around each other and squirming and a mess that is unsortable and above all else, messy. For that reason, in this excerpt the special emphasis in italics and parentheses and color to heighten the importance of certain sentences is to slap you in the face with it… Here is Werner's brilliant refinement of the essence of one of the most important ideas in history:
What Causes an Idea's Time to Come?
When you know the answer to that, you are no longer a mere speck of protoplasm on a dustball hurtling through space. You know how to have an impact on the world. You know what can make your life matter. The answer to "What causes an idea's time to come?" is what The Hunger Project is about.
The Hunger Project is not about doing something more to end hunger. It is not about doing something better to end hunger. It is not a different set of solutions to the problem of hunger. It is simply about causing the end of hunger and starvation on this planet to be an idea whose time has come. The people who enroll themselves in the project commit themselves to that. What they do will be derived from that commitment.
The question, "What causes an idea's time to come?" belongs to a particular class of question. Its answer is not the normal and conventional, reasonable type of descriptive or explanatory statement that a mind likes, that we are used to handling. It is not an exposition, concept, or theory. The answer to this class of question is, instead, a principle more powerful than all the forces in the world.
To answer this class of question, you have to give up your normal way of arriving at answers. Rather than knowing more and then more as you go along, you will need instead to be willing to know less and then less (that is to say, to become somewhat more confused as you go along). Finally you will have struggled enough to be clear that you don't know. In the state of knowing that you don't know, you get, as a flash of insight, the principle (i.e., the abstraction) out of which the answer comes.
While this is work that transcends ordinary intellect, all it requires is an unusually high degree of openness, commitment and intention. You will need these qualities to get you past the impatience, frustration and confusion that almost certainly will result from the feeling that what you are reading doesn't make any sense. In fact, the statement we are seeking isn't sensible; it transcends the senses. One doesn't test the validity of such a statement by seeing if it fits into one's system of beliefs. The test is whether there is a resulting shift from controversy, frustration and gesturing to mastery, movement and completion.
Answers in this class are fundamental principles; they are the source of parts, rather than the product of parts. They come as a whole, which whole can then be divided into pieces. You cannot reach the whole by adding up pieces; obviously the pieces don't even exist as pieces until there is a whole of which to be a piece. Answers in this class (fundamental principles) can be known only by creating them.
Causing an Idea's Time to Come
What causes an idea's time to come? An idea's time comes when the state of its existence is transformed from content into context.
As a content, an idea expresses itself as, or takes the form of, a position. A position is dependent for its very existence on other positions; positions exist only in relation to other positions. The relationship is one of agreement or disagreement with other positions. This agreement or disagreement manifests itself in various familiar forms. For example, your position is similar to, cooperates with, or supports other positions; it is independent from or ignores other positions; it protests, conflicts with, or opposes other positions. Positions exist by virtue of contrast, such as being different from, or more than, or unrelated to, or better than other positions. A position cannot stand by itself; it is not self-sufficient.
To come at this from another direction, we can look at content as thing, because an idea as a position is a thing. That which is without limits is either everything or nothing, and therefore not something, not a thing. It follows then that a thing requires limits to exist. These limits are expressed as the boundary of that thing. Since the existence of a thing is dependent on its boundary, and a boundary, by definition, is that place between a thing and not-that-thing (i.e., something else), the existence of a thing is dependent on something else-anything else. Therefore a thing, a content, is dependent on something outside itself for existence. Content is not self-sufficient.
Context is not dependent on something outside itself for existence; it is whole and complete in itself and, as a function of being whole, it allows for, it generates parts-that is to say, it generates content. Content is a piece, a part of the whole; its very nature is partial. Context is the whole; its nature is complete.
When an idea exists as a position (when it is a content) then it is an idea whose time has not come. When an idea's time has not come, whatever you do to materialize or realize that idea does not work. When an idea's time has not come, you have a condition of unworkability in which what you do doesn't work, and you don't do what works.
When an idea is transformed from content to context, then it is an idea whose time has come.
When an idea is transformed from existence as a position to existence as a space, then it is an idea whose time has come. Now an idea as position literally requires other positions for its existence, while an idea as space is both self-sufficient, requiring nothing else in order to exist, and allows for (is the space of) the existence of other ideas. When an idea is transformed from existing as a function of other ideas to being the space that allows all other ideas, then it is an idea whose time has come.
When an idea is transformed from content to context, then it is an idea whose time has come.
Creating a Context: Putting a Man on the Moon
Contexts are created by the Self, out of nothing. When you stop identifying yourself as a thing, as a position, and start experiencing your Self as the context, as the space, for your life (when you start experiencing that you are the context in which the content of your life occurs) you will automatically and necessarily experience responsibility for all the content in your space. You will experience that you are whole and complete and that you are aligned with other Selves, with the Self.
When you experience your Self as space, you create contexts from which you can come into the world. One such context is the end of hunger and starvation on our planet within two decades.
You are probably not yet clear about what context is (at least, not how it works) so we'll use an example. On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy initiated a context when he told Congress: "This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
By creating the context, "A man on the moon in 10 years," Kennedy transformed space travel from merely a good idea (which had not succeeded despite considerable attempts, the feasibility of which had been questioned, argued, and discussed) into an idea whose time had come.
The result of what Kennedy did can be understood by analogy. It is as if he created a building named, "A man on the moon in 10 years," and inside that building he put offices for all the various ideas, positions, notions and people that had to do with space flight. The first office inside the front door of the building in 1961 would have been called, "It can't be done." This office would have been inhabited by the skeptics and cynics.(and people who have lists of why it can't be done! Like, for example, "We can't put a person on the moon and bring them back because we don't have any metals that can stand the heat of re-entry into our atmosphere without burning up." And our response is…"Thank you! Please take this office and $80,000 a year to keep on making that list and giving us more and more detail…)
A content or position is threatened by any opposite position. Given two opposing positions, only one can survive. On the other hand, a context gives space to, it literally allows, it even encourages, positions that are apparently opposite. In fact, the most important position in a newly-created context is the position which appears to oppose the context.
It is important to get that opposing positions actually contribute to establishing a context. In the case of the civil rights movement during the 1960s, for example, all those people who opposed civil rights for blacks actually contributed to creating a national dialogue that demonstrated to the country that the issue could no longer be ignored. Every government official in the South who stood in the doorway of a school and prevented black children from entering had been a cause, a part of the persistence, of the problem, of the oppression. After the creation of a context ("equal rights and dignity for blacks") the very same action that had been a part of the problem's persistence became an action contributing to the end of legal discrimination against minority races. Then, every such action contributed to an increased awareness of the issue, to the passage of civil rights legislation, and to the gradual change in attitude that ultimately evidenced itself in the recognition that civil rights was an idea whose time had come.
In a newly-created context the most important position is the position, "It can't be done." That is the first and most important content to be processed, to be realigned. Anyone who has created a context knows that context generates process; process in turn grinds up content, it changes content so that it becomes aligned with the context. (THIS IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT TO GET!!!!! BRAD)
In the building of "A man on the moon in 10 years," the skeptics and cynics were working on "It can't be done" in the context of doing it, so that instead of being a threat or a stop to the goal, suddenly their skepticism and cynicism started contributing to the achievement of the goal.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Context generates process. A contextually-generated process transcends the existing forces; it transforms those forces. A contextually-generated process aligns the existing forces within the context. Then the aligned forces provide a condition of workability. Every action taken in a context is a fulfillment of, an expression of, and a manifestation of that context. The pessimism, the cynicism, the position, "It can't be done," are ground up by the process generated by the context, and are transformed into the material out of which the result is achieved. When an idea is transformed so that the apparently opposing idea actually validates and gives expression to the idea, then it is an idea whose time has come. (The Hunger Project brochure, 1978)"
The Flow From Context
I have been a member of the Hunger Project for thirty six years. Hunger and starvation are still ongoing, though significantly reduced. The number of children dying from starvation has decreased but not been eliminated.
An incredible number of events have resulted from millions of us holding the context: the banding together of artists and musicians and athletes and politicians, the creation of Band Aid and Live Aid, the coordination of all the relief agencies of the world and all their efforts, the growth of UNICEF, the creation of Results (the political lobbying group that grew out of the Hunger Project), the writing of books and articles, the production of television specials, and many, many other events. These results have brought us closer to our goal but we have not succeeded in the time we originally allotted ourselves. At this writing we are sixteen years overdue on the date of our projected end result.
Kennedy's context resulted in a man on the moon in eight years. The civil rights movement, which I was active in from 1959-1964, had by that time resulted in the passage of legislation that outlawed segregation. But the overall context of equality of races is still not accomplished. The anti-Vietnam War movement, which I participated in from 1963-1972, did eventually help bring about an end to that war. Now, all these years later, there has been general acknowledgment that it was a terrible mistake, just as we said it was then. But the ongoing use of military so-called solutions like the Gulf War and NATO's war on Serbia of recent times and the last 12 years of stupid and unnecessary war in the Middle East reflects that the overwhelmingly poisonous context of secrecy and force has not been effectively brought to an end. (There are still thirty-six separate secret services in the military and the government. And more than half of our annual budget for the United States is still being completely squandered on the incredibly stupid war mongering shit for brains multi billion dollar military industrial complex.)
As Marianne Williamson says in The Healing of America, "We shouldn't be over impressed by terms like 'foreign policy', huge secretive counterintelligence agencies, and government departments that play the world like a giant chessboard and view it as no more than a game we're trying to win. Our consciousness should drive them; their consciousness shouldn't drive us."
The completion of the results for any context is hard to achieve on a specific timetable, but in the minds of many hundreds of thousands of us, the time for an end to forcible solutions is long past due.
Creating a Context for the Future of the World that Allows Us All to Survive and Thrive Instead of No Longer Be Alive
The life lived, as a context within which the events of life occur, consciously created by declaration and continuing in conversation with others, is the most wonderful life possible. A life spent creating new possibilities for people that allow them freedom and power they have never known before is a vision we all can share. The context for a nation that was envisioned in the Declaration of Independence generated the United States as an idea whose time had come. That vision can be, and has been, twisted all to hell by politicians and military folks who call us forth to our mutually shared vision and then rip us off by playing adolescent war games. It is time we recaptured from those more limited folks the methodology and responsibility for actually bringing that vision into being.
So when you design your life and write your projects for this year, think big. Think of your own sweet self, the being you are, as the context in which the whole world occurs. Then, based on your memories from the past and your mind's assessments, come up with a vision for our future that pleases you and also contributes to other people. Have whatever you come up with eventually lead to the transformation of the world! Join with others of us who are transforming the world to help us and those we are helping. It makes all the difference.
Contact and Context
When we contact other people honestly- in such a way that we get their attention and learn about what they are engaged in and committed to- we enroll them in helping us bring our vision into being. We also become enrolled in helping them bring their projects into being. A project creates a context so that creation through speaking and listening can occur.
The act of creation requires that you operate in alignment with others, and that you understand the difference between taking a position about what "should" be in the world and creating a context within which what you want to create becomes possible, then likely, and then a reality. (Practicing Radical Honesty, 2000)
You are invited to come to D.C. or to my place in Virginia, on or after January 18, to stay a few days and to march in Washington, D.C. as demonstration of opposition to the inauguration and presidency of Donald Trump and to participate in the Million Women March. I live in Virginia about two hours from D.C. We will have rides to the subways in Northern Virginia so you can get into D.C. without having to be trapped in traffic there…
Come on over. We are expecting a half a million people or so… If we get arrested a few times we will use our detention as a way to create a context that allows us to bring about a world that works for everyone!
Love, Brad


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Dieting on its own is never the answer – particularly when it comes to children. The goal is to stop weight gain. Exercise, proper nutrition, and medical supervision are all important components of an effective weight loss management program. But the most critical component is family involvement and the ability to adopt healthier lifestyle choices and behaviors as a family. Experience has shown that children who have made terrific progress on weight loss in controlled inpatient settings often fail miserably once they are returned to the home environment. Why? Because they return to their old habits.
Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids
Here are some helpful tips to help your family stay on the right track.
- Turn off the TV and get out of the house!
- Stock up on healthy snacks – replace empty calories with healthy alternatives like fruits and vegetables
- Take a walk or ride a bike as a family
- Limit fast food to special occasions – or cut it out all together
- Dine as a family – better yet, prepare the meal together and get everyone involved in making healthy decisions
- Be a role model – encourage healthy eating and physical activity
- Encourage participation in extracurricular activities – sports, chess, art, music…
- Advocate for strong physical fitness and nutrition programs at your child's school.


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WASHINGTON: The United States was involved in "intensive counselling" during the recent crisis along the Line of Control, urging both India and Pakistan to revive direct talks, says the State Department.
Last month relations between India and Pakistan deteriorated rapidly after clashes along the LoC left several soldiers dead.
The Indian media highlighted a report claiming that Pakistani forces had decapitated an Indian soldier but later some Indian newspapers reported that Indian troops too had decapitated Pakistani soldiers.
Last week, Pakistan also submitted a report to the United Nations, detailing how Indians had disfigured Pakistani soldiers in the LoC clashes.
However, relations between the two countries have improved since, with both sides restoring people-to-people contacts and cross-border trade.
Asked if the United States had played a role in reducing tensions between India and Pakistan during this crisis, State Department's spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters that it had, through US ambassadors in both Delhi and Islamabad.
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Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon have called on aspiring filmmakers to create video advertisements to help convince New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, to reject controversial proposal of gas drilling in the state. Critics claim that such proposals can put water supplies of nearby areas in great danger due to dangerous chemicals.
The mother and son team launched the competition on Monday via their website, ArtistsAgainstFracking.com and urged fans to create creative, compelling 30-second TV commercials and short videos.
They said: "New York's Gov. Cuomo recently delayed until February a decision on whether to allow fracking for gas in the state. To help inform the Governor and the public, Artists Against Fracking announces the DontFrackNY video contest. Help us make the case in the most compelling and moving way."
Yoko and Sean are expected to pick one winner in each category. It is thought that the winning ads will be shown on TV screens across New York City.
On the other hand, lucky filmmakers will be invited to have lunch with John Lennon's family, according to reports. Interested parties may send in their entries until January 20th.
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@dngimage I'll look but "en vacances"
@Morgan_HardwoodI just merge "dev" in locallabgtk3thank you
@dngimage I found a bug in "blurr and noise"...In some cases ==> crash !I'll solve it (probably)
I just push a change that solve bug in Blurr (normal and inverse [crash in some cases] )
Now for add noise, radius blurr must be > 1
I found a bug in "blurr and noise"...
Good to know.
In some cases ==> crash I'll solve it (probably)
It never crashed on me. It just wouldn't save some of the CPs coordinates to the mip file.
Merci à toi. Vous devriez vous préparer pour les vacances
From here:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2q9OrgyDEfPS2FpdDAtMVI1RG8
I am getting this:
The only way out of this is ending the task.
Also in the previous version, the Windows key + M doesn't minimize RT's window.
I have done several small changes....between tennis, films, cards, etc.
Now for "Blur and noise" all seems to work
For problem above, I don't think it's specific to locallab.
I'll wait for the next build and see if it goes away It doesn't happen with the previous version. I've never had this pop-up dialog window before.
@jdc it's not a problem with your branch.
I think that clicking many times on continue will permits to go on.Do you have a removable drive on G:?It seems that there is a problem with gtk3.22.7 see https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/issues/3544I am trying a workaround. Could you test locallabgtk3_5.0-r1-gtk3-19-g0b9b74bcthat is uploading now?
Commit 88985c hopefully fixes this problem. That means that this problem will be fixed in the locallabgtk3 branch when the dev branch is next merged into it. @jdc would you like to do that, or should I?
@gaaned92,locallabgtk3_5.0-r1-gtk3-19-g0b9b74bc took care of the problem. Thanks! Have a great day!
Is this a known issue with local lab? I haven't tried the LL build in a while but had never seen this before... Looks like this in RT too, but even more black blob in the LL area. It starts as soon as I turn on Tone Mapping or any of the other contrast increasing options... It doesn't happen on all images either... Seems to come and go, but I haven't used it enough yet to notice any specific pattern.. Just thought I'd start here thinking this is probably a known bug... thanks
On a positive note, not getting any No Disk errors with 'locallabgtk3_5.0-r1-gtk3-19-g0b9b74bc' and left my SD card in the slot with it enabled..
Hello MorganCould you merge ?Thank you
Hello MorganCan you merge for me
Thank you
@toddThe passage from the algorithms of full image to local, is not obvious ... It is obvious that the taking into account of a reference point (hue, chroma, lightness) brings deep differences of behavior, of course without speaking of the remainder of the shape detection alogorithm.Without going into detail, there are several ways to deal (beyond the settings themselves):1) by choosing "global quality", which will notably take into account the impact of chroma noise2) scope that treats the extent of hue3) the 2 cursors: threshold and iterations
In the case of "Tone mapping", one can not have everything and its opposite. In some cases, and this is not a bug, but the algo that does what it is asked, it will be necessary to reduce either "threshold" or iterations, and possibly to set them to zero.
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@jdc merged and pushed.
I made a quick test, it changed a lot since I last tried it!
I found these bugs:
mip files in=/home/morgan/.config/RawTherapee/profiles/amsterdam.pef.mip
Enhancement requests:
Thanks for this. I was also experiencing memory leak with this branch/build last night unlike with the master, and wonder if that also contributes or is related to the LL behavior... The enhancements to LL since the last time I had tried it are awesome though!
Hello MorganI change the GUI "expander", but we cannot collapse by default, as I have already said above...(as wavelet !)
Why "mip" ? why not ? why pp3, why rtti, etc.Mip = M ult I ple Parameters
For history entries I don't know how to do !For locate in cache I don't kmow how to do! Where are and what is "hash" ?Remember, I am not a computer man, I am a scientistFor me above, is cheneese, or egyptian Jacques
Hey @jdc
That's fine, as long as right-click works to do all the work for us.
Well, PP3 = processing profile version 3.rtti I guess means rawtherapee thumbnail image (I'm guessing).I had no idea what "mip" stood for. Now I know
I will copy the points to github so that others maybe can help.
We must have a beer.
Kind regards


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text: Initially I was planning to inherit RGY on my ACC, but now I am actually considering D/L batman, that has the 2 turn delay and 2 turn bind clear. This gives me coverage either way for kagu (if I get delayed or not). on other floors that may bind for 3+ turns, this would give a delay too (assuming the enemy doesnt have status shield). I also already have a heartbreaker in Antares on the team. Thoughts? I also rolled Carat today.. I have 11 skill boosts, which is 4.3x burst. hmmmm


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Christmas Books penguin.com.au
Seasonal reads this year range from the highbrow to the high table.
The beautifully bound Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson (Penguin, $29.99) has both, comprising 12 tales of ghosts and love and festive miracles, accompanied by recipes for mince pies, mulled wine and Chinese dumplings.
Jamie Oliver's weighty Christmas Cookbook (Penguin, $55) has more delicious suggestions, including tips to make the most of leftovers. For kids, there's the New York City Ballet's lavishly illustrated The Nutcracker (Simon & Schuster, $24.99).
Vinyl Reissues pinkfloyd.com
Vinyl is still enjoying a surprise boom in sales, while old music has started outselling new music.
There's certainly plenty for collectors to get excited about this Christmas.
The Rolling Stones have released a boxset of their first 16 LPs in mono and David Bowie's Who Can I Be Now? set collates his Thin White Duke period.
The big news for wax fans this year, however, has been the long-awaited and lovingly crafted remasters of Pink Floyd's back catalogue.
The Avengers: Ultimate Collection
DVD, $199.95 (Madman)
No, not those Marvel Comics pretenders. These Avengers are the real deal – the unshakeable gentleman John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and glamorous spy Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), sent on all manner of madcap missions by the British government.
The stories are a glorious fusion of espionage and science fiction, with a '60s pop art aesthetic.
This 40-disc box contains every surviving episode from the show's six series run – available on DVD for the first time. A nostalgic treat.
Bridget Jones's Baby
DVD, blu-ray and digital
Romantic reunions rarely work out well, but the third Bridget Jones film bucks expectations by being the funniest yet.
Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is even more endearing in middle age than in her early 30s.
After hooking up with ex Mark (Colin Firth) and tech whiz Jack (Patrick Dempsey), Bridge falls pregnant.
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Thanks to Universal Sony Home Entertainment, we have 10 copies of The Wrong Girl to be won.
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Good cop, bad cop
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Good cop, bad cop!
Well I swore I'd never do it but I did, the cliché of good cop bad cop ><
Lets start from the beginning, I've been working in an RPG on another forum ABD. The story is basically this sinister little town in the middle of Texas full of nut cases cons and you name it.
So anyway both of these cops are old characters of mine. I collect my characters and the ones I don't use I store the information for in a big spiral bound book.
The first one is called Cody Lordly a very old character of mine. She has grown since I first created her, I'm very proud of the current state I have her in. So she's the good cop, the one who always comes across as caring. She believes criminals don't always just do things because they are bad. She also appreciates the effort that other members of the police department put into their work.
The bad cop is Surreal Camsly, fiery and going with her instincts. Her mouth gets her in trouble and she is lucky she hasn't been fired as of yet…
So yeah very cliché aren't they. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can make the two characters more interesting?
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Homemade + Food-Infused Scrubs
This time of year is a recipe for dry skin. Whether it's the dry climate or winter weather, skin could use a little buff. To combat annoying dry skin, or just to show yourself a little love, here are four do-it-yourself face and body scrubs with ingredients you might already have in your kitchen. Many foods we enjoy every day have secret hydrating qualities just waiting to be unleashed. With a touch of that and dash of this you'll be well on your way for an at home spa treatment.
Note: This is also a great DIY gift throughout the year for friends, family or yourself. No one has said, "I don't want no scrubs," since TLC back in 1999.
Seaweed Face Mask
- 1/4 ground almond meal
- 1/4 cup bentonite clay
- 1/4 ground oats
- 1/4 ground seaweed
- Essential Oils
Use a coffee grinder or blender to grind up your almond meal and oats. The almonds should be ground to a fine meal and the oats can be ground a consistency that is suitable for your skin needs (coarse for a good scrub, finer if you want a milder scrub or face mask).
Mix the ingredients and store them in a mason jar. At this point you can add in essential oils to improve the smell of your scrub.
- To use, mix a small amount of the powder with filtered water in a bowl to create a paste; next apply the paste to your face, let sit for five to ten minutes and then rinse.
- For acne prone skin, try mixing with apple cider vinegar instead of water.
You can use this as a mask 2-3 times a week to give your skin a deep cleanse.
Peppermint Coconut Sugar Lip Scrub
- 2 teaspoons coconut sugar
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
- 2 drops Rebecca's Apothecary peppermint oil
Mix the coconut sugar, coconut oil, peppermint together until well combined. It should resemble wet sand. Put the mixture in a small container.
- To use, apply a small amount to your finger. Using your finger, rub your lips in small circular motions for about 30 seconds. Rub off with a washcloth or paper towel. Enjoy your super soft lips
- 1 grapefruit
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1-3 tablespoons jojoba oil
Cut the center pith from one full grapefruit and place in the blender along with any leftover fruit and juices that might be available. Toss in about 1 cup of white sugar and add 1 to 3 tablespoons of jojoba oil (depending on how wet vs. dry you would like the scrub to be). Blend on medium or high until you have the consistency you're looking for.
Himalayan Salt Soak
- 1-2 cups Epsom salt
- 1/2 cup pink Himalayan salt
- 1/2 cup dried rose petals
- 10-15 drops essential oils
Pour the above ingredients into warm/hot running bath water. Hop in and soak. Typically a good detoxifying bath should be anywhere from 20-40 minutes. Make sure to drink plenty of water while detoxing.
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Food and drink
At any one time you might find five of Camden Town Brewery's excellent beers on offer, as well as others from Meantime (south-east London) and international brands such as Stiegel from Austria, and Bacchus raspberry beer from Belgium. Based on the last few meals I've had here, the kitchen's moved up a gear or two while not losing its modern British ethos. Expect the likes of flat mushrooms on toast with fried duck egg; game terrine with cornichons and red onion jam; hake with spiced potatoes, spinach and mustard seeds; and twice-cooked pork belly with coleslaw and pear purée. The lunchtime special is always nicely cooked and brilliant value – a rare breed Red Poll beef burger and chips, say, or a wintry turkey and bacon pie with sautéed cabbage.
The décor is packed with gastropub clichés (muted green paintwork, old school chairs, blackboards, a huge vase of flowers, a bit of modern art) but is not the worse for it. Weekends see couples, groups of friends and families aplenty, but during the week there are plenty of male and female lone diners, many tapping away on their laptops.
Slightly too laid back at times.
Set amongst the ritzy shops of Hampstead village, near the tube.
Price advice
For £7, the weekday lunch special offers a main course, plus a glass of wine or freshly squeezed orange juice. Otherwise, main courses range from £8-£15.
Recommended for
- Business travellers
- Families with teenagers
- First-time travellers
- Foodies
- Singles
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TomShipModel posted a topic in Masting, rigging and sailsGood morning everyone, I am contemplating putting sails on my current project, HMS Liverpool of 1757. The model is 1:96. If I do sails, I'm going to use silk span. Somewhere on MSW, I read a method of using silk span, and printing the tabling and sail plan using an inkjet printer. I did a word search of the forums and did not find it. Frankly, I don't remember if it was a separate topic or a build log. It looked very promising. So, hopefully one or more of you have a better memory that I. Thanks for any and all help, Tom


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Making Herbal Salves
Title: Making Herbal Salves
Location: Polly Hill Arboretum
Date: Tuesday, July 2
Description: Holly Bellebuono of Vineyard Herbs returns to PHA for her popular salve-making workshop. This fun hands-on workshop starts with a walk to identify and collect medicinal herbs and weeds on the Arboretum grounds. Next, participants make their own oil infusions and beeswax-based ointments. Learn practical knowledge on when and how to use herbal salves and take home your useful creations. Supplies included. $45/$40 for PHA members. Class repeats August 13
Please pre-register, space is limited. Call 508-693-9426 or email [email protected]


text: PMCN has had many success stories including this one from a young man named Brian B., a Soldier stationed at Fort Carson, who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in January 2009. He had wanted to make the Army his career but his injury forced a medical retirement and he exited the military much more suddenly than he and his family had planned. Also, because of his injury, Brian was making bad decisions and "blew through a lot of cash". His family was struggling and when they first moved into new housing after Brian's discharge, they had nothing. Once Brian and his family got connected to the services of PMCN partner agencies (including financial assistance, cognitive therapy for Brian's TBI, and other assistance), "it was a blessing… they guided us in the right direction and we got linked with lots of resources. We are now paying all our bills on time." Brian wants to go back to school to be a music teacher.


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Discussion in 'Hardware Classifieds' started by James Buhler, Jun 2, 2004.
Looking for this speaker at reasonable price. CS400i OK too. Thanks, James
Tell what you consider reasonable. I have a CS400 in 9/10 condition, orig. box and packaging, manual. Most seem to sell on ebay for $225. to $250. us dollars plus shipping. -miles
Thanks for the response Mike! If they are currently going for 225 to 250 on ebay that would mean 275 to 300 with shipping plus duty etc. I would wind up paying close to 450 CAD after tax and brokerage fees when this speaker sold new for 495 CAD. BTW, I have been dilligently searching for one of these on ebay for about 6 months now and have yet to see one. When was the last time you saw one go for this price? Thanks, James
Just a note but the MSRP in the US was 479.99 for the cs400. I'm not saying everyone bought it at MSRP.
I have a cs400i in mint condition will sell for $375 shipped.
Thank you all for your responses but it seems that this item is still a bit pricey. This makes sense though as it is a great product. However, when I bought my CS245i for 250 CAD I could have had the CS400 for 450 CAD and didn't do it. I've been regretting it ever since. That notwithstanding, I just can't justify paying new retail price on a product that could be anywhere from 2 to 4 years old. I doubt that I would get the $900.00 CAD that I paid for my RT800's 3 years ago. Any Canadians out there who wish to sell? James
you have PM
Seems like the price may be creeping up, the last cs400i I saw sell on ebay last week went for $380. I would sell this one for $275 shipped. It's in excellant condition, and I have all the original packaging. -Miles "BTW, I have been dilligently searching for one of these on ebay for about 6 months now and have yet to see one. When was the last time you saw one go for this price?" Thanks, James


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I was sooooo happy that Latrice Royale was one of the makeover professors last night. So happy to see her. And of course I was pleased as punch to see Jujubee. She's ma'fave.
I was sooooo happy that Latrice Royale was one of the makeover professors last night. So happy to see her. And of course I was pleased as punch to see Jujubee. She's ma'fave.
It was great to see Latrice and Juju last night. Love them!
I also really like Manilla but she was looking pretty rough last night, that wig was just not werkin for her, but she always cracks me up.
Yeah, I liked all three, too, but I just LOVED seeing Latrice!
She's great!
Also, is it just me, or did her makeup seem to be blended a little better? Her cheek shading seemed to have stepped up a notch, and I liked that.
And, yeah, I agree . . . Manila is cool by me, but compared to Latrice and Juju, she DID look JUST a little wee tad bit rode hard and put up wet!!!!!!
"In a world of pollution, profanity, adolescence, broccoli, zits, ozone depletion, racism, sexism, stupid guys and PMS, why the hell do people still tell me to have a nice day?" - Unknown
Spring 2016 FoRT Yearbook Title: "Most Likely to Make a Short Story Long, and a Long Story LONGER!"
from the commercial my All-Star cast predictions (and using some common sense on who have remained favorites from seasons past)
Click to see Spoiler:
1. Shannel
2. Ongina
3. Raven
4. JujuBee
5. Pandora Boxx (confirmed)
6. Manila
7. Alexis Mateo (pretty obvious from commercial)
8. Yara Sofia
9. Mimi Imfurst (I heard she's there because she cheated with an automatic vote for the public vote)
10. Willam
11. Chad Michaels
12. Latrice Royal (very apparent from commercial)
which is a decent cast. I personally don't think Alexis should be there but whatever. Also, Mimi obviously shouldn't be there but I guess they have their villain.
New promo revealing the All-Star cast:
RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race: Cast Reveal | Video Clips, Watch Full Episodes Online
Mimi Imfurst? Tammie Brown? Really? Otherwise it's a good cast.
Pretty much I'm OK with this case - some I've never seen and one I am like "OK, you have to have a villain...
My main issue is this:
Click to see Spoiler:WHY is someone who was disqualified and dismissed from this show allowed back? Chad Michaels broke the rules by having his partner come over what's to stop it happening again?
Mimi honestly annoyed me and acted totally unladylike last time (I mean unqueenlike but you know what I mean) and shouldn't be there. Even Shangela acted better.
I have to watch on their web site now (it's not on VH1 anymore sadly) so sometimes I get confused in the details when it gets stalled.
Most of the queens I did like though, but a few I haven't really gotten to see work.
The first episode of All-Stars is available to watch now on their Facebook page, in advance of the premiere this coming Monday:
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Soul Society by BriceChallamelWatch
©2012-2017 BriceChallamel
Deep in the woods of Koyasan is the sacred temple of Okunoin. It is the temple where the founder of Shingon Buddhism in Japan, Kukai (Kobo Daishi), was enshrined. And these are a fragment of the 20,000 souls that rest with him in the Lantern Hall.
This is beautiful...
This is one of the most amazing pictures I have seen of the Toro-do (Latern Hall). Ive been there many times and you totally capured the spirit of it. Great work!
It's make me excited
Interesting comment... Is it the warm colors or the millenary religious spirit?
This is amazing. The story and the photo.
wow, this is gorgeous! I love the colors, light, and symmetry! great job.
Wonderful shot.......a difficult subject.
Yes! I might even rework it, someday... Thank you for your kind words!
Perfect! Simply wonderful!
Ok, now I'll have to go and find my jaw..)
Amazing, really.
Amazing, really.
fantastic ! i nowhere saw a better shot of this place yet. very nice work
Thank you! It's one of these places that amaze you to begin with before you quickly realize you'll never fully express how grand it is. And yet you'll try...
Utterly amazing capture!
Absolutely mesmerizing! The scene looks incredibly small, yet vast and spacious. Well done!


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I hope you can join me on Saturday, April 30 @ 2:30 pm at Words Worth Books, 100 King St. S., Waterloo, ON. I'll be sharing 3 of the recipes:1. "Wedding Pudding" Dutch Advokaat (pg. 86) 2. Pasta de la Coeur (pg. 168) 3. Milk & Cookies for the "Real" Santa (pg. 140)
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IDC: Samsung Manages to Ship Twice as many Phones as Apple in Q2 2012
According to IDCs latest research, smartphones are shipping faster than they have been in previous years. A statement, which we probably could of guessed ourselves considering we see more and more people with smartphones nowadays. Roughly 406 million units were shipped in Q2 2012, up from 401.8 million units in Q2 2011. The shipments for smartphones also ended up eyeing a large year-over-year increase with a 42% gain. All in all, the industry seems to be booming.
With that in mind when talking about smartphones the two tech giants, Apple and Samsung, come to mind. Both of them ended up doubling their combined market share in just two years. Here, Samsung in particular hit a new quarterly record after shipping 50 million phones in Q2. Apple ended up shipping half as many iPhones during the same time. The Cupertino California company did suffer a quarter-over-quarter decline just six months after its latest iPhone unveiling, but many are attributing that to consumers holding out for the next-generation iPhone, which is rumored to be an overhaul (something the iPhone 4S was not).
It isnt necessarily a surprise to see more Android phones in the market though considering they come in all shapes, sizes, and price points. Apples iPhone on the other hand has been quite consistent over the past few years and just recently started to adopt the multi-price point strategy, keeping budget consumers in mind. With older models now going for cheaper, Apple is targeting the low-end market, which is something they havent done before.
With the next-generation iPhone coming up in the next few months and anticipation for it through the roof, Apple may see a record-breaking surge in sales once again. The next-generation iPhone along with the legal battle between Apple and Samsung are surely to play a big role in how the industry will be going forward. Well have to wait and be patient to see what happens.
Source: IDCThis article was originally published in forum thread: IDC: Samsung Manages to Ship Twice as many Phones as Apple in Q2 2012 started by Akshay Masand View original post19 Comments
bmwraw8482 - 2012-07-28, 01:14 PM
Was this written in the middle of the night with a hangover coming on?
quidam_brujah - 2012-07-28, 04:03 PM
Six colors and the key defines five of them.
Is everyone forgetting, that not only Apple's phones are old, but a new iPhone is going to come out later this year? Why are some people surprised that Samsung sold more? And obviously, Samsung has tons of phones in comparison to 3-4. (Only 2 if you counted iPhone 4/4s which actually sell now.)
ohthatguyagain - 2012-07-28, 09:27 PM
Based on this trend, the market is stable and on track. However, Apply must release iPhone 5 by Q42012 or face a declining trend.
thatboy12345 - 2012-07-29, 05:35 AM
jOnGarrett - 2012-07-29, 06:11 AM
oddphone20 - 2012-07-29, 06:35 AM
Since when is it a bad thing for one company to offer a lot of choices? When is it good for a company to offer so few?
jOnGarrett - 2012-07-29, 06:58 AM
To all the apple fanboys here there is nothing to enrage about what these rival companies do, we as the consumers are the clear winner. I own both devices from apple and samsung each device have their strenght and weakness. Fanboys just need to growup and act like adults.
hank197857 - 2012-07-29, 05:48 PM
if i owned stock in either company, i would care.
thomaspeter - 2012-07-30, 09:57 AM
The consistency of the Apple is what is actually bothering the rest of the companies. Any company can have a spike and then can come back down to its original reality, but staying consistent is what actually matters and that is what works at the industrial level. If Samsung can continue this pace for another quarter or so, then of course the Apple is in some serious trouble!
Most Android models offer the same specs from my experience. You can buy a last years Android and put the new firmware on it to make it new. With iPhones, if you want the better specs you have to upgrade hardware. Not a bad model..it just IS. Apple only makes one iPhone that matters and that is always the latest one. So in essence there is only one real model available at any given time. Whereas Android has too many to count and consumers to love choices(I know i do) With the prepay iPhones coming and the new iPhone coming maybe Apple will do better in the next quarter..we shall see.


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Press release
Greater controls announced to reduce risk of bluetongue
- From:
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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- Animal and plant health
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- 4 June 2010
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
This is an important step to ensure that bluetongue does not return to GB.
The European Commission has announced that Great Britain's bluetongue status will be reclassified from a BTV8 protection zone to a Lower Risk Zone (LRZ) for BTV8 with effect from 12 June. This new classification means that all susceptible animals being brought in from other countries affected by BTV8 will have to meet more stringent vaccination conditions before importation.
The move is welcomed by Jim Paice, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food who said:
"This is a great result that speaks volumes for the work done by farmers and vets, who've worked with the Government to achieve this Lower Risk Zone status for bluetongue. It will help protect our livestock producers but they must remain vigilant and anyone importing stock must make sure that they meet the new requirements for importation."
The move is further supported by the Chief Veterinary Officer, Nigel Gibbens who said:
"We have remained in a bluetongue Protection Zone since the first case was confirmed and the efforts of responsible livestock owners and vets in vaccinating stock and the surveillance work by Animal Health, the Veterinary Laboratories Agency, and the Institute for Animal Health has allowed us to successfully apply for this revised status.
"But we cannot become complacent, and I'd encourage farmers and vets to continue to vaccinate their livestock and remain vigilant for disease while additional targeted surveillance continues in the higher risk areas."
Advice and guidance about bluetongue can be found at archive.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/farmanimal/diseases/atoz/bluetongue/.
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text: Human Rights Observatory Indonesian President's Nominee for Police Chief Named Corruption Suspect Indonesian President Joko Widodo's sole pick for national police chief backfired this week after the country's anti-graft body named the candidate a suspect in a corruption case. The president's choice has raised questions about his commitment to clean governance and his political independence. Just days after being nominated by the president for national police chief, Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission named Budi Gunawan a corruption suspect. The three-star police...Read complete article© Voice of America - Wednesday, January 14, 2015


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Tag: fashion
November 4, 2013
Is this Hasidic man posing on a bed for an American Apparel advertisement a sexualized image? Sarah Imoff argues why the media fails to see the context and places the model — and the tradition — on a pedestal.
January 16, 2010
No one has ever accused me of being fashion-forward. Neither will I ever willingly join a conversation on the relative…
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text: I got my folks a new laptop as the hinges went to hell on their old dell. I picked up a pretty low end one from best buy. The plan was to set it up for them over memorial day when I head to the farm. They came down for some bride thing for the woman before the wedding, and mommy wanted to take it home with her. I loaded up quicken, the dial up connection for the internet and a couple other card maker type programs that mother likes to futz with. I have their printer connected to a wireless "print server". It works fairly well, but it's a little bit of a pain to get connected. I explained to her that I would be able to install it when I get back there the end of the month... So, naturally two days later she calls me up wanting me to walk her through it over the phone. There are few things I can imagine doing over the phone worse than trying to walk my mother through -anything- much less something she refuses to understand. It seems like people feel they can let their brains just squirt our their rear as they are talking to tech support...man. I used to work phone tech support for a living, and there is no one I dread explaining things to more than my mother....and she's a teacher. Don't get me wrong, I love my mama...but damn!


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The legendary Paul Gipe was our Keynote Speaker! Paul is an author, advocate, and analyst of the renewable energy industry. He has written extensively about the subject for the past four decades, receiving numerous awards for his efforts. His most recent book, Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, is Gipe's seventh book on wind energy.
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