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What does Hadwig mean?
Hadwig as a name for girls is of Old German origin, and the meaning of Hadwig is "contention and strife". Hadwig is a variant form of Hedwig (Old German): from hadu and vig.
OTHER FORMS VIA HEDWIG Edwige, Hadvig, Hedvig, Hedviga, Hedvige, Hedwiga, HedwigeCREATIVE FORMS
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How popular is Hadwig?
Hadwig is an unusual given name for females. Hadwig is an unusual last name too for all people. (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
Which version is better?
Hedvig and Hedwig are the popular variation forms of Hadwig (OUTSIDE TOP 2000). These forms of Hadwig were favored 125 years ago (AVERAGE #1084), but now, the form Hedwig has become less fashionable. (TOP BABY NAMES, 2015)
Similar Names
Suggested similar-sounding names are Edvig, Edwig, Hadara, Hadarit (see Hadara), Hadasa, Hadee, Hadeel, Hadia, Hadil, Hadiya, Hadjar, Hadlea, Hadleigh▲, Hadley▲, Hadly, Hadria, Hadrien, Hadya, Haelie, Hagir, Hailie▼, Haleigh▼, Hali▼, Halia, Halie▼, Halli, Hallie, Hania, Hannia, Hannie, Harli, Harlie, Harrie, Hatsie, Hattie▼, Haylie▼, Heddi, Heddie, Hedi, Hedia, Hedlie, Jadwiga and Jadwige. These names tend to be more frequently used than Hadwig.See names in meaning and etymology.


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Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. (2 Corinthians 9:10)


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May 21, 1829: The Spanish founded the town of San Fernando on this day, but the French residents called it Florissant and for many years the signs still said St. Ferdinand.
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Workers picked up the pieces after lightning struck at least two St. Louis County buildings during overnight storms.
Mehlville Assistant Fire Chief Dan LaFata said all signs pointed to lighting as the cause of a major fire that destroyed a south St. Louis County assisted living center. It was set to open this summer.
Mattis Pointe Assisted Living, on Mattis Road, was still under construction, and unoccupied when the flames broke out early Wednesday morning.
LaFata said: "I would expect it had been burning for some time, it was a pretty big fire burning in the attic of the structure. Neighbors called us when they saw flames that were about 40 feet in the air."
When firefighters arrived, the building was fully engulfed. They battled the flames with heavy rain at their backs. A storm had just rolled through; an early hint that was later confirmed as the cause of this fire. "All indications point towards a lightning strike at this point, LaFata says.
A spokesperson for the assisted living center, owned by Americare, said the building was a total loss. The fire damage was worse because fire prevention equipment wasn't installed yet.
LaFata explained: "In this case, there was nothing to discover the fire except for the neighbors, so that put us behind a little bit."
Meanwhile in Ladue, also overnight, lightning struck the chimney on the middle school building at MICDS.
Grounds crews discovered the damage early this morning. A school spokesperson said students were relocated from top floor classrooms, and workers spent the day securing the loose brick and the surrounding roof.
For lightning to strike two buildings in one night? Those fighting these fires said it happens more often than you'd think.
"It does happen of course, yes," said Mehlville's Assistant Fire Chief.
Mattis Pointe Assisted Living was slated to open in July. Spokesperson Pat Cokingtin said at least three future residents have already submitted a down payment. She says the center could still open on time, as there is a second residential building on site that wasn't damaged in the fire. Cokingtin said the building that did catch fire will likely take a year to rebuild.
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A Series of Updates Could Significantly Affect Who Must File a Wealth Tax Return
- Foreign investors in Colombia may be affected by new formal obligations in the nation's wealth tax laws that may require they file a return.
- Foreign investors whose net equity in Colombia was worth COP$1.000.0000.000 (approximately USD$392,156.00) or more on Jan. 1, 2015, must file a wealth tax return
Executive Summary
- Foreign investors whose net equity in Colombia was worth COP$1.000.0000.000 (approximately USD$392,156.00) or more on Jan. 1, 2015, must file a wealth tax return.1 This obligation must be fulfilled in May of the current year, according to the Tax Identification Number (NIT) of the taxpayer.
- Regardless of the above, in order to calculate the taxable base for the wealth tax, it is possible to subtract from the net equity, among other items the net equity value of shares, participation and/or membership interests held in Colombian companies.
- For foreign legal entities, the wealth tax accrues for three taxable years (2015, 2016 and 2017) and for each year, it is mandatory to file a wealth tax return as well as calculate and pay the tax due (if applicable).
- Prior to filing a wealth tax return, foreign legal entities must obtain a Tax Registry ID (RUT) before the Colombian tax authorities (DIAN). By means of this procedure, a NIT is assigned to the taxpayer.
- Also, foreign legal entities must appoint a Colombian resident as their proxy through a power of attorney in order to file and sign the wealth tax return on behalf of the foreign legal entity. This return must be signed by a Colombian accountant as well. The authorized officers of the foreign entity are not required to obtain a RUT.
- Currently, the DIAN is preparing a unified formal opinion (equivalent to a ruling) regarding the wealth tax formal obligations. The ruling is intended to clarify among other rules: (i) available payment mechanisms for foreign entities to pay the wealth tax; and (ii) whether it is necessary to file a tax return when there is no tax due or if the equity held in Colombia is comprised exclusively of shares in local entities.
Wealth Tax – Formal Rules
- Taxable base: For legal entities, the taxable base is obtained by deducting any outstanding liabilities from the gross assets held on Jan. 1 of any of the following years – 2015, 2016 and 2017. Those taxpayers that – as a result of the aforementioned calculation – register a taxable base equal or higher than COP$1.000.000.000 (approximately USD$392,156), will have the obligation of filing a wealth tax return before the DIAN. Despite the above and in order to calculate the tax due, it is possible to subtract from the taxable base, among other items, the net equity value of shares, participation or rights held in Colombian entities directly or indirectly through legal vehicles such as trusts, funds and pensions funds.
- Rate: The tax is determined by ranges, with a gradual and progressive decrease of the marginal rate and the total tax per range during the following years for which the tax is applied. For fiscal year 2015, the following ranges and rates apply:
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- Due Dates: For fiscal year 2015 the due dates to file the wealth tax return and pay the relevant tax due may differ for each legal entity based on the last digit of its NIT, as stated below:
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Taxpayers of the wealth tax are required to file the return via the DIAN's webpage, using the digital signature mechanism.
- Other relevant issues:
- The wealth tax cannot be offset against any other tax.
- The wealth tax is not payable through advanced estimated payments.
- The Colombian government has not established the due dates for fiscal years 2016 and 2017.
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Two pieces from the post-Trump cacophony that have me thinking. First, Charles Stross reminds us that playtime is over:
A few years ago, wandering around the net, I stumbled on a page titled "Why Japan lost the Second World War". (Sorry, I can't find the URL.) It held two photographs. The first was a map of the Pacific Theater used by the Japanese General Staff. It extended from Sakhalin in the north to Australia in the south, from what we now call Bangladesh in the west, to Hawaii in the east. The second photograph was the map of the war in the White House. A Mercator projection showing the entire planet. And the juxtaposition explained in one striking visual exactly why the Japanese military adventure against the United States was doomed from the outset: they weren't even aware of the true size of the battleground.
I'd like you to imagine what it must have been like to be a Japanese staff officer. Because that's where we're standing today. We think we're fighting local battles against Brexit or Trumpism. But in actuality, they're local fronts in a global war. And we're losing because we can barely understand how big the conflict is.
The second is Nosemonkey's take on how to market liberalism:
The right is brilliant at coming up with catchy slogans and iconography. It's why propaganda and aesthetics were such a core part of 20th century fascism. It's why Goebbels was such a vital part of the Nazi regime. It's all about manipulation, it's all about marketing. The truth doesn't matter?—?the message does.
On the alt-right / far right, the ultimate message is clear: "People who are different to you are making your life worse, and we will stop them."
On the left / far left, the ultimate message is clear: "Big business is making your life worse, and we will stop it."
What is the clear message for liberalism / moderates / the centre? "It's a bit more complicated than that?—?now let me explain at length why the world isn't black and white, but shades of grey."
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how we need to work together, when the biggest upcoming problem seemed to be the Richmond Park by-election. One of the messages there was how we've all won lots of battles against each other, but then the Tories won the war. Again, I was thinking too parochial. There's a wider war going on, the one Charles Stross mentions, and while we might not have lost it yet, we've taking a pounding in the opening battles and are too busy squabbling about why we lost them to start making plans for the next ones.
So I'm not going to look back and try and fix the past, because that's just forming another blame-threading circular firing squad when what we need to be doing is working together. The only question those of us who don't want to be buried under the reactionary wave should be asking is how do we all put it behind us and focus on the future because we're all fed up of losing and now we can't afford to lose any more. How do we do that? I don't know the answer, but i know we need to keep talking to each other, letting people get the confidence to put their ideas out there, and discussing them in friendship and co-operation.
If we're going to get out of this and win the future, we need to learn that we can't afford to compromise with the other side, but we have to be able to compromise and find common ground with each other, or they'll happily divide us and conquer.


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Finally, the developers have came up with new developer certificate to fix major issues for iOS 10.2 devices and the new app is released for Android based Smartphone.
According to the sources, vShare Pro app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch along with Android support has been released on the website with new developer certificate.
Since Apple patched and revoke couple of vShare Pro developer certificate, vShare not working on various iOS 10.2 iDevices. However, to fix these issues, vShare has released new vShared app for iPhone with updated developer certificate.
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If you wanna download vShare Pro without jailbreak, you need to install the updated app for iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone. It would work just like previous versions.
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I love the validation I get from an Instagram post that gets more likes then expected.
— Before we begin the real post of the day, I wanted to highlight the theme of this week: National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) Week. I plan to do a post on it later in the week, but if you're interested in learning more about my story, I wanted to point out the links out the top of every page. You can read more about my story, the transformation I underwent, and the rest of my recovery-related posts. If you, or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, please do not hesitate to reach out. You deserve recovery. —
Breaking the Validation Addiction
I admit it. I accept the responsibility of having somewhat of an ego. How often do people say that? Not often. I know, at least for me, I always play it off, trying to act coy or humble about it all, saying it doesn't matter. But honestly, I love it. It feels good. Seeing my phone light up with notifications, users liking my selfies, it boosts my self-esteem. It's a side of me that I don't often acknowledge, because according to most people (myself included), this is an egotistical mindset to have. And I'm not discrediting that, a perfect human, if one existed, would not even care to let their thoughts drift off into the world of validation.
This validation does not control my life at all, so I don't want it to seem that way. It's just something that's been on my heart these past few days. And it is not as bad as it used to be by far, thankfully!
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"This is a great way to make delicious chicken quickly and with very few ingredients. It's my husband's favorite. This recipe is one of the results of many experiments with different ways of cooking low cost chicken meals when the price of beef went through the roof, and whole chicken was all we could afford. You can use your oven, counter top rotisserie, grill or campfire to make this. It's very easy."
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- 1 whole chicken
- 2 apples, Granny Smith are best
- 1 (16 ounce) package maple bacon
- 1 teaspoon apple pie spice, Can substitute Cinnamon
- 1 cup maple syrup
- Preheat the oven to 375.
- Rinse the chicken, and remove the giblets. You can discard them, use them to make gravy for mashed potatoes or freeze them for later.
- Cut the apples into wedges, and sprinkle them with the Apple Pie Spice. Make sure you get the spice on every slice.
- Put the chicken into a roasting pan, and stuff it with the apples.
- Layer the Maple Bacon on top of the chicken, covering the enitire top of the chicken.
- Drizzle with half of the Maple Syrup, and set the other half aside for later.
- Cover and bake for 1-2 hours, depending on the size of your bird.
- Uncover and drizzle with the rest of the syrup.
- Put the chicken back in the oven, and set it to broil for about 10 minutes or until the top looks brown and the bacon looks done.
- Remove from the oven and serve hot with your favorite sides.
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text: Hello Haskell-Cafe, i've written small program which demonstrates how map/reduce may be implemented in Haskell. it counts amount of words in file, splitting it into 64kb blocks processed by two threads. their results are combined by another two threads. how it may be made better? in particular, is it strict in values send over channels? {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Control.Concurrent import Control.Concurrent.Chan import Control.Monad import Data.IORef import Data.ByteString.Char8 as B hiding (length) import System.Environment import System.IO main = do (file:_) <- getArgs h <- openBinaryFile file ReadMode map <- newChan reduce <- newChan result <- newChan replicateM_ 2 (forkIO$ mapThread map reduce) replicateM_ 2 (forkIO$ reduceThread reduce result) jobs <- new 0 untilM (hIsEOF h) $ do str <- B.hGet h 65536 writeChan map str jobs += 1 jobs' <- val jobs writeChan reduce (0,-jobs') res <- readChan result print res mapThread map reduce = forever $ do str <- readChan map let !sum = length (B.words str) writeChan reduce (sum,1) reduceThread reduce result = forever $ do (sum1,n1) <- readChan reduce (sum2,n2) <- readChan reduce let (!sum,!n) = (sum1+sum2,n1+n2) case n of 0 -> writeChan result sum _ -> writeChan reduce (sum,n) untilM cond action = do deny <- cond unless deny $ do action untilM cond action forever action = action >> forever action infixl 0 =:, += new = newIORef val = readIORef a=:b = writeIORef a b a+=b = modifyIORef a (\a->a+b) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com


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Part of the 23,000 kilometers (approximately 14,000 miles) of roads built by the Incas in South America, this is Peru's most famous trekking route and possibly one of the most spectacular in the Americas. Every year; some 25,000 hikers from around the world walk along the extraordinary 43 kilometers of this stone-paved road built by the Incas leading to the unassailable citadel of Machu Picchu located in the depth of the Cuzco jungle.
One of the trekkings options starts in the village of Qorihuayrachina, at kilometer 88 of the Cusco – Quillabamba railway and takes three or four days of strenuous walking. The route includes an impressive variety of altitudes, climates and ecosystems that range from the high Andean plain to the cloud forest. Travelers will cross two high altitude passes (the highest being Warmiwañuska at 4,200 m.a.s.l.) to culminate the hike with a magical entrance to Machu Picchu through the Inti Punku or Gateway of the Sun.
One of the main attractions along the route is the web of ancient settlements built in granite rock by the Incas like Wiñay Wayna and Phuyupatamarca immersed in an overpowering natural scenery. Hundreds of species of orchids, multicolored birds and dreamlike landscapes provide the ideal backstage for a route that every hiker should walk at least once.
Inca Trail Huayna Picchu mountain
This is a new rule from the government; Inca Trail Huayna Picchu passes are only available for purchase with the general Machu Picchu entry ticket and there is a special entry ticket for the Inca Trail which does not allow this add-on. When you do the Inca Trail you are among the only people who enter Machu Picchu via the Sun Gate (rather than the general public entrance) and you receive a special Machu Picchu tour from there. If you want to purchase a Huayna Picchu pass you will need to buy a new entry ticket for Machu Picchu as well (total USD $65 per person) – note that depending on the speed of your group you may actually have to sacrifice part of your Machu Picchu tour in order to climb Huayna Picchu in the second group. Ask us if you really want to climb Huayna Picchu – otherwise we do not recommend it for the Inca Trail.
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Description of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu rout
Based on a 4 days / 3 nights tour.
The Inca Trail
The total distance of the trail is approximately 39.6 Km. and begins at Km. 88 at a place called Q'oriwayrachina. To begin the trail, you must cross the Kusichaca bridge, (an important Inca bridge which using Inca techniques, has been built with steel cables which allow visitors to cross the Urubamba River). Then you head over to the left bank through a Eucalyptus grove and start the day calmly.
Almost immediately, you will come across the archaeological complexes of Q'ente, Pulpituyoc, Kusichaca and Patallaca. From this last spot, follow the trail along the left side of the Kusichaca River in the area with the same name where you will not only see the bridge but also you will find tombs, aqueducts, terraces. roads and a canyon. Continue until you reach the small peasant village of Wayllabamba and Inca aqueducts. It takes around four hours to cover the 9 Km up to this spot. One can camp here for the first night, but for comfort we recommend staying in Llullucha 1.6 Km further on.
The second day in the inca trail is more difficult as the hiker will have to climb up to 4,200 meters, crossing the Warmiwañusqa pass, the first and the highest. If you suffer from "soroche" (altitude sickness) it is best not to stop and descend quickly to the valley of the Pakaymayu River, where you can camp. This spot is 7 Km away and an approximate eight-hour walk.
The third day in the inca trail is the longest but most interesting. You will be able to visit impressive archaeological complexes such as Runkuraqay, the second pass, at 3,800 meters above sea level. This is a walled complex with interior niches that perhaps was a small place for rest, guard post and worship place. After crossing the second pass, descend to Yanacocha (the black lagoon), to then climb up a path with stone steps until you reach another cluster of buildings which attracts the attention of visitors. This spot is called Sayaqmarka a pre Hispanic complex with narrow streets, buildings erected on different levels; shrines, patios, canals and a protecting outer wall. At the top of the buttress one can see many constructions which lead one to suppose they once were a temple and an astronomic observatory which had a permanent supply of water and excellent food storehouses.
Sayaqmarka is a place filled with mystery and enchantment. The approximate distance to Runkuraqay is 5 Km, which takes 2 hours. This complex lies at 3,600 meters above sea level. There are excellent paths and a tunnel through this complex. We recommend you camp near the Phuyupatamarca ruins or 3 Km further on at the Wiñay Wayna Visitors Center, where one can buy food and drinks or use the bathrooms. The Phuyupatamarca ruins are better preserved than those seen before now.
It has a solid base built down to several meters in some cases. The Wiñay Wayna ruins were given the name possibly because of the abundance of a beautiful type of orchid which flowers nearly year-round in the whole area. The Peruvian government and the Viking Fund signed an agreement in 1940 to investigate the area, and sent the Wenner Gren expedition led by Professor Paul Fejos. But despite the expedition, there is no precise information about the specific function of six groups of dwellings near Machu Picchu. They are divided up into four well-defined sectors which are: the agricultural sector with many terraces, the religious sector, the fountain sector and the residential sector where the houses are located.
On the fourth day of inca trail, starts around 8 A.M., the walker arrives at Machu Picchu at around 11 A.M. after 8 Km of hiking through the jungle. Follow the signaled route and drink some water at the Wiñay Wayna Visitors Center. The path is clearly marked but try to avoid getting too close to the cliff edge.
It is forbidden to camp in Inti Punko. Leave your equipment at the control gate and enjoy getting to know the most important monument in this part of ; the continent. You have time to walk around Machu Picchu until mid-after-noon. Check train timetables to return to Cuzco.
If you plan to stay in the town of Machu Picchu (Last called "Aguas Calientes"), the distance from the station of bridge "Ruinas" to Machu Picchu is 2 Km. It takes around 20 minutes to walk down a narrow path which runs parallel to the train line.
We recommend you check for trains before walking the path. Concern about overuse leading to erosion has led the Peruvian government to place a limit on the number of people who may hike this trail per season, and to sharply limit the companies that can provide guides. As a result, advance booking is mandatory. A maximum of 500 people, including guides and porters, are permitted to begin the trail every day. As a result, the high season books out very quickly.


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"June, she'll change her tune…"
Sewers: New York City, September 8th, 2007
Raphael bit back further cursing, feeling Master Splinter's gaze upon him. He took a stuttering breath that would have flunked him out of meditation class and shut his eyes. No matter how bad he was at meditating, it helped cut the pain that ranged from a dull frozen throb to the searing white-hot flare wherever Donatello pressed down the warm rag. It was an agonizing process, Don slowly warming small patches of skin and then bandaging the raw areas. Slowly the layer of frost that covered his right arm faded from a pale blue haze over his dark green skin, to a deep red wound edged with a purple-black bruise.
As the painkilling ointment Donatello was liberally applying kicked in, Raphael let out a foggy breath, closed his eyes and let his tense shoulders collapse against the couch cushions. His siblings gathered around him with worried glances watching their brother succumb to bone deep shivering.
"Michelangelo, please get more blankets." Master Splinter looked to his youngest son, who scampered off to gather what he could. The old rat came around to the front of the couch and knelt beside Raphael. "Tell me, my son, what happened?"
Another failing meditative breath, Raphael cracked his eyelids open and bit his bottom lip. "I… I don't know, really."
Splinter's voice was gentle, coaxing. "Can you describe what you remember?"
Both eyes opened and Raphael fixed his father with a stubborn gaze that barely concealed his wide-eyed look of fear. "It's crazy," he tried to brush it off in a low tone.
"What's crazy?" Michelangelo bounded back with a stack of blankets almost taller than he was.
"Are you going to bury me in those?" Raph quipped back weakly.
His younger brother bobbed his head towards Splinter. "Father's orders!"
Drawing his bandaged arm closer Raphael attempted a sarcastic groan, but it dribbled out more like a whimper. He confessed that he wouldn't mind another blanket. Shrinking under the new-found heat Raphael kept carefully silent, trying to gauge how well he could avoid explaining what had happened.
His father's paw on his shoulder told him that it wasn't going to be long. "Very little seems crazy to me anymore, my son. Please describe what happened."
Raph sighed, leaning into the touch on his shoulder like a lifeline. "I… I was having this dream. This crazy dream about some girl saying she was watching us for years and I snapped at her and told her off and she got mad and came after me, except she was…" He swallowed, wondering if he was trying to wash away the fear of recalling the nightmare or the fear of having his family think he was insane. "She was already dead. And that's when I woke up, slammed my head on the headboard and I thought it was just some stupid dream…" He trailed off, unable to finish.
"Go on, my son."
Heaving in a breath Raphael dropped his voice to barely a whisper. "It wasn't. Someone was there, the same girl. Pale… like a ghost. No, not like a ghost. She was a ghost. I swear she was a ghost. And she came after me and I attacked her and my sais went straight through her. But when she touched me it was like ice. And then she just giggled and vanished." He took a few more panting breaths and looked to his family. "I'm nutters, right?"
Donatello rocked on his feet. "I don't know. Hitting your head can do some strange things to a person, but I don't think it can create frostbite."
"Frostbite?" The eldest brother blinked, looking back at Raphael's arm. "In September?" Don's nod of confirmation was solid.
Mike juggled the blanket pile, setting them down beside Splinter and turning to his brothers. "Maybe someone wants to make us think there's a ghost?"
"Something that can get through walls?" Leonardo mulled this over. "Master Splinter, perhaps we should check the lair, to see if anyone could have gotten in."
"Or if anyone got something in. Technology can be remotely controlled." Don added, packing his supplies away.
Master Splinter gave a short nod as he wrapped his son in additional blankets to fend off the lingering cold that clung to his skin. "Yes, Leonardo. Take Michelangelo with you as you search." He settled down in the chair beside Raphael as his sons headed off, crafting a nest of blankets over the tattered cushion. As unusual as his son's tale was, it couldn't hurt to sleep out here tonight.
Clean. Every bit of the lair was checked and there were no traps or signs of intrusion. Despite the nagging tiredness from the midnight search, Leonardo had made sure to be thorough. He found Raphael's secret stash of magazines on loan from Casey, the ragged teddy bear he used to carry around as a small child stuffed in a box in a back corner where he felt no one would ever find it, even a cache of discount firecrackers back from when Michelangelo and Raphael used to room together. But they found no signs of entry, forced or otherwise. He sighed, with an admission that they weren't going to find anything.
Michelangelo stuck to his eldest brother's side throughout the search as if he had been pasted there. Every flicker of light, every tiny squeak prompted the sleep deprived teen to spook, usually pouncing on Leo's shoulders or sliding behind him before he peered out with wide blue eyes at the VCR or a dust ball or a stray spider.
Leonardo had had it.
"Mike." He started, grabbing his youngest brother's shoulders and gently pushing him down to sit on Raphael's bed. "Calm down. We don't know what's happened with Raphael yet, we're just looking to make sure we're all safe."
Michelangelo looked chagrined, his eyes casting to the floor with a faint pout. "I'm sorry." He started, sounding more exasperated than sorry, "I just…"
Leo's eyes creased with concern as he slowly sat beside his brother. "You just, what, Mike?"
"You remember in the sewers, when we were dragging the toasters back and I asked you to check and see if we were being followed?" He started, the words tumbling out in a fast stream.
A slow nod. "Yes. I figured with the tumble you took and the talk of ghost stories you were just spooked."
Mike bit his lower lip, his pale blue gaze piercing through Leonardo's fatigue. "I heard someone, Leo. Footsteps, and this weird sound like drops of water in a sink or slapping your knee with your hand or…" his eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as realization hit, "gum. Chewing gum."
His theatrics earned him a heavy look of confusion from his older brother. "Mikey, I don't think ghosts chew gum."
The orange clad brother winced slightly. "All I'm saying is I heard something. But I never saw anything and you never saw anything… and Raphael never saw anything either, but something came in after him, right?"
"Raphael thinks something came after him…"
"Leo, when does Raphael, the sarcastic hothead, willingly tangle with ice? Even if it's all in his head?" Mike shot back. Leonardo paused and blinked. His younger brother had a point.
"All right, so we'll keep alert. And if you hear anything else, tell me, ok?"
Michelangelo offered a light grin, "I hear something now…"
"That's Master Splinter snoring." Leonardo gave him a faint smile back. "Which we should all be doing."
"Right." He slowly rose from the bed, watching his older brother while a furrow formed across his brow. "Leo?"
"Yeah Mike?"
"You don't think I'm crazy, do you?"
Leonardo indulged in a grin, "no more so than usual."
Sewers: New York City, September 9th, 2007
"How are ya feeling?" The voice was chipper. Way too chipper. Raphael stubbornly kept his eyes closed, pretending he hadn't heard. There was a muffled thump and he felt the cushions by his hip sag. Betting it was a certain brother's buttocks causing that sag he gave a faint groan. "Come on, I brought you breakfast…"
"Can I sleep in 'till lunch?" Raphael muttered, still not opening his eyes.
"It's quarter past one," a second voice called with a clinical tone.
Another groan, Raph pulled his eyelids apart, and took in a startled breath as he found Michelangelo looming over him with a tray full of pizza and cereal. Standing several paces away, Donatello has a bundles of bandages locked and loaded. "Oh. Hi guys. Did I miss morning training?" he asked casually. Too casually. Donatello eyed him silently as if wondering what his brother was trying to avoid thinking about.
"Master Splinter said we should leave you sleep. But we all slept in some. Even him!" Mike said cheerily, shifting blankets to make a proper nest for the tray of food.
"Great." Raphael shifted up to a sitting position, wincing as he put weight on his injured arm and finally accepting Mike's offered help. He rubbed his temples with his good hand. "Did anybody get the plate of the truck that hit me?"
"Truck? Last night you said it was a ghost." His younger brother plopped down in the chair beside him.
Raphael absorbed this for several seconds, his eyes going wide. "Ghost…" he repeated and followed it with a weak laugh. "Who believes in ghosts?" He sounded like he was trying to convince himself of something and failing miserably.
Donatello crouched down beside him, looking his brother over. "Well, you tangled with something last night. But I don't think trucks give you mild hypothermia and acute frostbite."
"It's not that cold out." Raph protested, shaking his head. He didn't want to think about last night, the lingering fear he might actually be crazy still hanging about his head like an ill omen. He decided to distract himself by nibbling on one of the slices of pizza Mike had brought, pointedly ignoring the fact that he wasn't really hungry.
"I know." Leave it to Donnie to make even the simplest deduction sound like a piece of scientific brilliance. "We're trying to see if any strange technology could have breached the lair."
"Strange technology," Raphael mulled it over. That explanation certainly sounded better than 'you're going crazy and being attacked by ghosts.' "You think so?"
Don gently pulled Raphael's injured arm to the side, changing the bandages. "I think it is a likely solution." He quieted, his fingers gently working the last of the old bandages off. The wound had swollen, raw red meeting the white areas of dead flesh ringed in dark purple. Raphael winced as the air met the damaged area. "Father took Leo to do another search of the lair, to make sure nothing will get in tonight."
Raph managed a thin nod, waiting as Donatello worked a layer of pain-killing salve over the wound and bandaged it again with a practiced hand. As the sharp pain faded into numbness, he found the words his brain had been fishing for. "I don't suppose they found anything yet?"
"Not yet." Don started cleaning up, casting a gaze back at his brother, "but they're careful."
Raphael nodded. "I suppose they are." He fell into silence, staring off towards the back halls as Donatello gave Michelangelo strict instructions to make sure Raphael ate the majority of his breakfast. The brainiac even went so far as to give Mike permission to annoy the heck out of his patient if he refused to eat, which only prompted a look of utter glee from the younger turtle. Raphael groaned inwardly, deciding they were both enjoying this too much.
So he ate, picking at his food while Mike chattered on about comics and training and the strange things you find in the bottom of cereal boxes, how he found a toad in the back hall where they kept the coats for going topside and that low confession he believed in ghosts.
Wait. What?
Raphael turned, staring at his brother with an expression that plainly said you could have knocked him over with a feather had he not already been reclining on a couch on strict doctor's order's to stay put. "You… what?"
"I believe you, Raph. About the ghosts and everything."
Oh no, there was not a tone of seriousness in his voice. There couldn't be. But oh, there was. There most certainly was. A low frightened tone that struck a chord with the gnawing pit of worry building in Raph's stomach. "I don't even believe myself…" He started.
"No, Raph. I heard something last night. After I found that finger bone I heard something following us, but I never saw it. Leo never even saw it, even though I tried to tell him. I swear something followed us, though…" Michelanegelo's voice had tight tone of tension in it that gave the young turtle's plea a stabbing severity.
"Mike…" Raphael started as gently as he could muster, "I think we all spooked ourselves out with all the talk of ghosts and whistling and whatever you found. I don't think it was a finger bone."
"It was!" The younger protested.
Raphael fixed him with the 'serious older brother' expression. "Mike, I admit it, I was spooked. But it's over, Master Splinter and Leo will find the problem and we'll all be fine."
Michelangelo bit his lower lip, watching Raphael's gaze for any signs of falsehood. Slowly his worry faded. "You sure?"
"I'm sure." Raphael gave a nod, finishing the last of his breakfast and nudging the tray towards his brother. "Thanks, the pizza's good." He even worked up a smile as Mike headed back towards the kitchen and he sank back into the cushions of the couch.
As soon as Mike has disappeared Raphael indulged in another inward groan. He felt sick. Sick, unsure and decidedly more spooked than before.
Sewers: New York City, April 23rd, 1985
"Where are they?" Radiata's voice escaped her lips in a soft whining tone, her flashlight cutting a morose little path through the black underground hallways. She wrapped slender fingers around the amulet and shoved her hands underneath her armpits, fending off a case of the shivers. "Why did they have to get freaked out and run?"
"Why indeed?"
Radi's breath died in the back of her throat as she froze in place. Finally, as her heart slowed back down she started to coax words from her mouth, her voice making a croaking sound. "Who are you?"
The voice had a smooth, attractive slightly foreign quality to it; a fine male tenor. "Why, my dear child… I'm a ghost."
"No you're not." The teen momentarily forgot her fear and put her hands on her hips. "You're probably just some creepy construction worker trying to scare me."
"Suit yourself," the voice chuckled back lightly.
Radiata frowned into the bleak corridor and started swinging her flashlight about. "Why can't I see you?"
"Because you're not looking in the right places." The voice came from beside her, but when she turned towards it, all she saw were shadows.
The young girl's voice was brash and impudent, hiding the fear that was returning. "That's not funny."
Again the chuckle slid through the darkness, this time behind her. "I find it rather amusing actually."
"I don't." She spun around, and this time her flashlight caught the figure before it moved. She blinked, catching only part of the features. Wearing an old fashioned suit, with wavy dark hair and a thin frame, he hardly looked like your average construction worker. She furrowed her brows, and turned to make sure there weren't more of them. When she looked back he was gone.
She pressed her lips together into a thin, firm pink line. Heat flared into her cheeks and she stamped a foot on the stone floor. "Stop that! It's not funny!"
"Sure it is." Again the voice was behind her, and as she turned, she caught the figure in her flashlight beam again. "The question isn't whether it's funny, but who it is funny for."
The teen pursed her lips, putting her free hand on her hips. "It isn't funny for me!" she whined. Sucking in a breath, she turned about again, raising the flashlight. Again, all it met was the blackness of the sewer tunnel. Radiata frowned heavily, shaking her head. "I hate this game."
She had just started to walk off, her legs shaking both from cold and fear, when the voice came back, plaintive and almost pleading. "Don't go…"
"Come on. You play with me, insult me and now you don't want me to leave. That's bull." She snapped back, flicking the flashlight around. To her surprise the man was standing there, watching her with wide eyes from the darkness. She could feel her fingers clench the flashlight a little tighter.
"Bull?" He queried lightly. "No matter. You are chosen."
Radiata screwed up her face to one side in a half snarl. "Chosen? That's just cheesy. Cheesy and stupid. I'm going home."
"You can't." He tossed the words so nonchalantly that she froze in place, swiveling halfway between looking at him and walking away. He gave a small smile as his response, stepping forward more into the light. Slowly Radi felt her jaw drop, imitating a deer in headlights as the ragged beam from the plastic torch finally illuminated the whole of his face.
The old fashioned suit was torn and ragged in the middle, soaked in blood all down the right shoulder. Powder burns still coated the lapels, all leading up to the top right side of his head where the skull had been blasted off, dried blood still draining down the preserved remnants of his ear and past an unmarred cheek. The wound itself was ringed in blood that still looked fresh and wet, but the interior was a deep black void.
"You… you're hurt…" the words straggled out of the young girl's mouth like worms coming to the surface after a rainfall.
He shook his head calmly. "I'm not hurt. I'm dead."
"You can't be." Her voice was barely more than a whisper.
He perked a thin brow at her, and gave a light ringing laugh. "I already told you child, I'm a ghost."
Radiata could feel all the warmth draining from her face, like water from a tub. "What do you want from me?"
"I don't want anything. I simply do as my sister asks." The man gave a soft smile, taking a faint step forward.
"Your sister?" The words shot out of her mouth before a realization crept in, remembering the hovering white lady frozen in death. "What does your sister want?"
"What she could never have in life. Companionship. Children."
The teen felt her blood run cold, breath coming out in steaming puffs. Slowly, behind the man's spectre she could make out a face… no, two faces. She let out a faint whimper, feeling a lump form in the back of her throat… she knew those faces.
"Sarah-Kay? Ashlee?" The faint outlines of the girls screamed and clawed at thin air, as if fighting their own deaths. Radiata sucked a mouthful of stale air into her lungs before she looked up and screamed, "what have you done with them?!"
"I haven't done anything." The man replied evenly. "But she… she has made them immortal."
The young girl looked up, tears starting to well in her eyes. "Go away! Leave me alone!" she yelled, backing up. Clenching a fist around her flashlight, she tried to slam it into the ghost-man's chest, but her hand simply passed through feeling like she had tried to fight a frozen cloud.
"Why? Isn't this what you always wanted?" The man flickered and rematerialized directly by her side. His deathly pale hand brushed her cheek, with the sensation of a cold breeze across the skin. "A gothic tragedy, yours for the taking."
"I want my friends back," her lower lip was trembling.
The ghost ran an insubstantial hand across her cheek again, before willing his flesh to solidify. With an iron grip, he clasped her arm, pulling her chin to face his. "I'll do one better. I can take you to meet them." He dipped his head to hers, locking her lips in a kiss as she tried to strangle out a scream. Radiata's hands clawed against his arms, trying to find purchase to tear herself away.
Cold pushed down past her lips, and into her mouth. Sinking down into her throat, she could feel her breath freeze in her lungs. Her eyes grew wide, unable to push away as the cold stretched out into her chest. Her heart felt like it would shatter with every beat as the cold stretched into her arms and legs. Her struggles grew weak as her blood started to freeze within her veins and the cold surrounded her.
Her body hit the ground with a solid clang, crystals of ice scattering away from the corpse as the ghost who held it dissipated back into the mist.
Sewers: New York City, September 9th, 2007
The imprints of keyboard keys against his forehead stung ever so slightly as Donatello realized he had fallen asleep at his computer. The scent of stale coffee and the sweat of training mingled with the damp moldy scent of the walls to make it a most unpleasant wake up call. Running his tongue across scummy teeth, Donatello decided what he really needed to think this through was a shower, a toothbrush, and another cup of coffee. Crap, the coffee pot was broken. He sighed and decided Master Splinter's tea would have to suffice.
"Don't go…"
He was halfway out of his chair when he heard the voice, no more than a whisper. He turned around to survey the room in the shadows of his monitor light. Nothing. Pushing it out of his mind as jumpiness after what happened to his brother, he grabbed his coffee mug and rose.
"Please don't go…"
Don's head snapped towards the monitor, he caught it, if only a glimpse. A face, the face of a young girl trapped just behind his monitor. The faint image was super-imposed over tabs of Wikipedia and medical journals on head injuries and frostbite. Don blinked and rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and the next time he looked she was gone. "Raphael has me spooked now" he muttered, really wishing he could wash the nagging feeling of being watched away with some fresh coffee.
"I said don't go."
This time the voice was pointed and audible beyond the faint whisper of his imagination prompting Donatello to whirl and grip the monitor with both hands, growling at the glowing screen "who are you and what are you doing with my computer?"
Edgy, Don looked behind his shoulders, equally relieved to see no intruders and none of his brothers there to laugh at him for yelling at his monitor as if it was out to get him. "I really need some coffee…" the words were pushed through clenched teeth as the researcher forced his muscles to relax. Tea would have to suffice; at the very least the caffeine would put his nerves to ease. Picking up the cup he dropped in his fury at the monitor phantom, he headed for the door.
"I meant don't go."
The white-rimmed form of a teenage girl with jet black hair and pale white skin that appeared permanently frozen stood in the doorway, highlighted by the monitor glow. Donatello leapt backwards, his hands flailing for his bo staff as the coffee cup shattered against the floor. A moment's regret - that was always his favorite mug - was soon pushed away by his ninjitsu-honed survival instinct as a wave of radiating cold rushed towards him. He dropped to one knee and rolled out of the way, coming cleanly up and to the side of the bossy apparition. The back end of his bo tucked into his side while the front end snapped forward, striking the ghastly white figure square in the chest.
And it moved directly through her.
Donatello ground his teeth together and leapt back, using his staff as a shield as she reached out for him. Her fingers struck the middle of the staff, a rime of frost spreading out where she touched. He could feel the unearthly cold seeping through the wood, into his fingers and he twisted the staff to one side, pushing her extended arm into her side. With a cry she released him, floating back towards the wall. Don skidded back, flicking his staff out for a second strike. Again it passed through her faint form, striking the file cabinet in the corner of the room. There was a brittle crack and Donatello stumbled to keep his balance as his hands went awry and his staff snapped in half like a bitten toothpick.
Warily eying the goth ghost, Don took a moment to inspect the break area. His staff had never broken on him like this, no splinters just a jagged edge like broken glass. As if the middle of the staff had been dipped in liquid nitrogen. The young girl smiled viciously at him.
Taking the defensive, the young turtle ran through his mind what that sort of cold would do to flesh and Raphael's sickening raw red wound jumped to mind. "What do you want from us?" he asked, buying some time to make it to the door.
Radiata smiled sweetly, folding her hands in front of her. "Only to love you. We have been so lonely down here all alone."
"I don't think freezing someone to death is a great definition of love." Don failed to keep the shock off his face.
"But after you die, we can spend forever together." Her voice was silky and pleading.
The purple turtle's jaw slowly loosened as he gaped at her in an expression that clearly asked 'who said I wanted to spend forever with you?' The goth girl was not to be dismissed that easily. She took a step forward, herding her chosen turtle back towards the computer and folding her arms across her chest. "We have so much in common, Dontaello. We're both teenagers, we're both stuck in the sewers. I always loved computers and pizza and I even got an A in Chemistry."
"Lots of people have that in common!" Don tossed back in an exasperated breath. "Well, except for the living in the sewers part, but a list of random co-incidences does not make people fated to spend the rest of their deaths… I mean lives together!"
"I dyed my hair purple, I am chosen for you!" she shrieked back, throwing her hands in the air in her fervor. It gave Donatello just enough time to dodge past her frozen form and dash to the door, bee-lining towards the main room.
Donatello burst into the living room holding two halves of a bo staff and an expression that would have curdled milk by looking at it. It was only Michelangelo's canny warning that prevented his older brother from tripping over his skateboard taking a header into the couch and sandwich a sleeping Raphael. And nobody likes to wake Raphael.
"What's up, bro…" Mike asked cautiously, setting down the remote and tearing himself away from late night cartoons.
"Raphael, I believe your story. I believe every word of it. I'm sorry." The words tumbled out of Don's mouth in a fast stream as he stared towards the back room. Nothing followed him. No cold breeze, no form, nothing. He slowly sunk down into a chair and gave a sigh.
Raphael blinked sleep from his eyes and drew himself up to an awkward sitting position, peering at Don curiously. "What happened? And why are you sorry?"
Shoulders still tense, Donatello looked warily about before speaking, "When I first examined you and you said you hit your head, I started looking for psychosomatic reasons – or if there was anything in your room you might have bumped."
"You did think it was all in my head!"
Don cut the protest off with a raised hand. "But I couldn't find any cases of spontaneous frostbite. So I started just research frostbite, and while I did I heard this voice…"
"Gum chewing?" Mike squeaked.
"No, just female. This strange teenage girl professed her love and tried to freeze me to death." Donatello gauged his brothers reactions in an almost clinical manner, watching as two pairs of shocked eyes fixed on him. They were rattled. He sighed and started again, "I'm not convinced about ghosts. I still think it's more likely that our enemies have found some way to create a ghost-like projection with a weapon that uses super-cooled gases. But I am convinced it is real and dangerous."
Raphael rolled his eyes. "Well that makes me feel better."
As thunder rolled across the city, Michelangelo tried to blot the worry from his mind. With Donatello's confirmation the brothers had gone back into full paranoia mode, despite not finding a trace of the intruder beyond Don's shattered staff.
Raphael had been quick to note that they, by and large, left stories of ghosts and boogeymen behind when they were eight. Mike had stifled a giggle listening to his older brother's 'tough' voice, more so when Donatello recommended Raphael head back to his room and the red clad turtle protested on grounds of his injury. They had both nodded to one another, that unspoken agreement: all three of them were spooked, even if nobody wanted to admit it.
It left them restlessly bunked out in the living room. Donatello was lightly snoring amidst a pile of research, Raphael on the couch, Leonardo off speaking in quiet tones with Master Splinter in the kitchen. Michelangelo listlessly flicked to another channel, the television tuned just loud enough to drown out the hammering of raindrops on the streets above but low enough to hear if anyone was coming. He didn't actually care what was on anymore, the simple flashes of color and light were as comforting as an old blanket.
Slowly he started to drift off, lulled to sleep by exhaustion and the gentle rhythm of his brother's snoring when his head snapped up. Was that gum snapping? Did he hear it again?
"It's only the rain." He murmured to himself, checking behind his shoulders once again, comforted to only see the silhouettes of his father and brother in the kitchen and the gently sounds of their late night talk. "Only the rain."
As he drifted off to sleep the pale ghost peered out from the shadows, the soft smack of gum fading into the sounds of the night.


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At least, not in Florida anymore. Seems the City of Cape Coral is taking a heavy handed approach to a woman who's house is not hooked up to the electric/water/sewer grid. She was taken to court for multiple code violations, found guilty, and ordered to vacate her home, which she owns. The judge in the case admitted he did not want to rule as he did but had no choice thanks to something called the International Building Code. If I read the article correctly the woman can return to her home provided she hooks up to said utilities, she just doesn't have to use them. Which only makes sense when you are dealing with government, not the real world. She is still fighting for the right to live in her house, relying only on her solar panels for power, rain water, and presumably compost toilets. But the city, as is common will not be budging unless a higher court rules in her favor.
This whole situation does not surprise me in the least. There are several aspects that come into play here. Firstly, until I read this story I had no idea we had an International Building Code. Apparently, it sets the basic requirements of all dwelling in the country in regards to things like exits, room heights, utilities, and Darwin knows what else. Cities are well known for using building codes to enforce their will on property owners and manipulating the codes to fill their coffers with lots of loot from code violations. Here in the Keys, code enforcement officers are some of the most hated government officials in the islands, which is saying a lot. Nothing is more dreaded than the red tag when you are trying to build or improve your property.
If you are unfamiliar with Cape Coral, it's a small city sitting just north of Ft. Myers on the southwest end of Florida. Essentially, it consists of nothing but miles and miles of overbuilt property on reclaimed wetlands right on the Gulf of Mexico. The city is a maze of standard Florida type homes crammed together with the usual commercial centers. There are dozens of canals running through the city to give water access to a lot of the homes, and beachfront. If a major storm ever hits this area, the storm surge alone will wipe this place off the map. But something as important as storm surge never stopped anyone from building there. Anyways, when you have a city like this, you need a large amount of utilities to power the homes, bring fresh water in, and waste out. Which brings us to the real reason why this woman is being forced back into the grid.
Utility companies who provide power and water, have spent billions of dollars over the years to build their infrastructure. Power plants, cables, power stations, water pipes, pumps, sewage treatment plants. It was quite the project in it's day. To be able to provide power, water, and sewage service, to millions of people successfully, and mostly affordably took lots of money and man power. And when these systems were planned, they were done so based on the current technology of the day. Power would be generated at a power plant, be it coal, diesel, nuclear, or whatever, and then the power was transmitted to the each individual home by a complicated system of wires and cables. Same with the water and sewage. Pipe lines were laid to each home, pumps installed at strategic points, water supplies built up using reservoirs or wells. At the time it was all built, it was state of the art and the best we could do. But, as with everything, progress and technology move forward with new and more better options.
Suddenly, solar power has come into it's own. Once an inefficient and expensive way to produce electricity, solar is now an affordable option for most homes. Set up some solar panels on the roof, hook up to a bank of batteries, and you have all the power you need. In fact, in many cases, solar array's on homes have produced so much power, the homeowners are able to sell the surplus back into the grid and make money off of it. As for water, this particular part of Florida gets a ton of rain. Thunderstorms hit here almost daily so there is sufficient rainfall to supply a lot of homes, particularly if they are frugal and minimal in their lifestyles, which it appears the woman in question is. A compost toilet can do wonders for not making sewage. The resulting waste can be composted and sold or given to garden shops, farms, or whatever. So with all this emerging technology why should this woman, or anyone be forced to hook up to the major utilities when they no longer need them? The answer, as always is money. And independence.
The major utilities, as I mentioned have spent large sums of money to build their little empires. And they spend more to maintain said empires. But they also reap in huge profits from the sale of their power and water. And up until the recent solar and tech boom, said utilities have had a monopoly on providing power and water to our happy little hives. So when this new fangled technology shows up and threatens their business model, and more importantly, their profits…well, that just ain't gonna fly. So what do they do? They pressure the cities and governments, by way of manipulating the building codes, to require everyone to be hooked up to the grid, no matter what. The utilities will throw money behind new laws that will stifle innovation or implementation of new technology simply because they have not been able to gain control of said technology themselves and profit from it. As long as the utilities maintain control of the power and water, they can pretty much charge whatever they want, make whatever requirements they want to the homeowners in terms of conservation, and continue to reap large profits. If homeowners started setting up their own little power stations, and collecting rainwater for themselves, well, that's agin the laws here and by gum, we'll put a stop to all these hippie off the grid types right quick.
It's not just the utilities who are doing battle against new technology which threatens their out dated business models. It's happening everywhere.
Newspapers are all but extinct now, thanks to the internet. Why would anyone want to pay for some dead trees with smelly ink just to read news stories that happened 24 hours ago when you can go online and see what is happening, as it happens.
Tesla Motors, makers of electric cars, have put together a business model where they sell their vehicles direct instead of using the old dealership model. They are fighting state by state for this because the dealership lobby does not want to be put out of business. So far the dealerships have more money and power and are currently winning, but in the long run they will lose.
The auto industry itself is shitting it's pants over the idea that phone and computer companies like Apple and Google are researching their own vehicles. While they mock and tease the idea, secretly they know if these two companies do indeed build a car, the car industry in it's present state is doomed. Which is not a bad thing.
New technology, particularly the type that rattles the cages of old and established industries is not a bad thing. In fact, it can be quite entertaining to watch smug old businesses who monopolized and manipulated our lives get their asses kicked because they refused to adapt to the changes.
As for the woman in Cape Coral, for now she will lose her fight. If she does comply and hooks up to the grid, even though she won't use any of the utilities, she will still get a power bill and water bill, because the utilities can do so. It makes no sense but again, we are dealing with government who is controlled by corporate money, so common sense will always lose out to profits.
Eventually though, the utilities will be the ones who lose out. Solar will continue to become more affordable and efficient. Water shortages will force people to fend for themselves. Sooner or later, some small town somewhere will take a stand against the utilities and begin getting everyone off the grid. And hopefully by then, off the grid living will take off, as it should. It will be cleaner, less intrusive, and more affordable. It's just a matter of time.
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If the utilities would start selling solar systems and rain barrels with water filtering systems they could get in on this change.


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Год выхода: 2016
Страна: USA
Режиссер: Bobby Manila
Студия: Reality Junkies
Жанр: Gonzo, 18+ Teens
Продолжительность: 2 hrs. 7 mins.
В ролях: Pepper XO, Sadie Pop, Melissa Moore, Piper Perri, James Deen, Bill Bailey, Danny Mountain, Tommy Gunn.
Описание: Pepper is trying to meet her friends at the local pub to celebrate St. Patrick's Day... Danny picks her up and offers her something better, drinks and debauchery at his place instead. Sadie just got in a fight with her boyfriend and he dumped her on the side of the road. Knight-in-shining-armor Tommy picks her up and offers to drive her back to her mom's house... but Sadie would rather repay Tommy for his good deed with some wild sex. Melissa recently got a job in Fresno and needs a ride to get there. She gets a ride from Bill and notices they have a lot in common... she's a singer and he plays the guitar... so Bill invites her back to his place for dinner and music... and for dessert a deep dicking. Piper's car broke down on the side of the road and she needs to go to a EDM festival in San Bernandino. Luckily for her James picks her up and offers to drive her to the festival... but first he needs to stop by his house to grab his wallet, to get some gas and her tight teen ass.
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Food fumble: S. Uhle St., 100 block, Jan. 17. Animal control officers found a Cooper's hawk with prey in its talons trapped inside a fenced parking garage. The officers chased the bird to an exit, where it escaped and dropped its prey.
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