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The Whimsical World of SF Paper Sculptor Chloe Fleury
When French paper artist Chloe Fleury moved to San Francisco a few years ago she was so inspired by the city's colorful architecture, she decided to, well, build her own.
From the Mission District to Hayes Valley, Haight-Ashbury to Golden Gate Park - this paper maven hand-cut, folded, and glued pint-sized replicas of the neighborhoods' coolest buildings and landmarks into three-dimensional posters.
Click here to read an interview with amazing paper sculptor Chloe Fleury!
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Deposing before Justice D K Trivedi, Asaram said \"This is a planned conspiracy against the Ashram and Hindu religion. It seems \"foreign powers\" are behind this conspiracy.\"
Asaram was summoned by the commission many times in the past but had failed to appear. Responding to allegations that the two boys, Dipesh Vaghela and Abhishek Vaghela, died because of black magic performed upon them, Asaram said \"The laboratory reports have confirmed that no black magic was performed on the children.
The allegations against me and my Ashram are false and baseless. It is just a figment of imagination and no black magic is performed at my Ashram.\"
Asaram, however, told the Commission that he did not rule out a conspiracy behind the death of the two children.
\"The death of two children is an unfortunate incident. On July 18, I had a meeting at the Ashram when an Ashram inmate Pankaj Saxena told me that a person had come and tried to abduct the two children,\" Asaram told the Commission during a gruelling nine-hour questioning.
When asked about the name of the person who had tried to abduct the two kids, Asaram told the Commission that he did not want to defame the person by naming him. When persisted further, he said the name of the person was Gosai.
Justice D K Trivedi Commission was set up in 2008 to probe the mysterious death of two children, who were found dead on the Sabarmati riverbed on July 5, 2008 after going missing on July 3. The two boys were studying in Ashram\'s Gurukul and their death had caused considerable uproar.
On November 21, the Gujarat High Court had rejected Asaram\'s petition challenging the order of the commission to appear before it as a witness today. The Commission had questioned Asaram\'s son, Narayan Sai, on November 9.

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Mayor Menino's Impact On Boston Business
Mayor Tom Menino has built strong ties with the business community over the past 20 years.
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What life lessons do we learn from the Tom Menino story?
Carl Stevens' Journal: A Poem To Boston's Mayor
Mayor Tom Menino will not seek re-election when his term expires.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino Will Not Seek Re-Election
Boston Mayor Tom Menino is expected to announce Thursday that he will not seek re-election.
Wegmans 'Very Interested' In Opening At Fenway's Landmark Center
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino says Wegmans plans to open a supermarket in the city's Fenway neighborhood.
Boston-Based Newtown Alumni Raise Money For New Children's Museum
Eight Newtown High School and Sandy Hook Elementary alumni based in the Boston area say the school shooting may have brought them all together but it's their love for their hometown that makes them stand strong today.
Menino Will Not Endorse Lynch Or Markey In Senate Primary
Mayor Tom Menino won't be endorsing either democratic candidate in the senate primary race.
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We rank depressingly far back in the pack on most of the things people find attractive.
Boston Schools To Open Wednesday, Parking Ban Lifted Tuesday Evening
Boston students will go back to school Wednesday and the city's parking ban and snow emergency were lifted Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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A sophisticated design makes this mosaic bubble vase an ideal accent for most any style of home.
Contemporary design with a timeless charm makes this black and white ceramic vase a perfect accent for a multitude of room decor styles. Vertically placed black and white tiles give this piece the look and texture of a decorative brick wall.
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Tutte le cose belle, e soprattutto BUONE, hanno una fine e così anche la nostra
quella col luppolo della raccolta 2013 È FINITA!!!
Ma, ma... NON TEMETE veri credenti, abbiamo appena ultimato il nuovo RACCOLTO del LUPPOLO 2014
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NÖEL CAFE' - Baladin Christmas Beer 2013
Nöel Cafè is Baladin's beer for Christmas 2013
Nöel Cafè is the beer which Teo dedicates to Christmas 2013. Following our tradition, it is a top fermented, non pasteurized beer, which is refermented in the bottle. It is dark in color, has a full body and is very aromatic. It is brewed at the end of summer to give it the time to ferment and mature slowly in the bottle for a long period of time, so that it is ready to express all its complex aromatic scents once opened. The persistent head enhances the complex aromas of dried fruit, biscuit, chocolate and, this year, coffee! We have chosen no ordinary coffee: its name is "Terre Alte" and is a very sweet blend with spicy and fruity flavors. It is the result of the combination between two fine indigenous mountain coffee plants - both Slow Food Presidia - from Guatemala (Huehuetenango) and Honduras (Montagna Campara). The coffee is wood roasted at the Turin detention facility, thus completing an approach based on solidarity and sustainability. Nöel Cafè is perfect with Christmas cakes and sweets, chocolate but also savory food, such as mature and blue cheese. Teo dreams of drinking it with mamma Maria's "coniglio al civet" (rabbit stew).
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My name is Christopher Ottosen a Chef & documentary from Oslo Norway.
My motto is; before you create you need to learn and observe: "creation through observation".
I had the pleasure to follow the eccentric & visionary beer brewer Teo Musso & Baladin throughout the fair Salone del Gusto & Terra Madre 2012.
This is the first chapter of the documentary. Enjoy it !
"Cola Baladin" is a soft drink which contains no artificial coloring or preservative and is produced with the kola nuts bought from the Kola Slow Food Presidium in Sierra Leone. The money paid for the kola nuts, plus part of the revenues from the sales of the drink, are a small economic resource to further support the project itself. The recipe is 100% natural and uses amazing ingredients: oranges from Gargano, lemons from the Amalfi Coast and myrtle-leaf oranges from Savona give it the citrus flavor.
Baladin is first and foremost good craft beer, but it is also a world where the taste for good things, ideas and dreams to share intertwine. Many Baladin lovers want to get in contact with us, and more and more often come and visit the brewery, the pub in Piozzo and the aging cellar. Unfortunately, though, not everyone has the time to travel to Piedmont: that's why we have decided to open the doors of the "world of Baladin" to everyone, with a new website and more interaction on social networks.
The last addition to the KIKKE BALADIN "family", these chocolates are the result of the cooperation with Sabadì, where Simone Sabaini - the man behind the company based in Modica - and Teo have come up with the idea of creating six tasty products which perfectly combine with our six beers from the Classic range.
We are happy to announce that Baladin won the title "BREWERY OF THE YEAR 2013".
This amazing result was decreed by UNIONBIRRAI that every year organize a national contest called "Birra dell'Anno" "Beer of the Year" where more than 200 microbrewery propose the best selection of their product that are judged by an national and international jury.
The brewery that obtain the maximum score with its beers won the main title.
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The fierce tornadoes that killed hundreds of Americans during the past month have prompted some environmentalists, including Bill McKibben in a recent Washington Post op-ed, to declare that these disasters are related to man-made climate change — and that things are only going to get worse.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, economist Don Boudreaux instead points to data showing that, single-year variances notwithstanding, in fact the "number of weather-related fatalities, especially since 1980, has dropped dramatically":
For the 30-year span of 1980-2009, the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes was 194 — fully one-third fewer deaths each year than during the 1940-1979 period. The average annual number of deaths for the years 1980-2009 falls even further, to 160 from 194, if we exclude the deaths attributed to Hurricane Katrina, most of which were caused by a levee that breached on the day after the storm struck land.
This decline in the absolute number of deaths caused by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes is even more impressive considering that the population of the United States more than doubled over these years — to 308 million in 2010 from 132 million in 1940.
Contrary to what many environmentalists would have us believe, Americans are increasingly less likely to be killed by severe weather. Moreover, because of modern industrial and technological advances — radar, stronger yet lighter building materials, more reliable electronic warning devices, and longer-lasting packaged foods — we are better protected from nature's fury today than at any other time in human history. We do adapt. …
Since 1950 there have been 57 confirmed F5 tornadoes, with winds between 261–318 miles per hour, in the U.S. Of those, five struck in 1953; six in 1974. So far this year there have been four F5 tornadoes in the U.S., including the devastating storm that killed more than 130 people in Joplin on May 22. F5 tornadoes are massive, terrifying and deadly. But they generally touch down in unpopulated areas, thus going unnoticed. The tragedy of Joplin and other tornadoes this year is that they touched down in populated areas, causing great loss of life. Yet if these storms had struck even 20 years ago there would have been far more deaths.
But what makes Boudreaux's counterargument really interesting is this:
So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben — or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer — to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.
Boudreaux writes, and I agree, that the reaction by prominent environmentalists and commentators to his offer will be telling. The libertarian economist Julian Simon famously won a bet with Paul Ehrlich, author of "The Population Bomb," in which Simon predicted commodity prices would fall in spite of growth in the world's population (and thus demand for limited resources).
I'll update the post with any news that someone has Boudreaux's challenge. But if any of you would like to take Boudreaux's bet, please let us know here first!
– By Kyle Wingfield
May 31st, 2011
12:08 pm
I'm first, which is apparently some big deal.
Kyle, I enjoy your writing. Thanks
May 31st, 2011
12:24 pm
You forgot to mention the followup to the Ehrlich bet. Somehow, despite Ehrlich being wrong over and over again, people still listen to Ehrlich while ignoring Simon. Sort of like the end of the second Hayek vs. Keynes rap, where the press completely ignores Hayek. It's not about who is right or wrong, it's about whose views fit with how the media and the liberals wish things were.
Also like Paul Krugman, who's predictions rarely come true, yet people still consider him an authority. How many times do you have to be wrong before people will stop listening? If you're a liberal, it doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, as long as your politics are left.
May 31st, 2011
12:24 pm
Mr. Boudreaux limits his challenge to the number of AMERICANS killed by extreme weather conditions. Even if these statistics decline, as he predicts, this could result from technological advances available to those living in a developed country. Understandably, many believe that those in the developing world would suffer the most.
In truth, an economist has nothing to teach us about global warming. The persons to listen to on this issue are the actual experts, primarily climate scientists. Climatologists tell us that the Earth is warming, icebergs are melting, oceans are rising and that this creates extreme weather conditions over time: droughts, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Almost unanimously, these experts tell us that this warming is caused by human activity, and that we need to take action yesterday.
I heard a good analogy recently…if nine out of ten oncologists tell you that you have cancer, do you ignore them and do nothing because you found one doctor who tells you that the other nine are wrong?
Ideologically-driven media outlets and politicians are grasping at anything they can find to dismiss the science, even if it means listening to non-experts like a right-wing economist, the owner of The Weather Channel, or even a science-fiction. They don't like the solutions to global warming, but as usual, prevention would be a lot cheaper than dealing with the disease, and probably save a few live to boot.
May 31st, 2011
12:28 pm
The truly unfortunate thing is that although Ehrlich was wrong so many, many times, he continued to be quoted by those pushing a particular political agenda. The bet is a very cool idea, but from my experience it won't make a bit of difference to those who attribute every instance of severe weather to man made climate change. It's hot….climate change,…it's cold, climate change…drought…climate change, floods…climate change.
Bjorn Lundqvist probably has it right. The climate is changing, some of it is due to human activity, and while there are things we can and should do, the measures proposed by the alarmists are neither cost effective nor liable to have much impact.
May 31st, 2011
12:28 pm
Republican NJ Governor has spoken with some experts, and here's what he has to say on the subject: http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/05/27/gops-chris-christie-climate-change-real-man-contributes/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog
In addition, Republicans John McCain, Sarah Palin, John Huntsman, Mitt Romney, and Tim Pawlenty were all for doing something about climate change, as recently as 2008, before they were against it. I suspect that Republican primary voters had more to do with their changes of heart more than the science.
May 31st, 2011
12:30 pm
Jimmy62, great minds, yadda, yadda, yadda…cheers!.
May 31st, 2011
12:34 pm
Technical advances should continue to reduce that number.
May 31st, 2011
12:58 pm
Its the kids future, not ours…
May 31st, 2011
1:01 pm
May 31st, 2011
1:39 pm
It's rather ghoulish when someone bets against human life.
Simon's win certainly didn't stop people from buying into Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb". His efforts to control the population are well underway.
Abortion on demand is Ehrlich's dream come true.
May 31st, 2011
2:10 pm
Yep, man-made changes to the environment is minimal. All of the changes we are experiencing right now is due to dinosaurs, their factories, and the gas guzzlers they tooted around in.
May 31st, 2011
2:16 pm
When it's your time to go, something is going to take you out of this world. Nothing any man can do to change that.
May 31st, 2011
2:23 pm
It's a reasonably safe bet that Boudreaux has made here due to some of the very factors that he mentions. Nexrad, more commonly known as Doppler radar was still in it's infancy through a good part of the '91 – '00. As that has become more common and increasingly sophisticated the warning times have increased greatly. Portable water and foodstuffs make disaster preparedness easier and less costly. Building materials and codes that make newer buildings safer all contribute to fewer yearly deaths.
Beyond that, Boudreaux has the rest wrong. As Arctic ice coverage shrinks each year and becomes thinner the melt will begin sooner and be more dramatic resulting in cold polar air coming southward earlier, later and more frequently. This is why and how tornado activity is created so we may begin to see more frequent and even stronger tornado activity.
Warmer ocean water in the tropic and sub-tropic ocean areas is extremely likely to result in more and stronger tropical storms. As evacuation methods and routes have been improved we've seen less loss of life from these storms but the economic costs are rising.
The same oceanic warming is showing the greatest ice melt increase in polar regions resulting in more fresh water absorbed into the atmosphere. This increases rainfall and flooding resulting in greater potential for loss of life.
May 31st, 2011
3:29 pm
Many deniers do as GWB did. "I don't believe it". Ignorance can be rectified. Stupidity….. well, you figure it out if you can.
May 31st, 2011
4:00 pm
arnold, you still driving around in that car?
May 31st, 2011
4:08 pm
You brought an gambling economist to a science debate?
May 31st, 2011
4:17 pm
I notice that Boudreaux only mentions deaths in his offer of a wager. As others have pointed out that is primarily a function of better warning technology, stronger construction and in some cases just luck.
I wonder would the bet be offered if the measuring stick were say aggregate number of days over 95 degrees in Atlanta during the same timeframes?
May 31st, 2011
4:25 pm
Bart Abel and Junior Samples are the lone voices of reason in this wilderness.
May 31st, 2011
4:34 pm
L'il Barry Burnout, why do you hate your children and grandchildren?
As I've said on a few other occasions, since I don't have kids I don't have much of a stake in the long range future of the world. But I would like to think that people could look at science without their screen of politics. You're just certain that someday you'll be one of those people that make a $billion/year and need those Bush tax cuts. Delusional is no way to go through life.
May 31st, 2011
4:35 pm
I just heard a radio interview with a leading climatologist (forgot the name, sorry). He is a believer that man-made climate change is real. However, he dismisses any connection to climate change and an increase in tornadoes or in the intensity of those storms. However, increase flooding is another story.
May 31st, 2011
4:38 pm
@Junior Samples, that's all that Kyle and rest of the rightnutters have. All of the climate change denier "scientists" have been demonstrably shown to be as crazy as a crackhouse mouse.
May 31st, 2011
4:39 pm
How odd. The conservative right looks to economists to counter environmental scientists regarding global warming. Well, I like cross discipline studies, but think we have a little bit of a mish mash here. What original peer-reviewed work has Mr. Boudreaux done?
May 31st, 2011
4:43 pm
"As others have pointed out that is primarily a function of better warning technology"
Amazing that the people behind those warnings–NOAA—are part of the Global Warming Communist Conspiracy. Well, I guess they have to do something when not trying to wreck our economy.
And does Mr. Boudreaux ignore tornado warnings from the National Weather Service too? C'mon Mr. Boudreaux, next time there is a hurricane warning, take your family to a beach in the projected path. I'll bet you $10,000 you're not willing to sit there in a beach chair at the high tide line. Show those NOAA guys who's the real scientist.
May 31st, 2011
4:59 pm
I went to this site:
and graphed the average temperature for the State of Georgia and if you do a trendline, you see that, since 1895, the temperature trend is going DOWN, not up. Now I am sure the climatologists have all sorts of reasons why warming causes temperature to go down (aerosols is the current one), but until we see real data of global warming and increased levels of hurricanes and tornadoes, it is hard to believe in climate change.
And years ago, doctors told people that cancer was contagious.
May 31st, 2011
5:22 pm
Cancer IS contagious, Independent. Ever hear of the cervical cancer vaccine?
Leave the science to the scientists.
May 31st, 2011
5:41 pm
If he had made the bet over 50 years it would be more interesting — albeit harder to collect.
May 31st, 2011
5:52 pm
When the vast majority of scientist agree on global warming yet you poop poop the facts based on data that has nothing to do with global warming. An economist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 31st, 2011
6:17 pm
I think someone's trying to get into my pocket.
May 31st, 2011
6:20 pm
The answer is not more taxes on the American tax payer. The Kyoto treaty excludes China and everyone knows that China is the biggest polluter in the world now. You people are always trying to blame us drivers for climate change. You always want to exclude industry.
May 31st, 2011
6:29 pm
Here are a few facts I know to be true,
1 This earth is billions of year old and has continuously undergone climate changes without mans help.
2 No records were kept past the last few hundred years to prove how many Hurricanes, tornados, or floods affected the land that is now the United States so we dont know if we have more or bigger storms now.
3 It is possible that the things man does could affect the climate but the climate on earth will continue to change with or with out man.
4 There are people (Al Gore for example) that have nothing better to do than spread fear.
5 And last, only time and records of the future weather conditions will tell who is right.
I think we need to keep the environment clean as possible but there are ways to do it without almost shutting down the worlds economy and costing the people and business of this world billions of dollars.
May 31st, 2011
7:55 pm
Global warming is a fact, & it's a fact that it is encouraged by emissions related to human behavior… I got an 'A' in geology, we covered that… the facts are in. It is only people with obscenely stupid views like Wingfield & other business worshiping social-Darwinist who disagree with the facts. Only in the US, and maybe some middle eastern nations, is such cynicism about such well established science happening. Thanks to Wingfield's ignorance, some Atlantans are now even more out of touch… there is no debate about global warming; WSJ economists are not climate scientists, and when they disagree with scientific fact, it is obscene.
May 31st, 2011
8:26 pm
Morons, Boudreaux didn't claim that global warming didn't exist. He said that deaths from violent weather were down.
Don't fear facts, warmists.
May 31st, 2011
9:00 pm
Toby – I am a geologist and I remember learning that the earth regulates itself – when there is more carbon dioxide, then phytoplankton bloom and consume the co2. I also remeber that at one time the geologist "experts" postulated a theory that there was a land bridge between africa and south america – to explain the fossils of the same animal on both sides of the ocean, because everyone knows that continents don't move.
Now there is a theory that higher co2 will necessarily drive up temperatures and create all sorts of catastrophes, not in 1000 years, but in 50 years.
The only way to save the planet is to tax only people living in the United States. Don't worry about China or India, they are due their "pollution time". And don't criticize the people in the Amazon for practicing slash and burn farming, because they are poor.
May 31st, 2011
9:23 pm
RUSH: Okay, the Memorial Day weekend is over, ladies and gentlemen, which means that we are now officially in our third Summer of Recovery, and the question is: How many more Recovery Summers can our economy stand before it all goes kaput?
Just askin…
May 31st, 2011
9:27 pm
GM is selling about 425 Volts per month, but says they have the capability to make 17,000 per year.
Obozo the Idiot Messiah: Fail.
May 31st, 2011
9:57 pm
Sure thing, Kyle. By the way, what's your advice on the best stocks to buy. After all, the economists are too busy telling us all about weather related deaths. Ahhhh hahahaha. You're too funny.
June 1st, 2011
6:13 am
" to declare that these disasters are related to man-made climate change "
Of course.
June 1st, 2011
6:50 am
Technology has helped prevent more deaths in storms. It's interesting that he didn't say there were fewer severe weather episodes. That would be the telling statistic. As to overpopulation, the ONLY reason 3/4 of the planet isn't starving is, again, technology. We have better seeds, genetically engineered food such as corn, rice, and soy beans. Better planting and harvesting equipment. But you naysayers…the water is fast running out. We are so self-centered, we don't pay attention to places in the world such as China and the Middle East that are raising food on a fast dwindling supply of water from underwater aquifers. So my question to all of you that seem to find a conspiracy in scientists trying to make the world a better place (key word here is WORLD–not the USA) what is wrong with making power companies stop polluting our air? What is wrong with encouraging families–rich or poor–to have only two children? What is wrong with holding corporations that pollute our water pay to clean it up? Say there is no such thing as severe climate change. What is wrong with these expectations? When I was a child I never knew anyone with asthma. Today 1/4 of the children have asthma. Here in Athens, you don't have to look far to see the reason. We're downwind of one of Southern Companies old coal fired plants. On days like today, you can smell the nasty pollution, you can see the pollution, and when the EPA measures the air quality, Athens fails because of the high "fine particulates" which come from–you guessed it–coal.
June 1st, 2011
6:58 am
Tornado deaths per million people have been steadily dropping for almost a century. There is good reason to not believe tornadoes have been increasing either in frequency or in intensity. http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2011/05/tornado-season-little-perspective.html
June 1st, 2011
8:02 am
DeborahinAthens – you may be right about smelling the pollution from a coal-fired power plant, but the question is whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant. You certainly didn't see or smell it since it is colorless and odorless. If you could sense it, it would probably be the emissions from your own mouth, since you breathe it out continuously. CO2 is also non-toxic, so there is no direct ill effects on humans or animals. Plants thrive on it, since they use it for growth. The only theorised effect is on the climate, and that is far from a proven fact.
June 1st, 2011
8:38 am
Really, this is suppose to support climate change deniers? Come on Kyle, you should be able to post a more thoughtful article than that….Not only does it ignore what happens in the rest of the world, but it ignores any other potentially severe impacts of climate change like droughts, sea level rise, heat waves, agricultural production impacts (again, taking into consideration the whole world, not just the USA), etc. All that commentary says is that we are getting better at predicting and reacting to severe storms…
I think it's interesting that there seems to be a shift in the deniers….from outright denial of climate change, to posting blogs about how we can adapt to it.
What's also telling is that Kyle hasn't come back on the blog to defend the weak minded argument.
Just another attempt by an opinion columnist to spin the minds of his readers…
June 1st, 2011
8:55 am
ATLBadger June 1st, 2011 8:38 am
"I think it's interesting that there seems to be a shift in the deniers….from outright denial of climate change, to posting blogs about how we can adapt to it".
Excellent point.
June 4th, 2011
9:30 pm
Climate change/no climate change. We can debate it until we're blue in the face. It is climate, not weather. It is a global issue, not a state of Georgia, or US issue. We can ignore it and maybe we'll be OK but we're going to be sleeping through a significant revenue opportunity and we shouldn't be that stupid.
Did anyone else notice that China was at the forefront of the line of climate change deniers for years, until they woke up to the significant business opportunity in green energy technology?
Let's stop digging in our heals and having the same old, unproductive argument. Instead let's promote this climate change problem like a carnival huckster and get our collective arse in gear around creating products and services to combat it. Even if it isn't there. There's money to be made and let's stop giving the great business opportunities to the Chinese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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I little while ago I joined a couple of tourist guides from Port Elizabeth on a visit to Amakhala Game Reserve about 75 km east of the city. Although we got to do a game drive we were actually there to see their new boat and to go for a short cruise on the Bushmans River which flows through the reserve. As we were cruising upstream this reflection presented itself for a photograph and I just couldn't say no.
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Township lunch - Beef stew and liver
"Are you joining us for lunch of liver and stew in the township ?" That was the question one of my colleagues asked me the other day. Now I can be a bit of a picky eater and there are a couple of things I won't touch. So I thought about it... for about two seconds... and agreed. And to be very honest, I haven't been sorry I did. There we were, a Xhosa, two Afrikaners and a Coloured, four South Africans from vastly different backgrounds, heading into the heart of Zwide. As we walked in one of the locals said, "Just what I like to see. The rainbow nation getting together to eat in the township."
Before we left the office we phoned ahead to check if they had everything and heard that they were sold out of roosterkoek already. Good thing we phoned. A quick stop in New Brighton meant that we came prepared with our own (with prior permission of cause). The eatery, and I call it that because its nothing like a restaurant as you would know it, doesn't even have a sign outside and I would have passed right by if I was looking for it on my own. We made ourselves comfortable and Mr X, being the township expert in the group having grown up there, suggested that we start out with beef stew.
I hate to sound like Oom Oubaas, one of South Africa's most beloved television soapy characters, but I can't help it cause its true. "We chewed our lips off." The roosterkoek was used to wipe our plates clean after we had eaten every little morsel. My mouth's watering again. That was our starter done and time to order our main meal.
Lamb liver and fried onions - two plates between the four of us - washed down with Coca-Cola. Yummy, yum yum. The Damselfly doesn't eat liver, so I very rarely get to eat it at home. This means I really tucked in and by the end of it I was so stuffed I couldn't look at another piece of food. Most whites would probably never have the opportunity to try a township meal like this but I would really recommend that they get a black friend to take them for the experience. Since this I've also had the chance to go for a traditional Shisa nyama (township braai or barbeque), but more about that in another post.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Avalon Springs
When we went to Montagu at the end of last year the first thing people asked was if we were going to go to the hot water springs. The hot water springs at Avalon Springs is probably the best known attraction in Montagu and it gets thousands of visitors every year. We weren't particularly planning to but decided to check it out. The pools at complex are fed by a 43ºC thermal spring originating roughly 2km's under ground and pumped to the various pools in such a way that they all differ in temperature, thus catering for everyone's needs.
There are various Khoi (Bushman) drawings on rocks and in caves around Montagu so its probably safe to say that the springs were known to the early inhabitants of the area for a long time. The springs were "discovered" by white farmers in the late 1700's and after a farmer's injured hand was healed after repeatedly bathing in the water the word started to spread. People started coming from all over the country (and world) to experience this natural wonder for themselves.
Since 1982, the springs have been part of the Avalon Springs Spa Resort Hotel and whilst the process of getting here, as well as the levels of luxury enjoyed by visitors from far and wide, are much improved since 200 years ago, the springs are as natural and perfect as they have always been.
The Kidz really enjoyed the pools and especially Drama Princess had a ball on the slides and super tube. We are going back to Montagu at the end of the year for another 10 day holiday and the kids are already asking if we will be visiting the hot springs again.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Giraffe pattern
The patterns on a giraffe must be amongst the most interesting in the animal kingdom. They're not just spots, they're more like carefully laid slate stones.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
A shell along the shore
Seven of us from work went for a walk along the Sacramento Trail just outside Port Elizabeth the other day. We were lucky to choose the perfect day with the warm winter sun shining down on us. I had two cameras hanging around my neck so I was clicking away all the way for both work and pleasure. As usual my eyes were all over the show looking for stuff to photograph and I spotted the big orange and black shell from miles (ok, not miles but at least 50 meters or so) away. I don't think my colleagues even saw it but as soon as I got there I was down on my tummy trying to get the best shot. By the time I was done the rest of the group was just about out of sight, but that is what getting THE photo about.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Our first snow experience
Internationally people don't really associate South Africa with snow and is often surprised when they hear that some areas do get snow in winter. Large sections of the Drakensberg as well as parts of the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and eastern Free State often get snow with the bigger cold fronts that hit the country during winter. When a particular severe one hits most of the southern mountains in the country are covered in snow as was the case on the weekend of 16 July. My family has never seen snow and we just haven't had the opportunity to do the three hour drive that would be needed to get to it either because it always happens during the working week or we have something else on. On that particular weekend the Damselfly and I was in Knysna for the (cancelled) Knysna Half Marathon and couldn't get the family to the Graaff-Reinet area to see snow.
A lot of people from Port Elizabeth made the drive up that weekend and all we heard was how good the snow was. Obviously the Kidz were very disappointed that we weren't able to do it. This week snow fell early in the week and on Wednesday night we were told that there were still snow about just north of Graaff-Reinet. Thursday was Women's Day and thus a public holiday so I bundled the family into the car and hit the road at 5am with the hope to find some snow. After breakfast in Graaff-Reinet we headed for the mountains and up the Lootsberg Pass which is the highest in the area... and only found a little bit of snow next to the road. We then turned for the Wapadberg Pass and struck it a but luckier, although it was crystal clear that our informant was wrong and most of the snow seemed to have melted long before we got here.
The Kidz just couldn't get enough with Drama Princess making snow angels and Chaos Boy building a second snowman just for good measure. This all inbetween sporadic snow battles that just didn't want to get old.
Ah yes, and even though yours truly prefer to stay behind the camera I just had to get a picture myself. We had a marvelous time experiencing the little of snow we found but it was a bit disappointing. I'm not sure if there will be another opportunity to see snow again this winter, but knowing what we know now we will definitively attempt a proper snow experience again next winter.
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White (wijdmond) Rhino
Popular theory is that the White Rhino got its name from the fact that the English misunderstood what the Dutch meant when they referred to it as the Wijdmond Renoster. Wijd is Dutch for wide which referred to the rhino's wide mouth. The white rhino or square-lipped rhinoceros is a grazer and eats grass, preferring the shortest grains, hence the wide mouth comes in very handy. Kinda like a living lawnmower.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
White lion
Don't you want to just cuddle up to this big furry mane and fall asleep with him? White Lions is quite a rare sight and the only Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape where you can see them in the wild is Pumba Game Reserve (which I hope I'll have the opportunity to visit some time soon). The second option to see them is the Seaview Game and Lion Park just outside Port Elizabeth where the park has a breeding program for white lions. This bug guy's name is Thor and on my visit he wasn't really in the mood to get up out of his sunny sleeping spot. Not that I think he would have been too impressed if I slid in next to him for a snooze.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Sour fig flower with insect
The sour fig grows quite easy and being a succulent they can survive well even in dry conditions. This one I found on the coast on the Sacramento Trail outside Port Elizabeth.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Kidz Adventures - Exploring PE's history
During the school holidays its always a bit of a challenge to keep bored children busy. Most parents end up taking them to the movies, for ice cream at Micky D's, playing putt putt and games or one of the party places with jungle gyms and trampolines. Me? Well, I try to spend at least a day with the Kidz exploring Port Elizabeth or surrounding area for them to get to know the city better. During the past holiday we headed out to discover some of the city's historic sights along with their friends AB and JB.
The first stop of the day was the oldest building in Port Elizabeth. Fort Frederick was built by the British in 1799 to protect Algoa Bay from French invasion but never fired a shot in anger. In actual fact the fort was the first permanent stone structure built by the British in Africa south of the equator. The fort is perched on top of the cliffs above the Baakens Valley has a magnificent view of the lower valley and Port Elizabeth Harbour. The guns on the fort are ship cannons which were placed there symbolically since the original guns were removed. JB wanted very badly to direct a salvo out to sea but there were no enemy ships in sight.
The next stop on our tour was just a couple of hundred meters down Belmont Terrace. The Donkin Reserve with its historic lighthouse and pyramid is my favorite historic site in Port Elizabeth. The Donkin is surrounded by a number of other historic sites and the new Route 67 development has blown new life into the area as an attraction. The pyramid (Donkin Memorial) was built in 1820 by Sir Rufane Donkin as a monument to his late wife Lady Elizabeth Donkin after whom he also named the town. The lighthouse was originally built in 1861 and the old lighthouse keeper's cottage is now a Visitor Information Centre run by Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism. Some of the Route 67 art pieces like the untitled Anton Momberg conversation piece and the Voting line make for great pictures, with or without human subjects.
While walking around the Donkin with the Kidz I noticed their eyes kept going to the lighthouse so I decided it was time to climb. Entrance to the lighthouse is only R5 per person payable at the NMBT office. The climb up the lighthouse is done by a few sets of steps and ladders and even though Drama Princess was a bit hesitant at the start they all flew up there like a bunch of monkeys. The view from the top of the lighthouse is breathtaking all around with the beachfront, harbour, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium as well as the surrounding area visible. The Donkin Lighthouse is well worth the climb.
From the Donkin we followed the winding Route 67 path down towards the city centre for a visit to the city's historic Public Library. Stopping briefly for a quick pic with Queen Vic (made of Sicilian marble and erected in 1903 to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee) we headed inside with the Kidz under strict instructions to keep it quiet. The Kidz were amazed with the library's interior with its balconies and stained glass windows. They immediately went exploring and found their way up onto the balcony walkway where, not before long, they stood admiring the beautiful windows. The Public Library was opened in 1902 with the front stone facade built in England before being shipped to Port Elizabeth in numbered block. I remember how we roamed the library as kids and it was awesome to introduce the Kidz to a place from my childhood memories.
The last stop of our outing was at St Georges Park to visit the newly restored Pearson Conservatory. The conservatory is another of the places we roamed around in as kids on Art in the Park Sundays while my mom had her stall there. Although the inside of the conservatory has changed a bit from how I remember it, its still well worth a visit. By now I had used up my quota of good behaviour made available to me for the day and the four of them started to get a bit too active for my liking. With St Georges' play area close by the four set off to play in the park and expend some built up energy before coming back complaining that they were getting hungry. It just never stops, does it?
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A new report found that house sales in the United Kingdom have gone up to their highest level compared to recent years. The study looked at sales numbers from beginning of this year to this past May.
According to the study which was conducted by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), 17.9 homesales on average occurred in this period of time. While the figures are still lower than past record sales previous of the housing crisis, industry experts say that they indicate a positive development in the sector.
Several industry experts anticipate a surge in sales in the upcoming three months. The number of those who expect sales to drop has gone down as well.
"While those new numbers might not be indicative for a full scale recovery on the market they are nevertheless to be seen as a very positive sign", said the global residential director at RICS.
House prices in many areas in the United Kingdom are expected to rise, however this will have a positive effect for some and a negative one for others. The upcoming months will be attractive for sellers while first-time-buyers will have it more difficult due to the higher prices.
This is the second survey that now sees signs of a gradually improving housing market in the United Kingdom. Just recently, a study conducted by the Nationwide Building Society reported a 1.1% increase in prices as well. One reason given for the current development is new government schemes aiming to stimulate the British housing market. Then again, the same studies did not see significant changes on the British mortgage market. Some analysts still see a majority of borrowers that are hesitant to jump on newly offered mortgage deals.
"Whether this is really turning into a buying market in particular for first-time buyers remains to be seen. Many borrowers are still paying off their debt from the last housing crisis back in 2007/2008. Wages are rising slower and rents have gone up, this is affecting many that otherwise would be interested to buy. I think it is too early to make a prediction at this point whether the British housing market is recovering.", an industry insider told us.


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Ok this is not me starting a bashing Glock thread. I own a Glock, I used a Glock for years and relied on it if I needed to depend on it to protect myself/others. I am not a Glock Fanboy either.
I had some issues with the ergos that I resolved which are documented on another thread. However, Glocks get bashed quite frequently and when I did a search for some info I came up with this. This kind of stuff does not help the Glock cause. I am starting to understand the whole "Ghey" thing.
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You won't be saying that when the zombies come & then double over with undead laughter.
Dead Bears, the only good kind.
Some of that (not the first one) is a must have if you have Class III Glock 18.
From C3Shooter:
Skullcrusher, you are evil, sick, demented, twisted- and my hero!
Is it just me or is the barrel out of whack in that last picture?
How can you bash a Glock. They are almost as reliable as a revolver.
This is like throwing a fur coat on a cat and calling it a couger.
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best taco seasoning
I live in the Northeast, and some of the other regions of the country must carry better brands of packaged taco seasoning in their supermarkets, than the major brands we see here. I'd like to look for them when traveling. Chowhounds from more taco-intesive parts of the US, please recommend your favorites. (The only one we really like around here is Bearitos from Whole Foods, which is based on rice flour instead of maltodextrin.) California (LA and SF) supermarket references would be particularly helpful. Thanks.
We make our own taco seasoning:
Homemade Taco Seasoning Mix
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
2 Tbs chili powder
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp salt
Mix ingredients well. Sprinkle 4 Tbs of mix over
1-lb ground meat (beef or turkey), mix well and
fry loose meat in skillet until done.
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flour??? does not compute... please explain...
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It's probably as a thickener to bring the "sauce" together.
Taco seasoning is an evil corporate invention - DO NOT USE IT!
Likewise, only chains and some Tex-Mex style restaurants that should know better use ground beef for taco filling. DO NOT USE GROUND BEEF!
I recommend that IMMEDIATELY you should obtain/borrow a decent cookbook by Diana Kennedy, Rick Bayless or someone who is actually familiar with traditional Mexican cuisine.
For starters, slow cook some pork shoulder, beef chuck or roast some chicken (or buy precooked). Plan ahead, no problem.
Search CH and the internet for some basic salsas made from scratch (uncooked ones are quick and easy).
Shred the meat, steam some freshly made corn tortillas and make some soft tacos that will be better than 99% of that chain junk.
PLEASE, Just Say NO to taco seasoning.
We, the Chowhound community, are here to HEAL you :-).
If you insist on seasoning your meat, go light. Fry garlic, add meat, sprinkle cumin and maybe chili powder. If it seems dry, add water & lemon juice. Then be done. Flavor it w.fresh salsa instead as DiveFan mentions below
Sorry hounders but I love ground beef tacos the 70's way my mom used to make them. Lawry's Burrito Mix is my favorite. Fill commercial shells (egads!) halfway and bake for 10 minutes to prevent breaking.
Yes, I love to make my own shredded beef, fry fresh shells etc. but nostalgia is nostalgia and these are yummy. Don't forget the grated Tillamook and a dollop of Daisy!
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Here, here (or hear, hear?) Oh Robin. In fact, I go back and forth between taco and burrito (yes, with Lawry's they *are* different). I actually now like the Lawry's Hot Taco packet better than just plain taco. And I haven't been able to approximate it with spices on my own...believe me, I've tried solo and w/ the taco seasoning from MarketSpice in Seattle. It just ain't the same.
Do I like a carne asada or carnitas burrito a heck of a lot better than a Lawry's? Well, of course I do, but I can't do 'em justice, unless I plan ahead.
I love Tex-Mex and ground beef tacos. I also own Bayless' cookbooks and have made many of his dishes It is a different cuisine, not a substitute for my beloved Tex-Mex. In no way is a pork taco of stwed meat a substitute for Tex Mex gorund beef.
I don't use a mix either. I fry onion, then add garlic. Stir in at least 2-3 TBS chili powder (I use a mix of commercial, ancho, and chipotle, sometimes some New Mexico), 1 t cumin, 1 t ground corinader, 1 t oregano, 1 t salt. Saute a couple minutes, then add 1 lb ground beef (9%). Brown well, add a 1 sm can tomato sauce and a spoon of vinegar, and cook 10 min or so. You can add a lot less tomato and use some broth, but I like the tomato.
The advantage of this over the packets is that I always have these spices in my pantry.
I also like to fry my own taco shells from corn tortillas.


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With his cavalcade of thirteen talented musicians, Debashish explores the transformation of raga form in entirely new directions. Beyond The Ragasphere is an album not to be missed.
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Release date: Apr 29, 2012
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Ivan Silva 425 at 4.28 on May 13, 2013 18:04
nice translation of sound...tabla to snare...kit and back again. nice!
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Repairs on a bridge will require one-lane closures of the Parkway for about 1/4 mile near Tupelo. Work is expected to be completed in fall of 2014. Please use caution due to construction traffic around the work area. More »
Portion of National Scenic Trail Near Tupelo Closed to Hikers
Part of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail (NOT the Parkway) near Tupelo, MS, has been closed until 2015 due to construction under Tupelo's Major Thoroughfare Construction Project. Parkway travelers may expect delays, but no detours are expected. More »
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The unusually dry weather this summer has resulted in an uneven road surface at various locations along the Natchez Trace Parkway. This is especially evident for the roadway between Tupelo and Jackson - roughly one hundred and sixty miles – where repairs are urgently needed.
The National Park Service has contracted with Bonds Company, Inc. of Burnsville, Mississippi, for milling and leveling work of the All-American road from north of Mathiston, Mississippi (Parkway milepost 216), to Tupelo, Mississippi (Parkway milepost 266). This repair project is scheduled to begin Monday, September 25, 2006, and is expected to be completed by the end of October.
In addition, Dickerson & Bowen of Brookhaven, Mississippi, will repair the Parkway's uneven surface between Ridgeland, Mississippi (Parkway milepost 100), and the Ross Barnett Reservoir overlook area (Parkway milepost 115). The National Park Service is finalizing the details for scheduling these repairs and work is expected to begin there soon.
Motorists should be prepared for delays while the repairs are being completed and should be especially aware of construction equipment and workers on the Parkway. Motorists will also encounter loose material and multiple areas of uneven pavement in the two areas under repair and should use additional care and caution in traveling these sections of the Parkway.
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MERRILLVILLE | Ken Markfull stared at the ground, stared at a gum wrapper and occasionally glanced at the sparsely populated bleachers across from the benches at Andrean.
When he met a friendly, familiar face, their eye contact begat handshakes, smiles and reminiscence.
None of this would have been noteworthy a year ago when Markfull was in his 14th season as Andrean's head girls basketball coach.
Saturday, however, he was wearing a Hobart pullover as the assistant coach helped the Brickies hold off a resilient Andrean club, 48-41, in Northwest Crossroads Conference action.
"Nice to see you again" was the refrain among many of the friends Markfull made in his 18 seasons, including four as an assistant, at Andrean, where he won 185 games, four sectional titles and a regional crown but struggled to compete in the last few seasons.
First-year Andrean coach Tony Scheub had another competitive game but, in the end, another close loss.
Madison Lesch, moments after having the wind knocked out of her by a driving offensive player under the basket, hit a 3-pointer with 1:10 to play to cut Hobart's game-long lead to 43-41.
Had Andrean not missed 12 of its first 13 shots in the game -- or traveled twice and air-balled a 3-point attempt in the final 35 seconds -- the Brickies might not have won their fourth game in a row and improved to 4-0 in the NCC.
Grayce Roach made sure the Times No. 6 Brickies (8-2, 4-0) stayed ahead. The 5-foot-8 junior guard hit five of her six free-throw attempts in the final 50 seconds following Lesch's dramatic 3.
Roach had 11 points, and Morgan Flaharty scored all of her game-high 15 in the second and third quarters.
Andrean junior Lauren Stazinski overcame a slow start to lead the 59ers (2-6, 1-2) with 12 points and six rebounds. Lesch had seven points, with four assists and four steals.
Hobart struggled to find a mid-range game, and when Flaharty, Zoe Wilson and Caitlin Leath weren't getting open looks in the paint the Brickies were frustrated by the 59er guards. Hobart only led 11-7 after a quarter despite Andrean's shooting woes.
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Footprints lead to arson charge in Manchester day-camp blaze
Police followed footprints left in the snow at the Jan. 17 fire scene, across Crystal Lake and to a car parked in a lot at a nearby apartment house at 661 Corning Road. The car, police said, was registered to Christopher Vincent, 35, of 661 Corning Road.
Detective Tim Patterson cast and photographed the footprints which had a distinct pattern to them. Later, he contacted Vincent at his apartment and recovered a pair of sneakers from the attached roof deck. Police said the sneakers matched the footprints in the snow.
Vincent was arrested and charged with arson. He is presently being detained in the New Hampshire State Prison for Men on a parole violation.
The fire heavily damaged a two-story shed, designed to look like a castle, at the day camp, located at 510 Corning Road and caused between $40,000 and $50,000 in damage.
The camp's water skis, tubes, life jackets and other water safety gear were stored in the shed.
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NASA-funded researchers have released to the general public a new "4D†live model of Earth's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the dynamic layer of ionized gases that encircles Earth at edge of space itself. All that's required is a connection to the Internet.
|A screenshot of the 4D Ionosphere. Red denotes regions of high electron density where radio communications can be limited to few or no frequencies. Credit: Google
"This is an exciting development,†says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta of NASA headquarters in Washington, DC. "The ionosphere is important to pilots, ham radio operators, earth scientists and even soldiers. Using this new 4D tool, they can monitor and study the ionosphere as if they're actually inside it.â€
"The best way to appreciate the 4D ionosphere is to try it,†says W. Kent Tobiska, president of Space Environment Technologies and chief scientist of its Space Weather Division. He offers these instructions:
"One, download and install Google Earth at http://earth.google.com
"Two, visit our web site http://terra1.spacenvironment.net/~ionops/ES4Dintro.html and click on the link "Total Electron Content" found on the top navigation bar.â€
Wait for the file to load and voila—you're flying through the ionosphere."
"Colors represent electron content,†he explains. "Bright red is high density; that's where radio communications are restricted to few or no frequencies. Blue denotes low density; no problem there.â€
Using the intuitive Google Earth interface, users can fly above, around and through these regions getting a true 3D view of the situation. Make that 4D. "The fourth dimension is time. This is a real-time system updated every 10 minutes,†he says.
The ionosphere is, in a sense, our planet's "final frontier.†It is the last wisp of Earth that astronauts leave behind when they enter space. The realm of the ionosphere stretches from 50 to 500 miles above Earth's surface where the atmosphere thins to near-vacuum and exposes itself to the fury of the sun. Solar ultraviolet radiation breaks apart molecules and atoms creating a globe-straddling haze of electrons and ions.
Ham radio operators know the ionosphere well. They can communicate over the horizon by bouncing their signals off of the ionosphere—or communicate not at all when a solar flare blasts the ionosphere with X-rays and triggers a radio blackout. The ionosphere also has a big impact on GPS reception. Before a GPS satellite signal reaches the ground, it must first pass through ionospheric gases that bend, reflect and attenuate radio waves. Solar and geomagnetic storms that unsettle the ionosphere can cause position errors as large as 100 meters. Imagine a pilot flying on instruments descending toward a landing strip only to discover it is a football field to the right.
"Understanding the ionosphere is clearly important. That's why NASA's Living with a Star (LWS) program funded this work,†says Guhathakurta. Space Environment Technologies, Inc. of California received the LWS grant and they partnered with Space Environment Corp. of Utah and the US Air Force to develop the 4D ionosphere.
The 4D model can be fun and even a little addictive, warns Tobiska, who likes to use it to pilot an imaginary plane over the Arctic. "A growing number of commercial business flights are crossing the Arctic Circle,†he says. "It's the shortest distance between, say, Chicago and Beijing and many other major cities.â€
The ionosphere is particularly important to these lucrative flights. While they are over the Arctic, planes lose contact with most geosynchronous satellites and must rely on "old-fashioned†radio communications—a link that could be severed during a radio blackout. Using the 4D model, a flight controller could examine the ionosphere from the flyer's point of view and use that information to anticipate problems that could cause a flight to be delayed or diverted.
The proper name of the system is CAPS, short for Communication Alert and Prediction System. Earth-orbiting satellites feed the system up-to-the-minute information on solar activity; the measurements are then converted to electron densities by physics-based computer codes. It is important to note, says Tobiska, that CAPS reveals the ionosphere not only as it is now, but also as it is going to be the near future. "Forecasting is a key aspect of CAPS available to our customers from, e.g., the Dept. of Defense and the airline industry.â€
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What an ominous minute is that in which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the galleys.Les Misťrables is a sprawling epic by Victor Hugo, the seeds of which can be found in some of his earlier, shorter works, such as his novel(la) Le dernier jour d'un condamnť, which also treats upon the subject of the penal system in France and includes a character that resembles what could later be called an AU-style Valjean. It was made into a very well-known musical play that has run for nearly thirty years.As usual for one of Hugo's sprawling epics, it consists of the interweaving stories of many different characters, but the story that holds it all together opens with a recently paroled man named Jean Valjean arriving on foot in Digne, France, come from the shore-prison at Toulon where he's spent the past nineteen years. He was a desperately poor peasant from Brie who constantly worked — constantly, no matter how hard the labor or menial the task — to support his sister and her seven children. One especially bad winter, as the eighteenth century was drawing to a close, when he was 26, Valjean could not find work and, in an act of real need as much for his family as himself, he broke into a bakery and stole a loaf of bread.For that, he was condemned to five years hard labor in a brutal, dehumanizing penal system that was par for the course at the time. Before his imprisonment, he was kind, of an even personality, and, in his own words, dull like a block of wood. Nineteen years in the galleys — nineteen instead of five, for all of his escape attempts — changed him completely, making him bitter, harsh, and incapable of relating to other human beings as friendly agents. The system at the time made it virtually impossible to be re-integrated into society; the only real way out was death, and the provisions of the law facilitated that: on one's third offense, the death penalty was automatically imposed. However, it was impossible for convicts to make an honest living, because no one would give them work. It was a dreadful double bind. This is the situation Valjean finds himself in when he is finally released. He is set on the fastlane to being sent back again when a meeting with an unconditionally kind man, who happens to be a bishop, changes him forever, for a second time, just as profoundly as his experiences in the bagne changed him.And that's just the beginning.He breaks his parole and commits a minor theft out of habit, beginning the book-long chase with Inspector Javert as the pursuer. Over the course of the book, with the inspector always right behind him, Valjean: becomes mayor of a small seaside town due to the penchant for altruism he developed after his redemption; makes a fortune from his own ingenuity and innovation; does many philanthropic works, among them caring for a dying woman, one of his factory workers, and promising her to ensure the well-being of her daughter Cosette; reveals his identity in court to prevent the wrongful incarceration of another man who was mistaken for him; is captured and sent to the galleys, but escapes to keep his promise; adopts the waifish Cosette, and moves from town to town with his final stop as Paris, where he uses his superhuman powers of transcendental niceness to see to his adopted daughter's happiness and save everyone who needs saving.You probably know the rest.
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I love them all...have raised them all at least once.
Kanto (Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard)
Johto (Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion)
Hoenn (Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken)
Sinnoh (Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape)
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Sorry, but Cyndaquil for the win :P
It's just too cool-looking, and I don't mind that he's only got one type :P
That's just extra weaknesses :P
I love Kanto starter Charmander but the others are also very cute. The only problem with Torchic is that its evolve into an ugly Combusken...but Blaziken is so cool~
charmander is the best 1st stage evo, qwilava is the best 2nd evo and blazekin is the best full evo :)
Blaziken and Charizard are about equal, but I love Blaziken's design just a bit more.
Typhlosion is cool too, but there's so little variation throughout that evolutionary line.
Infernape looks sorta cool, but just bugs me, since it's an obvious Blaziken rip-off. Also, it's first two forms are ugly as sin.
I vote Kanto.
I also like Johto one though.
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My fave is Charmander, only because I picked it in the original RBY. It's the only time I've picked a Fire starter.
Chimchar is my favorite.
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My fav fire pokemon from these options would have to be Charizard. He's a beast and he proved that to me in my earlier days. Thanks
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My favorite is cyndaquil. Why? Because it was one of my first pokemon.:) Also, when he evolved in my silver version he was pretty strong.
Vaporeon, Flareon, Jolteon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon.
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Please explain.
I'm at a loss as to where to begin, but it boils down to the usual mix of: your logic is not equal to everyone elses logic, nor are your standards, your morals, your tastes, your sex.
As for, dangerous and unethical: would not leaving a child or minor unsupervised in the company of however-many strangers in an environment, which has no effective rating qualify as such? And supervision does involve more than just enjoying the relative quiet while someone plays WoW.


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so I was bummed when my trial ended the other day. Glad I didn't order it yet, since I have a chance to win one here.
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CHICAGO - OCTOBER 17: Jay Cutler #6 of the Chicago Bears talks with offensive coordinator Mike Martz during a time-out as Caleb Hanie #12 listens in against the Seattle Seahawks at Soldier Field on October 17, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. The Seahawks defeated the Bears 23-20. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Jay Cutler; Mike Martz; Caleb Hanie
The Bears have been taking a hard look at quarterbacks for the draft. North Carolina's T.J. Yates and TCU's Andy Dalton have both been scrutinized by the Bears in workouts, while Mike Martz attended the pro days of two more quarterbacks in the draft.
With the departure of Todd Collins and Caleb Hanie's status uncertain, the Bears will need another quarterback. This is especially true if No. 1 man Jay Cutler continues to get sacked 700 times a game. But through the draft? Really?
This hasn't worked well before, Bears. Dan Lefevour was a draftee from Central Michigan, and he was in Chicago for all of four months. Why would this experiment be any different?
Mike Martz is a great offensive mind, but he should not be given the task of development, and the last thing the Bears need is more youth among signal callers. Instead of drafting another kid, the Bears should follow the Jets model of QB development.
Mark Brunell, a veteran QB, serves as a third quarterback both as a back-up and as a mentor for their young QB, Mark Sanchez. With Cutler's youth and Hanie's continuing growth, wouldn't it make more sense to bring in a veteran like Jeff Garcia to mentor Cutler?


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Victor: I know every step of this cook.
Walt: Oh, do you?!…
Tell me. Catalytic hydrogenation is protic or aprotic? Because I forgot.
If our reduction is not stereospecific, then how can our product be enantiomerically pure?
I mean, it's 1-phenyl-1-hydroxy-2-methylaminopropane, containing, of course, chiral centers at carbons number 1 and 2 on a propane chain; then reduction to methamphetamine eliminates which chiral centers again? Because I can't remember… Come on! Help me out, professor!!
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All of my textbooks. :D
I've been thinking for a while, so since I just saw McCains' commercial about how its pizza won't contain certain ingredients that have unfamiliar chemical name to most people, I figured that I should post about it.
Apple, for example, may have a familiar name, but if you read the make up of an apple, you'd see quite a few things baring names that would seem new to you. To understand the relationship between molecules in your food, you need to know university level organic chemistry. We just have to trust that the FDA is doing a good job at evaluating the safety of your food.
For example, I came across an article on wiki about how benzene (one of the most well-known carcinogen) was found in quite a few carbonated drinks. The article states that, under the catalytic presence of heat and light, benzene is produced when benzoic acid (preservative) reacts with ascorbic acid (vitamin c).
There is also the problem with how "organic" is being used to mean something else. Organic, as far as I'm concerned, means that it comes from an organic body. Cyanide is organic; but I wouldn't sprinkle its salts on my meals.
Food is essentially nutritional and edible chemicals. :)
Ever since I put pennies and matchsticks in a solution of hydrogen peroxide and saw it turn into blue, I've been wanting to mix other stuff around. I don't think it would be too smart though. It'd be wise to calculate the reaction and confirm them before attempting it. I'm still trying to figure out what happened. I suspect copper hydroxide or simply copper ions, but the solution slowly got darker and went from a light greenish-blue to a marine blue after spending the night outside with minimal air exposure (other than the air bottled in).
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Yep. Little Lords.
For the sake of… 'cuteness' I guess they're obviously all the same age in this shot. I've wanted to draw them like this for a while, so I'm happy.
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