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It has long been known that getting the right vitamins and minerals is key to your overall health. The body uses a variety of vitamins to build the tissues necessary to maintain your body, and your hair is no exception.
While there are a variety of things you can do to improve the look and feel of your hair, your efforts will be highly rewarded if you invest in vitamins for hair growth. Taking vitamins helps you get the nutrients that are required by your body so that it can reach its peak performance level. If you have been trying a variety of home remedies and still need to know how to prevent hair loss in women, vitamins is the first step to the right direction.
Essential Vitamins and Minerals for Hair Growth
So, you might ask "what vitamins promote hair growth?" There are a variety of vitamins for hair loss in women that can be used on a daily basis to help improve the health of your hair. These can be added as part of your diet, or taken in supplement form to get the results you want. In this article, we will cover both:
Vitamin B Complex
The vitamin B family includes eight different compounds that are related, yet each compound has a different role on how it affects our body.
Biotin is probably the most popular supplement known for promoting hair growth. Biotin is one of the vitamin B family members that play crucial roles in cell metabolism. There are a variety of hair restorative formulas that contain these ingredients, but if you want to learn how to regrow hair naturally you can also stock up on B vitamins by eating more legumes, eggs, green peas, avocados, nuts and whole grains.
Hair is made of protein, and iron is an essential component to developing healthy proteins. You don't have to be anemic to lack the amount of iron you need for your body to function at its peak level. A common remedy for preventing hair loss in women involves increasing your iron intake with supplements or by eating more iron-rich foods. According to WebMD, top 5 foods rich in iron include red meat, eggs, dark green vegetables (collard greens, spinach, kale), dried fruit and lentils.
However, you should talk to your doctor before you start taking high doses of iron: if you take too much it can cause damages on your liver and kidneys. Also, excess iron in the body is also known to cause hair loss.
Those that are very active or exercise often will shed zinc when they sweat, which can lead to a deficiency. Your body needs zinc to produce healthy proteins that will maintain your hair and scalp. Without this your hair will become brittle and dry (even your scalp), which can ultimately cause it to fall out. Most of hair growth Vitamins contain zinc as one of the main ingredients to help address this problem. You can also get plenty of this mineral from foods like oysters, dark meet, crab, lobster, and chocolate.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D helps to encourage follicle cycling so that hair will regrow more quickly. According to the recent article on Wall Street Journal, Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo talked about relationships between vitamin D and hair loss. They recommended taking vitamin D supplements to activate dermal papilla cells in order to promote hair growth.
You can get more vitamin D by consuming fatty fish (salmon, tuna), cod liver oil, cheese, mushrooms or beef liver. Your body is also capable of taking in vitamin D from sunlight, which is why people who live in areas with limited sunshine tend to have more issues with hair thinning. However, make sure to avoid spending too much time in the sun without protection because the UV rays from sunlight can also make your hair brittle and more prone to damage. There are a plenty of hair sunscreens that can help you avoid this problem.
Recommendation for Vitamin D Supplements
If you are considering Vitamin D supplements, try Omegaboost's. The formula includes ALL NATURAL vitamin D3 with superior absorption compared to other brands.


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Abydos - Abydos: The Little Boy's Heavy Metal Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants of His Diary
Year of Release: 2004
Label: InsideOut
Catalog Number: IOMCD 180
Format: CD
Total Time: 70:18:00
Start with heaping spoonfuls of Firehouse, Queensryche, Dream Theater, and Ayreon. Pour in a concentrated blend of countless different eighties bands. Add ice for crunchiness. Add fruit for tartness. Use a small chunk of chocolate and a dash of vanilla to give the cocktail extra bitterness. Throw these items in a blender. Hit crush to break down the contents. Stir and let the mixture emulsify. What remains should pretty much taste like an icy mug of Abydos.
The singer?s voice is quite similar to James LaBrie. It is so close that you may think it?s him. After awhile, it becomes apparent that the singer?s voice is an octave or two lower. It turns out this is no new kid on the block. The individual responsible for the vocals is long-time front man and lead singer of Vanden Plas, Andy Kuntz. While these similarities to LaBrie may not be so apparent on his other titles, it sure is here.
It turns out Abydos is Andy?s premiere solo album. The title chosen for this project goes back to the rumored birthplace of theater. People had gone to worship Osiris at the burial site of Abydos. Plays were performed to show honor and respect. It was a means to get on the good graces of this god. Theater has been an important aspect of Andy?s life, so he decided that this would be a fitting name for the project. No child?s play will be found on this release. The music is much more than one could expect from a solo effort. This is no casual undertaking and it is quite obvious a lot of labor went into making the album.
Joining Andy on the album are Stefan Glass and Michael Krauss, who each contribute some guitars and keyboards. Andreas Lill is borrowed from Vanden Plas to fulfill drum duties.
The strength of the album is Andy?s vocals and the fact that every track is done a little differently. The start of each new track reawakens your awareness and draws your attention back to the heart of the music. The tracks work together as a cohesive bunch to sustain a theme. While the pieces each make a whole, they work fine independently as well. The album is based on a play Andy wrote with autobiographical influences.
There are many highlights on the album. "Silence" should appeal to fans of Queensryche while "Far Away From Heaven" is a complex cut comprised of elements from Firehouse and Savatage. "Green?s Guidance For A Strategy Adventure Game" is a dead-ringer for Ayreon. "Hyperion Sunset" combines the beat of Magellan and the keys of Herbie Hancock as well as various Nu Metal influences. This piece is hard to explain and intricately designed. It is one of the better tracks on the album. "God?s Driftwood" and "A Boy Named Fly," which also mix styles and beats, are top contenders as well. Ultimately, if one had to choose just one song, "Radio Earth," which has tinges of Styx, Moody Blues, Queen, and even a tad of Jimmy Buffett, is probably the best song. Such a range is covered throughout the album that there is surely something to meet everyone?s likings.
Abydos is a major achievement in Andy Kuntz?s career. While it may have slipped in under the radar, it is essential to any fan of progressive music.
The Inhabitants Of His Diary (1:12) / You Broke The Sun (5:39) / Silence (6:55) / Far Away From Heaven (5:32) / Coppermoon (The Other Side) (5:09) / Hyperion Sunset (4:46) / God's Driftwood (6:10) / Radio Earth (5:38) / Abydos (7:25) / Green's Guidance For A Strategy Adventure Game (1:17) / Wildflowersky (8:28) / A Boy Named Fly (12:03)
Andy Kuntz - vocals
Stefan Glass - guitar, keyboards
Michael Krauss - guitar, keyboards
Andreas Lill - drums
Abydos: The Little Boy's Heavy Metal Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary (2004)
Genre: Progressive-Power Metal
Origin DE
Added: September 19th 2004
Reviewer: Joshua "Prawg Dawg" Turner
Artist website: www.vandenplas.de
Hits: 1653
Language: english
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Blue Cloud harnesses the best of all media platforms to create powerful sales, marketing, and training tools using CD-ROMs, DVDs, flash drives, and print materials to create maximum impact. Our multimedia business solutions deliver interactivity and connectivity through the combination of text, audio, still images, animation, and video.
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Blue Cloud created a digital sales kit incorporating multimedia solutions for sales representatives to use to prepare customized presentations about the company's security cameras and related products, and as a tool to estimate costs.
All of the security products, product specifications, information about hardware and software that are used with the security cameras—including PDFs and white papers related to the products and industry—are on a disk. The salesperson can go through an array of selection screens based on specs or other search parameters for each client; the program puts all relevant products together into a comparison sheet for customers to look at. The sheet contains all the information pertaining to the particular products chosen for the presentation, which gives the sales rep a full digital presentation tailored to each customer. This presentation is saved locally on the sales rep's computer to print out and bring on the sales call, and for follow up upon return to the office.
The result: professional, tailored sales presentations and a streamlined order process.


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johndrew 14:05 17 Jan 2013
You have a standard looking SATA drive as shown here. You have two options, either buy a dock, similar to these, but ensure it will take both 2.5" and 3.5" drives, or a SATA caddy for a 2.5" drive, you will need to decide if you want a USB powered unit or with mains power.
The USB caddy is likely to be more easily transported but ensure your ports provide enough power. A dock is more flexible as it will support both sizes od drive and you can swap them as required.


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Business Information Services
Chatham House
Chatham House engages governments, the private sector, civil society, and its members in open debate and confidential discussion on the most significant developments in international affairs. It carries out independent and rigorous analysis of critical global, regional and country-specific challenges and opportunities. It consistently ranks highly in the University of Pennsylvania's annual Global Go To Think Tank Index, where it has been assessed by its peers as the #1 think tank outside the U.S. for seven consecutive years and #2 worldwide for the past four years.
The Royal Institute of International Affairs
Chatham House
10 St. James's Square
London, SW1Y 4LE
Tel: +44 (0) 207 957 5700
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.chathamhouse.org
Company Registration – Companies House
The main functions of Companies House are to:
• incorporate and dissolve limited companies
• registers the information companies are legally required to supply
• make this information available to the public
Contact Center
Tel: +44 (0) 303 123 4500
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.companieshouse.gov.uk
By post
England and Wales
Companies House
Crown Way
Cardiff, CF14 3UZ
Companies House
4th Floor
Edinburgh Quay 2
139 Fountainbridge
Edinburgh, EH3 9FF
Northern Ireland
Companies House
Second Floor
The Linenhall
32-38 Linenhall Street
Belfast, BT2 8BG
London office and information center
4 Abbey Orchard Street
London, SW1P 2HT
Intellectual Property Office
The official U.K. government body responsible for intellectual property rights including patents, designs, trade marks, and copyright. IPO is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Information Center
Tel: +44 (0) 163 381 4000
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.ipo.gov.uk
By post
Concept House
Cardiff Road
South Wales
Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS)
Part of the Business Growth Service, a U.K. government-backed service offering support to businesses with the potential to improve and grow. They help by identifying barriers to growth and providing tailored support including coaching, consultancy, mentoring, training, access to finance, and export advice
Tel: +44 (0) 300 303 0034
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.mymas.org
Innovate UK
Formerly the Technology Strategy Board, Innovate UK works to:
• provide new support for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with high-growth potential
• make sure that U.K. government initiatives attract innovative businesses and give companies access to important customers in the public sector
• identify and invest in the sectors that have the greatest potential for innovation to speed up economic growth
• help innovative companies work with their backers so their ideas can be developed commercially
North Star House
North Star Avenue
Wiltshire, SN2 1UE
Tel: +44 (0) 179 344 2700
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.innovateuk.org
Trade and membership organizations
BritishAmerican Business
BritishAmerican Business (BAB) is the leading transatlantic business organization. It was formed out of the merger of the American Chamber of Commerce U.K. and the British American Chamber of Commerce New York, and is dedicated to helping companies connect and build their business on both sides of the Atlantic. BAB is the publisher of British American Trade & Investment
12 Phillimore Walk
London, W8 7RX
Tel: +44 (0) 207 290 9888
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
New York
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: +1 212-661-4060
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.babinc.org
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
The U.K.'s premier business lobbying organization, helping to keep business interests at the heart of policy in Westminster, the devolved administrations, across the U.K. regions and internationally (with offices in Washington, Brussels, Beijing, and Delhi)
CBI London
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London, EC4N 6HN
Tel: +44 (0) 207 379 7400
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
CBI Washington
1110 Vermont Ave, NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: +1 202-530-0510
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.cbi.org.uk
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW)
ICAEW is a world leading professional membership organization that promotes, develops, and supports over 144,000 chartered accountants worldwide, providing qualifications, professional development, insight, and technical expertise
PO Box 433
Moorgate Place
London, EC2R 6EA
Tel: +44 (0) 207 920 8100
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.icaew.com
ADS Group
The trade organization advancing the U.K. Aerospace, Defense, Security, and Space industries. Farnborough International Limited (FIL), which runs the Farnborough International Airshow, is a wholly-owned subsidiary ADS Group Limited
Head Office
Salamanca Square
9 Albert Embankment
London, SE1 7SP
Tel: +44 (0) 207 091 4500
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.adsgroup.org.uk
Show Centre
ETPS Road
Farnborough Aerodrome
Hampshire, GU14 6FD
Tel: +44 (0) 207 091 4500
Airport Operators Association (AOA)
A trade association representing the interests of U.K. airports, engaging with government and regulatory authorities on airport matters
3 Birdcage Walk
London, SW1H 9JJ
Tel: +44 (0) 207 799 3171
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.aoa.org.uk
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT)
SMMT supports and promotes the interests of the U.K. automotive industry at home and abroad
71 Great Peter Street
London, SW1P 2BN
Tel: +44 (0) 207 235 7000
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.smmt.co.uk
Association of MBAs (AMBA)
The international impartial authority on postgraduate business education whose accreditation service is the global standard for all MBA, DBA and MBM programs
25 Hosier Lane
London, EC1A 9LQ
Tel: +44 (0) 207 246 2686
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.mbaworld.com
Universities UK
The representative organization for the U.K.'s universities
Woburn House
20 Tavistock Square
London, WC1H 9HQ
Tel: +44 (0) 207 419 4111
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.universitiesuk.ac.uk
Energy Institute
EI is the professional body for the energy industry, delivering good practice and professionalism across the depth and breadth of the sector
61 New Cavendish Street
London, W1G 7AR
Tel: +44 (0) 207 467 7100
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.mbaworld.com
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Industry Association (NIA)
The NIA represents the U.K. civil nuclear industry in the development of its business both at home and overseas
5th Floor
Tower House
10 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA
Tel: +44 (0) 207 766 6640
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.niauk.org
Renewable Energy
The trade and professional body for the U.K. wind and marine renewable energy industries
Greencoat House
Francis Street
London, SW1P 1DH
Tel: +44 (0) 207 901 3000
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.renewableuk.com
Renewable Energy Association
Trade association representing U.K. renewable energy producers and helping companies build commercially and environmentally sustainable businesses
2nd Floor
25 Eccleston Place
London, SW1W 9NF
Tel: +44 (0) 207 925 3570
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.r-e-a.net
British Photovoltaic Association
The BPVA is the national trade association of the U.K. solar photovoltaic industry
2nd Floor,
Berkeley Square House
Berkeley Square
London, W1J 6BD
Tel: +44 (0) 178 883 3653
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: bpva.org.uk
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
BCS promotes wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology and champions the global IT profession and the interests of individuals engaged in the profession for the benefit of all
First Floor, Block D
North Star House
North Star Avenue
Wiltshire, SN2 1FA
Tel: +44 (0) 179 341 7424
Website: www.bcs.org
Membership organization aiming to ensure that the U.K. is the best place in the world for technology companies (both domestic and foreign owned) to locate and grow
10 St. Bride Street
London, EC4A 4AD
Tel: +44 (0) 207 331 2000
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.techuk.org
BioIndustry Association (BIA)
The trade association for innovative enterprises involved in U.K. bioscience
7th Floor, Southside
105 Victoria Street
London, SW1E 6QT
Tel: +44 (0) 207 630 2180
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.bioindustry.org
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
The trade association for the research-based U.K. biopharmaceutical industry, recognized by the U.K. government as the industry body negotiating on behalf of the branded pharmaceutical industry for statutory consultation requirements including the pricing scheme for medicines in the U.K.
7th floor, Southside
105 Victoria Street
London, SW1E 6QT
Tel: +44 (0) 207 930 3477
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.abpi.org.uk
British International Freight Association – BIFA
Trade association for U.K.-registered companies engaged in international movement of freight by all modes of transport, air, road, rail, and sea
Redfern House
Browells Lane
Middlesex TW13 7EP
Tel: +44 (0) 208 844 2266
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.bifa.org
Freight Transport Association (FTA)
One of the U.K.'s largest trade associations representing the transport interests of companies moving goods
Hermes House
St John's Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent, TN4 9UZ
Tel: +44 (0) 189 252 6171
Website: www.fta.co.uk
Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCvP)
LowCVP is aiming to accelerate a sustainable shift to low carbon vehicles and fuels in the U.K. and thereby stimulate opportunities for U.K. businesses
3 Birdcage Walk
London, SW1H 9JJ
Tel: +44 (0) 207 304 6880
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.lowcvp.org.uk
The Carbon Trust
An independent, expert partner of leading organizations around the world, helping them contribute to and benefit from a more sustainable future through carbon reduction, resource efficiency strategies and commercializing low carbon technologies
4th Floor
Dorset House
27-45 Stamford Street
London, SE1 9NT
Tel: +44 (0) 207 170 7000
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Email (U.S.): email@example.com
Website: www.carbontrust.com
EEF, the manufacturers' organization
Supports and champions manufacturing and engineering in the U.K. and the E.U. to help industry thrive, innovate, and compete locally and globally
Broadway House
Tothill Street
London, SW1H 9NQ
Tel: +44 (0) 207 222 7777
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.eef.org.uk
British Ports Association
Represents the interests of its members, to the U.K. and devolved Governments, the E.U. and national and international bodies
1st Floor,
30 Park Street,
London, SE1 9EQ
Tel: +44 (0) 207 260 1780
Website: www.britishports.org.uk
Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC)
The professional body representing retained executive search consulting firms around the world
425 Fifth Avenue
4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Tel: +1 212-398-9556
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.aesc.org
European Relocation Association (EuRA)
Promoters of the benefits of professionally managed relocation and mobility services to companies with a globally mobile labor force
9 & 10 Diss Business Centre
Norfolk, IP21 4HD
Tel: +44 (0) 137 964 0883
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.eura-relocation.com
SCIENCE PARKS and TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
The most influential U.K.-based professional body for research commercialization and knowledge/technology transfer professionals
Jeffreys Building
St John's Innovation Park
Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0DS
Tel: +44 (0) 122 365 9950
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.praxisunico.org.uk
United Kingdom Science Park Association (UKSPA)
Membership association with the mission to be the authoritative body on the planning, development and creation of Science Parks
Chesterford Research Park
Little Chesterford
Saffron Walden
Essex CB10 1XL
Tel: +44 (0) 179 953 2050
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.ukspa.org.uk
British Security Industry Association (BSIA)
The trade association for the professional security industry in the U.K. Its members provide over 70% of U.K. security products and services (by value) and adhere to strict quality standards
Kirkham House
John Comyn Drive
Worcester, WR3 7NS
Tel: +44 (0) 845 389 3889
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.bsia.co.uk
Inward Investment
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)
UKTI is the Government Department that helps overseas companies to bring their high-quality investment to the U.K., as well as assisting U.K. companies to succeed in a global economy
1 Victoria Street
London, SW1H 0ET
Tel: +44 (0) 207 215 8000
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.gov.uk/ukti
UKTI Investment Services Team
Overseas companies can contact the UKTI Investment Services Team for information about setting up in the U.K.including the help that is available
Tel: +44 (0) 207 333 5442
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
U.S. locations
British Consulate General
Georgia Pacific Center
Suite 3400
133 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Tel: +1 404-954-7700
British Consulate General
One Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: +1 617-245-4500
British Consulate General
625 N Michigan Avenue
Suite 2200
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: +1 312-970-3800
British Consulate General
Wells Fargo Plaza
1000 Louisiana Street
Suite 1900
Houston, TX 77002
Tel: +1 713-659-6270
Los Angeles
British Consulate General
2029 Century Park East
Suite 1350
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Tel: +1 310-481-0031
British Consulate General
1001 Brickell Bay Drive
Miami, FL 33131
Tel: +1 305-400-6400
New York
British Consulate General
845 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel: +1 212-745-0200
San Francisco
British Consulate General
1 Sansome Street
Suite 850
San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel: +1 415-617-1300
Washington DC
British Embassy
3100 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington DC 20008
Tel: +1 202-588-6500
Department for Communities & Local Government (DCLG)
The Government Department charged with putting power in the hands of local people, business and councillors with local leaders and business driving economic growth in their areas through Local Enterprise Partnerships
2 Marsham Street
London, SW1P 4DF
Tel: +44 (0) 303 444 0000
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.gov.uk/dclg
Devolved Economic Development Agencies
Northern Ireland
Invest Northern Ireland
The regional business development agency whose role is to support new and existing businesses to compete internationally, and to attract new investment to Northern Ireland
Bedford Square
Bedford Street
Belfast, BT2 7ES
Tel: +44 (0) 289 069 8000
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.investni.com
Boston (U.S. HQ)
545 Boylston Street
Suite 801
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: +1 617-266-8839
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: +1 312-955-0058
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
New York
Wall Street Plaza
20th Floor
88 Pine Street
New York, NY 10005
Tel: +1 212-742-9823
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
San Francisco
44 Montgomery Street
Suite 3050
San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel: +1 415-854-0332
Email: email@example.com
Scottish Development International
SDI's aim is to assist in the growth of the Scottish economy, by encouraging inward investment and helping Scottish-based companies develop international trade
5 Atlantic Quay
150 Broomielaw
Glasgow, G2 8LU
Tel: +44 (0) 141 228 2828
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.sdi.co.uk
London office
Tel: +44 (0) 207 222 0599
One Boston Place
Suite 3875
Boston, MA 02108
Tel: +1 617-725-0340
645 N. Michigan Avenue
Suite 435
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: +1 312-777-5980
10375 Richmond Avenue
Suite 1300
Houston, TX 77042
Tel: +1 713-461-2289
New York
845 Third Avenue
10th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Tel: +1 617-725-0340
San Jose
Silicon Valley Center
2570 North 1st Street
Suite 440
San Jose, CA 95131
Tel: +1 408-436-5520
Welsh Government
The Welsh Government is committed to helping companies to prosper in Wales, and encourages strong, innovative and competitive business – essential for the Welsh economy
Cathays Park
Cardiff, CF10 3NQ
Tel: +44 (0) 300 060 3000
Websites: www.justask.wales.com
Washington DC (Head Office North America)
Welsh Government
British Embassy
3100 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: +1 202-588-6623
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Welsh Government
British Consulate-General
625 N. Michigan Avenue
Suite 2200
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: +1 312-970-3802
Email: email@example.com
New York
British Consulate-General
845 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel: +1 212-745 0415
Email: email@example.com
San Francisco
British Consulate-General
1 Sansome Street
Suite 850
San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel: +1 415-617-1355
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Department for Education
The government department responsible for education and children's services
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester, M1 2WD
Tel: +44 (0) 370 000 2288
Website: www.education.gov.uk
Embassies and Consulates
Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)
The FCO is the government department responsible for promoting British interests overseas
King Charles Street
London, SW1A 2AH
Tel: +44 (0) 207 008 1500
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.gov.uk/fco
Embassy of the United States
The U.S. Commercial Service U.K (CSUK) at the U.S. Embassy in London promotes exports of U.S. goods and/or services into the U.K. market and inward investment into the U.S. They provide a range of services and programs to help American companies export goods and services to the United Kingdom
The American Citizen Services (ACS) Section of the Embassy provides information and assistance to U.S. citizens in England and Wales
24 Grosvenor Square
London, W1K 6AH
Tel: +44 (0) 207 499 9000
Website: www.export.gov/unitedkingdomlondon.usembassy.gov
Northern Ireland
U.S. Consulate General, Belfast
Danesfort House
223 Stranmillis Road
Belfast, BT9 5GR
Tel: +44 (0) 289 038 6100
Website: belfast.usconsulate.gov
U.S. Consulate General, Edinburgh
3 Regent Terrace
Edinburgh, EH7 5BW
Tel: +44 (0) 131 556 8315
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From the magic and movement with Richy Jackson and The Haus dancers to working out and sweating with Richard Simmons, I have committed to reaching beyond my comfort zone this month. Reaching beyond the preconceived limits of what I thought is possible. Before I reach beyond, let me share where I find comfort and relief from the stress and tension of living with lupus. My comfort zone tends to be located wherever my cat is. (At the time, my fur baby is cuddled in a ball by my feet.) I don't think of or see myself as a "cat lady", in fact I grew up as a "dog person" but now when I think of my comfort zone and favorite method of relaxing there is no place I'd rather be than cozying up to and with my tuxedo cat, Rex.
Today's writing prompt for the WEGO Health "Health Activist Writer's Month Challenge" was to share as a parent what do I hope I'm doing right. Well, I am not a parent. Thanks to lupus, I am unable to conceive my own children. Again, thanks to lupus when my husband and I went to explore adoption, we learned that birth moms usually want the adoptive moms to be healthy and wealthy, the ones we met didn't want to give their babies to someone who lives with a chronic illness. Thankfully, the West Los Angeles Animal Shelter isn't so stringent in screening prospective "rescue" families. I am a "cat mom" and I hope that I'm doing it right. Aside from the obvious needs of fresh food and water, I hope that Rex knows how much I love him.
When I am suffering and in pain, Rex will cuddle beside me. When I get up and dance to Lady Gaga's powerful music, Rex will watch me dance. During this month of facing challenges head on, Rex offers his support with his soft purrs. I am lucky to have Rex in my life. He offers his unique form of "cat therapy" by looking up at you with his big eyes and vocalizations. When I need some TLC, my Tender Loving Cat is there. Rex is an amazing "Cat-a-tonic" and he soothes me and ease the pain and tension of being someone who lives with lupus.
I know that circumstances prevent some people from having pets, but if you can. I would suggest that you adopt/rescue a pet from your local animal shelter. Rex is one of the best assets I have in fighting off the helpless, hopeless feeling that can envelope me as a 45 year old woman who will never have anyone call out "Mommy" - I swear sometimes the sound of Rex's meow sounds like he is calling out out "Mom" I know how that must seem... so may be I am a "cat lady" after all.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Loading up and getting ready to roll!
We have the motorhome all packed up and ready to roll for the weekend.... actually it is for a longer four day weekend! We are going down to a cute little weaving studio in a tiny village called Shopiere, WI. It's owned by my friend Juanita Hofstrom and the name of the studio is called Vavning. (about 200 miles from here)
She bought this vacant church and made it into the most comfortable studio, complete with lecture hall, studio space, kitchen area and offices. It is in a tiny town about 4 blocks long, nestled in a vally along a bubbling brook and a tiny park. I have been coming here for close to 10 years now. I help Juanita hostess the event, and she contracts with Jason Collingwood to come and teach for the 3 day session. He is a famous weaver from Great Britain, son of the late Peter Collingwood, an innovator of a special technique for rug weaving called Shaft Switching.
We come early and help Juanita and Norm with some projects around the studio, and in return we can park for the four days in their parking lot. Sure saves on the hotel fees and transportation from nearby Beloit. Usually about 20 people attend and it's a very intense hands-on workshop with evening classes of interesting field trips, swap meet of weaving supplies, show n tell, and eating out with groups for social times.
Being on site, I can unlock the studio early for weavers who want to come and get in some loom time before the classes start, or stay late into the evening after classes are done. Also I am known as the Aide De Comp, or the Kitchen Wench... we prepare various snack foods and lunches in the kitchen, and on the last day I prepare a full meal for all the weavers and their significant others to join in and wind up the conference.
Steveio finds many things to do while I am busy in classes. He later joins us for socializing, eating out down the road at the restaurant, and just hanging out with many of the workshoppers spouses who are also looking for things to do. Norm knows lots of cool things to do and see in the area, so Steveio hangs with Norm too.
In 1996 we were here in April in our Coachmen gasser motorhome... and Steveio took a ride on the scooter to get a replacement part for our Onan generator. Lo and behold, he just HAD to drive past an RV dealer in Rockford, Illinois. There he wandered among the rigs, and saw "THE MOTORHOME of his DREAMS!" He came back all bubbly and excited and wanted me to go see it too! But I didn't want any more payments and for sure didn't want another bigger motorhome. But he was persistent. Each week he would check the website and see if it was still there. Each week it was. Finally... finally.... (after some life-changing events) I gave in to go and just "look" at the rig. Three days later, it was ours! So THAT is how we got our diesel pusher.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Cancer Benefit for Michael (Fuzz) Andersen from April 24, 2010
(fluorescent lighting is hard on the focus of the camera)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Steveio's Spare Tire Rack is now Completed!
He just bought the spare tire to go on the rim. This will free up a lot of room in the basement storage area that we had figured for a spare tire once we go full timing. Plus the added weight to the front of the rig helps with handling, as Safari's are notorious for being back heavy.
Unless we are riding with tanks full of propane, full fuel and full fresh water (all which are located in the front) we do feel a difference in handling.
The weight of this spare tire can help offset the weight on the back for the scooter and rack. The 22.5 tires weigh over 150 pounds and Steveio figured out a good way to lift or lower the tire from the rack...
Our purpose of carrying along a spare tire is one subject that is sometimes given a bit of debate on the RV lists. Many folks just pay an Emergency Roadside Service fee to come and change a tire. That is well and good. But consider the difficult process of locating a spare when yours is shredded to ribbons on the highway… well, that is another story~!
Trying to get a tire on a weekend can be a daunting task, and at this time in our work-a-day world yet, our only time to get away IS the weekends. Plus the boss ain't too happy if you call in and use more of your precious vacation days with the excuse of you have a flat tire and they can't find one to replace it with yet.
And then… there is the ever-so-predictable increased price gouging that occurs where you will end up paying ANY price just to get a tire of any quality on a Sunday evening.
Many RVer's do not have the tools, strength or knowledge to change a 22.5 size tire anyhow, so they take their chances and call an Emergency Road Service. (we have one too and hope to never use it) Steveio is able to change these tires himself, and he carries an on board air compressor, air tools, and a big breaker bar. The idea of the winch piece to enable him to lift and lower the tire is quite an added bit of ingenuity of his, which allows him to do this task if need be.
We will also have to yet relocate the front license plate bracket. And I have some really heavy silver vinyl naugahyde that is exterior boat cushion grade to make a fitted spare tire cover. The silver color will go nicely with the stainless steel side doors and trim.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Bits of this and that for the day….
Well, no camping this weekend. Instead, we are heading up to Mom and Lowell's house tonight to bunk out there this weekend. We are spending the weekend up north in Iron River, Michigan for a cancer benefit for my bro-in-law Fuzz (Michael Andersen) this weekend.
He has stage four bone cancer and just underwent a complicated surgery where they removed his jaw bone, and took a bone from his leg to reconstruct it. Some nodes and tissues were also removed and he is on the road to recovery from that. Next comes the chemo and radiation for 6 weeks, which is going to be a long tuff haul. No insurance, so we are helping with a benefit to raise funds to help them out. I am bringing a big handwoven rug, some good woolen socks, and I found a whole bunch of good things to add to the silent auction and raffle yesterday after a visit to our local Pamida store. Steveio is donating the extra gas grill he got for his birthday yesterday (I bought him one, and he went and unknowingly bought one for himself too!) The kids are coming along, and they are adding more goodies to the pot. Will post pics afterwards… its a spaghetti dinner being catered by a local restaurant and there will be a band for music… Linda's friends at the library are helping to pull this all together.
Schmoo and Fuzz -- (Linda and Michael Andersen)
We sure have been hit with a lot of family illness lately.
My mother-in-law, the sweetest lady in the world, MaryAnn Pfundtner is undergoing chemo and radiation for stage 3 breast cancer. She is very brave in her battle. Even with all her troubles, she still managed to get a package in the mail for Steveio's birthday yesterday! We are praying for a good result from all the chemo, and hoping that things will get better for her.
Then, our grandson's other grandpaw, Kevin Wade (our son-in-law Jesse's dad) is battling pancreatitis and has been severely ill for 4 weeks in the hospital, hovering in and out of a paralytic coma and on ventilator machines. It's been really touch and go, and Kevin is battling hard to beat this. His wife Lisa has been on a never-ending vigil at his bedside. It's been a very rough time for the family. Our daughter Heather and sweetie Jesse are doing all they can to help. Jameson has been coloring pictures for his Grandpaw, The Big Dude… as Jameson is his Little Dude.
And now, to top it off, my nephew Mikey, son of my brother, Butch, is having serious trouble with his stomach and undergoing more testing with that.
We have just been hit from all directions with this… and prayers or kind thoughts are appreciated. So many people all at once, none really blood related to each other, but all are in our hearts and our thoughts each day.
A couple of cheezy granmuddah pics here to share of the grandkids:
Allegra Grace (4 months old)
Jameson Michael (21 months old)
and Chelsea Mae (3 months old)
So today I will finish up the last few pairs of socks, and I am babysitting little Chelsea today till Erin or Mark comes later to pick her up. Then when Steveio is done with work, we will head out. About 120 miles up there from here.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Campground Review – Sunset Lake – Bates township park – Iron River, Michigan
(this is one of series of posts of various campgrounds we have been to over the years... I am going through my files in alphabetical order and posting past camping trips in my blog.... something to do until camping starts again--- sigh)
We used to camp here a lot in the 90's ... Our growing kids enjoyed the playground, swimming beach and campgrounds. The fishing here is very good too. Mostly perch. Even in the winter, my family comes here a lot for ice fishing. There are about 14 or 15 sites in the campground... no hookups but there is a water faucet in the park to fill your tank from before parking in a site. The new shower/bathroom buildings are locked at night to prevent vandalism, so you better go to the bathroom before 10pm or you can't go again till morning! A host and hostess are on the grounds 24/7 and keep close tabs on all comings and goings of the park. For many years now it's Elmo and his wife, not sure if they are planning to be back this year or not.
Here we are on the one site we fit at .. but with the rear tires almost (but not quite) off the ground, it is NOT good because the emergency brake on our motorhome is the kind that clamps the driveshaft. If the rear wheels are off the ground, even slightly, the whole rig can freely roll as the front tires are not utilized by the emergency brake. That means it collapses the hydraulic levelers and those would be ruined in such an event. Even with blocking and chocking, I feel uneasy about it, so we camped somewhat unlevel here.
That type of unlevel camping presents other problems: the fridge can be damaged from setting too long uneven. The ammonia can pool up in parts of the coils and crystalize and burn through the coils in time. By the next day, our fridge stopped working, so we knew we were too unlevel. We added more boards under the back tires to help out a bit more, but it felt precarious and wobbly inside.
And the shower will not drain properly when on such an angle either. At this angle, the kitchen sink will sometimes back up into the shower stall, which is then all greasy icky stuff that needs cleaning from the bottom of the tub, each time you run the kitchen sink.
Everyone gathered at our site and we had the community fire. Once everyone toddles off to beddy bye in the wee hours of the morning, and things are quiet again. We are usually about the only ones camping here besides the host. Sometimes there are folks nearby but we ask them to join us, and they are usually someone who knows someone in our group. So drag over your lawn chair and join us!
It the morning, Steve and I are usually the first ones up. We pick up the empty beer cans, (Michigan has 10 cent deposit, so they all get bagged up for the return to the store) We get the fire going again, simmer up a big pot of coffee, bake some muffins or sticky buns and wait for the others to drag their butts outta bed.
In this pic, it was a hot and humid weekend... resting the the shade was about the only amount of effort expended on the weekend activities. LOL Friends stop by from in town to visit us when we come up camping. This weekend my folks came with their motorhome, and sister and broinlaw, Schmoo and Fuzz camped in their travel trailer too. Then we called Bob Senior to join us with his new trailer. It always becomes a family visit throughout the day. Folks from town like to come out for a ride through the park and *see who is camping this weekend* ... no kidding!
Here is a pic of Bob Senior... I wrote about him in a past blog. That is his older rig, the Class C in the background in that pic. He has since got a new travel trailer for camping . He and his buddy Shadow live like kings now in the new rig. Senior's son, Bob Jr. (of course) comes out every time we camp, and brings his daughter, Autumn, my little camping buddy.
This is my brother, Umpee, (really Eugene, but everyone up north has nick-names) He brought his new cat out to meet us one time. Of course his cat can come and sit around the campfire, why not? The guys like to come out to go fishing and someone always has a boat launched in the water for them to head out to drown a few worms. I think the cat was waiting for a treat from the fresh caught yummies.
The whole crew gathered to deep fry a turkey... sometimes they don't get things started on time for the meal to be finished by supper.... so it took a bit longer and was well after dark before it was time to eat. LOL
What a feast! We never go for lack of food when we go camping... with all the extra folks who stop by, we need to prepare a lot. If there are leftovers, great! If not, oh well, hope everyone got a full meal. This time the guys cooked a ham and deep fried a turkey. The gals do all the salads and taters and other *go-withs*!
And THIS is why it is called Sunset Lake!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Campground Review – Veterans Memorial Park - Part 2
This is the second part of the Veterans Memorial Park review… yesterday's blog at:
http://kareninthewoods-kareninthewoods.blogspot.com/2010/04/campground-review-veterans-memorial.html has more information on the park itself.
Ahhhhh it's now Sunday morning in the campground. The winds died down and it's gonna be a gorgeous day! It got down to 29 degrees last night BRRRRR but the sun is shining, the muffins are baked, the coffee is done and it's gonna be a NICE day!
Couch hogs gotta huddle close to their Master!
this is my Easy Bake oven.. more on that later
Steveio is going back to haul some more firewood this morning and I think I might go along to help stack into the truck. I appreciate those winter fires in the fireplace at home as much as he enjoys building them. So I guess I can do my part. LOL
Yesterday was very nice, though windy. We took a long walk down along the waterfalls… which are just beyond the picnic and playground areas of the park.
No doggies allowed in the picnic area, so we skirt around wide by the edge of the woods and walk to the falls… nobody here to enforce the rule, but we obey it anyhow. And we ALWAYS carry doggie doo-doo sacks in case they decide to leave a deposit. Haha!
The walk down the bank to the falls is steep, so the park system put in timbers to make steps, and half way down it turned to very old stone steps, with marks of being chiseled and made to fit. Very cool! Wonder how old they are?
The falls were just as lovely as last year when we were here. You can walk around the other side and stand on the bridge too. But after the bridge, the trail doesn't lead anywhere. I think it was built just to be able to walk across the falls and look down at it?
We each posed for a picture… along with the required blog pic of the dogs… LOL
THEN… we almost lost Dukie's little Palookie! haha
It was the same thing as last year at the same spot! He slipped backwards down the stony slope into the river and Steveio had to pull him out! He hit the shore and was not too happy about his wet little Palookie Butt.
We wandered along the river bank down river from the falls, and cut up through the woods till we got back into the campground again.
This is a quiet lazy sandy part of the river… you could see fish swimming around under the clear glass surface. Amazing that just a few hundred yards upriver was frothing foamy waterfalls and rapids and rocks. It was a perfect blue sky day… and this part of the river Dukie gave a wide berth….. figures where there is no current, now he is careful!
These little blue flowers were so detailed looking and perfect, at first I almost thought they were plastic! First blooms of the season for us northerners.
We were walking along and Steveio asked about the direction on my compass on the top of my walking stick, what did it say? I had bought this stick at a Flying J in Mississippi or Alabama last year. It was on sale really cheap, like 75% off .. I think I paid $10 for it. Well, I looked down at it and told him it's broke, it don't turn. Haha the joke was on us old fogies who didn't wear the bifocals today. It's really a thermometer, NOT a compass! And it's in Celcius! I never knew that when I bought it. No wonder it was on sale!!!
Our Canadian RVing friend, Seann, is always giving us a hard time about only giving temps in "F" instead of "C"…. so now this will forever be known as My Cannuckie Walking Stick! (is it spelled Cannuckie or Canuckie?)
After our walk, Steve got out one of my favorite camping tools…
We don't have an LP oven in our rig, just the convection/micro combination. There ain't no way I am gonna run the danged generator for 3 hours to roast a turkey breast in the convection oven! So this is such a nice compromise. It runs off LP, either the little 1 pound cylinders or attach a hose from a BBQ grill tank or a line off a camper. If I use it in the camper, I crack a window, and set it on a cookie sheet on the table just to be sure. But the sides are double insulated layers so it's pretty cool to the touch. My only complaint is the knob on the side it too easily bumped into ON position, and gas will fill the oven if you are not there lighting it. A kid or an accidental shuffling of things around can turn it on. It's not a strong definite click on or off. So each time we use it, we are sure to remove the tank or hose right away when done, so nobody accidently lets the gas escape. It's nice to take it outside and cook on the picnic table too, keep excess heat out of the rig when baking during the summer months.
We roasted a rolled turkey breast in the little Easy Bake Oven (nickname my family gave it)
Supper was a delight.. why does food always taste better when you are camping?
It was still too windy for a campfire, and the tv stations were warning of the fire dangers all around, so we did not chance it either. Usually we like to sit out around the fire for the evening hours. Instead I took out my spinning wheel and spend some more time playing with my fibers.
We took one more walk around the campground before the sun set. We got neighbors! A pickup truck camper was parked in site number one with a nice couple and two tiny yorkshire terrier dogs. We said hi and exchanged a few pleasantries. Then we wandered back to our camper and settled in for the night. Steveio watched a rented Pink Panther movie on DVD (the old Peter Sellers as Inspector Cluseau) and I sat in chat for a while.
Oh, I reran the channel setup with the new antenna head on there, and it pulled in two more stations than the batwing did, so I guess that makes it a *keeper* for us. Seems in the evenings after dark we get more stations than during the day. Wonder why?
We only took our batteries down to 85% level last night before bedtime. This morning they are charging back up and almost topped off by 9:30 am. That solar array is working nicely for us.
Well, time to hop in the shower here and get started on my day… sure wish we didn't have to pack up and go home later. But the workaday world beckons. 3 years and 4 days till retirement (Steve's birthday is on Thursday----) he can retire when he reaches age 55.


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This is fairly old but I realized that I never uploaded it on here.
This was a color script for the Princess Mononoke project I did a
while ago and it goes along with the previous color script that I did.
As you can see it was heavily influenced by Lou Romano. I hope
I achieved the same cohesiveness he did with just using
shapes and color to tell a story.


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Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) is an unabashed ideologue. But sometimes even ideologues have to address practical matters practically.
Thus it is that Perry finds himself in the middle of the aisle for once, in support of something with widespread bipartisan political backing in Texas. It's not about freedom or liberty, but another very important life-giving element: water.
This year, Perry signed three bills meant to provide funding for projects within the State Water Plan. Taken together, these bills propose an amendment to the Texas Constitution creating the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas, or SWIFT.
With these bills Perry and other Texas politicians are showing they can do the math for the state's future: water = economy. If Texas wants to keep attracting new business, it will have to keep providing ample water to keep companies and people moving to the state. Currently the state's population is expected to soar about 80 percent from its current 25 million to 46 million in 50 years, with water demand projected to increase 22 percent.
At the same time, Texas is caught up in a cycle of drought, which has left reservoirs strained and rivers over-allocated. Another indicator of the high stakes in this game of water security is the fact that Texas is embroiled in legal battles over water rights with neighboring New Mexico, Oklahoma, and even Mexico.
Harsh water restrictions are currently in place from Midland, the heart of the current oil boom, to San Antonio. Earlier this month water officials in Austin declared the current drought to be the worst Central Texas has ever experienced. In the absence of substantial rain soon the city may need to pursue options such as banning all but hand-held outdoor watering and even curtailing the use of indoor water by next spring.
As of this week, 91 percent of the state is in drought.
The measure — known as Proposition 6 — would put $2 billion from the state's savings account, or rainy day fund, into a new water bank administered by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to help finance water projects. This revolving fund would be used to reduce borrowing costs for municipalities in need of new water infrastructure.
Most of the financing will probably be for pipelines and water transportation infrastructure and not expensive new dams and reservoirs. Twenty percent of the money could be put towards conservation, such as reducing pipe leakage, and reuse projects. Another ten percent would help rural communities with projects like improving irrigation techniques.
Perry calls the efforts "a historic opportunity to fund water projects that will ensure we have the water we need to grow and thrive, for the next five decades."
We're talking about projects like new reservoirs, state-of-the-art desalination plants, and utilizing new technology to conserve and re-use current supplies. This is simply too vital an issue, and too narrow a window of opportunity, to come up short on the brink of meeting our water needs.
Some who oppose Proposition 6 have pointed out that Perry appointed the three new heads of the restructured Texas Water Development Board in charge of allocating the money from the potential fund. Perry is known for cronyism and people like Alyssa Burgin, executive director of the Texas Drought Project, see this as another way to pipe money into the hands of the usual profiteers rather than water to those in need. They argue that water projects will be used to bring water from rural and farming communities to urban areas where powerful developers can use it to their advantage.
But despite Perry's support, the proposition isn't law yet. It requires a change to the Texas constitution, which means Texas voters must first vote on the amendment on the November fifth ballot. And it turns out that Proposition 6, and the water future of Texas, is creating bipartisanship in the deep-red Lone Star State.
A recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll found that Texans support the measure by more than a two to one margin, 52 percent to 19 percent, although nearly a quarter were yet to decide how they would vote on the issue.
Jim Henson, director of the Texas Policy Project at the University of Texas at Austin, told The Texas Tribune, "To me, there was not a big surprise here. People reflexively support water funding. People are aware of the drought, we just got out of a hot summer … There was a decent amount of public discourse."
Stark visuals such as those found at Lake Travis north of Austin also serve as a reminder of the state's prolonged water woes. Lake Travis is one of a chain of seven reservoirs known as the Texas Highland Lakes that provide water to citizens, farmers and wildlife downstream. It also functions as a popular recreation area; one that's much more popular when it's not just one-third full, as it is now.
In The Pipeline
The proposition has broad backing from industry, government, and agricultural interests. Ronald Kaiser, professor and chair of the Texas A&M; University Water Program, described it as a way of taking local government and municipality water demands, often unwieldy and complex, and forcing them to prioritize.
"It's like a Christmas wish list in which parents say you only get two or three of the things you want," Kaiser said in a phone interview. "It's a very sensible way of going about it. We're using money to invest back in ourselves so we don't have to borrow. If it's cheaper to invest in yourself, why borrow money from the bank? We're taking money from the savings account to make low interest investments."
Texas releases a statewide water plan every five years, regardless of the political situation, that gathers information from local bodies across the state in an effort to establish what is needed to ensure enough water for public health and economic growth over the next 50 years. The most recent version, in 2012, called for $53 billion in infrastructure upgrades, including 562 unique water supply projects such as the construction of 20 new reservoirs. Similar plans have been proposed before but without an effective way to fund projects, or prioritize them, they haven't made it very far.
Where Does It Flow?
While providing water for citizens is a responsibility of government, public oversight and awareness are critical in making sure the incentivized financing is not abused. The oil, gas, chemical, and construction industries in Texas are big water users; and though names like the Koch brothers don't immediately harken to water resource management, it's exactly such groups that support Proposition 6.
According to The Dallas Morning News, Water Texas, the premiere political action committee pushing Proposition 6, raised nearly $1 million in August and September. Of that money, the biggest contributors included: Associated General Contractors of Texas ($375,000), Dow Chemical ($250,000), Energy Future Holdings/Luminant ($100,000), Valero Energy Corp. PAC and LyondellBasell ($25,000), and Koch Industries, Inc. ($20,000).
These companies frequently use water-intensive technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The EPA has estimated that the 35,000 oil and gas wells used for fracking consume between 70 billion and 140 billion gallons of water each year.
Widespread water usage extends beyond industry, however. In 2011, Texans consumed 18 times more water in keeping their grass green than the industry used in fracking projects.
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But while conservative industry giants support the proposition, some consider the cost of meeting these water needs to be too high.
At a recent rally against the proposition, Heidi Thiess, a League City councilwoman and Tea Party activist, said state lawmakers, "are pulling a con on Texan taxpayers to cover [their] profligate overspending, and we aren't going to let [them] get away with it again."
What profligate overspending she was referring to is unclear — not the $4 billion in cuts to Texas public schools the state legislature passed on 2011, the first decrease in per-student spending in Texas since World War II. Or the $73.4 million cut that lawmakers made in 2011 to family planning that led to over 100 clinics closing (money that was quietly restored this year after the impacts on women's health were felt).
Terri Hall, the founder of the San Antonio Toll Party and Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, lambasts spending money on an ice rink in a recent column called, "Public Drain For Private Gain: Proposition 6 Rural Water Raid To Benefit Developers."
In the column she says, "taxpayers and ratepayers pick-up the tab for 'gap funding' between project implementation and sending customers their first bill."
Actually, the money for Proposition 6 comes from a savings account made up of mostly oil and gas production taxes and sales taxes, which do not directly impact tax rates.
Certain conservative and independent groups, including Independent Texans and the Tea Party group "We Texans," are campaigning against the amendment. They believe that, if passed, SWIFT would lead to more public debt without solving the state's water problems.
Technically, these critics argue, the new amendment isn't necessary because of an earlier measure passed in 2011, during the worst drought year on record, which raised the Development Board debt limit to $6 billion. Currently the board's debt is still far below the $6 billion mark.
However, according to The Texas Tribune, this money is distinct from Proposition 6. It can only be used for loans, not to make projects more attractive by lowering interest rates or allowing deferred payments, as SWIFT can do.
There are also a few environmental groups that oppose the proposition for another reason: that it doesn't focus enough on conservation measures. The local conservation group Save Our Springs thinks the funds are unnecessary and more should be done to conserve already-existing resources.
The same University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll that highlighted public support for the proposition also found that respondents who said they would support a Tea Party candidate for Congress were more likely to oppose Proposition 6 than those who prefer Republican or Democratic candidates. Twenty-eight percent of Tea Party voters oppose it, compared to only 16 percent of Democrats and 21 percent of Republicans.
"I don't want to necessarily call the opposition Tea Party people," Kaiser said. "These are people who are dubious of government, who want small government. They don't see a role for government in water, which is really incomprehensible because in Texas the government provides most of the drinking water. I think there's just a segment of the population that likes to say 'no.'"
In the state that elected Sen. Ted Cruz (R), the ultimate naysayer on healthcare, spending, and government in general, this is hardly surprising.
But even the Tea Party-backed elected officials in Texas aren't siding with the Tea Party on Proposition 6. According to Kaiser, not one single elected representative in the Texas legislature has come out in opposition to the measure.
"I jokingly say you need a drought, support at the gubernatorial level, and a budget surplus to get something to do with water passed," Kaiser said. "It's kind of the opposite of the perfect storm."
It's the perfect drought indeed. And thanks to climate change, there may only be more to come.
"Climate change, or climate variability, has conspired to bring the political parties together and unite people in water industry," Kaiser said.


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Everybody knows the main issues. You have to have a place to live, you have to be safe from attack, you have to have resources, and you have to be able to support yourself logistically.
Whether you plan to stay at home, or to bug out, or plan for both, you do need to plan. There are more books than I can count on "Bugging In" or "Bugging Out." Most of the survival magazines are replete with $100,000 purpose built bug out vehicles, and some people have "retreats" to flee to, ranging from cabins in remote areas to luxurious accommodations in old missile silos. Some people, for whatever reason, are pretty much anchored. They may already live in their retreat. They may have health or financial issues that prevent them from bugging out. Whatever the case, prior planning prevents poor performance.
If you are staying home, then you need to have some food on hand. I doubt the "three days" the government hawks is enough. It wasn't during Hurricane Katrina. You need water. You can't have too much of it. I have a well, and two streams I can access. But I still keep about 300 gallons of water on hand for ready access. If you live anywhere like a city, where your water is dependent on the city water system, don't count on that. If something serious happens, the people who run it won't be going to work, even if the system itself is intact.
I once talked with a doctor who was a survivalist. He lived in a gated community in Atlanta's outskirts. Some of his cronies had formed a group to protect that community if things deteriorated to the point that was necessary. These guys had plenty of money, but they weren't thinking things through. I asked him what he'd do if the water went out. Well, he said, they had a decorative pond on the property. That's nice, but it turns out the pond was filled by pumps from the city water system. How were they going to maintain sanitation. If people started burying their waste near the pond, how long would it be potable? They hadn't given any thought to that. Basically, these fellows had watched a few episodes of survival shows on television, but hadn't done their homework in terms of a day to day plan. It was fun buying guns and big shipments of long term storage food, but who wants to think about flushing the toilet? The old saw that you can go a while without food, but not long without water is true.
Security is not a joke. Consider how lawless our society is now. Even up here, we have burglaries, robbery, and other crimes against people and property. The closer you get to a big city, the worse it becomes. In a truly serious event, there won't be any police, and if there are, you might be better off avoiding them altogether. I think about what happened in New Orleans during the Hurricane. If you haven't been filled in on that, then the book "The Great New Orleans Gun Grab" is the best source of information on the topic I know of. Looting, gang violence, and mob disorder got completely out of hand there. So did the local police and those who were imported later on,
This kind of random violence can happen anywhere. And frequently does. We have whole segments of our society that look forward to any excuse for rioting , as a chance for a free shopping spree and an opportunity to hurt people they don't like , with impunity. Remember Baltimore:
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I know after Katrina a federal law was passed to prevent blanket confiscation of personal weapons in a catastrophe. I wouldn't rely too heavily on it in real life. I do believe that anyone who is unarmed in times of disorder, whatever the nature of that disorder may be, is going to be in real trouble. Especially if they have something violent people want. The type of things individuals or groups specifically look for? Food, weapons, women, drugs, (legal and otherwise), vehicles, gasoline, Sometimes they just kill people for the fun of it.
You need a safe place to live, and a way to defend yourself and your family. The particulars of that depend on your individual situation. Security is not a one size fits all topic of conversation.
It would be nice to have a land line. They don't always work but they are worlds more survivable in a crisis than cell phones. Everybody has a cell phone, everybody tries to use it in moments of stress, and the system can't handle it. A land line is powered by the line itself, provided you don't buy a phone that needs electricity to work. The cost of a modest, line powered phone that doesn't need an ac adapter is about $2.00 or less at my local thrift shop.
If you need medicine, you had better have some extra in the bathroom medicine cabinet. Most doctors will only write prescriptions for a max of 90 days. As far as I know, foreign pharmacies still want a prescription, so buying outside the country may be cheaper but won't help you accumulate medicine. Over the counter stuff is no problem, but I have three prescriptions and my wife has five. That's 8 medicines we have to worry about running out of. My current doctor gives us one prescription for 90 days, and one refill. Then we have to go in and see him to get the next prescription written. I haven't found a solution for this. At best , we have medicine for 90 days. At worst, if we are near the end of the cycle, we may have very little on hand. You could, possibly, go in a month or so after you fill number one, and pick up the refill. But that's a stop gap solution at best.
If you google "survival medicine" you get hundreds of hits. Most of them deal with antibiotics. If anybody comes across an informative source on this particular issue, I'd like to hear about it.
I don't want this post to get too long, and start boring people. So I'll leave this topic here, but I'm going to pick up other issues in subsequent posts. If you have thoughts about this, please don't hesitate to share them. Nobody is so much the duty expert that they don't need to look at other ideas in the area of survival planning. Least of all, me.


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Vomitino is a "tongue in cheek firmware" for the HexBright flashlight.
The word "vomitino", in italian, means something like "little puker" and was chosen for 2 reasons:
– it follows the -ino desinence tradition, so common in Arduino based projects
– it refers to the fact that the firmware implements a "stroboscopic dazzle mode", inspired by the LED Incapacitator, a security device that is rumoured be able to stop an hypothetic attacker, inducing vomiting and disorientation.
While I used the same frequency range, the Vomitino lacks some of the features of its original inspirer (i.e. multicoloured light). It's meant to be just a joke and should not be considered a "self defence tool" at all: in the end it's just very bright and somewhat annoying strobe light, just like the ones you find in disco 🙂
If you're interested in the original device, go check Lady Ada's complete replica. If you're curious, but don't want to invest too much time and money into it, you can grab my humbler version on github and flash it on your HexBright.
Keep in mind that some people have weird reactions to flashy lights, some simply do not like them and I'm not responsible if you nag poeple with my code 🙂


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Qui est Paul? We may never truly know who he is but apparently he's got very good taste in outdoor furniture. The French firm's designs boasts bubbly, slick and upbeat pieces that fit just as well in a home as a five star resort. I especially love the Sardana seating that wraps around a tree and can be lit from the inside.


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Monday, September 14, 2009
Dragonflies and Whales
This last trip to visit Grant's Mom in Southern California was especially nice as far as our day trips went. We focused on Laguna Beach (nature walks abound!) and Dana Point (whale watching.) We were on our way to one particular nature area in Laguna Beach and instead stumbled upon the Environmental Nature Center. It's a small area of only 3.5 acres and surrounded by houses, but the beauty found there was delightful.
Most of the butterflies in the Butterfly House were safely secluded for the afternoon and the House ready to close, but a few were still out. The flowers this butterfly chose to enjoy was laying on the ground, but the dirt provided a lovely background:
The next day we went to Dana Point to go whale watching. This is a very tricky experience. You must focus your camera on the whale when it surfaces. This is what happens when you don't:
A marine biologist was on the boat to provide information about the whales. In addition, we got to watch while she collected whale poop; an experience I did not expect to have!
After the video disaster, I was very, very happy to get this shot:
Only in California: a giant lemon being followed by a Maserati.
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4 comments:
- Diane said...
You take GREAT photos, Nancy! I especially loved the dragonflies. And the whale video (or should I say "lack-of-whale" video) totally cracked me up. What were those bugs moving so fast? Ants? Made my skin crawl! Loved the lemon/lamborgini combo. Fun post!!
- September 14, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- Nancy said...
Yes, they were ants. I couldn't believe how fast they were moving!
- September 14, 2009 at 9:20 PM
- NanaDawn said...
Nancy, you are a photographer!!!!!!
- September 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM
- Around the hook said...
What a lovely picture of the whale you have!
It's my dream to see one!
- October 4, 2009 at 11:11 AM
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Fango had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Los Angeleno hottie and FX artist/creature maker Laurel Grimm earlier this year at Burbanks Weekend of Horrors, and recently caught up with her again to get the lowdown on the supernatural horror flick OMINOUS, for which she provided the practical makeup creations. Filmed by Las Vegas-based Dark Water Productions in that city and Henderson, NV in 28 days spread out over six months in 2006, the movie was an intimate and pleasant experience; we even had a pet bat on set for a few days! says the 27-year old.
Educated in the art of the macabre by her father (Grimm started building monsters at the tender age of 12 with him for their annual Halloween haunt), the artist went on to major at the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies in Performing and Visual Arts, followed by stints as a morgue technician, co-runner of an yearly Halloween two-block-long haunted forest in Dover, Delaware and caricature artist before moving to LA to facilitate her need to make creatures. Grimm wasted little time upon her arrival, jumping feet first into the world of film production with OMINOUS, where she designed and executed the makeup effects, hair and wardrobe for the young actos playing the movies dead kids, who she says were incredibly patient with the FX process, and really delightful to spend time with.
OMINOUS was written and executive-produced by brother-and-sister team Sharry Flaherty (mother of child actor Sean Patrick Flaherty, pictured at bottom, who co-stars) and Ryan McMackin, and was inspired by the duos interest in writing and producing for the past two years, Flaherty tells Fango, as well as both of us being on set with Sean [during his filming of DADDY DAY CAMP and THE GRAND] which interested us further in film production, so we began to brainstorm.
Based on events we encountered growing up in a home on the Philippine Islands, McMackin adds, the story revolves around a vacationing family wrestling its own personal demons who encounter a paranormal presence. Secrets are then revealed and the lives of the living as well as the dead are changed forever.
Teaming with executive producers Kevin Flaherty and Samual Gilliam, director Justin Bergonzoni and director of photography Justin Laforge, Flaherty and McMackin also cast Mellisa Salinas, Nick Wolf, Elizabeth Purdy and Joseph Jetti in key roles. Further friends and colleagues were then organized, McMackin says of the microbudgeted production, solidifying a great and dedicated team. The locations were provided by friends and family to help with the cost, including vehicles and craft services, and everyone chipped in when it came to running the production. We had a total of 11 crew memberslighting, storyboarding, script supervisor, special effects makeup and cameramanbut most days on the set we had no more then five.
Grimm became attached to the $25,000 production when she was introduced to the team by Ryan, who was very impressed by her sketches and photos of her previous work, and her amazing dedication stretched far and beyond our expectations. Laurel traveled from LA to Vegas for weekend shoots throughout the production, and was responsible for all the makeup effects applied to the actors, from hair extensions to bruises, deep gashes, blood and more. You can tell that Laurel took pride in her work. Shes a true artist, and when audiences finally get to view the film, they will not know that it was done with such a low budget; the expertise and experience of her and our dedicated crew shows.
OMINOUS is currently being scored, and the filmmakers will soon seek distribution and are excited to land it in the film festival circuit. In the meantime, check out the flicks official website here (where a trailer is coming soon), Dark Water Productions MySpace page here and Grimms Grimm Works MySpace page here.


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I've found myself at that stage in my life recently where I'm trying to go through and replace my cheap post-college things with high quality and slightly more stylish things. Recently, my focus has been my sleepwear. I've spent years sleeping in t-shirts with holes in them and shorts that don't fit, so I decided that this was the year to change that.
Here's the problem with sleepwear if you have a large cup size: there isn't much of it. Bravissimo offers some, but I haven't been very impressed with the pictures that I've seen of it on real people. Freya offers some, but it doesn't seem to be very supportive when you put it on. This is where Two Figs enters the market.
Two Figs is a wonderful company out of San Francisco that produces luxury sleepwear for D through G cup women. Deb Figge, the owner, has taken a very simple approach to putting her line together. Two Figs offers a variety of basic pieces, from camisole tops and shorts to full length triangle top gowns. All pieces are produced in black, white, and indigo. Each piece features top of the line luxury materials, and are finished with Swiss lace. This simple approach means that each design has to really work.
I asked for the empire gown in indigo, as I wanted to try their most elegant and ladylike option. The package showed up two days later, and was wrapped beautifully. I was a little nervous, as the design appeared to be based on the dreaded shelf bra that I had spent my whole life avoiding, but really loved it once it was on. It was supportive (even though I'm now an H cup!), and absolutely beautiful on.
Honestly, the support from the gown feels a lot like the support my Shock Absorber sports bra gives me. This is a serious compliment, as I basically live in my Shock Absorber these days. Two Figs pieces are sold by band size instead of cup size, and the compression technique they use works. The 32 band fit me perfectly.
The straps on the gown are easily adjustable, along with being completely removable like the straps on a multiway bra. I suspect this means you could wear this gown as a halter or with crossed straps if it was more comfortable for you.
Here's what really impresses me about the Two Figs sleepwear line: when I tweeted about them, I got a response from Ellen Lewis saying that she loved them as well, and had the same gown. I don't know many pieces of lingerie that would work on two women of varying ages like that, but Two Figs pieces are classics. They'll look great on whether you're 25 or 75.
I'm looking forward to saving up and buying more pieces from Two Figs. They're a great option for anyone in their cup size range (and even above it), and any of their pieces would make a wonderful bridal or honeymoon set.