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A dark and gory atmosphere and complex skill interactions are still critical parts of the experience.Path of Exile resembles nothing so much as an alternate-universe Diablo sequel where a dark and gory atmosphere, complex skill interactions, and the ability to completely gimp your character with poorly thought-out decisions are all still critical parts of the experience. Sure, it makes concessions to modernity with its fancy-schmancy 3D graphics, but it does so while so perfectly aping Diablo 2's aesthetic that one could be easily forgiven for getting them mixed up at a glance.
Monster Pinata
While the item-hunting loot-pinata gameplay is nearly identical to what we're used to from Diablo and its host of clones, PoE actually changes things up a bit with its skill system, which cribs just as much from Final Fantasy games as western hack-n-slashers. Its passive skill tree is functionally the same as the sphere grid in Final Fantasy 10, with everyone sharing a single enormous map of nodes, the entirety of which can be navigated by characters of any class.
That felt... good.
The result is a huge number of viable builds, along with an even larger number of completely non-viable ones.The six different classes each have their own starting point on the grid, which makes obtaining certain stat increases and passive skills easier for each, but there's nothing to stop a bloody-minded Witch from pursuing the Marauder's elemental resistance and regeneration bonuses. The result is a huge number of viable builds, along with an even larger number of completely non-viable ones.
There will inevitably be some flavor-of-the-month-ism cropping up, but this system offers much more than "oh screw it, just make a hammerdin." Skills, meanwhile, are granted by gems which are socketed in weapons and armor and can be further enhanced by modifiers in linked slots, and the result is absurdly complex and nuanced.
Geared for Success
This is still very much a gear-driven game, and PoE adds to the acquisition of random junk with extensive customization options. About a dozen different types of orbs can be acquired and used to rearrange the slots on a piece of gear. Change the color of sockets to accommodate different gems, turn common equipment into rare or magical items, or clear bonuses away and reshuffle them completely. In fact, these orbs are Path of Exile's de-facto currency in the absence of gold. For all intents and purposes, bartering items for orbs isn't any different than doing so for gold, except for the name and the fact that as useful items they provide their own built-in money sink. The only thing missing is runaway inflation. Yeah, I'll miss that.
He's been shuffling his feet on the carpet for hours.
Grinding Gear is strongly emphasizing its "ethical" approach to micro- transactions.Even better than all that, Path of Exile happens to be free. At least, it will be come June, and Grinding Gear is strongly emphasizing its "ethical" approach to the microtransaction angle. When this thing hits, anything you might throw real cash down on should be purely aesthetic and won't offer anything remotely resembling "pay to win." Time will tell on that promise, but those words are like music to gamers' ears.
$10 Beta
If you missed the open beta and need your old-school loot fix now, you can still get beta access if you drop a minimum of $10 on future microtransaction content. At present there are only two acts available, but they're substantial, and with four difficulties to play through it's possible to run a character up to about level 70 without much in the way of grinding. But be warned: trade windows and an auction house have also yet to be implemented, so if you want to do much exchanging of goods it'll have to be by partying up with someone, dropping the loot on the ground, and then walking past each other like a cheesy movie hostage exchange.
Slayin' like it's 2001.
Content is still being added pretty regularly, and I already got an easy hundred hours of entertainment out of that 10 bucks. Anyway, whether you're in the "D3 sucks cuz they changed it too much and Torchlight is too cartoony" club or just a little budget-conscious, Path of Exile might be closer to your ideal. If, conversely, you happen to have a stupid amount of money to throw around, Grinding Gear offers a $1,000 option that gives you a diamond-studded non-combat kiwi pet, among other things. I've already seen a half dozen of those running around in the wild, so there are at least a few people out there who like this thing enough to bleed a small fortune at it.
Spy Guy says: The existence of Path of Exile just goes to show that regardless of where Blizzard takes its franchises, there will always be options where PC gamers can turn to if they aren't feeling it. However, if you want a dark, gritty action-RPG you can play offline, you'll have to wait until Grim Dawn comes out next year.


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I went. I learned. I loved it!
It was beautiful. Encouragement for homeschoolers abounded. The attendees were real. Nobody even laughed at my newb questions about Twitter and blogging! Ok, well they laughed a little when I asked about contacting Nike for sponsor information because I'm a runner an love Nike products. But so did I, so no harm done!
Although there were many more, here are 10 things I'd like to share that I learned or found helpful to hear again. These are all from what the speakers shared.
- Homeschooling is not about academics, but about glorifying God.
- We are raising world changers. We are changing the world.
- What we have to say is important. So, don't stop blogging.
- Relationships are key to everything. (Relationship with Jesus and relationship with others.)
- Our children are arrows. Uh huh. We are sharpening them to send them out to be world changers. We are going to dare to shoot them out. You don't sharpen your arrows to keep them on your back.
- We need a bigger vision than surviving next week or we won't survive next week.
- When you fight and/or pick on one another you are working for the devil. I don't want to work for the devil.
- Homeschool with joy so your children will too. We want the next generation to continue homeschooling.
- Your joy is your salvation. It's not about happiness which is immediate, temporal, pleasure regardless of the impact on others.
- Nehemiah didn't divide the people into age groups to rebuild the wall in Jerusalem in 52 days. He divided them into families. Sound like counter-cultural homeschooling? Did it work? Yes, epically.
Keynote speakers were Rachael Carman, Christine Young, Heidi St. John and Rebecca Ingram Powell.
Best Verse: Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
Are you using your gifts from God? How?

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Which is the most powerful tablet in 2014 so far?
I am in the market for a new Tablet and so I am doing research on which ones to get and thought I'd share my findings here too.
Compared to desktops and laptops, tablets are a fairly new class of electronic devices, yet are quickly surpassing both those devices among consumers. Tablets range in size from as small as 7 inches to as large as 11.
They were invented to fill a hole created between the small compact size of the smartphone and the larger but more cumbersome laptop. One popular use for these devices is gaming. In fact, more people today play games on these kinds of devices than dedicated gaming consoles. Tablets are popular for pretty much every type of games, from simple games like Candy Crush, or casino games that you can play here, to actual console ports of consoles as recent as N64. Some of the tablets on the market work much better for gaming than others.
Tablets can run a full range of costs. While some are more expensive, there are some models that make worthy gaming devices without breaking the bank – for those on a budget, the Advent Vegas Tegra Note 7 (above) is a good choice.
An Android tablet, this device provides an optimal gaming experience and as the name indicates the tablet has a display screen of 7 inches. This is true for the Note 7 as it comes with a Tegra 4 processor.
A second option is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 as this tablet comes with a 1.5 GHz Exynos dual core processor – expect the tablet to provide speedy performance.
One tablet that works well for gaming is the popular iPad mini – the devices measures 7.9 inches.
While this is at the smaller end of the tablet scale, many find that they like its compact size especially when gaming on the go. The iPad mini does the same things that the iPad does just in a smaller size. The graphics are still very crisp and bright thanks to the 2048 x 1536 resolution and this makes graphics such as those at online casinos appear very life like which is an important quality for any gaming tablet to have.
I'm still weighing my options, while continuing research. This is a toughie!


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You wanted to know
part deux
Even Mo'
No Mo'
Jay Mo'
Side Mo'
Bee Em Double Mo'
Sponsors Fo' Mo'
Look who came to dinner
Cheaper by the Half Dozen
LB Racing Team Christmas Picture '00 (lil disposable camera, bad quality picture)
Our back yard when we clean the garage
This is our livingroom when we wash gear.
Our kitchen after a trip to the market...to pick up a few things.
Aftermath of "Hurricane Day trip" with the crew.
Carolyn, Shane holding Abby, Elizabeth, Robbie, and Eddie


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Hello, after a lot of troubles about chipset drivers, sound card IRQ issues and more which I heavily discussed in the "Marvin" section, today I finally got that computer working perfectly well !!! (Except the audio sounds a lot distorted, but that must be because I'm currently using my main PC's front panel "mic in" as a speaker since I don't have another set of speakers here at the moment)
Here are the final specs of my Project 98 computer.
Motherboard: ASUS A8V-XE
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2GHz
Graphics Card: ATI Sapphire Radeon X300SE 128MB
Sound Card: Creative Labs SBPCI128 Sound Blaster CT4750 (most DOS games give me the error "Could not find AWE32", I'll try with VDMSound)
Hardisk: a single 8 GB IDE, I'll eventually add or replace it with another larger one... I also have 2 SCSI hard drives which I currently can't use since I had to remove the SCSI controller PCI card due to it conflicting with my sound card's IRQ...
Operative System: Just Microsoft Windows 98SE with Service Pack 3.53, which I can conveniently switch to DOS MODE (no need to install actual DOS, I already have the "DOS PC" based off the Intel Celeron, remember ?)
RAM: 1GB SDRAM (or DDR... I dunno, it's the "triple legged" kind)
Well.... pretty much this I guess...
It has some problems with few Windows 98 games which run extremely fast, such as Montezuma's Return and Captain Claw... I hope there's a workaround, but overall it works fine... Heretic II, Quake and some 3D DOS games are perfect.
I still can't get the S-Video port on my X300SE to display stuff on my capture card, though...


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ALA offers many Webinars to help you learn about the digital transformations occurring in libraries. Please join us for these classes to help you be well informed on issues surrounding Ebooks and Digital Content. For more webinars to help with the wider issues of transforming your library please go to the "Online Learning" link.
ALCTS Webinar: The Role of Long-Term Storage in Digital Curation: Introduces considerations for the long-term storage of digital content selected for preservation. (November 14, 2012)
Using Social Media and Mobile Technology to Engage Teens (November 12-15. 2012)
Reference Through Social Media: Developing Standards, Guidelines, and Policies (October 29, 2012)
Open Access and Your Publications: What's Copyright Got to Do with It? (October 24, 2012)
Open Source Software for Libraries: How it Works; What it Can do for You (October 15, 2012)
Book as iPad App: Multimedia, Multi-Touch E-Books and their Future in Libraries (October 15, 2012)
Building the Digital Branch: Designing Effective Library Websites (October 10, 2012)
ALCTS Webinar: The Art of Selecting Digital Content to Preserve: What digital content do we have, and what is worth preserving? (October 10, 2012)
ALCTS Webinar: Preserving Your Personal Digital Photographs: Learn about the nature of the problem and hear about some simple, practical tips and tools to help you keep your digital photos safe. (April 26, 2012 / on-demand)
PLA On-Demand Webinar: Screentastic! Using Screencasting as a Reference and Customer Service Tool (July 18, 2012)
ALCTS Webinar: Steps in a Digital Preservation Workflow: This presentation will outline generic considerations and processes for building and managing a digital preservation workflow. (March 7, 2012/ on-demand)
ALCTS E-Forum: Data Access and Management: The Library's Role: This e-forum will discuss the collections aspect of hosting large data files, the acquisitions aspect of "accessioning" materials requiring no shelving or payment, and the technical services aspect of sharing responsibilities with reference. (March 26, 2012/ on-demand)
PLA On-Demand Webinar: E-Books 101 – A Look at Devices, Platforms, and Training Ideas (Spring 2012).
PLA On-Demand Webinar: E-Books and Customer Service at Your Library (Spring 2012).
PLA On-Demand Webinar: E-Books and Libraries: What's Next? (Spring 2012).
PLA On-Demand Webinar: Stretching Your Library's E-Books Budget (Spring 2012).
PLA On-Demand Webinar - Check Out E-Readers! Sacramento Public Library Did It and You Can Too! (Spring 2012).
ALCTS E-Forum: Digital Preservation: This e-forum will explore how digital preservation impacts each department, and will ask participants to discuss what policy and technology steps their library has taken to steward digital objects over time. (January 19, 2011/ on-demand)
YALSA Webinars on Demand: Reading Unbound: E-Readers and Your Library; Going Mobile: Teens, Libraries and Cell Phones; Tech 4 U: Technology Programs for Every User; From 140 Characters to 10 Pages: Teens, Social Media and Information Literacy.


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With Emma away for the weekend, the stage was set for Ellyn to make her Jiggered debut. It was a lively ceilidh with loads of pupils from the Milngavie Primary (the school the PTA were raising money for). Ellyn has been working with hordes of students across East Ayrshire recently and this experience was really clear as she expertly guided this enthusiastic bunch through the dances.
We've played this one year after year and love it. The young people were pleading for autographs and asking if we had an album out!
Ewan was back on form, winning fudge in the tombola!
There are a few dates in March and April we're offering discounts for. If you're looking for a last minute ceilidh, give us a shout.
Posted at 22:54 on 25th February 2017 by Chris Smith
If you're interested in hiring one of Scotland's most popular ceilidh bands for a ceilidh this March or April 2017, you're in luck.
We're offering an incredible £300 off ceilidhs for our remaining dates in the next couple of months...Just send us an email or give us a ring and you could get yourself a quality band for a fraction of the usual price!
The dates available (right now) are 10th/11th/17th/18th March and 14th/15th April!
Obviously these dates will be snapped up quickly so get in touch soon to avoid disappointment. And the usual terms and conditions apply...subject to availability etc etc...
Hope to hear from you soon.
Posted at 0:21 on 19th February 2017 by Chris Smith
Jiggered were in action in the Kay Park Parish Church Halls for the 37th Henderson Scouts. Some of the young men are off to Namibia during the summer - it was our pleasure to play at this fundraiser.
Jiggered's piano player Chris (better known as "Mr Smith" in Kilmarnock) knew a few of the ceilidhers and raffle salesman Scott ensured Mr S ended up with raffle ticket "314" as a tribute to pi. Unfortunatley, this didn't win any prizes!
Fiona had organised the event- the buffet featured rolls and sausage (always a hit) and bowls of mushy peas (this might be a "Jiggered" first).
Watch out for a few opportunities to snap up a cut-price last minute ceilidh....we'll be posting these on our website and Facebook page soon!
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Becoming an entrepreneur on the Albert Cuyp market
We're looking forward to meet you as our new
colleague! Below is a roadmap of how get to your market stall at the Albert Cuyp.
To start with you should know that the Albert Cuyp is a so-called 'free market', which means that there is no tenant mix strategy. There is however a fixed number of places for vending carts (foodtrucks). However, these are currently not available since they belong to permanent placeholders. This means that you're not allowed to stand on the market with your own food truck but only with a market stall.
Every Wednesday a special organic market is held on the First Sweelinckstraat.
Step 1.
Get a market permit.
To obtain a market permit you need to stop by the market desk; the so-called 'Marktbureau'. Please bring your registration of the population and your registration of the Chamber of Commerce.
– Registration of the population
– Registration Chamber of Commerce
At the market desk you can apply for 7 markets in Amsterdam, including the Albert Cuyp. Upon registration you will receive the following:
1. Market permit
2. Seniority number
The market permit costs € 57, -.
Market desk/ 'Marktbureau', reception counter 30 Amstel 1
1011 PN Amsterdam
Opening hours:
Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri: 10.00 until 13.00u o' clock. Thu: 13.00 until 16.00 o' clock.
Contact information:
Phone: 14 020
Email: email@example.com
Step 2. Drawing of lots at the market
Now that you have your market permit, you will put on the candidates list from which the draw is made. This is done in order of seniority (Thus the "oldest" stalls are at the top of the list). Every morning lots will be drawn.
The first market runs from Ferdinand Bolstraat to the Eerste van der Helstraat.
The second market runs from the Eerste van der Helstraat tot he Eerste Sweelinckstraat. The third market runs from the Eerste Sweelinckstraat to the Van Woustraat.
First market: every morning at 09.00 o' clock in front of Koffiehuis 'de Markt': Albert Cuypstraat 122-B.
Second market: every morning at 09.15 o' clock in front of Eetcafé 'Moos': Albert Cuypstraat 166.
Third market: every morning 09.30 o' clock in front of Lunchcafe 'Bozz': Albert Cuypstraat 240.
It is wise to be present fifteen minutes in advance. Needless to say you can participate in the drawing of lots of all the three markets.
If you want to be on the market on Fridays and Saturdays you are obliged to be present at least 1 day Monday to Thursday*. You are then placed on the so-called 'A-list' for the draw on Friday and Saturday.
* This arrangement will expire if there is a public holiday on one of the Monday, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays, or if the market is canceled on a Monday until Thursday.
Step 3. You may be on the market!
Now you are given a place here is some useful information. The costs are as follows:
€ 19.82 – City of Amsterdam – Electricity, water and cleaning costs (incl. VAT) and promotion costs (excl. VAT).
€ 16.00 – Rent stall
Optionally: Power, € 5,57 extra.
Times (important to know)
The market surveillance men walking along the stalls from 11:00 o'clock to check stalls for presence and to settle the bill (by pin).
You can unpack until 11.00 o'clock. Then the car barriers at the entrances close and the Albert Cuyp is car and bicycle free.
At 16.30 o'clock the car barriers open again so you can prepare to leave.
At 18:00 o'clock the market is cleaned.
At the market office 'Marktkantoor' (Where you can find the market regulators as well) you can pick up free yellow garbage bags. You can use these to present your garbage in at the end of the day. You can also walk by the office if you have any questions.
The office market is at Albert Cuypstraat 261-263.


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How cool are these Slogan Sneakers from Zara SS15? I stumbled upon these during one of my trusty Instagram scroll-fests and I was definitely struck by the black START/STOP bands across the upper.
They're complete with a 100% vulcanized rubber sole and a 3.5cm heel for extra comfort. Personally, I could do without the increased heel, but to each their own. Here is the best part: while many of us are used to shelling out between $100 - $140 for our sneakers, you can put your best foot forward and step out in these beauties for just $59.90.
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These CRYSTALS are So POPULAR. At the Same Time they are made from Genuine and Natural Gemstones and Hold Natural Powers of Good Luck and Protection. It looks as LUCKY HORN Crystal Pendant and Comes with 18 KGP Bail. Each Bail is STAMPED with 18 KGP (18 Karat Gold Plated). GOOD LUCK TALISMAN. This Crystal Horn Pendant is made from RED JASPER Gemstones and Holds the Power to Attract GOOD LUCK and PROTECTION Every Step of the Way.
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Breeders, keepers, importers and lovers of Havanese dogs
Ellingly Havanese
About Us - To find out more about Ellingly Havanese.
Ellingly Havanese is thrilled to announce CH Carnwath Jedda 'Gidget' and Carnwath American Express 'Patrick' became parents of six adorable puppies on the 9th December 2014 with three of each sex, enquiries welcomed.
Now we have three home breed Australian Champions, CH Ellingly Born this Way 'Lady', CH Ellingly April Skies 'April' and CH Ellingly Ashes to Ashes 'Ash'. Early in 2014 Ellingly Ashes to Ashes become an Australian Champion our first home born Havanese to gain his title. Big thanks goes out to his handlers Natasha Bender and family, who have supported Ash and Lady through their campaigning.


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BYU has seven players who survived Saturday's final cuts — including two Super Bowl champions and an undrafted free-agent rookie.
DE, Detroit Lions
Led the Lions in sacks as a rookie in 2013.
DS, Miami Dolphins
Has been with the Dolphins since 2005 as their primary deep-snapper.
DL, Pittsburgh Steelers
Also Snow College
Has played a big role along Pittsburgh's defensive front since 2002.
TE, Baltimore Ravens
Sat out most of 2013 with injury after a big 2012 season.
OL, New York Giants
Also Timpview HS
Has bumped around the league since graduating.
DB, Kansas City Chiefs
Played well in the preseason stepping in for the injured Eric Berry.
OLB, Detroit Lions
Will sit out the first part of the season with injury.
Hebron Fangupo
DT, Kansas City Chiefs
Spencer Hadley
LB, Oakland Raiders
Former Utah players on NFL rosters
Former Utah State players on NFL rosters
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When startups outgrow their co-working space
We follow three ventures as they find just the right spot for growth after starting in CoCo, a popular co-working venue
As we've highlighted in these pages before, some nimble ventures get their start in a co-working space offered by CoCo, which has three locations in the Twin Cities and one in Fargo. In exchange for membership dues, entrepreneurs get access to office resources, amenities, events, and networking opportunities.
But what happens when a budding venture outgrows a co-working space, whether it's offered by CoCo or one of its competitors?
"We don't try to keep growing companies at CoCo forever," says CoCo co-founder Don Ball. "Rather, we're set up to support them from inception up to the point where they hit high growth mode and clearly need their own space."
Following, the experiences of three Minnesota ventures that moved out of a CoCo location and into a new space. Their experiences don't represent every possibility of life after a co-working stint, but for entrepreneurs pondering real estate, they should prove illuminating.
11 Wells Spirits
Bob McManus at 11 Wells Distillery
With plans to open his own distillery, Bob McManus knew all along that his time spent in co-working spaces would be limited. He started using the Twin Cities CoCo spaces in December 2012. They helped him focus and were a welcome change from working at his kitchen table.
"CoCo is an inspiring space and puts a lot of different people together, gets them out of their living rooms, and lets them collaborate and network, and get customers and ideas," McManus explains. "It's a fantastic place to get started."
Meeting new people at CoCo who were knowledgeable about certain topics was another advantage to using the shared space, he adds.
McManus used CoCo facilities over the course of a year before deciding it was time to find a permanent home for his company, 11 Wells Spirits. He and business partner Lee Egbert looked for a special-purpose industrial building. They knew they didn't want a rental space, especially since they would be installing a number of expensive improvements to create an operable distillery. The winning candidate was one of the first locations McManus looked at. "I just knew it was the right space," he says.
When starting the search, he called the St. Paul Economic Development Authority and shared his plans to develop a distillery. The organization helped him find the Hamm's Brewery location, which his company now calls home. "It hadn't been occupied for 17 years — it was a mess," he says. "It was a historic building and I knew it was the spot for me."
Additionally, the building was already zoned industrial, so McManus didn't have to look for a variance to operate his distillery. And since there were no close neighbors, he knew he wouldn't bother anyone.
McManus started construction in September 2013. The name 11 Wells is indicative of the 11 wells on-site at the old brewery, the 11th of which is the water source for the company's spirits.
The new space serves as both an office and distillery. From it, McManus and Egbert launched their first product, Minnesota 13 White Whiskey, along with a rum, bourbon whiskey, and rye whiskey. The latter, they say, is the first rye whiskey to be launched in Minnesota since Prohibition.
They're still improving and adding to the space, which already includes a laboratory, fermentation area, and distilling room, with oak barrels of aging whiskey spread throughout. One upcoming improvement? A tasting room in what was once a blacksmith shop.
Doug Storbeck at LeadPages
LeadPages launched in December 2012 under the supervision of CEO Clay Collins. The idea for it surfaced about five years ago, when Collins started a blog focused on marketing consulting and training services. On it, he discussed landing pages he'd helped build for clients and proceeded to create videos about how they worked and performed. LeadPages was born from there. Today the rapidly growing tech company provides lead generation and landing-page platforms, has more than 90 employees, and supports more than 30,000 customers.
The company moved into the CoCo St. Paul office in January 2014, when it had only a handful of employees. By the time the company left for its own space at the end of 2014, it had 68 employees working out of CoCo. "LeadPages was a unique situation in that they were able to grow so fast and so big at our St. Paul location," says CoCo's Ball.
Because of its rapid growth, LeadPages needed to find its own space. "For the most part, we've been a virtual company," says director of operations Doug Storbeck. "As we continued to grow and add employees, we needed office infrastructure to bring the remote employees under one roof."
The company's leadership also hoped that the availability and accessibility of a new space would drive a deeper sense of community among employees.
The company wanted to headquarter in Minneapolis and had set up at CoCo's St. Paul location only because the others lacked sufficient room. So, when seeking a new space, LeadPages focused its search on where it had originally wanted to be. It also looked for a warehouse-type environment with some character, as well as an open, flexible concept, Storbeck says. In July 2014, it signed a lease on its new headquarters, an approximately 17,000-square-foot space in the Warehouse District neighborhood of Minneapolis.
It worked with Burton Real Estate Advisors to find the location. That firm's president, Tom Burton, "helped us identify the opportunity, the areas, and the properties," Storbeck says. "We quickly narrowed it down to a short list and got the one that we really liked and thought would be a good fit."
The biggest challenge during the search was finding a space big enough not only for current employees, but for future ones as well. "I'm confident that we got it right," Storbeck says. "And because of how we've built out the space, we'll be taken care of for the foreseeable future."
Mary Fallon and Dori Graff (right) at Kidizen
Mary Fallon and Dori Graff launched the idea for Minneapolis-based Kidizen in 2010 — then under the name Itizen. With backgrounds in advertising and branding, Fallon and Graff came up with the idea for Kidizen after dealing with the accumulation of stuff that comes with having kids. In December 2013, the duo officially launched Kidizen, a marketplace for parents to buy and sell children's goods. The main product is clothing, though the marketplace also features toys and accessories.
"We've been growing very rapidly ever since [the launch], and that has been part of the reason for our need to change offices," Graff says.
Graff and Fallon started using CoCo facilities in 2013. At the time, it was the perfect situation. "We were trying to get a startup off the ground but didn't have a ton of resources," Graff says. "It provided us with the support and resources we needed. And we got to hear all of the stories and experiences of other [entrepreneurs] while we were going through a lot of different changes ourselves, which was helpful."
Graff refers to CoCo as an "entrepreneurial epicenter" — a place with an immense amount of energy and excitement that provides numerous resources and networking opportunities for those creating a new business.
As Kidizen gained more traction, the team realized they needed their own space to focus on building out the products. In September 2014, they relocated to the second floor of a duplex in Uptown. Owned by Kidizen CEO Dug Nichols, it was an easy and convenient move.
"We wanted a space to make our own," Graff explains. "That was a very critical part of developing our company and our brand. We also had a need for a certain amount of space for photographing and [accommodating] all of the product."
But the duplex didn't work for long, as the company soon outgrew it. "We realized with the startup world, you don't know how fast you'll grow," Graff says. "And with all those unknowns, we needed a space that was more flexible."
The solution was Startup Venture Loft in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis, a new 8,500-square-foot co-working space for technology startups that officially opened in November 2014. An anchor tenant, Kidizen has its own dedicated space and works alongside three other companies that are at roughly the same stage in their fund-raising and team growth.
Says Graff of the new space: "It provides us with the perfect mix of collaboration and accidental collision of thoughts and ideas and resources."
Even if Kidizen grows two or three times larger, Startup Venture Loft can accommodate it. And such growth could easily occur: At the end of 2014, Kidizen secured new funding, bumping up total investments in the company to more than $500,000.


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What are the Causes of Toenail Fungus?
Toenail fungus is gross. Unfortunately, it can really affect a lot of people all over the world. This growth in the toenail can sometimes be hard to avoid under certain conditions.
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As such, here are some of the causes of toenail fungus that you really need to know about.
Exposure to fungi – the medical name for toenail fungus is Onychomycosis. This is a medical condition that happens to many people. You can be at the prime of your health and you will still get toenail fungus under the right conditions.
The biggest cause of toenail fungus is exposure to the fungi. If the fungi attaches to any part of your foot, it will travel to your toenail and it will start growing there. Toenail fungus is characterized by the thickening and discoloration of your toenails.
The discoloration ranges from black, grey, green and yellow. It is really ugly looking. Aside from this, if you leave it untreated, the toenail can grow so thick that the skin around the toenail will be very painful.
It is often the pain that drives many people to look for ways to treat the toenail fungus.
Heavy perspiration in a moist and humid environment – exposure to fungus does not automatically mean growth toenail fungus in your body. In fact, if the conditions are not ideal, fungus will not grow.
As such, you really should avoid spending time in a moist and humid environment wherein your foot is exposed. This way, you will be able to lower your risk factors towards acquiring toenail fungus.
Walking barefoot in public pools and bathrooms – this is one of the biggest causes behind the spread of toenail fungus. Not only will you acquire the fungus from walking barefoot, it will also result to rapid growth and infection to your own toenail because of the ideal conditions.
This is the main reason why you really should wear special shoes or slippers when you go to a public pool or a public bathroom. This will ensure that you will not be exposed to fungal infection that will affect and inconvenience your life in the near future.
Remember that an ounce of prevention is definitely way better than a pound of cure.
If you are infected with toenail fungus, you really need to consult with a doctor. Remember that the doctor is the best person qualified to give you toenail fungus treatment. Don't just go to the internet and get advice there.
You might end up aggravating your problem rather than alleviating it.


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The following text was extracted from The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism -- vol.8 From Formalism to Poststructuralism. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Deconstructionist Theory
Most of Derrida's work continues a line of thought which begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and runs through Martin Heidegger. This line of thought is characterized by an ever more radical repudiation of Platonismoof the apparatus of philosophical distinctions which the West inherited from Plato and which has dominated European thought. In a memorable passage in The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche describes 'how the "true world" became a fable.' There he sketches an account of the gradual dissolution of the other-worldy way of thinking common to Plato, to Christianity, and to Kant, the way of thinking which contrasts the True World of Reality with the World of Appearance created by the senses, or matter, or Sin, or the structure of the human understanding. The characteristic expressions of this other-worldliness, this attempt to escape from time and history into eternity, are what deconstructionists often call 'the traditional binary oppositions': true--false, original--derivative, unified--diverse, objective--subjective, and so on.
What Heidegger called 'Platonism' or 'metaphyics' or 'onto-theology' Derrida calls 'the metaphysics of presence' or 'logocentrism' (or, occasionally, 'phallogocentrism'). Derrida repeats Heidegger's claim that this metaphysics is utterly pervasive in Western culture. Both see the influence of the traditional binary oppositions as infecting all areas of life and thought, including literature and the criticism of literature. So Derrida entirely agrees with Heidegger that the task of the thinker is to twist free of these oppositions, and of the forms of intellectual and cultural life which they structure. However, Derrida does not think that Heidegger succeeded in twisting free. As he says:
What I have attempted to do would not have been possible without the opening of Heidegger's questions ... But despite this debt to Heidegger's thought, or rather because of it, I attempt to locate in Heidegger's text ... the signs of belonging to metaphysics, or to what he calls onto-theology'.[...]
(Derrida, Positions, pp. 9-10)
In order to distance himself from Heidegger, Derrida proceeds to invent bits of philosophical terminology (trace, différance, archi-écriture, supplement, and many others) designed to mock and displace Heidegger's own terminology (Ereignis, Lichtung and the like).1 Whereas Heidegger's words express his reverence for the ineffable, the silent, and the enduring, Derrida's express his affectionate admiration for the proliferating, the elusive, the allusive, the ever-self-recontextualizing. He sees these features as exemplified in writing better than in speech -- thus reversing Plato's (and Heidegger's) preference for the spoken over the written word. By constructing this terminology, Derrida is trying for the position for which Heidegger had implicitly nominated himself, that of the first post-metaphysical thinker, the prophet of an age in which the reality--appearance distinction has entirely lost its hegemony over our thought.
By abandoning Heideggerian nostalgia, Derrida freed himself from those elements in Heidegger's thought which chimed with Heidegger's own sentimental pastoralism and nationalismotraits which led him to Nazism. Derrida thus helped free Heidegger up for the use of the political left. Further, and more importantly for the purposes of deconstructionist literary critics, he turned from Heidegger's sentimental question 'How can we find traces of the remembrance of Being in the texts of the history of philosophy?' to the quasi-political questions 'How can we subvert the intentions of texts which invoke metaphysical oppositions? How can we expose them as metaphysical?' He turned from Heidegger's preoccupation with the philosophical canon to the development of a technique which could be applied to almost any text, past or contemporary, literary, or philosophical. This was the technique which has come to be called 'deconstruction.'
The word deconstruction plays as small a role in Derrida's writing as Abbau and Destruktion played in Heidegger's. 'Deconstructionism' was, initially, no more Derrida's chosen label for his own thought than 'existentialism' was Heidegger's label for the doctrines of Being and Time. But, because Derrida was made famous (in English-speaking countries) not by his fellow-philosophers but by literary critics (who were looking for new ways of reading texts rather than for a new understanding of intellectual history), this label has (in those countries) become firmly attached to a school of which Derrida is, rather to his own surprise and bemusement, the leading figure.2 As used by members of this school, the term 'deconstruction', refers in the first instance to the way in which the 'accidental' features of a text can be seen as betraying, subverting, its purportedly 'essential' message.3
One can generalize Derrida's comment on Heidegger as follows: anyone who says something like 'I must repudiate the entire language of my culture' is making a statement in the language she repudiates. She will be doing so even if she rephrases her repudiation in the form of a metaphorical, rather than a literal, use of the terms of that language. Alternatively: someone who wants not to talk about beings is compelled to spell out his intentions in -- what else? -- terms used to talk about beings. Any attempt to do anything of the sort which Heidegger wanted to do will trip itself up. So, Derrida concludes, we must try for something very similar to what Heidegger attempted, but also very different.4
Derrida thinks of Heidegger's attempt to express the ineffable as merely the latest and most frantic form of a vain struggle to break out of language by finding words which take their meaning directly from the world, from non-language. This struggle has been going on since the Greeks, but it is doomed because language is, as Saussure says, nothing but differences.5 That is, words have meaning only because of contrast-effects with other words. 'Red' means what it does only by contrast with 'blue', 'green', etc. 'Being' also means nothing except by contrast, not only with 'beings' but with 'Nature', 'God', 'Humanity', and indeed every other word in the language. No word can acquire meaning in the way in which philosophers from Aristotle to Bertrand Russell have hoped it might -- by being the unmediated expression of something non-linguistic (e.g., an emotion, a sense-datum, a physical object, an idea, a Platonic Form).6
Derrida says of the logocentric philosophers who hold out this hope of immediacy: 'Univocity is the essence, or better, the telos of language. No philosophy has ever renounced this Aristotelian ideal. This ideal is philosophy.' (Margins, p. 247) To succeed in twisting free of the logocentric tradition would be to write, and to read, in such a way as to renounce this ideal. To destroy the tradition would be to see all the texts of that tradition as self-delusive, because using language to do what language cannot do. Language itself, so to speak, can be relied upon to betray any attempt to transcend it (see Derrida, Writing, pp. 278-81).
[...] These claims have been the subject of hostile, sometimes bitter, criticism, from Derrida's fellow philosophers. Jacques Bouveresse in France and Jürgen Habermas in Germany have criticized Derrida severely. But the fiercest criticism of him has come from British and American analytic philosophers, members of the philosophical school which has dominated the English-speaking academic world since the Second World War. For many of these philosophers, heirs of a tradition which began with the logical positivists' opposition to metaphysics (not in the wide Heideggerian sense of the term, but in a narrower sense in which 'unverifiable' metaphysical, theological and moral claims are opposed to 'verifiable' scientific claims) Derrida's work seems a deplorable, frivolous, wicked, regression to irrationalism.
There are two main lines of criticism of Derridean philosophy. Those who take the first line see Derrida's doctrines as a sort of reductio ad absurdum of doubts about 'realism' -- about the claim that our language and thought are structured and given content by the world, by non-language. They treat Derrida as a linguistic idealist -- someone whose much-quoted slogan 'There is nothing outside the text'7 is supported by nothing more than the bad old arguments of Berkeley and Kant. One such critic, David Novitz, says that Derrida believes that 'our use of language is never constrained by a non-linguistic world' ('Rage', p.53), and that this conclusion does not follow from the fact that 'we cannot experience an object apart from our mental constructs', for that 'is just another way of saying that we cannot experience an object apart from our experience of it' ('Rage', p.50). As Novitz says, 'We still observe non-linguistic or non-semiotic objects in order to ascertain whether we have described them correctly'. The fact that we do so, he thinks, shows that 'there must be a non-linguistic, non-semiotic, non-constructed world ... one, moreover, which exercises some constraint on what we say, how we organise, differentiate and codify' (ibid. p.51).
The question raised by Novitz' criticism is whether the fact (which Derrida would hardly deny) that there are non-linguistic objects which constrain (in straightforwardly physical, causal ways) both our linguistic and our non-linguistic behaviour refutes the Derridean suggestion that, in Novitz' words, 'our concepts and meanings ... do not represent, convey, or correspond to a non-linguistic reality, a "transcendental signified"' ('Rage', p.49). 8 There is obviously a gap between 'X constrains Y' and 'Y represents, conveys or corresponds to X'. 'Realist' philosophers think that they can cross this gap. They think that the causal influence of the environment upon linguistic behaviour enables us to give a clear sense to the claim that some bits of language 'correspond' to something non-linguistic. Their opponents, both 'anti-realists' and those who try to set aside the realism/anti-realism issue as misconceived9 think that no such sense can be found.
A respectable body of opinion within analytic philosophy holds that the existence of causal relations between language and non-language does not suffice to give a sense to the notion of 'correspondence between language and reality'. This view seems implicit in Wittgenstein, and it is explicit in the work of contextualist philosophers of language such as Donald Davidson.10 So one can argue that Derrida's views are no more scandalous or absurd than those of these latter figures.11 On this argument, Wittgenstein, Davidson and Derrida have all preserved what was true in idealism while eschewing Berkeley's and Kant's suggestion that the material world is the creation of the human mind. Many followers of Wittgenstein and Davidson, however, sympathize with a second, somewhat milder, line of criticism of Derrida. According to this criticism, Derrida starts off from a philosophical position which rightly emphasizes the self-contained character of language, rightly holds that (in Wilfrid Sellars' words) 'all awareness is a linguistic affair' (Science, p. 160), and rightly repudiates what Davidson calls 'the scheme-content dichotomy.'12 However, he sets out this position in such an extravagant, hyperbolic, way that his misled followers pardonably, though fallaciously, derive silly consequences from it. John Searle, for example, sensibly remarks that the fact that language is a system of differences 'does nothing to undermine the distinction between presence and absence' for
I understand the differences between the two sentences 'the cat is on the mat' and 'the dog is on the mat' in precisely the way I do because the word 'cat' is present in the first while absent in the second, and the word 'dog' is present in the second, while absent from the first ... the system of differences is precisely a system of presences and absences.More generally, one can argue, in the spirit of Wittgenstein, that philosophy 'leaves everything as it is' (Investigations, Part I, sect. 124) except for previous philosophy, and that abandoning the specifically metaphysical quest for univocity through confrontation with a non-linguistic referent (what Derrida calls 'the telos of language . . . this Aristotelian ideal') does not mean abandoning the every-day distinction between relatively univocal and relatively ambiguous uses of words.13 Again, to say that the objective-subjective distinction is relative to context and purpose is not to repudiate that distinction, but merely to caution against thinking that 'objective' can mean more than 'intersubjective'. Searle speaks for many analytic philosophers when he says that 'in the twentieth century, mostly under the influence of Wittgenstein and Heidegger, we have come to believe that this general search for these sorts of foundations [ontological, epistemological, or phenomenological foundations of the sort sought by Plato, Descartes or Husserl] is misguided'. But he insists that 'this doesn't threaten science, language, or common sense in the least.' ('World', p.77) For Searle, Derrida's anti-foundationalism is neither new nor particularly interesting. On his view, only the philosophical naivety of Derrida's followers lets them see anti-foundationalism as having startling consequences for literary criticism or for politics.
('World', p.76)
Searle here raises perhaps the most widespread objection to deconstructionism: why should we think that the abandonment of Platonic ideas and strivings would have important ramifications for the rest of culture?14 Why, for example, should we believe that, as Derrida (following Heidegger) insists, science has been constrained by 'metaphysical bonds that have borne on its definition and movement from its beginning'? Why not say instead (with, for example, Reichenbach, Popper and Dewey) that the natural sciences have done a lot to loosen those bonds, and to make possible a post-metaphysical culture? These questions cannot be pursued in this space, but raising them is useful for understanding Derrida's relation to the philosophical world of his time as well as for understanding the reception of deconstructionism by dubious or angry spectators of the movement.15
1. For an argument that notions like trace and différance come together to make up something rather like a philosophical system, see Gasché, Tain. This very thorough and impressive work argues that Derrida has been misread because of his appropriation by literary theorists, and that he needs to be restored to philosophy proper. (See especially p.3 on this point). For criticism of Gasché, see Rorty, 'Transcendental'.
2. For a good discussion of the difference between Derrida's orginal interests and the interests of his English-speaking followers, see Grumbrecht, 'Deconstruction deconstructed'. For the claim that deconstruction should not have been extended from metaphysics to literature, that it was a mistake to have taken 'a legitimate philosophical practice ... as a model for literary criticism', see Eco, 'Intentio', p. 166.
3. See de Man's reply to a request for a definition of 'deconstruction' by Robert Moynihan, in the latter's A Recent Imagining, p. 156: 'It's possible, within text, to frame a question or to undo assertions made in the text, by means of elements which are in the text, which frequently would be precisely structures that play off the rhetorical against grammatical elements.'
4. For Derrida's discussion of the similarities and differences between Heidegger's project and his own, see Margins, pp. 25-7 and 134-6. See also Megill, Prophets, chapter 7.
5. See Saussure, Course, chapter 4, sect. 4. The same point is made by Wittgenstein at many places in Philosophical Investigations.
6. This is not, of course, to say that there is no such thing as linguistic reference to non-language. But merely to repeat Wittgenstein's point that ostensive definition requires a lot of 'stage-setting'. The common-sense claim that 'There's a rabbit' is typically uttered in the presence of rabbits is undermined neither by Wittgenstein's point, nor by Quine's arguments about the inscrutability of reference, nor by Derrida's about the tendency of the signifier to slip away from the signified. For the impact of such arguments on the notion of meaning, see Stout, 'Meaning', and Wheeler, 'Extension'.
7. This phrase occurs at Derrida, Grammatology, p. 158. In its context it has a more specific and complicated sense than that usually attached to it by hostile commentators.
8. The phrase 'the transcendental signified' is one of Derrida's terms for an entity capable (per impossible) of halting the potential infinite regress of interpretations of signs by other signs. See Derrida, Grammatology, p.49, where he agrees with Pierce that nothing can stop such a regress.
9. For the distinction between these two types of philosopher, see Fine, 'Anti-Realism' and Rorty, 'Pragmatism', pp. 351-5.
10. See Davidson, 'Myth', p.165: 'Beliefs are true or false but they represent nothing. It is good to be rid of representations, and with them the correspondence theory of truth.'
11. On Derrida and Wittgenstein, see Grene, 'Derrida and Wittgenstein'; Staten, Wittgenstein; Rorty, 'Nutshell'. On Derrida and Davidson, see Wheeler, 'Extension' and 'Indeterminacy'.
12. See Davidson, 'Myth', p.163: 'Instead of saying that it is the scheme-content dichotomy that has dominated and defined the problems of modern philosophy Oe one could as well say that it is how the dualism of the objective and the subjective has been conceived ... [T]he most promising and interesting change that is occurring in philosophy today is that these dualisms are being questioned in new ways or are being radically reworked.' Such passages in the writings of Davidson, Putnam and other analytic philosophers parallel the decontructionists' attacks on 'the traditional binary oppositions'.
13. A similar point is made by Robert Scholes at pp. 67-73 of Protocols. Scholes is concerned to distinguish a metaphysical from a pragmatic sense of 'presence', and to argue that scepticism about the former is irrelevant to the latter.
14. See Stout, 'Relativity', pp.109-10, and Rorty, 'Circumvention', pp.20-1 for two ways of posing, and expanding on, this rhetorical question.
15. For dubeity, see Abrams, 'How to do Things'; for angrier reactions, see Hirsch, Aims, p.13, and Bate, 'Crisis'.
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Dossier Océan et Énergie - Énergie Thermique des Mers
Proposal for a European contribution to the development of the exploitation of the marine resource known as "Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion OTEC" for the production of electricity and fresh water in the Ultra Peripheral Regions of the Union.
Le Club des Argonautes - Octobre 2006
During last decades, the idea developed that the recourse to renewable and clean energies would be essential to meet the needs of the world for primary energy. This, not only to mitigate possible shortages of fossil and nuclear fuels supplies because of conflicts and embargoes or the rarefaction of resources , but also to reduce as much as possible the serious and durable (if not irreversible) effects that the use of these traditional fuels could cause to our natural environment.
To act and challenge this evolution the ways are many: to save energy, to produce energy while polluting less, to exploit new clean and renewable resources. And to follow this third way the marine resources offer an important production potential.
Exploitation of the marine resources of renewable energy.
Tidal, offshore wind, wave, sea current and ocean thermal energy (OTEC) are the marine phenomena for which conversion processes to primary energy have been already tested at sea at sizes enabling extrapolation to capacity up to several megawatts (MW) and for which production costs are considered acceptable in the more or less long term.
The processes developed for the exploitation of these phenomena are by nature considered non polluting insofar as they introduce into the biosphere neither energy, nor chemical components. They create disturbances of natural flows of energy and matter, increase marine area occupation and add constraints for navigation with other effects, visual and possibly auditive, that could be - a priori - benign for offshore sitings. This assertion remains to be validated as exploitation of these resources will develop in order to specify its impacts and bearable limits.
The OTEC resource is stored in the form of heat in the surface water heated by the sun. Largely distributed in the whole ocean within the intertropical belt where are located some European UPR , it is abundant and stable .Its theoretical energy potential is estimated one hundred times that of the tide and ten times that of the wind - and it is base load - available 24 hours a day, 365 days a years - a very significant advantag.
OTEC principle and industrial development prospects.
When a suitable fluid under liquid form is heated up to its boiling temperature , it transforms into vapor. If one makes this vapor pass through a turbine coupled to an alternator before directing it towards a condenser - where it cools and turns back again to liquid - one has produced a gaseous turbogenerator. OTEC functions according to this process. The "heat" necessary to the vapor formation is taken from the warm water reservoir at the surface of the ocean where the temperature can reach 25 to 28 °C, and the "coldness" necessary to vapor condensation is provided by the water pumped from a few hundred meters of depth, under the thermocline, where temperatures approaches zero degrees centigrade. The OTEC process is complementary to that of our traditional power stations burning fossil or nuclear traditional fuels . Only the operating conditions are different. The small temperature difference available for OTEC makes the process less efficient and requires different equipment with different levels of investment.
Thanks to the first experimental work achieved during the 1930s, it was shown that OTEC was viable. Today the United States and Japan have taken over the pioneer ing role to better explore the technical solutions,and their economic s, rendering OTEC exploitation increasingly attractive. They optimized the performances of the equipment : heat exchangers and turbines, and consolidated the degree of confidence for the behaviour "at sea" of the deep water pipes. They also developed the concept of "multi-products ». This concept adapted to OTEC plants of modest sizes of a few tens of MWs allows to develop other usages of the deep cold water: for air conditioning and for production of fresh water and aquaculture products .
Also American and Japanesese scientists studied the extrapolation of OTEC to floating plants of several hundreds of MWs to produce synthetic fuels transportable by tankers to meet the demand of countries located far from OTEC resource zones.
Also during the operation of their experimental plants, American and Japanese scientists acquired data on the impact of consequent sea motion on the natural environment - in particular that of the deep water, still cold and rich in nutrients - and began to study the limits of the durable exploitation of the resource.
OTEC : a marine energy neglected by Europe.
OTEC resource is renewable, stable and abundant. It offers particularly attractive multiform prospects for exploitation. American and Japanese promoters imagined OTEC development in 3 complementary phases of increasing difficulty - the success of the first phase authorizing the engagement of the second, and then the implementation of the third.
The first phase will aim at the industrialization of small "multi-products" plants meeting the immediate needs for countriesof the "South" having direct access to the resource .It would be carried out in partnership and with the technical and financial support of the international community of industrialized countries.
During the second phase, the experience gained during the exploitation of the plants of first generation will be used to extrapolate technology towards plants whose production capacity meets the requirements of industrialized countries, initially to supply coastal cities in the tropical zone and then, during the third phase, for the production and the transport of synthetic fuels (ammoniac, methanol, hydrogen) anywhere in the world.
In parallel with the evolution of the technology and the reduction of costs which will accompany this exemplary OTEC development, the observation over several decades of the operation of power plants of increasing capacities over increasingly long period of time will allow the study of the effects of the plants consequent water motions on the local, regional and global environment, and to develop adapted policies and procedures for water motion management.
After having been the pioneer country for OTEC at the beginning of the past centuries from its invention by d'Arsonval in the 1880s, and after having still been heavily involved between 1982 and 1985 in the of preliminary study of a 5 MW OTEC pilot plant for French Polynesia, France in 1986 gave up its activities in this field for the reason that the cost of OTEC energy was not competitive with that of the energy market on the Territory. Obviously that was an predictable situation for a first pilot plant of still, immature technology.
One can regret this aborted project and the absence of initiatives to organize at the national or European level the continuation of activities for the development of OTEC. All the European Union funding for the development of renewable energy is allocated to "indigenous" resources. That implicitly excludes OTEC whose resource is in the tropical oceans. This argument of exclusion used by the Commission is doubly unjustified. On the one hand because the resource is available in the EEZ of Ultra Péripheral Regions of the E U and in addition because this restrictive policy is likely to exclude de facto the energy sector of European Industry from a future equipment market that some foreign countries estimate promising and very large.
Here above are briefly presented the reasons for this demand for a European contribution to the development of the exploitation of the marine resource known as "Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion OTEC" for the production of electricity and fresh water in the Ultra Peripheral Regions of the Union. The content of this contribution remains to be defined.
Le Club des Argonautes - Octobre 2006


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Checking to Check Out14
Checking in to Check Out-
A reminder about the assumption we may make and the importance of checking in to check out those assumptions. Inaccurate assumptions can kill an otherwise potentially mutually beneficial negotiation and relationship.
I feel a little like the youngster in the following example wanting to check in with you as it has been some time since the last coaching message.
Billy was a ten-year old fifth-grader who had a small yard and gardening business he conducted after school and on Saturdays afternoons but not on Sundays. One Saturday morning, Billy was in Harold's barbershop waiting to get a haircut. Harold was still busy with a customer, so Billy went over to the telephone and made the following call. He didn't have a cell phone.
"Hello, Mrs. Anderson," he said." I am a fifth-grader,and I have a lawn and gardening service that I do after school and on the Saturday afternoon and I was just wondering, Mrs. Anderson, if you would like me to take care of your lawn and garden?"
"Oh, you already have someone doing that for you." "Oh, you are very satisfied with their work"? "Oh, and you are not thinking about making a change." "Oh, well, thank you for your time, Mrs. Anderson," and he hung up the phone.
Harold had overheard the conversation and said to Billy, "Billy, I thought you took care of Mrs. Anderson's lawn and garden."
" I do," said Billy. "I was just checking in to check out how well I was doing."
Ten-year old and in the fifth grade.
Should you and I do any differently- checking in to check out how well we are doing with your clients, family, co-workers..?
Right now I am checking in with you to check out to see if you find these NO to GO® coaching messages valuable.
Always great to hear from you.
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Dear Colleagues,
Fraud and corruption in the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) must be punished! This is our firm stand and commitment.
It cannot be tolerated and we must all be resolute that we spare no effort to expose and punish it from whatever quarter it comes.
About two weeks ago, I announced the launch of Operation Bvisa Masina, "Cleaning the rot", which is a critical element of our Moetapele Initiative. This campaign is aimed at flushing out of the DHA all those that do not live according to the principles of ethical conduct we have set ourselves. Rot expresses itself in the public service in many ways, not only through stealing public funds, but also through, among others:
selling South African documents – visas, identity documents, passports and birth certificates – to foreign nationals that do not qualify to access them;
selling birth certificates of children to people who are not the parents of these children; or forging such certificates for non-existent children so that the fake parents can access child support grants;
registering fraudulent marriages or conniving with members of the public in doing so;
conniving in registering marriages of convenience;
conniving with those that generate fraudulent South African documents;
taking a bribe in order to accelerate a particular service or move someone up the
queue, and;
as in the past, leaving your computer station on so that someone else can enter their own access-code in order to produce fraudulent documents.
However, this is not an exhaustive list of all frauds committed in the Department. We must also be very clear that those who drag their feet in providing a service a client deserves or who miss work on a Monday because they were too drunk over the weekend are equally corrupt and involved in an act of defrauding the Department and government.
Often, there is a very thin line between poor service to a client and corruption. When one, maliciously and with contempt, provides poor service to a client, they are not different from someone who is engaged in theft against that client himself / herself, government and the public as a whole.
Those of us who have been in the Department for long, including those who had served in other government departments, in the private sector or were still studying, will vividly remember the screaming newspaper headlines, "HORROR AFFAIRS denies someone their ID!" We will remember the times when torrents of damning articles about our Department were the order of the day, decrying poor service as well as fraud and corruption. There was a time when fraud and corruption at Home Affairs were blatant, naked and just plain arrogantly and maliciously pursued.
Then there was that sad day early in 2009 when we learned with shock and horror that a fellow South African, Skhumbuzo Mhlongo, had hanged himself at Nqetho, outside Hillcrest in Pinetown, because a Home Affairs official in Pinetown had torn up his ID application form and thus denied him an ID. Mhlongo's parents had died while he was young and needed an ID because, he said, he had lost his job precisely because he did not have it. In his suicide note, he said that he was hurt each time he saw his friends go to work and yet he did not want to become a criminal.
A callous disregard for his rights and complete lack of compassion for his plight had denied him access to his rights and thus a chance to make a living for himself. Conscience demanded that we take the sternest action against the said officials and they were subsequently dismissed after an internal inquiry. Our vision of the Home Affairs we were creating could not co-exist with such uncaring individuals who negated everything we sought in our new cadre of public servants.
Perhaps, the passage of time has healed the wounds of his family as well as those of us in the public service whose conscience could not stomach such callousness; who were saddened, shamed and horrified by that callous incident. To us, and surely to his family, Mhlongo was not a mere statistic but an important South African whose aspirations were the very reason we had pledged to serve our people. In granting him his ID, a vital service, we would help him improve his life and, in so doing, all our lives would get better.
But, perhaps the passage of time has created the risk that we may relapse into the same smugness that resulted in Skhumbuzo Mhlongo committing suicide. When the time passes, and people begin to forget the injustices of the past, they enter the realm of risk that may cause them to repeat the mistakes of the past. Nothing could be worse.
We must keep the memory of Skhumbuzo Mhlongo alive so that we never repeat the mistakes of yester-years. It is precisely for this reason that we must find ways to immortalise the memory of Skhumbuzo Mhlongo in the Department and the Moetapele Initiative, and within it, the Operation Bvisa Masina intend to achieve exactly this objective.
It must be emphasised that rooting out fraud and corruption in the Department cannot be pursued only through instilling the fear of hell – a prosecution-led mechanism – among our officials. Furthermore, this is an objective that cannot be achieved only through the laudable initiatives of the Eagles of our Department. Both the Moetapele Initiative and Operation Bvisa Masina require the active and passionate involvement of all our officials, regardless of who they are, what position or rank they hold, or what remote corner of the country they are at. Your name, rank or geographic location does not matter; but the service you deliver does! Ultimately, this is what matters!
I dare each one of you to become the agents of the change we seek as the Department, who lead, deliver quality and professional services and combat fraud and corruption. We must fight fraud and corruption not because we are scared of the Eagles and prosecution, but more so because we are patriotic public servants committed to serving our people both through offering them quality and professional service, as well as through jealously safeguarding the resources of the people we serve.
During the 2014/15 Budget Vote, we made a passionate plea to all South Africans to also carry out the responsibilities that come with their rights,
Firstly, to prize South African citizenship by zealously safeguarding our documents and not contribute, wittingly or unwittingly, towards extending citizenship to people who do not deserve it;
Secondly, to register the birth of all children before they leave the hospital, or within 30 days of birth, in order to help us secure our National Population Register; and
- Thirdly, to apply for their identity documents at 16 years of age in order to enhance their ability to access government services.
I believe the same plea applies to all our employees, particularly the one referring to prizing our citizenship and zealously safeguarding our documents.
I trust we will not let the memory of Skhumbuzo Mhlongo to dissipate into thin air and drop our commitment never to repeat the errors of the past, which led him to commit suicide in anger, pain, dejection and loss of hope for the future!
Thank you.
Malusi Gigaba MP Minister


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Thursday, 19 May 2011
Wood piles
Is it so that piles of any kind looks interesting? If it is so - why does it appeal to us?
I just ordered this book by Leanne Shapton - Native trees of Canada (found it through the Topipittori blog)
10 comments:
- Sara said...
are you talking about gradation? I think it's because it's like a sunset or sunrise- or other ways we see it in nature, like the wood pile. Now we like it in 'ombre' hair coloring.
- 19 May 2011 at 06:26
- Dyche Designs said...
I always find myself drawn to wood and that wood pile is amazing. Image all the years of growth that is represented there.
- 19 May 2011 at 11:04
- auprès de mon arbre said...
Thank you for the native trees of canada book...
I just ordered it too.
- 19 May 2011 at 12:53
- els martens said...
I recognize the problem: the love for well stacked wood.
- 19 May 2011 at 13:55
- Britt-Marie Oskarsson said...
Man känner sig rik om man har en egen, särskilt om man staplat själv.
Fin boklänk. Tack!
- 20 May 2011 at 00:56
- poulus said...
For me the same. I love wood piles
- 20 May 2011 at 01:00
- tiziana - the t time said...
sono la mia fissazione (they are may setting).
ciao camilla! :)
- 21 May 2011 at 00:22
- Highland Monkey's said...
That's one great wood pile. I lovve to see neatly stacked wood already for winter.
- 23 May 2011 at 10:31
- Dion said...
There's something about them that calls us.. maybe a wood nymph? lol
- 26 May 2011 at 17:19
- Natasha said...
I love these photos! I think that piles (of any kind) appeal to us because humans always have a desire to store things - it makes us feel safe. Food, fuel, objects; they all comfort us and make us feel secure. I believe that's what it is.
- 5 June 2011 at 03:03