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Posted 02 November 2011 - 06:57 AM
Deputies seize $2,874 in cash, 29 marijuana plants, nine pounds of harvested marijuana, five pounds of packaged marijuana and 10 pounds of various baked goods suspecting of containing marijuana from the Big Daddy's locations,
14 pounds = 224 ounces = 15 maxed caregivers to be legal not counting the baked goods
If you find out they did not have 15 caregivers on site at all time, will you admit they broke the law? Or will you continue to support illegal activity?
Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:03 AM
I made my point, and many of you revealed your
intentionsopinions too.
I corrected it for you.
DN how about you think for a minute.
- Do you think patients would still need to get a card and be put on a list with the State if there was full legalization?
- Do you think more patients or fewer patients would be arrested if there was full legalization?
Like JB420, my opinion is any opposition to full legalization of cannabis hurts patients period .
Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:35 AM
I never said I condoned Big Daddy's behavior or even MACC's direction - all my post had reflected that much.
Again - if you support legalization, thats great. But if this is to be a medical marijuana forum, do you guys understand it does not help when a new patient, a person that will try marijuana for the first time, who wants to obey the law, and intends to use it for medicine - they ask a question in the forum, and the legalization crowd debates with the medical marijuana crowd about how people should grow, transport, and transfer between themselves. It has happened all too often, the answers for medical use gets confusing when people start directing them to violate the laws, rather than follow existing laws. I had just simply pointed out the hard truth, this forum is a mess because we cannot decide - is this about medical use or legalization. If you think about your posts, why not think that perhaps some post should be directed at ASA or MiNorml, and not here in a medical forum?
Made you think, my work is done. See you at the protest tomorrow - against Bill Shuette!
Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:36 AM
Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:37 AM
Don't get me wrong, all people who use marijuana are nice people. This is about the mmm.org forum, not our opinions.
Look for me Restorium! tomorrow?
Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:41 AM
Like JB420, my opinion is any opposition to full legalization of cannabis hurts patients period .
Not opposition, separation. Total separation of the two.
I have to be clear, I am not for legalization of marijuana.
Since my reply was to the OP, it is clear opposition was being discussed here.
When over half the states have medical cannabis, and we have our medical rights carved in stone, then we should all go for the goal of legalization, and push with everything we have. Until then, keep it under your hat in mixed company(public), in my opinion.
I disagree. Medical would benefit more from full legalization than what full legalization could ever benefit from medical.
Toughen up base.
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:02 AM
Morhawk - if you read my post, you see I am going to the protest because of AG bill shuette is getting personally involved in the trial of Big Daddy.
the answers for medical use gets confusing when people start directing them to violate the laws
Made you think, my work is done. See you at the protest tomorrow - against Bill Shuette!
And you think the news reports will show that? Or will it just send a message to the "new patients" that we should go outside the law and have pounds of marijuana, just because we feel it is right? You are protesting against the Attorney General whose job it is to represent the state laws. The MMMA is a state law, and it would look as if BD's violated it. So what's wrong with him doing his job? But feel free to chastise people on a forum as you go out in front of the TV camera's, news reporters, and the public. I hope your message doesn't get misconstrued..
Feel free to think yourself.
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:03 AM
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:15 AM
"You are protesting against the Attorney General whose job it is to represent the state laws"
kidding me right?
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:21 AM
You said 2 ways legalization or medical use. How about a middle road as I feel,
God gave us seed bearing plants to use, we the PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN can use Medical Marijuana.
Let us stay together as brothers and sisters.
Please let this topic die out, I don't think it helps
Edited by Purplehaze, 02 November 2011 - 08:22 AM.
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:22 AM
ok, fun and convenient for you.
What about the new patients and CGs? Does it help them to mix legalization and medical crowd? When there is a medical question, should they get the 'legalization' response or the medical response?
I would assume that ASA and Minorml would give you plenty of legalization news and reports.
Are you asking me to leave?
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:24 AM
Are you asking me to leave?
Well I can answer that Hell No PB.................
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:26 AM
JB - not trying to run people off - but make them think.
so far the last few years this forum has had its ups and downs. Everyone keeps saying 'we need direction'.
I want people to think what they are doing here. Are you camping here for laughs and tokes, or did you want to help the medical marijuana program in michigan?
Is this a medical marijuana site, as the title says? Or maybe we should change it to MichiganMarijuana.org to stop confusing people that this site is about medical use.
Is it an attitude? It was a feeling that keeps popping up at many events, clubs, and forums. Maybe the michigan medical marijuana site should be simple - make it about medical use of marijuana? Teach patients to treat marijuana like medicine, not like a recreation?
I made my point, and many of you revealed your intentions too.
So convert the forums into a online magazine. Only let three or four post with strict limits.
In other words .. close this site.
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:27 AM
morhawk, you are kidding right?
"You are protesting against the Attorney General whose job it is to represent the state laws"
kidding me right?
Not at all. You should be supporting someone to prosecute someone who may have broke the law. Unless you support full legalization. If it was fully legalized, Schuette would not have a leg to stand on. But it's not, and he has a couple of legs to stand on.
You are saying that we should separate Medical vs. Legalization. I am saying you need to separate Legal vs Illegal.
Your way and support of this protest says it's okay to (allegedly) break the law as long as it's medical. Our way is saying, there should not be a case in the first place because it should be illegal.
We have laws and you should support anyone who tries to enforce it. If you don't agree with the law, then you need to support changing the law. Which the best way would be full legalization as the MM act has so many grey areas and both sides are taking advantage of it.
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:31 AM
My Last Post on this topic. Its getting side tracked and personal.
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:36 AM
morhawk, I will let other people explain to you about Bill Shuette.
My Last Post on this topic. Its getting side tracked and personal.
Not trying to get personal. Just saying, I support protesting that SOB and lynching him to a 3rd world country, don't get me wrong. I think he needs to back off. But with the way the law is written, he doesn't have to. Full legalization would pull the carpet right out from under him. Until the dust is settled, we need to stay within the law, or change it.
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:42 AM
ok, now let me ask you this - those of you for legalization - why are you on this medical marijuana site? Does MiNorml or ASA, or Yahookah.com have a forum?
Why do legalization people feel like they have to use this medical marijuana forum to speak about legalization?
Greg Fransisco invited me here. I was one of the first invited.
Before the law passed, there was nothing to protect any of us. We thought that was wrong.
We worked to change the law we thought was bad. And we did.
Do you think this law would have passed at all if every legalization person voted no? "We want to party and screw them sick people." Did that take place? No.
We both wanted a change in the nations marijuana policy. We got the change .. only by working together.
I'm shocked that someone would want to keep the legalize people away from here.
But hey .. splitting us into smaller groups that fight each other is a great way to prevent any future changes. We don't want any changes .. please arrest us all.
Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:49 AM
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Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:54 AM
and Restorium, you said it just right. How do we present the medical side of marijuana to the public, when we end it with "Free the Weed!"
Don't get me wrong, all people who use marijuana are nice people. This is about the mmm.org forum, not our opinions.
Look for me Restorium! tomorrow?
It's pretty rare that I say "free the weed" as a part of anything that I do.
I resent people that come here and try to convince us that people belong in jail for a herb.
Do I support medical or not? You tell me. Does the fact that I support legalization negate the medical support I give?
I almost hope you get raided soon.
Editing out a chunk I shouldn't have posted and sorry that I did.
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If you're a somewhat active user of the internet, you've probably noticed that Amazon's cloud service started having some problems yesterday. I thought about writing this blog entry then, but I held off. There are blips in every service, and I figured that this was just one of them. Today is the second day of the "blip" though, and some people are losing real money because of this.
If you're curious, there is a status page for the Amazon Web Services, and you can see how things are going there. As I write this, 6 of their 29 AWS offerings are down or degraded, all in the East Coast (Virginia) location. Here's what the 8am update yesterday said:
A networking event early this morning triggered a large amount of re-mirroring of EBS volumes in US-EAST-1. This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity in one of the US-EAST-1 Availability Zones, which impacted new EBS volume creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover affected EBS volumes. Additionally, one of our internal control planes for EBS has become inundated such that it's difficult to create new EBS volumes and EBS backed instances. We are working as quickly as possible to add capacity to that one Availability Zone to speed up the re-mirroring, and working to restore the control plane issue. We're starting to see progress on these efforts, but are not there yet. We will continue to provide updates when we have them.
An update today basically said that the recovery wasn't happening as quickly as they anticipated, and they're still running all-hands-on-deck (which at this point, 36 hours after the incident, I really hope is not true).
A lot of people are going to use this as an indictment of cloud computing in general. Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to listen to them.
Here's the truth. Cloud computing, in and of itself, is not a flawed solution. You outsource your infrastructure to people that you trust because you (hopefully) did due diligence and determined that the costs of building your own infrastructure and keeping fine grained performance control would not be an appropriate tradeoff for the ability to expand as fluidly as your chosen cloud provider allowed.
Assuming your workload and legal situation allows you to use someone else's resources, then there's nothing wrong with doing that. Yes, you relinquish control and responsibility, but you almost always do that, anyway. What are you doing when you buy gold support on your enterprise hardware? You're paying someone else to have responsibility for your hardware, and you're considering the SLA that they offer a guarantee. It isn't. Of course, there are financial ramifications if they break their SLA, but the verbiage in the contract has no bearing on reality.
And now, that's the state that some AWS customers are in. Depending on how they calculate it, this 36 hour downtime brings their availability down to around 99.5%. "Two Nines" isn't something I've heard a lot of people bragging about.
So, what is the actual problem? Yes, for Amazon, it was a mirror issue, but I mean what is the problem for the people who are down? The problem is that they saw a solution (cloud computing), and they treated it like it was a panacea. They didn't treat it like what it was, which is an infrastructure platform.
If I told you that I was going to take your website that makes you $10m dollars a year and I was going to put it in a cage at a Tier 4 Colocation and run it from there, what would you think?
Well, if you were paranoid enough, you'd probably think, "Hey, great, but what happens when that colocation has an unplanned outage? ", because you know that the SLA doesn't actually guarantee reality. You know about things like car crashes (1 and 2), drunk employees, and good-old-fashioned giant fires. You know, things can happen. So how do you get around it?
Well, with a datacenter, the answer is pretty simple…if it's worth it to you, you get another one. (At some point in the future, I want to discuss the Economies of Scaling Out, but that's another blog post).
There's no reason that the same mentality can't work with cloud computing. In fact, it's even easier and cheaper.
If you decide to move into the cloud, don't pick the best cloud provider and go with them, pick the best TWO cloud providers, and go with both of them. There's no reason whatsoever that you have to continually mirror your entire infrastructure at both sites, just run one that moves your data over and keeps it there, and whenever you make changes to your infrastructure, do it in a managed fashion (such as a configuration management solution!), and mirror the copies of the configs (or config management) to the other cloud provider.
This way, when your primary cloud provider fails, it only takes you long enough to switch DNS and turn up the second infrastructure (which happens on the fly, again, because you're in the cloud). If you're hosted in the Amazon cloud, and you have your secondary site in the Rackspace cloud (for instance, that's not an endorsement, I just know that they have one), your Rackspace bill is constantly low except when you need it the most, when it functions as an emergency buoy to keep your business afloat.
The takeaway from this is that you shouldn't let this Amazon issue sour you on the idea of hosting in the cloud, if that paradigm is right for you, but you absolutely have to treat it like what it is, and not what they tell you it is. It's a computing platform, and it needs to have a controlled failure mode for your business, just like everything else.


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When asked how they could get more out of the market, I'd venture to say that 10 out of 10 investors would say picking different (i.e. better moving) stocks is the key. That's certainly not a bad place to start; but honestly, I don't think that's the real secret to better investing. Consistency of progress - or lack thereof - is what really makes or breaks investors.
That's not to say volatile stocks can't outperform the market - they can. Volatile stocks are tough to own, though, as they have a way of jerking investors around psychologically. Buying at highs and selling at lows are just two of the pitfalls that accompany a wild equity holding. And, it takes a 100% gain to recoup a 50% dip in your portfolio. So....
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Rather than even attend that dance, I've found I'm getting better bottom line, long-term results from my most consistent, low-beta stocks. And let me clarify - I'm beating the overall market (relatively stress-free) with these low-beta picks, as they simply keep walking higher, even if with baby steps.
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Just for comparison, the S&P 500 Index is up 66.1% since the March 2009 low, and it's up 22.6% for the last 12 months. The industries below have generally outperformed the market during its time of turbulence and will provide protection in the event that another dip in stock prices occurs.
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The average stock in the food distributor group is up 36.3% for the last 12 months, and as part of the consumer staples business, the demand for its products remains in any type of economic environment. The no-brainer food play, as I see it, is Sysco Corp. (NYSE: SYY). It's got P/E ratios consistently in the mid-teens, a beta of only 0.70, and it manages to shrug off any problems the market throws at us.
Don't get too excited about the fact that the typical broadcasting stock is up approximately 100% over the last year. That growth rate, as a percentage, is strong because these stocks started in the gutter. It would have been hard not to look good. Still, the pace is intact. The smart play here seems to be Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA), with a beta of 0.91, four straight EPS "beats" and a stock that's still trucking.
Seems like ever since Warren Buffett bought Burlington Northern (NYSE: BNI) last year, the railroad industry has fallen off the radar. However, the industry has produced reasonable returns. The reliability award for railroad stock progress actually goes to Canadian National Railway (NYSE: CNI). It boasts the lowest beta among the majors (1.14) and has comparable fundamentals.
Don't laugh! The footwear group is up 52.1% for the last 12 months - much stronger than the broad market. The pick of the litter here is Crox (Nasdaq: CROX), which is actually a high-beta stock (2.28), but all that volatility has been bullish as this stock has started to come back from the dead. CROX is well off its early 2009 lows around $1.20, but still well under its 2007 peak of just under $70. Translation - there's still tons of recovery room here. (Beta says something about price risk, but how much does it say about fundamental risk factors? To learn more, see Beta: Know The Risk.)
Boring Can Be Beautiful
Anyway, you get the idea. Boring can be beautiful, and consistency can make a huge difference to your bottom line.
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For the Kids
Friday June 09th 2006, 8:38 pm
My daughter Rosemary (a bookish eleven-year-old) recommends a new title from Sophia Institute Press, The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Andrew and Lenora Lang. (I can't find it on Amazon yet, but it's available from the publisher.) I haven't read the book, but I trust Rosemary's judgment. I note that about a third of the volume is given to figures of the patristic era: St. Anthony of Egypt, St. Dorothea, St. Jerome, Synesius of Cyrene, St. Augustine, St. Germanus, St. Simeon Stylites, and many others. It's a sturdy and attractive hardcover book, which I must now hand back to its rightful owner.


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Parted Magic 4.9: New Device Names
Parted Magic, a Live Linux with programs for partitioning and data rescue, is available in version 4.9. Apart from bug fixes, it includes a few new features.
One of the major changes to Parted Magic affect the kernel, which the developers rid of the old IDE drivers. The most noticeable consequence to users is that the hard drives are no longer named /dev/hd*, but rather /dev/sd*, and CDs and DVDs were renamed /dev/sr*. Support for Virtio hard disk drivers was also added.
Among the new applications, Google Chrome was replaced by its open source Chromium version, and added were the mhdd low-level diagnostic tool, the elinks text browser and the zsync synchronization program.
Parted Magic 4.9 can be downloaded as images for CDs and USB sticks as well as for booting via PXE and GRUB4DOS.
Issue 187/2016
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Linux is the Largest Software Development Project in History
But if you are not using the latest Linux kernel, your system is insecure.
Linksys Says Yes to Open Source Firmware
Home routers will give room for custom firmware but still comply with FCC rules
OwnCloud Founder Resigns
Frank Karlitschek will continue to lead the open source ownCloud project
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS released
"Xenial Xerus" comes with a new packages format and several improvements for the enterprise.
MS Visual Studio Code Editor is Available for Linux
Linux users can now download and install the Windows code editor
Open Container Initiative announces Image Format Project
New initiative will address security and interoperability concerns around container technology.
Red Hat Lures Developers with Free RHEL and Container Development Kits
Developers can use RHEL as a development platform without a subscription fee.
Microsoft Brings the Linux Command Line to Windows
Windows users will soon have native access to the Bash shell.
Internet Research Group Proposes Better Email Standard
Improvements to SMTP will provide better guarantee of confidentiality
New Nvidia Driver Offers Wayland Support
Graphics vendor embraces new reality in Linux graphics


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Hawaii Senate Passes Steven Tyler Act
March 06, 2013 04:00 PM by Donna W. Martin
Recently, we learned that Hawaii legislature had proposed a new privacy bill named for former American Idol judge, Steven Tyler that would protect celebrities from reporters and photographers. And now, just one month later, the state senate has announced they are indeed passing the bill. Keep reading for more details.
According to ABC, Tyler, who owns a home in Maui asked Senator Kalani English to sponsor the bill following an incident last December. Tyler explained that photos of him and his girlfriend were taken and then published in a national magazine without his knowledge or permission and that the incident had caused drama within his family.
The bill will protect celebrities against invasion of privacy from reporters and photographers who follow and harass them while living in Hawaii or visiting the state for vacation. The bill states that any per who captures a photo or sound recording of a celebrity while they are taking part in a personal or family activity where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, would be held liable and the celebrity would have the right to sue for damages.
Senator Sam Slom opposed the bill saying, "We have been the butt of many editorials and jokes across the country for this proposed legislation." And Slom wasn't the only one to oppose the bill. National media organizations such as the National Press Photographers Association and the Society of Professional Journalists submitted testimony in opposition fearing the proposed bill's impact on freedom of the press.
However, the bill passed just the same with 23 of the state's 25 senators voting in its favor because they believe celebrities are deterred from buying property or vacationing in Hawaii because of harassment from paparazzi.
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The Runaways, a girl rock 'n' roll drama starring Twilight star Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie, doesn't open in wide release until March 19th. But it was screened at Sundance, providing this handful of early reviews.
"...a rousing portrait of the eponymous 1970's teenage band [that takes] a hard look at life on the road at a time when most girls with bands were groupies."
— David D'Arcy, ScreenDaily.com
"...bursts with energy, youth, excess, female empowerment, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. It's an instant hit worldwide with its cast of young stars, but is it any good? Surprisingly, yes. It just must be met on its own terms."
— Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
"...proves a conventionally enjoyable making-and-breaking-of-the-band saga."
— Dennis Harvey, Variety


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Last week we kicked off a new Guest Recipes series with a Strawberry Quinoa Salad from Love & Lemons. In our next installment, Jack and Jeanine are continuing the salad theme with a delicious looking panzanella (Italian bread salad). Their version features grilled bread, and is the perfect accompaniment to any summer meal—or perhaps a meal on its own. Thanks for sharing this with us, Jack and Jeanine!
Grilled Panzanella with Poached Eggs
serves 2 as a main course, 4 as a side
I love charred bread, but I haven't always. When I was younger, my dad ate all the family reject burnt food. Overdone toast, accidentally burnt pancakes, cookies we left in the oven too long … my sister and I had a preference toward underdone and doughy food so whatever we messed up and overcooked, we'd pile on a plate for my dad. And he'd say "this is the best kind."
The first time I put burnt toast on a plate for Jack, he looked at me and said, "What's this, am I your dad now?" I had just always assumed that burnt food equaled man food. So over time, I selflessly became the eater of the black toast … not quite as black as the way my dad liked it, but I've come to love bread with a nice deep char. Especially in a salad like this.
Toasty, garlicky bread cubes kick up your average panzanella. That char offers such a delightful contrast to the juicy tomatoes, sweet basil, and fruity olive oil.
Make it a full meal by topping it with a poached egg. —Jeanine
1 small red onion, sliced thin
half loaf of day-old ciabatta bread
olive oil
1/2 garlic clove
1 1/2 c cherry and/or pear tomatoes, sliced in half
1/2 c ricotta salata cheese, chopped into 1/2 inch cubes
5 or 6 basil leaves, torn
1/4 c toasted pine nuts
2-4 eggs, for poaching (optional)
1/4 c olive oil
2 tbsp champagne vinegar (or white or red wine vinegar)
squeeze of lemon juice (1-2 tbsp, to taste)
salt & pepper, to taste
a few pinches of red pepper flakes
Optional step: In a small bowl, toss red onion slices with a teaspoon or two of the champagne vinegar. Set aside while you work on the rest of the steps. This helps cut down on the harsh raw onion taste.
Slice bread into 1/2-inch thick slices, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle a few pinches of salt and grill both sides until lightly charred. Remove bread from grill and rub it it with the sliced side of the garlic clove while the bread is still warm. Chop the bread into cubes and set aside.
In another small bowl, whisk together dressing ingredients and set aside.
In a large bowl toss the bread cubes, tomatoes, onion slices, ricotta salata, and basil together with the dressing. Top with toasted pine nuts and a few more red pepper flakes. Allow the salad to sit for 15-20 minutes for the dressing to soak into the bread. Taste and adjust seasonings.
Top plated servings with poached eggs if you wish. (I love this foolproof tutorial for poaching eggs.)


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On the first Sunday of the month at 11am, various club leaders from Laughter Clubs Victoria take turns in facilitating laughter for the Yoga Federation Square Laughter Club.
Next month will be a huge one of course, being World Laughter Day and for the first time we will be taking over the main stage, bringing much laughter and joy to the people and visitors of Melbourne.
This month I was delighted to take a turn leading the laughter. I caught the train in with my husband John and at first thought that not many people were going to join in. However we attracted many onlookers and the crowd was so receptive, stopping to share the joy and play fun that we were involved in. Soon there were sixteen people and one was a quite old gentleman who simply threw himself into the activity; he was such a great example of living each moment enthusiastically. I reckon that he inspired some of the younger ones to give it a go and act silly.
Maria from Coburg did her leader training the week before and is planning to start a club in her area. She asked to lead some laughs and breathing for practice and did a jolly good job too! Thanks Maria. My husband John has been a wonderful support for me over the last six years that I have been running the Ferntree Gully Laughter Club. It takes a lot of persistence to continue this commitment, hail, rain and shine and I feel blessed to be involved in the laughter movement. Especially too, that he has been coming along to the laughter club lately.
I couldn't help myself, I asked John to lead a couple of his favourite laughs and he did with great gusto. He led The archer and the Milkshake laugh. Today was a surprise, as he came along with me to meet a photographer regarding a local community newspaper article. I have found these type of newspapers to be tremendously supportive when it comes to World Laughter Day, each year three local newspapers do a story and include a photo. And today was a first for me, John agreed to be in the photo, which I feel will be a fantastic promotion for the Ferntree Gully Laughter Club.
Also at Federation Square was a journalist student who interviewed us and took many photos for her assignment. Luckily the rain held off and our bright attitude and fantastic laughter session was very uplifting. We finished off having a cup of tea with Rosemary, who has been attending the first Sunday of the month regularly for a very long time.
Here are some photos taken on the day. Enjoy.
Maria leading for 1st time.
John Mitchell leading the Milkshake laugh.
Here is the happy laughter Fed Square group, apart from the photographers.


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Evans rips Doherty pay cut, vows long court fight
City council President Janet Evans said Mayor Chris Doherty's unilateral slashing of city workers' pay to the federal minimum wage is meant to use them "as leverage to bully council into approving his 78 percent tax increase to crucify Scranton taxpayers."
Citing a Lackawanna County Court ruling last year that prevented the council from reinstating laid-off police officers and firefighters, Mrs. Evans said the council can do nothing about the pay cuts but cut its own $12,500-a-year salaries to the minimum wage, which she is willing to do.
"The mayor enacted these measures, not council. Council has no authority to enact pay decreases or to halt them at this time," she said. "The mayor has done this, the mayor will have to cure it. ⦠If the mayor feels that police can be on the streets fighting criminals and firefighters can go into burning buildings for $7 an hour, city council can do its work for $7 an hour."
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
Mr. Doherty is proposing 78 percent in higher property taxes over the next three years and a new garbage collection fee of $22 phased in over two years as part of his proposed financial recovery plan. The council has refused to sign on to his plan unless he takes its advice seriously and includes alternative revenue sources that reduce any proposed tax hikes and agrees to aggressively pursue new revenues. The council's ideas include seeking higher payments in lieu of taxes from nonprofit institutions that pay no taxes and selling or leasing parking garages.
The mayor, who has listed most council proposals in his recovery plan as alternatives but not mandatory, says passing a plan is a must for the city to be able to convince banks to sell $16.8 million in bonds. The bonds will help fill an almost $10 million hole in the budget this year and refinance existing bonds at a lower interest rate.
Without a recovery plan, the mayor says, he can't find a bank to provide the money, leading to his decision to slash the salaries of all city employees but those paid with federal money. The reduced wages will be seen in workers' next paychecks on July 6.
Because the council has declined to pass his plan, Mr. Doherty has asked the county court to order his plan implemented or order the council to vote on it. The city is due in court today, though that appearance is likely to result only in the scheduling of a hearing on the suit.
In her first public comments on the lawsuit, Mrs. Evans made it clear the council will vigorously oppose the mayor in court.
"I think it was a desperate measure of a desperate mayor," she said. "I don't know that the case has any veracity or validity to it. Beyond that, however, I think it can potentially involve constitutional issues. And if necessary, I'd be prepared to take this all the way to the Supreme Court. ⦠I don't have a crystal ball, I have no idea what the (local) court will do, but I think that if it came to such a decision (forcing the council to act), it's entering very questionable ⦠territory and this case will go on and on."
Mrs. Evans said Mr. Doherty met with union leaders and urged them to pressure the council to pass a recovery plan, a tactic that she said will fail.
"He has only to include council's recommendations for revenue generators into his recovery plan and pursue them ASAP and council will approve the plan," she said.
She has pointed in the past to the Doherty administration's slowness in collecting a council-passed 15 percent tax on private and nonprofit parking lots as a sign of his unwillingness to follow council measures.
Mrs. Evans ripped not only the mayor, but also the Pennsylvania Economy League, the city's financial coordinator, and the state Department of Community and Economic Development, which appointed PEL and oversees the recovery, for backing the mayor's plan.
Neither agency has publicly backed the mayor's plan, though PEL's recovery plan is similar to the mayor's and the mayor says in his lawsuit that PEL and DCED back his plan.
"The solution is that the mayor and PEL and DCED need to recognize that Scranton taxpayers cannot assume the burden of a 78 percent tax increase, not to mention the fact that it will be higher than that if the Supreme Court ruling is included," Mrs. Evans said. "They do not have incomes to support this. This is going to cause blight and flight throughout our city."
She urged the mayor to negotiate a reduction in huge state Supreme Court-upheld arbitration awards with the city police and firefighter unions.
"At the same time, people's salaries are not increasing to support all of this," she said. "And so it is only rational and reasonable to include other revenue generators into a recovery plan that can decrease the size of a tax increase."
The mayor accuses the council of proposing ideas that will yield too little money and only at some date off in the future at a time the city needs an immediate cash infusion.
"I think his tax increases are even more unreasonable, because people aren't going to be able to pay it, No. 1," she said in response to that argument. "And No. 2, you can write that (tax increase) in a recovery plan and ⦠it doesn't mean that any city council is going to approve it."
Mrs. Evans said she could not say definitively if the council would cut its solicitor's salary to the minimum wage because the solicitor, Boyd Hughes, will apparently spend a lot of time in court defending its position. Mr. Hughes makes $45,000 a year as solicitor.
"Under normal, reasonable circumstances, it's certainly something we would seriously consider," she said. "Now the mayor has rendered that very unlikely because he's wasting more money and time by taking city council to court."
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Presidential Suite One Stop from London Bridge
Size25 m²
Floor No.
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Lockable room
- Balcony/terrace
- Internet/WiFi
|Fairlawn Mansions, SE145PH London, United Kingdom
|Property type
|Private room
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
The flat is 200 meters from New Cross Gate Station, which gives you access to the Overground and the mainline railway (Note: the Overground is connected to the tube/underground - it just runs over ground - all tickets are valid). There are also numerous buses, which pass the flat and go straight to central London, including several night buses, so you can always get home no matter what time of night!
You can be in Trafalgar Square (by train) in just 15 minutes. The vibrant and eclectic area of Shoreditch is also just 15 minutes on the Overground. The location is ideal for any tourist or person working in central London!
So far all the guests in the flat have been very nice, interesting and very respectful of one another. I believe that they have all enjoyed their stay. The apartment is maintained daily to a high standard.
In the local area you will find everything you need for a great stay; there are 24 hour food shops, cafes, restaurants, a big supermarket (Sainsbury's) and bars all within walking distance to the flat. The flat is very close to Goldsmith University campus, so could be an ideal base if you are visiting the university for a conference.
The apartment is really convenient if you are visiting the Olympic games this summer. It is just 20 minutes by bus to Greenwich were a number of events are taking place, and just 20 minutes to the stadium at Stratford, via the Overground and Jubilee Line.
In general this is a great place to live. To keep it as such all guest need to follow the following rules for their own comfort:
Guest may use the kitchen on the following conditions:
They wash up all dishes, cutlery, pots and pans
They clean the cooker, hob, all work surfaces and table
They sweep the floor or any crumbs.
They return all utensils to their original place.
They put all rubbish in the bins at the entrance to the building.
Guests are asked to leave the shower in a clean and fresh state.
Guests are asked to leave the toilet in a hygienic and fresh state.
Guests are asked to wear house shoes in the bedroom and the rest of the house. Guests are asked to refrain from playing music before 10am and after 10pm.
Guests are reminded that smoking is not permitted in any part of the property. This includes the bedroom and smoking at the bedroom window. Anyone found to have smoked in the property will be asked to leave. Guests are asked to remove all litter and rubbish from their room at least once a day.
Please note that guests are not permitted to have others staying with them in the room. If a guests wants someone to stay over at any point the guest should agree this with Sidney before. There is an extra charge for this. Please ask for more information.
Also note that smoking is not permitted anywhere in the building. Please do not violate this.
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 15 US per guest/night extra
|Check-in after
|On arrangement
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
What a lovely experience we had with our introducion to wimdu! After having lunch in the centre of London we were concerned that Sidney may have been unavailble as it was friday afternoon. However, Sidney came to help us with our suitcases. The room was cosy and adequate and the bed comfy. We also had access to the kitchen (where we had our own shelf in the fridge and a cupboard for our food) and of course the bathroom. We bought food from the local Sainsbury's and saved lots of money by making our own meals which was great as I am on a special diet. The area was great and we felt very safe as two women walking about at night. The transport links were very accessible with a tube station just minutes away. We had an amazing experience in London and would fully recommend this place to everyone. Thanks and kisses to Sidney and his lovely wife! xxx
The check in was very convenient as we arrived late. Sidney told us everything we needed to know in advance. The room was appropriate for a short stay in London since we only used it to sleep. The bathroom was small but clean. However you have to consider that the bathroom is shared with five other rooms, so there can be some waiting time if the flat is completely filled.
The flat was next to a bus and train station. It takes you ten minutes by train and 30 min by bus to get to the city center.
So I would recommend this flat for a short city trip if you are not going to spend too much time in the room.
We had a lovely stay in Sidney's room. The room was neat and warm. Internet was good. Although it's a shared accommodation there were no other people in the other rooms during our stay. The bus stop is outside and we were able to get very quickly to the centre. The tube station is also just about 3 minute away. We enjoyed our stay in Sidney's room.
Estuvimos muy agusto durante nuestra estancia. Todo estaba limpio y correcto.
La habitación olía a cerrado y había un radiador que goteaba y mojaba la moqueta pero por el resto todo perfecto. Bien situado, a 200m de la estación de tren. El propietario muy atento, nos dio buenas indicaciones.
After the last review we became a little anxious that the place was not going to be as we'd expected. However, we did have a really good time and thought that the flat was great. The bed was comfortable and seemed new (maybe the owner had replaced it since the last person's complaint). The flat is located on a really nice street, which backs on to the Thames. You are basically on the otherside of Canary Wharf. We discovered that you can easily access the river by going out the back door.
Sidney was really helpful and came over to give us the remote for the garage, as we wanted to park our car.
We found the place to be peaceful with excellent connections to the central attractions.
We recommend this place for a short getaway in London!
The bed was comfy and the room was clean and as shown in the pictures. The transport links were excellent. Access was made easy by the use of key boxes, so we weren't under pressure to arrive at a certain time. Good stay!
Een prima locatie voor een stedentrip. Onze kamer was basic maar ruim genoeg voor 2 personen.(Afghan room) We konden gebruik maken van de keuken, incl ruimte in koelkast en keukenkastje. Het enige wat wij wat minder fijn vonden, was dat we de badkamer moesten delen met alle overige gasten. Niet iedereen liet dit netjes achter na gebruik. Het contact (mail en telefoon) met de verhuurder was erg prettig. Bij aankomst op het vliegveld bleek onze terugvlucht te zijn gecanceled. Na 1 telefoontje konden we weer gebruik maken van dezelfde kamer. Geweldige service. Dit adres is zeker een aanrader, ook i.v.m openbaar vervoer naar het centrum.Zowel bussen als metro zijn niet ver lopen.
Big room but not as clean as it is shown on the picture. I didn't use the kitchen because there was no coffee machine. The bathroom is not easy to use because there is no shelf and no hangers to lean towels. It is outside the city in a poor neighborough.
La chambre Est grande mais pas aussi propre que sur la photo. L'appartement est situé dans un quartier modeste à une demi jeure de train de la gare. Ni la cuisine ni la salle de bain ne sont attrayantes. Il manque de quoi poser ou pendre ses affaires. Pas de perforateur. Le système de clé est super et il fait bon.
gute Stunde Busfahrt in die City, Schimmel an den Fenstern, dünne Wände und Türen die auch mehr Dekoration als nützlich sind. Keine richtigen Lampen, nur Glühbirnen, Küchenboden ständig nass, wahrscheinlich liegt es an der Waschmaschine, küchenausstattung....man darf halt nicht empfindlich sein, was im Schrank Stand war schmierig und das Regal wo man seine Lebensmittel unterbringen sollte sah auch siffig aus.
Der Badewannenboden war sehr schmutzig, als Spiegel am Waschbecken dient ein abgebrochenes spiegelstück.
Ich unterstelle jetzt einfach mal das das die Bettwäsche nach dem letzten Gast nicht gewechselt wurde, es lag noch ein spielzeugauto vom vormieter unter dem Bett.
Wenn diese Unterkunft tatsächlich von WimDu getestet wurde und das hier den Standards entspricht war es für mich das letzte Mal hier gebucht zu haben, und für meine Freunde und Bekannten ebenfalls.
La habitación demasiado pequeña, eramos 3 , teníamos una cama grande y un colchón, si poníamos el colchón en el suelo, no podíamos estar de pie.
En el correo que me mandaron me ponía que había sala de estar y alí solo había una cocina en común.
El piso era muy viejo y había mucho olor a humedad, una parte del jardín de fuera estaba lleno de colchones , parecía un desguace.
Además el barrio no es bueno, el metro a partir de un horario no llega.
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A few years ago I read a magazine item from a mountain biker who stopped on a hilltop below high voltage power lines, and as he stood over his top tube he felt his hair stand on end, then he got an unpleasant shock in the um...groin.
Today there's a thread in the road bike forum started by a guy who got several shocks from his bike and from a guardrail under some power lines yesterday - makes me wonder how often this happens.
I suspect quite a few mountain bike trails go along power corridors. Anyone get shocks like that ever?


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do you consider drunk driving a form of aggressive driving? do you consider speeding to be a form of aggressive driving?
i know some of the defenitions of aggressive driving include speeding and drunk driving an some do not.
have a nice day
do you consider drunk driving a form of aggressive driving? do you consider speeding to be a form of aggressive driving?
i know some of the defenitions of aggressive driving include speeding and drunk driving an some do not.
have a nice day
I would say no.
But this is just an argument in semantics.
Speeding is a form of aggressive driving ... although this is something continuous instead of an all or nothing label.
No. Speeding isn't necessarily aggressive. Swerving through traffic in order to speed is aggressive. And drunk driving is very much not aggressive: It's stupid. Drunk drivers often try too hard to be conscientious but they're terrible at it because they're drunk: Their speed varies too much when trying to drive the speed limit, they waver in their lane when trying to drive straight, etc.
Drunk driving is worse than aggressive driving. Speeding is, IMO, not a big deal until you hit an intersection or have to pass someone. Excessive speeding (the point at which you lose your license if you're caught) is always ridiculous though.
I have been known to drive at a high rate of speed, but I don't think that alone is sufficient to be characterized as aggressive driving. I feel that aggressive driving requires a disregard for the needs of other drivers, often to the extent of bullying. For example, one time I was passing a car on a two lane interstate. Another driver was approaching from behind at a high rate of speed. I signaled and moved into the right lane, but it wasn't fast enough for the other driver, and we both ended up in the same lane at the same time.
This was just an extreme case of something that is very common. Often, when an aggressive driver has been sitting behind me as I complete a pass, and I move to the right lane, the driver behind me is using as much of the left lane as I have left clear in order to pass as soon as possible. This seems like bullying to me. Generally, when I know that another driver wants to pass me, I will speed up and make a pass as quickly as is prudent. I do not sit next to traffic in the other lane and block traffic if I can do anything to avoid it, because that drives me nuts when people do it to me.
Speeding is aggressive, when a driver blows by me at high speed. Speeding on a lonely stretch of road ... maybe not.
Drunken driving is aggressive is you act like an sSS behind the wheel and put others at danger. A likely scenario, but not always.


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Enjoy all three capitals of Scandinavia on this 10 day Scandinavian fly-drive holiday. Your journey starts in Copenhagen, continues via Gothenburg to the Norwegian capital Oslo and ends in the Swedish capital Stockholm. Each city has its own unique character, royal history and many interesting sights and museums.Package price is £965 per person based on availability and two people sharing a twin or double room.
Arrive in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and make your way to your hotel. Copenhagen Airport is well connected with the city centre and you can take a shuttle bus, metro or train. Shuttle buses and trains are operated every 10 minutes and metro operates every 4 – 6 minutes. The travel time by metro to the Nørreport Station in central Copenhagen is around 15 minutes. In this charming city one thousand years of history await you in the medieval streets; the same streets walked on by every generation of the world's oldest royal family, the same streets and canals which have inspired artists for centuries and been home and workplace to meticulous craftsmen and famous designers.
Accommodation at Quality Hotel Høje Taastrup or similar (three nights).
Breakfast at the hotel. Two days at leisure to enjoy the city's many attractions and sights, such as The Tivoli Garden, the statue of the Little Mermaid, the Gefion Fountain, the Royal Palace Amalienborg, the Royal Theatre and Opera, and much more.
After breakfast at the hotel, you will take the train to Malmö in Sweden and pick-up your rental car. Then you will continue your journey north along the western coastline of Sweden to Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city and largest harbor. From Gothenburg the journey continues through the forests to Svinesund and the Norwegian border before reaching Oslo, the capital of Norway.
Accommodation at Quality Hotel 33 or similar (three nights).
Breakfast at the hotel. Two days at leisure. The Norwegian capital is beautifully situated at the head of the Oslo Fjord, and it's surrounded by forested ridges. Oslo offers many well known sights, such as the Vigeland Sculpture Park, the Viking Ship Museum, and the Munch Museum. We recommend the Oslo Panorama Sightseeing tour, a one and a half hour non-stop tour though the central parts of the city. Guiding on this tour is done in nine different languages.
Breakfast at the hotel. Drive from Oslo and head southeast to the Swedish border crossing at Ørje. Continue towards Karlstad, located at the head of Sweden's largest lake; Lake Vänern. From there the journey continues in an eastern direction via Örebro and Eskilstuna to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
Accommodation at Quality Hotel Prince Phillip or similar (three nights).
Breakfast at the hotel. Two days at leisure. Stockholm is built on 14 islands, and you are never far from the water. Well-preserved medieval buildings stand alongside modern architecture, and just outside the city, the archipelago of 24 000 islands is waiting to be explored. Sights of interest are the Vasa Museum, Skansen Open Air Museum, City Hall, the Old Town (Gamla Stan) and much more. We recommend a sightseeing tour by bus or boat.
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure from Stockholm according to your own itinerary.
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The lines shown give you an indication of our destinations and are not the exact route used.
For your holidays to Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia or Ukraine, you will not need a visa if you have a valid passport from any EU country, Australia, Canada, USA, Japan (there are more, so check with us to make sure). Please note that your passport should be valid for at least six months after the date of your return. However, if you plan to travel to Russia, you will need a visa, which we can help organise for you.
Travel insurance is required and also advisable. If you do not have a valid policy, please check our Insurance link on the bottom of our homepage or http://www.baltictravelcompany.com/insurance. We can offer quotes for all nationalities.
Our recommended partner is FS Ball who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
You will be able to communicate quite well with the locals, as most people in the service industry are quite adept at speaking English. If English doesn't work, then try Russian (if you can), or German. The further you go from the major cities, the less English you will hear. However, do not let the language barrier keep you from exploring the beauty of the country side. We can always arrange English speaking guides to accompany you wherever you wish to go.
The Estonian language is similar to Finnish and is unrelated to Latvian, Lithuanian or Russian. Latvian and Lithuanian are two of the oldest languages, with roots traceable to Sanskrit. This makes them quite challenging to learn, but attempting a few words will put a smile on the local faces. Russians use the Cyrillic alphabet, so reading street signs and tube maps will be a challenge in St Petersburg .
You can rent a car, as long as you have a valid EU or international driver's license. Most cars will have manual transmission.
You can get local currency from ATMs at the airport where you land or in the major cities. Be aware that your bank will charge you a service fee and exchange rate fee for the transaction, but this is likely to be less than exchanging money in the UK before you depart. Please note that in Russia exchange bureau's and banks will not except Scottish bank notes.
We suggest choosing the right credit card for spending abroad. Most credit cards will have an additional cost (about 3%) to the bank exchange rates. You can avoid it by obtaining a specialist overseas card that does not add this % and will give you good exchange rates that are better than money exchange bureau rates.
Credit cards charge you interest rates, but some debit cards (bank account cards) could have fees that could add up to £ 1.50 every time you spend.
We recommend checking with your bank what fees/interest rates will be applied to your card when using it abroad in order to make an educated decision on what card to use.
Most restaurants and shops will take credit/debit cards like Visa and Mastercard, however, many places will not accept AMEX.
Traveller's cheques are difficult to cash, so we recommend not to use them.
Airport or ferry terminals in most cases will have the worst money exchange rates, so if you must get it from the airport, pre-order money for pick-up to get a better rate.
The local currencies are (alphabetic order):Denmark - Danish KronerEstonia - EuroFinland - EuroGreenland - Danish KronerIceland - Icelandic KronerLatvia - EuroLithuania - EuroNorway - Norwegian KronerPoland - Polish ZlotyRussia - Russian RubleSweden - Swedish KronerUkraine - Hryvnia
Dining opportunities are plenty, from ethnic to exotic. We would suggest you to try some national dishes and get a real taste of the region. Note that most traditional dishes contain meat and are fairly heavy, but very tasty. Reservations in advance are recommended for up-market restaurants, especially for Friday and Saturday evenings. Tipping - many of the up-market establishments will let you know how good their service is by including it on the bill. Rounding up the bill is usually sufficient, unless you feel your server deserves an extra bit of recognition.
There are several mobile operators in each Baltic country, the Nordics ( Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland incl. Iceland and Greenland as well as Poland, Ukraine and Russia. If you have an international connection, there shouldn't be any problems with your incoming and outgoing calls.
In case your phone doesn't work, please check in the local mobilephone shops and you can buy Calling cards etc. or ask in your hotel, they should be able to advise you too.
Internet access is available at Internet Cafés, which mostly are located in the central part of the city. Most hotels have internet access.
Stamps are available in the post offices and in most newspaper kiosks. Approximate price for a stamp to European Union countries will vary but between appx. £ 0.30 to £ 0.70. You'll see post boxes on the streets or you can ask hotel representative to send your post card, they'll gladly help you.
Emergency telephone number for the police, ambulance services or fire department in Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine and Poland - 112.
Greenland uses 911 and for mobile phones only 112.
We will confirm details and price before proceeding with booking & payment. We aim to be in contact with you within 24 hours of receiving this form.
You're enquiring about our Scandinavian Capitals Fly-Drive trip. Our trips are flexible so if you would like any specific requirements, please let us know here.
Experience the diversity of Norway - from the inland with its forests to the dramatic coastal scenery, from high mountains to deep fjords from the Norwegian capital, to small, cosy villages. Highlights during this holiday are the Atlantic Ocean Road, the Troll Road, Geiranger Fjord, Trondheim - Norway's former capital, Roros - The UNESCO listed mining town and Oslo, the capital of Norway.
Iceland is still taking shape before your very eyes – raw, dramatic landscapes are born from volcanic eruptions and carved out by glaciers. Other parts have hardly changed since the first Viking settlers saw them more than 1,100 years ago. On this Extended Iceland Circle fly-drive you'll have more time to experience the wilderness and wildlife, energy, and total calm that Iceland has to offer.
This tour is guaranteed to give you a unique experience of Scandinavia. Featuring the capitals of Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm, as well as the Scandinavian fjords, mountains and waterfalls alsongside the hospitality and culture of the locals you will meet aling the way. You will also spend time in charming Bergen, the only city in the world surrounded by 7 mountains and 7 fjords.
This guaranteed departure tour is an excellent way to get to know the best of Scandinavia. Visit the four fascinating Nordic capitals; Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Oslo, whilst staying in top class hotels. The tour includes three nights on a cruise ship.
This self-drive holiday in Iceland is ideal for the hiking and walking enthusiasts who wish to enjoy Iceland's remarkable landscape first hand. Experience all the wonders of South and West Iceland, including geysers and hot spring areas, majestic glaciers and powerful waterfalls. Then continue along the South shore and reach the popular and breath-taking Glacial Lagoon, where smaller and bigger icebergs are constantly floating and drifting.
This Nordic fly-drive itinerary begins in Denmark, and offers peaceful countryside, stunning landscape and beautiful beaches with white sand dunes. The villages, museums and castles throughout the itinerary make this tour one to enjoy! After a few hours by ferry, arrive in the country of the fjords – welcome to Norway! In Norway you will discover splendid nature as well as two of Norway's most vibrant cities, Oslo and Bergen.
Combine a city break in Stockholm with a visit to the historic and scenic island Gotland. Stockholm is a very trendy city situated on the Stockhom archipelago, a network of more than 24,000 island and inlets on the western shores of the Baltic Sea. Gotland is an exclusive destination of unique scenic beauty and rare atmosphere.
This tour takes you through the sparsely populated taiga forests of north-eastern Finland. There are three national parks and two national hiking areas with their hiking, canoeing and fishing possibilities easily accessible from the route. Close to the Russian border you can participate in bear, flying squirrel or beaver observation tours which give you a unique chance to watch and photograph these animals safely.
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Category Archives: Boys Toys
World's biggest hoarder
I'm currently cleaning out the back shed. 4 x 3 metres of storage and full, as my wife says, of stuff I keep for no apparent reason (that she can see!)
I think I'll point her to this guy,. The link sent to me by mate Bob H. shows an auction in the US.
It is unbelievable….go look
Drone deliveries
A Queensland farm on the Darling Downs has become the unlikely testing ground of one of the most technologically advanced Google projects that could see autonomous drones deliver anything from chocolate to life-saving medicines.
Google X, a division of the US-based technology company dedicated to making major technological advancements, tested Project Wing near Warwick earlier this month, the first time "non-Googlers" had been involved.
Google X director Astro Teller said Project Wing's goal was ultimately to build a system for delivering small and medium sized packages within minutes to anyone, using self-flying vehicles.
"There's no reason we should all have a power drill in our garage when, at any one time, the world is using one hundredth of a per cent of its power drills," he said from the company's headquarters in California.
"Also, there are situations like emergency response after a flood, or an earthquake, or a tornado, where bringing medicine or other supplies to people who are in need can be very valuable and time can be of the essence.
"We're looking at the whole spectrum of value that can be delivered using self-flying vehicles."
I wonder if they could deliver a carton of grog – you know, when your on a roll and run out. The farmer in the trial asked for some cherry ripes to be delivered.
C'mon mate – lift your game.
Gunslinger extraodinaire
Wyatt Earp eat your heart out. This guy claims to be the fastest gun slinger in the world and I wouldn't dispute it.
Worth watching …the man is very, very fast. Makes my attempts at Browning 9ml shootouts very ordinary.
I'm moving into drones
Gary, my mate in South Australia is a Radio Controll model plane nutter and I've long been interested myself. I have small chopper that I practice on but I found it too difficult. Like…start up….lift off…crash into ground…start up….lift off…crash into ground…repeat several times…go to hobby shop and buy more blades then start up….lift off…crash into ground…repeat several more times.
I felt I needed to have a real flying licence endorsed for Blackhawk to be able to fly but technology has stepped in, in the form of a pocket drone.
Start up…fly! Much better – I can now concentrate on photos and videos of my bush 4WD expeditions rather than the actual flying. Take your hand off the stick and it hovers; battery almost flat and it returns to base. With a "Follow Me" mode it will be easy to film driving the old Rangie up steep inclines and across rivers. Great videos to further bore my kids and friends.
It's all about software.
Advanced software and systems with autopilot and "follow me" mode
- State of the art flight controls, algorithms and connectivity
- APM compatible flight controller 6-axis accelerometers, 3 axis gyroscopes, barometric sensor (altitude)
- Integrated onboard autopilot Flight planning with Google Maps
- Fly by GPS waypoints
- "Follow Me" mode (requires mobile device with GPS)
- Altitude Hold
- Return to home (RTH)
- Headfree mode (orientation independent flying)
- Load/Save and repeat/replay flight missions
- Real-time flight data
- Artificial Horizon
- Altitude Heading indicator
- GPS signal strength
- PC, Mac and Linux compatible
- Mission Planner or QGroundControl Compatible
- Android compatible (tablet and phone)
- iOS compatibility coming soon
Available in late April in the US I look forward to another great challenge – controlling drones.
More here if you are interested
1920s 4WD action
No wonder Dodge vehicles had a good reputation. This film was made by the Dodge Brothers in the 1920's to promote their vehicle.
Try this in your modern SUV or 4WD; it wouldn't be easy.
All about Saturn 5 engines
A morning read of Catallaxy is good for the soul and, as in this case, just plain interesting. A link to Instapundit reveals a great story on US engineering.
At the time, the F-1 was the largest and most powerful liquid-fueled engine ever constructed; even today, its design remains unmatched. The power generated by five of these engines was best conceptualized by author David Woods in his book How Apollo Flew to the Moon—"[T]he power output of the Saturn first stage was 60 gigawatts. This happens to be very similar to the peak electricity demand of the United Kingdom."
That last sentence certainly got my attention. The linked article talks of the great ability of engineers and tradesmen who produced the F-1 rocket engine 40 years ago and how young engineers are using modern technology to map the engine and maybe rebuild it.
It's a great read
Full article here
Interesting Mono wheeled bike
Move through the world in a completely different way:
RYNO Motors is in the middle of selecting a manufacturing partner for its production bike.
As a result our production schedule is looking like late 2012 to be shipping.
Target retail price for these bikes will be $4,500 US. Product will first be available in the USA with dealer networks being expanded into Europe mid to late 2013. South American distribution will be started late 2013.
There is an interesting video here.
New X3 Chopper
TRAVELLERS could soon be flying on a new high-speed "hover-plane" that combines aircraft wings with helicopter propellers.
The revolutionary winged helicopter the X3 Hybrid Helicraft has just been unveiled by European company Eurocopter.
The video is a bit long and "sales pitchy" but worth the look.
More here


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So yeah, January Jones is leading a western and don't worry if you forgot about it. In fact, the film titled "Sweetwater" (though it seems to be going as "Sweet Vengeance" in some territories) even premiered at Sundance back in January, but the reception was so muted (some folks have told us it was awful) that the movie is still without a U.S. distributor. But international openings await, and thus we have our first trailer.
Well, they certainly made the most of exploding ketchup packets. Yep, the blood really flies in "Sweetwater" even if the movie seems to be a pretty generic tale with a gender twist. Logan and Noah Miller, have teamed with Jones and re-teamed with Ed Harris (after working with him on "Touching Home"), for this story set in 1886 New Mexico where a young widow seeks revenge for the murder of her husband at the hands of a brutal rancher. So basically, Betty Draper puts up her hair and starts wasting people, because that's how these things go.
Like we said, no domestic date yet but watch the trailer and check out the batch of new pics below. [Indiewire]


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Lorenzo started off his MotoGP career running at the front. Then learnt the hard way that he had to back it off. Not Taking anything away from MM though. How would Bradl fair on full factory or Iannone and the Tech3 boys? Satellite teams need more factory support, forget CRTs, it was always a split championship.


text: 18 September 2012 archive See all show photos ELEGANCE with impact was the order of the day at Aminaka Wilmont's spring/summer 2013 show this afternoon, in a collection that was a lesson in how to look feminine and cool all at once. Inspired by scent, design duo Marcus Wilmont and Maki Aminaka Löfvander studied the three-tiered layering of perfume to create the collection, and applied this by way of print. "We discovered how perfume was constructed and it's a beautiful process," Wilmont told us backstage. He's not wrong. The base, the middle and the top notes came in the form of delicate rose petals, monochrome stripes, and psycadelic ombré colour techniques, all blended together to create an aesthetic that was complex and, well yes, beautiful. These prints conveyed strength and sexiness, which was further enhanced by the contrasting textures employed. Strong silhouettes were relaxed with gathered necklines and ruched waistlines, while jersey dresses that clung tightly to every curve were worn with angular leather jackets complete with salmon-skin inserts. "It was based on perfume so we needed an aqua element," said Wilmont, "and it's incredibly soft." The styling and accessorising helped to realise this concept. The models' hair appeared as if shaved at the sides - thanks to clever tinting - with a bluntly cut fringe, yet their ponytails hung long and ladylike. Meanwhile arms and faces were covered with transfer tattoos and the jewellery was tough-talking - yet in a decorative, not threatening way. In fact it was a look that was notably reminiscent of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo's flawed heroine Lisbeth Salander. "That's another Scandinavian thing," smiled Dane Wilmont. "We always have a little bit of Scandi and Japanese in our collections," referring to Aminaka's heritage. What he's actually alluding to is that inimitable and enviable cool that both their homelands emanate when it comes to style. This collection had the kind of charisma to it that is inherent rather than shop-bought, although now – thankfully – we can. Sweet and sleek with a top note of attitude – we say bottle it. Scarlett Kilcooley-O'Halloran Continue reading Back to top


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Rossi is still the king no matter what the experts on this forum write, yes he didnt click with the duc, but that dosent mean he is a fraud or that he,..... , yes rossi ambition out weighted his talent on that duc(it was a mistake he shouldnt left the yamaha in the first place!!! his ego got in the way of course he is 7 times big class champion the people are naming kids after him so of course what do you expect ), he couldnt replicate the riding still or results that Stoner had and for sure Stoner was better on the duc but that dosent mean he cant ride around the problems Rossi adapted to every major change, in this sport you are forgeting that, i hope for his well being it was just the bike, i personally think rossi has changed after mugelo crash. i hope i am wrong we will see soon!! PS. i know he won the race after that, but when you look at him he is not the same guy anymore and 2 years of bad results destroys your head i hope he can recover from this and that he will be competit


text: 'Powerful' Collabro top first BGT semi-final 26 May 2014 Vocal group Collabro have won the first Britain's Got Talent semi-final of 2014, following a "powerful" performance on Monday. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast The five-piece group sang a rendition of Bring Him Home from the musical Les Miserables, earning a standing ovation from all four BGT judges."You are absolute stars," David Walliams told them. "Your voices are perfect together."Simon Cowell added: "The thing I really like about you is you have decided what kind of band you want to be. The harmonies in that performance were spot on. Britain really has got talent."Speaking to hosts Ant and Dec following the results of the public vote, the boys said they were "ecstatic" to be put through to next week's BGT final and thanked their "Collaborator" fans for their support.Collabro will be joined in the final by Canadian illusionist Darcy Oake who won his place after being pitted against impressionist Jon Clegg for the final spot.The judges had difficulty deciding on which act to choose, with David and Amanda Holden voting for Jon and Alesha Dixon and Simon deciding on Darcy.Due to the split vote, the decision was brought back to the public and Darcy was awarded a place in the final.He performed an illusion which involved disappearing from a covered chair and appearing on stage as a member of the Britain's Got Talent crew.That was something very different.Simon Cowell to Darcy Oake"I cannot wait to see what you do next," Alesha told him.Amanda added: "You are such a professional and you have a real commanding presence on the stage."Despite missing out on the final, Jon Clegg won high praise from the judges for his comedy routine, which included a number of celebrity impersonations such as Michael McIntyre, Paul O'Grady and Alan Hansen.But it was Jon's take on BGT host Dec that got the biggest laugh, though Dec himself did not seem as impressed."That routine was effortless," said Amanda. "You were on the money with everyone."Simon added: "That was very clever, you hand the audience in the palm of your hand."It was a disappointing night for David's golden buzzer act Christian Spridon, who performed a high energy rendition of It's Raining Men.Eurovision was two weeks ago.Amanda Holden to Christian SpridonWhile David championed his act, the rest of the judges were not as impressed, with Simon describing his performance as "by far the worst vocal ever on Britain's Got Talent".Alesha told him: "It was so out of tune, it was ridiculous!"In reply, David told Christian not to listen to Alesha who had "made a career out of miming".This prompted the former Mis-Teeq singer to empty a glass of water over his head, earning a high five from Simon.Line-dancing group CountyVive opened the first semi-final, but while David, Amanda and Alesha all praised the group, Simon felt the routine was "a bit of a mess".The 18-strong act is made up of line dancers from all over the UK, including Fred Whitehouse and Shane McKeever, from Co Tyrone and Laura Carvill, from Co Armagh.Other acts performing on Monday night included singers Henrietta Adewole and Micky Dumoulin, dance duo Lauren and Terrell and puppet Patsy May.Britain's Got Talent returns to UTV on Tuesday from 7.30pm."@davidwalliams: Well it's nice to know @AleshaOfficial can take a joke. #BGT" hahahaha!!!! I can!!! :) love u really :)— Alesha Dixon (@AleshaOfficial) May 26, 2014 © UTV Share Share Share