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Escape to a tropical island hideaway on Thailand's Andaman coast with breathtaking natural scenery reminiscent of a bygone era.
Koh Yao Yai is one of a small cluster of islands nearby Phuket with landscapes of rice paddies,
rubber plantations and untouched rain forests, a place where locals have retained
many aspects of traditional rural life.
On this paradise island, our Koh Yao Yai resort presents a unique holiday experience where guests can escape the tourist crowds and feel at one with nature. The 32 acre beach front hotel faces the stunning Phang Nga Bay islands that majestically rise from the calm sea. It is only 30 minutes by speedboat from bustling Phuket and is accessible all-year-round due to its sheltered coastal position.
Our Koh Yao Yai hotel is operated with eco-friendly practices that respect the local community and environment without compromising our high standard luxury accommodation and professional services. Guests will feel refreshed and rejuvenated at this tranquil haven with nature inspired activities such as long tail boat trips to discover the nearby blue lagoon, snorkelling and bicycle tours.
Deluxe Villa
Room size: 73 sqm of living spaceDeluxe Villa are generously set apart within their own area in the gentle jungle hills of Koh Yao, allowing guests to enjoy the sights and smells of the wilderness where the air is sumptuously fresh. The villas are absolutely distinctive and spacious, each one is individual in style and finishing decorated with local Thai Folk Art crafted by the islanders. All bungalows feature an indoor and outdoor space offering the best of both worlds. Recline outside on a day bed and enjoy a long drink amidst the tropical atmosphere or cool offer under the gentle water of an external rain shower. Bedrooms come complete with a double bed, full air-conditioning and modern in-room amenities.
1 Bedroom Sea View Villa
Room size: 117 sqm of living spacePicture the view, opening up your bungalow doors onto rice fields and coastal shores, a private terrace awaits for lazy days. The utterly private and quiet Seaview Villas are perfect for honeymoon couples offering an expansive 117sqm of open plan living. Tastefully designed the master bedroom features French doors which open onto a large outdoor balcony, an idyllic spot to enjoy panoramic landscape vistas and an evening glass of wine. The interior boasts high ceilings and louver windows allowing the cool sea air to flow freely throughout. En-suite bathrooms include double vanity wash basins and both indoor and outdoor showers. All 12 1 Bedroom Sea View Villas benefit from the use of a chic 400 sqm infinity-edge swimming pool.
1 Bedroom Beachfront Villa
Room size: 117 sqm of living spacePicture the view, opening up your bungalow doors onto rice fields and coastal shores, a private terrace awaits for lazy days. The utterly private and quiet Beachfront Villas are perfect for honeymoon couples offering an expansive 117sqm of open plan living. Tastefully designed the master bedroom features French doors which open onto a large outdoor balcony, an idyllic spot to enjoy panoramic landscape vistas and an evening glass of wine. The interior boasts high ceilings and louver windows allowing the cool sea air to flow freely throughout. En-suite bathrooms include double vanity wash basins and both indoor and outdoor showers.
2 Bedroom Family Villa
Room size: 165 sqm of living spaceFor the ultimate family retreat, the very spacious 165 sqm 2 Bedroom Family Villas are designed with extensive outdoor and indoor living space in mind. Villas are ideally situated close to the infinity-edge swimming pool offering guests partial sea views and the very best of the tropical Thai environment. Enjoy wonderful natural surroundings from your very own large terrace which is also the perfect place to enjoy a family meal, with mangroves, rice paddies and the sea adding to the ambience. The sitting room is dominated by a stunning polished jade colour floor with complimenting earth tones setting the mood throughout the villa and blending in beautifully with the natural environment. Large glass sliding doors open out onto the terrace from the living room which is adorned with teak furnishings and a comfortable sofa-bed, great for day time relaxing. Air-conditioning and a flat screen television add to the luxury whilst bedrooms feature king sized beds, en-suite bathrooms complete with rain showers.
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Enjoy panoramic views across the Andaman Sea with majestic islands jutting up out of the waters in the distance. Dining is a spectacular affair at Koh Yao Yai Village. Choose either a table at the edge of the sand or one perched up high overlooking the infinity pool and across the bay. The picturesque Krachang Bar & Grill is situated on a wooden pavilion with tables next to the beach whilst the larger Kayee Restaurant continues with the theme of local artwork providing a more formal yet still relaxed dining experience. A buffet style breakfast is served in high season with A la carte at other times of the year. Lunch and dinner are also A la carte.
Fresh and Fabulous
Dine on the freshest seafood caught in local waters and delivered delicately to your table or select from a Thai or International favourite from the extensive menu. Our experienced Thai Chef has created a selection to take your taste buds on a journey across Thailand with fabulous dishes including a seafood basket containing grilled fish, squid, tiger prawns, crab and rock lobster, all caught daily in water surrounding the island. Western comfort food such as pasta, burgers, soups and salads are also on the menu. Additionally, many of the dishes contain vegetables and herbs grown on-site at Koh Yao Yai Village gardens which are completely free from pesticides and chemicals.
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Private Dining Wherever you choose to dine, spectacular views of the Pah Koh group of islands in Phang Nga Bay and evening sea breezes are pretty much guaranteed leaving you feeling far away from urban life and the rest of the world. If you should require even more intimacy to celebrate a honeymoon, anniversary or for any special occasion, a private romantic dinner for two on the beach can be easily be arranged. In-room balcony dining can also be served which is best enjoyed on your terrace for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Casual poolside snacks are also available throughout the day.
The tranquil and casual setting of Jakrajan by the resort pool is ideal for ordering light meals and quick snacks. Offering a selection of sandwiches, pastries and other bakery treats the Jakrajan also specializes in healthy fresh fruit smoothies and shakes.
Wanna Spa offers an ultimate experience you haven't found anywhere. It is inspired by its location which is the rice field and the way of life on the island of Koh Yao Yai.
We have crafted a unique spa experience to sooth your mind, body and soul. we promise to deliver an impeccable service in a unique,
simple and intimate setting where your senses can be restored and relaxing along the journey with us. Natural aromatic essential oil
and ancient spa traditions join together to lessen your stress and ease away your past hectic life while restoring your energy back and rejuvenating your skin for years.
Plan your stay with us ahead and book your favorite treatments with us and experience the uniqueness of our
Wanna Spa.
|Free form infinity pool
|Sun Lounger
|Relaxing area
|Dahra Library
|Gift Shop
|Shuttle Bus
|Introduction to Rice Farming
|Eco Bike
|Fisherman's Tour
|The Village tour
Koh Yao Yai is reached via international flights to Phuket or Krabi. Arriving via Phuket? Then sit back and relax at our transfer office located at Ao Por Grand Marina,
before boarding the resort speedboat to whisk you the short 30 minutes across to the island. Enjoy onboard Thai hospitality with a boat attendant taking good care of you during the transfer.
Services include a guaranteed seat, extra luggage capacity, drinking water and a cold towel.
Upon arrival you will be greeted at the pier before journeying by Ko Yao hotel shuttle bus (traditional Thai songthaew) to Koh Yao Yai Village.


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This is a brave man. Despite the fact that the engine on his circa 1980 Ford Fairmont sounds like a sewing machine and is clearly about to explode, he takes it to the drag strip and sprays nitrous through the whole run.
After running a 10.20, the tech guy tells him to cool it (because he doesn't have a cage), so the driver promises to keep it over 11.50. Of course once he's back in the dingy, stained interior of his fantastic Malaise mobile, he unveils his secret plot to break into the 9s on the last run.
I wonder how many pieces of that engine are still laying on the track. (Hat tip to StreetsideStig!)

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Avoid buying seafood that comes from stocks that are being overfished or is caught using destructive fishing methods. Check the Red List here.
Demand that your supermarket and tuna brand source sustainable tuna. Look for tuna cans with "Pole and Line" or "Hand-Caught."
Speak up about your concerns if you spot a threatened species on the menu or at the seafood counter.
For example, you can drink tap water in a reusable bottle or take along your favourite mug to your local coffee shop. Use reusable food containers, shopping bags and picnic supplies. Try to reuse and recycle as much as you can.
We need to use less fossil fuel to reduce the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the oceans. Leave the car at home at least one day a week and inflate your tyres more often. Be conscious of your energy use at home and work, switch to energy efficient light bulbs and unplug your appliances and gadgets or use a power strip to cut power to electronics when they are not in use.
It's obvious but please don't throw your rubbish on the beach or into the sea. Make a difference and join in with beach clean-ups. You can do it on your own or join a community team. If you smoke, use an ashtray and please don't flush your cotton buds down the toilet as they end up in the sea and are amongst the main source of litter on our beaches.
For your holiday destination chose a country that supports ocean sanctuaries. Always research the most eco-friendly option and whenever possible avoid flying or offset your carbon footprint by supporting for example clean-energy projects. Avoid buying coral jewellery, tortoiseshell hair accessories, and shark or other endangered marine species products.
No matter how far from the sea you live, your drainage water will eventually end up in the ocean. Use biodegradable washing powder, chemical free household and gardening products or simple, non-toxic ingredients like vinegar, baking soda, or lemon juice.
Never flush kitty litter down the toilet and avoid buying wild caught saltwater fish.
Learn more about the oceans, marine life and the need for ocean sanctuaries, then share your knowledge so you can educate and inspire others.
You can help influence change. Contact your local politicians to let them know you support ocean sanctuaries and other marine conservation projects, and vote for environmentally-minded parties.
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Principal Proposed Uses
Other Proposed Uses
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Huntington's Chorea
DMAE (2-dimethylaminoethanol) is a chemical that has been used to treat a number of conditions affecting the brain and central nervous system. Like other such treatments, it is thought to work by increasing production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, although this has not been proven.
DMAE is sold in pharmacies and healthfood stores, as well as on the Internet, as a nutritional supplement.
Therapeutic Dosages
Manufacturers' recommended dosages and those used in clinical studies vary between 400 and 1,800 mg daily.
Therapeutic Uses
Preliminary evidence suggests that DMAE may be helpful for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ). 1,2
More widely marketed today as a memory and mood enhancer, DMAE is said to improve intellectual functioning; however, there are no clinical studies that support its use for these purposes. The basis for such claims probably stems from its purported ability to increase levels of a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine . Drugs and supplements called cholinergics that increase acetylcholine have been used to treat Alzheimer's disease , tardive dyskinesia , and Huntington's chorea. Because DMAE was believed to be a cholinergic, it has been tried for all of these disorders. However, well-designed double-blind, placebo-controlled studies have yielded almost entirely negative results. 3-9 In addition, there is some controversy over whether DMAE really increases acetylcholine at all. 10
What Is the Scientific Evidence for DMAE?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
There is some evidence that DMAE may be helpful for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) , according to studies performed in the 1970s. Two such studies were reported in a review article on DMAE. 11 Fifty children aged 6 to 12 years who had been diagnosed with hyperkinesia (their diagnosis today would likely be ADHD) participated in a double-blind study comparing DMAE to placebo. The dose was increased from 300 mg daily to 500 mg daily by the third week, and continued for 10 weeks. Evaluations revealed statistically significant test score improvements in the treatment group compared to the placebo group.
Another double-blind study compared DMAE with both methylphenidate (Ritalin) and placebo in 74 children described as having unspecified "learning disabilities" (also probably what we would call ADHD today). 12 The study found significant test score improvement for both treatment groups over a 10-week period. Positive results were also seen in a small open study . 13
Alzheimer's Disease
Most people over the age of 40 experience some memory loss, but Alzheimer's disease is much more serious, leading to severe mental deterioration (dementia) in the elderly. Microscopic examination shows that in the areas of the brain involved in higher thought processes, nerve cells have died and disappeared, particularly cells that release the chemical acetylcholine. Drugs such as tacrine and danazol, and supplements such as huperzine A , are used for Alzheimer's based on their ability to increase acetylcholine levels. Because DMAE is also thought to increase acetylcholine, trials have been performed to test its effectiveness for the same purpose. However, there is no real evidence as yet that it works.
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 27 patients with Alzheimer's disease tested DMAE as a treatment. 14 Thirteen participants were placed in the group receiving DMAE; however, six of them had to drop out of the study because of side effects such as drowsiness, increased confusion, and elevated blood pressure. In those completing the trial, no differences were seen between the treatment group and those taking placebo.
An open trial enrolling 14 patients found no improvement in either memory or cognitive function. The researchers did note improvements in symptoms of depression. But, in the absence of a placebo group, this observation means little. 15
Tardive Dyskinesia
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a potentially permanent side effect of drugs used to control schizophrenia . This late-developing (tardy, or tardive) complication consists of annoying, uncontrollable movements (dyskinesias), particularly in the face.
Based on its supposed cholinergic effect, DMAE has been proposed as a treatment for TD. Although some case reports and open studies seem to suggest that DMAE might be useful for this purpose, 16,17 properly designed studies using double-blind methods and placebo control groups have not borne this out. Of 12 double-blind studies reviewed, only one found DMAE to be significantly effective when compared with placebo. 18 A meta-analysis of proposed treatments for TD found DMAE to be no more effective than placebo. 19 It seems likely, though not entirely certain, that the benefits seen in open studies and individual cases were the result of a placebo effect. However, it is also possible that some particular individuals respond well to DMAE, even if most don't.
Huntington's Chorea
Huntington's chorea is a genetically inherited disease that results in personality changes and, somewhat similarly to TD, uncontrolled spastic movements. It doesn't usually become symptomatic until a person's age reaches the late thirties or older, although about 10% of people with Huntington's will begin to show signs of the disorder in childhood or adolescence.
DMAE was not found to be an effective treatment for Huntington's chorea in double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, although mixed results have been obtained using DMAE in open trials. 20,21,22
Safety Issues
Although most clinical investigations using DMAE report that the participants experienced no side effects, enough researchers have found adverse reactions to suggest that some caution is appropriate in using this supplement. One study, as noted above, reports increased confusion, drowsiness, and elevated blood pressure; 23 another reports headache and muscle tension as possible adverse effects; 24 and another paper suggests that weight loss and insomnia may accompany use of DMAE. 25 There is also one case report of a woman who developed severe TD after taking DMAE for 10 years for a hand tremor. 26 Besides this, a number of manufacturers warn against the use of DMAE by people with epilepsy or a history of convulsions.
Maximum safe dosages for young children, pregnant or nursing women, or people with severe liver or kidney disease have not been established.
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2016 Nesting Record
Three eggs laid
One egg hatched:
June 1, 2016 @ 11:45 AM
Fledge at 55 days old:
July 26 @ 8:37AM
Believed to be female
About the Osprey
Assuming they are the same pair that has been here the past two years (normal behavior for osprey), this is their third year nesting on our platform at Marshy Point Nature Center. In 2014, they attempted to nest but did not lay any eggs. In 2015, they successfully raised and fledged two chicks. They were first spotted on March 4th this year and began perching on the platform on Easter Sunday (march 27th) and began building shortly after. From April 12th on, they have been seen mating. We are hoping to see eggs by the end of this month.
Scientific name: Pandion haliaetus (only animal in the Pandionidae family)
Other names: Fish Hawk, Bay Hawk, Sea Eagle, Sea Hawk
Distribution: Population estimate of 460,000 worldwide. Osprey are the second most widely distributed raptor, behind the Peregrine Falcon. They are found on all continents except Antarctica.
Size: About two feet tall. 2-4.6 pounds. 50-71 inch wingspan.
Habitat: Osprey make large nests near any body of water with sufficient food source. Their nest is made from sticks with a softer patch in the middle for laying eggs. In late August, after their young have successfully fledged, they will migrate to South America until the following March. The year old osprey usually remain in South America for one more year.
Lifespan: 10 years but as old as 25.
Description: Generally dark on the back and wings with white on the top of the head and extending from under the chin down the belly. A black stripe runs through the eye to the back of the next. In flight, the osprey can be distinguished from the bald eagle by the white belly and the crooked wings with dark wrist patches. Females have a pattern of brown feathers across their chest. They have a dark bill and white feet. The male is generally smaller than the female. Young osprey have red eyes which turn yellow as they age.
Breeding: Osprey usually mate for life and return to the same nest every year. Osprey start breeding about age 3-4 but that is dependent on availability of nesting sites. In the Chesapeake Bay, where there is a scarcity of nesting sites, osprey often delay breeding until 7 years of age. The female usually lays 2-4 eggs over a 5 day period. Both parents share incubation duty which averages 5 weeks. Once hatched, both male and female feed and care for the young and train them for months. Young osprey fledge in 8-10 weeks. The breeding season in the Chesapeake Bay begins in April and usually ends in August when the chicks are fledged.
Diet: The osprey is the only member of the hawk family to survive primarily (99%) on live fish.
Fishing success: In one study, Osprey were found to catch fish 1 out of 4 dives and takes an average of 12 minutes to catch a fish. When flying with a fish, it turns it head first in its talons so as to cut down on wind resistance.
Adaptations: Osprey have vision that is well adapted to detecting underwater objects from the air. Prey is first sighted when the osprey is 10–40 m (33–131 ft) above the water, after which the bird hovers momentarily then plunges feet first into the water. Another adaptation is that their nostrils are closable. Its toes are of equal length, and it can turn two to the front and two to the back so as to hold onto slippery prey easier. It has a rough, scaly patch between its feet to assist with this as well.
Fishing success: In one study, Osprey were found to catch fish 1 out of 4 dives and takes an average of 12 minutes to catch a fish. When flying with a fish, it turns it head first in its talons so as to cut down on wind resistance.
During 13 days, one Osprey with a tracking device flew 2700 miles.
About Marshy Point Center
Marshy Point Nature Center, a Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks facility, opened in the Spring of 2000. The center is located on land acquired by the County in 1982 from the Weiskittel and Zelinski families. The area around Marshy Point has a rich tradition of waterfowl hunting, and President Benjamin Harrison, Babe Ruth, and Annie Oakley all hunted here.
The development of Maryland's state dog, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, took place at the Marshy Point Ducking Club and winter still brings rafts of ducks, geese, and tundra swans to area creeks. Fishermen have long explored the waters around Marshy Point in search of rockfish, chain pickerel, perch, catfish, and blue crabs.
Marshy Point Nature Center provides a variety of enjoyable and educational programs for visitors of all ages. School and group programs are available during the week, and a quarterly calendar includes nature programming on a variety of topics. In addition, every fifth grade student in the Baltimore County Public Schools system visits Marshy Point as part of their environmental education curriculum.
The Marshy Point Nature Center Council is a volunteer organization that works with the Department of Recreation and Parks to support the work of the Nature Center and the mission of environmental education. The Nature Council hosts monthly audiovisual presentations by natural resource professionals and noted naturalists. Other programs include water-oriented summer camps for a variety of ages, Monday Pre-K drop-ins, bird walks, canoeing, boat trips, and many other seasonal programs. Special events include the Popsicle Plunge and annual Spring and Fall Festivals.


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xeapps necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 90 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Xenon Labs
We're a small team of software developers who are passionate about making mobile applications. Our next project is the largest one yet: a fully-featured music composition application for the iPad, suited toward professionals.
We are targeting iPad users who are serious about music production. Users are likely musicians, including composers, producers, and performers.
We need application icons for our upcoming music composition app - Symphony Pro.
Design of the icon:
1. Shoot for a stylish, modern look.
2. We like photorealistic icons.
3. It can be representational or abstract.
4. Try to match the look and feel of the application (see the attachment).
5. Be creative. We don't want the icon to look like every other in the App Store.
6. Keep in mind that rounded edges, gloss, and some transparency is automatically applied by Apple later. The final submission should not contain any of those elements. However, you are free to submit designs with them so we can see what the final result would look like.
7. Remember this is a music composition app. Please make something that somewhat relates to it.
Example of some designs that we like:
The files that we will need:
The icon will need to be submitted in 3 sizes, 512x512, 72x72, and 57x57. All of these sizes should be the exact same image just at different sizes. So submit the icon at each of these sizes as a .png as well as a .psd of the 512x512 image. The large icon will be displayed in the App Store, the other two will appear in the home screen of the iPad.
Additional notes:
If you use any stock images that are not yours you will also need to provide proof that they are free to use for commercial purposes.


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The Blind Guy offers window blinds, window shutters and window awnings by the finest manufacturers in America including Hunter Douglas, Kathy Ireland Home by Alta, Graber, Insolroll and Sunseta to name a few. Since 1997 when we first opened for business in Montana, we have continued to expanded all over the US into Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
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THE IDOLM@STER has become one of the most popular raising simulation and rhythm video games out there. It was created by Bandai Namco Games, and its first release was in 2005 as an arcade game directed by Akihiro Ishihara. In addition to its manga and anime adaptations, the series' various ports, sequels, and spin-offs can now be found on everything from Nintendo DS, PlayStation 4, and Xbox 360, to Android and iOS! Its bright cast of characters want nothing more than to become top idols, and the player takes on the role of their producer, training their idol to reach their full potential.
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Red Stock # K5712, KNDJ23AU8L7710471, 2.0L 4-Cyl DOHC MPI Engine engine, Manual, 31, RED exterior
At a Glance
2.0L 4-Cyl DOHC MPI Engine
25/31 City/Hwy MPG
Front Wheel Drive
- Condition: New
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- Engine: 2.0L 4-Cyl DOHC MPI Engine
- Fuel: Gas
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Organizers say the 22-kilometre race along the Ottawa River marked the first time that openly transgender athletes competed in rowing in Canada.
Enza Anderson and Savannah Burton, who first took to the water only two months ago, are part of a five-person team dubbed Team TRANS-fusion.
They finished fourth out of five teams, with a timing of just over two hours, about 10 minutes behind the first-place rowers.
The team's introduction to rowing was part of a pilot project at Toronto's Hanlan Boat Club, which sought to attract transgender people to its Learn-to-Row program.
Anderson, 50, said she stayed away from sports for most of her life, wary of the discrimination that transgender athletes can face.
"For me the experience has been very emotional," she said. "You never know when you go into an environment like this if people will accept you."
She said it's a reality that all transgender people face on a regular basis.
"Going to gym has always been my worst nightmare, because I've heard horror stories about the change-room dilemma," she said. "I want to do my workout and not get hassled by anybody."
Rowing has become an outlet for Anderson, who said the boat club has provided her with technical know-how and a new hobby.
"I never thought I'd reach 50 because of all the struggles of transitioning, and trying to survive and trying to make a living and function like everybody else," she said, crying.
"Finally participating in an activity that's so welcoming," she said. "I think I'm really lucky.
"I'm female and I want to participate as a woman in a sport, not be categorized as male."
Helen Kennedy, executive director of the human rights advocacy group Egale Canada, said the boat race is "pushing the boundaries for basic equality."
"It's a very courageous thing that they're doing," she said.
Despite the increasing awareness of transgender issues, Kennedy said, systemic homophobia and transphobia still plague the sports world.
"We need to have a broader conversation about this," she said, adding that whether it's Olympic-level competition or grade-school gym class, an individual's participation in sports is often limited by societal gender roles.
The hope of Sunday's boat race is to give young transgender individuals, and those currently transitioning, a chance to "see themselves in something significant," she said.
Team captain Adrian Cornelissen spearheaded the pilot project at Hanlan Boat Club and said respect and acceptance are essential to creating a successful team.
"Not only do we have to row in synch, but there will be different moments when team members hit the wall," he said, adding that the half-marathon will take about two hours.
Cornelissen estimated there would be between 10 and 15 teams on the water, including singles, doubles and team boats, set to launch from the Ottawa New Edinburgh Club.
His idea for a transgender-inclusive rowing team was sparked by a desire to see role models for transgender youth, he said.
"It's the fact that they're part of a team. There are three women and two men in the boat, it just so happened that two of the women are from the trans community."
He added the program was made possible because of a well-defined policy of acceptance at the boat club, and a focus on inclusive recreational rowing for all skill levels.
"I would not have been able to do that in other clubs because their focus is very different," he said, adding that the program has put the issue of transgender discrimination at the forefront. "It's making sports organizations now take a look at their own policies."
Burton, 39, said her love of sports took a back seat when she recently transitioned from male to female.
Before her transition, she had been a competitive dodgeball player, white-water kayaker and baseball player.
"I was ready to go back to sports," she said, adding that her hope is to create visibility around transgender athletes. "I know when I was a kid there weren't any trans athletes out there at all."
Burton said societal discrimination is a daily struggle for transgender people.
"Even just walking down the streets sometimes, people stare, people say things," she said. "It's really tough on some people."
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Farron Cousins | September 17, 2012
By Farron Cousins • Monday, September 17, 2012 - 21:04
PBS – the network that conservatives have regularly attacked for "liberal bias" for more than 40 years – finally put that myth to rest tonight by airing a one-sided interview with climate change denier Anthony Watts. The former weatherman-turned business owner and blogger Watts, was given close to ten minutes of uncontested airtime to spout his disinformation about climate change, without any retorts from actual climate scientists.
Update: Forecast The Facts launched a petition calling for PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler to investigate whether the segment met PBS' standards.
Watts freely admitted in the interview that he is not a climate scientist, but said that he has a problem with climate scientists because, as Watts says, they are using "faulty data."
Watts should know a thing or two about faulty data, as he was recommended to PBS reporter Spencer Michels for an interview by the disinformation specialists at the Heartland Institute.
Here is a brief snip from the PBS Newshour interview:
SPENCER MICHELS: What's the thing that bothers you the most about people who say there's lots of global warming?
ANTHONY WATTS: They want to change policy. They want to apply taxes and these kinds of things may not be the actual solution for making a change to our society.
SPENCER MICHELS: What are you saying? That they're biased essentially or motivated by something else? What?
ANTHONY WATTS: There's a term that was used to describe this. It's called noble cause corruption. And actually I was a victim of that at one time, where you're so fervent you're in your belief that you have to do something. You're saving the planet, you're making a difference, you're making things better that you're so focused on this goal of fixing it or changing it that you kind of forget to look along the path to make sure that you haven't missed some things.
I started looking into the idea that weather stations have been slowly encroached upon by urbanization and sighting issues over the last century. Meaning that our urbanization affected the temperature. And this was something that was very clear if you looked at the temperature records. But what wasn't clear is how it affected the trend of temperatures. And so that's been something that I've been investigating. Anyone who's ever stood next to a building in the summertime at night, a brick building that's been out in the summer sun, you stand next to it at night, you can feel the heat radiating off of it. That's a heat sink effect. And over the last 100 years our country, in fact the world, has changed. We've gone from having mostly a rural agrarian society to one that is more urban and city based and as a result the infrastructure has increased. We've got more freeways, you know more airports, we've got more buildings. Got more streets, all these things. Those are all heat sinks. During the day, solar insulation hits these objects and these surfaces and it stores heat in these objects. At night it releases that heat. Now if you are measuring temperature in a city that went from having uh maybe 10% of um, non-permeable surface to you know maybe 90% over 100 years, that's a heat sync effect and that should show up in the record. The problem is, is that it's been such a slow subtle change over the last 100 years. It's not easy to detect and that's been the challenge and that's what I've been working on.
SPENCER MICHELS: Well in a way you're saying that the records aren't accurate, the data isn't accurate.
ANTHONY WATTS: I'm saying that the data might be biased by these influences to a percentage. Yes, we have some global warming, it's clear the temperature has gone up in the last 100 years. But what percentage of that is from carbon dioxide? And what percentage of that is from changes in the local and measurement environment?
There's really only one way to take Watts' statements, and that is to infer that he believes climate scientists are fools. For him to be allowed to go on the air and make an unchallenged statement that climate scientists are wrong because they didn't factor in that buildings and asphalt surfaces retain heat is both infuriating and demeaning.
The concept of heat absorption by different surfaces, colors, and objects is a subject that some school systems teach to children as young as 6 years old – and yet Watts believes that climate scientists with years and years of education and real-world experience forgot about this elementary school lesson.
The urban heat island theory has been debunked repeatedly, including by the Koch-funded BEST analysis. Despite his March 2011 statement that, "I'm prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong," Watts continues to peddle the urban heat island theory to this day, and continues his attacks on the Koch-funded study in the interview.
But that isn't the only jab that Watts took at climate scientists:
SPENCER MICHELS: Has this issue, I know you think it's been oversold and scare tactics have been used. Do you think it's become too politicized?
ANTHONY WATTS: Oh, it's definitely become too politicized. In fact, some of the scientists who are the leaders in the issue have become for lack of a better word, political tools on the issue.
Again, it is ironic that a man recommended by the Heartland Institute would have the audacity to refer to anyone as a "political tool."
Ultimately however, the blame for this shoddy piece of "journalism" lies with PBS. They fell into the trap that says that there are two sides to every story. But that is not always the case, and it certainly isn't the case with climate change.
Bill Nye put it best recently when he told CNN: "I appreciate that we want to show two sides of the stories — there's a tradition in journalism that goes back quite a ways, I guess — but the two sides aren't equal here. You have tens of thousands of scientists who are very concerned and you have a few people who are in business of equating or drawing attention to the idea that uncertainty is the same as doubt. When you have a plus or minus percentage, that's not the same thing as not believing the whole thing at all… We in the science education community chip away at this problem all the time. We have an enormous population of people in the United States that don't believe in evolution, the fundamental idea in all of life science. It would be like saying, I don't believe in earthquakes or something. The analogies are disturbing."
Nye is absolutely right with his analysis of media coverage, and PBS has now fallen into the same disgraceful journalistic tactics purveyed on Fox News and, as Nye pointed out, on CNN.
See further reactions to this disturbing development at ClimateProgress, Get Energy Smart Now, and Media Matters.
Update: Watch the Newshour segment below:
Watch Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
Watch PBS Newshour's Spencer Michels interviewing Watts below:
Shame on PBS for this one....
Thanks, it is a painful revelation that PBS can be so narrow and deluded. Downright bad journalism.
We know Watts is a denier - and if Michels and PBS wanted to do a better story they could easily. The shock here is that their goal was pure propaganda. The old, tired tome of broken thermometers explaining global warming - well that was debunked years ago.
We should be thankful - this event revealed them for what they are. I am so disappointed.
You can definitely spell "epistemology". We believe you. Now try "computational statistics". You're going to need a bit more than big words from 19th-century philosophies of science to convince anyone that you have a valid argument.
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I contacted the show, PBS, the CPB and a local station.
This PBS story came out of KQED in San Francisco. They are doing their annual pledge drive. Please phone them and complain: 800 937-8850
Forecast the Facts have a petition to the ombudsman here:
Beyond belief that this sort of garbage gets airtime when we're in the middle of an Arctic albedo flip. (Is this the Urban Penguin Effect, perhaps?)
The thing is.......
The thing is, Watts actually comes across as being very reasonable and is not making any over-the-top claims. Compare that with your average catastrophic warmist, such as Hansen or Romm, and people will be very tempted to believe Watts.
The CAGW crowd keeps upping the volume at the same time as the public is losing interest. It's not working at all, the message is just not getting out there.
Dennis W. replied on Permalink
Watts? Reasonable?
Watts? Reasonable? You've obviously never tried to get him to address his mistakes.
How does Hansen, whose predictive record over the last 3 decades has been remarkably accurate, get to be dubbed a catastrophist?
caerbannog666 replied on Permalink
Anthony Watts is an incompetent hack with no technical skills.
For the better part of a decade, Watts has been making unfounded claims about the global temperature data. His claims can easily be debunked in a few *days* (at most) by a reasonably-competent programmer/analyst.
Coding up a basic gridding/averaging program that crunches raw data and reproduces the NASA/NOAA/CRU results very closely is not very difficult. I could teach 2nd-semester computer programming students how to do it.
And once you have a simple program like that up and running, it is very easy to "tweak" it to prove that all of Watts' major claims (UHI, data-homogenization, dropped-stations, etc.) are completely wrong. This can all be done in a matter of days by a reasonably competent programmer. Keep that in mind when you consider how many *years* Watts has been going on and on about those supposed problems with the global temperature data.
And to prove that I'm not kidding, I'll even provide this link to a one page**** computer program that replicates the NASA results from raw data: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0pXYsr8qYS6SXkzMW1nY2Zodlk
(**** excluding comments and diagnostic print statements)
The program was written by "Kevin C" and posted to skepticalscienc.com some time ago. I tweaked it a bit, added a bunch of comments to help newbies understand what it does, and uploaded it to the above link.
So my challenge to you, Hank, is: Download the program, install python on your PC, run the program per the instructions provided in the comments, plot up the results, and post a link to an image of your plotted results here (you can upload your plot to imageshack.com). Think you are up to it?
Hank's point
While I don't agree with Hank's definition of Hansen and Romm as catastrophists, I do get what he's saying. Watts and his ilk don't need to convince the relative minority who are able to write and run a gridding program, read the original papers if they want to investigate a particular point, the people who can follow the science (and in some cases actually do the science).
He just needs to convince the partially educated, the ones who think that if they've followed the bizarre arithmetic on his blog and managed to reproduce it in Excel, that they've somehow outwitted the scientists and proved them wrong. They get a huge ego stroke from being in this little bubble where they're told they're cleverer and more knowledgeable than people with decades of education and research behind them. (Just watch the vast hordes of blog commenters who make some pompous remark along the lines of "climate has been changing for millions of years" without having a clue what absolute tits they're making of themselves.)
So if he sounds like a cool head, they'll also get stroked by believing that they are the few who aren't being driven into a needless panic.
The problem is that the crowded theatre really is on fire this time. The big news should be that the worst-case scenarios are what seem to be happening.
Watts is a known actor - PBS is the surprise
We know that Watts is a buffoon. I was just shocked to see the PBS news show buying in to him so completely. It reveals incompetence. Or their bias, or their role as PR flacks for the oil industry.
It is like discovering your brother or sister really is dumb and not just pretending. Disappointing.
PBS could have covered their ass by doing basic journalism. Failing to do the simple work makes them appear to be promoting denialism. And that makes them a waste of time.
Too bad.
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
MediaMatters weighs in
For another scathing critique of the Watts interview, check out:
MediaMatters' "PBS NewsHour Propagates Confusion On Climate Change"


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By DAVID SHERRY
Why do doctors perform tests? In short, so they won�t experiment on their patients and possibly kill them. Doctors need to know they have the right diagnosis before they risk an operation, a drug�s side effects or ineffective treatment.
Imagine your doctor performing surgery or prescribing drugs without performing the available tests. His malpractice insurance would have been canceled long ago. He�d be looking for another profession.
What I�ve just described is what government entities plan for Destin�s East Pass � prescribing a dangerous new plan to backpass sand, starve the downdrift patient, and avoid the diagnostic tracer test that would prove or disprove their radical, unproven �therapy.�
Dodging the test might make sense politically. It gives some influential landowners and political allies what they want � other people�s sand.
As a practical matter, however, avoiding the test makes no sense at all.
The risk is too high � damage to downdrift communities such as Okaloosa Island and Fort Walton Beach, the Destin fishing fleet and others using the inlet, local economies, and the federal deficit via increased dredge funding and erosion to area Air Force installations. Our healthy beach patient is about to suffer radical surgery without having undergone a simple, proven test no more harmful than taking a pulse.
Suppose your doctor said you needed to have a kidney removed, you discovered he had an influential patient who needed your kidney, and he refused to confirm his diagnosis with the available test. Wouldn�t you be suspicious? Wouldn�t you demand the test?
Doesn�t East Pass deserve its test?
The scientific method used by engineers and scientists is like that for doctors. A hypothesis must be proved through experiments before it becomes accepted and is implemented. Tests confirm whether you�re right or need a new hypothesis � before you make mistakes.
Government entities here skipped the experiments and went straight from far-fetched hypothesis to implementation. This is a prescription for doing harm.
Government says to bet our community�s life blood of sand on a $250,000 computer simulation performed for the city of Destin. Computer simulations can be manipulated. Mother Nature, not so much. The simulation firm�s internal emails even warn of problems with its model. What would you think if your doctor responded to your request for a test with a computer simulation?
The only plausible reason for government entities to resist doing the tracer test is that they believe as I do, that it would expose their �new science� and far-fetched �reverse transport� and �parting of the Red Sea� assertions for what they are � nonsense created to justify backpassing sand against the natural flow in order to appease certain private beach owners in Destin.
It would be naive to believe that future sand placement decisions under the draft plan would be less political than the decisions that brought us the far-fetched theory and denied a tracer test.
Florida law requires that inlet plans �replicate the natural drift of sand� and �maximize sand bypassing� because Florida learned the hard way that opposing the natural sand-flow direction causes harm. Some appear determined to learn that lesson again.
The draft plan pretends that government can dictate to Mother Nature. Place sand upstream to the east and Mother Nature will fill your inlet faster, making you dredge more. Deny downdrift communities to the west their natural sand supply and their beaches will erode. These actions waste taxpayer money.
Scientists, engineers and doctors use the scientific method. That is how they solve problems. Some politicians and regulators prefer other outcomes. That is how they make a mess.
Politicians must be hoping they will have moved on to higher office before the communities harmed, including the taxpayer, feel the pain and figure out what happened. That�s called skating fast over thin ice.
That isn�t good enough. The people deserve a sand tracer test and answers, instead of speculation and politically driven outcomes. To do otherwise is government malpractice.
David Sherry is a retired chemical engineer and a resident of Okaloosa Island.


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10 Things Midwesterners Always Have on Their Breakfast Table
Anyone who knows anything about Midwestern cooking knows that Midwest mamas and papas have the best casserole recipes. And that isn't just limited to dinnertime! No holiday or weekday morning is complete without a cheesy, eggy and meaty hotdish.
For the Ham and Cheese Breakfast Casserole recipe, click here.iStockphoto.com
Breakfast Skillet
A close cousin of the breakfast casserole, a breakfast skillet has all the deliciousness and convenience of a casserole with one added benefit: It only requires one pan. Mix your greens, eggs and spinaches all together and cook. Breakfast has never been so easy.For the Eggs and Greens Breakfast Skillet recipe, click here.Thinkstock
Fried Mush
Fried mush is exactly what its name implies - it's fried cornmeal mush. Made of just cornmeal, water and salt, this dish can be found across the Midwest, especially in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. It may sound odd, but it's oh-so-satisfying.For the Fried Mush recipe, click here.iStockphoto.com
What is goetta? Call it a Cincinnati version of scrapple. Made of ground pork meat, oats and seasonings, this breakfast meat was introduced by immigrants from Northern Germany as a way to make a pound of meat stretch to feed as many people as possible. It's usually served sliced alongside standard breakfast fare like eggs and toast. It's just another one of those regional dishes you've never heard of!Keith Lanser/Wikimedia Commons
Hoppel Poppel
Known as "hash" in most of the country, hoppel poppel (sometimes spelled hopple popple) is the Midwesten breakfast that's basically everything you could ever want for your first meal of the day cooked in one skillet and served in one bowl. Potatoes, eggs, meat and cheese are cooked and tossed together until they make one scrumptious hoppel poppel. Bonus if the meat and potatoes are leftovers from last night's dinner.For the Hash With Caramelized Onions, Sausage, and Eggs recipe, click here.iStockphoto.com
Originating from Central Europe, the kolache founds its way to the Midwest via Czech immigrants. This semi-sweet pastry with a fruit filling is so beloved in the Midwest that cities in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin all have festivals in honor of this breakfast food.For the Blueberry Kolache recipe, click here.iStockphoto.com
Another regional pastry, the kringle originated in Scandanavia before becoming a favorite of Wisconsinites. This oval-shaped specialty is surprisingly easy to replicate at home.
For the Easy Danish Kringle recipe, click here.Tony Savino/Dreamstime
Literally just the German word for cake, this rich custard dessert isn't a wholly uncommon breakfast dish in North Dakota and surrounding Midwestern states.For the Kuchen recipe, click here.Steven Miller/Dreamstime
What can we say? Midwesterners love their ethnic pastries. Paczki are a Polish fried doughnut. While they're welcome on a breakfast table during most times of the year, paczki are most commonly eaten in the leadup to Lent as people use up the last of their lard, sugar and eggs before giving them up for the season.
For the Paczki recipe, click here.iStockphoto.com
Anything With Eggs, Bacon, Sausage or Ham
The all-American breakfast hasn't changed much since the year you were born, and there are few places in America that are more full of heart than the heartland. While you will find plenty of paczki, kringles and fried mush across the Midwest, you're more likely to find the standards: bacon, eggs and carbs. Like a proper Midwestern meal, the best recipes combine all these together, like in a bacon quiche. But if that doesn't satisfy your need for true Midwestern cooking, don't worry; these recipes will have you cooking like a true Midwesterner!
For the Bacon Quiche recipe, click here.
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Dynamo forward Giles Barnes wants to use last weekend's performance against Chivas USA as a template for an important three-game homestand that begins with the visit of the Columbus Crew to BBVA Compass Stadium on Wednesday night (7 p.m. CT; TICKETS).
Houston snapped out of a tough run of results in style on Saturday with a 4-1 defeat of Chivas at StubHub Center and Barnes grabbed his first two goals of the campaign with a crashing shot from distance and a calmly-struck penalty kick.
The Englishman is aiming for more of the same as the Dynamo first host Columbus, then Real Salt Lake on Sunday and the Los Angeles Galaxy on May 17. They are the last home games before World Cup rosters are finalized and key Dynamo players potentially head to the tournament. Attacking midfielder Boniek García has already been named to the Honduras squad and captain Brad Davis is hoping that U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann hands him a ticket to Brazil as well.
Barnes said that the Dynamo are in confident mood after the team clicked against Chivas and he is looking for another clinical display on Wednesday. "We've got to keep the momentum going. I think it was one of the best games we've played this season, using the ball wide, we pressured high, we took opportunities when they were given to us. We've got only good, positive vibes going into the next game," he told HoustonDynamo.com.
"We always look forward to coming home and trying to do something special for our fans so hopefully we can do that [against Columbus] and carry it on."
While pleased to be back at BBVA Compass Stadium for an extended stretch, Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear is expecting a stiff challenge from all three teams. RSL was last year's MLS Cup runners-up while the Galaxy are another perennial Western Conference force.
"It's going to be tough, all three opponents are good opponents and the games are close together but I'd rather have them at home than away," he told HoustonDynamo.com. Against Chivas the Dynamo were more successful at converting pressure and possession into goals than in recent weeks, and the defense recovered its composure and smothered Chivas' attacks after the setback of conceding an early penalty kick.
"Sometimes [goals] come, sometimes they don't. To be honest we could probably have scored a couple more. But a 4-1 scoreline, if you'd have said that before the game I think our guys would have taken it. It's good to get the win after we played really well on both sides of the ball and obviously any time you win the guys are feeling really confident and happy," said Kinnear.
Wednesday night's game is the only midweek Eastern Conference clash. The division is so tight that although the Dynamo are currently just outside the top five, a win will see them move level on points with Sporting Kansas City, the New England Revolution and the New York Red Bulls at the head of the standings (having played more matches than SKC and the Revolution). SKC are the only team in the unpredictable East to have won as many as half of their fixtures.
The Crew are a point above Houston with a game in hand. They were early pacesetters under new sporting director and head coach Gregg Berhalter, the former U.S. defender. They won their first three matches but lost two and tied three of their next five. Their last victory was an impressive 2-1 success away to the Seattle Sounders on March 29 and they have some of the most dangerous attackers in the league.
"They're a good team. Federico Higuain is an important player for them, especially when they go from defending to attack, they always try to find his feet," said Kinnear.
"Obviously Dominic Oduro's pace, and Jairo Arrieta; Justin Meram provides a good spark for them whenever he steps on the field. They're playing well, very calm with the ball at the back and they try to build up things slowly—but they can catch you on the break."
Columbus are without midfielder Wil Trapp, who is suspended after picking up a red card in last Sunday's 2-0 defeat to SKC. Kinnear will make a couple of late line-up decisions as he prepares for the Dynamo's fifth match in the space of 18 days, with Sunday's fixture also looming. Definitely out are defender Eric Brunner (recovering from ankle surgery), midfielder Ricardo Clark (concussion) and winger Tony Cascio (likely out for the season after last week's knee surgery).
"Rarely do you see, for any team, the same team three games in a row. We'll see how our squad is. I won't name the team until [shortly before the match]," he said. "There are still some bumps and bruises … You'd prefer the guys going to bed knowing what's going on for them tomorrow, but with games in a short period of time sometimes you have to wait till you get to the locker room."
Tom Dart is a contributing writer to HoustonDynamo.com and HoustonDashSoccer.com. Former editor and reporter for The Times of London and reporter for SI.com, Dart currently freelances for The Guardian.


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Driving and maintaining a car can be very expensive. According to a 2015 study by AAA, the average cost to own and operate a car is $8,698 per year. But it's not just gasoline prices that are putting a dent in wallets — the average cost of maintenance is $766.50 per year.
So why not save a few bucks and help retain the resale or trade-in value of your car? Regular engine maintenance and tire pressure adjustments can help keep fuel costs down. And while most auto repairs should be left to the experts, here are five that are usually do-it-yourself:
Replace your wiper blades
Every 6-12 months is optimal depending on how often they're used. If they leave streaks, make noise, or are hard and cracked, it may be time to install a fresh set. Visit this WikiHow entry to learn how, and consult your car's user manual for more information about what type of wipers to buy.
Fix minor scratches and paint chips
If they aren't too big, a touch-up paint kit might be a good option. Be sure to follow the instructions to get the best results. Popular Mechanics has detailed instructions on how to fix a car paint scratch.
Tire inflation and inspection
Tires are your vehicle's contact patch with the ground, and they must be maintained in good condition with proper inflation for the safe and economical operation of your vehicle. Here are a few simple checks you can perform to help keep your tires from letting you down.
- It's a good idea to visually inspect the tires on your vehicle on a monthly basis at minimum. This inspection should note tread depth (in most states less than 2/32 of tread depth is illegal,) if the tire is unevenly worn (indicating a potential suspension alignment issues,) or if the tire is cracked, damaged, or otherwise deteriorated. If any of these conditions are found, you should consult your local tire professional.
- For the correct inflation specification, reference the inflation placard. It's usually located in the vehicle's driver's door jamb area of the vehicle or can be found in the vehicles owner's manual.
- Now that you know the correct inflation specification for the tires on your vehicle, it's time to check the inflation pressure. Inflation should be checked, if possible, in the morning before the car is driven. Tire pressure can change due to many factors, one of which is a change in the ambient air temperature. For every 10 degrees in ambient air temperature change tire pressure can increase (if temperature rises) or decrease (if the temperature falls) by 1 psi.
Repair minor windshield chips
Some windshield repairs are covered by insurance. If your windshield has a small chip with minimal to no cracks and you want to fix it yourself, a repair kit may be an option. They generally come with all the materials you need and take about an hour to complete. While it's not possible to fix all chips, you may be able to stop it from growing larger or discoloring in the future. Popular Mechanics discusses the types of damage these kits are recommended for.
Wash and wax your car
One of the best ways to maintain your car's exterior is to remove dirt and residue that can damage the finish. It also provides a close-up look at scratches, chips, and dings you may not normally notice.
- Wash the car with a cleaning solution designed for automotive finishes. Work from the top down and use a microfiber washing mitt. Clean tires with a separate bucket of soap and water so you don't get any grease and grime on the rest of your car.
- Inspect the paint for any gunk such as bird droppings, tree sap, or pollen. If these contaminants are above the surface, a clay bar designed for car care may help remove them.
- Dry thoroughly with fresh towels. Soft, absorbent waffle-weave microfiber drying towels are a great option. Apply car wax. There are several varieties, but a liquid or paste wax applied every three months will help protect and maintain your car's exterior.
Don't let the rising cost of car maintenance get you down. You don't have to be a car care expert to do simple, money-saving maintenance repairs to your car.


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Continuing with the theme where we just do roundups on whatever day we want, and sometimes not at all, I'm here to do today's. I'm setting high standards for the favorites, so let's go:
Favorites, in no particular order:
Once again, I've saved to the favorites SaveToFavorites, with this silly wordplay jab in the Ryan Brothers Hooters post.
In the same post, FreemanMcNeil scored a winner with this absurd dialogue. That made me laugh, it's so stupid.
darinh made a good joke in the 1-0 Blowout post, but then almost dislodged it from the Favorites for adding the picture response. We understood the joke the first time, darinnh. I'm not sure why you felt the need to punctuate it, seeing as you never do that anywhere else.
In the Fat Jesus Montero post, local hero The Amazing Sneijderman made a funny. Check it out.
No Comment of the Day today. Deal with it.
Forget duds, it's the weekend. Enjoy winter sports, while they last.


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From Thursday, October 1, 2020
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The world is going through difficult times because of the COVID-19 virus. The same goes for Flanders. As in the rest of Europe, the Belgian government has taken measures. You can find the latest updates here.
Until 19th April 2020, Flanders' museums, concert halls, cultural institutions, restaurants and bars will be closed. All cultural and sporting events are cancelled until further notice. All non-essential shops closed except those that sell food and essential provisions. Shoppers will be asked to keep an acceptable social distance from one another.
Locals and visitors are required to stay at their place of residence. Non-essential trips are forbidden other than sporting activities, subject to a limit of two persons. Social gatherings are strictly forbidden and social distancing is key at this time.
If you are in Flanders or have a trip planned, please contact your respective government or travel agent for the most up-to-date information. Meanwhile, please don't hesitate to stay in touch with us via our VISITFLANDERS social media channels.
We hope to welcome you soon, with twice the heart, love and hospitality.
See you soon and take good care of yourself,
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EngineRoom.io necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 254 diseños de 95 diseñadores freelance.
What is it that we are selling?
Hardware and server infrastructure extension. Infrastructure on Demand.
Ability to plug your pipeline/system into our extra processing power and storage capacity easily.
What are we up against? Are our competitors direct or indirect? Are there alternatives to buying a product/service like ours? What does the competition have in its favor? Do we know how well the competition is doing?
Low level, smaller based render farms in the US with little or no support. These re not Infrastructure on Demand based business, merely rendering services. Potential players in the market are not focusing on an actual business need, product or service requirement, rather technology platform only.
If your company/product were a person, what words would you use to describe its personality? (3-5 words) Powering of ideas, Bigger , Inspirational , Sophisticated, Smarter , Trusted , Simplicity, Industrial, SteamPunk
Our team have considerable experience living in the trenches with the problems that this service addresses. We can actually qualify the real business savings, and value around the service use for our clients in real money ROI terms.
Who would buy your product or service? Male and/or female? What age bracket? How do they act? How do they make their purchase decisions? What influences them? What are their attitudes, beliefs and values?
Phase 1: Geo Science, Bio Medical, Film making (vfx / animation / games), Analysis, Number crunching, Financial, Oil & gas Exploration, Pharmaceutical R&D, Simulation
Phase 2: Private Virtual Corporate Infrastructure on Demand. ie Corporation, products, services in a box
What do they currently believe about your company or its products?
Capital requirements of maintaining such complex HPC based environments require monetary resources to be diverted away from the organizations core operations and value proposition, to managing infrastructure that very often is only required for short intense bursts.
Additional feedback has been one of "why hasn't this happened sooner", "About time", "fantastic"
Ultimately logo, website, print, corporate branding.
PRoducts and Services are
Infrastructure on Demand (Storage, Software, Servers, Rendernodes)
Professional Services around pipeline optimisation, design and delivery. Service Delivery / Support Desk services for the Corporate market including Banking, Defense, Utilities, Government etc.
What's the main thing the customer gets out of buying this product/service from you? Trusted Partner/Advisor ,Enabler , Value , Simplicity of service , Simplifying the complex
Our Experience
We understand the needs and pitfalls of infrastructure extension
We understand this at a very deep international and local industry specific level.
SMIT (Single Most Important Thing):
What is the single most important message to communicate?
Simplicity of the solution, utilisation and immediate ROI
Design thoughts:
Pistons, Steam Punk, pushing computing to the edge etc. We like the use of a train in the logo as an idea, however this device must convey the above and also tie both the concept of steam powered, and future energy option / power together in a believable manner
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There have been other handheld charging devices that utilise the power of the sun and wind, but none claim to match the capacity of the Kinesis K2.
Apparently, one hour of exposure to wind or sunlight will net you around 30 minutes on the phone. A full charge should be able to power up a typical mobile phone five times over (LED lights indicate charge levels). There is even a handy clip to attach the charger to a bike or ATV to help generate wind. Obviously, this would be a seriously handy device for outdoorsy types or as an emergency backup. A release date had not been made available, but the Kinesis K2 is expected to retail for $UD100. [Kinesis and DVICE]


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As a child growing up in a strongly religious family, I was thought that everything which is opposite to the teachings of the Holy Bible, including laziness is a sin. I tried my best to live a clean life. We were thought to believe that Israel, Jerusalem, and other Biblical countries were all in heaven, without a slight knowledge those countries were on the same earth we are living today.
When I left my family looking for a job, I tried to be sincere and prevented doing anything wrong which could land me in jail. I read that jail changes people's attitude to be good or worse. But I wasn't interested to know the positive or negative influences of jail on people. My only interest is never to be there because it's not the right place for me.
In the year 1990, from Lagos, Nigeria, I made a transit in Rome, on my way to German. In Rome, I was detained at the Fiumicino airport. The Italian immigration regularly does that to many foreigners, especially Africans. Like a tourist, I walked around the airport lounge without a room to sleep and food for three days. On the third, I was really starving, so I approached one of the immigration officials and said to him that I am hungry. He looked at my face and asked me "Am I your father?" Then he walked away.
Without knowing what the officials have in store for me, I handed over an application for asylum as a journalist and it worked, because I have some few publications over my profession on me. On the fourth day, from nowhere came one of the immigration officers, he said to me: "Your application has been accepted, today the police will come to take you to Rome." I was shocked beyond expression.
The good Samaritan didn't only deliver the unexpected message, but he pulled out from his pocket a number of notes and said to me: "I don't want my colleagues to see me giving you money, buy some food to eat at the airport." I didn't take the money. I told him: "This important information you have given to me has taken all the hunger away, thank you." He walked away with his money.
On the fourth day, the police came, just as the officer told me and took me in a police car to the city, Rome, and left me there to fight for my survival. Without anywhere to sleep, I passed all my nights at the Central Train Station. Among other Africans, we watched a big television screen during the day to forget our misery, then in the night, I go to sleep at my hiding place. The police and the workers at the train station never discovered the place I slept.
After some time, I discovered places where I could eat every day without paying for food. I could take my bath and take some clothes. One of such places was at 'Via Dandolo.' Daniela, the head of the Caritas (Charity) at Via Dandolo, was a very good woman, but one of her female workers was a very bad woman. A thief. Since we had no address, our letters passed through the Caritas at Via Dandola and this woman took the opportunity to steal money from our letters.
I caught her twice, so I wasn't surprised when I lost the 10 pounds a friend sent me from England, but I didn't tell Daniela about it. Through the Caritas, I had my initial lessons and attended classes to learn the Italian. I was one of the best immigrants who could write and speak the language fluently, yet my life was miserable because I was still sleeping at the train station.
In Rome, I was robbed, admitted and operated at a hospital, but the nurse refused to touch me, because of my color, thus; every morning when on duty, she calls someone to attend to me, but she had time for every Italian patient at the hospital. I was once sitting in the hospital's garden after the operation, when an Italian old man, one of the patients came close to me, looked at my face and said to me: "Marocchino motaccizoa." – an insult, after mistakenly taken me as a Moroccan. I didn't say a word.
Then all of a sudden, as if it was announced on the radio, all the immigrants in Rome, without accommodation, discovered an abandoned Pasta factory called 'Pantanella.' Pantanella is notoriously known for all criminal activities, including drug peddling and crime, similar to drug cartel zones of Mexico. One needs strength, courage, heart and braveness to survive at that place. Italians think they are brave, but many of them dare to pass Via Casilina, the street Pantanella is located in the night.
That was the place I lived and worked as a toilet cleaner for thousands of immigrants, using six containers as toilets, to raise money to feed. I was employed by the Muslim head at the place. It's terrible and frightening to live at Pantenella. It wasn't a prison, but the place, I think was tough like Alcatraz, because of the criminal activities many illegal immigrants engaged in feeding.
The abandoned factory accommodated both soft and hardened criminals from various countries, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Africa etc. I lived in Pantanella for four months, and the Italian government tired of the crimes going on in that abandoned Pasta factory ejected all the foreigners.
But the Italian government did something great for the African immigrants. Something we weren't expecting. The government paid for two weeks stay in a hotel for all the Africans, with the ultimatum that before the two weeks expired, we should find a place on our own to live.
Through a very good sympathetic woman called Nana, (she died in Rome a few years ago) I got a job as a houseboy to serve one journalist called Claudio Lavazza, working at television station TG2, belonging to the former Italian Prime Minister, Sylvio Berlusconi. He provided me accommodation and paid me well. Besides, he gave me the new version of Fiat Cinque Cento (500) to drive. It may be likely that I was the first black man in the entire Italy to drive the new Fiat Cinque Cento when it freshly came out. I met other journalist friends of Claudio, including Michele Cucuzza.
After three years, I said goodbye to Rome and returned to Africa. I married and returned to Europe once again but this time choosing Amsterdam. 'Overseas Chronicle: The Rome and Amsterdam Experience' is a book once started you'll find it hard to put away, because of the shocking intriguing stories in the book. Find out more of what happened to me in Rome and later in Holland, which led me to detention in Amsterdam.


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RIVERDALE, Iowa (AP) — Two of the world's most-watched eagles have welcomed a second egg to their nest.
The Quad-City Times reports (https://bit.ly/Ndu1KJ ) viewers of the Alcoa EagleCam on Thursday spotted another egg in the nest of the eagles, dubbed Liberty and Justice.
The nest is on the property of the Alcoa Davenport Works in Riverdale. For the past three years, people have been able to watch online streaming video of the eagles.
Company spokesman John Riches says Friday that Liberty laid the second egg about 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Riches says the last egg usually comes within a week of the first egg, so that would mean any additional arrivals would come by Sunday.
The birds can be seen at alcoa.com/eaglecam.
Information from: Quad-City Times, https://www.qctimes.com


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SAN FRANCISCO — Federal court sources said Tuesday that a new grand jury probe of PG&E is underway. While the focus of the probe has not been announced, it follows disclosure by the utility that it is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office in connection with a natural gas explosion in March in Carmel that damaged a vacant home but caused no injuries.
The revelations come on the heels of this week's not-guilty plea by PG&E to a 28-count federal indictment on felony criminal charges, including obstruction of justice, in connection with a fatal 2010 gas pipe explosion in San Bruno that killed eight people.
The U.S. Attorney, the state Public Utilities Commission and local authorities in Carmel are investigating the explosion in the posh seaside town, PG&E said in its most recent quarterly regulatory filing at the end of July. And the utility warned that additional investigations could commence regarding the Carmel explosion.
"It is reasonably possible that fines could be imposed on the Utility, or that other enforcement actions could be taken, in connection with this matter," PG&E said in the filing. The further actions could include another criminal indictment.
The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment on the new grand jury probe.
"We received a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney's Office related to the incident in Carmel," Greg Snapper, spokesman for San Francisco-based PG&E, said Tuesday. The utility added that it is focusing on a far-reaching upgrade of its natural gas pipelines that will make the system the nation's safest.
The federal case regarding San Bruno could lead to a fine for PG&E of up to $1.13 billion, and a separate PUC investigation into the San Bruno blast could result in a fine against the utility of up to $2.45 billion.
The U.S. Attorney investigation of the Carmel explosion is underway at the same time as the new federal grand jury probe, but the timing could be a coincidence, because the focus of the new grand jury probe is unknown. Court sources, including a clerk for U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, who is presiding over the PG&E case, confirmed the existence of the new grand jury.
Peter Henning, a professor of law with Detroit-based Wayne State University, said the new grand jury probe indicates that "the prosecutor is being aggressive."
"They are sending a message to PG&E that they are not done," Henning said. "That ratchets up the pressure on PG&E."
Prosecutors typically are barred from using a new grand jury to produce fresh evidence for a case in which it already has an indictment, legal experts say. However, the lines between two separate cases can become blurred.
"It is pretty common for one investigation to lead to another," said Rory Little, a law professor with UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
PG&E indicated in its regulatory filing that inaccurate gas records were a factor behind the Carmel explosion. PG&E's shoddy records and flawed maintenance efforts are deemed to be the principal factors behind the fatal San Bruno blast.
"The danger for PG&E is there are other cases out there, or evidence of conduct similar to San Bruno, that could cut off an avenue of defense," Henning said.
Contact George Avalos at 408-859-5167. Follow him at Twitter.com/georgeavalos.


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Our Perspectives
Every day is our day
09 Aug 2017 by Myrna Cunningham Kain, President, Center for Autonomy and Development of Indigenous Peoples
When 9 August approaches, as an indigenous woman, I tend to ask myself, what does it mean for there to be an International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on the calendar? If 9 August is Indigenous Peoples' Day, then what are all the other days?
As with many of these celebrations, those of us who belong to the peoples, groups or sectors referred to by these days cannot help but ask this question, whether it is 8 March (International Women's Day), 1 May (Workers' Day), or many others.
But for indigenous women, every day is our day, because our status as women and as indigenous is permanent. For the men and women of indigenous communities, every day is our day.
9 August is a day about us, but it is particularly relevant for those who still do not see us or do not want to see us, and who refuse to consider us as peoples with all the rights and potential to build a better, just and sustainable world. It is a date to make visible the different realities, histories and struggles of over 370 million men and women from some 5,000 indigenous peoples in the world.
9 August 1982 was the day the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, originally the United Nations Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, first met. It was the first time the United Nations endorsed the struggles of indigenous peoples to overcome discrimination and inequality.
Therefore, the General Assembly Resolution that establishes the 9 August commemoration each year includes clear guidance to States to recognize indigenous peoples and their human rights, and to create specific bodies to take action in this regard.
In the December 1994 Resolution, the General Assembly calls on the Human Rights Commission to move forward with the adoption of a draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and requests that recommendations be made for the establishment of a Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations.
Although it took longer than desired, we now have both instruments, in addition to other standards, tools, mechanisms and institutional spaces in which the United Nations System is mandated to address the situation of indigenous peoples in the world. However, States are far from having fulfilled their commitments.
There is still a long way to go in making progress to promote non-discrimination and the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the development, implementation and evaluation of international, regional and particularly national processes related to legislation, policies, resources, programmes and projects.
In the new Sustainable Development Agenda, which aspires to concrete achievements by 2030, indigenous peoples are not sufficiently visible, in either its targets or its compliance indicators.
Each year, 9 August is a time for States, governments and international agencies to analyze what they have done, what they are doing and what they propose to do so that the declarations and commitments become concrete actions in favour of the rights of indigenous peoples, especially now as we commemorate the tenth anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Thus, 9 August is a date to remember and to renew this commitment.
The word "remember" comes from the Latin rememorari, 'call to mind' and memor, mindful. Remember those who have given everything - including their lives - for the rights of our peoples: their struggles, their achievements, and, above all, their teachings.
This is a day to renew the personal and collective, constant and unswerving commitment to building a better world, for the men and women of indigenous peoples and for all the people who inhabit the planet, our only Mother Earth.
If each 9 August we can make our existence and our dreams visible, reflect on what is missing to realize our recognized rights, remember our brothers and sisters who for centuries have fought for those same dreams and rights, and if we reaffirm our convictions and pathways to action, then this day will not be just a date on the calendar of commemorations.
It will not be just another day—it will be an important day for the cause of indigenous peoples in the world.
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