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Paderborn, Germany-based Benteler Automotive develops and produces complete system modules and product components for the automotive industry. Photo via benteler.com
Benteler Automotive has announced plans to close its Grand Rapids manufacturing plant, at 320 Hall St. SW, which reportedly employs some 220 people.
Current plans are for the facility to continue operation throughout the rest of the calendar year and early into 2014, as equipment is transferred to other operations in Michigan and Indiana.
Earlier this year, Benteler Automotive, which is based in Paderborn, Germany, announced that it was strategically repositioning all of its global manufacturing operations.
Initial analysis indicated that as many as four to five manufacturing operations would likely be closed globally.
After extensive evaluation, Benteler's Hall Street facility was identified as one of the plants to be closed in North America.
Earlier in May, Benteler also announced plans to close another of its North American operations in Opelika, Ala.
According to a statement issued by Benteler's Maryam Komejan, company officials did not make the decision in haste.
"We have been studying our manufacturing footprint in (North America) intensively for several months to support our global strategy and to streamline our manufacuting footprint," said Otto Buschsieweke, executive vice president for Benteler NA. "The decisions we are making now are critical to maintaining and strengthening our ability to support Benteler's NA customers long-term. This decision clearly has an unsettling impact on our associates at Hall Street — we are very sensitive to that. We are committed to working closely with the UAW, as their representative, throughout the decision and bargaining process to develop a solid plan of support for our people in the weeks ahead."
Benteler Automotive currently employs 22,000, has 20 development and sales offices around the world and 74 plants in 29 countries.
It develops and produces complete system modules and product components for the automotive industry, producing critical components for vehicle bodies, chassis, and engines. Its products contribute strongly to the safety and efficiency of vehicles while also reducing their weight/environmental footprint. One recent innovation that Benteler is offering its customers is the lightweight integrated manifold design in production today for modern automotive engines.
Benteler Automotive belongs to the internationally operating Benteler Group — a global holding group comprised of Benteler Automotive, Benteler Steel/Tube and Benteler Distribution.
The Benteler Group employs 30,000 at 170 locations in 28 countries. The company is privately held and has been in operation for more than 135 years.


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What is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
Not all trash ends up at the dump. A river, sewer or beach can't catch everything the rain washes away, either. In fact, Earth's largest landfill isn't on land at all.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches across a swath of the North Pacific Ocean, forming a nebulous, floating junk yard on the high seas. It's the poster child for a worldwide problem: plastic that begins in human hands yet ends up in the ocean, often inside animals' stomachs or around their necks. This marine debris has sloshed into the public spotlight, thanks to growing media coverage as well as expeditions by scientists and explorers hoping to see plastic pollution in action.
What's it made of?
On dry land, debris is plentiful and relatively easy to get rid of. In the middle of the ocean, many of the particles are so tiny that they can't be simply pulled out. (Photo: NOAA PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Program)
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has sometimes been described as a "trash island," but that's a misconception, according to Holly Bamford, former director of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris Program. If only things were that simple.
"We could just go out there and scoop up an island," Bamford told MNN in 2009. "If it was one big mass, it would make our jobs a whole lot easier."
Instead, it's like a galaxy of garbage, populated by millions of smaller trash islands that may be hidden underwater or spread over many miles, as this NOAA video explains:
A study published in Nature, using data from vessel and aircraft surveys, found that 79,000 tons of plastic are floating in an area spanning 1.6 million square kilometers (about 618,000 square miles). Previously, researchers believed the area was four to 16 times smaller.
Recent ocean voyages have confirmed the garbage patch covers a huge area, and despite a lack of cohesion, it is relatively dense in places. Researchers have collected up to 750,000 pieces of microplastic from a single square kilometer, for example, and after conducting the first extensive aerial survey — a series of low-speed, low-altitude flights using multiple imaging techniques — the Ocean Cleanup foundation reported "more debris was recorded than what is expected to be found in the heart of the accumulation zone." (The Ocean Cleanup is the brainchild of Boyan Slat, a Dutch inventor who came up with the idea as a teenager. After years of development and testing, his first system launched in mid-2018.)
The most recent study in the journal Nature reveals just how tricky it will be to clean up. Researchers using submarine drones sampled the water off the California coast. The highest concentrations of microplastics were between 600 and 2,000 feet down, not at the surface. And that means trouble for the food chain.
"Even if you don't care about the crabs and the larvaceans, they're the food of things you do care about – tuna, seabirds, whales and turtles all feed on them, or feed on things that feed on them," Anela Choy, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego and one of the paper's authors, told USA Today.
While there's still much we don't understand about the garbage patch, we do know that most of it's made of plastic. And that's where the problems begin.
Unlike most other trash, plastic isn't usually biodegradable — that is, most of the microbes that break down other substances don't recognize plastic as food, leaving it to float there forever. Sunlight does eventually "photodegrade" the bonds in plastic polymers, reducing it to smaller and smaller pieces, but that just makes matters worse. The plastic still never goes away; it just becomes microscopic and may be eaten by tiny marine organisms, entering the food chain.
About 80 percent of debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from land, much of which is plastic bags, bottles and various other consumer products. Free-floating fishing nets make up another 10 percent of all marine litter, or about 705,000 tons, according to U.N. estimates. The rest comes largely from recreational boaters, offshore oil rigs and large cargo ships, which drop about 10,000 steel shipping containers into the sea each year, full of things like hockey gloves, computer monitors, resin pellets and LEGOs. But despite such diversity — and plenty of metal, glass and rubber in the garbage patch — the majority of material is still plastic, since most everything else sinks or biodegrades before it gets there.
How is it formed?
Ocean currents conspire to collect debris in a North Pacific 'convergence zone.' (Map: NOAA Marine Debris Program)
Earth has five or six major oceanic gyres — huge spirals of seawater formed by colliding currents — but one of the largest is the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, filling most of the space between Japan and California. The upper part of this gyre, a few hundred miles north of Hawaii, is where warm water from the South Pacific crashes into cooler water from the north. Known as the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, this is also where the trash collects.
Bamford refers to the convergence zone as a "trash superhighway" because it ferries plastic rubbish along an east-west corridor that links two spinning eddies known as the Eastern Garbage Patch and the Western Garbage Patch.
Although the Pacific patch was the first known phenomenon of its kind, more have since been found in other oceans, including the Atlantic. And that shouldn't be surprising: According to a 2015 study, about 8 million metric tons of plastic now enter the ocean during a typical year, mostly coming from people who live within 50 kilometers (30 miles) of a coastline, but also from even farther inland.
"Eight million metric tons is the equivalent to finding five grocery bags full of plastic on every foot of coastline in the 192 countries we examined," study author and University of Georgia researcher Jenna Jambeck said at the time.
It may take several years for debris to reach a garbage patch, depending on its origin. Plastic can wash from interiors of continents to the sea via sewers, streams and rivers, or it might just wash away from the coast. Either way, it can be a six- or seven-year journey before it's in the garbage patch. On the other hand, fishing nets and shipping containers often fall right in with the rest of the trash. One of the most famous such debris spills came in 1992, when 28,000 rubber ducks fell overboard in the Pacific. To this day, the ducks still turn up on beaches around the world.
What's the problem?
Durable plastic debris threatens ocean health in several ways, including:
A sea turtle entangled in fishing line gets assistance. (Photo: Sea Turtle Inc. via NOAA)
Entanglement: The growing number of abandoned plastic fishing nets is one of the greatest dangers from marine debris, Bamford says. The nets are notorious for entangling dolphins, seals, sea turtles and other animals in a phenomenon known as "ghost fishing," often drowning them. With more fishermen from developing countries now using plastic nets for their low cost and high durability, many lost or abandoned nets can continue fishing on their own for months or years. One of the most controversial types are bottom-set gill nets, which are buoyed by floats and anchored to the sea floor, sometimes stretching for thousands of feet.
Virtually any marine life can be endangered by plastic, but sea turtles seem especially susceptible. In addition to being entangled by fishing nets, they often swallow plastic bags, mistaking them for jellyfish, their main prey. They can also get caught up in a variety of other objects, such as this snapping turtle that grew up constricted by a plastic ring around its body.
A Laysan albatross couple practices their mating dance. Removing marine debris helps prevent these animals from ingesting debris, which will eventually kill them. The plastic offers no nutritional value and fills their stomachs, so they die of starvation.
Small surface debris: Plastic resin pellets are another common piece of marine debris; the tiny, industrial-use granules are shipped in bulk around the world, melted down at manufacturing sites and remolded into commercial plastics. Being so small and plentiful, they can easily get lost along the way, washing through the watershed with other plastics and into the sea. They tend to float there and eventually photodegrade, but that takes many years. In the meantime, they wreak havoc with sea birds like the short-tailed albatross.
Albatross parents leave their chicks on land in Pacific islands to go scour the ocean surface for food, namely protein-rich fish eggs. These are small dots bobbing just below the surface, and look unfortunately similar to resin pellets. Well-meaning albatrosses scoop up these pellets — along with other floating trash such as cigarette lighters — and return to feed the indigestible plastic to their chicks, which eventually die of starvation or ruptured organs. Decaying albatross chicks are frequently found with stomachs full of plastic debris — an image that's difficult to look at but impossible to ignore.
Sunlight breaks down plastics, leaching toxins into the seawater. (Photo: VICHAILAO/Shutterstock)
Photodegradation: As sunlight breaks down floating debris, the surface water thickens with suspended plastic bits. This is bad for a couple of reasons. First, Bamford says, is plastic's "inherent toxicity": It often contains colorants and chemicals like bisphenol-A, which studies have linked to various environmental and health problems, and these may leach out into the seawater. Plastic has also been shown to absorb pre-existing organic pollutants like PCBs from the surrounding seawater, which can enter the food chain — along with BPA and other inherent toxins — if the plastic bits are accidentally ingested by marine life.
What can we do?
Plastic trash can eventually reach the ocean from almost anywhere — even hundreds of miles inland — but recycling is especially important closer to the coast. (Photo: Take Photo/Shutterstock)
The discoverer of the Pacific garbage patch, Capt. Charles Moore, once said a cleanup effort "would bankrupt any country and kill wildlife in the nets as it went."
"He makes a really good point there," Bamford says. "It's very difficult."
Still, NOAA conducts flyovers to study the garbage patch, and research teams have sailed there to collect debris and water samples. Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography held a press conference after returning from a three-week voyage in 2009, describing the amount of trash as "shocking." They found large and small items as well as a vast underwater haze of photodegraded plastic flakes, and continue to study how microplastic interacts with a marine environment.
Another study published in 2014 estimated that Earth's oceans now contain 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic overall, based on data from 24 trash-collecting voyages over a six-year period. That's a lot, but it still hasn't discouraged everyone from trying to clean it up — including the Ocean Cleanup foundation, whose research is part of a long-term remediation plan. (The initial Ocean Cleanup trial is ongoing — with some blips — but the foundation plans to send out more systems with full-scale deployment by 2020.)
Ultimately, even advocates of ambitious cleanup projects acknowledge that more plastic recycling — and wider use of biodegradable materials — is still the best hope for getting ocean plastic under control. Prevention is cheaper and easier, but as Bamford points out, old habits can be hard to break.
"We need to turn off the taps at the source. We need to educate people on the proper disposal of things that do not break up, like plastics," she says. "Opportunities for recycling have to increase, but, you know, some people buy three bottles of water a day. As a society, we have to get better at reusing what we buy."
Editor's note: This article has been updated since it was first published in June 2009.
What is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
A huge sea of plastic trash is swirling in the North Pacific — part of an even broader plastic plague that's growing in oceans worldwide.

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Cable cutters are handheld tools designed for cutting various materials such as metals and plastics, among others. Wire cutters typically consisting of two levers connected closer to one end by a fulcrum, with the shorter end forming the jaw. Cable cutters come in a variety of types and sizes and the three basic types are locking, adjustable and non-adjustable.
In order to ensure user comfort, most models of wire cutters will have insulated handles, allowing you to be protected whilst working and providing a firm and comfortable grip. In addition to standard insulation or cushioning, some wire cutters will be VDE-insulated to protect the user when working with electrical equipment.
While the name may be fairly clear, some variations of cable cutters can also be used to perform other actions. For example, linesmans cutters also have a small flat section along the jaw for gripping objects as well as their cutting surface. The application will dictate which is the best type of cutter for you to use.
Used by professionals and DIYers alike to cut wires effectively, there are many types of cutters designed for specific applications:
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(CNN) - President Obama defended Hillary Clinton in the face of criticism recently that she is out of touch with average Americans, based on her comments about the Clintons' financial security.
"She is in public service because she cares about the same folks that I talked to here today," Obama said from Minneapolis, where he held a town hall meeting. The interview, taped Thursday during the president's trip, aired on ABC's "This Week" Sunday morning.
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As Clinton has traveled the country to promote her memoir, "Hard Choices," she has discussed life post-White House and said her family was "dead broke" after her husband left the Oval Office in 2001.
Poll: Majority think Hillary Clinton can relate to average Americans
Conservative groups, which see Clinton as one of the biggest potential threats in the 2016 presidential race, have highlighted her comments as evidence that she is out of touch with the daily concerns of Americans.
Although the Clintons did leave the White House in debt due to enormous legal fees, they also walked away with a sizable government pension and the promise of massive book advances and speaking gigs worth millions.
Obama said all the hubbub is to be expected.
"As soon as you jump back into the spotlight - in a more explicitly political way - you're going to be flyspecked like this," the President said. "She's accustomed to it. Over time I don't think it's going to make a big difference."
With the presidential election still a couple of years away, Obama brushed off concerns that Clinton's stumble could hurt her chances.
"I think that Hillary has been to this rodeo a bunch of times."
Apparently it's okay to become rich as long as you are a liberal and do it in such a way that really does not create jobs, just makes the individual insanely wealthy.
How is this even a story? It looks like faux finish by the media to cover over the lousy way Democratic canidates are vetted for office. The press has waved their red cape and let the bull pass without a scratch. Everyone yell Olé and let's move on, before someone starts asking questions about policy and character that make a difference. What does in matter now Secretary Clinton?
"I agree they both have the same goal. Live off the taxpayer."
Like the oil companies.
I don't want a president I can have a beer with. I want a president who will create robust markets for local breweries, allowing them to expand and hire more workers at family-supporting wages.
Hillary Clinton's comments is just another opportunity to bash, critique & spew negativity! Kinda what they've been doing to the president for 5 years! We all comprehend what she was saying, but twisting & spinning is a favorite GOTP hobby! No solution, no compromise, no discussion! Just bash & disagree! It's the cornerstone of the GOTP platform!!
Ha Ha. To the dolt who made the comment about the first non-white President not having experience. Please name one first term white President who had experience as President. Name any female President (past or present). lol. non-white. lol.
Of course Obama would brush it off – he is a member of the New World Order too. They all consider us useless eaters and want to dispose of us someday.
LOVE IT! Any criticism of Hillary is labeled as "Trying to GET her...", all the while, the Democrats in New Jersey are VALIANTLY trying to maintain the uproar over Christie (the only right wing candidate that polls well against her), with ABSOLUTELY no evidence that he did ANYTHING wrong.
You can tell a tree by it.s fruits.....
Oh that helps. Nothing like a criminal liar from a facade President saying Clinton's comments mean nothing. Priceless.
Gee a democrat supporting another democrat. How very surprising.
I keep hoping that America's appetite for the mundane will wane considering we have serious issues before us. Everything is relative and Mrs. Clinton's comment, if seen within the realm of her socio-economic status, is her truth.
If journalism ever returns to the media, Americans… our country, will benefit because our elected officials will begin to work for their pay (our tax dollars) and end the side-shows. Can we please give equal time, at minimal, to real problems; i.e., the creation of laws (Congress) to create more jobs… and not just entry-level positions?
If you're a woman and your husband has not one but many affairs, and then lies to a federal grand jury about it and you defend and protect him, that is as weak as defending a physical abuser, because it is emotional abuse. I'm an Independent who has volunteered and worked for democrats the last 5 years. She will not get my vote. She's a weak little woman with no character. You LEAVE that man that does something like that to you.
Have you ever heard the saying, " It's the journey, not the final destination, that matters"?
Hillary wasn't born rich like Romney and we know Bubba was raised on public assistance. I dare the GOP to challenge the "I feel your pain " credibility of the Clintons at their own peril.
Unless of course the GOP nominee comes out to end corporate welfare for BIG OIL and supports a progressive tax structure with a 40% marginal top rate and the elimination of the CAPITAL GAINS preferences, which we all know IS NOT going to happen.
This little wealth dust up should only allow the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party to pull Hillary LEFTWARD toward MORE POPULOUS POLICIES before she gains their full support.
Really can't wait to see Thad Cochran,Kevin McCarthy,Thom Tillis,Sheldon Adelson,Rupert Mourdoch,Karl Rove,Lindsey Graham,John McCain,Susan Collins,Hayley Barbour,Grover Norquist and the GOP stuff Jeb Bush down the tea party's throats EXACTLY like they stuffed Romney down. Straight no chaser. Hillary and Barack will drink to that!


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Work Out With Kettlebells and Deep Squats to Have Your Best Baseball Season Yet!
Springtime is now here in the northern hemisphere, and you know what that means? That's right – baseball season is starting soon!
All over the country, both major and minor leagues have begun spring training and are warming up their throwing arms for this season's games.
While baseball is not considered a contact sport, many injuries, both minor and serious, result from contact with the ball, improper form, or even one slight incorrect move of a limb. In fact, most of the common injuries include repetitive-use injuries in the shoulder and elbow, contusions, muscle pulls, black eyes, ligament injuries, lacerations, and even concussions.
Luckily, there are a two specific exercises baseball players can partake in to make themselves stronger, more flexible, and less prone to injury – kettlebells and squats!
Kettlebells, an all-inclusive exercise that originated from Russia, is a catch-all sort of exercise that benefits the entire body. Using kettlebells correctly can improve your strength, power, speed, and coordination all over your body, and it can also improve your performance in baseball. You can also increase the grip strength on the bat (which improves your speed), make your shoulders stronger, increase the mobility in your shoulders and hips, and decrease your chances of injury when you work out with kettlebells.
If you're already familiar with the kettlebells, you can already start your workout! The best exercises to do to help you with your baseball performance include the power clean, front squat, kettlebell swing, shoulder press, and the reverse lunge.
Be warned, however – if you don't know how to use the kettlebells, you should first consult with a professional on how to properly use them. Injury can easily abound from using kettlebells incorrectly, especially when picking them up and putting them back down. You can even check out our video of kettlebell exercises right here to see how it looks to use them correctly!
Along with upper-body injuries, knee injuries are also relatively common in baseball. In fact, some knee injuries can easily end one's baseball career if they're severe enough, so it's exceptionally important to take care of your lower body muscles and joints.
One of the best ways to strengthen your lower body is by doing deep squats. This exercise, which we're programmed to do properly from the time we were infants, strengthens the entire body. Sadly, though, as we age we lose the range of motion to properly execute deep squats because we stop doing them.
What's worse is that we're taught incorrectly on how to do deep squats using only a 60-degree range of motion with weights instead of the full 135 degree-range that the knees can handle. Using a limited range of motion will only cause wear and tear to your knees, ankles, and hip joints.
The proper way to do a squat, however, is actually to run through the FULL range of your knees' bend and use the glutes to do all the hard work. If you do the exercise correctly, you will strengthen everything from your lower back to your ankles! Check out our video here to see how to properly do a full squat!
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Face-recognition technology is already helping surveillance cameras pick out individual faces of suspects, and even smartphone apps may soon allow you to ID strangers on the street. Privacy lovers could soon paint on anti-face-recognition camo that protects against being identified.
Adam Harvey, a designer and technologist with NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, has begun reverse-engineering algorithms behind face detection. He generated a series of blocky images that could become the "building blocks of anti-surveillance makeup," and focused on the simplest yet most important patterns for foiling the face-recognition tech.
Harvey explains the image above:
Anti-Face-Recognition Camo Images with a red square represent those where a face was found, whereas no red square meant the face escaped detection. "TEST PATTERNS" marks patterns made according to the reverse-engineering, while "RANDOM PATTERNS" shows random doodles made without the benefit of face-detection patterns. "NO PATTERNS" simply indicates how face detection algorithms work even on basic line drawings.
Some patterns that successfully hid faces from detection are surprisingly small, Harvey notes. Those included a few patches scattered primarily around the eye region, whereas larger beard-like patterns sometimes ended up being detected.
Of course, walking around with such face paint on might raise an eyebrow or two among human observers anyway, unless you claim to be an Avatar fanboy or fangirl. You can also go with the alternate excuses of citing Blade Runner or Flock of Seagulls as inspiration for the makeup. Children of the '80s unite!
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This post by Jeremy Hsu originally appeared on Popular Science.


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All safe after plane makes rush-hour landing on 495
A single-engine plane from Michigan made an emergency landing on Interstate 495 in Boxborough Tuesday afternoon just after 5 p.m.
The pilot, Allan Kidd, 47, flew the plane from Michigan and said he ran out of fuel on his way to Norwood.
Kidd was flying with Steve Bradshaw, also of Michigan. The two were on their way to a reunion of Vietnam War veterans in Quincy.
Bradshaw said Kidd saved both their lives when he abandoned a plan to land early in Bedford and instead landed on the highway.
"I thought we were going into the woods," Bradshaw said. "But no one got hurt."
Kidd was able to land the Cessna, which state police said is a 1949 Sebring 1.0 alpha, in the northbound lane of 495 during rush hour. They avoided cars, and a mother and daughter driving by stopped to help push the plane into the breakdown lane. The right lane and breakdown lane were closed for approximately two hours as state troopers and Boxborough fire and police personnel assisted at the scene.
The two-seater plane was hoisted onto a flatbed truck and driven off the highway to the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Boxborough Woods, where Kidd was making arrangements to transport the plane.
"I was greatly relieved when I went down and saw the plan was intact," said Geoffrey Neagle, Boxborough fire chief.
The incident remains under investigation by the Federal Aeronautics Administration.


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SpaceX aborted the historic launch of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on Saturday at the last second because of a rocket engine glitch.
The launch would the first attempt to send a private spacecraft to the space station. SpaceX and NASA officials say the next launch attempts could come Tuesday or Wednesday in the early morning hours at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
As the countdown reached zero, the engines began firing - but then shut down, NASA and SpaceX officials said.


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31. The monk who delights in heedfulness and looks with fear at heedlessness advances like fire, burning all fetters, small and large.
Dhammapada Verse 31
Annatarabhikkhu Vatthu
Appamadarato bhikkhu1
pamade bhayadassi2 va
samyojanam anum thulam
daham aggiva gacchati.
Verse 31: A bhikkhu who takes delight in mindfulness and sees danger in negligence, advances like fire, burning up all fetters, great and small.
1. appamadarato bhikkhu: a bhikkhu who takes delight in mindfulness, i.e., in the practice of Tranquillity and Insight Development.
2. pamade bhayadassi: seeing danger in negligence, i.e., negligence which would lead to continued existence in the round of rebirths (samsara).
The Story of A Certain Bhikkhu
While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (31) of this book, with reference to a certain bhikkhu.
A certain bhikkhu, after obtaining a subject of meditation from the Buddha, went to the forest to meditate. Although he tried hard he made very little progress in his meditation practice. As a result, he became very depressed and frustrated. So, with the thought of getting further specific instructions from the Buddha, he set out for the Jetavana monastery. On his way, he came across a big blazing fire. He ran up to the top of a mountain and observed the fire from there. As the fire spread, it suddenly occurred to him that just as the fire burnt up everything, so also Magga Insight will burn up all fetters of life, big and small.
Meanwhile, from the Gandhakuti hall in the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha was aware of what the bhikkhu was thinking. So, he transmitted his radiance and appeared to the bhikkhu and spoke to him. "My son," he said, "you are on the right line of thought; keep it up. All beings must burn up all fetters of life with Magga Insight."
Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
|Verse 31: A bhikkhu who takes delight in mindfulness and sees danger in negligence, advances like fire, burning up all fetters, great and small.
At the end of the discourse that bhikkhu attained arahatship then and there.


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Energy was high on Saturday as the sun greeted the annual Memorial Weekend "Sourdough" race sponsored by the Homer Yacht Club.
This was the club's second race of the year.
Four boats participated with Arctica coming in first, followed by Dolphin, Morning Star and Thetis.
"The day was perfect racing conditions," said Erik Pullman, vice president of the club.
The race started at 2 p.m. Saturday leaving the Homer Harbor and circling Gull Island, and other parts of Kachemak Bay before returning to Homer.
With the advent of summer, there will be more chances to participate or watch the Yacht Club's races. Eight more races are scheduled over the course of the season.


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When I decided to expand the theme of this blog (coming soon! keep on reading, folks!) I wondered about fitting in ramblings about the country of my birth, England, but, of course it's a part of Great Britain or…..the British Isles – voilá it fits….happily since my trip to UK this time took in some old haunts en route to WTM.
It had been some years since I'd visited my home town, and this was pretty much a flying visit, with plans constantly being forced to change. After sitting for two hours on the sultry tarmac at South Tenerife airport due to non-functioning air conditioing, I, actually, didn't think I could ever feel cold again! Not so!
I left a wave of heat which hadn't eased up much since it began in late Spring, and I woke my first morning in my friend Maggie's house to a crisp morning of crystal-clear sky and a light frost on the lawn. I pulled on clothes and grabbed the camera. Maggie and Mike live in the swathe of flat, green countryside between Blackpool and Preston, and I could see a hazy sun emerging across the fields. Mike came out to see what I was doing, bemused, I think, by my attempts to photograph the slight frosting on the grass – a sight uncommon to me, but not to him!
Suddenly, he pointed upwards and I heard a mournful cacophony which used to be very familiar. Following his pointing finger I saw the skein of geese in that unmistakable, shifting V-shape as it strung out across the blue. Years ago I'd lived in an area like this, and the excited gabbling of migrating geese was something which confirmed the onset of the "dark side" – those winter months I'd rather not remember!
It was from the geese I learned the word sehnsucht – their cries echoed that yearning inside of me to be in warmer, far-flung places as winter engulfed northern England.
A couple of days later and back on GMT, my cold fingers fumbled to capture an Irish Sea sunset from the beach at Cleveleys, north of Blackpool at what seemed a ridiculously early hour. The Promenade here has been remodeled since I was there, years ago, and its stark but graceful lines and colors now reflect those of the coastline. It was a little chill, but utterly in keeping with the place. The tide here goes out so far that you can't even see the sea, as a small child I used to think that it disappeared over the edge of the world.
Here there was that slightly desolate feeling I used to get at this time of year. The bleak sea breeze permeated my inadequate clothing (I long ago used up all my cold-weather clothing!), and whilst I admit to pangs of nostalgia, the short walk was enough to confirm my decision to have emigrated…….it would cost me far too much in clothing to live here now, but do you see all those dots on the pictures? They are all folk out taking a bracing stroll – hardy, these Northerners!
What made me more nostalgic was a visit earlier in the day, with my friend, Pat, to Stanley Park in Blackpool, a place I'd been taken to as a child and in turn took my own kids. It was also close to my senior school and the place we would sneak out to on occasion to read on the grassy knolls around the lake. Here I found the Autumn I always seek at this time of year.
The golden leaves, the sunlight through the trees and all that jazz. And, speaking of jazz, we had a very nice lunch in the café by the Rose Garden, which is, apparently, seared on my memory, because I remembered it quite clearly, the Art Deco-ish decor which must have been very popular in the Blackpool of my childhood I think. Even the brass boxes on the loo doors remained, although these days you don't have to pay – tell me how could I get nostalgic about a box on a toilet door?…..jazz because on weekends they have jazz there, which I have marked down to go see on my next summer visit! Lovely venue right by the rose garden.
My few, short days on the Fylde Coast were warmed by wonderful friendships which have weathered the years and all life's changes; by scrumptious full-on breakfasts and home-cooked dinners; by babies – my goddaughter's, the next generation, and by happy memories, but much as I am glad to have grown up there (I think it made me tougher, physically and perhaps mentally) I'm more than happy to return to the sunshine and the sub-tropics!


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Checkout Optimization: Are You Testing The Wrong Thing?
If your cart abandonment rate is, say, 58% - where do you start to fix the problem?
Many marketers would jump in with optimizing the checkout process by reducing steps, slicing and dicing form fields, changing button colors and adding security badges.
But what if most checkouts were not abandoned because of anything "confusing" or broken in the checkout process?
According to Forrester Research, only 11% of consumers report their last abandoned cart was due to a long or confusing checkout. Only 12% believed the site was asking too much information, only 14% were unwilling to register with a site.*
The most common reasons customers bailed boiled down to "sticker shock" (due to high shipping charges, taxes or other fees, or a high product price), the desire to comparison shop, and simply not being ready to check out at that moment. (Good ol' FUDs).
No matter how pretty your cart button, how short your checkout process or how clear and usable your form fields, you can't save these sales. But that doesn't mean you can't optimize your site for non-usability factors of shopping cart abandonment.
Let's take a look at 5 top reasons why customers abandon, and how you can address each Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Shipping costs too high
1. Make free shipping or shipping discount applications very prominent
- Pre-checkout shipping estimate tool helps the customer judge the shipping charge
I was not ready to purchase the product
1. Create urgency
- Include value proposition of "owning it today" (this will depend on your product and the purchase context)
- Highlight any limited time offers/discounts – don't bury them below the fold or in graphic elements that may suffer from "banner blindness"
- Highlight financing options like $X/month (when applicable)
- Show stock availability / mark products with high sellout risk
2. Allow customers to log in to save their carts
- 30% clear cookies daily, a saved cart safeguards against wipeout
- Enables registered customers to retrieve their carts across devices
- Abandoned carts can be remarketed to (triggered email program) when you have an email address
- To support those who will not choose to save the cart
I wanted to compare prices on other sites
1. Reinforce your unique value proposition
- Value props are not just for home pages and landing pages - the cart is perhaps the most important place to convince the customer to buy from you and nobody else
2. Suppress your coupon box
- The presence of a coupon box may send your customer huntin' for deals from your affiliates, costing your margin and commissions. This is a form of comparison shopping - where can one find the best deal? Handle this issue by hiding the coupon box for customers who have not been referred by an email or affiliate with a discount (using cookies), or auto-apply any discounts these shoppers may receive
Product price was higher than I was willing to pay
1. Financing, if you offer it, could make the price more digestible
2. Boldly highlight (in red, green or orange) any auto-applied savings or sale prices
Just wanted to save products in my cart for later consideration
1. Use a persistent cart and enable saved carts, save-to-wishlist
- Track % of "save-to-wishlist" actions and deduct from your cart abandonment rate
While these tips won't take care of your cart abandonment completely, addressing these issues before getting into design and usability will get you further than UX alone. Stay tuned, next post we'll look at the design/usability things that make a shopping cart page effective.
* Forrester Research has also reported that 23% of customers would abandon carts when asked to register. Because many sites do offer guest checkout, 14% abandonment due to required registration does not mean that customers care less about site registration, rather, less customers encountered them.
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The most successful companies from artisan bakeries, via wholesale bakeries, through to the industrial solution meet up here. iba is the international meeting place for bakers, pastry chefs, restaurateurs, café owners, hotel professionals, and caterers as well as decision makers from the food retail market.
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Tabla Mediterranean Bistro
AFTER SEVEN YEARS as a favorite neighborhood locale for East Side diners, Tabla Mediterranean Bistro is proving itself to be a destination worth a drive across town.
While Tabla's $24 three-course dinner is the city's value to beat in these lean times, it would be a mistake to boil the allure of this cozy, upscale bistro down to economics alone. Twenty-nine-year-old chef (and Nostrana alum) Anthony Cafiero has brought new energy to the kitchen, elevating Tabla's well-loved comfort food and enhancing its menu with the bright, bold flavors of Southern Europe.
Rosemary fingerling potatoes and thinly shaved asparagus nod to the Spanish influences in Cafiero's signature octopus dish. He brings the same panache to a quartet of creamy sweetbreads, breaded and fried until crispy, then served with a spicy romesco sauce and braised radish greens.
Creatures of habit will be relieved to settle into their favorite candlelit window and still find longtime favorites, not to mention some of the best pastas in the city, listed on the menu, such as the signature tajarin—a pile of fluffy house-made egg yolk noodles drizzled with earthy truffle butter and topped with grana padano—or the house ravioli, stuffed with braised chard, fresh ricotta, and a poached egg, and smothered with poppy-seed butter.
Its trendier neighborhood peers may have garnered all the headlines, but the always-delicious Tabla has become the news.


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Skybox – TR's 50 Most Innovative Companies for 2012!
A hearty congratulations to Skybox, a cutting edge, atypical Silicon Valley company for being recognized by MIT's Technology Review as a Top 50 Innovative Company in 2012. And congratulations to co-founder and current Chief Product Officer Dan Berkenstock, one of the most high energy and thoughtful founders I've had the privilege of working with, on being named a Top Innovator under 35 by the same publication. I joined Skybox in 2010 as a "consultant" right after Bessemer led Skybox's Series B, working 45-50 hours a week as one of two non-engineers in our small team of less than 20. And now, the team is 50+ people (with many rocket scientists!) and ready to disrupt a stodgy industry.
Skybox is a company building low cost satellites that provide timely high resolution imagery and video. Imagine being able to see the protests of the Arab Spring in high resolution video, get timely imagery of the damage done by Hurricane Katrina so FEMA can more effectively act, plan construction sites without ever making a visit, or monitor and defend your national borders with video or imagery feeds. It's pretty amazing stuff, and use cases go on and on. It's a company built on transparency with the belief that critical information should be available in high quality and low cost to many government agencies and the masses.
CEO Tom Ingersoll (a remarkable, almost paradoxical combination of an aerospace executive and entrepreneur), Dan, and the rest of the founding and broader team are going head on in an industry defined by its staidness. And they're attacking it with the zeal, mobility, and leanness of a Silicon Valley team.
The sky is the limit…except in this case.


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Puppet state
A puppet state is a notionally independent or sovereign state which is in reality totally controlled by another state. Examples include Manchukuo, carved out of north-east China by Japan in the period 1932-1945, the states of Slovakia and Croatia created by Nazi Germany in 1939 and 1941, the 'Bantustan' republics created by South Africa in the 1970s (Transkei, Bophutatswana, Venda), the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus created in that area o Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces in 1974, and the Maidan regime by the U.S. backed anti-democratic and neo-fascist forces during the so-called "Revolution of Dignity" in Ukraine in 2014.
The Soviet bloc nations during the Cold War show strong evidence of having been puppet states in that external force was used to suppress any nation which deviated too far from the Soviet 'line' in internal or external policies; this was demonstrated particularly by the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and its repression of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia in 1968. In such cases, however, it could be argued that it is the governments that were 'puppet' rather than the states themselves, which in some cases had long independent histories.
The creation of puppet states can be a precursor to outright annexation: for example, the Soviet Union in 1921 carved an area from Mongolia to form the puppet state of Tannu Tuva; this was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1944.


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Fighting anti-LGBT legislation and amendments has been a cornerstone of Lambda Legal's work since the early 1980s. At the time, Lambda Legal published the first major study on antigay legislative proposals and warned about "the new right's specific concern with preventing the achievement of any legal or political gains for gay people." In the 1990s, Lambda Legal helped derail broad-based attempts to prohibit antidiscrimination legislation covering LGBT people, culminating in Romer v. Evans, a landmark victory before the U.S. Supreme Court. Today, much of the focus has shifted to legislation and amendments that deny same-sex couples the freedom to marry. Lambda Legal continues to lead the way in challenging and limiting these and other attacks on LGBT people.
National Context
In recent years, antigay conservatives have attempted to use gay and lesbian couples as a political wedge by promoting ballot initiatives and referenda intended to prohibit marriage equality or other relationship recognition of same-sex couples. Since 1998, about half the states have taken the extraordinary step of amending their state constitutions to limit recognition of same-sex couples in some way. To date, voters in Arizona are the only ones who have rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have denied marriage equality to same-sex couples. In nearly three-fourths of states, legislatures have enacted some form of Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) or state law that limits recognition of same-sex couples.
Lambda Legal's Impact
Working with the ACLU and the Colorado Legal Initiatives Project, Lambda Legal helped secure one of the movement's most important LGBT legal victories. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its 1996 decision in Romer v. Evans, struck down a Colorado ballot initiative prohibiting all branches of state government from passing legislation or adopting policies prohibiting discrimination against lesbians and gay men. The ruling paved the way for Lambda Legal to challenge and defeat similar antigay measures. It also provides a legal foundation for winning equal protection for LGBT people across the country, including in our challenges to measures limiting recognition of same-sex couples.


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This event was long awaited, especially since the last one was held back in December 2011. Today, we finally met at Bagatelle for lunch. Very enriching and interesting, this kind of event is a great opportunity to meet and interact with other people sharing the same passion as well as sharing tips and personal experiences. It also allows us bloggers to tag a face to a specific blog 🙂
Thanks again to all those who turned up today:
- Dhaneesha and me (of course)
- Nayar
- Tushal
- Nirvan
- Sarvesh
- Gices
- Jochen and his two kids
- Rwishi
- Rikesh
- Mozammil
- Asmi and her two friends
- Avinash, Christina and their two kids
- Reena, Michel and Tasya
- Clarel
- Pascal
- Sun and his wife-to-be
- Khush
- (Did I miss anyone???)
And hope to see more people active in the Mauritian Blogosphere!


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We all know by now the NY Marathon 2012 was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. The race cancellation was announced only 36hours before the starting time and it was a huge letdown for people like me, who traveled halfway around the world. My husband, baby and I were even stranded in Korea for 4 days as all the flights to JFK airport were put on hold when we were already enroute to the US.
Needless to say, I, along with thousands of other individuals had given a lot of physical, emotional, mental, and financial investment into this event. We were fully aware that the city was still trying to recover but we knew that the marathon offered a huge boost to New York's economy, and I personally thought that we were doing our part to help out. We all still did, as the expo staged by the organization directed the proceeds towards the victims of the hurricane.
The most amazing thing for me though, was that the runners of New York organized an impromptu marathon on the original race date and dubbed it the "Run Anyway NY Marathon 2012." Maricel Pangilinan and I and the other Filipinos, including my cousins Asa, Kris, Edel and my uncle Dr. Glen Mendoza, Melodee Arevalo Mendoza, Carlos de Guzman, Raeanna Cranbourne, Geraldine Santiago, Gem Padilla Thomas, Paul Loyz joined and showed solidarity. Pledges were made once again to help the relief efforts.
Big big crowds of marathoners participated. Supporters came out in droves at Central Park. I felt like tearing up when we passed the finish arch, which had already been set up. Maricel and I ran together and marveled at the collective spirit of the running community–it just cannot be broken, and this is what non-runners will never understand.
I would like to thank Timex Multisport Team and Timex Philippines, with special mention to Keith Meyer, Tristan Brown, Avi Uttamchadani, Gemma Pagsibigan and Jose Sarmenta. This trip has been very special, official race or not. You can never tell how things will turn out, and this is a perfect example. We were all given lemons, and we combined forces to make a giant lemonade.
My friends and I have vowed to return next year with a vengeance, and celebrate again with our fellow runners. We're pretty sure they will all have a New York state of mind too.


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Source Information
Christchurch Board of Guardians. Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom.
Parish Poor Law Records, ca. 1601-1900. Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom.
About Dorset, England, Poor Law and Church of England Parish Records, 1511-1997
This is a collection of records related to England's Poor Laws. Both civil and ecclesiastical parishes are represented.
Historical Background
For many centuries, the task of caring for the poor in England was left to the Church. Each parish was given an Overseer of the Poor to help with this cause in 1572. In 1601, the Poor Law Act empowered these overseers to collect a poor rate from wealthier members of the parish and distribute the funds among those needing relief.
The 1601 law remained in effect until 1834, when a new law, the Poor Law Amendment Act, took effect. Under this law, parishes were grouped into Unions. Each Union elected a Board of Guardians, which was then responsible for care of the poor across all of the individual parishes.
Many of our ancestors received help through these Poor Laws, including the elderly, orphaned, abandoned, unemployed, and sick. Aid came as more than just money; the poor could also be provided food, clothing, and work. Children from poor families were often placed in apprenticeships or sent to schools and other institutions.
What's Included in This Database
This collection includes a variety of different records created in areas of Dorset in connection with the Poor Laws. They'll help you identify which members of your family were considered poor, find out what aid they received, and discover details of their everyday lives. It's sometimes possible to piece together the story of a relative's life, from their placement at a school as a child, through their time in a workhouse, up to their final fate—be it their eventual passing or an escape from poverty. Or, you may find your ancestor on the other side of the coin, among the rate payers.
Examples of the types of records found in this collection include
- workhouse records detailing employment, clothing dispersal, and other particulars
- Board of Guardians meeting minutes
- treasurers account books
- churchwardens records
- school records
- records of charities
- church council records
- parochial church council records
- overseers records
- court records
- rate books (records of assessments and collections)
- vouchers
- vestry records
- incumbents' records
- peculiar court records
The exact information you can find varies according to record type. For example, on a workhouse admission and discharge register you may see the person's name, their date of admission, age, religious persuasion, and date of discharge. On a voucher, you could find a person's name and list of goods received. An apprentice register might list the apprentice's name, their gender, age, the name of the person they were bound to, date of indenture, parents' names, trade, and residence.
This is a large collection of images of original records. In it, you can read details about your ancestor as they were recorded sometimes centuries ago. Because the records haven't yet been indexed, it's not possible to search for your relatives automatically. Instead, you should identify which documents your family members are most likely to appear in, then use our browse options to look for their details.


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Overt Illuminati Satanic Symbols Pour Out of the American Music Industry, Secular Society Turns a Blind Eye
Posted by angelbabe43 on April 6, 2011
Posted on 01/03/2011 by CK Hunter
Copyright 01.02.2011 Reposted courtesy of Artopia444.wordpress.com
I am currently examining satanic and totalitarian imagery in the American music industry. There is nothing hidden or even secretive about the satanic imagery in most pop music videos, especially videos made by Lady Gaga and Beyonce. I am also pretty suspicious of Taylor Swift's odd hand signs and some of her garments and poses, but this post will focus on Jack Black, Beyonce and Lady Gaga.
Here's an example of what I am saying. Nothing is hidden or veiled any longer about the goals and motives of the music industry in America. Jack Black's actions at the 2009 MTV Music Awards set a new "low bar" for public behavior, and I am stunned I have not seen more media articles about this.
Veiled as comedy, during the 2009 MTV Music Awards,Jack Black took the stage, raised his arms, flashed the Illuminati Satan sign with both hands, and then shouted out and invited the entire audience to " pray to the devil" with him. I did NOT find this very funny.
In fact, I found it to be quite disturbing. Indoctrination and dark occult initiation can be hidden by the apparent mindlessness of contemporary entertainment, even in apparent comedy.
In fact, as I study various popular TV sitcoms, I often see re-occurring instances of entertainment and comedy being used as a way to introduce hypnotic occult suggestions, initiation rites, fascist or totalitarian thought forms, and all sorst of other dark and ungodly imagery that is, in fact, on some level, socially engineering an unsuspecting viewer to think that these kinds of displays are innocent and benign, when they are not.
There is nothing innocent or socially benign about the slow and methodical process of "normalizing" these public displays of satanic hand signs, symbols, occult phrases and images peppered into the mix of pop culture's music industry. There fact that there is a more or less total absence of public outcry about any of this tells me where we now are in the degradation of American Christian culture and values. We are now headed headlong down the final free-fall into all-out public presentations which are not simply veiled and hidden, they will be open and overt displays of satanic worship, disguised as concerts. Perhaps this is already happening and I just haven't seen it yet. What I have seen is enough to horrify my soul.
I don't expect anyone else to believe this, but the following videos which have been noted and posted by other truth researchers suggest that I am not alone in thinking that something is very very wrong, and very very evil deep inside the American Hollywood music and entertainment industry. Here are some of the videos that I studied this evening:
To learn more about the hidden illuminati control and influence in the modern music industry read this article I just wrote 2 weeks ago and updated tonight. When you see images of butterflies in videos, especially of Monarch butterflies, you are seeing Illuminati mind control programmed people acting on their "Monarch" programming. The image below is an example:
In this next image Beyonce is wearing a breastplate emblazoned with a goat's head image that is practically identical to images of Baphomet, the ancient Goat-head image of Satan:
There are literally countless images of music artists like Beyonce flashing the Illuminati Satanic hand sign, I found this one particularly disgusting because of the way she's dressed. I perceive Beyonce to be a Satanic priestess, only thinly disguised as a [fake] Christian. When she talks about how involved she has been with the church I get a somewhat nauseous feeling. Beyonce's music video imagery is literally drenched in satanic symbolism. It's not hidden at all. It's right out there, front and center. Here are a few more things I have noted. They are mostly self-explanatory, if you are familiar with occult and Illuminati symbolism.
One of the creepiest things I have had to listen to do write this post is the reversed sound track to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" music video. I would swear that the music in reverse sounds like some sort of demonic incantations or a demonic language. I did not like the way this made me feel. Take a listen and see what you can decipher from this – [warning graphic]:
Satanic imagery in Lady Gaga music videos:
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2 Responses to "Overt Illuminati Satanic Symbols Pour Out of the American Music Industry, Secular Society Turns a Blind Eye"
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December 13, 2011 at 5:05 am
G'Day! Angelbabe43,
Interesting Thoughts, I'm guessing my teacher just means in general observations.
I need a list of pros and a list of cons for each covert and overt.
Could you please help! 🙂
Thank you.


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What the hell? Wicked Lasers has actually made a lightsaber. I mean, not one that can cut you in half, but one that looks and acts like the actual Jedi weapon! At least, that's what they claim:
LaserSabers are energized by the light of Wicked Lasers, harnessing the power of the force. The LaserSaber features an ultra smooth magnetic gravity system that can "power up" and "power down" the blade.
The LaserSaber maintains its radiant brilliance even when the lights are on. The LaserSaber is interchangeable and will attach to any Spyder 3 model. The aircraft grade aluminum hilt ensures secure attachment of the blade. Due to the extreme powers of the Spyder 3, only operate while wearing LaserShades in a controlled environment.
The Lasersaber—that's how they call it to avoid any Lucasfilm lawsuits—is actually a 32-inch polycarbonate blade with an anodized aluminum base that attaches to a Spyder 3 laser. It has some kind of mechanism that makes the sword power on and off like the ones in the movie.
The effect is quite stunning. No other lightsaber toy I've seen lights up like this thing or can shine like the real thing on broad daylight. There's no comparison.
But this technological terror comes at a cost. They are available for $100 but you have to spend $300 more on the Spyder 3 laser.
Oh, and yes, we are getting one for testing and just playing like the Star Wars dorks we are. [Laser Saber]
Here's a great technical analysis by EnigmaticChemist, one of our readers:
You can get the Spyder 3 lasers in three variants, 250mW and 750mW or the 1W. The average standard laser pointer that you can purchase at any computer store for a presentation is likely to be around or under 5mW. Most toys, if they use a laser, will be in this power. I would believe some even use more primitive light sources.
The minimum S3 Spyder power output is still bright at roughly 68,000 meters. These lasers are also extremely visible in broad daylight on their target due to their intensity from the source. Meaning that in that barrel with the magnetic coating—it most likely acts as a reflection chamber—it is a continuous target. This attachment requires safety glasses, meaning its letting that wavelength of the laser escape out the "Blade" making it seem lit as it is.
So these Lasersabers should be brilliantly lit up even in a well lit room with CFL pumping out many wavelengths of light. And also you are still holding a high powered laser with a chamber attachment whilst swinging it around near people (also hopefully wearing wavelength blocking eyewear).


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response to "Why Go Veggie"
By Eric Harrington
"Why go Veggie" suggests that a carnivores intestine is short, while ours is long, etc. etc. so we shouldn't eat meat. This is factually complete bullshit. Humans have eaten meat for MILLIONS of years, but not exclusively. Early man continuously foraged for plant based food, primarily very complex carbs (ie not grains) and insects, and maybe a little fruit depending on where they were, and then they every so often they gorged themselves for a while on the protein of a kill. That is what Humans did for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years, and our bodies are evolved for THAT. That is why grains, i.e. simple carbs are so bad for us. Humans never ate simple carbs, (ie grains) until maybe 9000 years ago, so we do not digest them well, for our bodies are designed for very low but continuous complex carb intake and occasional extensive protein intake. It is also why so many are becoming allergic to gluten and other grain products.
Proteins are used to rebuild tissue and create a myriad of substances in the body, but we can live without all but small amounts found in plants for weeks at a time. But not ideally forever, and still stay optimally healthy, or even grow stronger, larger etc… Carbs on the other hand, are the fuel of the body, and must be available, in the bloodstream continuously or we die. That is why our bodies so aggressively store excess carbs for immediate use in the muscles with insulin, and for more serious longer-term carb shortages in the form of fat. But proteins we only need sporadically, and hence we do not store them, except in the form of more muscle. And now, with our excessive grain-based simple-carb (instead of complex carbs) and continuous (instead of sporadic) meat diets, everyone is getting sick. Big fucking surprise! We are fighting millions of years of evolution.
Contrary to that piece you sent, Humans are NOT Herbivores OR Carnivores but in fact Omnivores, and like bears, (who also have a very long intestinal track) Humans CAN properly digest meat AND plant matter and insects equally well. That is not the problem. In fact, pure vegetarians routinely have extensive trace mineral deficiencies, and weak immune systems (not stronger) unless they eat a LOT of plants grown from very mineral rich, unfarmed soil, or grown with ocean fish based fertilizers, and nothing grown in in this country commercially is done this way. Commercial (even local farm) soils are typically only supplemented with 7-8 minerals tops, to keep the crops healthy to term. Commercially grown animals are generally fed pelletized food made primarily from grains (or really disgusting things in the megafarms), and they are routinely supplemented 20+ trace minerals to keep them healthy to slaughter. Humans need that many trace minerals and more, for we live much longer, and we normally get most of those trace minerals from those animals we eat, not from vegetables grown unsustainably, and again, those trace minerals are not available in the grains the animals are fed, they are supplemented. In the world we live in today, moderate consumption of healthfully raised animals is more healthy for us than not. Not excessive meat (which is even less healthy than vegetarianism), but some. As with anything, much depends on your lifestyle. People like me who physically punish their bodies need optimally far more protein (than I could ever easily get from vegetables) and also more carbs than less active people. But everyone needs those trace minerals, for when combined with amino acids from those proteins they the (re)building blocks of the whole human system. There is only so much Selenium, chromium, vanadium, copper, zinc etc.. in the top 24″ of soil on this planet, and you know where it is all ending up? . Cemeteries! Now there is were we need to start farming! Bottom line, the planet cannot healthily sustain this population growth, more from the standpoint of trace minerals, than pure space to grow things, or the energy required. We can keep people alive but not optimally healthy with our current soils and farming techniques.
In the desert of Ethiopia, they tried a program where as the elephants became overpopulated and began to desertify the land by eating everything in sight, the government began to cull the elephants to preserve the plants, but they removed the elephant carcasses and use them for dog food. Problem is, the plant-life then just died off faster. Why? Because those elephants were repositories of huge stores of trace minerals. When they died, those minerals were released back into the soil as fertilizer and a huge stand of plant life would grow for decades afterwards, where the elephant had died. Take the elephant carcass away, the balance is broken and everything dies. The same is happening planet-wide, and going vegetarian will not fix it. THAT is the primary cause of all the cancers and non-germ related diseases we now face. Poor nutrition. In the days of Dinosaurs, everything was recycled. The soil was so rich, a dinosaur with a head the size of a horse could sustain a 30 ton body on plant life alone, because ALL the minerals were still there in their natural ratios. When the soil died, the animals died shortly thereafter and the soil was rejuvenated by their carcasses.
That's why Jo and I buy almost all our produce from the Farmer and the Cook or occasionally the farmers market, i.e. from soil not intensively farmed commercially. Those foods still have some trace minerals. Or our own yard. That is the BEST way. Grow your own produce.
As for feeding the world, so exactly when do we finally admit that Humans can reproduce faster than we can possibly support them, and finally decide that we don't have an obligation to feed them all? I don't know that we have reached that point, but it is coming soon, and the people your piece suggests feeding are having dramatically more children than WE ARE. They have got to stop creating people they can't feed. It's not our responsibility, it is theirs. We, as always, are trying to fuck with the natural balance of the planet, all based around this bogus religion based sanctity of human life bullshit fallacy, when humans in reality are a scourge to all life on this planet. "A virus" as Agent Smith so aptly put. True Sustainability BEGINS with SUSTAINABLE PROCREATION.
On a spiritual level, they are incurring the karma of the children they starve, not us. As for Karma however, our wasteful society is wrong, and the commercial meat industry is horribly inhumane and karmically awful, not because it feeds less people, but because of the inhumane treatment of the animals their entire life, not just at the time of slaughter. All life is sacred, but that doesn't mean that it is wrong for anything to be killed. Death is as sacred as life. As for the vibration of them when they die being passed on, that is IMHO, complete crap. It is the natural way, Gods way. Some animals give their lives that others may eat, it is the "giveaway" that they choose in the philosophy of the Sioux. They accept their place in the universe. They are food and they know it. And so are we.. Food for bacteria and fungus, even before we die. We just think we're different than the rest, just because we're at the top of the food chain. Typical human largess. Life and death are equally sacred even for us.
That being said, JO and I try to buy our meat only from organic, humane farms, we do the research (and yes I know there's no telling with restaurants, and I am increasingly disturbed by the awareness of that) but the whole sustainable argument just doesn't wash, because nothing is sustainable with this Ignorant Human Plague. . The problem is not going to be fixed by anyone going veggie. I support the idea only to stop the cruelty to animals, which offends me deeply, although raising meat for food can be done humanely and sustainably. But the third world (and elements of the first world) have GOT to get their head out of selfish religious ass and stop making babies. Or watch them starve with or without our help. THEY need to be as sustainable as us. They are the BIG problem, them and the Elitist Military Industrial Complex who work hard to create a huge pool of poor struggling slave labor.
The west still produces more food than we consume excluding oil. We can sustain OUR country and all of Europe, Australia, etc with the population growth expectations there for a long time to come with a major renewable energy infrastructure investment. But Asia and Africa have to get their shit together or we may all be DONE for. Unsanitary over population provides the primary vector for plague. I saw an activist from Somalia on Bill Maher last night and she said roughly the same thing some time back, that we can't end hunger by growing food FOR people, they have to learn to do it themselves, and to maintain a population that the location they live in can sustain. And maybe learn not to rape children, and sew girls vagina's shut while they're at it. We need to teach them, and give them infrastructure, ie water, tools etc.. NOT JUST FOOD GROWN HERE. That is simply not sustainable. And will someone PLEASE tell the Glorious Infallible Divine Pope Roadshow to finally tell his fucking sheep to stop having lambs they can't feed, or else God will simply take them back. They don't deserve them, and the lambs are better off….
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Pre-Gamin': Cubs v. Pirates (6:05 CT) – Lineups, Broadcast Info, etc.
You don't need me to get you excited to watch tonight's game. Matt Garza is finally back, and it will be good to see him in action once again. It's easy to forget: dude is good, and is frequently quite enjoyable to watch.
Garza is expected to be on a pitch count, so don't expect him to go too deep into the game. Just hope for health, modest effectiveness, and a decent overall outing.
Julio Borbon gets the start in center against the lefty, and leads off, which is probably as much about just keeping everyone else in their normal slots (and the lack of a better leadoff option) as it is about Borbon's on-base ability against lefties.
Game Info
Chicago Cubs (18-25) at Pittsburgh Pirates (26-18), 6:05 CT on CSN.
Game Thread and Series Preview
The Game Thread lives here. You should participate in the madness. And, of course, for those who aren't into message board-style game threads, please feel free to use the comments on this post for your in-game commentary/outbursts.
The Series Preview for this series lives here.
Game Tickets
If you're looking for Chicago Cubs tickets for this or another series, you can use that TiqIQ link there for the secondary market. There are also some available on Cubs.com.
Starting Pitchers
Matt Garza (0-0, -.– ERA)
Wandy Rodriguez (4-2, 3.25 ERA, 3.56 K/BB)
Pittsburgh Pirates Lineup
1. Jose Tabata, LF
2. Neil Walker, 2B
3. Andrew McCutchen, CF
4. Garrett Jones, RF
5. Russell Martin, C
6. Pedro Alvarez, 3B
7. Gaby Sanchez, 1B
8. Clint Barmes, SS
9. Wandy Rodriguez, P
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2. Starlin Castro, SS
3. Anthony Rizzo, 1B
4. Alfonso Soriano, LF
5. Scott Hairston, RF
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Why are the same people continually appointed to county boards and committees?….. Why haven't tax assessments values gone down significantly with the stagnant housing market? …… What is your individual thinking on courthouse expansion?
February 13, 2010
Attend and speak up at Oconee Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 & take action to Lower Your Property Taxes
By Wendell Dawson, Editor, AVOC, Inc
Oconee County Citizens will have an opportunity to ask questions of Commissioners at the BOC Town Hall Meeting at the Civic Center – Feb 16, 2010- 7 to 9 PM.
Ask the commissioners questions and seek substantive answers at Town Hall
The meeting is billed as informal and an opportunity to question any or all of the commissioners. Some questions that should be asked:
1. Why are the same people continually appointed to county boards and committees? SEE - BOC Minutes 1-26-10; BOC Minutes 2-2-10; SEE Committee Listings and Members
Should some professions that work with the county be on boards related to their work area!?
2. Why haven't tax assessments values gone down significantly with the stagnant housing market? What budget reductions are in the future?
3. What is your individual thinking on courthouse expansion? CITIZENS, do not let them avoid answering because the Land Use Committee is studying it! Many question how real the Land Use Study is going to be.
SEE LEE BECKER's Recent Posts on the Land Use Committee:
Missing the Signs? .As the Oconee County Land Use and Transportation Planning Committee continues its deliberations Tuesday about the future of the courthouse and the Board of Commissioners awaits the Committee's report, 11.44 acres of land sit for sale literally at the courthouse doorstep………………………..
Some Meetings Hard to Explain - Lee Becker – 2-12=10
Tax Assessments are a hot subject around the state. Real estate values are down as everyone knows.Yet, some area officials make it sound like Oconee is immune from the lower values. Defunct subdivisions around the county and the short list of published real estate sales tell a different story. Oconee Citizens should take steps to lower their assessments. One feels the County Equalizers (appointed by the Grand Jury) may be more receptive than assessor staff that work with county officials and may be more sensitive to loss of revenue issues. Revenue and assessments are separate subjects by law and need to be treated that way in practice.
If one knows of lower sale values in one's neighborhood, one should file a new tax return and start the process. Following are some forms and information about the process.
Forms and Deadlines
Oconee County Tax Commissioner
In Oconee County the time for filing returns is January 1 through April 1. These returns are filed with the Tax Assessor and forms are available in that office. The tax return is a listing of the property owned by the taxpayer and the taxpayer's declaration of the value of the property.
Oconee County Tax Assessors Forms
Lower Your Property Taxes – Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers 2-11-10
Georgia Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers
February 12, 2010
Lower Your Property Taxes
Your Assessed Value is Likely too High
Your property tax is legally based on your home's fair market value, as determined periodically by the county Tax Assessor. With the current economic downturn the market value of many homes has fallen; in some cases, substantially. Because counties are not required to re-assess homes annually, the valuation assigned to your home may not reflect the current market. .Is Your Home Over-Valued?
.For the most part, current market value of your home is reflected in the price at which homes comparable to yours have been recently selling. If the tax assessor's fair market value is clearly greater than what you believe your home's actual value to be, you may act to update your valuation. .Updating Your Tax Valuation
.Changing your home's tax value begins with filing a Real Property Tax Return indicating what you believe the value of your home to be. Filing a Real Property Return is not an appeal, it simply triggers a re-assessment of your property. After the Tax Assessor has reviewed your proposed valuation and determined what, if any value adjustment to make, a Notice of Assessment will be mailed to you reflecting any changes in the county's valuation. If you are satisfied with the re-assessed value, no further action on your part is required and your 2010 taxes will be based on the new valuation. Value issues are often resolved by the Assessor accepting the value indicated on the Tax Return, or by an acceptable property re-assessment.. Appealing Your Tax Valuation
.If you disagree with the value indicated in your Notice of Assessment, you will have the right to file an appeal. It is at this point that you will want to gather and submit evidence supporting what you believe the value of your property to be. Specific instruction (including deadlines) concerning the appeals process in your county will be included in the Notice of Assessment.
Property Tax Assessments –GA Senator Rogers-Overhaul – 2-5-10
Feb. 1, 2010
Senator Rogers Announces Major Overhaul of Georgia Property Tax System
.ATLANTA (Feb. 1, 2010) – Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) today announced a much-needed overhaul of Georgia's property tax system. After collecting information and input from property owners, assessors and local governments, Rogers presented a property tax assessment and appeals reform bill with more than 40 changes to the tax system.
"The collection of taxes should be fair, transparent, and easy to understand. Sadly, the property tax in Georgia accomplishes none of these things. This legislation attempts to bring fairness to an unfair system," said Rogers. "Georgians from all over the state created this legislation. During my eight years I have never witnessed an issue where everyone agreed the current system is broken. We have had hundreds of suggestions for change. The more than 40 changes represented in this bill represent the will of the people and will bring needed relief to property owners."
Property values in Georgia have fallen drastically over the past few years. Assessed values have not kept pace, resulting in property taxes for many property owners being artificially high. Rogers created and chaired the Property Tax Assessment Committee to look into the issue. Homeowners, business owners, tax assessors, and property lawyers testified to present the flaws, challenges and suggested solutions to the system. As a result, Rogers worked with everyone in the industry and achieved bi-partisan support to overhaul Georgia's property tax system.
"Ultimately, the property tax must be eliminated. However, the political will for a complete and drastic repeal is not possible at this time. That sort of change takes place gradually and this is just the beginning," said Rogers.
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Special mechanism for Long Thanh airport project gets thumbs-up
VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has told the Ministry of Transport to design a special compensation, support and resettlement mechanism for the Long Thanh airport project in Dong Nai Province, the Vietnam News Agency reports.
The ministry should coordinate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the government of Dong Nai Province, and relevant agencies to map out a plan for compensation, support and resettlement, treat it as a separate component, and report results to the PM.
The special plan should be submitted to the National Assembly (NA) before the NA passes the feasibility study for the big-ticket airport project.
The Transport Ministry will work with authorities of Dong Nai to devise a policy framework for compensation and resettlement assistance.
The project would affect around 4,700 households with nearly 15,000 people in Binh Son, Suoi Trau, Cam Duong, Long An, Long Phuoc and Bac Can communes.
Around 40 kilometers from HCMC and 30 kilometers from Bien Hoa City, the airport would meet 4F standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Phase one of the project is scheduled to get off the ground in 2019, with one runway and one terminal to be put into operation by 2025 to handle 25 million passengers and 1.2 million tons of cargo a year.
One more runway and terminal would be built in the second phase to increase the airport's annual capacity to 50 million passengers and 1.5 million tons of cargo. The airport would handle 100 million and five million tons a year after phase three is complete.
More than VND336.76 trillion (over US$16 billion) will be needed for the project, including nearly US$5.5 billion for the first phase. The funding will be sourced from the State budget, official development assistance (ODA) loans, investment of enterprises, proceeds from equitization of State-owned enterprises and other sources.
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Legendary Texas Icons
- Legends live large in Texas; these are just a few of the people you'll meet in the exhibition.
- René Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer who established the first European colony in Texas – by accident.
- Stephen F. Austin, the first of 23 empresarios to build a colony within Mexican Texas. His Old Three Hundred started a population boom that would lead to the Texas Revolution.
- Davy Crockett, famed frontiersman and United States Congressman, he was one of nearly 200 men who stood for Texas independence against impossible odds.
- Sam Houston, Commander In Chief of the Texas Army, he led the state to victory in the Battle of San Jacinto, where just 18 minutes of battle secured our independence.
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican general who overthrew his government before leading an army to Texas.
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- Experience the most significant moments in Texas' history through artifacts collected from around the state, including:
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- The cannon believed to be the "Come and Take It" Cannon, the spark that ignited the Battle of Gonzales, the first in the war for independence from Mexico.
- Stephen F. Austin's 1830 'Tanner map' of Texas and adjoining states.
- The decree granting Mexican citizenship to James Bowie, Sept. 30, 1830 – and his famous Bowie Knife, found at the Alamo.
- Col. William Barret Travis' "Victory or Death" letter, a rare original printed broadside of Col. William Barret Travis' desperate plea from the Alamo.
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- After a 13-day siege, Texan forces – including William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett – are overwhelmed at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
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