This Week
Monday I realized that we had not sent any of our black OL baseball caps to my dad in Austria. He designed the OL logo many years ago – fifties? sixties? – and we quickly corrected that. Soon he will be able to walk to the local pub in style. Tuesday we finalized the artwork for One Guitar and in the evening I did 2 hours of phone interviews with Australian media. Wednesday morning everything (music-master, CD-R with layout and design, printouts, mock-up, completed and signed forms etc…) was overnighted to the manufacturer. There is hope that we might have the new CDs in time for our little August run, but it’,Replica Chanel;s a very slight hope. Then I had lunch with Jon on the patio of Aqua Santa to celebrate his birthday. The strange clouds (see above photo) passed by my house yesterday.
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Bees
And that means think twice before you put chemicals on the grass in your backyard to achieve that perfect lawn.
Treehugger
How important are bees? One-third of the food we eat comes from crops that need animal pollinators. “Without the services of managed honeybees, provided by migratory beekeepers,Replica Chanel, billions of dollars’ worth of crops across the United States would fail.”
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Temecula
The show at the winery went well and the quartet is really starting to sound good. We took UnderWorld/Cocteau to new and exciting places! Jon used soft-synths live for the first time and to our ears it sounded better than the “hard” synth…,Replica Handbags;
Woke up early on Sunday morning and watched as a hot-air balloon was readied for flight. Then Jon and I took a walk in the area for an hour and a half. Many houses are being built. What will those folks do when their children have left and they are faced with having to drive quite a distance for everything? Will it become popular for these sub-urbanites to hire live-in help or will they re-discover cities?
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TerraPass
This is from last year, but still valid. I use TerraPass for my Prius and we plan on using them to carbon-neutralize our tour busses this year as well.
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Only a few months old, with a staff just out of grad school and a membership of fewer than 1,000, TerraPass is no match for the world’s half a billion cars – the second-biggest source of greenhouse gases. But Ned Ford, a member of the Sierra Club’s Global Warming and Energy Committee, believes TerraPass could change the way people think about energy and the environment. ‘Politicians and business leaders have been telling us for the last 20 years that there’s this huge painful cost associated with reducing carbon,’ he says.
‘If you think about your own personal impact on CO2, and you find out you can offset it for a reasonable amount of money, it makes you think differently about the problem. TerraPass is mind opening,’ he says,Chanel Handbags, ‘and that’s pretty cool.’
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PInk Stuff
It would seem silly to travel around with your own soap dispenser, in case a restaurant serves up only the pink sludge. But I think one should draw conclusions: encountering the pink stuff in a truckstop feels natural, but if you find it in a restaurant that claims to be natural or even organic then you would be smart to think that something is amiss and maybe start wondering what you just ate…
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Have you ever noticed when you go into a public restroom, there next to the sink is a dispenser full of “pink stuff”? Have you ever asked yourself –,Gucci Handbags; what’s in the pink stuff?
Unlike the “pink stuff,” which can take over 200 years to breakdown in an ecosystem, Pangea Organics’ soap begins to biodegrade within 48 hours after washing and rinsing. Pangea uses nothing but the good stuff – and good restaurants know it’s all about the ingredients!
Answer to What’s in the Pink Stuff: Active Ingredients Triclosan 0.60% Ingredients Water Aqua, Sodium Xylenesulfonate, Dipropylene Glycol, Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Fragrance Parfum, Disodium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Red 4 CI 14700, Yellow 5 CI 19140 ChemicalCAS No / Unique IDPercent C8-10 & C10-16 Polyglycosides000000-57-6 Glycerin000056-81-5 Lauramide diethanolamine (DEA)000120-40-1 Ammonium lauryl sulfate002235-54-3 Sodium laureth sulfate009004-82-4 Cocoamidopropylbetaine061789- 40-0 D-Glucopyranose, oligomeric, C10-16-alkyl glycosides
I just don’t see us washing our hands, meaning wasting water, 10 or 20 years from now. I wonder how we’ll get the grime off…
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Paris Replaced
Not one CD was returned by unhappy customers. I guess people knew that they got their lucky hands on a limited edition…
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by “guerrilla artist” Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton’,Chanel Handbags;s CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog’s head.
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Saturday Evening
Last year’,Chanel Handbags;s performance at Upaya during the Big Mind workshop inspired the Tears in the Rain/One Guitar music, which I started recording a few weeks later in September. I think the idea of performing solo came from that experience as well, so I was very happy to play yesterday evening for this year’s workshop. Afterwards the people attending were the first to get a chance to buy the new One Guitar CD.
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The orchestra’s sound is equally customised – it is theoretically possible, says Trueman, to play Beethoven or Mozart,Replica Chanel, but why bother when a traditional orchestra can do that already? Isn’t it more rewarding, he suggests, to create a symphony from chirruping crickets, thunder and fruit machines?
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Prada Purses O’DonnellWeb – Merriment and Amuseme
I was up until 2:30 AM last night finishing this book. That should tell you all you need to know about my opinion of it. However, the book is too important to leave at that.
The Innocent Man is Grisham’s first non-fiction book. If you didn’t know this was a true story you would never believe it. If Grisham had released this as fiction the critics probably would have panned it as too unbelievable a story.
Also, I gained a whole new respect for Barry Scheck. I only knew him previously as part of OJ’s defense team. However, he was instrumental in overturning this travesty of justice, and his organization The Innocence Project continues to work to free wrongly convicted persons.
Unfortunately, it is all true. The small town of Ada, OK really did put two innocent people on death row, one of them chronically mental ill. His state appointed attorney was past his prime, and was blind, literally. There was no evidence to convict the two, so the state manufactured some with junk science and jailhouse snitches willing to say anything for a break on their sentences. There was a real prime suspect, but since he was busy selling drugs to the cops, they weren’t real interested in pursing him. The story takes a real dark turn when Ron Williamson gets to death row. Granted, prison should not be a pleasant place, but we as Americans should be well above refusing proper medical care to prisoners. Even as criminals they have some basic human rights. Not to mention all those in prison that aren’t really criminals. I fear that number is far higher than most of us want to believe.
One more takeaway from the book. If you are ever brought in for questioning by the police,Prada Purses, you don’t give them your fucking name until you have an attorney present. Yes, 99% of police officers in this country are upstanding people with your best interests in mind. Unfortunately, you never know when you are dealing with the 1%, and 1/100 is not good odds on your freedom, or your life.
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A side story in the book is Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot. They were convicted and sentenced to life in the same small town after a confession that can only be viewed as extracted via mental torture. They are still in jail to this day. I don’t think there is any doubt that they are innocent.
This is not one of Grisham’s lighthearted legal romps. This book is dark and depressing. There is no happy ending in freedom after 9 years on death row and 20+ years of mental illness. No government that can do this sort of stuff to its own citizens can be trusted with the power of life and death. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. What power is more absolute than state sanctioned murder?
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I can only imagine the search engine posts that will result from this However, since I insinuated in the Penguin post that some Christians are repressed about matters of sexuality,nike shoes, it’s only fair that I give equal time to a minister that preaches the spiritual and marital benefits of hot monogamy.
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