Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
KANYE + KIM JONES= PASTELLE
clothing line has been in the works and on hold for a minute, but recently progress has emerged with Yeezy’s long-awaited clothing line Pastelle. He has linked up with British fashion designer Kim Jones, who has previously worked with Louis Vuitton and Hugo Boss. Still no date on the official launch of Pastelle, but it should be coming in the near future.
IceOrb
The IceOrb is an impressive little container. It makes ice cubes, stores them, can chill your drink or keep other foods cold.
The IceOrb can make 21 cubes at a time. Remove the container, fill it up with water (or anything else you want frozen), and replace it. The container forces the water into the ice cube trays. When the ice is frozen you remove the container and can easily pop the cubes out. If you just want to make ice, you can place the cubes in the container and make another round (the container holds around two and a half batches).
If the container is empty you can put ice cream or anything else you want chilled in it. When you travel the ice surrounding it keeps the contents cool—ideal for ice cream or chilling a bottle of wine. The container's lid fits neatly under the IceOrb to prevent condensation from getting the surface wet.
The IceOrb measures 6" around and 5" tall, and is available for $16 from Fusion Brands. There's a video on the page that nicely illustrates its many uses.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
This is a list of the worst places to live in NC, based on violent crime. They R listed - from worst to best!! Ktown is a strong 57!!!! goddddamn-it.
Lumberton, NC 60
Smithfield, NC 59
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC 58
Kinston, NC 57
Gastonia, NC 56
Shelby, NC 55
Henderson, NC 54
Rocky Mount, NC 53
Wilmington, NC 52
Goldsboro, NC 51
Statesville, NC 50
Fayetteville, NC 49
Winston-Salem, NC 48
Salisbury, NC 47
Durham, NC 46
Elizabeth City, NC 45
Sanford, NC 44
Lexington, NC43
Hickory, NC 42
Greensboro, NC 41
Greenville, NC 40
High Point, NC 39
Asheville, NC 38
Albemarle, NC 37
Laurinburg, NC 36
Southern Pines, NC 35
Thomasville, NC 34
New Bern, NC 33
Burlington, NC 32
Graham, NC 31
Carrboro, NC 30
Raleigh, NC 29
Hope Mills, NC 28
Kings Mountain, NC 27
Fuquay-Varina, NC 26
Wilson, NC 25
Tarboro, NC 24
Garner, NC 23
Reidsville, NC 22
Chapel Hill, NC 21
Kernersville, NC 20
Roanoke Rapids, NC 19
Morganton, NC 18
Kannapolis, NC 17
Eden, NC 16
Clayton, NC 15
Concord, NC 14
Newton, NC 13
Apex, NC 12
Lenoir, NC 11
Matthews, NC 10
Mooresville, NC 9
Wake Forest, NC 8
Huntersville, NC 7
Havelock, NC 6
Cornelius, NC 5
Jacksonville, NC 4
Boone, NC 3
Holly Springs, NC 2
Cary, NC 1
Pinehurst, NC 0
Smithfield, NC 59
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC 58
Kinston, NC 57
Gastonia, NC 56
Shelby, NC 55
Henderson, NC 54
Rocky Mount, NC 53
Wilmington, NC 52
Goldsboro, NC 51
Statesville, NC 50
Fayetteville, NC 49
Winston-Salem, NC 48
Salisbury, NC 47
Durham, NC 46
Elizabeth City, NC 45
Sanford, NC 44
Lexington, NC43
Hickory, NC 42
Greensboro, NC 41
Greenville, NC 40
High Point, NC 39
Asheville, NC 38
Albemarle, NC 37
Laurinburg, NC 36
Southern Pines, NC 35
Thomasville, NC 34
New Bern, NC 33
Burlington, NC 32
Graham, NC 31
Carrboro, NC 30
Raleigh, NC 29
Hope Mills, NC 28
Kings Mountain, NC 27
Fuquay-Varina, NC 26
Wilson, NC 25
Tarboro, NC 24
Garner, NC 23
Reidsville, NC 22
Chapel Hill, NC 21
Kernersville, NC 20
Roanoke Rapids, NC 19
Morganton, NC 18
Kannapolis, NC 17
Eden, NC 16
Clayton, NC 15
Concord, NC 14
Newton, NC 13
Apex, NC 12
Lenoir, NC 11
Matthews, NC 10
Mooresville, NC 9
Wake Forest, NC 8
Huntersville, NC 7
Havelock, NC 6
Cornelius, NC 5
Jacksonville, NC 4
Boone, NC 3
Holly Springs, NC 2
Cary, NC 1
Pinehurst, NC 0
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
robert taylor homes
The Robert Taylor Homes housing project was completed in 1962 and named for Robert Taylor, an African American activist and Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) board member who in 1950 resigned when the city council refused to endorse potential building locations throughout the city of Chicago that would induce racially integrated housing. At one time, it was the largest housing project in the country, and it was intended to offer decent affordable housing. It was composed of 28 high-rise buildings with 16 stories each, with a total of 4,321 apartments, mostly arranged in U-shaped clusters of three, stretching for two miles (three kilometers).[1] The Robert Taylor Homes were also home at one time to such celebrities as Mr. T, Kirby Puckett, and current Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
Robert Taylor Homes faced many of the same problems that doomed other high-rise housing projects in Chicago such as Cabrini-Green. These problems include narcotics, violence, and the perpetuation of poverty.
Planned for 11,000 inhabitants, the Robert Taylor Homes housed up to a peak of 27,000 people. [2] Six of the poorest US census areas with populations above three people were found there. Including children who are not of working age, at one point 95 percent of the housing development's 27,000 residents were unemployed and listed public assistance as their only income source, and 40 percent of the households were single-parent, female-headed households earning less than $5,000 per year. About 99.9 percent were African-American. The 28 drab, 16-story concrete high-rises, many blackened with the scars of arson fire, sat in a narrow two-block by 2.5-mile[3] (300 m by 3 km) stretch of slum. The city's neglect was evident in littered streets, poorly enforced building codes, and scant commercial or civic amenities.
Police intelligence sources say that elevated number of homicides was the result of gang "turf wars," as gang members and drug dealers fought over control of given Chicago neighborhoods. Its landlord, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), has estimated that $45,000 in drug deals took place daily. Former residents of the Robert Taylor Homes have said that the drug dealers fought for control of the buildings. In one weekend, more than 300 separate shooting incidents were reported in the vicinity of the Robert Taylor Homes.[disputed] Twenty-eight people were killed during the same weekend, with 26 of the 28 incidents believed to be gang-related.[disputed]
On June 25, 1983, an infant, Vinyette Teague, was abducted from Robert Taylor Homes after her grandmother left her alone in the hallway for a few minutes to answer a phone call. An estimated 50 people were in the hallway at the time of the abduction, but police were unable to gather enough evidence to make any arrests. She has never been seen or heard from since. [
Kitchen-maker Alno has created some Cooking Tables that combine “the hearth and kitchen table as the focal point of home life once again.”. The table-cooking collection includes the Liberty Island, a mobile cooking element with a glass cover and mobile container that can be positioned against a dining table, either indoors or out. When opened, the glass cover protects against splattering while cooking and closed, it covers a dual-zone induction cook-top. LongIsland can be positioned anywhere in the room and combines a fixed ‘cooking block’ with a sliding tabletop that’s supported by a base frame (it can be moved to the right or left). A four-zone electric cook-top is flush-fit in the stainless steel cooking block. All the Cooking Tables were originally created by design students at the Muthesius College of Art in Kiel, Germany.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Nicola Tesla
In 1900, with US$150,000 (51 % from J. Pierpont Morgan), Tesla began planning the Wardenclyffe Tower facility. In June 1902, Tesla's lab operations were moved to Wardenclyffe from Houston Street. The tower was finally dismantled for scrap during World War I. Newspapers of the time labeled Wardenclyffe "Tesla's million-dollar folly". In 1904, the US Patent Office reversed its decision and awarded Guglielmo Marconi the patent for radio, and Tesla began his fight to re-acquire the radio patent. On his 50th birthday in 1906, Tesla demonstrated his 200 hp (150 kW) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine. During 1910–1911 at the Waterside Power Station in New York, several of his bladeless turbine engines were tested at 100–5000 hp. Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Marconi for radio in 1909, Thomas Edison and Tesla were mentioned as potential laureates to share the Nobel Prize of 1915 in a press dispatch, leading to one of several Nobel Prize controversies. Some sources have claimed that due to their animosity toward each other neither was given the award, despite their enormous scientific contributions, and that each sought to minimize the other one's achievements and right to win the award, that both refused to ever accept the award if the other received it first, and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it.[67] In the following events after the rumors, neither Tesla nor Edison won the prize (although Edison did receive one of 38 possible bids in 1915, and Tesla did receive one bid out of 38 in 1937).[68] Earlier, Tesla alone was rumored to have been nominated for the Nobel Prize of 1912. The rumored nomination was primarily for his experiments with tuned circuits using high-voltage high-frequency resonant transformers.
In 1915, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Marconi attempting, unsuccessfully, to obtain a court injunction against Marconi's claims. After Wardenclyffe, Tesla built the Telefunken Wireless Station in Sayville, Long Island. Some of what he wanted to achieve at Wardenclyffe was accomplished with the Telefunken Wireless. In 1917, the facility was seized and torn down by the Marines, because it was suspected that it could be used by German spies.
Before World War I, Tesla looked overseas for investors to fund his research. When the war started, Tesla lost the funding he was receiving from his patents in European countries. After the war ended, Tesla made predictions regarding the relevant issues of the post-World War I environment, in a printed article (December 20, 1914). Tesla believed that the League of Nations was not a remedy for the times and issues. Tesla started to exhibit pronounced symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the years following. He became obsessed with the number three; he often felt compelled to walk around a block three times before entering a building, demanded a stack of three folded cloth napkins beside his plate at every meal, etc. The nature of OCD was little understood at the time and no treatments were available, so his symptoms were considered by some to be evidence of partial insanity, and this undoubtedly hurt what was left of his reputation.
At this time, he was staying at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, renting in an arrangement for deferred payments. Eventually, the Wardenclyffe deed was turned over to George Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria, to pay a US$20,000 debt. In 1917, around the time that the Wardenclyffe Tower was demolished by Boldt to make the land a more viable real estate asset, Tesla received AIEE's highest honor, the Edison Medal.
Tesla, in August 1917, first established principles regarding frequency and power level for the first primitive RADAR units.[69] In 1934, Émile Girardeau, working with the first French RADAR systems, stated he was building RADAR systems "conceived according to the principles stated by Tesla". By the 1920s, Tesla was reportedly negotiating with the United Kingdom government about a ray system. Tesla had also stated that efforts had been made to steal the so called "death ray". It is suggested that the removal of the Chamberlain government ended negotiations.
On Tesla's seventy-fifth birthday in 1931, Time magazine put him on its cover. The cover caption noted his contribution to electrical power generation. Tesla received his last patent in 1928 for an apparatus for aerial transportation which was the first instance of VTOL aircraft. By the end of 1931, Tesla released "On Future Motive Power" which covered an ocean thermal energy conversion system. In 1934, Tesla wrote to consul Janković of his homeland. The letter contained a message of gratitude to Mihajlo Pupin who had initiated a donation scheme by which American companies could support Tesla. Tesla refused the assistance, choosing instead to live on a modest pension received from Yugoslavia, and to continue his research.
In 1936, Tesla wrote in a telegram to Vladko Maček: "I'm equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland. Long live all Yugoslavs."[70]
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