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Image via CrunchBase The best of the crowdfunding websites have been ranked and announced by the Internetʼs top crowdfunding reviewer website. Www.Crowdfunding-Website-Reviews.com has reviewed and ranked Leverage PR and EquityNet.com . "These are the No. 1 sites out there," said Howard Orloff, president and founder of www. Crowdfunding-Website-Reviews.com . "If you are interested in crowdfunding either as an investor or someone seeking funds, these are the companies for you. They do everything right." GoFundMe - Top crowdfunding site GoFundMe earned 5 stars for the thee ranked categories of traffic, customer service and usability. GoFundMeʼs often has a heavy traffic load, which can work against some websites because it slows response times. GoFundMeʼs servers are capable of handling the load, according to Crowdfunding Reviews. The forums and community at GoFundMe were ranked "best."GoFundMe" is the crowdfunding company to watch," Mr. Orloff said.
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Generally and specifically. Concurrently. Somewhat like, if you will imagine, first and third, with a weather Some topics that were generated as responses to posts on list. Some
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:45:40 +0000 This sums up for me the essence of what curating should be about - but often isn't. Lindy "What great curators do is reverse-engineer this dynamic, framing cultural importance first to magnify our motivation to engage with information. Someone who simply shares a link to a beautiful illuminated manuscript from the 13th century might grab your ephemeral attention for a fleeting moment of visual delight, but someone who shares that manuscript in the context of how it relates to today’s ideals and challenges of publishing, to our shared understanding of creative labor and the changing value systems of authorship, will help integrate this archival item with your existing knowledge and interests, bridging your curiosity with your motivations to truly engage with the content."
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http://news.yahoo.com/poorest-poor-us-hits-record-1-15-people-040233161.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income. About 20.5 million Americans, or 6.7 percent of the U.S. population, make up the poorest poor, defined as those at 50 percent or less of the official poverty level. Those living in deep poverty represent nearly half of the 46.2 million people scraping by below the poverty line. In 2010, the poorest poor meant an income of $5,570 or less for an individual and $11,157 for a family of four. That 6.7 percent share is the highest in the 35 years that the Census Bureau has maintained such records, surpassing previous highs in 2009 and 1993 of just over 6 percent.
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Cover of Tweaker
I loved this piece on Tweakers - no not the meth addicts (as the Urban Dictionary points out is the name for these poor unfortunates) but the other kind. The kind who are never satisfied and look to improve even those things that are working.
Annals of TechnologyThe TweakerThe real genius of Steve Jobs.by Malcolm Gladwell November 14, 2011Excerpt One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons have been offered. Britain had plentiful supplies of coal, for instance. It had a good patent system in place. It had relatively high labor costs, which encouraged the search for labor-saving innovations. In an article published earlier this year, however, the economists Ralf Meisenzahl and Joel Mokyr focus on a different explanation: the role of Britain’s human-capital advantage—in particular, on a group they call “tweakers.” They believe that Britain dominated the industrial revolution because it had a far larger population of skilled engineers and artisans than its competitors: resourceful and creative men who took the signature inventions of the industrial age and tweaked them—refined and perfected them, and made them work. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:45:40 +0000
Case Study: Mayo Clinic Supports Patients Via Social Media"For Mayo Clinic, social media has proven to be an important opportunity to listen and respond to patients’ concerns in a new way. “People are overwhelmingly positive,” said Aase, “but the negative comments are important because they provide us an opportunity to listen and respond if somebody hasn’t had a good experience.”
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When Joseph-Nicephore Niepce took the first photograph in 1828, his photographic plate required an exposure of eight hours. That exposure time was drastically reduced across the course of the nineteenth century, so that by the 1890s the Collodion process had cut exposure times to two or three seconds. Nevertheless, a three second exposure meant that subjects had to stand very still to avoid being blurred, and holding a smile for that period was tricky. As a result, we have a tendency to see our Victorian ancestors as even more formal and stern than they might have been. The Smiling Victorians GalleryWed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:01 +0000 
Cover of Gaetano Donizetti
Most people, the vast majority in fact, lead the lives that circumstances have thrust upon them, and though some repine, looking upon themselves as round pegs in square holes, and think that if things had been different they might have made a much better showing, the greater part accept their lot, if not with serenity, at all events with resignation. They are like train-cars travelling forever on the selfsame rails. They go backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, inevitably, till they can go no longer and then are sold as scrap-iron. It is not often that you find a man who has boldly taken the course of his life into his own hands. When you do, it is worth while having a good look at him. That was why I was curious to meet Thomas Wilson. It was an interesting and a bold thing he had done. Of course the end was not yet and until the experiment was concluded it was impossible to call it successful. But from what I had heard it seemed he must be an odd sort of fellow and I thought I should like to know him. I had been told he was reserved, but I had a notion that with patience and tact I could persuade him to confide in me. I wanted to hear the facts from his own lips. People exaggerate, they love to romanticize, and I was quite prepared to discover that his story was not nearly so singular as I had been led to believe. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:01 +0000
The parable is worth sharing but have you ever seen a baby porcupine? Worth sharing just for ths!
Fable of the porcupine It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions. After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their companions in order to receive the warmth that came from the others. This way they were able to survive. Moral of the story: The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other person's good qualities. The alternative moral of the story...Learn to live with the pricks in your life.
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Image via Wikipedia I wrote this in response to receiving a mass email from a friend, advocating for people to return to sender, information from the government on the carbon tax. We have seen these kinds of emails in the past and we will see them in the future, no doubt. I replied to the original email that this was a sad thing to be passing on and received a reply that had concerns and repeated some of the usual claims that we have heard that are quite deliberately being promoted but are basically bogus. This is my reply to that. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:01 +0000
Good Engineering Lasts Forever The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That is an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and the U.S. railroads were built by English expatriates.
So, a major design feature of what is arguably the worlds most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the Width of a horse's ass! Don't you just love engineering? Signature powered by WiseStamp   Source: http://lindyasimus.posterous.com/good-engineering-lasts Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:24:50 +0000  Following on from the previous post on Happiness it occurs to me that sometimes it is our lack of Happiness that is the prompt for many a divorce. "I am not happy ... so it must be somethng you are doing that stops me from being happy." So we build an argument to support this idea and we set about fixing the situation. Voila! A new life and a clean start.
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Image via Wikipedia Naturally the common people don't want war... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders... All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism. ~ Herman Goering
Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:39:54 +0000 Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Photos... Awesome! All these pictures are from the book ' Microcosmos,' created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye. 
Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:12:55 +0000 With the recent failure of several well known bookstores I thought it would be interesting to get some feedback from someone whose business is in selling books. Jim Owens is my guest on this blog and since Jim's business is people who buy books, and he is a business owner using new technology to reach customers around the world with his old fashioned service and product, the timing couldn't be better. Bad new travels fast in the bookworld On the radio today, the major topic was the news that Angus & Robertson and Borders are in the hands of administrators. You do not need to be a mind reader to know this was going to happen. In the short term Many people will lose their jobs and some small businesses will go to the wall. If you look around you can see that happening now. Just drive down Hunter street Newcastle or down Pittwater rd Dee Why just to name a few, all you can see is closed shops that fifteen years ago were full of flourishing small businesses but as the Westfield & Marketown and Centro’s gained market share the strip shops lost traffic & ultimately money. For the future what will happen? 1. We will have to adapt new business models or disappear. Other factors One other item worth mentioning is the role that government plays in the book market. From the tree to the bookshelf, government takes taxes from many different sources. When the customer buys a book in Australia, it must be one of the major costs in that purchase. But when you buy a book from overseas its much cheaper. The reason that it’s cheaper is mostly that the Australian government hasn’t got their grubby little hands on all those steps, and the little guy can get a fair deal rare but true. Gerry Harvey can moan and groan about losing market share to the rest of the world but, he didn’t care about knocking out little Australian business entrepreneurs. How will it affect ozzbooks? At Lake Macquarie Secondhand Books, we have already felt the effects of this shake up but to an extent our size is an advantage our business is in the growth phase. We don’t have the huge costs associated with running franchise operations and all the inherent difficulties. Our business is able to react daily to our customers needs; it’s not a behemoth slow to react to the needs of new generations of customers. Our business is about finding and supplying books for our customers and friends. Recommended Reading A good book to read about book publishers in Australia is a title called Paper Empires by Craig Munro, & Roby Sheahan-Bright, Cheers Lake Macquarie Secondhand Books Ph 0249 735 925
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“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
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"The passage of time was one of the main concerns in Mesoamerican society; thus, The three faces depict three phases in which time and humans are closely related. By way of contrast, the exterior mask has closed eyes, In between is a period of no less importance,
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Scottish Poetry Selection
This poem and the one next to it Invictus, were poems my mother held dear and would recite.
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Out of the night that covers me, In the fell clutch of circumstance Beyond this place of wrath and tears It matters not how strait the gate,
first published in 1888 At the age of 12, Henley fell victim to tuberculosis of the bone.
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Source: http://lindyasimus.posterous.com/invictus Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:39:21 +0000 "Shel Holtz (argued that) social connections are important for marketing, recruitment, testing ideas and getting quick feedback. Blocking access “is the laziest way around the problem,” Holtz said in the report. Executives usually suspect that new technologies will result in employees slacking off. “When American businesses after WWII started thinking about rolling out telephones on everyone’s desks, the biggest objection that was raised by senior managers, who already had telephones, was that everyone was going to use these phone for personal use,” Analyst Stowe Boyd said in the report. “They were going to call mom; they were going to gossip.” " http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/27/should-facebook-twitter-be-banned-at-work/
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Source: http://lindyasimus.posterous.com/social-media-in-the-workplace-quote Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:39:21 +0000 "If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth." ~MITSUGI SAOTOME
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Source: http://lindyasimus.posterous.com/discover-the-joy Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:39:21 +0000 “If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half fed!” – Pearl S. Buck (from the character Wang Lung in Buck’s novel The Good Earth)  Lindy Asimus Business Coach Mobile: 0403 365855 lindyasimus@gmail.com www.lindyasimus.com www.designbusinessengineering.com If you'd like to know more about me, visit Australia's Marketing Mentor Contact Me     Actionbites Blog How To Set Goals You Can Reach Source: http://lindyasimus.posterous.com/quotation-if-i-have-a-handful-of-silver Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:39:21 +0000
He stands there Strength in his hands And a mind that is full of joy. He is husband. He is lover. He is father. He is friend. He is dominant In his attentions.
And he is more. He is a seeker of knowledge Warm and filled with Enthusiasm for life. Reaching and seeking And inside his heart A small ember burns. Burns and glows and waits For the little puff Of air that will fan the coal And ignite the flame.
Ignite the flame that has lain Like a phantom in his heart. Captive. Bound. Unseen. Unloved. A phantom that is ready to be born into being. That which he can be Himself. Complete. Stripped of artifice and facade Naked and unashamed.
And he kneels there Strength in his hands And a heart that is filled with joy He is love He is passion He is giving He is nurtured He is accepted
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At a recent workshop I held, I gave away a copy of Here are the notes from the reader outlining the areas
On People:
Put people together in a way that will have them bouncing ideas off each other, befriending each other, and taking care of each other, and suddenly they are coming to you, not with gripes and problems, but with solutions and great ideas.
You’ve got to treat people as you would yourself, or better.
Don’t forget to listen, as some of the best ideas will come from your staff, customers and people on the front lines!
A manager should basically be a considerate person who is as interested in the switchboard operator and the person who cleans the lavatories as he or she is in the fellow managers.
The more you free your people to think for themselves, the more they can help you. You don’t have to do this all on your own.
A self-disciplined employee will have the patience to conduct routine business routinely, the talent to respond exceptionally to exceptional circumstances, and the wisdom to know the difference between the two.
On Brand:
Get the right brand from the start, by being honest with yourself about what it is you’re offering.
Whatever your brand stands for, you have to deliver on the promise. Don’t promise what you can’t deliver, and deliver everything you promise. That’s the only way you’ll ever control your brand.
Brands always mean something. If you don’t define what your brand means, your competitors will.
On Delivery:
It’s the attention to detail that really defines great business delivery.
Success one day does not give you a free lunch every day thereafter.
Remember to communicate and pay attention to detail. You wouldn’t believe how far you can get, just by remembering and practising these two rules.
Knowing when to tread carefully, and when to put your foot down, is a lesson all businesses must learn.
If you are a late entrant to a market, you need to be radically different to win over customers.
Keep a cool head. You’re in business to deliver change and, if you are to succeed, the chances that no one will get hurt are virtually zero.
On Learning from Mistakes and Setbacks:
One thing is certain in business – you and everyone around you will make mistakes. You have to trust people to learn from their mistakes. Blame and recriminations are pointless.
Never do anything that means you can’t sleep at night.
Protect your reputation. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. These are the rules I live by. They ought not to contradict each other but many businesses wrongly assume they do.
When your very existence is threatened, you have to change.
If you’re hurt, lick your wounds and get back up again. If you’ve given your absolute best, it’s time to move forward.
On Innovation:
Innovation is what you get when you capitalise on luck, when you get up from behind your desk and go and see where ideas and people lead you.
The best most solid way out of a crisis in a changing market is through experiment and adaption.
The secret to success in any new sector is watchfulness, usually over a period of many years.
Even the most rarefied and exotic-sounding business environment works to familiar principles.
On Entrepreneurs and Leadership:
Entrepreneurism is a universal business virtue that can be applied to problems, challenges and opportunities regardless of scale.
The good news for small businesses is that the big ones rarely bother to use their advantage to its maximum. Why? Because they’ve forgotten how to think like entrepreneurs. Worse still; many of them have forgotten how entrepreneurs feel.
There is a fundamental difference between an entrepreneur and a manager. They are often contrasting people and it is crucial to realise this.
True leadership must include the ability to distinguish between real and apparent danger.
Decent leadership is about explaining clearly and unemotionally why a decision has been taken.
On Social Responsibility:
There is such a thing as enlightened self-interest, and we should encourage it. It is possible to turn a profit while making the world a better place.
If there is one line that could sum up all the varied and curious lessons I’ve learned in business, it’s this: scale doesn’t matter – people do.
Ethics aren’t just important in business. They are the whole point of business.
To run a business ethically, you have to consider the effect of your operations on others.
No one expects you to find a global solution to everything. Just make a difference where you can.
Success for me is whether you have created something that you can really be proud of.
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Some thoughts in no particular order. Julia Gillard started the debate by calling Australia "The best country on Earth". This is the kind of jingoistic nonsense that demands that anything that comes after it be ignored. "A sustainable Australia, not a Big Australia". Here the suggestion - so far as I have been aware, quite false - that KRudd had ever suggested an Unsustainable Australia. No he never did. His numbers quoted for 2050 were estimates never This is deliberately misleading and casts shadow on the previous government, of which she was an integral part. No wonder the electorate is confused. The assertion that the Rudd Government had "lost its way" as an excuse for change is remarkable. It begs the question, how is it possible that overturning a sitting Prime Minister, one who had Here is the nub of the dissatisfaction that many Labor voters must be feeling. By what authority does one set themselves up as having better leadership skills, with entirely no evidence that this is the case? If the leadership skills are so very impressive - then the spill should have not needed to be called in this way. But what we have now is a government that is about to face the electorate in a way that maligns their own work in the previous term. Instead of standing proud of the accomplishments achieved, This is not leadership, if this demonstrates anything, it is a lack of leadership. We went to the last election and returned from voting to find a new government and a new ethic to Since the beginning of 2010 we have seen the erosion of the standing of the Rudd government and a slide in the polls. A slide from a historical high for Rudd's personal standing and an He didn't go alone. Along with KRudd went the legitimacy of everything that we voted for in 2007 when we elected the Labor government to implement their policies. Along with Rudd went a purpose that we admired and in its place we have what? The notion that Rudd was insisting on running the government single handedly, seems at odds with the lack of energy displayed by the ministers and backbenchers since the year began, to take an Perhaps Rudd was never privileged to have the support from the part that he deserved, even before Communication has been a poor servant of the Rudd administration. One wonders why that is. Blaming Rudd alone, seems to be a handy device, but neglects to answer the question - where were We will probably never know the truth of what happened leading up to the spill. Back in the now, we have an election campaign that inspires nothing and promises a bland and pallid future of pollie-speak and spineless policies to appeal to the emotional triggers of a And so to the Opposition and the slimmest prospect of an Abbott led government is even less appealing. "Workchoices is dead" and so it is, but still it remains that the intentions of the Liberal party are always going to be at odds with the worker, even as it pretends to support "family values" Cries meant to frighten voters on "the great big new tax" are from the same mouths neglect to mention that they pin their financial credentials on the happy circumstance of a "the great big As we go to the election, we are promised the dubious gift of a cut in services ... the same services needed by the families the Opposition seems to want to court. The Deficit Bogeyman is brought out like was once the fashion, of threatening a child that they "will be put in a bag by a stranger" if they are not careful. And about as likely. The willfully So to an election that will be held in a matter of weeks. Who to vote for? No flowers for the voters in this election.
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A Warning Of Sorts?"Here beneath rest the ashes of a man who was in habit of always postponing everything till the day after. However, at last he improved and really died...Jan 31 1972" ~Unknown Lindy Asimus Business Coach Mobile: 0403 365855 lindyasimus@gmail.com www.lindyasimus.com www.designbusinessengineering.com If you'd like to know more about me, visitAustralia's Marketing Mentor Contact Me Actionbites Blog The Power Of A Story --- @ WiseStamp Signature. Get it now Source: http://lindyasimus.posterous.com/a-story-about-activity-without-purpose Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:39:21 +0000
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"In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time, the pure essences of heaven the moisture of the sun and earth all formed upon a certain rock old as creation and it became magically fertile: that first egg was named thought. Tougher than the? Buddha the father Buddha says with our thoughts we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was...Irrepressible!!" Lindy Asimus Business Coach Mobile: 0403 365855 lindyasimus@gmail.com www.lindyasimus.com www.designbusinessengineering.com If you'd like to know more about me, visit Australia's Marketing Mentor Contact Me Actionbites Blog What A Business Coach Isn't - Or Shouldn't Be --- @ WiseStamp Signature. Get it now Source: http://lindyasimus.posterous.com/monkey-magic-6 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:39:21 +0000 It's so much fun to play on Twitter and gab away on Facebook and coerce people to "Like" your Page, then do nothing else with it. Collecting followers is not enough to run a healthy business. And yet business planning is very unfashionable right now, it seems. I don't know why. Your working plan for your business is like a healthy diet for your body. A diet of chocolate and sugary confections and fat is not going to leave your body healthy. Your business likewise, needs some good monitoring and a healthy input to keep it in good shape. And after all, your business should be there to keep you in good financial shape. Think about that. Lindy Asimus Business Coach Mobile: 0403 365855 lindyasimus@gmail.com www.lindyasimus.com www.designbusinessengineering.com If you'd like to know more about me, visit Australia's Marketing Mentor Contact Me Actionbites Blog What A Business Coach Isn't - Or Shouldn't Be --- @ WiseStamp Signature. Get it now Source: http://lindyasimus.posterous.com/no-a-blog-isnt-a-business-plan Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:05:51 +0000 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:06:47 +0000 
Image by Vattenfall via Flickr 2010 Deep Research Report on China Wind Farm Operation was a professional and depth research report on China Wind Farm Operation. In this report we focus on China domestic market and make comprehensive and objective reflection of China's current status of wind farm operation. We also make a forecast of China Wind power market.( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=101660&rt=2010-Deep-Research-Report-on-China-Wind-Farm-Operation.html ) Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:25:43 +0000 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:27:01 +0000
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:10:13 +0000 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:26:38 +0000 Cosmo published a section in this month's issue entitled 'The Body Shape Revolution and Where You Fit In'. It featured images of women similar to those in the image below.  How nice of Cosmo to define a catalogue of standard body types to help us understand who we are. I personally would be lost without this kind of help. Not having to think for myself makes life a whole lot easier. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:02:52 +0000 A few years ago, following a suggestion from an online friend, I signed up for a thing called Flylady This is a group/organisation/cult which offers assistance to the housework reluctant. The idea is, they send you regular reminders, tips and advice to help you get into a routine and even (can this be possible) enjoy it. In theory it sounded great, but from the word go I realised Flylady and I were going to have problems. For some reason, she insisted on calling new members Flybabies. Call me pedantic, but putting the words 'fly' and 'baby' together conjures up an image of maggots, which aren't a thing I like to be equated with. Deciding that maybe this was just a little quirk of my own I overlooked the maggot label, and set out on my quest for domestic perfection. Step one was to shine my sink, which seemed a little basic, but was easy to do. However, from there onwards it was a bit of a downhill slide.
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Image by vintagedept via Flickr Dr Zahi Hawass the Egyptian archaeologist is well known to those who enjoy historical documentaries. He is highly respected in his field and is the current Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. I have always found his manner rather abrasive and have tended to avoid his offerings. However, his new TV show program on the History Channel: 'Chasing Mummies' is quite a different affair; this is actually riveting and addictive television. The producers of 'Chasing Mummies' seem to have recognised the potential of Dr Hawass' explosive temper and have harnessed it to great effect. In one incident, Dr Hawass' assistant Casey Fitchner gets completely blasted by the good doctor for being late to work. Later, while exploring inside the Stepped Pyramid, Fitchner asks if there is somewhere she can go to the bathroom. Dr Hawass informs her in no uncertain terms that the pyramid is a holy place and of course she can't go. Later, she can no longer resist the call of nature and wets herself on camera. Dr Hawass' outbursts make Gordon Ramsey look kindly and avuncular.
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Image via CrunchBase The best of the crowdfunding websites have been ranked and announced by the Internetʼs top crowdfunding reviewer website. Www.Crowdfunding-Website-Reviews.com has reviewed and ranked Leverage PR and EquityNet.com . "These are the No. 1 sites out there," said Howard Orloff, president and founder of www. Crowdfunding-Website-Reviews.com . "If you are interested in crowdfunding either as an investor or someone seeking funds, these are the companies for you. They do everything right." GoFundMe - Top crowdfunding site GoFundMe earned 5 stars for the thee ranked categories of traffic, customer service and usability. GoFundMeʼs often has a heavy traffic load, which can work against some websites because it slows response times. GoFundMeʼs servers are capable of handling the load, according to Crowdfunding Reviews. The forums and community at GoFundMe were ranked "best."GoFundMe" is the crowdfunding company to watch," Mr. Orloff said.
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If you are wearing blue jeans, chances are a version of tailor Jacob Davis's invention is hugging your hips right now. Davis did not invent jeans—that was the more famous Levi Strauss—but he did invent one crucial component: the copper rivets that reinforce the corners of the pockets, now ubiquitous on denim pants. Because Davis did not have the money to file the necessary patent paperwork, he wrote to Strauss—then Davis's fabric supplier—suggesting they apply together. How did Strauss respond? 
