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Interesting quote. Thanks for sharing.

To design a map of the world is no easy task. Because maps represent the spherical Earth in 2D form, they cannot help but be distorted, which is why Greenland and Antarctica usually look far more gigantic than they really are, while Africa appears vastly smaller than its true size. The AuthaGraph World Map tries to correct these issues, showing the world closer to how it actually is in all its spherical glory.

Created by Hajime Narukawa at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance in Tokyo, the design just won the grand prize from Japan’s Good Design Award as Spoon & Tamago reports. It beat out over 1000 entries in a variety of categories. 

Unlike the Mercator projection, the 1569 mapping technique that you'd probably recognize from the world maps you saw in school, the continents on the AuthaGraph aren’t lined up straight across—they’re angled in a way that provides a more accurate representation of the distances between them. “AuthaGraph faithfully represents all oceans [and] continents, including the neglected Antarctica,” according to the Good Design Awards, and provides “an advanced precise perspective of our planet.” No longer does Africa look the same size as North America, or Antarctica look like one of the biggest continents (it’s smaller than everything but Europe and Australia).

The map—which is used in Japanese textbooks—can be fit into different shapes without losing its accuracy, and AuthaGraph sells paper assembly kits where you can fold it from a sphere to a cone to a flat map, mimicking the way the projection itself is made.

[h/t Spoon & Tamago]

All images courtesy AuthaGraph.

A friend of mine works in a nail salon and is constantly breathing bad vapors and dust. Any chance that this would make a difference?

Just curious if someone has some specialized knowledge about air filtration.

@James Thomas Rook Jr. ?

I almost suggested using one of those old rainbow vacuum cleaners daily with the water filtration but I didn't find any online. I remember them working pretty well back in the day.

Oh.. this is obviously in lieu of buying a salon-wide air filtration system costing thousands which is out of the question for this person.

LOL... can't wait for the end to arrive. ;-)

This is almost a history of this whole saga here:

http://forum.theworldnewsmedia.org/forum/72-2016-presidential-election/

Tiene una voz increíble!

"She's Clearly Angry" Hillary Responds To NEW FBI Probe Into Emails!

Clear Evidence Hillary Clinton Bribed FBI Investigator!

18 U.S. Code § 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses (b) Whoever— (1) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official or person who has been selected to be a public official, or offers or promises any public official or any person who has been selected to be a public official to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent— (A) to influence any official act; or (B) to influence such public official or person who has been selected to be a public official to commit or aid in committing, or collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or (C) to induce such public official or such person who has been selected to be a public official to do or omit to do any act in violation of the lawful duty of such official or person; (2) being a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for: (A) being influenced in the performance of any official act; (B) being influenced to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or (C) being induced to do or omit to do any act in violation of the official duty of such official or person; (3) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any person, or offers or promises such person to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent to influence the testimony under oath or affirmation of such first-mentioned person as a witness upon a trial, hearing, or other proceeding, before any court, any committee of either House or both Houses of Congress, or any agency, commission, or officer authorized by the laws of the United States to hear evidence or take testimony, or with intent to influence such person to absent himself therefrom; (4) directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity in return for being influenced in testimony under oath or affirmation as a witness upon any such trial, hearing, or other proceeding, or in return for absenting himself therefrom; shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.

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"Let Me Tell You My Trump Story" Woman Says Donald Trump Groped On A Plane In 1979

@FoxNews @SteveHiltonx Democrats Caught Stuffing Ballot Boxes... pic.twitter.com/4TzNvwepMH

— W3NewsNet (@W3NewsNet) October 13, 2016

Russia has developed and successfully tested radio-electronic weapons systems unmatched anywhere in the world, RIA Novosti reports, citing the manufacturer.
 

The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
 

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i was a big fan back in the 1970's ?

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Get behind me Satan...

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It is ok to disagree with someone without being disagreeable. (Or resorting to "name calling")

Thank you

I imagine the error-rate of these cosmic "speedometers" is yet to be established? I wonder how we know when we are getting "more accurate" measurements? 

Funny headline. But true.

Now a group of scientists in the UK have claimed to have discovered the right way to manufacture synthetic blood and have even succeeded in doing so. The National Health Services of UK has announced its decision to start experimenting on synthetic blood in 2017 on a group pf 20 people. The blood substitutes are not meant to replace blood, the scientists said. Instead, synthetic blood is only meant to carry out the functions of actual blood wherever it fails. As such, synthetic blood transports oxygen.
 

Disasters don’t always occur when we are together with our family and friends, and so it’s important to take time now to plan what you will do in an emergency.  It only takes a few minutes to talk through the greatest risks that can affect where you live, work or go to school.  

This September and throughout the year here are few actions you can take to get started:

• Make & practice your family emergency plan

• Download the FEMA app

• Share preparedness tips with the #NatlPrep Social Media Toolkit

Watch "Don't Wait" Public Service Announcement ►

By having a conversation or making a plan, families can have more confidence and be better prepared when the next event happens.

The FEMA Ready Campaign Team

Free preschool resources.

ClarkCounty_flier.pdf

Gods Fingerprint→ The Fibonacci Sequence - Golden Ratio and The Fractal Nature of Reality

"Fibonacci numbers are of interest to biologists and physicists because they are frequently observed in various natural objects and phenomena. The branching patterns in trees and leaves, for example, and the distribution of seeds in a raspberry are based on Fibonacci numbers.

A Sanskrit grammarian, Pingala, is credited with the first mention of the sequence of numbers, sometime between the fifth century B.C. and the second or third century A.D. Since Fibonacci introduced the series to Western civilization, it has had a high profile from time to time. Recently, in The Da Vinci Code , for example, the Fibonacci sequence is part of an important clue."

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so 
much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have 
never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart. 

FOR EXAMPLE One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into 
bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't 
feel like it, I just want you to hold me." 

I said "WHAT????!!! What was that?!" So she says the words That every 
boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear..."You're just not in Touch with my 
emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a 
man." 

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just Love me for who 
I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?" Realizing that nothing was 
going to happen that night, I went to sleep. The very next day I opted to 
take the day off of work to spend time with her. 

We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed 
department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several 
different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I 
told her we'll just buy them all. She wanted new Shoes to compliment her new 
clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went onto the 
jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me 
tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of 
a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a 
tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I 
threw her for a loop when I said, That's fine, honey." She was almost 
nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. 

Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all 
dear, let's go to the cashier." I could hardly contain myself when I blurted 
out, "No honey, I don't feel like it." 

Her face just went completely blank 
as her jaw dropped with a baffled "WHAT???!!!" 

I then said, "Really honey! I 
just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while.You're just not in touch with 
my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as 
a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I 
added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy 
you?" 

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.

Service Animals and the Washington Law Against Discrimination.pdf

Service_Animals and the ADA -- Q and A.pd.pdf

In summary:  Service animals are allowed, not pets. There are certain questions we can ask to determine if they are a service animal.

Page 3 of first attachment addresses these questions: “a business can ask if the animal is a pet. If the animal is a pet, the business can exclude the animal. If the handler answers that the animal is a service animal, the business can proceed to a second question…”(more on page 3).

Per the first attachment:

“RCW 49.60.215 prohibits discrimination in a place of public accommodation due to the “use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a disabled person.” WAC 162-26-130 requires “fair service in a place of public accommodation regardless of the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a disabled person as well as because of the disability itself.” (Internal quotations omitted.)

Service animals must be allowed into all areas of a place of public accommodation where the general public is allowed – this includes dining and eating areas, restrooms, and areas where food is sold. A place of public accommodation cannot request that the service animal be removed unless it creates a risk of harm. This risk must be actual, and cannot be speculative or based on a fear of dogs. In addition, if an animal exhibits disruptive, poor or unsanitary behavior, it would not be considered a trained service animal, and can be removed.”