a little pricey but i would like something to power outdoor heaters and other extra guzzlers.
Rotterdam company Archimedes has created a small windmill that can be installed on just about any roof, anywhere. Meet LIAM: a quiet, affordable wind energy source that’s ideal for urban settings; it’s compact and its yearly output averages between 300 and 2500 kilowatts, depending on wind speed and roof height. You can also place more than one of these windmills on your roof for added power, or combine them with solar panels so you have a backup source of energy on still days. The price in holland will be € 3,999 (approximately $5,452 USD), and a mini-LIAM will soon be available as well. These turbines will be available for consumers to order as of June 1st, 2014.
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The Ontario health ministry warned Monday that 1,300 people were potentially exposed to measles at a two-day Christian youth event in Toronto.
The public advisory said a measles patient was infectious while attending the Acquire the Fire event on Feb. 6 and 7 in Toronto — billed as a weekend that “changes your teen’s life forever.”
Acting chief medical officer of health Robin Williams called it a “pretty intense exposure” — since the teens were mixing together for a total of 27 hours over the course of the weekend.
“It’s the largest exposure we know of at this point in the outbreak,” she said.
But Dr. Williams stressed that the development was in no way a public health emergency, noting that 98% of Ontario teens are immunized with two doses of the measles vaccine.
The health ministry called on all unvaccinated attendees to immediately isolate themselves and call their public health unit.
Dr. Williams urged those attendees to call ahead before making any visits to a health care provider.
“We are working very hard to not let measles have its way with us,” she said. “The good news is that most adolescents are effectively immunized.”
As of Monday morning, no one from the Acquire the Fire event had reported to public health officials. Dr. Williams said tickets to the event were sold by 63 distributors in more than 20 public health jurisdictions in the province.
“We didn’t even know about it,” event organizer Maurice Vannest said Monday. “The Toronto Public Health contacted me. It’s in their hands.”
According to its website, Acquire the Fire is a touring show aimed at provoking “a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and take His life-giving message to the ends of the earth.”
News of the exposure comes after three more cases of measles were reported in the province on Saturday — a 14-year-old girl in the Niagara region and two adults in the GTA.
Bike parks are growing in popularity, but what’s a cyclist to do when the rain comes? Move underground! The Louisville Mega Cavern is a 320,000 square foot underground bike park with over 45 different trails, a jump line, pump tracks, dual slalom, BMX, cross country and single track. If you know what all of that means, you will definitely want to check this place out.
It's President's Day! Perhaps America's least distinguished holiday, but an excellent time for lists. Specifically lists of presidents. The cohorts are more important than the ordinal rankings here.
The all-time greats
These are the guys who steered the country through times of crisis and let it endure and improve. George Washington established the tradition of republican governance and peaceful transfers of power. Lincoln prevented the country from literally collapsing. And Roosevelt preserved democracy at a troubled time through his decisive rescue of the economy, and then led the country to victory in the Second World War.
1. George Washington
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The good ones
These presidents created major elements of the American welfare state, forged its foreign policy tradition, and turned the state from an enemy into an ally in the fight for racial justice.
4. Ulysses Grant
5. John Adams
6. Harry Truman
7. Dwight Eisenhower
8. George H.W. Bush
9. Lyndon Johnson
10. Barack Obama
They did fine
These are your run of the mill presidents. Some of them are very well-regarded because of an economic boom, while others are held in low regard due to poor economic performance. Some are obscure and some are famous. But all basically left the country in the same fundamental shape that they found it.
11. Theodore Roosevelt
12. Bill Clinton
13. Warren Harding
14. William McKinley
15. Thomas Jefferson
16. James Monroe
17. John Quincy Adams
18. James Madison
19. William Howard Taft
20. Zachary Taylor
21. Gerald Ford
22. Jimmy Carter
23. Calvin Coolidge
24. Chester A. Arthur
25. Benjamin Harrison
26. Grover Cleveland
27. Rutherford B. Hayes
28. Martin Van Buren
29. John F. Kennedy
30. John Tyler
Very consequential, not always in good ways
These are guys who in terms of pure "greatness" should clearly rank above the earlier cohort of presidents. Big things happened under their watch, and if I liked the big things that they did I would consider them great presidents.
31. Ronald Reagan
32. Woodrow Wilson
33. Andrew Jackson
34. James K. Polk
Incomplete
These guys died really soon after taking office. Harrison has at least been granted the dignity of famously dying really quickly. Garfield's six-month span in office before being assassinated is simply forgotten. Getting shot and killed by a patronage-hungry office-seeker actually helped inspire an important civil service reform in the next administration, but it's hard to give a guy credit for getting shot.
35. William Henry Harrison
36. James A. Garfield
Laid the groundwork for civil war
From 1850 to 1860 the country was governed by a series of three presidents whose big idea was to forestall civil war by appeasing the South and buttressing the institution of slavery. It was immoral and it didn't work.
37. Millard Fillmore
38. Franklin Pierce
39. James Buchanan
True, epic disasters
In different ways, these three presidents all managed to totally wreck the economy. Nixon's inflation wasn't as bad as the other two, but he gets extra demerits for also shredding the constitution.
40. George W. Bush
41. Herbert Hoover
42. Richard Nixon
The worst
Jamelle Bouie has a good piece on this, but basically Johnson's deep-seated commitment to white supremacy ended up giving back a huge share of what had been accomplished during the Civil War.
When oil spills around Australia injured hundreds of penguins, the oldest man in the country stepped up to the plate to help out. 109-year old Alfred Date has long been an active knitter and he decided to start crafting sweaters for the impacted birds. The sweaters help the penguins stay warm and prevents them from ingesting toxins while trying to preen. Date isn’t just looking out for penguins, however. He also knits beanies for premature babies.
(via) We love the tightly wrought, Jules Verne-esque nautical look of San Diego’s Ironside Fish & Oyster Bar. Designed by Basile Studio, the heavily detailed restaurant was over a year in the making in an industrial space that first saw action in the 1920s. The wall of 2,000 faux piranhas is a pretty awesome.
In a nod to the nautical, around every corner are design treasures with maritime roots. For example, at the highest point of the south walls, deep shelving niches loom over the dining room, mimicking the cargo hold of a vintage cruise ship, and artfully stacked behind custom fabricated ship railings with brass fixtures, is an array of antique luggage, old trunks, nautical tchotchkes and model ships in glass bottles. The handcrafted back bar showcases rectangular cabinets fabricated to look like boat hatches. The storage niches house the wide selection of spirits, which are enclosed by safety-glass doors and affixed with metal cleats that rotate to “lock” the doors shut in case of rough waters A solid copper replica antique diving helmet(reminiscent of the first scuba diving helmets from the turn of the century) can be found nestled in the glass enclosed raw bar ice bath. Boat anchor logos of various shapes and sizes are inlayed on the terrazzo-inspired concrete floor, whilst porthole accentsare found in various fashions throughout the interior, including affixed to the restroom doors and at the base of custom sconces. A hand-carved wooden octopus oversees the bustling bar, with his tentacles entwined in the iron trellis while twin tusked-walrus’ flank either side of the bar.
We think it would fit well anywhere on Vancouver’s 22km of seawall…
by Andrew Morrison | Remember those “date” restaurants that only served drinks and dessert? Save for a few stragglers, they mostly died out in the 90s, the straightforward concept having seemingly run out of the will to reposition itself to compete in a more complicated retail environment full of talented pastry chefs retained by full service eateries and increasingly educated diners who were no longer impressed by tiramisu and chocolate lava cake.
Fast forward to today when Vancouver is playing along in the global food trend of narrowly-focused concepts (eg. grilled cheese, currywurst, hotdogs, porchetta, doughnuts, ramen, juice, etc.) and the back door is being left wide open for sweet-centric establishments to attempt a comeback.
Enter Mosquito, a dark and sexy room dedicated to dessert and champagne. It’s set to opening on Valentine’s Day at 32 Water St. in the heart of Gastown (the old Oak + Fort location). Owned by first timers Alice Wu and Johan Friedrich, and designed by Craig Stanghetta and Kate Snyder of Ste. Marie Art + Design (see also Homer St. Cafe, Meat & Bread, Revolver), the intimate 40 seater is unlike anything else in the neighbourhood. They’re describing it as “a champagne bar without the caviar [and] a dessert bar without the frosting.”
Running the kitchen is pastry chef Julianne Hansen, who’s just returned from a training stint in France (previously in Vancouver, she worked at Cadeaux Bakery). She will be executing a menu that’s been largely designed by a master of dessert-craft, Dominic Fortin of Bearfoot Bistro up in Whistler. It will see everything from olive oil bavarois with madeleine sponge to Oolong tea macarons. It reads like a fantasy, and it’s not all sweet; there’s also specialty popcorn (truffle and parmesan, natch), cheese plates, Oyama charcuterie, and more.
On the drink side of things, the list was designed by Bearfoot Bistro Wine Director Maryke Vandermarel. Most of the champagne, sparkling, and dessert wine can be had by the glass, but there are big guns by the bottle. There are also a couple of whiskies, high test spirits, beers, and wines on offer, not to mention champagne cocktails. The original cocktail card has been dreamt up by Jason Earle, an Australian import (by way of the London) who was last on the wood at Black & Blue. His brief is to make cocktails that dovetail with the desserts, so expect some molecular action a la foams, airs, caviars, et cetera.
I like everything about the place. For starters, I love that it’s completely original (the idea came to Wu in the shower — true story). Honestly, with branding by Glasfurd & Walker, lighting by Good Animals, and construction by Harmony Pacific (all the usual Ste. Marie collaborators), you’d think Vancouver would have seen something like this before. But that’s not how Ste. Marie rolls. I love the design, which has sort of a weird 1980s Patrick Nagel meets David Lynch deco vibe to it — a pretty big departure for this crew. And the details are super sharp — I mean down to the menus, door handles, and champagne buckets.
So it appears as if they’ve got everything dialled. Hansen let me taste a couple of the desserts and they were brilliant. So really, I think the only way that they could foreseeably fuck this up would be to drop the ball on service, but with just 40 seats and the straightforward expectations inherent in super simple, easy-to-execute concepts, I don’t imagine they’ve left much, if anything, to chance.
She was the first grey wolf seen in the Grand Canyon in 70 years, having traveled 500 miles from her home to the majestic Arizona canyon, and now she’s gone. Known as “Echo,” the lone grey wolf is confirmed to be the same creature killed by a hunter in Utah in December. He reportedly mistook her for a coyote.
Roses may be red, but they’re definitely not green according to research from Scientific American. As millions of partners exchange bunches of red roses in the run up to Valentine’s Day, they may want to consider that the traditional flower of love has an environmental impact worse than most other crops. In fact, according to environmental flower site Flowerpetal.com, the 100 million roses grown for a typical Valentine’s Day in the US produce some 9,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
These are some of the charts and graphs created by Michigan State University computer science graduate student Randal S. Olson (links to his page with waaaay more in depth information) showing the quickest way to spot Waldo in the seven main Where's Waldo books. You know, why is it my responsibility to find Waldo anyways? I don't even know him. I don't care where he is or what he's doing. Besides, if you want to find Waldo the quickest every time you don't even need math, you just need to point anywhere and yell, "There he is!" and turn the page before anybody can prove you wrong. Now that's some real math.
Thanks to Alicia, who agrees those Magic Eye books are where it's really at anyways.
Starbucks green isn't green. It's #00704a. Ikea yellow isn't yellow. It's #ffcc00. That # sign isn't a hashtag, but a hex code. It's a way of defining exactly what color you end up seeing.
For brands, color can be equal parts art and science. This tool lets you look up the world's most famous internet brands and see the exact color that defines them.
Don't think internet colors are important? In fact, they're serious business. One of the most famous anecdotes about current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer comes from her time at Google. Mayer tested 41 different shades of blue to find the perfect one for Google. That data-driven approach to branding makes it important for companies to make a strong first impression — even with just a color.
See if you can figure out your favorite sites and apps just by glancing at their most important color.
not really enforceable and would never work in north america but kind of a good idea.
In response to growing worldwide concern regarding electronics addiction among children, the Taiwanese government has now placed serious restrictions on smartphones, tablets and computers for kids under 18, and has completely banned children under 2 years-old from using iPads and other electronic gadgets. The revised law called the “Child and Youth Welfare Protection Act” will fine parents up to $1,500 for violating the restrictions. Kids between 2 and 18 years of age will forced to limit electronic media usage to a “not unreasonable” amount of time, although the authorities have not specified how much time that amounts to (which is bound to spur some confusion among parents). How will Taiwan enforce this new legislation? Read on for the full scoop.
want to do something like this. although seems a little disconnected and should be closer to home otherwise it's just a vacation
Building Trust International is offering a hands-on participatory workshop in Laos this April/May, where volunteers will gain experience in sustainable building techniques and design, while helping to save endangered indigenous bears. The project will have a huge benefit to the local community as well as local wildlife, and volunteers will gain an insight into a number of building techniques and architectural styles. Work will take place in the protected Tat Kuang Si Park, alongside the internationally acclaimed Free the Bears Fund Rescue Centre, which rescues and cares for moon bears that are often captured for traditional medicine. The building project will be the construction of a new, sustainably built merchandise store, which will enable FTB to sell items to fund their ongoing bear protection efforts.
The build workshop takes place from Sat 18th April – Sat 2nd May 2015, and there are limited spaces available, so sign up soon!
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While previously the purview of a very niche (and often expensive) housing market, net-zero homes are quickly becoming both an economically sound and sustainable proposal. The average price of an installed solar-power systems has declined more than 50% since 2010 and in 42 out of 50 of America’s largest cities, fully-financed, typically-sized solar system costs less that local utility energy. Right now, only 370 homes certified as ‘net-zero energy ready’ by Department of Energy, but demand continues to rise considerably. So what will the future of net-zero living look like? Check out the infographic below to see.
Cattle skin? That's a cardboard box if I've ever seen one!
This is the 200-year old mummified monk that Buddhist expert and physician to the Dalai Lama Dr. Barry Kerzin claims isn't dead, just meditating really, really hard. Like, so hard he's only one step away from the state of Buddah. Now that -- that is RELAXED. Me? I fell out of bed night-thrashing last night.
[Dr. Barry Kerzin] has insisted the human relic is actually in 'very deep meditation' and in a rare and very special spiritual state known as 'tukdam'.
Over the last 50 years there are said to have been 40 such cases in India involving meditating Tibetan monks.
'If the person is able to remain in this state for more than three weeks - which rarely happens - his body gradually shrinks, and in the end all that remains from the person is his hair, nails, and clothes. Usually in this case, people who live next to the monk see a rainbow that glows in the sky for several days. This means that he has found a 'rainbow body'. This is the highest state close to the state of Buddha'.
He added: 'If the meditator can continue to stay in this meditative state, he can become a Buddha. Reaching such a high spiritual level the meditator will also help others, and all the people around will feel a deep sense of joy'.
Wait, so if you meditate till the tukdam state then all the people around you will feel a deep sense of joy? I wish somebody around me would meditate that hard. And if I had to pick, I'd want it to be my upstairs neighbor. No more stomping around, plus deep joy. Win/win.
Keep going for a full shot of the monk.
A screenshot of Jetsetter's new collections. Jetsetter
Skift Take: Jetsetter is desperately trying to imitate market competitors with its new "collections" branding of participating hotels. The site may still have an identity issue, though, as it balances its flash sales offerings while trying to simultaneously become a lifestyle brand.
— Dan Peltier
Jetsetter and some of its partner hotels insist flash deals still have a place as online booking option, though their popularity dimmed as the recession waned.
Hotels don’t necessarily rely as frequently on limited-time flash deals to fill rooms in 2015 as overall global travel increases and room demand climbs. This has left TripAdvisor’sJetsetter grappling with ways to remain relevant when many hotels don’t see flash sales as attractive options.
Jetsetter offers consumers hotels that are curated and reviewed by its editorial staff and several years ago branched out beyond flash sales into retail-price hotels.
Last month, the site introduced new “collections,” or categories, which change how hotels are grouped on the site and presented to users.
Jetsetter now somewhat ambiguously designates hotels as “Royal,” “Posh,” and “Brilliant,” as it seeks to enhance its connection with luxury travelers, but will these collections actually make any difference?
Is It Royal or Posh?
“I’m not so sure this naming structure is as intuitive as perhaps it may have been conceived,” says Henry Harteveldt, founder of Atmosphere Research Group. “The consumer won’t understand the difference between ‘Royal’ and ‘Posh.’ I don’t understand it.”
“Using words consumers might use, especially the luxury traveler, is Jetsetter’s focus,” Harteveldt says. “People don’t always tend to think in terms of the number of stars a hotel is rated with, they’re probably more likely to say they want a ‘posh’ hotel or something like that. I’m just not convinced that these are the best possible choices for names, and it’s very possible [Jetsetter] may choose to evolve these naming terms in the future.”
This also isn’t the first time a deals site attempted to evoke a lifestyle feel in as it tries to better speak the language of its target user demographic. Harteveldt compared Jetsetter’s recent move to that of HotelTonight, which uses terms such as “Hip” and “Luxe” to describe properties.
“I think what TripAdvisor is really trying to figure out is that they have a brand that has a strong following, so how can they be more value-focused rather than discount-focused?” Harteveldt says.
“Jetsetter has a particular voice that resonates with its members and we like to have a little fun,” says David Krauter, president of TripAdvisor’s Smarter Travel Media and the general manager of Jetsetter. “By definition, Jetsetter is a lifestyle, but we also recognize that a Jetsetter lifestyle has a variety of individual interpretations.”
Crisis Mode?
The new collections designations are an attempt to refresh Jetsetter’s value proposition while keeping its original mission intact.
The company prides itself on its extensive editorial review process where it sends teams to all properties on the site. However, perhaps these reviews needed further definition in the face of big challenges.
“Jetsetter had to be fixed, and it was definitely an all-hands-on-deck situation over the last few months or longer,” says someone with knowledge of the matter. “Jetsetter has been getting the most tech attention within Smarter Travel Media in recent months as SmarterTravel tries to turn Jetsetter around.”
Krauter didn’t comment on this scenario.
A knowledgeable source, though, wasn’t surprised Jetsetter would seek to portray itself as a lifestyle brand as the flash sale market plummeted.
“For Jetsetter, its quality of deals have deteriorated over time, following the deterioration of flash deals in general,” says an insider who’s followed Jetsetter for a long time. “If only one room is available or only available on a Sunday night, how exciting is that? Even with HotelTonight, the kind of hotels offered have changed over time.”
One Hotelier’s View
Despite sources saying Jetsetter needed rescuing given the decline flash sales, Jetsetter itself and some hotels it works with counter that the site is still on the right path.
Since 2012, the company increased its “retail offering,” or non-flash deal inventory, by three-fold to 2,500 properties and had more flash sales per week in 2014 than the previous year, says Krauter, who added the site now has 23 million members.
Aspen Meadows Resort in Colorado, which has been a Jetsetter partner for three years, still views Jetsetter as a worthy companion to its business with other booking sites such as Expedia.
“We’re more successful with Jetsetter when we run flash deals with them during our peak winter season,” says Meg MacEachen, a spokesperson for the resort. “If we do have last-minute rooms it has helped us fill those. We have used them for flash deals in off seasons of spring and fall, but we don’t get big results with them like we do in winter.”
For hotels, the sticking point with Jetsetter is whether it brings in returning customers or only creates one-time guests interested in getting a good deal.
“Yes, sometimes we just filled a room at a discount and the customer never came back to us, but that may have been what we wanted,” MacEachen says. “We also have seen returning, loyal customers through our work with Jetsetter.”
MacEachen added Jetsetter comes nowhere close to Expedia, for example, in terms of the revenue it generates for the resort and that the collections seem “iffy and a little confusing.”
“I don’t think I see flash deals becoming more relevant for us in the coming years, but Jetsetter has been easy to use and has good results,” MacEachen says. “Do I love having to do flash sales? No. But when I find I need to fill up rooms last minute, I think they’re a good alternative.”
The other side of the equation for Jetsetter is how well is it serving travelers.
“It’s harder now for the affluent customer to decide where to go,” a source said. “Trust is a big thing still. The challenge of building a brand is to stay true to it and nurture it over time. Jetsetter needs to remain nimble and not just with curation.”
That’s indeed what the new Jetsetter is attempting to do.
Many of us forget what it's like to be well-rested. Sleep is often the last priority in our daily routine, and by the time we're actually in bed, our minds are spinning.
If one of your New Year's resolutions was to get more shut-eye, you might wonder how much you actually need. The National Sleep Foundation has compiled new guidelines that show the ideal amount of rest for people of all ages.
Among those who helped update the guidelines were scientists and researchers from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Neurological Association and the American Psychiatric Association, who reviewed over 300 scientific publications during the process.
While these are "recommended" amounts of sleep, the NSF is careful to stress you should listen to your body. If you feel sleepy during the day, or rely on caffeine to get you through, you probably need more time in bed. And as you may note from the chart, for the majority of adults, up to 10 hours might be appropriate!
There are also many habits you can pick up to improve the quality of your rest. The NSF advises you stick to a sleep schedule, avoid booze and caffeine before bed, and turn off electronics. You should also pay attention to the lighting, noise and temperature in your bedroom.
However, if you suffer from chronic insomnia, sometimes even checking off all these boxes won't help. The Canadian Sleep Society has compiled a database of sleep clinics across the country.
terrifying. please raise your kids to be fun and party like we did in university!
Every year, the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles releases a survey of more than 100,000 college freshmen at a wide range of four-year colleges around the country. This year, they learned that today's teenagers are, well, more boring (and better-behaved!) than earlier generations. They were less likely to smoke, drink, and party in high school. In college, they're less likely to socialize. They have high academic ambitions. And they're more depressed.
Here's what they learned about the class of 2018:
1) They're less likely to hang out with their friends
This chart will launch a thousand hand-wringing pieces about how young Millennials prefer interacting with their phones to interacting with each other. The percentage of students who socialize for more than 16 hours per week is at an all-time low — 18 percent — and the proportion who socialize for less than 5 hours per week is at an all-time high, 39 percent.
The survey doesn't delve into what they're doing instead (working? spending time with family? studying more?), but it does note that time on social networks is way up. In 2007, 19 percent of students spent more than six hours per week on online social networks; now 27 percent do.
2) They're less religious than 18-year-olds in the past
About 28 percent of students said they had no religious preference — up from 15 percent in 1971, when UCLA first surveyed freshmen:
In line with widely reported trends, high school seniors are drinking and smoking less than their predecessors. Fewer than half say they "frequently" or "occasionally" drank wine, beer, or hard liquor during their senior year. The percentage of frequent smokers has dropped from 9 percent in 1981 to 2 percent in 2014.
4) They're more depressed than students in the past
This year's freshmen rate their mental health as worse than in class since UCLA started the survey. Nearly 10 percent say they feel "frequently" depressed, and only 51 percent said their emotional health is above average.
It would be mathematically impossible for everyone's mental health to be above average. But a majority of college freshmen tend to rate themselves above average in most categories — leadership ability, physical health, and academic prowess among them — and in the past mental health has been similar, too.
5) They really want to go to grad school
In the 1970s, just over half of college freshmen thought their education would be done with a bachelor's degree. Their counterparts today expect to continue going to school once they've earned that credential. About 43 percent expect to earn a master's degree, and another 33 percent want to earn a doctorate or a degree in law or medicine.
And, interestingly, there isn't much of a gap between students who are the first in their family to go to college and students with college-educated parents. In the 1970s, that gap was much bigger:
The change is partly a result of women's ambition. Women used to be less likely than men to say they'd continue their education to earn a Ph.D or a law or medical degree. Now they're more likely. Men's ambition, meanwhile, has been fairly constant.
WATCH: '10 things they don't talk about at graduation'
These are some of the charts and graphs created by Michigan State University computer science graduate student Randal S. Olson (links to his page with waaaay more in depth information) showing the quickest way to spot Waldo in the seven main Where's Waldo books. You know, why is it my responsibility to find Waldo anyways? I don't even know him. I don't care where he is or what he's doing. Besides, if you want to find Waldo the quickest every time you don't even need math, you just need to point anywhere and yell, "There he is!" and turn the page before anybody can prove you wrong. Now that's some real math.
Thanks to Alicia, who agrees those Magic Eye books are where it's really at anyways.
Cattle skin? That's a cardboard box if I've ever seen one!
This is the 200-year old mummified monk that Buddhist expert and physician to the Dalai Lama Dr. Barry Kerzin claims isn't dead, just meditating really, really hard. Like, so hard he's only one step away from the state of Buddah. Now that -- that is RELAXED. Me? I fell out of bed night-thrashing last night.
