Locals and businesses are embracing the arrival of Le Tour as this years event prepares to start between Leeds and Harrogate Outside Leeds railway station, the bronze statue of the Black Prince driving his horse into battle now sports a knitted yellow jersey. In Wensleydale a giant bike has been built out of cheese. In Kettlewell 150 sheep have been painted yellow. In Cragg Vale a 12km piece of bunting, a world record, has been specially made by locals for the Tour de France. In every city and town, village and hamlet, affection is expressed differently but the overriding effect…
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Yes, it's Second Life, and many places in it are beautiful and mesmerising. You just have to visit with an open mind, prepared for it to be blown. Highlights from the Second Life Destination Guide … – Second Life After the wildness of SL11B , why not take a step back and relax with some summertime fun? The Fourth of July is the day the United States ce… Read at Google+
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G+: Yorkshire goes Tour de France crazy to leave riders blown away Residents and businesses are embracing the arrival of Le Tour as the race prepares to start in Leeds Read at Google+
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I've raised 1052.00 and got over the hump on my goal of 1000.00USD, but still happy to raise more funds to help Stop Diabetes. Here's my Chicagoland Tour de Cure page, which is linked off of the www.ridewithginny.com page. http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/TourAdmin?px=9445363&pg=personal&fr_id=9382 Ride With Ginny Ride With Ginny » Help Ginny raise money for Diabetes research, education, and advocacy Read at Google+
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While the Chinese are busy scouting the best under-sea sites to pillage for precious metals, America’s venerable oceanic exploration sub, the newly-renovated DSV Alvin , continues to uncover scores of deep sea life forms that science has never even seen. Here are just a few of the more exotic animals Alvin has come across in its travels. Read more… Via Gizmodo http://ift.tt/1o5nuwD
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If you're in the UK, please consider signing this Change.org petition, and write your MP. The current income requirement for British citizens to bring their non-EU spouses to the UK is £18,600. According to the BBC, 'the Migration Observatory estimates 51% of working people in Wales do not earn enough to meet the new requirements.' Across the UK, that figure is 47%. Britons earning minimum wage should have the right to a family. (Read more at link) Embedded Link This site requires JavaScript and Cookies to be enabled. Please … View this post on Google+
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Google's "enanced photos" feature in G+ auto backup is kind of trippy… you should see what it does with Christmas trees. View this post on Google+
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Just a reminder – How To Turn Off G+ AutoBackup and – Uploading Animated GIFs to WordPress To add captions, bang the rocks together for a bit in GIMP with the Impact Condensed font, text to path, grow 1 pixel, and stroke path.
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I was cleaning out mail from some of my Gmail.com accounts and realized that even deleting almost all of the unwanted mail still left 11G of stuff stored in there. At some point, I must have enabled the photo backup feature and WHOA. It had EVERYTHING on my iPhone, everything in Picasa. If you take a lot of pictures of a Christmas tree from the same angle, you get an animated, twinkly Tannenbaum (with people dancing around it if they’re decorating). It’s actually kind of a pretty effect – Christmas Eve 2013, singing Silent Night with guitar accompaniment, you get…
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More people showed up to Thursday's taping in DC than to Fridays "Operation American Spring," but NPR listeners are generally better educated and well-informed. http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ View this post on Google+