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2013 New Years Fireworks at the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. 400,000 pyrotechnics!

 

 

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Too me it almost seems like a futuristic battle going on. Sort of a weird feeling watching it.

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2013 New Years Fireworks at the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. 400,000 pyrotechnics!

 

 

Via iOTW

Too me it almost seems like a futuristic battle going on. Sort of a weird feeling watching it.

 

 

@clearvision!

 

It was quite a show, though......some of those smaller buildings look to be around 10-15 stories high.

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@clearvision!

 

A Manufacturer Found a Loophole Around That Incandescent Light Bulb Ban

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/24/a-manufacturer-found-a-loophole-around-that-incandescent-light-bulb-ban/

 

With the next phase of the government-mandated phase out of incandescent light bulbs just days away, die hard fans of the traditional yellow glow might not have to flock to their local store and purchase them by basket-full after all.

 

When the federal ban on producing or importing incandescents of varying watts was passed under the Bush administration, Larry Birnbaum, carrying on the three-generation legacy of his family’s New Jersey-based Light Bulb Store, saw an opportunity.

 

“100 [watts] are as rare as hens teeth, 75s are in the same direction and 60s, this time next year, most will be almost gone,” said Birnbaum, who added his great-grandfather was friends with the incandescent light bulb inventor Thomas Edison.

 

“We’re addicted to color of incandescents, unless you were born yesterday,” Birnbaum continued. “Your body is used to it. When you put on something different, the body reacts to it, and you get irritated.”

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The website Bulbs.com breaks it down this way: “Rough service lamps function identically to regular incandescent lamps, but generally have additional wire within the glass enclosure that serves to protect and support the filament.” [emphasis added]

 

Birnbaum’s company was one of two awarded a license to produce these bulbs in the country. After designing a bulb to meet the new specifications for rough service bulbs established in the law, the American-made Newcandescent was born. http://www.newcandescent.com/

 

Overall, they’re ”not any diff than bulbs over the years,” Birnbaum said. The Newcandescent bulb does, however, last 12 times longer than the traditional bulb.

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Maybe if we had not phased out the light bulb, those poor climate change "researches" would not be stuck in the ice.....

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No, Maam

Posted by V the K at 12:38 pm - January 2, 2014.

 

Men are not women.

 

Let that sink in, because there are a lot of feminists and Pajamaboy Gamma Males that dont get that. One of them is Lisa Wade of Salon. (Ms Wade is also a is a professor of sociology at Occidental College, the institution of higher learning that Barack Obama may have attended, although there is no available public documentation to confirm it). Ms Wade thinks men need to have more friends that they can share their feelers with, because men will be happier if they act like women, so goes what passes for feminist logic.

 

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It doesnt occur to Ms. Wade that men dont form friendships so we can bond emotionally with each other, men form friendships so we can do things together hunt, fish, build catapults, game, play hockey and we bond over that. We dont bond over crying about how our women dont understand us.

 

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http://youtu.be/ypWaLxo32mE

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