Saturday, November 8, 2014

Free shelters for the homeless, possible?

Is it possible to provide free shelters to the homeless?  

A team of young and creative people, Michael Polacek, Michal Nedorolik and Martin Lee Keniz with a vision of a better future, would like to make that happen though their company DesignDevelop by working on Gregory project .

It does not make sense though, when they have estimated that it will cost £41,000 to produce a prototype of 18 sq m (194 sq ft) of floor space that will include a bathroom, a kitchen, an office space, a bed with additional storage area.  To top that, a further £60,000 will be required to create an additional off-grid version with independent systems to connect the shelter with electricity, water and sewer systems.


Who will be willing be bear the cost to build and maintain it so that the homeless can stay there free of charge?  They have the answer.  Advertisers! The idea is to have the shelters incorporated into the advertisers' billboards so that the income from advertising could subsidize the shelters' running costs.

What would a billboard shelter look like?  Check this video out.




If you like to see this a success, you can contribute to Project Gregory at their Kickstarter page.


Sunday, November 2, 2014

That day has arrived!

Did Albert Einstein really made this statement?  According to a post on Yahoo Answers, the quote it not noted in the comprehensive collection of Einstein quotations from Princeton University Press.  

Does it make sense to you?
From My InBox:
 
The days of idiots have arrived.

Planning their honeymoon
  The day that Albert Einstein feared most may have finally arrived..
A day at the beach.

 
Cheering on your team.

 
Having dinner out with your friends.

 
Out on an intimate date.

 
Having a conversation with your BFF

 
A visit to the museum

 
Enjoying the sights

 














Saturday, November 1, 2014

GRANDPARENTS-A B'ful relationship

Memory of my grandma.  My grandma assures me that it is safe to eat stale bread once I removed the mold. She passed away at 101.  That's how she gets to grow so old?  What did yours taught you?

From My Inbox:
Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change,
and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just 'antique' little girls. ~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~ Welsh Proverb

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead
of the television.. ~Author Unknown

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just
a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because
Grandfathers have only so many horsy rides in them. ~Gene Perret

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~ Ogden Nash

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just
you all day and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our
hearts forever. ~Author Unknown

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren,
I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after
two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should
advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is
no fun for old people like it! ~ Hannah Whithall Smith

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the
world calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing
old. ~ Mary H. Waldrip

You do not really understand something unless you can explain
it to your grandmother. ~Proverb

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again.
Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You
feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long
periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida . ~ Dave Barry

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for
self-defense. ~Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas
are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of
little children. ~Alex Haley

Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of
practice. ~Author Unknown

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on
the inside. ~Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new
grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove

It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you
become one. ~Author Unknown

If your baby is 'beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses,
sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the
time,' you're the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have
around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their
grandchildren. ~Author Unknown

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say
that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can
but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they
can mature at a fast rate. ~ Bill Cosby

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old;
it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.