Big Summer Sale at George Nursery – George Kwekery

George Nursery Big Summer Sale on Trees Shrubs, Ppotting Soil and Hardware

The Big Summer sale at the George Nursery is on from 1 to 29 February 2012.  Visit us for all your gardening needs, our friendly staff are ready and eager to assist you!

BIG SUMMER SALE AT GEORGE NURSERY – 1 to 29 February 2012

• Less 20% on All Trees & Shrubs
•  Less 10% on All Hardware
•  Compost & Potting soil – 30dm3 – R10,50
•  Bonemeal- 2kg – R 15.90

Distributor for Timba Garden Products

The George Nursery is also the Sole Distributor for Timba Garden Products. This includes Gazebos, Arches, Round Edging, Lattice Panels and wall trellis.

Lavenders Restaurant at the George Nursery

The Lavenders Restaurant at the George Nursery offers homemade cakes and meals in a relaxing garden atmosphere.  Wednesday is Pensioners Day at Lavenders Restaurant and all Pensioners will receive a 5% discount! This is the ideal place to have a birthday party, stork or kitchen party or just a quick breakfast or lunch treat.    Sunday lunch will also be served soon!

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The Wool Studio in George, Special offers for February 2012

Wool Studio – Wool shop in the Southern Cape

The Wool Studio is the local wool shop in George in the Southern Cape of South Africa and stocks a large variety of wool and cotton for knitting and crocheting. This popular wool shop stocks all Elle, Mirage and Fiesta wools, crochet and knitting cottons as well as wools from England, Germany, Turkey and China.

February Special offers at the Wool Studio

The current special offers for February 2012 at the Wool Studio include Mosaic Brushed Chunky and Sock Wool.

Mosaic Brushed Chunky

WAS R18.50 (50gr) Now R16.65 while stocks last

Sock Wool

Sadly sock wool has been discontinued – apparently there are not so may sock knitters around anymore.
WAS R31.75 NOW R28.50

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Kalahari Restaurant and Theatre – Valentine’s Day Duo special

Good food Kalahari Restaurant & Theatre in George

The Kalahari Restaurant & Theatre in George is known for good wholesome food in a warm and relaxing atmosphere.  Their new menu offers delicious meals at unbeatable prices.

Valentine’s Day Special in George

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Kalahari Restaurant and Theatre in George offers a
Valentine’s Day Duo special at only R130 per couple.

The Valentine’s Day Duo special includes the following

• 1 x Kalahari Surprise (300g Rump with Bacon and guacamole sauce)
• 1 x Chicken Cordon Blue
• 2 x Ice Cream with Chocolate Sauce
• 2 x Glasses of wine
• Larry will be performing in bar and Strawberry Daiquiri’s are only R25.

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Valentine’s Special Hartenbos

Valentine’s Treat at Driftwood Restaurant in The Riviera Hotel Hartenbos

Something different and something special awaits you and your Valentine this year in Hartenbos. At Driftwood Restaurant in the Riviera Hotel our chefs already started to plan and prepare to offer you a really special treat with surprises and gifts.

Our menu at the Driftwood Restaurant consists of Calamari, Pastry, Ribs, Steak, Sole and Delicious Desserts

Valentine’s Menu at The Driftwood Restaurant, Hartenbos

Free Welcoming Drink

Sexy Starters

• Fresh oysters or
• Deep fried Calamari or
• Pastry Basket

Wicked Main Course

• Ribs and Steak Combo with Wedges and Salad or
• Mossel Bay Sole with Veggies, Rice/Wedges

Delectable Dessert

• Cheese cake and Strawberries or
• Ice Cream and Mixed Berries

• @ R140 per person
• Bookings essential
• Surprises and Gifts

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Driftwood Restaurant Hartenbos

Hartenbos Restaurant

The Driftwood Restaurant is situated in The Riviera Hotel, on the banks of the Hartenbos River. The restaurant boasts with a unique nautical theme décor and overlooks the River. The unique setting of the restaurant lends itself to create the feel that you truly are on a boat.

Sunday Lunch at the Driftwood Restaurant is a Scrumptious Buffet

The restaurant is ideal for young and old offering a truly unique dining experience and specializes in mouthwatering, value for money, South African cuisine.  Guests can enjoy meals from the Driftwood Restaurant’s a-la-carte menu 7 days a week for breakfast lunch and dinner. Sunday lunches guests can enjoy  a scrumptious buffet. The last Sunday of the month we treat our guests with a  Seafood  Buffet.

Book your birthday party or any other get together now  the Driftwood Restaurant

The Riviera Hotel also boasts with a Ladies Bar on the premises, here to complement our dishes with cocktails and an excellent selection of local wines. A Bar Lunch menu  is available all day long.  The Ladies Bar or swimming pool area can be booked for birthday parties, get together or small intimate functions. For larger groups and weddings and conferences, the Riviera Hotel offers a venue hall which can accommodate up to 150 people, ideal for any occasion.

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Riviera Hotel Hartenbos

Hartenbos Hotel  Accommodation

The Riviera Hotel is located in one of the most popular seaside resorts in South Africa, Hartenbos and offers accommodation in well furnished rooms. The hotel is set on the banks of the Hartenbos River, with stunning views of a golden beach and waves breaking on the shore in the distance. The Riviera Hotel is centrally located to most of the popular activities and attractions in the Garden Route, making it the ideal base to explore the area from and also to escape from the hustle and bustle of big city life.

Weddings in Hartenbos

The Hotel has three beautifully decorated honeymoon suites. All our rooms are all equipped with popular DSTV channels as well as coffee and tea making facilities. Our Venue Hall, just over 100m2 can accommodate up to 150 guests. It often happens that couples whose wedding reception or even their honeymoon took place here at the Rivera Hotel come back for their second Honeymoon.

Driftwood Restaurant and Ladies Bar in the Riviera Hotel

Guests can enjoy their breakfast overlooking the Hartenbos River, or enjoy a cocktail or bottle of the finest local wines in our Ladies Bar. The bar has been built from a boat, all adding to the unique rustic boat design of the hotel.

The Driftwood Restaurant, an a-la-cart restaurant is open for breakfasts, lunches and dinners. On Sundays guests can enjoy either Seafood- or a Cooked Buffet Lunch. The Ladies Bar at the Riviera Hotel offers a Bar Lunch menu that is available all day long. The Riviera Hotel also offers a swimming pool, stylish lounges and conference and wedding venues.

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Portraits of Africa 2012 on Google

Time again to monitor and check the performance of our new WP based Semiomantics XO 2012 Script on search engines.

Here’s a screenshot of yesterday’s post “Portraits of Africa 2012″ on Google – have a look! Positions 1, 2, 3 and 6 ahead of 10,800,000 search returns – YEBO GOGO!

Portraits of Africa 2012 on Google

When looking up “Portraits of Africa 2012″ on Google, I also checked how the images in my article were ranked – here’s the detail of the screenshot showing the Image of a “Young African Girl” on position one, followed by the Image of a “Young African Boy” on position 4… and a small ad I created ages ago peeking at us on position 2. All of them ahead of our South African presidents… just too funny! The young generation is on the move!

Portrait of Africa Images

It becomes even more intrigueing when we look up “Portrait of Africa Images” on Google and find these young faces of Africa featuring amongst some really classy photography! And again… the random positioning is just too weird… for those who read this and understand what I mean! Welcome to the future :)

Fact is, that with the increasing importance of images and media on the Internet – and with this for our website development – … and people preferring to look at something for quick grasping of the contents rather than reading long time-consuming – and even worse: thought-provoking -  texts… that the correct tagging and classification of photos and images becomes more important. Here as with any post what counts is to be found on Google – Google Top 10 that is. Noone else looks further…

Congratulations to our young friends who’ve made it to the top ranks and find themselves in interesting and attractive company! There will be more….

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Kurt Darren sy KD-Band en Dansers loop George Storm

Kurt en sy KD Band op 15 en 16 Februarie by die Kalahri Restaurant en Teater in George

Die Kaptein het geen bekendstelling nodig nie en as sy musiek   begin speel, begin ‘n mens se bene outomaties wikkel en beweeg. En nou gaan Kurt Darren behoorlik groot op die verhoog – met ‘n hele orkes en dansers. Vanaf 14 Februarie toer Kurt met sy Kaptein se Platinum Trefferstoer deur die land.  Kurt , met sy vele platinum plate, toekennings, video’s en selfs rolprente is ‘n huishoudelike naam wat nou met ‘n splinternuwe show die land aan die praat gaan hê – en hy skop  af met vertonings by die Kalahari Restaurant en Teater op George.  Op 15 en 16 Februarie kry die Suid-Kapenaars die geleentheid om saam te kuier en te jil.  Hierdie vertoning beloof om Kurt  met ‘n splinternuwe aanslag aan sy bewonderaars voor te stel.

Kurt Darren op Toer met ‘n 5-stuks Orkes en vier Dansers

Volgens sy bestuurder, Louis van Wyk, van Music Profile Management, is  “Kurt Is baie opgewonde om vir die eerste keer op toer te gaan met ‘n 5-stuks orkes en vier talentvbolle dansers. Die vertoning sal gepak wees met treffers  wat behoorlik die voete sal laat jeuk en wat onthou sal word lank nadat die vertoning reeds verby is.

Nuwe Treffers soos “Lekkerbekkie” en” Somertreffer” sal ook  saam met ‘n hele paar  verrassings gehoor word.

Na 36 treffers, wat “Meisie Meisie” en “Kaptein” insluit, is Kurt  ‘n huishoudelikje naam wat benewens sy sang en flieks ook die gewilde Jukebox op KykNet en later ook op Jacaranda FM gevestig het. Nuwe treffers soos “Lekkerbekkie” en” Somertreffer” sal ook  saam met ‘n hele paar  verrassings gehoor word.

Kaartjies teen R120 per volwassene, R50 (kinders 7 – 12) en R30 (kinders 3-6 jaar) is by die Kalahari by 044 874 5000 beskikbaar.

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Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, South Africa

Redding Christian Bookshop is situated in Bayview between Hartenbos and Mossel Bay. Here you can browse through our large range of Christian Books and Bibles, in a relaxed and peaceful environment. You are welcome to have a seat in our lounge area and enjoy finding the ideal Christian Book.

Bibles in the Garden Route, South Africa

Redding Christian Bookshop offers a wide range of Christian Literature; such as Bibles in both Afrikaans, English and German as well as in Native Languages such as Xhosa, Zulu. Here you will find a number of different Bibles like Study Bibles, Old Translation Bibles, New Translation Bibles, Reference Bibles as well as Audio Bibles and a range of Children Bibles.

Daily Devotions by well-known authors in South Africa

We stock a range of Daily Devotions for Men, Woman and Teenagers. Some of the authors you can expect to find here include Solly Ozrovech, Nina Smit, Joyce Meyer and Stormie Omartian to name a few. On request Redding Christian Bookshop can post your books to you.

South Africa Christian Literature

Redding Christian Bookshop boasts with a large range of Christian Literature ranging from Books on Prayer, Christian Fiction by Karen Kingsbury and Francine Rivers, Spiritual Warfare, Journals, Biographies and many more.

Mossel Bay Christian DVDs and Music Sales and Rentals

Here at Redding Christian Bookshop in Mossel Bay, you will also find a number of Christian DVDs and Music. Redding Christian Bookshop is proud to announce that we offer DVD Rentals of Christian DVDs for the whole family.

Christian Gifts and Stationary in the Garden Route

Redding Christian Bookshop houses a number of Christian Gifts like key holders, bookmarks, Bible Bags, Fridge Magnets, T-shirts, Mugs and Flasks, as well as Christian Stationary such as pens and rulers all with a Bible verse of a quote on. Come and find the ideal Gift for a Birthday, Christmas or just because you can. We also stock Shofars.

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New Menu for Kalahari Restaurant and Theatre

The Kalahari Restaurant and Theatre in George has recently launched their new menu. This new menu surely has the public talking and flocking to the Kalahari Restaurant.

Dining out in George

It has been said that dining out in George will never be the same when Kalahari opened the Restaurant with a state of the art theatre. Now it is said once again, with their new menu and unbeatable prices!

New Kalahari Restaurant Menu

Some of the highlights on the new Kalahari Restaurant menu includes the Kalahari Breakfast for only R25, burgers served  with chips or salad from only R25, Half Chicken with Chips or salad for only R26, Steaks from only R37 for 300g, “Skaapnek” served with rice at R49 and 500g Spare Ribs for only R48. A kiddies menu is also available and every kiddies meal includes a free lucky packet!

Family Restaurant in George

Get your friends and family together and visit the Kalahari Restaurant for a dining out experience at affordable prices in a family friendly environment. The new kiddies play area is in the main restaurant area where you can keep an eye on your little ones!

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Superbowl commercials often foreshadow the norm in everyday TV commercials later. I noticed several things about this year’s crop of commercials.

1) They are definitely getting weirder, more whimsical, trying harder to catch your attention — while you check your email. They are no longer competing against the possibility of you leaving for the bathroom; they are competing with you re-watching the previous commercial on your Tivo or your iPad.

2) They are also more self-reflective, self-parodying, and complex. They “quote” not only cultural references, but specific other commercials. They often work only if you’ve seen other commercials, usually predecessors in the same line. In this way, each commercial must be “read” as part of a larger, longer work. Those Bud commercials go way back. The more commercials you’ve seen, the more you get out of the new one.

3) These are not primarily advertising products or service. They are advertising the commercial itself.

4) The commercials run during this 46th Superbowl are only one stage in a multi-stage organism. A fair proportion of the commercials debuting on the Superbowl were released earlier in teasers on the internet. You can think of these early clips as trailers for the commercial. They were, per point #3 above, commercials for the commercial. Or think of them as eggs for the hatchling. Then after the Superbowl, the advertisers released the extended forms of the commercial, also on the internet. I am aware of at least three ads which did that this year: Chevrolet/OK Go, Ferris Bueller, The Avengers. Which means the early clips were commercials for the commercials of the commercials. Or these are three stages of ads: egg, larva, adult. But this year, it seemed a good quarter of the commercials shown were for movies, which are themselves often hours-long product placement vehicles. So that makes a fourth stage, a further extension of whatever story is trying to be told. Since movies are sequeled if successful, the idea can grow to a fifth size, dozens of hours long.

5) All this suggests that the “natural habitat” of a commercial is on the internet. That’s where it is born, develops, matures and dies. Its brief, mayfly-length appearance on the Superbowl is primarily an ad to get you to watch it grow on the internet.

6) I predict that in a few years from now we’ll start to see 4.5-minute length commercial shorts that come after the extended-play version. Or maybe even “directors’ cut” versions. These outright unabashed commercials will run as long as a pop hit tune, and in format resemble a music video. We’ll see YouTube-ish channels that will charge you to watch them. I make this forecast based on the fact that this prime attention-niche is just one adjacent-possible step away.

Portraits of Africa

Young African Girl from my series “Portraits of Africa 2012″.

Portraits of Africa 2012

Portraits of Africa 2012 – untouched… straight from my simple NIKON Coolpix P90 … just the magic of a Young African Girl.

Although the black & white version adds a specific note, I preferred to show the soft gold tones of the skin.

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I summarize his list of Four Fixities:

Fixity of the page — The page stays the same. Whenever you pick it up, its’ the same. You can count on it, and refer and cite it with certainty.

Fixity of the edition — No matter which copy of the book you pick up, anywhere, it will be the same, so the fixed content is shared, and within an edition, the same always.

Fixity of the object — Paper books last a very long time, and their text doesn’t change as they age.

Sense of completeness — A sense of finality and closure that became part of the attraction of literature.

These are very real, and very attractive qualities. And Carr is absolutely correct that they are some of the qualities that will disappear in ebooks, at least in the versions of ebooks we can see now. He is correct to point out that we will miss them, and that we should be aware of this loss as we chose what kind of books we buy or write.

However, Carr did not list the corresponding downside/upside of ebooks, but there are Four Fluidities of the ebook:

Fluidity of the page — Can flow to fit any space, any where, any time.

Fluidity of the edition — Can be corrected or improved incrementally.

Fludity of the item — Can be kept in the cloud at such low cost that it is “free” to keep and constantly slipped to new “movage” platforms.

Sense of growth — The never-done-ness of an ebook (at least in the ideal) resembles a life more than a stone, animating us as creators and readers.

These are some of the things we gain. Will these fluidities be enough to outweigh the fixities we lose?

Finally, both of these character sets, of fixity and the fluidity, are driven by technology, of paper and electrons. Paper favors fixity, electrons favor fluidity. There is nothing to prevent us from inventing another technology of text, a third way, that might be “in-between” paper and electrons, or might have some of the qualities of the first set and some of the second. I am not convinced that these are binary qualities, nor do they have to only be extremes. It may be possible to invent fixed electronic books, or rigid ebooks, or sticky text in between.

Portraits of Africa

Within my photo series “Portraits of Africa” here is the image of a young African boy.

Portraits of Africa

I just love Black & White Photography and how it adds depth to a picture, especially portraits and expressive faces.

“Portraits of Africa” are shot on a simple NIKON Coolpix P90 with a minimum of post-editing, ideally nothing at all.

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What kinds of developmental thresholds would any planet of sentient beings pass through? The creation of writing would be a huge one. The unleashing of cheap non-biological energy is another. The invention of the scientific method is a giant leap. And the fine control of energy (as in electricity) for long-distant communications is significant as well, enabling all kinds of other achievements. Our civilization has passed through all these stages; what are some future transitions we can expect — no matter the fashions and fads of the day? What are the emergent thresholds of information and energy organization that our civilization can look forward to? Most of these thresholds are gradual, so we can’t assign dates, but each of these structures seem to be a natural transition that any civilization must reach sooner or later.

* AI – There are many varieties of artificial intelligence, and no formal definition for any of them. By whatever measure, a civilization capable of producing synthetic minds similar to its own, or superior in some facets, has reached an important threshold, not the least which is a great compounding acceleration of its progress.

* A-life — Likewise there are many types of artificial life possible, from derivatives of natural biological life, to a-life running on an alternative chemical base-pairs, to self-reproducing dry life more akin to nano-bots. Sustainable self-reproducing, self-evolving creations enable huge innovations and bring huge problems. It is a major transition.

* Methuselarity – Health care and science keep extending the average longevity of humans, and increasing the rate at which it is improving. Right now science is extending the expected lifespan of humans in the developing world a few days per year. If this rate keeps accelerating, at some point scientific progress will increase expected longevity from one day per year, to one year per year. When longevity increases at one year per year, that effectively creates immortality, or Methuselarity, for anyone who reaches that threshold. They become like the biblical Methuselah and live for a thousand years, on average.

* GlobeNet — Over time we keep adding sensors and monitors every few kilometers on land and on the sea until we form a dense grid of sensors covering the globe. There will be thermometers, wind speed jigs, rainfall meters, sunlight sensors, air pollution particle detectors, radiation meters, earthquake probes, climatic gas sensors, animal motion detectors, sea level and wave detectors, traffic sensors, DNA sensors, and little things that measure anything we can think of place on a regular basis on the surface (and deeper) of the planet. All of these form a blanket of sensitivity providing the planetary mind (us and machines) a real-time awareness. For the first time we’ll have a quantifiable globe.

* Global Superorganism — The stage at which several billion sentient beings spread over a planet and several quadrillion smart machines merge into a unified system that is always on. This global system of interacting smart agents exhibits emergent behavior and degrees of autonomy that is not present in its constituent parts. On some planets the global superorganism will reach artificial intelligence before a stand-alone AI does. It’s not clear which way Earth is headed.

* Memorex — Every bit of writing, music, photography, painting in civilization is digitized and recorded in a machine-readable way. All knowledge, in all languages, from all ages, in all media is stored in a way that is universally accessible to all people and machines. In other words, the universal library becomes real, but not just books, but everything created, past and present, and it is available anytime. This threshold of civilization-scale knowledge becomes both a global memory and a global awareness.

* Borg — Another threshold is crossed when any individual can import the global Memorex onto their own minds. Civilization-scale memory available to, or within, all individuals.

* Mirror World — A one-to-one mapping of both the natural and built worlds onto a full-scale simulation of those worlds. This huge global model runs in parallel to the observed worlds. At first the functions of large organizations are mirrored in a simulation, then entire cities will be reflected in a real-time city simulation. Eventually every major node, sensor-net, agent, or variable on Earth is simulated in real time in this global model. Sort of like Google Earth but with every process, and every ecosystem, as well as every building. The mirror world is used both as an experimental test bed for science and predictions, and as an entertainment medium, as in a second life.

* Class I Energy — The Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed three major levels of energy production for galactic civilizations, which he called Class I, II, and III. Class I was the maximization of energy from the entire planet, Class II was maximizing the available energy from its star, and Class III was exploiting energy from its galaxy. Humans have not yet reached Class I, so that threshold is still in front of us.

* Universal Family Tree — Eventually we will sequence the full genomes of everyone living, and as many of the recent dead as we have access to. Together with genealogical records, this huge trove of data will give us our first universal family tree. Everyone living will have a place on it in relation to everyone else. We will clearly see exactly how I am related to you. We’ll also see how everyone is related at some point to everyone else no matter where they were born. The big surprise will be the short hops between us. This common tree of descent will aid health care, medicine, and science, but will also aid peace. Greeks and Turks, Jews and Arabs, Koreans and Japanese will see they are far more related than not.

* Knowledge of All Species — At some point a civilization wakes up and takes a comprehensive and systematic inventory of all the other living species on its planet. This step is similar to mapping all the elements of matter. It realizes that in order to model and manage its ecosystems it must know all the ingredients and all the interacting parts, just as it takes knowing all the elements in order to do chemistry. This threshold of the knowledge of all species includes sequencing the DNA of every species as well — a huge asset that also enables it to recover and resurrect known extinct species.

* TransHumanity — When beings gain control of their biological evolution they begin to mess with it. But not everyone will be eager to do so. At the point that humans begin to engineer their own genomes, there will be a significant number of individuals, families and groups who will refuse to do so. For every person who says “Over my dead body will I or my child be engineered,” there will be someone else who says, “Bring on the mutants!” Thus there will inevitably be a forking of the gene line. The threshold is not engineering genes since we have been doing that slowly and ignorantly all along, but a clear splitting off of a subgroup. Whether or not each becomes a non-breeding separate species doesn’t matter. Transhumanity means at least one fork of the species is deliberately self-engineered.

* Singularity — As commonly defined, a singularity means an infinite pace of change. We don’t know what that looks like because, as commonly defined, it is inherently unknowable. For this reason I don’t find this transition useful in prospect, only in retrospect. We have been through one singularity so far — the invention of language. A few of the above might be also initiate singularity but we’ll only know after the fact.

There are a bunch of other transitions such as Downloadability, Time Travel, Telepathy, etc., — well mined by science fiction — that would qualify as important information/energy thresholds, but which do not seem inevitable to me at the moment.

Are there other near-future stages that you think any civilization on the galaxy must pass through if it survives long enough?

Hakamela Conferencing

We are pleased to announce that the Conference Services website  “Hakamela Conferencing & Event Management” will soon be under construction on Semiomantics XO 2012.

Hakamela Conferencing

Hakamela Conferencing & Event Management will open its doors in Pretoria, South Africa. This high-demand Service Company  will be run by professional Conference Management Expert Lynn Sakuinje.

Web Design South Africa will be designing a simple, practical and user-friendly website that will target top 10 positions on Google under the relevant keywords and focuses on high visibility on the mobile web.

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South Africa Medical Equipment and Furniture

Medihope is a progressive company engaged in the selling, renting and repairing of medical equipment and furniture. Our qualified technical team has serviced, maintained and refurbished hospital furniture for major hospital groups such as Medi Clinic George and Bayview Hospital Mossel Bay, local clinics and old age homes in the past 11 years.

South Africa Rehabilitation Aids for Elderly and Disabled

Medihope specialize in selling rehabilitation aids for the elderly and disabled. Our range of products includes, bath and shower aids, commodes and toilet aids, hospital furniture, bedsore prevention, back and neck support, walking and mobility aids, incontinence aids, oppo support, wheelchairs, diagnostic equipment and first aid kits.

Hospital Beds and Hospital Furniture in South Africa

Medihope also specialize in selling new and refurbished furniture from Germany, China and Taiwan and have since sold hospital beds and other hospital furniture to hospitals, old age homes, frail care units, clinics, private practices and individual clients.

We firmly believe that our excellent after-sales service, unique experience and knowledge of hospital furniture, which we are known for, separate us from our competitors.

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