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I haven't posted on my blog since April, when winter was still lingering. Now, summer is here and it is mid-June. It has been a productive few months: working from home on my production weaving, yard work, gardening, and a few reno projects on the school house. I start my seasonal full-time work with Parks Canada in two days, which means the pace of my life will speed up.
I have a few projects on the go this summer on top of working: I am a
participating artist for this year's Art in the Open festival in
Charlottetown; in my capacity as a board member with the PEI Crafts
Council I am organizing a juried craft exhibition for the end of
September; and I will be working on a new wall-hanging for a fibre
exhibition in Newfoundland about Gros Morne National Park.
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make sure it doesn't get squeezed out because of full-time work.
So I am setting myself a challenge to make use of this blog in a way
that is easy and consistent: each day I will post one photo, with or
without commentary. This blog has been a great reflection tool for my
practice over the years, but I have recently got out of the habit of
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In preparation for Valentine's Day…
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: lovers, collaborators, and artists. Both born 1935. Christo is an American, Bulgarian-born man by the name Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and raised in a Bulgarian industrialist family. Jeanne-Claude is an American, French-born woman by the name Jeanne-Claude Marie Denat. Raised in Casablanca by a French military family, educated in France and Switzerland. Died November 18, 2009, New York City. They explain "All of Christo and Jeanne–Claude's projects come from ideas from their two hearts, and two brains." It seems the most important artist's tool for the two are their hearts. More beautiful photos of the couple through the years, and their projects, on their website.
Christo and Jean-Claude, Wrapped Trees, 1997-1998
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91, Photo: Wolfgang Volz, © 1991 Christo
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner (her all-over-painting technique is not to be ignored!), who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident. Home and Estate Above.
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner stones in Green River Cemetery in Springs, New York.
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"I would like to encourage all those who have been forced to flee from their homes to stay strong and faithful on their journey of hope and freedom. Having fled from persecution, it was not easy for me to regain hope in a new land, especially after decades during which my pursuit of art and freedom had been violently suppressed. But forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I was determined to rebuild my life in Malta by picking up the paintbrush that was once dropped forcibly."
These are the words of John W. Zhang, artist and refugee. They are words that are very much in line with what we, at JRS, have discovered over the years: refugees hope for safety, protection, freedom and peace of mind. But like everyone else, they also hope for much more than that. Refugees need to feel that they have a future, whilst making peace with the wounds of their past. They dream of living in a community where they truly belong and not one in which they are considered to be permanent guests. Their journey of hope leads them in the direction of a life which is truly worth living because lived to the full.
June is an important month for all those who defend the right of refugees to live in safety and dignity. June 20 is the day chosen by the United Nations to commemorate the strength, courage and resilience of millions of refugees who, in order to escape conflict and persecution, leave everything behind to embark on a journey of hope for a better and safer future.
To mark World Refugee Day, on the 4th of June, from 20:00 onwards, the Jesuit Refugee Service, in collaboration with the Jean de la Valette Foundation, will be hosting Journey of Hope, a fundraising art exhibition at The Palace Hotel in Sliema. Artworks are being provided by established artist John W. Zhang, a refugee who was forced to flee his home country due to religious and political persecution.
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Will his bizzare methods backfire?
You tell me.
There was a guy who emailed me recently about something bizarre that he does with his wife.
I got chills when he told me what he does with her!!
(I will say that it's "original")
The interesting thing is he actually asked me in so
many words:
"When I do [the thing that he does] will it make
her cheat?"
Here's his email:
Hi James,
Yesterday evening I dived into your essay regarding the seduction of married women
One question popped into my mind I would appreciate your opinion about it. You say "many women crave [something mentioned in the report 'How To Seduce Married Women']".
Let me give you a little background: Me and my wife have been married for 8 years and are a loving couple with great sex life in general.
I married her after 7 year intense lover's relationship (I was married at that time). We share erotic fantasies very often in the bed and elsewhere too. These are mostly wild things that we both enjoy and that enhance the pleasure of both of us.
Circumstances are such that we are apart for 4-5 weeks a year during the summer. During these periods we keep on teasing each other with the thought that she engages sex with friends or even strangers that I would not mind in case I can be sure that a/ she is able to handle the experience and preserve her dignity and b/ the guy does a perfect job on her so he deserves her. We do sex on phone and/or Internet occasionally playing with fantasies.
My #1 question is: When I am actually encouraging her to have sex with others (both men and/or women) do I increase or decrease the chance that it actually happens?
I am not a particularly jealous person and the thought excites me as much as it excites her. The only condition is that she is supposed to tell me everything to the deepest details.
Why I ask that question?
She has been faithful to me since we married I guess.
(What happened earlier, even a week earlier, that would deserve a book. I may contribute to your "good girl" testimonies later)
Before we left for this year's vacation we visited our friends, a couple who are in fact younger than us. We had a great time together but all of us drank too much alcohol from which I always end up fast asleep where I am.
Same thing happened with the wife of my friend too.
When I got to my senses about 2 hours later, I saw my wife and my friend hugging wildly.
They continued drinking further and by that time they were drunk as a sailor. But unlike me they became more active dancing all night long with each other. The music was somewhat blood boiling too I admit. Peeping in a little later, tipsy like hell, I saw my wife giving a blow job to the guy in the bathroom.
The next day I asked my wife if she remembered what happened that night. She said yes first and asked why. I told her what I saw and she became disturbed, ashamed and embarrassed. She admitted or pretended that she did not remember a thing in addition to dancing.
Thank you for your unbiased opinion.
So you tell me. Do you think it's a good idea for him to do what he did?
Email your responses at email@example.com (and I'll reply back to you 'my
response' to him – which contains a "powerful lesson" that you can use tonight)
Take care and enjoy your weekend.
CR James
Creator of: SuperSeductionPower.com
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Jason Prugar | Reply
I am on the fence about this.
I personally would never do what he does but if he and his wife are comfortable with it and it wouldn't damage their marriage then I don't think it'll drive her to cheat.
Jason Prugar
Instructor CR James | Reply
thanks jase.
i agree with you.. i would never do it…
here's my response to him…
mfenzel | Reply
She was hammered and people fuck around when they're drunk.
Not that it helps that he pretty much gave her permission. The reverse part of his reverse psychology didn't work too well
Instructor CR James | Reply
thanks mfenzel… can't really ignore the whole 'hammered' thing…
Craig | Reply
I did something similar to that. It was a mistake. I was having to travel out of country for months at a time and told her it seemed really exciting for me to see her take some sexy pics with another guy, provided it was just a photo shoot and nothing more. She ended up missing my intent completely and feeling like I didn't care about her and ended up having a loose affair with a fat, bald guy she had dated in high school who was now married with 4 kids and a crazy wife of his own. It was a stupid affair by all accounts, but it was a stupid thing I did by sharing my wild fantasies with her and assuming she'd understand. Most women don't fantasize as wildly as men, at least in my experience. While she's very capable of being wild, it's so elusive that even in a relaxed, approving atmosphere, it just never happens. If I've ever tried to encourage it, she's gotten very stressed out and the anxiety turns her into a nightmare to be around. I really just have to leave it alone, because she's been through things before she met me that have killed her ability to enjoy having any kind of sexually related fun outside the bedroom.
I hope that's geared directly enough to your subject matter.
Instructor CR James | Reply
thanks for the response.. she didn't get it.. that's why it's important to understand how the woman processes information…
but it would be kind of cool if they "got it" immediately…
David | Reply
He went a little overboard with the freedom thing in that he encouraged the shame and guilt after the fact. It's very particular how you go about "giving" your woman her sexual freedom. If he pre-framed it with "go ahead and find someone like me and enjoy your self and I'll do the same" then she would be hard pressed to find another man that could handle this situation without extreme jealousy. Women make decision based upon emotion. If the emotions are strong enough she'll act in the moment on what she feels most strongly about. Justification comes after the act. So anytime you lower a woman's objections by putting her in a parasympathetic dominant state(rest and digest) her barrier to to having sex is almost completely removed.
Instructor CR James | Reply
thanks for the response dave…great analysis..PLUS the indirect "conditioning" of comfort, liquor and other things…
Adam | Reply
In his email, Dave states that he wouldn't mind if his wife was with another person as long as she tells him everything that happened, yet he is concerned with whether or not he is encouraging this behavior.
I'm not sure if he is actually OK with this behavior, or just claiming that it doesn't bother him to avoid seeming jealous to his wife. Unless he wants his wife having sex with other people this seems like a very bad idea.
If his goal was to get his wife turned on and/or more attracted to him, Dave should have spent his time getting his wife aroused with the thought of him and what they would do when they were together again, not what she could do with other people.
Instructor CR James | Reply
i'm with you on this adam… 100%
a lot of guys told me that they 'get off' on making their wives/GFs
think about having sex with other men…
i don't get it. and i'm a big believer in doing things outside
of the box…
to me, it sends the message that you 'secretly' want it to happen.
Mike | Reply
CR — in the greater scheme of your philosophies, wouldn't his actions serve to diminish his own Sexual Value with his wife, thereby amplifying some other person's Sexual Value??
Seems to me he got what he deserved. . .
Instructor CR James | Reply
To answer your question (based on my current beliefs as of August 21, 2009 4:31 PM EST)
anonymous | Reply
Seems like the guy is on dangerous ground
1) She might think he didn't care about her – then he's damaging his
relationship with her. (This happened to me in reverse – I was with a woman
who was crazy about me but married. She encouraged me to hook up with her
friend because it would take the pressure off her. I did, but it was her I
wanted and I felt quite hurt by her "permission." I didn't realize how much
it bothered me until after I acted on it.)
2) Forbidden love has more fuel than married love. How they're married but
the one she hooks up with will be forbidden. What if she finds someone with
more excitement than married life can offer?
3) All relationships have boundaries/ground rules, etc. You don't have to
be controlling and certainly not abusive, but you need to know what you want
and what you need. Freedom is good and healthy, but best if you know what
the limits are.
This goes both ways. What does she need from you, what do
you need from her. You'll be better off if that's clear and I have the
intuition it might not be in this circumstance.
(Please keep me anonymous)
Instructor CR James | Reply
not a problem. great answers.
"Forbidden love has more fuel than married love" – most guys don't like to hear to that…
Nigel | Reply
I agree wholeheartedly with Mike, in that his sexual value will surely go down as the unknown has more value and in the heat of the moment with the friend she had his "blessing" so technically she wasn't cheating..
No Illusions | Reply
MY answer is one I got from a Fortune Cookie the other night –
"Do not desire what you do not need."
I might add – He who plays with fire is bound to get burned.
On the other hand, if that's what he really wants, and what she really wants….
Instructor CR James | Reply
makes sense to me… never underestimate Fortune Cookie Wisdom
sandros | Reply
Hey CR . I saw the movie "summer of sam" and it shows near the end how after the couple had sex with other partners how it damaged their relationship. ITs weird , creepy and for the woman it may satisfy her physically but emotionally damages the relationship if its a LTR with a future. Its something in an argument or if she cheats on him and he finds out…that will always stay in his head and messed himself up.
Its out of my own comfort zone…Im now in a LTR after I had a rotation going and relationship is another ballbark and skill.
Unless she is a freaking nympho and he does porn and he is his pimp than its different but in my eyes…He loses his Value and Alpha traits….being what we call in spanish "un cornudo"
hit me back with your thoughts man…
Instructor CR James | Reply
thanks for the comments and ruining a movie i haven't seen yet…lol
it's all good…
thanks for the response sandros
Jeff | Reply
Can't see how making it OK to desire other men makes him more attractive.
You have taught that we need to make them jealous to keep them motivated. He just said, you don't need to work for me, because you have permission to have anyone. She has been doing this all along.
Instructor CR James | Reply
Jealousy when used the right way along with other things can be very effective…
When you place the value & excitement elsewhere (not on you) it becomes challenging to come up with a complimentary set of actions that would make it work in your favor…
Earl | Reply
Hi CR,
A wise man once told me even if your wife is bisexual you don't encourage her to find satisfaction in someone outside of the marriage relationship since that may lead to the break up of the marriage. And many women aren't bisexual anyway. But I believe there really are people who don't get jealous but why take the risk of giving her those outside emotions if she is not at that non jealous level. The guilt one party experiences may ruin the marriage.
Instructor CR James | Reply
good point
Vince | Reply
Hi CR,
Poor Dave he was acting like a child whom never learnt what are the limits not to go over!
Yes I agree 100 % too, he decreased his sexual value to such a degree that her wish was to find someone better all the time. Ok she behaved socially but as soon as the alcohol lowered the censure here she goes… especially when her (stupid?) husband got asleep while she wants to enjoy the night!
Dave if you know you fall asleep when you are drunk: don't get drunk to this point! Your wife will apreciate more you take care of her all night long…. and maybe bring her back home earlier!
I am afraid it's too late and like the fat bald guy from Hi-school for Craig's wife she acted no as he told yes and she will act yes as Dave tells no next time.
Now Dave will have to work hard on increasing his sexual value again, explain to her his mistakes, and drive her back emotionally to him. I am sure the full Cr's book collection will be necessary!
Vince | Reply
Poor Dave he was acting like a child whom never learnt what are the limits not to go over!
Yes I agree 100 % too, he decreased his sexual value to such a degree that her wish was to find someone better all the time. Ok she behaved socially but as soon as the alcohol lowered the censure here she goes… especially when her (stupid?) husband got asleep while she wants to enjoy the night!
Dave if you know you fall asleep when you are drunk: don't get drunk to this point! Your wife will appreciate more you take care of her all night long…. and maybe bring her back home earlier!
I am afraid it's too late and like the fat bald guy from Hi-school for Craig's wife she acted no as he told yes and she will act yes as Dave tells no next time.
Now Dave will have to work hard on increasing his sexual value again, explain to her his mistakes, and drive her back emotionally to him. I am sure the full Cr's book collection will be necessary!
Gary | Reply
Somewhat similar thing happened to me, the girl I was with years ago, put the "full press on" by admitting me she had blown the guy she knew I detested. That was it for me, it definitely got my attention as she had intended. I moved on, and was fortunately content with a new woman I had just met. It is just a woman's wicked way of letting you know that they are really just after-self preservation! I know it's weird Darwin answer, but that's my explanation.
Al | Reply
No, I think anything that takes the focus off of your own mutual relationship and focuses instead
on her relating to other men (no matter what the personal intent for you… fantasy or challenge or
intrigue) is playing with fire.
It will diminish what your relationship has currently progressed to and may harm it irreparably.
Bert | Reply
What happened when his wife was dancing with his "friend" and the voyeur in him starting building up. Any one in there right mind had to know where it was leading. It was his wife, not a porno movie and if he was comfortable with his wife having sex outside of his marriage, why did he bring it up? If he got so turned on by seeing his wife, he should have joined in the fun or forever hold his piece. I also had an affair with hot sex(forbidden fruit). I was the married man and she came on to me. Day, night no bounds to our love making. How did I stop it? Getting married. The forbidden fruit is rotten. Now once in blue moon and only in the dark with her rules.
Still, if I saw her with someone else that would be it. I know she feels the same.(I hope)
He has to decide. Never bring it up again and live with it or just do not go down this dangerous path to destruction of his relationship.
Mark | Reply
Poor old Dave, he thought he could handle this but he can't. He may have just awakened a sleeping giant sexually in his woman.
Notice that he said she was faithful, I guess….
Learn your lesson Dave
Jim | Reply
It was bound to happen sooner or later, his wife would decide to keep something to herself, whether he knew about it or not. His whole cavalier attitude about their somewhat "open" relationship was bound to make things complicated sooner or later. Doesn't matter if it's with friends or strangers, sooner or later you're gonna get burned. I say he's left the door wide open for her to freely fool around. Perhaps she felt guilty because it was more alcohol induced than clear headed decision making, but they say that alcohol merely removes inhibitions to what you're really wanting to say or do. Maybe she was embarassed that he was younger, maybe because it was never planned. Either way, there's more to it for her to want to cover it up, but he can't be mad at her… he's given her this freedom… it was bound to bite him in the ass.
Tom | Reply
Yeah I did something similar. It's one thing to have an open relationship, it's quite another to see your girl in the act.
Scott | Reply
The first problem comes when he asks about cheating. In an open relationship sex with others is not cheating it is part of the rules of the game. The fact that Dave sees this as cheating means he does not want it to really happen. Then when his wife did not admit to the acts of the night before it shows that she also doesn't like the game Dave is playing but may have slept with others without telling him.
raj | Reply
What is your opinion C.R.?
mickel | Reply
My suggestion: Take this kind of issue really serious. If she nothing to you, then you can make a lot of joke like this, but if she is your girlfriend / wife, please owned her like you should, don't give her to someone else.
If you read his email carefully, you know that he is insecure, jealous, and don't know what he want, but he is playing the tough guy poker face.
Instructor CR James | Reply
Here's what i told him:
Hello [Jim]
You are DRAMATICALLY INCREASING the chances that it will end up happening…
Not only do I know a few people who did that, and it ended up happening to them, but ANY TIME you engage a person's mind's (especially a woman's mind) with a visual of an activity along with potential/implied excitement, you are making her crave it more on a level that she might not be aware of…
Of course, this doesn't mean she will…
There is one problem with you comment: "The only condition is that she is supposed to tell me everything to the deepest details."
People rarely follow it. In other words whenever an agreement like that is set. you have two people in the equation. the person who made the rule. And the person who agreed to it.
I would say that those comments will increase the likelihood. If her unconscious mind has been fed these visuals over and over again, then those repeated visuals are stored. Here's why visualization is powerful & useful (& dangerous when misused)…
I was reading a book last book on this subject and the guy talked about a time when his son was about to attend school for the first time. So he took his son to the school before it had officially opened and had him look inside of the window. he said things like: "wow! that's going to be your classroom. you're going to have fun" and he did this for several days. and on the first day of school his son RAN into the classroom with a big smile on his face. while other kids were gripping their parents leg in terror.
They were thrown into a new situation and it was uncomfortable to them.
The good news is the unconscious mind does not know the difference between what's real and fake. That's why we uncontrollably cry during movies (even though we consciously know it's not real)…
When you visualize something that you have never done before (over and over again) the brain is actually creating a PHYSICAL LINK between two neurons. It's like jumping over a small creek every day and then one day you go to jump and you see a mini-bridge that it makes it "comfortable" for you to get to the other side…
When we do something over and over again, we get comfortable with it.
There are PHYSICAL changes taking place inside the brain.
That's the reason why kid #1 ran into the classroom… because his brain did not register it as a new & uncomfortable experience… (he was comfortable with it)
according to "proven brain theory" (not "CR James" theory)… it is possible to condition a woman so that she is comfortable with cheating. in fact if i were to write a report on how to get a wife to cheat (who is exceptionally loyal) then I would teach guys to do EXACTLY what you did!!! (i.e. getting her to visualize cheating & telling her that I think it's hot and that it turns me on) and pretty soon if they have succeeded, the wife will end up blowing some guy or screwing him or whatever.
And she's not going to tell you – even if there is rule that says that she is suppose to…
I hope that helps [Jim] I appreciate you being someone who wants the "truth" instead of a fluffy "feel good" response…
Take care my friend and enjoy your day…
CR James
Rick | Reply
No, I think anything that takes the focus off of your own mutual relationship and focuses instead on her relating to other men (no matter what the personal intent for you… fantasy or challenge or
intrigue) is playing with fire.
It will diminish what your relationship has currently progressed to and may harm it irreparably.
Larry | Reply
I think doing what he does encourages his wife to do it. Since she is sure it is ok with him.
And, that she was embarrased about it and didn't want to tell him; it appears to me that she will cheat on him and not tell him about it. Which is contrary to what he expected in the first place, that she tells him about it to the details.
Thus, I dont think it is a good idea. I have a lover, we have sex with other couples, But I told her that she is never to have sex with anyone, man or woman, without me being there.
Kevin | Reply
I thought I was weird and nasty when it comes to sex, but this story blows me out of the water. He encouraged what she did unintentionally.
He might as well chalk it up as an experience and know what boundaries to cross next time.
Michael | Reply
I have a hard time identifying with this guy. In fact, I can't.
I suppose, if it achieved whatever he is trying to achieve, he did the right thing.
I've always felt that the objective is not to have a relationship where either or both people screw around, but one in which neither one has any need or desire for a relationship with anyone else. So from my perspective, this guy has it all wrong.
Jason | Reply
Speaking from first-hand experience, his response with his wife will backfire.
My wife whined and cried to me for 8 months that she wished that she had sex with other men before she married me (she was a virgin). Finally I gave in and we agreed that this was a one weekend time to fulfill her fantasy.
I set it up over the internet. She proceeded to have a 10-month affair! When you have no sexual value, thinking you'll gain some by letting her have sex with someone else is just plain dumb…
I would have been better off to get a frontal lobotomy than to let her put me through what she did…
Danny | Reply
I do not believe that it was a good idea for him to put ideas about other people in his wife's head. He should be putting ideas in her head about him and her.
Wow… no matter what, we all seem to be blaming the poor guy. Yeah it was a bad idea, however, for her to cheat on him (with his friend, when he is present and asleep), that is just a low as you get. Plus a blow job is even worst then if they had sex IMO… So yeah terrible idea, but he should still dump her ass for cheating.
lol CR James, I like your choice of words… Calling it the "bizarre" method. After we have all read and had time to digest the story, you can change now chance that to "F*#king moronic" method.
Thomas | Reply
Some people can handle an open relationship. Obviously Dave can't, and now his wife also knows that he can't.
Don't open that door unless both you and your wife are prepared to face what is on the other side. When I was 28, I dated a woman who had multiple lovers (male and female). I hurt more than I was ready to admit to myself, and this decreased my sexual value in my own eyes.
I know other couples who have encouraged an open relationship, and it usually leads to someone getting hurt. Most often, one of the couple gets dumped by the other; sometimes its the third who loses out – ask Monica Lewinsky.
You really have to have either sky-high value to do this happily (Dave didn't), or have low enough esteem that it doesn't bother you either way. I've had chances with drunk, married women and always turned it down. My value is too high for that.
Lesson: If you ask you may well receive. Make sure you want it, and don't expect to hear the juicy details that you're not ready to hear.


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In 1995, I attended the funeral of the great Torah sage of Israel Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. An estimated 300,000 attended. I thought there would never be another funeral like it.
Tonight, I participated in the funeral of the great Sephardic Torah sage Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef. Police estimate that 600,000 people attended. Can you imagine one tenth of the population of a country attending a funeral? One tenth of Israel's Jews made their way to Jerusalem to pay respects to one of the greatest Torah sages of the generation.
Rabbi Auerbach was a Rabbi of yeshivas, of learners of Torah. Rabbi Ovadiah touched the common man - the working class. While his Torah writings and halachic decisions are studied in every yeshiva in the world, he spoke to "amcha" – the people on the street.
That's why amcha came out this evening to attend his funeral alongside all the yeshivas which emptied out to honor Rabbi Ovadiah's last journey to his final place of rest.
One of his sons told the following story:
"When Abba (Dad) was 79-years-old, he suffered his first heart attack.
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Source: Super Smash Bros series
Featured in: Brawl, Smash 4 WiiU
Type: Collectible
Special effect: Unlocks songs in My Music
--The random appearance of a CD during play is heralded by a flash onscreen, so even if the CD isn't on camera, you know to look for it.
--CPUs will not intentionally pursue CDs, which is good because it doesn't unlock the song if one of them picks it up.
--There are 31 CDs in Brawl that can only be attained by beating Challenges, and 102 that can only be obtained through random appearance. Once all songs are unlocked, CDs stop appearing.
--Mew can occasionally drop a CD. But Mew appears even more rarely than CDs do in the first place.
It wouldn't be so bad if they just stayed onscreen a little longer. Or if my siblings would go pick them up instead of physically preventing me from reaching them.
And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"
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"It's great,"senior National Geographic researcher Heidi Schultz exclaimed one day as we were walking to lunch. "We've turned you into a research snob!"
It was true. I'd spent part of that day with Heidi and another intern moaning and commiserating over frustrations with editors who are more concerned with "looks nice" than "is factually accurate." It's a territorial war that began long before I got there and continues even though I've gone. My meager 10 weeks at National Geographic gave me a small peek into the world of office politics, but it was enough to convince me that I was on the side of right. I have research to back me up.
Before my summer at National Geographic, I had no idea that someone other than an author was paid to verify every tidbit of information that the magazine ever prints. But there I was, working in a department of nearly two dozen librarian-cum-investigative journalists who, like me, wanted to know everything about everything and had the most random and respectable stores of knowledge. Let me tell you, our lunch conversations were fantastic. I spent my summer working at a place where you can walk up to a petite young woman in a flowing peasant skirt and ask, What do you know about flak jackets? and get, What do you need to know? in response. Everyone had the answer to everything, and if they didn't, they knew who did.
Finding this fascinating internship was a process that began last fall when I applied to Professor Barbara Adams's writing and publishing internship program. The program is designed to help interested students craft resumes and cover letters in the hopes of securing internships in their field of interest. Many of the internship locations have employed Ithaca College students in the past, and just being part of Barbara's program is a stellar recommendation by itself.
Professor Adams thought that National Geographic would be a great opportunity for me because it matched my background as a writing and anthropology double major. I had also expressed interest in working somewhere dynamic and science related that would give me an opportunity to get solid professional experience. And that's how, one cold winter evening in February, I came to be jumping up and down with excitement upon receiving my acceptance as an academic intern for the research division of National Geographic magazine—one business day after submitting my application.
The first and most important thing to know for anyone interning with National Geographic's research division is that this internship is unlike any other. You don't fetch coffee, make copies, collate, or file for anyone but yourself. "Intern" very quickly becomes just a name on paper—I had the same responsibilities and was held to the same standards as all the full-time staff. Research interns are entrusted with as much real work as they ask for. And I loved every minute of it.
On day one, I received two department pages slated for the September 2007 issue, and it was my job, and mine alone, to make sure everything on those pages was factually correct. If I messed up, my mistake would go to print, and credibility is key at National Geographic—after all, the reputation of the magazine is on the line. Okay, no one would die if we ran a misquote or got a decimal place wrong, but at National Geographic, accuracy is important, and the staff take it very seriously.
Because I'd have only 10 weeks at the organization, I handled mostly front matter and served as an aide to any full-time staff member who needed an extra hand with his or her own research on feature-length articles. The turnaround for my pieces was about five weeks— the feature-length articles were scheduled on a three-month timetable. As an added bonus, I got to write the Did You Know? web supplement pieces for any full-time staff writer who would let me. At the end of my internship, I had written a grand total of eight web articles with bylines!
During my time at National Geographic, I learned about the resources available for tracking down facts. (The National Geographic library subscribes to hundreds of databases like Lexis-Nexis, Community of Scholars, and WorldCat, a global library catalog.) I'm now a reliable source of information on the genetic history of redheads, prairie chickens, the Autobahn, and so much more. I also honed my diplomacy skills and learned not to be intimidated by editors just because I was an intern. They hired me for a reason, and I worked hard every day to show them what I was made of.
It was hard not to cry during my goodbye party, and even though I was sad to leave, I'm excited to get back to school, share what I've learned through my various roles and jobs on campus, and finish up so I can start the next phase, be it graduate school or other pursuits. I would be honored to go back to National Geographic after graduation, but even if I don't, I've found the type of job that I'm good at and love, and that's priceless.
this makes me so excited to be interning at nat geo next summer!
thank you so much for this article!
What is the exact name of the position you had as an intern? I would love to try it out!
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Some of My Best Friends are Republican August 19, 2013Posted by rogerhollander in Democracy, Religion, Right Wing.
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From Poll Taxes to Voter ID Laws: A Short History of Conservative Voter Suppression March 29, 2011Posted by rogerhollander in Democracy, Socialism.
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(Roger's note: it is a simple phrase, but it says just about everything: "without economic democracy, political democracy is a sham." With a Supreme Court giving carte blanche to corporations to fund campaigns, with billionaire-funded "grass roots" organizations such as the Tea Party disenfranchising masses of voters as discussed in the article below, with massive powerful lobbies such as Big Pharma and the private health insurance industry virtually writing legislation to protect their selfish interests – who can argue that political democracy in the United States, or anywhere in the world for that matter, is genuine democracy? Democratic socialism is nothing more or less than economic democracy, and it can only come about through the destruction of the capitalist form of production, a mode of production that inherently exploits and alienates living human labour, a mode that is by its very nature undemocratic and which replicates itself in the world of social and political relations.)
Sunday 27 March 2011
by: Kevin Donohoe | Think Progress | Report
Thursday, ThinkProgress reported that the Ohio House had approved the most restrictive voter id law in the nation — a bill that would exclude 890,000 Ohioans from voting. Earlier this week Texas lawmakers passed a similar bill, and voter id legislation — which would make it significantly more difficult for seniors, students and minorities to vote — is now under consideration in more than 22 states across the country
Conservatives have said voter id laws are necessary to combat mass voter fraud. Yet according to the Brennan Center for Justice, Americans are more likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning than commit voter fraud. And the Bush administration's five-year national "war on voter fraud" resulted in only 86 convictions of illegal voting out of more than 196 million votes cast. Instead conservatives are employing an old tactic: using the specter of false voting to restrict the voting rights of minorities and the poor.
Below, ThinkProgress examines the history of conservatives anti-voter agenda:
– Jim Crow South: In the Jim Crow South, historian Leon Litwack writes, "respectable" Southern whites justified their support for measures to disenfranchise African-Americans "as a way to reform and purify the electoral process, to root out fraud and bribery." In North Carolina for example, conservatives insisted that literacy tests and poll taxes — which disenfranchised tens of thousands of African-Americans — were necessary to prevent "voter fraud."
– 1981 RNC Voter Caging Scandal: According to Project Vote, in 1981 the Republican National Committee mailed non-forwardable postcards to majority Hispanic and African-American districts in New Jersey in an effort to accuse those voters of false voting. The 45,000 returned cards were rncthen used to create a list of voters whose residency the GOP could challenge at the polls. The Democratic National Committee sued, winning a consent decree in which the RNC agreed not to engage in practices "where the purpose or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from voting." Similar initiatives were undertaken by the Arizona GOP in 1958, the RNC in 1962 and again, despite the decree, in Louisiana in 1986.
–Recent Voter Caging Efforts: During the 2004 election GOP state parties, along with dozens of unidentified groups, launched similar "voter caging" efforts designed to challenge the eligibility of thousands of minority voters by accusing them of voter fraud. And in 2008, the Obama campaign sued the Michigan Republican Committee for collecting a list of foreclosures in an effort to challenge the residency, and eligibility, of voters who had lost their home in the housing crisis.
– US Attorney David Iglesias Firing Scandal: In an unprecedented politicization of the Justice Department, in 2006 the Bush White House fired US Attorney David Iglesias for refusing to prosecute voting fraud cases where little evidence existed. The New Mexico political establishment asked for Iglesias' dismissal after he refused to cooperate with the party's efforts to make voter id laws "the single greatest wedge issue ever."
– US Attorney Tom Heffelfinger Dismissal: In Minnesota, US Attorney Tom Heffelfinger lost his position when he ran afoul of GOP activists for "expressing deep concern about the effect of a state directive that could have the effect of discouraging Indians in Minnesota from casting ballots."
– Wisconsin, The Kochs and the 2010 Election: Last fall ThinkProgress reported that a coalition of Wisconsin Tea Party and Koch-funded groups, in an effort to stop "voter fraud" and prevent "stolen elections," was planning a sophisticated voter caging effort that would use GOP lawyers and Tea Party volunteers to challenge the eligibility of voters at polls in the state. Earlier that year, the same groups were instrumental in defeating a voter protection law that would have criminalized any attempt to use force or coercion to "compel any person to refrain from voting." One prominent Tea Party member behind the voter caging effort that "since the voter law did not get passed this year… we can still do this."
As statehouses across the country move forward on voter identification bills, ThinkProgress will continue to track conservatives latest efforts to advance their century-old anti-voter agenda.


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HIV is double trouble for brain
People who live a long time while infected with HIV sometimes develop dementia. The virus that causes AIDS is known to damage brain cells, and it now appears that the virus halts the creation of new neurons as well.
A single protein in the virus' outer shell triggers both dementia-inducing effects, new research shows. Brains normally generate a steady stream of new nerve cells in the hippocampus, a region associated with learning. But the HIV protein called gp120 inhibits the stem cells in the brain from producing new nerve cells.
However, "there is a silver lining to this," says research leader Stuart A. Lipton of the University of California, San Diego. That's because gp120's ability both to kill mature brain cells and to hinder the birth of new ones depends on a single brain-cell enzyme. This enzyme, called p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), could provide a target for drugs against the dementia.
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What an awesome trip we had to Marco Island. Everything was great about it! Thanks so much to Mom and Steve for such a wonderful trip. Of course I took almost 200 pictures so here are just a few.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Marco Island 09
Posted by Bling at 7:20 AM
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- Carmelle, Vincent, Lilly, & Bailey Martinez said...
Great pics, Heather! Looks like y'all had a lot of fun! Katie looks just like you and is growing up so fast! And congrats on the engagement-- how exciting!!!
- June 30, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- Jeni said...
Love the pictures heather!!
YOu and Katie are so beautiful! Looks like a really fun trip!
- June 30, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- abby and paxton said...
Awesome pictures. It was SO beautiful there- we got back Saturday and by that night I was wishing we were there again... I miss it! I just loved it. I'm glad we got to spend it with you and the fam.
Katie is so photogenic-she looks adorable in every picture. Love em.
- June 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM
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"Cantus Firmus" male octet, born in Mondovì in 1989, started originally to study and perform renaissance polyphony, during the years has enlarged his repertory including classical, spiritual-gospel, jazz and pop compositions mostly a cappella from 4 to 8 voices.
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How To Profit From America's New Shopping List
Hey America, if you are paying attention, you can make a lot of money right now!
President Obama just told us his shopping list for his three year plan (funny, it takes three years for fruit trees to produce). Obama is about to get a check for $825,000,000,000 dollars and he wants to buy all sorts of cool new things for America, such as:
10,000 school renovations – Great for all the folks who can help kids learn about chickens and growing vegetables and neat stuff like that
Improved local community communications networks – Hey, I sell those things!
75% of Federal building to be more energy efficient – You mean like ride sharing? Light bulbs? Turning computers off?
2.5 Million weatherized homes – Wow, whoever makes bricks and insulation from waste plastic bags & stuff will make a killing!
Double America's renewable energy – Woo hoo! I sell hooch making machines! I'm gonna be rich!
Anyway, I am writing about this because the secret is, and always will be, to be a master of markets for things people really need. That means neighborhood collectives can team up and go legally harvest firewood and split it up among the community, where people volunteer their labor in exchange for good and services they need.
Money, as we know it, is just a means of representing value. What has real value to you? Probably the same things that have value to everyone else: Food, shelter, transportation, water, electricity, friends, resilient neighborhoods and communities, skills and stuff the community can use.
That's the power behind Bright Neighbor. We offer a machine that helps fix community economies and ecology. Think about it this way…
Chickens are egg machines.
Gardens are fruit and vegetable machines.
Trees are fruit and nut machines.
Worms and mushrooms are soil fixing machines.
Bright Neighbor is a communications system, a carbon reduction machine, a money saving machine, and a community repair machine all-in-one. We have implemented it in governments, businesses, faith communities, private corporations, and with individual community organizers who want to fix their community. Our customer base now ranges in all of these markets, and if President Obama wants to buy any of these things, Bright Neighbor is one of America's post-petroleum startups now open for business.
Three cheers for the Three Year Plan! I hope you make oodles of money.
– Randy White
PS: If you are interested in setting up a Bright Neighbor community communications system, please fill out this form.
The Recession and Depression of Plenty
Have you noticed how even homeless people have cell phones?
The peak oil community, for the longest time, has been freaked out about running out of resources. There have been all sorts of efforts to help people prepare for a society fighting over the remaining resources. The problem with our society and economic system, however, is the opposite of the normal peak oil argument – we actually have too much stuff, not the other way around. Granted – there are people that go without things like ipods – but they make due.
In general, we have created an over abundance of cars, toasters, programmers, and advertising sales people. The problem isn't 'stuff' depletion as much as money depletion. We have plenty of stuff. Which is why with food available, people aren't trying to learn how to garden – they are just trying to land another job to pay their bills.
The fight is really between human laws and mother nature's laws. We are at the peak of everything, but the cash is scarce – having been sucked into corporate officers' pockets. Right now, CEOs and lawyers are still fat and happy, while your average worker is getting laid off due to their redundancy. The system hasn't collapsed – it has retracted. Without any money in savings, the ability for people to live at the same level of comfort is what is threatened, not the monetary construct. We haven't created a new economic system to replace the old one, so suffering is occurring as the old system ceases like an engine without oil.
If we all defaulted on our debts to banks – could the banks kick everyone out of their homes at once? We aren't there yet, we are still in the peak oil 'collections period'.
This means while jobs and money become more scarce, we are back to people trying to sell off their goods and services to make ends meet – creating a surplus of Nintendo Wii consoles on Craigslist. All the people with money have to do is wait longer, and the prices will come down even further. Yes, the general population has been fattened for the slaughter, and the feasting has begun.
So, what to do?
Well, I created a sharing system for friends and neighbors (or anyone in a geographic region or community for that matter) to share resources. If groups of people would inventory their stuff, they could share things. But sharing stuff only helps save money – it doesn't generate it, unless you rent out your stuff when you let someone borrow it.
For instance – many people have tools. The stores have plenty of tools, too. So when someone needs a drill, they can either borrow one or they can buy one. But lots of people already have drills – and the folks at the drill factory are being laid off as the realization that we have materialized enough stuff for everyone kicks into our consciousness.
And when there is no more market demand for cars, toasters, or whatever has been produced enough – people get laid off. Those workers still need to make payments for bills and debts, however. So they ask for assistance from the government – racking up more claims and causing a drain on government resources.
How long can the government hand out food stamps and heating assistance before it is overwhelmed and more people are taking than adding to it? We are seeing it happen in front of our eyes.
So as this recession continues, it is the quest for continued sources of money – not the quest for 'stuff' that is the way the average person is experiencing peak oil. I think we will continue to see more people living together rather than having their own private nests.
At least we have lots of Nintendos to play.
Why Oil Companies Need $150 Per Barrel Of Oil – The Case For Destroying The Rewable Fuels Standard
The following is a letter to the EPA written by David Blume that was just published in Renewable Energy World.
by David Blume, Author
The purpose of the Renewable Fuels Standard is to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, reverse the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, and eventually end the toxic releases from petroleum, coal, and other fossil fuels. The idea is to replace these fuels with clean alternatives like ethanol, which, unlike fossil fuels, are based on captured solar energy that is constantly renewed.
When the alcohol industry agreed to sacrifice the Clean Air Act's oxygenate standard in exchange for its proposed Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), I was staunchly opposed. Advocates of the RFS said it was a more honest, direct way for us to work toward making our fuel renewable and American, and to wean ourselves from the toxic waste of the petroleum industry (otherwise known as gasoline).
Make no mistake about it: historically, gasoline has ALWAYS been a substance into which oil refineries dispose of whatever waste remains after making valuable products. Just as in the cattle industry, where half of the steer sells as US $15/lb. steaks and the other half ends up as cheap hamburger, in the petroleum business, half of a barrel of oil becomes gasoline. Quite frankly, no one wants to dispose of the 21 gallons of poisonous leftovers at the bottom of each barrel (just how much carcinogenic benzene, toluene, or xylene does anyone really need?)
The Clean Air Act's oxygenate standard made sure that many of the toxic components in vehicle exhaust would be thermally decomposed (read: burned) to carbon dioxide, rather than remaining as Kevorkian carbon monoxide and a witch's brew of volatile organics. Destroying these toxins in vehicle exhaust relies on the presence of plenty of oxygen to do the job, and alcohol is about 30% oxygen. Since the act was a regulation that had to do with our health, no discretion existed for waiving oxygenate. That standard was all that stood between Big Oil's profits and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year from respiratory and cancer illnesses. It also was permanent-it had no expiration date.
But in a poor bargain, we traded a standard based on citizens' health for one based on economic and environmental values, i.e., the Renewable Fuels Standard. The oil companies insisted that we couldn't have both, but if we would let go of the oxygenate standard, they would not stand in the way too much on the RFS. Of course, they lied and then only permitted an RFS level that we were already meeting prior to passage of the legislation, so that the regulation had no teeth to increase our use of renewables (very clever of those oil companies).
Well, we did manage, over much opposition by Big Oil, to increase the RFS modestly above the existing level, and investment into the Midwest to make alcohol took off. Big Oil mistakenly thought it could keep the alcohol genie in the bottle…but much to its dismay, the genie escaped and started building distilleries in 2005-6.
Now at the time the bargain was made to trade in the oxygenate standard, I complained to everyone in congress and in the alcohol industry that the RFS would be very easy to waive. It was easy to predict all sorts of conditions where governors or the executive branch could say something like, "These environmental regulations are all well and good, but if they get in the way of economic interests, we just won't be able to afford to do the right thing."
"No, no," the RFS advocates retorted, "we will make sure that a 'no backsliding' provision is written into the new legislation." Well gee, that tidbit didn't quite survive into the final draft. Now some oil-saturated governors are trying to use their statutory power to get the EPA to waive the standard, so oil companies won't be forced to use farmer's fuels.
Instead of cleaning up our air, dealing with Peak Oil, reducing dependence on foreign oil, and reversing global warming, we are doing exactly what I feared. We are talking about simply setting aside the RFS for reasons that ignore health, ignore national security, ignore our dependence, ignore our war to control Mideast oil, and ignore planetary climate stability in favor of simple short-term economic gains. The proposal is even more disingenuous, since the alleged economic gains are not even real. For instance, there is no shortage of corn, no matter what you read in the press. We just had the best crop in 33 years, and we are still trying to find silo space to store the huge surplus. We have increased the amount of animal feed we send around the world to record levels, which is a direct result of our increased alcohol fuel production. We use only cornstarch for alcohol, and all the non-starch parts of the corn become high-quality animal feed. More corn production for alcohol means more animal feed, which means more food. It's simple.
Now that the data is coming in, we are seeing that in addition to the utterly nonexistent corn shortage, grain price increases have no basis in ethanol or the RFS whatsoever. In fact, the price increases result almost exclusively from the rising price of oil and greater demand for meat in China and other developing countries. If it were not for alcohol fuel, the price of gasoline would be even higher than it is today, and the net effect on a citizen's pocketbook would be many times the alleged effect of ethanol on food prices.
This attack on the RFS has been planned since the day it was first passed. Because as we run out of oil, the fossil fuel industry plans to replace petroleum with more tar sands, oil shale, and coal to liquids. As the EPA, you are well aware that these fuels will increase greenhouse gas emissions scores to thousands of times the emissions from petroleum. They will also increase the pollution of our air with countless tons of metals and volatile gases, pollute what water is left after we drain the aquifers to make synfuels, and irradiate/poison the planet with radioactive particles and mercury from coal.
But for these environmentally foul fuels to be economically viable, the price of a barrel of oil needs to climb to about $150. Biofuels, on the other hand, can be produced realistically, ecologically, and sustainably for less than $70 a barrel, without any breakthroughs in technology. If biofuels, and in particular ethanol, increase in volume, the economic viability of all the alternatives that Big Oil wants to develop are in jeopardy. And that's a good thing, since as the EPA, you know for certain that development of these fossil alternatives to petroleum are unbelievably incompatible with continuation of life on Earth as we know it.
No, the RFS is not a discretionary guideline to be set aside, as powerful economic interests and their tamed politicians dictate. The RFS is a health standard meant to protect all living things from the total degradation of our planet. You in the EPA are charged with the responsibility to act as a bulwark against corporate environmental irresponsibility, and doing the right thing requires more than standing firm on the RFS. Far from being waived, the standard needs to be increased annually, bear no expiration date, and remain in force until every single Btu of energy this country uses is renewable. Ultimately, that means an end to fossil fuels and an economic and energy system based on the sun.
A call to action:
The window to submit comment on this critical EPA waiver is closing June 23rd, submit written comments today, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0380, by one of the following methods: One the web at http://www.regulations.gov, follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments, by E-mail: email@example.com or by fax: (202) 566-1741.
Learn more about David Blume's Fight to Save The Renewable Fuels Standard.
David Blume is author of Alcohol Can Be A Gas and Executive Director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture.
A Grand Theft Of Intelligence
The launch of Grand Theft Auto 4 just made over $500 million is sales. So what does that mean for us as a country? It means that our youth are so wrapped up in virtual violence and non-reality, that as peak oil has begun to kick us in the teeth, millions of video game zombies are tuned out of our very real problems.
Last year, I wrote a satirical post (To All The Geeks, Gamers, and Non-Attention Payers) about kids having to get ready to eat one another as human society collapses. I'm no longer interested in using humor to break through.
What are we supposed to think when so many people are hot to press button combinations on a joystick to bitch slap hookers and shoot cops? Sure, it may all be in "Good Fun", but the premise of such actions is much different than zapping asteroids or saving a princess.
If gamers today want to play a more "realistic game" they are getting one served up to them in the form of gas prices, food prices, layoffs, and war. And if they think they are immune to the effects, they might want to take their heads out of the X-Box for a few minutes and pay attention.
We are now in the most challenging time in our history as modern society begins to collapse. While we still have active social systems and a sense of order in America, the end of cheap oil and no fast alternatives means these video games could be training people for what is truly coming.
I hate to think that we could face such mayhem, where anyone and everyone could be a target of humans gone wild. Hell, people are already selling manhole covers for scrap metal. In times of desperation, if we do not keep our integrity and dignity as human beings, people who play these types of games might just snap and not be able to decipher between what is real and what is not.
When food and shelter become unaffordable or unavailable as they are elsewhere in the world, how will we maintain order? By telling people to stay home and play Grand Theft Auto? By locking everyone up in those minty-fresh FEMA camps?
Why not actively pursue that target market with enough time to waste on video games and recruit them to help the elderly with converting their lawns into food gardens or running errands? Or would they rather switch weapons with a quick flick of their thumb and simply shoot, beat, or flame throw them?
If the answer does not fall in the first category, we are in deep shit.
Trends To Watch As Peak Oil Continues
As the CEO of a technology company, Peak Oil analyst, and sustainability trend spotter, I want to point out some blazing examples of trends presenting themselves as we continue to try and overcome our sustainability / survival challenges.
It is only a matter of time before Internet software completely reprograms human behavior. The Mega-Pillars of the Internet, including Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Facebook, etc. will continue to duke it out with one another for primacy. In order to achieve this, they will continue to suck up the ideas of small start-ups that offer true innovation. There will also be sneak attacks and some of those small startups may even sweep the legs of the big pillars. I would tell you who they are but I want to make my money first.
This trend will continue as each mega-pillar also creates applications marketplaces by fostering open source programming environments for their users. Essentially, these behemoths no longer need to pay as many programmers, since they have users doing all the hard work for them. Applications that have real value filter their own way to the top, just like a good rock band. If enough people like you, you get famous.
Then, the big boys simply assimilate that cool new functionality into their mega-pillars that already have the eyes and ears of millions of registered users. This way, they can gain mass adoption in an instant, while fledgling startup companies either get acquired or go belly up after their ideas are stolen.
After a period, people will stop listening to government leaders and just start doing their own thing to survive. After all, they will have all the tools necessary to live sustainable lives at their fingertips. One example of this trend is how Google has assimilated the routes of government controlled transit.
So if you live in Portland like I do, you can now bypass the Tri-met website and simply use Google's transit tool to plan your entire trip. As more of the Mega-Pillars begin to assimilate the functions of government, people will begin to rely on themselves and technology to self-sustain. Expect to see cool things such as people using their cell phones to see who in a particular neighborhood is selling or trading for eggs.
That means over time, government will become less necessary as sustainable systems better support themselves.
We haven't even buried the corpse of capitalism yet, but I will go out on a limb to say that as we find an equilibrium for allowing people to remain in their homes, we will need to use permaculture to hyper-relocalize our food systems and ecological foundations.
I see more and more policy planners paying attention to people that know a lot about the earth. As these gurus become consultants, we will see exciting designs as wealth meets sustainability. It will become much more than Hollywood trying to "Green" the Oscars. Landscapers that combine the law(n)s of nature with sheik design will be guaranteed a market. And worm poop is the new black gold.
The fun part will be seeing the labor market fight for jobs to help people do the conversion! How amazing will it be to see teams of neighbors working on permaculture projects together?
Need an example? Check out these two videos:
Ok, so crime is on the rise as the economy crashes. Or if someone actually lets loose a nuke in a city somewhere, it will suck tremendously. Or, if climate change ramps up so fast we all perish, then poop-on-a-stick. But to say that we just sat back and watched it all go down without even *trying*?
No way. I believe in America's pioneering spirit, and that we are beginning to witness a journey within ourselves that frees us from the bonds of violence, and allows us to find happiness in appropriate food, shelter, and transportation systems.
We can't help it if the financial system crashes, but we can help what we do about it. While the economies of the world are set for implosion due to peak oil, we should be set for an explosion of freedoms. Freedom to get out in our yards to make our soil rich and full of nutrients that plants love. We can explore the amazing freedoms of beekeeping, local food processing, board games, bike riding – a whole lot of reasons to keep on living.
Just because we all have guns doesn't mean we have to use them.
Why Ethanol Is Not To Blame For High Food Prices
Right now, the media is busy blaming ethanol for high food prices. This has been proven false, and they are just trying to blame our current problems on a scapegoat.
Ethanol is not the culprit behind high food prices. and ethanol does not need fertilizer to be made. Ever heard of permaculture?
Propaganda, folks. Blaming high food prices on Ethanol is pure propaganda, and don't you fall for it. They want to give you something to blame other than the oil barons. Watch David Blume debunk the propaganda you are being fed:
Learn more about David Blume here.
See why our military is sick of fighting for oil here.
CNN Reports The Obvious: Consumers Pinching Pennies
Here is a Newsflash from Captain Obvious!
How are those Reagan-era economic policies working out for America? We could probably generate great revenues by taxing politicians' prostitute activities, but since that will never happen, we are stuck with our economic meltdown. What's so funny is how SMALL the government is making the text for their Mass Layoffs summary.
Gee, maybe if it's small enough, no one will bother reading it!
Here are some highlights, including the 10 industries reporting the highest numbers of mass layoff claims:
1) Temporary help services
2) School and employee bus transportation
3) Automobile manufacturing
4) Professional employer organizations
5) Discount department stores
6) Light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing
7) Highway, street, and bridge construction
8) Motion picture and video production
9) Wood kitchen cabinet and countertop manufacturing
10) Farm labor contractors and crew leaders
It's the Farm labor that throws me off kilter. Why are farm laborers being laid off? Don't we have a food crisis? Are humans asking for too much with their already low wages for picking fruits and vegetables? What gives?
I can only wonder how long it will be until America's laid off workforce are ready to take on some 1930's Depression type jobs, desperate for anything that pays the bills.
I think we are getting there, especially since all the bottlenecks for more war have been removed.


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The history of football in Fleetwood, Lancashire, is one of boom and bust. The town's original club, Fleetwood FC, renamed itself Fleetwood Town and were founder members of the Northern Premier League in 1968, before folding in 1976. A new club sprang up the following year, reached the final of the FA Vase in 1985 and won back its place in the Premier Division of the Northern Premier League three years later. It too folded in 1996. The latest incarnation of what we might regard as effectively the same club was founded a year later, and has spent the last fourteen years climbing the same slippery pole as its predecessors. This time last year, they were winning the Blue Square North play-off final against Alfreton Town.
Flush with the cash of chairman Andy Pilley, they turned professional during the summer and their first season in the Blue Square Premier has been a resounding success. Their ground, Highbury (the Arsenal links – though not formal – don't end there; Fleetwood also wear red shirts with white sleeves), has a shiny new stand and the team has rose to fifth place in the Blue Square Premier in their first season in it, setting them up for a play-off semi-final against AFC Wimbledon. Wimbledon, of course, have been here for a year longer than Fleetwood. They led the table for much of the winter before succumbing to Crawley's riches, but second place in the table was still an exceptional finish and they ended their season with six wins from seven matches. To get this far was a step too far in their first season in this league – this season, however, has been a different matter altogether.
Highbury is sitting under heavy cloud and blustery rain this evening, and the less than ideal conditions probably play a part in a first half that takes a while to get into gear. Fleetwood are playing tidy, reasonably attractive football, but they seem to run to a full-stop whenever they get to twenty yards from the Wimbledon goal. The visitors' goalkeeper, Seb Brown, has a reasonably comfortable time of things even though his defence has quite a lot of work to do in order to keep things so quiet for him. Wimbledon, meanwhile, attack sporadically, prodding and poking at the Fleetwood defence, as if testing it out for possible defects. With ten minutes of the half left to play, however, things start to warm up. Wimbledon's opening goal is as simple as they come, a threaded through-ball for Luke Moore finds the Fleetwood defence suddenly absent without leave, and Moore rolls the ball past Hurst, the goalkeeper, to give the visitors the lead.
With this goal, the entire timbre of the match changes. Wimbledon, who have looked shaky up until this point, are suddenly coursing with confidence and they almost double their lead when Hurst saves well, again from Moore. With seconds to play of the half, everything suddenly boils over. Fleetwood's Sean Gregan has something of the Sunday league player about him – his relative portliness, mostly – and his foul on Danny Kedwell is straight from the Hackney Marshes School of Tackling. Within seconds, there is a familiar-looking bout of pushing and shoving going on, but Gregan is only booked for his challenge. Kedwell joins him for his reaction to the challenge, and the first half ends with Wimbledon leading by the odd goal.
The second half starts as badly for Fleetwood as it's possible to. Their goalkeeper, Hurst, is replaced by Scott Davies for the start of the second half and, within four minutes, Wimbledon are two goals up. Luke Moore works his way to the byline and pulls the ball back for Kaid Mohamed, who puts the ball in at the near post from six yards out. For the next fifteen minutes or so, it looks as if Wimbledon may sail away into the distance in the same manner that Luton Town did during the first half at Wrexham last night. They are taking pot-shots at the Fleetwood goal, with Sam Hatton, Kaid Mohammed and Ricky Wellard all having chances and Moore hitting the crossbar, but Fleetwood rally and the Wimbledon goalkeeper Brown makes two excellent saves to maintain their two-goal advantage. Wimbledon will now go into the second leg as the overwhelming favourites to reach the final of the Blue Square Premier play-offs.
Wimbledon, then, take a comfortable lead back to Kingsmeadow for the second leg on Wednesday night. It is now just short of nine years since the protest started and, although the club is a very different beast to what it was during its earliest days, there remains a spirit of those original days in the Combined Counties League at its heart. The long-term aims – to run their club sustainably, to not be pulled in by the lure of speculators, to return to their borough of London and to right the ongoing injustice of the FA allowing their club to be franchised to Milton Keynes by getting back into the Football League – remain the same, and the club now has an excellent chance of achieving something remarkable. From near the foot of the senior game in England to the cusp of a return to the Football League within ten years is something akin to a modern fairytale and, moreover, should they stumble on the way they would surely start next season as one of the favourites to win the Blue Square Premier.
"Resurrecting the club from its ashes as, say, 'Wimbledon Town' is, with respect to those supporters who would rather that happened so that they could go back to the position the club started in 113 years ago, not in the wider interests of football", said the FA's commission into the move to Milton Keynes. They were utterly, hopelessly wrong then, and their unncecessary and unwanted words on the subject deserve to be rammed back doen the throats of those that uttered them. Luton Town, who were punatively sanctioned for the actions of people that already left the club with a points deduction which effectively cost their place in the Football League, will also have a point to prove should they make the final. There is, of course, still time for either club to somehow throw the advantage won from their semi-final first legs away. The evidence of the last couple of days would seem to indicate, though, would seem to indicate that they are clearly the two best sides in the Blue Square Premier play-offs.
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The Organizing Committee meeting headed by Dmitry Livanov was held yesterday, April 29th, in Kazan which will be the host of the 28th International Olympiad in Informatics in 2016.
In his greeting Dmitry Livanov noted that IT is one of the key industries in Russia today, our teams usually perform very well in international competitions. The decision to hold the next Olympiad in Russia attests to this.
Kazan Federal University plays the key part in the organizational proceedings. KFU's administration in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science has already started preparations for the competition.
Rector Ilshat Gafurov informed that the Russian delegation consisting of the representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Information and Communication of Tatarstan and KFU visited the 26th IOI in Taipei. The expertise obtained during this trip will be now used in Kazan.
Dr. Gafurov suggested the Universiade Village as the venue for the IOI. The Village has all the necessary facilities including a clinic and lots of sports grounds.
The competition itself will take place on the premises of Volga Region State Academy of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism. The gyms here have enough space for up to 400 workstations.
The Higher Institute for Information Technology and Information Systems is in charge of the web support. The IOI-2016 website is currently under construction and will go online in August 2015.
The Organizing Committee also voted for the official logo of the Olympiad (see below in the photo gallery).
Other items were discussed as well, among them translation, accreditation, volunteer recruitment and training.
Dmitry Livanov said that the decision to choose the Universiade Village as the venue is a matter of course and doesn't need further discussion or approval.
All the preparations are underway and will be monitored and presented during the next Organizing Committee meeting in autumn.