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The community of Countryway is in the Tampa suburb of Town 'N Country. Located in the 33635 zip code, it is bordered by Memorial Highway, Countryway Boulevard and Montague Street. This community is made up of twenty neighborhoods, each with their own distinctive design and features.
The homes in Countryway sit on larger lots, some on a quarter of an acre, and have between three and five bedrooms. Countryway homes hold their value due to the location, amenities, and overall appearance of the community. Conservation lots and homes that sit on canals and other water features dot the neighborhoods.
Countryway Golf Club winds its way through the community and many homes have golf views. This 18-hole executive course is open to the public and has practice fields, league play, and a restaurant on its premises.
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Johnson held off Dale Earnhardt Jr. to become the 10th driver with multiple wins in "The Great American Race."
Danica Patrick was running third heading to the final lap, but she dropped back to eighth as everyone jostled for position.
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Dangerous aromatherapy kits marketed to kids and sold at Walmart, Target and other stores are still on the market more than a year after being recalled.
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Aromatherapy recall renewedMonday, October 18th, 2010
Dangerous aromatherapy kits marketed to kids and sold at Walmart, Target and other stores are still on the market more than a year after being recalled.
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Abbott Labs has agreed to withdraw its obesity drug, Meridia, from the market because it can cause heart attacks and stroke.
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The operator of Southfield-based MuniVest Financial Services was indicted Thursday on charges of wire and mail fraud for misleading investors.
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The feds allege that owner Dante DeMiro promised clients he would invest in high-yielding certificates of deposit, but instead used the money to finance a jewelry store operation.
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About 160,000 Bravo Sports Trampolines are being recalled because they can collapse.
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Three styles of "Alexandere Designs" drop-side cribs sold exclusively through JCPenney are being recalled because they pose strangulation, suffocation and fall risks to toddlers.
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American Tax Relief, a company that advertised nationwide on radio, TV and the Internet that it could cut taxes and resolve delinquent tax disputes with the IRS, has been ordered to cease and desist making such false claims, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
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East of West Seattle: New transfer station's dedication next weekMay 25, 2012 at 12:25 pm | In South Park, West Seattle news | 12 Comments
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As Seattle Public Utilities' massive new South Transfer Station has gone up just east of West Seattle, on the west side of South Park, it's brought double takes and questions – especially when a paint problem caused its partial dismantling last year – and photos. Today, the city announced it's finally about to open. Mayor McGinn and City Councilmembers Jean Godden and Richard Conlin are scheduled to dedicate it next Wednesday morning. From the media advisory, some factoids you might not know about it:
Features of the New South Transfer Station:
Reduced dust due to a misting system that can also be used to reduce odors.
A rainwater collection system that stores rain in a cistern to be used for washing.
Automated weigh-and-pay station for better efficiency, shorter lines and wait times.
Increased safety inside the station for customers and employees; a separate entrance for commercial collection trucks for added safety and efficiency.
Hydraulic compactors to optimize loads for efficiency.
High-quality architecture that meets the gold standard in environmental design.
Public art that features salvaged street signs and parts from the old South Park Bridge. Other artwork made from recycled plastic forks and spoons.
Niches for station staff to display "interesting items" that are found in the trash.
A viewing room for tour groups, individuals to safely see the activity on the sorting floor.
If you haven't seen it yet, the station is on South Kenyon right alongside Highway 509.
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Sounds like a real dump! ;-)
Comment by miws — 12:26 pm May 25, 2012 #
The dump of my dreams…I want to live there!! J.P. Patches would love it.
Comment by chris — 12:48 pm May 25, 2012 #
Has information been given yet on how to get to the station? Use the same exits now used to get to current site, and then what road to there? It does'nt look too accessable from 599 or alongside 509 yet. Also, what are the plans for the current site when the new one opens? So much is wasted by folks that just dump totally reuseable household items. My thought is to use that site as a permanent place for clean, "use it again" items,(pay it forward mentality), making it a year round Community Donation Station instead of those once a year ones in each neighborhood. Keep landfills less and some folks with tight budgets very happy! You would not believe what I've seen people throw out – sinful! Should be free to deposit (with employees watching for 'correct' deposits, no cheapo dump evaders), and free to pick up whatever you need. How about it King County?
To Chris; HaHaHa! Maybe the City and County should have our beloved Mayor of City Dump do the actual ribbon cutting ceremony, AND dedicate some future little spot there honoring J.P. Patches,(Chris Wedes) due to what he has done for this city and his favorite charity Children's Orthopedic Hospital. The Mayor of City Dump donation bucket on the way out would be cute and a way to eternally thank our favorite friend and clown.
KD: You will use the same exits as before. It's just around the bend from the old one.
Comment by sw — 3:07 pm May 25, 2012 #
"Use the same exits now used to get to current site, and then what road to there?"
It's on the same block and it is so big that you would have a hard time missing it…… Great question though!
Comment by Neal Chism — 10:11 pm May 25, 2012 #
I hope "automated pay station" doesn't mean the super-nice guy at the current weigh & pay hut is losing his job. He's the best!
Comment by Photon — 11:56 pm May 25, 2012 #
Oh boy! I can't wait to go!
Comment by JoAnne — 12:21 am May 26, 2012 #
Photon – Right on, that guy is the best. He handed me a free frozen Popsicle on a hot summer day and is always on his game. The epitome of a stellar public employee! I hope he and the rest of the Fee Pay Booth staff did not lose their jobs due to automation.
Comment by Been There — 4:32 am May 26, 2012 #
Anyone know when it is slated to open? I've got a dump coming up and wondering if I should wait to go to the one . Never having to go back to the current one would be great!
Comment by Chris — 6:35 pm June 1, 2012 #
Chris – it's going to be a few months. I still have to write the story – I covered the dedication event this past Wednesday, which was immediately before all heck broke loose with the shootings, and I still haven't caught up, but hope to, no later than tomorrow! – TR
Thanks so much for your reply. You all work so hard on your great West Seattle news coverage! I look forward to the dedication story and the new dump opening soon.
Comment by Chris — 8:50 pm June 2, 2012 #
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As an obsessive music weirdo, you start to notice some odd patterns as you get older and contemplate the way that most people contextualize music in their lives. I'm not sure how much research has been done on this, but as far as I can tell, in most cases, whatever stuff someone happened to get down to during their formative developmental ages of say, 14-24, apparently permanently burns itself into their psyche and leaves an indelible mark on their opinion as to what constitutes "good shit" for the rest of their lives. This is the sort of secret psychology you'll never read about in text books but I'm sure sketchy uptight rich dudes talk about behind closed doors 24/7. The one thing I can say about pursuing psychology in college was that I quite quickly picked up on the fact that the real people who understand how to bend the human psyche work at PR firms and press agencies, not universities.… Read the rest
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One of the strangest things about watching lefty hippie types getting all fired up about wealth inequality is that I never see them even acknowledge how much worse everything is in the arts, which a lot of them are directly involved with. Don't want to bite the hand that feeds (or pretends like it might feed you one day). Let's face it, you're not a real artist until rich people say you are and sadly, it's probably better now than it used to be say, fifty years ago. Doesn't matter what art form you're involved with, it's all fairly impossible to make ends meet unless you're either born or fuck your way into the privilege factory. Having a trust fund helps. And that's the sad thing no one's saying about this stuff, the worse income disparity gets in society as a whole, the even more psychotically worse it gets in the arts.… Read the rest
Singularity Averted, The Google Machine Still Can't Parse Irony
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BATTLE CREEK, Michigan -- Several parents and students were upset Monday when Lakeview Middle School barred students from wearing T-shirts honoring a classmate who died Saturday after a long battle with cancer.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- After signing a pair of veteran safeties in free agency, the Tennessee Titans have continued to retool their secondary by drafting Connecticut cornerback Blidi Bertrard Wreh-Wilson in the third round.
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Originally Posted by AgX
But why is film horizontal? Why is my computer screen horizontal, and cant I write decently a letter on it?
Because you bought a screen like that They used to make screens that were setup like a written page. Plus bigger ones more like a two pages side by side. Because of the cost [both the monitor and the desk space for the bigger models] most people didn't buy them.
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They used to make screens that were setup like a written page.
I had one of those a long time ago, specifically for doing typesetting work. It was great being able to see a whole page at a glance. Of course, with today's computers, many LCD monitors can be easily rotated to be used vertically if you desire, even though most people don't do it.
For books and magazines, the vertical format is just easier from a production and handling point of view; horizontal books are harder to hold. Books have been made that way since the invention of the codex. For art that's hung on a wall, I suppose that's not so much of an issue.
John Logie Baird adopted a portrait format for the first video recordings (late 20's) and broadcast television (early 30's).
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Do you make postcard-sized prints and look at them from (a) 6 in/15cm or (b) 12 in/30cm; or 12x16 inch/30x40cm prints and view them from (a) 12 in/30cm (b) 24 in/60cm or (c) 36 in/90cm?
Consider the angle subtended by the subject, at the eye, at the time of taking, and the angle subtended at the time of viewing the print. When the two match reasonably closely there is a particularly three-dimensional effect.
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Originally Posted by AgX
Why is my computer screen horizontal, and can't I write decently a letter on it?
Clearly the people who do spreadsheets have more power than the people who write letters.
Our department secretary has a screen that rotates, and she seems to leave it in vertical mode.
There are a few cameras that are natively vertical, like the Bronica 645 RF and the Linhof 220 (there was a horizontal version, but it's much rarer than the vertical one), and I'd suspect some of the long roll portrait cameras.
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Originally Posted by David A. Goldfarb
Clearly the people who do spreadsheets have more power than the people who write letters.
Interesting observation, David. And probably more correct than not!
I work in finance but a few years ago moved from the analytical side to the legal documentation. I now find it more frustrating working from a monitor since, as you note, it favors spreadsheets over text!
Alas, being a lowly attorney, I do not have the clout of an Admin Asst. to insist on a rotatable screen. Heck, in our shop, I'm happy if the damned system doesn't crash!
BTW: I do find, in 35mm format, I prefer the vertical with, of course, the exception of the standard landscape shot.
A relatively cheap video card will allow you to choose the orientation of the screen, the screen itself needn't have a rotation feature. Simply get one of the cards (I think most any nVidia card from a 7600GS up will do it) and mount the montor sideways.
Originally Posted by jd callow
A relatively cheap video card will allow you to choose the orientation of the screen, the screen itself needn't have a rotation feature. Simply get one of the cards (I think most any nVidia card from a 7600GS up will do it) and mount the montor sideways.
Ah, JD, I see you do not work in the corporate world domintated by IT security!
To introduce anything into your computer at work - even putting a CD into the slot or attaching a data stick - is grounds for employment termination!
Great idea for freelancers and consultants, however.
I am all too aware of the strictures of corporate weaseldom having been a weasel of the boogle once and possibly always.


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DECATUR, Ind. (WOWO): A Decatur man has died after falling from a tree stand Saturday. 32-year-old Timothy Bowers was deer hunting on East 450 North near Piqua Road late Saturday afternoon when he fell from a tree stand around 16 feet from the ground. Bowers suffered a neck injury and paralysis from the fall. He was flown to Lutheran Hospital where he died Sunday night.


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|The FemCap is a new silicone rubber barrier contraceptive shaped like a sailor's hat, with a dome that covers the cervix, a rim that fits into the fornices, and a brim that conforms to the vaginal walls around the cervix. It was designed to result in fewer dislodgments and less pressure on the urethra than the cervical cap and diaphragm, respectively, and to require less clinician time for fitting. This was a phase II/III, multicenter, randomized, open-label, parallel group study of 841 women at risk for pregnancy. A subset of 42 women at one site underwent colposcopy. Women were randomized to use the FemCap or Ortho All-Flex contraceptive diaphragm, both with 2% nonoxynol-9 spermicide, for 28 weeks. The objectives were to compare the two devices with regard to their safety and acceptability and to determine whether the probability of pregnancy among FemCap users was no worse than that of the diaphragm (meaning not more than 6 percentage points higher). The 6-month Kaplan-Meier cumulative unadjusted typical use pregnancy probabilities were 13.5% among FemCap users and 7.9% among diaphragm users. The adjusted risk of pregnancy among FemCap users was 1.96 times that among diaphragm users, with an upper 95% confidence limit of 3.01. Clinical equivalence (noninferiority) of the FemCap compared with the diaphragm, as defined in this study, would mean that the true risk of pregnancy among FemCap users was no more than 1.73 times the pregnancy risk of diaphragm users. Because the observed upper 95% confidence limit (and even the point estimate) exceeded 1.73, the probability of pregnancy among FemCap users, compared with that among diaphragm users, did not meet the definition of clinical equivalence used in this study. The FemCap was believed to be safe and was associated with significantly fewer urinary tract infections. More women reported problems with the FemCap with regard to insertion, dislodgement, and especially removal, although their general assessments were positive. The two devices were comparable with regard to safety and acceptability, but a 6-point difference in the true 6-month pregnancy probabilities of the two devices could not be ruled out. Further studies are needed to determine whether design modifications can simplify insertion and removal.
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September 17, 2009 at 12:32 pm #7800
EelcoParticipantCarl wrote:
For a start-up seastead I would settle for not prohibiting my inhabitants from providing their own defense. And if somewhere down the line there appears security issues that personal weapons or perhaps an ad-hoc militia cannot cope with, then perhaps hiring a security company would be the next step.
I think grandiose "national defense" schemes will be a waste of money. A seastead is bound to be at the mercy of the guys with attack submarines and missiles for the forseeable future. My advice is to accept this as part of life and spend your money on something more productive.
Very much agreed.
Initially, there is no need to discuss this issue, as a professional army is not a possibility as a matter of scale.
A militia will do fine to deter pirates. If we ever need a professional military, i dont know; i hope not. See how well the largest army in the world is doing against a bunch of guys with AK's who at least believe in what they fight for.September 17, 2009 at 3:12 pm #7803
Me: Don't force anybody to pay for something they don't believe in.
The few militants here: Force other people to pay for what I believe in. Don't make me pay for their beliefs.
Of course I doubt any militant can understand this concept. As Isaac Asimov has said "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." You have to question people who think that cleaning a gun is somehow intellectually challanging.
As Jethro on the BHBs would say, "I dun finished the sixth grade. Yall wouldn't be sayin that about long division if ya ever been confronted with it."September 17, 2009 at 5:07 pm #7805
libertariandocParticipanthorton wrote:
Me: Don't force anybody to pay for something they don't believe in.
The few militants here: Force other people to pay for what I believe in. Don't make me pay for their beliefs.
Of course I doubt any militant can understand this concept. As Isaac Asimov has said "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." You have to question people who think that cleaning a gun is somehow intellectually challanging.
As Jethro on the BHBs would say, "I dun finished the sixth grade. Yall wouldn't be sayin that about long division if ya ever been confronted with it."
OK, so you have your undefended seastead, and we'll have one that is defended. We'll see who is still floating in 10 years…
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.September 17, 2009 at 6:12 pm #7807
MiitaryWelfareStateDoc, I wasn't commenting on seasteads. Seasteads are a proposed solution to the insanity that you seem to want to promote. I'll be happy if any Seastead has begun to float in 10 years. We're all on dry land right now and are all forced to deal with the consequences of insane political idealogies.
My guess is that, as people here have suggested, professional militaries will not be necessary for seasteads. Even if they are, the funding for them will be 100% consentual.September 19, 2009 at 12:09 am #7813
Whew, I've created a 4 page monster thread :p
Anyway, I think Smith's point is getting taken very out-of-context. If we'd just condense it to "Better trained militaries are more effective than badly trained ones" then I think we can all agree on that. And speaking as someone who'd spent 2 years in the army training recruits, HOW said militaries are trained is beyond most of the forum population and not what I'd intended to discuss.
What I'd wanted to address were;
1) Command Rape
– Duh… Once you remove both individuals from an environment where the commander has absolute control(Off-base accomodations, influx of non-regular personnel) you make it EXTREMELY difficult for this to take place.
2) Disconnection from Non-Military Society
– Anyone who's ever enlisted before will understand what I'm saying. Remember that really (*&^%$ guy in your section/squad? And how you took all your frustration out on him? And if was only when you got out of camp/base that you realized how mean you were? As for those who don't understand watch "Buffalo Soldiers"
3) Military as welfare
– It's a common in Singapore to find individuals of extremely low intellect as mid-ranked NCOs in our army. Regulars mind you, who are overweight, can't shoot straight or operate equipment without a manual.
4) Minority Discrimination
– Basically the army version of gay bashing. Military service seems to appeal to certain kinds of individuals. The rare few are patriots who have a desire to excel and protect their homes, then there's the gung-ho manly man who's out to prove his manly-ness and compensate for inadequacies by picking on anyone he/she can get his hands on.
So having looked at most of the posts, I find myself leaning towards a small, elite regular unit, kept on a short least(militarily anyway) backed with a large pool of volunteers who receive weekly training.September 19, 2009 at 7:00 am #7815
AlanParticipanti_is_j_smith wrote:
You want to talk about learning from history. In the American Revolutionary War, the British were not defeated by militia hiding in the woods and using cover. They won because Von Steuben trained them to fight like the British…in formation with volley fire. After Valley Forge he put a single standard in place, trained the men over and over in large-scale drill, and turned them into PROFESSIONAL soldiers. They showed how well they had learned at Monmouth.
Actually, the British were defeated largely by militia. It was the Southern campaign that finally did them in, and although the British won almost every major battle and held all their strong points, they couldn't hold the countryside because the militia was out there, often in groups of two or three, ready to shoot down any British soldier who went outside his fortifications to gather food or firewood. (Hmm. Sound familiar? Cough-Iraq-cough.)
Of course, the militia also performed well at Eutaw Springs in a set battle, and we all know about the over mountain men who wiped out Ferguson's command at King's Mountain, so sometimes the militia performed pretty well in traditional battles – but it was really their usefulness in denying territory that won the war.
You do have a point about the need for some professional soldiers, but you underestimate the militia at your own risk.
Of course, much of this will soon be obsolete as Artificial Intelligence overshadows the Natural sort.September 21, 2009 at 2:46 pm #7831
"Better trained militaries are more effective than badly trained ones
Exactly. But I will go even further than this, and say that you need professional militaries rather than call-on-when-needed militia. By professional military I mean one composed of soldiers who perform their duties on a full-time basis. They don't just train on the weekends or once every few months. Their job is to defend the seastead, and they train to perform this job constantly.
Some people's libertarian ideals might force them to reject such a system, but that doesn't make it less effective or true.
leaning towards a small, elite regular unit,
Yep, but I doubt you would need the backing of volunteers…they just fuck it up for the professionals. The threats that any seastead will have to deal with should easily be handled by a small, elite, heavily-armed, rapid reaction force.September 21, 2009 at 2:48 pm #7829
Actually, the British were defeated largely by militia.
I didn't say they weren't defeated by militia. They were defeated by militia…but a militia that was trained by a Prussian into using the same military drill that the British were using.
Yes, there were groups of soldiers that employed harrying techniques…popping off shots from the treeline and then running away. But those techniques didn't win the war. The war was won by groups of soldiers who had been trained to fight as cohesive units.
Even Kings Mountain, which isn't really a good example because it didn't have any British forces involved and the Loyalist commander was a coward and idiot, showed how well-trained soldiers could fight better than rag-tag groups of untrained men with guns. It was a set battle that the Loyalists should have won….who performs bayonet charges DOWN a hill when you have a superior defensive position and numerical advantage?
I don't know what you mean by Artificial Intelligence….will future seasteads be protected by armed robots?
EDIT: Actually, the war was won by the French. But that's not really what we are discussing so I simplified things. Just wanted to put that out there.September 21, 2009 at 3:15 pm #7832
You sure did! And the points you wanted to have addressed aren't too clear either…
Smitty, Horton: To truly have justified contempt for something rather than dis-informed opinions you have to experience it first hand. Why don't you join the 'All Volunteer Force', step up and be counted defending our country and your way of life. Then come on back and tell me/us about the 'morons'…September 21, 2009 at 5:53 pm #7833
Then come on back and tell me/us about the 'morons'
Dude, you should go back and read my posts better before you lump me with Horton and his lack of respect for the skills of professional soldiers.
defending our country and your way of life.
From what?September 21, 2009 at 6:56 pm #7835
War is an obcenisty.
It is Cain's sin repeated and magnified.
It is the greatest polluter and waster of all.
We won't need and should never seek an "Army", even when (if) our movement manages to reach a size it can call itself a "Confederated Nation-State".
Of course, I'm for reasonable arms and numbers to be a deterrant to Pirates should they attack us. Although I like pirates if they aren't attacking me and depending on the region and politics when I start this, a "Pirate" might well become a nice tribe member. Most present pirates, btw, from Somalia are ex-fishermen who saw their livelihood destroyed by first a legion of "Drift Net" trawlers then toxic waste dumping. A Somali pirate would love being part of a seasteading "Tribe" of a large boat or floating concrete island with terraced gardens and nets below for aquaculture.
The concern of "Warfare" with the larger nation states is another concern. First and foremost, an "Army" is a waste of time.
In Warfare:
You bring a knife to a fistfight.
You bring a gun to a kife fight.
And to a gunfight you bring a tank.
Warfare is not about one "Heroic" army fighting another "Villanous" one, that's a lie. War is simply throwing more resources (lives, materials, energy) at another and trying to outdo your enemy. Even if we team up and make an awesome navy where they are all Navy Seal level psycho killers and have a bunch of fancy boats with rocket launchers, another real size country (Mainly the US, but others also) would just have bomber drop bombs on them.
Therefore, we work on the counter-rules to warfare:
You learn martial arts to counter the knife wielder.
You learn geurilla tactics to counter the gun fighter.
You hide and plant IEDs to counter the tank.
Accept that the "Enemy" will have far more raw firepower to attack us and work around it. The best M-16 with grenade launcher weilded by the best trained soldier is useless if someone impales him from a hidden pit or blows him up with an IED or even an unexploded cluster bomblet turned into a cheap landmine. The best army in the world is useless if it cannot be launched.
The initial warfare should be waged by all of us immediately as we are working now and as we start out 'steads; Propaganda. We promote our vision as one of love and peace and that isn't a lie. I don't want to make a "World Superstate" I want to relax on a self-made island with some cute brown girls and have fun with music and science. But I fear that the "Controllers" will never leave anyone who wants to live instead of being alive alone. The first wave is the "Oseanik" vision, the true "Embracing of the Age of Aquarius" and the drive to create independant tribes on the waves, but in a confederation. This is "The planting of the seed".
Propaganda is used to gain more participants and use the media and the public opinion to work for us.
The second and most important part is the "Trade" aspect combined with the political game. We seek UN recognition ASAP, including even budgeting 25% more for our 'steads so we can afford the materials to build others as 'gifts' or rather 'exchanges'. Island nations are sinking and getting scared, make them some 'steads in exchange for going along wth our plans. It's a simple plan, we build our own islands where we answer to nobody but our tribe members. Above that, we support others who share the same vision. Keep the forces of control away for now. And we plan for the future.
There are a lot of ships going through the Pacific and Indian oceans. Floating islands and re-claimed cargo ships would make nice "Along the way" stops. Everything from a "Convienience store to a Casino/brothel". We'd form an "Alternate" and/or "Anti" economy. I'm against "Capitalism" as we know it, but I am all for "Trade". Something is worth what you can get another to pay for it. Anything is worth nothing unless value is placed in it. There is no true wealth beyond man's need. Trading is theiving unless it is barter. "Capitalists" agree with everything I've said about trade, they just tell lies and hide behind governments to get others to accept the face value of what they use. We'll work to produce things, trade for profit, but not allow ourselves to become slaves to dollars, to essentially always living off the work or mercy of another as is in the countries we are escaping.
At this stage we step up our propaganda. I'm for doing things like making "Jellyfish Vaccums" since due to overfishing the Jellyfish are poised to take over the oceans. A japanese researcher has found how to convert them into an edible product. I don't think I'd want to eat it, but it could be used to feed "Aquacuture" projects. Also we work to re-establish natural fisheries destroyed by drift net fishing and make "Barriers" and "Cutter Bots" to deter future harvest of this sort.
We should also work on ways to "Filter" out the plastic from the "Garbage Patches". I am really, REALLY scared at what all that atomized plasitc might be doing. Perhaps we'll be able to convert the plastic to foodstuff. At least it will be nice "Filler" space for more SeaSteads, blocks of plastic to provide negative structure to keep things floating.
These things we do, even though they are for primarily our own good (food for aquaculutre and to protect aquaculture from poison and jellyfish eating them) we propagandize as "See!? We are cleaning the oceans for the rest of the world! Do you want the oceans to become nothing but an algae filled swamp full of jellyfish?" We might even get some support from the big corporations (working out reasonable "Line" over trading philosiphy) to help us build these on huge scales (and more seaSteads) and them dodge taxes and fines for past behavior.
The third stage will be when (if) we get big enough to assert ourselves as a true world nation state. I anticipate the conflict will come over the space elevator. A large, city-sized floating platform that is anchored at exactly the equator and provide the infastructure for it.
How do we stop any large nation state from taking it over? Gun to a knife fight. Oseana's best resource will be technology and intelligence and outright brutal cunning. Which works better, a weapon that can destroy a city and technology that can see that city, or a weapon that could do little more than "Cutting a throat" but also it could see that throat anywhere in the world? We won't need to seek nukes or bioweapons. We'd simply work on something far more reaching and far more precise that was on a different tangent than what "Conventional Warfare" is now. Deterrants for "Underwater demolitions experts" and ships and subs are a plus.
Now, I'm not going to post any "Plan B" ideas here, and I advise against anyone posting their ideas. Keep them in your head and save them for the "Second Stage" to prepare for "Oseanik Assertion" third stage.
And I'll say this to any "Intelligence" or other agency monitoring this: "Leave us alone and we will be at peace. We seek peace, we want peace. For God's sake, we are literally willing to live on discarded ships and big rafts on the Ocean itself to gain freedom, you should respect that. Leave us alone and we won't ever seek to hurt you, even if we get big enough to be a superpower, it'll be in our constitution. We won't grab nukes, we won't work on bioweapons, and in helping ourselves survive we'll probably help the Oceans ecology. We might do stuff on our own 'steads that are "Illegal" in other parts, live with it. We won't be doing "Big" things like supplying terrorists to attack the USA, we won't need that "SH-T" so we won't spread it. Also, if we get big and America is having trouble but has never attacked us or harassed us, we WILL help America or other countries as best we can. (Technology, surplus food, advice at restoring fisheries and aquaculture technology) A lot of our people will be "Expatriates" from a lot of countries, we will want to be friends, to still be able to visit and see our relatives. (I can stand "Name Calling" and that's only fair since I've used plenty)"September 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm #7836
It looks like this shud have been an underground movment from the start, man….X, you did open the Pandora's box dude. WE ARE DOOMED.September 27, 2009 at 2:17 am #7888
AlanParticipanti_is_j_smith wrote:
I didn't say they weren't defeated by militia. They were defeated by militia…but a militia that was trained by a Prussian into using the same military drill that the British were using.
I'm pretty sure von Steuben never made it to Tennessee, or even South Carolina. I doubt his drills taught a damn thing to the overmountain men or the men who followed Marion or Sumter.
The war IN THE NORTHERN COLONIES was won by groups of soldiers who had been trained to fight as cohesive units.
There. Fixed that for you.
Of course, there were regulars in the southern colonies too. That force was pretty much obliterated with the fall of Charleston, at which point the militia bled the British forces dry. Those militia were, of course, also quite capable of fighting as cohesive units, but generally did so in a guerilla campaign – with some exceptions such as Eutaw Springs.
Even Kings Mountain, which isn't really a good example because it didn't have any British forces involved and the Loyalist commander was a coward and idiot, showed how well-trained soldiers could fight better than rag-tag groups of untrained men with guns.
I have never heard Major Patrick Ferguson (who was Scottish) called either a coward or an idiot, and I am surprised that you would do so.
I don't know what you mean by Artificial Intelligence….will future seasteads be protected by armed robots?
That was my point – that we are discussing how to win the last war, not the next. Still, some things remain the same – it is difficult for anyone to control a populace that detests them.September 29, 2009 at 9:36 pm #7902
I think a lot of what is being discussed here is overkill. Seasteaders, as a community, don't need a professional military. I'd suggest rather the armed volunteer militia idea, perhaps with a few full-time volunteer deputies, or community sheriffs, for basic peacekeeping, law enforcement, and if necessary piracy suppression. In the case of organized pirates, the deputies and sheriffs would act as community organizers to rally and mobilize the militia.
The difference, and it's small but vital, is that such people would be a part of, and a friend of, the community, as opposed to potentially dangerous armed professionals that are apart from the Seasteading community. Yes, if absolutely necessary a professional warrior-type can be necessary, but usually not. It's my hope that a few members of the community have the proper military skillset already–I'm not one of them, but I'm not totally clueless either.
My first point is this: On the very rare occasion that organized bands of pirates attack, yes, you want Rambo manning the guns. But the other 99.99% of the time, when the community is just cruising happily along and all is well, I'd rather have Sheriff Andy keeping watch. Keeping watch, sharing coffee, and being a part of the community.
My background? Former Navy–electronics tech, nothing exciting like SEAL or TopGun Maverick. But I'm an expert marksman, I have arms aboard our ship, and both my wife and I know how to use them properly (without being morons, even!). I've also got some basic experience with close-quarter knife-fighting, useful aboard a tiny sailboat. That's it, no fantastic special forces magic, no law-enforcement experience, just an odd-but-average Joe. And anywhere Katie and I stop, we'll be happy to stand a balls-to-four watch–armed or unarmed, community's choice–in exchange for fresh water and a pound of limes.
But my next point is this: When my wife and I are a part of the Seasteading community–albeit more like travelling merchants and pony express–I'm not interested in how well-armed the community Rambo is; I'm interested in how friendly Sheriff Andy is. If I pull up to a smiling bunch of Seasteaders, I'm gonna stop, hang out, and help out. If I'm being tracked by a gun muzzle as I'm sailing up…I'm sailing on.September 30, 2009 at 5:05 pm #7912
I think the problem is that when I say "professional military" people immediately assume a large, expensive army like what the U.S. has. It doesn't have to be that way. On a seastead of a few hundred people you would only need a dozen or two people making up this "professional military". The point is not how big it is…the point is that the people in this group make defending the seastead their full-time job. So it doesn't have to be overkill.
such people would be a part of, and a friend of, the community
These full-time soldiers would be just as much a part of the community as the full-time aquaculturists or the full-time IT technicians. Why do they have to be any different from anyone else on the seastead? They perform a vital job in the community…defending it from physical attack…just as the IT technicians keep the seastead-wide wireless network up and the aquaculture technicians keep everyone fed. Just because they carry guns instead of punchdown tools or fishing nets doesn't make them social pariahs.
Most of the time you will have Sheriff Andy watching over things. But when the poop hits the spinning blades he has a well-armed, well-trained, cohesive defense force at his disposal and can direct it as needed. You won't have to worry about if your machine gunner is currently underwater checking her oyster nets and can't hear the warning siren. You don't have to freak out because your only two snipers are fishing several miles away. With a militia system the defense of the seastead is a secondary duty. I don't want my data infrastructure to be secondary. I don't want my water purification to be secondary. So why would I want my defense to be secondary?
And just because you have a full-time defense force doesn't mean every person who pulls up in a yacht will be greeted by gun muzzles pointed by cigar-chomping Rambos with itchy trigger fingers.
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SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- Slidell police say a chase after a stolen Pontiac Grand Prix ended with a forced spin-out and the arrest of a man who said he took the car because he had to get home and to a second audition for the Fox reality show "The X Factor."
Detective Daniel Seuzeneau (SOO-zuh-noh) says 20-year-old Orrion Wilson, of Jacksonville, Fla., was in the Slidell jail Tuesday, awaiting transfer to the Tangipahoa Parish jail and a bond hearing. The chase was Monday night, one day after open auditions for the singing contest in New Orleans.
Seuzeneau says Wilson was booked with aggravated assault on a police officer, theft of a motor vehicle, theft over $500, criminal damage, resisting an officer, and aggravated flight from an officer.
A Fox publicist had no immediate comment.
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I have read the docs on how to configure Tomcat to work as the Java Container for Apache but I'm lost. I have downloaded the mode_jk.dll and that's about as far as I got. I don't know what to do. Can someone help me as I am new to Apache and Tomcat. Thanks, Jeremy
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First you need mod_jk.dll (or mod_jk.so for Linux) following next steps:
1) Copy mod_jk file to Apache modules directory.
2) Edit apache http.conf file, you must append following lines:
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.dllAddModule mod_jk.c# mod_jk support JkWorkersFile C:/Tomcat4/conf/workers.properties JkLogFile logs/jk.log JkLogLevel error JkMount /*.jsp ajp13 JkMount /servlet/* ajp13 JkMount /examples/* ajp13 JkMount /myApplication/* ajp13
3) Add workers.properties file to Tomcat conf directory, Tomcat generates this file, if you don't have that file, this is an example:
workers.tomcat_home=C:Tomcat4workers.java_home=C:JDK14ps=worker.list=ajp12, ajp13worker.ajp12.port=8007worker.ajp12.host=localhostworker.ajp12.type=ajp12worker.ajp12.lbfactor=1worker.ajp13.port=8009worker.ajp13.host=localhostworker.ajp13.type=ajp13worker.ajp13.lbfactor=1worker.loadbalancer.type=lbworker.loadbalancer.balanced_workers=ajp12, ajp13worker.inprocess.type=jniworker.inprocess.class_path=$(workers.tomcat_home)$(ps)lib$(ps)tomcat.jarworker.inprocess.cmd_line=startworker.inprocess.jvm_lib=$(workers.java_home)$(ps)jre$(ps)bin$(ps)classic$(ps)jvm.dllworker.inprocess.stdout=$(workers.tomcat_home)$(ps)logs$(ps)inprocess.stdoutworker.inprocess.stderr=$(workers.tomcat_home)$(ps)logs$(ps)inprocess.stderr
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Wow. But at the same time, I just have this feeling that she doesn't look like this anymore. Like, maybe, the complete opposite of this.
She would look so much better without the big hard plastic looki n fake breasts, i think boob jobs are such a joke, and i love breasts, big ones, small ones medium ones are all great, as long as there real, just the fact that women feel they have to get fake boobs says so much about society and how messed up it is, for instance you have this girl up here whose clearly smoking hot and and has all the things that would make so many people sooo happy and yet she wakes up one mourning and looks in the mirror and thinks to herself, maybe they would hire me for more jobs and me would like me more if i had a doctor cut me open and stick some jelly sacks in my tits, i mean come on now, i say looking for the real Noahs Ark is probably the 2nd dumbest thing that i know of her doing, poor little shallow empty lonely rich girl.
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Kingston shuts down Franklin Pierce, earns state berth
POULSBO - It was a game practically begging for a winner.
In the end, Kingston, and not Franklin Pierce, got the big play that made all the difference.
A botched snap on a punt attempt late in the third quarter set up the game's only touchdown as Kingston shut out Franklin Pierce 7-0 on Saturday in a Class 2A West Central District tournament game at Vikings Stadium. Kingston is the only West Sound football team to survive the weekend.
The Buccaneers (8-2) advance to the state tournament for the second consecutive year. Kingston, which finished second in the Olympic League during the regular season, faces Lynden — ranked No. 2 in the latest Associated Press state poll — on the road next week.
"We're honored to play Lynden," Kingston coach W. Todd Harter said.
"It was a tough game, tough game. Not a whole lot of first downs, a lot of defense."
The game also featured a lot of penalties. Franklin Pierce (7-4) was flagged 17 times and wasn't able to generate any sort of rhythm on offense. The Cardinals, who tied for third place in the South Puget Sound League during the regular season, only reached the red zone once and spent much of the night going backward instead of forward.
"The flags, it looked like the field was in yellow," said Franklin Pierce coach Howard Lutton, whose team turned the ball over three times and missed a 29-yard field goal in the second quarter. "Third-and-25 and your call sheet gets pretty small."
With 103 yards of total offense, Kingston played the field-position battle for much of the game, waiting for opportunity to strike. That opportunity came with two minutes to play in the third quarter as the Buccaneers recovered the ball on Franklin Pierce's 3-yard line after a snap on a punt attempt sailed high.
On third down, Kingston quarterback Bobby Reece faked a handoff and threw to his left just before getting crushed in the backfield. The pass found tight end Matt Shaw uncovered for a 3-yard touchdown grab, putting the Buccaneers up 7-0.
One touchdown ended up being all Kingston needed as the defense held off Franklin Pierce on its final four possessions. The Cardinals turned the ball over twice with Kingston defensive back Garrett Rouser recovering a fumble and linebacker Aaron Dickson intercepting a pass from Franklin Pierce quarterback Daniel Wheelock, who finished the game completing just 6 of 23 passes for 48 yards and two interceptions.
"I was expecting it to be a higher-scoring game," Kingston offensive/defensive lineman Tucker Burns said. "The defenses took control. We came out on top."
Harder wasn't able to escape getting doused with cold water after the game, but smiled knowing his Buccaneers escaped with a victory.
"We came up with the big play when we needed it," Harder said. "You always hear that football comes down to three or five plays, and you never know which ones those are. We made one, then we made two and that was enough to win the game."
Kingston 7, Franklin Pierce 0
F. Pierce 0 0 0 0 —0
Kingston 0 0 7 0 —7
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Kin—Matt Shaw 3 pass from Bobby Reece (Ryan Fick kick)
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RUSHING—Kin, Nick Tabanera 15-26, Bobby Reece 3-13, Aaron Dickson 4-21.
PASSING—Kin, Bobby Reece 8-115-0-43, FP, Daniel Wheelock 6-23-2-49.
RECEIVING—Kin, Henry English 1-2, Nathan Carleton 1-6, Matt Shaw 2-7, Aaron Dickson 2-17, Matt Iles 2-11.
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How to choose a printer
Printers: love them or loathe them, we can't do without them. James helps you decide which you want
In a world increasingly dominated by digital information, printers can sometimes feel like a relic from times past. After all, the underlying technology in most printers hasn't really changed since the introduction of the home inkjet, Hewlett Packard's original Deskjet, and that happened in 1988!
However, the fact is that printers still do something no other device can, and that's get information off computers and into the physical world. Email might mean we have less and less need to print off letters, forms and business documents, but what about restaurant vouchers or gig tickets, or even postage bought online? What about photos? The simple fact is that sometimes you need (or want) a bit of paper that you can give to someone, and companies are more than happy to sell you the chance to do it for yourself.
That said, few devices have done as much to add to the collective misery of computer users as printers have. Shoddy drivers, wonky paper problems and inconsistent ink-consumption habits can turn even the simple act of printing an address label into something far more complicated and frustrating than it needs to be.
However, until the day when humanity can collectively agree that no one should ever have to use a printer again, you really do need access to one. That doesn't mean you're completely at the mercy of manufacturers, though. There are good printers, and bad printers, and over the next few pages, we'll help you decide which of the many available types can fill the printer gap in your life.
How much should you spend?
It all depends on what type of printer you want. The barest, most minimally functional inkjets can be picked up for as little as £25, but that doesn't mean they're very good. Inkjet printers tend to be low maintenance, but only because such low prices mean that if they break, you simply replace them. The ink doesn't cost a huge amount, but one quirk of the budget printer is that they're often cheaper to buy than a set of cartridges, and because they come with a free set, in some cases it actually makes more financial sense to buy a new printer than to buy new ink. Admittedly, that's not very good for the environment, though.
In terms of economy, however, it actually makes more sense to buy a multi-function printer. These pack a scanner, printer, fax machine and stand-alone photocopying function into one unit, and can be picked up for as little as £30, giving you access to vastly more functionality.
However, cheap inkjets (whether in an MFP or stand-alone) have a habit of breaking under heavy use, and if you get one to last more than a couple of years of regular use you're doing well. We'd recommend spending a little more to get something manufactured to a slightly better standard. More expensive inkjet printers (£50+) also tend to have useful extra features, such as network support, which are definitely worth paying for. Try not to exceed £60, though, unless you're buying a specialist photo printer, because at that level you're paying for brands and high-end specifications, which are useless to the home user, rather than reliability or build quality.
Laser printers are slightly more expensive than inkjets. The cheapest mono printers can be picked up for around £36, but these are designed for home use, rather than the typical office setting of a laser printer. Colour lasers start at £89, and for that amount, they're hard to recommend in a home context unless you do a lot of colour printing. We're not really sure who would.
What make/model/manufacturer should you look for?
Choosing a printer brand is largely an exercise in loyalty. Some will swear by Lexmark, while others wouldn't dream of anything other than a Hewlett-Packard. The problem is that the varying tiers of printer manufacture mean that even single brands aren't consistent in their own output. Their cheap inkjets might be bad, while their expensive MFPs aren't.
Trying to find an objective metric is tough. Canon is the printer brand with the most Facebook likes, according to a recent statistics from Amplicate, with Panasonic an unexpected second, and Hewlett Packard third. Well-known printer manufacturers Lexmark and Epson were less popular with their customers, however, placing at sixth and seventh respectively in the overall list. However, all of this doesn't necessarily tell you about customer satisfaction - just which company managed to mobilise their users most convincingly.
One reason Canon may be popular is because many of its printers typically use individual tanks for each colour of ink, meaning that you can potentially save money compared to buying combined tri-colour cartridges such as most other manufacturers offer. The cheapest offerings, however, still use dual-cartridge systems, perhaps reflecting the need to make back the manufacturing cost of such models on cartridge sales.
In any case, the printer market is full of brands that have been in the game for decades, and it's virtually only those brands competing. As long as you recognise the name, it's not going to have any major flaws or nasty surprises waiting. Price and capabilities are far more important criteria to judge on.
With that in mind, we recommend the HP Deskjet 1000 (£32) if you're looking for a cheap colour inkjet, the Epson Stylus SX130 (£30) if you're looking for cheap and cheerful MFP and the Kodak ESP C310 (£60) if you want a decent MFP with higher-tier features. Laser printers aren't top of the agenda for home use, but if we had to pick one, it'd be the Lexmark C540n (£120), which is a little more expensive than the cheapest colour laser printers, but all the better for being so.
What technology should you look for?
In terms of printer categories, you're probably aware of the three basic options by now: inkjet, MFP and laser. We'll first explain where you might want to use those, and then go over the features you should look for in them.
First, inkjets. Cheap inkjets are useful if you're just after something that can print out the occasional form or document. They're low-priced, low-maintenance and will almost certainly cost more in ink cartridges during the first year than you spent on the printer itself. They're also sold as very basic devices, which means if you're planning anything even vaguely fancy (double-sided printing or multiple paper sizes, for example), you can expect a lot of fiddling and failed attempts before chancing on the correct procedure.
MFPs are printers with scanning, stand-alone photocopying and sometimes even fax capabilities built into them. They tend to be slightly more capable as a result of being a bit more expensive, but the cheapest still contain poor printers, so be careful.
Laser printers offer the best quality and speed of all consumer printers, but they're also large and hard to maintain. Ideal for small offices, but not normally necessary for casual home use. Unlike the inkjet market, where colour units are simple and cheap enough that monochrome printers have been priced out of existence, there's still a substantial difference in price, performance and complexity between colour and monochrome laser printers. Check which you're buying before you get the credit card out!
Whichever type of printer you buy, look out for networking support. This won't be available in the cheapest models, but the ability to share a printer on a network is a real time and convenience saver for households with multiple computers. In some cases, this is Ethernet-only, but higher-end devices will have wireless support.
Some network-enabled printers come with their own email account, meaning you can email documents to them, which is useful if you're using a web-enabled device that lacks printer support. Many printers are compatible with Apple's 'AirPrint' standard, which allows you to print documents direct from your iPhones and iPad, which is incredibly useful if you have those devices. Android phones don't have a similar feature, but most printer manufacturers provide an app that adds the required support for their hardware. Check in advance if you're not sure!
As for the specification jargon, don't worry too much about the numbers. Unless you're a designer or printing photos, any printer you buy will be capable of creating work of high enough quality that you won't notice any flaws.
To illustrate, printer resolutions are given in DPI (which stands for 'dots-per-inch'). In practical terms, this describes the level of detail that a printer can reproduce. The higher the DPI, the better the image will look (and the more ink it requires). DPI values higher than 600 are more than enough for photograph reproduction in a home setting (magazines, for example, are usually printed at 300dpi) and even the cheapest inkjets can reach about 900-1200dpi.
In any case, if you want to print at resolutions any higher than that, you need high-quality paper that stops the ink bleeding. So if you can't imagine yourself buying expensive paper to print on, that's reassurance enough that DPI isn't really an issue worth worrying about.
However, in these eco-friendly times, do look for duplex capabilities. Duplex means the ability to print on both sides of a page without human intervention - a real time (and planet!) saver.
Is now the right time to buy?
At the moment, there's little to suggest that printers will come down any further in price. Indeed, some are already sold at a loss just because the profit margins on ink cartridges are much better! There's also no suggestion of any particularly relevant advances in printer technology on the horizon, so don't think that might bring down prices either. If anything, as printing becomes less and less necessary and manufacturers struggle with a disappearing market, you can expect printers to actually get more expensive in the long term, rather than cheaper. They're already as cheap as they can possibly be!
With that in mind, we can safely recommend you buy a printer now if you need one.
What are the technical constraints?
Printers need only two things: a power supply, and a connection to your computer. Whether the latter is a USB cable, an Ethernet cable, a wireless network connection or an email account accessed over the web doesn't necessarily matter. If you can provide those two things, your printer should work. Cheap printers need to be connected to a PC, while stand-alone MFPs and laser printers just need a network connection (so make sure you have the space near your network hub).
However, bear in mind that printers also need drivers (in most cases, at least). If you're running a particularly old version of Windows (or, indeed, a particularly new version) there's a chance that the drives might not be available. Check for compatibility or workarounds if you're not sure!
What's the alternative?
If you don't have (or don't want) a printer, you have two choices: try to live without one (difficult) or use someone else's (inconvenient). And that's more or less it. Admittedly, innovations like the iPhone's 'PassBook' are trying to turn printing into a thing of the past, by offering a digital interface for things like tickets and vouchers that you might otherwise have to print, but we're a long way off that.
However, there is something else that's like a printer but not: the 3D printer. They're not used for exactly the same purpose, but far from trying to make everything digital, 3D printers mean you can create all manner of three-dimensional physical objects using nothing more than your computer and printer. The magic happens through a process of additive manufacture: layers of material (for example, plastic dust) are laid down on top of one another, and fused together by heat at each stage, resulting in a solid physical object at the end.
3D printing isn't quite ready to come into the home, although hobbyists and enthusiasts have demonstrated that it can be used to create simple items like coathooks, backscratchers, replacement parts for home tools and ornaments, as well as more complex items like torches and motors, which use conductive inks to form circuits. Slightly worryingly, someone has even produced a design for a working, 3D-printed gun.
Today, the price of the hardware and materials is far from cheap, but it's likely that they'll come down if demand is sufficient. The Solidoodle 2, for example, is a simple 6 x 6 x 6 inch printer which can be bought fully assembled for $499, while the larger and more versatile Fab@Home 2.0 costs as much as $2,000. So while you may be using less paper in the future, it's possible that you'll still have a printer in your home - just a 3D one instead.


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Jack Mackenroth Bares His Best Assets
By: Brandon Voss
Project Runway alum Jack Mackenroth recently launched Volttage, a dating and hookup site for HIV-positive guys.
He's also no stranger to a sexy photo shoot, but the guy has really gone wild in a new spread — and yes, honey, we do mean spread — courtesy of photographer Justin Monroe.
See a couple censored photos below. Then check out the uncensored NSFW images here and take a wild guess at his preferred sexual position.
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Just today, I overheard someone say that income inequality must not be that bad, because you only need a few $100,000 to be in the 99th percentile (see CNN/Money) — that works out to be about $343k to make the top 1%.
That is factually accurate, but misses the full wealth disparity issue. To see where the big bucks are, you need to look into the top 0.5%, 0.1%, 0.01% and lastly, and lastly, the top 0.001%.
The details of this were delightfully illustrated by Catherine Mulbrandon at TBP conference – PDF presentation here, video here.
Top 1% = $368,238 (20.9% of income)
Top 0.5% = $558,726 (16.8% of income)
Top 0.1% = $1,695,136 (10.3% of income)
Top 0.01% = $9,141,190 (5% of income)
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
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DICKSON CITY, Pa. (AP) - The top minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees is looking to northeastern Pennsylvania's history for its new identity.
After spending all of last season as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, the club renamed itself the RailRiders on Wednesday in a nod to the region's railroading history.
The new logo features a porcupine mascot in navy and gold with maroon lettering for the team name.
The porcupine is native to the area and had been among the other candidates for the team name.
The club spent all of last season without a home stadium amid a $43 million renovation project at PNC Field, just outside Scranton. The team played 37 "home" games in Rochester, N.Y.
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(WICHITA, Kan.) — It's not the typical buzz you would expect to see outside a sports bar.
More than 40 people lost their locks to raise awareness for childhood cancer. NetApp employees teamed up with Larry Bud's Sports Bar and Grill for a fundraiser to support St. Baldrick's foundation.
Kristena Hoover was one of nine woman who volunteered to donate her hair. She helped raise $2,000 for the foundation.
"Little kids everyday loose their hair in a fight against a disease they don't deserve," she said. "So it really feels insignificant shaving my hair off by my own choice."
Hoover said it's heartbreaking that her hair will start to grow back immediately. She started crying when a young cancer patient met her on stage to say thank you.
"It makes it worth it," Hoover said. "People are beautiful with or without hair."
Wichita NetApp employees raised more than $47,000 for St. Baldrick's last year, and hope to exceed that total in 2013. Worldwide, about 175,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year.


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Media information: Immediate Release
PISA - Show's over: international study exposes government standards charade
Final straw for government's education record: world's most comprehensive assessment of pupil knowledge and skills crushes UK government claims of rising school standards.
PISA results show declining standards between 2000 and 2006:
In contrast to:
Government results show rising standards at all expected levels between 2000 and 2006:
Results from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) released today, provide conclusive evidence that whilst government exam scores have been rising, standards have in fact sunk under New Labour.
'These devastating results provide a much-needed and much-anticipated expose of the government's standards "charade",' said Anastasia de Waal, Head of Family and Education at the independent think tank, Civitas. 'That standards have actually declined amongst UK pupils is unsurprising when we consider that much ostensible improvement has been achieved through harmful shortcuts.
'Suspicions were roused when the UK was not included in the 2003 PISA. The UK's response rate was such that the sampling standards were not met. Academic commentary at the time perceived this to be because schools with poor results did not participate. PISA's damning verdict for 2006 shows that those suspicions were warranted.'
The chasm between the government's alleged improvement and independent measures has developed as higher test scores have been achieved artificially by gaming schools and pupils for exams and lowering exam standards.
PISA's results for the UK are the culmination of extensive evidence showing that government claims of constantly improving school standards are contradicted by independent measures.
Several robust independent measures have shown that New Labour's progress in both secondary and primary school test and exam results is inflated. For example:
Government statistics: Since 1997, the percentage of pupils at Key Stage 2 reaching the expected level or higher has increased from 63% to 80% in English, from 62% to 77% in maths and from 69% to 88% in science.
Independent counter-evidence
Government statistics:
Key Stage 3: Since 1997, the number of pupils reaching the expected levels or higher has risen from 57% to 73% in English, from 60% to 76% for maths and from 60% to 72% for science.
GCSE: Since 1997, the number of pupils achieving 5 or more A*-C grades has risen from 46.3% to 61.5%.
A-level: Since 1997, the number of A-level passes has risen from 87.2% of all A-level entries, to 96.9%.
Independent counter-evidence
Key Stage 3:
PISA's results, supported by other independent measures, show that rising test and exam results in the UK not only do not equate with higher standards of knowledge and skills, but that their achievement has often involved lowering standards. The methods which the government has encouraged to achieve many of its results, show a much greater commitment to Public Service Agreement targets than to pupils.
The government will doubtless argue that the 2006 PISA data cannot be compared with the data from 2000. However, PISA clearly states its assessment as designed to allow countries to " track their progress in meeting key learning goals".
Whilst the science data between 2000 and 2006 are not comparable, the reading and maths data are valid measures of trends over time.
'The government must finally take responsibility for the failure it has covered up until now,' concludes Anastasia de Waal.
For more information ring:
Anastasia de Waal, Head of Family and Education: 020 7799 6677 (w), 07930 354234 (mobile)
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Please forgive us for today's sudden outageJuly 3, 2013 at 7:38 pm | In West Seattle news, West Seattle online | 5 Comments
Please accept our apologies for the outage late today – it was NOT planned, and furthermore, when we occasionally need to take the site down for maintenance, we do our best to make sure it's only in the very late-night/early-morning hours. Our latest problems are the result of growing pains yet again – every month sets a new record for homes/businesses visiting WSB, and we keep having to adjust the underlying technology to keep up. Right now we're beginning work (with expert assistance) on leaping way ahead, rather than just keeping up, so once we can make that leap, it should dramatically reduce the risk of sudden crashes like the few we've had lately. In addition to checking our social-media channels if WSB is down – primarily Facebook (be sure you "like" facebook.com/westseattleblog, NOT our old "WS Blog" account) and Twitter – we also have revived our old blog-format backup site, so bookmark westseattleblog.wordpress.com) just in case. Thanks again for your patience and ongoing support and collaboration – Tracy Record & Patrick Sand, WSB co-publishers
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Glad to have you back. Sorry you are going through these growing pains, but they are good ones and speak volumes to the great service you provide WS! You guys rock!
You guys are DAMM close to ZERO down time! A hiccup every once in awhile is to be accepted.
WSB – ALWAYS there! Rock on!
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I tried to access WSB at one point today and got an error message and figured you had a small hiccup. No big deal. I used to work for "Earth's largest online retailer" and even there we had a Sev 1 outage that took the whole thing down for about 15 minutes. Keep marching….
Comment by Ajax — 11:05 pm July 3, 2013 #
Please do not apologize! You folks rock!
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Great customer service to acknowledge this issue! It is fantastic that you have this much of growth. Hope to see you double in the next year.
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