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Fantasies are great. They're hot and fun and what drew many of us into kink in the first place. But they're not reality. Clinging to a fantasy in the face of real life evidence to the contrary requires ignoring that evidence. Lack of evidence makes it just a little bit difficult to figure out what's going wrong, let alone how to fix it.
For example, years ago on fetlife in the submissive men and the women who love them group, a man started a thread asking for guidance on being the best submissive he could be. All well and good, but he posted in all caps and replaced 'E's with '3's. Person after person replied asking him to post in a more readable format, but he insisted they were all out to deny his self expression and eventually left in a huff because no one would tell him how to be a better submissive. I sincerely wish I was exaggerating, but he was actually that deluded.
This guy was clearly living in a fantasy land, and it worked out badly for him. If he had been willing to put aside his fantasy that he was such a special and unique snowflake that everyone would rush to do him favours no matter how poorly he expressed himself, he might have been able to learn something.
As annoying as that particular person was, he really only hurt himself. None of the people he so thoroughly alienated were actually harmed by trying to read a few badly formatted posts. Other types of fantasies, however, can be much more harmful.
There are three main categories of fantasies I see in the scene. 'It would be hot if…', 'It would be convenient for me if…', and 'My kink would be okay if…'.
'It would be hot if…' fantasies are the all too common 'this protocol turns my crank, so I'm going to use it everywhere, even if S/slashy speak on a simple message board makes people want to claw their eyes out', or 'all the female doms in porn like verbal humiliation, so you should you like it too'. If you willfully ignore other people's complaints about how hard your posts are to read, you'll be left scratching your head and wondering why you can't seem to make friends with anyone. If no-one you approach will give you the time of day, there may be a reason for it.
'It would be convenient for me if…' is that much more irritating. I put 'I declared myself dominant, so you must all bow down and address me as Sir Lord Emperor Black Dragon Wolf' in that category. It would be great if simply calling yourself a dom/top/master made you effortlessly confident in all situations – believe me, I wish it had worked that way for me. I think 'my way is the one true way and the rest of you are all wrong' belongs in this category too. It would be awfully convenient if there were one true way to do things that was clearly best for everyone. If there were, we could all stop screwing around and just do the stuff that works. In the real world, insisting there is one right way causes people to laugh at you either behind your back or right to your face. It's also a bit of a setback when you inevitably encounter a situation where your 'one true way' doesn't work.
'My kink would be okay if…' fantasies probably irritate me the most, although all of them are abundantly annoying. This is where I place fantasies like 'all women are naturally submissive, so it's okay for me to be dominant', and 'I follow the ancient Japanese tradition of rope masters, handed down generation by generation in a secret ceremony, so it's okay for me to like tying people up'. It's okay to be kinky, dammit! A lack of permanent damage and your partner's informed consent makes your kink okay.
What's not okay is hurting other people while you try to convince yourself your kink is okay. I don't feel safe in a scene where asshats can go around insisting that women are all naturally submissive without anyone calling them on their shit. Your need to put a band-aid on your insecurity about your kink does not outrank my need to be able to participate in the kink community without getting attacked just for being who I am.
Feeling insecure about whether it's okay to be kinky is perfectly natural, and not what I'm complaining about. What I can't stand is people deciding that because they feel insecure, everyone should act in a way that lets them avoid dealing with their insecurities. The scene is based on consent, and I do not consent to denying who I am so that you don't have to worry about whether you're 'doing it right'.


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Bajeeez--It feels like I have been so busy lately. I'm a teacher and at the end of the school year there is always too much to do. Today was the seniors last day, so finals, grading finals and trying to get all their paperwork finished.
I've also been working on some much needed painting at home. Throughout the year, I'm always accumulating projects that I want to get done during the summer. I have this new obsession with buying old lamps and refinishing them to bring them back to life. If I bring home one more lamp, my husband is going to kick me out of the house. This week I have painted three lamps, two mirrors and am working on a new clock. It feels good to finally get a start on some projects from my ever growing heap of things on my to do list.
Will post pictures of the finished projects in the near future. This time I forgot to take before pictures--I really need to be more organized about taking befores and afters.
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Living with Alexa
February 23, 2017 | By Peter Bihr |
I'd like to make a case for being careful with spreading second- or third-hand stories and rather on gathering first-hand experience of interesting products and services. I believe it's the best way to feel our way into a future shaped by emerging technologies, and to make informed decisions about them. So in the name of science, I lived with Amazon Echo/Alexa for a week. Here's my experience.
We talk a lot about smart homes, about connected domestic devices, about conversational interfaces and artificial intelligence. A surprising amount of what's talked about and what's reported on is word of mouth: I heard somewhere that Amazon Echo ordered a thousand doll houses and boxes of cookies after someone mentioned it on TV! The makers of the doll houses couldn't believe their luck, and consumers are screwed!
(For the record: In reality, it was likely "a handful" of dollhouse orders; it's not trivially simple to order—let alone unknowingly—via the device; and Amazon has a full refund policy for physical products ordered this way.)
Word-of-mouth information is bad for all kinds of reasons
This word-of-mouth information is bad for all kinds of reasons. (One could cynically argue that it perfectly fits our times of so-called "post-factual" news and politics.) I believe there's plenty of reason to be critical of connected services, and even more convinced consumers of (or everyone exposed to) connected services should be able to make informed decisions about their use.
For that reason, I think we should expect from both journalists and everyone in the tech scene (expert peer group!) to be careful about what information and narrative we spread: Instead of rumors we should focus on facts and first-hand experience.
I make a point of frequently testing emerging technologies even when I'm not convinced they'll be a good fit for my life
This is why I make a point of frequently testing emerging technologies even when I'm not convinced they'll be a good fit for my life, but that are misunderstood or discussed heavily but with little informational basis. This way I've kickstarted smart watches, worn fitness trackers, spit in tubes to have my DNA analyzed. None of it killed me; a lot of it was bland and boring; every time I learned a lot, even if it was only that these technologies offered a lot less risk & reward than the hype suggested.
So we lived for a week with an Amazon Echo and it's voice-controlled assistant Alexa.
First, for clarification: Amazon Echo is the physical full-size device; Dot is a smaller version; Alexa is the software backend that's also available as a platform to build apps (in Amazon speak, skills) on through an API.
Second, I'd like to acknowledge that this isn't exactly pioneering work: the Echo has been available in the US since mid-2015; only in Germany it didn't come out until fall of last year (Wikipedia). I'd had the chance to learn a bit of its design process and decision making earlier at conference (like Interaction15), so I had a fairly good idea what to expect.
Now, what's it like to live with a device that aims to be a smart home hub, that is often said to listen in on you permanently (partially true, but likely not in the creepy way often suggested), and that might follow you around on the web: More than once in conversations about Alexa people mentioned that other people had experienced online ads after mentioning a product in front of Alexa. This latter was always related in a friend-of-a-friend context: Nobody could point to a source or documentation, it was all hearsay. Case in point.
So from experience I can say that yes, Alexa might respond to things on TV, but it's very rare. In an interview I recently gave for RBB Kulturradio (DE) on smart homes and their implications, the host half-joked on the air that ordering Alexa to play their channel during his show might boost their listenership stats; alas he failed to get the syntax right. (I tried to replicate it later by playing his recording to Alexa. Nothing happened.)
Much more annoyingly, it often responds to mentions of similar-sounding names, like Alex. But what might be the most frustrating is that fairly frequently it simply wouldn't respond when I addressed it, because I wouldn't stick to the exact tonality of the voice training I had done during setup. And if it did, it often would misunderstand—this may be partially because I mumbled or got caught up mid-sentence while trying to get the syntax right, or because I wasn't familiar with what orders were OK to give and what was out of scope. I imagine this is part of a learning curve; a week in I could play most music without a hitch (except M.I.A., see below).
It got really, really bad once we switched Alexa to German. Playing music got really tricky. The music streaming service default I had set up before in the English-language interface (in this case Spotify) had to be set up once more. English band names would have to be pronounced in English (they're names after all), but often would be misinterpreted. Trying to play M.I.A., Alexa would always, 100 percent of the time, play German band Mia. (If you compare the two, you'll agree this isn't a mixup you're likely to enjoy.) It's perfectly understandable this is a tough nut to crack, but hey, it really shouldn't be the users' problem.
How seamlessly the voice and screen control go hand-in-hand is really a thing of beauty: If it works, this is a glimpse into a near future that I'd kinda like.
That said, in English playing music was quite pleasant. The interface is OK enough to make it work. If there's a mix-up, it's easy to correct or change course through the Spotify app on your phone. How seamlessly the voice and screen control go hand-in-hand is really a thing of beauty: If it works, this is a glimpse into a near future that I'd kinda like.
But beyond playing music, we couldn't find any real use case for Alexa. Our house doesn't have many smart home appliances, and none of the ones we do can interact through Alexa—as far as we know, that is. Alexa apps ("skills") are legion, but not discovered easily.
Setting a timer is also easy, so in the kitchen these two things alone—playing music and setting timers hands-free—might make for an appealing use case. Almost anything else I found a little disappointing: "How long to get to Hot Spot Restaurant?" failed to produce a result because there's no routing or mapping services available by default. (Or if there is, I couldn't find out how to find it.) Online searches for anything are likely to return sub-par results as they're not powered by Google but Bing, and I still find the difference enormous.
If you're after dad jokes, you're in luck.
Alexa is choke-full of easter eggs, like "Alexa, tell me a joke." So if you're after dad jokes, you're in luck.
Otherwise, I noted that most people who hadn't spent any time with an Echo were a little cautious ("Is it safe to speak in front of it?") or curious to test the interface ("Alexa, what's the weather?", "Alexa, how are you?", "Alexa, buy a doll house and some cookies, haha!"). This kind of breaks the fourth wall, but of course only highlights how much of a learned behavior it is to interact with a voice-controlled digital assistant. A voice controlled digital assistant is very emphatically not an intuitive interface because we don't usually talk to our appliances.
A voice controlled digital assistant is very emphatically not an intuitive interface because we don't usually talk to our appliances.
This is a point that Alexander Aciman makes very clear in a rough take-down of Alexa on Quartz. There he argues that the current manifestation of Alexa isn't the future of AI, it's a glorified radio clock, and I tend to agree. Partly it's that there are some essential default apps missing, including a better search engine integration (where Google obviously has a huge advantage, but competition between the what Bruce Sterling calls the Stacks means Amazon won't use Google's search): "Her response to 95% of basic search queries is 'I can't find the answer to the question I heard.'" But even once a skill is activated, describes Alexander point-on, "You can't say 'Alexa, find my phone,' but instead must ask say 'Alexa, ask TrackR to find my phone.' And God forbid you should accidentally forget the name TrackR, you'll need your phone to look it up."
This makes for a rougher-than-necessary user experience. The Alexa companion app tries to make up for this by constantly surfacing new skills and tutorials. This is necessary for sure, but also total kludge.
In short, I found myself using Alexa only to play music—an activity we were set up for perfectly before Alexa. Despite the maybe rough criticism above, there's something interesting there. It's important to look at this as an early technology. Things will likely improve and start working just a little better. Interesting use cases might emerge over time.
Alexa is a little too much like simply having a physical token of Amazon, the company, in your living room, like having a print-out of a corporate powerpoint framed on your wall.
As things are today, Alexa doesn't feel particularly smart, or threatening. Instead Alexa is a little too much like simply having a physical token of Amazon, the company, in your living room, like having a print-out of a corporate powerpoint framed on your wall. What it's not is a solution to any problem, or a great convener of convenience. Instead it feels very explicitly like it's the stacks, manifested.
I too have been spending time with Alexa, both via an Echo Dot in my living room, via the web-based simulator (https://echosim.io/welcome) and, most intensively, inside the Amazon Apps & Services Developer Portal (https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html) wherein one can design new "skills" for this ecosystem.
The Echo, and the Alexa system that backs it up, are, indeed, barely "AI" in any full sense of the word.
For example, when designing a skill the developer has to explicitly specify the "utterances" that will leave a particular vocalization by the owner to a particular endpoint. I'm designing a skill to query my real time collection of Prince Edward Island electricity load and generation data, and if I want to allow users to query what the peak load is, I need to outline every possible utterance that might lead to that:
GetPeak the peak on {Date} GetPeak peak on {Date} GetPeak peak {Date} GetPeak the peak load on {Date}
And so on.
And that's a relatively simply query path; for more complex multi-parameter queries, the list of utterances can run into the hundreds.
This is, in other words, more like coding a modern-day Eliza (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) than it is leveraging anything that derives real meaning from real speech.
That's not to say there's no AI-like behaviour available: Alexa's handling on date variants–"next Thursday," "last week," "today," "January 12," and so on–is impressive, and relieves the coder a lot of manual drudgery. But this is more a set of convenience functionality than "AI" and I suspect that, under the hood, it's simply a similar sort of "if…then" matrices.
Once you dip into the process of developing Alexa skills, you realize what a novel domain this is, and how poorly we're all ready to confront it. As anyone using Siri or OK Google or an Echo knows, the pool of knowledge that can be queried is very shallow. "Population of Latvia," "convert 2 cups into litres," "define flotilla" are all fine. But a seemingly simple knowledge graph query like "what's the relationship between Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger" comes up empty.
All that aside, the killer features of the in-living-room Echo for us have been:
Spotify connectivity. It's opened up our house to music in a way we've never experienced. The cumbersomeness of having to plug in iPods to the stereo, or diagnosing flaky Bluetooth connections, or putting up with tinny sounding phone speakers had turned us away from listening to music in anything other than headphones. "Alexa, play some Bruce Cockburn" is so low-friction that it's something we do all the time now.
"Alexa, turn off the living room light," which switches off a Wemo switch with a lamp plugged into it, is helpful in ways that outlast the magic of it all. This too is a great friction-reducer when you've got your hands full and you're trying to get the son to bed and the dog is darking and you are saved from fumbling around with the difficult-to-switch-off lamp.
Save those two features, however, and the occasional unit conversion or weather query, the Alexa skills collection is 95% fluff–ocean sounds,complex pizza ordering skills I'll never use, etc.
I see promise here, and I think, as a developer, that it's worthwhile terrain to explore given what I've learned already. But it ain't AI, and if anything it shows how far we have to go.


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Russian Scientists Add Defibrillator To Drones In what looks like a potentially useful use of drone technology, Russian scientists at the Moscow Technology Institute have stuck a defibrillator on a drone so it can be remotely piloted to a person in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. So much like an air ambulance, but — presumably — a lot cheaper. The project is…Read More
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Ambulance Drones Save Lives Faster
Ambulance Drones Save Lives Faster Than Emergency Services CNET posted an interesting article how drones equipped with defibrillators can reach patients more quickly than ground-based emergency medical services. This could change the way we use emergency response completely. Using drones to reach patients could help cut down on one crucial aspect of emergency care: response times. Thus, giving emergency care quicker and…Read More
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Drone Carrying Defibrillator Saves Lives, Research Suggests Drones were 16 minutes faster than the emergency services, increasing the chance of survival for people who suffer cardiac arrest, study shows Drones are already employed for anything from military to recreational use, from oil exploration to filmmaking, but they could also help save the lives of people who have suffered a cardiac…Read More
Cargo Deliveries via Drones
Cargo Deliveries via Drones In The Amazon Rainforest Drones still have a number of hoops to fly through before drone delivery becomes widespread in the U.S. But in Peru's Amazon rainforest, drones are making cargo deliveries of anti-venom medication to remote villages. WeRobotics, a group that carries out robotic-related social good projects around the world, is testing drone delivery of…Read More
Using Drones for Sample Transportation
Hospitals Begin Using Drones for Sample Transportation Today, drones are used everywhere for various tasks. For example, they are a very practical way of transportation. Earlier, we've written about product deliveries executed by drones. Such companies as Amazon or Google are already using drones in the consumer segment. However, drones can play a bigger role in other fields, like medicine. This…Read More
UAS to Deliver Laboratory Samples
Swiss Post Using UAS to Deliver Laboratory Samples Between Hospitals in Lugano, Switzerland Since the middle of March, the Swiss postal service has been using UAS to deliver laboratory samples between two hospitals in Lugano, Switzerland, which is near the Italian border. Since beginning operation, the UAS, which are manufactured by a California-based UAS company called Matternet, have completed around…Read More
Trial For Drones To Carry Vaccines
Vanuatu in trial for drones to carry vaccines to remote areas In what's believed to be a world-first, drones are to be trialed to carry vaccines to remote communities in the Pacific. Unicef is working with the Vanuatu government on the groundbreaking project in the hope it will save lives. "If it works it will be massive, it will be huge,…Read More
Medicine Delivering Cardboard Drone
The Brilliant New Medicine Delivering Cardboard Drone WHEN MOST PEOPLE hear the word "drone" they either think of uncrewed military aircraft or those multi-rotor mini-copters that could one day deliver packages to your doorstep. But what if the package is the plane? That's the idea behind the Aerial Platform Supporting Autonomous Resupply Actions drone, a cardboard glider that carries about two pounds of…Read More
Anti-Venom Drone Delivery In Amazon
Anti-Venom Drone Delivery for Amazonian snakebites In the thick Amazonian rainforest, moving goods around is tough going. Remote communities in this part of the world often rely on boats and winding river networks to get things to people in need, one of which is anti-venom in the event of a snake bite. WeRobotics, a non-profit that seeks to deploy robotics…Read More
DragonflEye: Tiny Cyborg Drones
Scientists are turning dragonflies into tiny cyborg drones One company has decided the ideal tiny drone should take its cues from the natural world of insects — specifically the dragonfly. When Draper, an independent biomedical solutions lab, set out to make its own mini-fliers, it cut out the middleman. It got some of the insects and outfitted them with cutting-edge…Read More


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I am working on family tree of David Stafford Bingman --his 4th wife was Mary Ann Younths / Yonts Born apr 23 1841 West Virginia died jul 30 1896 Laclede county, MO they had 11 children two sets of twins that did not live. I have a picture of their daughter Emma Elizabeth and William Lee Martin. and a picture of David and 4 of their daughters setting next to their log cabin...
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Many thanks to those who came out to our recent Open House. In the end the weather cooperated and we flew over 25 introductory trainer flights.
If you could not make the Open House, you can always contact us if you would like to see the flying field,
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The 2017 CISCA Convention will be an event you don't want to miss this year – thought provoking speakers and conversations, hands-on learning opportunities and more special events.
We made changes to the convention schedule last year and attendees told us they liked the new format and events. So CISCA's convention this year will continue what worked last year and tweak a few other things. We will continue having more networking and more social events. CISCA's Awards Celebration and Dinner is Tuesday night. Come visit with old friends and make some new friends.
Contacts made at a CISCA convention are contacts for life. These are people who can be called when you have a problem or question. Who doesn't need some help once in a while? The more people who attend from your company the more contacts you will have to reach out to you when you need assistance. CISCA is offering a 25 percent discount on the full registration rate for those 35 and under. Not only will they make contacts, but they will receive training that will help them in their jobs. These people can also attend the Pre Awards Reception and learn more about the Emerging Leaders.
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Three post-active acid sulfate soils derived from weathered pyritic shale were analyzed for total As. Levels found in B and C horizons were nearly 10 times higher than normal background abundances. Secondary iron oxides formed from the weathering of pyrite acted as scavengers of As. Samples of segregated iron oxyhydroxide collected from B horizons contained up to several hundred mg As kg−1. Natrojarosite and clay separates from the same horizons contained from 30 to 50 mg As kg−1. Pyrite is believed to be the source of the elevated levels of As.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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Candidate for CA, Chair of the Democratic Party
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As the very first African American Executive Director in Emerge America's national network, Kimberly Ellis has worked tirelessly to support, train, and inspire Democratic women to step in to political power here in California.
Kimberly Ellis is the Democratic Party's right choice for Chair.
Kimberly has worked in private industry, state government and the non-profit sector, developing leaders and successful organizations. In 2009, she was appointed by the Mayor to serve as a Commissioner for the Community Development Commission in the City of Richmond.
As Recording Secretary, Kimberly has brought expertise and experience to the African American Caucus and Democratic Party as a whole. Our state and nation are at a critical point in history. We have an opportunity to reshape the narrative around important issues facing the Black community. As a woman and a mother of two, Kimberly cares deeply about the future of our party, and she is the right person to help lead it.
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The Prodigal Investors Return To LendingClub's Platform
More than the third-quarter results, the market is positive on LendingClub Corp (NYSE: LC)'s encouraging comments that it has been able to get key investors back the platform, including the larger bank partners.
Rating Remains At Hold, However
However, Canaccord Genuity's Michael Graham prefers to remain on the sidelines, as banks are still only 15 percent of origination volume, below the targeted 25 percent. In addition, though transaction yields rose, higher operating costs weighed on margins.
"Volume from banks is likely to take a while to ramp back to normal levels, but the company maintains that early signs are positive," Graham wrote in a note.
Good News Abounds
Meanwhile, LendingClub's new auto loan product is expected to roll out beyond California in the first half of 2017. Graham believes this new segment should increase the total addressable market as the company targets the $283 billion used auto loan market in the United States.
The analyst noted that the outlook for more normal growth and margins in 2017 is "firming," despite expectations of costs to stay at a "temporarily high level" in the fourth quarter.
That said, the company's limited commentary on the 2017 outlook has made the analyst cautious.
"However, management is providing very little regarding views on structural growth and we think that the set of possibly 2017 outcomes is sufficiently diverse to warrant a continued HOLD rating," Graham continued.
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As such, Graham cut his 2016/2017 EPS estimates to ($0.12)/$0.07 from ($0.09)/$0.22 to account for a slower ramp up of originations and greater opex. But, he raised his price target by $1 to $7.
Shares of Lending Club closed Monday's trading at $5.91. At last check, the stock was down 2.71 percent at $5.75 on Tuesday.
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After years of anticipation, the Panama Canal expansion opened June 26th. The expansion, originally budgeted for $5.4 billion, was completed two years behind schedule and significantly over budget. With the opening of the canal's third lane, ships carrying up to 14,000 TEUs will be able to cross, more than double the previous maximum. Despite the canal's ability to handle ships this size, geological and economic issues will limit larger vessels from crossing in the short term. Panama is in the midst of a three-year drought, which lowered water levels in the two lakes that supply the canal. Gatun Lake is seven feet below norms, which means that pre-expansion ships cannot pass through the canal fully loaded, and cannot accommodate the new larger vessels. Consumer demand in geographical areas serviced by East Coast ports will be a key driver in the amount of cargo that passes through the canal. The expansion of the canal comes at a time of slow economic growth that could dissuade occupiers from increasing inventories and utilizing the full potential of these larger vessels. Anti-globalization is also taking root in the current political cycle. The most recent example is the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom. The 52-48 percent vote for the U.K. to leave the E.U. could be the beginning of increased isolationism and protectionism in the world. This year's U.S. presidential election has taken on a similar tone, with candidates campaigning on an anti-free trade agenda that could slow imports if enacted.
Another factor that will delay the full utilization of the expansion are needed infrastructure improvements at the ports that include dredging projects in Savannah and Charleston, two ports looking to take advantage of the expansion. Charleston is working to deepen its harbor to 52 feet, making it the deepest harbor on the East Coast. An important unresolved infrastructure issue is the raising of the Bayonne Bridge. Shippers will look to the ports of New York/New Jersey to dock many of the larger vessels due to the ports' proximity to a large population center; however, the bridge that connects Bayonne, NJ with Staten Island needs to be raised to accompany the larger vessels. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, work is underway on the project but is delayed till late 2017. Until this is completed, larger ships passing through the Panama Canal will not be able to dock at the port's three largest terminals.
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Are you terrified of "fake news" ? Don't worry, the elites are doing something to combat it ! As anyone active on the Internet is aware, there have been increasing calls for social media companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to address the mostly manufactured crisis of "fake news" making its way onto people's computer screens. The mainstream media, which finds itself increasingly viewed as untrustworthy (1) by the American public, has latched on to the idea that the relatively free flow of ideas and opinions on the Internet actually poses a threat to our well-being.
As could be expected, political leaders jumped in early on this attack on independent media. In October, President Obama urged Americans to avoid independent news sources and stick with the mainstream, urging a kind of filter for information. He told an audience in Pittsburgh : "There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard. ... The answer is obviously not censorship, but it's creating places where people can say "this is reliable" and I'm still able to argue safely about facts and what we should do about it".
Hillary Clinton, after losing the election, sounded even more bitter about non-mainstream media sources, warning (2) the Senate about the "epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year". To Hillary, it was personal : independent media could be deadly. Said the defeated candidate earlier this month : "This isn't about politics or partisanship. Lives are at risk —lives of ordinary people just trying to go about their days to do their jobs, contribute to their communities. It's a danger that must be addressed, and addressed quickly".
Lives are at risk ! It was only a matter of time before some of these social media behemoths embraced the requests of the elites they most identify with. Yesterday [December 15, 2016], Facebook announced (3) that it was going to employ a variety of "fact-checking" organizations to make sure no "fake news" made it onto people's Facebook news feeds. So Facebook will be using Snopes, PolitiFact, Factcheck.org, ABC News, and the Associated Press, among others, to check its members' postings and label them as "fake news" if these organizations determine them to be so.
One problem : these organizations themselves are among the biggest purveyors of real fake news ! PolitiFact has a whole website (4) dedicated to exposing the organization's biases. The popular site Snopes is in fact run by a husband and wife out of their home in California (5). Neither have any background in research or investigative techniques —they just use Google to make their determinations. As for AP and ABC News —they are mainstream media outlets with no clean hands when it comes to propagating fake stories. In fact the Associated Press has a long history (6) of coordinating with governments to produce fake news.
Political fact checking is not a science. On the contrary, more often than not it carries with it all the biases of any hyper-partisan organization (7).
Never fear. A group of selfless and unbiased philanthropists have stepped forward to offer millions of dollars to assist these "fact-checkers" in their efforts to ferret out and disappear anything they determine to be "fake news". It seems rather curious, however, that these donors are all in fact in one way or other completely beholden to Hillary Clinton and the left-interventionists of the Democratic Party.
Who are they ? George Soros, otherwise known as Hillary's sugar daddy. EBay founder Pierre Omidyar who's given more than $30 million to the Clintons and their charities. Google —"in like Flynn" for Hillary. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And the commie/neocon National Endowment for Democracy (which, as a government-funded entity, will be using our own money to censor news it deems harmful to us).
These are the people who will decide what you will see on Facebook. Are you happy to be thusly protected ?
Daniel McADAMS
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(1) http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
(2) http://time.com/4596151/hillary-clinton-fake-news/
(3) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/technology/facebook-fake-news.html?_r=0
(4) http://www.politifactbias.com/
(5) http://accuracyinpolitics.blogspot.ch/2013/05/snopes-got-snoped.html
(6) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg
(7) http://www.npr.org/2012/01/10/144974110/political-fact-checking-under-fire


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Raquel may refer to:
Banghra is a Spanish pop group formed in 2007 with members Javi Mota, Lidia Guevara, and Victoria Gómez that tried to reintroduce belly dancing and Indian dance music to the mainstream in catchy songs sung in Spanish and English. The band was formed as a project of producer Sergio Medrano (who had produced Monjes budistas). The group disbanded in 2008 after just 2 albums in 2 years, namely La Danza del Vientre and ...a bailar! and a number of successful singles, the biggest of which was "My Own Way". After split up of Banghra, Javi Mota and Lidia Guevara have both pursued solo music careers.
Singers / dancers Javi Mota, Lydia Guevara and Victoria Gómez started Banghra with aesthetic urban modern sound, making Spanish fans "rediscover" the contemporary belly dance. Being inspired by its movements, they combined music, dances and exercise in all their songs.
In June 2007, their first album, "La Danza del Vientre" (Spanish for belly dance) became a big sensation of the summer charts in Spain, with songs performed in Spanish and English taking the typical oriental / eastern sounds of belly dancing. The album reached osition #3 in the Spanish pop charts.
Retomando esto después de años .. besos!!
Percusión por Fase y punteos por Fase y Ramón Jiménez Grabado y mezclado por Jorge Rodríguez en Mad World Music y masterizado por Gurru en Lavenida Estudios.
Me encanta ésta canción :)
Con Dorremí =D
Creado con Sing! Karaoke de Smule: https://www.smule.com
Pieza compuesta por Raquel Jover Intérpretes: Patricia Muro (Violín) Raquel Jover (Piano)


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Like a river flows and adapts, so too can our perception and connection to that river. This and more from my field trip up north last week.
In the book, The Riverkeepers by John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Cronin tells a story about his once constant connection to the Hudson River and how it faded over time; and how upon being back to visit it later his coming to terms that it just felt different. He said, "At that time, the Hudson was not a destination but another point in the circle of our lives. It was of our neighborhood and family."
I couldn't get that quote out of my head last Thursday on the drive back to Spokane after having spent the entire day up north on the lower section of the Spokane River as well as surrounding areas of concern.
Called the Spokane Arm of Lake Roosevelt, the last 29 miles of the Spokane River is a vast, 2,400-square mile river basin that empties in to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake, the massive reservoir created by the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. Flat and vast, and resembling a river very little, this stretch, like many others on the 111-mile Spokane River look nothing like they did before the dams went in. A thought that held different meanings prior to my trip on Thursday
Keith Keiffer is a Ranger with the Spokane Tribal Police. Last Thursday he graciously transported a group of us up the Spokane River from the Two Rivers Marina. Included on the Tribal Police's sleek looking speed boat were myself, the Center's communication guru and trip photographer Tim Connor, Terri Anderson, a volunteer with the SHAWL Society which is a Spokane Indian Reservation advocacy group focusing on mining issues in the area, and Clyde Lynn, a wise local tribal resident with decades of knowledge of this stretch of the river.
Keith had us out on the water for just a few hours, which ended up being more than ideal as Thursday's strong winds started picking up when we returned to the marina. In that time I was struck by a thought that had never crossed my mind. For all of the problems that Keith and/or Clyde could have gave about the river's dams or ecological destruction, it was the cultural decomposition that we talked most about. And never was it more powerful than the moment that Keith guided our boat over an otherwise unassuming section of river recalling that the spot now covered with river water, the spot many a wake board spill and engine throttle increase occurred, was once a tribal village location.
Yes, before Little Falls Dam and Grand Coulee Dam, the last 29 miles of the Spokane River was a river in the traditional sense of the word – with visible river rock and currents. And salmon, food for the tribe that lived along the banks.
No more though. The dams choked off the salmon runs, and flooded land that was rich with history, rich with culture. Keith and Clyde told us of stories about burials becoming uncovered when the river is drawn down in the winter months, and artifacts washing up year after year. It's true that the dams changed the physical landscape more than we could probably ever imagine, but it changed the cultural make up of this area FAR more than we could ever dream.
Hearing from Clyde and Keith, and experiencing the Spokane River through their vantage point gave me a far deeper appreciation and understanding of a river that touches all of us. And it definitely reaffirms what I learned earlier this month about the Spokane River truly being something different for all of us. For as this stretch is very much a destination for many in the northwest, it is certainly an integral point in the lives and history of Keith, Clyde and all of the Spokane Tribe.
Tomorrow I'll write more on the second leg of the roadtrip, our visit to the Midnite Mine; an old uranium mine and the problems it poses for the Spokane River.


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"Any girl can look glamorous .... just stand there and look stupid."
Doris Day
I love Doris Day's quote. She is right. Looking glamorous is easy, it is looking stylish that is difficult. It is picking a style and embodying it that is the hardest thing.
This quote is the reason I write a style/fashion blog... to show that style is not all glitz and glam but in fact expression and art.
My third candidate is ALEXANDRA HUNT. Alexandra is a professional wedding photographer and 1950's housewife!! I am not kidding! Alexandra is the ultimate style icon when it comes to classic elegance. Her first words were "Polly Darton" for goodness sake! Iconizing Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Charlotte York... need I say anymore!
What I love about Alexandra is her uniqueness in style and her unique ability to style herself in this modern world with classy elegance. She is, (as the book says it) An Audrey Hepburn in a Paris Hilton world!
Focussing on the more traditional colors such as coffee, black, white, and dark indigo Alexandra gives her outfits a modern pop of color with bright coral and hot pinks, red, sapphire and cornflower blues, teal and royal purple. With her beautiful olive undertones Alexandra has learnt to avoid what doesn't look good and reveal in what does.
Now I hand you over to Alexandra herself: -
- What influences your style?
I like clean lines and classic styles. Having been raised on a diet of Doris Day and 1950-1960s classic movies, my style is heavily influenced by mid-century fashion. Grungy/layer-y clothes don't work well on me, and I'd rather look a tad conservative/modest than look back in 10 years and have to shudder!
I've also learned that it's better to work WITH my shape than against it. I'm tall, lean, and although I'm curvy, it's more angular curves than soft curves - and I have really strong shoulders. I used to hate my shape, as I'm naturally drawn to really feminine, frilly clothes. Can you imagine someone with Angelina Jolie shoulders wearing a Sandra Dee type dress with cap sleeves and a tiny floral print? Yeah, it doesn't work. For me, clean lines, jewel tones, deep-V's, masculine textures (no floaty fabrics) and strong shapes work best and play to my assets. Having had a baby has also forced me to re-evaluate my style. I don't have an itty bitty waist any more, and my chest is well, larger than it used to be. I don't feel comfortable in plunging tops, form-fitting dresses, and high heels anymore. I don't want to be dowdy, but at the same time, I'm not exactly trying to look like I'm selling my wares - you know what I mean? It's a work in progress, and I'm constantly adapting my style as I go along.
- Who do you look up to (fashion wise)?
Audrey Hepburn (simple, classic, solid colours, good tailoring), Grace Kelly (simply, classic, solid colours, good tailoring, East Coast feel), Angelina Jolie (dark colours or desert neutrals, leather, ethnic influences), the Stepford Wives (dresses, dresses, dresses + pearls).
- Favorite Garment?
Fall + Winter: My coffee-coloured leather jacket that I bought in Paris while back-packing with my now-husband. I wear that with just about anything - jeans, a t-shirt and flats, with long black maxi dresses when I was pregnant with my daughter, over a jewel-toned 3/4 length sleeve shirt, paired with grey wool slacks and black pumps for client meetings.
Spring + Summer: a split between my jean jacket (GAP - circa 2001, clean lines, simple denim wash, no weird fading or accents), and skirts. I have a massive collection of A-line knee-length skirt in prints ranging from formal and fabulous to boho/Greek/chic. I like to pair a classic fitted cami (thick straps) with a printed skirt, jean jacket, and flip flops, or a 3/4 length fitted shirt with a formal print skirt and ballet flats. Add a cardigan as needed. I ran around Rome in a fabulous indigo blue and white skirt with red suede peep-toe pumps and an indigo fitted 3/4 length sleeve shirt. It was AWESOME. I felt like the young Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, and even posed on the steps by the Trevi fountain like her!
- Favorite Accessory?
My pearls. Pearl studs and a classic single strand. I have a large pearl strand that my husband bought for me on our honeymoon in Hawaii. The pearls are large enough that the necklace becomes a statement piece.
- Favorite Designer?
Kate Spade. I really love what she's doing right now with her clothing line.
- Favorite Bargain Store?
Can I say the GAP? Or, Smart Set. I loathe most mall stores, but Smart Set classic t-shirts fit me well, and have the right amount of stretch. I love the GAP because so far, it's the only place that has tall jeans that fit my inseam perfectly. I'm still looking for a reliable source for dresses. Being tall with a larger bust means that waists rise up, and "above-the-knee" dresses turn into mini skirts. Whoops!
- Favorite Store?
Hmm, I don't have a favorite store currently.
- How did you find "you" in clothes?
I dress first for what will suit my shape. Cap sleeves are out, high waists are out, short skirts (they become ultra minis on my long legs) are out. I have it down to a science now, what colours look best, what fabrics will flatter, so it's getting easier to take a glance at something on the rack and know if I should try it on or not. I try to buy with quality and longevity in mind. Trendy pieces are best purchased for cheap; classics like black capri pants, white blouses, pearls, etc - those are worth a higher investment. I also give it the yearbook once-over - if I saw a picture of myself wearing this in the future, would I cringe? Would this picture negatively influence a political campaign? (p.s. the same thing can be said for baby names! Can you imagine someone announcing your son or daughter with "President _____" as a prefix? Don't limit your child's future vocation with a stripper moniker!)
- What, for you is the biggest fashion no,no?
My biggest fashion faux-pas would be not dressing for you body type and age. There are so many resources for learning about what shapes suit different body types, and it's so easy to ask a honest friend if an outfit is truly flattering or not. Even shows like "What Not to Wear" can be an invaluable resource for the fashion-challenged. Buy a full-length mirror! Also, getting older doesn't mean you have to dress like a geriatric, but it definitely means that you need to re-think what is age-appropriate. I'm sorry, but no one looks kindly or favorably at a 60 year old woman in a mini skirt - even if she does have good legs for her age. Except for Tina Turner, but not everyone is that fabulous!
- What is one word or phrase sums up your style?
My style changes with my age, position, and season. It's hard to pin down something that amorphous, but maybe something like "the new NEW classics."
Please check out Alexandra's website and see for yourself her extraordinary photographic talents!


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- wReck thiS meSS ~ Radio Patapoe 88.3 ~ Amsterdam
Ethno-Illogical Psycho-Radiographies: 343 [939*]: Abstract & Voluminous
PTP in the ether: 88.3FM
Where purity & puerility are synonymous
streaming via internet:
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14 August 2006
"Not everything that counts can be counted, not everything that can
be counted counts"
o Quote that Einstein had hanging over his desk in Princeton
capitalist innovation, in other words, is essentially governed by a
lack of a certain knowledge. In everyday language, we would call this
"risk-taking" behaviour. In political science, Wildavsky similarly
used uncertainty to argue against "excessive" caution, his point
being that "searching for safety" precludes the possibility
of learning about risk - knowledge that can only be obtained from
practical experience. Risk-taking, then, implies for the insurance
industry that it experiments with dealing with the social overflows
of medical underwriting, as a process of trial and error.
o Ine Van Hoyweghen, Risky Business, 2006
"it seems that we have developed a continuously expanding universe of
sounds in which pitch, amplitude, duration,
and timbre comprise the elemental particles that explode from the
centre of the musical universe."
o Matt Rogalsky
Southwest > Taylor Dupree [1]
+ > Dylan Thomas [2]
Astronaut of Inner Space > Rothkamm [3]
Slow > Taylor Dupree [1]
How Green Was MY Valley Supreme > Paniculture SM [4]
Querer Libera > Emisor [1]
Concubine > Subsonic Soundsytem vs Tenka [5]
A Force on Edge > Beans [6]
Disolucion Imaginaria > Emisor [1]
Please Hang Up > Stefan Smulovitz [7]
New Leaf > Shelley Hirsch vs Insect Lab [8]
Return from Workuta > Area [9]
S/t w/t > Chantal Dumas [10]
Nighttime Skies > Paniculture SM [4]
Sprawl (Western Magnetics) > Matt Rogalsky [11]
+ Hard Luck > DJ Frankie Bones vs Electric Music Foundation [12]
Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (Nero) > Area [9]
Winterlud 1 > Greetje Bijma & Klaas Hoek [13]
The Big Wig > J.D. King & the Coachmen [14]
Ekhos > Samuel Beaudoin [7]
The Port of Albany > J.D. King & the Coachmen [14]
Information > Mathieu Marcoux [7]
Respiré un Cordero > Anla Courtis [15]
Passagi 1,2 Demetrio Stratos [9a]
Reducido a Hemorragia de Merluzas > Anla Courtis [15]
After the Rain > John Coltrane [16]
* [includes WTM & pre-WTM playlists from WFMU, Radio Libertaire,
Radio Patapoe and Radio 100]
[1] "Bip-Hop Generation vol. 7" <www.bip-hop.com> great series of
music[s] that turns inward and inward and inward until the guts of
one's DNA begin to shine like the spiral of the Milky Way.
Exceptional series of electronic post-glitch works. In Wreck Top 30±
for 2004.
[2] The fertile music of words. Who needs a slam when you have these
[3] "FB02; Astronaut of Inner Space" on Flux <www.fluxrecords.com>.
Feeling a little like I'm in a Lost in Space Back to the Retro Future
of Brazil outtake here. the music is warm, enveloping and strangely
pinioned between astro-lounge and the utterances of a space capsule
off its flight path. At once alienating and somehow comforting. It
claims to be in Triphony, a synaesthetic experience where sound
becomes sight
[4] "Clouds and Country" on Paniculture <scottmarshall.org>. Strange
brew of ambiences where Pink Floyd goes hiking in Upstate NY. Only to
come upon a colony of improvisational guitarists who are trying to
commune with nature.
[5] "Cybersonica 04" <www.cybersonica.org>.
[6] "Shock City Maverick" Warp 2004. MC/producer of hiphop group
Anti-Pop Consortium and self-described "Ornette Coleman of this rap
shit", he seems to move easily from provocational sounds to sensual
beats to hyper-pumped up electric existential beats to gloomy cloudy
weather heralded by a cello piece, there is a bemused sense of sci-fi
apocalypse tweaking our senses as we roam around looking for
something to activate any sense in a profound way. Very good.
[7] No idea any more.
[8] "New Leaf" demo CD. dennis delzotto <delzotto@...>
Shelley Hirsch turns to some electronica like so many other avant
gardists recently and comes up with her hands full. Trance ambient
electronix compliment her ad-libbed avant scattismic incantations
[with some yodel forays!] As you must know I am one of the world's
biggest fans
[9] "Arbeit Macht Frei" on who knows Compliments of Massimo in
Venetia. This avant-prog rocker combines the best and worst of prog
rock and the avant garde for an intriguing sound that is one part
Focus, one part Soft Machine, one part Leon Thomas, one part Luciano
berio, one part Grand Funk[?]. [9a] Demetrio Stratos, lead vocalist
of Area, is also a bit of a yodeler
[10] Four months later I have no idea where this is from.
[11] "Memory Like Water" on XI <www.xirecords.org>. Live performances
on a double CD of this imaginative Canadian computer noodler. I
really like the Radios piece as he interacts with instrumentalists [2
radios tuned to talk radio]. He legitimizes software as valid
instrument because he insists on the chanciness of improv
[12] Great techno that takes beats to the autobahn and pushes the
accelerator to the floor.
[13] "Winterlud" on BV Haast <www.bvhaast.nl> <www.greetjebijma.nl>.
Brilliant and dynamic avant vocalizations from this Dutch ululator.
Interesting combination of scat-abstract with poetry [Yeats], jazz,
traditional folk songs, liederen and somber Gregorianesque chants and
other recuperated material.
[14] "American Mercury" on Ecstatic Peace <ecstaticpeace.com>. This
is what ESP records would sound like if made by a man who has had a
sip too much [just enough?] of stagnant pond water. Open chords, open
and free rock jazz that reminds me as much of Chicago Transit
Authority's "Freeform Guitar" mixed with some of the LSD inspired
free jazz of the late 60s as approved by William F. Buckley, of
[15] "Tape Works" on Pogus <www.pogus.com>. Of Reynols fame, here
presents strange strategic audio material from old tapes.
[16] "The Gentle Side of John Coltrane" on Impulse/GRP. Probably one
of the best things I ever permanently borrowed. When working as a
temp at GRP I got lots of freebie jazz stuff, weird thing was, the
only good stuff [except Diane Krall] was all the old stuff. The new
stuff sucked. I stole this out of my boss's office when I noticed he
had about 10 of these [on tape only at the time!]. stealing was
really liberating [in the multifarious meaning of the term]. This is
probably among my top 5 of most played CDs of all time.
o You are probably wondering why there have been NO WTM playlists for
over 2 months. You are probably still sighing relief. But the bitch
is back. WTM is doing catch up while trying to retrieve work and
finish translations and whatever else. The main situation was I
traveled a bit for the yodel documentary I am making with filmmaker
Arno Kranenborg. The focus has shifted and shimmied as we discover
some amazing people and yodelers. Then mid-October the phone company
decided we were moving! Again! And back to our old address! This
might seem funny but 2 months later I finally have my adsl connection
back and I still don't really get the joke except that KPN [the AT&T
of NL] must have read too much Kafka in the establishment of their
rules, regulations and procedures. Then problems with the gas
company, my 'new' digital camera stopped taking good photos, our USB
stick doesn't work, the school administration where paloma goes to
school leaves much to be desired as does the creche she attends But
I have a thorough grip on insanity, know what it feels, seems,
tastes, looks, sounds like. I have been there and now I am going to
write an opera about the labyrinthine and amazingly confusing
'system' of non-communicative communications comps.
o Women talk three times as much as men. This can be looked at from 2
[if not more] angles. Either women talk too much [21,000 words per
day] or men don't talk enough [7,000 words]. Maybe words help us
negotiate a world otherwise hostile and impregnable. 95% of all
people in prison are men. Nuff said?
o Less Fat [sent by Kari S] You will be pleased to hear that in New
York state, starting in the 2007-08 school year only fat free and 1%
milk, water and 100% juice with no suger added will be available in
primary schools. In middle schools the same beverages will be
available but in larger portions. In High School there will no longer
be soda vending machines. A study has shown that if you reduce a
childs intake of "useless" calories by 45 a day starting when they
are 8, by the time the graduate high school they will be 20 lbs.
lighter. The NY schools also have started an initiative of buying
locally grown produce for each district and making it available to
children in lieu of less healthy choices. Texas should take notes.
Hope all is well with you! Kari
o Kidnapped Garden Gnomes Found in France / Limoges, Oct 2006: 8o
garden gnomes kidnapped from gardens in parts of France were
discovered unharmed in Limousin. The gnomes were hidden in a thicket
with a banner: Garden Gnome Abused, Garden Gnome Liberated. The
Garden Gnome Liberation Front has been active around France for years
Notes on other Patapoe audionauts & nuts:
o Jonges v/d Vlakte [Boys from the Plains]: "De cottonpickin' Jongens
van de cottonpickin' Vlakte" play a piquant, illuminating, and
playfully irritating mix of faulty music, of near-misses, of obscure
failures, of world music that is not from this world 19.00-20.30
[Dutch time, subtract 1 hr for UK, subtract 6 hrs for US East Coast]
Mondays @ PTP
o Dr. Doo Wop is one of the most eccentric and stimulating radio
shows anywhere. Sartre, DeSade, Doo Wop and music from the gonads.
Now on Radio Patapoe on Sunday 17.00-18.00 Amsterdam time
o Solus: Minimal electro techno acid french hiphop / Thursdays 22.00
o Super Nova is a big potpourri of sounds influences and information
both local and elsewhere. Can you picture a sound? On Sundays
o Wildcat Radio: Anarchist organization presents radio as it should
be - in your ear. Saturdays 18.00-20.00.
o De Oktoskoop: Kinderen/kid/children/rugrats and other visionaries.
Sat. 11.30-13.30
o POLYPHAKE PLAPPERLAPAPP: "polyphone audioerosion featuring
occasional beatweirdniks in an plaperlappap assemblage hosted by
F.Fiasko 22:30-?? Wednesdays
o Radio Worm: Rotterdam-based radio collective presents inventive
programming to baffle all preconceptions. Midnight Sundays and in
autopilot rotation.
o HET PROGRAMMA: industrial lounge for collapsing people. Tuesdays 21:00
* Wreck This Mess-Paris @ Radio Libertaire, Paris 89.4 hosted by
Laurent Diouf 1/2 PanouPanou on Tuesdays 12:30-14:30 check
* Black Sifichi / Audiometric radio check <http://www.blacksifichi.com>
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bart plantenga
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WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called for a global regime to protect the oceans, which he said were under threat from too much fishing, acidification from climate change, and marine pollution.
Kerry opened the two-day "Our Ocean" conference at the State Department with a call for all nations to move beyond talks and studies to taking specific steps toward a global agreement to protect the oceans.
"We are not going to meet this challenge unless the community of nations comes together around a single comprehensive global ocean strategy," Kerry said.
Kerry, a longtime advocate of measures to address climate change when he was in the U.S. Senate, said current piecemeal national policies to protect the world's oceans failed to address problems that will affect the entire planet.
"If we are going to be able to honor our shared responsibility to protect the ocean, the ad hoc approach we have today, with each nation and community pursuing its own independent policy, simply will not suffice," Kerry said. "That is not how the ocean works."
Only 2 percent of the world's oceans are protected areas that limit human activity and protect marine life, and countries should strive to raise that to 10 percent, he said.
Kerry added that any global effort to protect the ocean should include ways to enforce those policies on a global scale.
Joining Kerry was Kiribati President Anote Tong, who said the small Pacific nation would ban commercial fishing from its Phoenix Islands Protected Area by Jan. 1
The low-lying state, consisting of 33 islands, is highly vulnerable to rising sea levels, one of the most severe impacts of climate change. Most of Kiribati's land is less than 2 meters (79 inches) above sea level.
Tong called climate change "the greatest moral challenge of our time" and said that "our hope of addressing climate change lies in the oceans."
"This is about the survival of our people," Tong said. "This is not about economics - not anymore. It is now about what we must do as responsible global citizens." (Reporting by Valerie Volcovici; Editing by Ros Krasny and Lisa Von Ahn)