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So you think you are free? After all, we have a Constitution with a Bill of Rights that "preserves" our freedoms.
So you think you're free? Ask Brandon Raub what life in a free country is like. He was kidnapped from his home by the FBI, Secret Service and local police over Facebook posts in which he questioned 9/11 and accused the Bush family of committing crimes. He was held for a week with no charges and had a psychiatrist threaten to medicate and brainwash him. He's not alone. John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, who gained Raub's release, says calls coming into his organization reveal a pattern of abuse. In fact, veterans of the perpetual Mideast wars are increasingly being targeted by the state as needing psychological evaluation. That's because many of them come home and challenge the official line of the wars' results. The Department of Homeland Security has for years been laying the groundwork toward branding dissent as terrorism and naming veterans as possible ring leaders. Using charges of psychosis or nuttery is one way the state marginalizes dissenters.
But free speech Nazis aren't just operating in the Federal government. They're everywhere… especially in schools. Ask Brianna Gentry what it's like to live in a free country. She was almost kicked out of school because she had a photograph of her military brother and her softball team on a binder cover. When her mother pointed out to school officials that nothing in the school's rules forbade photographs, the school relented — on the photo of her brother. The softball team was verboten.
Schools are now banning T-shirts with slogans… especially those with Christian slogans. Educators have become the most ridiculous of all bureaucrats. They've gotten so ridiculous that now they're offended by the way a deaf student "signs" his name.
An essence of a free society is property rights. Americans think they can own property. Fail to pay your annual tribute to the king (property taxes) and see who owns it. Or try to fill in a pond (or dig one), knock down a hill (or build one), cut some timber (or plant some), or raise livestock or bees or some other animal other than the state-approved dog or cat and don't be surprised if a Federal, State or local regulator comes along and puts an injunction on your plans and takes you to court… or has you arrested. Many cities and towns are even citing people over the shrubbery and flowers they plant (or don't) and flags they fly (or don't).
Do you own some undeveloped or run-down property? Watch out. Thanks to the Supreme Court, municipalities can just take it away if they think they can give it to someone else to develop so more taxes can be collected on it.
Collecting water falling out of the sky is now a crime. Guy Harrington says he had the necessary permits for his reservoirs, but the State revoked them arbitrarily. Permits? For a pond? When you have to ask the king for permission to put a pond on your own property, that property is not yours. You are merely squatting.
Do you own a gun? Be careful what you say, especially if you're Christian. A gun grab is under way. The recent shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Milwaukee were false flag operations designed to provide a launch pad for gun control discussions.
Operation Fast and Furious is another false flag implemented to provide cover for an Obama gun grab. Before the scandal broke, I told you how Attorney General Eric Holder was using increased gun violence in Mexico to push for a ban on so-called assault weapons. Then we learned that Holder was responsible for the increased gun violence by encouraging the sale of guns to Mexican drug cartels through straw purchasers in OFF (see Ben Crystal's reports on OFF here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
The Department of Homeland Security has released a number of Orwellian videos like this one encouraging Americans to spy on one another and tattle like school kids. The result has been people reporting to authorities all sorts of legal activities that "concern" them — like the Pittsburgh father who was charged with child endangerment and subjected to a child protective services investigation because he left his children to play in a park (something kids have been doing for generations). In Virginia, letting kids play outside unsupervised got a mom a visit from police.
Totalitarian government bureaucrats (Federal and State) have made war on people who want to grow and eat natural foods, drink raw milk or take natural supplements. In fact, a Wisconsin judge has ruled people in that State have "no fundamental right" to consume any food, own or use dairy cows, or consume milk their cows produce unless they first get government permission. Even your pigs have to be a State-approved color.
Do you think you are free? Try avoiding State-mandated forced vaccinations for your children. Without the approved number of lifetime injections of mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and other contaminants it's almost impossible to get those children into the government indoctrination system known as public (un)education.
As Maryanne Godboldo and Kenneth and Erin Stieler learned, parents have little say in decisions about their children's healthcare. If some pointy-headed, pencil-pushing, know-it-all government bureaucrat thinks he knows more than you (and most bureaucrats think they do) and you balk at his "omniscient" decision, jackbooted thug government enforcers will just knock your door off its hinges and take your child away.
But don't think you can film their thuggish behavior. Doing so can get you beaten or shot with a Taser and locked up. Or, if it's your lucky day, maybe you'll get off with just a body-cavity search.
All across America, children's lemonade stands are being shut down and people trying to hand out food and drinks to the needy find themselves under the boot of the growing thugocracy quaintly known as benevolent government out to ensure your safety. Since it's done for our own good, we're supposed to silently comply.
We live in an America in which the President can assassinate U.S. citizens on a whim. Thanks to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Americans can just disappear into gulags, never to be charged and never to be tried. A judge issued an injunction to stop it, but President Barack Obama's legal team won't say whether the injunction is being obeyed. Of course, ignoring the law and court orders is standard operating procedure for the Marxist White House usurper and thug in chief.
We live in an America in which a growing band of criminal perverts fondle, grope and take naked photographs of us at airports, bus stops and train stations. We live in an America in which these same government goons are now holding checkpoints to ensure we have our proper papers.
We live in an America our Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize. They certainly wouldn't approve of it.
America, land of the free? Hardly.
"But, Bob," you say, "the mere fact that you can publish this proves you're free."
No. It proves only that the oligarchs haven't yet found a satisfactory way to reign in the Internet revolution. But it's not because they're not trying.
John Adams said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Yet God has been pushed out of the schools, the governments and even out of most churches. Want to see the atheists, secularists, leftists and statist bureaucrats go crazy? Let your kid take a Bible to school to read between classes.
The rights of Americans do not come from the Constitution. They come from God. The Constitution merely acknowledges them. It puts restraints on the government to prevent it from trying to take them away. Most Americans have forgotten — or ignored — that.
We must elect only "moral and religious people" to office. Until we do, tyranny will prosper.


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Bob Boyer, senior director of Liberty University Postal Services (LUPS), has been nominated to the board of the National Association of College and University Mail Services (NACUMS). Boyer, who has worked at the university for seven years, currently directs fulfillment, postal services, print services, and warehousing for Liberty.
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In late December, the rest of the college football world found out what few outside of Florida State knew: that the mother of quarterback EJ Manuel had been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
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The facilities available at the venue or site of the activity vary. All activities need to be pre-booked to ensure there is a suitably qualified instructor for you so full instructions including directions to a meeting point, what to expect from the activity and the venue and what to wear, are sent to you in advance. Some venues have free parking and toilets others you will need to use pay and display car parks, some have free parking for National Trust members, others are local authority. Some venues have toilets others the arrangements are 'rural'. Most locations for adventure activities have very limited disabled access/facilities due to the nature of the activities. We will be very happy to advise on what is possible and/or advisable for anyone with special needs, but it will usually require a conversation between the instructor and the client before booking/arrival to ensure we can do our best to deliver something to meets expectations.
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A fully inclusive KTM to KTM Everest expedition including all accommodation, all meals, a superb 3 week trekking and acclimatisation itinerary, individual Base Camp tents, excellent Base Camp services, all logistics and supplies on the hill, a plentiful supply of oxygen, Western Leader and 1:1 Climbing Sherpa.
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A chance to join an Everest expedition on the South Col route at incredible value. This is a fully inclusive, fully supported Everest expedition with ample Climbing Sherpas to ensure suitable ratios on the mountain. Also included is a plentiful supply of oxygen and a 1:1 Climbing Sherpa ratio – in particular you will have Climbing Sherpa assistance from Camp 2 to C3 and from C3 to The South Col and then a very strict 1:1 ratio all the way to the summit and back to Base Camp. And just because it's cheaper than elsewhere doesn't mean that corners have been cut or safety1 18 CMC M-191 Jaguar C-Type 1952. British Racing Green compromised. Indeed, with more inclusions than other expeditions, arguably this is far far better value for money. Read on ….
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Tim and the Climbing Sherpas will be operating on the hill throughout the duration of the trip. The Climbing Sherpas will be very busy getting camps established and stocked with all the necessary food, gas, supplies as well as stocking the higher camps with oxygen – it is later in the trip that they will then be assigned to their guiding duties.
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Our Base Camp and mountain services will be provided by Kame Nuru Sherpa who I have worked with for 13 years now. He runs a tight ship, has an excellent cook crew, some of the best Climbing Sherpas on the hill and they have a very high success rate of getting clients to the top (over 85% success rate and usually more). And this is the percentage from the whole team, not skewed figures by stating the percentage from, say, The South Col, which sometimes is quoted.BBR 1 18 2007 Ferrari F430 GT Le Mans Risi CompetizioneOCC FIRE BIKE CHOP 1 6 ONE SIXTH SCALE VERY DESIRABLE Lights & Sounds work BOXEDTecnomodel Ferrari Dino 246 Belgium GP 1958 - Olivier Gendebien 1 18 ScaleMinichamps 1 12 Valentino Rossi 2001 Honda Nsr500 Signed With Coa No 239 Of 500
Tim will be spending time with the group for the duration of the trip, from the 3 week trek in where we go over 2 high passes and ascend an acclimatisation peak, as well as time at Everest Base Camp and guiding high on the mountain (see the acclimatisation schedule for more information).
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The other life saver is that everyone will be issued an individual set of ultra high altitude medication, know what it is for and, most importantly, know how to use it. We will discuss the pros and cons of how to administer medication, and everyone will be well versed in how to draw up and administer an injection. When you bear in mind that these drugs are life savers, and that they are given to allow recovery down the mountain rather than to progress further, it is vitally important that this subject matter be taken seriously. There have been several cases in the last few years where, if an injection had been available and had been given correctly, lives would undoubtedly have been saved. There is no point having only one set of drugs amongst the group as the person with the medication may not be readily available. And there is more to giving an injection that you might assume – for instance, if you stab someone through their jacket you may plug the hole with a feather.
You will know not only what medication we have, and what it is for and when to use it, but you will also be shown how to draw up and give an injection. It could be an absolute life saver.
We are only one of a few teams to adopt this approach. Personally I think it's highly irresponsible to be on the mountain without not only the knowledge but also the ability to do something about it as well. And because we all have a mini set of ultra high altitude medication then we aren't faced with the situation that once the only set has gone then it's all gone.
Briefings will be held every day at Everest Base Camp to update everyone about progress on the mountain, find out about people's health and to ensure that the appropriate stores and equipment are at the relevant places on the mountain.
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Guest post by Sarah Andes, a 2009 Mississippi Delta corps member, Teach for America
Summer camp is about discovery. New sports and hobbies. New friends and loves. New tans (at least if you're in Texas). New songs. New independence. It's all about creating and experiencing a community in which kids are free to explore and grow.
That's why I loved Greene Family Camp at the time. I knew it as "fun." Looking back on my experiences as a camper, counselor, and administrator, I now value camp for the unintended byproducts of those "fun" summers. I developed a set of values and beliefs at camp that have grounded the choices that I've made and the attitudes with which I have made them ever since.
Several years after my last summer at Greene, I once again packed up my belongings and loaded the car, but this time I was headed down a new path: east to the fertile farmland of the Mississippi Delta to begin my journey as a 2009 Teach for America corps member.
My approach toward teaching Algebra 1 at Williams-Sullivan High School, beyond the state standards and the lesson plan templates and the learned pedagogies, stemmed from the wise words of my brilliant camp director, Loui. He constantly impressed upon us the understanding that, to their parents, each of our campers was the most important child in the world. Each camper deserved our unceasing respect, attention, and care, and this philosophy guided me in cultivating an empowering community within my own classroom.
Loui urged us to "talk independently with each camper every day." And as a teacher, I greeted my students at the door and checked in one-on-one as I collected their homework and they worked on the first activity of the day.
An administrator implored me to "say yes if you can." And as a teacher, I worked to create a student-centered culture in which I facilitated students' learning by validating what they knew ("yes!") and pushing them to think more deeply and to apply new knowledge.
And my favorite, Loui's mantra: "enthusiasm breeds enthusiasm." As a teacher, I continued to make a fool of myself as I had years before. I sang math songs and made horrible jokes. I incorporated kinesthetic workouts and taught students algebra Taboo. I knew that I was the leader who had the power to make my classroom a joyful and exciting place to learn.
Being a good teacher is not being a good counselor. Your goal is not for your students to have a good time. Your students might not always want to be there. You are working within, rather than removed from, the pressures of your and your students' day-to-day lives. But it is this challenge that drives me to continue working in schools and with students. The stresses may be new, but as I tackle them I can draw upon the experiences of my youth to frame my vision for the future. Education, too, is about discovery, and it's my job to make sure all students, like all campers, are able to explore and grow. That's a lesson I learned around the campfire a long time ago.
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The first teaser poster for the new James Bond film Skyfall has gone online. It's not really much, but I guess the word "teaser" should have clued us in on that front. It plays on the classic Bond imagery while hinting at a bit of a darker tone, and that may or may not be the London Underground. I'm eager to see what Sam Mendes will do with the Bond universe, and he's off to a great start as he's assembled an incredible cast anchored by Javier Bardem as the villain. This is just a teaser for what's to come, and we should have a much better idea of what to expect once the teaser trailer debuts on Monday, May 21st at 8:30am BST.
Hit the jump to check out the poster. And if you missed any of Steve's set visit coverage, including a video blog recap and interviews with director Sam Mendes, Daniel Craig, producer Barbara Broccoli, Berenice Marlohe, and Naomie Harris and Ola Rapace, be sure to check it out. Skyfall opens on November 9th.
Here's the official synopsis for Skyfall:
Daniel Craig is back as James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M (Judi Dench) is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Poster via 007.com


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It seems every day there are more and more articles on tiny houses focused on the physical aspects of construction which are incredibly useful and necessary. There are a plethora of videos and blogs providing excellent instruction on how to get your tiny house built but what about the act of living the tiny life? Living the tiny life has brought a certain mindfulness to my living. Now that I live it, I truly believe that acquiring mindfulness is assisted by downsizing and learning to live with less.
When I speak of mindfulness I'm referring to the act of attentive awareness of reality. Being in the present moment, for me, is more easily achieved in a small space without the distractions that a larger space often brings me. I am very good at finding ways to distract myself but in a tiny house, often, whatever you are trying to ignore continually stares you in the face. I mentioned this very thing in a post back in March dealing with conflict but it goes for anything you might be trying to avoid-an article to write, a work assignment to finish or a hyper pup to walk! There is no where to run in a tiny house. You can only go so long before you may, quite literally, bump up against, or be jumped on, by the very responsibility you are trying to avoid!
For me, procrastination is often an attempt to avoid the present. I'll make excuses but the simple fact is that in 98 sq. feet I just can't find that much to distract me for long. Mindfulness is a very difficult thing for many of us. I certainly have a bad case of "monkey mind," the Buddhist term for restlessness (among other definitions). Living the tiny life has increased my awareness of the present moment thanks to lots of banged elbows and head bumps in the loft! Physically you are constantly being made aware of where you are in space because there isn't much of it!
The Buddha taught that mindfulness was one of the seven factors of bodhi, or enlightenment, and that it was of great importance to reach this state of non-suffering. While I don't expect a tiny house to give me complete freedom from suffering, there are aspects of living the tiny life that provide me a path to mindfulness. Having less material items gives me a great sense of freedom. Downsizing the stuff I'd been shuffling around for years really lightened my load, both physically and spiritually. Living the tiny life pushed me to really look at what I needed, rather than what I thought I needed. That was an important step in my path to increased daily mindfulness.
Cedric regularly feels physically restless in our tiny house. It leads him out the door into the woods and he's able to bring himself back to the present. Nature is where he finds mindfulness and our living space releases him into the forest where he rediscovers serenity. I think it's important to think about lifestyle and reflect deeply, not only on the physical make-up of a small space, but the spiritual and emotional side of tiny living. You may well end up discovering that it allows mindfulness to infuse more of your daily life or it could have the affect of inhibiting it. I've come to learn that such considerations are essential to building a tiny house that brings the most peace and comfort.
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We are establishing a gaming network located at http://www.gamer-source.com which currently consists of:
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We have a logo for Starcraft-Source.com and one for diablo-source.com coming soon with the similar style to sc-source.
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|News media snuggle up to ex-con, but ignore FISA judges
By Jim Kouri
The news media are covering Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the legality of the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance program -- an intelligence initiative that by-passes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- by concentrating on the ramblings of Bush opponents and unsubstantiated allegations by a former felon and snitch.
Meanwhile reporters neglect -- intentionally or unintentionally -- reporting on the testimony of people who have opinions backed by qualifications and expertise. So once again, the elite media are being selective in what they report and whom they choose to quote.
An example is disgraced Nixon White House counsel John Dean stating before the committee on Friday that President George W. Bush's domestic spying program raised more concerns about abuse of power than the Watergate scandal that toppled his boss Richard Nixon. Quite a statement coming from a guy who broke the law and snitched out his co-workers to save his own skin from even more prison time. Leave it to the Democrat Party and the mainstream news media to snuggle up to an ex-con. They would fawn over a child rapist if he uttered something negative about President Bush.
Dean, who served time in prison for his role in Watergate, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of a Democrat-led bid to censure Bush for the eavesdropping program that is part of his war on terrorism. It doesn't matter that John Dean has no experience in counter-terrorism, criminal law or even constitutional law. The man was a legal hack for the Nixon Administration.
"I appear today because I believe, with good reason, that the situation is even more serious [than Watergate]," Dean said.
There's no coincidence that Dean authored a book titled Worse than Watergate, which slams the Bush administration as obsessed with politics and secrecy. Of course, the book isn't doing well because no one really cares what some ex-convict who's far from being a Bush insider has to say.
Republicans have called the censure resolution a political stunt, while many Democrats have distanced themselves from it as they jockey for position on the issue of national security and near the November congressional elections, according to Reuters wire service. In other words, the Democrats hate Bush, but they hate losing elections even more and the key to winning is to con Americans into believing they really care about national security.
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), whom Reuters described as a "maverick" politican, offered the censure resolution this month. He charged that without getting court approval, Bush violated the law by secretly ordering the program to listen to phone conversations with suspected al-Qaida members outside the country. Feingold is attempting to score Brownie points with the far-left wackadoos in his party.
The Reuters story, which is picked-up by hundreds of news organizations, wrote the following:
"Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, began the hearing by declaring that the resolution has no merit.
"'But it provides a forum for discussion,' said Specter.
"Like many members of the US Congress, Specter has voiced concerns about the program that monitors overseas phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens while in pursuit of al-Qaida."
Now here's the part that was overlooked by Reuters and other news organizations:
Five former FISA Court judges told the US Senate Judiciary Committee last Wednesday that, with regards to the NSA communique intercept program, President Bush acted within the law. The judges also said that the FISA Court does not have the Constitutional right to override this presidential authority, according to syndicated columnist Sher Zieve.
According to Zieve, former FISA Court Judge Allan Kornblum advised the Judiciary Committee that if President Bush so opts, he has the authority to act unilaterally and without FISA court review.
Judge Kornblum added: "If a court refuses a FISA application and there is not sufficient time for the president to go to the court of review, the president can under executive order act unilaterally, which he is doing now."
Judge Kornblum also said that it would have been negligent of President Bush to have deferred his authority to the FISA court and commented: "I think that the president would be remiss exercising his constitutional authority by giving all of that power over to a statute." Four other former judges from the FISA court concurred with Kornblum.
Now how did our men and women of the press miss those tidbits?
The news media breathlessly report the comments of a second-rate lawyer, ex-convict and snitch as if it were newsworthy, but the opinions of judges who actually sat on the FISA court deserved to be ignored. The news media aren't left-wing lapdogs for the Democrats. Right?
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I just wrote this as an absurdly long comment in response to Zuzu's take on the whole dieting kerfuffle, and I thought I'd post it, because I think it's a much clearer distillation of my thoughts on the subject than my original rant was. And that increased clarity has come about as a result of discussing this ad nauseam over the last few days, so thanks, everybody.
Zuzu writes:
Do my efforts in that regard really only count if I can get a fifth-level blackbelt in Embracing My Own Fat and promise that I'll never, ever do anything to change the body I live in?
That question has been asked and answered a whole BUNCH of times in comments at my blog and TR's this week, though I don't blame you if you haven't been able to keep up, what with your own blog drama.
To me, self-acceptance is a crucial component of fat acceptance. That doesn't mean that everyone who's interested in the movement will be 100% self-accepting. First, I doubt that anyone ever reaches 100%, and second, I think that most people find the movement when they're not very far along the self-acceptance path at all, and the movement helps with that. I'd sure hate to turn those people off it altogether. But it does mean that within fat-positive spaces, talking about how much you want to lose weight — and demanding that everyone else validate that personal choice — is inappropriate.
(Note: I am using "the movement" there to refer basically to the whole concept of fat acceptance, because half the problem here is that there's NOT much of an organized movement.)
A refusal to validate the choice to diet, within the context of fat acceptance, is not the same as refusing to support people's bodily autonomy. And I don't think the abortion analogy holds up. To me, the most effective analogy here is identifying yourself as a queer rights activist while undergoing "ex-gay" therapy. Or at least, choosing to remain closeted. There can be a lot of totally understandable, personal reasons for choosing to remain closeted, but to expect gay pride activists (and "fat pride" is another term many people prefer to "fat acceptance") to validate remaining closeted as a personal choice that somehow does not conflict with gay pride? Is asking an awful lot.
It's an imperfect analogy, but it's the best one I've got. And it's as clear as I can make my viewpoint on all this.
One of the reasons it's imperfect — and the reason I went to the ex-gay analogy first, not just the closet — is that diets don't work. It may sound like splitting hairs to say changing your eating and exercise habits is okay, but trying to lose weight isn't, but from my perspective, it's a really important hair to split. Because fat people are told constantly that we must lose weight for our health, and that's manifestly untrue (except in a very small percentage of cases in which weight does directly affect someone's health). However, fat people, just like thin people, can reap long-term health benefits from a balanced diet and regular exercise. I split the hair because I'm sure not opposed to anyone trying to achieve long-term health benefits. But a balanced diet and regular exercise will not produce long-term weight loss in most people. So as long as we keep the focus on weight loss instead of behavioral changes and health benefits, we're barking up the wrong tree — which also happens to be a tree society privileges, based on falsehoods, distortions, and bigotry.
There's nothing wrong with thinking your life would be easier if you lost weight; in this society, that's completely understandable. But the reality is, thinking your life would be easier if you lost weight is very much like thinking your life would be easier if you won the lottery. Sure, that probably would make your life easier, but it is not something you can bring about by force of sheer will, just because you like the idea of it. (This gets muddied because most people can lose weight temporarily by force of sheer will. But it does not last in virtually every case, which means a long-term strategy for being healthier and happier cannot hinge on weight loss.)
Long-term health benefits are achievable for fat people. Long-term improvements in self-esteem are achievable for fat people. Long-term weight loss, in so many cases that the exceptions are insignificant, is NOT achievable. And yet, the culture — and WAY too many doctors — keep insisting that the only way for fat people to be healthy and proud of themselves is to lose weight. This is dangerous bullshit.
And what it means is, dieting is privileged behavior. It is what fat people are expected to do to be acceptable in this society. Even if that's not WHY a given person is doing it, the privilege issue becomes unavoidable when people come into fat-positive spaces and start saying, "But dieting doesn't make me a bad person!" No, it doesn't, any more than being white, straight, and upper middle class makes me a bad person. But in the context of social justice movements, insisting that my privilege be validated and respected by people who don't share it is not gonna fly. (Once again, for the record, I am not and never was accusing Hanne Blank of doing that — nor do I think The Rotund was. This is a different issue.)
It is perfectly understandable not to be thrilled every minute of every day that you (collective you, not Zuzu-you) got stuck with fat genes in a fat-hating culture. But it's not appropriate to derail conversations in spaces devoted to fat rights and fat pride by talking about how much you don't fucking want to be fat — or as fat as you are — and how you think it's so unfair that people won't take your decision to diet as a personal, politically neutral act. This is what I see happening all over the place, and it's what I was responding to.
And what all of this might mean is that The Rotund and I end up in the category of Radical Fat Acceptance Activists, while people who think dieting isn't anathema to fat acceptance are regarded as moderates. That's profoundly weird to me, because I think of myself as anything but radical, but maybe that's how this will all shake out. I don't know. What I do know is, the deliberate pursuit of weight loss is VERY unlikely to make anyone's mental or physical health better in the long term; it actually stands a good chance of damaging people's mental and physical health; and it is behavior that is culturally privileged as the acceptable alternative to acknowledging that size diversity is a simple fact of life, and fat people are just as human as anyone else. For all those reasons, I simply cannot see how dieting and fat acceptance can ever go hand-in-hand, philosophically.
I would never object to people doing what they like with their own bodies. If, theoretically, anti-dieting legislation ever made it to the table, I would fight against that as strongly as I do against anti-abortion legislation. And if people who are on diets want to help promote the cause of fat acceptance/rights/pride, that's terrific. BUT, I simply cannot say the existence of some people like that means that dieting is generally compatible, philosophically and politically, with fat acceptance.
And I think that if the Fat Acceptance Movement is ever going to be a movement — instead of this eternally "emerging" concept that most people have still never heard of — people who want to be involved need to figure out where they stand on that question, because it derails more conversations, projects, and plans than you can imagine.
If some people come to a different conclusion than I have and want to approach it from a different angle, great. But I'm drawing this line in the sand in terms of the work I want to do, because my vision of a Fat Acceptance Movement includes promoting, without qualification, the fact that dieting is not necessary for good health and will not work for the vast majority of people. It's awfully hard to get that message out when one is constantly trying not to alienate people who disagree (and will flip out if you say dieting, as a general concept, is bad news). So I finally snapped and said, okay, fine, if I alienate people, so be it. They can approach it from their angle, and maybe they'll be much more successful at advancing the cause of fat rights than I will. But that's not how I want to do it, not the movement I want to be a part of, and I'm done with being wishy washy about it in an effort not to turn off people who fundamentally disagree with what I think is a very important element of fat acceptance.
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The commuter noodle shop—so common in Asia's metropolitan centers—is a rare sight in Chicago. Which is unfortunate, because who wouldn't want to slurp down a hot, hearty noodle soup or, say, a saucy bowl of curry udon while waiting on a chilly El platform? (The cold weather's coming, people.) Even if you're not the eat-on-the-go type, I bet you can appreciate the value of a conveniently located spot with steaming noodles practically at the ready for a quick sit-down meal that's going to fortify and warm you from the inside out. I guess what I'm getting at is, if Chicago has one of these elusive commuter noodle joints, the Bucktown/Wicker Park location of Penny's Noodle Shop is that place.
Located just feet away from the Damen stop of the Blue Line, this Penny's is built for quickie dining: friendly but efficient servers; a dining room laden with two tops and repellently sparse decor; and a kitchen that teeters on the line of being uncomfortably fast with your order—all of which, as a supporter of the commuter-noodle-joint concept, I find endearing. Of course the other important factor is that the food can be good. And Penny's noodles, for how fast they spring from the kitchen, are very good. I'm particularly a fan of the Thai ravoili ($7.50), which features housemade shrimp and pork dumplings.
The portion is generous for the price, and includes smoky-sweet slices of glazed barbecued pork, green onions, minced cilantro, ground peanuts, crisp bean sprouts, and big leaves of lettuce. The plump little dumplings are filled with well-seasoned ground meat and shrimp and are wrapped with feathery-light skins of rice noodle. They exhibit none of that sticky, heavy, doughy texture you occasionally experience with Asian dumplings. The crushed peanuts and cilantro add nice depth. But I am less impressed by the barbecued pork, which is flavorful but dry. I also find the bed of lettuce to be a waste; seemingly, it's there to be decorative, but it just clutters up the bowl. Whether or not you're in a rush to catch a train or get home after work, you don't want anything getting in between you and those tasty Thai ravioli.
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No mistaking how NSA story reporter feels
The man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. government eavesdropping sought to break the story through a columnist for a U.K.-based publication who has made no secret of his distaste for intrusions on privacy.
Edward Snowden brought his information to Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian instead of to the Washington Post, with which he had briefly corresponded. The case illustrates the passion an opinion-driven journalist can bring to a breaking news story; at the same time it raises questions about fairness.
Greenwald, author of three books in which he argues the government has trampled on personal rights in the name of protecting national security, wrote the original stories exposing the extent of the government's data collection. Over the weekend, he identified intelligence contractor Snowden as his source at Snowden's request, and said more stories are coming.
"What we disclosed was of great public interest, of great importance in a democracy, that the U.S. government is building this massive spying apparatus aimed at its own population," Greenwald said Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Greenwald also told The Associated Press that he's been contacted by "countless people" over the last 24 hours offering to create legal defense funds for Snowden.
The topic is personal for Greenwald, 46. The former constitutional and civil rights lawyer, educated at the New York University Law School, began the "Unclaimed Territory" blog in 2005 and wrote "How Would a Patriot Act?" a year later. The book criticized the Bush administration for its use of executive power.
Greenwald, now based in Brazil, wrote a regular column for Salon for five years until joining The Guardian last year. He said he wanted to reach a more international audience, a desire that coincided with the news organization's effort to expand its reach in the U.S. market.
One program he wrote about collects hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records. The second program takes in audio, email and other electronic activities primarily by non-U.S. nationals who use providers like Microsoft and Apple. Greenwald described the collection of phone records on Monday as "rampant abuse and it needs sunlight. That's why this person came forward and that's why we published our stories.
On "Morning Joe," he snapped that co-host Mika Brzezinski was using "Obama talking points" when she challenged him with a question.
"The wall of secrecy behind which they operate is impenetrable and it is a real menace to democracy," said Greenwald, who won a 2010 Online Journalism Association award for his coverage of Bradley Manning, who is charged with giving classified documents to WikiLeaks.
Snowden, however, had not just gone to Greenwald with his information. Barton Gellman of The Washington Post wrote on Sunday that Snowden had contacted him about the story. He said Snowden had asked that the Post publish within 72 hours the full contents of a presentation he had made about the collection of electronic activity from the Silicon Valley companies.
Gellman said the Post would not make any guarantees and sought the government's views about whether the information would harm national security. The Post eventually agreed to publish a small sample of what Snowden was offering, but Snowden backed away, writing that "I regret that we weren't able to keep this project unilateral," Gellman wrote.
He then contacted Greenwald, the Post said.
Greenwald's clear point of view doesn't necessarily weaken the story, said Jay Rosen, journalism professor at New York University and author of the Press Think blog.
"In many ways it strengthens it," he said. Greenwald has a clear stance on privacy and national security, but they aren't partisan; he's criticized Democratic President Barack Obama and his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush. Journalists who have strong viewpoints is a tradition with a long history in the U.S., Rosen said.
"The fact that sources now may choose (outlets) on the basis of commitment is a fact and journalists whose professional stance is no commitment may find themselves at a disadvantage," he said.
Greenwald's known feelings on the issue "does leave a little opening for critics," said Ellen Shearer, head of the national security journalism initiative at Northwestern University. There's always a risk that such passion can work against a journalist; some people would worry that facts contradictory to a predisposed belief could be overlooked.
To this point, Shearer said there's been little pushback on the facts, with the debate primarily about whether the information should be published.
Intelligence officials are investigating the leak and its impact on its programs. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the revelation of the intelligence-gathering programs reckless and said it has done "huge, grave damage."
The Guardian took care not to publish material that may help other countries improve their eavesdropping or could put the lives of covert agents at risk, Greenwald said.
"We've published these things they marked 'top secret' that don't actually harm national security but conceal what they've done from the public," he said.
The story is a coup for the Guardian, a U.K.-based independent news organization that started covering the United States more aggressively when it determined that one-third of its web traffic came from the U.S. Offices in New York and Washington were opened in 2011, and the Guardian now has 57 employees in the U.S.
The Guardian doesn't offer its newspaper for sale in the U.S. But web traffic to its news website in the U.S. market has increased 47 percent over the past year, and is likely to jump further with this month's exposure.
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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
Nvidia has just announced their new GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU, a model that should take the space in between GTX 980 and the Titan X both in terms of performance and in terms of price. The GTX 980 Ti is essentially a slightly stripped down version of the Titan X GPU with slightly less CUDA cores that are 2816 here and with a bit less TMUs – 176 units. The other significant difference in comparison with the Titan X is that the GTX 980 Ti comes with 6GB of video memory instead of 12 GB. The recommended end user price of the new GTX 980 Ti GPUs is $649 USD so it is significantly better priced as compared to the Titan X and considering that it should be showing a very similar performance it sounds like an interesting product not only for gaming, but for crypto mining as well.
So we are taking for a spin a single Nvidia GTX 980 Ti to compare it to the the GTX 980 and the Titan X GPUs using ccMiner 1.5.45 SP-MOD. Note that we are not using the latest version of ccMiner in order to compare the results in terms of hashrate on the other GPUs that we ran a bit ago. We've compared using the latest ccMiner as well and there is notable performance increase in some algorithms such as Quark, but for most others there is no significant difference. Just as a reference the GTX 980 Ti using the latest ccMiner 1.5.51 SP-MOD manages to provide a 23230 KHS hashrate for mining Quark, but as we've said there is not much of a difference with other algorithms. Other than that as you can see from the results the GTX 980 Ti GPU is very close in terms of performance as compared to the Titan X and much faster than the GTX 980. So if you are looking for a new high-end Nvidia GPU for gaming and crypto mining when not using your PC, then the GTX 980 Ti does seem like a great choice…
There are probably not much, if any, people out there mining for crypto coins on the latest and fastest Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan X GPUs, but that does not mean that the video cards based on them are not good for mining. The GTX Titan X does come with 12 GB of video memory, something that is not very useful for crypto mining, but it also comes with 50% more CUDA cores as compared to GTX 980. So you might expect to get up to about 50% performance in crease in terms of hashrate, but that performance increase may come up with twice or even more higher price compared to how much a single GTX 980 costs. So it seems that the GTX Titan X is not very price/performance efficient choice and it might be better to go for two GTX 980s instead not only for mining, but also for gaming as well.
Nevertheless we still ran some benchmarks to see what is the actual hashrate difference between a GTX 980 and a GTX Titan X GPU using the latest ccMiner 1.5.45 SP-MOD. Do note that the Titan X is still a Compute 5.2 GPU, just like the GTX 980, so it does not bring a new evolution in terms of compute capabilities – just more raw power. As you can see from the table with the results we are seeing in between 30% to almost 50% performance increase in the hashrate of the GTX Titan X GPU as compared to what the GTX 980 currently offers. As we have already mentioned the price difference compared to the actual performance you get makes the GTX 980 the better choice for mining, and you can go for two of these instead of a single Titian X.


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Libby@go2 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a top mobile website looking to promote our listings pages. We want to focus on promoting Spas and Restaurants to local audiences. On our site users will find reviews that are easy to navigate.
Our target user lives in a large city, is tech savvy, and uses their mobile phone to find local listings and recommendations.
The larger banners can use images and photos, the smaller banners just need to be as clear as possible as they have to be viewed on a small phone screen.
Step 1: We need 2 sets of banner designs. One for "Restaurants" and one for "Spas and Salons". These designs need to be approved before the additional banners are created.
Step 2: We need 5 different versions of each of these banners, one for each target city (Boston, Bay Area, LA, NY, Chicago, Local). To start please use "Boston" as the city. When the initial designs are approved we just need to add in the city name. We also need one for "Local", you will just add the word "Local" in the city name. For example, the banner will say "Hungry? Find Boston Restaurants" another version would say "Hungry? Find Bay Area Restaurants".
Step 3: Each of the city banners will need to be in 4 different sizes, 300x50, 216x35, 168x28, 120x20. The smaller banners may need to be text only b/c they are so small. The larger banners can be be creative and use pictures, but they must be easy to see on a small screen.
Text for the banners can be as follows, "Spoil Yourself. Find Boston Spas", "Hungry? Find Boston Restaurants" "Find Boston Restaurant Reviews". The smaller banners can use less text like, "Boston Restaurants" or "Find Boston Spa Reviews" "Find Top Boston Restaurants"
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To test Apparition students if they are skilled enough to aquire an Apparition licence.
The Apparition Test Centre is an office on the sixth level of the British Ministry of Magic in the Department of Magical Transportation.
This office tests Apparition students and issues Apparition licences to those who successfully pass the final test, giving them the right to Apparate and Disapparate legally. The minimum age to acquire such a licence is seventeen, the age a witch or wizard comes of age.
This office also deploys an instructor to Hogwarts to tutor the eligible students in the method of Apparation and Disapparation. Wilkie Twycross is the only known Apparition instructor.
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Maybe it's time to put Joe Paterno's statue back where it hasn't been in a year, outside of Beaver Stadium.
Maybe it's time the decades of good he did for Penn State - on the field and off of it - to once again stand as his legacy. Not just to the Penn State alumni and fans who we all figured were blindly supporting him through the harshest of accusations, but to the world.
Maybe the NCAA has to revoke the sanctions it levied against Penn State last July, effective immediately, because they were based on a dangerous cocktail of flawed information and a rush to judgement.
Maybe those of us who have accused Paterno of not acting fast enough acted too quickly of convicting him in the court of public opinion.
Those should be the prevailing thoughts after the Paterno family released the results of the findings it sought in response to the Freeh Report. If Louis Freeh wantonly jumped to conclusion after conclusion during his investigation into how Penn State handled the Jerry Sandusky scandal, which in a nutshell the Paterno report found, shouldn't we all be a lot more open to the idea that Paterno got a bad rap here?
Two things before we go on:
1.) It should be noted that the Paterno family paid for the Paterno report and hand-picked the investigators. So, it shouldn't be surprising that the findings came out in Joe Paterno's favor.
2.) Just because this is essentially a public relations piece in support of JoePa doesn't mean it isn't loaded with facts. And these aren't facts produced by emails. These are the findings of Dick Thornburg, the former Pennsylvania governor and U.S. attorney general. Of Dr. Fred Berlin, founder of the The Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic and serves as director of the Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit. Of former FBI profiler Jim Clemente. That should hold much more weight than the opinions of Penn State alumni and the fans who consider "Joe Knows Football" T-shirts formal wear.
In the 238-page report released Sunday morning, there is no bombshell fact that will knock the nation on its ear. There's no "Because of this, Joe Paterno did not/could not know the extent of the issues" moment. The shame of it is, short of that, a lot of minds will remain unchanged.
What the Paterno report does offer is the critical look at the Freeh Report for which so many Penn Staters have been pining. It provided a look at dealing with sexual abusers of children, a crime for which former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky has been famously convicted. The combination made this report arguably more comprehensive than the one the Penn State Board of Trustees paid for and then allowed the NCAA to use to beat the football program over the head.
"In my opinion, the Freeh Report is seriously flawed, both with respect to the process of the (Special Investigative Council's) investigation and its findings related to Mr. Paterno," Thornburg wrote in his report.
There's nothing in this report in support of the old coach's innocence that Paterno's most ardent supporters haven't been pointing out for the last seven months.
Since none of the most damning string of emails from 1998 mentioned Paterno by name, Freeh's assertion that they were evidence Paterno knew about early allegations against Sandusky and pushed for a cover-up are a gross push to a conclusion unsubstantiated by the facts. In fact, Thornburg pointed out that Freeh did not make mention of "contrary evidence" that Paterno did not know about the 1998 Sandusky incident - presumably including the fact that Paterno testified to the grand jury, under oath, that he did not recall the incident.
Each of the three reports touches on the same types of criticisms against the Freeh Report: That Louis Freeh consistently jumped to conclusions without the evidence to back it up. That despite his insistence that his firm conducted hundreds of interviews, he never talked to the people at the center of the case - Paterno, Sandusky, former university president Graham Spanier, former athletic director Tim Curley, ex-vice president Gary Schultz and former quarterbacks coach Mike McQueary.
But the most damning criticism of the Freeh Report may have been the one Dr. Berlin wrote. In it, he basically indicates Freeh and his team failed to recognize the difficulties a greater number of people than Joe Paterno have had over the years recognizing signs of pedophilia among friends, co-workers and even family members.
That's a huge statement, because Freeh's report to its core relies on the assumption that Paterno, Curley, Schultz and Spanier recognized in 1998 that Sandusky was a pedophile who should be stopped, although stopping him somehow would be a serious public relations hit to the university and its football program.
"In my professional opinion," Dr. Berlin wrote in his report, "Joe Paterno was likely one of hundreds, if not thousands, of such people who were so deceived. That said, I have seen no credible evidence in the 'Freeh Report' supporting the conclusion that Joe Paterno had acted in bad faith regarding the Sandusky situation. Nor have I seen any evidence that Joe Paterno was a man who lacked a genuine concern for the well-being of others - particularly children."
So, where does Penn State stand now? Where does Paterno? Even after the release of the Paterno family's report, that's difficult to say, because for so many, this whole hellish saga has been centered around the wrong people from the outset.
We have one document, the Freeh Report, that strongly indicts Penn State's inner circle - with Paterno at the head of the table - for covering up a heinous crime.
We have another document now, the Paterno report, in which several sources make minced meat not only of Freeh's findings, but the way he conducted his investigation in the first place.
As so often happens in this country nowadays, people will likely side with the theory they've sided with from the beginning. Those who believe Paterno was a monster who garnered too much influence and used it to make Penn State more a football factory than a university will hold the Freeh Report as gospel. Those who hold onto the reputation Paterno built during 45 seasons as a head football coach who graduated players, demanded excellence and turned boys into men with the lessons he taught have their rebuttal to the others now.
But no matter which side you sit on today, ask yourself this: If you were sitting on a jury, and you were given the Freeh and Paterno reports as evidence from the prosecution and defense, could you convict Joe Paterno of covering up the actions of Jerry Sandusky beyond a reasonable doubt? Without his name in the e-mails? Without testimony from anybody saying he knew directly? With Paterno's statement to the grand jury that he did not recall the early incidents? With his spotless history? It shouldn't be as easy as it once seemed to be. It can't be.
This is America, where you're innocent until proven guilty, where you get the benefit of the doubt until the evidence comes out.
If anybody deserves that benefit, it's Joe Paterno.
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A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy. Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He's living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who's the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn't return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele's father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father's. She's able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having "one of their own" compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs's caddy and help him regain his "authentic swing". He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match...
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Over the past couple of years, I've frequently written about the importance of adequately preparing advisory firm employees to be great employees. The foundation of our "preparation" is a three-part process in which we teach each new employee about the "Vision Statement," "the Core Purpose," and the "Core Values" of their new firm. The most important of these three is the Vision Statement.
Owner-advisors often confuse a "vision statement" with a "mission statement." A mission statement is simply a description of what a firm is going to do for their clients, which we cover in our "Core Purpose (along with why a firm provides the services it does). In contrast, a company vision statement is a reflection of a company's overall goal. Vision statements have the potential to be very powerful communications to both owners and employees.
A good vision statement paints a clear picture for the future of the business, which creates a sense of shared purpose, a desire for achievement, and builds a team commitment to reaching that vision. And vision statements can change from time to time—when the old goals have been reached or the firm takes a new direction—where its "core purpose" and "core values" typically reflect the way that vision will be accomplished in the most productive way, which rarely changes.
Here's an example of how an effective vision statement would read:
"Within the next X year(s), we strive to grow (Company Name), a financial services company, by producing $ in gross annual revenue by providing (Description of Products and Services), to (Description of Target Client), utilizing Y Certified Financial Planners® and Z support staff."
Note how specific the vision statement is, particularly the goals. This is very important. It clearly establishes in the mind of every employee and firm owner exactly what they are all working together to achieve: the amount of revenue growth, within a stated timeframe.
If you're like many of my clients—particularly owner-advisors—you're probably feeling a bit uncomfortable at this point. That's human nature. We find that many firm owners resist putting the dollar number on their goals, especially if those goals are going to be shared with others. It feels like we're setting ourselves up for failure, and/or revealing that we're overly materialistic or even greedy. Or they might feel it sends the wrong message: After all, most owner-advisors didn't launch their own firms just for the money.
That's why it's important to remember that the vision statement isn't a commitment: it's a road map. As I said, the details of a firm's vision statement can change over time: with the stated revenue goal, time frame and staffing adjusted upward or downward, as changing circumstances require. But the simple act of stating the firm goal in clear terms—X revenues by Y date—is by far the best way we've found to communicate to employees what they should be working toward: It gives them that "Aha!" moment, as the light bulb goes on illuminating exactly what the whole team is trying to do.
Over the years, I have found that owner/advisors have a really hard-time formulating their company vision statement. The unfortunate part is, no spouse or employee or friend or therapist or even consultant can create your company vision for you. As leaders of your company, this is the one thing you simply have to do yourself. But it is easier if you have a starting point, instead of a blank sheet of paper. If you want a helpful starting point, you can download a free "Vision and Goals" worksheet by visiting my website.
I use this worksheet with clients in our workshops, and perhaps it will help you get off on the right foot.


text: We've posted about China's e-waste problem before; a problem that stems from other countries needing to offload their trash and China being more than receptive because of good money to be had from salvaging. But what we haven't seen much of is video. 60 Minutes tried recently to capture it, but were attacked from Chinese residents that wanted to keep their lucrative e-waste mining business intact. VWag found this longer Current documentary from 2007 that has longer footage—and angry citizens. See for yourself where that old 386 PC you threw away is going. [Current via Valleywag]


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I'm very new to Java and I do not want to fall behind on this first lab and be subjected to the "Snowball Effect", been working quite relentlessly on this program but I am quite unsure of "seeds" nor how to manipulate the inside of the array for the boolean type.
This is what I have so far. Please and thank you for any/all input.
import java.util.*; public class Life { public static void main(String[] args) { long seed = 0; Random rnd = new Random(seed); } public static void randomiseMatrix(Random rnd, boolean[][] rnMatrix) { for (int i = 1; i < rnMatrix.length - 1; i++) { for (int j = 1; j < rnMatrix[0].length - 1; j++) { rnMatrix[i][j] = rnd.nextBoolean(); } } } }


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Stevens Pulaski Skyway Study: Closure to Increase Commutes 30-40% or More, Cost $750 Million in Lost Time
Traffic and commuting are constant factors in the daily life of a resident in the New Jersey/New York metropolitan area. On a good day, an average employed person travels anywhere between 45-60 minutes to work; imagine a bad day. Beginning next week, for commuters and the community around the Jersey City area, bad days are about to begin.
On April 12, 2014, the historic Pulaski Skyway will be closing to northbound traffic for approximately two years. Although the 81-year-old steel truss bridge is in dire need of rehabilitation, the impact of the skyway closure on the traffic pattern, the commute, and the local economy is of huge concern to residents and governing bodies of the region.
As part of a systems resilience study, researchers in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens have created an intelligence simulation video on the Pulaski Skyway closure.
"As a research study, the video analyzes the existing traffic patterns of the Skyway, highlights the alternate routes that commuters can use after the closure, discusses the traffic congestion on the alternate routes, and concludes that in a best-case scenario the commute time for an average person would go up by 30-40 percent. Using the best-case conservative estimate, and using wage statistics for the state of New Jersey, the cost of this additional time increase of 30-40 percent could ultimately result in over $750 million in wage-hours impacted, highlighting the importance of policies that can minimize the effect of the closure," said Dr. Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez, associate professor and division director of engineering management.
"The real impact is on the quality of human life," he added. "The longer a person is on the road, the less time he/she spends with the family. Expenses go up as alternate routes might have tolls, or be lengthier, resulting in higher gas consumption. Many people opt to take public transportation, which is very expensive in metro areas. Additionally, there is a colossal loss to local business owners as labor and customers both slow down due to altered traffic patterns. Above all, if there are any other systems, infrastructure or human failures that transpire during the upkeep of the Skyway, the economic and social damage to the city would be catastrophic.
"At the School of Systems and Enterprises, we study the impact that natural and man-made disasters are having on our economical, environmental, urban, and human enterprise. Our simulations are an effort to delve deep into the systems matrix that we all exist in, and come up with solutions that can help local and global problems."