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The Madison InfoShop, a radical resource center in Madison, WI, is launching a digital zine library and oral history project. Get a summary and volunteer info.
Looking for some inspiration to spice up your envelopes? Check out the Digital Collection of Mail Art compiled by the University of Buffalo.
Wow, Rave Archive has a lot of zines avaliable to read digitally online. They feature zines from the 1990s that document rave and punk music popular at the time from all over the US, UK, and Canada.
If you were at Meet Me at the Race Riot earlier this year, then you had the privilegeof seeing Osa Atoe read from her amazing zine Shotgun Seamstress. She is now releasing all six issues as one box set. She's even throwing in a free mixtape! Don't miss this chance to own such an important part of zine punk history!
Do you ever read the Missed Connections section of Craigslist and wish that more zinesters showed up? Submit your stories of splitzines, admiration, and/or passionate yearning to Zine Crush!
Are you looking for zines on nationality and transition? Do you have any zines to add to the list? Click here to go to CUNY's blog to see Alycia Sellie's growing list of zines!
This conference on Thursday, April 5th at Parsons: The New School For Design will consider feminist art as a zone of multi-disciplinary art production associated with a radical critique of gendered power relations in society. Speakers include Susan Bee, A. K. Burns, Audrey Chan, Maureen Connor, Caitlin Rueter & Suzanne Stroebe and Ulrike Müller. Free admission!
Everyone should take a look at Coloring Outside the Lines, a zine by women of color activists at UCSC in Santa Cruz available online!
Small Works for Big Change, the annual benefit event supporting the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), will be held at 6pm Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Jack Studios in New York. Now in its seventh year, this vibrant annual celebration reflects the radical spirit of SRLP and the experimental energy of some of New York's most innovative contemporary artists, both established and emerging. 100% of the event's proceeds will benefit SRLP's advocacy work for transgender communities. The event is free and open to the public.
Click more for lists of artists and musicians!
Pandora Press is the Swansea Feminist Network zine. It is a publication written by and for intelligent creative women, which represents what the SFN is all about! You can get involved in any way – get more info on their website!
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They are doing a one month fundraiser and would love your help caring and sharing for zines. The money will be used for workshops, exciting events, and supplies for a whole year! Donate here and keep an eye out for videos from around the country where people tell their stories about why they love the Denver Zine Library.
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Two years after it began as a small networking group for a few technology-loving members, the Durango Tech club has become a major presence in the towns tech scene.
The group has 350 members, dozens from out of state who want to stay connected to Durangos technology scene, and recently it even spawned its own subgroup, the Durango Coders.
The Coders was an effort to get together the coding nerds to talk about different programming languages, code snippets and hardware types, said founder Dan Marlow, himself a Durango Tech club member who works for the web-hosting company GoDaddy. The group also has been a success story, with weekly coffee meet-ups, Friday lectures and 30 members signed up on its online meet-up page.
While both groups focus on the ins and outs of work in the digital world, their founders also recognize that much of their appeal is in recreating a small slice of office life for the local techies, many of whom work for themselves or are remote employees of companies halfway across the country.
Its part of a larger recognition within the working world that face-to-face social interactions are vital as a way to spark ideas, spawn new collaborations and refresh the mind after hours sitting alone in front of the computer screen.
As more and more work goes virtual, people have begun to realize they are losing out on the natural collaboration that traditional workplace inherently offered, Tammy Johns and Lynda Gratton wrote in a Harvard Business Review article about virtual work.
(Workers) work lives often lacked a sense of community and the richness of collaboration, the authors said. Anxious for innovation, they missed the kind of ideation that results from serendipitous encounters and hallway conversations.
Groups such as the Durango Coders and Durango Tech aim to revive that element of casual socialization, said Marlow and Jim Mackay, co-founder of Durango Tech.
Both groups hold casual coffee meet-ups and Durango Tech hosts a happy hour with no agenda besides chatting over a beer or wine.
I thought: Im not the only one who wants to get out of the house and talk shop, Marlow said.
The coffee hours provide a place for group members to share problems, help each other brainstorms solutions, swap stories and learn from each other, he said.
Members cited the chance to interact with like minds as a major appeal of the group.
The group is an opportunity to hang out with other nerds, said Travis Kimmel, a freelance web programmer.
You dont really get the watercooler thing when youre at home, he said.
Even though people are working on different projects, the meet-ups hosted by both groups allow members to get feedback on their ideas from a variety of angles something thats hard to replicate when working alone, Mackay said.
Creating communities for people lacking the physical office also is a goal of Durango Space, the 2-year-old co-working facility on Main Avenue.
Our take is you can work solo at home, but most people eventually want to find other people, said Jasper Welch, co-founder of Durango Space. Part of the facilitys goal is to create a community of members and co-workers by hosting social activities, meetings for groups like the Tech club and community events like Open Studios.
Were trying to create social interactions, not force them, Welch said.
Beyond bringing like minds together, both tech groups also provide a way for people who dont have a physical workplace here to connect with and give back to the community. Durango Coders is helping the Durango Public Library design an application that automatically will transfer digital versions of The Durango Herald into the librarys archives, and Durango Tech created a mobile application that allows visitors to learn more about the exhibits at the Durango Arts Center.
There is the stereotype that nerds are computer geeks that like to hide out in their caves, Marlow said. But were not like that, and Durango in particular is not like that.


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The Role of Purpose, Approach-Avoidance, Self-Efficacy, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Locus of Control in Undergraduates' Source Selection
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The primary objective of this research study is to explore differences in sources selected by undergraduate students in relation to two factors: 1) purpose of search, and 2) scores on the Problem-Solving Inventory (PSI) based on sources undergraduate students select for both course-related and everyday-life information seeking purposes. Also considered are differences in self-efficacy, intolerance of uncertainty, and external locus of control scores reliant upon sources selected initially during a search process. Two main research questions were the focus of this study. First, what types of information sources do undergraduates tend to use first during an everyday-life or course-related search, and is context important? Second, do certain user characteristics influence the selection of the first source selected during information searches? A series of chi square and one tailed t tests were performed to examine these research questions in depth. The overarching goal of this research is to use these results to better understand and structure information services for undergraduates.


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Hubble has taken its first close-up views of the much anticipated and potential 'comet of the century'. On the night of April 10th, the space telescope snapped an image in visible light of Comet ISON while it was still at a whopping distance of 394 million miles from Earth (386 million miles from the Sun)- a bit closer than the orbit of Jupiter. (See also: New Comet Found; May Be Visible From Earth in 2013)
While today it is only faintly visible as a fuzzy speck of light in large telescopes, by end of November this year hopes are that ISON may briefly get as bright as the Moon in the sky.
Using the newly obtained Hubble data, astronomers estimate that the dirty snowball measures 3 to 4 miles wide, while the gas and dust filled coma that surrounds the nucleus stretches out approximately 3,100 miles in diameter – wider than the Australian continent.
Clearly visible on this new Hubble photo is the ghostly dust tail pointing away from the Sun, extending more than 57,000 miles. This iconic, ethereal feature of all comets form from surface material being ejected at high speeds into space.
As comet ISON heads towards the Sun over the next few months, the frozen surface of the nucleus will continue to warm up and melt. The Sun's heat evaporates ices in the nucleus into jets of gases and dust, forming the snowball-like coma – which, by the way, is slowly getting denser and wider as the comet approaches the Sun.
(Related :New Comet Discovered—May Become "One of Brightest in History")
Astronomers believe that this may be ISON's first trip into the inner solar system, coming from the far outer reaches of the solar system, from a frozen reservoir of billions of hibernating comets. Based on orbital calculations, as the Sun's gravity pulls in the comet, it's trajectory will take it uncomfortably close to the Sun on November 28. In fact it will plunge within 700,000 miles of the fiery surface of our star before heading back out to the outer solar system and hopefully begin to put on a sky show.
So the big question on everyone's mind now is – will ISON spectacularly light up our late autumn skies or will it fizzle- out and disintegrate as it dive bombs the Sun? Time will tell.


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rifraf wrote:I just today ordered (from bike24) an E-werk and its battery pack.
I really could have done with it on my NSW to WA tour.
I found my Garmin was dead weight without recharging ability.
Looking forward to its arrival and hoping its not too extended a wait.
Hopeful it might be able to charge my old nokia phone as well.
I'm sure you will be very happy with your purchase. I used the same setup on last years tour and never had to sit around and waiting to charge the Garmin.
I never used paper maps as I had planned a rough route and loaded them on the GPS from the small computer I took with me, which had a battery life of 10 h ( mainly for doing the journal on CGOAB )
One thing I learned very quickly is to take the Garmin of its auto routing as it sometimes played havoc when I went of the route for sightseeing


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Interactive Brokers will allow retail customers to use the trading platform IEX in the latest fallout in the high-frequency debate.
The online discount broker confirmed on Thursday that it will launch a service to let retail customers place orders through the IEX trading platform, the focus of the new book by author Michael Lewis. It was first reported by CNBC.
"Customer interest in IEX as a result of recent media exposure is apparent. We determined that it makes sense to connect directly to this new trading venue, thereby providing our customers with another market center destination," said the firm in a statement.
The book, "Flash Boys," claims the practice of high-frequency trading is "rigging" the markets. The comment first made on "60 Minutes," has caused a spirited debate in the last several days over the pros and cons of high-frequency trading.
Lewis\'s critics have called the comments a \"vilification\" of the whole industry.
HFTs use complex computerized algorithms used to trade and have come under scrutiny in recent weeks. New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman has called HFTs of having an \"unfair advantage\" and the FBI has launched an investigation.
The Founder of IEX, Brad Katsuyama, has said his exchange is designed to keep high-frequency traders from getting ahead of regular orders.
Wall Street\'s electronic trading strategies also drew the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission. One of the regulator\'s commissioner\'s called for a review of the different Wall Street's electronic-trading strategies that are in the marketplace.
Luis Aguilar, a securities lawyer, on Wednesday said the SEC should look at the \"fairness and transparency\" of market structure and whether maker-taker rebates would be temporarily prohibited for certain securities.
The rebate system known as "maker-taker," was started as a way to lure traders away from established exchanges by offering rebates.
The exchanges have since adopted the system to attract orders from brokers away from other options. Traders or "makers" who are ready to sell or buy securities, are paid a rebate by the exchange and buyers or "takers" pay a fee for that service. Exchanges make money from the difference.
Changes to this system that has become dominant in the market place could impact the profitability of exchanges, dark pools and automated trading firms like Virtu Financial Inc., BAT Global Markets.
In the speech Aguilar said:
"… many have observed that the maker-taker model may present a conflict of interest between brokers and their customers because broker-dealers are incentivized to send customer orders to the venue that pays the best maker-taker rebate, and not necessarily the venue that provides best execution…"
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SAINTS striker Billy Sharp and his partner Jade Fair are celebrating the birth of their son.
Both Mother and baby are doing well and the couple have named their baby boy Leo Sharp.
Billy said: "Jade and I are absolutely delighted with the safe arrival of our beautiful boy Leo.
"As everyone knows, we tragically lost our first Son, Luey Jacob Sharp, so the birth of Leo makes this special time for our family especially poignant.
"We would like to thank our family and friends for the support they have given us throughout Jade's pregnancy.
"We are thrilled to become parents and we welcome Leo into our world with lots of love and are looking forward to starting family life together with our son."
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Southfield-based advertising agency Doner Partners LLC said today it has hired Elizabeth Boone as chief marketing officer and executive vice president.
Boone, 48, will be responsible for new and existing client growth, the agency said in a statement, and will help "to define and articulate the agency's positioning, capabilities, development, and growth agenda."
She previously worked at Doner as a senior vice president and group account director on Mazda from 2007-09.
As CMO, she replaces James Ward, who was promoted to chief strategy and integration officer in December.
Boone will report to co-CEO and President David DeMuth.
"Liz understands how to help brands tell relevant and compelling stories in today's always-on marketing landscape," DeMuth said in a statement. "Her experience and skills are ideal for this position, enabling us to further build our digital capabilities and raise our profile, as well as that of our clients, through proprietary content."
Most recently, Boone was a vice president at San Francisco-based Federated Media Publishing LLC. She also worked for General Motors Co. as global director of digital and social engagements.
Her past advertising industry stops include jobs at JWT, Innocean, Leo Burnett and Jordan Tamraz Caruso.
Advertising Age ranked Doner as the nation's 103rd-largest agency by revenue at $90 million in 2012, the most recent numbers available.
Doner, which says it has more than $1 billion in annual billings, has satellite offices in Atlanta, Cleveland and Newport Beach, Calif. It employs about 600 people, around 500 of them in Southfield.
Clients include Chrysler Group LLC, Meijer Inc., JCPenney, AutoTrader.com, The Coca-Cola Co., DuPont, Sherwin-Williams, Smithfield Foods, The UPS Store and Steemer International Inc.
Toronto-based ad giant MDC Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: MDCA) bought a 30 percent ownership stake in the agency in March 2012. Doner formerly was one of the nation's largest independent agencies.
Bill Shea: (313) 446-1626, [email protected]. Twitter: @bill_shea19


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Mixed results with Airfix
September 2014
I am working with leather, and can not iron or dry the painted items.
My problem is I have mixed results using the Airfix product. It works with some Lumiere and Textile Colors, but not all of them.
With Textile Colors it works with White 123 but nothing else. I can also make it work with Halo Violet Gold, Halo Blue Gold, Halo Pink Gold, but nothing else in the Lumiere line..
I have tried different ratios and different batches.. nothing seems to be working.
Help Please!
Many Thanks!
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September 2014
Hi Leather,
....hummmm....what causes the color to come off? washing, rubbing, flexing? How long are you letting the pieces dry before testing for fastness?
could you use a hair dryer? would you consider a sealant?
also, this might be an easier issue to troubleshoot over the phone? You can reach me at 800 442 0455 on Monday.
September 2014
Hello Annette!
Thank you kindly for getting back to me!!
I let the product dry for 24 hours before I give it a thorough rub test with a damp cloth.. I want to avoid traditional leather sealants, as I am making masks and want very little chemical involved.
I thought about a hair dryer after I wrote my post yesterday. How long do you think I should try that for? 5 min?
I will definitely keep your number on hand! Thank you for that!
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September 2014
Hi again,
Five minutes should do it - letting the paint dry for 24 hours before using the hair dryer will help, too. The paint does begin to bond with time so 24 hours plus the hair dryer might well do the trick.
Please let me know how it goes,
September 2014
Hi Annette,
So I made a swatch for heat testing, and I did just about everything except set the darn thing on fire. (including use an iron)
My conclusions are that Textile and Lumiere colors do not seem to bond with leather hide. That being said, I haven't tested any other leather finishes. Just VegTan.
What DOES seem to bond are the Neopaques. I added a small amount to my metal Lumiere colors that weren't working before and that seemed to do the trick. I still use the AirFix, although I'm not sure it's necessary as the Neopaques are much more plastic-like on their own.
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September 2014
Hi LW,
I'm perplexed by your results...I'm going to chat with our chemist, see if I can get some insights to what is going on here. So far as I know the Neopaque and Lumiere paints use the same base.
Can you check some batch numbers for me? Especially on the Lumiere & Textile Colors - they are usually stamped near the UPC code.
September 2014
I was rather disappointed as I bought more than a few colors assuming they would work..I seriously appreciate your follow up.
The reason I say Neopaque are more plastic-like, is when I'm cleaning up, the dry paint peels and flakes more than the Lumiere, which just dissolves with water.
Like I said I have a ton of colors, so not sure how many you want.
The colors I used in my first test were:
Lumiere - 561 Metallic Gold -38097
Airfix - 40147
2nd test I added a small amount to the same mixture:
Neopaque - 590 Ochre -33322
This was the only way I was able to make any of the metallic colors wash-fast
Other colors I've tried with Airfix alone:
Textile - 109 Maroon - 37295 or 32295 (kinda hard to read) this was one of the worst offenders.
Textile - 110 Violet - 38909 2nd worst offender.
Textile - 126 Spruce - 39189 or 39139
Lumiere - 566 Metallic Russet - 35284
Lumiere - 562 Metallic Olive Green - 34644
Lumiere - 565 Metallic Bronze - 39182 or 39132
Lumiere - 569 Pearl Violet - 35287
Lumiere - 548 Old Brass - 39881 or 39331
I could go on!
September 2014
Oh, and for the iron swatch test I used only:
Textile - 109 Maroon - 37295 or 32295
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September 2014
I'll pass these along to the chemist.
[Deleted User]
September 2014
I realized, as I was looking back over this thread that I've not asked you if there are any sorts of finishes on the leather before you begin painting...oils, etc.
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September 2014
Hi LW,
Had a brief conversation with the chemist this morning - it's going to be a bit for him to pull and test all these batches, however, he did ask if you would be available to call in and talk with him. He is every bit perplex as I am with the results you are getting.
September 2014
Good Morning Annette!
There are no finishes on the leather prior to painting.
Yes Please! I'd love to get this sorted out! Should I call the number you gave and ask for you?
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What's in store for NBA West
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[/quote]If Shaquille O'Neal can wind up in Cleveland and Ron Artest can team up with Kobe Bryant, anything is possible in the coming NBA season - even the Warriors making the playoffs. Here's a rundown of the Western Conference as it stands after the major free-agent signings:
The Lakers will benefit both from Lamar Odom's play and f...The Spurs made a wise acquisition in trading for Richard ...Hedo Turkoglu would have helped the Blazers, but he signed with the raptors.
1. Lakers: Who ever thought the league's power rankings would depend on a decision by Lamar Odom? He's back, after considerable muttering, and he goes back to his youth (in Queens) with Artest. Odom and Bryant should keep the wild man in line, while a large and deep frontcourt rules the landscape.
2. San Antonio: Solid pickups in Richard Jefferson (career 18 points per game) and Antonio McDyess. As Cleveland frittered with a first-round draft pick who won't play in this country for at least a year (Christian Eyenga, staying in Africa), the Spurs stole DeJuan Blair, Pitt's 6-foot-7 rebounding machine in the second round. "They're right back to where they were two years ago," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said, "if not better."
3. Portland: Lost out on Hedo Turkoglu and Paul Millsap, but in the wake of Steve Blake's shaky playoff performance at point guard, Andre Miller is a welcome addition. Stand back if Greg Oden stops brooding and asserts himself.
4. Denver: Returning with essentially the same high-energy cast, including Chris (Birdman) Andersen, who wisely bypassed the free-agent market to stick with the Nuggets. Lost Dahntay Jones, a defensive pest, and will need to replace that element. Scored in the draft by trading for point guard Ty Lawson.
5. Dallas: The lineup you'll face with five minutes left in a close game: Dirk Nowitzki, Shawn Marion, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry and Josh Howard. Very nice options.
6. Utah: Likely to trade Carlos Boozer, but kept the brutish Millsap in the fold. Perhaps not as strong as last season, but with Deron Williams running the show, rookie Eric Maynor a promising backup and coach Jerry Sloan forever orchestrating a sensible approach on both ends of the floor, the Jazz remain rock-solid.
7. Here's where it gets interesting. The Warriors can earn this slot, or No. 8, if coach Don Nelson really believes in his team. Naturally, there are other factors - lack of a true distributor, not enough rebounding, no backcourt defense against the league's best guards - but more than anything, Nelson needs a change of mind-set.
Granted, that's a lot to ask of a 69-year-old man so set in his ways, but he can't be grumbling in December about the team having no shot at the postseason. He needs to see in Anthony Randolph what everyone else saw this summer: a potentially great forward who demands 40 minutes a game. He needs to abandon his bury-the-rookies mentality and keep Stephen Curry on the floor with Monta Ellis for long stretches at a time. Brandan Wright will be the key forward off the bench; make him feel as if he matters.
What's to lose? Why not have fun, instead of keeping half the roster in fear of reprisal? Analyzing a starting lineup of Curry, Ellis, Randolph, Stephen Jackson and Andris Biedrins, people around the league are forecasting a return to the Warriors' fun-loving, dangerous-as-hell ways. The players are more than ready to make it happen. But if discontent rules the day, the Warriors will be left in the cold by two of these teams:
Phoenix: Grant Hill passed up a chance to play with Boston so he could stay in Phoenix with Steve Nash, Jason Richardson and Amare Stoudemire. It's not a scary team by any stretch, but with Shaq and coach Terry Porter departed, the Suns plan to run like crazy and roll the dice.
New Orleans: One look at point guard Chris Paul and you realize (a) what the Warriors are missing and (b) how influential this position can be. But Paul is upset over the team's financial constraints, and Emeka Okafor (acquired for Tyson Chandler) is only a mild improvement.
Oklahoma City: No more jokes about the pitiful Thunder. This team has the fabulous Kevin Durant, fast-rising guard Russell Westbrook and a solid draft pick in James Harden (Arizona State), wisely chosen over the conflicted Ricky Rubio.
Clippers: OK, you can start laughing again, but if Blake Griffin is all that (the summer reports were off the charts), Eric Gordon continues his development and Baron Davis devotes full attention to the cause, the Clips might have something. Unloading the troubled Zach Randolph was huge.
Houston: A complete revamping is in order with Artest gone and Yao Ming probably out for the season. Not a bad team, though, if Tracy McGrady makes good on his promise to return (from knee surgery) at some point. Chase Budinger is an intriguing draft pick, and the playoffs showed Shane Battier, Trevor Ariza, Luis Scola, Carl Landry and Aaron Brooks at their best.
Eastern time: A rundown on the Eastern Conference can be found in the 3Dot Blog at sfgate.com/sports.
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Event: Bollywood actors Ayushmann Khurrana, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Pooja Salvi, Gaelyn Mendonca, Evelyn Sharma, T-series head honcho Bhushan Kumar along with wife Divya Kumar, singer Tulsi Kumar, director Rohan Sippy, filmmaker Ramesh Sippy with wife Kiran Juneja were snapped at the success bash of the film NAUTANKI SAALA!
Guest List: Ayushmann Khurrana, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Pooja Salvi, Gaelyn Mendonca, Evelyn Sharma, Bhushan Kumar, Divya Kumar, Rohan Sippy, Ramesh Sippy, Kiran Juneja, Tulsi Kumar
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
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Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
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Internet Censorship Part DeuxFriday, January 27th, 2012
Internet Censorship Part Deux
Welcome to today's edition of False Flag Terrorism (but this time… on the internet). It has been a while since I did my blog post on Internet Censorship, and some new developments have occurred since then. When we last left of, we discussed things like, the government planning to shut down certain sites in the case of a pandemic. We also talked about Internet Service Providers moving towards having restricted pay per view access to only a selection of corporate and news sites (and charging for any visits outside of these sites).
We also know that the CIA is monitoring internet chat for "Anti Government sentiment". We also know that Google has pulled it's we don't censor statement from it's website.
As I stated in my previous post on this… the internet is the only place left where you can get unbiased information. The diabolical ones control all of the mainstream media. But they don't control the internet. But they certainly are trying their best. And make no mistake; the battle over the internet will be Armageddon like, just for that reason.
Now of course, governments can't just come out of the woodwork and say, "We want to take over and enslave the masses, so we are going to have to control and monitor the internet to find any freedom fighters, or anonymous "snitches" and snuff them out." So they need to create an enemy in order to give them the legitimate excuse to do so. Just like 9/11.
Most people are against censoring the internet… but recent events may change that.
This brings us to this point. If you haven't heard, recently their have been a couple of bills that have come up that many believed to threaten internet freedom. These bills are SOPA and PIPA (Stop Online Piracy Act-HR 3261, and the Protect IP Act-S 968). These bills were supposedly designed to stop things like piracy online. But most people feel that these bills were really there as a disguise to censor the internet.
The way these bills are written, any site with user content could be shut down (since you can shut down any website with one infringing link). It would be almost impossible to monitor your site under the new laws. And if a corporation wanted to shut you down, they could simply post an anonymous (copyright infringing) link on your site and you would be through.
Well ladies and gentlemen… "The People" made their voice heard! On the 18th of January, thousands of websites from all over the world all came out and protested SOPA and PIPA. The government received thousands of phone calls, e-mails and petitions, and many of them changed their stance on these bills. Obama then came out and said that he would not support the bill.
Now… I'm going to be honest with you. This whole thing seemed suspicious to me. Why? Well… first and foremost, Google and Wikipedia participated in this protest. Now ladies and gentlemen… Why would Google and Wikipedia participate in a protest against internet censorship when they are both in cahoots with the government and participate in censorship themselves?
Secondly, the government (or more specifically, the people who control them) is not stupid. The government knows how to boil the frog slow. So they aren't going to pass a law on Monday, and shut down all of the conspiracy sites (+ YouTube and Facebook) on Tuesday. That would be too drastic of a measure, and they would be exposing themselves for doing to.
I have spoken many times on how the rulers of this matrix we live in are the dictators. So in order to keep from being overthrown, they give the masses a "political system" where they can "vote" to make them feel like they have a say in their destiny. Because if the people ever knew the truth, then there would be HELL to pay. I spoke on this in my Ron Paul article.
So it's important for their to be victories given to the people every once in a while so that they wont lose faith in "the system."
Look… we were victorious. The political system works! Keep writing your congressmen! Keep protesting. It has been successful! Much celebration went on after this last victory… but something else after that happened.
On the 19th of January, in response to the Department of Justice shutting down Megaupload (a file sharing website), a growing group of Hacktivists called Anonymous went on an attack! They shut down the servers of the following websites:
- Department of Justice (Justice.gov)
- Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA.org)
- Universal Music (UniversalMusic.com)
- Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (Anti-piracy.be/nl/)
- Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA.org)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI.gov)
- HADOPI law site (HADOPI.fr)
- U.S. Copyright Office (Copyright.gov)
- Universal Music France (UniversalMusic.fr)
- Senator Christopher Dodd (ChrisDodd.com)
- Vivendi France (Vivendi.fr)
- The White House (Whitehouse.gov)
- BMI (BMI.com)
- Warner Music Group (WMG.com)
Anonymous then claimed that they had access for all the following servers:
- Youtube
- Capital One
- Chase Bank
- US Bank
- United Nations
- Playstation Network
- Xbox Live
And if the government didn't reinstate Megaupload in 72 hours, that they would shut down all of these servers to make a statement. They assured that they would not compromise anyone's personal info (in the case of banks). There message to the people who support SOPA and PIPA is, "We are not f**king playing."
Okay, now wait a minute. You are upset with the government for shutting down Megaupload… SO YOU SHUT DOWN YOUTUBE? Explain the logic behind that. Now, you may not have to get up early in the morning to fool me. But you do have to at least be up by 3-4 in the evening.
It seems hard for me to believe that someone, something or some entity would have access to all of these servers (though I wont say it's impossible), and even harder to believe that they would take it out on "the people" (who use Facebook, YouTube, Playstation.. etc), when this is supposed to be about protecting "the people" and their rights. They say that this is to demonstrate their power to those who doubted them… but the aforementioned attack already did so. It's also hard to believe (the way that the government monitors the internet already) that a group of this many people could "unite" and cause all these problems.
They are even openly giving instructions on how to participate. They say you can't get caught if everyone executes this action at the same time… but since the government knows all the sites people go to… I would imagine they could make a list of whoever goes to the download link.
Also, Anonymous was reportedly posting links on Twitter that would launch a DDOS attack against the government from that person's computer without that person knowing, and according to John Kennedy of the Silicon Republic, even those users who didn't know could be prosecuted and thrown in jail.
Could this be the boogieman terrorist that gives the U.S. Government the excuse it needs to more closely monitor the internet, shut down the internet… or better yet, "snuff out" those dissenters? Could the repercussions (people – some being innocent going to jail) scare the population into submission (even themselves asking for more "control" over the internet).
I mean after all, if they are shutting down whitehouse.gov, and victimizing innocent people, then all of us are in danger… right? This is a matter of National Security! We can't let this anonymous internet terrorist threat on the internet take over our servers!
But you know what? I could be wrong. I certainly have been before. Maybe their really is a freedom fighting underground group out there fighting for freedom. And maybe this latest plan (shutting down facebook) is someone (the government?) pretending to be Anonymous. Either way… it can play in the governments favor.
This all remains to be seen. But right now… the next target of server crashing action is Facebook, 12:00am, January 28th. We shall see.
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Monday, June 30, 2008
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Friday, June 27, 2008
peace out
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
summer love
{this is how we roll...yo} seriously. this: really is how we roll, living at the beach. most evenings i do a quick pre dinner run to the market with my big red beach cruiser. and then there's always the, half lidded, leisurely ride down the beach to the next town for dinner. riding my bike in the summer always reminds me of being a kid. so simple and happy. {tan feet} i know, feet really skig people out. and actually, i used to feel the same way. but now i realize that they're the old sages of our bodies~they're your understanding, after all. to use a {really stupid} phrase from a bad t-shirt, they've been there and done that. mine are as beat up and well ridden as anyone's {proudly} but they always look better with a summer patina. {canvas cabins} what's not to love about this concept? heated, blankets, well appointed digs. uh... ya. stir me up some grub and pour me a cold glass of trefethen. {front porch lemonade} i know this sounds so martha {our lord and savior} but i'm not kidding you, have you made real lemonade? oh. man, it's so the best. here's the recipe: the juice of 1 lb of lemons 2 cups simple syrup {1 cup sugar, 1 cup water-dissolved on the stove top} add some ice and a sprig of mint {summer kicks} tretorns. every summer, it was our requisite uniform: tank suit {for swim team} and tretorns {for tennis} i feel a fashion trend a comin' on. {eau d'ete} for me? if there were such a thing? it would be a combo of: johnson's baby shampoo, coppertone lotion and chlorine....oh and maybe a bit of smoke from the bar-b-chew {white sheets}i have a very good friend who once spent an entire pay check on fabulous white sheets, of a very high thread count. so excited was she to feel exotic and chic, that before retiring she slathered herself in self tanner {because really, you want a fantastic tan against white sheets} the rest is history. or her~story.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
summer craft project~fusing plastic bags
today, i spent the better part of my day, in my sweltering loftice*~ putting the finishing touches on an article for an on-line magazine in the uk (i can't seem to leave well enough alone and now i'm thinking it needs a few illustrations) my eyes feel like small burning raisins, rattling in their sockets. i think i need air conditioning. zapped of blogging energy, i leave you with this, reduce~reuse~recycle, idea from the very lovely erin loechner/design for mankind (who happens to be my home girl, she lives a mile from me) :
learn all about how to use your plastic shopping bags, an iron, a sewing machine and a few simple tools to create this:
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*for those of you familiar with the garaffice**, i have upgraded to the loftice. a lovely loft area above what was the garaffice. the loftice is awaiting final touches and is wonderful save for the fact that it easily reaches 90 degrees on summer days.**garaffice-a garage turned interim office, inhabited by 'me' last winter. and blogged most courageously by 'me' here.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
do your drapes match the carpet?
a room without window treatment, is like a face without eyebrows.
it not only frames the 'eyes' of the room, it also finishes and brings continuity to the entire look. but it rarely comes cheap. i love it when a great textile design line, like 'dwellstudio' teams up with a ready made service like the shade store. check it: i swear, this should be target's next project~ bringing designer fabrics to the masses in a few, basic choices. can you imagine, scalamandre for target?
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Friday, June 20, 2008
peace out
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
wait, what?
this is not paper. nor is this wood miami artist, frances twombly's meticulously embroidered fabric and crochet work takes the everyday, and creates art. "Trombly uses trompe-l'oeil effects in her work to recreate mundane objects, making labor-intensive pieces through weaving, embroidery, cross stitch, and crochet." originally found on this is glamour
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and summing up my sentiments, a quote from hadley freeman: "Many a poem, many a song, many an ode has been written about the human face, but I have yet to read one that suggests it might be improved by the addition of a pair of wonkily shaped plastic glasses in some kind of neon colour"
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
please, come to the locker room
loving the look of wire baskets to hold treasures or even a few extra rolls of the t.p. my favorite are the ones with the numbers (reminds me of summers at the club) thanks, allison, for letting me come in and crawl around your little bungalow, snapping shots. {girlfriend knows how to shop the flea markets} so good with the flea finds, she is. a self proclaimed, 'wire basket junkie' she uses them everywhere. and i likey.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
great surf poster
i don't care if you live in elgin, illinois or hermosa beach, california....this would make any home feel a bit closer to the sea. found *here*
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take a seat
the other day my friend allison, stumbled upon a great find at a local, L.A. flea market, (wertz brothers): vintage drafting stools. and because i'm that sort of friend... i went out and copied (come on, it was a great find). lucky for me there were a few more left. i think they're very happy in their new found homes. allison's: and my own: *the bonus for kids, is that they're great for pushing at a high rate of speed down the hallway. which is not so much of a bonus for the aging blind dog sitting ahead.
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Monday, June 16, 2008
luxe loft
i think if i had a fantasy girly bach-pad, one that was all my own. the space i would have, had i taken "that" road instead of "this"~would be a fabulous, old warehouse, re purposed as a living space/artist's loft. i would fill it with non sequitur items that still made sense against the vestiges of the utilitarian space it once was. i would fill it with things like a gorgeous vintage couture gown (found while carrying on! with my 'uncle tim') hung as art, beautiful hand loomed rugs from far flung places, even a shot of toile (just to keep things interesting) lots of low seating for all of my dinner parties. you know, the kind that would, really be, more like the 'salons' of the past. i would definitely, have an old school rotary phone (i'm all about bringing back the cord) and probably in pink. in fact, i think i'd be using a lot of saturated peony pink all over the place. incredible art would be casually hung around the space, some leaning languidly against the wall, an always shifting curation of friend's art mixed in with motherwells, rothkos and frankenthalers. i would teeter around, exclusively, in beautiful shoes (you know the ones with the red soles~uh, ya, you shoe lovers know what i'm talkin' 'bout) even if i was just in a t-shirt and jeans. for years i've lurked every photo i could find, of painter/actor/model anh duong's west village apartment. i rip them out and study them, then store them in their own little place in my file of favorites. in the mean time, i'm quite happy with the sun filled, sand covered, sparkly water of 'this' road i chose. photos from elle decor ~feb/mar. 2004
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Friday, June 13, 2008
on a roll
i don't know, maybe it was that i just wanted to join the 'imperial trellis out the ass society' maybe i felt like, the world domination of kelly wearstler , needed my support. or maybe i was just bored one day and decided to pay -what amounts to putting 2 kids through college...on a couple of rolls of wallpaper. whatever the case. it arrived, tuesday and yesterday i spent the afternoon cutting and pasting, like an insane wallpapering woman. crazed, i worked. i was on a mission. unaware of the world around me. up and down the step ladder, cutting. measuring. panting, blowing the hair out of my eyes. and then.... 'mom, we're hungry' i spun around on my stepladder, looking up, down wildly saucer eyed, (what? who are these people staring up at me? what could they possibly want. i'm PAPERING with imperial trellis, for god's sake!) again, 'MOM. we're hungry' oh. jeeze. ok, right, right. um, dinner, uh....here eat this hotdog bun. and then i was back. positioning, pasting, measuring, cutting....on and on (took me, freaking, forever) and then, at 9:30 p.m. i was done. my god. i was done. i think i may have gone blind in the process. but you know what? i love it. and i did it myself.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
good touch, bad touch?
papered ceilings this one done using, cole & son, 'malabar'
(not to sway you, but i love this. bueno touch)
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
not so, ordinary peepwool
there's not a lot that can be said to be both, beautiful & creepy. peepwool may be one of those rare exceptions. designed by artist, amy arnold in her rural wisconsin home, using 100% recycled wool knits. ha HA! take that mattel.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Aug 2008 18:31 UTC, submitted by Hagar
The JNode team has released the latest version of their operating system written in Java (it does have a small assembler nano kernel). "This release features the integration of the OpenJDK implementation of Swing and AWT, and significant improvements to the overall JNode GUI including improved painting and font rendering, generic VESA support and graphical console. The release also includes a new command argument framework for the shell, reworked shell commands, a configure tool for the JNode build environment, Samba file system with read/write support and many stability and bug fixes across the whole system." They have screenshots, a changelog, and (surprise!) a download page.


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The Situation of Youth Employment: Trends and Young People's Views
From 11 to 17 October (Week I) 2011, the United Nations e-discussion on youth employment was open to all to share views and discuss the overall situation of young people in the labour market as well as key trends in youth employment. There were more than 300 comments posted by young people world-wide. Participation was particularly high from the African region.
Youth Unemployment, Underemployment and Vulnerable Employment
What the research shows: The need to provide more and better jobs for young people exists across countries. However, youth employment challenges tend to differ in developed and developing economies. The developed world has been most significantly affected by youth unemployment spikes due to the global economic crisis, and its core challenge is the provision of work opportunities for young people who are entering the labour market.
An emerging picture: the increasing length of youth job searches
Recent statistics on youth employment present a gloomy state of affairs for today's young people. In most developed economies, the long-term unemployment rates of youth significantly surpass those of adults. For example, in Italy, the gap between the youth and adult long-term unemployment rates is shocking: youth are three times more likely than adults to be unemployed for at least one year(International Labour Organization, 2011b, pp. 2-3).


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Jacques Sandron was employed by the printer's office of the publishing house Dupuis, and worked as a comic artist on the side. Born in the French town Le Lude in 1942, Sandron attended the Falisolle miner's school in the Belgian Namur area. The Bois du Cazier miner's disaster in Marcinelle in 1956 forced him to choose another profession, and by 1957 he was hired as an apprentice with the printer of the publishing house Dupuis. He stayed with the company until his retirement in 1994.
He presented his first story to the editors of the Dupuis magazine Spirou in 1975. It was refused - but at least the experience got him in touch with Raoul Cauvin. Together, they created 'Godaille et Godasse', a humorous series about a French soldier and his horse in the days of Napoleon. After some initial short stories, Sandron and Cauvin started making longer stories from 1978 to 1984. In 1985 and 1986 they returned to shorter stories under the title 'Les mémoires d'un hussard'.
'Godaille et Godasse' was terminated after four albums when the publishing house was sold to Albert Frère and Hachette. Mourad Boudjellal's publishing firm MC Productions published another book in 1988. Between 1986 and 1994 Sandron and Cauvin were making 'Raphaël et les timbrés', a series of gags about a postman, for Bayard's educational monthly Je Bouquine. Two book collections were published by Soleil in 1989 and 1990, and the series additionally ran in Bayard's English-language magazine I Love English.
After his retirement, Sandron made illustrations for the British publisher of school material Nelson Thornes. Sandron and Cauvin cooperated once again in 2006 for the short story 'S.P.A.' in Spirou. In 2010 Sandron participated in the collective book 'Folklore Wallon en bulles' by Editions Dricot on the occasion of the Seraing comics festival.


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Missouri couple wins half of $587 million Powerball lottery
A Missouri couple who won half of a record $587.5 million Powerballjackpot said on Friday they plan to stay put in their rural community,but know their lives will be changed.
A Missouri couple who won half of a record $587.5 million Powerball jackpot said on Friday they plan to stay put in their rural community, but know their lives will be changed.
"I think we'll have a good Christmas," Cindy Hill said at a news conference where she and her husband, Mark Hill, were presented as winners of the jackpot by the Missouri Lottery.
Cindy Hill, 51, is a former office manager who got laid off in 2010. Mark Hill, 52, was a mechanic for Hillshire Brands, a food company, but has now quit his job.
They have three grown sons and a 6-year-old daughter adopted from China who were among about 25 relatives at the news conference, held in the gymnasium of the high school where they were sweethearts in the 1970s.
Cindy Hill first learned of the winning ticket on Thursday when she checked her numbers at the Trex Mart in Dearborn, a community of about 500 people 30 miles north of Kansas City. She then called Mark Hill from her car. They had bought five tickets.
"I think I'm going to have a heart attack," she told him. He told her to meet him at his mother's house so he could check the numbers for himself. "He said this is the 'Show Me State,' show me."
When they verified the numbers, they traveled to lottery offices in Jefferson City, Missouri, spent the night in a hotel and tried to comprehend what happened, Cindy Hill said.
"I thought 'This isn't what I thought it would be like, now I'm really nervous," she said. "I'm grateful, but there will be some not-so-good stuff to go along with it." Earlier, she said "You are going to get people coming out of the woodwork and some of them many not be too sane."
She said she and her husband plan to make the most of the winnings by giving to charity, to relatives for college education and other needs, and to the community.
"We are pretty well-grounded and worked hard all our lives," Cindy Hill said.
Mark Hill deferred to his wife for most of the news conference, which was observed by about 300 students from grades 7 to 12 in the bleachers.
"It's all just kind of a fuzz," Mark Hill said.
He said he has not grasped winning the money. On Thursday, for example, he went to buy toothpaste and other items to take to the hotel and found himself checking the price.
Cindy Hill said her husband wants a red Chevrolet Camaro car and she wants a horse. Daughter Jaiden wants a pony, Cindy Hill said. They also plan to travel, including a holiday with a lot of relatives in tow, she said.
The Hills won $293,750,000 before taxes. But they will take it in a lump sum of about $193 million rather than the larger amount over 30 years.
The Hills shared the Powerball payout with someone who bought a ticket at a food store in Fountain Hills, Arizona, on the outskirts of Phoenix. The Arizona winner has not yet come forward.
Some states allow lottery winners to remain anonymous but Missouri requires that the winner be publicly identified to claim the prize.
Dearborn reveled in its sudden arrival in the spotlight.
"It was a total surprise," Don Palmer, a customer at the Trex Mart convenience store, said on Thursday. "Nothing ever happens in Dearborn."
The winning numbers were 5, 16, 22, 23, 29, and the Powerball number 6.
The odds of winning the jackpot with a $2 ticket is one in more than 175 million.


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by Stephen J. O'Meara
As you read this sentence, chances are that molten rock is bleeding from Italy's Mount Etna in Sicily, volcanic bombs are exploding out of Arenal volcano in Costa Rica, and lava rivers are pouring from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. Volcanologists, the men and women who study these living mountains, expect such behavior. In fact, right now about 10 volcanoes are erupting somewhere on Earth. It's a natural way for our planet to release pent-up energy.
About 1,300 are potentially active (meaning they've erupted in the past 10,000 years), and most lie beneath the world's oceans. It's the volcanologists' job to monitor these "windows" to Earth's interior. Their biggest challenges: to predict when a volcano will erupt, to educate local officials about potential hazards, and to set up early-warning systems. These measures can save (and have saved) many lives.
All Volcanoes Are Not Alike
Like people, each volcano looks and behaves differently. Some, like conical Mount St. Helens in Washington state, blow gas and ash high into the atmosphere. Others, like long and smooth Kilauea, gush molten lava. And those like Arenal and Etna shoot out mixtures of both. Generally, a volcano's location and composition reveal a lot about how it works.
The Earth's crust is broken into a dozen sections, called tectonic plates, that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Some sections move as much as 8 inches per year, and most volcanic activity occurs along their boundaries. If two plates separate, fluid volcanoes fill the gap. The islands of Iceland in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are examples of this. They belong to a submarine volcanic ridge that runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The famous Ring of Fire—the world's largest volcanic "necklace"—marks where the Pacific Ocean's floor plunges underneath the continents surrounding it. The friction between the rubbing plates there melts rock and dissolves seawater, creating a gaseous magma that rises and explodes to the surface as a volcano. The violent eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines occurred along the Ring of Fire.
The fluid lava that flows across the islands of Hawaii, however, might originate in the Earth's liquid outer core. Large teardrops of molten rock rise through the mantle and puncture the crust at points called "hot spots." In the case of Hawaii, that event happened in the middle of the Pacific plate, at ocean bottom. The island of Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest volcano, rises 33,000 feet above the ocean floor—about 4,000 feet higher than Mount Everest. That's a lot of lava!
Because they rarely explode, the Hawaiian volcanoes of Mauna Loa and Kilauea are relatively safe to watch, even up close. Imagine standing near a molten river at night, watching a vent spray lava 1,000 feet skyward. The volcano sounds like a low-flying 747 jet, and the heat is so intense your skin tingles. You dare not venture farther. Beside you, a tired lava flow snaps, crackles, and pops—like a bowl of Rice Krispies in milk.
On the other hand, nothing in nature can match the power of the volcanoes that dot the Ring of Fire. Two out of every three of Earth's land volcanoes are there, and Indonesia alone harbors more than 127 of them. Some are furious. For example, in 1815, Tambora, near Bali, exploded with the energy of 800,000 hydrogen bombs! It poured about 170 billion tons of volcanic debris into the atmosphere, caused 12,000 deaths on the island, and created a great sea wave that killed another 80,000 people on two neighboring islands. By comparison, the energy released by Mount St. Helens in 1980 was equal to 400 hydrogen bombs and volcanic debris claimed 57 lives.
The Good Side of Such Violence
Volcanoes may cause death, but they also sustain life. Ash, for example, is rich in soil nutrients important to plant growth. The livelihood of many developing countries, therefore, depends on agricultural products grown in the fertile soils that surround volcanoes.
The gases making up Earth's early atmosphere were expelled by volcanoes. Today, emissions from Mount Etna alone make up 10 percent of all the carbon dioxide gas that the Earth releases. Etna also might have caused climate changes during the past 100,000 years.
Volcanic ash and gases do affect climate. Tambora caused the "year without a summer." El Chichon apparently provoked a severe Northern Hemisphere winter in 1984. And now, the Earth's average global temperature has dropped 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit because of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. That drop is enough to offset the slight temperature increase in recent years, which some scientists attribute to global warming.
- emission: A substance discharged into the air.
- How have volcanoes affected the Earth's atmosphere and climate?
- How have volcanoes helped the Earth's surface over the course of time?
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Project 2.6 mips
This Page should be used to collect all the wisdom regarding compiling working versions of the latest 2.6-kernel for the LS 2(mips).
Everyone is invited to edit this page and add information!
All compiling information and information about patches should get here. if needed i can modify mediawiki to allow some more filetypes to be allowed to upload to the wiki. this way we could even share our patches directly here on this page
Installing a 2.6 Kernel
There is a patch for linux-2.6.22 and lots of essential research information here: http://www.linuxnotincluded.org.uk/
Precompiled kernel images and modules can be downloaded here: http://downloads.buffalo.nas-central.org/Users/davy_gravy/kernelpackages/
The LS2 "U-Boot" boot loader and installation instructions: http://downloads.nas-central.org/LS2_MIPSel/Bootloader/Uboot/Precompiled/
A useful blog entry on installing the new boot loader: http://endy.blogomat.net/wp-trackback.php?p=112
Possible steps from "virgin LS2" to "LS2 Lenny"
1) Install FreeLink and Freelink - Convert the LinkStation into a Full-fledged Debian Linux Server, but do not run "apt-get upgrade" now
2) Use Fix_ext2_magic to fix your /dev/hda1 partition.
If you don't want to remove the harddisk from your Linkstation, compile the tool natively, stop all daemons and loggers (but leave your ssh session alive), remount root readonly, fix it and reboot.
3) Get u-boot
Definitely try booting the supplied 2.4 and 2.6 kernels from memory before flashing it.
4) Flash u-boot
Then rename the 2.6 kernel to vmlinuz to make it the default. Reboot
5) Upgrade to Debian Lenny using "apt-get upgrade"
Be sure to check that you have really booted into the 2.6 kernel, the upgrade will fail on a 2.4 kernel system.
6) Compile your own kernel using the patch or install a precompiled one with modules
Compiling a 2.4 Kernel
1) Build a 2.4.20-kernel from the gpl-source
(there you won`t need to apply the melfs.patch as this is obviously included)
we will test it by trying to load the resulting vmlinux.bin with the mips-loader.o
2) Create a patch for compiling a working LS2 Kernel from the vanilla kernel 2.4.20
After we know that we can build the kernel from GPL Source we need to find out what the differences are between the vanilla kernel and the GPL-Source Kernel. I tried to create a diff between those kernel-sources already (but i noticed that there are far too much lines in it as some lines have a "-" before and later a "+" for adding the unmodified again...maybe this is related to some additional blank lines or comments?
Here is a diff of the arch-tree between the vanilla 2.4.20 kernel and linux-2.4.20_mipsel_linkstation
and here is a complete kernel-diff
3) Build the latest 2.4-Kernel available
We should have a patch to create a LS2-kernel from the vanilla 2.4.20 kernel. Now we can try to create the latest 2.4-kernel available. currently this is 22.214.171.124 (released on the 22.8.2006)
do not forget to apply the melfs.patch because of the custom ext2_magic_number buffalo invented to protect the linux filesystem from us.here is the melfs patch which takes care of that
Information about loader.o for the LS2
This should be possible....because Eiji coded the assembler stuff needed by loader.o because of the different CPU (mips instead of ppc) for this and he already compiled a kernel for that:
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PORTSMOUTH — Workers enjoyed a reprieve Tuesday from the recent bitter cold temperatures as construction of the Memorial Bridge continued with Archer Western crews placing pieces of the south span tower.
Ironworkers could be seen from Prescott Park Tuesday morning placing and securing steel beams into place on the south span towers.
The steel tower pieces, fabricated by Structural Bridge in Claremont, are being erected piece by piece by a barge-mounted crane adjacent to the south span. Archer Western estimates it will take about a month to complete this portion of the work.
The Control House will also begin taking shape as crews begin to erect the frame of that building at the very top of the south span.
Last week, workers placed the concrete bridge deck using a piece of equipment called a Bidwell, according to an update issued by Carol Morris of Archer Western Public Outreach.
On Tuesday, Morris said that although the cold may not be pleasant working conditions for crews to do their job, it is the strong winds that accompany local weather events that really throw the schedule off track.
Hurricane Sandy in October, for example, she said, forced crews to move the barges they had been working on up river to be secured at the state pier due to very high winds.
But the cold itself won't slow anyone, or the project, down.
"They're keeping going and we're still on schedule to open in the summer," she said.
Construction of the north span continues at the state pier by ironworkers and that portion of Memorial Bridge is expected to be floated in just like the south span sometime in March.
Morris told Foster's on Tuesday that Archer Western will have a better idea of when in March the north span will be maneuvered to its location by the end of this month. Once again, as has been a theme throughout the handful of float-outs and now float-ins of the bridge construction, the tide will play a big role in that schedule.
Still anticipated to open for both motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic in July, other elements of the bridge project will likely take a bit longer.
The final work, according to a statement from Archer Western, which includes completing approach work on both the Portsmouth and Kittery sides, the channel fender system, landscaping and cleanup, will take until the end of the year to complete.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 15, 2013) – Senior Chloe Garner (Somerset West, South Africa) and junior Lourdes Lopez (Cadiz, Spain) fired scores of 2-over-par 74 to power the ETSU women's golf team during opening round play Friday in the Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate at the Forest Hills Golf Club.
Garner and Lopez both tied for 12th on the individual leaderboard and are just five strokes back of Vanderbilt's Lauren Stratton, who bested the field on the first day by carding a round of 3-under-par 69. As a team, the Buccaneers are tied for fifth at 304, while No. 9 Vanderbilt holds the top spot by five strokes over No. 16 Purdue.
The Bucs are currently ahead of nationally-ranked programs such as Kentucky (No. 34) and Texas-San Antonio (No. 48), and they are just behind teams such as No. 22 Texas and No. 26 Notre Dame.
"We had a great game plan coming into today, and the ladies played with confidence and fight until the last putt dropped," said ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton. "It's great to see this team play the game like we know they can."
Along with Garner and Lopez, junior Sian Evans (Gillingham, England) and sophomore Gabriella Wahl (Heidenheim, Germany) both tied for 33rd after posting rounds of 6-over 78.
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Students wishing to minor in Black Studies should see the director of the Black Studies program and choose an advisor from the Black Studies committee.
The Black Studies minor program is also supported by affiliations with several local and international African American and African organizations:
Collection of African American Literature
Created by Suffolk University, the Museum of African American History, and the National Park Service's Boston African American Historic Site, this collection in the Mildred F. Sawyer Library contains more than 6,000 volumes representing 1,200 African American authors.
Museum of African American History
The Museum of African American History is dedicated to preserving, conserving, and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the 19th century.
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This landmark of roughly two dozen sites on Beacon Hill is the largest area of pre-Civil War black-owned structures in the U.S.
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Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
The New England Chapter of this society preserves African-ancestored family history, genealogy, and cultural diversity by teaching research techniques and disseminating information.
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This program provides students the opportunity to learn about and experience teaching, while sharing knowledge and skills from their major field of study in an international, educational environment.


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National Grange President Ed Luttrell will be a the Zion Oak Grange Hall,
Springdale, at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26 to hold an organizational meeting.
Luttrell will answer questions about the fraternal advocacy organization
and seek interested individuals to help reorganize the Grange.
"The Grange has been present in the Springdale community for 50 years and
it's time to revitalize the Grange and work toward supporting the
community," National Grange Membership/Leadership Director Michael Martin
said. "The Zion Oak community has many new residents and the Grange can be
a focal point to bring people together who work toward the betterment of
the community and to support agricultural and rural lifestyle."
For more information on the Grange, visit www.nationalgrange.org or contact
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Tornadoes, damaging storms sweep through Midwest
Intense thunderstorms and tornadoes swept across the Midwest on Sunday, causing extensive damage in several central Illinois communities while sending people scrambling for shelter and even prompting officials at Chicago's Soldier Field to evacuate the stands and delay the Bears game.
The community of Washington in central Illinois appeared particularly hard-hit, with one resident saying his neighborhood was wiped out in a matter of seconds.
"I stepped outside and I heard it coming. My daughter was already in the basement, so I ran downstairs and grabbed her, crouched in the laundry room and all of a sudden I could see daylight up the stairway and my house was gone," Michael Perdun said Sunday afternoon in an interview with The Associated Press on his cellphone. "The whole neighborhood's gone, (and) the wall of my fireplace is all that is left of my house."
By mid-afternoon it remained unclear how many people were hurt. In a news release, the Illinois National Guard said it had dispatched 10 firefighters and three vehicles to Washington to assist with "immediate search and recovery operations in the tornado damaged area."
And Steve Brewer, chief operating officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, said that four or five people had come to the hospital seeking treatment, but he described their injuries as minor. He said another area hospital had received about 15 patients, but did not know the severity of their injuries.
Brewer said doctors and other medical professionals were setting up a temporary emergency care center to treat the wounded before transporting them to area hospitals.
"I went over there immediately after the tornado, walking through the neighborhoods, and I couldn't even tell what street I was on," Alderman Tyler Gee told WLS-TV. "Just completely flattened — some of the neighborhoods here in town, hundreds of homes."
About 90 minutes after the tornado destroyed homes in Washington, the storm darkened downtown Chicago. As the rain and high winds slammed into the area, officials at Soldier Field evacuated the stands and ordered the Bears and Baltimore Ravens off the field. Fans were allowed back to their seats shortly after 2 p.m., and the game resumed after about a two-hour delay.
Earlier, the Office of Emergency Management and Communications issued a warning to fans, urging them "to take extra precautions and … appropriate measures to ensure their personal safety." NFL games in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh also could be affected by the rough weather.
The storm also followed dire warnings by the National Weather Service of what was coming and that the storm was simply moving too fast for people to wait until they saw it to get ready.
"Our primary message is this is a dangerous weathers system that has the potential to be extremely deadly and destructive," said Laura Furgione, deputy director of the National Weather Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Get ready now."
Weather service officials confirmed that a tornado touched down just before 11 a.m. near the central Illinois community of East Peoria, about 150 miles southwest of Chicago, but authorities did not immediately have damage or injury reports. Within an hour, the weather service said that tornadoes had touched down in Washington, Metamora, Morton and other central Illinois communities, though officials could not say whether it was one tornado touching down or several.
"This is a very dangerous situation," said Russell Schneider, director of the weather service's Storm Prediction Center. "Approximately 53 million in 10 states are at significant risk for thunderstorms and tornadoes."
The potential severity of the storm this late in the season also carries the risk of surprise.
"People can fall into complacency because they don't see severe weather and tornadoes, but we do stress that they should keep a vigilant eye on the weather and have a means to hear a tornado warning because things can change very quickly," said Matt Friedlein, a weather service meteorologist.
According to agency officials, parts of Illinois, Indiana, southern Michigan and western Ohio were at the greatest risk of seeing tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds throughout the day Sunday. Strong winds and atmospheric instability were expected to sweep across the central Plains during the day before pushing into the mid-Atlantic states and northeast by evening. Many of the storms were expected to become supercells, with the potential to produce tornadoes, large hail and destructive winds.
Friedlein said that such strong storms are rare this late in the year because there usually isn't enough heat from the sun to sustain the thunderstorms. But he said temperatures Sunday were expected to reach into the 60s and 70s, which he said is warm enough to help produce severe weather when it is coupled with winds, which are typically stronger this time of year than in the summer.
"You don't need temperatures in the 80s and 90s to produce severe weather (because) the strong winds compensate for the lack of heating," he said. "That sets the stage for what we call wind shear, which may produce tornadoes."
He also said that the tornadoes this time a year happen more often than people might realize, pointing to a twister that hit the Rockford, Ill., area in November 2010.


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Manx Gaelic (Manx Gaelic: Gaelg) Is the main language of the Isle of Man. It evolved from Primitive Irish, along with the other Celtic languages. Its closest relatives are Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic. All children on the Isle of Man learn it in primary and secondary school, and some grow up bilingual. There is also a small number of native speakers as well.
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