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I don't give a flying shoe about the hollyweird aspect, or the political scenarios. THIS IS NOT A NEW ISSUE! Sexual advances from most men (not all) have been a part of the world's problems, since men found their penis and then reached their sexual peak…age eighteen! This is when the testosterone is the highest for most men.
From that point, "its all downhill". At least that is the physiology of the problem, and the "problem" is overcome by selling pharmaceuticals make billions on enhancing male sexuality.. I think the crux of the problem is the twisted and perverted peak the magazines, television, particularly the internet, has taken many men and women. Additionally, some men are bullies!
Today, via movies and television, it is presented perfectly normal for a young man and woman to meet, and be attracted, and within hours / or minutes, the couple is pressed up against a wall ripping their clothes off, or jumping in the sack for a short screw (and that is all it is), and then – "bye-bye".
Sexual relations have been going on since the creation of man, but it seems all the forms of medias, particularly the community of hollyweird, has pushed and endorsed its agenda to make money! Also, if you think about the sexual violence and rapes that are presented to those who use television and or the internet to "relax" after a long day at work, it kind of begins to make sense. Some people use those medias as actually a representation of learning tools!
The dumbing down of America through technology. A sad and terrible truism.
Even the Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was pushed by Hollyweird as an agenda that they could show in movies and make money! Follow the money.
This "community" is very tiny community percentage wise. The number of all LGBT humans is 3.8 percent of the population of three hundred million in the USA alone.
This figure may be overestimated. I have done my homework on this. There is a larger percentage of citizens who have "experimented" as opposed to being born this way.
Women lead the bisexual march. I believe magazines started this trend with the "girl on girl" photos in the late fifties and early sixties. But these folks are NOT members of the real LGBT community…The transgender community is extremely rare.
I am NOT blaming men or women for sexual adventures or misadventures, as it may be. I am blaming (and I wish I could specifically name names) those who are pushing towards a society that neither hones men or women. A society that wants the non-gender attitude, and the careless and casual sex "that doesn't mean anything" – to blossom.
If there are no solid alliances between men and women, there will be no power except factions of groups who stand together to make noise, but vanish into thin air when the media stops focusing on them. People will only have their "peasant" work to do. I am one of the peasants.
Even those in the higher financial state will honor and respect nothing except the almighty dollar.
The SEXUAL "State of the Union" is pathetic. Confusion among the peasants keeps them down and working….They (the unnamed) creatures are playing gods, and I believe there will be a quiet majority who will at some point, have had enough-more than enough.
A problem here is that CHILDREN are being taught EVERYTHING is okay!
Children are being primed in pre-school and elementary school, INACCURATE AND MISLEADING "facts" . They are being led down a path they don't even understand as yet.
They are being molded by a group of people who have lost any sense of moral reckoning. A group that only cares about putting children on life-long drugs, doing life-changing surgeries, and changing the attitude of the upcoming generations to accept everything.
Genders / sexual experiments / etc. are something that children (at these ages) do not fully comprehend. They are being led down a path with molding that can screw up their little lives – forever! They are the innocents, and I am mad!
I kind of drifted from the subject of sexual abuse, but like bullying – sexual abuse (from both genders) has been going on for centuries. I do understand that men are the worst offenders, but it is point blank simply because men are aroused by sights and sounds, and it doesn't take much…Wherein women may be attracted, and sometimes even hot, we don't have the "trigger point" men naturally have. That is not an excuse. There is no excuse for taking advantage of a situation to gain sexual favors for a favor in return – job security, etc.
There is NOTHING new under the sun! The difference is instead of women "handling the scenario", they whine and "arouse" a different kind of situation.
I have been accosted – more than once – I spoke up and eye-ball to eye-ball and confronted the problem! I spoke up more than once, and when I was unable to resolve the problem, I openly went to management. One time that did not work – I packed up and walked out of my position. I had some positions I loved and did not want to have to quit, but waiting forty years to explode – NO WAY!
In my heart, I think these women are frauds. If they didn't speak up then, even if fearful, they are cowards to say anything today. Forty years is a lot of time to mature and hopefully mend the evil ways that caused the problem initially.
This hollyweird stuff is garbage. Probably these poor excuses for women didn't speak up because they got the "perks" they shut their mouths for then…..
Women, DON'T BE AFRAID of the consequences if you are molested in any way. Speak up. Either handle it yourself or tell someone else and get help to handle it! All you are doing by being silent is hurting YOU! Be courageous and be an example for other women and girls.
And women, please remember, you are dealing with men whose sexuality is activated at the sight of a beautiful girl walking by or a low cut blouse. No one deserves to be molested or raped – but you don't hold out a steak to a dog – unless you want him to jump for it.
Just a note. Bullying is the same thing. The thing about a bully is he either try to incite you with words, or by hitting. Try to walk away, but you may have to punch back! Tell someone right away (who cares if you are a tattle tale) and take care of the situation immediately.
I knew a coward bully, and he would come up to the back of someone and punch them in the head. Bullies don't abide by rules. Bullies have always been around.
Unless YOU take action, the worst repercussion might be when you are met by the bully again, and wind up hurting from another beating. But if you see him or her coming, fight back! There are no rules for a bully.
Stand up for yourself no matter if it is sexual abuse, or a bully trying to make himself feel better by being a bully! Someone has probably been sexually abused that person, and more than likely the bully has been bullied!
TAKE a SELF-DEFENSE class. Ask for help in learning to defend yourself. I am not saying you shouldn't try to walk away from the problem, but if you don't TAKE CARE OF LIFE'S IMPORTANT situations, WHEN THEY OCCUR, you will find yourself facing the problem again and again!


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Amir Aczel knew just whom to blame. "It seems," the science author complained last month in an irate letter to the Washington Post, "that [Charles] Seife has submitted every sentence in my book to a Google search." Days earlier in a Post book review, Seife exposed what appeared to be embarrassing plagiarisms in Aczel's new book, The Artist and the Mathematician. But if Seife's discovery that Aczel lifted text from the Guggenheim Museum's Web site was instructive, so was the assumption behind Aczel's response. For any plagiarist living in an age of search engines, waving a loaded book in front of reviewers has become the literary equivalent of suicide by cop.
As it turns out, even authors not living in this online age are in trouble. My fellow literary sleuth Alex MacBride recently revealed to me that he'd uncovered an old crime in a new way. MacBride, a linguist employed by Google, idly ran a phrase from England Howlett's 1899 essay Sacrificial Foundations through Google Book Search, his employer's massive digitization of millions of volumes from university libraries. The search had nothing to do with his job—like the rest of us, sometimes Alex just kills time by plugging stuff into Google—and rather than go to the trouble of digging out Howlett's book by name, he'd decided to call it up with a phrase. To his surprise, he got more back than just Howlett: The search also revealed a suspiciously similar passage in Sabine Baring-Gould's 1892 book Strange Survivals. A lot of suspiciously similar passages.
Perhaps it's not too shocking that a small-time amateur like Howlett swiped from Baring-Gould, a frenetically prolific folklore scholar who published hundreds of books and articles. But, the search results revealed, this was not quite the end of the story. "Charmingly," MacBride e-mails, "Baring-Gould seems to have had sticky fingers himself." The wronged author, you see, had in turn used the unattributed quotation from a still earlier work: Benjamin Thorpe's 1851 study Northern Mythology.
We're talking about forgotten writers here: I don't think there will be too many England Howlett fan clubs grappling with disillusionment today. But MacBride's discovery is the first rumble in what may become a literary earthquake. Given the popularity of plagiarism-seeking software services for academics, it may be only a matter of time before some enterprising scholar yokes Google Book Search and plagiarism-detection software together into a massive literary dragnet, scooping out hundreds of years' worth of plagiarists—giants and forgotten hacks alike—who have all escaped detection until now.
But wait, you might ask, don't people accidentally repeat each other's sentences all the time? It seems to me that this should not be unusual. Yet try plugging that last sentence word by word into Google Book Search, and watch what happens.
It: Rejected—too many hits to count
It seems: 11,160,000 matches
It seems to: 3,050,000
It seems to me: 1,580,000
It seems to me that: 844,000
It seems to me that this: 29,700
It seems to me that this should: 237
It seems to me that this should not: 20
It seems to me that this should not be: 9
It seems to me that this should not be unusual: 0
It seems to me that this should not be unusual is itself … unusual.
Google Book Search contains hundreds of millions of printed pages, and yet after just a few words, the likelihood of the sentence's replication scales down dramatically. And even before our sentence implodes into utter improbability, there's another telling phenomenon at work. The nine books that contain the penultimate It seems to me that this should not be are from a grab bag of subjects: a 2001 study of Freud, an 1874 collection of Methodist camp sermons, minutes from a 1973 hearing of the Senate subcommittee on transportation. So, if replicating the same sentence alone is suspicious behavior, then to also replicate it on the same subject warrants dialing 911.
Conveniently enough, a few literary greats have already had their mug shots taken. It's long been known that Poe plagiarized an early book, a hack project titled The Conchologist's First Book, * and that Herman Melville swiped many technical passages of Moby Dick whole from maritime authors like Henry Cheever. Even more inventively, Lawrence Sterne's immortal diatribe against plagiarism in Tristram Shandy was itself … plagiarized from Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. There have always been a dizzying array of ways that authors can rip each other off, even in reverse: Literary critic Terry Eagleton has written entertainingly of "anti-plagiarism," a 19th-century literary wheeze favored by Irish critics, who pounced on poets or novelists for plagiarizing or surreptitiously translating some little-known domestic or foreign work and presenting it under their name. The trick was that the "original" work presented by the prosecuting critic was itself a forgery, written after a new work's publication to frame an enemy.
The most intriguing result of a digital dragnet would be if any deeply idiosyncratic last-person-you'd-guess authors get fingered—Emily Dickinson, anyone? Ben Franklin, perhaps? I'd bet that in the next decade at least one major literary work gets busted. Such thefts don't necessarily end a literary reputation: After all, what Melville did with ordinary maritime literature amounted to an act of lead-to-gold alchemy. But it's invigorating to think that some forgotten authors, long buried and with the dirt tamped down over them by their ruthless rivals, will now get their due. Plagiarism, it seems, will out.
Correction, Dec. 5, 2006: The article incorrectly stated that The Conchologist's First Book was Poe's first book. In fact, that would be Tamerlane and Other Poems(1827). The Conchologist was Poe's only book to go into a second edition during his lifetime. (Return to the corrected sentence.)

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Police: Potato chip trail led to Pa. suspect
WASHINGTON, Pa. – Police say they followed a trail of potato chips to catch a southwestern Pennsylvania burglary suspect.
Washington police say 21-year-old Benjamin Sickles was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly broke into a Subway restaurant and stole several bags of snacks.
Investigators say Sickles broke a glass door before trying to open the cash register. They say he made off with nine bags of chips after he couldn't get to the cash.
Officers say they followed a trail of chip bags to Sickles, who had a bloody hand and foot when he was taken into custody.
Sickles is being held at the Washington County Prison on $30,000 bail. Online court records don't list an attorney for him.


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I'm so, so excited that The Knight Agency has four authors in the final round of the GoodReads Choice Awards! I love these awards, which highlight worthy titles and always threaten to overload my TBR pile. I hope you'll vote however your inclination, but I have to send a special shout out to:
Rachel Caine for STILLHOUSE LAKE up for Best Mystery/Thriller: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-mystery-thriller-books-2017
Christina Henry for LOST BOY up for Best Horror: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-horror-books-2017
N.K. Jemisin for THE STONE SKY up for Best Fantasy: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-fantasy-books-2017
Nalini Singh for SILVER SILENCE up for Best Romance: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-romance-books-2017
I'm also pleased to announce the following new releases! (Yes, they're from last week, but I was away, and so I present them to you now!)
ALL THOSE EXPLOSIONS WERE SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT by James Alan Gardner (Tor Books, B&N, Amazon)
Monsters are real.
But so are heroes.
Sparks are champions of weird science. Boasting capes and costumes and amazing super-powers that only make sense if you don't think about them too hard, they fight an eternal battle for truth and justice . . . mostly.
Darklings are creatures of myth and magic: ghosts, vampires, were-beasts, and the like. Their very presence warps reality. Doors creak at their approach. Cobwebs gather where they linger.
Kim Lam is an ordinary college student until a freak scientific accident (what else?) transforms Kim and three housemates into Sparks—and drafts them into the never-ending war between the Light and Dark. They struggle to master their new abilities—and (of course) to design cool costumes and come up with great hero-names.
Turns out that "accident" was just the first salvo in a Mad Genius's latest diabolical scheme. Now it's up to four newbie heroes to save the day, before they even have a chance to figure out what their team's name should be!
ALL THOSE EXPLOSIONS made both Barnes & Noble and i09's Recommended Reading lists for November!
BLACK GOAT BLUES by Levi Black, #2 in the Mythos War series (Tor Books, B&N, Amazon)
Levi Black delivers in Black Goat Blues, the Lovecraft-inspired sequel to the dark fantasy Red Right Hand, which Jonathan Maberry calls "A perfect blend of old-school horror and modern storytelling sorcery."
In Red Right Hand, Charlie Tristan Moore was thrust into a nightmarish world of lurking Lovecraftian horrors when The Man In Black, a diabolical Elder God, chose her as his unwilling Acolyte. Discovering her own power, Charlie ultimately defied The Man In Black, but at a cost.
Now armed with a magic coat made from the skin of a flayed angel, Charlie is out to destroy The Man In Black and save her boyfriend Daniel—and she doesn't care how many bloodthirsty gods and monsters get in her way…
SHADES OF MEMORY by Diana Pharaoh Francis (Bell Bridge Books, B&N, Amazon)
"Exceptional!" -Jill Smith, RT Book Reviews on The Diamond City Magic series
Riley's lost the last damned thing she's willing to lose. She's declaring war and prisoners are optional.
After escaping the FBI, Riley and her family have become fugitives, and not just from the law. Every bad guy on the planet wants a piece of Riley. Gregg has been kidnapped. Worse than that, Price's newly discovered magic is dangerously out of control, and her own is trying to kill her. She has little time to worry about any of that before all hell breaks loose in Diamond City, and she finds herself smack dab in the crossfire.
With the clock ticking down, Riley gathers her friends and family to execute a Hail Mary plan that will pit them against seven of the most dangerous thugs in Diamond City, a serial killer, Riley's psychopath father, and a mysterious billionaire with plans of his own. If she succeeds, she makes herself an even bigger target. If she fails, everybody she cares about dies.
But the shadows hold danger even Riley will never see coming . . . .
Diana Pharaoh Francis is the acclaimed author of a dozen fantasy and urban fantasy novels. Her books have been nominated for the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award and RT's Best Urban Fantasy. Shades of Memory is the fourth book in her exciting new urban fantasy series—The Diamond City Magic Novels.
VAMPIRE UNDONE by Shannon Curtis (Harlequin Nocturne, B&N, Amazon)
Her cruelest temptation…
A werewolf's bite has just one cure, and vampire Lucien Marchetta intends to find it. But first he must convince Professor Natalie Segova to help him. Natalie once considered Lucien a friend and protector…until he abandoned her to a terrible tragedy. And yet she still struggles to resist his tantalizing allure and the intimate memories of their past.
Racing to locate the cure, Lucien and Natalie tangle in a seductive power play where every move ratchets up the intensity of their blistering attraction. But time is running out and the veil between death and life is shifting. If Lucien doesn't reclaim Natalie's heart soon, he could lose her—and everything he values—forever.
In other news, Michelle Belanger's THE RESURRECTION GAME, third in her Shadowside series, made Unbound Worlds' list of Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of November 2017! This one is out November 28th, so not long now!
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Things to consider before studying in AustraliaPublished on October 20, 2016
Competence in the English language
This is probably the most important factor when planning your studies in Australia. If your proficiency in the English language is limited, you may be advised to enrol in an English language school before starting your degree or program. In most cases, international students are required to take language proficiency tests (such as IELTS) before they are allowed to enrol in certain programs. It is therefore crucial that you carefully examine the policies of your chosen institution in terms of English language testing and classes.
Cost of education
For many international students, the decision involving where to study will simply come down to cost. Tuition fees vary considerably from one school to another, ranging from anywhere between $2000 and $28,000 per year or more. If you need financial assistance, you may be able to select institutions that offer scholarships and study abroad loans. In other cases, you can fund your education through private foundations, companies, or your local government. You can also source money from grants, teaching assistantships or research assistantships.
Quality of education
Because of the wide range of programs and institutions available in Australia, determining the quality of any given school and its programs can be quite challenging. The most expensive university may not necessarily be the best, nor is every course within a globally recognised university the same quality. This really does depend on your field of study.
If you would like more information on choosing the right institution, speak with an IDP Education counsellor - they're always ready to help.
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As a visa condition, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection requires all students holding temporary student visas to maintain Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) for the full duration of their study in Australia. Click here to find out more about the health cover you may need when studying in Australia.
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Hingham teen to face in charges for school scare
Police: Teen, 13, carrying replica gun behind school
A 13-year-old boy who was spotted behind a Hingham elementary school with a pellet gun, prompting a brief lockdown, is facing a number of charges, authorities say.
The teen will be charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon on school grounds, being a minor in possession of a BB gun and disorderly conduct, Sgt. Steven Dearth told the Patriot Ledger.
Foster Elementary School went into lockdown for about 20 minutes Thursday after school officials received a report of someone in the woods behind the school, possibly carrying a gun and wearing a ski mask.
Although school was over for the day, some students and staff involved in after-school activities remained in the building.
Police who were investigating found the boy and recovered an Airsoft gun, which shoot plastic pellets.
Police decided to pursue charges against the teen after interviewing witnesses, Dearth said.
The teen was released to the custody of his parents. His name was not released because of his age.


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Five facts about sinkholes
A gaping, 50-foot sinkhole that took the life of a Florida man, Jeff Bush, whose bedroom was swallowed up, made for scary headlines worldwide. But sinkholes, it turns out, are not as rare you would think. The phenomena, for instance, are common in Florida, if only occasionally deadly. Here, with help from sources including the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Geological Survey, sinkholes explained:
How does a sinkhole form? "Cover-collapse" sinkholes occur when groundwater causes underground gaps that grow so big the ground above can't support them. These can be dramatic events, since the holes can grow big enough to swallow a house, a road, a field or a swimming pool, even as those above ground go about their lives completely oblivious to the growing danger.
Are there other types of sinkholes? There are two other kinds: "solution" and "subsidence" sinkholes, which don't make the nightly news. That's because the changes to the topography happen slowly over time without catastrophic results.
Which states have sinkholes? The entire state of Florida is prone to sinkholes since it sits on top of a layer of limestone rock known as karst, which can be dissolved by acidic groundwater, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), other vulnerable states include Texas, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
Are sinkholes common? Unlike hurricanes or earthquakes, sinkholes aren't tracked. But CNN reports that from 2006 to 2010 in Florida alone, there were 24,671 insurance claims for sinkhole damage, totaling a whopping $1.4 billion.
Can humans cause sinkholes? Yes. According to an interview with Randall Orndorff a U.S. Geological Survey supervisory geologist, human activities like drilling for a well or mining, which lower water levels underground, can cause sinkholes. So can putting up buildings and parking lots, he added, which changes where water drains. "Instead of the water naturally soaking into the ground, it's now running off and being concentrated—being put into the ground at one point," he said.
The massive sinkhole in Guatemala that was created in June 2010 is an example of one that was probably caused by human activity.


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MIAMI – Take a walk through downtown, Edgewater or Miami's Brickell neighborhood and you will experience the hustle and bustle of condo construction city leaders and developers are buzzing about.
In a historic moment last week, three groundbreakings on three new projects happened back-to-back on the same day.
Mayor Tomás Regalado and Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff attended all three.
"It's a very careful day," said Sarnoff, "but a new day, and it is a better day than the last one because this is real money, this is real people's money."
"Every developer and civic leader is talking about how this is a great thing," said Peter Zalewski of Condo Vultures. "Why? Because the new towers are going to effectively increase property taxes. It is also going to give a feel that the economy is back. There are jobs, construction workers, interior designers. There's a whole bunch of people who are going to get the benefit from it."
Zalewski discovered interest in Miami's building boom was so great, he began offering bus tours. On the day Local 10's Christina Vazquez interviewed him, he was narrating a tour for agents from Coldwell Banker's Coral Gables branch.
"During Art Basel weekend we had so much demand and interest in trying to figure out what was happening in downtown Miami in terms of newly proposed condo projects, we decided to rent a bus," said Zalewski.
Zalewski said a three-hour bus tour will run about $75 a person.
"We are overwhelming investors, we are overwhelming tourists, we are overwhelming Realtors with information about what's coming, what's already been done and how this compares to last time," said Zalewski. "We've had about nine straight sell-outs, we're doing bus tours now twice a day on Saturdays, we're doing private bus tours and we are also looking at doing Sunday bus tours."
WEB EXTRA: Experts weigh in: Is a condo crash coming?
Charlette Seidel and Ingrid Carlos are co-managers of Coldwell Banker's San Remo office. Seidel said their agents were excited to take the tour "because of the heavy demand for new construction from all over the world to Miami."
"This is a very educational experience where the agents are going to find out about all of the towers and projects that are going up in Miami," explained Carlos, "We are very excited to learn about everything that's happening. There is a lot of interest, especially from foreign clients looking to buy in South Florida."
Make no mistake: The boom is back.
But hasn't Miami seen this before? Cranes dotting Downtown's skyline made headlines 10 years ago. Then after the buzz, and the bubble, came the bust.
"At one point clients, buyers would come in, put 10 percent down and maybe not show up at the table," said Gary Hecht, a Realtor with Sotheby's International Realty.
Diego Ojeda of Rilea Group is behind The Bond at Brickell, the first project of its kind to break ground on Brickell since the recession. He said back then people were, "placing deposits in different buildings. What they would do is they would place, wait a couple of days since the market was always going up, it would raise and then they would flip it to someone else, never having the money to pay a for a full unit."
The Related Group also broke ground on a new project in the Brickell neighborhood steps away from trendy Mary Brickell Village. The new SLS Brickell hotel and condo with its Phillipe Starck design promises to be as hip and slick as its South Beach counterpart, said Carlos Rosso, president of the company's condominium division. It also nearly sold out before they even started building. "Well, I think the biggest lesson that we learned from the past cycle is that we need real buyers with real amounts of deposits."
Realtors, developers and market analysts say this time it's different because from the crash emerged a new finance model.
"The deposit structure is modeled after how it is down in South America and Europe where we are asking for 50 percent cash deposits," said Ojeda, "by asking that much money you are weeding out all the speculators, flippers."
Hecht said, "So what happens is the developer doesn't have to get the construction loan? Actually, the buyer is financing the project."
"During our last boom there were 245 towers created and there were 49,000 units. This time there are 186 towers proposed and there are only 25,000 units," said Zalewski, "So I guess where I am going with that is that the buildings that are being built are now more niche oriented so they tend to be smaller, they have fewer units and they are targeted toward the wealthy, last time they were targeted toward the masses. So 'Joe Six Pack' isn't necessarily going to be able to buy this new product that's coming online. Thus far, all the projects that are being built are being built with buyer cash, there's no real bank money involved. From our numbers there's about $2.4 billion in bank financing and last go around there was roughly about $11 billion."
At the groundbreaking for The Crimson, a new tower in Miami's blossoming Edgewater neighborhood, Mayor Tomás Regalado told Vazquez, "So we are very comfortable in the city that this will not be another bubble that will burst."
"You are seeing not enough supply and more demand,"Commissioner Marc Sarnoff said at the same event. "So in an unusual turn of circumstance you have more people wanting apartments than you do actually supplying apartments."
Downtown Miami has also changed, morphing into a pedestrian-friendly city with new restaurants and grocery stores making condo living now a lot more user friendly than it was back then.
"We are just in the early phase, this is effectively the second or third inning of what is going to be the latest boom," said Zaleski, "and if I were to compare it to where we were last time, we are really in 2003. After 2003 we had about a two- to three-year run and then the market began to go sideways in '06, and then in '07 it (went into) freefall. So really this is the early stage, this is the time to party, the DJ has been set-up, the food is starting to be served, the valet is parking everybody so the real event hasn't come yet but it's coming and it's coming really quick. At this point in time we'd say there is no concern of a condo crash, but that being said, as the market gains momentum watch for more and more players to get into the game and as more and more players get into the game that's when I think the issues begin to become sort of concerning. If you think of it as a hurricane, there's a storm brewing off the coast of Africa right now, so right now there's no real concern but I would say let's talk in about a year, year and half and it might be a little bit of a different story."
Until then, he'll be giving anyone who is interested a front-row seat to the action.


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My muse is such a fickle thing,
When she is here, it feels like spring,
A charming and uplifting boss,
But when she's gone I'm at a loss.
I ask my words to come outside,
But no, they say, they have their pride.
They claim that it's a holiday,
And all they want to do is play.
"But why?" I ask. "Why not for me?"
They say because they work for free.
"Your muse," they vow, "is much more fun
And knows best how to get things done,
But when she's gone, you poke and prod
And seem confused." They gravely nod.
But muse or not, I'll drag them out
And hope they work instead of pout.
Muse or Not
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A former Chicago police officer was sentenced Thursday to 31/2 years in federal prison for extorting bribes to steer business to tow truck drivers at crash scenes.
Juan Prado, a 12-year veteran of the department, pleaded guilty in July to pocketing $3,790 in payoffs in 2006 and 2007 from a tow truck operator who was secretly working undercover for the FBI. Prosecutors alleged that Prado had taken in more than $16,000 in all by directing business to bribe-paying tow truck drivers.
"You made a terrible mistake ... and there are consequences," U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan told Prado as he handed down the sentence.
Prado's sentence was the longest to be handed down to the seven Chicago police officers convicted and sentenced as part of an undercover FBI probe code-named Operation Tow Scam. Authorities charged three additional officers in recent weeks as part of the investigation.
A prosecutor who said tow truck drivers nicknamed Prado "Thirst" described Prado as a greedy former cop who left tow truck drivers with no choice but to pay him off to get business. The government released snippets of undercover conversations with the drivers in which Prado made it clear that they had to deal with him. "My scene. And I am the cop. And that's the way it goes," he was quoted as saying.
"These tow truck drivers knew there was a price of admission for these accidents," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Donovan. "It happened over and over again."
Friends and family painted Prado as a family man who helped many people while working as a cop and a social worker before that.
Prado wiped his eyes with a tissue as Agnotti Cowie, 26, a family friend, described how he supported her after her father and brother died.
"Prison isn't a place for him. He needs to be with us," she said.
Prado, 47, who spent much of the hearing with his head hung down, apologized for his wrongdoing.
"It was a terrible error in judgment. I don't know what happened to me," he said.
Prado resigned from the department shortly after he pleaded guilty to attempted extortion. He had been stripped of his police powers and reassigned to a desk job after he was charged in 2010.
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October 26, 2011 – 6 p.m.
Hospitality House, 705 B Street, Minong, WI
Sponsored by Sisterhood of the Planetary Water Rites
Open to women who feel called to honor and respect water. Purpose: Support water issues that need our attention. To change negative impact on the world's fresh drinking water supply for all living species all over the world. Turning our hearts and prayers toward positive energy and vibrations to heal water world wide.
Water Blessing Event
October 28 – 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Sponsored by the Sisterhood of the Planetary Water Rites and Grandmother Tonya Whitedeer. May we all stand together with a single intention for water matter where we are on the Earth at this time.
Water Sister Worth Cooley-Prost sent the following Messsage:
Dear Ones! At long last, the convergence of time, energy and Heart allows for this long-overdue message.
[A new friend and I] talked about indigenous understandings of Now, and how I can't imagine how I'd be able to look around in these times if I hadn't heard Don Alejandro speak 11 years ago, how the Mayan calendar isn't about the "end of the world," rather about the accelerating unfolding of a whole new Time that's very different from all that's unraveling now. (I really like Tom Kenyon's metaphor about 2012 or whenever — he says when his odometer turns over 100,000 miles, he doesn't expect his car to disappear!) I think our unexpected hour together was a Gift to both of us, and recalled again the Hathors advice about the difficulties of chaotic nodes: "be curious and expect miracles."
Turtle Women Rising 2011 was in Olympia WA this year, from sunrise on October 7 through the afternoon of October 10. I have the bowl that held the Water on the altar at TWR 2008 and 2010, both here in DC. It's lovely bowl, about 16″
across and a graceful low, open shape in that hint-of-palest-green often seen in thick handmade glass, with a swirl of slightly darker pale green. It was in one of Coldwater Creek's crazy online sales about 2002, marked down from probably $125 (never could've afforded that) to about $35. I loved it (and had a lot more money back then!), and ordered it thinking it would be beautiful on our diningroom table with fruit or flowers or just air. When it came, I realized that our diningroom table was
neither big enough nor clear enough for the bowl, so for about 6 years it sat up on top of a bookshelf in the diningroom. Then in one of the final planning conference calls for the first TWR, Eli said they needed a bowl to hold the Water in the
altar tipi, and I said, "Eli, I have the bowl." Near the end of the final day of TWR that year, I'd left the circle to smoke a cigarette and just put my chair at the edge of things when I came back in. I remember sitting there watching
everybody singing and dancing, and thinking, "I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can bring the bowl that holds the Water." We used it again in 2010.
So last Friday, Willy put two chairs and a little round table that came from the side of the road several years ago in a special, leafy grove part of the yard before he went to work, and later my friend Margaret came over with her drum. The several pieces of cloth covering the table were made by Mayan hands, African hands, and Indonesian hands, and though I'm sure the the bright red fleece with Native American designs was made in China, it came to me from Council on Indian Nations a couple of years ago. The bowl took up most of the table. The things around it included several stones, a tiny bottle of rose
quartz chips, a little basket with Haiti beads, some lavender, a Fourth Wise Man figure, and seems like a couple of other things I can't remember at the moment. (I'd meant to take a picture but forgot; it must not have wanted me
to.) After smudging us and everything else, we filled the bowl with Water from the house and opened the space with prayers to connect with TWR and with all healing Waters around the world. I asked especially that the spirits of all the men, women,
children and horses of the civil war be honored for their courage and sacrifice, calling them back from their journeys and the traumas endured, so they can heal and return Home… and that Mother Earth be healed in all the places that have
held their pain and fear and anger for all these 150 years, and that all the Waters that touch that land — rivers, rain, dew, fog, snow, tears past and future — carry that great healing also.
Margaret brought a really beautiful drum, and I used my Ocean drum for the first time. I've always wanted to be where drumming is — Native American, Haitian, African, and those astonishing sideways Japanese drums — but somehow never really felt called to drum myself. Then last summer I ordered myself an Ocean drum for my birthday — synthetic covering on one side, clear mylar on the other, and filled with steel shot. I'd experimented with it a little a couple of times since… tilting it from side to side makes sounds of waves and surf… but this was the first time I really used it. Amazing! Each of the
times between opening the space Friday and closing it Monday afternoon — and the next night when Moon was full somewhere behind thick clouds — it's given me something new. The first day, when I opened my eyes after a few minutes, the
sky and trees were in my lap! (The clear mylar side is like a mirror.) Also, the steel beads often make a yin-yang pattern. The next day I also used the beater that came with it, and after a little while realized there were subtle musical tones at the edges; they've been clearer each time. Another time when I looked down, I saw the ripple patterns around my thumbs holding the
edges. Looks like I have my drum — who knew?!!
When we came back to the house on Friday, the mail had come, bringing the sage you sent, Mary Ellen… so that's been part of each visit since. When I went back to the space the second day, there was a line of sand or fine dirt around the whole front edge of the table. (Another time I'll tell you the story of the six deer who came in January after I'd asked my grandmothers for guidance and protection and that I be able to see them and hear them clearly.) We took everything back in but the cloth and bowl when we closed the space on Monday. I've left the bowl there for the three days of rain we've had, and tomorrow will give the Water to the Earth there and it will go back on the high shelf until whenever its next time is.
Margaret is coming again for Water Prayers at 1:00 on October 28, so we will be among you all around the world. These are some fancy, fancy times, aren't they? I'm so grateful to be here, so grateful to both of you that you're in my life and in my heart. I do want to be a Water Sister, please!
Abundant love and blessings,


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The post-Christmas prolonged, dangerously cold weather across half the country has advocates for the homeless scrambling to get people off the streets and local officials urging residents to assist their elderly neighbors.
Residents from the Midwest to the Northeast were dealing with sub-freezing temperatures and wind chills, while those in the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies were bracing for storms that forecasters warn can cause heavy mountain snow and freezing rain.
The cold is expected to continue through the holiday weekend and likely longer, according to the National Weather Service, prolonging a stretch of brutal weather blamed for vehicle crashes, emergency room visits and at least one death.
Wind chill advisories remained in place for many areas. Animal owners were urged to bring their pets indoors if possible or at least make sure they have sufficient warmth.
Forecasters warned people to be wary of hypothermia and frostbite from the arctic blast that has gripped a large swath from the Midwest to the Northeast, where the temperature, without the wind chill factored in, dipped to minus 32 (minus 35 Celsius) Thursday morning in Watertown, New York. Temperatures rose to minus 7 (minus 22 Celsius) early Friday morning.
Heavy snow was expected Friday in the Pacific Northwest, across the Cascade mountains and into the northern Rockies before gradually tapering off Saturday. As much as 2 to 3 feet of snow is possible in the highest terrain, while coastal regions were expected to see heavy rainfall.
About 30 crashes were reported on icy roadways Friday morning in Michigan, where below-freezing temperatures continue to envelop parts of the state.
A woman trying to maneuver her wheelchair on a cold, snowy night in Nebraska got a firetruck escort. Snow and construction items on the sidewalk forced her into a busy Omaha thoroughfare Tuesday. Firefighters returning to their station noticed her. They flipped on their lights and followed the woman until she reached her destination. She gave them a thumbs-up as they departed.
In South Dakota, an 83-year-old woman died from exposure to the cold. Police believe she crashed her car on a gravel road near the tiny rural town of Revillo then left the vehicle to look for help. They found her body in a ditch on Sunday.
Warming centers have been set up in some locations, including recreation centers across Cincinnati. Boston's Pine Street Inn sent a van with outreach workers around to persuade people to spend the night inside, but some said they prefer the streets.
Segundo Rivera and Sean Stuart told the Boston Herald they were not comfortable spending the night in a shelter.
"We've lived out here so long it's like honestly, this is comfortable for us," Rivera said.
A shelter spokeswoman said that if people don't want to go to a shelter, they're given blankets, warm clothing and a hot beverage, and informed of the dangers of extreme cold.
The Ohio Department of Aging said older people are at increased risk from such severe cold, from medication side effects to falling risks. The department encouraged people to check on family members, friends and neighbors to make sure they're warm enough and have their needed medications and sufficient food and water.
On Thursday, cold weather records were set from Arkansas to Maine, and the freezing air will linger through the weekend, reaching as far south as Texas and the Florida Panhandle.
In New Hampshire, the cold set a record for the day of minus 34 (minus 37 Celsius) atop the Northeast's highest peak, Mount Washington.
In the Midwest, temperatures in Minneapolis aren't expected to top zero (minus 18 Celsius) this weekend, and it likely will be in the teens (minus 11 Celsius to minus 7 Celsius) when the ball drops on New Year's Eve in New York City.
A winter storm warning was in effect for much of Montana, calling for significant snowfall followed by dangerously cold temperatures as 2017 comes to an end.
"People like to think of themselves as being prepared for the weather and things like that," Billings forecaster Dan Borsum said, "but this one will get your attention."


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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Valparaiso graduate transfer Bakari Evelyn has signed with Iowa to bolster the Hawkeyes' perimeter game.
Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery announced on Thursday that Evelyn will be the first grad transfer to play for him in Iowa City.
Evelyn spent the past two seasons with the Crusaders after starting his career at Nebraska. The guard led Valpo with 48 three-pointers and ranked second on the team with 68 assists last season.
Evelyn's presence should help the Hawkeyes, especially if Jordan Bohannon is forced to redshirt following offseason hip surgery.
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Among the many bottles and jars that lurk in your fridge or cupboard, you may find a jar of store-bought salsa, the familiar spicy red sauce that isn't always spicy, isn't always red, and isn't even always used as sauce.
If you do have a jar, it's most likely a coarse blend of tomatoes, jalapeños and onions with the consistency of vegetable soup. The label may recommend using it as a condiment or a dip, but the Spanish name "salsa" is its own serving suggestion. Salsa means sauce—and not in a ketchupy dollop-on-the-side way.
The first salsa, the proto-salsa, pre-dates the arrival of Spanish colonists to the Americas. A Franciscan missionary in the early 16th century reported seeing a market stall that sold a ground-up mixture of tomatoes, chile peppers, and seeds. This mixture was served poured over meat. It was a sauce, not a condiment.
"In a chunky, fresh modern-day salsa, the colors of onions, tomatoes, and jalapeño chiles are said to represent the white, red, and green of the Mexican flag, but there was no Mexico back then, and no onions, either."
There were no onions in this original recipe. In a chunky, fresh modern-day salsa, the colors of onions, tomatoes, and jalapeño chiles are said to represent the white, red, and green of the Mexican flag, but there was no Mexico back then, and no onions, either. Onions came to the Americas with the colonists. Some other ingredients we strongly associate with salsa also arrived on boats from the Old World. Neither lime nor cilantro existed in the Americas six centuries ago.
Tomatoes and chile peppers are native to the Americas, and were cultivated for thousands of years by the Incans before spreading to the Mayans and the Aztecs. In fact, chile peppers are arguably the only consistent ingredient in salsa. Though supermarkets sell "mild" varieties that are light on the chiles, the point of salsa is spice; that's why the word is also used to describe a spicy style of music and a spicy style of dance! If you can't stand the heat, stay off the dance floor.
Store-bought salsas generally use just one variety of pepper: jalapeño. Extra hot salsas might be made with chile extract, rather than a hotter variety of whole pepper, presumably to regulate the heat. If you're looking for salsa made with a pepper that's naturally spicier than jalapeño, you want to look for serrano peppers. If you're more adventurous still, you could go with habanero. Anything hotter than that and you should make sure you know what you're getting into! Test before you pour. If you see a salsa labeled "chipotle," it's made with smoked jalapeño peppers, so the flavor is notably smoky and not overly spicy.
Tomatoes, chiles, onion, garlic, and cilantro are the basic ingredients of both salsa roja (which prosaically translates as "red sauce") and pico de gallo (which more evocatively means "beak of the rooster"). The difference between the two is that salsa roja uses cooked tomatoes and is blended, and pico de gallo uses raw tomatoes and is chopped. The name "pico de gallo" supposedly refers to the way the chunks can be picked up between finger and thumb.
The third well-known style of salsa is salsa verde, or "green sauce." Salsa verde uses tomatillos instead of tomatoes. Tomatillos are a tart, sour relative of the tomato that also featured in the earliest known variations of salsa. Naturally green, they look like unripe tomatoes wrapped in their own little paper lantern husks.
"Tomatillos were the first of many ingredients to steal the salsa spotlight from tomatoes. Despite once being the star of the sauce, tomatoes are now the ingredient most easily left out."
Tomatillos were the first of many ingredients to steal the salsa spotlight from tomatoes. Despite once being the star of the sauce, tomatoes are now the ingredient most easily left out. You may find recipes for salsa where tomatoes are replaced by corn, avocado, or bell pepper, or by upstart fruits like pineapple, mango, peach, or melon. In larger supermarkets you can also find jarred versions of many of these salsas.
You may think there's no reason to buy salsa in jars, since it's incredibly easy to make. All you really need to do is chop or blend the ingredients. But those fresh flavors fade fast, so keeping a jar of the supermarket variety around is definitely a convenient fall-back. If you are using salsa from a jar, remember that it's not just a dip for your chips or a condiment to plop on a burger. You can slather it over grilled steaks, chicken breasts, pork chops, tuna, or even an omelet. You can also mix it into ground beef, use it as a pasta sauce, or add a spoonful to a soup or a stew. Stir in some extra lime juice and it makes a great overnight marinade. You don't need to be dainty with it.
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Consider the problem of evil in the inorganic world. What is it? A block of iron rusts, say. This certainly counts as a corruption and so as an evil of some sort or another. But this sense of corruption seems forced, as does to call it evil. Life lives off exactly this sort of process. There just seems to be no problem of evil here. The problem has no clearer sense on the level of vegetative life. There are hints of a problem of evil among insects – Darwin used wasps as a paradigm case of evil in the world. But this sense of evil is obscure too, and probably relies overmuch on anthropomorphism, e.g. we call them "Black Widow" spiders but there is nothing nefarious or unnatural about how they mate.
And so the problem of evil is really a problem that is entirely contextualized within the life of a human or (higher) non-human animal, and in this sense there is a double meaning of what a "pointless" or "gratuitous" evil would be. On the one hand, we can be speaking about the evil in its causes, and these might have been random. To take William Rowe's example, fawn might burn to death in a forest fire that started by accident (and not "for a reason") and even if the fire started for a reason, it is not necessary to see the point of the fire as burning the fawn (if the nature has point at all in starting forest fires, it probably has to do with keeping undergrowth down, making fertilizer, etc.). But to take evil in this way is extrinsic to the actual life of the animal, and so it doesn't touch on the problem of evil in that context where it actually is a problem. In order to do this, we have to consider the evil in the context of the life of the animal. For the animal itself, the evil is an event within its life and is therefore pointless or not within this context. Return to the fawn: either there is some analogue for it to suffer well or there is not; either it can suffer with some analogue to heroism, courage, and fortitude or it cannot. If it can, then this suffering will take its meaning from whatever this is; if it cannot, then within the context of its life the suffering neither has a point nor is pointless, for we deny the relevant sense in which the suffering can have a point within the context of the life in which it occurs.
Put it briefly: most would agree that a pointless or gratuitous evil is one that is not ordered to a greater good, but we should take the additional step of seeing that the first and most important greater good is the good of the human or non-human animal that suffers the evil.
It's no easy task to figure out what other sense of a greater good there could be for a particular evil considered in its particularity (considered generally, any corruption – whether random, unjust, tragic, or otherwise – gives rise to something else and in this sense contributes to the greater good of nature continuing; and so from this perspective pointless evils are impossible – but from this perspective all deaths are identical. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.) This becomes more difficult when the evil is simply random. But to imagine that the "greater good" consists in some sort of mysterious connection between random evils and other events that could not have come to be otherwise is to posit a sense of the greater good that, could only exist if an omnipotent providence were already given.


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Most recently, Bolden served as the Deputy Director of Operations for the Louisiana Workforce Commission. In this position, Bolden was responsible for integrating workforce initiatives across agencies to more efficiently deliver services by aligning resources, coordinating training programs and expanding access to services for clients.
"Deidria Bolden brings to DSS experience with the Louisiana Workforce Commission, which will continue to strengthen the link between the two agencies as we work to streamline and more effectively link our clients to workforce training and work opportunities," said Nichols. "In addition, Deidria has a wealth of experience working with Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services. Her broad experience as an administrator and a caseworker in programs from Medicaid to food stamps will provide OFS with strong leadership as we move forward to streamline and improve our services for our clients."
Bolden began her career as a case manager in Georgia for Fulton County Family and Children Services, interviewing clients applying for benefits and determining eligibility for Medicaid, food stamps, TANF, general assistance and employment services. From case manager, Bolden was promoted to a supervisory position.
Following 11 years of service with Fulton County Family and Children Services, Bolden was again promoted and began work at the Georgia State Division of Family and Children Services in Atlanta as a TANF Program Consultant, where she served for 12 years.. Here, she provided policy and management support and training to Georgia state staff, field staff and vendors, developed uniform interpretation of policy and procedures, as well as management strategies, outcomes and training needs. She also served as special populations coordinator for the New Connections to Work program at Gwinnett Technical College, where she counseled single parents and welfare recipients enrolling in the college, as well as coordinated training programs for recipients.
"Over the course of her career, Deidria has seen the needs of clients from the front lines of service delivery, to policy-making, as well as from an administrative perspective. She brings all of this experience to OFS as we work to improve our services and outcomes," said Nichols.
Prior to her work with the Louisiana Workforce Commission, Bolden served first as a unit manager and then as a program manager for the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services' State Title IV-E, Revenue Maximization activities to provide funding for children in Foster Care. In this role, she managed facilities, budgets, served on the legislative team and worked closely with Medicaid and social service policy writers. Additionally, Bolden served as a state agency liaison and contract monitor to The Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta's program -- Strengthening Families of Children with Disabilities.
Bolden holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Spelman College in Atlanta. Currently, she serves on the Child Poverty Prevention Council, Children's Cabinet Advisory Board, the Bright Start Steering Committee and Neighborhood Place State Leadership Team. Bolden also was recently chosen to take part in the 2010 Baton Rouge Leadership Class.
Over the past few months, DSS has initiated steps to increase efficiency in service delivery, eliminate duplicative activities and maximize resources throughout the agency. In the Office of Family Support, work is ongoing to reform and maximize TANF funding and services, streamline and consolidate eligibility for programs and improve outcomes for OFS clients.
Most recently, DSS announced a partnership with the Louisiana Workforce Commission to pilot Connections to Work, a program in the Lafayette area to provide targeted employment and job training services for DSS clients, including food stamp participants, welfare-to-work job training, vocational rehabilitation job-ready consumers and those who are aging out of the foster care system. Future expansions of the program will include two additional target groups: those needing mid-term supports to become job ready, and those who require long-term, intensive supports as well as access to other necessary supports including transportation and childcare prior to preparing for job-ready services.
Bolden replaces Dr. Allison Neustrom, who left the agency in late summer 2009.


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Morning Minutes: May 27
Word of the Day
Axiomatic ak-see-uh-MAT-ik (adjective) Taken for granted, self-evident; based on or involving an axiom or system of axioms - www.merriam-webster.com
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This site offers a mixture of word games and word puzzle tools. Play "Boggler" or take the Crossword Challenge and do crosswords against the clock. And if you're stuck on a word puzzle, there are plenty of tools to help you.
Number to Know
8 and ace: The cards that make up a "dead man's hand," so named because it was the hand (two aces, two eights) that Wild Bill Hickok had when he was shot to death. Hickok was born on this date in 1837.
This Day in History
May 27, 1995: Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
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Daily Quote
"And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me." - Lee Greenwood


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PicView is a new, free iOS app that enables users to add voice tags and annotations to images, videos and business applications. We're giving it an early review, as the app is only available for iPad and supports only photos for the time being.
The app lets you take or upload an iPad picture and subsequently add voice annotations to them using a simple recorder, with the added ability of being able to pinpoint specific parts of an image with a short animation (called 'Trackers').
When you're done telling your story, you can apply Instagram-style filters to the shot, pick a frame design and add a title. After a final review, you can easily share the image + voice with your friends on Facebook or Twitter, or simply email it.
You can also opt to publish it on a public PicView page (short example).
For example: you might want to send a picture of multiple people to someone and explain who they are one by one (example), or snap a picture of a landmark and talk about what makes it special. When you're selling something on craigslist or eBay, you can add annotations to the listing to make things clearer (example).
You can also use PicView simply to remind yourself of where you were or what you were doing when you took that particular picture, or to send your loved ones photos from your travels with a little extra.
Obviously, there are of use cases for something like PicView, but interestingly the company is also looking at business applications.
Indeed, PicView might be a handy alternative for when you're forwarding a presentation or spreadsheet to someone – rather than writing what the recipient should be focusing on, you can create a short animated video that guides him or her to the most important areas by voice (example).
My one gripe with the app is that the actual recording is rather tedious if you want to add 'Trackers'. You're never sure where to click or if it's recording or not (it automatically stops recording when you want to select a pointer, and you need to restart it every time after picking one).
Other than that, smooth experience but nothing earth-shattering so far.
The Belgian company behind the app says the technology behind the app is patent-pending worldwide. They're currently working on an API that would allow third-party developers to integrate the functionality into their own apps.
Stay tuned for more, when the API hits and/or support for videos and business applications gets added to the app.
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Seventy-three seconds.
That's how long NASA's space shuttle Challenger was in the air before an O-ring failure turned a routine mission into space into a tragedy on January 28, 1986.
Twenty-five years after NASA's first fatal in-flight accident, the memory of the Challenger disaster is still strong.
CNN's John Zarrella was at Kennedy Space Center to cover the launch - the first from NASA's new launchpad 39B. "I just remember seeing the cloud of smoke and what looked like fireworks coming out from the vehicle," says Zarrella. "We were all just looking at each other wondering 'OK, what's happened here?'"
CNN, still in its early years, was the only network to carry the launch live that Tuesday. Among those tuning in were children in classrooms across the country, watching what was to be a milestone: Christa McAuliffe, the program's first teacher in space, lifted off as a member of the crew.
An investigation later revealed a rubber "O-ring" seal on one of Challenger's solid rocket boosters had failed because of unusually low temperatures. This caused a leak of highly explosive gases, which ultimately led to a catastrophic explosion at 46,000 feet.
It would be almost three years before the space shuttle program would return to flight. NASA wouldn't experience another disaster until the loss of space shuttle Columbia in 2003, when a hole in the shuttle's heat shield caused it to disintegrate on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere. The Columbia disaster would ground the shuttle program for another two years.
Seven lives were lost in the Challenger explosion: Dick Scobee, commander; Michael J. Smith, pilot; Ellison Onizuka, mission specialist; Judy Resnik, mission specialist; Ron McNair, mission specialist; Gregory Jarvis, payload specialist; and Christa McAuliffe, payload specialist and teacher.
And I didn't make any insensitive comments. I asked for a simple accounting of what NASA has accomplished to the betterment of humanity. "Bang for the buck" is about as "insensitive" as I got. (with still no reply on how much NASA has cost over the years) And I still maintain had those funds been invested in our poorly funded education system, we would have solved more problems, and would not be so far behind others. And I did this without calling any of my fellow American's childish names, as if that is so difficult.
@CaptainAmerica...I agree. School busses should have seatbelts. That's a no-brainer The reason they don't is sick, if you care to look into it.(And not all crashes involve two vehicles) Human life is always placed behind material goods and profit. Simply investigating how it is that troops were driving HumVee's without armor will give the answer. Pure greed and lack of concern for human life account for this. We still can't afford armor plates in the doors of police cars, nor bullet-resistant glass coatings that cost about 300 dollars per car. (shrug)
I remember this day very well. I still get cold chills watchin the cnn footage of this. I was 8 yrs. old when this happened....Christa was my hero I wanted to be a teacher and astronaut just like her...I even had a cabbage patch astronaut doll that I named after her. That day my dreams shattered and I lost my hero......my thoughts and prayers go out to these families of the lost as I am sure even though 25 yrs later the pain still hurts like it happened yesterday.
Undeniably believe that which you said. Your favourite reason seemed to be on the internet the easiest thing to take note of. I say to you, I definitely get annoyed even as people consider concerns that they plainly don't recognise about. You managed to hit the nail upon the highest and defined out the entire thing without having side-effects , other people could take a signal. Will likely be again to get more. Thanks


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Have you been taking your "friendly bacteria" to promote a healthy gut and a strong immune system? In this nutrition webisode, Margaux J Rathbun, B.S., N.T.P. shares with us a fun way to include DDS Probiotics into our diet with this delicious and nutritious smoothie. To learn more about DDS Probiotics, be sure to become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DDSProbiotics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUXevUDuDiw


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Sauropod dinosaurs could in principle have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet. That's according to calculations reported in the May 8th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.
The hulking sauropods, distinctive for their enormous size and unusually long necks, were widespread about 150 million years ago. As in cows, methane-producing microbes aided the sauropods' digestion by fermenting their plant food.
"A simple mathematical model suggests that the microbes living in sauropod dinosaurs may have produced enough methane to have an important effect on the Mesozoic climate," said Dave Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University. "Indeed, our calculations suggest that these dinosaurs could have produced more methane than all modern sources—both natural and man-made—put together."
Wilkinson and study coauthor Graeme Ruxton from the University of St Andrews were studying sauropod ecology when a question dawned on them: If modern cows produce enough methane gas to be of interest to climate scientists, what about sauropods? They teamed up with methane expert Euan Nisbet at the University of London to work out the numbers.
"Clearly, trying to estimate this for animals that are unlike anything living has to be a bit of an educated guess," Wilkinson said.
Animal physiologists have studied methane production from a range of modern animals to derive equations that predict methane production from animals of different sizes. It turns out that those calculations depend only on the total mass of the animals in question. A medium-sized sauropod weighed something like 20,000 kilograms, and sauropods lived in densities ranging from a few large adults to a few tens of individuals per square kilometer.
Wilkinson, Ruxton, and Nisbet therefore calculate global methane emissions from sauropods to have been 520 million tons (520 Tg) per year, comparable to total modern methane emissions. Before industry took off on modern Earth about 150 years ago, methane emissions were roughly 200 Tg per year. By comparison, modern ruminant animals, including cows, goats, giraffes, and others, produce methane emission of 50 to 100 Tg per year.
The study's conclusions not only show "just how strange and wonderful the workings of the planet are" but also serve as a useful reminder for the importance of microbes and methane for global climate, the researchers say.
Wilkinson et al.: "Could methane produced by sauropod dinosaurs have helped drive Mesozoic climate warmth?."
Current Biology


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Raghu: Hi, I'm Raghu Markus. In the middle of this retreat at the Gandhi Ashram, the monsoon had arrived. Anytime we'd go anywhere we'd end up removing giant leeches from our legs and feet. It was quite lovely. Anyhow, I suddenly realized that my passport's about to expire and I need to go to Delhi to get it renewed; so happens I had a contact for the Canadian High Commission through my boss at the radio station in Montreal where I had met Ram Dass. So off I go to Delhi and on the way through the foothills, I stopped to see Maharajji at the ashram in Kainchi; and I arrive; there's no other Westerners there, in fact, there's hardly anybody there. He's sitting on his tuket with just a couple of Indian people and asks me if I'm married; and I say, cleverly I thought, "No I just want to marry God". Well, that brought a huge laugh from him and the Indians around him and it was quite embarrassing actually. And then he said to me, "Did you have darshan of a Tibetan Lama?" and I said "No, I'd never even met a Tibetan never mind a Lama". He said, "You didn't just have darshan of a Tibet Lama and he gave you teachings?" I thought he met the Buddhist meditation teacher who was supposed to come to Kusani to teach the group but he said, "NYE!, that's not it, Tibet Llama!". So after the big "Jyo" from Maharajji that day, I left for Delhi and I was invited to the High Commissioner's house for lunch. When I met him, I had heard about that Canada had been letting in Tibetan refugees and I asked about it. He suddenly turned to the side and walking through a door with a retinue of Tibetan monks in red robes, was Kalu Rinpoche, one of the greatest Llamas of the last century. I knew about him and I stood there in shock as I remembered the day before Maharajji asking me if I had met a Tibetan monk. So stunned as I was, off we went for lunch in this ornate huge dining room and sat exactly across from Kalu and next to some Canadian journalists who were there to interview him for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Well, they invited me to be with them while they interviewed him in an adjacent room. Well, they were interviewing him and they were asking, Hmm, maybe a little bit dumb questions like "What'd he think about Christianity and he said, "I wouldn't know anything about Christianity" and then they asked me to ask something. As soon as that happened, he sat bolt up-right in his chair and totally connected to me with his eyes and I asked about how it seemed so easy to meditate in the mountains where I had been but now coming to the city I couldn't find my balance, my center. I said, "Did you, do you need to stay in the mountains to feel that same space?" and he said, "Absolutely not". He told me the stories, the story of the seven siddhas of ancient India; all who became realized through their work whether it was weaving, pottery, stone-making and this went on for about thirty minutes where I received this lama's teachings. It was amazing. I mean, I was in one moment just completely blown away by this lama and these teachings and then all the time through that there was just this hovering over me. It was "Oh my God, he knew exactly what was gonna happen to me today.
Let me say I walked out of there in a state. It was kind of like I had taken a hit of acid. I just, I couldn't believe what had happened. My mind was truly blown and honestly, I was never the same again.
Ram Dass: One of the beings who has written a very useful book at one stage of one's journey, is Kuspenski, who was student who was a student of Gurdjeiff and a philosopher in his own right and he said, and he explained on page five, why it is that he isn't a realized being although I don't think he meant to say it quite that way and he's describing different schools and what they taught, different sacred schools and he says, " there was another type of school with which I was unable to make contact of which I only heard. These schools promised very much but they also demanded very much. They demanded everything at once. It would have been necessary to stay in India and give up thoughts of returning to Europe , to renounce all my own ideas, aims and plans and proceed along the road of which I could know nothing before- hand. These schools interested me very much and the people who had been in touch with them and who told me about them, stood out distinctly from the common type but still it seemed to me, that there ought to be schools of a more rational kind and that a man has a right up to a certain point to know where he is going."
(Siren blasting) When the sirens go by these are huge amounts of energy, just passing energy through you; Right, and you pass it up the spine and it really blows your mind. It's gratuitous energy handed to you.
See, Kuspenski wasn't willing to do that one thing; to give up knowing he knew and the funny thing about the rational mind is it's taken us so far and then it becomes the lions at the gates. It's so seductive. It looks like it's going to give us the whole business and then lo and behold, it holds us back at a certain point because we are so rewarded for knowing we know and it's only when you come to the despair that seeing, when you look around at where man has gotten with his rational mind, and you suddenly understand that you're just going from the frying pan into the fire and you look at the perculian task that he has outlined for himself and you realize that his rational mind just isn't going to be enough. You add up all, the quote, "Intellectuals" of the world. Who do you want to put the man's destiny in?…..Who's hands?…Herman Cann? I don't. Who? I mean, I can't find the model. I don't see wise men. I see rational, super rationalism, like George Bundy, super rationalists, exquisite minds. As Einstein said, "When atomic energy was released for man's control and benefit", he said, "Man must develop a higher form of thought if he is ever going to be able to use this energy with wisdom" because the rational mind is not going to do it, it's not going to be enough; that's the despair; that's the despair. All the eggs, all the baskets we put the eggs in just isn't going to make the trip to grandmother's house. It's just not gonna do it.
And the answer, strangely enough, is in the simple words – here and now. If you could be here and now; if you could for one moment turn off your mind; you don't have to listen to this lecture like you're doing. You don't have to be evaluating, categorizing, thinking about it, putting it away in storage units, analyzing the words to make sure you understand them. You could let it all go through you just like Chinese food. Just let it go through you and you understand it all because there is nothing I'm saying to you that there isn't a place in you where you already know it. Now I'm going to have to move slowly till you understand what I just told you. But you can trust; that's the first requirement – trust, you see. You've got to give up that kind of thing. You got to give up the reaching for it to have it. As long as you reach, you can't have it. This whole trip that I'm talking about it is fraught with paradoxes, the most exquisite paradoxes. As you soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. How bout that one? As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you will have more than you ever dreamed possible. What a weird thing. What a weird thing.
As long as you have an ego, you are on a limited trip. You're on a little trivial trip that's going to last roughly 60 years, 70 years, 80 years, wrought with fear of the end, trying to make it's own eternity, the eternal name by leaving a stone building perhaps. Being is dying by loving. Something in you must die and something new must be born. He that is born of the flesh, is of the flesh; he that is born of the spirit, is of the spirit. Unless he be born again he can not enter the kingdom of heaven. We're talking about a metamorphosis. We're talking about going from the caterpillar to the moth. We're talking about how to become butterflies. How do we become butterflies? I mean, the caterpillar who's walking around , doesn't say, " well man, soon I'll a moth" because while he's busy being a caterpillar, he can't be a moth. It's only when caterpillar-ness is done, that one's got to become a moth and that again is part of this paradox. You can't rip away caterpillar-ness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process under which, over which, you have no control. That's a hard one. Well, what am I doing here if I have no control? You mean I have no other choice? Can I say this is nonsense? Can I say this is important. Your lecture changed my whole life. You think that's choice? You think that's choice? No, not at all. It's an unfolding process.
If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process, you would see that you are a totally determined being. The moment you will wake up is totally determined. How long you will stay asleep is totally determined. What you will hear of what I say is totally determined. There are no accidents in this business at all. Accidents are just the way you are looking at it from. To the ego, it all looks like its miracles and accidents. No miracles. No accidents. It's just your vantage point.
Before I proceed, I want to advise you that when you leave here this evening, whoever it is that leaves, you will be offered, which you may accept or not as you choose, an additional crutch with which to help you with your work, which will be a reproduction of this tanka of Padmasambaba. I met a tuku, a very high incarnation, a Tibetan incarnation, in Sonit, in India and he was, he had brought this tanka from Tibet and he was very interested in having this tanka; having Guru Rinpoche available to people in the West at this time and so he and I together shared the expense involvement of having reproduced this, very, very beautiful reproduction and you are, and they are not for sale. They are priceless. You are given one and may I just enjoin you, if you are going to take one, don't take it unless you feel it in your heart but if you would like Guru Rinpoche's help by your puja table, or by your meditation cove or wherever it is you cool yourself out from the life drama.
Guru Rinpoche should be hung slightly at thirty degrees above, right? And then he'll watch out for things. He'll keep you cool. He's quite a gas. You can read about him. He's written about in books. He did some far-out things.
Well, if I am not speaking and if I am not what I thought I am, how did I get into this predicament and who am I? For only when I know who I am will I know what is possible and furthermore, I can ask a question, how will I know who I am? There are three ways in which one knows about what we are talking about this evening. One way you know about it is by direct experience through some way or other, through being alone in the desert, through falling in love, through bearing a child, through nearly dying or some other trauma, through turning on, through yoga, through taking any one of your senses and pushing it to beyond itself, going through it, you have touched a place inside yourself that has an intuitive validity, an intuitive validity. It's intuitively valid; inside you know it's right.
Many of you had an experience. I have been with literally, literally now perhaps over a hundred people who have had an experience which was powerful and valid, it was so discontinuous with their normal consciousness that it scared them so badly that they screamed for help and the help that was available to them were a group minds which said, "It's alright, you've just gone crazy." That is the experience you just had is the experience of psychosis. William James said, "Our normal waking consciousness is but one form of consciousness whilst all about it parted from it by the filmiest of veils, screens, there lie other types of consciousness entirely different .We may pasture our entire lives without suspecting their existence but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch, they are there in all their completeness, special types of mentality, each probably somewhere having its field of application and adaptation. No view of the Universe in its totality can be complete which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded but how to regard them is the question. They determine attitudes though they fail to furnish a formula. They open regions though they do not give a map. At any rate," concludes James, "they forbid our premature closing of our accounts with reality". He said that somewhere around probably around 1906; something like that. In spite of what he said we closed our accounts with reality, most of us but that experience you had was psychotic. I would give you Thorazine. It is not valid. You are hallucinating. What do you mean you're God? What do you mean you're God?
The experience may have come to you directly that way or it may have come to you through inference. Through your intellect, you may have reasoned and reasoned and reasoned until you saw the peculiar position that the rational man is in and you realize there must be something else although you have not experienced it. You just inferred the presence of something else. It doesn't quite make sense. Nothing turns you on. You haven't experienced it directly but you figure there must be something there and you read all of the writings of St. John of the Cross and Theresa and on and on, all of the mystics and visionaries who recorded history and you say, "Well they all can't be nuts, they must be talking about something". So you sort of infer presence of this other thing but you don't know about it. Now, that's a tougher one to be in that position.
Then the third way is that you trust, you trust the fact that there are realized beings and they've said it and therefore you know it to be true. It's not inference anymore. It's not an intellectual process. You just accept what they have said; that's faith.
See, we have gotten so super sophisticated in our evaluative mechanisms that you question everything you hear. How do you know you're not being hustled? I mean, you know, what was Jesus up to? What was the thing about? What did they want? What's the game? What's the game, man? You know, what's he into? What's he into? And that you would especially feel if you were one of the keepers of the tables in the temple; if you are committed to an existing system with great attachment, with great attachment.
Some way or other though, most of you in this room, most of you, not all of you but most of you have sensed the possibility, sensed the possibility. It happened to me the first time I took psilocybin, a synthetic chemical; the synthetic of the Mexican mushroom which is commonly known in the mountains as The Flesh of the Gods, you ingest nine mushrooms, five male and four female mushrooms and you are, you transcend your ego and you see how it all is and you touch. You go through the door. You go through the doorway into the magic theatre and then you get beyond the magic theatre. You may get to the clear white light; all the way to samadhi . You go just as far as you can give up to go. Some people take this method and they say, "Wow, dig the colors and lights". Some say, " Boy, I feel so close to other people interpersonally." Some say, "Wow, you and I are one". Some say, "Wow, there isn't even a you and an I. It's just energy." Some say, "It's all and everything and nothing. It's the void" and they're beyond words. You go just as far as you're ready to go. Those are all stages of the path. They are also known as the physical, astral and causal planes; same thing; see how it works. How high did you get in the last trip? How high? Well, I went into another level of the astral plane. Right? And you can get pretty good at chronicling the whole thing where you understand how the chronicle works, how the pattern is designed, how the system is designed.
You went through the door but you get thrown out. At least I got thrown out. Maybe you didn't get thrown out. If you didn't get thrown out, you are a realized being and if you are a realized being, you're not here so everybody here has least been thrown out or never got in. Here we are: outcasts. We've all been rejected. We all came to the wedding feast and we weren't wearing the wedding garment and we got bound hand and foot and cast out into outer darkness and here we are. This is a meeting of outer darkness and there was much crying and gnashing of teeth; that's what he said. It's all on the level. It's telling you straight. He's telling you just how it is; that's what's so far out about it. It's absolutely so far out.
Transcribed by Jessie Senibaldi