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"Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding."
~Betty White~
What does it mean to be a feminist? What does it mean to be equal? What does it mean to be genuine? How do we fight for equal rights? How do we view ourselves as women in a world that at times seems completely against us?
Men: How do you fight for your ladies and pursue alongside equal rights. Human rights?
What does it really mean to be a feminist?
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I enabled my wife and daughters to get into careers, which seems to be working out for them. I'll always wish I could have done more, because I think civilization would be a lot better off with more women in charge. And better off with more women than men. Most people seem to think that our top heavy patriarchy is a cultural problem, and I agree. But I think it's largely caused by excess testosterone.
Nobody's fault. Nature didn't predict or compensate for gender power shifts enabled by newly (and artificially) evolving social structures. Testosterone won out because aggression actually paid off, albeit only at first. Now we're stuck with too much aggression, and on a global scale.
But don't let me take this off topic. I'd like to see some conventional ideas here, too.
That's a very interesting point of view--that testosterone fueled aggression is a selected trait that no longer helps the species due to cultural advancement. I wonder if later humans would be less aggressive and more cooperative?
On an unrelated note, I like to share that women's testosterone and androgen increase during menstruation if a man (or a woman, if she's being overtly sexist) asks me if it's that time of the month. Kinda blows the sexism right up in front of their faces.
IMHO, being a feminist simply means standing for gender equality. There are a lot of ways to do that...some good and some bad.
I think to "be equal" means to have the same civil and human rights, as well as equal access to opportunities.
I don't really "fight" for equal rights as much as I stick up for what's right. I hope to get people to think differently. There are a number of ways to change things and some people find themselves more given to activism.
I struggle to view myself as a woman. I think of myself as a human, as a person. I don't think that's healthy or right, but I'm trying to work through it. Ideally, I could identify with my gender without sacrificing a feeling of personhood. I read a great book about this, Female Chauvinist Pigs, which really highlights this problem among my generation.
I believe in affirmative action, so I'll give women and (beleaguered minorities) more support, when I can, e.g. when considering who to hire.
There's probably a better phrase than affirmative action? What I'm describing can take place at a more personal, understated level, to compensate for the prejudice that has historically existed (and still exists) at personal and institutional levels (even if only subconsciously). Affirmative Opportunity?
Maybe "Empowerment" is the word?
Being a feminist just means that you believe the sexes should be equal.
If you want to destroy the patriarchy, you have to start from within. You have to remove the gender bias in your own brain as much as you can first. Some of that is in language - saying "police officer" instead of "policeman," for example. But it's much more than that. You have to recognize yourself that it's okay for men and women to express their gender in any way they want to. Being a man doesn't have to mean that you like sports and being a woman doesn't have to mean that you like shopping. It's okay if in a married relationship, the husband cooks and stays at home with the kids and the wife works.
I also get involved in pro-choice protesting. It really bothers me that women going in to get an abortion have to take so much crap from the right in an already impossible situation. The supposedly "pro-life" position is definitely anti-woman. Some pro-lifers would even prefer for a woman not to get an abortion if it means she will die without one! They're not respecting life. They're just trying to control women.
Ughhh I hate having to join groups just to answer a thread
Modern day feminists means not striving for equality, but rather a female dominated society. Feminists in the past used to strive for actual equality. But the modern day ones are all about how they can make men suffer. Their vision is to live in a society where for every 1 dollar a woman makes, the man should make 0.60 cents. So they can give men a taste of their own medicine and call it payback .
As a male I strive for true equal rights. If a man makes $1 doing a job, then the woman should make $1 for the same exact job. But if you can't do the job because of physical limitations, don't try to push for it and change the system.
Have you ever been on tumblr? These feminazis are batshit crazy. One was talking about how they should put all men in castration camps (sounds familiar) ?
458,375 feminists hate this page.
Hey no problem.
I am not entirely sure how the culture has changed, but I believe once females started to get more and more equal in society, they still saw limitations to their equality, which still exists today. So I believe there was naturally a need for more of an aggressive approach to battling sexism. In those circumstances gave rise to a much more extremist front of the feminist party which we see now a lot of.
I speak from my own experience in dealing with feminists. The ones I come up across have always seem very dissatisfied with just equality. It's like they want more even if it means sexism against men, which undoubtedly goes against the very philosophy, the feminist movement once started with. From what it sounded like to me, they seemed to be quite brainwashed into thinking, that the problems they face regarding inequality, are only the fault of men and until they get rid of this barrier (men), they will not achieve full equality.
It's not accurate to describe feminists as a whole as being interested in making men suffer. These are not mainstream feminist values and I know of no feminist organization that promotes them. Critical analysis of gender theory reveals that men are also harmed by limited gender roles and an understanding of patriarchy is incomplete without considering how men are also subject to its heirarchy-men of color, religious minorities, effeminate men, and gbt men, for example. Many feminists are also concerned with the well-being of other oppressed groups, including men. Revenge fantasies of turning the tables of subjugation are undoubtedly expressed by some 'feminists' who do hate the system so much, who may hate men even. But most versions of feminism (various waves of feminism, womanism, etc.) are interested in gender equality, not anti-male sexism. The idea that women can or should benefit from men's loss is a concern by those who believe we live in a zero-sum world. Instead, I believe that women's gains will be men's gains too.
You got to do your part too.
I tr to help by treating women exactly like I'd treat another guy, and it usually pisses them off because most women honestly do expect special treatment.
On rare occasions I also engage girls/women in talks and try to teach them about their potential, if I think there's still hope. The other day I was talking to the younger sister of someone, 14-ish who told me she wants to study law but doesn't want to get married too late. Apparently people told her that law is too hard and she'd have to wait to marry. Needles to say I had to fix that grotesque bullshit and tell her she doesn't have to marry at all and whoever told her that was a cocksucker.
I also argue with stupid girls where ever I find them. Like one of my old friends told me if her boyfriend asked her to, she'd probably even veil herself. Idiot.


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Ian Moulding wrote:Those of you who didn't sign my shirt will be converted into puppy chow when my Legions of Hate take over the world and I am proclaimed Emperor Over All.
faub wrote:I had the shirts on cardboard shirt forms so people tended to sign the fronts and not turn the shirts over.
Just a warning to those with dark shirts. The silver sharpie doesn't hold well in the wash. It fades and will probably go away after a half dozen washes. Ladydarke has put her cami through the wash at least twice and already the signatures are difficult to read.
The black sharpie on white will last forever. Mine hasn't dulled in the slightest and it's been through the wash several times.
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Conference Procedure: A Very Short History
A conference interpreter has to be familiar with parliamentary procedure. But where did the rules and their attendant rituals come from?
I realised that my interest in conference procedure was unusual when I saw that I was the first person to borrow two books on the subject – and the second to borrow two other volumes. The books in question were published in 1929, 1933, 1943 and 2006. Now Cambridge University Library may not have lots of users with my déformation professionelle but I feel it is time to move on from this particular set of concerns. Before going, however, here is a short account of my findings.
It is easy enough to develop an interest in the language of meetings from the vantage point of a booth: many interpreters have witnessed the problems caused by incompetent chairing, the time wasted by a poor understanding of how to consider amendments or the power enjoyed by any delegate who has mastered an organisation's rules of procedure before taking their seat at a conference. Observing such things got me wondering where those rules and their attendant rituals came from. Why are conferences organised the way they are?
Clearly there have been meetings – and interpreters – for as long as we have had language. Formal meetings involving official representatives have a shorter history. Some scholars go back to the ancient Greek city states or to the 325 Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, but there does seem to be agreement on the significance of the 1648 Congress of Westphalia, which was the first conference to serve as an instrument of world affairs.[1] The next key event was the Congress of Vienna of 1815, convened after the fall of Napoleon:
For the first time there appeared a widespread conviction that [international] relations might be concerned with something other than the separate interests of monarchs, necessarily opposed to each other, and that they might be conducted on a collective rather than an individualistic basis. [2]
The Great Powers met in conference in the course of the nineteenth century whenever the territorial agreements reached in Vienna were threatened. These meetings were generally chaired by the host country's minister of foreign affairs and did not require rules of procedure.
Progressive accounts of international organisations hold that there were two historical trends that led to the rise in the number of international meetings: the rising number of independent states with representative governments along with industrialisation and growing trade. The nineteenth century saw the more and more international and regional conferences as well as the development public international unions like the Universal Postal Union (1874). Such organisations set regulations for international transport and communication that were important to the industrialised world.
Frederick Sherwood Dunn, writing in 1929, when there was still some hope that the League of Nations would forestall conflict between nations, makes a clear distinction between political conferences where states pursued their own interests by having their negotiators defend their positions and non-political conferences where the general public has a stake in the practical regulation of a given set of activities.[3] Non-political conferences were more like legislative bodies with a specific set of objectives that made it easier to agree on permanent bodies, periodic meetings and rules of procedure.
Dunn dwells on the example of the 1874 Berne Conference establishing the Universal Postal Union where rules of procedure were presented and adopted, non-sovereign states could be represented, there was no requirement that decisions be taken unanimously and the General Committee formed to consider specific issues and report back to the conference was kept small enough to get its work done.[4] It is probably true today that meetings with technical agendas can proceed more smoothly than those where politically sensitive questions have to be tackled; it is interesting that the very organisation of the work of a conference proved easier in a meeting about international postal administration than in those tackling contentious issues like the laws of war or international conflicts.
That said, parliamentary procedure had clear influence on both types of conference. Government representatives at international meetings resorted to the approach taken in their home institutions, which is how we have expressions like 'giving the floor', 'calling a speaker to order' and the like. Government procedure informed allied initiatives during World War I when the need to coordinate activities led to regular meetings of heads of state and government and, in November 1917 to the establishment of the Supreme War Council to coordinate allied military strategy. Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the British Cabinet with experience of the Committee of Imperial Defence, had developed that body's practice of recording not just decisions, but also the discussions preceding such decisions: précis-writing. He introduced that practice to the Allies' meetings, where English was placed on an equal footing with French, the recognised language of diplomacy at the time. The allied war-time organisation informed the approach taken to the peace talks held in Versailles in 1919.
The founders of the League of Nations – one of the achievements of the Treaty of Versailles – referred to parliamentary procedure in developing the organisation's detailed rules of procedure. "The rules would appear to have been influenced primarily by British parliamentary procedure, but certainly not exclusively so."[5] Those rules have had a lasting influence: accounts of conferences and procedure from the inter-war period have an uncanny familiarity. Robbie Sobel maintains that the 1945 provisional rules of procedure of the UN General Assembly were based on those of the League of Nations.[6] Dunn's 1929 account of the role of a conference president, record-keeping practices and expected results – treaties, declarations or final acts – holds no surprises. He does describe some technical change in his explanation of how stenography and rapid printing speeded up record-keeping; there have been further developments in that respect but not radical departures from the conference norm.
William O'Davoren, writing in 1943, describes preparatory work for conferences, their material arrangements and administrative services in terms that are also recognisable. In fact the only area where he has been overtaken by events is interpretation. He enthuses about the 'modern miracle' of the new 'system of simultaneous telephonic interpretation' which worked well for 'orderly discussions' but was clearly more familiar with consecutive interpreting and chuchotage. His understanding of the work done by interpreters is recognisable, as is his accent on the need for training and preparation. I was amused when I saw his conclusion to the use of simultaneous interpreting:
In order to facilitate the tasks of the interpreters, delegates who intend to speak from a written text should be requested to hand it to the head interpreter an hour or two in advance. [7]
These early writers on international conferences had a remarkable sense of what was possible with commitment and organisation. It is interesting to think about what they would make of today's world of international organisations and meetings which I suspect would be both very familiar and bewilderingly complex.
[1] Hill, N.L. 1929. The Public International Conference, Its Organization and Procedure. Stanford University Press. p. 2
[2] Dunn, F.S. 1929. The Practice and Procedure of International Conferences. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore. p.64.
[3] ibid. p. 144.
[4] ibid. p. 151.
[5] Sobel, R. 2006. Procedure at International Conferences: A Study of the rules of procedure at the UN and at Inter-governmental conferences. Cambridge University Press. pp.9-10
[6] ibid. p.10-11.
[7] O'Davoren, W. 1943. Post-War Reconstruction Conferences: The technical organisation of international conferences. Published in the UK for the Geneva School of Interpreters. P S King & Staples ltd. pp.51-55.
Articles published in this section reflect the views of the author(s) and should not be taken to represent the official position of AIIC.


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Choreography by: Peter Martins
Music by: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Grounded by Rachmaninoff's colorful melodies, Symphonic Dances alternates between powerful ensemble sections and wistful pas de deux for its lead couple.
Symphonic Dances is a large work for a principal couple, four soloist couples, and a corps of 16. Rachmaninoff's lush, complex, and turbulent score provides an opportunity for buoyant ensemble dances set in contrast to two expressive pas de deux for a principal couple that give this work its emotional resonance. The costumes were designed by Santo Loquasto, and the lighting designer was Mark Stanley.


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I'm for term limits, but my wife, Melissa, is really for them. One six-year term for everybody, and then they should return to real life, she says. To illustrate, she recently asked this: What if jurors were elected?
I'm for term limits, but my wife, Melissa, is really for them. One six-year term for everybody, and then they should return to real life, she says. To illustrate, she recently asked this: What if jurors were elected?
Let's explore that. With juries, legal amateurs temporarily are entrusted with life and death decisions because, when it comes to justice, experience is less important than integrity, and integrity is a tough thing to hold onto when a person has a stake in an outcome. Juries sometimes decide badly — even terribly, historically — but they serve as an important check and balance on judges and prosecutors.
So, what if jurors were elected, and then re-elected again and again? Would factions develop and votes be traded? Would jury candidates promise to be tough on crime, or to support workers against big business, or vice versa?
No, we don't want professional jurors. We want them to serve briefly with integrity and then return to real life. In other words, we want their terms to be limited.
Moving from the hypothetical to the electoral, Arkansas legislators this past session referred to voters a constitutional amendment that would, take a deep breath, prohibit corporate contributions to candidates, prohibit legislators and constitutional officers from accepting gifts from lobbyists, lengthen from one year to two the time ex-legislators must wait to become lobbyists, and create a commission for setting elected officials' salaries.
It also modifies Arkansas' term limits law, and that's where it's running into problems.
Under current law, House members serve no more than three two-year terms, while senators serve two four-year terms. That's 14 years total, with another two years possible for some senators because districts are redrawn after every 10-year census.
The proposed ethics amendment would change the law so a lawmaker can spend a total of 16 years in office, divided however he or she can get elected. Sixteen years could be spent in one chamber.
There are legitimate arguments for passage. Some legislators say current term limits are too restrictive and that by the time they know their way around the House or Senate, it's time to leave. Arkansas needs veterans in each chamber with institutional memory, for example, of when the state spent years in court over school finances. As the author George Santayana wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
On the other hand, 16 years in one chamber — that's the kind of entrenchment voters sought to end when 60 percent voted for term limits in 1992. If legislators have too much time to learn to work the system, then pretty soon, some will work the system to their advantage. On the plus side, the Legislature needs a constant remixing of fresh ideas and new energy.
True, voters could vote out a bad legislator during those 16 years, but we all know how things work in real life. A legislator gains seniority, wins friends, and builds up a campaign war chest. Potential opponents calculate the odds and decide against running.
It's noteworthy that no one is talking seriously about repealing term limits entirely. In 2004, voters were asked merely to extend the terms. More than 70 percent said no.
The term limits provision probably will sink the measure. A March poll by Talk Business and Hendrix College found that 69 percent of Arkansans would support a hypothetical proposal that contained some of the ethics-related measures that will be on the ballot, minus the term limits. But when a poll in October described the entire initiative with the term limits, support fell to 32 percent.
Some parts of the proposal would have broad support, such as those seeming to create a more ethical lobbying environment.
Will those provisions overcome the measure's term limits problem? Voters next November will serve as judge and jury over that.
Steve Brawner is an independent journalist in Arkansas. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @stevebrawner.


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Most of the time in the first chapters of a random book about rasterization and rendering techniques, I find some phrases about a triangle-based rendering system and a quad-based one.
I have never encountered a quad-based GPU or pipeline. Do I have to worry about that when dealing with OpenGL 3.0+, or is it just legacy stuff?


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Here at Aperture our scientist work tirelessly to bring the latest innovations in smartphone technology to your devices. Starting mid of last year Aperture Laboratories has expanded its research and development to this exciting new technology sector and through the expertise of our scientists we were able to deliver significant key innovations revolutionizing the entire field of human-smartphone interaction.
Since our GLaDOS kernel was deployed last year, we have registered a significant decline of smartphone related accidents reducing the mortality rate among smartphone users to a historic low. However since safety of our products is always a major concern for us at Aperture, we did not stop there. Scientific tests subjecting a sample group of smartphone users to a wide range of high-risk situations has shown that a statistical overwhelming number of terminal accidents are related either to corrosive acid, lasers and various kinds of bullets or caused by human errors in interaction with the GLaDOS kernel.
To avoid these kernel related potentially lethal human errors our science team developed the GLaDOS Control application. Extensive tests have shown that with this application even a well-trained chimp will be able to safely interact with our GLaDOS kernel.
Currently features interfaces for:
* Battery Life eXtender (BLX)
* Touchwake
* Min/max MPU frequency
* Live OC (overclock MPU, core/bus/RAM and GPU)
* Custom Voltage (MPU, IVA, core and regulator voltages)
* Color Control (color multipliers, V1 gamma offsets and gamma value)
* Checking for a kernel update
* Showing the changelog
* Downloading a kernel update and updating the kernel
* Installing/deleting a previously downloaded kernel
* Sound Control (high performance audio mode and headset volume boost)
* USB Fast Charge
* On-screen help explaining the effect of each tweak/setting (tap-and-hold)
* Warning dialogs for settings that can cause trouble
* Load/save/delete settings
* Showing the current CPU temperature
* Temp Control
* Vibrator Control
* FSync Control
* Individually select which settings are automatically set on boot (tap-and-hold)
* CPUfreq governor and governor parameters
* I/O scheduler
* Daily educational tips with suggestions and recommendations
* WiFi low latency power mode
* Enabling/disabling SmartReflex voltage calibration (MPU, core and IVA voltages)
* Lock/unlock the bootloader (without the forced data wipe)
* Show calibrated SmartReflex voltage values (for MPU, core and IVA)
* Change TCP congestion scheduler
Upcoming features:
* more
Some custom ROMs come with a broken version of su and/or busybox. If you experience any problems with the app, before reporting the issue first try to fix it by installing Stericson's busybox (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox) and SuperSU (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.supersu) and then updating the su binary in the SuperSU app.
Tap-and-hold a setting for showing the on-screen help dialog which also has an option for marking this setting to be automatically loaded on boot.
Get the kernel, additional information about the kernel tweaks and support at RootzWiki/XDA!
Galaxy Nexus:
GSM: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14685-19-feb-glados-v115/
LTE: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14703-19-feb-glados-v115/
Nexus 7:
You can also get this app on Android Pit which accepts Paypal and other payment options: http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/aperture.ezekeel.gladoscontrol/GLaDOS-Control
*** This application is ONLY for the Galaxy Nexus (GSM, Verizon and Sprint) and Nexus 7 (WiFi, GSM) devices and you will need root access. ***
|Requiere Android:
|4.0 y versiones superiores
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All those Americans who were worried that the NSA could be abusing its alarmingly wide discretion to collect telephone data to track their locations can now rest easy. The Wall Street Journal reports that, while NSA officials are legally allowed to use data "that can pinpoint the location of callers," they choose not to.
Because of concerns about intruding on Americans civil liberties? Nah. Mainly because "the data doesn't provide sufficient intelligence value to justify the resources that would be required to use it."…
As Locke labored to point out, much of the task of governance is ultimately a matter of prudence. But saying, 'Trust us, we're good guys" is not a particularly reassuring defense — especially from this administration.
Why did you wait to release the documents if you said you wanted to tell the world about the NSA programs since before Obama became president?
Obama's campaign promises and election gave me faith that he would lead us toward fixing the problems he outlined in his quest for votes. Many Americans felt similarly. Unfortunately, shortly after assuming power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge…
This disclosure provides Obama an opportunity to appeal for a return to sanity, constitutional policy, and the rule of law rather than men. He still has plenty of time to go down in history as the President who looked into the abyss and stepped back, rather than leaping forward into it. I would advise he personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous "State Secrets" privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing. There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency.
Charlie Rose: But there is a balance here.
Barack Obama: But there is a balance, so I'm going to get to your — get to your question. The way I view it, my job is both to protect the American people and to protect the American way of life, which includes our privacy. And so every program that we engage in, what I've said is "Let's examine and make sure that we're making the right tradeoffs." Now, with respect to the NSA, a government agency that has been in the intelligence gathering business for a very long time —…
Barack Obama: It is transparent. That's why we set up the FISA court…. The whole point of my concern, before I was president — because some people say, "Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before. Now he's, you know, Dick Cheney." Dick Cheney sometimes says, "Yeah, you know? He took it all lock, stock, and barrel." My concern has always been not that we shouldn't do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances? So, on this telephone program, you've got a federal court with independent federal judges overseeing the entire program. And you've got Congress overseeing the program, not just the intelligence committee and not just the judiciary committee — but all of Congress had available to it before the last reauthorization exactly how this program works.
Now, one last point I want to make, because what you'll hear is people say, "Okay, we have no evidence that it has been abused so far." And they say, "Let's even grant that Obama's not abusing it, that all these processes — DOJ is examining it. It's being renewed periodically, et cetera — the very fact that there is all this data in bulk, it has the enormous potential for abuse," because they'll say, you know, "You can — when you start looking at metadata, even if you don't know the names, you can match it up, if there's a call to an oncologist, and there's a call to a lawyer, and — you can pair that up and figure out maybe this person's dying, and they're writing their will, and you can yield all this information." All of that is true. Except for the fact that for the government, under the program right now, to do that, it would be illegal.
The three-page document regarding the NSA programs was released to congressional intelligence committees and states the plots were thwarted in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries. The data is destroyed every five years, according to the document.
The officials also said the NSA checked just 300 phone numbers last year against its database of millions of U.S. phone records gathered daily, an attempt to argue the surveillance programs are less sweeping than alleged.
They also said they are working to declassify information on the dozens of plots NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander said were disrupted, to show Americans the value of the programs, but said they want to make sure they don't inadvertently reveal parts of the U.S. counterterrorism playbook in the process.
Asked whether Obama feels he has violated the privacy of Americans, McDonough said, "He does not."…
McDonough said Congress authorized the programs as a way to thwart plots against Americans and that lawmakers should stay up to date on how they are run. The administration has said the program collected only "metadata" – raw information that does not identify individual telephone subscribers and did not monitor calls.
"The president is not saying 'trust me.' The president is saying I want every member of Congress, on whose authority we are running this program, to understand it, to be briefed about it, and to be comfortable with it," he said.
When first asked about the program by a reporter June 7, Obama said he trusts in the oversight system in place, and gave assurances that the system involves all three branches of government. "In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok," he said, "but when you actually look at the details, then I think we've struck the right balance."
But the ordinary citizen can't look at the details.
In the same answer, the president said, "I welcome this debate. And I think it's healthy for our democracy."
But we wouldn't be having this debate if everyone followed the law and there was no leak.
As much as the conspiratorial left and right would like to believe that big super-secret bureaucracies like the NSA are easily capable of violating our constitutional rights, the truth is surely the other way round: Civil liberties are much more likely to be in danger when smaller organizations—the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the CIA, or the Secret Service—with specific, highly selective targeting requirements, abuse their surveillance authority or, in the case of Langley with its drones, their war-related authority. And it's doubtful that the national-security institutions since 9/11 have engaged in practices that fundamentally challenge anyone's constitutional rights—the possible big exceptions would be the FBI's counterterrorist practices against militant Muslim Americans that have occasionally tiptoed close to entrapment and the bureau's extensive use of national-security letters that can allow curious minds to wander freely through the personal lives of targeted individuals. If the government sensibly gives the Secret Service the capacity to intercept cellular telephone calls as a means to protect preemptively American VIPs, its officers may well monitor the salacious conversations of Washington celebrities or sexually adventurous co-eds at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Adults are always required to ensure that such practices don't become anything more than bad-boy behavior. All organizations run amok unless adults are present.
The huge high-tech intelligence bureaucracies, like smaller outfits such as the operations and technology directorates within the CIA, are extremely difficult for senior government officials to manipulate and abuse because of the many overlapping and checking authorities in these institutions. Unlike the IRS, intelligence agencies are not designed to interact with the citizenry, nor do they have or want prosecutorial power. The intelligence agencies grow uneasy, sometimes even too cautious, when foreign threats develop a domestic dimension…
This is the better question provoked by Snowden's paranoia: How much money has Congress spent on these data-collection projects? We are told, both by administration officials and by congressmen, that the NSA's PRISM project, marrying Ft. Meade with Silicon Valley, has stopped numerous terrorist attacks. Perhaps. But it would behoove us all to question that assertion.
Worst of all, the cult of the whistleblower reveals the mainstreaming of conspiratorial thinking, of the belief that dark forces rule over a weak and emaciated public that is kept in blissful ignorance. The crossover between respectable worshippers of whistleblowers and irrational purveyors of crank theories is great. So Alex Jones, infamous conspiracy theorist, is naturally a massive fan of Snowden. Today's Guardian has a list of 'brave whistleblowers', which includes Annie Machon, formerly of MI5 and now a notorious '9/11 Truther'. That former icon Assange has written cranky essays with titles like 'Conspiracy as Governance'. Meanwhile, a top Guardian columnist says the Snowden revelations 'seem to confirm all the old bug-eyed conspiracy theories about governments and corporations colluding to enslave the rest of us'.
That's the real impact of the cult of the whistleblower – the further promotion, among polite society as well as impolite, of the idea that evil networks control the unenlightened horde. It isn't true. Yes, there are numerous attacks on our civil liberties today, but you know what? We are more than capable of seeing who is carrying them out, and of doing something about them, without needing a secular icon of 'truth' to hold our hands or massage our allegedly tiny minds.
If this poll is part of a trend, Obama still may be able to recover. But he would need to take immediate steps to show accountability, transparency, and credibility.
No more slow-walking the truth as the White House did with the cause of the Benghazi attacks and with the names of West Wing officials notified about IRS targeting.
No more lies, such as the IRS claiming for months that the targeting did not take place, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denying the existence of the NSA programs weeks before they were revealed.
No more doublespeak such as the president earnestly claiming, "Your duly elected representatives have consistently been informed" of the NSA programs. He knew that wasn't quite true, or should have known…
There is no time to waste. Obama already has earned the ignominious distinction of running against Bush's surveillance programs, then adapting it as president, and expanding it. Does he also want to repeat his predecessor's credibility crisis?
He explained, "I once asked a collective group, the big nine [congressional leaders], in the spring of '04, in the briefing when we first briefed them and said, 'Do you think we ought to continue the program,' and they said absolutely yes. I said, 'Do you think we ought to go back to Congress to get additional authorization,' and they said absolutely not. It'll leak."


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A retired history professor recommended that I read a book that came out 80 years ago that predicts, in some ways, our current situation. Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here" is the ironically titled novel that describes how a fascist regime comes to power in America. The demagogic candidate, "Buzz" Windrip, captures the nomination of the Democratic Party by advancing a platform that combines promises of economic advancement--with a cash bonus for every family--with nationalistic fervor and denigration of Jews and blacks. He organizes a private army (like the Gestapo), but calls them "marching clubs" and gives them a patriotic name, the Minute Men. After his election, he immobilizes the other branches of government, mercilessly crushes the opposition and establishes a totalitarian dictatorship. These events are seen through the eyes of Doremus Jessup, a small town Vermont newspaper editor, who is transformed from a critic of the regime to rebel leader.
As a work of literature, it is certainly flawed. Characters are, at best, symbolic, and at worst, cartoonish. Doremus and other characters are often vehicles for the author's speeches, rather than realistic dialogue. And the book is seriously dated, especially compared to more artful works of this genre, such as George Orwell's "1984."
But those of us who observe and are deeply concerned about the current Presidential campaign and one candidate in particular can only admire Sinclair Lewis for his prescience. Here's one passage, for example, that depicts a fictional 1936 Democratic Party convention, where Windrip triumphs over two other candidates, Franklin Roosevelt and Frances Perkins:
"....Every delegate knew that Mr. Roosevelt and Miss Perkins were far too lacking in circus tinsel and general clownishness to succeed at this critical hour of the nation's hysteria, when the electorate wanted a ringmaster-revolutionist like Senator Windrip."
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We're not going to get any form of totalitarianism out of this election or ever. What we will get if the Republicans come to full power will be quite bad enough short of that. As for Steve's suggestion of a left-wing alternative way to arrive at a situation which nobody wants, I assume his response is facetious, even though it does bring up various Libertarian or "pure market" You-Tube suggestions, including some involving his favorite economist Hayek.
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"Mon travail est basé sur le corps, les mouvements, la vie," says haute couture designer Adeline André, which, translated, means "My work is based on the body, movements, life." In 1997, André, who studied with Salvador Dali and trained alongside Marc Bohan at the House of Christian Dior, became one of the 10 official members of Paris' prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture and since 1981, the year she opened her own atelier, she has consistently presented outstandingly inventive, modern and marvelously minimalist collections, which have redefined the notion of what couture means. We first became aware of André's Excellent aesthetic in the '80s while living in Paris, following an introduction by our great friend, the artist Valentin Durathon. Here, The EP catches up with her yet again to discuss, bilingually, her chic technique. To read the full interview, please click HERE. (Downloadable PDF)
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Coaching experience. Jennifer was the head coach of the Arlington Travel Girls' 11U-D2 team in 2007-2008 and is back for her second year of coaching for Arlington Travel. Jennifer coached 11 year-old basketball throughout her four years in college.
Coach Rackliff will be the assistant coach for the 13U Green team for the 2009 Matrix season with head coach Patrick Connole, with whom she coached the 2008 AAU season with the 11U Black team.
Coaching Philosphy. I believe that you play in games how you practice. I believe the key to success is a strong, solid defense. We will spend a fair amount of time on conditioning, defensive skill building, and strength training. Beyond that, we will be focusing on building individual skills as well as developing team-play skills. Practice will be challenging and fun and we will learn to play smart, aggressive basketball. I expect every teammate to give 100% and everyone to have a positive attitude.
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the pdl screener i stole.
My Criterion Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, I had to spend a bit of time finding this little guy here in the UK, I think its probably the best quality sound and picture of any DVD I own.
If you're at a party and meet a nice and cute girl who's into Godard, you can just casually say "well, just follow me home and I can show you my huge Godard-collection", without being worried that she will be disappointed. The big Godard-collection always makes up for the small dick.
I ended up hating all my dvds i had as a teen cause I rinsed them all.
I live near two great cinemas that show classics constantly
also if you're impressing girls by things you own, your personality is weak.
Wait, wait... There are girls that are into Godard? What kinda parties are you going to? I need to get me one of those.


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Not really...these questions are actually insulting my intelligence. Wonder how others feel about them?
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Have you ever gone to the phone to call a friend, only to have the phone ring first and find your friend on the other end of the line? What are the odds of that? Not high, and your patternicity intuition probably signaled to you that there was something special about this event. Was there? Probably not. Here is why: the sum of all probabilities equals one. Given enough opportunities, outlier anomalies will inevitably happen. The question is not: What is the probability that a friend…Continue
Dear PaleoAnthroEvo, I'm the inactive Professors of Memology group with you.
Please note my blog, "Poo Fools (us all)," is a defense of memetics. I'd be happy to have your input, or even a "like", from a fellow memetics enthusiast.
Thanks for your attention.
hi PEÄ - i'd love to read more - i find it so perplexing how this evolutionary line developed.
so send to: firstname.lastname@example.com
and thanks so much for the info. . .
hope you are having a great time during festival of lights/solstice time, alexa :]
hi PEÄ - [pronounced pay'-ah - writing out your whole handle looked silly to me and just pea as in the veg was ridiculous, so i made this up instead :]
i really don't understand the link between felines and the hyena. how did they figure this out? with or without DNA? through fossil data? bone structure? it's not apparent. . . and it does not say anything in the wikipedia article, which i'd already read. i can't find anything on-line - maybe not using the right search words. is there any way to find out? thanks so much - you are a font of knowledge :]
I didn't think what you were saying was that hard to understand, but apparently it was for some ;)
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A judge on Friday granted Jeff Goldblum a temporary restraining order against a woman who has been repeatedly ordered to stay away from the actor in recent years.
Goldblum's attorneys obtained the order against Linda Ransom, 49, after she repeatedly went to the actor's home three times this month. A previous stay-away order against Ransom from 2007 has expired and police claim she has told them that she will not stop trying to meet Goldblum unless a restraining order is in place.
The filings state Ransom has been arrested three times for violating previous restraining orders. Goldblum first alerted authorities to her in 2001 after she attended one of his acting classes and then started waiting outside his home.
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"Over the past decade, I have experienced substantial emotional distress due to Ms. Ransom's continuous stalking, harassing, and threatening behavior," Goldblum wrote in a sworn court declaration.
Ransom did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.
A judge will consider whether to grant Goldblum, who has starred in films as "The Fly," ''Jurassic Park" and "Independence Day," a three-year restraining order during a hearing on June 12.


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I'm using VS 2008. I have SP1 and I'm using .NET 3.5.
I just started creating a new web project. I went to add calendar extender to a text box but noticed that little button with '>' was missing so I couldn't get to the add extender option. I then noticed the AJAX Control Toolkit tab was missing from the toolbox. I then manually added the AJAX Control Toolkit tab back and added the control back into the tab. After that I got the '>' button back and was able to add the calendar extender. However, it's not working right. When the calendar pops up it's about 1/2 below the text box instead of right underneath. Worse yet, if I open up the calendar control a second time the controls and stuff in it are all messed up and rearranged. Also, the content of the table cell the stuff is in disappears while the calendar is displayed.
I loaded up a previous project and everything seems to be working there. So this must be with new projects.
Here's the markup from the new projects.
There's no code for the project. Can someone help me figure out what's going on?Code:<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="AstraCalendar._Default" %> <%@ Register assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" tagprefix="asp" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">   <title></title>   <form id="form1" runat="server"> <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server"> </asp:ScriptManager>

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Q: My farmers market is pretty expensive. What's the benefit to paying so much more for organic fruit and vegetables?
A: I balked at paying $6 for a dozen eggs at my neighborhood farmers market, but didn't blink an eye when shelling out top dollar for a pair of designer shoes. My lovely peep-toe pumps ended up tattered and shredded by my precocious pup, but those eggs! I treasured each and every one of them, planning my recipes carefully so that each went to good use. No scrambled eggs for my wayward pooch that week!
It's unfortunate that we hesitate to pay top dollar for the food that keeps us healthy, while freely shelling out cash for other items. But the tide is turning, thanks to dedicated, independent farmers like Margaret Liebman, 22, owner of South Paw Farm in of Unity, Maine. She's part of a new generation of farmers who embrace organic practices and welcome the opportunity to educate customers about the value of their produce.
Liebman grows everything from celeriac to winter squash and sells it at local markets and through community supported agriculture (CSA). The money she earns goes back into paying the bills and reinvesting in the land.
"Food at the farmers market — whether you are talking about dollars or not — is higher in value. We harvest the day before, everything is so fresh," she said. "The price is a very authentic price because it is the real value of the food."
As Liebman said, the real value of produce goes far beyond economics. A French study on the quality and safety of organic food found that organic produce may contain higher amounts of iron and magnesium, as well as polyphenols, which have powerful antioxidant properties.
"Other than the nutritional aspects, it may be necessary to consider the 'costs' excluded from market value," said Jessica Avasthi, community health dietitian for Project Open Hand in Atlanta. "These costs can include a number of things, including the dependence on pesticides and insecticides, the environmental impacts of nitrogen-based fertilizers as well as the treatment of laborers on farms. In other words, there are health, environmental and social responsibilities to consider."
While it may not be possible — financially or logistically — to go 100 percent organic, Avasthi said we should learn more about the food we put into our bodies. Connect with local farmers and learn about local organic organizations through sites like Local Harvest, which also is available on Facebook and Twitter. Or consider buying a share in a CSA.
"Through these efforts, you'll learn what fits your idea of 'better' food for you and your family," she said.
Here are some tips to cut costs on farmers market produce:
You better shop around: Check out the Local Harvest website to find markets in your neighborhood, then do a little window shopping. Liebman said farmers collectively set prices for their goods, so vendor prices won't vary too much between booths. Since location is a factor, it pays to avoid markets that cater to a wealthier demographic.
Buy in bulk: Farmers are more likely to cut a deal if you buy a crate of apples vs. one or two.
Shop late: Shoppers who arrive around closing time can negotiate better deals with farmers who prefer to return home with full pockets and empty carts.
Forget looks: Ask the farmer for B-grade produce, Liebman said. That's a good way to get a deal. B-grade produce has minor dents or glitches, but these veggies still make great pies, side dishes or snacks.
Join a CSA: Buying a "share" of the farmers' produce reaps multiple dividends. "I have the most expenses in the spring, when I have the least money," said Liebman, who offers $100 shares and uses the money for seed, fertilizer and other supplies. "In exchange, our CSA members get a little more — 10 percent. We just pack a huge bag of produce every week for 10 weeks in the summer. That helps us out." Many CSAs also offer half shares; it's a good way to try new produce. Another benefit? Fresh food doesn't need to be doused with sour cream, cheese or panko breadcrumbs.
Urban Cannibals, a new bodega in my neighborhood, offers full and half shares of produce from Destiny Organics in Forest Park, Ga., so I decided to check out the CSA action. For $38, I got a box filled with three squash, two large heads of green leaf lettuce, three onions, a pint of heirloom grape tomatoes, three sweet potatoes, two ears of corn, a package of mushrooms and a generous bundle of flat leaf parsley, as well an e-mail with recipes. I'll have plenty of healthy salads this week, stretch my dog's food with the addition of roasted skin-on sweet potatoes and puree the squash for my baby nephew. When I run out of ideas, there's always Liebman's fail-safe approach to cooking veggies.
"The easiest recipe is to take a vegetable and add salt, pepper and curry powder. Lay flat on a pan, roast and stir," Liebman said. "It works for anything."
Got a question? Submit a question to Mother Nature and one of our many experts will track down the answer. Plus: Visit our advice archives to see if your question has already been tackled.
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I've translated Malcolm Kesson's Cellular Automata SL into a Houdini VOP RSL Network (no reason). You can find the original SL on his website: http://www.fundza.com/rman_shaders/cellular/index.html
Main difference is that Houdini VOPs don't support Arrays so I used multiple connections and 8 texture calls instead of a for loop. Let me know if there is some better way of querying neigbours.
Original shader cell size and count is dependant on micropolgyons and controlled by shading rate. I've set the shading rate to a very high value and the cell count is controlled by geometric subdivision instead. That meant I couldn't use random function for initialization so I replaced it with cellnoise shadeop.
OTL library contains digital assets:
cellular - Object type digital assetbake3d - shadeop for pointcloud bakingtexture3D - shadeop for pointcloud readingcellnoise - rendermans cellnoise functioncellular_automata - cellular.sl VOP node version. Just a direct implementation of the code. Not used for anything.
Cellular is Object Type Digital Asset that contains shaders, geometry and ROPs for 'out of the box' test.
Download OTL cellular.otlDownload ZIP cellularotl.zip
Have fun.
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photo: Romanesco broccoli
I started playing with fractal shaders and in particularity I wanted to reproduce romanesco broccoli in SL. At first it was just a simple experiment but after each obstacle I got more persistent so eventually I discovered the world of calculus.
I'm going to skip the theory part about phyllotaxis, Fibonacci etc and get straight to the shader math. Good site that explains it all is: http://www.math.smith.edu/phyllo/
Most of the math was found on Wolfram and WikiPedia pages
First off we need to convert our UVs from cartesian to polar coordinate system
r = sqrt( pow( x, 2 ) + pow( y, 2 ));
theta = atan( x, y) + PI;
// Note that PI offset has been added for polar translation
// equation to work (for secondary florets)
Next, Golden Angle for distribution pattern.
golden = PI*(3-sqrt(5));
To draw a secondary florets or a circle on polar coordinates we can use polar translation equations
r2 = sqrt(r*r-2*r*r0*cos( theta-th0 )+r0*r0);
r = sqrt( pow( x, 2 ) + pow( y, 2 ));
theta = atan( x, y) + PI;
// Note that PI offset has been added for polar translation
// equation to work (for secondary florets)
golden = PI*(3-sqrt(5));
r2 = sqrt(r*r-2*r*r0*cos( theta-th0 )+r0*r0);
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Another WebGL experiment with Three.js Real world sky dome lighting and shading: http://www.vill.ee/rig
Not really finished (nothing ever is) but working features so far are:
Physically Based Atmosphere shaderIrradiance bake (using three.js IcosahedronGeometry for sampling directions)Blurry reflectionsReal world sun positioning with Google MapsCloud cover from Google Maps Weather Layer...
And things I'm hoping to add
Google Maps WebGL buildings (possible?)Moon and accurate starsFog, Rain, Snow from Google WeatherCloud animation from Google Weather wind directionCloud lightingProper irradiance samplingSun directional light hack needs proper sampling tooUpload source code somewhere useful but currently can be sourced from vill.ee/rig/full.html
Bug in Three.js. When normal maps in use, cube reflection map coordinates are wrong. World normals are replaced with view normals and thats incorrect.Only works in Chrome for some reason
Libraries and source codes used:
Three.js, Atmosphere Shader, snoise, SunCalc, dat.gui, Google Maps, jQuery, Raphaël
Updated 05-07-2014 at 01:06 PM by Artur
Long time no see! I've been busy working on the next 10 Lego movies. But hey, here is my first shadertoy contribution.
Updated 09-07-2015 at 11:58 PM by Artur
My first attempt at WebGL using Three.js libraries. Check it: http://www.vill.ee/eye
Eye shader main features:
Texture raytracing to simulate cornea refractionsLoads of parameters to customize the eyeCornea vertex displacementNormal mapsReflectionsSimple image based 'lighting'
There is still some room for optimization in fragment shader. I feel like, I'm doing too many space transformations at the end. Also, I couldn't figure out how to access gl_ModelViewMatrixInverse in vertex shader so modelViewMatrix gets inverted in the vertex shader. Recalculating normals of displaced vertices is also questionable. I'm planning to add cat eye shape and caustics.
Environments from hdrlabs.com and zbyg.deviantart.com
Eye textures from milesresearch.com and Lukas Hajka
Images processed with Photoshop and Crazybump
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Place water, potato, onion, celery, bonito flakes, salt and marjoram in a medium pot. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium-low and simmer about 10 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Puree half the vegetables and liquid at a time in a blender. Add the puree back to the pot. Add the carrots, corn and green beans. Cover and simmer 5 to 7 minutes. Add the Edensoy, heat until hot but not boiling and serve.
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It must have stung Bulgarian goaltender Nikolay Mihailov when his Playmate model girlfriend dumped him for a notorious mob boss—but it probably stings even more when the mob boss decides to attack you with acid.
Mihailov was dating Nikoleta Lozanova—who it is surprisingly difficult to find a SFW photo of—but she traded up to local godfather Georgi "The Head" Stoilov. Mihailov moved on, finding his own new lady friend (also a Bulgarian Playmate! How convenient) that he compared very favorably to his old squeeze. That was a big mistake.
Mihailov allegedly joked to local media that if his new girlfriend was a Ferrari, Nikoleta must be a broken down Trabant from the old East Germany.
The next day, Mihailov woke to find that his Ferrari had suffered £17,000 worth of damage following an acid attack that had destroyed the car's paintwork.
Hmmm. That's probably just a coincidence, huh? (At least it was an actual Ferrari and not the new girlfriend that was covered in acid.) Mihailov, who is the son of Bulgaria's greatest soccer "legend", is now in hiding, presumably to avoid ending up like Harvey Dent.
Remember, kids, when a Bulgarian mob boss steals your girlfriend ... just let it go.
Liverpool's Nikolay Mihailov has run-in with mafia godfather over ex-girlfriend jibe [Telegraph]
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We had one cancellation on the Friday Paranormal bus tour. It�s up for grabs, first come basis.
Only 20 seats left on the Pre-Con bus tour to Michigan. We�ve filled the Radisson Pontiac and we�re getting additional rooms at another hotel nearby. Last chance to sign up this weekend. 10 haunts in two days starts at $249 per person.
Less than 40 seats left on the bus for the Friday night Haunt tour to the Scare-A-Torium; only $25. Includes welcome reception at the Costume Vault.
Our Friday night Scary-Oke show will be at the Hyatt Franklin Ballroom from 10 � 1. We�re not looking for idols; we whanna see some Freaks! Here�s your chance to perform on stage; costumes encouraged. Dick Terhune, the Voice from Hell will host our entertainers. Sign up with the DJ when you arrive.
Tradeshow admission is only $5 for the weekend. Over 100 exhibitors will be ready with cash & carry sales. Also last chance to place orders for the haunt season.
We look forward to greeting you at the 9th Annual Midwest Haunters Convention; June 8, 9 & 10 in Columbus, Ohio.
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One of the most rewarding parts of owning a home is that you can decorate your house according to your ideas and taste. You not only feel proud of your handiwork but get a feeling of satisfaction and sublime bliss when you look around and perceive what you have created. When you were young you would have your favorite pin-up poster of your pop star in your room and you grew up worshipping him/her.
Now that people are looking for Fashion Houses in Noida, they also want to design their place in a way that it reflects their feelings and how passionate they are for their hobbies. Similarly, you can be an obsessed music lover, a diehard jazz fan or a musician. Bring out your music paraphernalia and display it in some creative manner that reflects your musical tendency.
Create a Music Library- Store all your records and CD's on open shelves by installing them in a prominent corner and let this be your music corner. Display your collection proudly. Make it more interesting by adding a wooden ladder or a bar cart. [Read more…]


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Chapter 18 – Al Kahf (The Cave) – Verses 60 – 78
Continued from verses 47 – 59 …
These pictures are an excerpt from the book Teaching Kids The Holy Quran – Surah 18: The Cave.
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Welcome to our open, self-paced ESL study group. We can and hope to add networks to the group. This blog is the hub where you can find lessons, links to ESL learning resources, leave links to add to the network, post comment and questions. The study group project is experimental. Participate by sharing ideas and suggestions.
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Understanding IELTS - British Council
Improve your English and prepare for tests, such as IELTS reading, writing, speaking and listening, with this free online British Council course from @FutureLearn. Join now. Starts July 11, 2016
Find out more about this course in Chris Cavey's post for the Future Learn blog:
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"IELTS: a global test for a global language."
Sign up and more course information at Understanding IELTS - British Council
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Inside IELTS - Cambridge English Language Assessment
Learn about the skills you need for IELTS Academic and beyond, on this free online course from the experts who produce the test.
- What skills are important for success in the IELTS Academic test?
- How do IELTS examiners assess your level?
- What do you need to do in order to improve your IELTS band score?
This five-week course will help you find answers to questions like these.
We have tried to use simple English in the course as much as possible, but we recommend your English is at least level B1 (around IELTS band 4.5 or higher) to take the course.
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Monday, June 06, 2016
#WhyWePost: the Anthropology of Social Media starts in one week
Have you tried enrolling in MOOCs to practice your English? Do you use social media? If so and you are either thinking about trying one or looking for your next MOOC, this might be for you. You can also follow #whywepost on Twitter or Facebook
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Saturday, February 13, 2016
#NRC01PL A Personal Learning #MOOC
…for your consideration. Stephen Downes explains in his post on Half an Hour
This course should interest self-paced learners, ELL instructors, other educators and more advanced English learners. Stephen Downes' Personal Learning MOOC runs February 22-April 8 (7 weeks) and
...explores the topic of learning in three ways: first, through an examination of research and development issues related to the topic; second, through interaction with a personal learning environment (specifically: LPSS) to take the course; and third, through activities supporting the development of a personal learning environment at a conceptual level.
Course objectives: participants will develop an appreciation of different models of online course delivery, ranging from the traditional LMS through connectivist MOOCs to potential future models of personal learning and performance support.
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Monday, February 08, 2016
SOLE? It's like learning a new language
What is SOLE? It is a Self-Organized Learning Environment, (SOLE) that can exist anywhere there is a computer, Internet connection, and willing learners.
SOLE is increasingly being used in many different settings, including some where it might not seem a natural fit, such as Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).
Traditionally an area which relies on individual learning or teacher-led in a classroom.... Prof Sugata Mitra caused a bit of a stir when he gave a keynote speech about learning needing to be far more self-organised at an IATEFL conference.
...[E]arly findings suggest that while SOLE is not suitable for teaching higher level grammar, it can be effective in terms of language fluency and confidence.... Further research is now being planned between SOLE Central and International House.Read the rest of SOLE? It's like learning a new language at School in the Cloud
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Autumn Konopka interviews CAConrad & Frank Sherlock for Philly2Philly website. Below is the raw interview:
AUTUMN KONOPKA: How did you decide to write this piece together? What was the impetus? How long did you work on it?
CACONRAD: Collaboration isn't easy because fears must be swept aside for the right to be here. The right to say you are a poet and belong. We are taught too often in this world the opposite of this, so it makes working together on projects difficult, especially if someone can't rise to the occasion. And it's almost impossible if one poet is a bully. But if poets who care about the work, care about community, care about each other and their process can find one another, magic- and I mean supernatural magic, is in store. I asked Frank if he would like to do it, and he did, and he made it his own like I knew he would. It's very Philadelphia in that way, an insistence on a democratic process for the streets. Anything less would have meant nothing but less. Frank and I insist on more of the more always!
FRANK SHERLOCK: It didn't feel to me like a "project" with a capital "P", as much as a natural extension of our friendship and lives as poets in a shared place. This city was/is ours, as it is for everyone who lives here, loves here and hates here, for better or worse. This collab could have never worked with a follower, so it was important that we embarked on this work at a time when we were rethinking and advocating for different ways of relating to each other and the world.
KONOPKA: I am so curious about the process of writing a collaborative poem -- can you tell me how you developed this? In particular, you seem to meditate on the same themes, situations, images... did you choose those? did one of you write a segment, then the other respond?
SHERLOCK: What became the book is a documentation of the experiences of a city that is both real and imagined. We'd touch the Robert Indiana LOVE statue and go wandering around for hours. The common themes or images appear because we talked while we walked, sharing our Philadelphias with each other, which people will hopefully find interesting not only for the commonalities, but also the wild divergences. The actual writing happened simultaneously and without mutual consultation.
CONRAD: We met at LOVE Park each time, a dozen times total. We alternated who would lead the walk through the city, so the experiences were shared. This is a collaboration of shared absorption of Philadelphia, and not at all written in that pass-the-paper back and forth kind of way. This is collaboration on a scale of sensory trust, trust in each other's abilities, trust in what each other will provide for the day, and for the poem.
KONOPKA: How would you describe the relationship between your styles/voices? I know you've written work together in the past, does collaborating affect your individual work? How?
CONRAD: All my amazing, genius poet friends mean more to me than any of the dead poets so many spend so much time and money studying. I prefer the living to live by and learn from and always shall.
SHERLOCK: I always see poetry as collaborative, polyvocal, and social. Well, that's the kind of poetry I like anyway- when the "I" is never just "I."
KONOPKA: How would you describe your individual and collective/collaborative relationship with the city, in general, Philadelphia in particular?
CONRAD: We have very different things we both brought with us. I won't speak for Frank, but I came here to escape the fascism (and I don't use this word lightly, I mean it) of rural Pennsylvania. It seemed so much easier back then because no one had money. I feel terrible for young artists without money in Philadelphia these days because no one has their back. The generosity some have shown me is part of the filter of who I am and how I write, and I'm nothing but grateful at having come to the banquet before we weren't allowed. This collaboration was a way of continuing the adventure the city used to have every night. We started writing it around the time the big money was moving to town and wiping out all the little urgencies of creative funk for boring, clean, expensive restaurants and condominiums. Yawn, I can't believe the boring people surrounding me on the streets these days, but they don't seem to be entertaining the idea of suicide so I must learn to live with them somehow. I hate the rich because they take up too much room with their useless lives, but when the food shortage comes I will eat them all, and write poems with their blood. Love poems of course.
SHERLOCK: One of the things that fueled the project was our different points of approach. As Conrad said, the city was a place for him to escape to, while this work was a chance for me to re-imagine the city I grew up in, coming from a neighborhood that was close-knit and great in many ways, but at its worst was, as Sinead O'Connor says, "a place of great hatred and little room." I was raised in Rizzodelphia around bussing violence.
At my first job out of high school I was working with a Junior Black Mafia member who kept a job at Sears on the loading dock, so his grandmother wouldn't think he was a drug dealer. But back to Rizzo, he was very nice to me the time he shook my hand at Independence Hall. I was a little kid with a three-cornered hat at the Bicentennial celebration. I also shook Sinatra's hand that day. But the one person I actually crawled under the police barrier and ran after just to meet was Golden Glove center fielder and Phillies legend... Gary Maddox.
KONOPKA: Who is your audience for this poem?
CONRAD: Everyone who desires to stay as awake as possible for as long as possible. I'm serious, I hate sleep, and sleep has nothing to do with this poem, nothing at all. We wrote our fucking hearts out.
SHERLOCK: Well, I enjoy me some sleep! But I think anyone who likes the idea of exploring cities according to their emotional relationships and dreams of different futures are more than welcome to join in. Map your own landmarks and take a wander with us.
KONOPKA: What is going to happen at the launch party? What can attendees expect from the event?
SHERLOCK: The performance. The book. Then the debauchery.
CONRAD: The beauty and the filth. Expect your juices to overflow, together.
SHERLOCK: Yes, that would be nice. Bring it juicy.
KONOPKA: How did Zoe Strauss get involved with providing the cover art & participating in the launch?
SHERLOCK: I met Zoe way-back-when during (maybe?) the first of her shows under the I-95 overpass at Front & Reed. I always appreciated that she made art affordable for the regular folks of Philadelphia, so I kept her on my radar. And she's fantastic, of course.
CONRAD: We love her! She's GREAT! And I fucking mean this when I say it: EVERY LIVING ARTIST SHOULD LEARN THE GENEROSITY OF ZOE STRAUSS. Art is a thousand things before it's about money, and Zoe Strauss knows this like no one!
KONOPKA: What relationship do you see between your poetry and Zoe's photography?
SHERLOCK: We like her style. She has an unflinching eye for the beautifugly, and the magic possibilities of the absurdity of everyday life. Zoe also appreciates strange language. And we can get strange.
CONRAD: Being here and not turning into liars to be comfortable. Being comfortable with some uncomfortable facts about being here. And staying alive. And loving all of that and more.
KONOPKA: Anything else you want to say that I didn't ask about???
CONRAD: If any of your readers has a clue where I can find pink glitter, NOT RED, but pink glitter, and yellow, wow, pink and yellow. That's too much to ask for both pink and yellow. Maybe I'll start with pink, yes, pink, can any of your readers tell me where to find pink glitter? My phone is 215 563 3075 and you have no idea how long I've searched.
SHERLOCK: As for me, I've been looking for Willy Deville's last album, Pistola, for almost a year. But it's over $40 everywhere I've found it! If you burn me a copy, I promise to love you forever for a while.
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Ads — Companies like Google scan their e-mail users' in-boxes to deliver ads related to those messages. Will people be as willing to let a company listen in on their phone conversations to do the same? — Pudding Media, a start-up based in San Jose …
Terrence Russell / Epicenter: Pudding Media Raises Privacy Concerns by Monitoring VoIP Calls
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Guess 'Puddin' Head Media' Was Already Trademarked, Huh?
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Today's Terrible Idea: Pudding Media — A new start-up called Pudding Media is offering free PC-based telephone calls—if users allow the company to listen in on their conversations and serve targeted ads based on what they're talking about (NYT). This is one of the worst business ideas we've heard …
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Just Say No to Pudding Media — In what Henry Blodget calls …
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: ThePudding? More like Wiretapioca
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Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews: The Privacy Is In The Pudding (Or Not)
Mark Hachman / AppScout: Would You Like Advertisers Listening to Your Calls?
Joel Durham Jr / ExtremeTech: Ad Software Listens In to Internet Phone Calls
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: New service would display ads based on keywords you say in phone calls
Zac Bissonnette / BloggingStocks: Big brother: Company to listen in on phone calls to target ads
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch: Henry Blodgett on Pudding
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Mad Ad World & Cheap Calls — Technology business often goes through periods where rationality and reality are suspended. We just might be in that phase, and nothing highlights that than the launch of ad-supported phone services. In UK, Blyk, an ad-supported mobile service we wrote about eons ago launched.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and TechCrunch
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Blyk launches ad-based mobile network
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
New service eavesdrops on Internet calls — NEW YORK - A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.
Discussion: dslreports.com, Newlaunches.com, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, ReveNews Online Revenue … and The Raw Feed
Karl / dslreports.com: 'The Pudding' Listens In On VoIP - And displays context-sensitive advertisements...
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: VoIP: ThePudding.com Phone Service Listens to Your Calls, Makes You Watch Ads
Peter Ha / CrunchGear: Your VoIP Calls Are Being Tapped
Sam Harrelson / ReveNews Online Revenue News …: Contextual Advertising: How Far Is Too Far and What if Google Goes Evil?
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy Facebook Stake — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Facebook Inc. about making an investment in the social-networking startup that could value Facebook at $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter.
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com: REPORT: MICROSOFT PLANS TO INVEST IN, NOT ACQUIRE FACEBOOK
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Microsoft reportedly eyeing Facebook stake
Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Rumor Mill: Microsoft Buying a Stake in Facebook
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Microsoft May Invest in Facebook At $10 Billion Valuation
Junior Hines / Clickety Clack: Microsoft Wants To Buy A Piece Of Facebook
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Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free — One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world's children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile.
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: One Laptop Per Child issues pitch to fix slow boot sequence
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Boston Globe: Building a critical mass
Marius Chitosca / Smart Mobs: "Buy a Laptop for a Child" Project going steady
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: Laptop Charity Seeks Help From Home Market
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: One Laptop Per Child Aims for the Heart
Nick Mokey / Digital Trends: OLPC XO-1 Goes On Sale to Public
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: OLPC Laptops Available In The U.S. With "Give One Get One" Program
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
'$100 laptop' to sell to public — Computer enthusiasts in the developed world will soon be able to get their hands on the so-called "$100 laptop". — The organisation behind the project has launched the "give one, get one" scheme that will allow US residents to purchase two laptops for $399 (£198).
Discussion: The Browser, Daggle, broadstuff, Wikinomics, Guardian Unlimited, Between the Lines, Mashable! and Digg
Oliverryan / The Browser: A better alternative to One Laptop per Child?
Danny Sullivan / Daggle: $100 Laptop? Don't Wait — Get Yours Now
Dan Herman / Wikinomics: Tech solutions to under-development.
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Buy one, give one away — OLPC for everyone
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: OLPC to offer two-packs to jump start sales
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: $100 Laptop: Get Your Own!
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Think tank to EU: Unbundle Windows on PCs — The Globalization Institute, a Brussels-based EU think tank, has recommended the European Union require all PCs to be sold without pre-loaded operating systems such as Microsoft Windows. — There is no reason why computer operating systems …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Macsimum News
Jonathan Schlaffer / TECH.BLORGE.com: Globalization Institute wants EU to unbundle Windows with PCs
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Globalization Institute: 'unlock' PCs from Windows
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
We need a real handheld computer, who will build one? Apple of course — It's a great time to be a handheld PC enthusiast, not because there are so many good devices to choose from, because I don't think there are, but because public awareness of handheld PCs are at an all-time high.
Discussion: Channel 9 and GottaBeMobile.com
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile.com: Slip Sliding Away
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Tablet PC users will like Sketchcast for non-commerical usage — The first thing I thought of was the Tablet PC when I saw Sketchcast as a delicious popular post in my RSS reader this morning. With Sketchcast you can share drawings with or without voice all through a pen-friendly Flash interface in the browser (Firefox or IE).
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped, TechCrunch, John Chow dot Com and Mashable!
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: New: Sketchcast.com — When Rich Ziade came up with the idea …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Sketchcasting - Another Weapon In The Blogging Arsenal
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!: Sketchcast Introduces Drawn Blog Posts
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Pownce vs Digg: Who Will Kevin Rose Back? — I've speculated previously on the growing conflict Kevin Rose has between his roles at Digg and Pownce, and now it would appear that we may finally be on the eve of Rose being forced to decide between the two. — Leah Culver, a co-founder …
Discussion: Valleywag, WebProNews, mathewingram.com/work, Pronet Advertising and Mashable!
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Digg, Pownce Have Gender Issues
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising: Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Pownce Co-Founder Upset Over New Digg Features
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is FeedHub the answer to information overload? — I've been playing with mSpoke's FeedHub, releasing today at the Demo Conference. I'll have a video up later today demonstrating the product. — Dan Farber has a review and info up on his ZDNet blog. — I've been interested i this topic for some time.
Discussion: PodTech.net, Between the Lines and Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta
Robert Scoble / PodTech.net: Demo of FeedHub digging through information overload
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
FeedHub Launches - Individualized RSS Feeds
FeedHub Launches - Individualized RSS Feeds
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Phil Butler / Profy.Com: DEMOfall 07 Presents: Feedhub - One Cure for Online ADD
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: DEMO: Feedhub Looks To Organize Your 'Other' Feeds
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: FeedHub's Personalized TechMeme
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Updated Leopard requirements to exclude 800MHz systems — Just weeks ahead of its public launch, Apple Inc. has updated the minimum system requirements for its next-generation Leopard operating system to exclude 800MHz PowerPC-based Macs, AppleInsider has learned.
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Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple: So Long PowerPC — It had to happen sometime, and it looks …
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear: Leopard To Exclude Legacy Apple Systems?
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: Rumor: OS X Leopard Nears Completion
Dave Caolo / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Leopard to exclude 800MHz systems
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: Apple: 800MHz G4 Macs Are Dead to Leopard
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
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Discussion: Download Squad, Ars Technica, Insider Reports Feed, Valleywag, Searchviews, Google Blogoscoped, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Between the Lines, Virtual Worlds News, Metaversed, Search Engine Land, The Social Web, Infocult, Portfolio.com, Mark Evans, ParisLemon, RealityPrime and 3pointD.com
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: Google testing "My World" for launch later this year
Doug Caverly / Insider Reports Feed: Google Earth Could Go After Second Life
Sepideh Saremi / Searchviews: Google Weekend: Open API, Social Media, and Unity Cable Rumors
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Tests "My World" Program
Caleb Booker / Metaversed: Rumor: Google Virtual World Imminent
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: Google To Pressure Facebook To "Free" Social Data & Planning Google Earth World?
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web: More on Google's social networking plans
Bryan Alexander / Infocult: MyWorld: towards avatar-based social Google Earth
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: Google Earth To Get Virtually Social?
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com: Google Virtual World Back in the Rumor Mill
Associated Press:
Starbucks to Give Away 50 Million Songs — SEATTLE (AP) — Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that's about to debut in select markets.
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo, Orbitcast, Yahoo! News, ExtremeTech, Newlaunches.com, Gadget Lab, The Globe and Mail and Ubergizmo
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: Apple: Starbucks To Start Up iTunes Wi-Fi Store with 50 Million Free Songs
Joel Durham Jr / ExtremeTech: Starbucks to Give Away iTunes Tunes
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Starbucks 50 Million Song Giveaway
Mathew Ingram / The Globe and Mail: Pay $5 for a coffee, get a free song
Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
VCs & Tech Lawyers: INNOVATE, AUTOMATE, SIMPLIFY — i'll have a lot more to say about this in the future, but at the moment i just want to observe that for a group of folks who hang around startups & talk about technology & innovation all day long, most VCs & lawyers i know really need to eat some of their own [startup's] dogfood.
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ABC HostelABC Hostels is a site where we want to gather backpackers personal ABC's it's a fun way to tell about your own experiences about backpacking and hostel life about travelling in general.
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