English: Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. Official photo as FWS employee. c. 1940. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Cover of the 10 July 2009 Unclassified Report on the President’s Surveillance Program prepared by the Inspectors General of the DoD, DOJ, CIA, NSA, and ODN as required under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Douglas's review contributed to the success of Silent Spring, an important turning point for the environmental movement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aqueduct City of Mexico (Photo credit: SMU Central University Libraries)
Mexico - troops in Calle de Revilladigego [i.e. Revillagigedo] (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)Sequestration Scare Continues
*I **can't talk** about it anymore, readers.*
"Sequester goes into effect as both sides trade blame" by David Uberti and
Tracy Jan | Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, March 02, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Obama and Republican leaders held *another fruitless
session* at the White House....
*
**I am beginning to think this is all a cleverly-crafted game where each
blames the other while both really getting what they want. Then they can
turn to their flock of lemmings known as constituents and say see, we
tried, but the other guy.... given an out for why they failed when it's not
... more »
May the Vulcanic Force be with you
As you know, the sequester went forward yesterday. President Obama held a
little presser during the daily White House briefing after a futile meeting
with Congressional leaders. When answering a typically inane question from
the Big Media about why he can't just "lead" our legislators into doing the
right thing, he made the mistake of saying he can't just do a Jedi mind
meld on them. ZOMG! A mixed sci-fi metaphor!!!
Nothing else he said mattered after that. Twitter nerds immediately
exploded into a snarkarama. BuzzFeed had a post up within two minutes and
the rest of the intertoobz... more »
'From Silent Spring to Silent Night'
Dr. Tyrone Hayes from the University of Berkeley visited my campus this
week and presented on "From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads
and Men."
Unfortunately I had to miss the event because I was at another university
event. I offered my students extra credit for attending and writing up a
summary of the event.
Samuel Moore, one of my students, wrote a very nice review of this
interesting talk and its relevance for "consumerism," the topic of the
course I'm teaching:
Dr. Tyrone Hayes’s lecture “From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of
Toads and Men” was larg... more »
WSJ: "Court Rejects Challenge to Wiretap Rules"
by J. Bravin Feb 27, 2013 p. A2
[paraphrasing] The Supreme Court ruled that the government does not need
probable cause for blanket monitoring of international communication
between people in the US and those overseas.
Majia here: In 2008 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
authorized mass surveillance and does not require identification of
specific targets. The Supreme Court upheld the law.
Reuters provides more background
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/26/us-usa-court-surveillance-idUSBRE91P0JS20130226
Choking on Apathy
According to a new study, people the wide world over have suddenly stopped
giving a damn about the filthy air they breathe and the contaminated water
they drink. Concern levels are at their lowest in 20 years. Smog,
schmog. We are suffering, according to the *New* *York Times*, from a mass
outbreak of Environmental Warning Fatigue (not to be confused with
the Outrage Fatigue Syndrome I've discussed in recent posts.)
Hmmm. Isn't it ironic that the paper of record is publishing the results
of a new study on Environmental Meh at the exact same time it decided to
ditch its popular G... more »
Is American TV still making you frightful at the very thought of ever visiting Mexico? If so, you are responding to propaganda designed to prevent you from finding out that life is really much better -- and safer! -- south of the border than it is in many parts of the States.
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Safety in Mexico: Reality vs. Sensationalist Media Hype
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By Cathy Brown / Dec 12 • Categorized as Living Overseas
Original Here
In the last few months, I have had the good fortune to visit Mexico a
couple of times. For a single mom whose family and friends have no problem
with me romping around Buenos Aires, taking my young kids to the Amazon, or
climbing mountains in Africa, I cannot say that I was sufficiently prepared
for the distinct reaction I got when pe... more »
WaPo Editorializes on KIPP Study and Forgets to Report the Findings
When Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. presented the final piece of a study
commissioned by KIPP, Inc. the other day (*"KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on
Achievement and Other Outcomes"*, WaPo’s Editorial Board was quick to
announce “KIPP Doubters Proven Wrong.”
OFFICIALS OF KIPP(Knowledge Is Power Program) have become accustomed to the
doubters who think the success of the fast-growing charter-school network
is too good to be true. KIPP’s positive outcomes are the result not of its
unique learning approach but rather, so the familiar critique goes, of its
ability to attract the bes... more »
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*New Orleans Levee breaking news: Pothole swallows New Orleans shopper*
The basic shortcoming of Creeping Kleinism!
*SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013*
*It’s right there in today’s Post: *The basic problem with Ezra Kleinism is
on display in this morning’s Post.
It’s on display in Klein's page 2 column. The headline says this, and the
key word is “smart:”
“Some smart alternatives to brain-dead sequestration.”
Plainly, Klein is routinely presented as part of journalism’s Smart New
Breed. On The One True Liberal Channel, viewers are often fed this hook,
along with the pledge that his highly intelligent segments won’t last more
than two minutes.
At the Washington Post, Klein and his underbloggers post each... more »
Saturday Morning Linkage
I’m at a conference with a surprising number of Duck bloggers and
commentators, so this will be brief. I spent some time last night
troubleshooting older podcasts. If you notice a problem please email me.
Kings of War analyzes the impact of the sequester on the US army. Andrew
Yeo looks at “naming and shaming” viz. North Korean human-rights behavior.
Continue reading
Disorder in the court
I'm late to Scalia's scumbaggery at SCOTUS this week during the arguments
on the Voting Rights Act matter. May Tom Toles forgive me for stealing his
work and never giving him any money, but this is the perfect summation of
the moment:
[via The Platzner Post]
Continuing stinks out of University of Minnesota Psychiatry: If it looks like it, smells like it and sounds like it, at least it deserves an inquiry...
This is just to point interested readers to what looks more and more as a
multi-layered bona fide research ethics scandal at the psychaitry
department of the University of Minnesota, involving at least one death and
possible falsified patient documents in order to fake proof of consent. My
US colleague Carl Elliott has been covering this mess for a long time,
patiently trying to have the university's own research intergrity
administration take hold of the case, and work it as they should. However,
instead of doing what a university in this situation is supposed to do –
namely acting... more »
Using Austerity To Gut Social Security: Why "They" Need The Fix (Underfunding Employee Pension Problem Solved!)
If you've been wondering exactly where the big money bets lie . . . here's
a good place to start your search. It's no coincidence (thank you, Jethro!)
that the CEO's involved in this fraudulent crusade have underfunded their
employee pensions for years (and where do you think that money went?).
Phase two, according to Fix the Debt spokesperson Jon Romano, appears to
consist of the hiring,
We don't live in a simulation
In 2011, I already wrote a text about the theories that our universe is a
computer simulation:
Rebooting the Cosmos
Needless to say, a regular reader has seen lots of other criticisms of discrete
physics, a more general concept. Let me return to this topic – and change
the focus somewhat – in the wake of a sensible text at Backreaction,
The simulation hypothesis and other things I don’t believe
As David Tong explained using different words in his Silver Prize Winning
Essay written for a crackpot foundation whose basic mission does include
the promotion of the "Simulation Hypothesis... more »
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*Innovative Thinking On Living With Water ~Ian McNulty, New Orleans Magazine
*
*Where the Water Beats Against the Land ~Poppy Tooker, WWNO*
*How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy ~Nathaniel Rich, NYTimes*
*Fleur de Tease presents "Prison Tales"*
*Hall of Fame Reception Honoring Star Guitar, Perrodin, Salmen March 4 ~
Fairgrounds*
*All the way from New Orleans to Clitheroe for the Hot 8 Brass Band ~Lancashire
Telegraph*
Slow Saturday Special: Coakley $ettles With Cahill
*The timing of the announcement sure is suspicious, but I hope it at least
paid for the going-through-the-motions trial.*
"Cahill to pay $100,000 to settle case" by Peter Schworm and Frank Phillips
| Globe Staff, March 01, 2013
Saying that he hopes to never “see the inside of Suffolk Superior Court
again,” former state treasurer Timothy P. Cahill agreed to pay a *$100,000
fine* Friday for violating state ethics law during his 2010 campaign for
governor.
The decision *settles the public corruption charges* against him and *brings
a close* to a *long-running political saga*. It als... more »
Republican War Against Women Is Backfiring
We covered Boehner's bungling of the whole Violence Against Women Act
fiascoon Thursday. Another self-inflicted disaster in the Republican
Party's
pointless War Against Women. Here was the key paragraph, politically
speaking, in case you missed it:
So this morning they voted, first on the GOP fake version and then on
the
actual Senate bill. Their own crazy thing failed 166-257, only 2 old
school, right-wing, misogynistic Democrats (Lipinski and McIntyre) voted
with the GOP on it. 60 *Republicans* voted with the Democratic
leadership
against it. (Boehner didn't vote.) Immediately a... more »
Not Very Bright
The Harperites will troll for votes wherever they can find them. That
includes immigrant communities. But, at their core, they fear "the other"
-- those who don't see the world as they do. That attitude is most evident
in their attitude toward refugees and their access to health care.
Carol Goar writes, in *The Toronto Star*, that a group of Canadian doctors
and lawyers have decided to confront the Conservatives on their policy of
denying healthcare to refugees:
This week, Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and the Canadian Association
of Refugee Lawyers joined forces to ask the F... more »
NEXT GENERATION OF SURVEILLANCE
Argus Panoptes is the name of a giant of Greek mythology who had a hundred
eyes and who was said to be “all-seeing”. What an appropriate name for
DARPA’s latest wide area monitoring system, described as the “next
generation of surveillance”. When mounted on a drone, ARGUS (which stands
for Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System) has
a 1.8 Gigapixels video system that allows the constant video surveillance
of a small city, complete with the tracking of moving objects and
incredible zoom-in capabilities.
Are we at the point yet that we can see advancing... more »
Digging In
Two days ago the tree sit ended, and yesterday Gifford Pinchot was released
from police custody. Although he was charged with aggravated trespass,
resisting arrest and disorderly conduct he was released on his own
recognizance. This means that the judge weighed Gifford’s actions and
given the options at her disposal decided to levy the lightest burden
possible. This is a victory for the campaign! It underscores the support
that we have in the community and the local political will against the
project. It also means that although the tree sit at Cummins Hill ended,
we did not ha... more »
A Lecture on Income Inequality
From UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez. It takes about 40 minutes.
Not funny: BBC supported ‘Comic Relief’ and the demonization of Israel | BBC Watch
BBC and War on Want joined at the hip in hating & lying about Israel
http://bbcwatch.org/2013/03/02/not-funny-bbc-supported-comic-relief-and-the-demonization-of-israel/
Saturday Night Short Shorts + Links
When Beijing Correspondents Write: How one security concern in Asia is
quietly easing. I was going to rip this China-centered ditty until I saw it
was from the Beijing correspondent, then figured there was no point in it.
All parts of it are stiffly mediocre, but especially delightful is the
writer's observation that Chen Shui-bian was "pro-independence" while the
political orientation of Ma and the KMT are never referred to.
Ted Galen Carpenter on the ROC's Senkaku claims says there have been "angry
demonstrations" in Taiwan's cities about the Senkakus. Hahahaha. With
response from... more »
AP News : DHS freed over 2,000 immigrants since February.
'WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department released from its jails
more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due
to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The
Associated Press has learned.
The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal budget documents reviewed by
the AP, are significantly higher than the "few hundred" illegal immigrants
the Obama administration acknowledged this week had been released under the
budget-savings process.'
More here -
http://m.apnews.mobi/ap/db_6776/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=dca5a... more »
O'BRIEN; CHILD ABUSE; GAY PRIESTS
*[image: Saint Mary's College, Blairs, Aberdeen]*
*St Mary's College*
From 1980 to 1985, Keith O'Brien was rector of St Mary's College, Blairs, a
junior Catholic seminary near Aberdeen in Scotland.
St Mary's College had students aged between the ages of 13 and 18.
Ten years after O'Brien left Blairs, a former priest, Desmond Lynagh, was
accused of sexually abusing boys during the Seventies.
He was jailed for three years.
While he was an archbishop during the late 1980s, O’Brien arranged for one
of Lynagh's victims, Michael X, to be paid £42,000.
Michael X has claimed the payment w... more »
Growing Earth and Electric Universe team up to explain 'missing mass'
here it is, here's NASA's evidence for the amount of pseudo-matter that is
directed towards Earth (and all the other planets in the Solar System) on a
daily basis in the form of electric discharge from an Electric Universe
'furnace' i.e. the Sun, it's called a Coronal Mass Ejection and it's a
PLASMA.
One of the big contentions of the Warren S Carey's EXPANDING EARTH concept (slip
cover version online here) popularised spectacularly by Neal Adams Growing
Earth videos is, "Where does the extra matter needed to fuel the 'growing
earth' come from?"
Well, hello!
Our own nearest star,... more »
AGW petition by Ranga Myneni: 1 billion signatures left
When I opened Alexander Ač's blog today, I had to laugh. An unknown
alarmist from Boston University named Ranga Myneni started a petition "with
a billion of linked hands". Before the 144th birthday of Vladimir Lenin
(which comes next year), he wants to collect a modest 1 billion of
signatures.
The petition is short, simple, science-fiction-scale ambitious, and looks
like it was written by a child from a kindergarten:
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, We, the People of
the Earth, request You to act judiciously and expeditiously to protect the
Earth from a... more »
March 1, 1973
Patrick Gray has another long day before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
with the bulk of the questions pressing him on Watergate and other Nixon
Administration scandals. The bit that made headlines was about Martha
Mitchell:
--
Senator Bayh. I have heard some things floating around and I would just as
soon put this to rest, did you ever interview Mrs. Mitchell?
Mr. Gray. We endeavored to interview Mrs. Mitchell, but Mr. Mitchell said
that Mrs. Mitchell's stories and the things that were in the press were not
so and we were not going to interview Mrs. Mitchell. There was no need t... more »
Cold Resistance Genetic
We always sort of knew that all this was likely true, but we now
understand the genetics.
The boreal forest is essentially open to agricultural development. It will
require a people well adapted to winter conditions there although summer
personnel can obviously be migratory. Winter care of animals will need
locally adapted folks best suited to operations.
Please note that we have developed several protocols for boreal forest
agriculture here that shows it to be quite feasible.
*Cold resistance runs in genes*
*
by Alexandra Zakharova*
*
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Feb 15... more »
Bigfoot and Irish Giants
This item has an alternative explanation for Bigfoot genesis that I do not
support. I expect that Bigfoot is totally independent from the Irish
Giants who can be mapped coincidentally with the European Bronze Age in the
Americas. Bigfoot appears likely to have arrived with the later pulse of
human settlement that came out of the Bering Strait overland as the Ice
collapsed.
Both source human and Wildman populations were available on the Asian side
and seamanship was unnecessary. The first pulse of humanity came by sea
from both East and West in skin craft around 20,00... more »
Device Provide Partial Vision
Here it is. The first direct augmentation of the optic nerve to generate
images with a practical device. It is even good enough to be helpful. We
will now experience continuous improvement until, we develop the larger
device with a broader spectrum used by ET.
In the meantime, this is good enough to eliminate the need for a cane or a
seeing eye dog.
As stated it can only get better and denser in terms of data flow.
*Device Offers Partial Vision for the Blind*
*PAM BELLUCK*
*Published: February 14, 2013*
*The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved... more »
CO2 Argument Cooling
Here begins the long climb down from the high horse of man made global
warming that has bedeviled debate on the warmer climate we find ourselves
experiencing. In time they will reach the point I made when I began this
blog several years ago.
It remains warmer and that is good news. The bad news is that is as good
as it likely gets. If we are lucky, we may get two or three decades of nice
conditions. If unlucky, it will dump and we will be into the deep freeze
again . This warm spell is getting old.
Of course the climb down will switch into a route if we get a sudden chi... more »
WILD SEX
*gallery.oneindia.in*
*
*They behave "as if they have read the Kama Sutra, performing every
position and variation one can imagine.
"For instance, they mate in the missionary position...
"But their sexiness isn't just about mating.
"Most of those variations are sociosexual, meaning that they don't entail
copulation between an adult male and an adult female during her fertile
period.
"The range of partners includes adults of the same sex, an adult with a
juvenile of either sex, and two juveniles together.
"The range of activities includes mouth-to-mouth kissing, oral sex, genit... more »
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*Mort Zuckerman: "America Remains In A Jobs Depression"*
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/17/2013 11:03 -0500
Original here
*Authored by Mort Zuckerman, originally posted in The Wall Street
Journal,*
Jobs! President Obama has set a record. In his speech to Congress on
Tuesday, he uttered the word "jobs" more than in any of his previous
four
State of the Union addresses. *His 45 mentions were more than double the
references to any of the other policy ambitions encapsulated in his
speech*by such words as health, education, immigration, guns, deficit,
debt,
energy, climate, econo... more »
Musical Interlude: 2002, “Even Now”
2002, “Even Now”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2om8NOxN2cg
Van Cliburn (1934-2013)
*SCHUMANN (arr. Liszt): "Widmung" ("Dedication")*
*Van Cliburn plays the Liszt arrangement of Schumann's exhilarating song "*
Widmung"* ("Dedication"), c1970.*
*by Ken*
I want to put off doing a proper memorial to pianist Van Cliburn until I
get the copy of RCA's newly released *Van Cliburn: The Complete Album
Collection* which I ordered as soon as I saw that it exists, not realizing
at the time that he had in fact just died.
The easy way to go would have been with the Tchaikovsky First Piano
Concerto, the piece that became so identified with him when he rocketed to
fame in 1958 ... more »
Fifty People, One Question: Tehran Edition
Amid
constant media coverage on the latest, seemingly substantive and
productive nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1, new blustery
threats of war leveled by both Israeli and American politicians, and
talk of ever more crippling sanctions and the always supposedly imminent
collapse of the Iranian economy (or not), something often gets
overlooked: the people of Iran themselves.
The
"A Look to the Heavens"
"A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC
3372, spans over 300 light-years, one of our galaxy's largest star forming
regions. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Nebula, the Carina
Nebula is easily visible to the unaided eye, though at a distance of 7,500
light-years it is some 5 times farther away.
*Click image for larger size.*
This gorgeous telescopic portrait reveals remarkable details of the
region's glowing filaments of interstellar gas and obscuring cosmic dust
clouds. Wider than the Full Moon in angular size, the field of view
st... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
Chet Raymo, “Things In Themselves, Myself Being Myself”
*“Things In Themselves, Myself Being Myself”*
by Chet Raymo
“One of the consistent themes of this blog has been the search for "the
thing itself," that is, a knowledge of reality that is not mediated by
accidents of history, culture, religion, politics, or personal foibles and
prejudices. Impossible, of course. We are always to some extent prisoners
of our limited perceptual apparatus and the hard and soft wiring of our
brains. Nevertheless, "the thing itself" remains the elusive Holy Grail of
human knowing.
Science is the most effective instrument we have yet devised to mi... more »
Winifred Bird: A Tale of Two Forests: Addressing Postnuclear Radiation at Chernobyl and Fukushima
March 1, 2013 Environmental Health Perspectives.
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2013/03/121-a78/
I strongly recommend reading the entire article. I've excerpted a small
portion:
EXCERPTED The Fukushima Disaster[Unlike the Ukraine's policy of maintaining
the Chernobyl exclusion zone] Japan, however, is not yet resigned to either
permanently banning residents or exposing them to drastically elevated
levels of radiation as a consequence of its own nuclear disaster. Instead,
it is attempting to carve a third path forward.
Immediately following the meltdown at the Fukushima plant in March 201... more »
New Jersey Targeting Special Ed Child Study Teams
Looks like Governor Christie and his voucher pushing, charter cheerleaders
and profiteers have found more ways to suck the life and last breaths out
of the New Jersey Public School System -- cutting school child study teams.
This includes psychologists, social workers and other professionals.
Who will replace these services? Teachers of course. They will just have to
fit it in between lock down drills, and target practice.
And, if the teachers don't go along with this latest scheme, those
frivolous and unimportant services can be outsourced to private for profit
companies. Here's an ... more »
Breaking News, 4th BC Liberal Riding Association Quits
Kim Haakstad Resigns, Breaking News..
Breaking News, 3 BC Liberal Riding Associations Just Quit On B.C. Liberals
(*Last updated at 7:00 pm, Mar/1)*
It`s all coming apart at the seams for Christy Clark..
*More breaking news.. *A 4th riding association president has quit, it`s
the outgoing Dave Hayer`s riding(BC Liberal held riding)...(7:00 pm)
So that`s 4 riding association presidents quit the BC Liberals, 3 in NDP
held ridings 1 in a Liberal riding...
Kim Haakstad has resigned...Stay tuned..
*More breaking news....Kim Haakstad has fallen on her sword and resigned *(5:40
pm)..... more »
Tren rumbo a las grandes ciudades
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Perritas juguetonas sobre peluche rosa
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Blocking Keystone XL pipeline won’t save the climate, State Department analysis says
[image: Aerial view of tar sands extraction in Alberta, Canada. Photo: Jiri
Rezac / Greenpeace]
By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson
1 March 2013
(Washington Post) – The State Department released a draft environmental
impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday
afternoon, suggesting that blocking the project would not have a
significant impact on either the future development of Canada’s oil sands
region or U.S. oil consumption.
The analysis, which will inform the decision President Obama must make
later this year on whether to grant TransCanada the permit... more »
Patitos listos para nadar en el lago bajo el cielo púrpura
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Hermoso paisaje con árboles de colores
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Coche de lujo antiguo pero bonito
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Chicas esperando ayuda para su coche
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Chica apache entre huskies siberianos y nieve
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Antiscience blogs capture the Science category in annual Weblog Awards – 13 out of 17 finalists are climate denialists – ‘Science blogs would rather complain about the results than try to submit nominations themselves’
[image: Screenshot of the Thirteenth Annual Weblog Awards, 'Best Science
and or Technology Weblog', showing 4 of 5 nominees in the Science category
held by antiscience blogs. The Skeptical Science weblog asked that its
entry be withdrawn. Photo: http://2013.bloggi.es]
In an escalation of the annual farce that plays out at the Weblog Awards (*
cf.* Antiscience site wins another ‘Best Science or Technology Weblog’ award),
this year we have 4 of 5 nominees in the Science category held by
antiscience blogs. In 2010, Des tried to persuade the Weblog Awards staff
to reconsider allowing a... more »
Castillo en lo mas alto de las montañas
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Cascada de agua azul iluminada por el sol
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Casa antigua abandona
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Urban Gadabout: Say, NYC-area dumpling lovers, are you up for a Dumpling Crawl tomorrow (Saturday)?
*There's a serious goal: to bring customers
back to NYC's Sandy-whacked Chinatown*
*It's dumplings, dumplings, dumplings tomorrow (March 2) in New York's
Chinatown, thanks to Rally Downtown's four scheduled "Dumpling Crawls" --
at 12n, 2pm (two crawls), and 4pm. Of the two crawls at 2pm, one will be
led by NYS Sen. Daniel Squadron, who hatched the idea for the "Dumpling
Rally."*
*"[NYS Sen. Daniel] Squadron, who held his wedding's rehearsal dinner as
well as his first-ever political meeting in Chinatown, passionately
described the ideal dumpling as 'a rich and satisfying filling' tha... more »
Kim Haakstad Resigns, Breaking News..
Breaking News, 3 BC Liberal Riding Associations Just Quit On B.C. Liberals
*
*
It`s all coming apart at the seams for Christy Clark..
*More breaking news....Kim Haakstad has fallen on her sword and resigned *(5:40
pm)....Don`t know if investigation ends here..Stay tuned
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Christy+Clark+deputy+chief+staff+resigns+over+ethnic+voters+memo/8037464/story.html
It was just reported on cknw that 3 riding associations in 3 NDP held
ridings have all quit in the last hour, this stems from the *ethnic vote,
quick hit planning document *that was leaked..One of th... more »
Friday Baseball Post
One of the things about spring training is that it's sort of difficult to
figure out what we're watching for. As fans, I mean. Obviously, the number
one thing is always health...no new injuries, and on-pace recovery from old
ones. What else?
Well, when it comes to the World Series Champion San Francisco Giants, I
decided last week that there was one thing I was going to care about this
spring: Brandon Belt and extra base hits. Oh, there are other things that I
can think of for 2013 that are bigger unknowns...Lincecum, of course, and
whether Sandoval can play 140 games (and hit), and... more »
Eye Surgery Results
OK, I had my procedure done (Intralasik) at a scheduled appointment 1000 AM
two days ago (Thursday). Had to get to the office at 930 AM for some minor
check in procedures (forms to sign, pay my balance, etc.). Kurt dropped me
off then went to the office as they said I would not be totally done until
around 1100 AM or so.
One of the nurses came into the lobby and gave me a Valium to take. I was
then taken into a room where they put a lot of drops into my eyes (I think
there were 6 different ones for each eye) to numb the area, etc. They
also cleaned the area with some kind of... more »
Oglala President vows to shut down bordertown liquor stores
OGLALA SIOUX TRIBAL PRESIDENT VOWS TO SHUT DOWN BORDER TOWN LIQUOR STORES
Statement by Oglala President Bryan Brewer, Sr.
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Warriors face off with police during White Clay protest
Feb. 28, 2013 Photo Joey Feaster
PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- On the evening of February 28, 2013, Oglala Sioux Tribal President Bryan V. Brewer, Sr. joined
Friday Nerd Blogging: Presidential Edition
Twitter went nuts when President Obama said he could not get the
Republicans to do what is right because of his finite powers, that he could
not do some sort of Jedi mind-meld! He mixed his space franchises–Jedis may
have Vulcan-like abilities, but the mind meld thing is of Star Trek. So,
this sent twitter
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Messages From A Patriot -- Patrick Cody Morgan
*A Letter From A Patriot -- Patrick Cody Morgan*
(*Temporarily *Imprisoned for Crimes He Did NOT Commit)
The whole story can be found here:
http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2013/02/flash-mob-courtesy-notice-in-support-of.html
Dear Heather, D. and Brian,
Greetings from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. I can't tell you how
blessed I feel to be included in the OPPT movement. For years I have been
passionate about uncovering the fraud and corruption in government. I have
given thousands of hours of my time to my fellow countrymen under attack
from out own go... more »
"Sequester This! How Did We Get Here? How Do We Get Out?"
*"Sequester This! How Did We Get Here?*
* How Do We Get Out?"*
by Les Leopold
"The debt crisis is a hoax, but the sequester is for real, and so is the
underlying cause of this entire mess: The Wall Street crash of 2008. We
need to fight off financial Alzheimer's and remember how we got here.
When Wall Street imploded under the immense weight of its own greed, it
tore a gaping hole in the economy. After years of packaging and selling
highly profitable high-risk, mortgage-related securities, (rated AAA, of
course, by the ever pliable rating agencies), these fantasy financial ... more »
love with unconfined wings
When Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my Gates,
And my divine *Althea* brings
To whisper at the Grates;
When I lie tangled in her hair,
And fettered to her eye,
The Gods that wanton in the Air,
Know no such Liberty.
When flowing Cups run swiftly round
With no allaying *Thames*,
Our careless heads with Roses bound,
Our hearts with Loyal Flames;
When thirsty grief in Wine we steep,
When Healths and draughts go free,
Fishes that tipple in the Deep
Know no such Liberty.
When (like committed linnets) I
With shriller throat shall sing
The ... more »
Space and Earth weather interactions - the weekend quake watch is on
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 2 days ago
Link: http://youtu.be/vPq2eF_Q00c
Your weekend weather, space weather amongst others. What
"SuspiciousObservers" denote is correct:
I also predict an uptick in strong earthquakes (M>5.5) this weekend. At
this hour I see a lot of particle compression in the ionosphere, raining
down on Earth in hours. I agree with the clip-maker that this is a
precursor for volcanic and earthquake activity. Eyes open..., no fear! Have
a good weekend.
John
love with unconfined wings
When Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my Gates,
And my divine *Althea* brings
To whisper at the Grates;
When I lie tangled in her hair,
And fettered to her eye,
The Gods that wanton in the Air,
Know no such Liberty.
When flowing Cups run swiftly round
With no allaying *Thames*,
Our careless heads with Roses bound,
Our hearts with Loyal Flames;
When thirsty grief in Wine we steep,
When Healths and draughts go free,
Fishes that tipple in the Deep
Know no such Liberty.
When (like committed linnets) I
With shriller throat shall sing
The sw... more »
Boxing Like A Rockstar- Title Boxing Club in Utah
A while ago I decided to give everything a try at least once. It has led
to me being braver and honestly having more fun. When the opportunity came
up to take a boxing class at Title Boxing Club, the first non-competitive
boxing club in Utah, I knew I had to try it. My husband may or may not have
laughed at me when I told him I was going to take a boxing class. I am not
famous for sticking all the way through a work out, but at least I start
the workouts right?
When I got to Title, we started our one hour class. Being honest, the
class was brutal and completely amazing. We star... more »
Another Palestinian Arab dies in custody - but there will be no riots
'The amount of outrage over an Arab death is inversely proportional to the
square of the possibility that the death can be blamed on Jews.'
A prisoner being held in a Palestinian Authority jail in Jericho died on
Friday, a senior Palestinian official said.
Ayman Mohammad Sharif Samara, 40, died while being detained on charges of
assault, Palestinian Authority attorney general Muhammad Abdul-Ghani
al-Uweiwi told Ma'an.
He was arrested on Friday and transferred to a nearby hospital, where he
passed away, al-Uweiwi said.
The PA attorney general denied that the prisoner was tortured ... more »
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