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Which Social Network Can't You Live Without?
It's hard to imagine a modern world without social media. We rely
on social networks to consume the news, communicate with friends and
even do our jobs. Social media has transformed the way we explore both
the digital and physical world.
See also: Mark Your Calendars for the 5th Annual Social Media Day
Mashable is celebrating the power of social media with our fifth annual
Social Media Day on June
What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War on Drugs?
Via: Citylab: Novick describes himself as “ambivalent” about drug
legalization, and says his proposal is about the best use of tax
dollars. “We can limit our inefficient expenditures of money without
repealing drug laws,” he says. “It’s up to the city to determine how
much money it’s going to spend chasing drugs dealers.”
The dangers of a single story
Nadia Behizadeh said:
If a child does not perform well on [one timed large-scale assessment
essay], there will be a single story told about this student: he/she has
below basic skills in writing, or maybe even far below basic skills.
Yet this same student may be a brilliant poet or have a hundred pages of
a first novel carefully stowed in his/her backpack. However, when a
single story of deficien
Pentagon has zombie apocalypse battle plan
The US government actually has a plan in place in the event that
the dead start rising from their graves. According to an unclassified
Defense Departm...
Scott Lemriel The SERES AGENDA
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R. Scott Lemriel (THE SERES AGENDA)
May 11th 2014
Author and researcher of hidden truths, R. Scott Lemriel, spoke about a
billion-year old prototypical special human race, the Seres, who seeded
all humanoids, and highly evolved space-faring races throughout the
Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies long ago. According to Lemriel’s
information, there are some 450 million benevolent space-faring
Scientists Discover the 'Biggest Dinosaur Ever'
Step aside, Argentinosaurus. There's a new dino in town — and he's
ginormous.
Paleontologists in Argentina unearthed what they believe to be the 95-
to 100-million-year-old fossils of the "biggest dinosaur ever,"
according to the BBC
See also: Europe Has a New Top Dinosaur
Based on its thigh bones, the massive prehistoric creature was 130 feet
long, 65 feet tall and weighed an estimated
Apple and Google Call Ceasefire in Ongoing Patent Legal War
The ongoing legal war between two of tech's leading brands, Apple
and Google, has finally come to an end, after they agreed to settle
existing smartphone-patent lawsuits against each other.
In a joint statement, Apple and Google outlined a plan to work together
on patent reform, an area that has seen the two companies locked in
legal warfare for years
See also: 5 Free Android Apps for Tethering
&
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week ending May 10, 2014)
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server.Towards A Microscopic Understanding Of Phonon Heat Conduction
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Interview 887 – Connie Fournier Recounts Her Defamation Lawsuit Nightmare
FreeDominion.ca was a Canadian political discussion forum that
began in 2001 and was shut down earlier this year as a result of an
Ontario Superior Court decision on a defamation case that was brought
against the website. Today we talk to co-webmaster Connie Fournier about
the website’s Kafkaesque legal ordeal and how Canadian law allows
individuals to sue webmasters over anonymous comments…even i
Interview 886 – Keith Harmon Snow Reveals the Truth About the Rwandan Genocide
Keith Harmon Snow has extensive experience in Africa as a
journalist, photographer and genocide investigator who attended the
International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda. He joins us today to discuss
the 20th anniversary of the “100 days” and how the true story of the
genocide (and who was really behind it) has been completely inverted by
politicians, the press, Hollywood and everyone else with a ve
Interview 884 – James Corbett Discusses the Anarchist Ideologies
via the Our Troubled Times podcast:
In this episode we are joined by James Corbett of The Corbett Report to
talk about Anarchy. We will attempt to dispel any misconceptions and
negative connotations of the term as well as try to understand what it
really means and the implications of allowing the world to continue to
be ruled by our bankster slave masters. Join us as we discuss what it
means to li
China’s “War on Terror”
by James Corbett
May 8, 2014
On October 28, 2013, an SUV carrying three passengers crashed into a
crowd of people waiting outside the gate of the forbidden city across
from the infamous Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. All three
inside the car were killed in the subsequent fire, along with two
bystanders in the crowd. Thirty-eight others were injured. Although not
the most spectacular te
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The EnvironmentaList
Activists Sue Taiji Whaling Museum to Save Albino ‘Angel’
Suit addresses conditions of captive dolphins and takes aim at the notorious dolphin hunts in Japan
Small Wild Cats Face Big Threats, but Receive Little Conservation Funds
Relative obscurity of small cats means they are overlooked by most wildlife conservation groups
Groundwater Depletion Is Destabilizing the San Andreas Fault and Increasing Earthquake Risk
New Research also links seasonal water levels to seasonal patterns in seismicity
From India: An Urban Gardening Model That Could Help Keep Cities Cool
The Living Greens project shows that simple ideas can bring big change
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The Rules of Exposition
Petty Little Things
Working on a post for the economics blog. My technique is to read
and revise from start to finish. At the moment, I'm stuck in the title.
My working title for the post wasThe Myth in 'The Myth of the Great
Moderation'But the first word in that title tells the reader there are
no other myths in the thing, just the one I'm writing about. I don't
want to say that. So I changed the title toA Myth in '
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A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
Best legacy for Michelle is to keep this conversation going
May the hills ring with our conversations about disordered
eating in the wake of Michelle Stewart’s death. It would make her happy
to think that we weren’t just going to let that elephant in the room
pass unnoticed. What I mostly know about the various
disordered-eating illnesses is they aren't about disordered eating at
all. Eat a lot, eat a little, obsess about burning it off, throw it up
Goodbye, Michelle - you'll be missed
Sad news today about the death of Michelle Stewart, the
long-time B.C. government communications person who came out so bravely a
year ago with a blog on life with end-stage kidney failure due to a
lifelong eating disorder. A communicator to the end, Michelle kept on
blogging right up until a month ago, when her deteriorating health got
to be too much for her to continue. I highly recommend
What to do about temporary foreign workers: Help them find work
Underneath all the current noise around temporary foreign
workers are a couple basic truths. One is that people who need money and
work will always be drawn toward countries that appear to have an
abundance of both. The other is that people already settled in those
countries will find ways to exploit that desire. And so we have this
latest news of Israelis lured to Canada to work in mall ki
In my mother's house
My mother throws dinner parties four times a week. Add in
three weekly lunch parties, afternoon teas with various friends, and
crib at odd hours with the little collection of men my mother has
organized to play with her, and it has been a bit like living in a
community centre since we moved in to her apartment at the beginning of
the month. While Mom’s love for social engagements and const
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In the last day or so, I have been asked about the press release
issued by Walter Haut concerning the discovery of a flying disk near
Roswell. We can argue all day about what it was, but that term was used
in the press release. The Roswell Daily Record reported that military
had “captured” a flying saucer in the Roswell region. What is
interesting now is that some are wondering if the Roswell Dail
Encounter in Rendlesham Forest - A Review
In December 1980, there were a series of sightings of lights in
the Rendlesham Forest near two USAF airbases located in England.
American personnel assigned to those bases, RAF Bentwaters and RAF
Woodbridge sighted strange lights and requested permission to
investigate. Now Nick Pope, with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston have
written a book, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, dealing with their insi
UFO Crash in Pennsylvania
As I was looking at a case in the Project Blue Book files, I found
a two page letter stuffed between that case and the one that followed.
It was labeled as “Information Only,” which meant that the Air Force
didn’t investigate it but had retained the information in their files.
This was not an uncommon practice for them. Nearly every month there
were cases labeled that way. But since it suggested t
UFOs and Science Fiction Theater
So, I’m watching the old Science Fiction Theater on YouTube…
(Science Fiction Theater was a 1950s half-hour drama that alleged that
there was some science in their stories). I remembered seeing reruns in
the 1960s as a kid and all this would be irrelevant to us here, except
that I remembered one particular episode in which there was a flying
saucer. The title, I learned, was “Are We Invaded?” I re
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Zen things
The tool is a "jembe," a Kenyan hoe made by Mr. Joseph Ogola. Many
people in Kenya do all their farm work with this one tool.Greens bed is
coming along slowly. Turnips, radishes, bok choi, tatsoi, kale,
collards and chard mostly, with some marigolds and such.The ducklings a
week ago. They will be released into the poultry moat today.A few fogs
have heralded the change in weather. We have
The soil bank
A repost, because I've been looking around again and very little
has changed. ;)We only know a few of our neighbors, after twenty years;
it's a very conservative community and we're a "non-traditional" couple.
Yet the folks we've actually met, we like. Get-togethers are rare; if
you aren't going to the local church (ours is in town) you aren't going
to be invited to the parties. We have
There is generally something
Fog in the morning presages a high -- sunshine, warmth. This is a
time to hold off on setting out starts; they're fine in the potting
shed/greenhouse anyway. I give them a shot of water, tell them their
turn will come, and go to spread compost.Our compost contains a high
proportion of chicken manure, so we accumulate it in one of the three
compost bins until about this time every year, then pull a
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Terrorizando el publico
A prime justification for surveillance – that it's for the benefit
of the population – relies on projecting a view of the world that
divides citizens into categories of good people and bad people. In that
view, the authorities use their surveillance powers only against bad
people, those who are "doing something wrong", and only they have
anything to fear from the invasion of their privac
We don't know what it says here
me晚上睡觉我的舌头被纳米分子散发的气动状态往外伸，不管你怎样去控制舌头，它都是向外伸，碰到牙齿，气动的非常厉害有些难受。过去我被隐
秘共产党虐的
时候骂父母骂的更厉害，隐共还控制着我的父母去配合着做试验。隐秘共产党用纳米分子控制着我打我父亲，扇脸扇了好多下。和老妈迎面走来，又用纳米分子控制
着我的吊，隐共说：”走一步，日一下，吊晃动一下。“老妈在拉屎，隐共又说：”日屁眼，带着屎日。老妈走过来，隐共又说：“往上翘着抠比。"我躺在那里，
隐共又说：”你手淫日你妈也."
并上图片。隐秘共产党又说：“把你的蛋往你妈比里面塞。”今天我被隐秘共产党用纳米分子控制着骂我妈，什么都骂随意骂，比如：“我草你妈了个比，你妈比，
滚你娘了个比等等。起因是我在沙发上睡觉，我妈唠叨我，我妈有种绵软的硬。老妈上厕所放了个大屁，隐共说：“你用嘴对着屁眼喝屁去。”并用纳米分子控制着
我想象成真实的那种
Medicina de las Plantas
Medicina de plantas Suplementos naturales para ayudar a conseguir
una mejor ... A continuación se presentan las plantas que
se pueda restablecer las funciones normales del estómago y del hígado o
que se proporciona demasiado daño no se hizo debido a "venenos
ingeridos" o intentos de suicidio. Leche Thysle La historia cuenta que
la planta Thysle leche se cree para dar la la
Medicine of plants
Not Finished....yet....Below are the plants that will restore the
normal functions of the stomach and or liver that is provided too much
damage was not done because of "ingested poisons" or suicidal attempts.
Milk Thysle The story goes that the milk Thysle plant was believed to
give the expectant mothersDandelionTurmeric Product A-8084An account was
set up for the readers of this blog.
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My concise definition of institutional education
Institutionally imposed "study" is unpaid forced labour done by
adults and minors. It is as dehumanizing as any regime of forced labour,
and it
is not only unpaid but it imposes life-long personal debt and health
deterioration. It's ancillary benefits (socializing) are are only
tolerated as a necessary management allowance.
Links to Denis Rancourt's essays about the student condition and
Links to Denis Rancourt's essays about the student condition and student liberation
Plato as the post-60s student: Rancourt’s only chance?
Need for and Practice of Student Liberation University Student for Sale
Concrete Accomplishments of Student Activism of the 1960s
Students: Plan your escape from academia before you enter it
CLASSE analysis of Quebec student movement tactics
And on transforming education:
ACADEMIC SQUATTING - A democratic method of
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Newest Member of the State Bar
This morning, Kory was sworn in as a member of the State Bar by
Judge Connie Kelley in Wayne County Circuit Court. It was a super nice
ceremony and Judge Kelley made it really personable. I loved it. Ron
was able to come to take pictures, Jennifer made it, and Angie got done
with her hearing just in time to make it. We are ran into a few other
attorney friends while down there.Here are some pi
The Bar Results Are In and..........
Kory passed! He got his results on Friday at around 300 PM.
Awesome news. I am taking him to be sworn in tomorrow in Wayne County.
He will be doing hearings the next day! Yay! I am bringing my camera,
so hopefully I have pics from that event soon.Had dinner with Rebecca
and Lesley at Howe's Bayou in Ferndale this week. It was super nice to
see both of them and my soup was awesome. Salad was
Suspense
Kory got notice today that bar results were mailed today, meaning
he should have them tomorrow!Once he gets those, I can start the process
to move. I cannot wait. I miss my family a lot. Sounds like Kurt is
getting a lot of things done though, so it will be less for me to figure
out once I get there. I have so much to do once he does get his
results though. Have to within 10 days of leaving ta
In Da House! The Jaco House
Kurt moved into the Jaco house on Sunday around 200 PM. Yay! The
pugs were excited to run around the yard and explore their new place. I
am relieved he is there and things are going well. He is now in the
process of obtaining a cell phone, getting utilities switched into his
name, and getting internet and satellite TV set up. I have only been
able to talk to him sporadically online and on the
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Hostage To Fear / Only The Truth Can Free Us
Both collectively and individually we are all a
hostage of fear and only the light of the truth can free us from this
self-imposed powerless and suffocating illusionary prison of self-doubt
and unworthiness. Fortunately we have courageous truth tellers in our
life continually reminding us of what the light of the truth can reveal:
Allen L RolandAs Chris Badenhorst correctly wrote in
The Final Option
The final option became a split second of
transcendence, an experience beyond the normal or physical level, and in
the process I experienced the timeless and fearless world of soul
consciousness where all answers are clear but can only be truly accessed
through love: Allen L Roland I have had many personal experiences of
the sensory sensation of being in the Unified Field of love and so
The 7th Stage Of Relationship Is Singing Your Own Song
The 7th stage of relationship is singing your own authentic
song from a place of celebration and service and in so doing we begin to
realize that we are part of something infinitely larger than ourselves ~
a loving plan in action. Our whole life is apparently a quest to find
our own true song and only through love can we find it for love not only
totalizes human energy but also individualizes i
Marina'S Story
Marina after meeting child in session
fourBorn in Ireland, 46 years old, catholic, breech birth who suffered
emotionally, sexual and physical abuse from father ~ Marina voluntarily
became my last private practice Skype client and in the process of
reading my Kindle book on Radical Therapy and doing its seven heart
centered self-healing sessions, Marina not only found the emot
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Official numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for April.
Click on "civilian labor force level" to see the numbers. 155,421,000
--- that is 155 million willing and able to work. If 92 million are out
of work the unemployment rate is %59. UPDATE: The government has shut
off access to the labor statistics demonstrating that the real
unemployment rate in this nation is 59%!So, to rec
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A3 Newsletter: Solitary Reflections Lead to Congressional Action (May 8, 2014)
(PHOTO: US Congressman Cedric Richmond)The Solitary Study and
Reform Act of 2014Today we are thrilled to announce that U.S.
Congressman Cedric Richmond has introduced a simple but visionary piece
of legislation that seeks to first study and then actively reform both
the federal and state use of solitary confinement to ensure it is used
effectively, infrequently, transparently, and Constitutionally
Albert Woodfox Speaks to the Experts
The essay featured below, Albert Woodfox Speaks to the Experts,
from the Why Am I Not Suprised? blog is reprinted in full with
permission of the author. 42 years since Albert was first put in
solitary, Amnesty International has renewed its call for Albert's
immediate release (view Amnesty's recent statement and essay). If you
have not yet done so, please sign the Amnesty petition today.(PHOTO: Alb
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Harnessed In Slums
Over 500 jhuggis (huts) destroyed in Vasant Kunj.
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How Unions Are Unfairly Scapegoated For Detroit's Woes
By MARC McDONALDThere are many reasons for the catastrophic
decline of the once-mighty U.S. auto industry over the decades. But it's
unfair and inaccurate to point the main finger of blame at unions, the
usual scapegoat.The world's two dominant auto-exporting nations are
Germany and Japan. The auto industries in those two nations are heavily
unionized. And what's more, unions in Germany and Japan
Cliven Bundy: The Real Welfare Leech
By MARC McDONALDI don't know much about the cattle business. But
I'd suspect that if one owns a cattle ranch, your biggest expense by far
is buying food for your cattle.Wingnut hero Cliven Bundy owns a
prosperous cattle business. His cattle get to graze for free on publicly
owned land. (That's right: all taxpayers, including you and me, are
subsidizing Bundy's business). He refuses to pay the $1 m
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NEWSWEEK: Israel Spying In The U.S. Hushed Up
Ummm...if you're a fan of this blog, you know I've been telling
you this for YEARS. Now, for those of you who only believe "mainstream
news":NEWSWEEK: Israel’s Aggressive Spying in the U.S. Mostly Hushed
UpToo bad mainstream "news" stops short of telling you the WHOLE
story:FOX NEWS BANNED 4-PART INVESTIGATIVE REPORT OF ISRAEL CONNECTION
TO 911(this was reported just after 911,
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Never Mind the Ethics - Get Children Reading
Today we are alarmed at the report in The Bookseller that Kobo and
Fast food chain McDonald’s are teaming with, Hodder Children’s Books
and National Literacy Trust (NLT) to give away ebooks to children when
they buy a Happy Meal Box at the fast food chain.Every Happy Meal box
will come with an e-book voucher, which will allow customers to download
a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton from Hodder Chil
HELLO! Books Are Digitally Different
So what will be the next technology must have and what will drive
its adoption? Will media come second and merely follow new technology?In
the last decade we have seen the transition from fixed location desktop
PCs, through luggable laptops, the life and death of the notepad, the
‘air’ laptops and the explosion of the tablet. We have seen single
functional devices such as the eink ereaders come an
Buy, Read and Then Return Your German eBook?
When we look at the Amazon dashboard we are often confused as why,
or how, there can be the odd one ebook return. After all you can see
everything you need on the screen, make your mind up and even sample the
content before you buy, so why is there a refund. The official Amazon
policy on returned eBooks is: 'Books you purchase from the Kindle Store
are eligible for return and refund if we receive
Do We Continue to Have Ketchup on Your Hands Today?
We first wrote over a year ago and asked, 'Does Publishing have
Ketchup on its Hands?' The article was about about the fast food give
away of books to children by MacDonald's. We were told by some that it
was the parent's choice, the food was not that bad and it was important
to reach children.Well since then we have all read many reports about
how childhood obesity is getting worse and is being
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On this day - May 5, 1877 - Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux Cross Into Saskatchewan To Escape Genocide By American Troops
On This Day (May 5, 1877) Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux Sitting Bull
refused to surrender to genocidal American troops and led his band
across the border into what is now Saskatchewan, Canada.Chief Sitting
Bull remained in exile in Saskatchewan (then part of the Northwest
Territories) for many years. His band lived near Wood Mountain, Sask.
Sitting Bull refused a subsequent pardon and the chance to retur
Harper Conservatives REFUSE Inquiry Into RCMP Report Of 1000 Murdered And Missing Aboriginal Women In Canada
Call it what you like. I call it what it is ..... racism."OTTAWA -
The Conservative government is resisting renewed calls for an inquiry
into murdered and missing aboriginal women and girls despite a media
report that suggests there may be hundreds more cases than previously
thought.Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney was asked Thursday to
finally call a inquiry in light of a report by the A
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Black Hawk Drone: Army’s Iconic Helicopter Goes Pilotless
The Army's most iconic helicopter is about to go pilotless.
Pentagon’s Superpowered Autopilot Will Do the Work of 5 Crew Members
The Pentagon's research arm is developing a sophisticated, drop-in
autopilot that can replace as many as five crew members in the cockpit
of a military aircraft, and turn the pilot into a high-level "mission
supervisor" issuing commands through a touch screen.
The Silent Hybrid Motorcycles the Pentagon Will Use for Stealth Raids
Special Forces teams are all about silently penetrating remote
areas and executing complex, lightning-fast raids. Now DARPA is
developing a new vehicle to soundlessly race commandoes to their
missions: stealthy, hybrid-powered motorcycles.
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Mullins on the Federal Reserve Scam and how they print money out of thin air! Its All Black Magic!
Former Library of Congress employee and emancipator of Ezra Pound(Nobel
Laureate) says that Bankers practice Black Magic and fool the world into
becoming their Debt Slaves.
Banksters also immorally pollute the city they live in, similar to pigs
wallowing in their own filth!
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Fort McMurray-Athabasca By-election
If the paucity of election signs up around my little neck of Fort
McMurray is any indication, the campaign for the June 30 by-election is
off to a slow start. On my way over to Timberlea to run some errands, I
only recall seeing 4 signs, and three of them were from the same
candidate. Not that I was especially looking for them but they didn't
exactly scream out at me either. I'm sure things wil
A Little Spring Bonanza
Prodded by milder temperatures and a touch of cabin fever, I
grabbed the binoculars and headed out for a walk along a pretty familiar
route I take. It takes me to a number of good birding areas....urban,
boreal forest and some marsh lands....a good mix to see a variety of
birds. I wasn't disappointed. It was a bit wet underfoot and the
weather couldn't decide if it wanted to be sunny or rainy bu
Hours
I didn't really need Stats Canada to tell me about this but it was
still interesting to see actual numbers. Yes, on average, Albertans
work more hours per week than anywhere else in Canada. What did
surprise me was the figure of 32.1 hours per week as I thought it would
be higher. No doubt this is because living where I do, long hours by
Canadian standards are just par for the course. It wo
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Rise of facebook marketing in Pakistan
Until a few years back we used to have closed groups and forums, which
gathered the like minded people and anyone targeting the online audience
would tap into that forum and market his/her services. So PakGamers ,
PakPassion initially even PakWheels used to be driven by members talking
about what they loved, people used to create marketing and sales
opportunities from within those discussions (s
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Getting back
I have been out of blogging for a long long long time, a lot of
things happening on personal front (including a little startup I have
ben doing my self). However during my absence I met a lot of people who
had followed GreenWhite at its peak, read the articles regularly.
I had hope there would be some one else who would come ahead and cover
everything going on and around us in the local tech world
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"Changing everything"
A year ago, two bombs left near the finish line of the Boston
Marathon killed 3 people and injured 264. As a result, this year in
Boston (and, I expect, all future years) was completely different in
many ways, all designed ostensibly to ensure security. But this wasn't
the first time a large group of people watching an event had been
bombed. Back in 1916 (see p. 3 of the link), a "Preparednes
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Davis City Council candidates Q&A
Two questions for the 2014 Davis City Council candidates:1. The
City’s unit labor costs* have been growing faster than the City’s
revenues have been growing for many years. Do you believe that is
sustainable?2. If you think the growing unit cost of labor is
unsustainable, what reforms, if any, to the City’s labor contracts would
you suggest the next City Council pursue to make these costs sustaina
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WSJ: Japan's Abe Moves to Bolster Military
Wall Street Journal Friday May 16 page 8:"Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe took a significant step toward removing six-decade old
constraints on Japan's military, a move that could enable Tokyo to play a
greater security role in an increasingly tense East Asia......Abe said
his government would kick of discussions to determine whether to change
the interpretation of the constitution to perm
Fed Up
Yes I am pretty fed up.The propagandists are actively working to
make Californians believe that their coast line has not yet been
contaminated by Fukushima radiation.People living in other west coast
states are also targeted but I see California as being the key focus of
the propaganda campaign.The aim of the campaign is to confuse the public
into thinking that the only threat from Fukushima is th
Atomic Energy and the Masculine Will to Power
An interesting headline:Osaki, T. (2014, May 9). Women’s group
launches bid to deny sex to men who are pro-war. Japan Times,
Available,http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/09/national/womens-group-launches-bid-deny-sex-men-pro-war/#.U25tNPldWSo[paraphrase]A
Japanese women’s group has launched a campaign for peace that makes sex
contingent on resistance to Japan’s growing militarization. Women
Unit 4 Bleeds Red May 7 and Again Today May 9
Unfortunately I left the screen shots from today at the office. I'll post a pdf of shots from both days Monday.
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Young Vs. Old: Let's Face Who The Real Enemy Is
By Manifesto JoeA recent cover story on the AARP Bulletin focused
on the subject of conflict between young and old in America. Other
publications, such as the right-wing libertarian "Reason" magazine,
would have people believe that the old are ripping off the young. Hey, I
want to know where my cut is -- I'm still waiting for all that
trickle-down from back in the '80s. (Always felt more
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Basics: Is that a good economic development deal? Using the Megadeals database
It's a familiar situation: business and government officials are
promoting a new economic development deal which naturally includes
subsidies for the investor. They may be touting a consultant's study
touting massive ripple effects and fantastic taxpayer return on
investment. Should you believe them?Of course not. Consultants, whether
they technically are working for the company or the government,
April Tax-Cast Now Available
The Tax Justice Network's Tax-Cast has just been released, with
stories on US states fighting against tax havens, an interview with
TJN's John Christensen, and a discussion of a new paper by Paris School
of Economics professor Gabriel Zucman's (yes, he's a student of
Piketty's) new paper estimating the amount of financial wealth held in
tax havens ($5.9 trillion in 2008, on the low end of most est
Everything You Need to Know About Tax Freedom Day®
Today, April 21, is 2014 Tax Freedom Day®, according to the Tax
Foundation. The Tax Foundation is not exactly known for unbiased
research, and its promotion of Tax Freedom Day® is no exception.The
Foundation claims that Tax Freedom Day® is "a vivid, calendar-based
illustration of the cost of government." In other words, instead of
saying that its analysts expect total taxes in the United
Reading Picketty
Like everyone else, it seems, I'm reading Thomas Piketty's (many
good links there, including the technical appendix) Capital in the
Twenty-First Century. I can't remember when I last looked forward to
reading a 650-page non-fiction book with such anticipation. I'll report
back soon if work doesn't intrude too much.In the meantime, take a look
at Paul Krugman's review of the book here, and the roun
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Kim Kardashian Flashes her Blue Underwear En Route to Met Gala—Take a Look!
Uh-oh! Kim Kardashian suffered a wardrobe malfunction before even
stepping foot on the red carpet!
According the source of the E! star was running late to the 2014
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala and accidentally
flashed her navy blue panties while rushing out of the Lanvin store in
New York and into her car with fiance Kanye West.
However, Kim will have to be extra careful wit
Make Pakistan Polio Free Country
Written by Sajjad Shaukat
Polio is a deadly virus with its crippling affects which paralyze the
children, and thus gives a greater blow to a nation. Discovery of
anti-polio vaccine has made it possible to eliminate the virus and make
the environment free of polio infection.
In the recent past, Indian government through its High Commissioner has
advised the Pakistani travelers visiting to Indian ci
Carlotta Gall & US Twofold Diplomacy towards Pakistan
Written by Sajjad Shaukat
Despite the fact that a number of strategic institutes and thinktanks
play a key role in formulation of American external policies, but
contradictory statements of the US president, high officials and media
have always reflected that the United States has been acting upon a
twofold diplomacy twards Pakistan.
In the last few years, while ignoring the responsibilities of th
Defeat Terrorists through the United Front
Written by Sajjad Shaukat
Although war against terrorism is quite different, as it is against an
invisible and ruthless enemy which does not respect any rule, yet we can
remember Shakespeare’s poetic expression which described war as ‘sons
of hell’ is even applicable today in Pakistan where terrorists’ violent
acts of destruction, fire and devastation have engulfed the entire span
of living and so
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UKIP - Sleepwalking the UK into Talmudic Servitude
UKIP is a notorious party operating in the UK. It is portrayed
by the media as some sort of racist 'nazi' organisation, but remarkably,
is afforded endless publicity by the same media which operates a 'no
platform' policy with anyone who rejects (or even questions) multi-culti
'political correctness'. In this respect alone, those who are familiar
with the absolute censorship of the UK media, sh
The Church of Rome is Dead
The Roman Catholic Church is a festering corpse which is only
being kept animate in order that it may be used as a battering ram for
the total destruction of Christendom. If anyone has any serious doubts
that the Church of Rome has been captured by the ancient Jewish enemy,
the double canonisation of the anti-Popes John Paul II and John XXIII by
the current imposters, Francis and Benedict XVI, s
Happy Saint George's Day!
Today is Saint George's Day. Saint George was a soldier in the
Roman Army, serving in his native Lydda (near the eastern shore of the
Mediterranean). Contrary to the lies of the anti-European BBC, Saint
George was Greek; he was definitely no Turk or other Asiatic. In Saint
George's time, Lydda was a part of the Roman Empire and the European
world.Saint George was a heroic soldier who was brave
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Lament for the Arcade
Nothing makes me feel like a fossilized old nerd like modern video
games. I just can't play most of them. It's not that I don't want to, I
just don't have the time (or want to devote the time) required.
I grew up in the arcade era with Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Defender, Karateka,
etc. I owned and played on a Coleco Adam, Commodore 64 (then a 128), and
migrated to IBM PC games through the 386. One
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Your wonderseat open thread
by liberal japonicus
How can you resist an article about Japanese toilets entitled "Backwash"? I know I can't.
I'm doing some work with a Yangon NPO for the next week so I'm not sure if next week's open thread is possible.
World-building is a literary value and a political act
by Doctor Science
In our discussion of the Hugo nominees we talked a little about Larry
Niven's Ringworld, which won the Hugo, Nebula *and* Locus awards -- but
not necessarily because it's a good *story* (in the sense of "plot").
What makes Ringworld an sf classic is the world-building.
World-building as a term is normally used only to talk about sf &
fantasy, but it's a perfectly v
Your unexpected cheesecake open thread
by Doctor Science
Back in the fall, my husband D bought a cheesecake (Southern Pecan) one
of his fencing students was selling as a school fundraiser. The
cheesecake arrived, frozen, and was apparently left in the freezer (at
the salle or at the student's house, I'm not sure which) for a month or
so, then was defrosted, then was frozen *again*. This past weekend it
finally reached D's hands, he bro
The problem with laptops
by Doctor Science
-- is that they're a necessity (like a car), but the people selling them
think they're a disposable, fungible luxury (like a TV).
What brings this on is Sprog the Younger's current laptop, a Samsung
NP365. It's over-heating and occasionally making funny noises. Of course
it's no longer under warranty. I said I'd open it up, look at the fan
and see if I could fix it -- we've done
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Maybe we could have an @OntarioPCParty online butthurt form, just to save time | #onpoli
Well, I guess when you're reduced to using whiny 21-year-olds for
staff, this is what you get.Not only lashing out at others for their own
fuckups, but doubling down on the stupidity and ignorance. I know, easy
targets, but hey, if they're going to leave the evidence there for
anyone to come along and use ...Teabagger Timmy's been having a rough
week, evidently. Getting called out on his bad math
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God's Dilemma: The reason God can't save the 21st century world.
- by Joyce BTwo thousand years ago, it might still be possible for
God to appear in 3D form to save the world. Today it would be nigh
impossible for God to do the same. So, if you have been praying for God
to appear, pray no more. You have only yourself to blame. God can't help
us until we, collectively as humans, do so. To illustrate:If God were
to appear before us today, which form would he take
Connecting USS San Francisco covert nuclear ops accident to 2004 Boxing day Tsunami.
- Amin FaseiPromote Peace my foot. Provocation more like it. War
drills lead to false flags just like Gulf of Tongkin Incident which
started the Vietnam War.US frigate USS Taylor (FFG 50) has entered the
Black Sea, according to the US Navy, as the Pentagon announces plans to
dispatch some 600 troops to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for
military exercises.The US claims the ship’s entry is “
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The Limits of Self-defense, the Threat of Violent Right-wing Extremism and the Job of Leviathan
One night, I'm being attacked in my home by a right wing extremist
neighbour, who doesn't like the anti-racism slogan on my door. He
catches me by surprise when I come home from this evening's grocery
shopping and, armed with a stick and bottle, he forces himself into my
hall as I unlock and open the door. Inside, he starts to push me inside,
yelling violent threats and hitting me. But I manage to
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Kazakhstan's Ancestral Apples In Trouble
We haven't had a post on fruit in a VERY long time.National
Geographic has a long article on apples and their birthplace in
northeastern Kazakhstan. They are ancestral to all the apples we know,
and they are endangered. A few excerpts:One of these threatened species,
Malus sieversii—a wild apple that Newton describes as "small but highly
colored with a very nice sweet flavor"—is one of t
Don't Believe Your Own Propaganda
The level and tone of propaganda coming out of Russia today vastly
exceed anything I recall from the Soviet Union. A quick look at the
absurd tweets from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@MFA_Russia)
and the bullying by Defense Minister Dmitry Rogozin (@DRogozin) should
convince anyone. They are far from alone; RT (formerly Russia Today) is
going hot and heavy. And no, I don’t think I’ll lin
Bits and Pieces - Cinco de Mayo Edition
I'm still writing about Ukraine and other nuclear things at
Nuclear Diner. I keep having ideas for great posts here, but real life
keeps getting in the way. Although I'm fairly far along on one.This is
why there is so much bitterness about language in Russia and the
countries it has dominated. Russia is the universal language, so it is a
favor to make it the dominant language in the schools. Why w
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Tornado Op-Ed in the WSJ
I've got an op-ed in today's WSJ. Here is an excerpt:What we can
say with some certainty is that the number of years with very large
tornado losses has actually decreased. Consider that from 1950 to 1970
the U.S. saw 15 years with tornado damage in excess of $5 billion a
year. From 1993 to 2013 there were only four such years, with three
since 2008.Read the whole thing here. The peer-reviewed pape
Graph of the Day: Energy Access Analogues
From this article on energy access in Africa in today's WSJ.
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My Readers Change The World! ObamaCare COBRA Gap Fixed
I wrote a few weeks ago about The Little-Known ObamaCare COBRA
Catch-22. I thought this issue was so important that I asked AOL Jobs
readers for help. I asked you to sign a petition I started to alert the
President to this issue. I asked you to tell the President to close the
gap. And you came through.Not only did you sign the petition, but some
of you took action to help. Members of the National
6 Ways Same-Sex Marriage Will Affect Florida Employees
There are multiple lawsuits pending in Florida challenging the
state's ban on same-sex marriage. There's one in Key West, one in Miami,
one in federal court in Tallahassee, and there are probably some more
out there. It's almost inevitable that the ban on gay marriage will be
overturned here soon.So why does an employment lawyer care about gay
marriage? Here are just some of the laws that will aff
Who Do I Complain To About Discrimination If I'm HR?
An AOL Jobs reader asked me: I am a minority female HR
professional who has been working in the field for 18 years. I have
faced race based discrimination, and sexual harassment continuously
during my career. I'm often hired into a management role based on my
degree, experience and my SHRM certifications, only to be hidden and
given no real responsibilities. Over the years I have learned to identi
70% Of Employers Think Your Social Media Posts Are Their Business
A well-respected management-side firm (and sometimes opposing
counsel of mine, I should add), Proskauer, released a study they did on
social media this week, and I found it quite disturbing from the
employee-side point of view. Their key finding:While nearly 90 percent
of companies use social media for business purposes and almost half
allow employees to use social media for non-business activitie
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Graduation
The last contractual duty of the academic year is to attend
graduation. We walk well over a thousand so the college rents a venue in
downtown Southern City. The CS faculty meets early for dinner, and
Southern Man went even earlier to do a little Bricktown geocaching. One
of the caches was a virtual tour of "Bricktown" and required that we
post the name and sculptor of this interesting pi
Spanish Inquisition Day Zero
This afternoon a group of professors and students from area
universities - and Southern Man - will head across the pond for two
weeks in Spain during which there will be much walking and exploring and
eating and drinking and geocaching (Southern Man has a bag of travel
bugs, some destined to stay and others to visit and return to their
owners in Southern State) and not the faintest hint of work or
Another Retirement Party
A long time professor is heading to the greener pastures of Not
Working and many higher-ups on campus dropped by to send him off... The
Retiree with Paul, the university president... ...and with our boss Tom,
the Dean of IT. Yes, there was cake! Tom and Max, who is the Dean of
Science and for whom Southern Man still teaches as a adjunct. The big
difference is that instead of driving across town to
Deep Breath...
Southern Man needs to take a deep, deep breath, because a lot is
about to happen... This is the last week of school: lots of final exams
and viewing of projects and grading and ending with graduation Friday
night in a large convention center downtown. We'll have 1700 or so march
across the state. Then Saturday morning Southern Man parks at the
airport and heads for Spain for two weeks of geocachin
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Did the Killing of Abu Bassir Lead to the First Lattakia Offensive?
by Matthew Barber
Make sure to view this amazing video published by Vice News, entitled
“Wolves of the Valley.” The video contains daring reporting by Aris
Roussinos (@arisroussinos) who entered Idlib to bring us an interesting
picture of the front-line in the conflict between ISIS and SRF fighters.
Vice’s posting of the video is here.
Roussinos also has an article about the situation, published
Abdullah ibn Zubayr Battalions of Deir az-Zor Reject Fighting ISIS
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Since the outbreak of the wider infighting between the Islamic State of
Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) and other rebel groups, some factions have
emerged with a definitive anti-fitna stance, insisting on neutrality.
The latest case is the Abdullah ibn Zubayr Battalions of Deir az-Zor
province, which is instead directing efforts to fighting regime forces
in Deir az-Zor city. Fro
Muhajireen Battalions in Syria (Part Two)
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Back in December I profiled a variety of battalions of Sunni foreign
fighters (part one). Here are some more to add to the list:
Katiba al-Bittar al-Libi
Logo of Katiba al-Bittar al-Libi
This group, which has existed at least since the summer of last year, is
the Libyan division of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS),
despite false rumours that the battalion ha
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Hard Men of Letters
Mary Beard’s insightful (and suitably uncomfortable) lecture on
the suppression of the public voice of women is a good starting point
for a more general discussion of oppressive language in the digital age.
This is no small matter of etiquette. Abuse is not everyone’s cup of
tea. While some revel in it, many others are put off from bothering to
contribute. This is not just an infringement of their
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Neocons Continue Push For War Against Iran
Top neocon propagandist Jonathan Tobin, writing online in
Commentary today argues that America’s ‘gift’ of the Iron Dome defence
system designed to counter rocket attacks from Palestinians in the Gaza
Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, does not mean that Israel should abstain
from attacking Iran if Israel believes Iran is close to a ‘nuclear
breakout’. Tobin writes:It’s not clear what, if anything, N
Another Push For War Against Iran
It has got to the point that the only way the US is likely to go
to war against Iran – albeit reluctantly – is if Israel attacks Iran
first. Any hope by the Zionists and their supporters of the US making a
pre-emptive strike against Iran have long gone.The Israeli-Palestinian
stand-off has reached a stalemate as far as talks are concerned. The
Israelis are never going to allow a Palestinian state
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I Need a Vacation
May 17, 2014
Since today and tomorrow will be sunny and warmer (sunny mid to high
sixties compared to rainy mid forties and fifties,) followed by
seventies and eighties for all of next week, I am taking a vacation from
the blog to get the gardens ready, planted and off to the best start I
can. After a week of cold, rain and darkness that feels like a bunch of
bricks on my brain, I need one.
B
Reaping the Whirlwind
May 10, 2014
This will be a short post this week as I have spent most of the day
looking at videos and pictures from the terrible Trade Union Building
fire that took so many lives in Odessa, Ukraine, over a week ago.
I do not know the people in those pictures and videos, but they are
horrifying. There was video of people in a crowd in front of the burning
building lobbing more fire bombs into th
Rendering Ourselves Extinct
May 3, 2014
“We are warming, and that comes with consequences. By the way, Earth
will survive this. People say ‘save the Earth.’ No, don’t worry about
Earth. Earth will be here long after we have rendered ourselves
extinct.” Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
From all the various articles I’ve read and all the videos I’ve watched
this week, this quote from Neil d
Just Keep on Gardening
April 26, 2014
Having decided the Empire has pretty much won the propaganda war over
Russia concerning the Ukraine and that, whatever is going to happen will
happen despite anything most of us can do about it, I’m doubling down
in the gardening department and catching up on things around here as
quickly as I can.
All of the starts I planted a couple of weeks ago are up, now, except
for those ta
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There Is No Valid Climate Science and No Competent Climate Debate
The WUWT site has a post on alarmist "pseudoscientists' claims
debunked", containing a statement that I find absolutely incompetent,
and to which I respond here: "Let us be as precise as They are vague.
The existence of the greenhouse effect is definitively established both
in theory and in experiment and needs no 'consensus' to prop it up." You
call that precise? The "gre
The Growing Religious Self-Righteousness of Science
Steven Goddard has a post, "My 35th Year as a Global Warming True
Believer". My response is the following: "Global warming" hype is just
the latest step in a creeping degeneracy of science--particularly in the
earth and life sciences--that has been going on since long before I was
born. As a physicist, I am astounded by the poor quality of
introductory university physics texts
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Wind in Aruba: where's the beef?
Aruba is a very nice tourist destination. It has sun, sand and
water. It also has trade winds, which lash the eastern shore with heavy
waves. These winds are the energy source for the Vader Piet wind farm,
on Aruba's southeast shore.
Vader Piet exists because of a coup of clever financing. Arranged
during the credit crisis of 2008, Jerome Guillet managed to get the
turbine vendor (Vestas)
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untitled
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy IF you think the
politicians, the beauracrats, the asshole pundits in DC or NY et al, et
al care about you --just REMEMBER VIET NAM!The Kent State, the Woodstock
generation was was a generation not afraid to take it to the streets,
the campuses, the media! Alas --neither Democrat nor GOP administrations
gave a shit! Viet Nam was in no way "improved"
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Eliminating the province's government: The Tim Hudak Plan
The Canadian Press might want to revise their piece. It's all part
of Hudak's larger goal of eliminating the province's projected
$12.5-billion deficit by 2016 — a year before the Liberals say
they can balance the books.
No. Cutting the 100 000 public sector jobs effectively elimates the
Public Service in Ontario, and with it the ability of the government to
do, well, just about anything.
Henchmen
The man really does have henchmen in the most Hollywood sense. You
know, the talentless sycophants that the diabolical characters in every
plot seem to attract, who end up causing more problems than they solve?
Yeah, that's our boy Harper's pals. Can you even begin to imagine what
they'd do if they had competent people? How much of their time is spent
trying to mitigate damage caused by the
Fighter problems
I'm gonna take a wild guess and suggest that the new fighter
report is somewhat less than totally and utterly enthusiastic about the
flying rainbow of awesome that the F-35 is supposed to be. The Cons
simply don't like providing the public information about things that
make them look bad, poor things.
A quick thought: Canada's ancient fleet of CF-18s have undergone
upgrades to their weapons
You dumb fucks
Mr. Biden, Mr. Obama, Mr. Putin, and the assorted malcontents
running about hunting rags and mismatched surplus NATO camo uniforms,
where do you think this all leads?
Absolute worst case, Russia and the US/NATO get into a shooting war over
Ukraine. Even if it doesn't go nuclear, you can bet it means the
rubblisation of Ukraine and maybe a NATO and Russian base or two, a
fracked global economy,
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Saturated fat IS good for you, but how much polyunsaturated fat do you need?
Working on the "Real Food" AUT dietary guidelines submission it
became clear that neither the epidemiology of the lipid hypothesis nor
the RCT experiments testing it were designed to separate the supposed
artery-clogging effect of saturated fat from the purported heart-healthy
effect of polyunsaturated fat.
What we had was a series of comparisons of higher SFA and lower PUFA vs.
lower SF
AUT's Submission on Proposed "Changes" to New Zealand's Dietary Guidelines
For the last wee while I've been helping Prof Grant Schofield and
his team write a response to the New Zealand dietary guidelines (low
fat, high grain, no SFA).The paper is the PDF linked to in this
post.http://profgrant.com/2014/04/23/the-real-food-guidelines/The first
time I've had my name on a scientific submission, and a fine one it is
too, with the collected wisdom of a bunch of scientists fr
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Adding alt, title attribute and caption for photos uploaded to Blogger
I already have a post on uploading pictures in the HTML mode and
adding alt attribute to the picure, so to make it complete, let's make a
post to explain to show step by step how you can add alt and title
attributes as well as caption in the COMPOSE mode.(alt attribute of the
form alt="some text" will cause the "some text" to display when if for
any reasons the picture cannot b
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