Saturday, September 10, 2016

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Tom Hanks and Ellen DeGeneres bring Woody and Dory to life in Pixar-off
Pixar worlds collided on the set of The Ellen DeGeneres Show when Tom Hanks and Ellen DeGeneres reprised their famous roles as the voices of Woody from Toy Story and Dory from Finding Nemo. The two made the audience close their eyes and talked their way through a very believable meeting between Andy's toy cowboy and a very forgetful fish. SEE ALSO: Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres wreak havoc a
Pietro the Cat rescued from Italy earthquake rubble after 16 days
After Romeo the dog and Gioia the cat, it was time for Pietro, another cat, to be rescued from the rubble of Amatrice, central Italy, 16 days after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake. SEE ALSO: Romeo the dog pulled alive from Italy earthquake rubble after 9 days Firefighters yesterday found Pietro, who was believed to be dead, when they heard a weak miaowing while accompanying the cat's owners to recover
The EU this week: Germany gives up on hard targets, Turkey plans 80 coal stations, EU dithers on Paris.
The current state of play in the EU, thanks to the GWPF: The Germans have quietly given up on their own hard climate targets. They have 30% renewables, the most expensive electrons in the world, and their emissions are about the same as five years ago. The EU, climate champion, can’t even agree among the member states about how to ratify the Paris Agreement. Meanwhile the Turks are planning to bu
5,300 Wells Fargo Employees Fired Over 2 Million Phony Accounts
Via: CNN: Everyone hates paying bank fees. But imagine paying fees on a ghost account you didn’t even sign up for. That’s exactly what happened to Wells Fargo customers nationwide. On Thursday, federal regulators said Wells Fargo (WFC) employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers knowing it […]

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The Obama Administration Temporarily Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the hundreds of Native protestors who have joined them in rural North Dakota won a huge but provisional victory in their quest to stop the Dakota Access pipeline, as the U.S. government announced late on Friday afternoon that it was voluntarily halting work on the project. The triumph tasted all the sweeter because it had followed so closely after a seemingly imm
9/11 tapes reveal raw and emotional Hillary Clinton
We partnered with WNYC to look back at Clinton’s time at Ground Zero – a far cry from the controlled figure now a step away from the presidency It was 26 August 2003, almost two years since 9/11, and the sickening plume of smoke that hung over Ground Zero in lower Manhattan had long since dissipated. But steam was rising from the steps of city hall, three blocks away, where Hillary Clinton was ve
The US Government Has Sent This Guy 300 Joints Each Month for 34 Years
Irvin Rosenfeld smoking a joint. Image courtesy of Irvin Rosenfeld If Irvin Rosenfeld had to guess, he'd say he's smoked about 135,000 joints since 1982—roughly ten a day, every day, for 34 years. Despite a cannabis habit that would probably kill Snoop Dogg, the 63-year-old Floridian leads a fairly normal life: He's a senior stockbroker at a large securities firm, who spends every Saturday volunt
Pep Guardiola: ‘I spoke to Zlatan Ibrahimovic face to face. He used his book’
• Manchester City coach hits out at remarks Ibrahimovic made in autobiography • Former Barcelona colleagues meet again in Saturday’s Manchester derby Pep Guardiola has paid tribute to Zlatan Ibrahimovic as a player while expressing disappointment at the way the striker has used the media to air his grievances instead of fronting up. Related: David de Gea: ‘Zlatan is very big. He’s even more impos

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Time crystals might exist after all
(Phys.org)—Are time crystals just a mathematical curiosity, or could they actually physically exist? Physicists have been debating this question since 2012, when Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek first proposed the idea of time crystals. He argued that these hypothetical objects can exhibit periodic motion, such as moving in a circular orbit, in their state of lowest energy, or their "ground state
DNA Reveals Giraffes are 4 Species--Not 1
Finding could alter conservation strategies for long-necked animals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
DNA Reveals Giraffes are 4 Species--Not 1
Finding could alter conservation strategies for long-necked animals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe
Nobody understands why deep neural networks are so good at solving complex problems. Now physicists say the secret is buried in the laws of physics.

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Ellen and Britney Spears Help Louisiana
Ellen and fellow Louisianan Britney are helping with relief efforts for the state's devastating floods. See how their work is affecting one school in particular. From: TheEllenShow
An Emotional Surprise for an Orlando Survivor
While recovering from the Orlando nightclub shooting, Tony Marrero found strength in Katy Perry's music. Watch the touching surprise that only Ellen could arrange. From: TheEllenShow
L'acrobate des toits de Paris
Cette Parisienne fait l'acrobate sur les toits de Paris. Elle pirouette à 30 mètres du sol. Elle marche sur la tête des monuments. Cast: mylittle , francois peyranne , Maxime Phedyaeff , Thanh Long BACH and isaac mazeran
Long Term Parking
An airport parking lot in Los Angeles has become an improvised village of airline workers. By Lance Oppenheim. Read the story here: nyti.ms/2bZfIeU Cast: The New York Times - Video , Lance Oppenheim and Voyager

The EnvironmentaList   

The Profanity of the Profanity Peak Wolf Pack Massacre
The only realistic solution to this conflict is to retire the grazing allotments on public lands
The Bakas, National Forests, and the Conservation Conundrum
Dispute between WWF and Survival International highlights how some conservation efforts continue to displace Indigenous peoples
US Beekeepers Fear for Livelihoods as Anti-Zika Toxin Kills 2.5m Bees
‘It kills everything’: conservationist warns over threat to other animals
Montana’s Newest State Park Signals Shift from Extraction to Recreation
In a state once dominated by mining and logging, outdoor recreation is now a bigger revenue generator
 

@ the chalk face   

What is planning time to a teacher?
One of the things I remember most about teaching in Maryland roughly 15 years ago was the amount of time I had to do my job. In fact, I had so much time to actually teach, plan, and grade during the day, with a class of 32 fifth graders, that I actually took on a […]
The contradictions of reading as emancipation in the #edreform era
From Douglass: I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. It was a grand achievement, and I prized it highly. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom…I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at […]
#Walmart is a terrible store and terrible for schools #backtoschool
I agree with all of the WTU’s points here regarding Walmart’s well-financed efforts to undermine public education. Their latest back to school gimmick is a cynical ploy to feign support for public school teachers, while offering very little of actual value in return. A quote from a charter school supporter is particularly interesting: “All of […]
A [partial] itemized list of my #backtoschool purchases UPDATED
Below is a list of what I’ve bought to date for the new school year. I thought I’d share it to underscore the amount of preparation that some of us do, even before we step foot in our classrooms and make an accurate appraisal of what we actually do and don’t need to replace. I’d […]
 

The Rules of Exposition  

If you say you "over-exaggerated"...
If you say you "over-exaggerated" it means you still think you should have exaggerated, just not quite so much.
 

A Closer Look: Jody Paterson   

*Posted on Facebook - good fun 
I felt a quick flash of annoyance during a swim this past weekend at Thetis Lake when a group of young people on a raft of floaties cranked up their music a little too much. I then felt an immediate and sobering flash of alarm that a bunch of mild-mannered young people having a little fun in the sun had annoyed me. Could it be that Cranky Capital Regionite Syndrome is already upon me, a mere thre
 

A.E.Brain   

In a Universe next door...
Things to come. Handley Page H.50 Heyfords escorted by Westland Pterodactyl Vs, somewhere over the North Sea. Painting by Daniel Bechennec, Fana d'Avation magazine cover, April 2010
 

Activist Teacher   

* Quick - but telling 
Truth about US criminality in the Middle East is spelled out by Donald Trump. Source: LINK.
Will York University in Toronto go along with this latest attack by organized groups?
York U staffer under investigation for anti-Semitic posts Toronto police investigate teacher’s comments at Al-Quds Day rally I am very concerned by these and all such select attacks against employees, especially in the education sector, based on an employee's expression outside of work. I have reviewed the posts of Nikolaos Balaskas, which are the pretext for this particular attack,
The Queen of War
Muricans: Those of you who will vote for Hillary Clinton will vote for the greatest risk of more domestic instability and violence, and for the greatest risk of major increased wars and destruction. It's that simple. Any other vote will be a more humanistic and self-preserving one. The Queen of War is not the right choice.
 

Allen L Roland's Weblog   

Biden Dellivers Message To Turkey ~ It'S Not Personal , It'S Strictly Business
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand It was a scene straight out of the Godfather as US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Turkey to announce that we would directly support NATO member Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, while in July Turkey's President ErdoÄŸan barely survived a military coup, which is widely believed to have enjoyed US support. Biden’s reversal was at the same
America'S Dark Side Is Hillary'S Cross Of Iron
A leaked Hillary Clinton email confirms that the Obama administration, with Hillary at the helm, orchestrated a civil war in Syria to benefit Israel. See story ~ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/clinton-email-we-must-destroy-syria-for-israel/ America's Cross of Iron speech was immortalized by President Eisenhower in 1953 as well as his farewell address to the nation in 1961 and he correctly
Fifth Force Of Nature Is A Unified Field Of Love And Soul Consciousness / An Urge To Unite That Exists Beyond Time And Space
“ If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe ,” says UCI professor of physics & astronomy Jonathan Feng, including what holds together galaxies such as this spiral one, called NGC 6814. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt. You can well imagine my excitement when I recent
Singing Your Own Song / A Source Of True Joy And Belonging
The Robin doesn't sing because it's happy ~ it's happy because it sings. And this is the true source of my deepest joy ~ that I am singing my own song, as well as being in service and empowering others to sing their own song. In singing my own song, I have integrated with a universal chorus and we are all making a difference on this planet. In that sense, standing alone and singing your song is r
 

Amused Cynicism   

Mother Theresa Was No Saint
Instead she was a sadistic religious fanatic .
Thoughts on Health Care
The NHS is supposedly running out of money, so much so that one NHS body has decided to withhold treatment to obese people and smokers : The Vale of York clinical commissioning group (CCG) will make people wait for up to a year for treatment for non-life-threatening conditions such as hip and knee replacements if their body mass index is 30 or higher. adult smokers will have elective surgery post
 

Angola 3 News   

Albert Woodfox in San Francisco on Sept. 7 and in Chicago on Sept. 21
September 7: Albert is speaking in San Francisco, California on Wed. Sept. 7, 7pm at 2969 Mission St. For more information, please visit the ANSWER Coalition website . September 21: Albert is speaking in Chicago, Illinois at 6pm, at Gallery 400, at 400 S. Peoria Street. For more information, see flyer above and visit the event's Facebook and Eventbrite pages.
VIDEO: Albert Woodfox recieves Arthur Kinoy Award from National Lawyers Guild
2016 #Law4thePeople Convention Keynote Address (8/4/16) from National Lawyers Guild on Vimeo . On August 4, Albert Woodfox received the Arthur Kinoy Award from the National Lawyers Guild at the organization's convention in NYC . In this video, Albert is introduced at 26:00 and then comes onto the stage to receive the award and begins to speak at approximately 33:00
October 3: Albert Woodfox to speak at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, LA
On Monday, October 3, as part of Southern University Law Center's 2016-2017 Speakers Series, Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 will be speaking about: "Use of International Laws and Coalitions in Justice Movements / Prison Reform." The event will be held from 12-1 pm in 129 A.A. Lenoir Hall at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
 

ArmsControlWonk   

DPRK Missile Designations
North Korea tested three Nodong ballistic missiles, which means I am going to be treated to three days of the same penis joke on Twitter. No. Dong. I get it. The thing is, “Nodong” is our name for their missile. That’s right kids, we call it the Nodong. They don’t. So, they aren’t idiots. And there is no …
The Enduring Value of the CTBT
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is turning its attention to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty for the first time since 1999, when it held the briefest of hearings on the Treaty before fast-forwarding it to the Senate, which rebuked President Bill Clinton by denying its consent to ratification. The vote was mostly along party lines …
Lessons Learned from Eliminating WMD
If by some chance you haven’t already heard, the Nonproliferation Review is holding an event at the Washington, DC offices of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) this coming Monday, September 12 from 1 to 3 pm local time. We’ll be introducing a new special double issue on lessons learned from the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. Four of the authors …
KN-11 and THAAD
North Korea has now tested what appears to be a two-stage, solid-fueled ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to more than 1,000 km, probably much more. I would have thought that would garner some attention. North Korea’s new ballistic missile, which the US calls the KN-11, is a technically submarine-launched ballistic missile. But …
 

Big Dan's Big Blog   

Sgt David Clarke Of Milwaukee Gives Speech At RNC On July 18, Then Milwaukee Cop Shoots Black Guy August 13 In Milwaukee, Then Sgt David Clarke Becomes FOX's On-The-Scene Police Expert: HOW CONVENIENT!!!!!!
July 18 unknown Milwaukee black cop (who seems to hate blacks btw...) gives speech at RNC: August 13, about a month later, Milwaukee cops shoot and kill black guy: Guess where the shooting occurrred? In Milkwaukee, where SGT DAVID CLARKE is from! The same guy who gave a speech at the RNC a month ago! And guess who conveniently becomes FOX's "on the scene police expert"? SGT DAVID CLARKE
 

Cherchez la Verite   

For any of those who think that Colin Kaepernick is some kind of a traitor and/or a disgrace to America, read the real truth below. It exposes a little known event in American history which took place when the young United States decided to grab Canada from the British Empire. It is something never mentioned in U.S. schools.
Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem is a Celebration of Slavery Before a preseason game on Friday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” When he explained why, he only spoke about the present: “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people
Paul Craig Roberts explains the origins of Labor Day versus what it is today. Most Americans know little of the story ...including the blogger, who hopes you will also visit his preceeding post with an additional little known story of U.S. history.
Labor Day June , 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Paul Craig Roberts Labor Day—what is it? Perhaps not many Americans any longer know, so here is my explanation. In my time Labor Day was the unofficial end of summer, because school began after Labor Day. Today school begins almost a month before. When I was in school that
 

Creekside   

Electoral Reform Road Trip
Last week IPSOS passed on their rather depressing survey news to the ERRE committee that only 3% of Canadians were following electoral reform at all closely and those 3% were mostly wealthy educated older dudes. Pretty sure that's going to change in the next few weeks. Here in BC, there's over 30 electoral events - the ones from today on are listed below. If you can't make any of these, you can h
Dear Postmedia Editorial Board
This : is not an adequate response or apology for what was previously published in that same space by the Postmedia Editorial Board on August 24th : "[Elizabeth] May must renounce anti-Israel resolutions ". Excerpted : You are not RebelMedia. You are not some partisan advocacy organization that can pass off the blame for this appalling libelous attack on some hapless newbie book reviewe
Balancing jobsjobsjobs with destroying the planet
Brilliant one minute speech New Zealand MP James Shaw made to an almost empty house. .
Loopholes and Libya
Really? Because a mere two weeks ago, Steven Chase was reporting: Ottawa rewrites mandate for screening arms exports "The Canadian government has quietly watered down its own mandate for screening the export of military goods, rewriting parts of the only substantive public statement available on Ottawa’s responsibilities for policing foreign sales." Previous policy on military exports :
 

DAMMIT JANET!   

Shock and Gore: The Plan to Shove Yucky Images in ALL Our Faces
Chances are, if you've seen a disgustingly gory anti-choice ad, truck, postcard, billboard, or display, the Fetal Gore Gang is behind it. DJ! has covered their various stunts , most recently, their efforts to force city buses to carry their deliberately deceptive ads . The gang runs the ongoing Genocide Awareness Project, an incredibly offensive campaign -- often foisted on university campuses --
Public Money for Fake Clinics (An ongoing series)
Here at DJ! one of our aims is to defund and disrupt the operations of fake clinics, aka crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs). Their outrageous lies, manipulation, sneakiness, and slut-shaming are well documented. They've been around a long time in North America and are somewhat cannier here than they used to be thanks to relentless investigations. But they're relatively new in Ireland, where just a fe
Lies, Hate, and Bus Ads
This is the ad that the fetal gore gang is trying to force onto buses in Hinton and Grande Prairie , AB, after Peterborough, ON caved to their threats. Perhaps there are other cities targetted; we don't know. Note that this is a departure for them. This is the banner they dropped over a busy highway in Hamilton, ON. And here's the fuzzed-out-for-public-consumption sample of the postcards they stuf
Fake Clinic Update: Two Fewer In Canada, Irish Health Minister "Sickened"
Crisis pregnancy clinics, aka fake clinics , are going through a bit of rough spot. We reported on HInton's fake clinic being turned down for a community grant . They'll have to downsize as a result. In Campbell River, BC, the fake clinic closed down entirely in March. So did the fake clinic in Prince Edward County, Ontario. (From Facebook.) Meanwhile in Ireland, another undercover investigation r
 

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Update: Earthquake in Italy 241 Perished
Update from earlier Italy earthquake death toll drops to 241 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-earthquake-death-toll-drops-1.3735050 August 25 2016 How Canadians can help victims of the quake in Italy http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/how-canadians-can-help-victims-of-the-quake-in-italy-1.3042454 How to help the victims of the Italy earthquake http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/world/iyw-italy-earthquake-
August Index 2016
Update: Earthquake in Italy 247 Perished Earthquake in Italy Filed under: Archives
Earthquake in Italy
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake followed by a series of aftershocks has hit central Italy. The worst hit towns were believed to be Accumoli, Amatrice, Posta and Arquata del Tronto, a spokesman for the Italian fire department Luca Cari told Reuters. The tremor was felt across Italy, from Bologna in the north to Naples in the south. There have been dozens of aftershocks. Strong shockwaves were felt as f
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Fort McMurray Adventures   

It's Really Sad The Things Some People Get Offended Over
Politics aside, I try to not delve in to too many controversial issues. I did a lot of that with my Nunavut blog, especially when it came to issues surrounding the seal hunt and traditional culture and if you go to the proverbial well too many times, you end up opening the door to all sorts of trolls and nut jobs. Let's just say that I won't be getting a Christmas card from anti-sealing activist
Out of the Ashes
A stretch of rainy, windy and generally unpleasant weather had kept me cooped up inside for a few days so I jumped at the opportunity to head out yesterday to stretch my legs and enjoy what turned out to be a pretty decent day. One of my regular birding routes I follow takes me by a section a of a neighbouring subdivision that was hit hard by the fires back in May and while it felt great to be ab
Oompah Loompah Doompedee Do
The film adaption of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" came out not too long before I was born and has long remained one of my favourite childhood movies. (The 1964 Roald Dahl book is quite likely one of the first fantasy-type books I read when I was learning to read on my own.) Its main character was a quirky, blue-eyed figure who made a teachable moment without sounding preachy.
Anticipation
It seems that we had a really short summer on account of all the drama back in May. The past few days I've really started to notice the daylight getting shorter. I still get home before the sun sets (at a little after pm) but that won't last too much longer). And while it may mean that fall is around the corner, it also means that the upcoming concert season is fast approaching as well. With the
 

GEEZERPOWER   

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