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Filmmaker unknowingly captures stunning drone wedding photo
Looks like drone wedding photography is cool even when it's
accidental. Travel filmmaker Brandon Li was reviewing still photos from a
drone session when he stumbled across an aerial shot that couldn't have
been more perfect if it were intentional. SEE ALSO: 17 high-tech ways
to make your wedding day even more memorable "[I have] no idea who [the
people in the photo] are, but I assume they were pr
Sarah Silverman and Bill Maher admonish Gary Johnson supporters
Sarah Silverman and Bill Maher are not pleased with the remaining
"Bernie Bros." On Friday night's episode of Maher's Real Time, the two
chastised voters who switched their loyalties to Libertarian candidate
Gary Johnson after Bernie Sanders lost his bid for the Democratic
nomination. "[Sanders] needs an ally in office. That's why I don't
understand these 'Bernie or bust' people," Silverman said.
Gigantic dinosaur footprint found in Mongolia
Palaeontologists have identified a prehistoric Titanosaur footprint
that is the size of a human torso. Like something from a Godzilla movie,
the enorm...
World's deepest underwater cave revealed
Divers have discovered an underwater cave in the Czech Republic which
descends to a depth of 1,325ft. Venturing through cramped, pitch black
corridors...
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Nigel Farage to coach Donald Trump before next presidential debate
Former Ukip leader flies to US to meet Republican nominee following
appearance together in Mississippi in August The former leader of Ukip,
Nigel Farage , has flown to the US to coach the Republican presidential
nominee, Donald Trump , for his next debate with Hillary Clinton .
Farage, who announced he would step down as leader of Ukip less than two
weeks after the country voted to leave the Euro
The last six days proved Donald Trump is dangerously unfit for the presidency
The lesson of the Machado saga: America’s enemies would find Trump
predictable and easy to control. The last six days proved Donald Trump
is dangerously unfit for the presidency. The problem isn’t that Trump is
cruel, though he is. The problem isn’t that Trump is boorish, though he
is. The problem isn’t that Trump is undisciplined, though he is. The
problem is that Trump is predictable and contro
Clean eating trend can be dangerous for young people, experts warn
Mental health specialists say following ultra-healthy diets could have
negative impact on people at risk of eating disorders Mental health
experts are warning of the risks of the increasingly popular “clean
eating” dietary trend, which is leaving a growing number of teenagers
very thin and even at risk of dying when taken to extremes. One
nutritionist said she had been contacted by a girl as youn
Monica Lewinsky was not “violated” — and Rudy Giuliani’s sleazy claims minimize the seriousness of sexual abuse
(Credit: AP/Gerald Herbert/Evan Agostini/Cliff Owen) Just when you
think this election season can’t get any worse, Team Trump has decided
to start doing what right-wingers are always accusing feminists of
doing: lodging false accusations of sexual abuse, in this case at Bill
Clinton. Well, really more at Hillary Clinton, who Donald Trump seems to
believe is the person mainly culpable for whatever
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Famous Frog Toughie Dies, Sending Species to Extinction
The tree frog's loss warns of other extinctions, says the photographer who featured the animal in his Photo Ark project.
More Evidence for an Ocean inside Pluto
A simulation of Sputnik Planum's formation supports the idea of a deep, salty ocean -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
For the First Time, Bees Declared Endangered in the U.S.
Seven species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bee, decimated by invasive species and habitat loss, are now federally protected.
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Stephanie Gilmore - The Tempest.
Steph Gilmore, Inside The Tempest. It’s hard to go past Indonesia for a
strike mission in the middle of the liturgical year. We scoured the
archipelago from the comfort of our office chairs in search of a wave
that compliments Steph’s particular set of skills. Steph was after “cute
slabs” – the definition of which you’ll discover in due course—and
while we weren’t blessed with days of waves, the
President Obama on Deep-Sea Diving and One Unimpressed Seal (Exclusive) | National Geographic
President Obama and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia
Earle talk about a shared interest in diving after the president created
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"Hospital Head Doctor"
Cast: Dean Fleischer-Camp
Miley Cyrus Hosts the Show!
Ellen called a very special guest to fill in for her while she was
under the weather. Watch the music superstar try her hand at hosting!
From: TheEllenShow
The Corbett Report
Interview 1213 – Afghanistan 15 Years Later with Michel Chossudovsky
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15 years later, the US and its NATO allies still have troops in
Afghanistan with no plans on leaving. We were told this was about 9/11
and Osama Bin Laden, but these were lies. So why are the troops still
there? What was the war in Afghanistan really about? Michel Chossudovsky
of the Centre for Research
The EnvironmentaList
Will the Aviation Sector’s Planned Carbon Offset Scheme Help Curb Emissions from Air Travel?
Critics say focus on offsets rather than reductions gives the industry license to continue polluting
Drought Leaves Paraguayan Caimans in Peril
A wildlife crisis on the Pilcomayo River spurs “futile” rescue effort by citizens
Chromium-6: ‘Erin Brockovich’ Chemical Threatens Two-Thirds of Americans
New report finds 200 million people exposed to toxic drinking water
7 Popular Foods That Might Disappear Because of Climate Change
Search is on for ancient or near-extinct crops that might be better suited for this new reality
The Rules of Exposition
Heart and Mind
Sentences in development: I'm something of a monetarist at heart. To my
mind, even if monetary balances are not the cause of recessions, they
must nonetheless be evidence. That doesn't work. Maybe this: I'm
something of a monetarist at heart. Even if monetary balances are not
the cause of recessions, they must nonetheless be evidence. Moving on.
Literacy skills
Found this in the new 70-page PDF from the Harvard Business School
Survey on U.S. Competitiveness, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided :
Younger cohorts of U.S. workers have higher literacy scores than older
cohorts in absolute terms, reflecting U.S. skills improvement over time.
But workers elsewhere have improved even faster. American workers from
earlier generations are more literate than t
A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
Squeeze 'em until it hurts: The hostile takeover of the average air traveller experience
I love almost everything about a life with lots of travel in it. But
the airport and flying experience is one notable exception. I’m just
back from flights in and out of Orlando, Florida, where I went for two
weeks to visit family. I've been travelling quite a bit these past five
years, and what becomes clearer with each passing flight is that the air
industry service model is to make us suffer s
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
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,
Dear Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
as I posted earlier to Facebook... Dear Chinese Premier Li Keqiang: On
your visit to Canada, please make a point of publicly reminding Prime
Minister Trudeau that Canada needs to be far more attentive to its
international human rights obligations. As you know, Canada's jails are
overcrowded with citizens. The bail system systemically denies
constitutional rights. Physical isolation that
US “sue Saudis for 911 law” would be a geopolitical tectonic shift because…
New law approved by Congress on September 9 violates international law, would destabilize the US regime By Denis G. Rancourt
Must Watch video::: The real reason that Donald Trump is "unelectable"
Truth about US criminality in the Middle East is spelled out by Donald Trump. Source: LINK.
Allen L Roland's Weblog
World Peace Message From Keeper Of Secred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations,
asks us to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has happened to
America but also offers a very important message about a solution to
turn around these terrible times including justice for the Palestinians.
His words should be heeded for they are in essence the same as mine ~
Peace begins with me ~ go within and find you
The Debate We Should Have ~ Trump , Stein And Clinton
The true progressive voice that should be heard in the 2016 sham
Presidential debates is Jill Stein who through the magic of video and
the assistance of Amy Goodman joins the debates as the only true
progressive and anti-establishment voice of the people and instead of
throwing mud offers concrete political proposals and solutions versus
the political posturing of a deeply tarnished Clinton and t
After 15 Years / 9/11 Unanswered Questions Still Smoldering
Like a giant smoldering edifice the official 9/11 story is chock full
of holes in which individuals were not held responsible for their
actions, the truth was continually short-circuited and much information
was based on secondhand C.I.A. and Pentagon “torture” reports. Over 80%
of Americans still rightfully reject the official 9/11 story: Allen L
Roland, PhD " The 9/11 Commission now tells us th
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 Erdoğan
barely survived a military coup, which is widely believed to have
enjoyed US support. Biden’s reversal was at the same
Amused Cynicism
Hillary versus Donald
Scott Alexander compares Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump : Which of
the candidates in this election are millennarian? If Sanders were still
in, I’d say fine, he qualifies. If Stein were in, same, no contest. But
Hillary? The left and right both critique Hillary the same way. She’s
too in bed with the system. Corporations love her. Politicians love her.
All she wants to do is make little tweaks
General Election Prediction
Neil Kinnock is not a fan of Jeremy Corbyn : Former Labour leader Neil
Kinnock has given a stark warning about the re-election of Jeremy
Corbyn. Speaking to the BBC’s Panorama programme, Lord Kinnock said:
“Unless things change radically, and rapidly, it’s very doubtful I’ll
see another Labour government in my lifetime.” At the last election,
Labour got 232 seats, 98 less than the Tories who got
Government treats religion as just ‘fairies, goblins and imaginary friends’
Baroness Warsi complains : Religion is still viewed in government
circles as little more than a parade of “fairies, goblins and imaginary
friends” despite claims that it would now “do God”, according to
Britain’s former minister for faith. Baroness Warsi said there is still
misunderstanding and hostility towards religion in “ever secular”
Whitehall circles, despite efforts to change the culture.
Angola 3 News
Victoria Law, The Nation: These Women Are Demanding a Voice in the Criminal Justice Conversation
( PHOTO: The Council at Cucho's Justice Center in Los Angeles. )
Check out this new article by author and longtime prison activist
Victoria Law , entitled: These Women Are Demanding a Voice in the
Criminal Justice Conversation "The movement to reform the criminal
justice system is still dominated by men and politicians. This group of
incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women is changing tha
NOLA October 1: Solitary Gardens Unveiling with Albert Woodfox and others
Solitary Gardens Unveiling Plant the future. Honor the past. WHEN:
Saturday, October 1st 5-6:30pm WHAT: Please join Albert Woodfox, Malik
Rahim, Nana Sula, Vaku and jackie sumell for the 3-year commemoration
of Herman Wallace’s freedom after 41-years of unjust captivity. Project
unveiling, tree planting ceremony, special guest speakers and
presentations. WHO: SOLITARY GARDENS is a public ar
Albert Woodfox speaking in Chicago IL on Sept. 18 and 21
Sunday, Sept. 18, 2pm at Trinity United Church of Christ, 400 West
95th Street, Chicago, Wright Chapel Wednesday, Sept, 21 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.
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.
Cherchez la Verite
As many of you know by now, I am only one year older than Paul Craig
Roberts, and we both completed our four-year undergraduate degrees at
technical schools (mine Carnegie Tech, his Georgia Tech). Then we both
spent six years in grad school (me getting my PhD in physics at Brown
University and he getting his PhD in economics from the University of
Virginia after one-year stints in U. California at Berkley and Merton
College Oxford). This dichotomy focused him on national and
international events, whereas I stuck to physics, joining the Naval
Research Laboratory in 1998 where I researched deeply the effects of
radiation on glassy materials and fiber optics. But early on I became at
NRL a Principle Investigator in the NASA Lunar Sample Program. I
advanced to a mid-level appointment at NRL where for a while I was made
Section Head but thankfully was relieved of that by my superiors. To pay
them back I offered to take a then-empty seat at DARPA, where for two
years halftime I picked the…
Bring Back The Cold War — Paul Craig Roberts September 30 , 2016 |
Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to
Original and sign up at bottom. Bring Back The Cold War Paul Craig
Roberts Pundits have declared a “New Cold War.” If only! The Cold War
was a time when leaders focused on reducing tensions between nuclear
powers. What we have today is much more dangerous: Washi
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
More good advice from Bill Bonner ...although I'll have to clarify a
couple things hes says about gold. First, he says that in 1980 the stock
market "share prices were so cheap that you could buy all of the stocks
on the Dow with one ounce of gold." I'm pretty certain that he meant
one share of every stock on the Dow. But the bottom line was that "Today
the stock prices are so high, that you would need 14 ounces of gold to
buy (one share of each of) the Dow stocks." So he proposed a simple
trading model: "When the Dow is worth less than 5 ounces of gold, buy
stocks and sell gold. When the Dow is worth more than 10 ounces of gold,
sell stocks and buy gold." This sounds reasonable to me, but I would
modify his following statement that "The quantity of gold increases, but
only about as fast as the quantity of goods and services that it can
buy." However, there is a more powerful factor determining how fast gold
metal grows, namely compared to the gold metal all ready existing, the
yearly…
bill@billbonnersdiary.com OUZILLY, France – Markets seemed to stand
still yesterday. Like autumn leaves on a tree, they wait for a stiff
wind and a cold frost. This week, the Fed is scheduled to make a weather
forecast. Bloomberg reports that only two of the Fed’s 23 “primary
dealers” – banks that buy bonds directly from the government – expect a
rate hike decision tomorrow when the Fed meets. “T
Creekside
Site C Licence of Occupation
In two days, the deadline for public input into BC Hydro's request to
log crown land slated for Provincial Park status above the Site C dam
will close. So why are you only just now hearing about this on a blog?
Good question. According to the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation
Initiative in an article in woodbusiness.ca, which you probably aren't
in the habit of reading on a daily basis : "On Sept
Craig Scott's testimony at ERRE #23
Notes from his presentation at the electoral reform committee today
because Kady didn't blog this morning's meeting and the ERRE committee
is taking about two weeks to post transcriptions. Craig Scott - law
professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, former NDP critic
for democratic reform 16 of 31 Liberals voted for MMP/PR electoral
reform in the House in December. MMP is the best of
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
TPP - the TFW Program on steroids
The Human Resources Committee, HUMA - 6 Libs, 3 Cons, and 1 NDP -
released its report on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program yesterday,
after a month of hearing from 43 witnesses as varied as Lululemon and
the Migrant Mothers Project. Industry complaints initiated the study.
The committee was asked to find a balance between employers desperate
for TFWs for jobs they are unable to fill with Canad
Current news updates, World current news
Real Madrid XI Squad against Sporting
Zidane does a Wenger and rotates his goalkeepers, though the BBC all
line up in Los Merengues’ front three. After Barcelona’s MSN took Celtic
apart, it is their turn to show they are football’s deadliest trio.
Real Madrid XI: Casilla; Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo; Casemiro,
Modric, Kroos; Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo. Subs : Yanez, Pepe, James,
Kovacic, Vazquez, Morata, Danilo.
Dr Cintli
In Essence, Racism on Trial in Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Suit
Diverse Issues in Higher Education In Essence, Racism on Trial in
Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Suit by Roberto Rodriguez The Arce v Douglas
ethnic studies trial, in Tucson’s Federal Court, is expected to commence
in early 2017. The suit was filed against the state of Arizona, as a
result of the state passing an anti-Ethnic Studies HB 2281 legislation
in 2010. Yet for all intents and purposes, it is th
Scholar: Texas Textbook an ‘Intentional Assault’ on Psyche of Mexican American Students September 20, 2016 After readin...
Scholar: Texas Textbook an ‘Intentional Assault’ on Psyche of Mexican
American Students September 20, 2016 After reading the proposed Mexican
American Heritage textbook for Texas students last week by Jaime Riddle
and Valarie Angle, I can without hesitation state that it is obscene and
extremely offensive. And beyond being unfocused, incoherent and a badly
written book, it is also an intentional
Dying in Haiti
Dispatches from Haiti
Dear Everyone, For the past five years I have been posting from the
Journal Star website in a blog called Dispatches from Haiti. There are
approximately 400 hundred posts. I posted this yesterday. Thanks for
reading. john www.haitianhearts.org
Fort McMurray Adventures
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
The Ponds Of Timberlea
There are a few places in Timberlea and Eagle Ridge I've been wanting
to explore and do some birding but for a number of reasons I just
haven't found the time to get over to them. Until today. With the days
getting shorter and the weather starting to cool off, I decided to bite
the bullet and get over there this afternoon no matter what. And I'm
glad I did. There were three storm ponds I was curi
Composers Behaving Badly
One of the things that has always fascinated me as I've delved further
in to classical music and history is the disconnect between peoples'
conceptions of classical music and the composers who wrote it and
reality. To a certain degree, most people's ideas of the concert hall as
being all staid and austere, where you dressed to the nines, sat
board-stiff in your seat (and heaven help you if you da
Trump Jr.'s Asinine Refugee Analogy
For the most part I've done my best to ignore or at least not get too
worked up over a certain election in a certain country south of the
border. I have seen a certain analogy made by a certain candidate's son
however that is so off base in terms of basic math and logic that I
couldn't let it pass without comment. This internet meme isn't exactly
new as its been around for a couple of years not a
Government and Taxes
Labor Econ 18, Robots and job creation
More robots, more machines, mean more job displacement, more
unemployment? Uhmm, No. New industries always create new jobs, despite
their initial job-displacing effect. For instance, when telegrams were
replaced by paging devices, then by SMS and mobile phones, those who
were displaced in the telegram industry did not go hungry, they simply
changed jobs to higher skills category. Long article her
President Duterte and Hugo Chavez
I am reposting this post last Tuesday by a friend, Bernard Ong . It has
gone viral, shared nearly 6k since more than two days ago. Keep writing
this kind of analysis, bai. Thank you. ------------- HE CROSSED HIS
RUBICON September 27, 2016 at 9:29pm Updating my May 2016 post on Hugo
Chavez. Very important lessons for the Philippines today. The photo
collage shows 3 things: An emergency room in Vene
Tax cut 26, Excise tax on petrol products should be reduced/abolished, not increased
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay
taxes to a government that can't live within its income." - Robert Half
This bad tax measure has been proposed by the DOF and some legislators
many years ago but never succeeded. This time, it looks different as the
new Duterte government is hell-bent on having this become a law within
the year or next year. "The excise tax adjustm
BWorld 80, Declining share of agriculture in GDP
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last August 18, 2016. A declining
share of agriculture gross value added (GVA) in GDP (gross domestic
product) is often viewed negatively by many sectors because it implies
that a country is not prioritizing rural development and job creation.
Is this a valid observation? Let us review some agriculture data of the
Philippines and compare them to its neighbors
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