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Researchers develop dog bark translator
New computer software is promising to make it possible to translate the
meaning behind dog barks. Scientists from the Technical University of
Madrid ...
Joe Biden on son Beau: Success is when your children turn out better than you
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden spoke about his son Beau Biden in a
speech at Yale University's commencement less than one month before Beau
died of brain cancer at the age of 46.
Joe spoke of his son with pride, noting that Beau had gone to Syracuse
University's law school out of loyalty to his deceased mother, and later
served as Delaware's attorney general. The vice-president joked that
his son h
Forget Taylor Swift: Metalheads are Spotify's biggest listeners
When I tried to reach Bob Lugowe, director of promotions and new media
at Relapse Records, he couldn't get back to me immediately.
He and the entire staff of Relapse were at a death metal festival
Such is the life of metalheads, perhaps the most dedicated fans to their
genre
"Whether it's wearing a 'battle jacket' full of sewn on patches of their
favorite bands, buying every vinyl color and e
Sunday Toons
* * *
Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics
concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter
@PDiddie.
The Corbett Report
Interview 1047 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
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mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-05-29%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This
week on the New World Next Week: rumours of WWIII abound as the 2D
chess game heats up; Monsantogeddon nears as Syngenta merger develops;
and the FEC backs off plans to regulate political speech on the
internet.
Interview 1046 – Patrick Wood Exposes the Technocracy Agenda
[audio
mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-05-27%20Patrick%20Wood.mp3"][/audio]24/7
surveillance. Smart grid controls. Carbon rationing. Today we talk to
"Technocracy Rising" author Patrick Wood about the hidden history of
technocracy, the dark plan for a resource-based economy that is being
pushed by the Trilateral Commission, the UN, and other globalist
institutions in
Interview 1045 – Financial Survival in the Cashless Society
[audio
mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-05-14%20Financial%20Survival.mp3"][/audio]This
week on Financial Survival, Alfred and James discuss the BBC, Japan's
attempt to counter the AIIB, Hillary's chances in 2016, the secret
meeting in London to discuss ending cash, and much more.
The EnvironmentaList
Saving the Endangered Chinese Swamp Cypress
National Geographic Explorer expedition heads into Laos forests to
study newly discovered population of this endangered tree in its
threatened ecosystem
LNG Terminals and the Environmental Unlearning of Philadelphia
The lure of fossil fuel for America’s fifth largest city
North Carolina Could Become Fifth State With an Ag-Gag Law
Bill sitting on Governor McCrory’s desk would make it illegal to document or film animal abuse on factory farms
Is the BBC biased?
Keep swallowing that 'Tablet'
Damian Thompson of The Spectator and The Catholic Herald did a 'me' and
speculated yesterday about what would be on this morning's Sunday on
Radio 4:Wonder if the wildly biased @BBCR4Sunday is planning a hatchet
job on Cardinal #Pell tomorrow. Stourton is friends with Pell’s
opponents.— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) May 30, 2015 No such hatchet
job on Cardinal Pell took place; although he was menti
Carpe diem
Radio 4's Broadcasting House, coming live from a tent at the Hay
Festival (though sounding as if it were being broadcast from inside a
tin drum), paused for thought for a moment today. We heard extracts from
one of Clive James's latest poems - read by the man himself. It was so
good I thought I'd share it with you. (The full poem can be found
here).My daughter’s garden has a goldfish poolWith six
The Curious Incident of the Panorama Episode that Disappeared in the Night
The fates have conspired against me here.I checked out an old episode
of Panorama on iPlayer yesterday - the one where Panorama brought in
famous U.S. pollster Nate Silver before the election to answer the
question, Who Will Win the Election?I wanted to check how well Nate did,
given how effusive presenter Richard Bacon had been about his
astonishing accuracy as a pollster.The answer is that he wa
Impartiality
Here's proper impartiality for you: two pieces from Standpoint magazine
- one bashing the BBC, the other bashing people who bash the BBC:Time
For A Leaner BBC To Pay Its Way, by Stephen GloverPredictable Pot-Shots
At Auntie, by Nick CohenHere's a sample from each of them:Stephen
GloverIf the Tories can reasonably consider themselves hard done by
during the election, UKIP is entitled to think it wa
The Rules of Exposition
William Zinsser: Writing English as a Second Language
Michael Leddy links to a William Zinsser article on effective writing. Good stuff.
It has to look right
In high school I took an art class. We had to draw stuff and paint
stuff, you know. (I.m such an aficionado!) There was an odd-looking tree
outside our house, and I painted that. The teacher didn't like it.I
wish I could remember her name.It was a big old tree, with a tiny little
branch sticking out the side of it a foot or two above the ground.
Weird: trees don't look like that. That was why I wa
A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
Who you gonna call? Fact Checkers
The Washington Post is doing some great work these days with their Fact
Checker feature, which is digging into all kinds of "statistics" being
thrown around out there to see where the figures come from and whether
there's any truth to them. Think of it as the rhetoric version of that
TV show Mythbusters.Today's myth-busting was around the "fact" that
300,000 U.S. children are a
A Different Perspective
Richard Doble and the Roswell Slides - Update
Yes, I know that I said I was done with the Roswell Slides but then
I’ve published the comments by Tony Bragalia and Don Schmitt. I’ve heard
nothing from Tom Carey and don’t personally know the others involved in
this. However Richard Doble has issued a statement about the ongoing
mess which might be of interest here. Although his comments mirror much
of what he said during his Skype interview on
Bonilla's Comet
In the UFO literature, one of the older cases frequently quoted as the
first ever UFO photographs (see Blum, Ralph and Judy, Beyond Earth:
Man’s Contact with UFOs, page 45; Vallee, Jacques, Anatomy of a
Phenomenon, page 30, for example) happened on August 12, 1883. Jose
Bonilla, an astronomer at the Zacatecas Observatory, saw dozens of
objects cross the disk of the sun and he photographed some of
A Final Fatal Statement about the Roswell Slides
(Blogger’s Note: I had said that I would post, without comment, any
statement from Don Schmitt or Tom Carey. I did that with Carey’s
statement which suggested he was still of the opinion that the slides
showed an alien creature. The note appended at the end, written by
Schmitt, suggested that he was unaware that others had independently
deblurred the note and that the placard was readable. Seeing
Roswell Slides Statement by Tom Carey with Note from Don Schmitt
(Blogger’s note: Yes, I said there would be nothing more about the
Roswell Slides, but I also said that if there was a statement issued by
Tom and Don, I would publish it without editorial comment. There is a
statement that Tom issued. Before it was published elsewhere, Don had
asked for a couple of modifications. That statement was published before
Don asked for the changes. This is the statement
A Very Public Sociologist
The Coming Tabloid Assault on Charities
A couple of straws in the wind, perhaps, but I have a feeling
something's a-brewing.Exhibit one: Olive Cooke, a 92-year-old poppy
seller and giver to charitable causes took her own life after,
apparently, being repeatedly pestered by cold callers asking for more
cash (she already gave to 27 charities every month) and receiving dozens
of begging letters, week in, week out.Exhibit two: Robert Newman
Local Council By-Elections May 2015
PartyNumber of CandidatesTotal Vote%+/-
AprAverage/contest+/-Apr+/-SeatsConservative72124,822 36.1% +17.9%
1,773 +1,614 +9Labour76112,813 32.6% -4.1% 1,484 +1,004
-4LibDem50 29,493 8.5% -6.5% 590 +197 -2UKIP42
31,659 9.2% -4.5% 754 +595 -3Green36 17,394 5.0%
+5.0% 483 +483 -1SNP* 3 12,197 3.5% +3.5%
4,066 +4,066 +1PC** 5 3,1
The Melanie Baddeley "Affair"
Meet Melanie Baddeley. She is one of two councillors elected from
Stoke-on-Trent's Abbey Hulton ward. She, along with a representative
from UKIP, was returned by the local elections that took place three
weeks ago. Melanie has been a councillor before, representing Abbey
Green (as was) between 2008 and 2011. And today she was due to be made
the deputy Lord Mayor. All in all, quite unremarkable rea
Ridge Racer 6 for the Xbox 360
I love racing games. Yet, as long-time readers know, I'm not so keen on
modern games. By 'modern' I mean the era inaugurated from around 2000
onwards with the coming of the Playstation2, and it's "competition" from
Microsoft and Nintendo. Yes, for readers under 25 that is aeons ago. 15
years is a long bloody time, but I'm sticking with that definition
because reasons, and that your humbl
A Way to Live
Their appreciation knows no bounds
Here, we are adding beans around the edges of the corn block. A few
days ago we added pumpkin seeds down the middle. The corn is planted a
little thickly for this but I am always expecting high mortality and
then when everything lives, I can't bear to thin. Not right away,
anyway.The ground is scraped in the appropriate spot for small sprouted
weeds, then indented by the end of the bean pipe. The
French Pink
There are two climbing roses by her gate,one to each side, with velvet
blooms, small,but heavily scented, suitable for soaps, salvesand
potpourri. They blossom out together,several hundred, perhaps a thousand
whorlsFrench pink, shading to cream, the hauntof matching shy
arachnids. How tall they'd growshe doesn't know, having twined an arch
of willowwhips atop her gate, to bind them to.In her middl
It was good
Providing partial shade to greens with broadbeans is all right, but
eventually this gets to be too much of a good thing, so I'm walking up
and down with a pair of scissors, basically deadheading the beans. it's
chop-and drop; the tops will join the grass clippings and straw as
mulch.Here we have some black-seeded Simpson lettuce, which seems to be
thriving with the beans. You may also find Red Sai
She knows the weeds will win
She knows the weeds will win. Sometimes, at night,Hearing them grow in
her dreams, she'll wake, graspingEven in her two hands, a phantom
thistle, orKnotweed, errant blackberry, or teasel.Now not able to turn
and sleep, she'll rise, throwingOn her robe, and step out into
night;Walking the way the slim moon shows her,She throws aside her
garden gate and listens.There might be corn and tomatoes chatt
A.E.Brain
F-0180 Aerial Test of Torpedo
The second US cruise missile - though the first was a close
contemporary. Yes, this was Rocket Science, 1919 style. Had the Great
War continued, development wouldn't have been delayed, and it would have
been in service by late 1919 in the strategic bombardment role -
probably at night and in cloudy conditions, as it was a fairly easy
target.May I present - the "Kettering Bug"
Activist Teacher
Climate stupidity and human survival
By Denis G. Rancourt [a]
The human animal has an instinct to identify potential dangers and to
warn others. It is a built-in survival mechanism of any animal that
lives in a group. And it is a strong and constant activity, re-enforced
by environmental stressors.
This plays out on several time scales, from the immediate in the case of
a potential physical assault, to the weekly in checking
Canadians, before you vote, remember the Liberals
There is no point replacing Harper with a brainless twit who will
continue to drive Canada in the same direction. Trudeau is no Trudeau,
when it comes to Canadian independence and fundamental values.
Trudeau is the continuation of the new Liberal line: Paul Martin,
Stéphane Dion, Michael Ignatieff ...
Martin destroyed the party by infighting to veer the country clearly
towards US interests
Interesting reader-suggested links about learning and schooling
An avid reader of this blog, contacted me and suggested these very interesting links about schools and about learning:
Authoritarian Schooling: A Catalogue of Damage compiled by David Gribble
Annenberg Learner: Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Meaningful Learning Research Group Articles
How we confuse symbols and things
Student Alternative
On the increasing legal suppression of freedom of thought and expression in so-called free and democratic societies
By Denis G. Rancourt
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to
conscience, above all liberties. --John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644
My main overriding message is far from new: that freedom of thought,
opinion, and expression is the very basis of a fair society. That
freedom of speech is the foundational individual right for a truly
democratic system to exist or
Adrienne's Corner
Would someone please explain to me what the latest feminist outrage called "mansplaining" is...
because I have beaucoup work to do outside before it gets hot and therefore, no time to look it up. Thank you in advance.
The Real O'Neals: Is this what ABC thinks is funny?...
or more importantly, does the public think this is funny?The Real
O'Neals, an anti-Catholic sitcom, is neither funny nor does it display
the tiniest bit of truth. There is nothing "real" about this silly
show. A statue of the Virgin Mary, mother of God, on the back of a
toilet? Hilarious. Not.From ABC:A contemporary take on a seemingly
perfect Catholic family, whose lives take an une
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
Teaching peace to protect young Nigerians from hate
Islamic leaders in impoverished Borno State band together to keep vulnerable youth from the grip of Boko Haram.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia deny split over Syria
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says he does not know where reports of Egyptian disapproval over Syria come from.
ISIL suicide bombers target Iraqi army HQ in Fallujah
Eight car bombs have detonated near Iraqi army headquarters outside city of Fallujah, killing at least 20 soldiers.
Nepal schools reopen after devastating earthquakes
Thousands of schools across districts worst hit by two earthquakes have reopened with temporary classrooms.
Allen L Roland's Weblog
Lebron James Versus Stephen Curry / Looming Epic Nba Championship Final
The NBA pretenders Atlanta and Houston are being eliminated by
Cleveland and Golden State in the division NBA championships. Now it's
finally time for the show down we have all been waiting for ~ NBA MVP
Stephen Curry versus all world LeBron James in an epic battle for NBA
supremacy: Allen L Roland, Ph.DIt's difficult not to get excited about
the upcoming NBA finals between the Cleveland Cavalier
Worldwide Spiritual Resurrection Happening
Art design by Cameron GrayAs Teilhard de Chardin once correctly wrote
~ We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are
spiritual beings having a human experience ~ for right now the innate
evolutionary forces of love and light are manifesting on the planet and
they are demanding that we all participate and find our role in this
rapidly evolving loving plan in action: Allen L Rola
My Living Will / Updated
Allen L Roland at 81 going on 82 years youngSince I’m
approaching 82 and partially disabled with a military service related
condition, it’s time to update my Living Will along with a promise ~
inspired of course by the irrepressible Paul Rudnick of the New Yorker:
Allen L Roland, Ph.D"Me and Merle were talking, ain't many of us left ~
We were chuckling about that. Where'd everybo
Give 'Em Hell, Bernie / The Game Is On
Admit it, most of us know the political system is rigged, that most
Americans have been marginalizedand silenced by a growing plutocracy and
that corporations are now firmly in control, that a truly honest
politician is an oxymoron, that is until now ~ Bernie Sanders is a
lifeboat in a sea of political deception and lost hope. Bernie is an
honest Independent politician who cares enough now in 201
AMERICAN KABUKI
Hacking Online Polls And Other Ways British Spies Seek To Control The Internet
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways-british-spies-seek-control-internet/HACKING
ONLINE POLLS AND OTHER WAYS BRITISH SPIES SEEK TO CONTROL THE
INTERNETBY GLENN GREENWALD @ggreenwald 07/14/2014Featured photo -
Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the
InternetThe secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools
to seed
U.S. Approves SunOpta System for Detecting Genetically Modified Crops
Lets hope this is better self-policing than the banks do... I am
quite familiar with the logistic supply chain thoroughness of companies
like Cargill, Pillsbury and other agriculture commodity companies in
Minnesota, yet the supply chain is only as good as its weakest link. I
worked for 3 years in supply chain software systems and have many
friends in these companies. -AKhttp://www.nytimes.com/2
Everyone Is Fleeing Oil's Biggest Fund
"Smart money" is leaving crude oil... zero point energy on the horizon?
-AKhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-28/oil-fund-s-biggest-outflow-in-six-years-signals-rally-may-falterEveryone
Is Fleeing Oil's Biggest Fundby Moming Zhou1:01 AM CESTMay 29, 2015The
biggest U.S. exchange-traded fund that tracks oil is heading for the
largest two-month outflow in six years, raising conc
American Scofflaw
“這是中國海軍......你走吧！”
CNN在船上的P8-A海神，美國最先進的監視和海底狩獵飛機.“這是中國海軍......這是中國海軍......請走開......為了避免誤會，”英語語音通過飛機在美國有線電視新聞網存在的無線電劈啪作響。
ArmsControlWonk
Photo Interpretation Student Handbook
Sadly, there is no textbook for imagery analysis. I would love to
contribute to one someday, but until that becomes an option, here’s the
March 1996 Unclassified Photo Interpretation Student Handbook. I picked
it up from from a rather unusual meeting on a DC trip and several
students lovingly/begrudgingly scanned it for our benefit. It’s an
excellent resource for identifying everything from transp
China MIRVs Some Missiles
The Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military power (PDF) describes
for the first time, China’s CSS-4 mod 3 missile equipped with multiple
independently-targetable re-entry vehicles. MIRVs! Hans Kristensen
noticed the passage and, over the weekend, David Sanger and Bill Broad
published a nearly 1000 word piece in the New York Times that includes
quotes by several experts including Jeffrey.
Aaro
A Wobbly Nuclear Order
The global nuclear order is becoming more dynamic and unsettled. The
top tier is contracting, but at a slow pace. Newcomers feature
prominently in the second tier, eclipsing the old-timers. And the newest
entrants into the nuclear club either have or seem to want
three-digit-sized arsenals – something few envisioned when these late
arrivals barged into the nuclear club. A bumpy NPT Review Conferen
Notes from the RevCon II
I was just in New York for a few days and heard some very interesting
things about the coming trainwreck at the RevCon. But I wasn’t allowed
to repeat any of them!
Lucky us, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova has written another “Notes from the
RevCon” post. (See her first note here.)
While she was careful to stick to things said in public, published
online and reported in the papers, it’s kind of amazing to
Big Dan's Big Blog
Pam Geller and the Garland Texas "Shooting": They Just Won't Stop The FALSE FLAGS
Enemies within the gates ruining America (rightwing media calls her a
"patriot"): Jewish Zionist Mossad Agent Pam GellerThere are so many
FALSE FLAGS in this country that it seems like I can't get onto another
subject when another one comes up to write about. This time Jewish
anti-Islam hatemonger Pam Geller was involved. How can someone have a
"job" that solely involves puttin
Blood & Treasure
separatism and discipline
I have an op-ed up at the National on the pro-independence turn in Hong
Kong politics.
Elsewhere, James has an examination in Vice on the shuanggui process,
the means by which boss Xi and the gang are purging the Party.
I'm not too keen on the Hong Kong indy crowd, but you can understand
here what they want to separate themselves from.
mass incident watch: Linshui
How much do you want high speed rail? Enough to riot when you don't
have it?
Tens of Thousands of residents of the southwestern county of Linshui
gathered in the morning and marched about 3km. Photos posted by the
protesters on social media also showed violent attacks by a police
tactical team(SWAT)and the resistance that followed lasted all day and
well into the night...
...The residents want (n
a letter from the hearse chasers
Just over a week ago we got a letter addressed to my stepson. This
happens occasionally, though he's long since moved out. We bin the
obvious junk and keep the other stuff for when he comes home on a visit.
But this time my partner decided to invoke a mum's privilege to poke
her nose into her offspring's business. The letter was from a company
called Estate Research, “a firm of genealogists who s
BP Slick
Pipeline that leaked wasn't equipped with auto shut-off
Pipeline that leaked wasn't equipped with auto shut-off Workers
prepare an oil containment boom at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta,
Calif., Thursday, May 21, 2015. More than 7,700 gallons of oil has been
raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across about 9
miles of California coast, just a fraction of the sticky, stinking goo
that escaped from a broken pipeline, officia
Finding California oil spill's cause could take months
Finding California oil spill's cause could take months Published:
Friday, May 22, 2015 at 3:30 a.m.Last Modified: Friday, May 22, 2015 at
3:05 a.m. GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — The operator of a broken oil pipeline
that fouled a California shoreline says it could be weeks or even months
before investigators are able to determine what caused the break and
subsequent spill.Crews have yet to excavate the
Brave New World
'Plastic Will Do Nicely,Sir'
The UK Payments Council today stated that the use of cash by consumers,
businesses and financial organisations fell to 48% of payments last
year. This means that cashless payments have overtaken cash payments for
the first time in the UK. The cash volumes are expected to fall further
by 30% to some 34% over the next 10 years. It is claimed that 4.4% of
adults ‘rarely use cash and the average ATM w
Spotify No Longer Just Music
When we look at the future of on demand and streamed media services the
clue is in the word media. We are no longer shackled to thinking of
vertical movie, music, games but media hubs that satisfy all under one
subscription.To bring the point firmly home Spotify has announced it is
adding more non-music content to its app. The expanded service will
include radio podcasts, news bulletins, video cli
Are Enhanced eBooks a Digital Grail?
What is the state of the ebook market and are there significant
differences between the various different market segments and
geographical regions?The question is not new and there are a significant
number of opinions on the answers. However, different markets move at
different speeds and sometimes in different direction and facts are
often out of date and views often reflect vested interests. The
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