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By Paul K. Haeder
So hectoring the rock group U2 on its carbon footprint to push almost 400 tons of equipment, 200 support people and themselves around the world – 70,000 miles -- for this 180-day tour is great, funny, and part of the "how can Al Gore lecture us in his Inconvenient Truth spiel when he has a 20,000-square foot home and horse property and then flies around the world giving a turbo-charged Power Point lecture on global warming?" counter-intuitive. At this juncture in global climate change awareness, ecological footprints seem to be the way the world gauges how big of a carbon-fossil fuel impact we have on mother earth through the way we live. Ecological footprinting was started by those in the deep ecology movement, and we now have water footprints and carbon footprints to measure our behavior, as well as socially responsible filtering even for investments. Global Footprint Network is an international think tank working to advance global awareness of sustainability and cutting our consumption patterns.
Mathis Wackernagel and William E. Rees came up with this "appropriated carrying capacity" in the early 1990s. An environment's carrying capacity is its maximum persistently supportable load (Catton 1986).
In 1996, Wackernagel and Rees published the book Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Here is a simple illustration of the ecological footprint of a country like the Netherlands:
With an area of 33,920 square kilometers and a human population density of 440/km2, the Netherlands depends on the ecological productivity (carrying capacity) of an area almost 15 times larger than the entire country.
Canada (large area, resource rich, small population) is one of the few developed countries that consumes less than its natural income domestically. However, Canada's natural capital stocks are being depleted by exports of energy, forest, fisheries, agricultural products, etc. In short, Canada's apparent ecological surpluses are being incorporated in part by trade into the ecological footprints -- and deficits -- of other countries, particularly those of the United States and Japan.
Rees talks about the "double-bind of sustainability" clearly in a 15-year-old article:
"Humankind now seems to be the victim of a global "catch-22" of its own making. More material growth, at least in the poor countries, seems essential for socioeconomic sustainability, yet any global increase in material throughput is ecologically unsustainable. What does ecological footprint analysis have to say about this double bind and how we might get out of it? One can draw several conclusions from the above analysis that address one or both sides of the dilemma:
· The wealthy already consume on average three times their fair share of sustainable global output. Since additional material growth in rich countries would appropriate additional carrying capacity further reducing the ecological space available to poor countries, it is both ecologically dangerous and morally questionable. To the extent we can create room for growth, it should be allocated to the third world.
· Confidence in the ability of unregulated trade and technology to overcome ecological limits on material growth cannot be justified. Indeed, it is arguable that under prevailing assumptions, expanding trade and dominant technologies are allowing humanity dangerously to overshoot long-term global carrying capacity.
· Trade has been a major contributor to increasing gross world product in recent years. However: a) trade is one of the mechanisms by which the rich appropriate carrying capacity and increase their own ecological footprints, and b) to the extent that trade increases total human load on the ecosphere and accelerates the depletion of natural capital, it reduces the ecological safety net for all and brings us closer to global limits. Global terms of trade must therefore be reexamined to ensure that it is equitable, socially constructive, and confined to true ecological surpluses. At the very least/ prices must reflect ecological externalities and the benefits of growth from trade should flow to those who need them most (see Rees, 1 994b).
· On a finite planet, ecological trade is a zero-sum game -- there can be no net importation of carrying capacity for the world as a whole. Ecological footprint analysis provides a useful tool for the development of regional ecological (i.e., physical) accounts. These would assist countries tries or (bio-) regions to compute their true ecological loads on the ecosphere and to monitor their ecological/thermodynamic trade balances. Such accounts would also enable the world community to ensure that aggregate global flows do not exceed sustainable natural income (global carrying capacity).
· Urbanization, globalization, and trade all reduce the negative feedback on local populations from unsustainable land and resource management practices. (For example, trade enables us to discount the value of local natural capital and blinds us to the negative consequences of our over-consumption which often accrue in distant export regions.) This provides a further argument to shift the emphasis in development from global economic integration and inter-regional dependency toward intra-regional ecological balance and relative self-reliance. (If all regions were in ecological steady-state the aggregate effect would be global stability.) This position is compatible with Daly's and Goodland's (1993) recommended alternative "default position" on international trade, that we should strive "to reduce rather than increase the entanglement between nations."
· Ecological footprint analysis supports the argument that to be sustainable, economic growth must be much less material and energy intensive than at present (see, for example, Pearce, 1994). It therefore supports the case for ecological tax reform in aid of resource conservation (von Weizsacker, 1994). For example, depletion taxes and marketable quotas on natural capital inputs to the economy would: a) stimulate the search for more materially and energy efficient technologies; b) preempt any resultant cost savings, thereby preventing the economic benefits of efficiency gains from being redirected to additional or alternative forms of consumption, and; c) generate an investment fund that could be used to rehabilitate important forms of self-producing natural capital (Rees, 1 994a).
· Ecological footprint analysis provides a measure of both individual countries' ecological deficits and the global sustainability gap (Box 3). The latter in particular is a measure of the extent to which the human economy must be dematerialized in order to fit within global carrying capacity. The present and related analyses confirm that a "factor-10" reduction in the material and energy intensity per unit of economic service, as suggested by researchers at the Wuppertal Institute in Germany (Schmidt-Bleak, 1993a;b), is a reasonable if daunting goal. ["Reasonable" because a reduction in throughput of this magnitude seems necessary, "daunting" because a reduction of this magnitude through material efficiency alone seems impossible, at least within in the next few decades. Sustainability may require that competitive individualism and the consumer lifestyle give way to cooperative mutualism and an economy of sufficiency.]"
This measurement speaks of complicated economics and accounting methods for how sustainability might work but only with a big shift in mentality, where we become resource-based economies, dumping this false investment model where people speculate on people's work, lives, resources. We have to have societies building around genuine progress to gauge how we are really fairing using the E – Ecology/Environment as the lead in the 5 E's of sustainability, with the second E – Equity (social), a close second.
The following shows how sustainability using a different set of filters, values and goals can better gauge a society's progress. Maybe gauge U2's real value to the world, to art, to the message of green and equitable economies. Millionaires might not be able to apply.
How We Measure Progress
The Genuine Progress Index starts with the same personal consumption data that the GDP is based on, but then makes some crucial distinctions. It adjusts for factors such as income distribution, adds factors such as the value of household and volunteer work, and subtracts factors such as the costs of crime and pollution.
Because the GDP and the GPI are both measured in monetary terms, they can be compared on the same scale. Measurements that make up the GPI include:
Income Distribution
Both economic theory and common sense tell us that the poor benefit more from a given increase in their income than do the rich. Accordingly, the GPI rises when the poor receive a larger percentage of national income, and falls when their share decreases.
Housework, Volunteering, and Higher Education
Much of the most important work in society is done in household and community settings: childcare, home repairs, volunteer work, and so on. The GDP ignores these contributions because no money changes hands. The GPI includes the value of this work figured at the approximate cost of hiring someone to do it. The GPI also takes into account the non-market benefits associated with a more educated population.
Crime imposes large economic costs on individuals and society in the form of legal fees, medical expenses, damage to property, and the like. The GDP treats such expenses as additions to well-being. By contrast, the GPI subtracts the costs arising from crime.
Resource Depletion
If today's economic activity depletes the physical resource base available for tomorrow, then it is not creating well-being; rather, it is borrowing it from future generations. The GDP counts such borrowing as current income. The GPI, by contrast, counts the depletion or degradation of wetlands, forests, farmland, and nonrenewable minerals (including oil) as a current cost.
The GDP often counts pollution as a double gain: Once when it is created, and then again when it is cleaned up. By contrast, the GPI subtracts the costs of air and water pollution as measured by actual damage to human health and the environment.
Long-Term Environmental Damage
Climate change, ozone depletion, and nuclear waste management are long-term costs arising from the use of fossil fuels, chlorofluorocarbons, and atomic energy, respectively. These costs are unaccounted for in ordinary economic indicators. The GPI treats as costs the consumption of certain forms of energy and of ozone-depleting chemicals. It also assigns a cost to carbon emissions to account for the catastrophic economic, environmental, and social effects of global warming.
Changes in Leisure Time
As a nation becomes wealthier, people should have more latitude to choose between work and free time for family or other activities. In recent years, however, the opposite has occurred. The GDP ignores this loss of free time, but the GPI treats leisure as most Americans do—as something of value. When leisure time increases, the GPI goes up; when Americans have less of it, the GPI goes down.
Defensive Expenditures
The GDP counts as additions to well-being the money people spend to prevent erosion in their quality of life or to compensate for misfortunes of various kinds. Examples are the medical and repair bills from automobile accidents, commuting costs, and household expenditures on pollution control devices such as water filters. The GPI counts such "defensive" expenditures as most Americans do: as costs rather than as benefits.
Lifespan of Consumer Durables & Public Infrastructure
The GDP confuses the value provided by major consumer purchases (e.g., home appliances) with the amount Americans spend to buy them. This hides the loss in well-being that results when products wear out quickly. The GPI treats the money spent on capital items as a cost, and the value of the service they provide year after year as a benefit. This applies both to private capital items and to public infrastructure, such as highways.
Dependence on Foreign Assets
If a nation allows its capital stock to decline, or if it finances consumption out of borrowed capital, it is living beyond its means. The GPI counts net additions to the capital stock as contributions to well-being, and treats money borrowed from abroad as reductions. If the borrowed money is used for investment, the negative effects are canceled out. But if the borrowed money is used to finance consumption, the GPI declines.
So, these discussions about how much a Compact Fluorescent saves versus the quality of its light and the mercury involved in the functioning of it are valuable, as is the pure discussion of where we should be putting out culture in terms of the wants versus needs contained in Maslow's hierarchy of needs:
IV. SUMMARY (by Maslow)
(1) There are at least five sets of goals, which we may call basic needs. These are briefly physiological, safety, love, 'esteem, and self-actualization. In addition, we are motivated by the desire to achieve or maintain the various conditions upon which these basic satisfactions rest and by certain more intellectual desires.
(2) These basic goals are related to each other, being arranged in a hierarchy of prepotency. This means that the most prepotent goal will monopolize consciousness and will tend of itself to organize the recruitment of the various capacities of the organism. The less prepotent needs are minimized, even forgotten or denied. But when a need is fairly well satisfied, the next prepotent ('higher') need emerges, in turn to dominate the conscious life and to serve as the center of organization of behavior, since gratified needs are not active motivators.
Thus man is a perpetually wanting animal. Ordinarily the satisfaction of these wants is not altogether mutually exclusive, but only tends to be. The average member of our society is most often partially satisfied and partially unsatisfied in all of his wants. The hierarchy principle is usually empirically observed in terms of increasing percentages of non-satisfaction as we go up the hierarchy. Reversals of the average order of the hierarchy are sometimes observed. Also it has been observed that an individual may permanently lose the higher wants in the hierarchy under special conditions. There are not only ordinarily multiple motivations for usual behavior, but in addition many determinants other than motives.
(3) Any thwarting or possibility of thwarting of these basic human goals, or danger to the defenses which protect them, or to the conditions upon which they rest, is considered to be a psychological threat. With a few exceptions, all psychopathology may be partially traced to such threats. A basically thwarted man may actually be defined as a 'sick' man, if we wish.
(4) It is such basic threats which bring about the general emergency reactions.
(5) Certain other basic problems have not been dealt with because of limitations of space. Among these are
(a) the problem of values in any definitive motivation theory,
(b) the relation between appetites, desires, needs and what is 'good' for the organism,
(c) the etiology of the basic needs and their possible derivation in early childhood,
(d) redefinition of motivational concepts, i. e., drive, desire, wish, need, goal,
(e) implication of our theory for hedonistic theory,
(f) the nature of the uncompleted act, of success and failure, and of aspiration-level,
(g) the role of association, habit and conditioning,
(h) relation to the theory of inter-personal relations,
(i) implications for psychotherapy,
(j) implication for theory of society,
(k) the theory of selfishness,
(l) the relation between needs and cultural patterns,
(m) the relation between this theory and Alport's theory of functional autonomy.
These as well as certain other less important questions must be considered as motivation theory attempts to become definitive.
I think these stories about how much methane -- flatuence -- cows produce are great on many levels, but many are factoid-based and wonky, maybe even nerdy; moreover, I don't know if they are just part of the background noise (remember, mainstream media sensationalizes them), or the distraction away from real change, or if they get us centered on the numbers. It is and is not imporant how much each and every breath and exhale adds to global warming.
Serious discussion on how we can bring down CO2 and mitigate the damage done to oceans, resource availability and what we are going to do to help people who are going to pay dearly the early brunt of global warming's negative outcomes is where we might end up after we make fun of Bono and Gore. Check this out, and be ready for future blogs discussing this Stabilization Wedges concept. It's yet another way to couch where we should be shfting our societies, and if post-carbon society is possible with the level of consumption and wants we have as a species.
And here's a Flash Video for further illustration.
The bottom line is that we all are a part of creating CO2, and our tech-oriented lives in the so-called industrialized and "first world" countries effect everything globally, atmospherically as well as economically. Just a Google search ramps up all these servers and computers, which draw direct energy to run and cool them during the searches -- billions in a month's time. What about the embedded energy to create all that hardware? Here's an interesting story on a physicist's research on Google searches. Of course, Google disagrees with his findings.
Carbon cost' of Google revealed
Two search requests on the internet website Google produce "as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle", according to a Harvard University academic.
US physicist Alex Wissner-Gross claims that a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g CO2. However, these figures were disputed by Google, who say a typical search produced only 0.2g of carbon dioxide. A recent study by American research firm Gartner suggested that IT now causes two percent of global emissions. Dr Wissner-Gross's study claims that two Google searches on a desktop computer produces 14g of CO2, which is the roughly the equivalent of boiling an electric kettle.
How many people will then switch to Ecosearch.com, which is a search engine (not Ecosearch.org, which is Google owned), for on-line searches. Ecosearch offsets the amount of CO2 with the electricity used to run the searches with planting trees.
Is this a feel good action? A drop in the bucket? Maybe, and it may be that these little changes are valuable. Read on and consider your lifestyle choices and consider the footprint it takes to be entertained, to fly to your niece's wedding (love miles as George Monbiot, author of Heat, calls those air miles many in the Western World rely upon for self-gratification)
Fin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What is Ecosearch?
Ecosearch is a search engine that uses Yahoo technology and helps reforesting trees and safeguard water resources in the Amazon region, which constitute today one fourth of the fresh water reserves of our planet.
By using Ecosearch you get same results and help the non-profit association Aquaverde (Switzerland) and the French Cœur de Forêt.
In Spain, Ecosearch collaborates with Fundación Canaria para la Reforestación (FORESTA).
How it works?
For every search in Ecosearch, you contribute symbolically to reforest one leaf.
For every 10,000 searches, Ecosearch and Aquaverde plant a tree in the Amazon and in the Canary Islands.
1 search= 10,000 = 1 Planted tree


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New Canaan U13 girls soccer team's three-game win streak comes to an end against Weston
Published 4:19 pm, Wednesday, October 17, 2012
New Canaan saw its three-game winning streak snapped at the hands of a tough Weston team, 1-0 at home.
As has been the pattern all season, New Canaan started off slow and Weston capitalized on it early when New Canaan was unable to clear the ball out of its corner.
New Canaan battled back and was able to equalize possession and apply offensive pressure for the remainder of the game, although it was unable to find the net.
Annie and Allie Neugeboren and Chloe McAuliffe on offense, Samantha Hoey in the midfield and Abby and Nicole Weiss and Katie Kennelly on defense turned in noticeable efforts in the losing cause.

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Invizimals tops Clan's digital platforms
DetailsJuan Fernandez Gonzalez | 22 December 2014
Two weeks after premiering at Spain's Clan TV, the public network for kids, the Inzimals series is already among the most watched contents on the channel's digital platforms.
invizimalsThe popular saga has put aside its movies and it's trying out the series format, achieving for the moment success among young audiences across the world, as the animation content has also premiered on Al Jazeera, Disney XD, Gulli, K2, Multimania, Megamax, SIC, Star, Eleven and Talit.
With Clan TV's audience being large multi-platform users, Invizimals has become a series for second screens, being the third most watched content on Clan's website and apps for smartphones and tablets, and the second most watched on smart TVs.
The animation series has also achieved great audience figures on linear TV, reaching an average 14.9% share with picks over 30%, huge for a network which is not even among the country's top-ten for free-to-air (FTA) TV.
Co-produced by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Screen 21, Televisió de Catalunya and RTVE, the cartoon series' rights are managed by BRB Internacional worldwide.


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Tess of the D'Urbervilles on Masterpiece Theater
On Sunday nights, while Brentan plays hockey, I have taken to watch Masterpiece Theater on PBS. Sometimes the shows are cliched Masterpiece Theater, like Pride and Prejudice, but the last few weeks have been Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Now, I've never read the Hardy novel, but after watching the tragedy, and hopelessness of Tess, her doomed life, has made me want to read it! (I first have to finish Middlemarch) You can watch it on the PBS website, though it won't be as nice as on HDTV!
The scenes and cinematography was breathtakingly beautiful, more so than so many older Masterpiece Theater pieces. Sweeping scenes of the English countryside, an ending at Stonehenge!
Tess was played by a Bond girl, so she was lovely, of course, but also so dramatic, and passionate. And Angel Clare, a god of this earth! And Alec, so cruel, so handsome, and so bad boy!
(I just wish I had better pictures... it was gorgeous)
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Labels: Masterpiece Theater, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, TV
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This was an awesome movie. Holy cow. They stayed close to the book. And I loved the costuming and all the knitting that must have been done.ReplyDelete
I found your blog by searching for it. I hope they release some of their patterns... ok enough blabbing. Thanks for the post!
Glad you enjoyed it too! It still hangs in my memory a bit, now almost a day later...ReplyDelete
I've heard really good things about that Tess series. It's a great novel too!ReplyDelete
Though have you heard this?http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/10/television-bbc-drama
I almost posted about it. But now it seems even more relevant!
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Happy Saturday and Happy August? I mean, where did the month of July go? It's August people, it pretty much means it's the last month of really hot summer days and that is not fair. I need more summer days, who's with me? I LOVE summer and it's seriously too, too short. And I'm going to stop complaining for now and get to today's post. It's August 1st and it's time to do my July wrap up, I actually did pretty good, I read 7 whole books, 1 Graphic Novel, 1 Short Story and started reading another book, so...10.25 books for the month of July? Not a bad reading month. Let's check out the books I read:
1. FanGirl by Rainbow Rowell 3.75 Stars
2. Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers 4.25 Stars
3. From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion 4 Stars
4. Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins 5 Stars
5. We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han 5 Stars
6. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 4 Stars
7. Dream the Impossible Dream: Volume 2 by Gavin Aung Than 3 Stars
8. Lois Lane: Cloudy With a Chance of Destruction by Gwenda Bond 4 Stars
9. Dreamwalker by Rhys Bowen 4 Stars
10. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin-Started Finally and Yes I'm loving an I can see why people love it, will continue to read an hopefully finish it next month.
And that's my July wrap up, what books did you read in July? My favorite book this month was Rebel Belle, I LOVED. What was your favorite book that you read in July?
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It also suggested that she had been raped before being killed.
The suspect is a serial killer based in Kasur, who is accused of raping and murdering 6-7 girls over the course of two years.
Police found Zainab Ansari's body in a garbage dumpster in Kasur district near the eastern city of Lahore last week, four days after she was reported missing.
The sources said Imran Ali was arrested from Pakpattan after the laboratory confirmed that he is the serial killer involved in the killing of Zainab along with other seven little girls.
Mohammed Amin shows a picture of his daughter.
Police said preliminary findings found DNA connecting the suspect to Zainab's murder. I can feel their pain.
International Monetary Fund improves economic growth forecast for CIS countries
A possible trigger is a faster-than-expected increase in advanced economy core inflation and interest rates as demand accelerates. Current upswing in the global economy "furnishes an ideal moment to act on a range of multilateral challenges", Obstfeld said.
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According to the details provided, the suspect has been identified as 24-year-old man named Imran Ali. She and her siblings were being looked after by aunts and uncles. However, it is not the first time that a child has been the victim of sexual abuse and then murdered.
"We have found some initial evidence [against the suspect] and there is well-found reason to believe that he is the culprit", the spokesperson said. The suspect had apparently shaved his beard off, causing some delay in facial recognition using CCTV footage. I was sodomized. One of the men made a video of what was happening. The accused, Imran Ali, also confessed to the crime before the investigation agency. "All these beasts are in the same boat".
On the special invitation and arrangements of the committee, the aggrieved parents of Zainab had also attended the meeting.
They said he had been taken into custody over two weeks ago but was let go on the victim family's plea that "he could not be a culprit".
The provincial government spokesperson said that all other suspects who had been arrested earlier were released when DNA reports cleared them. A document submitted to the High Court in Lahore this month shows the scale of the challenge they face.Police reported 137 cases of girls under 10 being raped in Punjab a year ago, and 515 of boys under 10 being sodomized.
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Anyone ever hunted this area for bear in the fall?
Anyone ever hunted this area for bear in the fall?
Went in with a friend a few years back. It was a decent trail ride on 4wheelers which can get you in past Saltery Creek. We were pretty much alone during the week, but due to its accessability and proximity to the road system it would get a lot of pressure on the weekends. Great possibility for combo Bear/Blacktail/Goat if timed right. What else would you like to know?
gonna be busy, gonna be tough, gonna depend on weather and wether...or not.
its alot of steep ground, find someone who's done this excat same hunt and come up with a list of questions for them...then narrow down what your doing..should get you started in the right direction.
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I drew this tag 2 falls ago. Went in on Oct 10th for a week. I only saw a sow with a cub. I flew in with Andrew Air (good outfit) camped on the bluff along the spit that separates Hidden Basin from Ugak Bay.
We (non-bear tag partner) climbed the steep hogback above camp everyday (are we sheep hunting? He asked). He did take a nice buck though, but we only saw two and only a few does.
In review, I went in blind and hunted the place all wrong. Farther up the valley is where I should have been.
The good thing is that I will be running back by to the hunt area by quad as much as possible, and have access to a boat so I will be scouting the hidden basin area as well, as of right now I was thinking about climbing up above the bed springs hole on saltery river. I don't know if this is the best approach but hopefully I will have a good game plan once I go into hunt. Once again thanks for the responses and would appreciate if any one else has any other tips.
Is the bear population just not so prominent because of accesability or do you think you just went about it wrong looking back in hind sight? I too have thought we will fly in with Andrews air but just not so sure which part yet.
FLBEN..... Goodluck and I hope all pans out in your favor.


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Taunt seeks to cash in on a new trend, Daily Fantasy eSports (DFeS).
In the last few years, the gambling industry has been compressed by acquisitions and mergers. In a business once saturated by operators, major companies are consolidating into a few distinct pack leaders. Now, it seems the events themselves are merging, with the latest mutation coming in the way of 'DFeS'.
What is DFeS, you ask? Well, it's not quite DFS (daily fantasy sports). And it's not eSports (video gaming competitions). It's an amalgamation of the two, inevitably taking on the nickname Daily Fantasy eSports.
One company responsible for the newest way to watch others play is Taunt. Created by 2015 Seattle startup Pioneer Square Labs (PSL), Taunt is being billed as an "eSports fan competition platform". It's intended to be used by fans while they watch eSports on Twitch and other live streaming services.
The Taunt mobile app is not yet available on Google Play (Android) or iTunes (iOS). However, users can get in on the ground floor, gaining lifetime 'Founder Status' for requesting an invite to play Taunt Alpha before it launches at Worlds 2017.
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How does DFeS differ from traditional fantasy and daily fantasy sports? In two very distinct ways. For one, Taunt has no intention of turning its services into a gambling forum. There are no cash wagers on the line. Players compete for reputation, prestige and badges, not money.
Secondly, participants won't need to draft a roster of supreme video gaming masters. Instead of building a team, players try to guess what will happen next during a live eSports match.
The premise is simple. Users will join a virtual room within the platform. Everyone in that room is watching the same live eSports broadcast. Every few minutes, participants will get to answer a question relating to the current affairs of the match.
In warfare games like League of Legends and Call of Duty, for example, users might face questions like, "Which team will get the next kill?" or, "Will a tower go down in the next two minutes?" Those who are able to predict the answer correctly are rewarded with reputation points, earning badges for their adept intuition.
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Ben Gilbert, co-founders of PSL and CEO of Taunt, spoke with GeekWire last week. While betting on sports is oft described as a 'game inside a game', he believes their product will achieve greatness by providing a "game outside the game experience".
Taunt does not compete with broadcasting businesses within the eSports industry, like Twitch. It's more of an add-on feature to enhance the overall experience. Users can download the mobile app or launch it in a separate window on their desktop, enjoying the service alongside an eSports broadcast.
Gilbert doesn't view the lack of monetary wagering as a hindrance, either. "The incentives are aligned with both the broadcast platform and the publisher, because it provides a deeper level of engagement between a fan and the game they're watching."
There are two distinct motivations to play, he said. One is "to have more fun while you're watching matches". The other is "to challenge your friends to see who knows the game better".
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Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
If I were clever enough to know there was going to be a severe drought in region X a couple years out, I wouldn't put it on some prediction list and let it sit there.
I'd be making moves to protect myself and family a/o learning what foodstuffs come from that region and be saving up cash for the options trade of a lifetime.
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Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
Fruit and vegetables, and many tree nuts come from California. Some rice is also grown in California. Corn and many other grains are grown in the Midwest.
It is impossible to know when the severe water shortage will begin to turn critical and spark a major water crisis, ultimately leading to a collapse in farming in California and a new Dust Bowl in the Midwest. But it will definitely happen between 2020-2040. It will become clearer as time goes on when it's most likely to begin.
The fact is the aquifers can't replenish themselves quickly. The ice age is what helped fill those aquifers and it takes a very long time for them to regain the water they lost. Human water consumption does not allow for the aquifers to replenish themselves. That fact cannot be denied so it is a mathematical certainty, just like the collapse of the dollar is an eventual mathematical certainty, along with the fact that baby-boomers will become net-sellers of homes/stocks and the Millennials won't be stepping in and many have high amounts of student debt so it's a mathematical certainty asset prices from homes to stocks will decline meaning there will be a major bear market.
There is only so much denial, cover-ups, media lies, and smoke and mirrors a government can do, but eventually they always lose control to truth, nature, and can't stop the inevitable.
An options trade on the COMEX Futures could be profitable but only if a person has a good idea of when the crisis is close to happening. It's a gamble. A person can make a lot of money or lose a lot of money.
Odds are that when the major water crisis happens in America, the dollar will have lost world reserve status and much of it's purchasing power. It would be better to buy gold or shares in foreign food producers which would benefit from the crisis. But then there's the other factor that the government actually pays farms to destroy some of their crops or the government buys the crops and destroys them (or dumps them into the ocean). So it's possible that even with the water crisis, some farms could scale-up production and mitigate the damage.
However, cattle farming would be severely impacted since the Midwest is the region where there are the most cattle ranches. The northernmost Midwest states should be too effected since they have the Great Lakes.
Cattle options should be the best (a decline in grains and a loss of water in the grasslands would make the loss of cattle worse than the loss of grains), with grains as second. But options futures are a gamble.
It might be better to preserve wealth in uncertain times than try to make a potentially profitable gamble to build it.
A Chinese man recently made almost $100 Million dollars in the futures market. So it is possible to make a lot of money under the right circumstances. He predicted the Avian Flu would effect egg production and decrease the supply. He was correct.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-we ... chinas-egg
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
I'm not ashamed. How many members of this forum would want how much they earn each month posted on this forum or somewhere else in line? I'm going to say zero because most people keep that confidential and don't go sharing it with everyone.
I'm sure some of the forum makes more than $7,500 a month. Some less than $1,000. It doesn't matter if someone has an upper-class monthly earnings or earnings at or below the poverty line for a single person. No one wants their monthly earnings posted online for everyone to know about.
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
So let me get this straight:
Posting about delusional fantasies of doing business with the Russian mafia, winning the lottery, stripping, et. al. = OK
Posting about how much you get on the dole = Not OK
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
The only thing that is doable is business with organized crime in Eastern Europe. Many people do business with the Russian mafia, the Chinese mafia, the Italian mafia, etc. Human trafficking is the greatest sector in the black market. Tell the person who procure the supply and the demand (the buyers) that their organized crime business is delusional. You would be laughed at for thinking it's impossible to conduct business with an organized crime group.
A good minority of people annually buy humans, drugs, weapons, arrange hits, and pay for the "intimidation" if not "elimination" of their enemies. Many more gamble in underground casinos or visit brothels owned by organized crime. It's not some miraculous event when someone manages to successfully do business with an organized crime group. Money is the most important factor is determining success.
Everything else you posted are things you are twisting around in an attempt to insult me. I don't play the lottery and know only the person that runs the lottery profits, I think you are thinking about Elliot Rodger since he believed in winning the lottery. Relating to stripping that was just a thread with an idea being thrown out there. None of that was a delusional fantasy.
One more strike and I'm putting you on "Ignore" along with S_Parc. You keep rehashing the same insults and it's getting old. Don't you have anything better to do than try to provoke me into making some drama post all the time? This time it didn't work and I didn't create a drama thread.
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Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
I answered part one of your post above. Now I'm going to answer part two.
POSTING SOMEONE"S EARNINGS IS NEVER OKAY. I WILL MAKE THE FORUM THREAD I MENTIONED AND YOU WILL SEE HOW MANY USERS POST THE ANSWER TO A CERTAIN QUESTION! NO ONE WILL POST AN ACCURATE ANSWER OR EVEN GIVE AN ACCEPTABLE RANGE THEIR INCOME FALLS WITHIN, THEY WILL POST COMMENTS SAYING WHY THEY WOULDN'T ANSWER OR THEY WOULD JUST IGNORE THE QUESTION BY NOT GIVING AN ANSWER. TIME TO PROVE MY POINT WHICH YOU FAILED TO UNDERSTAND IN MY PM AND AGAIN IN A PREVIOUS POST ON THIS THREAD! viewtopic.php?p=237819#p237819
Here's the link to my question for forum members. It's not really a question I wanted to ask but Ghost thinks it's acceptable and normal for people to post their monthly income online. I know most people don't want to give that information or post that information, even if they are semi-anonymous. Let's see who is correct, me or Ghost:
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
No one? I wouldn't be too sure about that. I will go on record stating I make about $3000 a month.
With all due respect, Tsar, you are a young and inexperienced guy hopelessly caught up in some anime-fantasy world. You would like to believe you are a righteous man, who can be ruthless when he has to be, and goes by a bushido warrior code of honor. An anti-hero of your own making, with his own personal set of principles he firmly believes in. You are a dreamer, and part of you dreams you could be a mafia member... that you could have dealings with shady business people, engage in the dark underground world. Engage computer hackers, Yakuza members, Libyan human traffickers, Russian arms dealers, Chinese gamblers and matchfixers... trust me, I know how you are thinking. I know how your mind operates. A lot of us have had such unrealistic, grandiose hopes.
Grandiose plans are fine. Don't be ashamed. But they are largely the realm of teenagers. You don't just step into the world of crime easily. These are people who are hard. Ruthless. Cold and calculating. You are just a 19th century romantic soul, an anime enthusiast, dreaming of being swept away in a great romantic love with a beautiful teenaged girl and making her your bride. You were born in the wrong era. But you aren't going to make it in this era, unless you are willing to confront some uncomfortable truths about yourself.
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
Well, you've posted yours and I've posted mine (in his other thread.) That alone proves him wrong, so I wonder if he'll admit it now or retreat further into fantasy land? I think we know the answer to that.
I'm really starting to lean towards him just being truly mentally ill. And I don't just throw that around lightly. It really does seem like it might be a real mental illness. On the other hand, it might "just" be years of loneliness. I was never this extreme, though I once showed some of these tendencies. I've always been a dreamer. Never went so far as imagining that I'm a prince or wanting to get into the mafia though...
Fantasy land is easier. The real world requires actual effort. As much (deserved) shit as I give him, it's a sad story. He could have made it out. Maybe there's still a chance, but time unused is time wasted. I doubt he'll ever do it. Like I've said before, I doubt he would go abroad if some bought him the damn plane ticket. For all the help I've offered, he's offered nothing in return. Not even the smallest of gestures. I guess he can keep waiting for his royal navy to show up...
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
Go ahead. I don't give a f**k.
And yeah, you did create a drama thread about the income. You're so predictable. Always an asinine response - instead of doing anything to prove us wrong you just show yourself to be an idiot.
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Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
Read these articles and then tell me it's not easy to buy a girl, or that the black market is some very exclusive underground limited to a small number of elite buyers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/salman-sak ... 60936.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_mar ... ck_markets
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -ways.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive ... laves.html
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Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
So go do it then if it's so easy.
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
It's easy for people that want to do it. The catch is the American government is too good at catching people and arresting people. The Romanian girls from the articles are EU-citizens so they have the right of free travel. It's also easier to get a Russian girl into the EU than across the Atlantic.
It's easy to buy a girl, easy to get a girl into the EU, but impossible to get the girl into the US. There's always a catch.
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
You showed yourself to be an idiot instead of dropping it and not giving an answer. I'm so predictable which is why you wanted to provoke me into drama so I'll give you the drama you requested. You provoked me into creating that thread. Refer to your posts earlier in the thread and tell me you didn't make those statements with good intentions, but with an intent to provoke me.
You expect I would just ignore your insults? You are very similar user "The" who ended up being banned.
Ghost's insults:
How many times have you or S_Parc rehashed the bold sentence in the second quote as an insult or provocation? At least six times, three times for the each of you on the drama threads.
Re: Your Predictions for 2016 and 2017
And you live in the U.S. So in other words - it's not easy.


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Thirteen-year-old George Kahula's carefree life is ruined when his best friend is arrested as a leper and deported to Kalaupapa. Now the authorities are looking for George. He runs from the police and sneaks home only to find his grandparents missing. George realizes his only hope is to get to the neighboring island of Molokai and find his birth parents. But can he do it without drawing the attention of the authorities? It won't be easy. He's penniless, alone, and there's no one he can trust.
George's determination to find a place where he belongs will change his life forever.
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Location: Naked Cafe, Lawrence Avenue, Kelowna, BC, Canada
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Palestine: Reintegration of youths
2017 is an extraordinary year in the long history of the Middle East conflict. In 1917, the Balfour-Declaration promises the establishment of a national homestead to the Jewish people inside the British mandatory area called Palestine. In 1947m the UN plenary assembly decides to split the land into a Jewish and an Arabic state. In 1967 during the Six-Day War, Israel conquers Gaza, Jerusalem and the Westbank and keeps the latter two occupied ever since. In 1987, the first Intifada starts, the Palestinian peaceful as well as violent resistance against the Israelian occupation. In 2007, Egypt and Israel block the Gaza Strip, since Hamas seized power using violence.This since 50 years ongoing occupation of the Westbank and Jerusalem and the 10-year old blockade of the Gaza Strip have various negative impacts on the people living there as for example restricted mobility, physical injuries, psychological traumata and economical misery.
The Middle East confligt resulted in thousands of injured people over the past years, who now have to learn to live with their permanent handicaps. Thereby it is mostly about paraplegia, limp, perception and visual disorder after shooting injuries as well as post-traumatic disorders (sleeping disorder, depression, paranoia, cancellation of social contacts or apathy).
For young people aged under 30, who represent 70% of the population, it is difficult to find a job after they have complited their education. Unemployment in this age is about 40% for young men and 63% for young women. For disabled people the situation is even more difficult. About 70% of them did not have had any kind or only very basic eduaction and 87% of all handicapped people over 18 years old are unemployed.
The programme pursues the aim to support children, young people and young adults with disabilities and traumas in the social and professional reintegration. Furthermore, the psychic health in the Palestinian society is improved sustainably through therapeutic offers and preventive measures.
- Disabled and traumatised children, young people and young adults are able to cope better with their disability/trauma.
- The beneficiaries are physically and economically independent
- The families/relatives as well as the society know the needs and rights of disabled/traumatised people and support them.
- Palestinian therapists expand their knowledge, abilities and technologies of treatment.
Yearly, 800 children, young people and young adults with disabilities and traumas in the West Bank benefit as direct beneficiaries from the supporting services of the East Jerusalem YMCA.
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Success Story: Reintegration of Bilal Mahmmud Al-Ghafi-Yatta
In january 2011, Laurent Burst, independent photographer for Horyzon, visited young Palestinians being involved with the YMCA. One of them is Bilal. Aged 19, israeli soldiers shot him in the head while he was trying to save children from the fire zone. His exceptionel story shows the importance of the development project in Palestine.
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What Happens, Side Effects, When You Stop Taking Arimidex After 5 Years?
Originally asked by Community Member Debra
What Happens, Side Effects, When You Stop Taking Arimidex After 5 Years?
I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, I was 40 years old, this was in 2003. I had a lumpectomy, 2 rounds of chemo and 40 days of radiation, the tumor was aprox. 3 cm, larger than they thought so this was the course of treatment. I've been taking Arimidex for 5 years as well as Zolodex to keep me in menopause. I'm now wondering what will happen when all this wears off. I am cancer free with no re-ocurrance.
My doctor was not sure what would happen when the meds wear off. My last Zolodex shot was May 19, 2009. My last dose of Arimidex was June 1, 2009.
Debra, if your doctor isn't sure what will happen, I'd guess no one can be sure what will happen. Arimidex is still so new, they really don't have data on the long-term effects, both during the course of treatment, and afterwards. My guess: As for the Zoladex - you may get your period back, you may not. Arimidex - if you had any joint pain or other side effects, hopefully they'll now fade away. In addition, you'll stop the bone density loss you were probably undergoing, courtesy of the Arimidex. Other than that, it's wait and see… Good luck to you - PJH
You should know Answers to your question are meant to provide general health information but should not replace medical advice you receive from a doctor. No answers should be viewed as a diagnosis or recommended treatment for a condition.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
The undying stink of the 60's and 70's
They hate the women's movement.
They hate environmentalism.
They hate gay pride.
They hate the opposition to the Vietnam war and any war America sees fit to fight. Social conservatives have only had doubts about a few of the stupid wars we got ourselves into over the last fifty years, and those were the ones started and ended by Bill Clinton. They didn't say a peep about the ones started by George W. Bush that he didn't have the sense to know how to end.
Some social conservatives now say they don't hate the civil rights movement, but I was there. They hated it plenty at the time.
And, of course, they hated the hippies.
I was a pre-teen in sleepy old Alameda when the Summer of Love was taking place across the bay in San Francisco. In general, my memories of hippies are fond, with one glaring exception.
I hate patchouli.
Until recently, everyone I ever met who wore patchouli perfume was a flower child or a wannabe.
If you don't know what I am talking about, consider yourself fortunate. Patchouli is the nastiest smell anyone ever put on their own body on purpose. An extract of a plant related to mint, it's like combining the sticky over-sweetness of honey with the acrid sting of paint thinner. The smell lingers in the air like skunk juice does. A professor in the Mills biology department told me that kind of unavoidable smell means the molecules do some kind of bonding with membranes in the nostrils. It's a truly miserable experience.
Yesterday, I was once again inflicted with the cloying stink of patchouli, though there wasn't a hippie in sight. I was on the BART train traveling two stops south of Lake Merritt to the Coliseum station when two middle aged women came on board at Fruitvale. Neither of them had the look of ex-hippies, but one never knows. One of them was wearing patchouli. It wasn't a crowded train, the air circulation system worked fine and the women went for seats in opposite directions of the car. Both of them got seats at least ten or fifteen feet away from me, maybe more. But I could still smell patchouli until I got off the train about four minutes later.
Gentle reader, if you are a user of patchouli, I beg you to stop. Even though the odds are good neither of us will ever smell the other, I consider the readers of this blog to be my friends, and friends don't let friends wear patchouli.
Some fads of the era, most especially patchouli, should remain in the distant past instead of chemically bonding to the olfactory systems of unsuspecting passersby.
Yay, Flags of Many Lands™! Yay, French Guiana!
Someone visited from the capital of the French colony in South America, the city of Cayenne, where I am sure the people are spicy, and hopefully not with patchouli.
I now only need a visitor from Guyana, the former U.K. colony, to complete the set of South American nations.
6 comments:
- Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein said...
Patchouli, ick.
- September 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- namastenancy said...
Patchouli, LOL! I bought some in Williamsburg back before there were hippies. I was maybe 12? 13? It was used in their recreations of perfumes used in Colonial America and it was a lot less stinky than the straight patchouli + unwashed that SF's hippies wore. But after I smelled it on one of them, I couldn't stand it any more. But if you ever are curious, find some of the websites where they give recipes for scents and pot-pourri used in the 18th century. Patchouli is a main ingredient.
- September 24, 2009 at 11:42 PM
- dguzman said...
I remember when Madonna made that album that was "scented" (stinked? is that a verb?) with patchouli. Gross.
- September 25, 2009 at 1:31 AM
- Fran said...
Patchouli is a scent that I do not like either, but it is so powerfully evocative that I am filled with mixed feelings when I encounter it.
It is a reminder of a whole bunch of things, not all of them good and it makes me stop - smell - feel less than good and yet I still stand there.
And yes - it has "dirty filthy hippie" written all over it, but that is not why it is a bad thing!
- September 25, 2009 at 2:50 AM
- Ichabod said...
I like the way you started this, from wars to fragrance.
Maybe there is a connection?
Do you think that wars were started by people who took showers everyday against those who have offensive body odors and all the other accusations are just icing on the cake? :)
- September 25, 2009 at 4:59 AM
- Matty Boy said...
Obviously, I have struck a nerve with patchouli. Probably a nerve that goes straight from the olfactory to the brain.
Nancy: I've heard that patchouli has been used as the base note in some more subtle fragrances. They must use teeny, tiny, homeopathic dosages of it, because a little goes a long, long way.
- September 25, 2009 at 8:03 AM


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October 2007
A panel discussion and mergers and acquisition was organized by Economic Time (ET) and Computer Associates (CA).
Experts said companies must exercise caution not to jump into the M &A bandwagon without a strategic purpose, early preparation and a clear roadmap for integration.
A warning was given that acquisitions can become the winner's curse if merely undertaken for its own sake rather than a compelling need.
Mr. Anil Singhvi, MD Ican Investment Advisors, has said when times are good, bigger mistakes are made. So companies have to be mreo careful.
V.N.Dhoot of Videocon group said taht preparation is the key. At Videocon, executives keep an eye out for companies that might come out for sale in the next few years and study them beforehand. This provides a competitive advantage when a 90-day typical auction window is opened. Acquisitions fail when done without homework.
Standard Charteted Bank's MD of corporate advisory and finance, Sunil Mehra emphasized the importance of integration. The success of an acquisition directly depends on the quality of integration and whether one can digest the acquired firm.
Ashank Desai said frankly that there are no mergers and only acquisitions are there. If the both the companies are of equal size there will be more problems in integration.
John Swainson, President and CEO, CA gave the key note address and said his experience of more than 40 acuisitions points out the need for the integration of information technology infrastructure to make the companies work successfully post integration.
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Would you eat a vegetable that you knew contained poison? It had been bred to kill. Would you serve it in your dinner salad?
Regardless of your answer, the sad truth is, you probably already have. Farmers are now using a poison derived from nicotine, neonicotinoids, to kill pests. But this is not a spray or a powder that is administered topically to the plant. Instead, this is a systemic pesticide that is bred into the plant. The farmers buy this genetically modified seed, because it saves them money on purchasing and applying topical pesticides. The neonicontinoids have a long life span, easily months long, but as we've seen with herbicides like Grazon, it could persist in compost for years. The idea behind using this new form of pesticide is that it can't wash off in the rain, or degrade in the sun. It is there, within the living plant. And when an insect comes along for a snack, they'll find their food has been poisoned, and they will die.
So I can see why farmers would find this new form of pesticide beneficial. What I don't understand, is why anyone that wants to eat fresh food would allow it to exist. If this poison kills insects when they eat it, what is it doing to us when we eat it? Apparently, this question never occurred to the EPA, who granted some neonicotinoids conditional approval without extensive research or testing. A group of beekeepers, environmentalists, and consumer groups recently sued the EPA for this decision, saying the association exceeded it's authority.
But speaking of beekeepers brings me to the second prong of how these embedded pesticides could end up drastically reducing our supply of safe food. It turns out that Colony Collapse Disorder is not even close to being treated or healed. Beekeepers are reporting the greatest bee die offs ever over the course of the last 12 months. Many are blaming the toxic soup of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides that are now our nation's farms. And neonicotinoids are a major culprit to bee deaths.
The pollen on these GMO plants are full of poison. Bees are bringing this poisonous pollen back to the hive and making toxic honey from it. Over the course of the year, especially in the cold months, bees and bee larva eat this toxic honey and it kills them. They are dying by the billions. Many of the top bee keepers in the country are experiencing hive deaths of over fifty percent. If we kill off all of our bees with our poisonous produce, we won't have to worry about how much pesticides are in our vegetables because we won't have any vegetables. Without bees to pollenate our plants, our crops will not be able to fruit.
Everyone wants to talk about the costs of farming and food production these days. Everything from the weather, to the seed, to the pests, to the availability of migrant labor affect the cost of our food. Everywhere we turn, we are being told why the price of our produce is going up. But no one is talking about the real price of growing poisoned food. The price per pound is important, but it pales in comparison to the expenses incurred by not having any produce to sell. Perhaps we should all consider a compromise with the insects. We'll tolerate some pests if the bees will come back and help us grow healthy, non-toxic food.
For more information on this topic, Google "neonicotinoids" and read this article from the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/science/earth/soaring-bee-deaths-in-2012-sound-alarm-on-malady.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp.