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=== Advanced Firefox options ===
=== Advanced Firefox options ===
This section contains advanced Firefox options for performance tweaking. For additional information see [http://
This section contains advanced Firefox options for performance tweaking. For additional information see [http://.mozillazine.org/Mozillazine forum ].
==== Network settings ====
==== Network settings ====
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- 1 Performance
- 1.1 Advanced Firefox options
- 1.2 Other modifications
- 2 Appearance
- 2.1 Fonts
- 2.2 General user interface CSS settings
- 2.3 Web content CSS settings
- 3 Miscellaneous
- 4 See also
Improving Firefox's performance is divided into parameters that can be inputted while running Firefox or otherwise modifying its configuration as intended by the developers, and advanced procedures that involve foreign programs or scripts.
Advanced Firefox options
This section contains advanced Firefox options for performance tweaking. For additional information see these Mozillazine forum posts.
Network settings
Advanced network settings can be found on the
about:config page (try searching for network).
|Enable pipelining for normal connections
|Enable pipelining for proxy connections
|Maximum HTTP requests per pipeline
|Maximum number of total HTTP connections
|Maximum number of any type of connections per server
|Maximum number of keep-alive type connections per proxy
|Maximum number of keep-alive type connections per server
|Disable IPv6 support
Turn off anti-phishing
The anti-phishing features of Firefox may cause Firefox to become slow to start or exit. The problem is that Firefox maintains an Sqlite database that can grow quite big which makes reading and writing slower after repeated use. If you feel that you do not need Firefox to tell you which sites may be suspect you can disable this feature:
- Turn off the following options under the security tab in preferences: "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries".
- Delete all files beginning with
urlclassifierin your profile folder (
$ rm -i ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_dir>/urlclassifier*
- Some of these files might be recreated by Firefox, but they won't grow any larger than their initial size.
Stop urlclassifier3.sqlite from being created again
If you did remove all the
urlclassifier* files as mentioned above, you may find out that
urlclassifier3.sqlite keeps growing again after a certain time. Here is a simple solution to avoid it for now and ever.
$ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_dir> $ echo "" > urlclassifier3.sqlite $ chmod 400 urlclassifier3.sqlite
This effectively makes the file empty and then read-only so Firefox cannot write to it anymore.
Improve font rendering by disabling pango
To disable Pango font handling in Firefox, add:
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
to the
~/.profile or to
/etc/profile or to a shell configuration file (e.g.
.bashrc) and re-login for the change to take place.
Other modifications
This section contains some other modifications that may increase Firefox's performance.
Reduce load time by compressing the Firefox binary with UPX
UPX is an executable packer that supports very fast decompression and induces no memory overhead. It can be installed with the upx package, availalble in the official repositories.
Before using
upx to compress the Firefox executable, make a backup of the binary:
# cp /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.backup
Finally, invoke
upx, applying the best possible compression level:
# upx --best /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
Defragment the profile's SQLite databases
In Firefox 3.0, bookmarks, history, passwords are kept in an SQLite databases. SQLite databases become fragmented over time and empty spaces appear all around. But, since there are no managing processes checking and optimizing the database, these factors eventually result in a performance hit. A good way to improve start-up and some other bookmarks and history related tasks is to defragment and trim unused space from these databases.
profile-cleanerAUR in the AUR does just this.
|SQLite database
|Size Before
|Size After
|% change
|19 %
|85 %
Cache the entire profile into RAM via tmpfs
If the system has memory to spare,
tmpfs can be used to cache the entire profile directory, which might result in increased Firefox responsiveness.
Configure the DPI value
Modifying the following value can help improve the way fonts looks in Firefox if the system's DPI is below 96. Firefox, by default, uses 96 and only uses the system's DPI if it is a higher value. To force the system's DPI regardless of its value, type
about:config into the address bar and set
layout.css.dpi to 0.
In Xfce, the above method only affects the Firefox user interface's DPI settings, but web page contents still use a DPI value of 96, which may look ugly. A solution is to change
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to system's DPI divided by 96. For example, if your system's DPI is 142, then the value to add is 142/96 = 1.48. Changing
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.48 makes web page contents use a DPI of 142, which looks much better.
Default font settings from Microsoft Windows
Below are the default font preferences when Firefox is installed in Microsoft Windows. Many web sites use the Microsoft fonts.
Proportional: Serif Size (pixels): 16 Serif: Times New Roman Sans-serif: Arial Monospace: Courier New Size (pixels): 13
General user interface CSS settings
Firefox's user interface can be modified by editing the
userChrome.css and
userContent.css files in
~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_dir>/chrome/ (profile_dir is of the form hash.name, where the hash is an 8 character, seemingly random string and the profile name is usually default).
chrome/ folder and
userContent.css files may not necessarily exist, so you have to create them.
This section only deals with the
userChrome.css file which modifies Firefox's user interface, and not web pages.
Change the font
The setting effectively overrides the global GTK+ font preferences, and does not affect webpages, only the user interface itself:
* { font-family: "FONT_NAME"; }
Enables text-only buttons:
.button-box .button-icon { display: none; }
These settings hide the arrows that appear to the horizontal edges of the tab bar, the button that toggles the "all tabs" drop-down list, and the plus sign button that creates a new tab.
/* Tab bar */ .tabbrowser-strip *[class^="scrollbutton"] { /* Hide tab scroll buttons */ display: none; } .tabbrowser-strip *[class^="tabs-alltabs"] { /* Hide tab drop-down list */ display: none; } .tabbrowser-strip *[class^="tabs-newtab-button"] { /* Hide new-tab button */ display: none; }
Horizontal tabs
To place the tab bar horizontally stacked along the sides of the browser window:
/* Display the tabbar on the left */ #content > tabbox { -moz-box-orient: horizontal; } .tabbrowser-strip { -moz-box-orient: vertical; /* * You can set this to -moz-scrollbars-vertical instead, * but then the scrollbar will *always* be visible. this way * there is never a scrollbar, so it behaves like the tab bar * normally does */ overflow: -moz-scrollbars-none; } .tabbrowser-tabs { -moz-box-orient: horizontal; min-width: 20ex; /* You may want to increase this value */ -mox-box-pack: start; -moz-box-align: start; } .tabbrowser-tabs > hbox { -moz-box-orient: vertical; -moz-box-align: stretch; -moz-box-pack: start; } .tabbrowser-tabs > hbox > tab { -moz-box-align: start; -moz-box-orient: horizontal; }
Auto-hide Bookmarks Toolbar
#PersonalToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; } #navigator-toolbox:hover > #PersonalToolbar { visibility: visible !important; }
/* remove maximum/minimum width restriction of sidebar */ #sidebar { max-width: none !important; min-width: 0px !important; }
Web content CSS settings
This section deals with the
userContent.css files in which you can add custom CSS rules for web content. You can import other CSS files by adding to the file:
@import url("./imports/some_file.css");
Block certain parts of a domain
@-moz-document domain(example.com) { div#header { background-image: none !important; } }
Add [pdf] after links to PDF files
/* add '[pdf]' next to links to PDF files */ a[href$=".pdf"]:after { font-size: smaller; content: " [pdf]"; }
Show URLs at the bottom of the screen when hovering a link
a[href]:hover { text-decoration: none !important; } a[href]:hover:after { content: attr(href); position: fixed; left: 0px; bottom: 0px; padding: 0 2px !important; max-width: 95%; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font:10pt sans-serif !important; background-color: black !important; color: white !important; opacity: 0.7; z-index: 9999; }</nowiki>
Firefox 4 New Menu Bar/Firefox Button
To toggle between the new Firefox button and the classic menu bar:
- if the button is active, check Preferences > Menu Bar, or right click in the toolbar area and check Menu Bar.
- if the menu bar is active, uncheck View > Toolbars > Menu Bar, or right click in the toolbar area and uncheck Menu Bar.
In GNU/Linux, you will just get a plain grey button instead of the new orange one from Windows. However you can change this to either a Firefox icon or the icon followed by the "Firefox" text.
Adding the following to your
~/.mozilla/firefox/userprofile/chrome/userChrome.css file will place the icon before the text:
#appmenu-toolbar-button { list-style-image: url("chrome://branding/content/icon16.png"); }
Adding the following to the same file will remove the "Firefox" text:
#appmenu-toolbar-button > .toolbarbutton-text, #appmenu-toolbar-button > .toolbarbutton-menu-dropmarker { display: none !important; }
This userChrome.css configuration copies the default Windows Firefox 4+ look and adds an orange background to the button, with a purple background in Private Browsing mode:
#main-window:not([privatebrowsingmode]) #appmenu-toolbar-button { -moz-appearance: none !important; color: #FEEDFC !important; background: -moz-linear-gradient(hsl(34,85%,60%), hsl(26,72%,53%) 95%) !important; border: 1px solid #000000 !important; } #main-window:not([privatebrowsingmode]) #appmenu-toolbar-button:hover:not(:active):not([open]) { -moz-appearance: none !important; color: #FEEDFC !important; background: -moz-linear-gradient(hsl(26,72%,53%), hsl(34,85%,60%) 95%) !important; border: 1px solid #000000 !important; } #main-window:not([privatebrowsingmode]) #appmenu-toolbar-button:hover:active, #main-window:not([privatebrowsingmode]) #appmenu-toolbar-button[open] { -moz-appearance: none !important; color: #FEEDFC !important; background: -moz-linear-gradient(hsl(26,72%,53%), hsl(26,72%,53%) 95%) !important; border: 1px solid #000000 !important; } #appmenu-toolbar-button { -moz-appearance: none !important; color: #FEEDFC !important; background: -moz-linear-gradient(hsl(279,70%,46%), hsl(276,75%,38%) 95%) !important; border: 1px solid #000000 !important; } #main-window #appmenu-toolbar-button:hover:not(:active):not([open]) { -moz-appearance: none !important; color: #FEEDFC !important; background: -moz-linear-gradient(hsl(276,75%,38%), hsl(279,70%,46%) 95%) !important; border: 1px solid #000000 !important; } #main-window #appmenu-toolbar-button:hover:active, #main-window #appmenu-toolbar-button[open] { -moz-appearance: none !important; color: #FEEDFC !important; background: -moz-linear-gradient(hsl(276,75%,38%), hsl(276,75%,38%) 95%) !important; border: 1px solid #000000 !important; }
chrome directory and
userChrome.css, if they do not already exist.
Block ads
See floppymoose.com for an example of how to use
userContent.css as a basic ad-blocker.
Other tips and tweaks.
Mouse wheel scroll speed
To modify the default values (i.e. speed-up) of the mouse wheel scroll speed, go to
about:config and search for
mousewheel.acceleration. This will show the available options, modifying the following:
- Set
mousewheel.acceleration.startto -1.
- Set
mousewheel.acceleration.factorto the desired number (10 to 20 are common values).
Alternatively you can install the SmoothWheel add-on.
Change the order of search engines in the Firefox Search Bar
To change the order search engines are displayed in:
- Open the drop-down list of search engines and click Manage Search Engines... entry.
- Highlight the engine you want to move and use Move Up or Move Down to move it. Alternatively, you can use drag-and-drop.
How to open a *.doc automatically with Abiword or LibreOffice Writer
Go to Preferences > Applications and search for Word Document (or Word 2007 Document for
*.docx). After finding it, click the drop-down list and select Use other.... From there you have to specify the exact path to the Abiword or Writer executable (i.e.
/usr/bin/abiword or
Secure DNS with DNSSEC validator
You can enable DNSSEC support for safer browsing.
Adding magnet protocol association
about:config set
network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet to false.
The next time you open a magnet link, you will be prompted with a
Launch Application dialogue. From there simply select your chosen torrent client. This technique can also be used with other protocols.
Prevent accidental closing
The Disable Ctrl-Q Shortcut extension can be installed to prevent unwanted closing of the browser.
An alternative is to add a rule in your window manager configuration file. For example in openbox add:
<keybind key="C-q"> <action name="Execute"> <execute>false</execute> </action> </keybind>
in the <keyboard> section of your rc.xml file.


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Should ISPs Cut Off The Entertainment Industry For Pushing Them To Censor?
from the nuclear-option? deptA bunch of folks have been sending over Rick Falkvinge's plea for ISPs to start refusing service to any company or organization that seeks to have them block access to others. This is, of course, in the wake of the Newzbin2 ruling:
"Any party forcing any of our kin anywhere in the world through a court of law to filter or censor any third part, or otherwise interfere with their communications, or threatening to use such force, directly or through an agent or membership alliance, and for whatever reason, shall have its identity and its business kicked off the net on all ports and all services. In transit, and at the end of the line. They shall be denied service and they shall be denied presence. For they who would deny communication to another, deserve no better for themselves."It's quite a manifesto, and I certainly understand the sentiment behind it, but I'm not convinced it's a good idea for two key reasons. First, it's unlikely that any ISP will actually agree to this. Especially these days, when ISPs themselves think that they need to get beyond being "dumb pipes" and want to be in the content business themselves, too many of them no longer realize that they should be focusing on what's best for consumers. Second, and more importantly, I'm just not convinced that escalating a war stance is really that effective. I know it feels good, and many people here likely support this idea. But all it really does is continue to put the pro-copyright folks on the defensive and allows them to portray themselves as victims, rather than aggressors. I realize that some still view it as quaint, but I still believe that eventually the firms in these industries will come around to recognizing that it's in their own best interests to embrace what the technology allows, and cutting them off from the internet won't bring them any further down that path... but instead would likely make them dig in harder on their original position.
Filed Under: censorship, copyright, isps

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Silk Road, a notorious website for drug trafficking and other criminal activities, has been shut down after its alleged operator, Ross Ulbricht, was arrested Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced. Federal prosecutors have charged Mr. Ulbricht with narcotics trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and the solicitation of a murder-for-hire.
How did this black market work, and how did it escape law enforcement for a time? Here are the basics about this so-called eBay of illegal drugs.
What was Silk Road?
Silk Road was an online marketplace that allowed buyers and sellers to conduct all their transactions anonymously. In addition to the cost of goods or services purchased, the site charged a small fee, akin to a shipping cost, to deliver the purchases. While the site's interface looked benign, the vast majority of transactions involved narcotics, and hit men, firearms, and pornography could also be purchased, according to authorities.
The site was started around June 18, 2011, according to authorities.
Who ran the site?
The site's most recent operator, according to the FBI, was Mr. Ulbricht, who worked under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts," or "DPR" for short. (Dread Pirate Roberts is a character in the film "The Princess Bride.")
Ulbricht, a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, moved to San Francisco in the fall of 2012 and was in transition from a career in physics to work as an investment adviser and entrepreneur, according to his LinkedIn page.
Ulbricht, who is in his late 20s, assumed control of Silk Road in early 2012, according to the criminal complaint.
So what exactly did DPR do on Silk Road?
In an interview with Forbes before Silk Road was shut down, DPR said that the site was a collaborative effort, but that he was in charge of all the "important Silk Road assets," which included access to private forums and funds.
Did DPR make a profit from the site?
Silk Road generated sales of roughly $1.2 billion, according to the complaint, and with Ulbricht's arrest, authorities seized $3.6 million. It is unclear how much of Silk Road's revenue DPR might have used.
How did users pay for items?
With Bitcoins: Users had to acquire this electronic currency before they could purchase anything on Silk Road. Transactions on Silk Road accounted for about 5 percent of all exchange transactions carried out with Bitcoins, according to Nicolas Christin, a cybersecurity researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
The Bitcoin currency is not tied to any government or bank, but rather is controlled through computer software, which means that the value of Bitcoins can fluctuate violently. After Silk Road was closed, the Bitcoin value dropped from more than $140 to $129 in one day.
How was the site accessed?
Silk Road was accessible only via a special computer network known as Tor.
To use Tor, users download the Tor browser much as they would Chrome or Firefox. The Tor browser can make anonymous a user's Internet activity by masking his or her Internet protocol (IP) address, which contains information about a computer's location.
Tor also has a "hidden services" feature that lets users publish a website anonymously by hiding the location of the website's servers. The URL for these Tor-based websites ends in ".onion." (The Tor browser's symbol is an onion.)
Silk Road's most recent URL was silkroadvb5piz3r.onion and could be found in online forums, according to the complaint.
To log into Silk Road, users had to give a username, password, and the country where they were located. After logging in, users were then able to browse the site as they would any other online store. The vast majority of the goods for sale were illegal drugs, according to reports.
How does Tor make online activity anonymous?
Any Web browsing, including e-mail correspondence that is conducted through Tor, is wrapped in layers of encryption, making the information virtually impossible for an outside party to discern. Encryption works by jumbling data into a series of numbers that unscramble only when one has the correct "key" to "unlock" or reorder them.
If Tor really works, what led the FBI to Ulbricht?
Ulbricht left a trail of comments on online forums that seemed suspicious to the FBI agent investigating Silk Road. According to court documents, Ulbricht did not properly disguise his identity in these forums, ultimately allowing the FBI to identify Ulbricht.


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Time is running short if Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies want to qualify a newly-revamped tax measure for the November ballot.
That explains the sudden flood of big-bucks checks that Brown's campaign committee collected this week. New records from the Secretary of State's office show that Brown's committee's cash machine is cranking up.
It is disclosing roughly $3 million in new donations. The large contributions are coming from labor unions and education coalitions in a preview of what the fall campaign will look like.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
The California Federation of Teachers, which had been floating a rival measure before joining with the governor, kicked in $500,000.
The California School Employees Association donated $800,00. The California Medical Association wrote a check for $250,000. And Assembly Speaker John Perez's campaign committee contributed $100,000.
The new wave of contributions reflects the calendar. Brown's team has less than a month to collect 800,000 valid voter signatures.
It's whythe governor and the Democratic Party staged pre-recorded phone calls and mailed out petitions in the past week.
These same contributors can be expected to make up a roster of donors this fall, assuming the measure qualifies. Educators, in particular, want to head off the possibility of billions in so-called trigger cuts to school budgets if the measure fails.
The head of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, Jon Coupal, is just getting started himself in pushing a 'no' vote. He appeared on KFI Radio on Monday to denounce the tax package.
Still unclear is whether influential groups like the California Chamber of Commerce will join in the opposition, or remain neutral.
Send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Dahil Sa Pag-Ibig October 2 2019
SHOW DESCRIPTION: Eldon (Benjamin Alves), who works as an OFW in Saudi Arabia, commits a grave crime that eventually lands him in jail. His wife Mariel (Sanya Lopez), who is left in the Philippines, is desperate to earn the "Blood Money" that will bail out her husband. Portia (Winwyn Marquez), the wife of Eldon's employer, is bent on putting him behind bars. Gary (Pancho Magno), Mariel's rich former lover, offers an indecent proposal that shakes her fidelity to Eldon.


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I'm pretty new to using Linux but am setting up my MySQL databases on an Amazon ec2 instance. I followed some directions I found about resetting the user login pass by using the
--skip-grant-tables option of MySQL. Now I am trying to add a user and can't figure out how to turn that option off.
This is what I'm trying to do:
mysql> GRANT CREATE,SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON ...my db username and pass
but I get this error:
ERROR 1290 (HY000): The MySQL server is running with the --skip-grant-tables option so it cannot execute this statement
How do I turn this option off?


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WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Center for Corporate Climate Leadership announced the third annual Climate Leadership Award winners in partnership with the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and The Climate Registry (TCR). Nineteen awards were given to 15 organizations and two individuals in the public and private sectors for their leadership in addressing climate change by reducing carbon pollution.
The 2014 Climate Leadership Award recipients are:
- Organizational Leadership Award: City of Chula Vista, Sprint, and University of California, Irvine
Individual Leadership Award: Sam Brooks, Associate Director, D.C. Department of General Services, and Robert Taylor, Energy Manager, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
Supply Chain Leadership Award: Sprint
Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management (Goal Achievement Award): The Boeing Company; Caesars Entertainment; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Ecolab; The Hartford; IBM; Johnson Controls; Kohl's Department Stores; Mack Trucks; and Novelis
Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management (Goal Setting Certificate): Fruit of the Loom, Inc.; Hasbro, Inc.; and Kohl's Department Stores
The national awards program recognizes and incentivizes exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change. Award recipients represent a wide array of industries, including finance, manufacturing, retail, technology, higher education and local government.
"The Association of Climate Change Officers is pleased to recognize another exceptional class of organizations and individuals who are demonstrating leadership in driving climate action into their organizational cultures," said Daniel Kreeger, ACCO's co-founder and executive director. "These award recipients are demonstrating critical devotion and leadership to managing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the risks and challenges posed by climate change. These recipients are role models for corporate, organizational, and individual leaders who can and should be responding proactively to climate change risks and opportunities."
"Communities and businesses are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, and we need to act now to protect both our environment and our economy," said C2ES President Eileen Claussen. "We join EPA in applauding the winners of the Climate Leadership Awards. These companies, organizations, and individuals demonstrate that we can save energy, reduce emissions, and take decisive steps toward a low-carbon future. We hope their accomplishments will serve as an example for others to follow."
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The President's Climate Action Plan calls on the federal government to work with all stakeholders to take action to cut the harmful carbon pollution that fuels climate change. These organizations and individuals are working to do just that.
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Went to a large aquarium this past Wednesday when I was visiting family in southern Ohio. My camera had trouble with the lighting (and lack there of!) in the aquarium so some of the pics aren't super clear.
Humpback whale model upon entering - it was very big!
Puffer fish - he never puffed up, but his tail was very pretty and flowing
Lobster with awesome red and white striped legs
You can't see them in this pic, but this fish had GIGANTIC teeth
Um...fish...of some type...
Crappy pic of an amazing, huge octopus!
Video of the octopus - he was so active! I just wish the lighting had been better:
Spider crabs. HUGE. Reminded me of the aliens from the Alien movies - the ones that attach to your face. Total heebie-jeebies!
Clown fish
Shark of some kind
Viper of some sort
Piranha with cool metallic gold flecks all over
114 lb turtle - gigantic! With a very scary beak!
Can't remember what he was
Neat turtle - amazing camouflage!
Regular turtle
Tail end of Mighty Mike - 14' alligator captured in a pond in Florida. He was huh-uge!
Poison frog
Frog of some sort - I just liked how he was dangling in the water!
Green tree frog - super cute!
2 otters
In the free-flying bird area in their Amazon Rainforest section
Random fish in the Amazon section
Python noggin
Bottom side of a ray
Shark of some type
Diver cleaning display
Video of another diving playing with my step-nephew
Not sure what this dude was!
Jellyfish section - gorgeous displays, horrible neon lighting for photos!
Pics from the tunnel through their shark/ray display
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Wells likely out of Classic
Due to some paperwork issues, Vernon Wells probably won't be suiting up for Team USA during the World Baseball Classic. Wells has been waiting two weeks for an update, but is starting to think it's not going to happen.
"Right now, I'm under the impression that I'm not playing," he said on Friday.
Wells said he exceeded the number of days allowed to be on the disabled list in the previous season for participating players. He noted that each player also requires insurance and there have been issues with that due to the size of his contract with Toronto.
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As I recall, Wells had a very poor showing the last WBC. In general, it was just a very difficult thing for players to be put right in the middle of highly competitive baseball at the outset of the season. Wells has typically been a slow starter.


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Stevens Professor Victor Lawrence's Research and Business Efforts Support Construction of Continental Fiber-optic Cable to Spearhead Internet Expansion in Africa
Throughout his illustrious career as an inventor, business leader and academic, Dr. Victor Lawrence – Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens – has championed the expansion of broadband internet capabilities to developing, third-world nations.
Lawrence's pioneering work in global telecommunications during his 30-year career at Bell Laboratories helped to spur the growth of the Internet worldwide.
Since then, he founded the Baharicom Development Corporation (BDC), a co-builder of the African Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine communications cable – a 17,000-kilometer broadband, fiber-optic underwater cable which will run from France to South Africa, along the way bringing high bandwidth internet access to 23 countries on the west coast of Africa.
On April 18, 2013, Lawrence hosted a videoconference at Stevens which brought together an international alliance of eminent scientists who are also focused on improving the living standards of African nations by "reducing the digital divide." During the three hour videoconference, the scientists discussed how the expansion of communications capability in West Africa could enhance basic human services for millions of people.
Currently, Lawrence said only 4 percent of the African population has internet access, but the new telecommunications network being created could ultimately increase access to 20 or 30 percent of the population. While that number lags greatly behind the world's most advanced nations – where 60, 70 or even 80 percent of the population typically have internet access – the ongoing African communications expansion could help spur significant economic development and social growth throughout the continent.
At the videoconference, the scientists discussed how greater access to affordable, high-speed internet can enable the spread of information and the sharing of knowledge; promote literacy, education, innovation and entrepreneurship; teach tolerance, open-mindedness and a global mindset; allow for critical human services to be delivered where they are most needed; and even create more knowledge-based and professional jobs. They specifically focused on various applications for e-health, e-education, e-commerce and e-agriculture made possibly by the international cable.
Lawrence, who holds several patents for telecommunications inventions, is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Hey Acute? Do you think you could ban the Kiro thread for now? I need to rethink him, mainly because of points Vern made.
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Just when you think reality TV can't sink any lower, along comes Fabien Cousteau.
The grandson of original aquanaut Jacques-Yves Cousteau is producer, director and star of a miniseries airing this fall that takes place 63 feet under sea. Fabien Cousteau (below) and other researchers will live underwater for 31 days and will broadcast every second on multiple channels, exposing the world to the adventure, risk and mystique of what lies beneath. (The trip, which was scheduled to begin on Nov. 12, was recently postponed to spring 2014 because some ncessary permits were delayed by the federal shutdown.)
"Mission 31" is more than "Big Brother," of course. Those living under water will conduct research on the effects of climate change on corals, sponges and sea life with scientific advice and mission support from Northeastern University's Urban Coastal Sustainability Initiative. Cousteau's team will also lead human physiological and psychological experiments to determine how long humans can live without the sun and also handle the effects of long-term high pressure.
The team will also test new technology such as underwater motorcycles, autonomous robots and diving helmets.
"Mission 31," says Cousteau, builds on the legacy of his grandfather, who is credited with creating the first underwater habitats for humans. In 1963, the elder Cousteau led a team that spent 30 days aboard Conshelf Two beneath the waters of the Red Sea.
The "Mission 31" divers will stay under longer and stay deeper than that mission 50 years ago. The mission will also be viewable by the world 24/7.
The aquanauts will be able to get around outside Aquarius on ATV-like vehicles. (Photo: DJ Roller)
Live feeds from eight cameras — four inside the habitat, four outside — will stream via the Internet. It will also have a presence on Facebook and Twitter.
"You will be able to see fish swimming by," says Fabien Cousteau. "The Aquarius is not only a habitat for the aquanauts. It has been on the bottom so long it has also become a habitat for residents outside — a variety of sea life."
Aquarius is an underwater laboratory — the oceanic equivalent of the International Space Station. Owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA and managed by Florida International University, Aquarius is located in a sand patch adjacent to deep coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, at a depth of 63 feet.
Cousteau and oceanographer Sylvia Earle inside Aquarius. (Photo: Mission 31)
The 81-ton habitat features six bunks, a shower and toilet, instant hot water, a microwave, a refrigerator and even air conditioning. "Creature comforts are pretty sparse," jokes Cousteau.
Living below the surface — called saturation diving — allows divers to spend up to nine hours a day swimming without having to worry about getting the bends. Typically, divers can spend an hour or less at depth.
Saturation diving gives researchers more time to collect data and filmmakers more time to record footage, says Cousteau. "It's the difference between flying over a forest in a helicopter to get a shot and living and strolling through a forest."
Cousteau's production team Bonnets Rouges and Liquid Pictures will be shooting footage for an Imax documentary. But you won't have to wait to see what the divers see. In addition to the live feeds, students can see each day of the mission worldwide via live Skype video calls into classrooms around the world. The Weather Channel will provide ongoing coverage including live reports throughout the mission.
Photo: Kip Evans
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- Vintage menus reveal Hawaiian sea change
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Research on the ownership history, or provenance, of works of art is an important part of museum work. This research sheds light on the historical, social, and economic context in which works are created and collected. Following recommendations of the American Association of Museums (AAM), Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the U.S. State Department conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States (PCHA), a special effort has been to investigate the World War II-era provenance of European paintings in The Ringling collection. This effort has focused on works that were acquired after 1932 and created before 1945, which changed owners during these years, and that were, or could have been, in continental Europe at that time.
The years immediately before and during the World War II were marked by great turmoil and upheaval, many paintings and other works of art that came onto the international market at that time were, in some cases, the result of the Nazi looting of private collections. Though large numbers of seized works were subsequently restituted to their original owners or their heirs, or returned to the country from which they had been confiscated, some continued to appear on the art market, making their way into both public and private collections. The purpose of the Provenance Research Project is to determine whether any objects that entered the Museum's collection since 1932 could have been seized or stolen by the Nazis and must consequently be restituted to their rightful owners.
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Another place I'd been in my previous incarnation off Buttermilk Pike was Hoggy's - but that was pre-Food Hussy so I decided it was worth a try again...
It's in Crestview Hills Mall on Dixie Highway but it's tucked in a bit - so you can't see it from the road.
The onion rings look really good...big and horrible for you.
Why Should You Go? Well - I'm thinking don't bother. I hear City BBQ is much better. Thus the poll on the top left - what is your favorite bbq in town? (Hoping not everybody says Montgomery Inn - I'm not a big fan.) So vote in the poll or comment below if your favorite or a "must-try" isn't listed.
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When Master leaves, I am left in my lonesome in his large manor. When my chores of tidying are through, I sit in Master's favorite chair. I know that no one is allowed in Master's chair but he himself, but the chair calls out to me. It whispers in my ear, 'sit down…no one will know…'. I can't help but oblige. The chair is always so soft, plush, and relaxing; especially after a hard morning's work. It is my favorite place to sit and catch my breath before I prepare dinner. I run my gloved hand along the length of the arm of the chair, giving each side equal attention. I lay my head back and close my eyes in bliss as I take in Master's scent from the chair. The front door clicks, unlocking; is Master home early? I dash from the chair into the kitchen to prepare dinner.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Poseidon's Garden Fence
Back before Thanksgiving, my dad got hit with a nasty virus that made him extremely sick. After a week of becoming severely dehydrated, he decided to go to the hospital. While there, they found gallstones. After being in the hospital for nearly a week, he was discharged and ended up in need of a hospital bed.
My plan to make my parents a king-sized quilt changed into needing to make two twin-sized quilts instead. I thought this was good though because then my dad could have a quilt in any colors he wanted - and I wouldn't have to quilt a beastly-sized king. He told me he'd love something blue. I'd been wanting to make another solids quilt since I made this, so I ordered a Poseidon fat quarter pack and set to work.
I altered Cindy's Garden Fence quilt pattern by omitting the outer white border/sashing on each block. I really like the look of the multi-colored blue plus signs created by the lack of additional fabric between the blocks.
I needed the quilt to be a titch larger so I added a thin, maybe 1.5 inch border in Kona stone, which I think frames the quilt quite nicely.
For the back, I used a twin-sized sheet since that's my M.O. for backings these days. I love the color of it.
The binding on this quilt is definitely my most favorite by far - ever! I can't emphasize enough how much I love the binding. I used the leftover fat quarters, so each different color strip is only 18-21 inches long. I think it gives the binding a variegated look around the quilt.
It was so great to see my dad's reaction to it on Christmas morning.
For my mom's quilt, she wanted totally different fabrics, so I'm going to do another variation of the Garden Fence quilt to tie the two together. I've started cutting the fabric for hers and hope to finish it soon.
17 comments:
- Katie B said...
This is gorgeous! I love your take on the garden fence, and I know your dad will really enjoy it.
- December 31, 2011 at 5:03 AM
- Cille said...
Beautiful quilt... I love your version of it.
- December 31, 2011 at 5:10 AM
- Sara said...
I think your dad will really enjoy his new quilt after going through such a horrible sickness. I hope he is doing much better now.
Happy New Year!
- December 31, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- Debbie said...
What a beautiful quilt!! I love your version too.
- December 31, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- Tanya said...
That is just a fine looking quilt, and I like the binding as well. Do you know what I like the best? That the person holding the quilt is standing on a car. Awesome!
- December 31, 2011 at 9:04 AM
I LOVE this quilt and the binding is fabulous!
- December 31, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- The Thompsons said...
Beautiful! I love the colors of this quilt.
- December 31, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- Melissa said...
This is lovely!!! I love the scrappy binding :)
- December 31, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Ann Marie @ 16 Muddy Feet said...
Gorgeous, I love that pattern it goes together so quickly too. I have a King size one I pieced in a few days, but then I got sidetracked before I got the whole top sewn together. It is on my to do list! Mine is turquoise and brown.
- December 31, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Diane said...
Beautiful quilt... love the colors and I love the binding! Looking forward to seeing the version for your mom.
- January 1, 2012 at 6:55 AM
- Tanya said...
Loving the solid colours and design!
- January 1, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- Shannon said...
It's gorgeous!
- January 1, 2012 at 6:43 PM
- QuiltNut Creations said...
absolutely stunning! hope your dad is doing better soon.
- January 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM
- leigh said...
Maybe I need to put this on my list for 2012. It's an awesome quilt! And we need to do our Japanese + and X quilt too!
- January 3, 2012 at 8:22 PM
- felicity said...
I adore that Kona FQ collection - i used it for my Supernova. This is a gorgeous, gorgeous finish, Brooke! I hope your dad is feeling better...
- January 5, 2012 at 11:02 PM
- Indianna said...
Love this version - this pattern has such clean lines...it is on my list.
- January 8, 2012 at 10:34 AM
- john smith said...
it's like some of the picking and choosing work has been done already. Boresi Fencing Suppliers
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The attached disk images don't work in Hatari. They have a tricky disk format that allows for SS drives to read part of the disk and DS drives to read the full disk (SIDE_2 folder). The contents of both sides are inaccessible in these images. I think this can be fixed by writing these images to disk on a PC and copying each disk's contents file-by-file onto a blank formatted disk using an Atari ST, and then imaging the new disk onto a PC. Could someone attempt this and post the restored images back to this thread? Thanks in advance!
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Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff in St. Peter's Square, packed by joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans and bedecked by spring flowers.
Wearing cream-colored vestments, Francis strode onto the esplanade in front of St. Peter's Basilica and took his place at an altar set up under a white canopy.
Faithful had already filled the square hours before the Mass began in mid-morning, and throughout the service streams of people kept flocking there for his speech and blessing, traditionally delivered after the Mass from the central balcony of the basilica.
By mid-ceremony, some 250,000 people had turned out, the Vatican said.
Francis bowed his head in reflection as the Gospel was sung in Latin, recounting what Christians believe is the central mystery of their faith - the resurrection of Jesus after this death by crucifixion.
After heavy rain battered Rome during the night, more was forecast. But Sunday saw sunny skies alternate with clouds.
With Rome's chilly, rainy winter postponing the blossoming of many flowers until recently, the square was a welcome riot of floral color in the city. Sprays of yellow forsythia and daffodils and white lilies - the colors of the Vatican flag - dominated, but there were also bursts of lavender and pink, from potted azalea, rhododendron, wisteria and other plants.
Pope's Easter speech has been used by past pontiffs to reflect on the world's conflicts and ills.
Since Francis was elected pope on March 13, becoming the first Latin American and first Jesuit pontiff ever, he has put concern for the poor and others on the margins of society at the heart of his attention to set an example for his flock.


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It's been more than a year since The A.V. Club last ventured into our local dollar stores in search of foods that strike us as grotesque, profane, and appealingly inexpensive. But with Halloween around the corner, we realized that penurious homeowners everywhere must be wondering how to avoid tricks while not spending too much on treats. Below are some of the cheapest (and most horrifying, in various ways) candies we could find, all ready for unsuspecting and soon-to-be-traumatized neighborhood kids.
Pumpkin Decoder With Pumpkin Candies
The mystery factor makes the Pumpkin Decoder jump off the shelf: What the hell is there about a pumpkin that might need decoding? Turns out it's just sort of a twisty puzzle in which you line up the pumpkin face to reveal a treat. The packaging doesn't really grasp the concept of secrecy, though: It says, "Pull top of pumpkin head. Surprise! Pumpkin candies inside." Thanks for spoiling the surprise, candy-making asshole.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Modified potato starch."
Worth the price: No. The fun is lost immediately, and the no-surprise pumpkin candies are the equivalent of Runts, just pumpkin-shaped, not flavored. On the plus side, stoners could hide Halloween "treats" in here.
MilkMaid Caramel Apple Candy Corn
America, what is your obsession with combining flavors? Have you no patience, or even a need for simplicity? Candy corn is supposed to taste and feel like candy corn, that non-specific, extremely specific flavor that comes just once a year. Brachs, which may have gotten bored at the top of the candy-corn game, has introduced caramel-apple-flavored candy corn, which adds a new non-taste to the canon. It's strange, and just not right. And not very good. And super-sweet.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Made with real milk."
Worth the price: Well, it's cheap, so maybe just for the experience. It tastes like nothing else—not candy corn, not caramel apples, not real apples, not A-1 sauce. Non-specific, buttery, and strange.
Spinning Pumpkin/Grim Reaper Toy/Candy Combo
These two time-killing contraptions contain a handful of ghost- and pumpkin-shaped candies beneath a plastic head with a face that spins when a button on the head is pressed. The device and candy are both nameless, though the former is a lot like what a slot machine would be like if the same thing came up every time you pulled the arm. The latter… well, the latter tastes like wax.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Vegetable wax."
Worth the price? When your kids won't stop jabbering at you for one goddamn minute, anything that will shut 'em up is worth a dollar.
Critter Goo
Fact: kids of a certain age are drawn to gross stuff. Fact: kids of about the same age will eat anything sweet, no matter how cheap and crappy. Put those facts together and you have the perfect excuse for products like "Critter Goo," a line of palm-sized, highly detailed plastic bugs full of sugary slime. Just rip the bug's head off and suck out the innards, which come in four varieties. Who knew flies have grape-flavored guts, ants taste like green apples, tarantulas are strawberry-flavored, and rhinoceros beetles have lemony innards? More to the point, who knew that a candy manufacturer was willing to put this much work into detailing the tiny veins on a fly's wings, the hairs on a spider's abdomen, or the little forks at the end of an ant's legs, all in order to better sell some creamy goop that looks like hair conditioner and tastes like Kool-Aid made with 20 times the recommended amount of powder mix? (That same odd precision went into determining the nutritional value; the packaging proclaims that each plastic insect contains precisely 60.8 calories worth of ick.)
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Sodium citrate."
Worth the price? Once the slime is gone, these become reasonably well-executed toys. Of course, if you don't properly suck out all the guts, these bugs might start attracting their smaller, living cousins. Just make sure your kids understand that slurping the insides out of that second wave of insects isn't a great idea.
Make Your Own Gummy Pizza
The rush to find ever more exciting and innovative presentation forms for the gummi medium is clearly reaching new levels of ambition with the "make your own" series, which invites gourmet gummi consumers to choose the form of their destruction by placing various candies on a gummi base. This all-candy Lunchables kit includes a supposed gummi "crust" that looks more like a spongy marshmallow surface; reckless consumers are supposed to pile it high with liquid-candy "sauce," powdered-candy "cheese," and sugar-crystaled gummi "toppings" before eating it. (No, The A.V. Club will not stop saying "gummi" so much.) While it's sort of impressive to see a single product hit the entire trifecta of modern-candy trends—powdered, liquid, and gummi—that doesn't change the fact that pizza sauce shouldn't be strawberry-pink and translucent, or that this product can rot kids' teeth right out of their heads from 15 feet away.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Agar-agar."
Worth the price? The old saw about how even bad pizza and bad sex are still pretty good has clearly just been proven wrong.
Mr. Yummy Skeleton Pops
Inside a nearly impossible-to-open coffin-shaped bag—hint: have your car keys at the ready for jabbing and ripping—rest five smaller bags, each containing a flimsy plastic skeleton with a skull-shaped sucker head. The sucker actually isn't bad—it's Jolly Rancher-like in consistency, if not in flavor—but the skeleton is far more detailed than a sucker-stick needs to be. Whatever anatomist Mr. Yummy hired to get the rib structure just right left him with a candy that sways back and forth, thrown off-balance by a skull five times the weight of the bones supporting it.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: None, but we are urged to check out the website "imagine-global.com," which currently features scary organ music and a skeleton running back and forth behind what looks to be a vampire worm. Pretty scary.
Worth the price? It says right there on the package: "fun candy." Why would you doubt Mr. Yummy?
Ice Breakers Sours Pumpkins
No, that isn't a misprint. This candy is part of the "Ice Breakers Sours" line, and it's shaped like pumpkins, so forget any dreams of a long-awaited new candy flavor: sour pumpkin. Instead, try to think of this as Ice Breakers' attempt at a new family-friendly curse. ("You don't want to clean your room? Well sour pumpkins, missy!") In the meantime, be aware that if you gobble down enough of these extremely acidic orange- and mango-tinged breath-fresheners, your mouth will smell like a mopped-down public restroom. Don't like it? Sour pumpkins, pal.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Medium chain triglycerides."
Worth the price? Before deciding, consider what's written in tiny print on the back of the box: "Careful: Sour level may cause irritation to the mouth." Adjust your snacking hopes accordingly.
Jones Candy Corn Soda
Jones can always be counted on to come up with horrendous soda flavors around the holidays—they're famous for Thanksgiving "treats" like Turkey, Brussels Sprouts, and—ugh, The A.V. Club is sick just thinking about last year's set. For Halloween, Jones is staying pretty pedestrian—flavors like Gruesome Grape and Spider Cider sound utterly drinkable. But Candy Corn soda… that one crosses the line. It tastes a bit like buttered-popcorn-flavored Jelly Bellys, and leaves a sickly aftertaste. The cans are tiny, but you won't want to drink them all.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: None. But the front says "Candy Corn Soda," so that's something.
Worth the price: If only to play that Jones Soda game, "This is gross! Try it!" with your friends. Or to annoy those rascally neighborhood kids. Then again, they might like it.
Oh Rats! Blue Raspberry Flavored Gummy Rat
This thing is huge. No one should really eat this much gummi-stuff in one sitting. On the other hand, the prospect of saving half a chewed rat for later is fairly gross. Maybe you can pretend you're a devoted kitty-cat, and leave the half-eaten rodent in the shoes or on the bathmat of someone you love.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Glycerol."
Worth the price? Not really. Though the same company also makes a giant gummi bat for those who like pretending to be Ozzy Osbourne.
Eyeball Candy Rings
What's so scary about eyeballs? Why do Halloween candy manufacturers keep returning to eyeballs as a design theme? And what makes them think they can pass off a Ring Pop rip-off wrapped in veiny-eyeball-imprinted cellophane as "eyeball candy"? (Especially when the ring itself is shaped like a daisy.) The scariest part of the Eyeball Candy Ring is how when the cellophane comes off, the actual candy looks like a molten plastic prune.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Titanium dioxide."
Worth the price? The rings come 12 to a bag, which is a lot for a buck, but they have an expiration date of July 2008, and it would be hard for anyone to eat 12 of these sticky, semi-sweet hard-candy lumps in less than a year.
Gushing Gooey Eyes
Next on the list of "eyes are totally scary" Halloween-themed candy products: another generic treat rendered mildly creepy via its packaging. But strip away the little plastic envelope with the iris and veins on it, and Gushing Gooey Eyes are just generic flat marshmallows with a little fruity gel inside. Neither particularly gushing nor particularly gooey, they are at least a little slimy, but no more so than any other marshmallow.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Carrageenan."
Worth the price? At 24 for a buck, in three fruit flavors—strawberry, raspberry, and lemon—they're a pretty good deal for marshmallow-treat fans, though a lousy one for sickos who actually like eating eyes, or anything that approximates them.
3D Gum
Not to be confused with all those boring, standard one- and two-dimensional gums crowding the market, 3D Gum comes in a package that will teach children all about the wonderful world of bait-and-switch. A window at the top of the Shrek The Third-themed packaging exposes a surprisingly detailed, large piece of plastic-like gum shaped and colored like a Shrek character. It also promises "four pieces of gum." But the concealed other three pieces are smaller, crudely shaped, monochromatic lumps that look like they came out of a knockoff Play-Doh shape press. The mystical third dimension is the dimension of rip-off.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Flavors." Mmm, gum flavored with… something. To taste like… something. Presumably Shrek.
Worth the price? Four pieces of gum for a buck wouldn't be particularly worth it even if it were good gum.
Test Tubes Powder Candy
These flavored-sugar delivery devices come from the makers of Eyeball Candy Rings, and share the same cartoon mad scientist as a mascot—which makes more sense for test tubes. The individual containers house sub-Pixy Stick sour dust, which doesn't flow onto the tongue so much as it falls out in clumps, prompting alarmed consumers to spit clouds of blue raspberry all over their shirts.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: None, though like the Eyeball Candy Rings, the test tubes have an expiration date. Prior to July 2008? Tasty treat. After July 2008? Deadly poison.
Worth the price? No. Everything about this candy is more trouble than it's worth, from the intractable outer package to the inevitable visit from Homeland Security when a neighbor sees these lying around in your kitchen.
Buggin' Glow Pop
The disturbing thing about the Buggin' Glow Pop isn't the kinda cute blue raspberry insect lollipop inside, or even the tiny light bulb inside of it, which takes up a lot of candy space but does make the lollipop glow when you press a button. No, the disturbing bit is the little jar it comes in, which proudly proclaims "Reusable bug jar!" and shows a cartoon picture of a jar full of fireflies. Leaving aside the mild ick factor of rushing through your lollipop so you can go cram some struggling insects into your still-sticky food container, it's worth noting that the "air holes" in the top of the jar don't actually go all the way through. But hey, the little light bulb will totally illuminate your suffocated, desiccated bug corpses for you later on.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: None; it's all sugar, corn syrup, and dyes. Which is scary enough on its own.
Worth the price? A non-bug-themed lollipop and a Mason jar with actual real holes poked in the top would be cheaper, more traditional, and easier on those poor fireflies.
Creepy Crawling Snakes Candy
This Target-branded package was irresistible because it's so incredibly boring. A generic black-and-orange cardboard back holds four gummi-looking snakes, each individually wrapped. They don't look appetizing or fun, really. The back is taken up mostly by nutritional information, plus a stern "FOR AGES 3 & UP!"
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Candy made in China," which is listed under the ingredients. If it made it this far and costs only 99 cents, who wants to eat it?
Worth the price: Definitely not. Turns out these aren't even gummis—they're like little lollipops. The painted-on eyes are a nice touch, though.
Mallow Fries
What's scarier than disembodied eyes and plastic bugs? A hearty helping of "mallow fries," a yellow-dyed collection of plasticky marshmallows shaped and packaged to look like French fries. And they even come with "kandy ketchup" for that extra shudder of horror. Why not just have some real French fries? They're about as fattening, and even stale, cold fries are a lot less disconcertingly spongy and stretchy than this.
Scariest-sounding ingredient: "Cirtic Acid." Nothing less tasty than a typo.
Worth the price? It'd be worth a lot more than a dollar just to ensure a life in which the words "kandy ketchup" never featured ever again.


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Finally ten days after the " Occupy Wall Street" movement young heros went out to the streets,
the Zeitgeist Movement responded to the Global Revolution. In they press release.
"On Sept 17th 2011, a grassroots expression of contempt was launched in
the heart of the world's financial center in lower Manhattan of New York
City, also commonly known to the world as the institution of "Wall
Street". As of Sept 26th, there have been over 80 arrests and many
recorded instances of what appears to be violence and abuse coming from
the police and security forces there. However, the protesters remain
vigilant in what could very well be a landmark event that will resonate
for some time to come.
The Zeitgeist Movement would like to extend its public support to this
basic expression.
As the world awakens to a failing financial system with growing civil
unrest emerging without the bias of sovereignty, religion or political
loyalty, a new, unifying perspective is slowly taking hold which
transcends the framework many of us falsely assume as empirical to our
way of life.
With the slow grind down of the global workforce as machine automation
continues to replace human labor for the benefit of corporate cost
efficiency, simultaneously reducing purchasing power and hence
inevitably stifling so called "Economic Growth"; with the ever
expanding Debt Crisis born out of the Fractional Reserve Lending System
and the simple reality that money is created out of debt and sold as a
commodity in exchange for Interest – Interest that can only again come
onto existence through more loan sales; with the looming military
programs growing in virtually all major powers as the financial crisis,
coupled with a pending hydrocarbon energy crisis, begins to suggest a
stage of global conflict possibly never before seen; along with the
market psychology of Infinite Growth Consumption that continues to
pervade and distort our values and what it means to live in harmony with
nature on a finite planet…
…it might be time we begin to see that the social problems at hand are
not specific to any general policy, administration, or even so called
"corporate greed". The real problem at hand is actually systematic via
the very core foundation of what defines our Economic System and the
psychology that is supported and rewarded.
The historical illusion that continues to this day is that someone or
some group is explicitly to "blame". Rather than focus on the 400 people
who have more wealth than 150 million in America or the fact that globally
1% of the world's population has more wealth than 40%, let's instead ask
ourselves how such a manifestation is even possible and, more critically,
why we would expect anything less? Think about it.
After all, it's the "Free-Market", isn't it? Contrary to the
statistically void efficiency assumptions made by most Market
Economists, the Free-Market simply means anyone can do whatever they
want and maximize however they want within the confines of legal
legislation; legal legislation which, make no mistake, is also for sale
in the Free-Market as well; as are political officials, regulatory
institutions and whatever social entity you wish to consider.
Nothing but maximizing monetary gain is sacred and anytime a person or
group brings some detrimental social or environmental consequence of
this system to the forefront, pejorative distinctions are usually
branded upon their forehead to stifle such concern and frighten other
detractors – such as being called a "Socialist" or "Communist".
Furthermore, while people in protest today across the world continue to
condemn monetary influence in social dealings such as the legal reality
of Corporate Lobbying, even using such colorful terms as "Corporatism",
"Crony-Capitalism" and even "Fascism", they seem to misunderstand
this system is and always has been.
The Free-Market model of Economics is a haphazard, unscientific anarchy
of organization which assumes that any person or group with
enough money and hence power will be "responsible" in their actions
both socially and environmentally. The problem is that the very
definition of being "financially responsible" actually means to be
socially and environmentally exploitative, manipulative and negligent,
for the main driver of this system is Inefficiency. The more problems in
society in general, the more jobs are created and the more rich the
upper 1% become. There is an empirical decoupling from what actually
supports life and no alteration of the core configuration of the
monetary-market Incentive will likely change that.
On a different level, this system, as an historical evolution, is
actually based on a culturally hegemonic pretense. Once economic
advantage is obtained, it will likely be kept. This is why everything in
the system favors the wealthy by its general structure and inherent
logic. While the public might complain about the fact that top Hedge Fund
Managers bring in over 300 million dollars per year, they often do not find
objection with an Interest system that rewards those with high deposits
and essentially taxes those using credit. While you may buy your home
with a loan, paying thousands in interest a year, a person of wealth can
make a CD Investment and gain free interest income simply because they have
the money to spare.
Class separation and perpetuation and the growing wealth divide is not a
byproduct. It is inevitable. In the Free-Market, one is actually
"free" to take away the liberty of others through the mere economic
pressures generated from the game. You are only as free as the size of
your wallet. The term "Institution Racism" was coined by civil
rights activist Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s referring to how often
unnoticed underlying policies and structures within the social system
undermined African-American prosperity and equality. What we have today
is a mere variation: "Institutional Classicism".
Wall Street itself, which is the ultimate manifestation of the pursuit
of money as a commodity rather than any form of true creation or social
contribution, is naturally a ripe entity for symbolic objection for, at
a minimum, it shouldn't exist at all and most certainly not have the
grand effect it does on the stability of the global economy today,
regardless of the inherent shortcomings denoted.
However, that stated, it must again be made clear that Wall Street and
the Banking System are not the source of our problems. They are only
symptoms of an Economic System which will continue to fail by the very
gravity of its outdated and false assumptions of human conduct and
environmental relationships.
The question then becomes, what do we put in its place? ~Z
The Zeitgeist Movement is a global sustainability activist group working
to bring the world together for the common goal of species
sustainability before it is too late. It is a social movement, not a
political one, with over 1100 chapters across nearly all countries.
Divisive notions such as nations, governments, races, political parties,
religions, creeds or class are non-operational distinctions in the view
of The Movement. Rather, we recognize the world as one system and the
human species as a singular unit, sharing a common habitat. Our
overarching intent could be summarized as "the application of the
scientific method for social concern."
To learn more about our work, please visit www.thezeitgeistmovement.com


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Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ethan Hawke, Amy Adams, Ellen Burstyn and Spike Lee were among the famous mourners at the private funeral for Philip Seymour Hoffman in Manhattan.
The list of guests also included Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Joaquin Phoenix, Louis CK, Mary Louise Parker, John Slattery, Jerry Stiller, Marisa Tomei, Diane Sawyer and her director husband, Mike Nichols.
Hoffman, 46, was found dead on February 2 of an apparent heroin overdose in his apartment. He leaves behind his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.
The actor's body was carried into the church by pallbearers and O'Donnell - holding their youngest child - followed. Playwright David Bar Katz, who found Hoffman's body, looked visibly upset as he arrived.
The ceremony was being held at the Church of St Ignatius Loyola, the same limestone church that hosted the funerals of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lena Horne and Aaliyah.
A larger memorial service is being planned for later this month. Family and close friends have previously gathered for a private wake at the Frank E Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan.
The actor was nominated for Academy Awards four times - for Capote, The Master, Doubt and Charlie Wilson's War. He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn in 2012 as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in Death Of A Salesman.
The theatre community mourned the actor with a candlelit vigil outside his beloved LAByrinth Theatre Company and with Broadway's marquee lights turned off for a minute.
More tests are needed to determine what exactly killed Hoffman, who was found with a syringe in his arm and what authorities said were dozens of packets of heroin in his apartment. Autopsy results were inconclusive, authorities said this week.
Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, the versatile actor reportedly checked himself into rehab for 10 days after relapsing in 2012.
Three people have been arraigned on drug charges in connection with Hoffman's death, including one who is facing a felony charge of heroin possession with intent to sell. Lawyers for the three people charged vigorously denied their clients had any role in Hoffman's death.
Most of those who attended the funeral had personal ties to Hoffman. He and Cate Blanchett co-starred in The Talented Mr Ripley, and Hoffman starred in Spike Lee's The 25th Hour. Ellen Burstyn and Hoffman were in Red Dragon, and Ethan Hawke co-starred with him in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.
John Slattery directed Hoffman in his new film God's Pocket while Joaquin Phoenix shared the screen with Hoffman in The Master.