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Top News:
Reed Hastings / Netflix US & Canada Blog:
Internet Tolls And The Case For Strong Net Neutrality — The Internet is improving lives everywhere - democratizing access to ideas, services and goods. To ensure the Internet remains humanity's most important platform for progress, net neutrality must be defended and strengthened.
Discussion: New York Times, Forbes, NPR, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Switch, Rapid TV News, Electronista, @indexzero, @richbtig, TIME, VentureBeat, @benadida, @stevesi, @dane, BetaNews, @pkafka, The Verge, CNET, @jayadelson, ZDNet, @notpatrick, Deadline.com, TheHill, Variety, Mashable, multichannel.com/rss, Business Insider, AdAge, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Next Web, SlashGear, @demandprogress, @mhelft, @scxzor, @firstadopter, @haroldfeld, Engadget and TechCrunch
Edward Wyatt / New York Times: Netflix Chief Alters View on Net Deal
Mark Rogowsky / Forbes: Netflix Decides The Free Market Isn't So Good After All, Wants Government To Step In
Eyder Peralta / NPR: 'We'll Eradicate Twitter,' Turkey's Prime Minister Vows
Brian Fung / The Switch: The Switchboard: How Turkish Twitter users can get past their government's ban
Joseph O'Halloran / Rapid TV News: Netflix calls for strong net neutrality to fend off OTT shake down
Charlie Robbins / @indexzero: "When ISPs sell a 10-50MBps Internet package, the consumer should get that rate, no matter where data comes from." || http://blog.netflix.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richbtig: The BEST part of Reed's blog is where he asks ISPs if @netflix uploaded equal amount of data would peering be free? http://blog.netflix.com/...
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: Netflix is still pro net neutrality even after its traffic deal with Comcast
Ben Adida / @benadida: Excellent argument for net neutrality. Wonder what @pmarca thinks :) http://blog.netflix.com/...
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: "it is in their [ISPs] long term interest to back strong net neutrality" @reedhastings @netflix #netneutrality http://blog.netflix.com/...
Dane Jasper / @dane: Netflix pays up, then slams Comcast for net neutrality violation: http://blog.netflix.com/...
Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: Sorry Netflix, but you should pay 'tolls' to ISPs
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Reed Hastings' blog post doubles as a submission to the FCC, which is gearing up to write new net neutrality rules. http://recode.net/...
T.C. Sottek / The Verge: Netflix blasts Comcast and Verizon on net neutrality: 'some big ISPs are extracting a toll'
Dara Kerr / CNET: Netflix's Hastings makes the case for Net neutrality
Jay Adelson / @jayadelson: Well written explanation by Reed Hastings about the need for strong net neutrality: http://blog.netflix.com/...
Rachel King / ZDNet: Netflix CEO makes stand for net neutrality
Patrick Beja / @notpatrick: Well said Netflix! Again, in the US the issue is the lack of competition. The open market can *not* work without it. http://blog.netflix.com/...
David Lieberman / Deadline.com: Netflix CEO Says Comcast Imposed An "Arbitrary Tax" In Interconnection Deal
Kate Tummarello / TheHill: Netflix slams Comcast deal as 'arbitrary tax'
Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix Chief Hastings: Comcast and Other Internet Providers Should Provide Free Access to Content Companies
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable: Netflix CEO: We Paid Comcast Because of No Strong Net Neutrality
Jeff Baumgartner / multichannel.com/rss: Netflix CEO: Some Big ISPs 'Extracting A Toll Because They Can'
Kyle Russell / Business Insider: Netflix CEO Blasts Comcast Over Net Neutrality
Nick Summers / The Next Web: Netflix CEO argues for strong net neutrality and slams ISPs for 'extracting a toll because they can'
Brittany Hillen / SlashGear: Netflix CEO: "Stronger net neutrality is required"
Demand Progress / @demandprogress: Netflix: "... lack of consumer choice that leads to the need for strong net neutrality." http://blog.netflix.com/...
@mhelft: Reed Hastings standing up for Internet users — and for the interests of Netflix: http://blog.netflix.com/...
Andrew Yoon / @scxzor: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings talks about Net Neutrality, and why they're paying the hostage fee of ISPs http://blog.netflix.com/...
@firstadopter: Remember when I said $NFLX paying peering fees to Comcast was negative/bad? Guess who agrees? THE CEO OF NETFLIX -> http://blog.netflix.com/...
@haroldfeld: Apparently, Netflix did not regard its deal with Comcast as "mutually beneficial" after all. http://blog.netflix.com/...
Richard Lawler / Engadget: Netflix's Reed Hastings calls out weak net neutrality rules, 'reluctantly' pays ISP tolls
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Netflix Blasts ISPs, Calls For "Strong" Net Neutrality And Explains Why It Pays Comcast
How the internet works, and why it's impossible to know what makes your Netflix slow — The internet is a confusing place, and not just because of all the memes. — Right now, many of the people who make the internet run for you are arguing about how it should work.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Netflix Says It Really Didn't Want to Cut That Traffic Deal With Comcast
Netflix Says It Really Didn't Want to Cut That Traffic Deal With Comcast
Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: Hey FCC, Netflix thinks peering should be a net neutrality issue too
Amadou Diallo / Forbes: Netflix Singles Out Comcast In Call For Stronger Net Neutrality
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Among other things, Cohen repeats what Comcast execs said privately last month: Netflix has always paid them — they just used a middleman.
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: "Comcast has been an industry leader in supporting weak net neutrality, and we hope they'll support strong net neutrality as well" - Netflix
Zeynep Tufekci / Medium:
The Day the Turkish Government Banned Itself From Twitter — People in Turkey have banned the ban — "Twitter is banned in Turkey" screamed, ironically, a tweet from my "Turkey" list. I did a double take. It had been a long day. I had just published an op-ed in the New York Times explaining …
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Turkish citizens use Google to fight Twitter ban — Turkish citizens have found away to circumvent yesterday's reported block of Twitter: Google DNS. — After being implicated in a corruption scandal through recordings leaked via YouTube and other media sharing sites, Turkey's prime minister …
Discussion: Gigaom and 9to5Google
Chris Taylor / Mashable:
Twitter Blocked in Turkey as Prime Minister Pledges to 'Eradicate' It — What's This? — There's electioneering, and then there's what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan said Thursday on the campaign trail. — "We will eradicate Twitter," Erdoan told a rally in Bursa in the west of the country.
Discussion: @policy, Forbes, Guardian, Today's Zaman …, Al Jazeera English, Wall Street Journal, Voice of America, BBC, New York Times, Quartz, Daily Dot, Reuters, CNN, Washington Post, Computerworld, @zeynep, The Wire, @hblodget, @renesys, GlobalPost, @quinnnorton, @cshirky, @jguynn, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, ReadWrite, The Verge, @mahraani, VentureBeat, Associated Press, Variety and Committee to Protect …
@policy: Turkish users: you can send Tweets using SMS. Avea and Vodafone text START to 2444. Turkcell text START to 2555.
Emma Woollacott / Forbes: Streisand Effect Takes Hold As Turkey Bans Twitter
Kevin Rawlinson / Guardian: Turkey blocks use of Twitter after prime minister attacks social media site
Today's Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news: Hours after Erdoan's threat, Turkish gov't restricts access to Twitter
Emre Peker / Wall Street Journal: Turkey's president criticizes Twitter ban
Heather Timmons / Quartz: Turkey's prime minister is finding it hard to put Twitter back in the bottle
Kate Knibbs / Daily Dot: The Turkish government rolls out a ban on Twitter
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post: Turkey bans Twitter — and Twitter explodes
John Ribeiro / Computerworld: Turkey blocks access to Twitter over content
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: RT @enginonder #twitter blocked in #turkey. Folks are painting DNS numbers onto the posters of the governing party. pic.twitter.com/rapa4efSd5
Sara Morrison / The Wire: Twitter May Have Exposed Government Corruption, So Turkey Is Banning Twitter
Henry Blodget / @hblodget: Turkish PM doing more for Twitter than any advertising campaign ever could have http://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Renesys Corporation / @renesys: Twitter blocked in Turkey via local DNS poisoning, global DNS providers not impacted: http://www.reuters.com/... pic.twitter.com/JDL8SNv62G
Jacob Resneck / GlobalPost: Turkey bans Twitter: Here's why
Quinn Norton / @quinnnorton: #TwitterisblockedinTurkey is trending globally, and mostly in Turkish. So that's working.
Clay Shirky / @cshirky: The best evidence that social media is a serious threat to autocracy is that the autocrats themselves think it is.
Jessica Guynn / @jguynn: Twitter users in Turkey are circumventing the shutdown: Over 77% of #twitterblockedinturkey tweets coming from Turkey according to @Topsy
Kyle Russell / Business Insider: Turkish Twitterers Respond Hilariously To The Government's Attempt To Block Them
Selena Larson / ReadWrite: Twitter Tells Tweeters How To Tiptoe Past Turkey's Twitter Ban
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: Banned in Turkey, Twitter offers SMS workaround (Update)
Alex Stedman / Variety: Turkey Blocks Twitter, Prime Minister Plans to 'Eradicate' it
'This American Life' Loses Public Radio Distributor — After 17 years, Public Radio International announced today that it will end distribution of one of its most popular shows, "This American Life." — The Ira Glass-hosted program, which has been distributed by PRI since 1997 …
Discussion: Current.org, Poynter, TwinCities.com, @thisamerlife, The Bold Italic, The Wire, @inajaffenpr, @mhess4, @tomdreisbach, @digiphile, Mashable and AllAccess.com
Nick Woltman / TwinCities.com: PRI to stop distributing 'This American Life'
This American Life / @thisamerlife: Dear @Variety and everyone else: We are not going off the radio, just switching distributors. But thanks for the concern!
Brian Feldman / The Wire: 'This American Life' Loses Its Distributor
Ina Jaffe / @inajaffenpr: Being wildly successful not enuf? MT @RadioChio: Act 5? MT @Variety: 'This American Life' Loses Pub Radio Distributor http://variety.com/...
Megan Hess / @mhess4: After 17 yrs, PRI will stop distributing @thisamerlife (aka the best radio show, period.) http://variety.com/...
Tom Dreisbach / @tomdreisbach: Finally! An opportunity to talk about the public radio distribution system! Get ready, people at dinner parties. http://variety.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: If only there were some direct-to-listener tech... RT @carr2n '@ThisAmerLife' Loses Public Radio Distributor | @Variety http://variety.com/...
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Medium launches iPhone app for reading stories on the go — After a short delay, Medium released its iPhone app today with a focus on reading and recommending stories. "Every week, thousands of people come to Medium to write," company founder Ev Williams said in a post on the site. "That's the hard part.
Discussion: Medium, Gigaom, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Next Web and TechCrunch
Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: Medium finally hits mobile with iPhone blog-reading app
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: Medium Launches Simple iPhone App That's Just For Reading
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
The colossal arrogance of Newsweek's Bitcoin "scoop" — WIthout more evidence, it's time for a retraction. — On March 6, the 81-year-old magazine Newsweek returned to print with a splashy cover story. Writer Leah McGrath Goodman said she had discovered the elusive creator of Bitcoin, hiding in plain sight.
Discussion: @johnmcquaid
Agence France-Presse:
AFP reporter Sardar Ahmad killed in Kabul hotel attack — Kabul (AFP) - Sardar Ahmad, a staff reporter at the Agence France-Presse news agency, was killed in a Taliban attack on Kabul's Serena hotel, it was confirmed Friday. Related Stories Taliban attack on Kabul hotel kills nine civilians …
Discussion: Time, Channel NewsAsia, @myraemacdonald, @judy_ngao, @courtneybody, english.rfi.fr and marinecorpstimes.com
Charlie Campbell / Time: AFP Reporter Sardar Ahmad Killed in Kabul
Myra MacDonald / @myraemacdonald: Something particularly evil about sending teenage gunmen to kill family/children. AFP reporter killed http://news.yahoo.com/... #Afghanistan
Judy Ngao / @judy_ngao: RIP. Our @AFP Kabul reporter Sardar Ahmad, his wife and 2 children were killed in hotel attack http://news.yahoo.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Courtney / @courtneybody: The taliban killed my best friend last night http://news.yahoo.com/... via @YahooNews
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Al Jazeera America C.E.O.: 'we're here for the long haul' — The C.E.O. of Al Jazeera America, Ehab Al-Shihabi, reassured staff that the company was invested in the long-term for the channel, and argued that the U.S. was moving towards "a golden age of global news."
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NBC News 'Doubling Down' On David Gregory As 'Meet The Press' Expands Online — NEW YORK — David Gregory has heard the rumors, too. — "This comes with the territory. I understand it," Gregory told The Huffington Post on Wednesday night. "I see speculation out there.
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Capital New York and TVNewser
Christine Zosche / FishbowlNY: Morning Media Newsfeed: Turkey Bans Twitter | Netflix CEO Blasts ISPs | Carney Not Prompted
Alex Weprin / Capital New York: 'Meet the Press' begins digital transformation
Nikara Johns / Variety:
Liberty Media Ranks as 2013′s Most Profitable Media/Entertainment Company — Liberty Media Corp. emerged as the most profitable media and entertainment company in 2013, according to SNL Kagan's rankings for the year. — Liberty Media's net income of about $8.99 billion came mostly …
Discussion: WorldScreen.com, Rapid TV News, Hollywood Reporter and SNL Financial
Mansha Daswani / WorldScreen.com: Worldscreen Content Menu
Michelle Clancy / Rapid TV News: Liberty Media usurps Disney as most profitable Big Media company
Jule Banville / AAN:
An Open Letter to the Guy Who Owns Snapchat and Other Hip Wealthy People, — There's no reason to let less-hip wealthy people like Jeff Bezos have all the fun. You, too, can get in on the waves of ink they continue to ride, just for spending the lint in their pockets on big metropolitan dailies.
Ben Thompson / stratechery:
The Stages of Newspapers' Decline — The second-most common objection to FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average was along these lines: … That's very true; those same people - and there are a lot of them - didn't read the news in a newspaper either. Instead they read the Style section, or Sports, the comics or Dear Abby.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Warner Bros Fights Looming Exposé of Anti-piracy Secrets — To deal with the ongoing threat of online piracy, major Hollywood studios have entire divisions dedicated to tracking down copyright infringers. Exactly what goes on behind the scenes is a mystery, but if the Electronic Frontier Foundation …
Andrea Peterson / The Switch:
Court docs: Microsoft searched through blogger's e-mail to track down alleged leaker — Earlier this week, an ex-Microsoft employee was charged with the theft of trade secrets in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. Alex Kibkalo allegedly sent code …
Discussion: Guardian, CNET, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, The Register, The Seattle Times, @asadotzler, Associated Press, The Verge, CNET and The Verge
Alex Hern / Guardian: Microsoft tightens privacy policy after admitting to reading journalist's emails
Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine: Microsoft Searched Blogger's Hotmail to Find Windows 8 Leak
Asa Dotzler / @asadotzler: If you ever wondered "will my email provider read my mail if they think it's interesting?" The answer is YES http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: Microsoft defends opening Hotmail account of blogger in espionage case
Marc Graser / Variety:
Fox, Samsung to Develop System to Deliver Ultra HD Content Through Smart TVs — Twentieth Century Fox and Samsung Electronics announced a partnership Thursday in which both companies will work together to create a secure way to deliver Ultra HD movies and TV shows through smart TVs.
Discussion: Gigaom, Mashable, Deadline.com and CNET
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: Samsung's answer to 4K content delivery: a $300 hard drive
Christina Warren / Mashable: Samsung and Fox Team Up to Bring 4K Content to UHD TVs
David Lieberman / Deadline.com: Fox Teams With Samsung To Support Ultra HD Home Entertainment
David Katzmaier / CNET: Samsung, Fox announce expanded 4K content deal
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Sinclair Proposes To Modify Allbritton Deal to Secure FCC Approval — Changes follow commission signaling it would take hard look at deals with sharing and financial ties — Sinclair says it will restructure its Allbritton deal to make it more palatable to the FCC, which is looking closely …
Discussion: Adweek
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
TV broadcasters propose compromise to FCC on a cap for joint operating agreements — NAB Offers 30% Solution — Pitches compromise JSA proposal — The National Association of Broadcasters has pitched FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn on a compromise to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler's planned March 31 vote …
Discussion: @ajitpaifcc, Variety, Radio & Television …, TVNewsCheck.com, AllAccess.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline.com and Adweek
Ajit Pai / @ajitpaifcc: My office's research on the link between joint sales agreements and diversity of broadcast television ownership: http://go.usa.gov/KVNd .
Ted Johnson / Variety: Broadcasters Want FCC to Investigate 'Collusive' Ad Sales By Pay TV Operators
Doug Halonen / TVNewsCheck.com: NAB Compromise Would Allow Some JSAs
AllAccess.com: FCC Commissioner Pai: JSAs Disproportionately Benefit Women And African-American TV Station Owners
David Lieberman / Deadline.com: NAB Tells FCC: Local TV Business Is Weakening
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What's next for the team behind Syria Deeply? Arctic Deeply — Syria isn't the only news topic worth going into Deeply. — Since Syria Deeply, a news site solely focused on covering the crisis there, went live in late 2012, Lara Setrakian hasn't hid the fact that she wants …
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Virgin Media talking to Amazon about taking its video-on-demand service — Tom Mockridge confirms cable network's interest in Prime Instant Video, which recently bought third series of Ripper Street — Virgin Media has held talks with Amazon about putting its video-on-demand service Prime Instant Video …
Discussion: Broadband TV News and Hollywood Reporter
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Virgin chief says company bigger with Liberty
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Twitter's new video hosting platform lets mobile users play clips with a single tap — Twitter Rolls Out Easier, Faster Video Playback — Over the past year, Twitter has worked closely with television networks and other professional video creators to upload and promote thousands …
Discussion: Variety, The Next Web, ReadWrite, Marketing Pilgrim, @twitterads, Engadget and @vivian
Todd Spangler / Variety: Twitter Adds One-Click Video Playback — Which It Claims Delivers Huge Results
Nick Summers / The Next Web: Twitter is testing one-tap video playback across its mobile apps for Amplify partner clips
Selena Larson / ReadWrite: Twitter Makes It Easy To Watch Videos In Tweets
Cynthia Boris / Marketing Pilgrim: Twitter adds one-touch ad videos to the mobile feed
Twitter Advertising / @twitterads: Introducing easier, faster video playback on Twitter: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... "Video will begin to feel like a native experience" -@kevinweil


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Welcome to my blog! I'm a Sr. Software Development Engineer in the Seattle area, who has been performing C++/C#/Java development for over 20 years, but have definitely learned that there is always more to learn!
All thoughts and opinions expressed in my blog and my comments are my own and do not represent the thoughts of my employer.
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders posts can be found here.
Many times in software development, we want to invoke several processes at one time and continue when we get all the results back. Obviously, if we were needing to process a sequence of items in a similar matter, we could use PLINQ. Unfortunately, when the things we want to invoke asynchronously are heterogeneous tasks, PLINQ doesn't really fit the bill. Today we will look at a handy method in the Parallel class that can help us accomplish this.
Let's say we have three completely separate methods and we want to invoke all three of them and the continue when they have returned. These methods may be from separate classes and have completely different parameters and/or return types. Thus, it may not be possible to use facilities like Parallel.ForEach() or PLINQ.
So how would we do this? Well, we could obviously create three threads, start them, and join on them to come back:
1: var threads = new List<Thread>
2: {
3: new Thread(SomeMethod),
4: new Thread(() => SomeOtherMethod(x, y)),
5: new Thread(() => { result = YetAnotherMethod(x, y, z); })
6: };
7: threads.ForEach(t => t.Start());
8: threads.ForEach(t => t.Join());
Which, as you can see, can be used to call any method that fits Thread's constructor (or can be adapted to it using a lambda, etc.).
But that's a bit heavy. In addition, if an unhandled exception is thrown in one of those methods it will kill the thread, but we don't have a very clean way of catching it here at the point of invocation.
Of course, we also have the Task class from the TPL which can help simplify threads:
1: var tasks = new []
2: {
3: Task.Factory.StartNew(SomeMethod),
4: Task.Factory.StartNew(() => SomeOtherMethod(x, y)),
5: Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { result = YetAnotherMethod(x, y, z); })
6: };
7: Task.WaitAll(tasks);
This simplifies things on the surface, and better yet simplifies things a lot more with exception handling as well (TPL task exceptions get wrapped into a AggregateException and can be caught at the WaitAll() – and other possible places).
But there's an even easier way…
Just as the TPL gave us Parallel.For() and Parallel.ForEach() to make processing loops asynchronously a breeze, it also gave us Parallel.Invoke(), which takes any number of Action delegates and invokes them asynchronously and waits for them to rejoin. If your methods have return values you want to store or need parameters, you can easily use lambda expressions as well:
1: Parallel.Invoke(
2: SomeMethod,
3: () => SomeOtherMethod(x, y)),
4: () => { result = YetAnotherMethod(x, y, z); })
As long as the method can convert to an Action or you can form a lambda that will allow it to do so, you can use the Parallel.Invoke() to easily call them all in parallel without having to worry about starting or joining the threads or tasks. And, because this is part of the TPL, you get the nice AggregateException handling as well that lets you easily catch tasks thrown from the underlying tasks.
When you just need to fire off several methods in parallel, consider the Parallel.Invoke(). It is a very handy way to invoke several different methods easily without having to worry about all the details of creating tasks or threads.
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Attention Deodorant Users: New Studies Link Aluminum To Breast Cancer
If you really take the time to look into it, it can be extremely overwhelming to find out just how many ingredients in cosmetic and personal care products shouldn't be in there. We have surrounded ourselves with an extremely toxic environment, with approximately one in every eight of the 82,000 ingredients used in cosmetic and personal care products being hazardous toxic industrial chemicals. This means that 10,500 industrial toxic chemicals are used as cosmetic ingredients, many of which are carcinogens, pesticides, reproductive toxins, endocrine disruptors and more. It doesn't take long for your bloodstream to absorb whatever toxic chemicals you decide to put on your body. So why do we continue to use these products given the fact that they pose such a high risk to human health?
Despite the fact that new research indicates that Aluminum has cancer-causing properties, it's still considered by most health authorities as perfectly acceptable to eat, inject into your body as a vaccine adjuvant and to wear as an antiperspirant. This is clearly a problem, and it's hard to understand how and why they are so heavily mass marketed. At the end of the day, you still have a choice. The days in which the human mind is so susceptible to programming from major corporations that do not have our best interests at hand are slipping away.
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A recent study published in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry found increased levels of aluminum in non-invasively collected nipple aspirate fluids from 19 breast cancer patients(1). These patients were compared with 16 healthy control subjects.
In addition to emerging evidence, our results support the possible involvement of aluminum ions in oxidative and inflammatory status perturbations of breast cancer microenvironment, suggesting aluminum accumulation in breast microenvironment as a possible risk factor for oxidative/inflammatory phenotype of breast cells (1)
The study also found that Aluminium content and carbonyl levels showed a significant positive linear correlation(1). Studies have already confirmed that plasma levels of protein carbonyls greatly increase the risk of breast cancer (2). It doesn't stop there, the study also found a significantly increased level of pro-inflammatory cytokines(1), many studies have also confirmed that this type of inflammation correlates with increased invasiveness and poor prognosis in many types of cancer, including breast cancer (3).
In 12 invasive cancer nipple aspirate fluid samples we found a significant positive linear correlation among aluminum, carbonyls and pro-inflammatory monocyte chemoattractant cytokine(1).
The main point to take away from this research is the fact that common food ingestion (food additive), injection (as a vaccine adjuvant) and topical application (antiperspirant) and other forms of aluminum intake may be contributing to the increased cancer epidemic in the exposed population on the planet today. It doesn't sound right does it? Most peoples intuition, heart and soul will not resonate with aluminum intake into their bodies, regardless if any studies have been done or not.
Another recent study conducted last year determined that aluminum salts used as antiperspirants have been incriminated as contributing to breast cancer incidence in Western societies (4). Another study conducted the year before that outlined how aluminum is not a physiological component of the breast but has been measured recently in human breast tissues and breast cyst fluids at levels above those found in blood serum or milk (5).
I could go on and continue citing study after study on the damaging affects of antiperspirants, if you're interested you can find more studies here. I think most who read this will not need a study to know that aluminum can be very hazardous to human health, it's one of those things our intuition knows immediately, but it's always good to get the information out there.
You might also be interested to know that a new study released by the University of California, Berkeley (UBC) School of Public Health has found many conventional lipstick products to contain dangerously high levels of aluminum, cadmium, lead and other toxins. Researchers tested over 30 popular lipstick products and found this to be the case. The study was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Even women using minimal amounts of product still increase their risk of developing harmful health conditions like nerve damage and cancer by an alarming amount. It is important to note that there is no oversight or limit on chemical additives into cosmetic care products.
What Can You Do?
I am a big believer that consciousness plays a large role in cancer and other ailments. I believe we can alter our biological environment by using our heart and mind, and science is slowly catching on to these facts. At the same time, that does not mean completely ignoring the chemical environment that surrounds daily. It's nothing to be fearful of at all, but it is nice to be aware so that you can make the best possible choice for yourself and your health. At the end of the day, the choice is yours. Cancer and increasing cancer rates is not a mystery like we are told it is, the cause is known and it is heavily linked to a toxic environment that includes a multitude of products we choose to use. You can look for antiperspirants that are Paraben (more specifically aluminum) free. You could also do your research on natural antiperspirants, there are a number of alternative options out there, you could even make your own. Unfortunately you never hear about them, most mainstream cosmetic products are heavily marketed and advertised. It's time to start questioning things!
Much love.
Click here to find a list of hazardous chemicals to avoid in cosmetic and personal care products.
(3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20545607
(4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22223356
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Study: Exercising With Mask Induces a "Hypercapnic Hypoxia Environment" – Not Good
In Brief
- The Facts:
A study published in June 2020 raises some health concerns about people wearing masks while exercising. It also calls into question the ability of masks to stop Covid-19.
- Reflect On:
Are the mandatory orders that we are being given from government health authorities really the right thing to do? Why is there such a back-lash for questioning these measures? Should we not encourage questioning and discussion?
What Happened: A recent study published in the Journal Medical Hypothesis titled "Exercise with facemask; Are we handling a devil's sword? – A physiological hypothesis" claims the following:
Exercising with facemasks may reduce available Oxygen and increase air trapping preventing substantial carbon dioxide exchange. The hypercapnic hypoxia may potentially increase acidic environment, cardiac overload, anaerobic metabolism and renal overload, which may substantially aggravate the underlying pathology of established chronic diseases. Further contrary to the earlier thought, no evidence exists to claim the facemasks during exercise offer additional protection from the droplet transfer of the virus. Hence, we recommend social distancing is better than facemasks during exercise and optimal utilization rather than exploitation of facemasks during exercise.
According to the authors, exercising with facemasks induced as "a hypercapnic hypoxia environment [inadequate Oxygen (O2) and Carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange] [15]. This acidic environment, both at the alveolar and blood vessels level, induces numerous physiological alterations when exercising with facemasks: 1) Metabolic shift; 2) cardiorespiratory stress; 3) excretory system altercations; 4) Immune mechanism; 5) Brain and nervous system.'
Further, poor saturation of haemoglobin would be anticipated due to increased partial pressure of CO2 at higher exercise intensity [19]. Fig. 2 demonstrates the extreme right shift of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve, which would be higher than that expected during exercise. This acidic environment would unload O2 faster at the muscle level, but due to higher heart rate and reduced affinity at the alveolar junction, the partial pressure of O2 would substantially fall, creating a hypoxic environment for all vital organs.
In the figure below, the authors present a dissociation curve that "is showing the extreme right side shift with the carbon dioxide rebreathing (PaCO2) and inadequate available Oxygen (PAO2). Red dotted lines show the right shift of the curve due to exercise without masks (↑PaCO2, PH and temperature). Violet dotted lines show the extreme curve shift during exercise with masks (↑↑↑↑PaCO2, PH and temperature). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)"
The authors also point out that "wearing of facemasks to prevent the community spread of the novel Covid-19 is itself debatable, considering the limited evidence on the subject matter. WHO recommends masks only for Covid-19 patients but the usage of masks is morally "exploited" among community individuals."
This is important to recognize, the use of masks is indeed debatable. Right now, "fact-checkers" are going around the internet censoring and labelling any information that seems to question the efficacy of masks when it comes to Covid-19, or anything that contradicts the WHO organization. Why do voices looking at facts ad science, and providing another perspective get silenced?
The purpose of the paper cited in this article is to explore and question: Does the use of facemasks offer any benefit for 'social exercisers' during this pandemic; 2) Does exercising with facemasks alter normal physiological responses to exercise; 3) Does exercising with facemasks increase the risk of falling prey to Coronavirus; 4) How could "social exercisers" combat the physiological alteration?
Here's another interesting claim by the researchers:
The study concludes:
Exercising with facemasks might increase pathophysiological risks of underlying chronic disease, especially cardiovascular and metabolic risks. Social exercisers are recommended to do low to moderate-intensity exercise, rather than vigorous exercise when they are wearing facemasks. We also recommend people with chronic diseases to exercise alone at home, under supervision when required, without the use of facemasks. Given the identified and hypothesized risks, social distancing and self-isolation appear to be better than wearing facemasks while exercising during this global crisis.
This isn't the only paper that has called into question the use of a mask. This study, is one of multiple that conveys the idea that they might in fact increase one's chance of contracting a respiratory infection.
For example,
According to a study published in BMJ Open in 2015,
This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.
We have provided the first clinical efficacy data of cloth masks, which suggest HCWs should not use cloth masks as protection against respiratory infection. Cloth masks resulted in significantly higher rates of infection than medical masks, and also performed worse than the control arm. The controls were HCWs who observed standard practice, which involved mask use in the majority, albeit with lower compliance than in the intervention arms. The control HCWs also used medical masks more often than cloth masks. When we analysed all mask-wearers including controls, the higher risk of cloth masks was seen for laboratory-confirmed respiratory viral infection.
According to another study published a year after the one mentioned above,
The physiological effects of breathing elevated inhaled CO2 may include changes in visual performance, modified exercise endurance, headaches and dyspnea. The psychological effects include decreased reasoning and alertness, increased irritability, severe dyspnea, headache, dizziness, perspiration, and short-term memory loss. (source)
There are many examples. Doctors have been making YouTube videos and giving interviews about the same concerns as well. Again, many of these videos and interviews have been deleted from big tech platforms like YouTube.
Why This Is Important: We are living in a time where simply questioning information that's dished out to us is becoming harder and harder to do and talk about on the internet – a place where ideas are shared. When something credible opposes a narrative handed to the population via some very powerful people, not only is it censored and often removed, but a mass media campaign of ridicule ensues. Of course, the main strategy used in the mainstream is to call these ideas a "conspiracy theory" and cast doubt. Censorship + Ridicule = massive perception manipulation.
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Why are there a digital authoritarian "fact-checkers" going around the internet and censoring information? Should people not have the right to examine information openly, freely and transparently and decide for themselves what is, and what isn't, instead of having people in positions of power do it for them? Does this not leave room for mass manipulation of information?
The good news is that the censorship of information has drawn the attention of even more people, and has been a catalyst for some to recognize what's really going on here.
Our physical rights are slowly being taken away under the guise of good will. Crisis' like the coronavirus, or terrorism have always been used to do this. Create the problem, propose the solution and make it justified in the eyes of the masses. If we continue down this path and choose to be governed by those who do not have the best interests of humanity at heart, we are going down the path of total and complete population control.
The Takeaway
At the end of the day, there is so much controversy and information out there that completely opposes the mainstream media narrative. This information and evidence, once seen, has such a big impact on one's consciousness and perception of the world we live in. Just like 9/11, this coronavirus incident is serving the collective and sparking more questions about what exactly we are doing here. Why do we live the way we live? Why do we respond the way we respond? Why do we continue to follow orders from those whom we choose to let govern us when it isn't even clear that their recommendations are for the best interest of humanity?
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Trump Gives 1.16 Billion To Bill Gates' Vaccine Alliance & Inks Deal With Pfizer For A COVID Vaccine
In Brief
- The Facts:
Not long ago, President Trump gave more than a billion dollars to a vaccine alliance called Gavi that was co-founded by Bill & Melinda Gates. He also inked a deal with Pfizer for 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Reflect On:
Are you going to get the vaccine? Will it be required to travel and to enter into certain buildings? If so, will you get it then? Are mandatory medical measures a violation of our freedom and human rights? Is it really for the good of everyone?
What Happened: Last month, US President Donald Trump "donated more to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases worldwide." He did so in a statement of support for Gavi at the public Gavi pledge conference, which was hosted by the United Kingdom, on June 4th. So far, the United States has donated more than $12 billion for the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, and "the U.S. commitment to immunization complements the work of innovators in the United States and other countries who are racing to find a vaccine and treatments for COVID19." (source)
Bill and Melinda Gates co-founded the Gavi alliance in the year 2000, it's a public-private partnership that claims to support "global health-system strengthening and vaccine deployment for infectious diseases worldwide." (source)
Here's a video clip of Trump talking about his decision.
Shortly after this, Trump announced that they will give nearly $2 billion to Pfizer, a big pharmaceutical company, for 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine that could make its way into the public domain sometime next year. According to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the U.S. could buy another 500 million doses under the agreement if the vaccine is safe and effective in the U.S.
Multiple countries are now purchasing vaccines for the new coronavirus.
Why This Is Important: It's important because the coronavirus vaccine is extremely relevant right now and on the minds of many as the only possible solution to this pandemic, at least that's how it's being marketed, despite the fact that multiple peer-reviewed studies and examples have emerged from all over the world regarding the success of other interventions.
For example, a study published last month in Frontiers in Immunology titled "Quercetin and Vitamin C: An Experimental, Synergistic Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Related Disease (COVID-19)" concluded the following:
Quercetin displays a broad range of antiviral properties which can interfere at multiple steps of pathogen virulence – virus entry, virus replication, protein assembly – and that these therapeutic effects can be augmented by the co-administration of vitamin C. Furthermore, due to their lack of severe side effects and low-costs, we strongly suggest the combined administration of these two compounds for both the prophylaxis and the early treatment of respiratory tract infections, especially including COVID-19 patients."
As far as vitamin C goes, this is not the only study or article to recommend its use when it comes to treating COVID-19. For examplem Medicine in Drug Discovery of Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house, recently published an article on early and high-dose IVC in the treatment and prevention of Covid-19. High-dose intravenous VC was successfully used in the treatment of 50 moderate to severe COVID-19 patients in China. The doses used varied between 2 g and 10 g per day, given over a period of 8–10 h. Additional VC bolus may be required among patients in critical conditions."
New York hospitals were also seeing success with Quercetin and Vitamin C. You can read more about that here. Vitamin C isn't the only 'alternative' therapy, Hydroxychloroquine also caused quite a bit of controversy. The main point I am trying to make here is that mainstream media has not only ignored these facts, but there seemed to be a coordinated attack on the idea that these therapies can work. Once the mainstream media and organizations who are threatened come up with a way, whether it be by paying scientists or manipulating data, to ridicule an idea, that idea instantaneously loses credibility in the minds of the masses. That's how much of a stranglehold mainstream media has, and has had on our collective perception.
Secondly, it's important because according to organizations like the American Medical Association as well as the World Health Organization, vaccine hesitancy among people, parents, and, as mentioned by scientists at the World Health Organization's recent Global Vaccine Safety Summit, health professionals and scientists continues to increase. This is no secret, as vaccines have become a very popular topic over the past few years alone. In fact, the World Health Organization has listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the biggest threats to global health security. The issue of vaccine hesitancy is no secret, for example, one study (of many) published in the journal EbioMedicineoutlines this point.
This fact was also emphasized by Professor Heidi Larson, a Professor of Anthropology and the Risk and Decision Scientist Director at the Vaccine Confidence Project. She is referenced by the authors in the study above. At the WHO conference, she emphasized that safety concerns among people and health professionals seem to be the biggest issue regarding vaccine hesitancy.
The other thing that's a trend, and an issue, is not just confidence in providers but confidence of health care providers, we have a very wobbly health professional frontline that is starting to question vaccines and the safety of vaccines. That's a huge problem, because to this day any study I've seen–and we're constantly looking on any studies in this space–still, the most trusted person on any study I've seen globally is the health care provider.
There are a number of physicians and scientists raising awareness about this. The Physicians For Informed Consent are one of many such groups. This brings me to my next point, informed consent.
Vaccine mandates have already caused quite a controversy when it comes to children. The right to receive a medical or religious exemption is being taken away in various states, and a child cannot attend a public school unless they are up to date with the CDC's recommended vaccination schedule. This is done on the basis that unvaccinated children are a danger to vaccinated children, which is a highly flawed argument given the fact that vaccines aren't safe and effective for everyone, which is why the National Childhood Vaccine Injury act has paid nearly $4 billion to families of vaccine-injured children, and that's only counting approximately 1 percent of vaccine-injured children because most of them go unreported. You can read more about that here.
It's also important because we need to weigh the dangers of the vaccine compared to the actual disease. The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) recently published a report titled "Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods." According to them, the infection/fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.26%.
Similar to CDC estimations, PIC's analysis results in a COVID-19 CFR of 0.26%, which is comparable to the CFRs of previous seasonal and pandemic flu periods. "Knowing the CFR of COVID-19 allows for an objective standard by which to compare both non-pharmaceutical interventions and medical countermeasures," said Dr. Shira Miller, PIC's founder and president. "For example, safety studies of any potential COVID-19 vaccine should be able to prove whether or not the risks of the vaccine are less than the risks of the infection. (source)
You can read more about that story here. So far, multiple clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines have shown severe reactions within 10 days after taking the vaccine. You can read more about that story, here.
Alan Dershowitz and Robert F. Kennedy recently had a vaccine debate regarding the safety of vaccines. It includes a discussion about the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine. You can watch that and read more about it here.
Last but not least, it goes to show just how susceptible politicians and presidents are to what many before them have referred to as the invisible government. Donald Trump was clearly not a fan of vaccines, and that was made clear during his 2016 election campaign. When it comes to politics, big business always seems to win. Even those from within our federal health regulatory agencies are speaking up. In fact, only a few years ago, more than a dozen scientists from within the CDC put out an anonymous public statement detailing the influence corporations and rougue interests have on government policy. They were referred to as the Spider Papers.
The invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation…The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties…(and) control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under the cover of a self-created screen and seizers our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection." (source)(source) – John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918-1925
Another great one from Theodore Roosevelt
"Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."(source)
The Takeaway
At the end of the day, the new coronavirus and the measures taken to combat it have caused a lot of controversy. When someone like NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said governments are using the coronavirus to push more authoritarian measures upon the population, it's important that we listen. Instead, we prosecute them, exile them, and put people like Julian Assange who expose war crimes in jail while we agree with and identify with those who are committing the crime. What is encouraging, however, is that just like 9/11 did, COVID-19 is shifting human consciousness in a major way.
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Physicians For Informed Consent Say Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19 Is 0.26 Percent
In Brief
- The Facts:
The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) recently published a report titled "Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods." According to them, the infection/fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.26%.
- Reflect On:
Is the new coronavirus as dangerous as it's being made out to be, or does it compare to other severe respiratory viruses? Is what we've gone through with regards to lockdown measures and mask really about the virus, or something else?
What Happened: The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) recently published a report titled "Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods." In their article, they stated the following:
The public has been made aware of the number of COVID-19 deaths and reported cases that have occurred since the beginning of the current pandemic; however, the number of unreported cases has not been widely known or publicized. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that more than one-third of SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus that can lead to COVID-19) infections are asymptomatic, meaning that initial estimations of its severity were grossly overestimated. Now, for the first time, Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) has collated data from U.S. antibody studies and produced an educational document outlining how an accurate case-fatality rate (CFR) requires antibody studies in order to guide and measure medical care and public health policies.
Similar to CDC estimations, PIC's analysis results in a COVID-19 CFR of 0.26%, which is comparable to the CFRs of previous seasonal and pandemic flu periods. "Knowing the CFR of COVID-19 allows for an objective standard by which to compare both non-pharmaceutical interventions and medical countermeasures," said Dr. Shira Miller, PIC's founder and president. "For example, safety studies of any potential COVID-19 vaccine should be able to prove whether or not the risks of the vaccine are less than the risks of the infection.
"Regardless of proof of safety, however, a potential COVID-19 vaccine should only be voluntary, in order to safeguard a patient's human right to determine what will happen with his or her body," said Dr. Miller.
You can view the PIC's educational document assessing COVID-19 severity and how they came to their conclusion, here. Obviously the data is always delayed and things are constantly changing with regards to COVID-19 numbers.
Who are the PIC? They are a group of doctors and academics from around the world who have come together to support informed consent when it comes to mandatory vaccine measures. Their information is based on science. Their mission is to deliver data on infectious diseases and vaccines, and to unite doctors, scientists, healthcare professionals, attorneys, and families who support voluntary vaccinations. Their vision is that doctors and the public are able to evaluate the data on infectious diseases and vaccines objectively and voluntarily engage in informed decision-making about vaccination.
They are not the only ones in the 'academic world' who make the point that COVID-19 perceptions of danger and numbers are unsubstantiated. For example, John P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford University has said that the infection fatality rate is close to 0 percent for people under the age of 45 years old, explaining how that number rises significantly for people who are older, as with most other respiratory viruses. You can read more about that and access that here. In fact, not long ago a study published by several academics from the Stanford School of Medicine suggests that COVID-19 has a similar infection fatality rate as seasonal influenza, you can read more about that and access the study here.
The mainstream media has also addressed the low case fatality rate, warning the public not to be compliant.
Why This Is Important
This is important because the data validates what many doctors have been emphasizing from the beginning of the lockdown, that the new coronavirus is being made out to be far more dangerous than it actually is. This is the opinion of many, not a consensus. As a result, many scientists were extremely confused, and still are, at the measures that multiple governments have taken. For example, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, a specialist in microbiology and one of the most cited research scientists in German history, was one of them. (source) There seem to be dozens upon dozens of doctors and scientists raising the same ideas.
Doctors and scientists of such a prestigious background with decades of experience in the field have been censored and silenced by multiple social media platform for sharing their opinion and research, simply because it opposes the narrative that's being put out by organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations, for example. YouTube has flat out said that it's censoring any information that contradicts the WHO.
It's understandable why so many people are confused. On one hand you have mainstream media outlets reporting an overwhelming amount of dead bodies that have to be carted away in freezer trucks, and on the other hand you have a number of scientists and doctors letting people know that we are dealing something that we've been dealing with for decades, just another non-severe respiratory virus. Complimenting that is "fact checkers" that are going around blindly upholding the government and health agency narrative. In reality, they are censoring different perspectives, not fact checking.
Other factors are also confusing, like the fact that deaths are being attributed to Covid that are not a result of it.
Did you know that metapneumovirus has been shown to have worldwide circulation with nearly universal infection by age 5? We are talking billions of people. Did you know that outbreaks of metapneumovirus have been well documented every single year, especially in long term care facilities with mortality rates of up to 50%? (source) Did you know that human metapneumovirus infection results in a large number of hospitalizations of children every single year? Did you know nearly 1-2 million children every single year die of these types of respiratory illnesses because they lead to acute respiratory illness? Imagine if the infection rates and death numbers were constantly tracked, and put on an easy to access website, mainstream media, radio etc… Imagine if the other coronaviruses and respiratory illnesses that are more severe in some cases, and arguably more infectious in some cases were subjected to constant monitoring and beamed out to the population every single minute, could you imagine the fear and hysteria?
Are fear and hysteria being used as a marketing tool for a vaccine?
What about Edward Snowden's thoughts about the under-discussed consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and how it's being used to take away more human rights?
Here's a recent Instagram post I came across from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It makes you wonder, doesn't it?
The Takeaway
Right now, and we seem to see the same thing with other major global events, there seems to be a great divide amongst the population with regards to what is going on. How dangerous is the virus is? Are receiving the correct information from not only our federal, state, and provincial health authorities but the WHO as well?
This divide was further expressed by the collective reaction to lockdown and other mandated measures that have been put in place. There are simply a growing number of people who do not agree with the actions governments have taken to combat Covid, and many of them are doctors, scientists, and people who have some sort of expertise in this area.
The point is, we are not obligated to listen to our government. Although it seems that way sometimes, "obey or be punished", the ultimate power lies with the people. We as a collective choose what direction we go, and right now many of us are simply choosing to follow, obey, not question, and be wary of the ones who are asking questions. This is OK, this path is not wrong, but how does it feel to simply follow narratives that you don't know are true? Why are so many others questioning and backing up their conclusions with facts? What world is created out of blind acceptance of anything?
Furthermore, the emergence of a digital "fact-checker" going around the internet that's censoring the opinions and research of some experts in the field simply serves as a catalyst for many to also question what is going on here. The fact checks, in many cases, become so ridiculous that people are now realizing that the information that is fact checked is often the information to reflect on.
One thing is for certain, the coronavirus has served as a great catalyst for more people to start questioning what they're told, and to seek out information for themselves. For quite a long time, we haven't really been thinking for ourselves, instead we've let "the corporation" do that for us. This is why we are seeing the emergence of so much information that continues to contradict what we are being told.
We have so much potential as a human race, and to come closer to accessing that potential, a great step would begin asking deeper and better questions about what we're told. We can do this by gathering different perspectives as opposed to s simply one from mainstream media.
Reflect, is participating in our current political process helping us thrive? Or are we simply giving our power away to a system that is full of what we call corruption and that doesn't have our best interests at hand?
Our current system was created from a level of consciousness that we as humans are evolving beyond. This is why so many are feeling a desire to look for new ideas and ways of seeing things, because our current ways no longer resonate with our being, we are simply doing them out of. habit and unconsciousness.
In order to create a new system, you can't do it from the same level of consciousness we are at now or else we will only create more of the same thing. If we want change, might we create it when we as individuals operate from a greater sense of awareness and inclusiveness, a higher state of consciousness? Might we create it from a place of peace, understanding, and non-judgement as opposed to ego consciousness and polarity?
At the end of the day no matter what is happening, we are all united in our desire to see humanity thrive.
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Supporters of using hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas are set to demonstrate in Albany, N.Y.
Hundreds of people are expected to rally at the Corning Preserve on the Hudson River and then march to a park near the Capitol for speeches by elected officials and labor leaders at midday Monday.
The technology known as "fracking" to free gas from deep in the Marcellus Shale is backed by industry and others who say it will be an economic boon for upstate New York.
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It's almost bathing suit season and not there's a new body sculpting system that promises immediate results with no needles and no downtime. It's called i-lipo.
Stay at home mom Melanie Alva stays active and watches her diet, but like many moms, it hasn't been a walk in the park getting back to her pre-baby body.
"I had my son three years ago and since I had him, I've had a lot of trouble keeping my weight where it needs to be," said Alva. "I decided this year was going to be my year and why not get a little extra help."
To kick start her weight loss program, Alva found a doctor using the fat reduction and body sculpting system i-lipo.
"All Melanie has to do is just lay here and the lasers are doing all the work for her," said Dr. Naureen Ahmeddudin.
Recently approved by the FDA, iLipo uses lasers to target fat and cellulite.
"The i-lipo the only one (of its kind) where it's FDA approved to have the lasers actually on the skin and that's the beauty of it," Ahmeddudin explained. "It's penetrating a little deeper. It goes a few millimeters further than some others that are out there and so you're getting results a little bit sooner."
It's also completely painless. Alva said she napped during her last 20 minute session.
"It's very relaxing. I have a three year old at home, so it's relaxing to come here and do it," said Alva.
"All those lasers are doing is going into the skin and there's fat cells under the skin. So think of it as a cluster of grapes," said Ahmeduddin. "The lasers are penetrating into those clusters and releasing the contents of the fat cells."
To help the body naturally release the fat cells, the patient must do about 30 minutes of light exercise after each treatment.
Eight to 10 treatments are recommended and i-lipo representatives say within a month, you can drop about two dress sizes.
"Literally head to toe, you can do it. If you've got problems (with jowls), you can do it on upper arms, abdomen, thighs, saddle bags, pretty much any target area that you want," said Ahmeduddin.
Alva said after her first treatment, she noticed a difference in how her pants fit.
"Just in the waistline, a lot looser and it makes you feel a lot better because when you're working out, sometimes people get discouraged when they don't see immediate results and with this you do see results," said Alva. "It's awesome! I love it! I'm excited!"
Just as with more invasive weight loss techniques, maintenance depends on you.
Doctors say a healthy lifestyle, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of exercise can help keep those unwanted inches off.
I-lipo can cost between $250 and $400 per treatment. According to the i-lipo website, six clinics in Florida offer the system. Orlando is the closest. For clinic's that offer the i-lipo system in Georgia, click here.


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With four seconds remaining on the clock, senior Jessica Babe grabbed an inbound pass dribbled the court and found sophomore Nicole Ferguson open in the corner for a game-winning jumper as time expired. Ferguson's buzzer-beater gave the Blue Devils (6-4) a 64-62 victory over the Hofstra Pride (4-6) in a Monday afternoon game at Detrick Gym.
The Blue Devils and Pride were tied three times over the final 2:08 of regulation, but CCSU never allowed Hofstra to take the lead.
Senior Lauren Arbogast connected on a three pointer from the corner with 1:06 remaining to break the second tie of the final two minutes and give the Blue Devils a 61-58 lead. Hofstra countered with a jumper and then fouled CCSU's Kayla Miller with five seconds left to play. Miller hit the first free throw to put CCSU up by two, but missed the second and Blue Devil sophomore TeJahne Malone was whistled for a foul trying to grab the rebound with four seconds remaining. Hofstra hit both free throws to tie the game at 62-62. On the ensuing possession Ferguson hit the game-winner at the buzzer.
Junior Kaley Watras finished with a game-high 22 points on 7-of-10 shooting. Her strong finish to the first half helped spark the Blue Devils in the opening period. Watras scored eight of her 13 first half points over the final six minutes of the period.
Junior Johnna Fisher was stong off the bench for the Blue Devils scoring 11 points with six coming over the final six minutes of the first half. Fisher and Watras combined to score 14 of CCSU's final 16 points in the opening period.
After trailing for the final 10 minutes of the first half, the Blue Devils grabbed the lead just 11 seconds into the second period on a three by Watras. A three by Arbogast on the next Blue Devil possession put CCSU in front by four points a minute into the period.
A short jumper by Fisher gave CCSU a 48-39 lead with 10:14 left to play. The nine point advantage was the largest of the game for the Blue Devils.
Following the Fisher jumper, Hofstra chipped away with a 6-0 run, but CCSU maintained the lead until the 2:08 mark in the period.
The Blue Devils shot 45.1% (23-51) from the field and were 5-of-17 from behind the three point arc. However, CCSU did struggle at the free throw line as they connected on just 13-of-25 attempts.
CCSU also received great production from their bench with Fisher, Miller and Malone all seeing 22 minutes of action in the game. Fisher connected for 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting, while also grabbing six rebounds, blocking two shots and recoding three steals. Malone grabbed a team-high nine rebounds and dropped in four points on two shots. She also had three assists and a pair of blocks. Miller contributed four points and four rebounds.
Babe's pass to Ferguson for the winner was her sixth assist of the game. She also had seven points and four rebounds in 40 minutes of action.
Arbogast scored 10 points, but was limited to just 15 minutes of action by foul trouble.
Ferguson's game-winner was her only basket of the game. She finished the day 1-of-4 from the field.
Hofstra was led by Anma Onyeuku's double-double of 13 points and 12 rebounds.
The Blue Devils open Northeast Conference play on Saturday at Detrick Gym. Robert Morris, the preseason favorite in the NEC, will visit New Britain for a 1 p.m. tip-off.


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Tykes shock sorry Leeds
Barnsley's week to forget ended on a high as Chris Dagnall's brace earned the managerless Tykes a 2-0 derby win over Leeds.
Both Terry Butcher and Sean O'Driscoll have turned the vacant job down in the last seven days, but the man currently holding the fort, Dave Flitcroft, is making a more than fair case for getting it himself.
This was his second win in succession and his side deserved to score more than the two given to them by Dagnall's first league goals of the season and his first since the opening day.
In fact, it was the 38-year-old Flitcroft and not 64-year-old Neil Warnock in the opposition dugout who appeared the shrewder boss. Midway through the second half, in the midst of a third defeat in a row at Oakwell, the Leeds fans sang 'Warnock, time to go'.
There was no obvious sign of the turbulence to have affected Barnsley this week throughout as they started well and carried it on until the end.
They tested Paddy Kenny after just 80 seconds when Jim O'Brien's deflected effort sent the goalkeeper flying away to his left, while Stephen Dawson had legitimate claims for a penalty turned down when he appeared to be felled by Luciano Becchio.
O'Brien then shot over and Dawson was denied by Kenny as the Tykes mounted some pressure which nearly culminated in a goal as Marlon Harewood, almost in slow motion, drifted in from the left and cracked a shot against the foot of Kenny's right-hand post.
Flitcroft's anguish at his side's near misses was evident and his mood did not improve as Jim McNulty's header was cleared on the line by Rodolph Austin.
Even the loss of O'Brien to a nasty-looking injury following a collision with Lee Peltier did not affect the home side, with Dagnall twice going close at the end of a first half that was completely one-sided.
Leeds' first effort on 48 minutes drew ironic cheers from their fans as debutant Ross Barkley dragged a 25-yarder just wide, with the Everton teenager then going closer as he spun onto Becchio's knockdown and crashed a shot against the bar from six yards.
United's presence as an attacking force was a fleeting one, though, and as the clock ticked into the 63rd minute, Barnsley got the goal they deserved.
Dagnall ran at Sam Byram and turned inside out on the right-hand side of the area. Byram kicked him and once Dagnall had wrestled the ball from Dawson and Harewood he sent Kenny the wrong way.
Even 1-0 was harsh on Barnsley and they put that right just three minutes later, with Byram again given a torrid time by Dagnall. The former Rochdale striker stripped down his inside after Harewood's touch and duly put a shot across Kenny into the bottom corner.
Barkley offered Leeds' best response with a cute curling effort which went just over but it was Barnsley's day and they would have ended it with a third goal had Harewood shown better accuracy after sprinting past Jason Pearce.
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Sections of an op-ed Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul wrote on mandatory minimums in The Washington Times in September appear nearly identical to an article by Dan Stewart of The Week that ran a week earlier. The discovery comes amid reports from BuzzFeed that Paul plagiarized in his book and in several speeches.
Paul also delivered testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 16, 2013, that included the copied sections.
In an interview Sunday on ABC's This Week, Paul said "hacks and haters" were trying to manufacture controversy over relatively minor transgressions.
"I take it as an insult and I will not lie down and say people can call me dishonest, misleading or misrepresenting," Paul told host George Stephanopoulos. "I have never intentionally done so."
"And like I say, if, you know, if dueling were legal in Kentucky, if they keep it up, you know, it would be a duel challenge. But I can't do that, because I can't hold office in Kentucky then."
The office of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has released a statement on allegations that he has plagiarized in speeches, his recent book, and in a recent op-ed in the Washington Times. It comes from Paul's senior advisor Doug Stafford:
"In the thousands of speeches and op-eds Sen. Paul has produced, he has always presented his own ideas, opinions and conclusions. Sen. Paul also relies on a large number of staff and advisers to provide supporting facts and anecdotes – some of which were not clearly sourced or vetted properly.
"Footnotes presenting supporting facts were not always used. Going forward, footnotes will be available on request. There have also been occasions where quotations or typesetting indentations have been left out through errors in our approval process. From here forward, quoting, footnoting and citing will be more complete.
"Adherence to a new approval process implemented by Sen. Paul will ensure proper citation and accountability in all collaborative works going forward.
Sitting in a conference room in his Senate office complex, Mr. Paul, drawn and clearly shaken by the plagiarism charges, offered a mix of contrition and defiance. He said that he was not certain whether it would affect his prospects should he decide to run for president in 2016 — he said he would happily return to his Kentucky doctor's practice — and he asserted that was being unfairly targeted.
Acknowledging that his office had "made mistakes," he said he was putting a new system in place to ensure that all of his materials are properly footnoted and cited.
"What we are going to do from here forward, if it will make people leave me the hell alone, is we're going to do them like college papers," he said. "We're going to try to put out footnotes. We're going to have them available. If people want to request the footnoted version, we're going to have it available."
Mr. Paul also said he could not rule out that other examples of past plagiarism would come out, but he unequivocally added that no staff members would be fired.
The Washington Times said Tuesday it had independently reviewed Mr. Paul's columns and op-eds and published a correction to one column on Sept. 20 in which the senator had failed to attribute a passage that first appeared in Forbes.
The newspaper and the senator mutually agreed to end his weekly column, which has appeared on each Friday in the newspaper since the summer.
"We expect our columnists to submit original work and to properly attribute material, and we appreciate that the senator and his staff have taken responsibility for an oversight in one column," Times Editor John Solomon said.
For more than a week, Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's flagship host, has been doggedly pursuing the story surrounding Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) lifting of the plotlines of the movie Gattaca from the film's Wikipedia page in a speech. She pursued the story nightly, even when there was no new information to report.
Her tenacity in pursuit of that story inspired a series of jokes among conservatives at Maddow's expense. The seeming frivolity of the infraction on Paul's part (or, more likely, his speechwriting staff's part) did not merit the excessive coverage that Maddow devoted to it. Many believed that the MSNBC host was attempting to reignite her long-standing feud with the senator, even at the risk of her credibility…
A week ago, it was Maddow who could have been accused of "immaturity." Today, she is vindicated. There is nothing trivial about plagiarism. Paul would be well-advised to take ownership of these infractions, correct for them, and ensure that they never happen again. Furthermore, he would also be well-served to not lash out at those who criticize them – especially when they can be so easily proven correct.
The second problem, which cuts straight to the heart of the difference between Rand Paul and his dad, is that he's actually trying to win the presidency. If your goal is to genuinely compete in a general election with your once-marginalized ideas, instead of building a revolutionary movement at the margins, then you don't need to be as clean as the competition–you need to be cleaner. Why? Call it The Weird Man's Burden…
So what does that mean in this instance? If he wants to run for president, he needs to be better, not worse, and not merely as good, as the competition when it comes to the most seemingly trivial matters of comportment. Journalists, particularly (though not only) from those outlets sensitive to the allure that libertarian ideas have on some progressive voters, will be gunning for every possible gaffe, glitch, error of judgment, and stated deviance. He should consider it an honor to be challenged, instead of a challenge to get huffy about.
People who choose the Inside Game know, or at least should know, that the deck is stacked against them, and that they will be judged more harshly. Those were always the rules. On the upside, being the first real truth-teller inside an empire of lies carries with it enormous galvanizing potential. Whining about being picked on in this context is like complaining about getting fouled when you drive to the hoop against Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn. The answer is to dunk the damned basketball, not bitch to the refs. And for god's sake, make sure your shoes are tied.
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AP, NYT Downplaying and Ignoring Mass. Move to Limit Union Health Bargaining
Gosh, after Republican Governors Scott Walker and John Kasich succeeded in championing legislation curtailing many collective bargaining rights of unionized state and municipal employees in Wisconsin and Ohio, respectively, the establishment press had the meme all set. The GOP, conservatives, and Tea Partiers are enemies of labor and the middle class, while Democrats, liberals, and progressives are their champions.
Then along comes bluer-than-blue Massachusetts. As the Boston Globe reports, the Bay State's House "voted overwhelmingly last night (Tuesday) to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns." It's not a law yet, but it seems to be heading pretty quickly in that direction.
The Associated Press's beat reporters and editors must be beside themselves. Despite having nationalized Wisconsin-based collective-bargaining stories since February, three searches ("Massachusetts health," Massachusetts union," and "Massachusetts unions," all not in quotes) indicate that the wire service was still carrying nothing relating to the Bay State's situation at its main national site as of 7:30 this evening.
The AP's Massachusetts local wire carried two stories, one at 11:13 p.m. Tuesday night, plus a six-paragraph unbylined story at 5:05 p.m. today, which read in part:
Mass. Gov.: "Dial down rhetoric" on union fight
Gov. Deval Patrick is urging both sides to "dial down the rhetoric" over a plan to sharply limit the collective bargaining power of public employees over their health insurance.
Patrick said Wednesday it's important to pass a bill to ease the health care burden on communities while guaranteeing labor a seat at the table.
Union officials are furious at House Speaker Robert DeLeo after lawmakers backed the plan late Tuesday.
Does anyone remember AP reporters Scott Bauer or Todd Richmond in Wisconsin relaying advisories to dial down the rhetoric from Scott Walker? I didn't think so. But Obama bud Deval Patrick "somehow" gets a bit of deference from AP. No matter; he's on board with doing much of what Scott Walker just did, and to public safety workers as well, whom Walker exempted from certain of the Wisconsin law's provisions.
Meanwhile, at the New York Times, the same three searches done at 7:45 this evening ("Massachusetts health," "Massachusetts union," "Massachusetts unions,") returned nothing relevant.
The establishment press is probably too busy picking their collective jaws up off the floor, utterly astonished that the past two months of bashing sensible conservatives as heartless enemies may be on the verge of being rendered useless. Trying to bottle the news up is their only recourse.
This is 2011, guys and gals. Thanks to Drudge and others, that's mostly not going to happen.
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Why can't I use my locations I've already created on Google Maps? If RTM uses Google maps already, can't we just interface with the saved locations I've already developed there? Why do I have to creat a whole new set of locations specifically for RTM??
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Property called a 'once-in-lifetime' opportunity
Bayou enthusiasts, East End and developers have some ideas for former KBR site near downtown
A rare opportunity lies in 136 acres just east of downtown Houston.
The Buffalo Bayou-front parcel, a longtime industrial and office complex, went on the market earlier this summer - a move bayou enthusiasts, East End residents and real estate developers had been anticipating for years.
Some of them say the expansive property - even larger than the former AstroWorld site off the South Loop - offers a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to create a multiuse development incorporating the cultural influences of downtown, the East End and other surrounding historic neighborhoods.
Architect and urban planner Peter Brown envisions a "town center" where a mix of housing types, offices, shops and cultural attractions encircle a central green space.
Those most familiar with the area cite a lengthy wish list, from groceries to book stores to new recreational facilities. City Councilman James Rodriguez, who represents that part of town, would like to see "shops, rooftops and various other amenities for our East End community."
And he is hardly alone in taking note of the nearly mile-long stretch of bayou frontage. That combination of proximity to water, combined with skyline views, ups the ante.
"People are drawn to cities that offer urban vitality in a natural setting - New York and its harbor, Chicago and its lakefront, Denver and its mountains, Austin and Lady Bird Lake," said Guy Hagstette, project manager of Buffalo Bayou Park and ex-director of Discovery Green.
The property's new owner could be decided within a month, as offers are due Thursday, according to HFF, the company selling the land for KBR. The engineering and construction company has owned the site since 1919 when it was Brown & Root, according to Diane Schenke, Greater East End Management District president. Most of the industrial structures have been demolished, but five office buildings remain.
Once the land changes hands, many Houstonians will be keeping a close eye on it. We asked architects, planners and city leaders to weigh in with their opinions on how the tract should be developed. They responded with enthusiasm.
"First, it is rare for such a large tract to become available in the central area of any city, and it has the potential to move the entire market in new directions," Hagstette said. "Second, it lies on the edge of the East End and Fifth Ward while being very close to downtown.
"As a result, it could be energized by these cultural influences and exemplify the best of Houston as a great global city. Third, it is a part of Houston's industrial heritage that helped define the very heart and soul of our community."
We've put together edited excerpts of their best ideas, in their own words, for the property's future:
Guy Hagstette
Project manager of Buffalo Bayou Park
"While Buffalo Bayou Park west of downtown is an incredible amenity, a city the size of Houston needs more access to the bayou's waterfront, especially in an area where the bayou is really a river. Because of its size, the KBR site can provide an expansive natural waterfront that pulls together a growing series of green spaces along Buffalo Bayou east of downtown. It also can be a place where the city embraces the bayou through thoughtfully planned urban development facing this waterfront and creating an energetic edge as in other great waterfront cities."
Carol Alvarado
State lawmaker and lifelong East End resident
"We recently added the Dynamo Stadium and now we have another jewel waiting in the wings, the East Wing that is. My hope for this land is to encompass a mixed use of residential, commercial, entertainment and recreation. There is a need for more housing. The East End lacks grocery stores, farmers markets and movie theaters, as well as high-end restaurants. I'd like to see a bike shop/rental and a sporting-goods. I can envision people jogging and cycling along the bayou or canoeing. Well-known clothing and book stores would be an asset."
Susan Rogers
UH Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
"I would hope that the site will be developed over time, with different designers, developers and builders for different aspects such as housing, commercial, etc. This would allow the area to develop a patina - a contextual sense of time that many of our older neighborhoods have today - and that is difficult to generate in an area built all at the same time for exactly the same market. There is also additional risk to designing and developing the site all at the same time, and that is that you create a closed system, that if one part fails the whole thing might fail."
Christof Spieler
Morris Architects and Metro board member
What the east side of town needs most is more residents, and the KBR site could be a great place for some of them to live.
Imagine townhouses, apartments, a grocery store and a park, built around tree-shaded streets, connected to downtown with a new streetcar line. Residential development here would actually reduce traffic: Everyone who lived here would be one less person on the freeways. It would support more local businesses and services for people who already live here. It would add to the tax base while taking advantage of infrastructure that's already paid for. And it could create a great neighborhood. The real measure of a city is whether it's a good place to live, and the banks of the bayou where the East End meets the Fifth Ward could be a great place to live.
Anne Olson
Buffalo Bayou Partnership
As envisioned in our 2002 Buffalo Bayou and Beyond Master Plan, we would love for the site to become a mixed-use, mixed-income high-density development that takes advantage of the bayou waterfront. In addition to the trail easement that is already in the hands of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, additional waterfront property should be incorporated into whatever development occurs on the property. "Greenfingers" also would be desirable to connect the bayou waterfront into the site and then north into the Fifth Ward neighborhood.
The KBR property is the linchpin to residential and commercial development along the bayou's east sector.
David Crossley
Houston Tomorrow
The East End is the first place we're going to see significant transit-oriented development and walkable urbanism emerge. The rail line is halfway finished, and there's a lot going on there already. This property is just icing on that cake.
I see this as an opportunity to provide the market with a lot of walkable urbanism connected by transit. The really unusual thing about the KBR property, though, is the existence of that little fledgling small city in the middle. There's good pieces of a grid in place, so planning it from the center out shouldn't be hard in that respect. Not sure how many jobs could be supported there, but it might be a lot. Could it become a major activity center? Why not? Sort of hard to beat for location.
Lester Yuen
Gensler architecture firm
The existing office towers with great downtown views should be retained and repositioned to become cutting-edge workplaces. Space formerly occupied by warehouses can be carefully evaluated and repurposed for recreational, artistic and entertainment uses, all to create a vibrant 24/7 community. The nearly one-mile-long exposure to Buffalo Bayou should be the focal point, catalyst and framework of a new green/water infrastructure that can revive and highlight local ecosystems that had been previously hidden.
Diane Schenke
Greater East End District
The KBR site is part of 400 vacant and underutilized acres for which the community and Greater East End Management District have developed a master plan. The site is envisioned as a higher density development, with both residential and commercial development. The KBR development fits into substantial work already accomplished under this master plan, including $18 million committed for sidewalks and trails to create a pedestrian and bicycle-friendly community adjacent to Buffalo Bayou and the East End light rail.
John Kirksey
Kirksey Architecture
It could be a transformative development if the buyer has the capital and vision to make it happen, but the field of buyers is narrowed by the size of the initial capital outlay. That buyer would also need the support of the city of Houston in improving the surrounding public infrastructure.
Kevin Shanley
SWA Group
The proximity to downtown, to transportation and to recreational amenities makes the site a natural to see if the Houston real estate market is ready for the kind of neighborhoods that polls keep telling us a substantial percentage of Houstonians want to live in, but for which they have very limited selection or choice.
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can any1 please tell me why the do-while loop wont work? im trying to use it to validate my program.
anytime a month appears it lets me enter any value i want when i want it to go back to the beginning if its out of the range of 0-744
please help :S
static void enterValues (double [] sunshine)
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Scanner keyboard=new Scanner (System.in);
//Declare variable for loop counter and initialize
for (int count = 0; count < 12; count++)
//Prompt and input hours of sunshine for each month
System.out.print("Enter hours of sunshine for "+month[count]+" " );
sunshine [count] = keyboard.nextDouble();
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