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Glass Houses
I was forwarded an email today, and I can't honestly figure out the source since it is one of those that has been forwarded a zillion times, but at some point it passed through the Arizona 2010 Project. It consisted mainly of pictures of desert areas along major immigration routes that had been trashed by illegal immigrants. This picture is pretty typical.
Certainly an ugly site, particularly for someone who lives and works in the outdoors as I do.
Here is a quote, I think from the original email but it may have been from one of the forwarders (emphasis added):
This layup is on an 'illegal super - highway' from Mexico to the USA (Tucson) used by human smugglers.
This layup area is located in a wash area approximately .5 of a mile long just south of Tucson.
We estimate there are over 3000 discarded back packs in this layup area. Countless water containers, food wrappers, clothing, and soiled baby diapers. And as you can see in this picture, fresh footprints leading right into it. We weren't too far behind them.
As I kept walking down the wash, I was sure it was going to end just ahead, but I kept walking and walking, and around every corner was more and more trash!
And of course the trail leading out of the layup area heading NORTH to Tucson, then on to your town tomorrow.
They've already come through here. Is this America the Beautiful? Or another landfill?
The trash left behind by the illegals is another of the Environmental Disasters to hit the USA. Had this been done in one of our great Northwest Forests or Seashore National Parks areas there would be an uprising of the American people........but this is remote Arizona-Mexican border.
Well, it so happens my life is spent cleaning up public parks. My company's mission is to privately operate public parks. A lot of that job is picking up and hauling away the trash. And I can tell you something with absolute certainty: This is exactly what a highly trafficked area in our great Northwest Forests or Seashore National Parks would look like if someone wasn't there to pick up. Here is one example from a northwest forest, in Oregon:
We run busy campgrounds and day use areas all over the country, and you would not believe the trash on the ground on a Monday morning. And this is after the place was cleaned on Sunday morning and with trash cans available every 10 feet to throw things away correctly. I have seen a few areas in the National Forest that were busy ad hoc camping areas -- meaning they had no facilities, no staff, and no trash cans -- and they were absolutely trashed by good old red-blooded American citizens. Parts looked no different than this picture. Most of these areas have since been closed, because of this ecological damage.
In fact, in my presentation I make to public agencies about our services, I say that we are actually in the environmental preservation business. By attracting recreators to defined areas of the wilderness where we have staff to clean up after the visitors and limit their impact on nature, we are helping to preserve the other 99% of the land.
So, yes this is ugly, but it frustrates me that this is used to play into the Joe Arpaio type stereotypes of Mexicans
All these people that come over, they could come with disease. There's no control, no health checks or anything. They check fruits and vegetables, how come they don't check people? No one talks about that! They're all dirty. I sent out 200 inmates into the desert, they picked up 18 tons of garbage that they bring in"âthe baby diapers and all that. Where's everybody who wants to preserve the desert?"
To my mind, this is an argument against Mexican immigration in the same way that violence against women is used as an argument against legalizing prostitution. Prostitutes suffer abuse in large part because their profession is illegal which limits their access to the legal system when victimized, not because violence is inherent to their profession. Trash in a wash in the desert is a result of the illegality of immigration that forces people into stream beds rather than city check points when they enter the country.
Postscript #1: Please, if you are a good, clean, thoughtful user of public parks, do not write me thinking I have dissed you. I have not. Most of our visitors are great and thoughtful, and we really appreciate that. But it takes only a few to make an unbelievable mess.
Postscript #2: I am willing to believe that poorly educated immigrants have fewer litter taboos than we have been acculturated with. But I have seen enough to say that no ethnic group out there should be too smug. For God sakes, there had to be a large effort near the top of Mt. Everest to clean up a huge dump that had accumulated of oxygen bottles and other trash near the summit. Here are pictures of what rich Americans and Europeans do on Mt Everest when they are hiking and there is no trash can nearby:


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In a recent article on Tony Blair, George Eaton wrote:
"[Blair] said of Corbyn's supporters: "It's clear they can take over a political party. What's not clear to me is whether they can take over a country." It was Blair's insufficient devotion to the former task that enabled the revival of the left. As Alastair Campbell recently acknowledged: "We failed to develop talent, failed to cement organisational and cultural change in the party and failed to secure our legacy." Rather than effecting a permanent realignment, as the right of the party hoped and the left feared, New Labour failed to outlive its creators."
I beg to differ. The rise of Jeremy Corbyn is not a result of Blair
failing to "cement .. cultural change in the party". It is a
of the financial crisis, of everything that has followed from that,
and the centre's failure to offer a radical response to that
momentous event.
Echos of the financial crisis are everywhere for those that care to
listen. Even in the EU referendum, which at first sight is about free
trade areas and sovereignty. The main reason Brexit has such wide
popular support is concern over immigration, and that in turn is
driven by a belief that immigration reduces real wages and puts
pressure on public services. Yet the main reason public services are
under pressure is austerity, which in turn was a reaction to the
financial crisis. Immigration improves the public finances. The main
reason for the decline in real take home pay for the low paid is not
immigration but stagnant productivity following the financial crisis
(and increasingly
austerity measures).
The financial crisis was a major event not just in its consequences,
but because it raised crucial questions about our current economic
system. For most on the political right that question was too
threatening to contemplate, so they doubled down by reducing the size
of the state using deficit deceit
as a means. But as many people did not want less spent on the things
the state does, and a smaller state did nothing to immediately
inspire the private sector, that only intensified popular frustration
with the economic status quo.
Rescuing the banks should have been a prelude to radical reform of
the financial sector, yet the centre only seemed to be concerned with
putting the pieces back together again and making minor changes that
are very vulnerable to being unravelled by political pressure from
the banks. In many countries the centre seems paralysed by the glare
of populism, whether that populism is used by governments (austerity)
or the far right.
For the UK's centre-left this paralysis comes in a particular form
'electability'. Radical policies almost by definition upset the
status quo, who will attempt to frame such policies as anti-business
or anti-aspiration. If electability becomes synonymous with avoiding
anything that might be framed in this way, that rules out radical
solutions. Yet radical events or profound changes in society and the
economy may well require radical solutions, and if the centre avoids
them they let people like Donald Trump or Boris Johnson in.
In a recent article
Dani Rodrik wrote about populist politics in response to the impact
of inequality and globalisation, but it could equally apply to the
financial crisis. The two are connected of course: it was
the globalisation of finance rather than anything happening in the UK
economy that destroyed UK banks.
"The appeal of populists is that they give voice to the anger of the excluded. They offer a grand narrative as well as concrete, if misleading and often dangerous, solutions. Mainstream politicians will not regain lost ground until they, too, offer serious solutions that provide room for hope. They should no longer hide behind technology or unstoppable globalization, and they must be willing to be bold and entertain large-scale reforms in the way the domestic and global economy are run."

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If everybody who had supported them had said "One person can't do anything, I'm not going to bother", we would never have noticed the work of these "great people".
Each famous person and
almost every defining moment in history is
supported by Thousands of people. People who could have just as easily
"One person can't do anything, I'm not going to bother".
These are the people who, by taking (or not taking)
action can make (or break) a defining moment of history.
I suggest that you are such a person.
Stephen Samuel
Green Party of British Columbia supporter.
Why to fight for someone else's rights
When they came for the Semites¹ I said nothing for I did not know them.
When they came for the Gypsys, I said nothing, for they weren't my friends.
When they came for the Communists, I was solaced by my safety.
When they came for the Gays, I clung to my wife.
When they came for the Labour Organizers, I hid in my business.
When they came for the Rights organizers, I was glad I had been silent.
When they came for my wife, I cowered in the corner.
When they came for me, there was nobody left to fight for my rights.
-- My paraphrase of an earlier poem.¹ semites ≡ Hebrews & Arabs
VoteTheVote.com .. A site about the STV ballot (Single Transferable Vote).
The Greer Report
on the rapid transit and the fudging of SkyTrain costs by the government
" And you know my experiences of making this film made me very aware of the sadness and the dehumanization of people at times of war. And the repercussions of war. And whatever you believe in, if it's God or Allah, may he watch over you and let's pray for a peaceful and swift resolution."
Some other friends: Dawn Henderson has a site for her band "Eye". My friend Theda also has some music on her site (both mp3 and ogg/vorbis). |
Software freedom Day -- Computing without the Monopoly. |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Californians will face a choice this November of whether to divide the nation's most populous state into three, an effort that would radically shake up not only the West Coast, but the entire nation.
The "Cal 3" initiative is driven by venture capitalist Tim Draper, who has tried and failed in the past to place an effort to break up California on the ballot, including a bid in 2016 to create six separate states. Backers of the measure argue California has become "ungovernable" because of its economic and geographic diversity as well as its population approaching 40 million people.
Election officials say this year's effort gathered the roughly 365,000 signatures it needed to land on the general election ballot. It will be officially certified later this month. Even if it wins passage from voters, the measure would face significant hurdles.
California would break into three states – Northern California, California and Southern California. The measure aims to create states with relatively equal populations and economic strengths.
The new Northern California would include 40 counties, including Sacramento, San Jose and San Francisco as well as the state's wine country and rural northern areas.
Keeping the name California would be a group of six counties centered around Los Angeles, with a total population of 12.3 million people.
Southern California, meanwhile, would include Orange and San Diego Counties as well what's now known as California's Central Valley and Inland Empire.
It's not just California that would feel the effects of such a change.
Turning one state into three would create four new U.S. senators, a move that would significantly boost Californians' influence in Washington. The number of representatives in the U.S. House could change slightly based on each state's population breakdown. Three separate Californias would also shake up the Electoral College, which picks the president.
Although California as it exists today is heavily Democratic, one of the new Californias might not be. The newly proposed Southern California includes traditionally Republican areas such as Orange County. Democratic voters currently edge out Republicans in the 12 counties, but not by much. That could potentially boost the GOP's West Coast representation in Congress.
Draper is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist known for investing in companies such as Skype, Tesla and Hotmail and has poured millions of dollars into efforts to break up California.
Draper argues that California has become "nearly ungovernable" because of its diverse economies and population. He and backers also argue that voters outside of large urban areas such as Los Angeles are underserved in Sacramento because so many state lawmakers come from major cities.
"Breaking the states into three smaller, more manageable states means those states will be more responsible and more responsive," said Peggy Grande, a Cal 3 spokeswoman.
Passing at the ballot box is just the first hurdle. That would require support from a simple majority of voters.
The measure then directs the governor to ask Congress for the ultimate OK – likely a tall order. If Congress gave a green light, it would then be up the Legislature to determine exactly how the split would happen, including how the state's debts would be divided. Each of the three states would determine their own governance structure.
Lawmakers would only have 12 months after congressional approval to set the new rules; otherwise the state's debts would automatically split between the three new ones.
Beyond those difficulties, lawsuits would surely follow.
Critics of the measure take a different tack, calling it an unworkable and costly approach to solving California's problems.
An opposition effort called OneCalifornia argues the proposal would cause "political chaos" and greater inequality. The California Chamber of Commerce, meanwhile, said such a monumental change would be costly and complicated, which would only serve to create new problems.
Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, the Democratic nominee for governor, said Tuesday he opposes the measure.
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10 of the Most Unusual Deaths Ever Recorded in History
10 Amazing Origins of Human Body Parts
10 Weirdly Specific Crime Waves from the Last Two Centuries
10 Creepy Ancient Wooden Idols
10 Strange Things Found Inside Other Things
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Head Editor
Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author.
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10 Great Atlantic Ocean Liners
Throughout much of the 20th century, giants plied the waters of the north Atlantic, bringing immigrants to the New World and ferrying wealthier passengers between New York (and other eastern ports) and Europe. A handful of these great liners still exist, while most are memories, found only in old photos or in fancy restaurants that salvaged a portion of a great ship's interiors. Below are some of the greatest in terms of length of service, luxuriousness, reputation and overall amenities. Most of these at one time held the Blue Riband, a coveted prize given for the fastest Atlantic crossing.
Please note: There is a huge difference between an Atlantic liner and a cruise ship. The latter are made for calm seas and pure entertainment. The former were made to tackle rough north Atlantic weather and purpose-built to carry ocean-going passengers. For more information, read Thomas Maxtone-Graham's magnificent "The Only Way to Cross." Also note that the years correspond to launch date, not service-entry date. For example, Queen Mary went down the quays in 1934 but didn't enter service until two years later.
For almost 30 years, it seemed as if the Queen Elizabeth 2 was to be the only thread to the bygone era of the superliners, but the QE2's continual transatlantic and cruising success convinced Cunard to build another one. Queen Mary 2 holds the record as the largest Atlantic superliner ever built (although one Caribbean cruise ship, the Freedom of the Seas, is bigger, and the first Queen Mary actually weighed more). QM2 looks like a cross between an Atlantic liner and a cruise ship, but she was built primarily for Atlantic crossings in mind, even though she can—and does—go practically to any sea in the world. Hey, if you have about $2,000 (about 1,000 pounds), you can hitch a ride on the QM2 and check it out for yourself. (And if you're wondering why QM2 is #10 instead of #1, it's because she hasn't been around that long.)
The pride of the post-WWI Italian fleet, the Rex and her sister ship, the Conte de Savoia, were Italy's answer to Germany's new greyhounds. (See #6.) After an embarrassing start, Rex would capture the Blue Riband in 1933 and hold it for two years. She is remembered today for a famous "interception" in 1938 by American YB-17 bombers while the liner was still far out to sea. The Italians laid her up during the war, but the Allies sank her in September 1944 to keep the Germans from using her to block the harbor at Trieste.
One of the most famous of the last great Atlantic superliners, The France was her namesake country's flagship for almost 15 years. She was literally the pride of France, and the nation mourned when she was laid up in 1974. She was then sold to Norwegian Cruise Line and renamed the Norway, under which she sailed from 1980 until about 2001. As Norway, she experienced many troubles, but managed to remain popular on the Caribbean circuit. She was then sold and resold with designs for either refitting or scrapping, but the liner was laid up today over environmental concerns. She was finally scrapped in 2008.
The first Queen Mary was designed to recapture British glory on the seas, and also replace the aged Mauritania and Aquitania. While very traditional in her appointments, she was more popular than the more-modern looking Normandie. Like her sister ship (loosely defined) the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mary was a highly sought prize by German U-Boats in WWII. They never caught either. In the post-war years, the two Cunard queens ruled the seas as originally designed. Today, the Queen Mary is gutted and laid up in Long Beach, Calif., as a hotel and tourist attraction, while her sister ship was burned to a hulk in the 1970s during an attempt to make her a floating university.
After losing her pre-WWI fleet of liner giants to war reparations, Germany again reclaimed a prized place on the seas with the Bremen and her sister ship, the Europa. This modern ship started the "express liner" craze of the 1930s, where ships were sleek, fast, luxurious, "wet" (Prohibition made European ships more popular over the "dry" American ships) and modern in all details. Bremen was a highly popular ship, but like most liners, the next war ended her career. The German military turned the Bremen into a barracks until she was burned and gutted in 1941, a victim of arson. She was scrapped in 1946.
Along with her sister ship, the ill-fated Lusitania, the Mauretania was the first Atlantic Ocean greyhound. Steam turbines powered this mighty and luxurious ship, and she remained a favorite for three decades. Mauretania held the Blue Riband for 20 years before the Breman took it away. She was scrapped in 1935, over protests from ship aficionados, including Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Near the beginning of the blockbuster movie Titanic you'll hear the insufferable Cal say, dripping upper-crust snobbery, that Titanic is "over a hundred feet longer than the Mauritania and far more luxurious.")
If you have ever seen old posters of 1930s-era travel, you might have seen ads of a looming Normandie profiled head-on with her sleek, clipper-like bow. She was ultra-modern, with a steam turbo-electric power-plant, a clean upper deck and luxurious appointments throughout. Yet the celebrated ocean liner struggled to consistently make a profit during the 1930s. When war began anew in 1939, Normandie wound up in New York, and stayed there after the fall of France. (A great picture taken in 1940 shows the Normandie, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth berthed side by side in New York for the first and only time.) U.S. officials seized her after American entry into the war and renamed her USS Lafayette. But she never sailed again. She caught fire in early 1942 during her refitting, and the lopsided nature of the firefighting efforts caused her to capsize. Despite an expensive salvage operation, she was scrapped in 1946.
So fast that her top speed was a state secret, this last of the old greyhounds is still around today, slowly rusting at a Philadelphia pier. She was built with both passenger service and military use in mind—many liners scrapped in the mid-1930s would be missed a few years later when WWII began—hence the secrecy about her true speed. In the 1960s, all of the ocean-going palaces fell on hard times as the speed of the jumbo jet replaced the comfort and leisurely travel of the ocean liner. SS United States still holds the westbound Blue Riband, and awaits her ultimate fate after being purchased in 2004 by the Norwegian Cruise Line.
The glorious Olympic far outlasted her sisters, the infamous Titanic and the unfortunate Britannic (the later never entered passenger service and was sunk by a German mine off Greece while serving as a hospital ship). She was nicknamed Old Reliable, and remained in continuous service (except for brief periods) from 1911 until 1935. She was notorious for striking other ships, but one occasion was actually deliberate. Under British law, she was designated an auxiliary cruiser, and in 1918, when crew spotted U-103, Olympic turned and rammed the submarine, causing the Germans to scuttle the boat. She retained her popularity well after the war, despite her age. She was laid up in the mid-1930s and scrapped in 1937.
At the twilight of the golden age of Atlantic steamers came the QE2, launched upon the retirement of the first Mary and her sister ship. From the late 1960s until 2004, the QE2 was the only way to cross in luxury (aside from the Norway, before she became a cruise ship). She sailed more than just the Atlantic, though, and came to port in Sydney, Australia, among other places. This gorgeous superliner finally retired in 2008, and will soon become a floating hotel in Dubai.
Notable omissions: Majestic (ex-Bismarck), Aquitania, Berengaria (ex-Imperator), Nieuw Amsterdam and the Kungsholm/Sea Princess/Victoria/Mona Lisa.


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With the flash sale site boom imploding...
What better time, Amar Gandhi figured, than to launch a new flash sale site.
"They were all dying off and filing for bankruptcy," Gandhi says of the flash and daily deals sites of several years ago.
What did Gandhi see no one else in the space did?
First, Gandhi, founder of AN Commerce which is home to several brands, says the deals often offered on flash sale sites weren't really deals. "Merchants selling on these sites had profit margins between 30-50-percent," he says. "It meant the customer was often not getting the right price."
Separately, besides shady flash sale sites not paying merchants for orders…
The customer experience, according to Gandhi, was often poor as well. Gandhi says less reputable merchants were known not to fulfill orders or not inform customers that their items were being dropshipped from China and would arrive in two months.
Even more important, Gandhi says the major VC-backed flash sale players had spent too much money on technology. In fact, Gandhi estimates the industry giants spent between $300-$500,000 building out their platforms.
"Their overhead was way too high and not sustainable," Gandhi says.
To compete Gandhi would need to build a better mousetrap for a lot less money…
But nothing of the like existed out-of-the-box.
It Didn't Exist, Until
The ultimate flash sale site…
At least according to Gandhi, would offer both customers and merchants a world class experience; one that promises customers a great price on popular items while simultaneously rewarding the best performing merchants.
"If a merchant wants to sell on our platform you can't be taking fifty-percent margin," Gandhi says. "We're not awash with venture capital so every dollar we invest must generate a return which is why we are narrowly focused on the lifetime value of a customer."
The site Gandhi envisioned had:
- The ability to accommodate merchants in multiple countries and allow them to easily and quickly upload products and fulfill orders
- The ability to scale on demand to handle significant spikes in traffic
- A custom built system that could handle between 2,000-10,000 orders per day and accommodate multiple vendors selling multiple products.
Importantly, Gandhi says building such a platform from scratch would also require that it be flexible in the future. "Making changes has to be easy," he says. "We can't wait two days on developers who want to take their sweet time to make a small change."
Remember too, it had to all be done for much less than the half million dollars competitors had sunk into their platforms.
It's Unfair (Which Is Good)
Scaling is tedious when you're doing everything manually…
That's why instead of downloading spreadsheets containing the day's orders and sending them off to flash sale site vendors for fulfillment, Gandhi wanted to create a robust platform with a dashboard vendors could monitor, use to fulfill orders in real time, and offer customers a much-improved experience.
To turn his vision into reality, Gandhi chose Shopify Plus but not to sell products or dropship as most merchants do. Instead, Gandhi used the Shopify API to creatively flex Plus and create BoardwalkBuy, a next generation flash sale platform connecting customers with merchants that offers a best-in-class experience.
Instead of costing $300-$500,000 as Gandhi says competing platforms cost, Gandhi says he used the Shopify API to build BoardwalkBuy for $30,000.
"That's a huge difference in price," Gandhi says. "The great thing about the Shopify API is that you can integrate with any system."
The cost differential provides Gandhi a competitive advantage but it's the platform itself that significantly differentiates BoardwalkBuy. Besides positioning Gandhi to monitor vendor product uploads and customer orders in real time, the platform offers customers popular products at deep discounts and easily scales to handle high-volume. The platform also allows vendors to easily export orders in multiple formats for more efficient order fulfillment.
Remember Gandhi's desire to partner with only the best vendors?
To ensure that's the case, the platform was built to produce custom reports that, for example, automatically identify any orders that haven't been fulfilled within a week which allows BoardwalkBuy to hold vendors accountable by transparently scoring vendor performance and offer an improved customer experience.
Specifically, BoardwalkBuy was built to allow Gandhi to make real time adjustments designed to reward top performers and drive incremental sales:
- BoardwalkBuy promotes products sold by merchants who ship faster
- When the company identifies a trend it promotes relevant products to lift sales
- The company investigates products getting lots of clicks but aren't converting and fixes any issues inhibiting sales
"Shopify lets us do all of this," Gandhi says. "Why would anyone start from scratch when Shopify has already built something that works. It's easy to use and the API lets us create whatever we want without spending a fortune or having a team of five hundred people."
It's actually bad news, Gandhi says, for what he calls the old guard…
From Zero to $33 Million in 18 Months
Understand it was relatively labor intensive to build BoardwalkBuy with the Shopify API…
But 18-months after launching BoardwalkBuy in its present form has become a premier marketplace connecting vendors with trending consumer products and customers in search of great deals and has yielded the following results:
- More than $33.3 million in revenue
- 200% year over year growth
- More than 1.2 million orders processed
- More than fifty vendors now use the platform to upload products, inventory, shipping information, and tracking numbers without any assistance from BoardwalkBuy
Importantly, the BoardwalkBuy team suggests competitors in the space that are still in business are at a distinct disadvantage not only from a cost basis perspective but also because of an outdated mentality that prevents them from realizing the power of new technology.
"It's the old school developers and platforms who are trying to resist change that perpetuate the myth that Shopify isn't customizable."
"It's just not true. You can customize on Shopify and use it however you want to use it. We used the API to build something that didn't exist eighteen months ago and today it's a multimillion dollar business. So, of course, Shopify is customizable."
Amar Gandhi
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This part of ISO 20187 specifies additional safety requirements for inflatable bouncing pillows intended for permanent installation.
This part of ISO 20187 is applicable to inflatable play equipment intended for use by children fourteen years and under, both individually and collectively.
This part of ISO 20187 specifies safety requirements for inflatable play equipment for which the primary activity is bouncing. It sets measures to address risks and also to minimize accidents to users for those involved in the design, manufacture and supply of inflatable play equipment.
It specifies information to be supplied with the equipment. The requirements have been laid down bearing in mind the risk factor based on available data.
This part of ISO 20187 specifies the requirements that will protect a child from hazards that he or she might be unable to foresee when using the equipment as intended, or in a manner that can be reasonably anticipated.
This part of ISO 20187 is not applicable to inflatables dealt with in ISO 20187‑1:2022, inflatable water-borne play and leisure equipment, domestic inflatable toys, air-supported buildings, inflatables used solely for protection, inflatables used for rescue, or other types of inflatable toys where the primary activity is not bouncing or sliding.
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Becca Langer was not a normal girl, she didn't have normal girl problems. For most of her life, she's had to take care of herself, her younger brother Chad, and her drunk mother. She's lived under the shadow of what her father did when she was ten years old. Forever branded by his actions.
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Will Levi be able to crack through her tough exterior and really see the wounded soul underneath? Becca needs to be loved, but the question is, will she let Levi love her?
About Jessica Gibson
Jessica Gibson is a recovering bookaholic, she's down from four books a week to a more reasonable one. It was that love of words and creativity that made her dream about writing her first book. That dream was hidden for years, always put on the back burner, filed away in the "someday" section, until her husband Matt gave her the kick in the pants she needed to actually get off her butt and write.
Jessica and Matt live in Southern California and have a serious addiction to reality tv shows like Pawn Stars and American Restoration. They have one son and hope to add to the family in the near future.
Aside from writing, she runs an online event planning business called the Release Day Diva. In addition to novels, Jessica writes and maintains the blog Book on the Bright Side. Keep up with Jessica and her latest releases and events on her blog.


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Reaper Drone Upgrade Shows Obama Culture of Secrecy
According to a Wired report, the Air Force is considering upgrades proposed by General Atomics, the manufacturer of Reaper drones. The upgrades include improvements to the flight time of the drone's camera, missiles, and radar equipment, thus allowing the drones to fly for almost two days straight. Although these advancements are just a company proposal so far, any growth to the U.S. drone program is a troubling sign considering how counterproductive and unaccountable it is.
For example, President Obama has blocked the ACLU and their Freedom of Information Act requests from gathering documents that would even acknowledge the drone program's existence. The Department of Justice has repeatedly ducked and dodged any attempt or lawsuit from providing any transparency to a program that gives the president the power to be judge, jury, and executioner. This level of unaccountability, especially concerning the power of a president to bypass basic judicial processes, has no place in a professed free society.
Not only is the program shrouded in secrecy, it kills a lot of innocents and is incredibly counterproductive. Last January, when President Obama first spoke about the program, he said that drone strikes "had not caused a huge number of civilian casualties." Counterterrorism advisor John Brennan actually claimed that the program hasn't caused "a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities that we've been able to develop."
But even the most conservative estimates, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), show several dozen innocents have been killed in drone strikes. The BIJ also released a report detailing how drones are targeting rescuers after initial attacks and mourners at their funerals. According to Jeremy Scahill's reporting at The Nation, U.S. drone strikes in Yemen are creating far more terrorists than they kill and are the primary source for Al Qaeda's presence in the Arabian Peninsula. Obama's "signature strikes" — where targets a hit for displaying "suspicious behavior" and which CIA chief David Petraeus wants to expand — are backfiring and can only boomerang back to us.
Despite the brazen disregard for the rule of law, civil liberties, and any resemblance of transparency, it is becoming more and more likely that Obama's drone program — and the aforementioned public policy aspects — will remain in place whether or not Obama is re-elected. The only thing Obama's conservative and Republican opposition seem to like about him are these dictatorial executive power grabs, and it's hard to imagine a President Romney doing anything other than endorsing and enhancing them.
The central claim behind the justification for the Predator Drone campaign is that the president has the ability to ignore the Fifth Amendment and 800 years of common law and order kills without due process under virtually no oversight or transparency. And with General Atomics pitching more efficient drones to the Air Force, there is also the incentive of the military-industrial-complex to make sure the president has whatever power needed to buy and use plenty of them.
More than any other, this should be the most central and important issue of the day. Thankfully, there is one presidential candidate who is challenging this bipartisan acceptance of secrecy and the imperial presidency. Because without this debate, the future of the most basic rights, safeguards, and provisions of our Constitution and our republic are in jeopardy.


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I recently asked the following question on the IBM for Midsize Businesses group on Linkedin as a basis for discussion and a means to crowdsource some tips and best practices for IT security:
Security attacks often arrive unannounced, but a well established security plan and implementation can help mitigate these often costly situations. This discussion, however, aims to offer midsize business leaders guidance on how to protect their business, and their data.
The goal of this discussion is to crowdsource 10 steps midsize companies can take to protect their business – taking into account on-site AND their cloud computing environments. Securing the cloud can be a data center challenge, sometimes a software issue, and sometimes a data or device access issue. Your security tips will help create a list from the online community for the online community.
Thank you to all who participated in the discussion (full list below) which provided fairly detailed and specific recommendations for midsize business leaders to consider as they work to secure their enterprises.
As promised, here are the Ten Steps Midsize Companies Can Take to Protect Their Business:
1- Culture of security
We can start off with considering that security is as much a culture as a destination. For the most part, the only secure system is one that isn't plugged in. And even then you can hack the hard drives, I suppose. The challenge is to strike the right balance between security, convenience and cost. It's about education and human behavior as much as it's about technology. And consider that most security breaches come from within. Many of our contributors maintained the sentiment that you should worry more about internal threats and stupidity than anything external.
2- Focus
Quite simply, not all systems within a business are created equal. Not everything has to be protected the same way. Budgets are limited for mid-size businesses, so take time to assess the value. Planning and risk assessment are an important aspect of the security equation. What are you trying to protect (sensitive data, at rest or in motion) and what critical business applications can you not do without for a period of time?
3. Zero to Secure
A common mistake is to try to go from zero to secure too quickly. Take the first steps first. Proceed with caution as each new security measure introduced into your enterprise must be weighed and integrated carefully and methodically.
4- To Cloud or Not to Cloud
Technology is not one-size fits all and clouds are not a panacea. With variations that include hybrid, public, private, clouds add complexity to an enterprise. Understand that not everything has to be in the cloud. Moving to cloud grants access to more sophisticated security (physical and digital), but your security scheme is only as strong as it's weakest link.
If considering moving data and applications into the cloud, a risk assessment will allow you to understand where to focus your security controls and decide what is suitable for the cloud.
5- Keep The Keys To The Castle
Vet your cloud. Not all clouds are created equal. Make sure your cloud service provider's policies and controls align with your requirements (as well as your budget). And remember that no matter how good your service provider may be, the final responsibility — and accountability — for your enterprise is still yours. Maintain your own documentation, security controls and, where possible, do not give the encryption key to your cloud provider.
6. Passwords
This one deserves it's own mention, both because it was mentioned so often and that it represents, in many respects, the first line of defense. Policies covering password complexity, identity management, two factor authentication, and even how often passwords need to be changed play a strong role in overall enterprise security.
7. Monitoring, Monitoring, Monitoring
No security system is proof against all threats. The sooner you know about a problem the more quickly you can act to limit damage. 'nuff said.
8. Backups
Wait, that's data protection, not security, right? Wrong. Sometimes "break-in" scenarios may be targeting destruction rather than theft of data. Data recovery needs to be part of the security plan.
9. Endpoint Security
Anywhere your enterprise touches the outside world represents a threat. Whether it's viruses, malware, malicious interlopers or simply script kiddies, be sure you cover the basics of endpoint protection. And don't forget the perils of BYOD.
10. Don't Just Trust It, Test It
Whether as in internal process or executed by third party, intrusion detection and penetration testing should be a staple in your security regimen. This should include both internal and cloud services. Many cloud service providers will supply reports of recent tests upon request. No security system is proof against all hackers. However, you should at least be sure what you've got stands up to professional scrutiny.
11. You're Never Done
Security is a journey, not a destination.
Ok. My list goes to 11. Thank you Nigel Tufnel.
Thanks to all those who participated in this conversation. There were some really great comments and I couldn't do justice to them all in a single summary post. Please be sure to read through the full discussion. Here they are (in order of participation): Geoffrey Colon, Howard M. Cohen, Amrita Chandra, Kelly Craft, Alan M Buckwalter, Darren Argyle, Marcio Saito, Phil Neray, Ryan Berg, Phil Simon, Robert Whetsell, John Jacob, Derek Brink, Aarti Comstock, Fred McClimans, Mark Underwood, Phil Hassey, Kenneth Hess, Akram Mohammad, Petar Lafchiev, Antonio David López Fuentes, Paul Williams, Leslie Reiser, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Stefan Ried, Wayne Spivak, Charlie Dankner, Philip Kibler, Vimalkumar A.V, Folkert Visser
This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet.


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Want to visit Paris and Venice in the same afternoon?
You can, if you're in China.
Chinese developers have for years built residential communities that mimic famous European cities and towns. They are the subject of a new book, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China.
One of the most striking examples is Sky City in coastal Zhejiang province. It looks just like Paris, down to the Mansard roofs, the narrow chimneys (they're fake) and balconies. Sculpted horses leap from a replica of the Fountain of Apollo, which is actually in Versailles. Anchoring this faux City of Lights is an Eiffel Tower that rises more than 300 feet out of a field of tall grass and marsh.
"It's very special because all the architecture is in the European style, not like average Chinese residential complexes," says Xie Tingjian, who runs a business that sells clothing on the Internet.
His office overlooks trees, lampposts and dry fountains along the main thoroughfare, called the Champs-Elysees.
"It's very beautiful." he says.
Sky City was built in 2006, but there still aren't many people here. A big reason is the location. It's a 40-minute drive from downtown Hangzhou, the nearest big city.
Most of the development's first-floor shops are still empty after seven years, and the community has a rundown, creepy feel. There are fake storefronts for a nonexistent coffee shop and an advertising office. The sign in front of the advertising office reads: "Advertising desing (sic) is visual communication art and desing (sic) it value ..."
There's even a truck that drives around the Eiffel Tower spraying water on the road and playing "It's a Small World After All."
'It's Really Shameful'
What were the developers thinking?
They won't say.
When NPR asked to speak with them, we were told they were busy in meetings, which is Chinese for: "I don't want to talk to you."
Yan Xuanren, a senior agent at a local Century 21 office, says the development isn't the ghost town it seems and most of the apartments are occupied.
"The original plan was very good, building this into a residential area, and when people started flowing here, building a commercial district," says Yan, whose office looks out at the copy of the Eiffel Tower. "The developers thought a subway line was coming to the front of the complex."
But the subway never materialized and neither did the rich people developers expected. Most of the villas — some priced at more than $800,000 — still sit empty.
"As an architect, I feel it's very strange," Tong Ming, a professor of urban planning at Tongji University in Shanghai, says of the replica communities. "For our profession, it's really shameful to copy something from somewhere else."
Tong says developers began building copy communities as China's cities and home ownership took off with the country's economic boom. They didn't know what consumers wanted and figured copying famous landmarks and urban landscapes might lure people to suburban developments.
A Testament To Personal Choice
Of course, there is a long history of borrowing in architecture. Consider all those Corinthian columns on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Tong says the problem with China's copy communities is they're just knock-offs, there's no innovation.
Bianca Bosker, whose book Original Copies came out earlier this year, has visited many copy communities and spoken to residents. She says some see higher-end developments as a way to show off their new wealth and taste.
"They're selling not only this Western knock-off home, but they're also selling the dream of a better life," Bosker says. "There's a sense that you can be a bureaucrat, you can be an entrepreneur and you can live like a king."
As recently as the 1990s, most urban Chinese didn't even own their homes. The government assigned them musty, Communist work-unit apartments. Today's copy communities are light-years from those days.
"A lot of people dismiss them. They think they are ugly, they think they are tacky," Bosker says. "But I think that what these communities are testament to is the incredible amount of personal choice that Chinese consumers have."
About an hour's drive from fake Paris, about a dozen retired women are dancing outside after dark to a 1990s dance club hit "Moving On Up."
This isn't unusual. In China, retired women dance all the time for exercise. The difference? This group is line dancing along the edge of a huge replica of St. Mark's Square in Venice.
This is "Venice Water Town," another copycat community filled with Italian-style villas with balconies and ochre-colored walls.
The dance leader, who introduces herself as Teacher Xie, came here for the clean air and the Western architecture, which she associates with sophistication.
"When I was working as a teacher, I thought Western teaching methods were more advanced," Xie says.
So, she bought a Western-style home and filled it with European furniture and oil paintings.
This fake Venice, which is near a subway stop, is much more successful than Sky City, the fake Paris. In the evenings, people sit on park benches overlooking the canals and chat by the light of street lamps. BMWs, Porches and Volvos line the road.
There are surreal touches. Part of St. Mark's Square has been turned into a basketball court and the Doge's Palace doubles as a dorm for workers at a nearby amusement park. None of this seems to bother the locals.
Liu Shengdi, one of the dancers, recalls the first time she saw Venice Water Town.
"Wow! I said this complex is too beautiful," says Liu, a big bear of a woman. "It totally looks like a painting! How were they able to design such beautiful houses?"
Ming, the urban planning professor, thinks copycat communities may be just a phase, a byproduct of China's breakneck urban growth. He says as more Chinese travel abroad, the novelty of foreign architecture is wearing off and he hopes, in the future, developers will come up with more original ideas.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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When industrialist Norman Osborne injected himself with his experimental Goblin Formula, it granted him incredible strength, speed, and resilience but fractured his mind, turning him into the cackling, psychotic terror known as the Green Goblin. Obsessed with power, the Green Goblin rains chaos and destruction upon any who dare oppose his plans for domination, and he holds a very personal vendetta against Spider-Man, who has served as a constant thorn in his side.
Thanks to his access to the impressive weapons technology of Oscorp, the Green Goblin goes to battle outfitted with an array of deadly high-tech gear. Ruthless and unremorseful, the Green Goblin will never stop until he stands supreme.


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When Governor Charlie Baker was elected to his first term of office four years ago, his first major announcement was the appointment of Jay Ash to the post of Secretary of Housing and Economic Development.
The announcement by Gov. Baker, a Republican, came as a surprise to many political insiders because Ash was a lifelong Democrat and at the time was serving as the City Manager for the City of Chelsea, a post he had held for almost 15 years. Moreover, the Secretary of Housing and Economic Development is among the most important members of a governor's cabinet, and typically goes to a person who is among those most trusted by the governor to implement his broad policy objectives.
However, Ash's appointment by Gov.-elect Baker signaled two things about the incoming administration: First, that Baker was going to "reach across the aisle" to Democrats and second, that he was seeking the most-qualified persons he could find to serve in his administration.
During the past four years, Charlie Baker's appointment of Jay Ash, who officially stepped down from his cabinet post in December to become the new president of a nonprofit business group known as the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, has proven to be a win-win for Gov. Baker — and the people of Massachusetts — on both scores.
Ash, who had served for many years as the chief of staff to former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Voke, not only knew the ins-and-outs of the legislative process, but also was on a first-name basis with many legislators, most notably House Speaker Bob DeLeo, who played a key role in working with Jay in implementing the many initiatives put forth by the Baker administration.
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During his tenure, Jay Ash brought to fruition many projects that will bring economic benefits for future generations of our state's residents. Among Ash's signature accomplishments, he played a key role in bringing the Pawtucket Red Sox to Worcester, which included the redevelopment of the city's Canal District with $35 million in infrastructure and affordable housing funds; he brought $12.5 million in state funds to the Berkshire Innovation Center, which will focus on life sciences in Pittsfield; he played an integral role in persuading General Electric to locate its world headquarters in Boston's Seaport District; and he was instrumental in bringing about a significant reduction in the number of homeless families living in motels.
All in all, Jay Ash's tenure as Secretary of Housing and Economic Development has been among the most successful and remarkable of any Cabinet member of any administration in the state's history. We know we speak not only for the residents of his native Chelsea, but also for citizens throughout the state, in thanking Jay Ash for his years of public service and wishing him well in his future endeavors.


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And, just so no one can complain about context, here's the series of questions:
Q: If you lose the Liberal leadership race, will you run for the party in the next election?
Ignatieff: Depends who's leader.
Q: Have you indicated there are some that you would not run for?
Ignatieff: No. It really is that I have to look what I am looking at.
Q: Your track record, your history is that you move on to other projects again and again and again.
Ignatieff: In a rival publication.
Q: Yes it's been suggested that this is just another fling ...
Ignatieff: It's a hell of a fling if it is. I mean, the fling stuff won't fly. It has been brutal.
Etobicoke-Lakeshore is very very, tough.
Q: But you won't commit to running in Etobicoke- Lakeshore again?
Ignatieff: I like to serve my constituents well. But you're asking me an anticipatory, hypothetical about the situation that prevails on the 3rd or 4th of December I am quite confident I will win.
Q: But do you have a commitment to the Liberal party long term?
Ignatieff: I've had a commitment to the Liberal party since I was 17. And my commitment to the Liberal party continues. But there are all kinds of ways you can stay committed and involved and active in the Liberal Party of Canada without being an MP.
Q: Without being an MP?
Ignatieff: Being an MP, without being an MP. I have been a Liberal all my life. When I go into rooms, people are glad I am in the room because people have read stuff I
have written which has contributed to their sensibilities to be a Liberal and what Liberal philosophy is. There are all kinds of ways I can serve the party.
Don't doubt my devotion to the Liberal Party of Canada. You wouldn't do this occasionally difficult job if you weren't seriously committed to it. [...]


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SAN DIEGO -- Few people could have imagined the Atlanta Falcons coming west and putting this kind of whipping on the San Diego Chargers.
It turns out these Falcons really can fly.
Not bothered in the slightest by a short week and a long flight, the Falcons overwhelmed the Chargers 27-3 on Sunday and are one of three undefeated NFL teams. Matt Ryan threw touchdown passes to three different receivers and safety Thomas DeCoud had two interceptions and a fumble recovery.
The Falcons are 6-0 in San Diego all-time and 6-0 on the West Coast in coach Mike Smith's five seasons. Not only do the Falcons lead the NFC South, but they're 3-0 against the AFC West.
The Falcons beat the Denver Broncos 27-21 on Monday night, then turned their attention to this game.
Smith said the short week and travel "had no effect on us. We've had this success because our guys come out and play good football. There is no magic to it. We have a plan in terms of how we want our guys to prepare for the game, both physically and mentally and it's worked for us."
The Falcons quickly turned a matchup of unbeaten teams into a one-sided fight.
Ryan, who led two long, impressive scoring drives, completed 30 of 40 passes for 275 yards, with his first interception of the season, and a passer rating of 107.8. DeCoud's three takeaways, plus William Moore's fourth-quarter fumble recovery, extended the Falcons' NFL-high turnover differential to plus-10.
"I thought everybody was fresh and we started out fast - offense, defense special teams," Ryan said. "A good team win."
The Chargers haven't been held to three points since a 30-3 loss at Miami on Nov. 24, 2002.
It was the fewest points scored in coach Norv Turner's turbulent six-year tenure with the Bolts, and the fewest with Philip Rivers at quarterback.
"I can't think of one where we haven't scored a touchdown in nine years," Rivers said. "The way you lose games in this league (is) you turn it over. You turn it over four times and they turn it over once, late in the game, your chances of winning are pretty slim."
With Rivers having one of his worst statistical performances, the Chargers dropped to 2-1. Rivers was 21 of 38 for 173 yards, with two picks and a QB rating of 45.2.
Ryan led two impressive drives in the first half as the Falcons took control. He threw touchdown passes of 8 yards to Jacquizz Rodgers and 7 to Tony Gonzalez to cap those drives, and 9 yards to Julio Jones after a turnover gave the Falcons a short field.
Ryan led a precise opening drive, moving the Falcons 80 yards without having a third down. He found Rodgers on an 8-yard scoring pass. The PAT failed due to a bad snap.
Ryan Mathews made his season debut for San Diego and looked good until fumbling inside the Falcons' 5-yard line on a hit by Sean Witherspoon, with DeCoud recovering at the Atlanta 4.
Ryan then led the Falcons 96 yards in 17 plays on a drive that took 7 minutes, 59 seconds.
Ryan was sacked by Antwan Barnes at the Atlanta 1 on the drive's third play, but was bailed out on a holding call against San Diego safety Atari Bigby, giving the Falcons a first down on the 14. The Falcons converted four more third downs on the drive before Ryan hit Gonzalez for a 7-yard score to make it 13-0. Fond of slamming the ball over the crossbar after scores, Gonzalez, a former college basketball player at Cal, stopped and popped a jump shot instead.
"We started huddling that drive and uptempoed it later and it kind of kept them off-balance," Ryan said. "It was big. Our guys did a good job battling."
The Falcons got the ball back with 1:53 before halftime when DeCoud intercepted Rivers along the right sideline. The call originally was ruled an incomplete pass but overturned after a review, giving Atlanta the ball on the San Diego 29. Four plays later, Ryan threw a 9-yard TD pass to Julio Jones for a 20-0 lead.
Jones hurt a hand when hit by safety Eric Weddle at the end of a 19-yard reception on the game's first play from scrimmage. He returned in the second quarter.
DeCoud made a diving interception of a pass intended for Antonio Gates late in the third quarter. Rivers, flat on his back, put his hands on his head in disgust and briefly had words with Turner on the sideline.
"One of the things William and I have kind of taken to heart at safety, especially in this new system, is we've got to get the ball back and we've got a lot of opportunities to do that," DeCoud said. "It's evident in our play right now. The more opportunities we give Matt, the better opportunity we have to win the game."
Smith said DeCoud's interceptions were "two very athletic plays."
Ryan had Atlanta's first turnover of the season when he was intercepted by Antoine Cason at the goal line early in the fourth quarter.
Michael Turner, who was with the Chargers from 2004-07, scored on a 7-yard run midway through the fourth quarter. He was arrested on a DUI charge hours after the Falcons beat Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos 27-21 on Monday night.
San Diego's Nate Kaeding kicked a 41-yard field in the third quarter.
Mathews had 10 carries for 44 yards.
NOTES: It was San Diego's lowest home output since a 31-3 loss to Green Bay on Oct. 24, 1999. ... After scoring, Michael Turner flipped the ball and posed like LaDainian Tomlinson during his Chargers career. "That was for L.T.," said Turner, Tomlinson's former understudy. "I know he was probably watching the game. Gave him a little love there."
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