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Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, 68, arrives for sentencing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., on Oct. 9, 2012. Sansdusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison after having been convicted of 45 counts of sex abuse on on June 22, 2012. The accusations of abuse, revealed in November 2011, sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State's beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno. On Oct. 21, 2012, Sandusky was sent to Greene State Prison to serve his sentence. Prison officials said he will be housed in protective custody.
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Readers share recipes that may come in handy when hosting Easter guests.
With Easter arriving in a few weeks, you may be looking for easy recipes to serve guests.
The first one here, for Southern Salad, is from Nancy Beatty of Springfield, Ill. The mixture of cream cheese, whipped topping, crushed pineapple and crushed pretzels makes it both creamy and crunchy.
The second recipe, for a breakfast casserole, is shared by Sandy DeVault of Chillicothe, Ill.
"My family loves this for breakfast and you can make it the night before," she writes. "Just refrigerate overnight and cook it in the morning."
Southern Salad
1 cup crushed pretzels
½ cup brown sugar
¾ stick margarine
8 ounces cream cheese
½ cup sugar
Tall can crushed pineapple, drained
8 ounces whipped topping
Mix the pretzels, brown sugar and margarine. Bake 7 minutes at 400 degrees in a 13-by-9-inch pan. Stir well immediately after removing from oven. Stir a few more times to keep from getting too hard.
Cream the cream cheese and ½ cup sugar. Mix in the drained pineapple and whipped topping. Just before serving, stir in the pretzel mixture.
Makes 8 servings.
Sandy's Breakfast Casserole
2 pounds sausage
4 eggs
2 cups milk
2 cups grated cheddar or other cheese
1 1/3 cups Bisquick
½ cup onions, chopped
½ cup bell peppers, chopped
½ cup mushrooms, chopped
Brown sausage in skillet. Spread into greased 13-by-9-inch pan. Mix all other ingredients together. Pour over sausage. Bake at 350 degrees about 45 minutes. Check after 30 minutes. When a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, it's done.
Makes 8 servings.
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Southern Focus Poll, South Survey, Fall 1993
Data Archive > U.S. Surveys > General Population > Local/Regional > Southern Focus Polls > Summary
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- Southerners tend to slip through the cracks between state surveys, which are unreliable for generalizing to the region, on the one hand, and national sample surveys, which usually contain too few Southerners to allow detailed examination, on the other. Moreover, few surveys routinely include questions specifically about the South.
To remedy this situation, the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and the Center for the Study of the American South sponsor a Southern regional survey, called the Southern Focus Poll. Respondents in both the South and Non-South are asked questions about political preference, comparisons of Southerners and non-Southerners, interaction with family members, values which are taught to children, leisure activities, care for the environment, Southern food, and basic demographic information.
All of the data sets from the Southern Focus Polls archived here are generously made available by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (IRSS).
- Data File
- Cases: 892
Variables: 174
Weight Variable: WTVARS, WTVARN, TOTWT
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- Date Collected: 1993
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- The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Collection Procedures
- Telephone interview surveys
- Sampling Procedures
- The target population for the telephone survey was adults age 18 or older, residing in households with telephones in the United States. IRSS purchased random-digit dialing samples of telephone numbers from Genesys Sampling Systems (GSS) of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. To give each residential telephone within each sample an approximately equal chance of being dialed, GSS first systematically stratified each sample to reflect each state's proportion of the appropriate region's population. For each state, GSS then estimated the proportion of telephone numbers beginning with each three-digit prefix in use in that state. This estimate was based on the proportion of numbers with each prefix listed in the telephone directories for the state.
The target respondent within each household was the person living in the household, aged 18 or over, with the next birthday. At least four call attempts were made to each telephone number, at least 24 hours apart.
The data sets for the Southern and non-Southern samples of the Southern Focus Poll are archived separately. If you want a national sample, combine the data sets, and use the weight variable, TOTWT, which not only adjusts for household size, but also for the oversample of the South. Weighting the data by this variable will allow you to create a single national sample.
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It's hard to talk about the scariest movie of all time, just like it's hard to talk about the funniest. Once you claim what it is people will have every other horror movie they've ever seen to compare it to and since the title of "scariest" is so subjective it all comes down to each person's experience. So in this case, I must go past personal experience and try to somehow justify why Ghostwatch scared me more than anything.
Over the last couple of years a lot of "found footage" movies have popped up. Some have been great and some have not, but all of them are outdated by Ghostwatch. In 1992 on Halloween, the BBC aired a special program about the most haunted house in England. News reporters were to take you inside and show you what ghostly goings-on were taking place and supposedly, while it was airing, a massive terror spread through England as children and adults alike thought that what they were watching was real. But it was not. It was a totally fictional program about a mother and her two daughters who were haunted by an old tenant that the children call Mr. Pipes (after their mother tells them that the noises they are hearing are just the pipes rattling). But once the media shows up, Mr. Pipes isn't too happy and decides that if what they want is terror, then that's what they'll get.Continue Reading


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Having met in each of the last two seasons in the MLS Cup Playoffs, the Houston Dynamo and Sporting Kansas City once again renew acquaintances on Sunday evening at BBVA Compass Stadium. The Dynamo return home off a two- game winning road swing, without shutouts in both, after a midweek 4-0 win at D.C. United. Sporting hit the road following a second loss in a three-game homestand, a late 1-0 defeat by Seattle Sounders FC. The Dynamo have knocked higher-seeded Sporting out of the postseason in each of the last two seasons.
Broadcast Info
TV: CSN / Free on MLS Live
Radio: 1560 AM / 850 AM
Starting Lineups
Dynamo: Hall; Sarkodie, Boswell, Taylor, Ashe; Clark, Moffat, Davis (C); Garcia, Bruin, Driver.
Subs: Marscheider, Chabala, Brunner, Camargo, Dixon, Ching, Johnson.
Sporting KC: Nielsen; Jerome, Collin, Opara, Sinovic; Nagamura, Rosell. Joseph; Zusi, Bieler, Peterson.
Subs: Kronberg, Gardner, Myers, Olum, Feilhaber, Kamara, Sapong.
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It's a bit of a shame that this review is from before the Subaru Justy's most notable feature, the first CVT to be sold in any numbers in America, came around, but that's okay because you at least get to see Motorweek's be-shaded car model shove some gloves in the glovebox. Just like God intended.
Also, at the very beginning, if you watch in the upper right of the background behind John Davis (if, somehow, you can pull your eyes away from John Davis), you can see what appears to be a Mercedes almost back off the top of a car carrier.
Also, I never realized how draggy the MotorWeek opening is, even if I love the early CG car models. Can that pan across that drawing be any slower? Oy.


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Welcome to the Africana Studies Program.
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Zach Galifianakis
Zacharius Knight "Zach" Galifianakis (born October 1, 1969) is an American comedian and actor, known for numerous film and television appearances including his own Comedy Central Presents special. He is known for his unconventional stand-up style, that features the reading of one-liners while playing a piano during his performances. He garnered mainstream attention with his breakthrough role in the successful 2009 comedy The Hangover. Galifianakis' career began on television in 1996, when he played the recurring role of a stoner named Billy in the short-lived sitcom Boston Common. In 2001, Galifianakis co-starred in the film Out Cold. He has had small roles in Corky Romano, Below, Bubble Boy, Heartbreakers, and Into the Wild. In 2007 he appeared as himself in Super High Me. He had several films come out in 2008: What Happens in Vegas, Visioneers, Little Fish Strange Pond and the documentary Largo.
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How The Best Mapo Tofu is Made
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In many parts of the world, tofu is a vastly misunderstood ingredient; maligned as vegetarian food, or worse, as a pale meat imitation, it's no wonder so many people turn their noses up at it.
Well, I'm here to set the record straight: tofu is emphatically not a meat substitute. It's an ingredient in its own right, and a delicious one at that! Indeed, in many traditional Chinese and Japanese dishes, it's prepared together with meat in a single dish. I grew up on the sweet-and-salty, heavy-on-the-beef version of Mapo Tofu that my mom used to make for us, sometimes with her own seasoning, but often just thrown together from a packet. When paired with her handmade beef dumplings, it was far and away my favorite meal.
Since then, I've had mapo dofu everywhere from Chinese takeout joints in Manhattan to real-deal Sichuanese restaurants in Hong Kong. But the best I've ever had it is from Fuloon, a Sichuanese restaurant in the Boston suburb of Malden. Glancing at their takeout menu, which has such Chinese-American staples as General Gau's and Egg Rolls, you wouldn't expect to find hardcore Sichuanese food inside, but their chef, Zhang Wenxue, is a straight-from-Sichuan export who brought his woks and his skills with him. He makes the best steamed beef in chili oil and Sichuan wontons anywhere.
A traditional Sichuanese dish, Mapo Dofu is made with simmered medium-firm silken tofu flavored with fermented bean paste, beef, plenty of red-hot roasted chili oil, and a handful of Sichuan peppercorns. When done right, the dish comes out with a thick coating of hot chili oil covering its surface, keeping the contents underneath hot in both senses of the word. It's the epitome of the Sichuan flavor known as Ma-La, or numb-hot. The Sichuan peppercorns provide their characteristic mouth-numbing citrus aroma while the hot chili oil cuts through with its intense spiciness.
Chef Zhang says the secret is all about layering flavors. He starts by infusing his cooking oil with Sichuan peppercorns and finishes the dish by sprinkling more of the toasted and ground peppercorns on top. The result is intense, soul-satisfying fare.
It's dangerously addictive stuff. Just as your mouth seems about to spontaneously combust from the chili heat, the Sichuan peppers kick in, numbing it back to soothing calmness so you can take another bite and start the whole process over again. I go through bowls of it like a fiend.
I took a trip inside the kitchen with Chef Zhang to see exactly how he does it. Once you get the basic hang of wok-cooking and pick up a couple of the more hard-to-track ingredients, the dish comes together remarkably fast—5 minutes and you're done.
Both the chili bean paste and the Sichuan Peppercorns can be bought online if you don't have a good Chinese market nearby.
Check out the slideshow above for a complete step-by-step breakdown of the process, or go straight to the recipe here.
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F Kennedy
If you find yourself up against the same problems and issues today which you were facing years ago, it may be the right time to start looking at things differently. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.
Being successful is very simple. Just model others who are successful. Talk like they talk, do what they do, and most importantly think like they think. Focus on less, but only on that which is more important to you, whatever that may be.
There are certain areas which are equally important to the well being of every human when it comes to success and happiness. These areas are spiritual fulfillment, vibrant physical health, nurturing relationships, and financial wealth.
There are many reasons why people fail to attain the state known as success, or even happiness. Below are seven of the most common reasons in my opinion.
Not Knowing What They Want
The number one reason why people are unsuccessful or unhappy is because they do not know what they want out of life. You see, life is a like a blank canvas. It is up to each individual to pick the colors they wish to paint and draw any picture they please. If a person does not choose to pick their colors or picture to paint, they can be certain that someone else who does know what they want will pick it for them.
When going into any situation, whether it is as simple as a phone call, or as complex as an entire lifetime, knowing what you want is essential to getting what you want. It is the destination which we must have in mind clearly prior to starting any journey.
Not Doing What They Know
Knowledge and action are worlds apart. Just because you know that you need to eat healthy and exercise regularly in order to attain vibrant health does not mean that you will do it.
In my personal opinion, the only reason why people do what they know is because of an intense desire to gain what they are after. If there is a strong emotional need to become healthier, richer, happier, or whatever else, there is nothing in the world which can stop a human will to achieve these ideals.
Not Associating With The Right People
Simply said, you will eventually become who your friends are. Either they will become like you, or you like them. It is plain, yet profoundly true. It is also a fact that your earnings will be within 20% or so of the average earnings of your five closest friends. Don't believe me? Do the rough math in your own head for your own situation and you are certainly in for a shocker.
The people who we surround ourselves with immensely affect how we think. We borrow not only their thoughts and ideologies, but also their manners and habits. Associate yourself with positive, successful people and you are certain to become one as well.
Not learning and Educating Further
Tom Hopkins, a Real Estate genius put it this way; "No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more." Further educating yourself in the areas which you deem important and worthwhile is an absolute necessity to just earning more but also advancing your life further as a whole.
Want to learn more? Walk into a Borders or Barnes & Noble and you are certain to find more books on the areas of your interest that you can possibly read in the next year. There is also a tremendous amount of free information available of the Internet on any subject you can think of. Use this information to learn more and constantly grow yourself.
Doing What Everyone Else Is Doing
If you do what everyone else is doing, you are going to have what everyone else has. This may not be a bad thing, however if you are not wanting to settle for what everyone else has, than be ready to take action differently. Most adults go out and get a college degree, or not even that, they work different jobs for 30-40 years, and are dependent upon the government or others to take care of them in their later years.
If you do not want that for yourself, you have got to get away from the weekly paycheck trap. It is a total hamster wheel. You may be working very hard and constantly busy but you will not be going anywhere in all actuality.
Not Taking Enough Risks
Simply put, the bigger the risk the bigger the reward. If you are willing to put yourself out there and be vulnerable, you will have so much more to gain than those who choose to blanket their lives with "security." I love what Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy.com has to say about security, "Security is for cadavers."
The truth is that real growth occurs when you get and stay out of your normal comfort zone. You only gain the most when you push yourself to do things you are uncomfortable doing under normal circumstances.
Giving Up
Unfortunately most people have been accustomed to giving up as being okay. If you are running a marathon and your foot start hurting, society teaches us that it is okay to stop and pull out because you foot was hurting. The question to ask yourself is; how can you ever win a race if you don't finish it?
In reality, the last 20% of your effort typically gives you 80% of your results. You must keep going until you have accomplished whatever you set out to do. If you can only learn to get out of your own way and just keep going, there is nothing that will be able to stop you.
These seven reasons are what I believe to be the biggest challenges which stop people in living the life of their dreams and experience the beauty of all that life has to offer. If we can learn to overcome these challenges, and constantly push ourselves to advance further, all of the rewards are ours to gain and enjoy.
May your journey to your best be filled with success and happiness.


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Having been gifted a copy of Klaus Maeck's film 'Commissioner of Sewers' (thanks Jo and Howard), I've also been reading again about Uncle Bill's schoolboy education at Los Alamos. He attends a ranch school in the mountains, a rural retreat – evocative of all things heroic in the west. Yet, soon after this formative adventure playground scenario, the rustic homestead scene has grafted upon it the think tank of advanced military science. The Oppenheimer and Roosevelt gang move in, about to wreak 'destroyer of worlds' god-like devastation upon Japan. I think there are several reasons to worry here. The colonial conquest context of the old West continues today in the hybrid science of nuclear physics, as militarized space exploration and the commercializaed death of the weapons program, with new metals et cetera, stress-tested in space, not always with success. The spin-offs include both the development of building tiles and security cladding, as well as laser technologies and satellite surveillance, all of which have practical use in imperialism's 'war on terror' as war on Islam, and which continue to enforce U.S. economic hegemony in business.
So when they turn your school into a think tank you gotta be concerned that the wrong kind of space mission is underway. What I am saying is that the little biographical curiosity about how Burroughs' school was turned into the lab that brought us the atomic bomb is not just a salutary lesson about hi-tech boffins hiding in the hills. The corporate turn that turns your school into an 'incubation centre' has the same underlying motive and murder-death-kill mentality that stretched from the slave trade to international labour law. Education in the pursuit of dollars, the teaching factory privatised and commercialised, calculation favoured over thinking.
That said, did the courses Burroughs did at Los Alamos prepare him for the critique of mugwumps, centipedes and space invaders that brought the world to the ruin that it is today?
If it has become too easy to join the rapid-mouthed pundits who denounce 'the spectacle' for, as it were, a living (an easy living), then equally it is too easy to hope that setting out an alternative thinking to the society of the spectacle can be achieved by saying nothing more than the name 'Debord'. But it certainly is not furthered by hiring other pundits to rebrand your space as a lab, and even a lab without boffins. What is that about? (goldies' students and staff can see the college rebranded today in the great hall – I'm sure I'd prefer the skull-and-bones to any logo FutureBrand will come up with). Maybe we will institute a Burroughs think tank (dream on), or a Debord think tank (nightmare), but we will not think (more dream) that this will mean the end of tanks. OK, next movie pleasde. Where is that tank girl when I really need her?


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|Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:11PM
|cisco Announces $2.5B Financing Program For Customers and Partners During COVID-19
|Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:38PM
|Slack Launches Call Integrations For Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and More
|Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:23PM
|Ask Slashdot: What Features Would Your Ideal Telework Systems Incorporate?
|Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:13PM
|cisco: Avoid Coronavirus, Stay Home, Use Webex
|Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:05PM
|cisco Warns: Patch This Critical Firewall Bug in Firepower Management Center
|Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:12PM
|cisco Outlines Silicon, Software Roadmap For Next Generation Internet
|Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:14AM
|cisco Hit By an Internal Network Outage
|Wednesday July 31, 2019 @06:36PM
|cisco To Pay $8.6 Million Fine For Selling Hackable Surveillance Tech
|Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:45PM
|'Hard-To-Fix' cisco Flaw Puts Work Email At Risk
|Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:34PM
|Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
|Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:48PM
|Elasticsearch Clusters Face Attacks From Multiple Hacker Groups
|Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:59PM
|Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is On a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps
|Thursday November 08, 2018 @06:16PM
|cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That's a Good Thing
|Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:50AM
|cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, And That's A Good Thing
|Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:14PM
|MPlayer, VLC Media Player Hit By Critical Vulnerability
|Saturday July 21, 2018 @05:33PM
|A Fifth Undocumented cisco Backdoor Has Been Discovered
|Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:03AM
|Amazon Web Services Isn't Making a 'Commercial' Networking Switch, cisco Says
|Friday July 13, 2018 @02:43PM
|Amazon Plans To Challenge cisco in Networking Market With Much Cheaper Switches, Report Says
|Friday June 08, 2018 @11:54AM
|cisco Removes Backdoor Account, Fourth Incident in the Last Four Months
|Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:23PM
|VPNFilter Can Also Infect ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE Devices
|Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:31PM
|Hardcoded Password Found in cisco Enterprise Software, Again
|Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:12PM
|'Vigilante Hackers' Strike Routers In Russia and Iran, Reports Motherboard
|Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:05AM
|Hardcoded Password Found in cisco Software
|Friday January 12, 2018 @10:41AM
|cisco Can Now Sniff Out Malware Inside Encrypted Traffic
|Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:54PM
|How cisco Fixed An Undocumented SSH Support Tunnel In Umbrella
|Monday August 07, 2017 @10:47AM
|cisco Meraki Loses Customer Data in Engineering Gaffe
|Sunday May 21, 2017 @01:39PM
|Soon You'll Be Able To Build Your Own 4G Network Over Wi-Fi Frequencies
|Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:27PM
|cisco To Cut 1,100 More Jobs Amid a Worse-Than-Expected Business Outlook
|Friday April 14, 2017 @08:21PM
|Remote-Access Router Exploit Finally Revealed
|Monday March 20, 2017 @03:15PM
|Hundreds of cisco Switches Vulnerable To Flaw Found in WikiLeaks Files
|Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:33PM
|cisco Patches 'Prime Home' Flaw That Allowed Hackers To Reach Into People's Homes
|Thursday December 15, 2016 @08:21AM
|Another One Bites the Dust: cisco Discontinues Its $1B Cloud Initiative as AWS, Azure and Others Expand
|Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:21PM
|Chipmaker Broadcom To Buy Network Gear Maker Brocade For $5.5 Billion
|Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:15AM
|cisco Develops System To Automatically Cut-Off Pirate Video Streams
|Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:48PM
|'Cultlike' Devotion: Apple Once Refused To Join Open Compute Project, So Their Entire Networking Team Quit
|Saturday September 24, 2016 @02:05PM
|cisco Blamed A Router Bug On 'Cosmic Radiation'
|Saturday September 24, 2016 @11:20AM
|Spam Hits Its Highest Level Since 2010
|Monday September 19, 2016 @12:23PM
|cisco Scrambles To Patch Second Shadow Brokers Bug In Firewalls
|Friday September 09, 2016 @12:10PM
|cisco's Network Bugs Are Front and Center in Bankruptcy Fight
|Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:02PM
|cisco Patches 'ExtraBacon' Zero-day Exploit Leaked By NSA Hackers
|Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:15PM
|cisco Reports Fourth-Quarter 2016 Earnings
|Tuesday August 16, 2016 @11:56PM
|cisco Systems To Lay Off About 14,000 Employees, Representing 20% of Global Workforce
|Monday August 15, 2016 @11:22PM
|FalseCONNECT Vulnerability Affects Software From Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, More
|Friday July 29, 2016 @10:51PM
|cisco Finds $34 Million Ransomware Industry
|Thursday July 21, 2016 @01:58PM
|Apple Patches Stagefright-Like Bug In IOS
|Monday July 18, 2016 @04:37PM
|RNC Is Preparing For Cyberattacks
|Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:05PM
|Windows Malware Poses As Ransomware, Just Deletes Victims' Files
|Monday July 11, 2016 @05:09PM
|Can Tech Workers Skip The Olympics As Easily As Athletes?
|Monday June 27, 2016 @05:00PM
|cisco Seen As Trying To 'Slow Down Arista Anyway They Can' With Patent Lawsuits
|Sunday June 19, 2016 @06:06PM
|One Million IP Addresses Used In Brute-Force Attack On A Bank
|Thursday June 09, 2016 @08:41PM
|US Agency Lines Up Broad Support For ICANN Transition
|Friday May 20, 2016 @07:09PM
|A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies
|Thursday May 12, 2016 @05:33PM
|Dangerous 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Flow To Top Security, Software Tools
|Thursday April 28, 2016 @09:48AM
|cisco Finds Backdoor Installed On 12 Million PCs
|Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:37AM
|Data Center Management Darling Mesosphere Embraces Open Source
|Friday April 15, 2016 @04:49PM
|Mitel Buys Polycom For $1.96B In Enterprise Communications Consolidation Play
|Tuesday April 05, 2016 @11:00PM
|Gov't Researchers Develop Wireless Car Chargers That Are Faster Than Plug-ins
|Monday March 28, 2016 @08:27PM
|Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub
|Saturday March 12, 2016 @01:06PM
|TP-Link Blocks Open Source Router Firmware To Comply With FCC Rules
|Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:09PM
|cisco Patches Serious Flaws In Cable Modems and Home Gateways
|Friday March 04, 2016 @12:29PM
|cisco Issues Patch For Nexus Switches To Remove Hardcoded Credentials
|Thursday February 11, 2016 @12:12PM
|cisco ASA Firewall Has a Wormable Problem — And a Million Installs
|Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:44AM
|cisco To Acquire IoT Company Jasper For $1.4 Billion
|Wednesday February 03, 2016 @09:47PM
|Patent Troll VirnetX Awarded $626M In Damages From Apple
|Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:30AM
|cisco Patches Authentication, Denial-of-Service, NTP Flaws In Many Products
|Saturday January 09, 2016 @10:22AM
|Uncooperative Russian ISP Prevents cisco From Shutting Down Cybercriminal Gang
|Tuesday December 22, 2015 @01:08PM
|cisco Systems Will Be Auditing Their Code For Backdoors
|Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:13AM
|cisco Reviewing Code After Juniper Backdoor Hack
|Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:19AM
|International Exploit Kit Angler Thwarted By cisco Security Team
|Tuesday September 15, 2015 @09:01AM
|Attackers Install Highly Persistent Malware Implants On cisco Routers
|Friday August 21, 2015 @07:31AM
|Bruce Schneier On cisco ROMMON Firmware Exploit: "This Is Serious"
|Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:59AM
|cisco To Acquire OpenDNS
|Friday June 05, 2015 @08:43PM
|How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4?
|Thursday March 19, 2015 @09:38PM
|To Avoid NSA Interception, cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses
|Wednesday February 25, 2015 @07:05PM
|It's Official: NSA Spying Is Hurting the US Tech Economy
|Thursday October 23, 2014 @12:26PM
|Austin Airport Tracks Cell Phones To Measure Security Line Wait
|Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:45AM
|cisco Fixes Three-Year-Old Telnet Flaw In Security Appliances
|Friday October 17, 2014 @09:08PM
|cisco Exec: Turnover In Engineering No Problem
|Wednesday October 08, 2014 @01:19PM
|Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Unresponsive Manufacturer Who Doesn't Fix Bugs?
|Friday September 05, 2014 @07:49AM
|UCLA, cisco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP
|Thursday August 14, 2014 @08:22AM
|cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs -- 8% of Its Workforce -- In "Reorganization"
|Friday July 25, 2014 @10:56PM
|Firefox 33 Integrates cisco's OpenH264
|Thursday June 12, 2014 @12:53PM
|cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products
|Wednesday March 26, 2014 @04:13PM
|Owner of Nortel Patents Sues cisco For 'Immense' Patent Infringement
|Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:23PM
|cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For Internet of Things Security Apps
|Wednesday October 30, 2013 @11:18AM
|cisco Releases Open Source "Binary Module" For H.264 In WebRTC
|Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:48AM
|Facebook and cisco Offer Check-In Service For Free Wifi
|Thursday September 05, 2013 @08:42AM
|Court Orders Retrial In Google Maps-Related Murder Case
|Friday July 26, 2013 @11:55AM
|DoJ Alleges cisco Reseller Made $37 Million Selling Counterfeit Equipment
|Tuesday July 23, 2013 @09:31AM
|cisco To Acquire Sourcefire For $2.7 Billion
|Tuesday June 25, 2013 @10:00AM
|Chinese Media Calls For Boycott of cisco
|Saturday March 16, 2013 @08:15AM
|Silicon photonics driving ASIC development: cisco
|Friday March 15, 2013 @03:17PM
|Patent troll Virnetx loses court battle to cisco over VPN patent
|Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:28AM
|West Virgnia Auditor Finds cisco Router Purchase Not Performed Legally
|Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:30PM
|Online Ads Are More Dangerous Than Porn, cisco Says.
|Thursday January 24, 2013 @07:42PM
|cisco Exits The Consumer Market, Sells Linksys To Belkin
|Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:42AM
|Remote Linksys 0-Day Root Exploit Uncovered
|Monday December 17, 2012 @10:14AM
|cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys
|Monday December 17, 2012 @06:28AM
|Researchers Convert Phones Into Secret Listening Devices
|Sunday December 16, 2012 @02:49AM
|Researchers Convert Phones into Secret Listening Devices
|Monday November 19, 2012 @12:32PM
|cisco to Buy Meraki for $1.2B
|Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:34PM
|cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby'
|Thursday November 08, 2012 @04:59PM
|cisco VP to memo leaker: Finding you now 'my hobby'
|Monday October 29, 2012 @03:09AM
|cisco CEO Blasts Patent Trolls and Patent Abuse
|Friday October 26, 2012 @07:36PM
|China Telco Replaces cisco Devices Over Security Concerns
|Friday October 26, 2012 @07:09PM
|China Telco Replaces cisco Devices over Security Concerns
|Thursday October 04, 2012 @02:54PM
|Verizon Tech Given 4-year Federal Prison Sentence For $4.5M Equipment Scam
|Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:47PM
|Verizon Tech given 4-year federal prison sentence for $4.5M Equipment Scam
|Monday July 09, 2012 @07:06PM
|cisco Shows True Face In Ugly Bait And Switch
|Tuesday July 03, 2012 @08:26AM
|cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion
|Saturday June 16, 2012 @06:03PM
|Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping?
|Friday April 27, 2012 @06:06PM
|Will IBM Watson Be Your Next Mayor?
|Thursday April 26, 2012 @11:42AM
|Will IBM Watson be your next mayor?
|Wednesday April 04, 2012 @08:35PM
|cisco blocks thousands of legit IPs by mistake
|Tuesday March 06, 2012 @12:11PM
|If the Dow had picked Apple instead of cisco
|Tuesday February 14, 2012 @06:15PM
|Massive mining company dumps Vmware and cisco
|Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:24AM
|Global Mobile Internet Traffic Reaches 597 Petabytes Per Month
|Friday February 10, 2012 @02:31PM
|Hackers Hit Apple Supplier Foxconn
|Thursday February 02, 2012 @03:34PM
|cisco's Complaint: EU Privacy Rules Enforce Net Neutrality
|Sunday December 11, 2011 @06:56PM
|Verizon Tech steals $4.5 million by making false w
|Wednesday October 12, 2011 @08:39PM
|iOS 5 Update Available
|Wednesday September 14, 2011 @01:10PM
|cisco Emerges From Restructuring 13,000 Employees Lighter
|Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:36AM
|cisco cuts nearly 13,000 jobs, restructures
|Sunday September 11, 2011 @09:15PM
|5 Years In Prison For Selling Fake cisco Gear
|Sunday September 11, 2011 @08:28PM
|5 years in prison for selling fake cisco gear
|Wednesday August 24, 2011 @11:48PM
|EFF takes on cisco's role in China
|Thursday July 21, 2011 @08:48PM
|Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At cisco's Involvement
|Thursday July 14, 2011 @04:35PM
|A first look at cisco's Cius tablet
|Thursday July 14, 2011 @01:38PM
|Apple Spin-Off Hosts Enterprise App Stores
|Thursday July 07, 2011 @01:48PM
|IETF Mulls Working Group For IPv6 Home Networking
|Thursday June 30, 2011 @02:00PM
|cisco's Tablet Act Like a Desktop
|Monday June 06, 2011 @04:28PM
|Canada refuses extradition of cisco whistleblower
|Friday June 03, 2011 @04:22AM
|Judge Finds cisco, US Authorities Deceived Canadian Courts
|Monday May 23, 2011 @11:59PM
|cisco sued for helping China monitor Internet
|Monday May 02, 2011 @12:44AM
|If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It
|Saturday April 30, 2011 @12:23PM
|Developers: MS Hopes To Lure iOS Apps With API Mapping Tool
|Friday April 22, 2011 @07:45AM
|cisco Accused of Orchestrating Engineer's Arrest
|Saturday April 16, 2011 @07:41PM
|Adobe Adopts HTTP Live Streaming For iOS
|Wednesday April 13, 2011 @05:15AM
|cisco Ditches Flip and $590 Million
|Tuesday April 12, 2011 @12:16PM
|cisco Ditches Flip and $590 million
|Wednesday March 09, 2011 @08:23PM
|IOS 4.3 Now Available For Download
|Wednesday February 23, 2011 @08:39PM
|cisco loses $215 million, bails on cloud email
|Thursday February 10, 2011 @04:52PM
|Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail
|Tuesday February 08, 2011 @11:40PM
|HP Accuses cisco of Diverting Data Center Standard
|Thursday January 20, 2011 @03:45PM
|Cybercriminals Shifting Focus To Non-Windows OSes
|Wednesday November 17, 2010 @03:36AM
|Official Google Voice App Approved For iOS
|Monday October 25, 2010 @02:14PM
|Wi-Fi Direct launches today, is security an issue?
|Thursday September 02, 2010 @12:07PM
|cisco Planning To Acquire Skype
|Monday August 09, 2010 @09:56AM
|Flash Ported To iOS and iPhone 4
|Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:41PM
|cisco Says Vegas Conference Attendees' Information Was Leaked
|Tuesday June 29, 2010 @10:40PM
|cisco To Challenge iPad With Cius 'Business Tablet'
|Tuesday June 22, 2010 @01:26PM
|What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business
|Monday June 21, 2010 @10:54AM
|iOS 4 Releases Today
|Monday May 10, 2010 @05:41PM
|"Serious Games" Industry Gains Traction
|Monday May 10, 2010 @02:17AM
|Wireless Gigabit spec published, cisco backs it
|Saturday May 08, 2010 @12:59PM
|Crackdown On Counterfeit Networking Gear
|Friday May 07, 2010 @01:49AM
|'Serious games' industry gains traction
|Saturday April 17, 2010 @04:42PM
|Studying For Certification Exams On Company Time?
|Sunday April 04, 2010 @02:32PM
|cisco Unveils iPad-Specific WebEx Client
|Friday March 19, 2010 @08:28PM
|Athena's Free Firewall Browser
|Wednesday March 17, 2010 @01:03PM
|cisco's New Router — Trouble For Hollywood
|Thursday March 11, 2010 @09:36AM
|Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out
|Tuesday March 09, 2010 @03:07PM
|cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router
|Monday March 01, 2010 @04:25PM
|Patent Markings Lawsuits: $1 Trillion and Counting
|Monday February 08, 2010 @05:57AM
|Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake cisco Sales
|Thursday January 14, 2010 @04:53PM
|Powerful Linux ISP Router Distribution?
|Thursday January 14, 2010 @09:49AM
|Powerful Linux ISP Router Distribution?
|Thursday December 24, 2009 @06:03PM
|Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist?
|Thursday December 24, 2009 @04:08PM
|Testing network changes when no test labs exist
|Thursday September 17, 2009 @05:30PM
|IPv6 Adoption Will Grow With Smart Grid Adoption, Hopes cisco
|Wednesday September 09, 2009 @03:51AM
|Microsoft, cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw
|Sunday February 22, 2009 @06:18PM
|How a Router's Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet
|Monday January 12, 2009 @02:19PM
|cisco Mulls Adding Verbal Interview To CCIE Exams
|Friday December 12, 2008 @10:07AM
|FSF Files Suit Against cisco For GPL Violations
|Thursday October 16, 2008 @03:09PM
|cisco Demos Public Rooms For Telepresence
|Tuesday October 14, 2008 @12:38PM
|Feds Seize $78M of Bogus Chinese cisco Gear
|Sunday December 16, 2007 @12:26AM
|cisco To Develop Third-Party APIs For IOS
|Friday November 02, 2007 @04:48PM
|New Catalyst May Be a Boost For Fuel Cells
|Saturday August 18, 2007 @04:39PM
|The FSF, Linux's Hit Men
|Friday July 27, 2007 @03:17PM
|cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name
|Monday July 16, 2007 @10:53PM
|IPhones Flooding Wireless LAN At Duke
|Sunday April 08, 2007 @01:36PM
|IPv6 Tested in Space
|Thursday March 29, 2007 @10:11AM
|cisco Develops Mobile Robots for Wireless Nets
|Thursday February 22, 2007 @02:28PM
|Apple, cisco Settle iPhone Trademark Lawsuit
|Friday February 09, 2007 @11:31AM
|cisco to Open Source CTA
|Saturday February 03, 2007 @02:04AM
|iPhone Lawsuit Put On Hold For The Moment
|Thursday January 18, 2007 @07:25AM
|Expert Says cisco's iPhone violates GPL
|Sunday January 14, 2007 @07:06AM
|cisco Lost Rights to iPhone Trademark Last Year?
|Friday January 12, 2007 @08:52PM
|cisco VP Explains Lawsuit Against Apple
|Thursday January 11, 2007 @02:04AM
|cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark
|Tuesday November 28, 2006 @03:41AM
|Test for "Obvious" Patents Questioned
|Sunday November 12, 2006 @09:44AM
|The Ballpark Stadium of the Future
|Wednesday October 25, 2006 @01:57AM
|Counterfeit cisco Gear Showing Up In US
|Saturday October 14, 2006 @11:05PM
|cisco Patents the Triple Play
|Saturday September 16, 2006 @04:15PM
|cisco VoIP Ditched for Open-Source Asterisk
|Friday March 31, 2006 @12:54AM
|An Interview With The Router Man
|Sunday March 12, 2006 @05:50PM
|cisco Plans Its Home Invasion
|Monday March 06, 2006 @09:37PM
|Open-Source Router to Take on cisco?
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second


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Lifespring training programs (Lifespring was a private company, founded in 1974) were discontinued, following legal cases and a backlash in public opinion. These are companies offering the training once offered by or based on Lifespring program"
Momentus (ACCD – Association for Christian Character Development)
Momentus (ACCD – Association for Christian Character Development) offers the following courses:
* Discovery Seminar,
* Breakthrough Training,
* Living In One Accord Workshop,
* Global Life Works,
* and Gap Youth Training)
Insight Seminars
Resource Realizations
The Great Life Foundation
The Impact Trainings;
Harmony Institute;
Spectrum Trainings;
M.I.T.T. (Mastery In Transformational Training);
Summit Workshops (Summit Organization by Paul Larsen)
Personal Dynamics (Choice Center in Las Vegas)
Millennium 3
Asia Works
Argentina Works
Chile Works
Life Learning Ecuador
Perú LifeSymphony
Líderes Visión Colombia
Personal Development Centers
Essential Education
Rising Star Communications
TLC — The Living Course
Humanus Institute
Impacto Vital
Leadership Academy (Sinton)
Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness


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Senior Researcher, London
At BCG, Seekers go deep into the challenging issues our clients face. Their curiosity empowers our teams to facilitate change and add value to society. Anna finds clarity in a complex world.
The best thing a BCG mentor told me was this: at BCG, you don't just have the right to speak up, you have an obligation to speak up.
I joined BCG's Data & Research Services team with several years of experience in private equity research, but BCG's broad industry expertise meant that I was able to learn a lot about a wide variety of industries in a short space of time. I now mainly focus on the corporate development topic and financial services.
I really enjoy the challenge of being a researcher—finding lots of different pieces of information and putting them together to create the bigger picture.
BCG is a great company to work for—from day one you're part of the team. Your contribution is valued, and you're encouraged to express your view, regardless of title and tenure. It's also very rewarding and enriching to be surrounded by such incredibly smart minds and people with a deep expertise and passion for their topic.
Anna is a senior researcher in the Center for Knowledge and Analytics in London, and holds an MSc in economics from the University of London.
I work on assignments covering a wide variety of industries—some of which I didn't know existed. I feel that every day I learn something new about the world, and my job helps me make connections between business processes and the wider economy. I'm also involved in training and mentoring more junior members of the team. It's really rewarding to be part of their development and help them succeed.
At BCG, everyone is very approachable and helpful. Regardless of their title or whether you've met before, you can reach out if you have a question or need some advice. There's a real sense of community and supporting one another.
My home office is friendly, welcoming, and very international—combined, we speak at least ten different languages! It's great fun to work in such a multicultural team; you learn a lot about different countries and customs, and you can always rely on your colleagues for travel tips when you go on holiday. My home office also offers some great after-work activities. From sports to exhibitions to weekend excursions, there is always something to do.


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Britain successfully defended its Olympic rowing title in the men's four by beating big rival Australia to gold at Dorney Lake on Saturday.
The crew of Alex Gregory, Pete Reed, Tom James, Andrew Triggs Hodge secured Britain's fourth straight Olympic victory in the event in dominant fashion, leading from start to finish, to cross in 6 minutes 3.97 seconds. Australia was a half-length behind in second and the U.S. took the bronze.
U.S. & World
Britain, the reigning world champion, maintained its dominance of the discipline that stretches back more than two decades to the days of rowing greats Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent.
The gold was Britain's seventh medal of the regatta — and third gold — to surpass its total from Beijing four years ago, making it the country's biggest rowing haul in the modern era.
Their victory also denied Australia's Drew Ginn what a fourth gold in a four Olympic Games — a feat that would have been a first for an Australian.
Triggs Hodge repeatedly punched the air after sealing victory.
The Australians and the British then embraced, a nice ending to months of mind games and trash talk on occasion by the rival crews.
Ginn said Australia would turn the final into a "drag race," going out hard from the start, but it was Britain that took the early lead by 0.3 seconds after 500 meters.
The cushion was 0.6 seconds at the 1,000- and 1,500-meter markers and Britain held on comfortably as they were roared home by the crowd, winning by 1.22 seconds.
The bronze for the U.S. crew of Glenn Ochal, Henrik Rummel, Charles Cole and Scott Gault was the country's first medal in the event since the Barcelona Games in 1992.
Saturday's Rowing Results:
Men's Lightweight Double Sculls, Final A:
1. Denmark (Mads Rasmussen; Rasmus Quist), 6:37.17.
2. Britain (Zac Purchase; Mark Hunter), 6:37.78.
3. New Zealand (Storm Uru; Peter Taylor), 6:40.86.
4. France (Stany Delayre; Jeremie Azou), 6:42.69.
5. Portugal (Pedro Fraga; Nuno Mendes), 6:44.80.
6. Germany (Linus Lichtschlag; Lars Hartig), 6:49.07.
Men's Fours, Final A:
1. Britain (Alex Gregory; Pete Reed; Tom James; Andrew Triggs Hodge), 6:03.97.
2. Australia (William Lockwood; James Chapman; Drew Ginn; Joshua Dunkley-Smith), 6:05.19.
3. United States (Glenn Ochal, Philadelphia; Henrik Rummel, Pittsford, N.Y.; Charles Cole, New Canaan, Conn.; Scott Gault, Piedmont, Calif.), 6:07.20.
4. Greece (Stergios Papachristos; Ioannis Tsilis; Georgios Tziallas; Ioannis Christou), 6:11.43.
5. Netherlands (Kaj Hendriks; Boaz Meylink; Ruben Knab; Mechiel Versluis), 6:14.78.
6. Germany (Gregor Hauffe; Toni Seifert; Urs Kaeufer; Sebastian Schmidt), 6:16.37.
Women's Single Sculls, Final A:
1. Miroslava Knapkova, Czech Republic, 7:54.37.
2. Fie Udby Erichsen, Denmark, 7:57.72.
3. Kim Crow, Australia, 7:58.04.
4. Emma Twigg, New Zealand, 8:01.76.
5. Ekaterina Karsten, Belarus, 8:02.86.
6. Zhang Xiuyun, China, 8:03.10.
Lightweight Double Sculls, Final A:
1. Britain (Katherine Copeland; Sophie Hosking), 7:09.30.
2. China (Xu Dongxiang; Huang Wenyi), 7:11.93.
3. Greece (Christina Giazitzidou; Alexandra Tsiavou), 7:12.09.
4. Denmark (Anne Lolk Thomsen; Juliane Rasmussen), 7:15.53.
5. Australia (Bronwen Watson; Hannah Every-Hall), 7:20.68.
6. Germany (Lena Mueller; Anja Noske), 7:22.18.
Copyright AP - Associated Press


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18 April 1990, DENVER, COLORADO: "Painfully will you get your food from it [the soil] as long as you live. . . . By the sweat of your face will you earn your food, until you return to the ground, . . . So Yahweh God expelled him [Adam] from the garden of Eden, to till the soil. . . ." From those preceding words from Genesis 3: 17-19 (NJB), many people find the root cause of the "W" word—WORK! From that instance of man's fall from grace and expulsion from Eden to the present day, few would disagree that work has remained essential to the survival of human life.
Work brings the reward of life yet causes pain and frustration in the process, as the Genesis text has shown, and as the Roman poet Lucretius (c. 98-95 B.C.) has further illustrated in the following passage from Book Five of his philosophical poem, On The Nature of Things:
"Unless by turning up the fruitful clods with the share and labouring the soil of the earth we stimulate things to rise, they could not spontaneously come up into the clear air; and even then . . . when things earned with great toil . . . are all in blossom, either the ethereal sun burns them up with excessive heats or . . . the blasts of the winds waste them by a furious hurricane."
As if it was not excruciating enough to have to labor for existence, a most unfortunate event occurred along the path of civilization to cause labor to become truly torturous. This sad moment in time was illumined by Swiss music teacher and political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his On the Origin of Inequality (1755). He wrote:
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, . . . and crying . . . the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
For the approaching twentieth anniversary of Earth Day, on April 22, 1990, there are, perhaps, no words more ripe than the final fifteen words of the preceding passage by Rousseau.
The birth of the idea of ownership, specifically the owning of land, led to the idea of having others work the land for the owner. This required motivation for others to do the work, which led to slavery (the owning of the workers themselves), which led, ultimately, to a more subtle form of slavery—wage labor.
Today, the owners of the earth are the corporate directors. One of the largest corporations is Time Warner, Inc., which in June of 1989 had a work force of 35,460 employees (The Nation, June 12, 1989). The motivation to labor for these owners is to earn wages with which to buy the fundamental necessities of human survival (blue jeans; mesquite-barbecued fajitas; a Victorian townhome; a Volkswagen; insurance coverage for one's car, home and life; and so on).
As a further motivation, it is possible to earn beyond one's needs of survival to one's wants of comfort, such as a movie (Batman), a magazine (Batman), music (Prince: the Batman soundtrack) or television (Unsolved Mysteries)–all the enjoyable additions to life that just happen to be owned by Time Warner, Inc. or its corporate siblings.
Ownership today has moved far beyond Rousseau's "piece of ground" to the entire earth, the people of the earth and all that the people of the earth consume—mentally, digestively, and physically. The instrument of ownership today is the system of wage labor, in which people labor to own the right to exist and to experience comfort beyond existence.
The historical progression of labor into wage labor, as the result of the idea of ownership, is also a progression from the simple effects of labor (pain and frustration) into more complex effects of wage labor (torture, anguish and despair). These hellish fruits of wage labor are presently found from the bottom to the top of the work force.
At the lower depths, people struggle simply to exist. Their torture is a fear of the icy gray-tinged human skin that precedes the relief of their death.
Those in the middle struggle to prosper. Their anguish is a fear of the cramps that accompany a shrinking stomach.
At the top, people struggle to tighten the grip on their prosperity. Their despair is twofold: they fear the fall from the "financial high wire" to the abyss of poverty, and they fear the confinement of a prison cell that comes if their methods of reaching the top are deemed foul.
Within the system of wage labor, fear is the prime motivator that causes all laborers to struggle and to suffer the travail of contemplating a possible drop in earnings.
Two effects that branch from this fear of being without income are escape and compromise. On the lower end, some escape into the extreme of crack addiction and some into alcoholism; others escape through suicide. Some compromise their sense of dignity and value by deviating their creative talents in order to pursue the wages necessary for survival and comfort. They compromise through prostitution or by marketing drugs; some even compromise by marketing children.
In the middle, people escape to the endless fantasy worlds found in the movie theatre; they escape to the mall to spend money on a new book or a CD that should be spent for an overdue credit card bill (providing the illusive relief of being prosperously free); they escape to the beguiling freshness of life found in an extra-marital affair, or a divorce. They compromise by cheating on their income taxes, and by lying to their employers by calling in "sick"when they really wanted a day just to kick back and relax.
People at the top are like Donald Trump; they escape to Aspen, Colorado and compromise by giving donations to charity. Their fur coats give them all the warmth necessary to keep them as distant as possible from the icy gray-tinged skin that precedes death.
There are tortures born from the system of wage labor that are of a more personal nature. Nine years ago, my wife and I both worked for oil companies. Our wages soared to new heights. As our income rose, our lifestyle followed suit. We purchased a house in the spring of 1983.
At first, it was simply a piece of ground with a hole dug for the basement. We watched the concrete foundation as it was poured, the wooden framework as it was assembled and the panels of dry wall as they were set into place. We chose the carpeting, the floor tiles and the oak cabinets. We took pictures at least once a week for a before-and-after album. We watched the fence go up.
Then, in 1985, my wife lost her job with Petro-Lewis when they laid off all but a handful of employees. In 1986, I lost my job with Atlantic Richfield Company when they closed their Denver office. As our income from the oil companies evaporated before our eyes, we struggled to replace it with income from other jobs. My wife worked as a daycare provider for infants and toddlers, and I worked as a temporary draftsman for less than half of my oil company salary. As a result of the drastic loss of wages, we eventually filed bankruptcy and lost the house to foreclosure. My wife wept as we drove away from the house and moved into a smaller townhome. I held my tears inside along with the feeling of wanting to put my clenched fist through the nearest plastered wall.
Now, I work eight hours a day (still for less than my oil company salary); I attend night school in order to finish my degree and to push towards a career change; and I spend, with my wife, the little time that is left.
In his treatise of 1762, The Social Contract, Rousseau wrote, "Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains." Today, Rousseau's words are more valid than ever in our own country that is known ironically as the land of the free.
In the system of wage labor, true freedom does not exist. In its place, there is only the fear that fuels the struggle for earnings, the escape into transient illusions of freedom, and the compromise of human dignity and value for the required dollars that buy what is, in fact, our most fundamental human right—a comfortable existence.
by S.A. Bort / 2 August 2013 (18 April 1990)
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I originally wrote this April 18, 1990. After twenty-three years, I thought I would tune it up a bit and publish it here on the blog, along with the two accompanying essays.
I sent these three essays to Burlington, Vermont's Brautigan Library, named for Richard Brautigan and initiated by his daughter Ianthe. The essays were among the first (in 1990) accepted, bound and placed on the shelves under the "Mayonnaise System Catalog Number" of: "Social/Political/Cultural: SOC 1990.007." My accompanying certificate states: "LET NO MAN block the light of wisdom and inspiration found therein."
See: http://dtc-wsuv.org/brautiganlibrary/?s=Stephen+Bort , http://www.cchmuseum.org/research/the-brautigan-library/ , http://www.thebrautiganlibrary.org/Blank.html , http://www.brautigan.net/responses-library.html , http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows.net/tiki-index.php?page=The+Brautigan+Library and https://www.facebook.com/BrautiganLibrary for current information on the library.
Shortly after I was added to the shelves, I was contacted by Lawrence Ingrassia of the Wall Street Journal, who was writing an article on the opening of the library. He had seen the above foreward to the first essay and was curious about the concept of "abolishing money." He asked if I was a socialist. I answered no. He asked other questions, but in the end, his article of May 28, 1991 did not mention me. His article can be found here: http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows.net/tiki-index.php?page=Ingrassia+1991+Fictional+Library+Becomes+a+Real+Place


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> We may be looking at the end of the steroid era. MLB has finally decided to bring down the hammer, and in-season HGH testing is going to take place for the first time, starting in 2013.
Previously, testing only took place during Spring Training and the offseason, but now it'll happen randomly during the regular season. The random timing of the testing brings about an element of surprise- in other words, players won't know when they're going to be tested, so they can't juice up strategically and work around their testing dates (which they would have had prior knowledge of).
But this is definitely a positive for baseball. The doubts of the steroid era showed their true colors yesterday, as no one was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the first time since 1996. Players like Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds were never proven to have taken steroids, but the speculation was still out there, which was enough to keep them out of the Hall. This new rule should take that aspect away from the game (though it won't show in the HOF voting for a few years to come).
> Now for an intriguing piece of Brewers news: the club brought aboard right-hander Kelvim Escobar with a minor league deal and an invite to Spring Training. Escobar hasn't thrown a pitch in the Majors since 2009, and that was in just one start: he hasn't pitched a full season since 2007.
2007 also happened to be Escobar's career year, when he went 18-7 with a 3.40 ERA as a member of the Angels. For his career, he's 101-91 with a 4.15 ERA (seven years with the Blue Jays, five in LA).
The odds of Escobar making the big league team at any point during the season are slim, barring a major injury to one or more of the Brewers' starter prospects. But, at 36 years of age, he'll still be a cool story to follow.
> The Brewers also avoided arbitration with Chris Narveson, one of the many starters competing for a spot in the rotation this spring. He received $840,000 in his first year of eligibility.
> The club outrighted Arcenio Leon to Triple-A yesterday after designating him for assignment earlier this week.
> Jonathan Lucroy is also going to play in the World Baseball Classic, joining Ryan Braun on Team USA.
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Nationals: Signed Ross Ohlendorf to a minor league deal.
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"If I can't make it work after all this effort, I'll admit that I failed," he says.
Cowell's got a lot riding on the success of the show, which he created in 2004 for UK television as a replacement for "American Idol's" British forerunner "Pop Idol" and franchised around the world. He was prohibited from launching in America under his "Idol" contract. But now that he's left his cozy/prickly berth on the judging panel, he's eager to re-prove his Midas Touch for mining fresh talent, with ever bigger stakes than "Idol's" on the line when the show launches on Fox next fall.
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"You don't just want somebody who wins the show and then they're forgotten about," he adds. "Whether it's Carrie Underwood or Susan Boyle or Leona Lewis, they've got a career. It's a launch pad, so we're working hard at it."
Cowell's also giving major scrutiny to the proper star wattage and dynamics of the four-person judging panel, which thus far only officially includes himself and uber-music producer L.A. Reid.
"The truth is we're still having nightly arguments with everyone trying to get everyone to agree [on the hosts]," he says. "If you asked everyone involved on this show who they'd like as the panel, you'd have about 25 different opinions –and I'm used to this. I've done shows in the past where the day before filming we still haven't agreed on the fourth judge, because people freak out: they have different ideas, another name comes into play. I've found the whole process really interesting, to see who's enthusiastic about being on the show, and you get to see people's commitment and enthusiasm. It's been fun, but it really does show, publicly, our complete and utter indecisiveness."
One judge panel possibility that's been bandied about recently is Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie. "All I can tell you is that Fergie's name was put forward, but like with a lot of other people we've spoken to, we have to check out everyone's availability," he confirms. "There's a lot of time you have to put into the show, because it's not a two-day a week job. When you're in the live show, it's because you're mentoring the contestant. You're working five or six days a week."
And while some suggest that a far sunnier Simon surfaces on his "X Factor" appearances, he sniffs disdainfully at the thought of going easier on anyone than he did on "Idol."
"You've got to remember that the audience at home is not stupid,' he says, "so if you've got somebody in front of you who can't sing a note in tune, nobody – certainly not me – is going to turn around and say 'You're wonderful' or 'Take a couple of singing lessons and you're going to become a mega-star.' That's ridiculous. I've never believed in patronizing contestants. On this show, we're going to say to everybody in advance 'You know what the rules are. If you're hopeless, we'll tell you. If you're great, we'll tell you you're great.'"
"You want to find great people, but there's always going to be times when bad people come along or on the live shows they do something stupid. I think it's my job to say that," Cowells adds. "Otherwise, I think these shows become boring or fake, and it's just not my style." He does suggest that the judges will be employing far different criteria than most other reality competition shows. "We've got to be much more open-minded in terms of what we're looking for. The whole idea of the show is you find the winner and it launches a career, which is going to last for a long time and hopefully, you sell records all over the world."
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Roasted sweet potato, fig and goats cheese salad dressed with Thai basil, chilli and green garlic
Initially I thought this salad too simple to share the recipe for, but it's so frigging good.
Now, I am sure you know about how I have been simplifying my life recently. I have been spending weekends with less fretting about where this is all going and more time discussing the best parks and gastro pubs. The grand plan is less frequently referring to the clutter of attainments and more the sequence of activities the coordination of multiple children around the zoo. My Google searches aren't so vocation oriented and are more about reincarnation, the key characters of the Mahabharata and people who are evidence of 'devolution'.
This healthy vegetarian salad does not have anything to do with the feeling I got when I looked at the mirror this morning and the immediate bolt of, 'oh goodness I look like one of those mothers'. It doesn't relate to the inner sigh I experienced when I was writing this and felt my thighs cling together unfashionably. It certainly isn't about wanting to fit into all those pre-career break professional clothes. OK, it is. BUT, it tastes SO frigging good.
Now, green garlic sounds exotic and exciting. It is pretty but it is essentially immature garlic before it separates into cloves and intensifies in flavour. Green, or spring garlic has a mellow and verdant flavour and works perfectly for this salad so don't be put off by the idea of figs and garlic. The blend of sweet potatoes, aniseed-type flavoured Thai basil, creamy goat's cheese and fleshy figs, there is even an even amount of lime to bring it all together…it's almost too pleasurable. I am actually not kidding. I'm not…
800g sweet potato, peeled cut into wedges
The juice of two limes
Half a bulb of green garlic
One large chilli, finely chopped
Salt to taste
Oil for roasting the potatoes
4 fresh figs cut into wedges, roughly 6 pieces per fig
65g of goat's cheese
1 tbsp. sesame oil
25g Thai basil, shredded
- Coat the wedges lightly in oil and roast them at 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes until they are crisp but definitely soft on the inside.
- To make the dressing heat the sesame oil and then add the chilli and garlic and sauté just until the garlic softens but don't let it brown. Turn off the heat and add the lime juice and salt.
- Combine the roasted sweet potatoes, shredded basil and the dressing with the figs and dots of the goat's cheese.
- Serve immediately.
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Randy Udall on the new mantra of the oil patch.
A record number of natural gas wells were drilled in the United States last year. But in a stunning reversal, hundreds of rigs have been idled and thousands of roughnecks laid off. In the space of six months, the oil patch has gone from drill, baby, drill to chill, baby, chill.
The historical roots of this story lie in southwestern Wyoming and the Pinedale Anticline. Although this natural gas field was discovered 60 years ago, early efforts to tap it failed because of the tight sandstones. One roughneck reportedly cracked, "The only way they'll get the gas out is to trigger an atomic bomb down there."
Sure enough, in the early 1970s, the Atomic Energy Commission proposed detonating 100 underground bombs near Pinedale to fracture the rocks. "Nuclear stimulation," they called it. When area ranchers discovered that the first blast would be 30 times more powerful than that which incinerated Hiroshima, the scheme was scrapped.
The gas remained impregnable for another two decades. Enter a Wyoming paving contractor and oilman, Neil McMurry, his sons Mick and Vic, an Air Force Academy graduate named John Martin, and geologist Ed Warner. McMurry hated unions, drove a red Cadillac and wore a porkpie hat. His sons were Cat skinners. Martin had flown F101 Voodoos. Warner was a short, brash, fast-talking, Brooklyn-born geologist. The partners examined old drilling logs. They located geologists who had been defeated by the Anticline, bought them dinner and pumped them for information. Quietly, they purchased rights to thousands of acres.
"Before we drilled our first well, we approached 27 different companies trying to find a financial backer," Warner recalls, "and they all turned us down. No guts, no glory."
In 1993, the five musketeers brainstormed a new hydraulic fracturing method, which proved its merit with their first well south of the Anticline at a place called Jonah. Holding $1 billion worth of energy per square mile, Jonah was a treasure trove. Warner eventually sold his piece for more than $30 million, much of which he donated to Colorado State University, sage grouse preservation and the Sand County Foundation.
From the air, his masterpiece looks like a subdivision from hell. "It's an industrial zone," Warner good-naturedly admits. "Doing environmental mitigation inside that field is crazy, like trying to rehab a WalMart parking lot."
If Wall Street is going to destroy wealth, then someone has to create it. Ed Warner claims to have "found more natural gas than any man alive," and in a strange way he's probably right. In the last few years, the fracking technologies he, Colorado oilman Bill Barrett and others invented have propagated outwards, unlocking enormous reserves of gas from black shale deposits in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and New York.
As a result, America's troubling gas shortage has morphed into a glut. Aubrey McClend on, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, believes that the Marcellus shale underlying New York and Pennsylvania contains more gas than the United States has used in its entire history.
"Even if you give Chesapeake's estimates a haircut, we are talking about a tremendous new supply," says Peter Dea, past president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. "Not all of this shale gas will prove economic, but even 10 percent could be worth a trillion dollars."
Since 1990, 150,000 natural gas wells have been drilled in the West. Until a few months ago, the expectation was that this methane madness, with its profound economic, social and land impacts, would continue unabated. But the emergence of shale gas and the recession have cancelled that forecast. Although shale gas wells in the South and East cost about as much to drill as wells in the Rockies, they are much more profitable. Their initial production rates can be 10 times higher, and they are closer to major markets. No wonder half the drilling rigs in Colorado have been idled. The story is similar in New Mexico, Utah and Montana. Mineral severance tax collections are in freefall; Wyoming is poised to lose $700 million this year alone.
The largest drilling boom in Western history is over. Although it unleashed colossal new supplies -- Colorado and Wyoming now each produce more energy than does powerhouse Alaska -- our remaining gas may not prove as valuable as experts thought. Indeed, some observers think drilling may be depressed for years to come.
"It remains to be seen how rapidly the Marcellus and other shale gas plays will be developed," says Colorado State Geologist Vince Matthews. "But if we have a long-lasting gas glut and prices stay low, then Rockies producers may -- as they historically have -- take it in the ear."
Randy Udall is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes about energy in Carbondale, Colorado.


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Brighton Marina half day sea fishing trips are very popular these days.
Here is JJ with a nice 22lb Blonde Ray which was caught on the sand banks using a side of Mackerel fillet on a long flowing trace.
Now that the Turbot season is coming to an end, we are now looking to the winter Cod and Whiting season. Of which the Cod are now beginning to show.
You can book up a Brighton Marina half day sea fishing trip by checking out our main website www.oceanwarrior3.com and checking our calendar for available dates. In addition to the half day trip (4 hours) you can also book a 2 hour trip or indeed an 8 hour trip if you want a full day out. We can take up to 10 people for full boat bookings.
Brighton Marina compliments your half day sea fishing trip as you can take in a bit of shopping with a range of shops or get a little something to eat in the many bars or restaurants or take in some entertainment in the cinema or bowling alley. There is also free parking in the multi storey car park for your convenience.
If you have any questions please call David on 07966 377145.


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All about the end game
At Rail Nation you're going through six different eras. After these six eras the mysterious end game starts.
City ranking
As soon as the six eras are finished the rankings are being recalculated and a ranking of cities is being created. The top ten cities, who're developed the furthest are now in the process of being developed to a mega city. When there are multiple cities who have achieved the same development level, the city that reached this the first gets added to the mega cities list.
When the end game has started the first city will be changed into a mega city and the other cities will change accordingly during time and leveling. Do note that the list of runner up cities can change depending on whether how fast they level up. For example, the number three city can level up faster than the number two city and thus switching places before they are developed into a mega city.
Mega cities and goods
During the end game the mega city needs certain goods. Each mega city needs twelve goods simultaneously. When a specific good is filled the next one will be available.
Players and prestige bonus
The players and associations that deliver the highest amount of a specific good receive a very special prestige bonus.
How long is the end game?
The end game is finished when a mega city has received all of it's necesary goods. The end game has no specific time setting, it depends on how fast the players deliver. The final ranking is the ranking shown when the end game is finshed.
Additional information about the end game
There are no workers and events during the end game. You're also not able to sit an account during the end game.
When your city is a mega city you're not obligated to deliver the goods or participate in the end game. The normal game play is still available to you. By competing in the end game you're able to get a high amount of prestige though so keep that in mind. Due to this the end game can create big shifts in the ranking list. The number one might not be the number one anymore after the end game.
When the end game is finished the server will be closed for a couple of days. Do note that there's always a possibility of a delay when there are problems occuring. The accounts will be stored and you can join up for a new round. You can log in with your e-mail and choose a new avatar and city at the start. Any gold that was left on your old account will be available to you at the new round.
We wish you lots of fun and luck playing the end game of Rail Nation!