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HowTo:Commit Suicide
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Life got you down? Do you hate yourself? Did your girlfriend leave you or did she have a threesome with your sister and brother in law? Do you have no family? Is your dick too small?? Do you have no purpose in life? Have no money? Humped a plastic cup because of your inability to get laid? Are you Canadian? Got banned from Uncyclopedia? Flaming Conservative? Pro-Life Liberal? Why go on living with all this gut wrenching guilt when you can just kill yourself, also known as Suicide. With Suicide, you can just release all that pent up guilt and let your soul go free. Fail anything but don't fail becoming An Hero. Here's everything that you will need to commit suicide successfully.
By clicking on the link that brought you here, you have made a legally binding agreement that for whatever reason, you want your life ended or the knowledge on how to end it. This is not a guide against suicide, but to suicide. Some of the methods listed here may be more effective than others and some may be totally ineffective. Since you've waived your rights to any and all legal recourse, any choices you make about suicide pertaining to the methods listed in this article and any expected results are done entirely at your own risk.
If you still want someone to point you to the meaning of life, there are plenty of cults whose priests will eagerly feed you manufacturer approved thoughts so that you may make the most intelligent and balanced decision on what to make with your life.
- 1 Reasons to Commit Suicide
- 2 Methods of committing suicide
- 3 Other Methods
- 4 What Now Dude?
- 5 Still not working?
- 6 See also
Reasons to Commit Suicide[edit]
There are many reasons to commit suicide: girlfriend, life, job, Uncyclopedia, 4chan, or any number of teeny bopper/emo/scene reasons. But you need specific reasons to commit suicide, if you just commit suicide for the hell of it, then it wouldn't count. You'd just be doing so for your own enjoyment, you selfish jerk. Shame on you for even considering it. Now that you are properly ashamed, you have one more reason to add to your list. Some of the valid reasons to commit suicide are included in a convenient list for you below:
- Your boyfriend/girlfriend/mom/whore left you.
- Your wife/mom left you for your boyfriend
- You broke your favorite thing by playing with it too much
- A grue is about to do the job for you.
- Your ex-girlfriend/boyfriend/kitten/whore is about to do the job for you.
- You got banned from Uncyclopedia for being an idiot.
- You just realized that life isn't worth living. (See Previous)
- You wasted all your money on "I Love Osama" commemorative plates
- You are emo and thus it is your duty to commit suicide
- Demons have staked a claim to your underwear drawer
- You wasted all your V-Bucks on Fortnite on a stupid item
- Your mom and your daddy are having very bad issues in their love life and take it out on you
If you just kill yourself without cause then you cannot set your soul free. Then again, if you just kill yourself it would be much faster and easier.
Methods of committing suicide[edit]
If you plan to do this, then you will need to know the various methods of committing suicide. These particular methods have been painstakingly researched and you will have a 99.997% chance that you will be dead. In addition, following these methods will change how people think of you. Some of them will think you are a maniac, others will think that you're desperate, while a select few will realize that they love you but only once you're dead. But whatever you do, just do it!
Method 1: Jumping Off[edit]
You will need:
- A good high building or cliff
- No regrets
- Optional equipment: A cape
- Locate a nice high building or cliff to jump off of.
- Go to the top.
- Jump.
- Do a flip.
- Do a barrel roll.
- Rinse.
- Repeat.
- Die.
This method has a number of advantages. It's simple. It's dramatic. You can save on funeral costs and have yourself buried in a pizza box. On the other hand, if it's raining, your clothes will get soaked and your body will just wash down the drain. Also, it's just not terribly original. Dozens of people try to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge every year. Boring. (Make sure to do the flip cause you never know, you might get a perfect ten.)
Method 2: Complete Exsanguination[edit]
You will need:
- A sharp object. Razors, scissors, broken glass, or biting criticism all work
- A rafter or other high support
- A Rope
- Using the rope, tie your ankles together so that you are hanging from the rafters in a head-down posture.
- Grasp the sharp object in your hand, and draw it swiftly across your neck. Be sure to cut deep enough so that you get all four major blood vessels.
- Make a puddle on the floor. Or use a bucket for the Red Cross. Or use a bucket for a local needy vampire bat family.
- Admire your handiwork.
Anyone can kill themselves by slitting their wrists. A true artist goes for a complete exsanguination. For extra credit, tie your wrists to your ankles to complete the Long Pig allusion.
Method 3: Jumping off a Plane[edit]
You will need:
- Plane Ticket
- Make a Skydiving Reservation
- Ignore instructor during flight
- Refuse parachute and jump to your death
- Optional: Aim for pigeons as you plummet to the earth
- Optional: Wear a cape and/or a superman suit
For those of you that have never liked to listen to directions, this is an obvious choice. You get to your goal and continue your longstanding tradition of ignoring the words of others. Are you listening? Hey! Come back! I'm not done talking yet!
Method 4: Car Death[edit]
You will need:
- Some sort of motoring infrastructure such as a road with cars, trucks or buses
- Find a speeding car.
- Wait until the car is in range.
- Walk in front of the car and watch as the car hits you.
- You're dead, nothing to it.
- Unless they swerve and kill someone else in the process. But, then you'll have even more reason to die! ^_^
This method is recommended for those people that loathe all the crass materialism involved with other suicide methods. Even the luxury of clothes is not required with this method. Those Capitalist Pigs will rue the day your naked form destroys their precious sports car. THANK GOD!!!
Method 5: Suicide Bombing[edit]
You will need
- Atomic bomb
- A location where someone carrying an atom bomb won't look out of place. New York is good for this: nothing looks out of place in New York.
- Religious tract of your choice. The Kama Sutra is a particularly good option, but you could also try the Book of Common Prayer or the Analects
- Walk to a suitable street corner. Street corners are the proper place to do anything important in New York.
- Set them up the bomb.
- Yell something incomprehensible in a foreign language. Some possibilities are "MA BITE EST EN FEU !" or "9時から布団4枚!!!"
- Cover your testicles
- Generate a mushroom cloud.
If you've ever wanted to have your passing remembered, this is the method for you. However, it is wise to make sure that before you blow yourself up, you stop all the other people on the corner with an atom bomb. You don't want someone else hogging all the glory, lousy poseurs.
Method 6: Great White Shark[edit]
You will need
- A plane ticket to Hawaii, Australia, South Africa or other shark-infested waters
- Boat
- Sunscreen
- A bucket of Chum
- Peterson's Field Guide To Sharks
- A sharp object (optional)
- Find shark-infested waters. The Great Barrier Reef is perfect, but Hawaii will do.
- Rent a boat and head offshore into deep water. Make sure you pack a life preserver, the field guide, and some sunscreen.(Getting skin cancer would ruin your suicide).
- Pour some chum over yourself and a bucket's worth into the water.
- Wait for the fins to appear- this is important! If you get in the water before the sharks appear, you may die of hypothermia before you get eaten. And hypothermia never makes Page 1.
- If you do not see any fins, cut your self and put your hand into the water. They should speed towards you.
- This is where the field guide comes in- you want to make sure it's a great white that eats you. Death by blue shark just doesn't sound as cool.
- When you see a big one, hop right in.
- The shark does the rest.
Imagine how jealous the parents of that other kid are going to be! They'll open up the paper expecting a nice piece on little Johnny's suicide, but his OD will be a tiny blurb in the corner. Meanwhile, you get front page with your suicide-by-shark! Nobody will even go to his funeral- his friends will all be like, "Yeah, it's too bad. But this other dude- man, he got killed by a shark! I can't wait to see that. I hear it's open casket and you can see the bite marks and everything! I'm sorry to miss Johnny's wake, but how many times do you get to see a dude who's been gnawed in half by a shark?"
Method 7: Emotionally Disturbing Piano Wire Beheading[edit]
You will need
- Superglue
- Piano wire
- Jaunty Hat (Jauntiness is a must)
- Find a very tall building, overlooking a public place. Stand at its summit with lots of piano wire.
- Attach one end of a piece of piano wire 5 meters short of the ground to your ankles. Secure the other end to the building.
- Place your head in a noose made from another length of piano wire that is 6 meters short of the ground. Secure the other end to the top of the building.
- Glue the hat and your chosen hand to your head. You wouldn't want to lose your hat.
- Jump!
The result: at 6 meters from the ground, the piano wire noose around your neck will tighten and slice your head off. Your head will, however, not fall because it is stuck to your hand. You will be found dangling upside down with your head stuck to your hand spraying everyone in a 5 meter radius with your bodily fluids. Your Jaunty Hat will have to be taken from your cold dead hands.
And a record 45,099 people have killed themselves after witnessing a piano-wire suicide and the number just keeps rising. What a coincidence!
Method 8: Overkill[edit]
You will need
- Gun
- Piano wire/Good rope
- Portable pool
- Sharks
- Tall Building
- A friend(Optional, you poor poor fool)
This method is for those who have actually failed at failing. (And even if you do manage to bungle this sure fire method...well...it's still entertaining ;D.))
- Find a very tall building, overlooking a public place.
- Get to the roof. Remember, use the stairs, not the elevator. You don't want to die from a faulty elevator!
- Tie a noose around your neck, and secure it to the building. Make sure the rope extends to the bottom, so you hit the ground and still break your neck. Alternatively, you may use the piano wire method above.
- Get a friend to position a pool at the bottom, and dump the sharks into it.
- Load the gun, and stick it inside your mouth.
- Jump!
What will happen: The rope should kill you, ripping your head off as you hit the bottom. If the rope breaks, the fall would still kill you. If THAT doesn't work, you can still pull the trigger for the gun and blow your brains out. What? Still not dead? Then the sharks will eat you. This is recommended for Emos, who seem to be completely unable to kill themselves.
Other Methods[edit]
Methods To Just Die Quickly[edit]
- Touching a live 220V wire: it causes certain death within one minute and leaves the yummy smell of bacon.
- Taunt Chuck Norris: Really painful, really quick and extremely deadly. Chuck could actually kill you as quickly as Domo Kun does (read below) but it would leave no time for you to feel pain, so he has to hold back and since that pisses him off even more he rapes you in the rectum until your vision goes blurry, the pain rate grows as shown in this formula:
- Tickle a lion: Instant death guaranteed.
- Tickle a Terminator: Will shoot you until your bones are tumbled to dust.
- Asking Derpy Hooves to make a house fall on your cranium: If it doesn't work, she will drop the Statue of Liberty on you.
Methods To Die Quickly Without Pain[edit]
- Kitten overdose: you'll die within an hour but you may be revived with a 35 ml (1.25 fl oz) sulfuric acid anal suppository.
- Guillotine: effective within 20 seconds. It is still not possible to get your head sewn back on time.
Methods To Die Slowly Without Any Possible Notice[edit]
- Caffeinated beverages (except beer): Once you hit the optimal level, you vibrate so much that you slowly disappear from existence.
- Attempting to read a program written in Perl or APL.
- Listen constantly to Conservative Talk Radio, this leads to lack of all motivation and independent thought. Warning: You may get officially declared a zombie and get shot in the head, which is neither a slow nor painless form of death.
- Touch a guy infected with Sudden Instant Death Syndrome. You'll never notice how you died a few years later.
- Ask God to bring the rapture closer. WARNING: You must be a Christian to be with him
Methods To Die Slowly and Painfully[edit]
- Enter someone's ass: you'll get kicked around by the donkey. Additionally, you may catch a nasty STD.
- Disbelief in Cthulhu: you get eaten last and are chewed for much, much longer.
- Read anything by James Joyce, especially Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Death by bear: attempt to kill a full grown grizzly bear using nothing but a single banana as weapon and try to delude yourself that the banana is a gun.
What Now Dude?[edit]
Nothing, You're dead. IF YOU ARE STILL READING THIS THEN YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG, VERY VERY WRONG!!! Go back and try a different method. Perhaps a cup of coffee or tea before you try again might be in order.
Still not working?[edit]
Ok, at this point it's possible you are supernatural. Special methods may need to be employed; you're on your own. You obviously don't want to kill yourself.

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I'm a 'mad eco-scientist' of sorts in that I devise natural, earth friendly recipes for dyes, stains and inks to use in my art (largely due to annoying allergies to chemicals), and I like to make light-up and mechanical art from scrap electronic bits. This is my husband's fault as he teaches me things such as which value of resistor is needed to power an LED light.
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Walt Mossberg is walking through a convention hall at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas when a man starts screaming at him. The screamer, Hugh Panero, blames Mossberg for his company's recent problems: falling stock price, a sudden plunge in consumer interest. Mossberg is annoyed but hardly intimidated. As the author of the weekly "Personal Technology" column in The Wall Street Journal, he's used to dealing with disgruntled execs. He lets Panero shout. A crowd is gathering. Finally, Mossberg yells back, "I don't give a fuck about your stock price!"
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In truth, Mossberg liked Panero's company, XM Satellite Radio, which beams more than 100 channels of music – rock, hip hop, jazz, country, you name it – directly to cars nationwide. The early reviews were enthusiastic, and investors loved the stock. But Mossberg hated the special radios that drivers needed to buy from the company to get the signal. In his column, he slammed the spotty reception and said the radios were poorly designed, hard to use, and too expensive. On the morning the column appeared, just five days before the conference opened, XM's stock fell 8.5 percent. Reuters reported that Mossberg's column was driving down the price.
Waiting for a flight back to Washington after the conference, Mossberg is eating a Burger King breakfast at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport when Panero walks by. This time the entrepreneur is calm. The two men realize they're on the same plane and arrange to sit together in first class. (Mossberg got his ticket using upgrade coupons.) Once they're in the air, Panero admits that Mossberg is right about XM's hardware. A few months later, XM rolls out a new line of price-slashed radios with better controls for scrolling channels, plus larger screens for identifying the songs and artists. A year after the original review, in January 2003, Mossberg writes a column wholeheartedly recommending the new offerings.
XM is only one of dozens of companies that have redesigned products in response to Mossberg's unsparing criticism. RealNetworks overhauled its RealJukebox player. Intuit revamped TurboTax. Mossberg even forced Microsoft to scrap Smart Tags, which would have hijacked millions of Web sites by inserting unwanted links to advertisers' sites. Few reviewers have held so much power to shape an industry's successes and failures. Mossberg evokes comparisons to Robert Parker on wine and Frank Rich during Rich's controversial tenure as the Broadway critic of The New York Times. At least one grad school thesis has been written on Mossberg's clout. "He's one of the most trusted and influential voices in technology," says Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang.
Disarmingly bright, blunt, fervent, and combative, Mossberg was an investigative reporter for two decades before becoming a tech pundit, and he has a heady sense of his ability to keep the industry chieftains in check. His MO: posing as the champion of the "normal" or "average" tech consumer, though he's hardly one himself. Close friend and Journal reporter Kara Swisher calls him "a freakish geek."
Still, his success comes from demystifying the digital realm for readers who aren't regular Slashdot contributors. He's on a mission to remake the tech world according to his own fetish for simplicity, reliability, effectiveness, and great design. Chances are he has influenced the look, feel, and performance of your laptop, mobile phone, and MP3 player.
Mossberg's been a fiery crusader since the opening line of "Personal Technology," which debuted in 1991: "Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it isn't your fault." His quest has earned him legions of fans, but he's also angered many, who think he's arrogant, curmudgeonly, and subjective – and who wonder how deeply he understands the nitty-gritty of technology. His latest enemies: open source partisans, who chafed when he picked Microsoft Office over StarOffice, an open source darling.
The detractors and the wounded multiply, but Mossberg keeps expanding his valuable franchise. Unfazed by a 1997 heart attack and subsequent quadruple bypass, he does three weekly columns in addition to a weekly appearance on CNBC's Power Lunch and a monthly column for Smart Money. And, with Swisher, he hosts D: All Things Digital, the annual $2,995-a-person, three-day executive conference in early June at the Four Seasons resort in Carlsbad, California.
When I visit Mossberg at the Journal's Washington bureau, a few blocks north of the White House, he's blasting Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man" in his spacious private office. Friends say that Mossberg has three obsessions: music, Star Trek (he knows all the episodes and gadgets), and the Boston Red Sox. He's 57, a baby boomer who loves the Beatles, Motown, Paul Simon, Chuck Berry, James Taylor, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Lately his assistant, Katie Boehret, 23, and his son Steven, 26, who's trying to make it as a professional musician, have gotten him into newer music. He says he's "nuts" for Fountains of Wayne, and he likes Coldplay and John Mayer.
Mossberg holds an unlit cigar, which he'll carry and chomp on throughout the afternoon but never light up. Smoking isn't allowed at the office. He puffs $7 Cohibas (the legal Dominican ones) but buys cheaper brands for chewing. Like Steve Jobs, his wardrobe leans toward the monotonous. He favors Eddie Bauer oxford shirts with button-down collars, and Dockers or jeans. He may be a media big shot, but Mossberg's tastes aren't grand. He lives in an unremarkable house in Potomac, Maryland, that he's owned for 10 years. He drives a Mercedes, but it's a C-Class, which he describes as "the cheapest and smallest Mercedes, with an iPod velcroed to the dashboard and jacked into the audio system."
As we walk around the bureau, we come to a kitchen. Mossberg offers me a Diet Coke, puts a quarter into the vending machine, then hesitates.
"Is it going to bias you if I buy you a soda?"
I'm not sure if he's joking.
He takes me to Boehret's windowless office, which includes "the vault," a storage room holding the many unsolicited products they receive – and always send back after they play with them. An earlier assistant, James Hoppes, created a database to track all the stuff they get. "Every day was like Christmas," Hoppes recalls. "Big packages with cool gadgets." Mossberg keeps none of it. The product clutter is even worse at home. "Oh my God," says Edie, his wife, "the proliferation! Everything has to be sent back, so you can't get rid of the boxes. They grow like topsy. I say, This is it! Everything's got to go by Thanksgiving. Clear out the living room."
Alan Deutschman (firstname.lastname@example.com) is the author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs and A Tale of Two Valleys.
Back in Mossberg's office, he shows me his "computer museum": a wall of bookshelves filled with vintage machines. There's a Timex Sinclair 1000 (his first computer), an Apple IIe, a portable Apple IIc, a first-gen Macintosh, a Radio Shack TRS 80 Model 100, a Palm Pilot, an Atari 800. Mossberg was an early home-computing hobbyist, enraptured by the possibilities of technology but frustrated by its limitations. He souped up his Apple IIe by adding memory, one chip at a time, which amazed Edie. "This was a guy who wasn't mechanical in any way," she says. "He wasn't handy." Mossberg even tried to exchange text messages with Journal colleague Rich Jaroslovsky on 300-baud modems before the advent of online services.
Mossberg is interrupted by a phone call from a flack at Apple about his critique of the iPod mini, which will run in tomorrow's paper. The publicist is concerned that Mossberg will write about his prerelease model crashing, even though the problem has since been fixed in the final production version. He was the only reviewer to receive preproduction minis from Apple, which enables him to publish the first real review of the new gadget – an enviable scoop. Mossberg will mention the crash, but overall his column will be positive. "Tell Steve not to get upset," Mossberg says.
The star of The Wall Street Journal, that bastion of elite capitalism, comes from the working class. His grandfather toiled as an upholsterer. His father peddled dishes and blankets door-to-door to millworkers.
Mossberg discovered journalism as a teenager in suburban Warwick, Rhode Island, when he cowrote a weekly column about high school for the Providence Journal-Bulletin. (He collaborated with his best friend, James Woods, the future film star.) Mossberg relished going downtown to turn in his copy at the "old smelly newsroom with fans and peeling green paint," he recalls. "I was bitten by the journalism bug."
As a Brandeis student he protested the Vietnam War and campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 primary. But already "he was focused on being a reporter," recalls dormmate Ira Shapiro. He spent summers covering crime and politics for the Providence newspaper.
He met Edith Marcus as a freshman in Politics 1A. They married the week after graduation and headed to Columbia University – Walt for a master's in journalism, Edie to Teachers College. The journalism students were assigned to "hang out" at publications between semesters. Mossberg ended up at The Wall Street Journal. "I had never read the Journal," he says. "My grandfather was a union organizer. We were workers." But the paper impressed him.
In 1970, Mossberg accepted a reporting job there for $9,000 a year. His ambition was to cover Washington, but the editors told him to name three smaller bureaus, promising he'd get one of them. He requested San Francisco, Chicago, or Boston. The call came back: "When can you be in Detroit?"
Sporting shoulder-length hair and long sideburns, Mossberg arrived at the Detroit bureau and took a desk next to another rookie, Norman Pearlstine (who became the Journal's managing editor a decade later). "He was whip smart," Pearlstine recalls, "and he typed faster with one finger than anyone I knew."
Mossberg's earliest scoop was uncovering that American Motors Corporation was going to announce the industry's first bumper-to-bumper warranty. When he asked AMC's executives for comment, they called the Journal's brass in New York and threatened to pull their ads if the story ran prior to AMC's big announcement. The managing editor told the Detroit bureau chief: Hold the story for one night so Mossberg can triple-check the facts, and then we'll run it even longer and with a bigger headline. AMC pulled its ads; Mossberg's bosses gave him a raise. "I learned about the power and integrity of a great newspaper and how it feels to report and write what you think is the real story," he says. "It was exhilarating."
In 1973, Mossberg moved to Washington, where he covered a series of beats over two decades: labor, energy, defense, and economics. After the Three Mile Island disaster, he searched through Nuclear Regulatory Commission records and uncovered similar problems at other atomic plants. During the Reagan years, he revealed classified documents about new weapons failing tests and busting budgets.
In 1987, Mossberg cowrote a front-page story on the stock market crash that prompted Treasury secretary James Baker to shut himself off from the press for three months. (The piece convincingly argued that Baker was in over his head when it came to economic policy.) When Baker became secretary of state under President Bush, Mossberg became the Journal's diplomatic reporter. "I flew around the world nonstop with Baker during tremendous upheaval," Mossberg says. "The end of the Cold War. The reunification of Germany. Moscow, Eastern Europe, then Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War."
The frenetic travel proved difficult on his family life. "We knew when he was leaving, but we never knew when he would be coming back," Edie recalls. In 1990, when Mossberg's sons were 8 and 12, he conceived of a new gig that would enable him to wield influence from home: a tech column. He had been captivated by computers and gadgetry for 20 years. As PC sales skyrocketed in the early '90s, he sensed a historic shift: "I believed that the tech market was about to broaden and democratize, and the column could catch the wave."
From its launch, Mossberg knew exactly what he wanted. "Personal Technology" would be utterly different from the reviews already out there: "They were by geeks for geeks, filled with jargon, condescending to nontechies, and reverential about the computer and the computer industry," he says. "I wanted to write for the nontech user and be critical of the industry."
Mossberg may have been clear about his new direction, but many of his higher-ups were not. "There was extraordinary resistance on all levels of Dow Jones [which owns the Journal]," recalls Pearlstine, who greenlighted the column and stuck by his old friend. "People said, We don't render opinions on our news pages, and who cares about personal computers?"
At first, he had to fight the perception that he'd dropped out of the race for power and influence. "Many Washington journalists I'd worked with, and some people in government, wondered if I'd been demoted," Mossberg says. "James Baker said, 'What the hell would you want to do that for?'"
But when it debuted on October 17, 1991, "Personal Technology" was an immediate hit. Mossberg's voice, amplified by the power of the Journal, resonated like no other. In 1992, he recommended America Online, an also-ran with only 200,000 subscribers, over Prodigy, the leader with 1.8 million subscribers and powerful backers, including Sears and IBM. "Prodigy tried to get me fired," he recalls. Mossberg's endorsement "really helped put AOL on the map," admits founder Steve Case. "It turbocharged our growth."
Mossberg's proudest moment came in 2001, when he objected to Smart Tags, a feature he tested in a beta version of Windows XP. Smart Tags could turn any word on a Web page into a link to a Microsoft property or sponsor's site without consent from the site's author.
Mossberg's column, which decried Smart Tags as a dangerous abuse of power, created an immediate uproar. Three weeks later, Microsoft executives leaked to Mossberg that they were killing the feature – and privately said that his column was why. "Walt was in heaven with that one," says Paul Steiger, who succeeded Pearlstine as the Journal's managing editor.
More recently, Mossberg blasted Intuit's TurboTax for "treating everybody like a criminal" by secretly installing a monitoring program on PCs to prevent piracy. So he urged his readers to buy the rival, Tax Cut. Intuit received hundreds of emails in response – and backed off.
He delights in his mission to "dress down companies when they need it." And he hardly seems daunted by taking on tech powers. "It was hard for me to imagine being afraid of the wrath of Gates or Jobs when I had been criticized by the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department."
His columns can be subjective – intentionally so. "In the late '80s and early '90s, the industry put a lot of pressure on the computer press to wring the subjectivity out," he says. "But there's no way to do a bar chart that shows that the Treo or the iPod is beautifully made and feels great in the hand."
The Mossberg brand is a vital franchise for the Journal, which has taken extraordinary measures to keep him. In 1997 – two years after Norm Pearlstine became editor in chief of Time Inc. – he tried to lure Mossberg to write for Time, Fortune, and Money. "It was a huge offer," Mossberg says, "just as my kids were starting to go to college." Paul Steiger told me that he approached Peter Kann, the CEO of Dow Jones, and asked if it could match Pearlstine's offer. That would have meant paying Mossberg more than Steiger himself earned. Nevertheless, Steiger pushed for it, even enlisting the support of the Journal's ad salespeople, who confirmed that Mossberg's credibility helped attract tech advertisers.
Kann approved the request, and Mossberg stayed. A published report says that Mossberg is the Journal's highest-paid writer, at $500,000 a year. Mossberg says the figure isn't accurate (but not whether it's high or low) and that he doesn't know what anyone else there makes. Pearlstine allows $500,000 "doesn't seem unreasonable" but that Mossberg "may be making more than that now."
Along the way, Mossberg has been a generous mentor to many younger writers. After admiring Kara Swisher's work at The Washington Post, he got her a job at the Journal. Mossberg even gave away Swisher at her wedding to Megan Smith, the former CEO of PlanetOut, in a waterfront ceremony in Northern California. "My father died when I was 5," Swisher explains. At the reception, Mossberg delivered a funny, moving tribute. Edie later told him: "Why couldn't we have had such a nice wedding?"
Mossberg has had two brushes with death. On 9/11 he left his hotel at the World Trade Center and took a taxi uptown a half hour before the first plane hit. In 1997, he had a major heart attack. It wasn't totally unexpected, Mossberg says. The men in his family have a history of heart problems that strike young.
In the hospital after his cardiac arrest, while awaiting bypass surgery, Mossberg lay in bed studying Web sites on the subject. "By the time he met the surgeons, he had read all about them," Edie recalls. They transplanted an artery from his arm to his heart in a quadruple bypass. When Mossberg returned to work three months later, "he seemed to come out of it very well," says Steiger. "His spirits were very strong and his health seemed much stronger."
Mossberg dieted and slimmed down to what one Journal staffer called "the sleek new Walt." His revitalization inspired confidence that he could maintain and even expand his workload. In addition to writing "Personal Technology" and "Mossberg's Mailbox," a Q&A feature, he launched "The Mossberg Solution" and, last year, the D conference. It helps that much of the research and product testing for "Solution" is done by Katie Boehret, who brings a youthful, unmonied, and female perspective to complement Mossberg's well-off aging male personality.
Her influence showed when Mossberg tested the Suunto PDA wristwatch this winter. The technology comes from Microsoft, where it was a longtime pet project of Bill Gates himself. But the watch is ridiculously large and clunky because it needs space for a screen. "I asked Katie, Would you date someone who was wearing this watch?" he says. "And she said, 'No!'" In his column two days later, Mossberg is unsparing: "In addition to the fact that the watches look ugly and cheap to me, they don't deliver really detailed information."
Mossberg has gotten overweight again, which concerns his friends and family. When I asked Edie how much the heart attack changed Walt, she blurted, "It should have changed him more. When you first come out of it, you're healthy, healthy! Now he slides back and forth." Mossberg admits, "I'm bad at diet and exercise."
He remains intensely driven. He writes his columns the day before they're published. (Now he types quickly with two fingers rather than one.) He has no backlog. He begins work at 7 am and often tests products at home at night and sends emails until 1 am.
The D conference – which Mossberg and Swisher staged for the first time last year – is the kind of new challenge he finds refreshing. It was named conference of the year by Conferenza.com, which reviews power schmooze-fests. The first year's speakers included both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who rarely have patience for these events anymore – and hadn't shared a stage with each other in many years. Other promoters would have to plead and bargain to land such big names; Mossberg just had to ask.
The conference drew a who's who of other marquee megaplayers: USA Interactive's Barry Diller, AOL Time Warner's Steve Case, eBay's Meg Whitman, Yahoo!'s Terry Semel, and Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin. And Gates and Jobs are returning for a second time, despite the prospect of being interrogated onstage by Mossberg.
All this raises the possibility that Mossberg's objectivity and independence might be compromised by his close ties to top execs. Besides being chummy with them, he needs them to agree to appear at his conference. Doesn't that make him pull punches? Mossberg rejects the idea. Sure enough, he criticized Microsoft's clunky PDA watch in his column after Gates had agreed to serve as a leading attraction for the confab.
When Mossberg "launched "Personal Technology," Pearlstine wanted him to move to Silicon Valley. Mossberg refused to uproot his family. "How will you see all the new products?" Pearlstine asked. "I'll go there a few times a year," Mossberg responded, "but they'll come to me whether I'm in Juneau or Fargo, because I'm The Wall Street Journal."
He was right. CEOs and product designers visit him in Washington every week to demonstrate upcoming releases. Mossberg subjects them to probing interrogations. "If you want to pitch a product to Walt Mossberg, you better know everything about it," says Hoppes, his former assistant.
Naturally, some companies try to use their meetings with him to glean intelligence they can incorporate into products that he'll later review. Four years ago, he sent a mass email to the publicists who pitch him: "I am not a consultant or adviser for you. I am not part of your development process. Even when I receive prerelease software or hardware or an advance look at a site or service, I am not a tester. If I make opinionated comments or ask pointed questions during a meeting or by email or phone while trying out products, it is strictly to elicit information from you for my own journalistic purposes. I typically try to ask the questions and offer the reactions I imagine my readers would. I state my views strongly, but I never utter them in the belief I am some sort of consultant or guru, and you would be mistaken to look upon them that way."
Nonetheless, sometimes Mossberg does provide what amounts to free consulting. Hoppes, in his 2001 Georgetown master's thesis ("A Personal Technology Journalist's Influence on the Diffusion of Innovation – Case Study: Walt Mossberg"), reported that Mossberg stayed in touch with MusicMatch CEO Dennis Mudd after publishing his review "and still gives him advice about how to improve the product." Mossberg denies that.
Mudd told Hoppes: "His insights are exceptional. We really take them to heart. At one point we were using opt-out personalization. Walt shot me an email and let me know this was a big mistake, and recommended we should stay out of this gray area. We changed the policy per his recommendation. In hindsight, it was clearly the right thing to do." In his thesis, Hoppes concluded that "Mossberg sometimes has a direct hand in the design of a product." And how many former diplomatic reporters can say that?
|The Mossberg Effect
|Walt said
|What happened
|"CNET is the real deal � a serious, scrappy online news organization." (1996)
|CNET�s stock climbed 33 percent in the five days after the review.
|"This is simply the most gorgeous personal computer I�ve ever seen or used." (2000)
|Apple�s stock price jumped 10 percent the day after his Cube review hit stands.
|"The initial radios are poorly designed � Navigation is a nightmare." (2002)
|XM�s stock dropped nearly 9 percent the day Mossberg panned its radios.
|"Overall, we like Vialta�s idea of incorporating your television into a videophone." (2003)
|Vialta�s stock rose 15 percent the day the column ran.
|"Try it. You may never go back to Internet Explorer again." (2004)
|Installations of Stilesoft�s Web browser jumped 371 percent the day of his rave.
|"Mailblocks is a very good system for eliminating spam. And it will only get better." (2004)
|Mailblocks� daily sales tripled the day after Mossberg�s endorsement.


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Here is a pretty safe prediction for November, Dr. Jill Stein will not become our first woman President, although she appears to be on the ballot in enough states to make it feasible. So it might seem that considering her party's tax positions is not of primary importance. Actually I generally don't study anybody's proposals too hard out of the fear that it will confuse me when I am trying to figure out what the rules are now. If you are forward looking though it is worth considering what third parties are considering. Their proposals have a way of working their way into the mainstream over the long run. It does look like under the Green Party, Warren Buffett would stop complaining about not paying enough taxes.
Here are the specific proposals (several are not very specific)in the section of the Green Party's platform labelled "Fair Taxation" along with my [annotations in italics].
1. Cut taxes for wage-workers
- Exempt people earning less than $25,000 per year and families earning less than $50,000 per year (adjusted for inflation) from the federal and state income taxes. [We are actually pretty far along in this direction already. A family of four with 50k in income will have about half wiped out with personal exemptions and standard deduction with most of the balance taxed at 10%. At lower incomes the Earned Income Credit will often more than wipe out the income tax. Payroll taxes are another story.]
- Exempt food, clothing, prescription medications, other necessities and second-hand goods from sales taxes. [I'm sure Sotheby's would be happy with the second hand goods idea. Massachusetts exempts food, some clothing and prescriptions. I think there are other states that have similar exemptions. Other necessities ?]
2. Fair taxes for corporations and the wealthy
- End corporate welfare, such as the bailouts for Wall Street, the big banks and the automobile industry; subsidies for agribusiness, Export-Import Bank loan guarantees; tax abatements for big box stores; the tax loophole for "carried interest" from private equity and hedge fund managers; tax deductibility for advertising and business entertainment; offshore tax avoidance schemes; giveaways for new sports stadiums and casinos. [This is more a less a "usual suspects" list except for advertising.]
- Impose a financial transaction tax on trades of stocks, bonds, currency, derivatives, and other financial instruments. [I sometimes wonder if the volume of trading that we have is actually good for the economy. When I mentioned a proposal like this some time ago, many traders weighed in and indicated that trading would move else where devastating the economy of lower Manhattan for example. I guess this would not cost Warren Buffett whose favorite holding period is forever all that much.]
- Block financial transactions with tax havens, to stop tax evasion.
- Decrease the $1 million home value cap on the mortgage interest tax deduction for federal income taxes, to reduce the tax subsidy provided to those living in the most expensive homes. [Interestingly before the housing collapse, this was happening naturally, since the $1,000,000 is one of those things not indexed for inflation.]
- Restore the estate tax. [All we need for that is for Santa to bring us gridlock for Christmas, which could happen.]
- Apply the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (Social Security and Medicare) taxes to investment income and to all levels of income, not merely the first $106,800 earned.
- Oppose the privatization of Social Security.
- Enact a wealth tax of 0.5% per year on an individual's assets over $5 million. [I recently wrote about a proposal for an even stiffer wealth tax (2%). The devil is in the details and when they say "assets" do they really mean net worth ? Warren Buffett would probably stop complaining about being under-taxed if this one went through.]
3. Eco-taxes to help save the planet
- Establish a system of carbon taxes on all fossil fuels, to begin to reflect the real environmental cost of their extraction and use. Carbon taxes should be applied as far upstream as possible, preferably when possession of the carbon-bearing fuel passes from extraction (for example, coal mine; oil wellhead or tanker; gas wellhead) to the next entity in the supply chain (for example, coal shipper or utility; oil refiner or importer; natural gas pipeline). Offset potential regressivity for lower income individuals via the Green Tax shift that lowers income taxes and/or other approaches.
- Eliminate tax subsidies for the oil, gas, coal, nuclear and timber and mining industries. [Another usual suspect, one with some merit.]
- Enact a Green Tax Shift that shifts from taxing people and work (via income and payroll taxes) to taxing natural resource extraction, use, waste and pollution.
- Enact a system of Community Ground Rent/Land Value Taxation that distinguishes between the socially and privately created wealth of land, by increasing the taxes on the former to retain for society the value that it collectively creates and lowers them on the latter to reward individuals for their initiative and work. [Talk about a blast from the past. This is Henry George's single tax from Progress and Poverty published in 1879.]
- To ensure that prices reflect their true environmental cost, enact a system of True Cost Pricing (TCP) for goods and services. TCP is an accounting and pricing system that includes all costs in the price of a product. TCP charges extractive and productive industries for the immediate or prolonged damage (pollution of air and water) and diminishment of natural resources caused by their acts.
- Impose a carbon fee on goods imported from nations with lower carbon taxes than in the U.S., based upon the carbon spent in manufacturing and transporting them to the U.S.
4. Taxes for a better, healthier USA
- Simplify the tax code. Make it transparent, understandable and resistant to the machinations of powerful corporate and wealthy interests. [Another devil is in the detail type of proposal that is left, right and center.]
- Eliminate tax incentives to send jobs overseas. [I'm not sure what those are exactly. I always thought the main incentive was that people were willing to work for less.]
- Raise taxes on tobacco, alcohol, soda pop and other junk food. [This is OK as long as there is a Mountain Dew exception.]
Although I never thought much of their economic policies, I am registered Green, because of their positions on criminal justice. I also like what they say about immigration. I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but George Bush was my second choice. I do think there is a lot to be said for the free market, but I really think the people who allocate capital for a living have been letting the rest of us down lately. After a decade of historically low income taxes rates, we have high unemployment and zero returns for ordinary savers. My borderline Tea Party friends have similar dark thoughts sometimes and even a couple of them thought a financial transactions tax might not be such a bad thing.
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Widely recognized as a market leader for its innovation, strong research base, and accessibility, the ninth edition of William L. Heward's "Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education "continues this tradition of excellence. A FOCUS ON EXCEPTIONAL TEACHERS - Featured Teacher essays Each chapter begins with a first-person essay by master teachers that reflects the joys, challenges, and realities of teaching exceptional children. Drawn from urban, suburban, and rural school districts across the country, the 18 featured teachers share personal experiences and wisdom gathered from years of instructing children in a variety of school settings. - MyEducationLab Access to MyEducationLab for this text allows readers to see, hear, and learn from the teachers featured in the text through video. Throughout the book, MyEducationLab icons connect key content and concepts practiced by master teachers to Homework & Exercises on MyEducationLab. - Tips for Beginning Teachers Each chapter culminates with practical, quick tips for beginning teachers-offered by the master teacher featured in each chapter-on how to avoid common pitfalls in the classroom. A FOCUS ON EFFECTIVE RESEARCH-BASED PRACTICES - Teaching & Learning features All of the strategies described in the Teaching & Learning features are classroom-tested, supported by research, and provide clear and practical step-by-step guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating instruction for students with disabilities. - MyEducationLab Each of the research-based practices discussed in the Teaching & Learning features are connected to Homework & Exercises or Building Teaching Skills activities in MyEducationLab that extend andfurther develop these strategies through video, artifacts, or articles. A FOCUS ON ISSUES AND TRENDS - Current Issues and Future Trends features These essays highlight the ever-changing nature of special education with the controversial issues, triumphs, struggles, and interventions involved in special education." For Future Preparation and Teacher Certification: " - CEC Performance-Based Standards The Common Core standards are printed on the inside front cover of the text. Margin notes throughout the text link critical content to specific knowledge and skill statements from CEC's Performance-Based Standards for Beginning Teachers. - Coverage of PRAXIS IITM Tests A PRAXIS Study Grid in the Appendix shows where content areas of the PRAXIS II Test, Education of Exceptional Students: Core Principles, are discussed in the text. A listing of the principles is on the inside back cover of this text.William L. Heward is the author of 'Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (9th Edition)', published 2008 under ISBN 9780135144367 and ISBN 0135144361.[read more]
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Green Pea Tarragon Soup
2 16oz. pkg of frozen sweet petite peas
2tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Approx. 9 medium sized shallots (sliced)
4 ½ cups vegetable broth ( can use other broths as desired)
3 tbsp. chopped fresh tarragon
Crème Fraiche (recipe below)
Pumpernickel Croutons (recipe below)
Place ½ cup peas aside in microwave safe bowl. Heat oil in large saucepan- medium high heat.
Saute Shallots until translucent and tender. Add peas not set aside, 4 cups broth and 2tbsp. tarragon. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and boil until flavors blend and peas are tender 7-10 min. Cool slightly. Puree soup in batches in a blender (or use immersion blender) until completely smooth. Return soup to pan and return to simmer. If desired, use remaining broth to thin soup. Add remaining tarragon.
Cook remaining peas in microwave, about 1 minute to maintain fresh green color.
Ladle soup into bowls. Top with crème fraiche, croutons and peas.
Crème Fraiche
2 cups heavy whipping cream
2 cups buttermilk
Heat cream over low heat until about 100 degrees. Mix in buttermilk, stirring well. Put mixture in covered jar and leave at room temperature for about 8 hours. Refrigerate for at least 24 hours before using. Will keep in refrigerator up to 3 weeks.
Pumpernickel Croutons
2 cups pumpernickel (or dark rye) bread-crusts removed and ½ inch in size
1 minced garlic clove
2 tbsp olive oil
Heat oven to 400 degrees
Toss ingredients in bowl, spread on baking sheet
Bake for about 10 minutes until crisp.


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Jordan & Sons Plumbing & Electrical is a third-generation company with many years of experience in the plumbing and electrical trade. We provide only the best service and parts, at the best possible price. We are large enough to handle all of your plumbing, drain cleaning, and electrical needs, but small enough to still be personable.
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Company Profile:
Everything at Jordan & Sons Plumbing and Electrical is state-of-the-art. We have some of the most advanced equipment known to the field, along with highly-trained service technicians that care about quality and customer service.
Jordan & Sons Plumbing and Electrical is proud to belong to several great groups:?American Backflow Prevention Association, South Carolina Master Plumbers, and?GAMA (Gas Appliance Manufactures Association).
The company was founded in 1979 by the late Guy A. Jordan in Florence, South Carolina. Anthony Jordan, son of Guy Jordan and current President, has been in the family business since 1984. Anthony attended Florence-Darlington Technical College and majored in graphic engineering. He holds a current South Carolina Mechanical Master Plumbing Card, and is following in his father's footsteps by offering an excellent plumbing service.
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§777e–1. New England Fishery Resources Restoration Act of 1990
(a) Short title
This section may be cited as the "New England Fishery Resources Restoration Act of 1990".
(b) Purposes
The purposes of this section are to-
(1) ensure timely and effective implementation of restoration plans and programs for Atlantic salmon and other fishery resources of selected river systems in New England;
(2) complete a study of fish passage impediments and requirements on small streams and rivers in New England; and
(3) develop an inventory of important fish and wildlife habitat and other natural areas of river basins in New England.
(c) Implementation of fishery resource restoration plans
The Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, hereinafter referred to as the Director, in consultation with the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall formulate, establish and implement programs to restore and maintain nationally significant, interjurisdictional fishery resources originating in New England river systems, including the Connecticut, Thames, Pawcatuck, Merrimack, Saco, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Sheepscot, Duck Trap, St. George, Penobscot, Union, Narraguagus, Pleasant, Machias, Dennys, St. Croix, Meduxnekeag and Aroostock and their tributaries. These programs shall be in accordance with the schedule and responsibilities established in comprehensive basin-wide restoration plans prepared by the Director in cooperation with State, local, and other entities involved and interested in the conservation and management of the affected fishery resources. Preparation and periodic revision of restoration plans, and their implementation, shall be based on a Memorandum of Agreement for each restoration program which shall be entered into by the Director and cooperating entities. The Director shall prepare and submit to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works an annual report documenting activities undertaken and accomplishments achieved in fulfillment of this section, including an assessment of the prognosis for restoration of each of the stocks and species involved.
(d) Fish passage study
The Director shall conduct a study to identify impediments to upstream and downstream passage of fish in rivers and streams in the New England States due to dams that are not licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or other human-caused obstructions. In addition, the study shall identify actions needed to alleviate those impediments where desirable and feasible. The study shall include, but not be limited to, identifying-
(1) all dams not licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other human-caused obstructions on New England rivers and streams where construction of upstream or downstream fish passage facilities or their removal would benefit fishery resources, including an estimate of the degree of benefits expected; and
(2) the proposed nature and size and estimated cost of appropriate fish passage facilities or other actions determined to be necessary and feasible or each dam or other obstruction identified in response to paragraph (1).
The Director shall provide notice to the public of the extent and nature of the study by publication of such information in major newspapers in the region and by other appropriate means. Within three years of November 16, 1990, the Director shall submit a report containing the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the study to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
(e) New England rivers fish and wildlife inventory
The Director shall inventory the natural values of river basins in New England, including the Connecticut, Pawcatuck, Acushnet, North and South (in Plymouth County, Massachusetts), Charles, Merrimack, Saco, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Penobscot, Union, St. Croix, and Aroostock Rivers and their tributaries, and identify fish and wildlife habitat in most need of protection or where public access to the rivers should be provided. In addition, the Director shall, in cooperation with appropriate State agencies and local governments and after providing notice and opportunity for public comment, identify appropriate public or private measures for providing the necessary protection or access for each area included in the inventory. Within two years of November 16, 1990, the Director shall submit a report containing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the inventory and assessment to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
(f) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Director-
(1) $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995 to implement fishery resource restoration plans and programs, except for activities related to the design and construction of fish passage facilities, as directed by subsection (c);
(2) $500,000 per year for fiscal years 1991, 1992, and 1993 to conduct the study required under subsection (d); and
(3) $500,000 to conduct the inventory and assessment required under section 1 (e).
References in Text
This section, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original "this Act", which probably was intended as a reference to New England Fishery Resources Restoration Act of 1990, section 111 of
Section was enacted as the New England Fishery Resources Restoration Act of 1990, and not as part of the Fish Restoration and Management Projects Act which comprises this chapter.
Abolition of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of Representatives abolished and its jurisdiction transferred by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Jan. 4, 1995. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives in case of provisions relating to fisheries, wildlife, international fishing agreements, marine affairs (including coastal zone management) except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters, or oceanography by section 1(b)(3) of


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GEF and UNEP Meeting highlights major environmental initiatives from lowering the carbon footprint of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to supporting biodiversity in Brazil
Press release
Punta Del Este, Uruguay, 25 May 2010 – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today that they will be major players at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa with projects to reduce carbon emissions as part of a National Greening Programme.
Two of Uruguay's top goalkeepers, now retired, - Fernando Alvez, Jorge Sere - were on hand for the announcement.
In the picture: UNEP Executive DirectorAchim Steiner, GEF Climate Change Team Leader Bob Dixon,retired members of Uruguyan national football team and local soccer stars.
Photo Credit Patrick Fries
In addition and linked to the UN's International Year of Biodiversity, another key initiative was launched aimed at assisting the Government of Brazil in conservation efforts.
At the World Cup, GEF has provided US$1million to help retrofit solar panels on public street lights, traffic lights and billboards around the stadia in the six cities hosting the games.
Full details of these and other projects including one involving tourists and fans attending the tournament will be announced next month in South Africa.
GEF is an independent financial organization that provides grants to developing countries and countries with economies in transition for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants. UNEP is the implementing agency of the GEF and the only UN agency mandated to keep the global environment under review.
The Assembly is the governing body of the GEF in which representatives of all 180 member countries participate. It meets every three to four years, and is responsible for reviewing and evaluating the GEF's general policies.
Brazil and Biodiversity Information
In Latin America, GEF will support an initiative to integrate the latest science and technology to manage information on biological diversity in Brazil, a country that hosts between 15 percent to 20 percent of the world's animal and plant life.
The GEF will assist the Government of Brazil in making the biodiversity information contained in the country's biological collection available online for free through the Brazilian Biodiversity Information System (SIBBr).
With streamlined access to this kind of information, key decision makers and stakeholders will be able to integrate biodiversity conservation and sustainable-use objectives into their operations.
UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner said: "These are just some of the wide-ranging projects funded by the GEF and implemented by UNEP, the UN Development Programme and the World Bank that since the early 1990s have been catalyzing a response to the world's environmental challenges".
"Major sporting events have significant environmental footprints. But are also real opportunities to showcase solutions and build awareness at matches and across the globe via newspapers, radio and TV," he added.
"These projects are the latest powerful demonstration of our mandate to invest locally for global impact. The GEF makes targeted investments that have a cross-cutting impact on today's toughest environmental challenges, whether it be climate change, species loss or soil erosion. The GEF is there to help local officials promote sustainable development choices that both protect resources and promote jobs", said Monique Barbut, CEO of the GEF.
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GEF is providing support for collection of information on Brazil's biological diversity to enable integration into environmental decision-making processes. However, through the GEF project, access to key information on Brazil's biological diversity will be greatly improved, allowing key decision makers to incorporate biodiversity into their respective policy agendas.
South Africa
In order to formalize the experiences and lessons learned during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a critical analysis of greening projects will be carried out later in the year to identify what has worked and what were the main challenges and their causes.
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An independent financial organization, the GEF provides grants to developing countries and countries with economies in transition for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants. These projects benefit the global environment, linking local, national, and global environmental challenges and promoting sustainable livelihoods.
Established in 1991, the GEF is today the largest funder of projects to improve the global environment. The GEF has allocated US$8.8 billion, supplemented by more than US$38.7 billion in co-financing, for more than 2,400 projects in more than 165 developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Through its Small Grants Programme (SGP), the GEF has also made more than 10,000 small grants directly to non-governmental and community organizations.
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Adding injury to insult, fraudsters have merged the phenomenon of ransom Trojans with banking malware, producing a hybrid that demands money before attempting to steal user logins.
Noticed by several security firms since the turn of the year, the web drive-by Reveton Trojan tries to coax victims into handing over payments of up to $100 with the warning that they have been found accessing violent and child porn content by the US Department of Justice.
After locking up the PC to gain the user's attention (the sophistication of this is unclear), the malware demands payment using cash transfer services that vary according to the geography of the victim's IP address.
So far the Trojan behaves like one of a growing number of ransom Trojans that have spread across the Internet in the last year, almost certainly the work of the same small family of Russian gangs, according to a recent Trend Micro analysis.
Although not a new Trojan, Reveton's latest sting in the tail is that it now deploys the Citadel banking Trojan as a follow-up attack. A development of the notorious Zeus Trojan that ran amok across online bank websites in 2010, Citadel normally steals logins using man-in-the-browser and key-logging, but can also pilfer corporate logins if configured to do so.
"It is clear from this and similar attacks we have discovered recently that financial malware has achieved a technological level of sophistication which enables it to be used to carry out virtually any type of cyber-attack," said Amit Klein of browser security firm Trusteer.
Just as security defences are becoming more layered, so attackers are adopting the same design principle, combining different attacks into hybrids that can be varied by geography or the type of victim.
"Through a combination of social engineering, data capturing and communication tampering these attacks are being used by criminals to target applications, systems and networks belonging to financial institutions, enterprises, and government agencies," said Klein.
The primary ransom attack has been Detected by Microsoft as Trojan:Win32/Reveton.A since February. The malware's fusion with the Citadel Trojan, noticed by Trusteer, appears more recent.


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Photographer's Note
This scene from the work life of the fishermen reminded me another topics from the books. I think, this photo does not need more words.
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jurek1951 (42198) 2014-02-04 10:29
an impressive photo with spectacular composition and superb details, the timing is excellent. Suggestive photo work,
cornejo (61504) 2014-02-04 10:45
Hello Serghei, excellent photography of this beautiful and interesting ship in full sail with the crew hard at work, very well captured in this interesting picture with very good sharpness, light and color. Excellent and nice job perfectly done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this interesting work.
Good night and happy week.
Warm greetings from southern Spain.
arnie (1817) 2014-02-04 11:18
Hi Serghei,
Great capture, super detail. very sharp colours.
Great capture of the waves. nice timing.
lousat (127257) 2014-02-04 13:15
Ehhehehe...very funny title for this beautiful capture of the local fishermen boat,the large version is a bit noised but this is the best way to take the best detail,i like the bright colors too.Have a nice day and thanks,Luciano
Periko (8307) 2014-02-04 13:24
Good shot, Serghei. I like the frozen motion of water, sharpness and colors, as well as the cool boat.
mesutilgim (0) 2014-02-04 13:28
Hello Serghei,
Very nice capture from Sri Lanka.
Good pov and very good layout.
TFS and best regards
williewhistler (16606) 2014-02-04 14:31
Hello Serghei,
a vibrant and exciting action shot,strong vibrant colours and impeccable details.
Very fine photography.
Regards Les.
photoray (13981) 2014-02-04 16:09
Howdy Serghei,
Intriguing fishing boat, a large outrigger type and powered obviously by motor instead of paddlers or sail power, and the unusual perch for guidance.
Thanks for sharing Sri Lanka uniqueness.
PS: I had to send you a return Email via Trek Earth today.
jcpix (14030) 2014-02-04 17:39
Hi Serghei,
The only words this scene may require are "Man overboard!" Call me crazy, but that just does not look safe. :) What a fun and exciting photo though, there's a real sense of liveliness...and even some trepidation as a viewer. I keep looking up expecting to see him falling into the water. :o Full of action and emotion, this is a wonderful shot depicting the daily events of the locals. Splash!! Have a great day ahead.
Friendly wishes from sunny Arizona,
macjake (95553) 2014-02-04 21:51
Hi Serghei
now thats a cool cultural photo!
I have to get me one of those boats :)
fine action shot with excellent clarity in the higher speeds.
awesome post
Kamilutka (8107) 2014-02-05 5:11
Hello Serghei,
well captured and absolutely interesting scene. I love the way the picture is dynamic with all the people being absorbed with their activities.
The framing is brilliant and all the colors and sharpness very well given.
Thanks for sharing and enjoy your day
timecapturer (49288) 2014-02-05 6:48
Hi Serghei
a real action image this. You have captured the excitement and movement superbly in this shot. I love it!
Regards - B.
saxo042 (38078) 2014-02-05 7:17
Hi Serghei,
This is really a very good picture, it is sharp, colourful and perfectly balanced (!). Something is happening here, the lookout is pointing at something we cannot see. A thrill is created in this picture! Excellent!
Kind regards
holmertz (90162) 2014-02-05 12:23
This looks dangerous but maybe the guy at the top knew how to swim. A great catch, for you and hopefully for the fishermen.
mirosu (16313) 2014-02-05 18:28
Hi Serghei,
Excellent snapshot from open sea. The fishing boat and the fishers are in superb light. I how you have captured the water splash (excellent ISO & speed & aperture combination). Very well done.
Hello my dear friend
what could I say for this amazing capture?
only greetings it reminds a scene from
a movie film with aventures of the pirates
but generally we can see the difficult life
of the fishermen the title could be different
too because the fisherman saw a big fish
a delphin or something else
the life of the fishermen is too difficult
I liked the movement of the waves and
the frozen motion of the water
have a nice day
krzychu30 (15512) 2014-02-06 1:07
Hello Serghei,
amazing,what strange structures can swim:)This boat looks certainly very original and intriguing to me.I´m not a sea dog:)so it´s probably not the best transport means to me:)
But now seriously-the scene shows excellently the daily-life and work for fishermens in Sri Lanka.It´s meaningful and very expressive in its message.Also the way you framed it appeals to me much.
Wish You a nice day
jhm (199649) 2014-02-08 1:09
Hello Serghei,
I have one ask, where was you for take these picture!
Your picture is sublime, wonderful, indeed these picture can you place without words.
Excellent composition, nice presentation.
very well done, TFS.
Have a nice weekend,
josepmarin (59385) 2014-02-10 0:02
Hi Serghei,
a very dynamic shot here! I like the motion effect of this traditional boat, with the foam on the sea, and the vitality of the fishermen, specially the attitude of the man on the top, who seems to signal something interesting outside of the frame.
Light and colours have a high quality. A great work.
Best regards,
mcmtanyel (58411) 2014-02-10 21:47
Hello Serghei,
What an interesting boat, I wonder what function that contraption serves - balance, maybe? Excellent DOF and colors.
benenuts (234) 2014-02-16 2:44
Composition parfaite avec de belles couleurs. L'éclaboussure de l'eau donne encore plus de vie. Excellente capture de la vie quotidienne
adores (46979) 2014-03-02 16:04
Hi Serghei!
I guess I had never something similar! That must be really dangerous! Captured on the right moment, I like the man's pose and the details of the typical boat.
jmdias (99448) 2014-05-21 2:42
excellent image. the light, colors, framing and the whole moment is perfect. beautiful subject showing the daily life of these fishers, the splash of the waters makes the image almost in movement. TFS.
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- Copyright: Serghei Pakhomoff (serp2000) (47063)
- Genre: People
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2014-01-06
- Categories: Humorous, Transportation, Decisive Moment
- Exposure: f/10.0, 1/640 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2014-02-04 10:18
- To lousat: Hi, Luciano, (1)
by serp2000, last updated 2014-02-04 10:55
- To jhm: Hi, John, (1)
by serp2000, last updated 2014-02-08 06:05
- To mcmtanyel: Hi, Murat (1)
by serp2000, last updated 2014-02-10 09:50


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I. What is the Price Condition Order?
Price condition order is a conditional order, which help you to automate part of your trade.
Crypto-currency markets changes rapidly and exchange activities are running 24X7. As you do not have time to watch it closely all the time, you may miss the opportunity to buy or sell when the price movement reaches your expected price.
That is where the price condition order can help.
You just need to set the trigger condition, limit price and amount. Your order will ute automatically when the conditions are triggered during the valid period.
Trigger price is a price condition , you can choose from
Greater than or equal to (>=)
Less than or equal to ( <=)
And the trigger value is last price.
If choose greater than or equal to (>=), the price condition order will be triggered when the last price is greater than or equal to this trigger price during the valid period. A limit order at your set price and amount will be placed automatically.
If choose less than or equal to(<=), the price condition order will be triggered when the last price is less than or equal to this trigger price during the valid period. A limit order at your set price and amount will be placed automatically.
II What is the requirement of a trigger price?
When to place a price condition order, you must:
Set the trigger price greater than the last traded price at the moment if choose greater than or equal to(>=);
Set the trigger price less than the last traded price at the moment if choose less than or equal to(<=).
III Valid duration
The valid duration is calculated from the time the price condition order is placed. During the period, the price condition order will be triggered when the last price meet the trigger price condition.If not triggered, the price condition order will expire at the end of the valid period.
IV Will the price condition order be triggered more than one time?
A price condition order can only be triggered one time. Once it is triggered, it will attempt to place a limit order at preset price and amount and ends its lifespan.
V What is immediate or cancel (IOC)?
In the case a price condition order is triggered and a limit order is placed, the order must be filled immediately at the limit price or better only. If the order cannot be filled immediately or fully (i.e. only partially filled), the unfilled portion will be cancelled.
VI Why can not see my limit order in Order tab after the conditional order is triggered?
If you can not see order in Order tab, consider the following two scenarios:
1) The order is not placed successfully due to insufficient balance when the price condition order is triggered.No order is placed at all.
2) The order fill in whole immediately and is removed from Order tab to Trade tab.
You enabled Immediate-Or-Cancel (IOC) . The unfilled portion is immediately removed from the Order tab.
You may check on the Trade History instead of Order tab.
How to Set a Price condition order
The price condition order does not enter into order book until the trigger condition is met.
It can be used in two main strategies:
1) As a stop-loss/take profit order
2) As an automatic tool to buy or sell at a desired price point
It consists of two parts, a trigger condition and a limit order.
For the trigger condition, you have to set when to trigger the order; will it be triggered when the market price is greater than a set price or less than a set price?
Click around the black triangle of Trigger Price and choose from >= or =< and then enter the set price.
For example:
The last trade of ONT /USDT currently is 0.57 USDT. You expect ONT to go up still when the last price reaches 0.6 USDT. You may set the trigger condition as Trigger Price >= 0.6
If you want to sell at 0.61 USDT once the last price reaches 0.6 or above, then you may enter 0.61 at the Price Field.
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Choose the valid duration of the conditional order ( 1 day by default).
Click Sell button to submit your order.
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when you choose >=, the trigger price you set should be greater than the current market price.
When you choose <=,the trigger price you set should be less than the current market price.
2 About Balance:
The conditional order does not occupy your balance until it is triggered. So make sure to set aside enough balance for this order. If you do not have enough balance when it is triggered, it will not place a limit order for you.


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We are wrestling with a complex design of a lexical decision priming experiment that must be counterbalanced between subgroups of subjects and within subjects between blocks. The stimuli are text strings. We use shell scripts to create several counterbalancing stimulus sets and split each one into a prime list (with several prime types) and a parallel target list (with several target types). It is straightforward to import these lists into SuperLab events, but as near as we can tell, the stimulus codes have to be selected by hand for each item in each prime list and each target list from within SuperLab. Just in our preliminary testing, we have seen several data entry errors, and this doesn't surprise me given the number of things that have to be done to load in the stimuli for each permutation of the counterbalancing scheme.
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The hard way would be to use applescript. That is, for SL to grow a set of scripting functions that would allow us to automate experiment setup. The even harder way would be to use UI scripting; as far as I know, this could be done with no change to SL, but it would be fragile and vulnerable to changes in the SL user interface. I'm speaking here as someone with virtually no applescript experience, so anything with applescript in it is "hard" by definition.
The easy way would be to specify the .sl4 file format. This could be done directly, by specifying each bit, record, and field in the file, or it could be done indirectly, by providing a utility that could compile unicode text into .sl4 files. In the second case, all that would need to be specified would be the format of the unicode text file.
Personally, I prefer the sl4 compiler approach so much that if I had a copy of a detailed specification of the sl4 file format, I would probably write one myself, so in that sense, the two "easy" options are equivalent.
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Further cementing the strong base of support he has attracted in the 9th District race for Los Angeles City Council, Sen. Curren Price on Tuesday night won the official endorsement of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.
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