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While I fancy myself a rather savvy individual when it comes to travel, I have to admit that I have not done all that much bargaining in my life. It's not as much of a part of American or European cultures as it is in other parts of the world because it typically isn't as much of a necessity as it is for others around the world. But now I'm in Shanghai where the counterfeit runs deep and the scams are a plenty. If you're paying full price, or even half price, you're probably getting screwed.
My first experience was not horrible, but it still left a taste in my mouth that I didn't care for. We were at the City God Temple with the ECNU school group when all of a sudden we had a little time to kill. It was by far the hottest and most humid day of the trip that paired up with our first real introduction to smog. It finally rained, I danced, and then I was in the mood for shades. I had forgotten my real ray bans back home, so naturally there was a void I needed to fill.
I wander outside the temple area and find a vendor, one of hundreds, along the street with sunglasses up front. I head in, test the English skills of the owner, and point to what I want: White Wayfarer Ray Bans. Now obviously they are fake, I honestly don't think you can even buy authentic ones in China, but that's really not my biggest concern. I ask how much.
Most vendors like this aren't fantastic at English, and I wouldn't expect them to be because my Chinese hasn't even started yet. What they do is pull out a big calculator and type in the numbers. This also ensures that they can still get the highest prices out of the other customers. He starts me off at 600 RMB. Big surprise, but that's about $90 USD. I counter with 40, but that's actually what I wanted to pay. First mistake.
We go back and forth, both enjoying the whole game of it all, until we get to the 100 RMB final offer from me. Now I first thought that he was really considering not taking the deal. There was struggle on his face, a contemplative air about him. In reality this is just a tactic to keep me feeling as if I were the one who made the right deal. He agrees, and I check my pocket for the cash.
Uh oh! Haha I didn't get pick pocketed, but all I had left was 80 (ignoring the 200 in my bag). I explained that's all I had, we re-shook, and they were mine for 80 RMB. That's roughly $11 for an above 7-11 quality pair of shades. I was happy until I heard that other parts of town would go down to 40 or even 35. Would they be the same quality as my relatively nice fake shades? Who knows, but I was going to need to make up for my mistake.
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Chuckie, Brown Fox or simply Fletch has landedPosted on May 22nd, 2009 – 2:27 AM
By Michael Russo
Aloha from Honolulu. About to head out into the night on Waikiki Beach suckers. I think I'll be on KFAN live at 9:40 a.m. with P.A. — yes 4:40 a.m. Hawaii time because I'm loco like that.
Figured I'd jump back on as promised to toss on some more thoughts on the hiring of Chuck Fletcher as the Wild's second general manager in history.
Here are the links to the stories from Friday's papers:
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Jim Souhan's take on the Wild and Wolves' hires
As somebody joked with me a few weeks ago — and I honestly can't remember who, so I apologize in advance — but if Fletcher got the job, he should be nicknamed the "Brown Fox," since his dad has always been known as the "Silver Fox."
Whoever told me this, if you want credit, send me an email and I'll post. I give credit where credit is due, but my brain is sunburned.
Some call Fletcher Chuckie, others call him Fletch. Funny, but for a name that can easily be turned into a nickname as so often happens in hockey, I've always just called him Chuck.
I covered Fletcher for seven of his nine years in Florida, and I can tell you he's a sharp cookie. I'll throw on a bunch of stories in the weeks ahead, but as I told him a few weeks back, who would have thunk back in the late 90s that quite possibly one day I'd cover him as a GM — only in Minnesota.
Back in the day, Fletcher was always expected to become the Panthers' GM, and quite frankly, until the lockout happened, I never considered I'd go off and cover another NHL team.
But Fletcher, considered the next big thing in the NHL for some time, has finally got his opportunity. And by the way, the thing you should know about Fletcher is he has not gone for every job out there. He never wanted just any GM job that came his way. It had to be the right fit, so for him to take this opportunity says a lot about where he thinks this franchise is and can go, and what type of hockey hotbed it is.
First up for Fletcher will be to determine a coach. In the NHL, folks usually hire people they know and are comfortable working with, so right away, Todd Richards becomes a favorite. Fletcher hired the San Jose assistant and former Gopher in Wilkes-Barre, and he had great respect for him.
Peter Laviolette, Craig MacTavish and Pat Quinn would be the obvious experienced coach pickups, Kevin Constantine warrants a look. So does Detroit assistant coach Paul MacLean and Chicago Blackhawks assistant John Torchetti. Some respected junior coaches include Portland Pirates coach Kevin Dineen and Manitoba Moose coach Scott Arniel.
Another possible candidate just popped in my head. Anaheim Ducks assistant coach Newell Brown for two reasons: 1) Fletcher's relationship with him in Anaheim; 2) The Panthers nearly hired Brown a couple times as head coach during Fletcher's tenure there.
As I wrote in the story, I see Fletcher going young and up-and-coming after witnessing the transformation Pittsburgh had under Dan Bylsma. These hockey players today are young. Look at 20-year-old James Sheppard, who just did not communicate very well with 63-year-old Jacques Lemaire. Sheppard even admitted it after last season with the infamous I've been playing hockey since I was 3 quote.
Some of these youngsters need coaches more in tune with their generation. These players today ask why, and instead of being told "because that's the way I told you to do it," sometimes you need to take 10 extra minutes and explain why.
I think Fletcher believes that, too. But I think right now Richards is the guy. Word in NHL circles is Fletcher and Ray Shero wanted Richards when they fired Michel Therrien this season but obviously couldn't get him out of San Jose in the middle of the season. Bylsma was only supposed to be interim so they could hire Richards. But Bylsma did such an amazing job, they extended his contract earlier in the playoffs. So I believe the Moose is the guy.
OK, I've got an early flight to the Big Island on Friday morning to cover the Kona Coffee Pickers against the Hilo Gilamonsters in the Hawaiian Hockey League, so I'll be reluctantly out of touch and will miss the Brown Fox's introduction to the "State of Hockey."
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Looking for places to try and sell wildlife photos too ... any suggestions to search for?
Writers and Artists Year Book might be your best bet. You will need clear and detailed captions and your pictures will need to be of rare or unusual creatures or pictures different in some way from the thousands that are contributed each year.
So many people give such pictures away these days for the thrill of seeing their name in print, so the market as such doesn't really exist except for those who have something unique to offer.
I think wildlife photography is a particularly tough area to break into if you want to make sales as an amateur, since it requires lots of time, dedication and, realistically, expense, if you want to compete with the abundance of competent professionals. These things are hard to come by if you're also working a 9 to 5 job, or living any kind of routine existence - a little easier if you've made a mint and have time on your hands. Other subjects are more accessible - easier to hone your skills on.
If wildlife is such a hard one to get into - where is all the money being spent ... I know weddings are big - not my thing ... but what else is out there ...
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It's not. Prices for pictures are way, way down. In 1980, one centre spread in the Mail was enough for me to pay my mortgage and live for a month. Today, they are paying less money than they did then. Weddings are not big, wedding photographers are struggling to make ends meet for the most part.
The digital camera has destroyed the picture market except for the very best who bring something special to the table. I presume you've contacted some professional wildlife photographers - surely they have told you how tough the market is?
I have spoken to many different people in the industry - and they all say not to get into it ... it is sounding like there is not a lot of jobs out there in the world that seems to pay enough to stay above water. Even IT doesn't seem to pay as much as it once did ... unless it is a government job of some sort.
Photography is loads of fun and I love being creative with it - it is too bad technology is wrecking the industry.
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It is a shame - on the other hand there are people out there making a living doing it and there is nothing to say you couldn't or wouldn't.
I'd also say that although technology ruins it in some ways, in the way that the Chinese word for crisis and opportunity are the same, it also turns up new possibilities.
I started a YouTube channel and I've found that I can earn money from it by sharing my professional experience with others. Plus I've written a couple of e-books and put stuff on Alamy. All this is bringing in dosh in the most enjoyable way. These are all possibilities opened up by technology.
Maybe you could use your experience of wild life photography in some left centre way? It may not be exactly what you want at first but things do grow if you are are good and you work at them. I'm almost certainly older than you (I'm older than everybody) so you have the time to develop something that I don't.
I guess i am needing to find something that works for me ... it is hard to figure out what works and what doesnt these days - what worked 6 months ago to get a sale doesn't seem to work right now ...
I love being outdoors taking photos of what I find and what jumps out at me - I would love to have a couple acres to setup some blinds and see what comes around - there is lots of prime land here in Ontario - just need the funds to get it.
I found selling prints was a LOT of work for LITTLE money
Sure you'd get the odd job where you made a bit, but you'd have a lot of ground work to do - often having to fit the things to get the deal...
Prefer to be having a laugh shooting with business owners
Think it's down to what you enjoy though - I like the whole challenge of "making people look semi human", others would rather eat sick than do it
I guess selling online the stock websites out there is one way to sell some of the photos that are taken - for little return yes ... but if you were to get a little return from that and a few other sources it wouldn't be to bad to start out till you get your self known in the industry and find your way in ... there are so many stock websites out there now and I know each of the site have millions of images on them - but I have sold a couple images in the past year online dreamtimes.com. It is better then nothing. 5$ more then I had yesterday ...
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I'd question that. Your approach seems passive, in common with thousands of contributors to online libraries like Dreamstime. Their business model is the reverse of effort equals reward - they give you a few crumbs for almost no effort on your part. But that's not an approach that is ever likely to fulfill ambitions of being regularly published or remotely well known - an obscene amount of work and ruthlessly objective view of your own pictures is a more likely recipe. That, and choosing the right library (or selling your own photos - a process that requires thick skin).
I've sold more stuff on Redbubble than anywhere else
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There are people who make money from the stock agencies. They do it by...lots of work entailing lots of thought to make story telling pictures, taking large numbers of pictures on lots of themes and ruthlessly slinging out anything sub-standard. In other words, if you are going to succeed in stock, see the quote above!
There are two models for a photographer's work, one for commissioned work and the other for spec. If you have ideas and drive, the spec work is far more rewarding in the long term. My accountant pointed out to me that I spent 60% of my time doing commissions yet it earned me only 30% of my income.
The spec work required research and effort but I think the days are gone when a man with a camera can earn much. A person with specialist knowledge of (say) the Pyrenean wildlife and habitat can easily learn to use a modern camera. A man with a camera will take a lot longer to learn about Pyrenean wildlife.
The camera nowadays is an adjunct to knowledge. In the past those with knowledge would employ a man with a camera to take their pictures. Now, they do it themselves. I don't know anything about corporate work or weddings, only the media. In my field you can make money by being a journalist with a camera, finding and researching stories. The days of the standalone have mostly gone.
Even the paps need networks of contacts and informants and fast acting agencies and sales people, you can't just walk in and do it. But even when I started out, the idea that you could just take pictures you liked and sell them to make a living was a pipe-dream. Take a look at any successful photographer you dream of emulating - the reality behind his or her pictures is, like the iceberg, 1/8th apparent and 7/8ths hidden under the surface.
Well to continue Lemmy's theme...
With the corporate work I've been doing, you're just trying to give businesses the "visual" edge over their competitors - often working along side web companies to produce images which make them just "look" better than the rest. So it's not really about creating art - but it is about being creative, if that makes sense. Do some dramatic 3-point lighting on a business owner, giving him a dramatic background, they're drooling like a blood hound
But its also about creating the right environment for people to relax into a shoot - even if you've just got 5 minutes, you can say and do a lot to get a decent shot. Women are harder - always worrying about wrinkles and chins
It's about niches.
If you can create a few photos people actually love, rather than tolerate, they put them on Linked IN, their website, tell all their contacts... But there's more to it than pointing your 1Dx with 70-200 F2.8 L IS and 580EX2 in their face
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Ultimately, Red Dawn is a fun film that knows enough not to try to be anything it's not. Most of the cast is solid, the action is good, and there's a nice sprinkling of legitimately funny moments throughout.
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This is a UFO i took a Photo of in my backyard on my Mobile. I got the feeling i was being watched and looked up to see a perfect triangle, a BIG triangle about 30 feet across. It was a darker black against the sky, all of sudden 3 lights came on & it stayed there for about a 90 seconds then sped off. It was there & then it wasn't.
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I was on the Hawkeye Nation web site checking out the latest in Iowa Hawkeye Basketball gossip and came across this gem of a signature line:
Heaven is Where: The Police are British, The Chefs are Italian, The Mechanics are German, The Lovers are French and It's all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is Where: The Police are German, The Chefs are British, The Mechanics are French, The Lovers are Swiss and It's all organized by the Italians.
I think this is absolutely hilarious!! (Does that make me racist? )
Well, it isn't exactly February 2nd, now is it? But maybe this little guy didn't know it either! Just after the Iowa Hawkeye Football game today, he was checking around the back yard looking for something to eat. He is a nice looking little fella, though! What do you think?
Listening to: Newsboys – I Am Free
via FoxyTunes
I got this email a while ago, but it's worth repeating now. Thanks, Judy!
A few weeks ago I was talking with an out of state friend. While we chatted, I kept talking about the upcoming Iowa game. He is not a big sports fan, and had never been to an Iowa Football game. He just could not understand my passion for Iowa Hawkeye Football. "What is the big deal about Iowa football? That is all I hear people talking about up here," he asked.
- Iowa Hawkeye Football is best described as a crisp fall day with 70,000+ people chanting I .. O .. W ..A.
- Hawkeye Football is seeing a 9 month old at the game dressed in black and gold and thinking "If I had only been so lucky…".
- Hawkeye Football is the 60 year old from Sioux City who drives 6 hours every Saturday to park his RV in somebody's yard and tailgate all day until the game.
- Hawkeye Football is wearing a black and gold shirt in Denver, CO and having somebody stick their head out of a car at a stoplight and scream "GO HAWKS!"
- Hawkeye Football is knowing at the tender age of 5 that the Cyclones are vicious evildoers to be hated, but having no idea why.
- Hawkeye Football is a guy like Dallas Clark, who walks onto the team, 3 years later is a star, leaves a year early to play in the NFL, but was SO DAMN NICE that nobody can begrudge him for it.
- Hawkeye Football is a guy like Shonn Greene, who came in with a scholarship but lost it due to bad grades, worked hard in the classroom so as not to let his teammates down and ended up leading the Big 10 in rushing, and never ONCE forgot to credit his teammates in helping him.
- Hawkeye Football is having one of your starting offensive lineman graduate to go to med school!
- Hawkeye Football is naming your firstborn son Hayden.
- Hawkeye Football is the little black and gold flags waving off of every car antenna caravanning up and down I-80 and I-380 every Saturday on their way to Iowa City.
- Hawkeye Football is the bricks of Kinnick and the grass on the field with the smell in the air of some kind of meat barbecuing that will soon be put on a stick and sold to a tanked undergrad who can no longer speak as they are hoarse from screaming from the front row of the student section.
- Hawkeye Football is 12 weeks of getting up at 6 a.m. on Saturday mornings, drinking Bloody Marys and eating a bowl of chili on Melrose before the sun comes up.
- Hawkeye Football is being anywhere in Iowa City on a Saturday afternoon and hearing a dull roar come through the air and thinking, "Hmmm, we must've scored".
- Hawkeye Football is not being able to get up and make it to your 8:00 class Monday through Friday, but managing to be in your favorite Iowa City parking lot with a cold beer in hand before 6:00 on Saturday.
- Hawkeye Football is sitting in Kinnick with your out of state friend and have him turn to you and scream through the roar of the crowd, "I've never seen anything like this before … it's amazing."
No, it's Iowa Hawkeye Football.
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I got this as a forward, and it really rings with truth. (Thanks, Jim!)
As I watched the news coverage of the massive flooding in the Midwest with over 100 blocks of the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, under water with the levees breaking, and the attention now turned downstream for when this massive amount of water hits the Mississippi, what amazed me is not what we saw, but what we didn't see…
- We don't see looting.
- We don't see street violence.
- We don't see people sitting on their rooftops waiting for the government to come and save them.
- We don't see people waiting on the government to do anything.
- We don't see Hollywood organizing benefits to raise money for people to rebuild.
- We don't see people blaming President Bush.
- We don't see people ignoring evacuation orders.
- We don't see people blaming a government conspiracy to blow up the levees as the reason some have not held.
- We don't see the US Senators or the Governor of Iowa crying on TV.
- We don't see the Mayors of any of these cities complaining about the lack of state or federal response.
- We don't see or hear reports of the police going around confiscating personal firearms so only the criminal will be armed.
- We don't see gangs of people going around and randomly shooting at the rescue workers.
- You don't see some leaders in this country blaming the bad behavior of the Iowa flood victims on 'society' (of course there are no wide spread reports of lawlessness to require excuses).
Iowa vs. Louisiana
- Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?
- Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved the problem?
- Asking where the FEMA trucks (and trailers) are?
- Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?
- When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines?
- Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?
- Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen television sets?
- When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a 'vanilla' Iowa, because that's the way God wants it?
- Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of cannibalism?
- Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people?
- How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again?


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If I was a flier I would be jealous of her too, but nope I'm just jealous of her bases.
The moment when there's no feet on the mat
I say about 97% of this. oh my god.
ohmygod i love this<3
wow… ive said everything on this before
Base: As a base it's your job to throw, lift, carry, catch, and hold the flyer. You have to throw your flyer into the air where they flip and turn down to where you catch them. You cannot let you flyer hit the ground, wanna know why? a deduction. As a base you take the bottoms of the flyers shoes…
Dear Mother,
From dinosaurs,
to the dodo,
you've seen many children
come and go.
From asteroids,
to an ice age
you've kept up your pace.
Have you expected the
human race?
Hunting and gathering,
domesticating and fornicating,
we spread all over your land
poisoning everywhere…
Thousand Ways - The Tallest Man On Earth
The Greatest Speech Ever Made
i encourage all of you to watch this.
|Loren Eiseley, Star Thrower (via lightofevolution)
The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs.


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Free-ness Quotient: Available everywhere, becoming more free, Starbucks can be a welcome break from office/home
Techie Money Saving Tip: For those that have Blackberry phones with data packages, look into tethering to get on the Internet. In a pinch, you'll have Internet access anywhere you need it - and it won't cost you any more money because most people generally don't use all of their data allotment. Don't waste money on an Internet Stick.
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Free-ness Quotient: Very mature, lots to choose from, more free options will arrive in future
Techie Money Saving Tip: Make common-sense and healthy dose of paranoia a you're main source of anti-virus protection. Applications that scan for unwanted programs are nowhere near as effective at protecting your computer than you are.
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Techie Money Saving Tip: Google also owns one of the most powerful spam filtering services, when paired with Google Apps Standard - you have a free solution that can effectively cost companies in the thousands of dollars.
#4 - Office Package - This is probably one of the most insane categories of free applications that I see people pay way too much for! I have seen people actually running illegitimate copies of an Office package over a more useful free alternative. If you are paying for Microsoft Office, STOP, and take a serious look at these alternatives. Google's Apps Standard comes with an online version of a very powerful word processor and storage space for your files - I highly recommend it. Other free alternatives are the powerful OpenOffice package from sun, the lightweight AbiWord, the online package from Zoho. Worried about Microsoft office support? All of these applications include support for Microsoft Office documents.
Free-ness Quotient: Great, really no need to continue using Microsoft's Office unless you have very specific requirements.
Techie Money Saving Tip: All of the above Microsoft alternatives are MUCH faster to load and use on your computer than the very bloated Microsoft Office applications. Not only are they free, but you'll likely save time using them. Also, look to some powerful collaboration tools from Google's constantly improving apps suite.
#5 - Open File Backups - What used to be the bastion of very expensive backup applications is now something within reach of almost every Windows user. Most people are unaware of the fact that they have the built-in ability to not only backup files, but backup files that are actually open (if they wanted to). This is possible due to the service in Windows called Shadow Copy - that makes copies of files on your drive, allowing you to restore if required. Using this powerful service in conjunction with a free utility called Hobocopy, you can backup and copy files including any that are OPEN to a location you decide.
Free-ness Quotient: Very free, a must-have utility
Techie Money Saving Tip: Using "Scheduled Tasks" and a basic batch file and Hobocopy - it's very easy to automate the process of backing up all of your data files to another computer or an external drive.
#6 - Long Distance Calls - This is a no-brainer. Who doesn't want free long distance calls? The large phone companies charge way too much for long distance, so it about time you found ways to fight back and not pay! Please note, this is from a Canadian perspective, where Google Voice is not yet available. One way to get free long distance is use the relativity new GOOGE411 service. Call the toll free number (1-800-466-4411) and use this service like a 411 call. The best part is that when you have the right number, GOOG411 connects you directly to the number, wherever it is!
Take a look at this video for more details:
Free-ness Quotient: Relatively new, expect more services to follow
Techie Money Saving Tip: Many phone plans today include free incoming calls. If you make a large amount of long distance calls to a single location, consider using a call-back service that can save you airtime and long distance charges.
#7 - Document Management System - This is a more advanced application - you aren't likely to require this unless you need a more powerful ability to manage a large number of documents and search within them. Some of the paid-for application in this market segment include Microsoft's Sharepoint and niche applications like Primafact . What many don't know, however, is that there are open source alternatives that can stack up to these applications quite well. The open source Alfreco Community release is an incredibly robust and powerful document management system that can save companies looking to manage their large number of documents.
Here's a quick video on what Alfresco is about:
Free-ness Quotient: Very mature and likely to stick around for some time
Techie Money Saving Tip: A trip to the Alfresco Forums can provide you with ideas on how you can extend the product. Active Directory integration and file format support are among the more useful extensions to the product.
#8 - Remote Access - If you support a number of computers for your clients or you are a user who needs remote access - this is an important function of what you do. Over the years, this has changed drastically from when paid applications ruled the day. Today, you should take a look at the freely available LogMeIn remote access tool. You'll pay for more advanced tools like file transfer and printing - but the basic core process of remote access with LogMeIn is completely free.
Free-ness Quotient: Very mature and improving. LogMeIn also traverses firewalls, a major improvement to providing remote access. Mac support is in Beta.
Techie Money Saving Tip: If you have servers to support - consider using LogMein in conjunction with Remote Desktop Services (on different ports) for supporting the servers fast and for free.
#9 - Virtual Machine - What's a Virtual machine? This is the wonderful ability to run a computer within your computer (if you will). You may use this for a number of reasons, probably the most powerful reason would be to test and application you don't trust completely. If that application doesn't work or install correctly or contains viruses, just delete the Virtual Machine (or use what's called a snapshot) and your computer is not effected by the problem. Today you can get this for free from Sun using their very powerful VirtualBox application.
Take a look at VirtualBox in action:
Free-ness Quotient: Very mature today, Virtualization is set to become more pervasive
Techie Money Saving Tip: Of you support servers and are looking to consolidate or save companies money - look to the Free Vmware ESXi server offering - you can virtualize a number of server for no cost on this platform.
#10 - ScreenCasting - Have you ever wanted to share what was on your screen with other people or you IT administrator? Doing this today may require jumping trough some hoops and, sadly, paying for file storage or services you don't need. The online application provided by ScreenToaster is a free way to record your local screen and share it with others (just as I have above). I highly recommend this tool.
Free-ness Quotient: Very free, and extrememly easy to use
Techie Money Saving Tip: Screen Shots and Screen Casts are incredibly powerful ways to provide you IT support person with information they meed to solve your issue. Giving them access to see what your problems are can save you hours of labor time.
Other free stuff worth checking out: It is possible to get free basic SSL certificates using this method. Looking for a method to encrypt data on your disk or USB key? TrueCrypt does that and it's free. If you are a Rogers customer - you can get free movies on demand using Rogers On Demand.
That's my list - do you have any other great free tools that you use? Can you suggest something I might have missed?


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This video of Roswell High School teachers dancing to "Thriller" in flash mob fashion during a pep rally is fun. I showed it to my husband, and he assumed that the Zombie dancers were all students. That either speaks to how old he is or how youthful and winsome Roswell teachers are. (I vote for the latter.)
The reader who shared this Oct, 28 video said, "The students loved it and it was the highlight of the pep rally."
Enjoy. I am going back to cajoling my kids to share their Halloween Almond Joys. –Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
November 1st, 2011
12:54 am
Hmmmmph…. DHS teachers could totally out dance them!
November 1st, 2011
6:36 am
Great! The principal allows the teachers a sense of fun and whimsy! Loved it!
November 1st, 2011
7:14 am
Teachers didn't look like these do when I was in high school. Most were matronly with hair in a little bun on the back of their heads. And they certainly couldn't and wouldn't do a dance at a pep rally.
November 1st, 2011
7:50 am
Nice to see them all having a little fun! What a serious place school has become with a daily dose of doldrums. We neglect to capitalize on one of children's greatest strengths- a sense of joy and adventure. Thank you Roswell HS!
November 1st, 2011
10:04 am
I agree with Jack as my teachers didn't look like that either. Great job by the Roswell High staff as this brought a big smile to my face.
November 1st, 2011
10:25 am
Many teachers I had in high school could have passed for zombies…Just sayin'
November 1st, 2011
4:07 pm
I used to teach at RHS a few years ago, so I think this is great. I'm sure the faculty has changes quite a bit, but there were some great teachers on board who I know are still there.
November 3rd, 2011
8:17 pm
@ catlady- The principal is awesome!!!
November 3rd, 2011
10:07 pm
Had I read this the day it was posted, I would have brought you all the Almond Joys we acquired on Halloween….no one in our home eats coconut.


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Good red wine for cooking
I am making a braised short rib dish and it needs 3 bottles of wine! Any suggestions on a good wine to use? In the past for other braised dishes, I've used a $10 cotes-du-rhone from Safeway with good results, and some meh results on a $13 bottle of barolo from TJ.
Since I need so much wine, wondering if I can make do with maybe the cheaper cotes-du-rhone bottles I've seen at both TJ and World Market. On one hand, I don't want to spend too much money (seems a waste to use a $20-30 bottle for a sauce...would much rather drink it), but on the other hand, don't want to have a blah sauce due to bad wine. I heard the general rule is don't cook with something you wouldn't drink.
Any advice on a good cooking wine ($5-10 range) would be really appreciated. Thanks!
re: farmersdaughter
I wound up using the Fleurie Cotes du Rhone from TJ ($5.99) and it worked out great! Thanks all for your tips!
I hope this New York Times link works.
If not, in 2007 the author made a risotto with 2 pricey reds and 2 Buck Chuck from TJ's. the winner was the inexpensive Shaw.
boy, 3 bottles seems like a great deal of wine for braised short ribs--unless you're cooking a mighty big batch, for a dozen guests, perhaps. my favorite recipes for such braises include a nice 3-veg base, tomato paste, tomatoes, herbs, garlic, good stock and maybe a bottle of wine for, say, 4 lbs of meat.
in recent years braised short ribs have become an upscale humble offering. still, their origin is down to earth and they needn't require showcase wine. sure you could put in a nice barolo, but i don't. i'd choose a full-bodied south american blend--eg casillero del toro reserva privada at about $15-- or the same vintner's straight cabernet at about $10. i would quite decidedly not use a similarly and modestly priced cote de rhone in such a braise.
re: silverhawk
I agree, 3 bottles is A LOT of wine to be using in a braise. Braising does not mean the meat is totally submerged, in fact it should be "a small amount of liquid", according to Barron's Food Lover's Companion. More than that would be poaching, like making a soup. My favorite short rib recipe calls for 2 bottles of beer, 2 cups of stock and 1/4 cup of vinegar, for 6-8 lbs of beef short ribs. And it makes a deliciously luxurious sauce, plenty with leftovers.
Are you marinating it in the wine or just cooking with it? Marinating, imho, meat to then braise is a waste of time. Anyway, use a red wine you like to drink, it does not have to be expensive. I love a fruity Beaujolais or zinfandel for this type of dish, would not waste a good cab or pinot noir, since you won't ever detect any of the complexities of that wine.
re: Phurstluv
Here are the cooking "creds" of a chef that uses 3 bottles of wine and the recipe from his cookbook.
re: wolfe
I'm not questioning any chefs' creds.
And in the recipe you linked, the first thing they do is reduce the amount of wine. So technically, the ribs are being braised in 1 1/2 bottles, not 3. Even with the 3 qts of stock, seems like a lot of liquid for 8 ribs. The instructions also state to lift the lid, every 1/2 hour to skim. That's one way to lose a lot of liquid, and heat.
Anyway, everyone seems to have a favorite recipe for short ribs. Mine, btw, is from another chef with great creds, Gordon Hamersley.
re: Phurstluv
IME, lifting the lid and skimming is to skim the fat, of which short ribs produce more than any other cut.
re: shanagain
yes, I read that. Fat can easily be skimmed while resting the meat and reducing the sauce. There are fat separating cups (like a large measuring with the spout at the bottom) that do this quite easily w/out opening the oven, uncovering the pot, and standing there, skimming boiling hot liquid.
re: Phurstluv
Actually the skimming appears unnecessary if one follows this advice from the recipe: It's best to make the recipe to this point, cool and chill the ribs and broth in the pan overnight; scrape off the fat the next day. Rewarm before continuing."
re: Phurstluv
Technically you must start with 3 bottles of wine to get the concentrated flavor in 1 1/2 bottles.
There is no such thing as a "good cooking wine". Cooking wines are usually made from stuff that nobody would buy to drink and it has salt added. It isn't fit for pigswill.
The only reliable method for selecting a wine for cooking, as you obviously already know, is; "if you wouldn't drink it, don't cook with it". But that doesn't mean you have to spend $15+ for a wine to use as a cooking ingredient.
There are some fair (not great) wines available through outlets like Trader Joe's in the $5 per bottle range that work well as cooking ingredients. Also, "red wine" is pretty generic description for a cooking ingredient. A red Port is pretty sweet; Carbernet is often quite dry; its red. Big difference there ...
re: KaimukiMan
todao, the recipe actually calls for "dry red wine" (as I posted below), I guess almost all the wine I drink is "dry" so that's what I was thinking when I posted, but I probably shouldn't make the assumption that it's true for everyone else. ;-)
It does seems like some of the other people who've tried this have had some success making it from port as well, though I usually don't use port/sherry unless I want some sweetness in my sauce.
And yes, as KaimukiMan mentioned, I meant wine for cooking, not cooking wines...I figure if it's something I'd pour down the drain (I gotta admit, I've done that with a few sub-$10 bottles, including 2-buck chuck), I probably shouldn't flavor my meat with it. :-)
re: arlenemae
That is probably because you didn't use vintage Wednesday 2 Buck Chuck. That is probably the best day. ;-))
I use Mirassou Pinot Noir in a lot of things - it has a strong peppery taste to it from the glass, so keep that in mind. It should run around $7 at your local WalMart-type store.
I'm also a fan of Rex Goliath 47lb Rooster pinot noir - but lately it's been really hit or miss, so take that with a grain of salt.
See if you can find an inexpensive Argentinian malbec, that might work for you. I can usually find it for about $8.99/bottle near me (Boston area). Alamos makes a good basic malbec - soft blackberry fruitiness, and a black pepper spice to it, but a nice soft mouthfeel - it doesn't "coat the tongue".
Thanks all for the responses. I guess I will go hunting at TJ's...
In case anyone's curious, this is the recipe I'm using:
I've made this once using 1/4 the recipe just for me and the hubby so I didn't have to use so much wine before (see the attached pic for how it looked!)...this is my first time making the full recipe since I'm doing it for a dinner party .
I think the reason it asks for so much is that you actually reduce the wine by half in the very beginning. It does result in an extremely tasty sauce, at least the last time I made it...back then I went with the Cook's Illustrated recommendation of a $10 cotes-du-rhone for these type of braises, which is fine for one bottle. I just wasn't sure I wanted to spend $30 just for the wine going into the sauce and wondering whether I could cut corners a bit here.
3 bottles might still be overkill though (as some of the commenters in the recipe have mentioned), considering you add beef broth to the braising liquid as well.
re: arlenemae
Funny, that recipe looks hauntingly familiar.
re: arlenemae
you'd need a mighty sophisticated sense of taste to be rewarded by a high end wine cooked out with the modified mirepoix, 10 cloves of garlic and the acidic tomato. still, as a matter of personal preference, i'd rather use a smaller initial volume of modest, well-made wine rather than reduce 3 bottles of bargain wine--unless you know it is ok. reducing by half will likely exaggerate otherwise tolerable--or unnoticed-- imperfections
re: silverhawk
As noted in the Times article linked above, the properties that make a better drinking wine do not always result in a better wine for cooking.
re: wolfe
Agree with both of you. I don't want to go too high-end that it'll be a waste of money and might even make things worse, but then I'm also afraid if I go too cheaply on the wine, especially with reducing it so much, it might exaggerate some undesirable qualities in the wine as silverhawk mentioned.
I guess I'm just trying to find a balance here...wish me luck!


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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > Sing It Like the Kids That Are Mean to You
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Anticipation, coffee shop prejudice, and cliffhanger endings.
Sing It Like the Kids That Are Mean to You
(#) DangerDays_ 2011-01-05 02:54:11 AMthe whole 'Illegal things are fun' bit made me laugh :D
I'm addicted to this, please update soon :D
Author's response:) that was kind of a nod at all the incest that goes on in other stories (wink, wink). and i'm addicted to writing it, so there we go! Thanks a million!
Sing It Like the Kids That Are Mean to You
(#) AstroSkull 2011-01-05 02:00:55 PMThat was awesome! :DD
-squeals like an idiot-
I wonder what Gerards gonna say!
Cant wait for another update, really, im loving how this story is going :)
Author's responsehaha! thanks! I love leaving you all hanging, but I'll try to put out a longer chapter this weekend...;)
Sing It Like the Kids That Are Mean to You
(#) Oblivious 2011-01-08 03:33:54 AMI just found this fic and I LOVE it! Every chapter leaves me craving more. It's so realistic and I you don't rush anything, if you know what I mean.
Anyway enough of my rambling...I can't wait for the next chapter!
"Favourites, adds to alerts, then runs off to rate"
Author's responseOh thank you! that's so sweet, I'm always really worried people will lose interest unless every chapter contains tons of sex :) Next chapter should be out sometime tonight, hopefully! Enjoy xo


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BOSTON (May 7, 2014) – Right Turn, a local nonprofit that provides an innovative program offering intensive outpatient treatment and supportive housing in a uniquely creative environment for treating addictions and mental health, is pleased to announce the grand opening of their new Women's Extended Care Program for Addiction. The new program will provide a safe, stable, and sober environment for women throughout Boston seeking treatment from addiction.
"Research has shown that women require special attention for the distinct issues that complicate their addiction(s) and recovery processes," states Mark Albanese MD, Medical Director of Right Turn. "Our program strives to meet female clients where they are in their recovery process and help them safely navigate the early months of sobriety."
The new four- to six-month program uses Right Turn's highly structured group therapy model to provide women with comprehensive and ongoing care from a dedicated clinical team with expertise in psychiatry, internal medicine, family support, and addiction counseling. Additionally, participants will learn to manage financial budgeting, nutrition, physical exercise, conflict resolution, creativity, and community involvement. The program will also allow female clients the opportunity to engage in the dynamic community that is attached to Right Turn, with activities ranging from self-help support groups to live music events.
There will be an open-house event on Thursday, May 15, 2014 from 11a.m. to 3 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend and learn more about Right Turn's approach to recovery, for more information please call: 781-646-3800. The program address of the residence will be provided upon RSVP.
About Right Turn, Inc.
Right Turn is a 501c3 nonprofit established in March of 2003. Right Turn is a welcoming place where creative people in recovery can experience a sense of purpose and belonging. Right Turn's programs are designed to address underlying issues that lead to addictive behavior and focus on the personal, creative treatment options. Within the extensive services provided, the faculty also helps a recovering addict build the life skills essential to living an independent and sober life. For this reason, the hallmark of Right Turn's innovative addiction services is a combination of traditional evidence-based treatment and unique creativity groups.


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Natural resources in the arid environment are declining its productivity and require special attention, and if the ecological condition persists, a further decline in resources may result in land degradation. Therefore we should look for the optimum solution regarding the land-use planning. Remote sensing has shown greater potential in agricultural mapping and monitoring due to its advantages over traditional procedures in terms of cost effectiveness and timeliness in the availability of information over larger areas. GIS become a flexible and powerful tool than conventional data processing systems, as it provides a mean for manipulating and combining datasets. The objective of the study is to find out the agro-land suitability zones for the major economic crops of that area. Land suitability evaluation is the process of assessing the land for specific use. The terrain characteristics, soil quality and climatic conditions are the important for land suitability evaluations. The suitability for various potential land uses is identified in relation to individual crop requirements. Landuse requirements are described by the land qualities needed for sustained production. The land evaluation was formulated with the objective of classifying units objective of classifying units of land as to their suitability for combining economic crops using GIS and remotely sensed data. The study area, Vellore district covers extensively in the Palar Basin, Northern TamilNadu. The major economic crops in this area are rice and sugarcane. Crop suitability is a result of both agro-climatic units and agro-edaphic evaluation. The topographical details to be analyzed for suitability mapping include slope, soil type, soil depth, soil texture, soil moisture regime, water availability, mean annual precipitaion and number of dry months. The suitability is based on the FAO framework for Land Evaluation. The various thematic layers are overlaid to create land units of unique characteristics. The factor ratings and values for each agro-land characteristics are done using AHP technique. Suitability distribution (very suitable, suitable, moderately suitable, marginally suitable and not suitable) with regard to rainfed and irrigated conditions are obtained. Land suitability mapping can be used as a guideline in agricultural planning and for developing and driving a best practice systems to achieve a scale of operations.


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With the ugliness of the NHL lockout and a shortened season long washed away by the excitement of a new and complete year ahead, we're re-launching The Dreger Report, a weekly dispatch on NHL news and views.
This week, TSN's Ryan Rishaug reported that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins' agent Rick Valette and Oilers management have begun negotiations on a contract extension.
The brass in Edmonton loves RNH - he's their guy. He's considered a big part of the Oilers' future.
An eight-year extension to complement Jordan Eberle's six-year, $36 million and Taylor Hall's seven-year, $42 million deal (agreed to last August) aligns with an Oilers source who says, "longer is better" - specific to Nugent-Hopkins.
It's not the model other teams around the NHL are using when addressing their players and their second (bridge) contracts, but Edmonton is clearly banking on its youth when it comes to a brighter future.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly and NHLPA Executive Director Don Fehr will meet with the IIHF in Portugal on Thursday.
Whether discussed at this meeting or not, there's a growing sense of urgency in determining the NHL's plans to continue to expand its European profile.
While it's not CBA related, the NHL and NHLPA did agree to work together to send four NHL teams back to Europe next fall for regular season games. Sources say there has been little progress in planning the NHL's return and time may be running out. NHL clubs are already making plans for their 2014 training camps and preseason games and the marketing impact required may suffer because of the loose ends.
The World Cup of Hockey is also on the list of items that IIHF executives would like to discuss this week.
Without question, both the NHLPA and the NHL are keenly interested in bringing this spectacle back, however, aside from some informal discussions, there appears to be little urgency to kick this joint initiative into high gear.
And a couple of things that will likely be re-visited by the players and the league in the months ahead:
1) The additional two-minute penalty for removing a helmet to fight - There may not be a more "toothless" penalty in hockey than this one. The idea of a game misconduct was discussed, however, before it crossed the desk of the competition committee and sources say it had already been dismissed by NHL GMs.
It's unlikely the PA would have supported it, as players still value the enforcers role. But in its current form, it appears to be a wash as those who opt for "buckets off" will only do so if their opponent agrees. The rule is designed for the safety of the players and to avoid the potential for catostrophic injury. We get it, but two minutes seems hardly an effective deterrent.
2) Delaying the inevitable expansion of video review - NHL Hockey Operations postponed implementation of video review for high-sticking penalties after agreeing to introduce it in the summer. The league doesn't see the issue as clear-cut and believes more time is needed to explore the downside of adding an extra set of eyes.
Boston and Montreal provided a good example on Monday of why the concept was initially accepted when Boston scored while Montreal as serving a double-minor for high-sticking. Unfortunately, it was Boston's Carl Soderberg who clipped teammate Craig Cunningham and not Canadiens forward Gabriel Dumont - who was assessed the four-minute penalty.
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Poverty as a Weapon of Mass Destruction and the Economic Policies That Loaded the Chamber
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer
Waking Times
80% of the entire world population lives on less than $10 a day. Even if you live in a country where a gallon of gasoline doesn't cost around $3.50, and a McDonald's 'Happy' Meal – one of the worst and most nutritionally deficient, but arguably, cheapest meals around – costs about $5, that leaves you $2 and some change to eat another meal, pay rent and medical expenses, or perhaps buy your seven year old a birthday present. That small amount of money might leave your pockets feeling a little empty – in truth it's the recipe for poverty, and it hasn't happened by accident. To the majority of people in the world, it was planned and executed with steely perfection by the 2% at the top of the corporate food chain.
Some top-down economists will blame the poor in the US, as if they are a class of their own, for being lazy, or that the single moms are to blame for having so many children out of wedlock that they have to apply for help from the state, draining tax payer funds. Still others will say that world populations are just used to being 'working-class' and aren't intelligent enough to garner jobs which pay higher wages. You would think that with the invention of the Internet, someone in Bangladesh or Laos would be able to make what a middle manager in the US earns, as long as they had similar skills. This simply is not the case.
"Behind the increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization are global decisions, policies and practices. These are typically influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful. These can be leaders of rich countries or other global actors, such as multinational corporations, institutions, and influential people.
In the face of such enormous external influence, the governments of poor nations and their people are often powerless. As a result, in the global context, a few get wealthy while the majority struggle." (GlobalIssues.org)
This doesn't even take into consideration the cost of wars, which are waged over illusory issues to control natural resources, and the poverty that ensues in countries that are damaged by war's effects.
Global poverty is highlighted in our own country and explained well in the Senate-issued Levin–Coburn Report. It states that:
"The '07/'08 [financial] crisis [which we are still recovering from] was not a natural disaster, but the result of high risk, complex financial products; undisclosed conflicts of interest; and the failure of regulators, the credit rating agencies, and the market itself to rein in the excesses of Wall Street."
In 2007, more than 91% of AAA-rated mortgage securities were down-graded to junk status. This means an investment that was once thought to be right as rain was now as sound as a drunken night in Vegas at the roulette tables. This security went from AAA to –Z overnight. The sad truth is that the market makers knew they were 'junk' investments all along. Levin says, "Looking back, if any single event can be identified as the immediate trigger of the 2007 financial crisis, it would be the mass downgrades. . . those downgrades hit the market like a hammer, making it clear that [they] had been a colossal mistake." Credit raters and banks knew all along those investments would tank. An interesting study from Stanford University on a Sovereign (National) Fiscal Responsibility Index collaborates Levin's assertions, saying banks and brokers are "deliberately misrepresented by the players."
The Stanford study compared 34 nations that belong to the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the so-called 'BRIC' nations – the emerging financial powers of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Fiscal responsibility was measured in the study by various factors including revenue rules (tax law), international and national debt, and so forth. All 34 nations, as well as the BRIC nations, were shown to participate in the methodical stripping away of a middle class and the wide-spread creation of poverty.
What is even more disheartening is that the more a person struggles with poverty, the more they are often marginalized from society and given little voice or representation in larger political debates and the law-making that affect their state of wealth. This can make the 'American dream' the impossible hog-wash for many and, as far as international poverty standards are concerned, extraordinarily difficult to rise above the mayhem on less than $2 a day.
In the US, the more poor there are, the easier it is for lawmakers to pass bills that promote corporate greed and million dollar bonuses, while ignoring gross negligence when it comes to fiscal responsibility. The same is true in other nations. If a CEO gets paid an average of $7000 an hour, or 350 times his or her workers, it could be said that those running our corporations are more like slave owners than fair, contributing members of society. For example, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has a total annual compensation of just under $101 million, which breaks down to about $48,548 per hour, or about $809 per minute.
It isn't laziness that has caused worldwide poverty, it is the disenfranchisement of millions through the perpetuation of corporate greed. Even the mega-corporation of Ben & Jerry's, makers of the popular ice cream, once had a 5 to 1 board member ruling that the CEO would be limited to a 5 to 1 ratio of earnings over his lowest paid worker, but the company ditched this practice when they couldn't find anyone to replace Ben Cohen, the CEO that worked for just $81,000 a year. At $2 a day, that's still $80,270 more than billions of people earn every year, and only the poor die young.
"People who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder (indicated by their level of education, occupation, or income) have shorter and less healthy lives, on average, than those on higher rungs. Indeed, life expectancy at birth often varies by 5-10 years, depending on social and economic well-being, with poorer people spending 10-20 more years of life suffering from illness or disability than their wealthier counterparts." (Project Syndicate)
Poverty is in fact, quite a weapon of mass destruction.
About the Author
Christina Sarich is a musician, yogi, humanitarian and freelance writer who channels many hours of studying Lao Tzu, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rob Brezny, Miles Davis, and Tom Robbins into interesting tidbits to help you Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga.
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Well said, so true, so simple and so unjust and cruel.
Where I live (Australia) they keep me poor by restricting access to land, Australia has Huge amounts of utterly unused land that is not suitable for conventional agriculture hence changes hands for only dollars per acre – but it's only traded in lots of tens or hundreds of thousands of acres – I only need ten acres to live on and build a permaculture but it's impossible to get.
John, I think you should start a website, build a society of one thousand families that have the same dream, and collectively buy 10,000 acres of land. Problem solved.
Where is the solution? What is the problem?
Questions I ponder as a sixty year old white male in America making less than 10 dollars a day yet feeling and knowing myself to be the world's wealthiest person…the paradox of sanity vs insanity in today's 'culture' is very interesting. It is the artist who will bring balance to the world. It is the artist who will teach the wisdom within the truth of balance..or peace as I know it to be.
Thank you Christina for sharing your rich perspective on the truth of your wisdom…I look forward to experiencing and knowing all your geniusness. Blessings.
Oh yeah, someone forgot to tell this author that life is not fair. If it were, Jesus would be leading the entire world, and we would all want to do good to our fellow man just so Jesus would be proud of us. We wouldn't have needs or wants, Jesus would provide them for us, just like his sermon on the mount when he broke bread and divided fish to feed the masses. Corporations aren't Jesus. They are here to build profit for their shareholders. If a byproduct of that happens to be 80% of the world living on less than $10 a day,and you want to open my mind, which is clearly already opened, then you need to start a revolution and feed the tree of liberty some elitist blood. Complaining about it won't get you anywhere.
billy jo….someone forgot to tell you ………….
there is more than enough food, resources and power, energy etc etc etc infinite etc´s for everyone on this earth…it is just some very ugly, arrogant, selfish, greedy, ignorant parasites on wall street that see their lives as infinitely more important and chosen than everyone elses life.
they live only to get more money and even more money when they already have almost all of it anyway…that is the whole thing….these parasites gamble on failure of crops and social objectives to gain even more money.
with that money they buy people like you!
people who are willing to trample on others with their " darwinian " survival of the fittest BS to justify their completely pathological need to control.
people who are not forced to compete, live harmonious lives and rich constructive and creative lives as the universe wants us to live….these parasites in wall street will one day wake up to find out that they are being thrown out of yet another country….the worm turns is not an old saying for nothing!!!!!!!
Yes, just turn the guns around and carry on the class war – continue the violence and misery.
You mentioned Jesus. He said "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand". Close enough to touch that is. The way to it costs nothing – needs no armies, no firing squads….Jesus did tell (and show) us the way – love one another.
billy jo, I don't know how it is in Australia but around here in the US, the government has 'zoning laws' which prevent poor people from doing as you suggest. You don't seem to understand that under a fascist dictatorship, the game is always rigged.
"When poverty knocks on the door,
love flies out the window"
- old Polish proverb
I find this article rather shallow. Poverty is a very complex issue. It has existed as long as humanity itself, and so it always shall. I agree that "the system" has problems. But at the same time, anybody can become the next Eric Schmidt you referenced so narrowly. You mention nothing of how he started, nor of how much he gives to charity, mentoring programs and other worthy causes. In my opinion, that is very unfair. Governments in much of the world, in the REAL poverty centers, are corrupt, even more than our own. Here in America, we all still live in the land of opportunity. Hard work and intelligent choices generally result in success. Perhaps not billionaire "success", but success nonetheless. Smart investments, instead of buying a new iPhone every year; saving for emergencies instead of going out for drinks and/or expensive meals twice a week; buying a car that gets better milage instead of something that cost more than some people's homes…. choices people make are important. I know, personally, many people who never attended college, yet they earn a fair living and are financially comfortable. I know plenty of others who always have to have the latest gadgets, the latest fashions, more more more…. and they have a lot of debt and little or no savings. It is irresponsible living. And they all whine about how "the rich" are so evil. I have news for you: many rich people are GOOD people. Unfortunately, there are too many bad apples, and they get more attention in the media than the others. There are countless entrepreneurs in the world who worked years for little or nothing and risked everything they owned to build a business. Now they employ many people, and do a lot of good in the world. Not all, of course, but lots of them do a lot of good. Yet the hourly workers they employ complain endlessly about how unfair it is that the owner is successful. America has become a nation of far too much entitlement mentality. There are too many people who refuse to put in the effort to improve their own life. It is by their own choices that they remain trapped in poverty, in far too many cases. Don't get me wrong…. I know some people have a genuinely tough time, and simply can not do better. And we should ALL be helping those people. But the level of dedication, honor and integrity in America has fallen. There are so many resources for people, that excuses are often lame. Education is available for free, if one looks and works at it. Mentors are available. Government and private funding is available. I know a young man who wanted to get into Carnegie-Mellon University, but his father had abandoned the family when he was very young, and his mother had many health issues, and consequently could never hold a full time job. But over the years he worked hard, studied, and when a junior in high school he began researching how to raise funds to go to college. He succeeded in 100% funding though grants and saving money from part time summer jobs. Zero student loans. He graduated near the top of his class a couple years ago. He has a very good job, and earns a high salary. Lots of people think it is unfair. I think he deserves every penny of it.
You are quite clueless.
Why have THEY been expelled from 108 nations?
They dont call them 'Nation Wreckers' for nothing…
Is Madagascar or Birobijan humane? Or must we live with them?
" Poverty is a very complex issue. It has existed as long as humanity itself, and so it always shall"
No. It hasn't, it has only existed as long as money has existed, people in communities worked together to help provide for each other. Today its called Barter.
On a different note:
"It is the artist who will bring balance to the world. It is the artist who will teach the wisdom within the truth of balance..or peace as I know it to be"
Artists as I know them to be, have a great respect for what "just is", the energy of life, the energy of love, and they pass that on through their art – wisdom – teachings.
They have since the beginning of time. Including through rock paintings and Petroglyphs.
HUGS to all, and more HUGS to those who want to argue (about anything, or just having a bad day).


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