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The main substances in Horse balsam are:
Comfrey (Symphytum Officinale L.)
- Comfrey was the main equipment of the Greek and Roman "war bonesetters" (it brings the flesh to grow). In the Middle Ages, comfrey was commonly used to cure bone fractures, which gave rise to its common name. Grated roots were used in the same way as plaster today. The root mash sets as quickly as plaster
- Its major importance consists in its external application. It is used in the form of a compress for bruises, venous inflammations, chronic diseases, gout and varicose veins. It helps bone fracture union as well as healing of wounds, swellings, ulcers and haemorrhages. Comfrey encourages the healing tissue production, however it should not be used for deep wounds as it accelerates the surface healing before the wound is able to heal inside, which can cause abscess formation. In herbalism it is widely recommended for open varicosities and crural ulcers. It is also used as tincture or in the form of healing oils.
- Effective substances: allantoin, asparagine, laziocarpine, methylpyrinine, essential oils, tannins, a number of other alkaloids.
- In the Horse balsam formula it is used to:
improve blood circulation, stimulate regeneration, speed up healing of swellings, stimulate broken bone regeneration
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus Hippocastanum L.)
- Horse chestnut is a tall tree originally coming from the Balkans. It was imported to our region in the 18th century. It was first described as a herb by Matthioli in the 16th century. In 1615 a French traveller brought it from Istanbul and planted it in Paris. During the subsequent 100 years it spread over the whole of Europe. Californian Indians threw crushed chestnut fruits in lakes and rivers to intoxicate fish which could then be more easily fished. In 1896 there was a reference to its healing effect for haemorrhoids.
- Effective substances: aescin, quercetin, kaempherol and others.
- In the Horse balsam formula it is used for:
"heavy legs", speeding up bruise absorption, improving circulation in blood vessels eliminating blood coagulation and preventing thrombus formation.
Common Juniper (Juniperus Communis L.)
- It is spread anywhere in Europe and Asia. Its European occurrence is nearly cosmopolitan. It can be found from lowlands up to mountain regions (Monte Rosa 3700 m a.s.l.). The Juniper's healing glory originated in the Middle Ages when the Arabs made an unusual Juniper jam, presented in some older pharmacopoeias until now. For a long time, Juniper was associated with ritual purge and burnt in temples as a part of regular purging rituals. Several pharmacopoeias remained preserved on Egyptian papyruses coming from 1550 B.C.
- Internally it is used for urinary tract inflammations, flatulence and dyspepsia (digestive disorder – fermentation and putrefaction processes prevail in the intestines). It improves metabolism in joints which, together with its diuretic properties, predetermines it for the treatment of joint rheumatism.
- Effective substances: essential oil is rich in monoterpenes – above all the terpinol.
- In Horse balsam formula it is used for:
rheumatic pains, muscle pains, speeding up convalescence, arthritis and gout, chronic rheumatism


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Salsiccia e Friarelli
Region: Italy, Campania-Naples
Category: Sausage, Grilled Sausage, Mixed
Season: Any
Difficulty: Easy and Quick
Friarelli is the Neapolitan name for broccoli rabe and it's quite the favorite in Naples. I came about this dish accidently when ordering at Donna Margherita at vico Alabardieri 4/6 (Tel: 081/ 400129) in Naples. The dish on the menu was called salsicce e friarelli, and I had ordered it from the menu heading called pagnotini which I misunderstood, thinking this was just the meat and vegetable, but in fact it was a category of pizzas. As a pizza, it's magnificent, but I just wasn't that hungry. The waiter changed my order and was absolutely convincing that there was no problem in doing so. The sausage was taken out of its skin and flattened into two patties and fried in olive oil along with the friarelli which was cooked in olive oil, garlic, and red chile flakes. This was served with French fries and lemon. It was great.[photo: Clifford A. Wright]
Yield: Makes 4 to 6 servings
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
2 pounds broccoli rabe, heavy stems removed
½ cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 large garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2 whole dried red chiles
2 salted anchovy fillets, rinsed
2 pounds (about 6) hot Italian sausages, removed from their casing and formed into patties
Freshly ground black pepper to taste (optional)
1. Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil over high heat, salt, and then plunge the broccoli rabe stems in and cook for 5 minutes. Add the remaining pieces and cook until very soft, about 8 minutes. Drain well.
2. In a flameproof casserole or large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat with the garlic, chiles, and anchovy until sizzling. Add the broccoli rape and season with salt. Cover, and cook the broccoli rape, stirring occasionally, until very soft, about 10 minutes. Discard the chiles.3. Meanwhile, in a skillet, cook the sausage patties until crispy on both sides over medium heat, about 20 minutes. Arrange the broccoli rabe on a platter, season with black pepper, if desired, and place the sausage patties on top. Serve hot
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Historical Background to the Second World WarWilliam Joyce
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German translation here
Editor's Note:
The following is the first chapter, "Historical Background," of William Joyce's Twilight Over England. Joyce was born in New York City. Then he went to Ireland and England, where he became a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. (His face was horribly scarred in a street battle with Jewish thugs.)
Shortly before Britain started the Second World War, Joyce and his wife fled to Germany, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1940. In his writings and popular English-language radio broadcasts under the name Lord Haw Haw, Joyce sought to explain Germany's view of the war and the dangers faced by European civilization.
After the war, the British executed William Joyce for his views, charging him with treason even though they had no legal jurisdiction to do so, for Joyce had never been a British citizen. In short, William Joyce died so that you might read these words.
HOW much can be learnt from history has long been a matter of speculation.
Much depends on the capacity of the pupil. There is probably no branch of learning, except economics, in which conjecture plays so large a part. Almost any set of facts can be selected, in a partial fashion, to prove any theory, however, absurd. In this chapter, no attempt will be made at philosophical generalization. Our only purpose is to show how England's historical development contributed to the fateful and fatal action which her Government took on September 3rd, 1939 [Britain's declaration of war against Germany].
There is a certain dramatic irony in Mr. Chamberlain's choice of the date. For September 3rd was the date of Oliver Cromwell's birth and also of his death. And how much the England of today owes to Cromwell is appreciated by very few. That crude, tough, ugly, self-righteous figure still has its admirers. Even scholars so discerning and so essentially honest as Thomas Carlyle have paid tribute to it. And most of the English Liberals, who eschew dictatorship, have worshipped at the shrine of this military autocrat because he was the first Englishman to achieve a complete metaphysical unity between Bible, cash, and sword. The reader must not think that we are intent on arguing the virtues of Charles I, the good father and the faithful husband. On the contrary, if this prosaically pious person had known how to keep his word, if he had not regarded himself as the Almighty's Ambassador to England, it is quite possible that the name of Oliver Cromwell would have remained shrouded in the mediocrity from which it emerged. Fate decreed otherwise.
In 1642 there broke out the English Civil War, destined to involve the whole of the British Isles in strife. On the one side was Charles representing unlimited monarchy, the Church of England, and, in some small measure, a feudal concept of society; on the other side was a very odd combination indeed. It was essentially a party welded together out of the merchant and Puritan factions which already in the days of Queen Elizabeth had shown signs of truculence.
The Tudor despotism had been established in 1485 because trade would have been impossible without firm government and also because the whole country was sick of perennial brawling amongst the remnants of the old aristocracy. No sooner, however, had this autocracy, this dictatorship, brought prosperity to the English people than a movement started to depose it. Nothing in the world could be more natural than that the merchant princes, fattened with the spoils of the New World, should object to paying taxes—and heavy taxes at that—to the throne from which their success had been derived. So early in English history did there appear the sinister tendency to regard money and power as synonymous. Now this new plutocracy was enthusiastically supported by the Puritans. These earnest, if fanatical, extremists had undoubted grievances. They were certainly forbidden to practice their religion. They were, in many cases, persecuted with the intolerance of the age, just as were the Roman Catholics. These Puritans, however, had drunk all too deeply of Jewish philosophy. They were not content to read the Old Testament. They must needs identify themselves with the figures in it. They called themselves by such names as "Hew-Agag-In-Pieces-Before-The-Lord." Ben Jonson was hardly exaggerating when he called his Puritans Tribulation Wholesome and Zeal-in-the-Land. Certainly the materialism of the Jews, as exposed in the Old Testament, had bitten deeply into their souls: for with all their psalms and all their hymns, they soon began to make money hand over fist. By some rather obscure process, they gradually insinuated themselves into the merchant classes, perhaps because their religion allowed them no vice except that of loving money. If their entry into the plutocracy is not easy to explain, there is no difficulty in explaining why so many merchants became Puritans. The reason was that it sounded much more dignified to protest against the Crown in defense of religious liberty than in attempted evasion of taxes.
Thus, under the pretext of fighting for pure Protestantism, many wealthy personages waged a great battle for political supremacy.
The Cavaliers had some idea of the truth: but they were very far from trusting their Royal Leader. The fate of Strafford had shown just how much personal loyalty was to be expected from Charles. The King's cause was supported by at least half the population of England: but a trustworthy leadership was lacking, and Parliament had the money of the City of London. The Royalists had no more than what they could raise on their estates and their family plate. It was truly a war between Mammon and the Legions of the Lost. Mammon won. Cromwell emerged as the military dictator of the revolution. Not only did he execute the King, but he gave the Parliamentary babblers short shrift as well. If the war had been fought in defense of Parliamentary liberty, the leader of the Parliamentary forces showed no hesitation in having literally kicked out of Parliament any members who disagreed with him. One freak assembly after another was set up by this remarkable man in a pathetically ineffectual attempt to prove that he believed in popular representation: but his real intentions were never revealed until he placed the whole country under the administration of ten Major-Generals, who were mainly concerned with preventing people from eating mince pies at Christmas or playing games on Sunday.
One memorable positive act must be written down to Oliver's account. He readmitted the Jews to England, whence they had been banished many centuries before by that eminently wise monarch, Edward I. It is more than probable that the Jewish moneylenders had helped the City of London to gain its victory over the Crown: and it is interesting to note that after the migration of the Jewish gentry into England, Amsterdam began to lose its importance as a centre of finance. And within 20 years, England went to war with Holland three times. These are facts: and the reader must be left to draw from them whatever conclusion he pleases. Holland was, of course, dependent on foreign trade and not on internal sources of wealth: and her decline as a first rate money market dates from the accession to power of Oliver Cromwell. It is not suggested that these Jewish peddlers of usury brought prosperity to England: but their arrival was the signal for the adoption of that philosophy of commerce which has endured in England even to the present time. The financial organization of the City began to develop upon certain lines which led to the establishment, in 1694, of the Bank of England as a private money-lending agency to the Government.
Cromwell died in 1658. He had singularly failed to create any constructive system of government. He bequeathed his powers to his humbly incompetent son, Richard, who took the advice of the Army Leaders and retired rapidly into private life.
Within a year, England was in the grip of anarchy. Generals were marching and countermarching, there was no security of property, and once again the wail of the merchants arose: "Give us a Government that will restore law and order and enable us to make money." In fact, the very class, even many of the same people, who had born arms against their Sovereign Liege, King Charles I, people who had declared monarchy to be an evil thing and an invention of the devil, now began to clamor for a new King.
Sure enough, a King came. The debonair Charles Stuart, who had learnt every secret of sponging and trickery at the French Court, gladly accepted the Throne, firmly resolved never again to set out on his travels. This curious character, by that consummate diplomacy of which he was a master, secured for himself a stronger personal position than any monarch had held in England since the Tudors: indeed, for the last four years of his life, he ruled without a Parliament. Nevertheless, the principle of absolute monarchy had been dealt a fatal blow: and Charles's power did not survive him. Everything in the character of his successor, James II, was admirably calculated to destroy it.
Meanwhile, however, a revolutionary change had occurred in English politics.
The Party System had come into being. In 1679, the words "Whig" and "Tory" became known in every English household. A great struggle was taking place: and the issue was, nominally at least, whether the Catholic Duke of York should succeed to the Throne. The Tories, or Court party, represented the remnants of the Cavaliers. They stood by monarchy, the Divine Right of Kings, the Church of England, and, to a large extent, the agricultural interest. They were, in the main, either aristocrats or men who believed in a landed aristocracy as the basis of social organization. The Whigs maintained the supremacy of Parliament, the necessity of Protestantism—the more extreme the better and the interests of City finance as opposed to those of agricultural industry. They were the successors of the Roundheads, but they had drawn into their ranks a number of people who had no positive convictions but were disgusted with the conduct and character of the Stuarts. From these indeterminate elements there later sprang such men as Chatham and Burke, to whom no unworthy motives can rightly be attributed. On the other hand, the general tenor of Whig policy was gross materialism, just as that of Toryism was mystical incompetence and a purely negative attitude to the progress which the dynamics of civilization demanded.
Thus for centuries, England was doomed to be divided, the financial descendants of the Roundheads always making use of the heroic but impractical descendants of the Cavaliers.
It is a very great mistake to believe that the Conservative Party of today represents the old Tory philosophy. The fact is that after 1745, Whiggery swallowed all that was left of real Toryism: and henceforth, apart from a few forlorn exceptions—always fighting a hopeless rearguard action, the people of England settled down to enjoy or suffer different forms of Whig politics. Thus did the materialism of finance lay hold on England. It would be tedious to enumerate the various attempts which were made at a resurrection of the Tory Party. Let us agree that it died on the day when the bleak moor of Culloden was strewn with the bodies of those who had thought it possible to restore the Stuart dynasty.
In the meanwhile, the constitution of England had undergone a far-reaching revolution. When, in 1689, William by the Grace of God Prince of Orange landed in England and his father-in-law took to craven flight, a new volume of English history was opened. William was the man whom the Whigs needed: and many of the Tories accepted him because anything was better than James II. William was a heroic, if somber, figure. A great fighter, he had the habit of losing battles and winning wars. But his interests were far removed from England. The single object of his life was to save Holland from the scorching splendor of Le Roi Soleil. Solely in order to acquire greater resources for his struggle against the French aggressors did he undertake the responsibility of pretending to govern England. And a man who would pretend to govern was exactly what the City of London wanted. The facade of ancient tradition had to be erected before the crooked structure of international finance that the architects of usury were building for themselves. William never to his dying day saw into the reality of English politics. The Whigs who had brought him to England treated him as a sort of guest on sufferance; and he was at a loss to understand the interminable intrigues of John Churchill, better known as the Duke of Marlborough, one of Winston Churchill's more presentable ancestors. In his reign, two important developments occurred. First, Parliament, consisting of the remnants of the old aristocracy and, in much greater numbers, the pioneers of the new plutocracy, became supreme. There was nothing democratic in its nature. The vast majority of the people had no votes: but the stage was set for the final struggle between town and country, cash and breeding, corruption and authority.
The second event of importance in William's reign was the founding of the Bank of England. This institution had as its function the provision of money for the Government at a substantial rate of interest. It was prepared to lend from generation unto generation and collect its interest accordingly. The cumulative process has produced mathematically amazing results: for the Bank of England was the main factor in the establishment of the National Debt. In 1705, Dean Swift threw up his hands in horror and exclaimed: "What! A National Debt of five million pounds. Why, the High Allies will be the ruin of us!" The Dean's propensities for bad language would have had full scope, if he could have visualized the National Debt of thousands of millions of pounds which stares England in the face today. If only statesmen had been compelled to study the laws of Compound Interest, the fate of the whole human race might have been very different. Even a knowledge of simple interest would have helped in this case. But the gentlemen of the eighteenth century eschewed mathematics which had no application to the card tables. Certain persons who were not gentlemen profited by their simplicity. Of course, Robert Walpole, the founder of Cabinet Government and first Prime Minister of England knew very well what he was doing. His motto "Let sleeping dogs lie" testifies to the fact that he was concerned with more immediate things and was making no attempt to legislate for those who came after him.
George I, Elector of Hanover, King of England, spoke no English. After trying to conduct business with his Ministers in Latin, he gave up in despair and settled down to what amenities he could find in a land where he never felt at home. He harmed nobody and served the purpose of tradition and the Protestant Succession.
Henceforth the King was destined to be a figure-head. Now he could do no wrong, because he could do nothing. George III did try to become the autocrat of the American Colonies. England lost all North America but Canada: and thereafter the monarchs refrained from any considerable intervention in politics. Perhaps, by way of exception, we ought to note the headstrong opposition of George III to Pitt's design of giving the Irish Roman Catholics that religious liberty which, if it had been granted in time, might have changed the course of Ireland's history.
Now with the recession of the monarchy into the realms of the obscure, where it pathetically lingers today, party politics began to play a predominant role in English life. Whilst the Whigs ruled England throughout almost the whole of the eighteenth century, they had to contend with opposition: and this opposition was often based on the grounds of ambition rather than policy. I doubt if anybody can really say what Bolingbroke wanted: but he certainly hated the Whigs. Long after the old Tories had been buried, a new Tory party sprang up in 1770 under Lord North, this time in support of the House of Hanover. It did not get very far: but it served to provide the prerequisite of Party Politics, namely that there should be more than one party. The more parties, the more opportunities for individuals. Politics came to be regarded as a lucrative profession, thanks to the system of patronage, whereby gentlemen who knew somebody in authority could secure command of a Regiment in the West Indies for colleagues upon whose wives they had definite if not honorable designs.
As the eighteenth century gradually unfolded itself, two serious conditions began to develop. The first was the decline not merely of the aristocracy but, little by little, of all values that could not be correlated with pounds, shillings, and pence.
Strange it is that a century so prolific in poetry, conversation, belles-lettres, and every form of culture should serve but to herald the drab, remorseless, materialistic industrialism that was already looming impatiently in the offing. Yet, in the long tale of history, it has ever been so. The brilliant Augustan period of Roman literature, in which men of creative intellect scaled heights of achievement hitherto unprecedented in the history of Western Europe, was but the blazing afternoon before the twilight of Constantine and the utter darkness of the centuries that followed him.
The second sinister development was the beginning of that agricultural decline which was destined to continue for nearly two centuries and ultimately leave England in the position of declaring a food blockade on Germany without having any resources of her own.
Charles II, between his bouts of extracting money from Louis XIV and lavishing his undoubted charm on ladies who were only too willing to be overwhelmed by it, devoted a certain amount of earnest attention to physics. None of his entourage could discover why. Neither can the present writer.
Nevertheless, the impetus which he gave to the study of mathematics and natural philosophy had its results. Men like Newton began to formulate laws of science which were to transform the face of the earth. The full fruits of the Renaissance were now ripe for gathering: and the mechanical age was ready to begin.
Sadly enough, however, the new interest in machinery, the new desire to produce goods mechanically, the general gravitation to the towns and away from the country began to produce disastrous effects upon agriculture. Nobody has expressed this change more poignantly than Goldsmith in the Deserted Village. He writes:
Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
A time there was, ere England's griefs began,
When every rood of ground maintained its man;
For him light labor spread her wholesome store,
Just gave what life required, but gave no more,
His best companions, innocence and health,
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
But times are altered: trade's unfeeling train
Usurp the land and dispossess the swain.
Perhaps Goldsmith is a little inclined to over-emphasize the virtues of poverty: but he wrote with feeling about facts which he knew. In a short work of this kind, it would be impossible to trace all the ramifications and results of the Industrial Revolution: and, in any case this is a subject which will receive some attention in the next chapter. As a work of reference, I can only recommend G. M. Trevelyan's able treatise on British History in the Nineteenth Century.
This work, though partial and written from a hopelessly Liberal point of view, gives a very fair picture of the social changes at which I am trying to hint.
In brief, the great migration from the countryside to the towns began. The age of mechanized man was approaching. The new plutocracy and those of the old Whigs who were naturally perverse began their final and terrible offensive against the old country gentlemen. It was all the more terrible because the old "county families" were not just uprooted and annihilated. They were subjected to numerous mercantile blood transfusions until they had to undergo the final humiliation of accepting Jewish sons-in-law to save the ground to which they pathetically clung.
This chapter is not especially concerned with economics: and we shall therefore defer for a very short time our review of the results which the Industrial Revolution brought to the lives of the ordinary people in England. The political fact of greatest importance is that the two parties locked in life and death struggle were compelled to call in new allies. The party system had rapidly degenerated into that shameless bargaining for votes which, in one form or another, is the inalienable characteristic of democracy. In the later eighteenth century, elections were greeted with great joy by the country. For they meant the lavish distribution by the candidates of beer, bacon, and money. Election Agents calmly wrote down in their books: "To the vote of Mr. Ebenezer Smith £30, (thirty pounds)." Constituencies were most artfully constructed in such a manner as to allow vested interests full play.
At the time of the Great Reform Act of 1832, one M. P. confessed that his borough was an uninhabited house, another said that his was an old mound, and a third smilingly declared that his had been under a pond for the last twenty years. All the same, this system was preferable to that about to be inaugurated. For the Reform Act of 1832 was simply and solely designed to give the lesser merchants the vote, with the result that the nexus between politics and cash became closer than ever before. Some 35 years later, the Jew Disraeli decided to bring in the hitherto voteless artisans to counterbalance the petty merchants. His reward was to be hurled out of office by the people whom he had enfranchised. Even in those days, Jews were not liked by the working people of England.
To summarize, however, it may be said that from 1832 onwards, the whole art of English politics consisted of making promises without any intention of keeping them.
And after the enfranchisement of the working classes, this evil principle gained added force.
The Liberal Party, formed out of the scum and dregs of all that was left in the worst elements of the Whig menagerie, posed as the friend of the people, with what justification we shall see in the next chapter. A new thing, called the Conservative Party, rose in the nineteenth century, representing the pitifully faint effort of the landlords and the more patriotic people to suggest that the state had claims no less than those of the individual. This forlorn band of idealists wandered along through the drab decades of the nineteenth century, till Benjamin Disraeli found it and quite cleverly led it into the outer courts of the Palace of High Finance. There it waited until, at the turn of the century, the recreant Liberal, Joe Chamberlain, bought it lock, stock and barrel, leaders, members, and hangers-on. From that time onwards, the Conservative Party was only a more respectable, a more delicate, in fact, a nicer medium for the expression of acquisitive commercialism. Thus, Mr. Churchill in the early days of his ill-starred career, was able, with a clear conscience, to ask his experienced friends whether he should give, or sell, his services to the Liberal or the Conservative Party. It mattered little which. If a man were a Methodist and a foreign importer, he would naturally be a Liberal. If a fellow were a soldier, and a member of the Church of England, he would probably be a Conservative. Both would pay their respects to dividends from foreign investments, and both would probably shudder at the thought of being stopped by a self-contained Empire. On the whole, the Conservatives were a little cleaner, a little less greedy, than the Liberals. But they existed only as a sort of foil to the Liberal Policy. Whether in office or not, the poor Conservatives were the perpetual opposition. The ruthless financiers of the City of London did not wish it to appear that there was only one party in the state. Their aims and activities had to be masked: but, in the end, the Conservatives gained such a following amongst the people that their annexation became necessary. Joe Chamberlain having performed this feat, the Liberal Party atrophied and died out, until its only living representatives are a few old gentlemen for whom there was no room in the Conservative fold. Its disappearance was made all the easier because, at the turn of the century, there had emerged a new and quite impertinent party called the Labour Party. These upstarts actually demanded that the workers should have direct representation in Parliament instead of being represented by their employers.
Nobody could say what these unreasonable people would ask next: and therefore it was just as well that the Liberal Party should be under sentence of death. Of course, the leaders of this new movement were mostly common fellows, and a little flattery mixed with bribery in the best of taste would doubtless go a long way. But they actually used such outlandish words as "Socialism", they spoke about the rights of the proletariat, and some of them even used the awful term "revolution." Clearly it would not do to have two parties as well as this new menace: and accordingly, for some years, although the Liberal Party lingered on, it gradually decayed: and those who would formerly have entered it in search of a fortune, joined the wretched Socialists instead. Not a few succeeded in realizing their personal ambitions.
The essential fact to notice, however, is that from 1832 until the present day, the major technique of British democracy has consistently embodied one principle: "The more you promise the people, the more you may expect to get their votes". A premium was placed on the making of attractive promises: and the skilful politician was he who could break them and still retain his reputation for honesty. Perhaps there has never been such a master of this ignoble art as Stanley Baldwin.
All the time, the vast masses of the people were living in needless poverty: and the main strategic purpose of the ruling classes was to keep them in contented subjection, the Conservatives by preaching sacrifice and the Liberals, in their day, by distributing pourboires instead of wages. When the Socialists made their appearance, the paramount necessity was to convert their leaders into honorary members of the ruling classes as quickly as possible; the presence in their ranks of a certain number of young men of "good family" provided both the opportunity and the illusion.
With this general background in view, we can now pass on to a more immediate examination of the economic system which had been gradually developing in England since the beginning of the industrial revolution. We can begin to interpret modern history in the light of the more remote. If England had lost so much in the period which we have reviewed, she had gained an Empire. But how she proposed to use it, will not be clear until her economic philosophy has been examined.
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phil says:
This depressing piece makes me think that once we win our struggle for survival we will need a new institution, or NGO, to form a cultural rallying point for long term white interest. Maybe it should be something that is to our racial nation what the Jesuists are to the Catholic church.
And as an added thought, I'm a little tired of the denunciations of anyone who stood against Hitler, however evil Stalin and Roosevelt may have been.
Hitler was a bit of a white nationalist, but much more so a German one.
Because of the sins of Hitler and the devastating Jewish choke hold on media education and culture we have arrived at whites current poor standing in the world.00kinist says:
How formative? In 1968, when students in Paris revolted, they tore apart the city carrying banners that read "Marx/Mao/Marcuse." In his forward to Marcuse's book Negations: Essays in Critical Theory, Robert Young said that "among pure scholars [Marcuse] had the most direct and profound effect on historical events of any individual in the twentieth century." http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo20/herbert-marcuse-censorship-is-tolerance.php00
Henry says:
That's an interesting comment about Marcuse.
When Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer transferred from the OSS Dept in Washington, first to London then to Nuremberg, they left Marcuse behind to take over from Neumann, who had been the section leader.
Together, these three Jews had created the De-nazification program to be forced on the German people, but it was Herbert Marcuse alone who drafted the legal provisions for the formal dissolution of the NSDAP.
After the War Marcuse became a CIA officer.
Chief prosecutor Robert Kempner and his wife, the social worker Ruth Kempner, also had input into the social engineering of the German people, with their emphasis on changing the "volkisch" nature of the woman and girls (considered frigid and strongly Nazi) they prescribed sexual education and liberation amongst other methods.
A Jewish triumph, indeed.00Spectator says:
Thanks for this. I have never read anything but short snippets from the notorious "Lord Haw-Haw". It is sad but revealing to see that he was an insightful and lucid analyst.00icr says:
In the 30s the Bolsheviks were in the process of killing many millions-yet all the hatred of the US Government and the American press (Hearst and McCormick excepted) was directed at Germany and its (at that time) very, very rarely fatal persecution of the Jews:
With reference to the treatment of Jews and other minorities within the Reich, Dieckhoff said that he was of the opinion that no other nation was entitled to criticize the "domestic policy" of Germany. Welles immediately replied that it was absolutely impossible for American public opinion to think that the policy which Germany had been pursuing these recent years with regard to the Jews within their own borders . . . could be regarded as a purely domestic question.
I [Welles] said that any country that forced the emigration from its borders of hundreds of thousands of individuals whom other countries for humanitarian reasons felt it necessary to shelter . . . would hardly expect the rest of the world to regard such a policy as this a domestic policy. . . . The people of the United States . . . were a deeply religious people and a highly idealistic people and the torture of human beings which had been taking place in Germany revolted the best instincts in all of them.
I then went on to discuss the injustices done to our nationals, whether of Jewish origin or not, in Germany by refusing to permit them to take out of Germany the moneys which they possessed and I said I thought it necessary to say in all frankness that public opinion in the United States on this point had reached such a stage that there would inevitably be a general demand in
the immediate future for the taking by the United States Government of retaliatory measures against German nationals residing within the United States.
( p.435 )
These German fears of American intervention in a possible second world war were confirmed by the statements of American diplomats like Kennedy and Bullitt. Before the Munich crisis, Kennedy repeatedly told Chamberlain that America would rush to the assistance of Britain and France in the event of unprovoked aggression. Bullitt had been more cautious but at times he gave similar assurances. In a conversation with Count Potocki, Polish Ambassador at Washington, he spoke of the possibility of a conflict between Germany and the European democracies. When asked if the United States would enter such a war he replied: "Undoubtedly yes, but only after Great Britain and France had made the first move." Sentiment in the United States was "so tense against Nazism and Hitlerism" that it amounted to a "psychosis" similar to that which existed "before America's declaration of war on Germany in 1917."54
After stating that this "psychosis" was partly created by "emigrants from Germany and Czechoslovakia" who incited the American public against Germany by the use of "various calumnies," he finally came to the topic of American sentiment towards Russia:
It is interesting to note that in this extremely well-planned campaign which is conducted above all against National Socialism, Soviet Russia is almost completely eliminated. Soviet Russia, if mentioned at all, is mentioned in a friendly manner and things are presented in such a way that it would seem that the Soviet Union were co-operating with the bloc of democratic states. Thanks to the clever propaganda the sympathies of the American public are
completely on the side of Red Spain.55
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I downloaded a copy of the book from archive.org and have been reading it on the train. Joyce is amazingly prescient, or whatever the word is, not "foretelling the future" but rather analyzing his present so accurately [i.e., England run for the benefit of the Jews since Cromwell] that, since nothing fundamental has changed, it's still current.
Eg: bankers going door to door in the cotton factory areas, to convince workers to sell everything they have, including taking out mortgages, to buy stock in the "booming" cotton industry. Meanwhile, the same bankers finance Indian and other colonial factories which have cheap labor. Result, stocks crash, and bankers own the houses. "Even if the region recovers, the dividends will be paid to Jews generation after generation." Sound familiar?
His analysis of the fake opposition of Conservative/Labour, and even the particular issues used to generate it ["Capitalists waved the flag so much to defend impoverishing workers that the workers became internationalists rather than National Socialists"] while all is done to benefit the Jew Bankers, is still completely relevant to today in the USA.00
As the French saying has it, "Plus ça change, même la chose" (the more things change, the more they stay the same). Conflict, change, and choice of a largely illusory or superficial nature is an important prop of the system. It both stimulates and stupefies people. It keeps people distracted, entertained, and occupied. It enchants people with novelties and generates false hopes, thereby averting boredom and disillusionment. It gives people the illusion of action should they enlist in one of the ignorant armies clashing by night. It even gives people the idea that they can win the democratic jackpot by voting for Tweedledum rather than Tweedledee. But all this change, this movement, this light and sound is like the activity of a casino. In the long run, the house always wins, and the gamblers always lose. The gains of gamblers are invariably illusory and ephemeral. But gamblers never learn and always return.
Nevertheless, the system is not static, and its changes are not entirely cosmetic. Thomas Molnar clearly recognized this when he wrote that "the revolution, its ideology and methods, is built into the fabric of contemporary society. The latter's structure is half-demolished and patched up, then half-ruined and re-cemented in a continuous process. It is literally a case of built-in social obsolescence, a shapeless but self-generating cultural revolution."00
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November 3, 2011
Google's Barrel Roll Easter Egg
According to Wikipedia, "a barrel roll is an aerial maneuver in which an airplane makes a complete rotation on its longitudinal axis while following a helical path, approximately maintaining its original direction."
There are at least four other Google search Easter Eggs: ASCII art, anagram, recursion and tilt.
{ Thanks, Herin. Spotted by Jason Cross. }
29 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 3, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Works in Safari as well.ReplyDeleteReplies
Anotherone: http://www.google.com/search?q=tilt :)ReplyDelete
awesome easter egg!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 3, 2011 at 3:22 PM
I have no anti-anything running in the background. I'm using Firefox 4.0.01. It doesn't work for me. What am I missing?ReplyDelete
It works in Firefox 7.ReplyDelete
Works fine for meReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2011 at 7:25 AM
dont work on IE9.ReplyDelete
I can't get it to work on IE9 either - what am I doing wrong?ReplyDelete
This truly is awful "music". However, we should always try to find a positive or learn a lesson and here is what I take away. Parents: Please do not praise your kids for every silly thing they do and tell them how unique and creative they are when, they are in fact, not. Push, encourage to do better, teach, instruct, etc and when it's time, be realistic. This is an album made by people who's parents should have encouraged them to get real jobs.ReplyDelete
Works in Safari as well.ReplyDelete
Works in mobile Safari!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2011 at 3:45 AM
search for "do androids dream of electric sheep". google instant will load the results for "do a barrel roll" (and therefore trigger the barrel roll) as soon as you type "do a".ReplyDelete
There were a lot of hoaxes, April fool's pranks and several other practical jokes that Google played on their more "gullible" users!ReplyDelete
The most funny Google Jokes: Google playing hoaxes and practical jokes
Works in oPera as wellReplyDelete
its not working here ;/ i hate when google doesnt work ;/ and load :@ReplyDelete
Works fine with meReplyDelete
I'd love to see how they process and change thingsReplyDelete
I don't have any issues with loading. Work well for me.ReplyDelete
Works with me! Thanks!ReplyDelete
i love to use it, work fine for meReplyDelete
Now this is one funny Easter egg. I just love the way they come up with these various ideas :)ReplyDelete
it is work fine, no issues recorded yet!ReplyDelete
At first you have to go to google.com, then you write "do a barrel roll" and then it does ^^ReplyDelete
it works fineReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2013 at 9:29 AM
works greatReplyDelete


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|PostgreSQL 7.4.30 Documentation
|Fast Backward
|Chapter 11. Indexes
|Fast Forward
An index can be defined on more than one column. For example, if you have a table of this form:
CREATE TABLE test2 ( major int, minor int, name varchar );
(say, you keep your /dev directory in a database...) and you frequently make queries like
SELECT name FROM test2 WHERE major = constant AND minor = constant;
then it may be appropriate to define an index on the columns major and minor together, e.g.,
CREATE INDEX test2_mm_idx ON test2 (major, minor);
Currently, only the B-tree and GiST implementations support multicolumn indexes. Up to 32 columns may be specified. (This limit can be altered when building PostgreSQL; see the file pg_config_manual.h.)
The query planner can use a multicolumn index for queries that involve the leftmost column in the index definition plus any number of columns listed to the right of it, without a gap. For example, an index on (a, b, c) can be used in queries involving all of a, b, and c, or in queries involving both a and b, or in queries involving only a, but not in other combinations. (In a query involving a and c the planner could choose to use the index for a, while treating c like an ordinary unindexed column.) Of course, each column must be used with operators appropriate to the index type; clauses that involve other operators will not be considered.
Multicolumn indexes can only be used if the clauses involving the indexed columns are joined with AND. For instance,
SELECT name FROM test2 WHERE major = constant OR minor = constant;
cannot make use of the index test2_mm_idx defined above to look up both columns. (It can be used to look up only the major column, however.)
Multicolumn indexes should be used sparingly. Most of the time, an index on a single column is sufficient and saves space and time. Indexes with more than three columns are unlikely to be helpful unless the usage of the table is extremely stylized.


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More Than Five Drugs Found in Heath's Apartment
TMZ has learned what types of pills were discovered in the apartment where Heath Ledger was found dead.
NYPD sources tell TMZ that nearly full pill bottles containing the anti-anxiety medications Alprazolam (Xanax), Diazepam (Valium) and Lorazepam (Ativan) were found in the apartment. The sleeping medication Zopiclone (Lunesta) and the sedative Temazepam (Restoril) -- which is used by people with "debilitating insomnia" -- were also found.
All of the drugs were prescribed to Ledger.


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Tahrir and Taksim – Part IA new culture of protest
The wave of protest that began on Taksim Square, Istanbul, in June 2013 and subsequently spread throughout Turkey sparked a debate on the similarities and differences between events there and in Tahrir Square in Egypt two years previously.
Besides discussion of the historical and cultural roots of the two countries, the focus also turned to the social make-up of the protest groups, the role played by the army behind the scenes, the alleged involvement of foreign and domestic interest groups from the worlds of politics and business as well as the involvement of religious and secular forces within the two protest movements.
Discussion of such things has not only provided a fresh perspective on recent events, it has also cast past decades in a new light.
Tahrir and Taksim: these two central and historically important squares became the scenes of mass demonstrations of popular political will and were occupied by the protestors for much longer than the usual duration of a protest. The longer they were cut off from everyday life, the more each of these spaces developed into a heterotopia for those involved – an alternative societal space where demands for a better, more democratic and pluralistic form of coexistence are realised.
Coming closer together
Among the many things Gezi Park/Taksim Square and Tahrir Square had in common were the discussions and lectures that were organised there, the setting up of "people's libraries", skills exchanges and free medical treatment in particular for the victims of police brutality. Special de-escalation patrols were set up to arbitrate peacefully between various parties in the event of conflicts.
This provided opportunities for the denunciation of protesters: in Istanbul, such denunciations ranged from accusations that demonstrators had consumed alcohol in the mosque to absurd stories of orgies involving Armenians, Jews and Muslims. Such divisive and over-simplifying rhetoric on the part of the authorities was in stark contrast to the integrative approach of the protesters, especially in terms of religious and social minorities. In both cities it became commonplace to see groups of praying people being protected by demonstrators. Attempts in Cairo to play Copts and Muslims off against each another proved futile. On Tahrir Square, protestors took to carrying the Koran and the Bible and wearing crosses and misbahas (prayer beads) as symbols of tolerance and unity.
Explosion of creativity
The speed of some of some multimedia responses to events was quite breathtaking. The Jordanian video collective Kharabeesh, for example, came up with a series of cartoons – immensely popular in Egypt – that contradicted the speeches made by Mubarak in which he completely ignored the reality of the situation in his country. In Istanbul, Twitter and Facebook – swiftly followed by other media – were quick to react to the "total blackout" on CNN Turk, which ran a nature programme on penguins instead of reporting on uncontrolled police violence – an open invitation to ridicule and one which launched countless jokes and penguin-suited street performances.
Graffiti, the most obvious of protest forms, was also highly interactive. What had been a covert, semi-legal or illegal art form, suddenly witnessed a veritable explosion of styles, techniques and ideas; its practitioners – Ganzeer, Ammar, Keizer, Nazeer, El Zeft, Nemo, the Mona Lisa Brigade and many more – became stars almost overnight.
The works produced ranged from iconographic representations of victims as martyrs to playfully anarchic pictograms. The large-scale trompe l'œil-style frescos painted on road blocks by the "No Walls Project" were so accurate terms of perspective and alignment with the streets behind them that they made the roadblocks virtually invisible.
Because almost all wall paintings were continually being modified, painted over, painted out and repainted, the urban space seemed to be in a constant state of transformation.
The city as art space
A clear trend has been evident in all of this, namely the shift from the more latent political art in museums and galleries towards the more explicit and the public space. This spontaneous and non-institutional use of the entire urban space as art space brought with it a critical questioning and redefining of the established locations used for the presentation (and definition) of art. The setting up of new venues as well as the reassessment of a number of existing exhibition spaces, studios, collectives and festivals was the consequence.
On Taksim Square, the choreographer and artist Erdem Gunduz, who has become known as the "duran adam" (standing man), showed through his mute protest how an individual can respond to excessive police violence. In the process, he got a massive reaction from the media, huge public support and a German media prize.
The famous Istanbul Biennial, however, with its reputation for exploring forgotten places and off-spaces in less attractive urban areas, and which is actually seen as being progressive and critical, somehow failed to come up with an appropriate response to events in Gezi Park and to follow the artists in their artistic conquest of public space.
Amin Farzanefar
© Goethe-Institut 2014
Editor: Aingeal Flanagan/Qantara.de


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Apparently it's a URL shortener. It resolves just fine in Chrome and Firefox. How is this a valid top-level domain?
Update: for the people saying it's browser shenanigans, why is it that:
http://com./ does not take me to:
And, do browsers ever send you a response from some place other than what's actually up in the address bar? Aside from framesets and things like that, I thought browsers tried really hard to send you content only from the site in the address bar, to help guard against phishing.


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The technique I am demonstrating here isn't one I made from scratch; as far as I am aware, credit for origination should go to Mark Otto, a designer at Twitter; the version that I'm showing derives from patterns created by Trent Walton. This is not "true 3D" but a fake-out; real 3D text will have to wait for lessons in WebGL and CSS 3D transforms.
Very simply, we create extruded text appearance by creating a stacked series of CSS text-shadows. As we'll see later, transferring the same technique to
box-shadow can also create the effect of a raised or sunken button in CSS.
The CSS code is somewhat repetitive; the main aspect to focus on is the changing vertical offset of the main shadows. Thankfully,
text-shadow does not require CSS vendor prefixes.
The code for the example at the top of this article is:
h1 {
background: #ccc;
font-size: 4vm;
padding: 1.2rem;
color: #fff;
font-family: Blue Highway; Arial Black, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
letter-spacing: 1rem;
text-shadow:0 .01em 0px #dededa,
0 .015em 0 #dededa,
0 .02em 0 #dededa,
0 .028em 0 #dededa,
0 .035em 0 #dededa,
0 .04em 0 #dededa,
0 .045em 0 #dbdbd6,
0 .055em 0 #dbdbd6,
0 .06em 0 #dbdbd6,
0 .065em 0 #d9d9d4,
0 .07em 0 #d9d9d4,
0 .08em 0 #d8d8d3,
0 .085em 0 #d8d8d3,
0 .09em 0 #d8d8d3,
0 .095em 0 #d6d6d1,
0 .105em 0 #d6d6d1,
0 .06em .06rem rgba(104, 104, 92, 0.15),
.07em .105em .04em rgba(0, 0, 0, .015),
-.02em .09em .05em rgba(104, 104, 92, 0.25),
-.03em .07em .065em rgba(104, 104, 92, 0.1),
-.075em .08em .09em rgba(104, 104, 92, 0.06),
-.09em .06em .195em rgba(104, 104, 92, 0.095);
Just as with multiple background images in CSS, we separate multiple text shadows with commas, starting with those originating nearest the text element and working outwards. (For this example I'm using
em units rather than
px for enhanced scalability, but almost any CSS unit of measurement would work).
The first 16 shadows are solid, slowly and subtly growing darker as they descend, creating the appearance of extruded text. The final six shadows in the declaration actually serve the purpose of ambient shadows, being offset to the left, right, and top of each letter, with added blur and transparency (in the form of
rgba color values).
Naturally, this effect will only work in modern browsers – IE9 does not support
text-shadow, although IE10 does. It's therefore wise to make sure that make that the base color of the text is distinct from the background, as is the example at the top of this article; try to avoid "white on white", ensuring that your content is still readable in IE.
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Outspoken T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Tuesday used Twitter to again slam recent opinions that his company's financial future is unsustainable, given the billions of dollars needed to buy more wireless spectrum to compete with AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
Legere tweeted that one such article in Ars Technica was "total [nonsense]" and another article in Gizmodo was "terrible," even though the origins of T-Mobile's lack of sustainability derived from comments made by Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges in an interview with Re/code posted Monday. Deutsche Telekom is the parent company of T-Mobile.
In the Re/code piece, Hoettges was never quoted using the word "unsustainable" to describe T-Mobile. However, the article paraphrased him this way: "Longer term, Hoettges admitted that T-Mobile's current approach is not sustainable ..." Then Hoettges says in quotation marks, "The question is always the economics in the long term ... and earning appropriate money. You have to earn your money back at one point in time."
However one interprets Hoettges' comments, Deustche Telekom owns 72% of T-Mobile and for the past five years has been seeking a buyer for its share. In December, Legere dismissed a Computerworld question during a conference call about Deustche Telekom's role in financial decisions at T-Mobile by saying, "They are an owner. I have a very scalable and funded business, and if they are a shareholder that wants to leave, I'm fine."
The irony of Hoettges' recent comment is that T-Mobile went into the black by more than $200 million in the most recent quarter despite its many costly customer promotions, including a $350 bonus to new customers who switch carriers, noted Roger Entner, an analyst at Recon Analytics. "Legere's offering lower prices than everybody else and then his boss [Hoettges] contradicts him," Entner said. "You can't shovel money out the window and then complain. Legere's the corporate reincarnation of an Internet troll."
What matters most in the way Hoettges and Legere regard each other and their financial decisions is how it will affect the overall U.S. wireless market. Federal Communications Commission officials said they prefer keeping T-Mobile and Sprint separate, despite efforts last year to merge them, in order to have four nationwide carriers in place: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.
If Deutsche Telekom gradually sells off shares in coming quarters to rid itself of T-Mobile, maybe the carrier can survive. Still it is unclear how the U.S. can keep four national carriers in place.
"The question remains how Deutsche Telekom will get its huge investment in T-Mobile back" said Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates. "If they just drop them, it's a big loss on the books."
Hoettges' comments don't suggest that a selloff is more imminent than it has been over the past few years. "I don't think Deustche Telekom will sell off shares, and right now T-Mobile is making a net profit," Entner added. "Only when Deustche Telekom comes to the realization that nobody wants to buy T-Mobile, that will be a really bad sign."
What is most important from Hoettges' remarks is the concentration and wealth that both AT&T and Verizon hold, said Bill Menezes, an analyst at Gartner. "If the FCC's concern is maintaining four national U.S. cellular carriers, Softbank/Sprint is not the only path to which T-Mobile can access the wealth and spectrum it needs to grow and remain competitive," Menezes said. "Even though Deutsche Telekom wants to exit its U.S. market investment at some point, Vodafone, American Movil, Dish Network and others clearly have an interest in the U.S. market and one or both of the assets — wealth or spectrum — that Hoettges has tagged as necessities. Sprint is not the only game to play."
Entner said the next U.S. president will decide whether it is important to hold onto four national carriers or allow for three.
"If a Democrat is elected to the White House, we'll have four or more national carriers, and if it's a Republican, we'll probably see three carriers," Entner said. The next president will choose the next chairman of the FCC, as did President Obama in picking Tom Wheeler as FCC chairman.


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Energy Saving Tips
Energy Saving Resources
- TVA Energy Right
- Electric Power Associations of Mississippi – Energy Efficiency Tips
- TVA Kids – How You Can Save Energy
Energy Saving Tips (provided by NVEnergy)
No-Cost Tips
These simple steps don't cost a thing, but can potentially save you 10-25% on your monthly energy bill.
- Turn off lights and appliances when not in use. Don't forget your computer. Most new computers have sleep settings.
- In the cold months, set the thermostat to 68 degrees when home, and then back to 55 – 68 degrees when unoccupied.
- In the winter, open window coverings on the sunny side of your home to take advantage of free heat from the sun. Close the coverings on cloudy days or right after the sun sets.
- In warm months, set the thermostat to 78-80 degrees when home, and 5 to 10 degrees warmer at night or when you're not home.
- In the cooling season, close blinds and drapes during the day to keep heat out.
- Also, use your dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, and cook as late in the evening as possible.
- Barbecue outdoors when practical, keeping in mind the heat and effect of the sun on your body. Reducing the heat coming into your home from any source, such as cooking, will reduce the load on your air conditioning.
- Use pool trippers to reduce the time your swimming pool pump runs – eight to twelve hours a day is plenty.
- Set your water heater to 120 degrees.
- Close foundation vents in the winter months.
- Vacuum your refrigerator coils (underneath and in the back) and don't obstruct the coils. They need air space to work.
- Dress according to the weather.
- Keep the seals (gaskets) on refrigerators and freezers clean.
- Keep your freezer as full as possible. You can place containers or plastic bottles filled with water in the empty spaces.
- Make sure food is cool and covered before it goes into the refrigerator.
- Run full loads in your washer and dryer, and use "solar drying" (clotheslines).
- Use the energy saver option on your dishwasher, allowing dishes to air dry.
- If your A/C unit is on the ground, keep the area around it clean and free of obstructions to maintain airflow.
- Unplug your televisions/VCR when you're on vacation. Most new sets draw power even when they're turned off.
- Keep lights and lighting fixtures clean, especially if you're reducing the number of lights you use. Dirt absorbs light. Let lights cool before cleaning them and never touch halogen bulbs with your bare hands. The oil from your skin can greatly damage the bulbs. Use a small piece of paper to hold the bulb.
- If your dishwasher has a filter, keep it clean.
- Clean the reflectors underneath the burners on stovetops.
Low-Cost Tips
There are plenty of low cost, easy to do projects or steps you can do to save another 10-25% on your energy bill.
- Use compact fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent ones. This will typically save $1 per bulb changed out (for bulbs running 4-6 hours per day) and reduce heat in your home. Regular bulbs use most of the electricity to generate heat so use care when changing bulbs.
- Clean furnace system and check ducts for leaks.
- Caulk windows, and caulk and weather-strip doors. Keep the outside air out and the inside air in.
- Install a hot water heater blanket but be careful not to cover vents or temperature settings.
- Install hot water pipe insulation. Do keep the insulation at least six inches away from the flue (exhaust pipe) of gas water heaters.
- Install electrical outlet and switch plate insulation.
- Plant trees and shrubs on the south and west side of your residence. The vegetation acts as insulation and provides shading, reducing thermal gain in a building.
- Fix leaky faucets and install low-flow showerheads.
- Use room fans to keep the air moving and reduce the feeling of heat in your home.
- Replace furnace and air conditioner filters. Spray the filters with a light coating of lemon furniture polish or vegetable oil cooking spray to help trap dirt in the filter.
- Check the seals on your refrigerator and freezer.
- Replace normal thermostats with programmable thermostats.
- Consider buying a cover for your pool to retain heat in the water.
Added Cost Tips
With the help of a contractor, these steps could potentially save you another 25% on your monthly bill. Remember to do your research before you sign a contract or put down a deposit.
- Install floor and ceiling insulation: It is recommended to have a minimum of an R-30 – R-38 insulation in the attic and R19 insulation in the sub-floor.
- Replace inefficient and single-pane windows with energy-efficient, multi-pane, thermally-broken, vinyl-framed windows.
- Energy-efficient appliance replacement. All appliances have an Energy Guide Label that tells you how efficient it is and how much it will cost you to run. Oftentimes, an appliance more than 10 years old is not likely to be energy efficient. Look for products on the Energy Star website that have the ENERGY STAR® label.
- Servicing your heating and air conditioning systems once a year, replacing them if necessary.
- Testing and sealing the ductwork. Not only does this improve the efficiency of your heating and cooling system, but it also makes the house more comfortable.
- Have ceiling fans installed in all bedrooms and your family room. They can make you more comfortable while allowing you to save money by adjusting your thermostat respectively.
- Add window screens or window films to reduce solar energy from entering your home.
- Adding a solar heater for the water in your swimming pool.
- If your HVAC is over 10 years old, replace it with a 13 or greater SEER rated unit.


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Announcing Moz Local: Simultaneous Listing Management on All Major Aggregators
Editor's note: Since the publication of this post, Moz Local has become even more fully-featured. For a complete feature list, see https://moz.com/products/local/pricing.
One of the many things that appealed to me about joining forces with Moz 18 months ago was the empathy that every Mozzer has for business owners and marketers trying to keep up with the frenetic pace of change in local search. Although it's generally thought of as less competitive than a lot of other disciplines (like news, video, or e-commerce SEO), the prerequisite set of tasks for success in local search continues to grow.
In the shift from desktop to mobile, local search is fragmenting more than ever, and business listings are an increasingly critical foundation. NAP consistency (establishing a canonical Name, Address, and Phone Number for your business location) is one of the top local search ranking factors every year. Establishing a consistent NAP is vital to ranking in local results. All the link building and social media in the world won't help a business if Google can't trust its information, and customers can't reach it.
Whether you're a small agency trying to serve dozens of mom-and-pops on a limited budget, or a large brand manager tasked with managing listings for hundreds of stores, the time it takes to ensure the accuracy and visibility of business information is overwhelming. Let alone the time it takes to correct errors, align categories, deal with PIN or postcard verifications, or add missing listings. And it's often prohibitively expensive.
So as we thought about how to evolve GetListed's original product, we decided to start by helping solve the fundamental pain point of local search: ensuring accurate, consistent business listing information on the most important sites on the web.
What does Moz Local do?
For a high-level overview, check out this video:
Our goal is to make Moz Local the most efficient option for location management, with an easy-to-use interface and an affordable price point.
In a nutshell, Moz Local allows you to upload a spreadsheet of all of your locations, which we then standardize and distribute to all five major U.S. data aggregators:
- Infogroup
- Neustar Localeze
- Acxiom
- Factual
- Foursquare
and three important local directories:
- Superpages
- eLocal
- Best of the Web Local
for one set cost per location.
After submitting your locations, we provide you with full reporting about the status of each listing (with links to those listings live on the web, where available). We'll also surface possible duplicate listings we discover across the ecosystem, provide you with the fastest path to correcting or closing those duplicates, and notify you of any unauthorized changes to your NAP that we come across in our local web crawl.
To dive into the product, visit Moz.com/local and download our CSV template. If you currently manage your locations at Google Places, though, you can get a head start by simply uploading that spreadsheet to Moz Local (we accept all the same field names and categories). Full documentation for the product is available here, and FAQs and a deeper description of how the product works are here.
Key features
Upgraded Listing Details page (free to all Moz Community members)
The original single-location lookup functionality from GetListed is still available at moz.com/local/search—and you can also access these Listing Details from your Moz Local dashboard. As part of the Moz Local changeover, we've upgraded it with a much snazzier results page and a quicker visual indication of how a business is doing and where you should focus your efforts.
Category Research Tool (free to all Moz Community members)
One of my persistent headaches back when I was a full-time local search consultant was performing category searches for slight wording variations as I was submitting listings across every single local search site.
With that in mind, we designed the Moz Local Category Research Tool to be a huge time- and energy-saver. Start typing the keywords or industry your business is in, and we'll start refining the list of categories right before your eyes. Selecting a category will then show you how it maps to different search engines or directories when we publish your listing.
If there's a more specific category on a particular search engine that you'd rather submit for a given listing, simply add it to the Category Overrides field in your CSV spreadsheet.
Duplicate listing notifications
As I mentioned above, we provide reporting on possible duplicate listings in the ecosystem, and where possible, we present you a direct path to closing them. Right now you'll see a relatively tight set of possible duplicates, but going forward you'll see a wider possible set to help you clean up old addresses, changed business names, or unwanted tracking phone numbers.
Expanded Learning Center (free to all Moz Community members)
Huge thanks to Miriam Ellis for her assistance in compiling, updating, and editing this greatly expanded version of the GetListed Learning Center. We now offer 41 pages full of local marketing background and best practices. The top pages from the original Learning Center like the local search glossary, marketing priority questionnaire, and the local search ecosystems are all still available.
Features we're already working on
We've already gotten some terrific feedback from our Customer Advisory Board and other customers during a private beta period, and the product we're releasing today is much better as a result. Going forward, we're anxious to hear from the Moz community what feature areas you'd like to see us expand into.
Features currently on our list include:
- allowing for the editing of single locations in-app
- building custom-branded and emailed reports
- showing individual listing progress over time
adding additional search engine and data partners
(if you're interested in a data partnership with Moz, please email Ryan Watson!)
I have a feeling it will be a common request, but at this point Moz Local only supports U.S. business locations. International versions of this product aren't in our near-term roadmap for development.
Thanks all around
There are a lot of people to thank, with such a big product release—it has definitely been a team effort:
- the entire Local Engineering and Inbound Engineering teams here at Moz
- the Marketing and Community teams, especially my "point person" for coordinating those efforts, Elizabeth Crouch
- The Executive Team for giving us the leeway and the budget to build this product
- Derric Wise and Nick Santos for the amazing new branding and look-and-feel
- Josh Mortenson, Elijah Tiegs, and Elizabeth Crouch for our video
- Jackie Immel and Courtney Davis for their help in coordinating our beta period
- Our beta testers for their participation and patience!
- the data aggregators and directories who have partnered with us
- the users of GetListed who have given us so much great feedback over the years
I'm sure that's leaving dozens, if not hundreds of people out—but I'm truly grateful for the support of everyone in the local search community over the years. As with many software endeavors, it's taken us a little longer to get here than we'd hoped, but we also hope that you in the Moz community think it was worth the wait!
The formal press release announcing Moz Local can be found here.


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Mr. Ben Goodrich for appellants.
Mr. Francis J. Henley for appellee.
Mr. Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an action of ejectment, commenced in August, 1901, by the appellee, to recover a tract of land containing 17,355.86 [200 U.S. 96, 97] acres, and damages for the alleged unlawful withholding of possession. It was alleged that the plaintiff was the owner and entitled to the possession of the described land, and that title had been in it or in its grantors and predecessors in interest ever since January 1, 1875; and the defendants thirty in number-were alleged to have unlawfully withheld possession of the premises in dispute from about November 28, 1900. Some of the defendants filed disclaimers or failed to answer. The appellants and others jointly answered, relying solely on rights alleged to result from an asserted adverse possession by each of them of a portion of the demanded premises for more than twenty years prior to the bringing of the action. The case was tried to the court without a jury. The court made findings of fact and stated its conclusions of law thereon. Thereupon judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff. On appeal, the supreme court of the territory affirmed the judgment; and the opinions delivered on the original hearing and on a rehearing are reported in 71 Pac. 924 and 76 Pac. 612. The supreme court adopted the findings of fact made by the trial court. The findings thus adopted as to the title and right of possession of the plaintiff were as follows:
In addition, the trial court, among its conclusions of law, incorporated the following:
The supreme court of the territory, in its opinion on the rehearing, held this latter statement to be not a mere conclusion of law, but the finding of an ultimate fact; and the court therefore adopted it as part of the findings of fact upon which it based the decree of affirmance. As to possession by the defendants, it was found as follows:
This appeal was prosecuted.
On appeal from the supreme court of a territory our jurisdiction, apart from exceptions duly taken to rulings on the admission or rejection of evidence, is limited to determining whether the findings of fact support the judgment. Harrison v. Perea, 168 U.S. 311, 323 , 42 S. L. ed. 478, 482, 18 Sup. Ct. Rep. 129, and cases cited. As on this record there is no question presented as to rulings of the court in re- [200 U.S. 96, 99] spect to the admission or rejection of evidence, we can alone consider the sufficiency of the findings.
The errors assigned are sixteen in number, and resolve themselves into three classes:
1. Those which assert that the supreme court of the territory refused to consider the findings made by the trial court, and this embraces the 1st, 2d, and 5th assignments. But these assignments disregard the opinion of the supreme court of the territory, delivered on the rehearing, and do not require further notice.
2. Those which question the sufficiency of the evidence to support the findings of fact. These are numbered 8 and 13, and likewise need not be further referred to, as they address themselves to a matter not open for our consideration.
3. Assignments which, in various modes of statement, attack the sufficiency of the findings made by the trial court, and adopted by the supreme court of the territory, which include all of the assignments not already disposed of.
The contentions concerning the insufficiency of the findings to support the judgment are resolvable into two propositions, which we shall separately consider:
First. That, irrespective of the adequacy or inadequacy of the possession asserted by the defendants below, the findings are insufficient to sustair the legal conclusion of title in the plaintiff. This proposition rests upon the premise that the matter included in the conclusions of law of the trial court, which the supreme court held to be a finding of fact, and which it adopted as such, was but a mere conclusion of law, and, therefore, cannot be considered in determining the sufficiency of the findings of fact to sustain the deduction of law made by the court below as to title in the plaintiff. And with this premise it is insisted that if the findings of fact proper are alone considered, they are insufficient to establish title in the plaintiff, because, although they show the Mexican grant, and its confirmation and a conveyance by William R. and Phebe A. Hearst to the plaintiff of an undivided interest in the land, the findings fail as against [200 U.S. 96, 100] defendant to show any title whatever in William R. and Phebe Hearst, or in the plaintiff as their grantee, derived from the grantees of the Mexican government.
Conceding, merely for the sake of argument, the correctness of the premise, we think the proposition based thereon is without merit, since the findings, without reference to the action of the court in adopting the particular finding referred to, sustain as against the defendants the conclusion as to title. Those findings are that the plaintiff held title to an interest in the land in controversy, acquired by reason of a conveyance made on the 3d day of July, 1901, by William R. and Phebe A. Hearst. They, moreover, established that the land thus conveyed was originally acquired by the predecessors and grantors of the plaintiff through a grant made by the Mexican government in 1833, and that 'on the 14th day of December, in the year 1900, the government of the United States, by its letters patent, recognized and confirmed' said Mexican grant to two named individuals, 'and to their heirs, successors in interest, and assigns forever; and found and decreed that W. R. Hearst and Phebe A. Hearst had acquired an undivided interest in such lands and premises of the said two grantors.'
It is urged that the statement in the finding as to it having been decreed that there was an undivided interest in William R. and Phoebe A. Hearst was adopted from a decree to that effect rendered by the court of private land claims, established under the act of March 3, 1891. 26 Stat. at L. 854, chap. 539, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 765. From this it is deduced that the recital in the patent as to the title in W. R. and Phebe A. Hearst was res inter alios, and that, in the absence of an express and substantive finding of title in the parties named from the grantee of the Mexican government, the mere recital on the subject in the patent furnished no support whatever for the legal conclusion that there was title. This is based upon the terms of 8 and 13 of the act establishing the court of private land claims, wherein it was provided that the effect of the confirmation of a grant by that court should be [200 U.S. 96, 101] only to quitclaim the title, and not to affect the interests of third parties. But, conceding that the patent, as asserted, is based on a decree of the court of private land claims, and that its recitals are controlled by the terms of the act creating that tribunal, the proposition is without merit. Knight v. United Land Asso. 142 U.S. 161, 188 , 189 S., 35 L. ed. 974, 984, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 258. In that case it was held that although a patent which had been issued in consequence of the report of a tribunal appointed by Congress merely quitclaimed the rights of the United States, and saved the rights of third parties, it nevertheless was conclusive as to the existence of a record title upon those claiming to hold under rights which originated subsequent to the cession, and, a fortiori, as to a person claiming title by mere possession. By the application of this doctrine it follows that the judgment confirming the land grant and the patent thereunder, which specifically decreed an interest in the confirmed grant to the parties named, was adequate to establish a record title as against persons asserting the character of rights upon which the defendants relied.
Second. It is further insisted that, in view of the finding of the court below as to possession of the defendant for more than ten years prior to the commencement of the action, the findings are inadequate to sustain the legal conclusion of the right of the plaintiff to recover, because of the force and effect of the period of limitation prescribed in paragraph 2938 of the Revised Statutes of Arizona for 1901. That paragraph is as follows:
The court below held, and its ruling on this subject is not questioned, that prior to the adoption of this revision of the Arizona statutes there was no statute of limitations in that territory barring a right of action for the recovery of lands by [200 U.S. 96, 102] one claiming title against another holding merely by peaceable and adverse possession. The revision went into effect on September 1, 1901, and the present action was brought a few days prior to such date, viz., on August 26, 1901
In approaching the question whether paragraph 2938 was applicable to the case, the court below assumed that the effect of the finding as to possession by defendants was to show peaceable and adverse possession by them for the period of ten years. The court, however, decided that under no canon of construction or rule giving a retroactive effect to a new statute of limitation could paragraph 2938 be made to apply to this case. Thus, suggesting the possible construction which might be claimed for the paragraph, it was said that if construed as absolutely barring causes of action existing at the time of its passage it was unconstitutional,-citing Sohn v. Waterson, 17 Wall, 596, 21 L. ed. 737. Further, that even if the statute were construed as providing that all actions existing at the time of the passage of the statute should be barred if not sued upon within the time which elapsed between the date of such passage and the date fixed for the going into effect thereof, this action was brought within such period, and the statute could not operate as a bar,-citing Wrightman v. Boone County, 82 Fed. 413, and various state decisions therein referred to. And, lastly, it was decided that if the paragraph was construed as not applying to a suit which, though commenced after the passage of the act, was pending at the time the same took effect, the statute had no application,- citing State, Vreeland, Prosecutor, v. Bergen 34 N. J. L. 438.
We think the supreme court of the territory was clearly right in the views which it thus expressed, and therefore it committed no error in determining that under no possible hypothesis could the limitation prescribed in paragraph 2938 of the Revised Statutes of Arizona operate to bar the plaintiff's action, in view of the findings of fact in respect to the title of plaintiff.
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In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like the dueling old point guards, who finally gave folks a reason to care about the Bulls. Just in time for them to get fired.
According to Yahoo! Sports, Chicago VP John Paxson shoved Vinny Del Negro after a game last month, because the coach had exceeded a medically imposed limit on the playing time of Joakim Noah. (They considered brawling over the color of the paint in the team showers, but that dispute was deemed "not boring enough.") Neither man would confirm the shoving, but the team has reportedly hired independent lawyers to investigate. Hot stuff.
The timing could not be more perfect, since the Bulls have just one game left in their sad, disappointing season. (Their best scorer right now? Rasheed Wallace.) After getting everyone's hopes up with that near-upset of the Celtics last year, the Bulls have improved zero games in '09-10 and everyone is patiently waiting for Del Negro to get the axe. Starting fights with your employees isn't a great way for Paxson to secure his own employment either. Thanks to this news, the eyes of the whole basketball world are now laser-focused on this team as the most crucial moment of the year approaches.
So the way I see it, there are basically two possible scenarios. The team flames out against Charlotte tonight (and Toronto beats the Knicks), choking away the final playoff spot and every one is sent packing from a franchise in disarray. Or they rally 'round "the family," storm into the playoffs with a chip on their shoulder, and push the unstoppable Cavs to the brink of elimination in a dramatic Game 7. They lose anyway, but gain just enough sympathy to save everybody's job and start the cycle of mediocrity anew. Both options will leave fans reaching for the Pepto.
Hey, at least Derrick Rose is still alive. He's kind of exciting.


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I get great food tips each day from people literally all over the world. It is fun hearing people wax on about their favorite pizza, tacos or cheeseburgers. It is this fantastic feedback that keeps me moving each day. Last week I had the good fortune to hear from Mondo Mike, you probably remember Mondo from the morning radio program hosted by Chris Jagger when he was on 105.3FM. Mondo is well known for his burger eating abilities, and has grazed his way through every burger in the DFW area. The man also is a graduate of El Centro's culinary program.
I recall a conversation with Mondo last year when he told me about a burger restaurant off of Greenville Avenue in Dallas that was so underground that you had to crawl over a fence in a field to enjoy their offerings. That is pretty wacky, but this is Mondo we are talking about. The guy has this amazing energy that will inspire you to crawl fences.
So Mondo sends word that he is willing to share his absolute favorite burger with me, and while we are at it we can sample his favorite chicken wings, too. We invited Jagger, but he claims he is watching his girlish figure, so we went Mondo y Mano.
This Mondo luncheon is pretty clandestine. He had me meet him in Grapevine but wouldn't tell me the name of his restaurant. He had to show me. I was hungry and obliged.
We ended up at JR's Grill in Colleyville which is owned by the same gent who owns JRs Steakhouse. I have been to the steakhouse some years back, but not the grill. It is a dimly lit spot that offers heaping platefuls of vittles.
Once inside Mondo raves about the cheese grits and asks for the waiter to bring me a sample. They were pretty good grits; nice and cheesy.
We were there for the burgers and wings, so we ordered a six piece hot wing platter that comes with house-made ranch dressing. The wings were smoky and fat. Mondo likes his wings nekkid, and so do I. These were pretty awesome and I rate them pretty high on my ever increasing wing list. I still like the wings I had over at Ten Bells in Bishop Arts. Those wings are a bit more genteel, if we can use that word when speaking about bar food. But the JR wings are delicious.
We order our burgers and I opt for a bacon addition, if for no other reason it makes for a better photo. Plus I would get to eat bacon, and that doesn't suck.
The burgers at JR's are mammoth half pounders. There was a bacon bomb on mine, with about a half dozen strips scattered across my beef patty. As for the burger, it was good. Sending out two slices of real cheddar makes me smile. It was not my absolute favorite, but a good burger. To be superior JR would need to upgrade his bun. That would make that burger scream.
Mr. Mondo likes his burgers cooked over flame, I claim the burger can be seared on a plancha and turn out just fine. Look what Jack is doing over at Maple and Motor with his antique griddle. That's a fantastic burger without all the fuss of fire.
I need to turn Mondo on to a good burger now. I am thinking about the version at Boulevardier. I saw this burger yesterday while enjoying brunch, and that baby is now on my radar.


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Sunday's inadvertent disruption of Google's YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the Internet's design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts.
The issue lies in the way Internet service pProviders (ISPs) share Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing information. BGP is the standard protocol used by routers to find computers on the Internet, but there is a lot of BGP routing data available. To simplify things, ISPs share this kind of information among each other.
And that can cause problems when one ISP shares bad data with the rest of the Internet.
That's what happened with YouTube this weekend, according to sources familiar with the situation. BGP data intended to block access to YouTube within Pakistan was accidentally broadcast to other service providers, causing a widespread YouTube outage.
The chain of events that led to YouTube's partial black-out was kicked off Friday when the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) ordered the country's ISPs to block access to YouTube because of an alleged anti-Islamic video that was hosted on the site.
According to published reports, the clip was from a film made by Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who has been critical of Islam. Wilders is hoping to air a 15 minute anti-Islam film, called Fitna on Dutch television in March.
ISPs in Pakistan were able to block YouTube by creating BGP data that redirected routers looking for YouTube.com's servers to nonexistent network destinations. But that data was accidentally shared with Hong Kong's PCCW, who in turn shared it with other ISPs throughout the Internet.
In San Francisco, David Ulevitch first noticed the problem Saturday morning. "I was trying to watch cats falling off roofs… and I couldn't get to YouTube," he said. Ulevitch, who runs an Internet infrastructure company called OpenDNS, was soon able to connect with engineers at Google, who also experienced similar problems, he said. "They were like, 'Holy crap, we can't get to YouTube either.'"
Because Pakistan's BGP traffic was offering very precise routes to what it claimed were YouTube's Internet servers, routers took it to be more accurate than YouTube's own information about itself.
Larger service providers typically validate BGP data from their customers to make sure that the routing information is accurate, but in this case, PCCW apparently did not do that, according to Ulevitch. When the Pakistani ISP sent the bad data, PCCW ended up sharing it with other ISPs around the globe.
This kind of accidental denial of service attack has happened before. In early 2006, for example, New York's Con Edison caused data intended for a number of networks to be misrouted following a similar mistake.
There wasn't anything that Google could have done to prevent the problem, said Danny McPherson, chief research officer with Arbor Networks. "They can't keep someone on the Internet from announcing their address space," he said. "It's a huge vulnerability."
By intentionally propagating bad BGP data, an attacker could knock a Web site off the Internet or even redirect visitor's traffic to a malicious server, security experts said.
Although there hasn't been a high profile example of criminals misusing the BGP protocol to knock a Web site offline intentionally, it has been misused by spammers to cover their tracks.
If criminals were able to send BGP information to a larger service provider that didn't properly check its BGP data, they could cause serious problems, McPherson said. "The reality is that if you wanted to cause global instability, you simply compromise one of those people who have access to a BGP-speaking router," he said.
Making BGP data more reliable isn't so easy either. Although secure versions of BGP have been developed, it would take a major effort to adopt them and until there's widespread concern over the current system, it is likely to continue.
Two parties were to blame for the YouTube fiasco, said a networking engineer familiar with the YouTube situation, who asked not to be identified. First, the Pakistani ISP should never have forwarded the bad BGP routing data to PCCW. Second, PCCW should have checked to make sure that the ISP was talking about its own domains before accepting the information.."One of the dirty secrets about the Internet is a lot of it is still a handshake deal," he said.


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Take a moment to explore our business center, situated in a green oasis of tranquility in the heart of Brussels, next to the canal and the Antoine Dansaertstreet.
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