text: Latest News Staff Picks ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the "moderate rebels" are fighting together in Aleppo Western claims that the "moderate rebels" fighting the Syrian government are totally separate and antagonistic to ISIS are disproved by the fighting in Aleppo. Published 2 years ago on November 2, 2016 By Alexander Mercouris 2,909 Views Share Tweet Nothing illustrates the mismatch between Western reporting of the war in Syria and the reality on the ground better than an incident which took place on 1st November 2016 south of Aleppo. The Syrian government's main supply lines to Aleppo are the roads from the south. This has been especially so since the Jihadi capture of most of the province of Idlib together with its regional capital in the first half of 2015. As the noose tightens on the Jihadis in eastern Aleppo, with their latest counter-offensive repulsed and reports that the eastern districts of the city under Jihadi control are running out of essential fuel and other supplies as the cold weather closes in, the Jihadis attempted on 1st November 2016 to try to turn the tables on the Syrian army by cutting its road links to the south of the city. The Jihadi attempt to do this failed and was quickly repulsed, but in the process it exposed the truth of how the war in Syria is actually being fought. It has become an article of faith in the West that the Jihadi fighters in eastern Aleppo are "moderate rebels" and that Jabhat Al-Nusra (ie. Al-Qaeda) accounts for any small fraction of them. It is also an article of faith in the West that the Jihadi fighters in eastern Aleppo – including those belonging to Jabhat Al-Nusra – are deadly enemies of ISIS, and have nothing in common with ISIS. It is also continuously claimed in the West that the Syrian army and Russia are only engaging in token fighting against ISIS, and that they are almost exclusively concerned with fighting the "moderate rebels" in Aleppo and elsewhere, who are trying to overthrow the Syrian government. Some Western commentators have gone even further, and have come close to saying that Russia, the Syrian government and ISIS are in de facto alliance with each other, as all three are collectively waging war on the "moderate rebels" who are trying to overthrow the Syrian government rather than fight each other. The Jihadi attempt to cut the Syrian army's supply lines south of Aleppo which took place on 1st November 2016 shows how completely wrong these claims are. The attack was actually carried out by ISIS. Moreover the attack was clearly coordinated with Jabhat Al-Nusra (ie. with Al-Qaeda) which carried out a similar attack in the same area just days before. As recent events have shown, Jabhat Al-Nusra (ie. Al-Qaeda) is the dominant force in eastern Aleppo, though contrary to Western claims ISIS definitely has a presence there, as confirmed by this 10th October 2016 report by RT's Murad Gazdiev, which shows Jabhat Al-Nusra and ISIS flags flying together in the city. As our contributor Afra'a Dagher – who is a Syrian writer actually writing for The Duran from Syria – has repeatedly warned, the alphabet soup of differently named Jihadi groups in Syria merely disguises a single continuum of violent Wahhabi Jihadis all committed to the same cause: the overthrow of the Syrian government and the establishment of a sectarian Wahhabi exclusively Sunni state in its place. Here is how Afra'a Dagher explained the role of ISIS in the Syrian conflict "The "Islamic State" has been designed to attract Takfiri (NB: Wahhabi – AM) fighters from all over the world to join the war against Syria. That way the war to destroy Syria and break the Axis of Resistance is fought with no shortage of fanatical recruits. The war is sponsored and funded by Saudi Arabia, the true factory of Wahhabism, as well as by countries like Qatar and Turkey." Whilst there undoubtedly are tensions between the senior Al-Qaeda and ISIS political leaderships, these have no practical relevance to the situation on the ground, where fighters from the different groups work continuously to defeat their common enemy, which is the Syrian government and Russia. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Published 22 hours ago on January 23, 2019 By RT Via RT… UK Prime Minister Theresa May is reportedly set to resist mounting pressure from pro-Remain Tory ministers, and order her cabinet to vote down amendments that would block a no-deal Brexit – risking possible resignations. Parliament will vote on May's alternative Brexit proposals on Tuesday, as well as a series of amendments that include delaying the UK's departure from the EU by negotiating an extension to Article 50. The UK is set to leave the EU on March 29. The prime minister will risk splitting her cabinet – ignoring pleas over taking no-deal off the table – and instead pursue a strategy of securing changes to the contentious Irish backstop, in a bid to win over hardline Tory Brexiteers and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the Daily Mail reports. May will be hoping that such a move will provide her with enough MPs to get her deal through the House of Commons at a second attempt. 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It comes as Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, claimed in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today program, that delaying Brexit would be "calamitous," and much worse than no-deal. Michel Barnier, the EU chief negotiator, has claimed that Brussels will only extend Article 50 if there is a "stable majority" in the UK for a deal – adding that the UK could avoid the problems of the Irish backstop by opting for a softer Brexit. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Louis XVI (aka Emmanuel Macron) runs to Merkels' arms in Aachen treaty (Video) The Duran Quick Take: Episode 63. Published 22 hours ago on January 23, 2019 By Alex Christoforou The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris take a quick look at French President Emmanuel Macron's comparison of the Yellow Vests movement to the times of King Louis XVI who, as Macron rationalizes, met his tragic fate by refusing to embrace reforms. Emmanuel Macron told 150 corporate executives gathered at Versailles (including Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, JPMorgan Chase CEO James Dimon, and Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey), that "a lot of people thought that it was not a good date to gather here," referring to the execution of French King Louis XVI, who was guillotined on January 21, exactly 226 years ago on Monday…"but when you look at French history, if at the end they ended up like that, it's because a lot of leaders decided not to reform." The meeting held by Macron was called together in part to alleviate investors' fears after 10 weeks of Yellow Vest protests throughout France and spreading across Europe. According to RT, the nationwide protests have sometimes turned violent, and according to Macron's office, have caused concern among foreign investors hoping to cash in on Macron's business-friendly reforms. Notably, Macron reassured his CEO guests that he would "not roll back what we have done in the past 18 months" – unpopular labor and tax reforms that have been cited as sparking the Yellow Vest protests. Macron also said that the Yellow Vest movement had been spurred by middle-class anger over globalization, arguing that similar sentiments have given rise to Brexit and populist governments across Europe. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Follow The Duran Audio Podcast on Soundcloud. Via Zerohedge… French President Emmanuel Macron's push for what he previously called "a real European army" got a big boost on Tuesday amid France and Germany signing an updated historic treaty reaffirming their close ties and commitment to support each other during a ceremony in the city of Aachen, a border town connected to Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire. But the timing for the renewal of the two countries' 1963 post-war reconciliation accord is what's most interesting, given both the rise of eurosceptic nationalism, the uncertainty of Brexit, and just as massive 'Yellow Vests' protests rage across France for a tenth week. Macron addressed this trend specifically at the signing ceremony with the words, "At a time when Europe is threatened by nationalism, which is growing from within… Germany and France must assume their responsibility and show the way forward." German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a signing of a new agreement on bilateral cooperation and integration, known as Treaty of Aachen. Image via Reuters Germany's Angela Merkel agreed, adding in her own remarks: "We are doing this because we live in special times and because in these times we need resolute, distinct, clear, forward-looking answers." The agreement, which is being described as sparse on specifics or detail, focuses on foreign policy and defense ties between Berlin and Paris. "Populism and nationalism are strengthening in all of our countries," Merkel EU officials at the ceremony. "Seventy-four years – a single human lifetime – after the end of the second world war, what seems self-evident is being called into question once more." Macron said those "who forget the value of Franco-German reconciliation are making themselves accomplices of the crimes of the past. Those who… spread lies are hurting the same people they are pretending to defend, by seeking to repeat history." And in remarks that formed another affirmation that the two leaders are seeking to form an "EU army" Merkel said just before signing the treaty: "The fourth article of the treaty says we, Germany and France, are obliged to support and help each other, including through military force, in case of an attack on our sovereignty." The text of the updated treaty includes the aim of a "German-French economic area with common rules" and a "common military culture" that Merkel asserted could "contribute to the creation of a European army". Later before a press pool, Merkel endorsed the idea of a joint European army further: We have taken major steps in the field of military cooperation, this is good and largely supported in this house. But I also have to say, seeing the developments of the recent years, that we have to work on a vision to establish a real European army one day. She clarified that the new military organization wouldn't exist as a counterpart to or in competition with NATO, similar to prior comments she made before European parliament. Previously in November she had assured, "This is not an army against NATO, it can be a good complement to NATO." This was also in support of Macron's early November statements wherein he said of the proposed EU army, "We have to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia and even the US" — words that were issued on the heels President Trump's initial announcement that the US would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Despite such such assurances analysts say the natural and long term by-product of a "real European army" — as Macron and Merkel suggesting — would be the slow eroding and demise of US power in the region, which would no doubt weaken the NATO alliance. The closest thing to a current "EU army" that does exist (if it can be called even that) – the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) – is generally perceived as more of a civil and emergency response joint EU member mechanism that would be ineffectual under the threat of an actual military invasion or major event. Meanwhile perhaps a prototype EU army is already in action on the streets of Paris, revealing what critics fear it may actually be used for in the future.. So now we have combat ready armored vehicles with the EU flag which are being used against unarmed European protesters who are demonstrating against a pro EU authoritarian regime. Still think the #EU is a "project for peace"?#Mscron #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests #Paris #France pic.twitter.com/eCxpCDVPz4 — Dispropaganda (@Dispropoganda) December 8, 2018 The expected push back came swiftly and fiercely as Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's National Rally party, slammed the updated Aachen treaty as "an act that borders on treason", while others worried this is an attempt to create a "super EU" within the bloc. Alexander Gauland of Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), for example, warned: As populists, we insist that one first takes care of one's own country… We don't want Macron to renovate his country with German money … The EU is deeply divided. A special Franco-German relationship will alienate us even further. Italy's far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, warned earlier this month that his country could seek an "Italian-Polish axis" to challenge the whole premise of a "Franco-German motor" that drives European centralization. Also notable of Tuesday's signing is that the Aachen document prioritizes Germany being eventually accepted as permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, which it mandates as a priority for French-German diplomacy. Such a future scenario on the security council would shift power significantly in favor of a western bloc of allies the US, Britain, and France, which Germany would vote alongside. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest The Integrity Initiative and the British Roots of the Deep State: How the Round Table Infiltrated America Kissinger's takeover of the State Department ushered in a new era of British occupation of American foreign policy. Published 22 hours ago on January 23, 2019 By Matthew Ehret With the nearly weekly revelations that the British Foreign Office, MI6, and GCHQ have been behind the long standing agenda to undermine the Presidency of Donald Trump and undo the peaceful alliance between nationalist leaders in America, Russia, China and elsewhere, a new focus on the British hand in undermining the United States has become a serious thought for many citizens. In the first week of the new year, fuel was added to this fire when internal memos were leaked from the British-run Integrity Initiative featuring a startling account of the techniques deployed by the anti-Russian British operation to infiltrate American intelligence institutions, think tanks and media. For those who may not know, The Integrity Initiative is an anti-Russian propaganda outfit funded to the tune of $140 million by the British Foreign office. The January 2019 leak, featuring documents dated to the early period of Trump's election, demonstrate that this organization, already active across Europe promoting anti-Russian PR and smearing nationalist leaders such as Jeremy Corbyn, was intent on spreading deeply into the State Department and setting up "clusters" of anti-Trump operatives. The documents reveal high level meetings that Integrity Initiative Director Chris Donnelly had with former Trump Advisor Sebastien Gorka, McCain Foundation director Kurt Volker, Pentagon PR guru John Rendon among many others. The exposure of the British hand behind the scenes affords us a unique glimpse into the real historical forces undermining America's true constitutional tradition throughout the 20th century, as Mueller/the Five Eyes/Integrity Initiative are not new phenomena but actually follow a modus operandi set down for already more than a century. One of the biggest obstacles to seeing this modus operandi run by the British Empire is located in the belief in a mythology which has become embedded in the global psyche for over half a century and which we should do our best to free ourselves of. Debunking the Myth of the "American Empire" While there has been a long-standing narrative promoted for over 70 years that the British Empire disappeared after World War II having been replaced by the "American Empire", it is the furthest thing from the truth. America, as constitutionally represented by its greatest presidents (who can unfortunately be identified by their early deaths while serving in office), were never colonialist and were always in favor of reining in British Institutions at home while fighting British colonial thinking abroad. Franklin Roosevelt's thirteen year-long battle with the Deep State, which he referred to as the "economic royalists who should have left America in 1776″, was defined in clear terms by his patriotic Vice-President Henry Wallace who warned of the emergence of a new Anglo-American fascism in 1944 when he said: "Fascism in the postwar inevitably will push steadily for Anglo-Saxon imperialism and eventually for war with Russia. Already American fascists are talking and writing about this conflict and using it as an excuse for their internal hatreds and intolerances toward certain races, creeds and classes." The fact is that already in 1944, a policy of Anglo-Saxon imperialism had been promoted subversively by British-run think tanks known as the Round Table Movement and Fabian Society, and the seeds had already been laid for the anti-Russian cold war by those British-run American fascists. It is not a coincidence that this fascist Cold War policy was announced in a March 5, 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri by none other than Round Table-follower Winston Churchill. The Empire Strikes When the Round Table Movement was created with funds from the Rhodes Trust in 1902, a new plan was laid out to create a new technocratic elite to manage the re-emergence of the new British Empire and crush the emergence of American-inspired nationalism globally. This organization would be staffed by generations of Rhodes Scholars who would receive their indoctrination in Oxford before being sent back to advance a "post-nation state" agenda in their respective countries. As this agenda largely followed the mandate set out by Cecil Rhodes in his Seventh Will who said "Why should we not form a secret society with but one object: the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, and for the making of the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire?" With the help of an anglophile, racist president in America, leading figures organizing these think tanks first advanced a program to create a "League of Nations" as the solution to the "nationalist problem" which humanity was told "caused" World War One. Nationalist forces in America rejected the idea that the constitution should be rendered obsolete and the plan for global governance failed. However that did not stop the Round Table Movement from trying again. Leading Round Table controller Lord Lothian (British Ambassador to the USA) complained of the "American problem" in 1918. "There is a fundamentally different concept in regard to this question between Great Britain and the United States as to the necessity of civilized control over politically backward peoples…. The inhabitants of Africa and parts of Asia have proved unable to govern themselves…. Yet America not only has no conception of this aspect of the problem but has been led to believe that the assumption of this kind of responsibility is iniquitous imperialism. They take an attitude towards the problem of world government exactly analogous to the one they [earlier] took toward the problem of the world war. If they are slow in learning we shall be condemned to a period of strained relations between the various parts of the English-speaking world. [We must] get into the heads of Canadians and Americans that a share in the burden of world government is just as great and glorious a responsibility as participation in the war". A Chinese leader of the American-inspired republican revolution of 1911 named Sun Yat-sen warned of the likes of Lord Lothian and the League of Nations in 1924 when he said "The nations which are employing imperialism to conquer others and which are trying to maintain their own favored positions as sovereign lords of the whole world are advocating cosmopolitanism [aka: global governance/globalization -ed] and want the world to join them… Nationalism is that precious possession by which humanity maintains its existence. If nationalism decays, then when cosmopolitanism flourishes we will be unable to survive and will be eliminated". New Name. Same Beast By 1919, the Round Table Movement changed its name to the Royal Institute for International Affairs (aka: Chatham House) with the "Round Table" name relegated to its geopolitical periodical. In Canada and Australia, branches were created in 1928 under the rubrics of "Canadian and Australian Institutes for International Affairs" (CIIA, AIIA). However in America, where knowledge of the British Empire's subversive role was more widely known, the name "American Institute for International Affairs" was still too delicate. Instead the name "Council on Foreign Relations" was chosen and was chartered in 1921. Rhodes Scholar William Yandall Elliot surrounded by a few of his leading disciples: Sir Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski Samuel Huntington and Pierre Trudeau Staffed with Rhodes Scholars and Fabians, the CFR (and its International Chatham House counterparts) dubbed themselves "independent think tanks" which interfaced with Rhodes Scholars and Fabians in academia, government and the private sector alike with the mission of advancing a foreign policy agenda that was in alignment with the British Empire's dream of an Anglo-American "special relationship". One such Rhodes Scholar was William Yandall Elliot, who played a major role mentoring Henry Kissinger and a generation of geo-politicians from Harvard, not the least of whom include Zbigniew Brzezinski, Pierre Elliot Trudeau and Samuel (Clash of Civilizations) Huntington. The Round Table in Canada and the Coup Against FDR In Canada, five leading Rhodes Scholars were busy creating the League of Social Reconstruction as a self-described "Fabian Society of Canada" in 1931 which was meant to be a fascist/technocratic answer to the chaos of "greedy nationalism" that supposedly caused the economic collapse of Black Friday in 1929. During the same time in America, a different path to fascism was taken by these networks during the early 1930s. This plan involved installing a General named Smedley Butler into power as a puppet dictator steered by the Anglo-American establishment. Luckily for America and the world, General Butler blew the whistle on the coup against Franklin Roosevelt at the last minute. Kissinger's British Takeover of America Though it took a few assassinations throughout the post war years, Kissinger's takeover of the State Department ushered in a new era of British occupation of American foreign policy, whereby the republic increasingly became the "Dumb Giant" acting as "American Brawn for the British brains" using Churchill's words. While a nihilistic generation of youth were tuning in on LSD, and an old guard of patriots surrounding Wallace and Kennedy had fallen to the "red scare" witch hunt, geopolitical theory was fed like a sweet poison down the throat of a sleeping nation, replacing a policy of peace and "win-win cooperation" advanced by true nationalist patriots as FDR, Wallace and the Kennedys, with an imperial clone masquerading as a republic. Sir Kissinger did nothing less than reveal his total allegiance to the British Empire on May 10, 1981 during a Chatham House conference in Britain when he described his relationship with the British Foreign office in the following terms: "The British were so matter-of-factly helpful that they became a participant in internal American deliberations, to a degree probably never practiced between sovereign nations… In my White House incarnation then, I kept the British Foreign Office better informed and more closely engaged than I did the American State Department… It was symptomatic". During this period, Kissinger worked closely with CIA director George Bush Senior, who was later rewarded for his role in advancing the British-planned first war on Kuwait with a knighthood. This war set the stage for the second wave of Middle East wars beginning with the Anglo-Saudi orchestrated operation known as 9/11 and the ushering in of the new "post-nation state order" by Kissinger and Blair. This was the era which was celebrated by both Kissinger and Bush in sundry places as "the New World Order". The Dystopic New World Order Threatened by a New Deal of the 21st Century It is this dystopic geopolitical order which has been challenged by the Russia-China alliance which arose in earnest with Xi Jinping's 2013 announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative as the Grand design for large scale infrastructure projects internationally and in September 2015 with Vladimir Putin's intervention into Syria which defeated the Hobbesian regime change paradigm which poisoned the west. In 2016, the election of nationalist American President Donald Trump opened the door for the first time in over 50 years to a true national coalition of sovereign nations to eliminate the cancer of colonial thinking forever from the earth. 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This website is about the "law of attraction". Sorry, this is NOT science. It is psuedoscience that would like to characterize itself as science. It is much like religion in that it is a system of blaming the victim. Just been brutally beaten? Depending on your belief system, it's because it's karma, you did something to deserve it, God doesn't love you, you didn't pray enough, or (law of attraction) you attracted it by thinking negative.
Positive thinking can make a person feel better simply b/c they have a better outlook. It can give a person confidence to try things they otherwise wouldn't, and not feel so terrible if things don't work out. Negative thinking, however, has important purposes too: preparing people for all possibilities and thinking realistically. People's thoughts can show through in their attitudes and things they say unintentionally, but a person's thoughts alone do not influence outside matter.
I prefer to think in terms of productive and non-productive thinking. Negative thinking is not productive when a person is surrounded by a cloud of futility. Positive thinking is not productive when a person is out of touch with reality and thinks that just by daydreaming about how much weight they're going to lose, they'll lose weight with no effort (actual strategy from The Secret).
Well the science of thought is really still in it's infancy, but there have been many philosophies dealing with mental states, Sanskrit is said to have many words describing subtle states of mind - and this makes sense when considering the focus of Vedic culture was on inner wisdom and strength.
Then there's this:
I guess I really need to buy some satin underpants ^^
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Best Kids Parties: Toddler Tea Party
Name: Maya (3)
Location: Phoenixville, PA
We celebrated my daughter's third birthday with a Toddler Tea Party. Twelve little girls arrived in their frilliest dresses for tea on a sunny Saturday morning.
As the guests arrived, they sat down at a long table dressed with pink and white linens and bouquets of fresh flowers. I made the tea table by pushing together a few LACK side tables from Ikea. They cost about $10.00 each and they are the perfect height to fit children's chairs.
The first thing we did was decorate cookies. I scattered sugar cookies on vintage silver-plated trays with shiny bowls of mini candies and bottles of pink and green buttercream icing for the kids to decorate their own cookies. As the girls designed their candy creations, I served herbal tea and apple juice in pretty pots. Afterwards, the girls played musical chairs and freeze dance.
For brunch, I piled mini-muffins and assorted triangle tea sandwiches on vintage tiered trays. The strawberry cream cheese muffins and egg salad sandwiches were a big hit with both the kids and adults. As the party was winding down, I sent each child home with a unique party favor - a personalized Lenox tea cup! I picked up a box of Lenox tea cups at a flea market for just a few dollars. I painted each guest's name on the cup in pink acrylic paint. I tucked in their custom designed cookies and tied it up with a bow for a truly unique party favor.
Thanks Anne! Readers, visit Anne at The Maker Girl.
(Images: Anne Dale)


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"We Hate Comics" (AKA Review Group) #279: Northlanders #41
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by BlueStreak » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:39 am
Northlanders #41
as selected by Zero (in lieu of our missing founder, John Lewis Hawk)
Set in the desolate Hebridean islands, a young woman, newly orphaned, steps into her late father's rather large and intimidating shoes. In her teens and in command of the largest army in the region, will she fail to lead - or will she live up to the title "Thor's Daughter"? Featuring gorgeous artwork by Marian Churchland (Beast, Elephantmen, HOUSE OF MYSTERY).
Story by Brian Wood
Art by Written By Brian Wood Art By Marian Churchland Cover By Massimo Carnevale
Cover by Massimo Carnevale
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by Punchy » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:40 amBut I love comics!
by Zero » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:44 am
I hate everything, especially comics. I bloody love Northlanders though.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:47 amI'm confused by the lack of a closing quotation mark in the title. Open-ended quotes make me feel like the world has gone mad!
by Punchy » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:47 am
Northlanders is a comic
It is good though. The last issue was brilliant. Have you heard of the novel 'The Long Ships' by Frans G Bengtsson? It's about Vikings, and is one of the most popular swedish books of all time. I started reading it yesterday, and while it's written in an old-fashioned way it's very good.
Here's a review by Michael (various and sundry awesome things) Chabon: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/06/28/the-fly-leaf-the-long-ships/
by BlueStreak » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:10 am
To be fair, I think he ditched us first.
by ****** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:13 am
He's a bad penny. He was always showing back up before his turn to pick a goddamn awful book.
by Zero » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:15 am
You can lend it to me when you're done with it, I already have to many books in my house as is. I found a cache of unread of unread Jonathan Lethems this morning. Which is nice. BTW You got your 20% off voucher for OK Comics yet?
by Punchy » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:25 am
They're giving out vouchers?
by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:57 amWhew, the quote is closed..
by Zero » Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:10 am
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10 reasons why Linux will triumph over Windows: I have an announcement. The error of Microsoft's ways is finally catching up and will cause the once-invincible juggernaut to kneel before that which is Linux. How is this? Microsoft started a tiny snowball when it released Windows Me. That snowball did nothing but gain momentum. There have been ups and downs along the way (XP being an up, for sure). But for the most part, the court of public opinion has steady lost faith in what once was considered the heart of personal computing.
Top 5 Netbook Linux Distributions: Some of the advantages of running Linux on a sub-notebook are a smaller memory footprint, better security and tons of free applications right out of the box. So here are some Linux distributions I recommend you try out, because they are modified to work well with small screens and modest hardware.
Open Source News from FOSDEM 2009 – Day 2: In the weekend of 7 and 8 February, the 9th Free & Open Source Developers' Europe Meeting (FOSDEM) took place at the Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels. Your editors Sander Marechal and Hans Kwint attended this meeting to find out for you what's hot, new in the area of the Linux environment and might be coming to you in the near future. This is our report of the second day covering the talks about Thunderbird 3, Debian release management, Ext4, Syslinux, CalDAV and more. Coverage of the first day can be found in our previous article.
Moonshine brings Windows Media to Linux: Moonshine is both a Firefox browser plug-in and a desktop player. The plug-in can be downloaded and installed just like any other Firefox extension. The desktop player, which plays WMV/WMA content on your PC through Firefox, has to be built from source code.
How I became a prisoner of my company's e-mail software: Last year, I decided to give Linux a try. Everything was going well, until I started working for a company that uses Microsoft Outlook for e-mail. There's simply no straightforward, reliable way to run Outlook on Linux. I tried Outlook Web Access, but the service strips code from HTML attachments, among other limitations. (The company I worked for prior to my current employer used Lotus Notes, which is probably the only e-mail program in the world more proprietary than Outlook. Organizations must get some huge benefit from using these closed e-mail systems, because they sure make life difficult for users.)
Richard Stallman on ISP filtering and censorship: If someone just like ISP companies in Poland and Australia tries to interfere sharing by blocking network ports, censor Internet websites – it is real bad news for democracy, red light for our freedom, signal that companies have power to decide, what is good and what is bad. This injustice is so serious, that I asked Richard Stallman about his point of view on this situation. I think there is no other person in the world, who is so experienced in fighting for freedom in technical world…
A Review of Damn Small Linux 4.4.10: For the first time this week I finally had the pleasure of taking Damn Small Linux (hereafter, DSL) for a test drive. One of the companies that I work for required an easy, lightweight and quick solution to salvage an older project.
4 Websites to Learn Cool Linux Command Line Tricks: Hollywood movies often have a tech geek entering commands and doing amazing things. While it may not be that easy to hack into public transport systems or or control the world like Eagle Eye, the command line is certainly a geeks playground.
Is Apple The New Neighborhood Bully?: Apple has been throwing its legal weight around of late trying to use IP law to protect its turf. Seems to me Apple should call off the lawyers and let the products do the talking.
ASUS is considering Android-based Eee PCs: ASUS is considering to install the Linux-based Google Android OS on future Eee PCs. Google initially developed Android for cellphones (T-Mobile G1) but ASUS has allocated engineers to develop an Android-based Eee PC by as early as the year end.
10 cool things you can do with Linux and not with windows: Things you can do with Linux and not with windows Some people install windows on their netbook (or buy one with windows). I think this is not very smart because the only things you could ever really need windows for (games and photoshop) are not likely to run very well on these things. Following a list of some of the things you can do with Linux and not on windows (or very difficult)
How to Write a Linux Virus in 5 Easy Steps: It's easy for people to pick at Windows for being prone to virus and malware attacks. It's almost a given belief that if you're running a PC with a Windows operating system, you're much more susceptible to attacks than users with other operating systems. But let's quickly look at the reasons for this. First, it isn't really Microsoft's fault. It isn't that Windows is technically inferior, it's that the majority of the world runs on Windows. This fact alone is very attractive for any virus coder or exploiter. As a virus writer, you'd want to attack the majority, not the minority.
Who Pays For Open Source Software?: There are many fantastic Open Source projects out there. But just how do they get the funding they need to continue and expand development? Earlier this week I posted: Why 100% Free Software Destroys Linux. That post, in a nutshell, says : Open Source projects need a way to be funded. Commercial/Proprietary software is the way it has been done so far, and is the way it is likely to be done for the foreseeable future.


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"I want to do my little bit to save the world. And have fun doing it".
It's a feeling that brings together our supporters, volunteers and staff across the country and around the world.
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is a conservation charity that saves wetlands, which are essential for life itself. Wetlands are the primary source of drinking water for people and wildlife. They also connect us with nature, and with ourselves, through beautiful landscapes and inspiring encounters with wildlife.
WWT's ethos starts with the simple act of feeding a duck. That innocent connection with nature is more special if you're feeding – say - the world's rarest goose, saved from extinction by our expert aviculturists. It's even more special if you're surrounded by some of the UK's top wildlife at one of our world class reserves, carefully designed and managed so wildlife will flourish.
We take this wetland expertise around the world. We rescue endangered species from the edge of extinction. We investigate what's damaging the wetlands on which people and wildlife depend. We protect, repair and actually create exciting new wetlands for people and wildlife.
We work with communities, businesses and governments to help people live sustainably alongside wetlands, benefitting from the water, food, materials, shelter, livelihoods and enjoyment a well-managed wetland can provide.
WWT is one of the world's leading science and conservation institutions in its field. But we're unique because we never forget it all starts with the simple pleasures, like feeding a duck. And maybe a nice cup of tea.
WWT in numbers:
- 9 WWT Wetland Centres bring visitors and wildlife together around the most important substance in the world - water.
- 350 staff, including experts in plants, animals, health and water management, help communities and wildlife to live in harmony with the natural environment.
- 1,000 volunteers from local communities bring wetland nature alive for visitors to our Wetland Centres, and help to monitor wildlife and maintain wetland habitats.
- 3,000 hectares of prime wetland habitat are managed by WWT, much of it designated as nationally or internationally important for wildlife. We fence off as little as possible so you can get close to the action.
- 50,000 schoolchildren learn about water and the natural environment at our Wetland Centres every year, including 15,000 from disadvantaged areas through our free school visits scheme.
- 200,000 WWT members support our work in the UK and around the world, as part of the WWT family.
- 1 million visitors to our Wetland Centres are invited to get close to nature and find that personal connection between yourself and nature – either on your own or sharing the experience with the people you love.
Several million people, animals and plants have benefitted from WWT's work since 1946 to save and celebrate wetlands for wildlife and people - and the number continues to grow every day.


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Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2 is a game developed by NC Soft. Currently a native client is only available for Windows and Mac systems. It is runnable through wine though.
Install wine and mpg123. Download the GW2 client from their website (you have to be logged in), and run it like this:
wine ./Gw2.exe
Known issues
1. Patcher/launcher window is invisible/flickering.
Run it with -dx9single like so:
wine ./Gw2.exe -dx9single
2. Patcher/launcher crashes with assertion failed on "m_ioCount"
The best known "fix" for this is to just let it crash and restart it, it should continue on where it left off. It usually crashes after around 1GB worth of download, which makes this a not-at-all dealbreaker for most. Please edit this if you find that it crashes instantly/after just a few MB.
The percent of the download resets every time the launcher is started, but the amount that has already downloaded is not accounted into this number; just what remains is. The best number correlates with the total download progress is the Files Remaining.
If you have only one file remaining, switch to a language other than english or spanish, let it download that information, and then switch back to english.
3. Ingame Bazaar (trade) don't work ("Awesomium patch")
Need Download Wine sources fom GIT and build with patches found in Wine bug #27168
4. "Garbage" when take screenshots in JPEG mode
Fixed in wine 1.7.4.
To take screenshot in BMP, add flag -bmp in command line, like so:
wine ./Gw2.exe -bmp
For more info see: Wine bug #31557
5. Camera rotation stop the movement when the mouse reach the edge of window
When click MOUSE1 and move to rotate the camera , this stop when the mouse reach the edge of window, this fixed in 1.5.14, but turn back in 1.5.28.
Need Download wine sources from GIT and revert a certain commit with:
git revert --no-edit 76bbf106a28c4caa82873e8450bde7d4adc765bf
For more info see: Wine bug #33479


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BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday his administration will be pushing to eliminate the state personal and corporate income taxes in exchange for a higher sales tax during this year's regular session.
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday his administration will be pushing to eliminate the state personal and corporate income taxes in exchange for a higher sales tax during this year's regular session.
Convening April 8, the session has been built up by the administration as a vehicle for substantive tax reform, but it wasn't until this week that its centerpiece policy became known.
Jindal has said all along he wants a revenue-neutral proposal, meaning the tax swap wouldn't have an adverse effect on the state budget, which carries a $1.2 billion deficit for the coming fiscal year that begins July 1.
Citing sources who have met with the administration, the Monroe News-Star reported Thursday that Jindal's plan could increase the sales tax to the 7 percent mark.
"We want to keep the sales tax as low and flat as possible," Jindal said in a prepared statement, without mentioning a specific number for the sales tax. "Eliminating personal income taxes will put more money back into the pockets of Louisiana families and will change a complex tax code into a more simple system that will make Louisiana more attractive to companies who want to invest here and create jobs."
Rep. Gordon Dove, R-Houma, said it's a lofty goal that will certainly heat up the two-month session and possibly bring Jindal national attention.
"That's huge," said Dove, the dean of the Terrebonne-Lafourche delegation. "It's a lot to digest, and I'm really eager to hear the details."
Lawmakers expect to see parts of the overall plan come to light by the end of the month. In an interview earlier this week, House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, R-Lake Charles, said the public will be part of the process as well.
"We'll probably have some pre-session meetings where the committees can hear about these proposals," the speaker said.
Jindal added that lawmakers will play a key role, too, and will be kept abreast of the plan.
"We are meeting with every legislator over the coming weeks to discuss the details of the tax reform plan," he said.
Dove said the session, which is fiscal in nature since it's an odd-numbered year, will also host other tax proposals.
"Among the only things I don't want to see is an increase in personal or corporate taxes," Dove said.
Rep. Truck Gisclair, D-Larose, said he's worried that higher sales taxes would only increase the financial burdens of Louisiana's poorest citizens.
"I don't want to hurt the small guy in the name of business," Gisclair said. "I'm not sure what exactly the governor has up his sleeve, but I have some concerns about that."
Jindal countered that his proposed tax reform would remove "administrative burdens" from families and small businesses and improve Louisiana's business prospects, create more business investment opportunities with increased job growth and raise the state's profile in national business rankings.
"The bottom line is that for too long, Louisiana's workers and small businesses have suffered from having a state tax structure that is too complex and that holds back economic prosperity," he said. "It's time to change that so people can keep more of their own money and foster an environment where businesses want to invest and create good-paying jobs."
Usually in opposition to the governor, Rep. Dee Richard, an independent from Thibodaux, said there's a lot going for Jindal's proposal.
"I really like the concept, but now we have to find out about everything else that will be included," Richard said. "I would imagine that sales taxes will skyrocket. But there's always a tradeoff with this kind of plan."
The question now becomes how lawmakers and the administration would replace the $2.58 billion expected to be raised by the personal income tax and the $340 million anticipated from the corporate income tax this year.
The state sales tax, now at 4 percent, should bring in $2.59 billion this year.
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The mother of a schoolboy killed by a polar bear "would not have let him go" on the Arctic expedition without believing he would be properly protected, an inquest heard.
Horatio Chapple, 17, was on an adventure holiday to the remote Svalbard islands in August 2011 with the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES) when he died.
The Eton pupil from Salisbury, Wiltshire, was sleeping in his tent when the bear went on the rampage, inflicting fatal injuries to his head and upper body.
Four others were hurt before the bear was shot dead at the camp site, where the group, known as Chanzin Fire, had been staying.
Horatio's parents, GP Olivia and surgeon David Chapple, told an inquest in Salisbury today that they had been concerned about polar bear attacks before their son went on the trip.
They examined a risk assessment document with Horatio before he left for the expedition in July 2011 and believed a number of safety precautions would be in place to protect him.
Both parents understood Horatio would be equipped with a pen flare, with a working trip wire around his camp site and a weapon available to a trip leader in case of an attack.
However, the expedition did not have enough pen flares - devices which shoot flares up to 50 metres to frighten approaching bears - and only team leaders were equipped with them.
There were also a shortage of stakes for the tripwire, the device's trigger and tripwire itself - as well as mines to be situated around the perimeter of the camp site.
"We believed that the staff at BSES would do as they said and act responsibly to protect the children under their care," David Chapple told the hearing.
"We were never told the bear trip wires only sometimes work. The risk assessment refers to flares being available to all members of the expedition.
"If this had been implemented then Horatio would have at least had some time to defend himself other than with his bare hands."
Mr Chapple said a risk assessment suggested that a bear watch would take place at the camp, adding to the measures of pen flares, trip wires, training and a weapon to protect the group.
A report by Sir David Steel published today said BSES should have had a bear watch at the time of the incident, to provide the group with advanced warning of the bear.
Mr Chapple said he had previously discussed how to handle a polar bear attack with his son, following Horatio's training weekend with BSES in April 2011.
Horatio assured his parents they would use a "tough" German World War II weapon to shoot the bear, which was "quite difficult" to use but worked in the cold weather.
The inquest heard the threat of serious injury from a polar bear was assessed as being three on a scale of one to three - the highest - while risk of encountering a polar bear was two out of three.
"The steps within the section I believed at face value, that they were going to do as they had undertaken to do in the risk assessment," Dr Chapple said.
"Otherwise, no parent or nobody would want to go on an expedition where a risk was categorised as likely yet the planning wasn't there.
"I believed and trusted the things that were listed, otherwise I wouldn't have let him go."
Dr Chapple said she was "more anxious" than her husband and son and went through every detail in the risk assessment to reassure herself about the group's protection.
"The trip was an expensive trip, I believed that they would have proper equipment," she said. "I thought Horatio would have a bear flare, I thought they would have things like bear spray.
"I believed that the camp would be protected by trip wire. I was naive, I had no idea how a camp side should be set up at that stage.
"I didn't know there was the possibility that a trip wire may or may not work. I didn't know they were so fraught with difficulty."
Richard Payne, chief leader of the expedition for BSES, said trip wires had first been used at camp sites in Svalbad on a previous summer expedition in 2010.
"My intention was that all young explorers and leader would have a pen flare," Mr Payne told the inquest.
"It was only when we landed at base camp, which is 40-50km from the airport, that I discovered there wasn't enough pen flares to equip everybody on the expedition.
"I took the decision that I would equip the leaders of each group and the doctors with pen flares."
Mr Payne said he had changed the original trip wire from fishing line to a heavy duty braided fluorescent cord as the previous system was "going off too easily".
Equipment for the trip wire was put into a box along with four tonnes of equipment, which was loaded onto a vehicle and then a boat without being checked, he said.
When the box was unloaded the day before Horatio and the rest of the expedition arrived, equipment for the trip wire was found to be missing.
"There was a shortage of stakes on to which the trip wire mechanism is attached," he said. "There was a shortage of the small brass sear, which is a trigger for the device.
"There may have been some shortage of the trip wire itself."
Mr Payne said he met with base camp leaders to come up with a solution and decided to use a safety pin in the device to act as the trigger.
The camp sites were also changed to be triangular in formation to make up for a lack of mines, with Horatio's group having three mines instead of four situated around their site.
Assistant Coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon Ian Singleton asked: "Were you satisfied with the safety aspect of the trip as a whole?"
Mr Payne replied: "The three mines was the only downside, otherwise I was happy."
He added: "I have been camping in the Arctic for over 52 weeks and in all that time I haven't had a single polar bear encounter.
"I have never seen one and to have one in that area at that time of year and for it to behave as it did was totally out of character."
He said BSES had "completely revamped" its standard operations procedure for polar regions since the incident.
Mr Payne said he had since led three groups - separate from BSES - in Svalbad and made sure he was equipped with two rifles, two signal flares and pen flares for every member.
BSES have not conducted any expeditions in polar regions in the three years since Horatio's death, he added.


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After reading the accompanying background information, students create an ice core using a tennis ball container and an assortment of dyes and craft supplies. Students measure the thickness and determine the age of each layer. As an extension... (View More) activity, students write a story about their ice core. (View Less)
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Intended for use prior to viewing the Science on a Sphere film "Water Falls," this lesson introduces students to Earth's water cycle and the importance of freshwater resources.
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This is an activity about the atmospheric conditions (greenhouse strength, atmospheric thickness) Mars needs to maintain surface water. Learners will use a computer interactive to learn about Mars past and present before exploring the pressure and... (View More) greenhouse strength needed for Mars to have a watery surface as it had in the past. This lesson is part of Project Spectra, a science and engineering education program focusing on how light is used to explore the Solar System. (View Less)
In this lesson students investigate the effects of black carbon on arctic warming and are introduced to a mechanism of arctic warming that is not directly dependent on greenhouse gases in the atmosphere: black carbon deposition on Arctic snow and... (View More) ice. It can also be used to introduce the concept of albedo. Prerequisite knowledge: students understand the concepts of absorption and reflection of light energy. This lesson is designed to be used with either an Earth/environmental science or chemistry curriculum. It may also be used as an enrichment activity in physics or physical science during a unit on energy. Includes suggested modifications for students with special needs and low technology option. Requires advance preparation, including freezing ice samples overnight. (View Less)
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Students will explore how energy from the sun is absorbed, reflected and radiated back into space by Earth. By completing three short labs investigating the effects of surface color, type of material, or cloud cover on temperature change, students... (View More) will begin to consider how various surfaces might affect Earth's overall temperature. Earth's energy budget will then be explored through a video, simulation activity, and an interactive animation. This lesson uses the 5E instructional model. All background information, student worksheets and images/photographs/data are included in these downloadable sections: Teacher's Guide, Student Capture Sheet, PowerPoint Presentation and three lab sheets. (View Less)
In this lesson, students will learn about the water cycle and how energy from the sun and the force of gravity drive this cycle. The emphasis in this lesson will be on having students understand the processes that take place in moving water through... (View More) Earth's system. (View Less)
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Students will be introduced to the causes, locations, and hazards of landslides, as well as the role of satellite observations in predicting and studying them. To begin, students investigate the amount of precipitation sufficient to cause a... (View More) landslide in two different mediums (soil and sand), then use their findings in follow-up activities. After the lab, students will think about how rain information can be collected, especially via satellites, to model where landslides will occur. Finally, students will look at areas currently at risk of landslides and research landslide hazards and how to prepare for a landslide event, and create a public service announcement sharing that information. This lesson uses the 5E instructional model. All background information, student worksheets and images/photographs/data are included in these downloadable sections: Teacher's Guide, Student Capture Sheet and Lab Instructions and PowerPoint Presentation. (View Less)
This activity is a short engineering design challenge to be completed by individual students or small teams. A real-world problem is presented, designing buildings for hurricane-prone areas, but in a simulated way that works in a classroom, after... (View More) school club, or informal education setting. Students are given simple materials and design requirements, and must plan and build a tower as tall as possible that will hold up a tennis ball while resisting the force of wind from a fan. After the towers are built, the group comes together to test them. If there is time after testing, which can be observational or framed as a contest between teams, students can redesign their towers to improve their performance, or simply discuss what worked well and what didn't in their designs. (View Less)
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In this lab activity, student teams hypothesize which source has a greater becomes CO² concentration: their breath, auto exhaust, or air in the classroom. They test gas samples from each of these sources, plot data, and hypothesize about the... (View More) respective role engine exhaust and animal respiration play in contemporary climate change. The lab procedures require Bromthymol Blue indicator solution (BTB), household ammonia, vinegar, and balloons. Links to videos supporting the investigations are provided. This activity is supported by a textbook chapter, "How is Carbon Dioxide Measured?," part of the unit, Climate Change, in Global Systems Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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After examining variations and trends in short- and long-term air temperature data, students build an understanding of the differences between weather and climate. The lesson includes three activities with worksheets. An appendix also provides... (View More) related graphs and tables. GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide, hands-on, K-12 school-based science education program. (View Less)
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Charge at no chargeCompany installs free power stations for electric vehicles
A Lancaster County company is helping drivers in Pennsylvania who want to replace filling up with plugging in.
Amerigreen Energy Inc. has installed eight charging stations for electric vehicles at locations in Central and eastern Pennsylvania. Four are in Lancaster County; one is in Susquehanna Township in Dauphin County; and Berks, Delaware and Montgomery counties have one each.
The stations are 240-volt "Level 2" outlets, a widely used outlet for electric vehicles. Four stations have two charging units; three have one and one has four, Amerigreen spokesman Steve McCracken said.
Using a Level 2 charger, an all-electric or hybrid vehicle can recharge in two to four hours, he said. The company envisions many customers plugging in for 20 minutes or so to "top off" a charge. All eight are available to the public for free.
"We're getting pretty good use out of them," he said.
High Hotels Ltd., part of The High Cos. group, is hosting two of the stations, one each at the Courtyard by Marriott and Hampton Inn hotels, both in High's Greenfield Corporate Center, just off Route 30 east of Lancaster in East Lampeter Township. They debuted this fall.
"We're very focused on green initiatives across all our companies," said Mike Fruin, High Hotels president and chief operating officer.
Another station is at Amerigreen's headquarters, also in the Greenfield Corporate Center.
Amerigreen spent about $200,000 to install the eight stations, with the majority of the expense coming from running new underground electric lines, McCracken said. The money came from a state Department of Environmental Protection alternative fuels incentive grant.
Amerigreen originally was going to deploy a single "Level 3" station, which would have offered a higher voltage and more rapid recharging. However, the cost was prohibitive, McCracken said. The DEP worked with Amerigreen as the plan shifted to the Level 2 stations, he said.
At home, owners can plug their electric vehicles into a standard three-prong, 120-volt outlet. This is known as "Level 1" charging, which takes about eight hours to bring depleted batteries to full capacity.
As with natural-gas vehicles, infrastructure is key to whether electric vehicles can be practical. The U.S. has about 4,800 charging stations with public access, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center. Pennsylvania has 84 of them; Amerigreen's installations have brought the midstate's total to 13, the data center shows.
Thanks to the Internet and word of mouth, electric vehicle owners quickly become aware of new stations, Fruin said.
"We have had quite a bit of interest," he said. "More vehicle (owners) than we anticipated have already come to the front desk and inquired about recharging capabilities."
Amerigreen is an energy wholesaler focused on biofuels, spokesman Doug May said. The leadership of Penn Township-based Worley & Obetz Inc., a company that was an early entrant into the business of distributing biofuels for heating, saw opportunity and founded Amerigreen as an independent entity, May said.
Electric vehicle chargers aren't part of Amerigreen's core business, "but it's been a nice extension," McCracken said.
They produce no emissions, so the environmental impact of driving them depends largely on how the electricity they run on is produced. Even when it is produced primarily from coal, their emissions compare favorably with conventional cars; when fueled by electricity from solar and wind sources, they have essentially no global warming impact, according to a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Electric vehicle evangelists predict a rapid proliferation of charging technology. This summer, consulting firm Frost & Sullivan estimated North America will have 4.1 million charging points by 2017. The majority will be Level 1 residential chargers — only outlets specifically used for the purpose are being counted — but 27 percent will be Level 2 stations, the company said, a figure that works out to about 1.1 million.
For the time being, High has no plans to charge for the stations' use, as their cost is more or less negligible, Fruin said. The company envisions adding more stations "if this takes off," he said.
"There's definitely some pent-up interest out there," he said.
Upfront costs
Among the vehicles that can use Amerigreen Energy's newly installed chargers are the Chevy Volt, the Nissan Leaf, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV and the Toyota Prius, High Hotels said.
Electric vehicles remain somewhat pricey. Nissan bills the Leaf as "the world's first affordable zero-emission car" — prices for the 2012 SV model start at $27,700, after a federal tax credit is applied, according to Nissan's website. Mitsubishi is advertising the i-MiEV at $21,625 after the credit.
The Prius, a hybrid, starts at $24,200 for the 2013 models, according to Toyota. Chevrolet is offering the Volt, also a hybrid, at $31,645 and up.
The average price for new vehicles in the U.S. exceeds $30,000, according to industry analysis firm TrueCar. However, that includes luxury vehicles, pickups and so on. Given electric vehicles' size, a more apt comparison point might be the Honda Fit, a well-reviewed subcompact with a conventional engine. The 2013 models start at $15,325, according to Honda.
The maximum federal tax credit for electric vehicles is $7,500, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.


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text: Hi everyone. New to ISPConfig so forgiveme . I have followed the guide for installing, created a fresh box and installed right from a blank drive. Followed this guide (http://www.faqforge.com/category/linux/controlpanels/ispconfig3/) All seemed to go very well, no errors or deviations from the guide. Got the very final step, of logging into the ispconfig panel and I just get a blank page, no login or anything. links / versions etc are from the guide as this was a dry run install to test the software. Any ideas ? Thanks Dan


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Install Stalker IPTV Portal
I was needing help with stalker middleware.
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I have ready an Ubuntu Server setup.
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text: Hi, Since upgrade to new version Im not receiving mails in virtual domains. During update i received the following errors: Code: Configuring Postfix Configuring Mailman PHP Warning: chgrp(): Unable to find gid for mailman in /tmp/ispconfig3_install/install/dist/lib/opensuse.lib.php on line 71 PHP Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /var/lib/mailman/data/transport-mailman because No such file or directory in /tmp/ispconfig3_install/install/dist/lib/opensuse.lib.php on line 74 postmap: fatal: open /var/lib/mailman/data/transport-mailman: No such file or directory Also in mail.err I have the followings erros: Code: Mar 18 12:31:49 hosting postfix/trivial-rewrite[8389]: fatal: open database /var/lib/mailman/data/transport-mailman.db: No such file or directory Mar 18 12:31:50 hosting postfix/master[7399]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 8389 exit status 1 Mar 18 12:31:50 hosting postfix/master[7399]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling This is related to the mailman known error? Thanks in advance JB


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Football coach arrested for vandalizing own school
Assistant football coach Michael Schmitt was arrested after police discovered he did the damage to inspire his team
By Stephen Hargis
Chattanooga Times Free Press
JASPER, Tenn. — Less than two weeks after the football field house at Marion County High School was vandalized, a joint investigation by Jasper police and the Marion County Sheriff's Office led to a surprising arrest Wednesday morning.
Marion County teacher and assistant football coach Michael Schmitt was arrested and booked into the Marion County Jail on charges of vandalism of $1,000-$10,000.
The sheriff's department would not confirm or deny whether other coaches on the Warriors' staff are suspected of being involved or had knowledge of Schmitt's actions, but they did say the investigation is ongoing.
Warriors head coach Mac McCurry declined to comment.
Officers involved in the investigation believe the vandalism was an attempt to inspire the Marion County football team before its game against county rival South Pittsburg, which won the Nov. 1 game 35-17.
"It is sad to say that this event gives the whole community a black eye, and the real victims of this incident are the kids from both schools," said Marion County Sheriff's Detective Matt Blansett, one of the arresting officers.
In the early morning hours of the day of the game, orange and black spray paint — South Pittsburg's school colors -- was used to write vulgarities on the side doors and along the backside of the field house as well as on a storage building and the concrete parking lot. According to Mark Griffith, Marion County schools superintendent, the damage totaled "several thousand dollars."
Trash was scattered around the field house, derogatory names toward Marion coaches and players as well as a large power "P" — South Pittsburg's logo — were painted on the buildings, apparently to make it look as though Pirates supporters were the culprits.
However, county investigators found enough evidence to arrest Schmitt, who also had been hired to coach the Warriors' baseball program. According to Griffith, Schmitt will be suspended from his teaching position while the investigation continues.
"I will give him a separation notice, letting him know he's on leave with pay pending an internal investigation," Griffith said. "He's innocent until proven guilty, so whether he keeps his job or not is pending the outcome of criminal charges.
"We have cooperated with law enforcement from the beginning, and our ongoing internal investigation will assist in that process."
The South Pittsburg-Marion County rivalry is one of the oldest and most heated in Tennessee. Both teams have proud traditions, and both entered this year's game ranked among the top three in the state. The District 6-A championship was decided when the Pirates claimed their eighth straight win in the series.
Both teams are still alive in the playoffs, with Marion County traveling to Boyd-Buchanan on Friday in a Class 2A second-round game, while South Pittsburg hosts Moore County. Schmitt will not be among the Marion staff for its game.
Copyright 2013 the Chattanooga Times/Free Press


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BY: Alan Boswell, McClatchy, USA
"They asked him if he was Nuer, and he said yes. Five police officers then began beating him, as perhaps as many as 15 other security personnel stood watching, Jal said."
SEPT. 11/2012, NAIROBI, Kenya — South Sudanese hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a global peace activist who's the subject of the book and movie "War Child," said Monday that he was brutally beaten and knocked unconscious over the weekend by police in South Sudan's capital, Juba, as he was planning a peace concert.
"I still have a headache. My left side has been numb since yesterday. I can't feel anything on my left side," Jal, who said he was out of the hospital recovering from his injuries, told McClatchy in a telephone interview.
The rapper said the beating occurred when he was going home after a late planning session for the upcoming show when he got lost and stopped to ask directions from a group of police officers. They told him to get out of the car and started harassing him.
"They said, 'You are drunk. How can you not know your way?' They didn't understand how someone could be asking directions," he said. Most of the police were of South Sudan's dominant Dinka tribe. They asked him if he was Nuer, and he said yes.
Five police officers then began beating him, as perhaps as many as 15 other security personnel stood watching, Jal said. One of the officers took his phone, Jal said. He said he eventually lost consciousness.
Jal, who maintains residences in Britain and Canada, is one of South Sudan's best-known citizens. His story of surviving his country's brutal war against the Sudanese government, first as a refugee and then as a child soldier for the rebels, has touched millions.
The rapper escaped the war after he was adopted by then-guerrilla and now-Vice President Riek Machar's British wife, Emma McCune, who later died in Nairobi in a car accident.
Jal said Machar called him Sunday evening after he heard about the incident. Machar's press secretary said he didn't have details of the call. South Sudan's government spokesperson, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, couldn't be reached by phone for comment.
For two years, Jal ate just one meal a day to raise money to build a rural school. He's known for writing a rap song addressed to the artist 50 Cent, complaining about his promotion of street violence. Recently, Jal released a pro-peace music video that features former President Jimmy Carter, actor George Clooney, musician Ringo Starr and others.
The reported assault highlights a major challenge facing South Sudan, where the vast security service is populated by former rebels and militia members whose training for police activities is lacking. Like Jal, many have been under arms since they were teenagers, or younger, and they lack any sort of education.
Incidents such as what happened to Jal "are no longer shocking to a lot of people in South Sudan," said Jok Madut Jok, South Sudan's undersecretary of culture, who's said that he himself was tortured in December during a visit to the city of Wau, the capital of his home region. "This is happening to so many people every day across the country from the hands of the men and women in uniform."
Jok said he'd suffered a concussion from the unprovoked attack. He said he'd never received an apology for the incident, which he wrote about publicly several days later in scalding detail: "As I was seated on the floor, being interrogated, several drunken soldiers, the ones 'protecting' our leader, kept interrupting their officer with really disorderly behavior, and instead of the officer reprimanding them, he told me 'You see, they may be drunk, but that is how we liberated this country,' Jok wrote at the time. "Liberators? To what end?"
He said growing pains within the country's security services were in some ways inevitable, given the country's violent history, but that they were aggravated by a culture of impunity within the armed forces.
"Nothing happened. They were let go," he said of the soldiers in his own situation.
"There are no law books for them to read. And if there were law books, they couldn't read them because they are illiterate," Jok said.
As for Jal, the musician said his peace concert later this month will go on as planned. He said he remained optimistic about his nation and found a ray of hope in one of the police officers yelling, "Don't beat him," as he was repeatedly struck.
"We are just out of war. South Sudan is like a newborn baby. And I believe it is going to grow," Jal said.
He said the authorities told him they were still looking for those responsible.
Jal's new album, "See Me Mama," will be released later this month.
Boswell is a McClatchy special correspondent. His reporting is underwritten in part by a grant from Humanity United, a California-based foundation that focuses on human rights.
Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author(s) and do not represent those of the website.


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Tagged: thin lasagna
food #3
Simple & Thin Spinach Ricotta Lasagna – © Amy Hassanein
This time I actually sort of combined my own recipe inspired by other online recipes. After I was making the previous dish Homemade Spinach Lasagna Bites, I was left with extra ingredients. It hit me that may be I should try making a full lasagna dish for the first time. But every recipe I looked up required more work and more complex steps. I thought about combining the recipe I used for the spinach lasagna roll-ups and any quick simple basic lasagna recipe while making it thinner and slightly healthier than traditional giant lasagna recipes. So here it goes.
Tip: Use an 11×7 baking dish
Ingredients: -inspired by this recipe–
For Spinach Ricotta Mix:
1/3 lbs of ground beef, cooked
8 ounce of packaged frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well drained
9-10 ounce ricotta cheese
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
1/2 egg
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic / garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon Italian seasonings (optional, adds to the flavor)
salt and pepper, if desired
Rest of ingredients:
6 lasagna noodles, half cooked
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
1 1/2+ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
10 ounce+ organic pizza sauce (the better the quality, the better the flavor of the lasagna)
Directions: -inspired by this recipe–
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- In a medium bowl combine spinach, ricotta, Parmesan cheese, egg, garlic, ground beef & Italian seasonings. Add salt and pepper if desired
- Spread a thin layer of the pizza sauce on the bottom of the baking dish
- Arrange 3 noodles over the sauce to cover the surface of the dish
- Top with another layer of the pizza sauce, this time thicker
- Top the sauce with a layer of the spinach ricotta mixture
- Top the mixture with a layer of shredded Parmesan cheese
- Top with a layer of Mozzarella cheese
- Top with remaining 3 noodles
- Repeat steps 5, 6 & 8
- Completely cover dish with foil
- Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes
- Let stand 5 minutes before cutting
Some suggest wrapping each lasagna piece in seran wrap and freezing them (so it would be ready to microwave for a quick lunch)


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This dish towel is a real quick neighbor gift idea . . .
I used some clearance dishtowels and a bleach pen,
and wrote a nickname directly on to the fabric.
One of my favorite local bloggers is Nancy from http://www.myblondeambitions.blogspot.com/
her "Fancy Nancy" style is really inspiring. Wishing her good luck on their next big adventure.
Wait for the fabric to bleach out (about 5 minutes),
Thoroughly wash it off .
And there you have it, a speedy personalized gift.


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no chance
"Apple could do likewise, paying for punters' calls through a cut from every app, e-book, song or video they and others download."
are you soft in the head ? thats nonsense, could you imagine that even if that were feasable (its not, the amount of data the kindles use is tiny compared to a normally used phone) that apple would do it (that kind, generous, price-competitive company, apple.....)
c'moff it, must try harder


text: Does anyone in the community know where I might find a template to make a custom window sticker? I am not doing a numbers matching restoration, so I just wanted something to put in the window for car shows that looks like a period correct Dealer Invoice and reflects my upgrades. I found a listing of RPO codes so I figured I could wing it. Any help would be appreciated.\r\nAnybody tell me about invoice template.I want to buy invoice template so any service online .


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Ridiculous: 3 Males Brand Mentally Challenged Man With Swastikas On His Head & Arm!
"Three men are accused of branding a swastika on a mentally challenged man's arm with a heated metal clothes hanger, and could face hate crime charges. "We'll explore every conceivable available avenue in charging them with a hate crime because what happened to the victim was so horribly wrong," said Chief Deputy District Attorney Sarah Weaver. Jesse Sanford, 24, William Hatch, 28, and Paul Beebe, 26, were charged Friday with kidnapping, aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and other felony charges. The three white men are accused of forcing the 22-year-old victim from the Navajo Indian reservation into a car on April 29, and driving him to an apartment. Besides branding the man's arm there, police say the suspects shaved a swastika into his hair and drew degrading words and pictures on his body with marker. Afterward, according to the Farmington Daily Times, the trio allegedly kicked the victim out of the apartment, and a nearby convenience store clerk called police. Hospital employees washed off the degrading speech and pictures. A local barbershop cut the man's hair to remove the swastika, police Sgt. Robert Perez said." - CBS
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