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☆ Meth Lab Found In Boaz Walmart Restroom
Of all the things a Walmart janitor comes across, meth labs are probably low on the list. Boaz Police say a maintenance worker cleaning the women's restroom found pseudoephedrine pills and a plastic water bottle with residue in the bottom. Managers contacted police, who recovered what Chief Terry Davis called a one-pot 'shake and bake' type lab. "That kind of blew my mind when I read the report," Davis said. "We've found a lot of shake and bake meth labs in different places but never inside a business." Police said it takes about 15 to 30 minutes to cook low-quality methamphetamine using this method, and they do not know if the culprit finished the product.
☆ Why Wall Street loves the War on Drugs
The raid on Oaksterdam has just about everyone in local politics engaging in a little head-scratching: What possible reason would the Obama administration have to crack down on medical marijuana in an election year? How does it help the president, who will be facing an unsettled and angry electorate in a still-tough economy, to alienate the pot smoking liberals of the world, who were at one point among his most loyal constituents? What a fucking idiot.
☆ Facebook can cause addiction for poorly educated
According to researchers from the University of Gothenburg, many people log on as soon as they turn on their computers and its turning into a full blown addiction. They also discovered that people in low income groups and the poorly educated are at a greater risk. Of the ~800 million Facebook users, 85% of them log on daily, and at least half of them open Facebook before anything else when getting on the internet. So why does Facebook make people less happy with their lives? It would seem that many people fear that they are not 'on top of things' if they do not regularly check the site, and 25% say they fill 'ill at ease' if they can't log in regularly. Users with low income and low education use Facebook more than other groups. Within these groups, users who spend more time on Facebook also report feeling less happy and less content with their lives. This relationship is also present for women, but not for men.
☆ Edwardsville police officer accused of taking secret photos at tanning salon
An Edwardsville police officer was charged on Monday for surreptitiously taking pictures of three women at a Glen Carbon tanning salon. Michael R. Collins was charged with three felony counts of unauthorized video recording. A female customer accused Collins, who was in the next room, of taking pictures with his cellphone over the wall while she prepared to tan, according to the Madison County state's attorney. The incident happened on Tuesday at Image Sun Tanning Center in the 6600 block of Edwardsville Crossing Drive.
☆ Ex-Santa Fe cop accused of graphic sex talk in squad car
He was supposed to be supervising other cops in the field, but one Santa Fe Police Department sergeant was caught on his own dash cam video having a graphic sexual conversation with himself. 4 On Your Side spent over a month requesting and reviewing dash cam videos taken from former Sgt. Mike Eiskant's patrol car. One video shows Eiskant's vehicle pointed toward Cerillos Road in the middle of the day. Audio from the recording depicts moans, then the unmistakable sound of a zipper. Eiskant is alone in his squad car, and it sounds like he may be masturbating while looking at a picture of a naked woman on his cell phone and texting. At one point in the video he says, "Oh show me those big beautiful breasts baby." The sex talk, recorded in broad daylight goes on for nearly ten more minutes.
☆ Kickbacks and Other Abuses "Rampant" in Drug Testing Industry
A multimillion dollar settlement paid by a Massachusetts drug test laboratory for an illegal kickback scheme is the latest chapter in an industry bedeviled by criminal investigations, lawsuits, finger pointing and ruthless competition. Calloway Laboratories agreed last week to pay $20 million to settle state charges that it defrauded Medicaid with a kickback scheme that included sham companies, fake doctor signatures, and excessive urine tests for drug addicts.
☆ More than 3,500 NY sex offenders have online video-gaming accounts yanked
Under the "operation game over" initiative, manufacturers who operate online video-gaming networks, like the one for "Call of Duty," have agreed to cross check their customer accounts with the New York state sex offender registry to remove predators trolling game sites. The companies participating include Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Warner Brothers, Disney, Blizzard Entertainment and Electronic Arts. "We must ensure online video game systems do not become a digital playground for predators," Schneiderman said.
☆ 5-year-old brings heroin for 'show and tell'
According to Bryant, the boy, a kindergarten student at Barnum School, had come to school carrying Roman's jacket. When it came time to make his presentation in class, Bryant said the boy opened the jacket and showed off to his classmates 10 small plastic bags, each containing five folds of heroin. He said the teacher quickly grabbed the bags away from the student and notified the principal, who then called police.
☆ Woman sees image of Jesus on the back of a stingray
It's not as famous as Grilled Cheesus or the Nun Bun, but the image a James Island woman found Friday on the back of a dead cownose ray may be one day. "I just kind of thought it looked like a bearded homeless man," said Erica Scheldt, 24. "But when I posted pictures on Instagram, one of my friends was like, 'That's Jesus.' And I was like, 'Oh my God! You're right!' "
☆ The Earth is full
The reason is we have now reached a moment where four words — the earth is full — will define our times. This is not a philosophical statement; this is just science based in physics, chemistry and biology. There are many science-based analyses of this, but they all draw the same conclusion — that we're living beyond our means. The eminent scientists of the Global Footprint Network, for example, calculate that we need about 1.5 Earths to sustain this economy. In other words, to keep operating at our current level, we need 50% more Earth than we've got.
☆ California teen dumps teacher accused of sexually abusing another student
A Northern California teen who made national news when she and her high school teacher moved in together says she has broken off the relationship following allegations that he sexually abused another student. Jordan Powers, 18, told ABC News that when her now former boyfriend, Christopher Hooker, called her from jail she told him, "We're done." Hooker, 41, was arrested Friday on suspicion of sexually abusing a different student more than a decade ago. After being booked on one count of oral copulation with a minor, he made a brief court appearance during which a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
☆ Fdr's Deadly Secret: FDR and Cocaine
The use of cocaine by FDR for "sinus treatments" is not surprising. We know, from readily available information that from mid-1939, FDR saw McIntire on a daily basis for "sinus treatments". I believe the only incorrect assumption is that cocaine was being used to treat FDR for chronic sinusitis. Cocaine is a powerful anesthetic and vasoconstrictor and was being used to combat the pain brought on by the constant irritation from therapy. With the goal of affecting a slow cosmetic removal of the cancerous lesion, FDR had innumerable painful procedures over his left eye and in his sinuses, performed by McIntire Between early 1940 and late 1941. Daily use of cocaine obviously leads to addiction, ceasing use, brings about a"rebound" phenomenon, a nasal swelling and intense congestion begging for more cocaine. Mcintire had no problem obtaining cocaine for medical use.
☆ Mexican town celebrates Easter with 'burning of the Jews'
A newspaper in Mexico is detailing Sunday's "burning of the Jews," an annual tradition in Coita, a small town in the state of Chiapas. As part of the custom, locals spend the middle of their Holy Week making Jewish effigies — a reference to Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus before his crucifixion. The fake Jews are then displayed for three days in different parts of the town, serving as an example of poor conduct. They're ultimately paraded through the streets on Easter Sunday, with local children assigned to stand in front of them and collect money for flammable materials.
☆ Ex-New York woman charged with faking cancer for wedding
Authorities say a former New York woman pretended to have terminal cancer so she could have lavish wedding reception and honeymoon. The Times Herald-Record reports an Orange County Grand jury has indicted 25-year-old Jessica Vega, a former Montgomery resident, with grand larceny and scheme to defraud. According to the indictment, Vega accepted thousands of dollars in donated services and goods after claiming in 2010 that she was dying of leukemia. The newspaper ran a story on Vega's wedding wish. She married Michael O'Connell in May 2010 and the couple spent their honeymoon in Aruba. Four months later, O'Connell told the newspaper that Vega was faking the illness.
☆ Age 25 – Entire Cycle | Beautiful Cervix Project
This 25 year old woman has never given birth and has no history of STIs. Each photo was taken at approximately 10:00 pm every day starting the first day of her menstrual cycle. For the duration of this project, she used condoms as her birth control method so as not to introduce semenal fluid into the photoshoot. She did not use tampons or mooncups during her menstruation either. This cycle is of normal/average length for her, about 33 days. Her cycle's follicular phase (variable number of days preovulation) lasts until about day 20 or 21. Her fertile phase lasts from days 13 to 21 with ovulation on day 20. Her luteal (postovulation) phase is 13 days long (12-16 days is the norm and is not variable in a normal cycle).
☆ Free Speech/Protesting Is Now A Felony Punishable By Jail
The Declaration of Independence recognizes all three freedoms as stemming from our humanity. So, what happens if you can speak freely, but the government officials at whom your speech is aimed refuse to hear you? And what happens if your right to associate and to petition the government is confined to areas where those of like mind and the government are not present? This is coming to a street corner near you.
☆ 19 Things That The Talking Heads On Television Are Being Strangely Silent About
Unfortunately, most Americans seem perfectly content with the "infotainment" that they are getting from the major news networks, so major changes to the mainstream media are not likely to happen any time soon. For those wanting something different, you will have to seek out alternative sources of news (such as this website) that are willing to discuss the truly earth shattering events that are continually taking place all over the globe. So what are some of the things that the mainstream media has been ignoring? The following are 19 things that the talking heads on television have been strangely silent about….
☆ British man allegedly fathered up to 600 children through sperm bank donations
New DNA tests suggest the owner of a British fertility clinic may have fathered as many as 600 children, while keeping his donations a secret. And in an even stranger twist, one of his newly discovered offspring says the man's belief in eugenics may have been behind the decision.
☆ Standing near women now a sex crime in DC
Just look at those perverts, engaging in the age old pervy tradition of rubbing stomachs on boobs and getting off in public with hot elbow-to-elbow action. Or, you know, look at those two guys just trying to get to school, or get home from work, and who are probably as upset about the train being crowded as you are. Yes, groping people on the train is bad, criminal even. But you know what else is bad? Portraying men as sexual predators simply because they boarded a crowded train and someone near them is a woman.
☆ 30-year-old Alleged Child Porn Producer Replaces Bin Laden On FBI's 'Most Wanted' List
A 30-year-old former school teacher who allegedly produced child pornography has replaced former Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.
☆ SATANISM IN HOLLYWOOD | KENNETH ANGER'S GOLDEN AGE OF OCCULT 1969
There is something largely missing from popular cinema and music these days, and that's Satan. I might be sounding old-fashioned – but Satanism had some style. While 1969 turned many things bad – Hells Angels, heroin, peyote, Charles Manson, Dick Van Dyke – Kenneth Anger's pact with the devil was reaping psychedelic fruit. Anger was a powerful force. His grasp of the symbolic – reckoned with the Satanic creed of 'Do What Thou Wilt' – alchemised into works such as Scorpio Rising and Invocation of My Demon Brother, and dealt the decade a final score. And along the way he also scared some people. In fact, his "awesomely evil 11-minute masterpiece" Invocation – starring himself, Anton LaVey (the High Priest of the Church of Satan), Charles Manson sidekick Bobby Beausoleil (later to serve life imprisonment with Manson for first degree murder), and featuring documentary footage from a satanic cat funeral, a ceremonial skull smoking session, a mummified psychic and a synthesized Moog soundtrack
☆ Drug death at Blaine party draws 10 years
Showing no emotion, LaMere, 22, spoke briefly about how he ordered the substance online but didn't know it was illegal. Handing out what turned out to be the drug 2C-E at the party, he saw Trevor Robinson, 19, snort it and "start to have a bad experience." Sometime later, LaMere said, "I was in an ambulance, and Trevor ended up dying." Ten others who took the drug became ill and were hospitalized. LaMere was charged with felony third-degree murder last March. The high-profile case prompted heightened awareness about the dangers of synthetic drugs, which are easily bought off the Internet with buyers never knowing exactly what they're getting. It also provoked a highly unusual letter from the top levels of federal prosecution that put pressure on local prosecutors to seek a tough sentence.
☆ Cannabis Vending Machine
Vending machines normally cure the munchies with shelves laden with chips and chocolates, but one being trialled in West Auckland may well cause them. New Zealand's first cannabis club, the Daktory, has been using the machine – which sells one gram bags of cannabis for $20 – at it's New Lynn headquarters to avoid any of their members being charged with dealing the Class C drug. The hired vending machine is a standard dispenser but has been filled with cannabis rather than confectionery or toys.
☆ Man growing marijuana turns himself in 'to do the right thing'
A Treasure Coast man walked into the Port St. Lucie Police Department on Monday carrying marijuana plants and seeds, saying "he wanted to turn himself in to do the right thing," according to an arrest report. Port St. Lucie police said Michael Cabral entered the station carrying 12 marijuana plants, seeds and drug paraphernalia.
☆ Painkiller Opana, new scourge of rural America
Prescription drug abuse is the new scourge of rural America. It now leads to more deaths in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined, and rural residents are nearly twice as likely to overdose on pills than people in big cities, according to the Centers for Disease Control. While methamphetamine addiction has long been associated with small towns, prescription painkillers have overtaken meth as the most abused drugs in places such as southern Indiana, according to local authorities. Opana is the hot new prescription drug of abuse, sometimes with tragic consequences.
☆ Chinese Farmers Become Gigolos To Pay for Online Gaming Addiction
Motivated by a desire to make easy money, many of these SGF head into the city, but because they are uneducated, they turn to a life of prostitution. While prostitution has bought considerable income to some, sometimes they might even make 3000 RMB ($476 US) a month, the frequency of "pick-ups" and an addiction to online games, has made this occupation taxing upon the body.
☆ World's largest Christian TV channel 'funds owners' exorbitant lifestyle'
It also describes the purchase of "multiple motor vehicles, including a $100,000 motor home purchased by Trinity Broadcasting as a mobile residence for director Janice Crouch's dogs". Directors of the network are also accused of misusing funds to cover up sex scandals, including the alleged "cover-up and destruction of evidence concerning a bloody sexual assault involving Trinity Broadcasting and affiliated Holy Land Experience employees; the cover-up of director Janice Crouch's affair with a staff member at the Holy Land Experience; the cover-up of director Paul Crouch's use of Trinity Broadcasting funds to pay for a legal settlement with Enoch Lonnie Ford (a former TBN employee who said he had a homosexual affair with [founder] Paul Crouch)".
☆ Parents in shock as priest displays gay porn images
A PRIEST has denied knowing how gay porn images appeared on a screen during a presentation he was giving to parents of children preparing for First Communion. Fr Martin McVeigh was setting up the PowerPoint display when the explicit sex scenes flashed up on the screen. He was about to give a talk to the parents of First Communicants but abandoned the presentation after the pornographic images appeared. One of those present said the pictures appeared on the screen after the priest put a USB memory stick into the computer at St Mary's School in Pomeroy, Co Tyrone. "There were plenty of shocked faces. There's a lot of parents very angry about it."
☆ The Results From Our Nationwide Cell Phone Tracking Records Requests
Given the intimate nature of location information, the government should have to obtain a warrant based upon probable cause to track cell phones. That is what is necessary to protect Americans' privacy, and it is also what is required under the constitution. But is that what the police do? The answer is it depends. Law enforcement agencies' tracking policies are in a state of chaos, with different towns following different rules — or in some cases, having no rules at all.
☆ Sperm-hunting women prowl Zimbabwe highways
Susan Dhliwayo was stunned when she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in. The reason? They feared being raped. Sensational reports of gangs of beautiful women picking up male travellers to have sex and harvest their sperm in condoms have gripped Zimbabwe in a dizzying mix of taboos, rituals and the downright bizarre. "Now, men fear women. They said: 'we can't go with you because we don't trust you'," 19-year-old Dhliwayo recounted. Local media have reported victims of the highway prowlers being drugged, subdued at gun or knife point — even with a live snake in one case — given a sexual stimulant and forced into repeated sex before being dumped on the roadside. The sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009 but police have only arrested three women, found with a plastic bag of 31 used condoms in October. The attacks have continued since they were nabbed for allegedly violating 17 men.
☆ US government: We hear there's child porn on those Megaupload servers, judge!
Megaupload wants the servers back to help with its defense, but with most of its assets seized by the federal government, it can't pay for them. Carpathia would normally wipe the servers and lease them to new clients, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation is demanding that legitimate users of the site be allowed to retrieve their personal data first. The Motion Picture Association of America doesn't want this to happen without assurances that its copyrighted content won't be retrieved and distributed again; besides, it might want the servers for a future lawsuit of its own. And the federal government yesterday announced that the servers "may contain child pornography," which would render them "contraband" and limit Carpathia's options for dealing with them.
☆ Is sugar toxic?
The chances are good that sugar is a bigger part of your daily diet than you may realize which is why our story tonight is so important. New research coming out of some of America's most respected institutions is starting to find that sugar, the way many people are eating it today, is a toxin and could be a driving force behind some of this country's leading killers, including heart disease. As a result of these findings, an anti-sugar campaign has sprung up, led by Dr. Robert Lustig, a California endocrinologist, who believes the consumption of added sugars has plunged America into a public health crisis.
☆ Explosive Billy Corgan Interview: The Awakening Has Begun
Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.tv proudly presents Alex Jones' sit down interview with Billy Corgan, founder of the rock band, "The Smashing Pumpkins". During this incredible conversation, Alex and Billy discuss the impact social media has on the music business, the role of the musician in society, the ever evolving left-right paradigm, the occupy wall street movement, and the noticeable spiritual awakening that threatens the very core of the globalist agenda.
☆ Ugly New Reputation-Smearing Tactic: Going After A Toddler's Internet Footprint
Crystal Cox, a Montana woman who calls herself an "investigative journalist" was slapped with a $2.5-million judgment last year for defaming an investment firm and one of its lead partners. Cox had taken control of the Google footprint of Obsidian Finance and its principal Kevin Padrick by writing hundreds of posts about them on dozens of websites she owned, inter-linking them in ways that made them rise up in Google search results; it ruined Obsidian's business due to prospective clients being put off by the firm's seemingly terrible online reputation. After Obsidian sued Cox, she contacted them offering her "reputation services;" for $2,500 a month, she could "fix" the firm's reputation and help promote its business. (In some circles, we call that "extortion.")
☆ 'Annoying, Offending' Language Online Would Be Crime Under Arizona Bill
Distasteful comments and online insults are a mainstay of many social networks and online comment boards, but a new bill passed in Arizona could send people who "annoy or offend" to jail for up to six months.
☆ 'Stalker' app pulled after 'tool for rapists' outcry
An iPhone app that in effect allowed users to stalk women nearby using location-based social networking service Foursquare has been pulled from the iTunes app store by its developer after an outcry. The "Girls Around Me" app used publicly available data from the check-in service Foursquare to show where women had checked in nearby. Foursquare then yanked the Girls Around Me app's access to its data. This, in turn, led to the app's developer removing it from iTunes as it did not work properly.
☆ Student's Science Project Shuts Down Dallas Airport
The device was discovered by authorities near the cockpit of Southwest Airlines Flight 157 after arriving from Kansas City shortly before 4PM on Sunday. The device looked like a cell phone attached to a remote control car with some exposed wires protruding. The TSA evacuated gates 3 through 15 as a precautionary measurement against the "deadly" science project. In all, 11 people were detained in connection with the device. The incident caused ongoing flight delays at the Dallas airport, including three that had to be diverted.
☆ Worse than SOPA: CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Internet
H.R. 3523, a piece of legislation dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short), has been created under the guise of being a necessary implement in America's war against cyberattacks. But the vague verbiage contained within the pages of the paper could allow Congress to circumvent existing exemptions to online privacy laws and essentially monitor, censor and stop any online communication that it considers disruptive to the government or private parties. Critics have already come after CISPA for the capabilities that it will give to seemingly any federal entity that claims it is threatened by online interactions, but unlike the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Acts that were discarded on the Capitol Building floor after incredibly successful online campaigns to crush them, widespread recognition of what the latest would-be law will do has yet to surface to the same degree.
☆ NBC News regrets editing of Trayvon shooting call
The "Today" show's segment ran as: "Zimmerman: This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." The full conversation ran as: "Zimmerman: This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about. Dispatcher: OK, and this guy – is he black, white or Hispanic? Zimmerman: He looks black." NBC News is owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.
☆ Israel at forefront of testing medical marijuana
Israel's health ministry says the country now has the world's highest per capita rate of medical marijuana use. Around 9,000 Israelis with serious injuries or illness have access to prescription cannabis and doctors there are learning more about the benefits of the plant, that go beyond pain relief.
☆ Live Go-Go In The 80's/90's
Earlier this week, I came across some amazing live go-go videos from the late 80's and early 90's on YouTube. Growing up near D.C. (I lived an hour away), I can remember as a kid on one particular occasion seeing a flurry of kids in go-go bands playing on every corner, homemade junk percussion in tow and some insanely intense, rich grooves. It's the sub-genre's distinctive rhythms that drive the music into something focused almost purely on the percussive interplay and call-and-response participation; describing the sound is difficult to put into words, but once you hear it, you know what go-go is.
☆ Crazy Dyed Cats (I Smell Photoshop)
Restyling of the cat. Coloring or dying costs $15,000 and must be repeated every 3 months. Therefore, $60,000 a year.
☆ Gang tattooed barcodes onto women forced to be prostitutes: Spanish police
Spanish police arrested 22 suspected pimps who allegedly used violence to force women into prostitution and tattooed them with bar codes as a sign of ownership, officials said Saturday. Police are calling the gang the "bar code pimps." Officers freed one 19-year-old woman who had been beaten, held against her will and tattooed with a bar code and an amount of money — €2,000 (about $2,650) — which investigators believe was the debt the gang wished to extort before releasing her. The woman had also been whipped, chained to a radiator and had her hair and eyebrows shaved off, according to an Interior Ministry statement. Thanks Jasmine
☆ Homosexual necrophiliac serial killer helps blind children
Homosexual serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who sexually abused his dead victims' corpses has proved he can be a productive member of society by helping blind children learn science. Nilsen murdered at least 15 men and boys between 1978 and 1983 by strangling or drowning them before storing their bodies for sexual purposes and possibly eating parts of them. The corpses were eventually dismembered, fed to wild animals, burned on bonfires or flushed down the toilet. Nilsen has been in prison for almost 30 years serving eight life sentences, his minimum tariff of 25 years was overruled by the Home Secretary and Nilsen has been told he will never be eligible for parole. But this week it has come to light that the nefarious murderer, who was nicknamed the 'Kindly Killer' has been helping blind children to read for years.
☆ New surveillance camera can search 36 million faces for matches in one second
A new surveillance camera by Hitachi Kokusai Electric can look at footage that contains an image of someone, either still or video, and then search other video or still images on file for other instances of that same face. In so doing, it can search, process and display up to thirty six million faces in just one second. Each hit is displayed immediately in its native format, i.e. still or video, in thumbnail form, which its makers say, allows the camera to display the actions of a person prior to, or even after, being seen by the surveillance camera. All they need do is click on the thumbnail to watch the video play.
☆ Teacher's aide fired for refusing to hand over Facebook password
You can add this one to the short but growing list of employers demanding access to Facebook accounts. After refusing to give her Facebook password to her supervisors, Kimberly Hester was fired by Lewis Cass Intermediate School District from her job as an aide to Frank Squires Elementary in Cassopolis, Michigan. She is now fighting a legal battle with the school district. This all started in April 2011, when Hester was using Facebook on her own time (when she wasn't working at the school). She jokingly posted a picture of a co-worker's pants around her ankles and a pair of shoes, with the caption "Thinking of you." A parent and Facebook friend of Hester's saw the photo and complained to the school. A few days later, Lewis Cass ISD superintendent Robert Colby asked her three times for access to her Facebook account. Hester refused each of the district superintendent's requests.
☆ TacoCopter – Tacos Delivered Straight to Your Home With GPS Guided Quadcopters
TacoCopter is an idea whose time has come. Quadcopters plus tacos plus a delivery service equals a college student's dream, and with it, rampant speculation across the web. Around since last July, the TacoCopter website suddenly grabbed the web's attention days ago with its claim that they will take your order via a smartphone and deliver tacos straight to your location with GPS-guided, unmanned quadcopters.
☆ The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world's communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital "pocket litter." It is, in some measure, the realization of the "total information awareness" program
☆ NBC: Skittles Now 'A Symbol of Racial Injustice'
Filling in for Matt Lauer on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Hoda Kotb made a bizarre proclamation about race relations in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting: "Skittles obviously has become really kind of a symbol in the whole Trayvon Martin case. A symbol of racial injustice. You see people holding up the bags of Skittles in their hands and it clearly means something."
☆ Rammellzee on the Making of "Beat Bop" (previously unpublished interview, 1999).
Given its participants, "Beat Bop" is a recording with mystique virtually encoded in its DNA. Highly collectable in its elusive original Tartown Records' incarnation thanks to Basquiat's unmistakable work on its picture sleeve, the 10-minute masterpiece's trippy, reverb-bathed post-punk funk – unforgettably punctuated by Rammel's mutant nasal rhyme forays (or "gangster duck" style) – epitomized the experimental ethos of early '80s downtown New York. A time when hip-hop's dissemination from the Bronx across neighborhoods, train lines, boroughs and well beyond put the world on notice: shit was about to change in irrefutable ways.
☆ False memories generated in lab mice
In the 1940s, neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield found his patients would recall seemingly random information – the smell of cookies for instance – when he stimulated different brain areas with electric shocks. Two studies have now found evidence to support the memory storage theory that Penfield stumbled across. The research, in mice, even demonstrates that it is possible to manipulate brain cells to create false memories. Mark Mayford of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, and colleagues genetically engineered mice so that neurons that fired would fire again when the brain was injected with a drug.
☆ Man Charged In Best Buy Porn Case
"It was extremely, extremely pornographic image," customer Gloria Berg says. "I think even the word 'pornographic' doesn't cover it. I have never watched pornography, so I don't know what else you can see there, but to me, I really felt extremely violated." Berg was inside the store with her son and his children. She says they were looking at the store's display of 55-inch screen smart televisions when a pornographic photo of a man and woman suddenly popped up. She says the image stayed up for several minutes before the manager came over and took it down, and by then, several horrified families had seen it. She says the manager told her someone had used the store's WI-FI to upload the image to the TV's.
☆ Solar storm dumps gigawatts into Earth's upper atmosphere
A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8th through 10th dumped enough energy in Earth's upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City for two years.
☆ A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in-depth analysis
"THE POWER DRUG" An in-depth analysis of Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
☆ Alex in the Chelsea Drug Store
How much Stanley Kubrick trivia can you stand? One of the delights of DVD over VHS tape is the ability to step frame by perfect frame through any given film sequence without the picture being disturbed by noise. This reveals a lot more detail should you wish to scrutinise a favourite scene like the single dolly shot in A Clockwork Orange where Malcolm McDowell makes a circuit of the "disc-bootick" before chatting up a couple of devotchkas.
☆ The Kubrick Site: The Hechinger Debacle
A Clockwork Orange has attracted more than its share of controversy, both as book and later as movie. Little wonder then that, when the film was attacked in the New York Times op-ed pages as an example of what the author, Fred Hechinger, called 'the voice of fascism', no less an exigiter of the film than Stanley Kubrick himself joined in the debate. Usually reticent regarding his personal interpretations, Kubrick, in this instance, reveals himself to be a passionate exponent of specific thematic ideas, and the way in which film can be used to exposit them. It all began with a relatively harmless promotional piece; from the January 4, 1972 issue of The New York Times
☆ Qing Dynasty Official's Tomb Robbed, Body Well-Preserved
March 17th, Fujian province Ningde city, local residents while hiking discovered an ancient body wearing dynastic clothing embroidered with what appears to be dragons and called the police. Investigations revealed that it was related to the grave robbing of a government official who had served the Qing Emperor Guangxu (1882 AD) in his 8th year, and the body had been casually cast aside by the grave robber. According to reports, this is the highest ranking and most well preserved mummified body of a Qing era government official discovered locally. [Above] March 19th, Fujiang Ningde Xiapu county, the little pavilion of the old tomb that was robbed. This 1882-built construct is one of 4 "Phoenix" tomb rooms, which presently have all been robbed. 130 years ago, tombs were divided into 4 rooms, a household tomb, where two couples were interred.
☆ FBI Linked to Yet Another Domestic Terrorism Plot
Over the course of a year, 29-year-old Amine El Khalifi, who was clearly mentally ill and often high on cocaine and other drugs, was persuaded by an FBI informant to agree to attack the U.S. Capitol. Because El Khalifi didn't have a gun, a bomb or a car, the FBI informant graciously offered to provide him all three – and thus El Khalifi was driven to the U.S. Capitol building by the FBI, handed a gun and a bomb, and then arrested as an "al Qaeda operative." Khalifi was best known for his years of selling drugs and strutting through D.C. nightclubs in designer suits, living a playboy lifestyle. But two years ago, while dating a Muslim woman of Bulgarian and Turkish descent, El Khalifi embraced Islam and became religious, friends said. After the relationship ended, the girlfriend, obviously disgruntled, contacted the FBI and suggested her ex-boyfriend might be a good target for a frame-up.
☆ How Long Until Obama Bans Troops From Wearing This Awesome "Pork-Eating Crusader" Gear?
The patch includes an image of a knight in a Crusade's tunic, eating what appears to be a large ham hock, and lest there be any confusion — a translation in Arabic. They haven't gone unnoticed. The website Muslim Awakening, posts a picture of what appears to be a German soldier with the patch adhered to his combat uniform.
☆ ALERT ! Mexico 7.9M earthquake PRE-PLANNED = verified simulation for march 20, 2012
This is profound and disturbing. There was a "drill" planned for March 20, 2012 in Mexico for a 7.9M earthquake "simulation"…. also on a separate note.. Barack Obamas daughter was at the epicenter on spring break: WTH is going on?!
☆ Teen's Porn Star Date To Prom Scuttled By District Officials
A Minnesota high school student who lined up a porn actress to be his senior prom date will not be allowed to take the adult star to the dance, FoxNews.com has learned. Mike Stone, 18, of Oakdale, Minn., sent hundreds of tweets this week to adult film stars asking them to accompany him to the May 12 dance at Tartan High School. Two actresses, Emy Reyes and Megan Piper, soon responded, with Reyes saying, "I would love tooo" [sic] and Piper agreeing to attend if Stone covered her travel costs from Los Angeles. But Stone's dream date won't happen, according to school district officials.
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▲ Are Stoners Really Dumb, or Do They Just Think They Are?
If you're acting stupid because you're a stoner, you might just be playing to type. That is, it may be your expectations about marijuana's long-term cognitive effects — rather than any real effect of the drug itself — that is to blame, particularly if you're male, according to new research. The study, which was published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, explored the effect of "stereotype threat" — the idea that performance is affected by conventional images of minorities — on marijuana smokers.
▲ The Insanity Virus
Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person's DNA.
▲ New prison for Va. Rastafarian inmates
Several Rastafarian and other inmates who have been held in isolation for refusing to cut their hair are being moved to a prison where they can live together. The Department of Corrections confirmed Wednesday that 31 inmates have been transferred to Keen Mountain State Prison in southwest Virginia.
▲ Seattle Police Almost Shoot "Superhero"
Seattle seems to have a preponderance of self-styled Real Life Super Heroes. And it's causing problems for the local police. Seattle PI reports that on one occasion "police say a caped crusader dressed in black was nearly shot when he came running out of a dark park.
▲ All Life on Earth Could Have Come From Alien Zombies
Scientists have speculated that life could have come to Earth from space — a notion called panspermia — since the 1870s, when Lord Kelvin suggested microbes could have ridden here on a comet or meteor. Others have suggested tiny organisms could cross the galaxy embedded in dust grains, which could be nudged from one planetary system to another by the slight pressure of stars' radiation.
▲ Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art – including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko – as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince – except that it acted secretly – the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
▲ New drug tunnel found at U.S.-Mexico border
The tunnel is half a mile long and reaches to about 90 feet deep, contains two entrances on the U.S. side of the border and is outfitted with advanced rail, electrical and ventilation systems
▲ The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot
But it may also just as easily be the case that the FBI — as they've done many times in the past — found some very young, impressionable, disaffected, hapless, aimless, inept loner; created a plot it then persuaded/manipulated/entrapped him to join, essentially turning him into a Terrorist; and then patted itself on the back once it arrested him for having thwarted a "Terrorist plot" which, from start to finish, was entirely the FBI's own concoction. Having stopped a plot which it itself manufactured, the FBI then publicly touts — and an uncritical media amplifies — its "success" to the world, thus proving both that domestic Terrorism from Muslims is a serious threat and the Government's vast surveillance powers — current and future new ones — are necessary.
▲ Barefoot bandit suspect pleads innocent
"Barefoot bandit" suspect Colton Harris-Moore, the teen accused in a two-year spree of sometimes-shoeless burglaries and thefts, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of interstate transportation of a stolen plane, boat and gun.
▲ Man Busted for DUI in Toy Car
A British man has lost his license, after getting nabbed for drunk driving in an electric Barbie car.
▲ Dream recording device 'possible' researcher claims
A US researcher has said he plans to electronically record and interpret dreams.
▲ Great Balls of Fire
On November 8th, West of Los Angeles and just North of Catalina Island off the Southern Coast of California, KCBS cameraman, Gil Leyvas, filmed what appeared to be a "mysterious missile launch." Four days later the Dept. of Defense informed us that the case was closed. What everyone mistook for a missle, was "likely… most likely," an aircraft. Specifically, they claimed it was a jet contrail–condensation from a commercial or military jet– from a US Airways flight from Honolulu to Phoenix. The next day on the East Coast, another chopper films a fireball streaking behind the NYC skyline. The object is dubbed "The Fire in Sky." However, according to the local news team at CBS 2, a top (unnamed) astronomer is quoted as saying it is "likely" nothing more than a contrail. The CBS 2 coverage included the snide The aliens are apparently… not… coming."
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Of Genuine Contemporary Beast is a group of hyper-real sculptures depicting Mara Salvatruchas as flayed animal skins turned into rugs. The MS-13 and MS-18 gangs, originated in the 80's in the Los Angeles area represent, among others, a minority which has been recently processed by the Caliban Factories.
▲ The 8-Bit Low-Res Make-Up Is High-Res Clever
▲ When Congressmen Attack!
Pistols, canes, bowie knives, and fireplace tongs: a brief history of congressional violence.
▲ Monkey Go Round
▲ LP Record Vinyl Roof
Nashville musician Matt Glassmeyer came up with this unique solution for shingling his porch roof. Glassmeyer, using nails and washers, attached 350 vinyl records to the roof, and after two years in the Nashville sun, apparently, they still haven't warped.
▲ Sexy Legs Stockings (Australian ad, 1981)
▲ daniele del nero: after effects
italian designer daniele del nero has sent images of his latest project 'after effects' – consisting of of a series of architectural scale models constructed with black paper. the series portrays old detached houses. to create the effect of old abandoned buildings the paper structures were covered with flour and a layer of mould, photographed as still lifes.
▲ Aircraft Carrier HMS Invincible For Sale
▲ Partial reversal of aging achieved in mice
▲ Steve Jobs action figure victim of cease and desist
▲ The curious history of the city's Rat Island
▲ More than 1 in 3 South African men admit to rape: study
Two-thirds of the men surveyed in that study said they raped because of a sense of sexual entitlement. Other popular motivating factors included a desire to punish women who rejected or angered them, and raping out of boredom, Jewkes said.
▲ Patriotic Street Art
▲ Deep-Water Dive Reveals Spilled Oil On Gulf Floor
▲ Common Sense and Security: Body Scanners, Accountability, and $2.4 Billion Worth of Security Theater
Meanwhile, TSA continues to defend the scanners: "This year alone, the use of advanced imaging technology has led to the detection of over 130 prohibited, illegal or dangerous items." TSA would not disclose exactly what those items were, but it said they included weapons like ceramic knives and various drugs — including a syringe filled with heroin hidden in a passenger's underwear. Leaving aside the obvious — that "various drugs" have nothing to do with weapon or bomb detection, and that "prohibited, illegal or dangerous items" (say, a Swiss Army knife) don't equal a true terrorist threat — the public should be offended by TSA's selective disclosure of information for PR gain.
▲ Whole Body Imaging Technology and Body Scanners ("Backscatter" X-Ray and Millimeter Wave Screening)
▲ Designer profiling
Affliction is banned in several bars along Vancouver's infamous Granville Mall, where debauchery and hooliganism are common in the early hours around closing time.
George Mora, who has been a bouncer at the Plaza nightclub for two years, says people who wear Affliction tend to cause trouble.
"Over time, it's become clear that people who wear Affliction cause problems," he said. "There have been many incidents in the pass with people who wear Affliction so why take the chance?"
▲ CIA implanted electrodes in brains of unsuspecting soldiers, suit alleges
At one point, Bruce was ordered to visit a building with a chain link fence that housed test animals, including dogs, cats, guinea pigs and monkeys. After reporting, Bruce was strapped across his chest, his wrists, and his ankles to a gurney. Bruce occasionally would regain consciousness for brief moments. On one such instance, he remembers being covered with a great deal of blood, and assumed it was his own, but did not really know the source. Also portions of his arms and the backs of his hand were blue. His wrist and ankles were bruised and sore at the points where he had been strapped to the gurney. Bruce believes that this is the time period during which a septal implant was placed in his brain.
▲ How to Permanently Delete a Facebook Account
Facebook makes it pretty easy to deactivate your account which will temporarily hide your information. However, if you want to permanently remove your information, the "permanent delete" option is much harder to find. This article will cover two easy ways to erase your Facebook account so you can Quit Facebook forever.
▲ Police: Priest solicited murder of boy accusing him of sex abuse
"This guy," Edwards County Sheriff Don Letsinger said, "is an evil man."
▲ Man gave toddler heroin, police say
A 30-year-old Spencer man has been charged with giving a 3-year-old an injection of heroin that he allegedly thought might make the sick child feel better.
▲ HEARTBEEPS (1981)
This film made me feel gross as a kid.
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➪ Taxpayer money 'wasted' on keeping Moors murderer Ian Brady alive
CHILD murderer Ian Brady claims it has cost UK taxpayers £3 million ($4.95 million) to keep him alive on his 10-year hunger strike.
Brady, known as the Moors murderer after killing five children with accomplice Myra Hindley in the early 1960s, says he is now a 71-year-old "skeleton," 10 years after doctors initiated a program of feeding him through a nasal tube.Brady is being held at Ashworth Hospital, a high security hospital at Maghull, Merseyside in northwest England. He is kept alive by a liquid nutrition mix fed into his stomach twice a day.
In a letter copied to a news agency, the serial killer reaffirms his wish to die and condemns the public money used to prolong his life despite abandoning a legal battle to return him to a regular prison where he would have the right to refuse force-feeding and starve himself to death.
➪ FREEwilliamsburg: "Retail terrorists" Strike North 6th American Apparel
➪ Kanye West's Girlfriend wears 'cum shield' sunglasses
➪ Inside the health-care 'terrorism' wave
No one thought passing health-care reform would be easy, but few imagined it would provoke a wave of what one senior Democratic congressman describes as domestic "terrorism." Since the House of Representatives passed the health-reform bill on March 22, a number of Democratic lawmakers — and two from the GOP — reported what appear to be violent threats, including shattered windows and a letter laced with mysterious powder. Though leaders of both parties have condemned the acts, Democrat Louise Slaughter (herself a target) says GOP leaders are egging on right-wing extremists with "coded rhetoric." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich counters that Democrats have "enraged" the American people with their "corrupt tactics" and therefore bear some meaningful share of the responsibility for the rash of threats. Here's a summary of the major incidents reported to date
➪ Hubble Builds 3D Dark Matter Map
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➪ Suicide Notes
These suicide notes were gathered at the coroners' offices by a suicidologist/psychiatrist who asked to be anonymous. He edited identifying details out of the compiled manuscript, and we changed the names. But the text of each letter plus the age and sex given are real. All these people did kill themselves. Were they ambivalent about it? About half the hundred or so letters we saw seemed to have some element of doubt.
➪ Republican National Committee spent nearly $2,000 at West Hollywood strip club Voyeur
The "family values" Republican National Committee spent almost $2,000 last month at an erotic, bondage-themed West Hollywood club, where nearly naked women – and men – simulate sex in nets hung from above.
➪ Kapitan Kamikaze: Skull Signs
➪ Father Yod
Father Yod or YaHoWha (July 4, 1922 – August 25, 1975) was the American owner of a Los Angeles health food restaurant on the Sunset Strip who founded a spiritual commune in the Hollywood Hills known as the Source Family. He was also lead singer of the commune's experimental psychedelic rock band, Ya Ho Wa 13.
➪ Images from the God and Hair box by Father Yod and YaHoWha
➪ How do doctors treat pedophiles?
Hormone suppressors, group therapy, and sometimes castration. Doctors do not attempt to permanently rid pedophiles of their fantasies, which are remarkably persistent. Instead, they use techniques to decrease the likelihood that the patient will act on his urges. Studies have suggested that testosterone-reducing drugs, called anti-androgens, are the most reliable option. Patients receive a monthly shot, and doctors monitor their testosterone levels to make sure the drug is working. Prozac, which is known to decrease libido as a side effect of its intended anti-depressant use, is a somewhat common but less effective alternative.
➪ Apple Store Creep
➪ Adolf Hitler art to be auctioned
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➪ Scarface School Play [Video]
OMG! Popcorn cocaine. Fudge yeah!
➪ Astrological Signs of Pornstars
Find out what erotic actors were born on the same day as you!
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➪ D.A.'s Political Roast Pokes Fun At Pot Patients While Partiers Get Plastered
Medical marijuana patients were among the punchlines at a rowdy roast last week honoring pot-hating Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley. There were plenty of gags involving Cooley's crackdown on medical marijuana, with each guest receiving rolling papers in a package reading, "Cooley's Collective."
➪ Less Is More
When I used to overdo it a lot I kept finding myself somewhat alienated from my environment and unable to smoothly mesh with the local gestalt. I would tend to huddle in a corner with one or two comrades in the same predicament and focus my will on just getting through it somehow and coming out the other side relatively unscathed. In retrospect all that seems kind of immature, like college kids who get puke drunk at frat parties. Some of those incidents were learning experiences, without a doubt, but like many important learning experiences they're more than a little bit embarrassing in hindsight. I wish that I could have picked up on some of these lessons by learning from the experiences of others; but, alas, I was always far too stubborn and conceited to do things the easy way.
➪ Four Loko – YYEEE NEW FLAVOR
➪ Fatty foods may cause cocaine-like addiction
A new study in rats suggests that high-fat, high-calorie foods affect the brain in much the same way as cocaine and heroin.
➪ Strawberry Meth is the Modern Day Wine Cooler
"It also comes in chocolate, peanut butter, cola, cherry, grape and orange. It looks just like pop rocks."
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How do you heal hurt people? Dr. Alicia Moreland-Capuia would like to think she has an answer for young men of color who have been scarred by traumatic injuries and need help to escape a life of recurring violence and retribution.
Dr. Alicia Moreland-Capuia (from left) and members of her 'Healing Hurt People' team, Josh Lathan and Cheryl A. Johnson, oversee the new violence prevention program that helps young people, especially men of color, heal from traumatic injuries and make future adjustments to their lives to help end a cycle of recurring violence and retribution.
A licensed and board-certified psychiatrist who is completing a fellowship in addiction medicine at OHSU, Moreland-Capuia has implemented "Healing Hurt People Portland" a program to heal young people who have suffered serious physical injuries from guns and knives.
The undertaking comes in a partnership between Cascadia Health Services and Legacy Emanuel Hospital to help young patients of color break a cycle of violence with an interdiction team that includes a social worker, doctor and other support.
Capuia, 32, an African American who graduated from Jefferson High School, says the saw the need to bring more diversity into the medical field early in her life when she became cognizant of the lack of familiar faces in the health professions.
"We had a lot of people in my family who were ill, we'd go to hospitals here in the Portland area and there just weren't a lot of people that looked like us that were taking care of my family," she says.
Her realization manifested itself in later years when she personally received her degree in biological sciences from Stanford University and then her doctorate of medicine from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Now with Healing Hurt People, she is looking to make good on her dream of bringing more culturally relevant care to the Portland area with the assistance of the Healing Hurt People team of medical and social service professionals.
One of the members of the group is Cheryl A. Johnson, the organization's program manager and the person who first envisioned a cultural specific crisis-intervention program for the Portland area based on a national model.
Since its launch in early June, Johnson says local hospitals have been thankful for the added resources, appreciative of seeing services that work to break patterns of violence instead of just patching up victims and sending them into the world without any follow up.
Now when someone of color between the ages of 10 and 25 finds themselves on the wrong side of a knife or a bullet, Healing Hurt People is dialed up immediately from trauma care facilities while the wounds are still fresh.
Research shows that this is the most critical time to reach out to young people because they're afraid, and often more open to make a change in their life.
Josh Lathan, 35, a peer intervention coordinator with Healing Hurt People, grew up in an impoverished north Portland neighborhood which helps him relate to young males who grew up disadvantaged. He also has two brothers who were victims of gang violence. Experiences like these help him establish immediate connections with many of his clients.
"I'm not a clinician. and I'm not gonna talk to 'em like a clinician," Lathan says.
In addition to easing the tension for patients, he also hopes the culturally-tuned interaction is better able to win more cooperation from these young men as they work with medical professionals and law enforcement officials.


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from os_vif import plugin
from os_vif import objects

from vif_plug_ovs import processutils
from vif_plug_ovs import linux_net

PLUGIN_NAME = 'ovs_hybrid'

class OvsHybridPlugin(plugin.PluginBase):
    """
    An OVS VIF type that uses a pair of devices in order to allow
    security group rules to be applied to traffic coming in or out of
    a virtual machine.
    """

    def __init__(self, **config):
        processutils.configure(**config)
        linux_net.configure(**config)
        self.network_device_mtu = config.get('network_device_mtu', 1500)
        self.ovs_vsctl_timeout = config.get('ovs_vsctl_timeout', 120)

    def get_supported_vifs(self):
        return set([objects.PluginVIFSupport(PLUGIN_NAME, '1.0', '1.0')])

    def plug(self, instance, vif):
        """Plug using hybrid strategy

        Create a per-VIF linux bridge, then link that bridge to the OVS
        integration bridge via a veth device, setting up the other end
        of the veth device just like a normal OVS port. Then boot the
        VIF on the linux bridge using standard libvirt mechanisms.
        """
        iface_id = vif.ovs_interfaceid
        br_name = vif.br_name
        v1_name, v2_name = vif.veth_pair_names

        if not linux_net.device_exists(br_name):
            processutils.execute('brctl', 'addbr', br_name,
                                 run_as_root=True)
            processutils.execute('brctl', 'setfd', br_name, 0,
                                 run_as_root=True)
            processutils.execute('brctl', 'stp', br_name, 'off',
                                 run_as_root=True)
            syspath = '/sys/class/net/%s/bridge/multicast_snooping'
            syspath = syspath % br_name
            processutils.execute('tee', syspath, process_input='0',
                                 check_exit_code=[0, 1],
                                 run_as_root=True)

        if not linux_net.device_exists(v2_name):
            linux_net.create_veth_pair(v1_name, v2_name, self.network_device_mtu)
            processutils.execute('ip', 'link', 'set', br_name, 'up',
                                 run_as_root=True)
            processutils.execute('brctl', 'addif', br_name, v1_name,
                                 run_as_root=True)
            linux_net.create_ovs_vif_port(vif.bridge_name,
                                          v2_name, iface_id,
                                          vif.address, instance.uuid)

    def unplug(self, vif):
        """UnPlug using hybrid strategy

        Unhook port from OVS, unhook port from bridge, delete
        bridge, and delete both veth devices.
        """
        br_name = vif.br_name
        v1_name, v2_name = vif.veth_pair_names

        if linux_net.device_exists(br_name):
            processutils.execute('brctl', 'delif', br_name, v1_name,
                                 run_as_root=True)
            processutils.execute('ip', 'link', 'set', br_name, 'down',
                                 run_as_root=True)
            processutils.execute('brctl', 'delbr', br_name,
                                 run_as_root=True)

        linux_net.delete_ovs_vif_port(vif.bridge_name, v2_name)

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MEIA: Writing Begins with Forgiveness?
This links to an article about how writing begins with forgiving yourself for how long it's been since you wrote last. It's about how a writer is a writer because they write and not because they write every day.
I really enjoy this because I'm really good at not writing for long stretches of time.
So if you feel like it's been too long since you wrote last and you can't get back to your writing, then start by ignoring that and just write instead.
This blog is all Heather's fault.
We were at writing group and she mentioned everyone having a blog.
I never set up a blog for writing group. Does that mean I can't be part of the fun?
That sounds like not writing — excellent.
So get this, I made another blog. And I'm great at making blogs. Starting blogs is so easy nowadays (*crotchety old man voice* back in my day we had to download WordPress, and then upload it using an FTP, and create all the databases ourselves). All I had to do was make a sub-domain and use the one click installation from my web hosting company.
Heather even thought up the name for me. I lie sometimes. Cindy thought up the name for me.
So that's how this is all Heather's fault, even though Cindy gave me the name.
Maybe I'll even do some fiction writing stuff on here.


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The Center for Accountability, Modernization and Innovation (CAMI) provides thought leadership designed to help government work better for the American people.
We support policies that improve outcomes and drive innovation in government service through public and private partnerships.
Stan Soloway
Stan Soloway serves as Chairman of the Board for the Center for Accountability, Modernization, and Innovation (CAMI).
Stan is currently the President & CEO of Celero Strategies, LLC, a full-service strategic consultancy focused on the federal market. Stan served for 15 years as the President & CEO of the Professional Services Council (PSC), the largest and most influential national association of government technology and professional services firms. While at PSC, Soloway was the industry's leading voice, policy strategist and resource for both government and the private sector.
During the second half of the Clinton Administration, Stan served as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and was responsible for wide-ranging reforms to defense acquisition and technology policy and practices, and broader department-wide re-engineering.
Ian Walton
Ian began his career in government and politics dates back to high school after being selected to serve as Speaker Tom Foley's page in the US House of Representatives. This formative experience compelled him to develop a life's work in public service. At both the state and federal level, he has successfully managed top-tier campaigns, helped raise funds, and served as senior advisor to elected officials. Most recently, Ian served as the Policy Director for the DGA where he worked with Governors, their staff, and the private sector to find solutions to policy issues ranging from health care and biotechnology to infrastructure, energy and everything in between.
Janet Kelly
Janet is a former Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth serving in the Governor's cabinet from 2010-2014. Janet was active in Virginia politics for many years and as a result of her experience working with the Office of the Attorney General and Governor's cabinet, became intimately aware of the challenges facing children. After leaving public service, Janet focused her attention on improving the child welfare system and currently serves as the president of Virginia's Kids Belong and a founder of America's Kids Belong – a collective impact nonprofit that seeks to improve the foster care and adoption system.

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This issue of our journal focuses on the highly topical subject of heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (HFpEF). It is clear from congresses and journals that HFpEF's popularity is on the rise. This is hardly surprising given that its high prevalence, morbidity, and mortality combine with a lack of effective therapy. This combination provides the "perfect storm," whipping up academic and commercial interest. Against such backdrop, the articles in this issue provide a balanced view of this field, which often attracts polarized opinion.
A good place to start is the "basic and clinical perspective" provided by Ajay Shah and Philip Chowienczyk. This article highlights the varied pathologies that drive HFpEF and makes the point that current guidelines recommend nothing other than the treatment of comorbidities because there is no clear mechanism of disease causation. Without a dominant mechanism driving disease, it's difficult to create animal models that recapitulate the phenotype(s) seen in patients. The question is Why are patients with HFpEF so heterogeneous?
One of the key causes of heterogeneity in HFpEF is the difficulty in diagnosing this condition. This issue is tackled by Thomas Marwick in his article on how to diagnose HFpEF. The article makes the point that there are two main modes by which patients present: with acute pulmonary edema in the acute care setting and with more insidious disease with progressive breathlessness and fatigue in the ambulatory care setting. Acute presentation with documented pulmonary edema that rapidly resolves with diuresis provides enhanced diagnostic specificity, provided that other triggers such as dynamic mitral regurgitation and tachyarrythmia are excluded. The problem lies in those who present with chronic symptoms, which constitutes the majority of patients. Here, the diagnosis relies on demonstrating abnormal myocardial relaxation; however, as Thomas Marwick discusses, current noninvasive methods lack specificity because with age many of the measured parameters change in the same direction as in HFpEF. Consequently, differentiating HFpEF from "healthy" aging is more art than science. Newer echocardiographic techniques that use speckle tracking to measure myocardial strain may offer improvements in specificity, as may other imaging modalities.
The article by James Moon and colleagues discusses some of these newer imaging techniques but focuses on the use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI). The advantage of cMRI is its ability to quantify myocardial extracellular volume through use of contrast agents and native T1. The above-mentioned "basic and clinical perspective" article by Ajay Shah and Philip Chowienczyk discusses the physiology of diastole, which is divided into an active phase determined by actin-myosin crossbridge detachment and a passive phase determined by the restorationof elastic components within the myocardium that were distorted during systole. Diffuse myocardial fibrosis will alter passive myocardial relaxation. Thus, as argued by James Moon, cMRI is one of the few techniques that can actually provide some insight into the pathology causing abnormal relaxation. This ability to look "upstream" also enables cMRI to raise the suspicion of senile amyloid (caused by myocardial deposition of wild-type transthyretin), which is almost certainly underdiagnosed and for which specific treatments may soon be available.
This focus on passive relaxation is complemented by the Hot Topics article by Vasco Sequeira and Jolanda van der Velden, which concentrates on abnormal active relaxation. The underlying premise is that healthy relaxation requires fast detachment of the actin-myosin crossbridges and that this in turn is energetically demanding, relying on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to drive the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase to clear the systolic calcium transient and also to replace adenosine diphosphate (ADP) on myosin. Effectively, both these processes are dependent on a high concentration of ATP but also on a low concentration of ADP (ATP/ADP ratio). Thus, a high concentration of ADP pollutes the fuel driving contraction, fostering the concept that the failing heart is an engine running on bad fuel and that this manifests as impaired relaxation. This raises the obvious question of what can be done to remedy the situation.
The article by Yury Lopatin summarizes the new European Society of Cardiology (ESC) heart failure guidelines and points out that trimetazadine is now given a class IIbA recommendation for use in the treatment of angina in heart failure patients on a β-blocker or who are unable to tolerate a β-blocker. Mirroring the Hot Topics article, Yury Lopatin postulates that trimetazadine may have additional benefits on the heart failure process itself by increasing the efficiency of conversion of ADP to ATP.
Finally, this issue's Case Report article by Jessica Webb summarizes a patient with a constellation of symptoms, signs, and imaging findings that were consistent with HFpEF. To finalize the diagnosis, the patient underwent right and left heart catheterization, including pressure-volume analysis of the left ventricle. The case report illustrates the ability of invasive studies to characterize key parameters of diastolic compliance and clarify the diagnosis. It also reminds us that elevated left ventricular filling pressure is the hallmark of HFpEF. Unfortunately, there is only one way to directly measure pressure, but invasive studies are not appropriate in the majority of patients with HFpEF due to their age and comorbidities. In addition, making the diagnosis will not dramatically alter therapy.
I found editing this issue both stimulating and depressing! It brought home to me that we still understand little about the complex and heterogeneous conditions that lead to the HFpEF syndrome. At the moment, all we can do is identify and treat its predisposing risk factors and hope that ultimately there will be a specific therapy that suggests it is more than just a sum of these parts.


Hanoi s real estate remains a rich potential market and investors can be confident of the rehabilitation and prospect of this market, according to the US real estate service firm, CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
At a press conference held on July 17 to review the Hanoi real estate market in the first months of this year, CBRE said that the prospects for long- and medium-time development of the real estate market in Hanoi and other Vietnamese major cities are fairly good.
The land prices in Hanoi 's central area remain stable, while the prices in other areas have reduced since the first quarter of this year, according to the firm.
It noted that temporary slowdown of real estate transactions has been seen in some areas due to the impacts of the slowing global economic growth, inflation and high interest rates of bank loans.
Results of a recent survey by CBRE showed that investment in apartment buildings in Hanoi's central areas has reduced slightly compared to the first quarter of this year, while investment projects in other areas also decreased.
Consequently, the total investment channeled to the real estate market in the 2 nd quarter reduced 15 percent compared to the first quarter.
CBRE said that the stricter of credit control has heavily impacted on domestic investors and those who have demand for loans to buy houses.


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Surge in number of women and girls playing golf, says HowDidiDo
By Alistair Dunsmuir
New data from a company that analyses millions of rounds of golf in the UK has found a surge in participation of the game by women and girls since the start of this year.
Clubs and golfing associations have brought in a raft of programmes in recent years to encourage more women to play golf as just 12 to 13 per cent of members of the average UK golf club are women, one of the lowest rates in the world, and it appears these are working.
Meanwhile, surveys have shown there is huge demand from women to play golf – and this at a time when golf clubs have been struggling with falling rates of participation.
HowDidiDo, Europe's largest online golfing community, holds data from in excess of 53 million rounds of golf, along with the handicaps, results and scores of more than 1,300,000 UK golf club members.
It reports that the number of female club members on its system has increased by nearly 17 per cent since the end of 2017. Moreover, lady golfers now make up more than 14 per cent of the club members who registered with HowDidiDo in 2018 – suggesting that the ratio of female golfers in golf clubs has risen this year following several years of stagnation.
The website's data also shows that more than 37 per cent of official club competitions since 2016 were ladies' events; while the average handicap of the 50,584 lady golfers registered with HowDidiDo is 27.1.
HowDidiDo spokesman Barry Dyett, chairman of Yumax Media, said: "There are no definitive figures available for such things, but with HowDidiDo providing official CONGU handicapping and retaining competition results for more than 1,800 golf clubs, it's fair to say the data is the most indicative available.
"And what it does illustrate is that recent initiatives to increase participation among lady golfers are starting to pay dividends. It is a long process, of course, but there appear to be green shoots of progress. What surprised me personally was that while lady golfers make up more than 14 per cent of the golfers in our system, they are playing so many more competitions.
"Surely this indicates the enthusiasm is already there among club members – we now need to encourage more transient golfers and juniors to become club members. And that process seems to be under way."
HowDidiDo allows members to analyse their game and compare performance with other players, at their own club or across the entire HowDidiDo network. More than half-a-million club golfers from 1,800-plus registered UK and Ireland clubs, courtesy of their use of Club Systems International software, use the website regularly.
Labels: Amateur Ladies, Girls
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Fastenal Co states good profit due to new model
Fastenal Co reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings, helped in part by an increase in daily sales growth and its new freight initiatives.
Fastenal sells industrial and construction supplies, the main inventory being fasteners such as screws, nuts and bolts. The company also distributes 11 other product lines ranging from safety and janitorial supplies to welding equipment and tools.
The company posted first-quarter profit of $68.1 million, or 46 cents a share, compared with $54.1 million, or 36 cents a share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose about 16 percent to $566.2 million.
Analysts, on average, were expecting earnings of 43 cents a share on revenue of $561.6 million.
The new freight model uses the company's own trucking network, enabling it to leverage its existing routes compared to external providers.
Daily sales, defined as sales for the month divided by the number of business days in the month, improved in March, relative to January and February, the Winona, Minnesota-based company said in a statement.
The company said average vehicle fuel cost per month rose about 38 percent to $2.9 million in the latest first quarter.
It added that the impact on margins from rising fuel costs could be more if the trend continues.
Shares of the company rose almost 4 percent in trading before the bell, after closing at $47.75 Thursday on Nasdaq.


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Spouses living in different provinces
different provinces
separate filing
By ak_abadi,
May 5, 2014 in 2013
ak_abadi
My wife moved to QC from ON last year, for a new job. She's currently living there, resided on last day of December in QC. I have the following questions, and would greatly appreciate if anyone who could shed some lights
- Do we need to file separately, and in terms of logistics, should we create two account in UFile, one for each of us?
- She went to school in QC few years ago and also filed tax once there. If she has any remaining tax credit, can it be recovered and put to use?
1. You don't have to file separately but you need to indicate the appropriate province of residence for each of you. Also, you should consult the following instructions:
Resident from another province working in Quebec
If you worked in Quebec in the current taxation year, but resided in another province (e. g. in Ontario), you should have received two tax slips: a federal T4 slip and a Quebec RL-1 slip.
In order to enter the information found on these slips using the program, please follow these steps:
1- In the "QuikClik Navigator", click on the line "T4 and employment income" and, on the screen located on the right-hand side, first select "T4 and RL-1 (Relevé 1) income earned in Quebec".
2- Enter the information from the T4 and the RL-1 slip and, from the drop-down menu of box 10, select the province of employment;
3 - If you have an amount in box J of the RL-1, ignored because this amount shall be taxable only resident of Quebec, as it is called with medical expenses. While for residents of other Provinces / Territories that amount cannot be claimed as a medical expense because the premium has been paid by the employer;
4- Return to the "QuikClik Navigator" and select "Ontario tax and credits" (or from any other province of residence as appropriate) and enter the required information, if applicable.
By clicking on the "Results" tab, you'll notice on line 437 of the federal return that the amount of total income tax deducted corresponds to the box 22 of the T4 and box E of the RL-1 slip.
Also in the "Result" tab if you have the following "Warning", "The pensionable earnings entered for a T4 exceed the amount of T4 income". Please ignore this warning.
2. She should be able to use her unused tuition fees. I recommend verifying with Revenu Québec:
http://www.revenuquebec.ca/en/nous_joindre/default.aspx


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Department of Music's New River Valley Symphony to feature the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra horn section
BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 10, 2008 – Virginia Tech Department of Music's New River Valley Symphony Series first concert of the season, featuring the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra Horn Section in Robert Schumann's "Concert-piece for Four Horns" and the music of Berlioz and Mussorgsky/Ravel, will be held Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. in Burruss Hall Auditorium on the university's main campus.
Schumann, born in 1810, was a German Romantic composer and influential music critic. Until 1840, Schumann's published compositions were all for the piano; he later composed works for piano and orchestra, four symphonies, an opera, and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. His "Concert-piece for Four Horns" is reputedly one of the most challenging works ever composed for horn. It was conceived by Schumann to exploit the then new, valve-less horn. This work was premiered by The Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra in February 1850.
Louis Hector Berlioz, born in 1803, was a French Romantic composer. His Roman Carnival Overture Opus 9 was composed in 1843 and was first performed in Paris, in February 1844. This work, a stand-alone overture, is made up of material and themes from Berlioz's opera Benvenuto Cellini, including some music from the opera's carnival scene, from which the overture's title originates.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, born in 1839, is known as an innovator of Russian music with compositions that often countered the norms of Western music. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten piano pieces composed in 1874. This suite is generally acknowledged to be Mussorgsky's greatest solo piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become well known through many arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with impressionist and expressionist composer Joseph-Maurice Ravel's arrangement being the most recorded and performed of all.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1953, is the largest professional orchestra in western Virginia. The orchestra has been nationally recognized for its artistic achievements, its innovative education programs, and its unique outreach with diverse audiences.
The New River Valley Symphony is a university-community orchestra comprised of approximately 80 members and is open to student, faculty, and community residents by audition. Conductor James Glazebrook's varied career includes professional performance, conducting, and musical education. He has performed in numerous chamber music concerts, recitals, and festivals throughout the United States and has served as concertmaster of the Colorado Springs Symphony, the New Hampshire Music Festival, and Roanoke Symphony Orchestras.
Tickets are $8 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors and are available in advance through the University Unions and Student Activities Box Office in the Squires Student Center, at (540) 231-5615 or online, and at the door one hour prior to performance time. The performance will be in the Burruss Hall Auditorium located on Virginia Tech's main campus in Blacksburg.
Louise Adams
louise@vt.edu