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Police nab Banker for allegedly hiring assassins to kill ex-husband
The Ogun State Police Command has nabbed a woman suspected for hiring assassins to kill her ex-husband, a week after similar crime was reported in Lagos.
The suspect, Oluchi Tochukwu, a banker, allegedly hired assassins to slay her ex-husband identified as Tochukwu Onyebuchi.
Luck, however, ran out of the suspected assassins – Kingsley Ikechukwu, 36, and Chigozie Smart, 32, when the police in Ogun state intercepted and arrested them on October 19 at Ijebu-Ode while attempting to escape to Onitsha with the victim’s Range Rover Jeep.
The suspects were paraded before newsmen on Wednesday at the state police command headquarters in Abeokuta.
Oluchi, however, denied contracting the suspects and one other at large to assassinate her husband.
She stated that her 3-year-old marriage to her husband had crashed, so she had no reason to kill him.
On his part, Chigozie said it was Oluchi who hired them to kill her husband with a promise to purchase “Tokunbo” cars for each of them after a successful operation.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu who paraded the suspects, said the banker hired the suspected criminals to assassinate her husband in his residence at Ayobo area of Lagos State.
He said Oluchi was arrested at Ayobo area of Lagos State.
According to him, “One Oluchi, a 32-year-old banker, who is married to one Tochukwu Onyebuchi years ago, got separated from her husband following some matrimonial problems.
“The custody of their only child is currently being contested in the court but Oluchi has another plan. She connived with the trio of Chigozie Smart, Kingsley Ikechukwu and one other who is now at large to eliminate her husband.
“She arranged for the weapons which includes cutlass, iron rods and acid which she kept in her husband’s compound at Ayobo area of Lagos State and described where she kept it to the assailants.
“The suspects went there on Wednesday as planned and matcheted the man severally on his head and poured the acid on him.
“The suspects thereafter abandoned the victim and took away his range Rover Jeep which Oluchi instructed them to drop at her brother’s place in Onitsha, Anambra State.
“Luck ran against them when a patrol team of the Ogun State command on Wednesday sighted the vehicle along the Ijebu-Ode/Benin expressway and stopped it for search.
“While searching the vehicle, blood stain was seen and the two occupants were unable to give satisfactory account of the blood stain, hence, they were arrested.
“It was during interrogation that the suspects revealed all that transpired to the police,” the CP added, noting that the victim, who had been treated at an undisclosed hospital, was in the custody of the police helping them in the process of investigation.
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STOCKTON - CALIFORNIA'S GREECE
Michael Jackson in Stockton, California, after a school shooting. Website for this image
At the end of June 2012, the city of Stockton, in California, filed for bankruptcy.
"The biggest municipal insolvency in American history will hit bondholders as well as former public workers whose health-care costs the city had covered."
Stockton's bankruptcy: California's Greece | The Economist
"The city accumulated obligations to its workers and made rash spending pledges. When the market went sour in 2007-08 Stockton was left more exposed than most. Revenues dried up. As unemployment climbed above 20%, its foreclosure rate became one of the highest in the nation, where it remains."
Michael Jackson in "Stockton - All America City" after a school shooting.
Stockton is the 65th largest city in the USA and was once the third largest city in California..
Stockton, California, from Robert N. Dennis collection 1870
In the February 2, 2011 issue of Forbes, Stockton was described as being the "most miserable" city in the USA.
Central Connecticut State University surveys from 2005 and 2006 ranked the city as the least literate of all U.S. cities with a population of more than 250,000.[15][16][17]
According to a Gallup poll, Stockton was tied with Montgomery, Alabama for the most obese metro area in the United States of America with an obesity rate of 34.6 percent.[18]
www.menglau.com...Stockton has a Khmer temple and lots of Khmers.
According to the city’s most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city reported a significant deficit with US$443.9 million in revenue and US$485.4 million in expenditures.
As of March, 2012, Stockton's unemployment rate is among the highest in the nation, at 20.1%.
On June 28, 2012, Stockton finally filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy after 'years of fiscal mismanagement and a housing market crash' left it unable to pay its workers, pensioners and bondholders.
Stockton has a Khmer temple and lots of Khmers.
Stockton was rated by Forbes in 2009 as America's fifth most dangerous city because of its crime rate.[28]
According to the San Joaquin County district attorney, the city of Stockton has the "second most violent crime rate in the state," while San Joaquin County is the fifth-most dangerous metropolitan area in the United States, which could be due to Stockton's proximity to Interstate 5 in the center of California, making it "a hub for the drug cartel between Mexico, Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia."[41]
Stockton - Website for this image
On January 17, 1989, the Stockton Police Department received a threat against Cleveland Elementary School from an unknown person. Later that day, Patrick Purdy, who was later determined to be mentally ill, opened fire on the school's playground with a semi-automatic rifle, killing five children, all Cambodian or Vietnamese refugees, and wounding 29 others, and a teacher, before taking his own life. The event received national news coverage and is sometimes referred to as the Cleveland School massacre.[42]
Popular singer and song writer Michael Jackson paid a visit to Cleveland Elementary School to see the children and families affected by this tragedy on February 7, 1989.[43]
A number of motion pictures have been filmed in Stockton.[54] including:
All the King's Men (1949)[57]
Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
The Big Country (1958)[58]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)[81]
Posted by Anon at 2:28 PM
Labels: bankruptcy, California, Economy, Khmer, Mexican drugs gangs, Michael Jackson, Stockton
Vallejo also in California, declared bankruptcy. It is a multi ethnic hell hole. Most of the cities and towns in CA are merging their fire and police departments. Many people are loosing their jobs. Things will only get worse.
I guess Arnie really knew what he was doin' when he resigned from 'governing' California.
These'elites' seem to always be that one step ahead, when all they really are, are devious thugs.
Don't know that we will change anything soon Ang.
Just keep on keeping on, with hope.
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BATMAN AND THE CIA
BURGAS BOMBER UNLIKELY TO BE GHEZALI
GETTING AWAY WITH PRINTING MONEY
ISRAEL AND SYRIA
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THE REAL HITLER
HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING
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Springvale Retirement Community
G.A. Fleet
AERCO Product Installed
WHAT THE CLIENT NEEDED
The owners of the Springvale Retirement Community in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., always try to stay ahead of the curve. That philosophy began when Springvale opened in 1959 as the first adult residential community catering to people 55 years of age and older in Westchester County, N.Y. The owners have continued to stay ahead of the curve through carefully planned maintenance and renovations, including replacing the original boilers with high-efficiency condensing equipment to reduce heating costs.
Breakdowns and poor performance of the existing equipment were becoming frequent. A large-scale replacement project was required. Management had done many renovations to improve heating efficiency; however, skyrocketing fuel costs continued to put a crimp in Springvale’s bottom line. Rather than pass along the higher costs to tenants by raising rent, management decided to upgrade the boilers to make them more efficient.
While Robert Kogan, partner in Springvale, and his team knew they wanted a high-efficiency boiler, they were not experts in the field. So they turned to Robert Braun, P.E., a principal in Genesys Engineering P.C. After reviewing three different condensing boilers from various manufacturers, Braun recommended a test installation of the AERCO Modulex MLX-606.
AERCO’S SOLUTION
The AERCO Modulex boiler had better turndown than other condensing boilers. With 13:1 turndown, the MLX-606 supports 45,000 to 600,000 Btu/hr. heating loads without cycling. Braun also looked at equipment that would minimize the upfront cost of the project and offer long-term operating reliability.
Unlike competitive equipment, the AERCO Modulex line features built-in redundancy. It employs four independent, 151,500 Btu/hr., preassembled thermal modules housed in a common enclosure. This allows on entire boiler plant to be replaced with a single unit. If one module requires maintenance or repair, the remaining three continue to deliver heat to the building. “To meet the load requirements using another brand of condensing equipment, we would have had to install and pipe multiple units compared to one AERCO Modulex boiler,” explains Braun. “That meant additional piping and pumping equipment, and it would have doubled the number of control points, which significantly increases installation cost.”
The Modulex unit reduced upfront costs by more than 40 percent. Installation was $6,900 for the MLX-606, compared to $12,000 each for the competitive units trialed in another building. These numbers don’t reflect approximately $700 in additional materials for the other brand’s installation.
Braun also realized that the Modulex boiler could support the building’s direct hot water needs. Springvale owners replaced the building’s stand-alone direct-fired hot water heater with an indirect water heater powered by the Modulex unit in a combination application. The approach allowed the owners to double the number of washers in the building’s laundry room while also using the boiler in its originally designed heating application.
“Basically, it’s been completely trouble-free,” says Kogan. “And it runs very quietly, which is important because it’s in a residential building.”
Together, Kogan and Braun are working on a timetable to replace all the boilers in the 31-building complex with high-efficiency equipment. They are also looking for other ways to keep providing Springvale residents with a quality lifestyle.
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A Joyful Spiritual Community Of Friends
One of the most frequent comments by visitors is, “I feel so much joy here!” The smiles you’ll meet are genuine. Ananda is a place of music, laughter, deep spiritual fellowship, and a refreshing sense of humor.
The basis of this teaching is universal. People of all faiths are welcome; all faiths are honored. Ananda exists to support your search for greater meaning and understanding, whether it be called wisdom, truth, joy, or God.
Truths Shared By The Great Religions
The emphasis is on the underlying truths shared by the great religions, rather than differences. The teachings at Ananda were brought to the West by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. His direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, founded Ananda in 1968 and continues his work today.
Ananda is about supporting your quest for inner peace and happiness. Feel cared about by a dynamic, non-judgmental and supportive network of friends as you meet the challenges and victories of your own spiritual journey.
Ananda is a vibrant spiritual community. We offer Meditation, Yoga philosophy and Self-understanding classes. We’re here to give you support for your spiritual life.
Why I Love Ananda
“I have felt welcomed and included at Ananda from the very first day I attended a meditation four to five years ago. That same heartfelt welcome was extended to me when I visited Ananda World Brotherhood Village in Nevada City. Although I knew no-one there on my fist visit (I have now been there three times), I was made most welcome and included by everyone I met. The Divine love of Yogananda and, by extension, of Swami Kriyananda, is made manifest everywhere. It is also made manifest in the spiritual leadership of Kristy Fassler-Hecht at the Ananda-York Center. Everyone who comes in contact with Kristy knows and feels this love by the way she relates to people. She is a great teacher and an inspired and loving leader. I think I am not exaggerating when I say that all of us at Ananda York want to be as devoted to our guru and as radiating in her love for him as she is.
We often gather for pot-luck lunches or stay for some socializing after lessons or Sunday services. It is because of these occasions (and the retreats, of course) that we have gotten to know each other personally and have been able to bond in real friendships. My connection to Ananda-York is very important to me.”
Chris Davies
“After reading Autobiography of a Yogi in 2001, it was not long before I was guided to Ananda. I immediately joined Ananda Maine. It was like having an instant new family! Being part of Ananda is all about joy; finding our own joy and then sharing our joy with others. Giving back by helping to lead meditation continues to be one of the most expansive and fulfilling parts of my journey. We are all learning and we all have much to share with others. Having the support and freedom to do this amongst other like minded truth seekers is one of life’s great blessings.”
“I never realized what true joy really meant until I tuned into the Ananda community. I always thought it was to be sought outside of myself. Within the loving kindness of my spiritual family at Ananda along with the powerful and uplifting yoga/meditation practices I now know that joy is always within me to be realized at any moment in time. It is a blessing and a privilege to be part of this empowering journey together!”
“I love coming to the center to dive deep into the teachings and to spend time in fellowship with like-minded souls. Sharing this inspiring and devotional music with others brings me great joy. Chanting, meditating, and studying together energizes my personal practice, and I always find wisdom relevant to my life’s journey. Ananda helps me to remember who I am and what is truly important in life.”
“I’ve found that being at college with a wide variety of stresses, things to do, people to deal with, I end up forgetting about the more important things in life. I love the Daily Inspirations…they bring me back to center and most of the time brighten my day. So thank you for sharing them!”
“I lived at Ananda Village in California twenty years ago and received great blessings as a result. A couple of years ago I wanted to reconnect and have been participating in Ananda’s New England events. I love visiting the group in Maine and always feel uplifted when I return home afterwards.”
“Before Ananda I was directionless. Now I am pointed toward God.”
Joy to you,
“In this world of so much doing it is so refreshing to be in a place with others who uplift the spirit and sooth the soul. I always leave feeling better than when I arrived. I can also say that I feel we are a family, a part of a greater whole.”
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MY DYING BRIDE – Your Broken Shore
By Shan Siva January 14, 2020 January 12, 2020 News
British doom legends MY DYING BRIDE release the official video for ‘Your Broken Shore’ today. The track is taken from the upcoming album The Ghost Of Orion, which will be out on 6th March. Watch and listen to ‘Your Broken Shore’ here Singer Aaron Stainthorpe comments: “The first song from MY DYING BRIDE for five years comes laced with passion, power and their unyielding desire to create the most thoughtful and heavy music possible. ‘Your Broken Shore’ is recognisably theirs despite an evolution spanning 30 years, it’s new and fresh but with unmistakable provenance and production surpassing anything they have previously released. This… Continue reading
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Nothing will kick off your day better than Vredehammer’s brand-new single. Spooky darkwave / horror-synthies combine with elements of gritty black and death metal. The “Winds Of Dysphoria” offer heavy blast beats and aggressive guitar riffing, vitalizing your mind like an energy drink. Per Valla’s dark voice creates an atmosphere in the likes of Satyricon and Dimmu Borgir, while totally adding a frostbitten Nordic feeling to the great melodic instrumentals. “Winds Of Dysphoria” is the second single off the band’s highly anticipated new album “Viperous”, out on March 6th. Per Valla confirms his intention: «This is one of the faster Vredehammer songs ever written, made with… Continue reading
SHAKRA – Too Much Is Not Enough
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Blaze of Perdition “With Madman’s Faith”
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RASPBERRY BULBS – Doggerel
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NOVENA – debut album by UK prog metal/rockers
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Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – What Kinda Love
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OCEANS – Hope
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Drone brood
Lighting the smoker
Capped honey
Brood nest
Comb honey
Different types of honey
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UVA Bee School is an informal seminar at the University of Virginia on the mathematics of honeybee behavior and the practice of beekeeping. It's part academic pursuit and part social activity, honoring the University's unique tradition of close student-faculty friendship. It's led by Associate Professor of Mathematics Christian Gromoll, and generously supported by the Mead Endowment.
Hive intelligence Honeybees survive by acquisition, defense, and efficient allocation of various resources, to enable successful overwintering and reproduction. This requires sophisticated decision making, akin to that needed by manufacturing firms, and beyond the capability of a single bee's brain. But when each bee follows simple sets of rules, the aggregate effect creates an emergent intelligence for the colony as a whole, able to react to a dynamic environment and achieve complex optimizations.
Seminar We're interested in understanding some of the mathematical principles underlying the colony intelligence of honeybees. We meet roughly every other week from October through April to discuss articles from the scientific literature on honeybees. We also do some mathematical modeling of specific honeybee optimization behaviors. Along the way, we learn some aspects of honeybee biology and ecology, as well as the history and practice of beekeeping.
Activities We're also interested in getting to know each other, and getting to know the bees. In the Fall and Spring, we meet regularly at Professor Gromoll's home for hands-on activities in the apiary. This includes an opening breakfast in the Fall, and a dinner in the Spring. We'll also start a new honeybee colony for the group, and take a field trip to a larger apiary in the area.
Yesterday evening we had our final official bee school event, a closing dinner featuring as much honey as possible — or as much as reasonable, really. There was a leg of lamb with polenta and honey in the jus, field greens with honey vinaigrette, and for dessert a classic Bienenstich, or "bee sting" cake. We all enjoyed a lovely evening out on the back porch.
But somehow it's not the end. The bee schoolers all have plans to stop by and inspect the observation hive later this summer. Rowan has received a grant to run an experiment on the Small Hive Beetle, a recent honeybee pest, and I'll be helping her with that. She's already set up six hives for the experiment at UVA's Morven Farm. And there's also talk of running another bee school in the near future, or maybe one of the new Pavilion seminars along similar lines.
Lots of excitement to come. For now, I'm going to go check the observation hive...
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Observation hive
At the beginning of May we finally installed the observation hive. This hive is well ventilated and can hold eight deep frames, in four pairs (only three pairs are currently installed in the photo). So it's big enough to exist as a permanent hive. That is, the frames are permanently behind glass (and also wooden panels when not being observed), as opposed to being placed there temporarily as is done with smaller observation hives. This way we can pop off the panels any time we want, year round, for a glimpse into the status of this honey bee colony. Of course, you can't see in between the pairs of parallel frames. But the two outer sides give a view of half of the entire hive. That's more than enough to see all activities going on inside, and asses the state of things.
The colony that we installed had some trouble initially, but they've been rebounding well over the last few weeks. The colony should be nice and strong by the end of the summer, in time for visits by returning beeschoolers!
Cut out in Kerchof Hall
Back in the Fall, Ryan Taylor of UVA Facilities Management contacted me to see if the bee school could help remove a bee hive that had taken up residence in a cornice high up on Kerchof Hall. I couldn't resist the serendipity. Here we were learning about the mechanism honey bee swarms use to select a new cavity to dwell in, and learn that a swarm had picked a spot right in our own math building, above Professor Kuhn's office! Now that's project-based learning.
Actually, this particular colony must have moved in several seasons ago, as it turned out to be huge. In the photo above, it extended more than five feet from the end of the cornice that abuts the brick wall to the left over Kuhn's office window.
Since this is UVA, we had access to some high-tech tools, including a thermographic camera. However, since most of the bees are in the broodnest, that's where the heat is generated. The honey combs that extend back from the broodnest are not much above ambient temperature, so the infra red images only hinted at the size of this hive. Notice the end of the dark blue component of the color streak showing the colony. That's actually where the last combs ended up being.
The first step was to get some advice as this was my first cut out and the location was tricky, being 80 feet up off the ground. Brian Gallagher, president of the Central Virginia Beekeepers Association, was very generous explaining all the details of such an operation. You need a lot: a bee vacuum for pulling bees off of combs, 20 or so five gallon buckets for holding all the honey comb, wooden frames pre-strung with twine to place brood combs into, and a variety of tools.
It's a two-man job. One person vacuums bees off of a comb, cuts it out with a knife, then turns to allow the second person to vacuum bees off of the other side. Then it gets dumped into a bucket (honey) or trimmed to fit a Langstroth frame and strung into place (brood). Essentially, the entire hive is transported away in three separate parts: bees, honey, and brood combs. Then you put it back together at home and have an instant full-strength hive.
UVA rented a hydraulic lift to get us up there. Chris Herndon, one of UVA's carpenters, went up with me first to open up the cornice. We first drilled a series of holes to see how far back the hive went We were amazed how far back we had to go before no more bees would exit the holes. We confirmed with a bore scope and then sawed open the cornice with a recip saw. Here's what we saw:
Next, Chris sent Rowan and me up in the basket to start the extraction. We started in the back and spent over two hours going through the honey, comb by comb.
Then Rowan was relieved by Jonathan, and we spent another two hours cutting out the brood nest and finishing up. We even spotted the queen and caught her in a queen clip. She spent the rest of the time in Jonathan's pocket.
In the end, we took about 4 lbs of bees, a large broodnest, and 145 lbs of honey comb out of the building. The colony is now working for me in my bee yard. They've already filled more than a medium super with honey comb (40 lbs of honey).
Here's the sampling of fresh honey comb we put out in the Mathematics lobby. Everyone seemed to appreciate the hard work of their former office mates!
This is Chris after he got stung in the head down on the ground by an exasperated bee, and decided to put his veil back on. A few more photos are here.
Swarm 2
We got a call from neighbor Mark Reed to come retrieve a swarm that had settled in the tree at the end of his driveway. As luck would have it, his call came right before our regularly scheduled Friday afternoon bee school meeting, so the "squad" was already on its way over.
We made it over to the Reed's in Forest Lakes about 40 minutes later. The swarm had completely settled and was quietly going about its business sending out nesting site scouts.
This swarm was only about 10-15 feet up, easily reached with the ladder. But it was awkwardly located on two crossing branches, and was also surrounded by branches, one of which we had to prune. After wetting down the swarm, we shook the branches until most of the bees had fallen into our swarm box. It wasn't a particularly clean operation though, and we put a lot of bees in the air. Our onlookers commented at one point that it looked like we were taking a shower with bees.
We could only hope we got the queen in the box. We placed it at the base of the tree and watched for a bit. The general flow of bees was into the box. The remains of the cluster of bees up on the branch grew a little at first, but then began to dwindle. So we were pretty sure we had the queen in the swarm box. We decided to leave it there for the rest of the afternoon and let all the bees find their way in.
I returned after dark to retrieve the box. The kids, being excellent guardians, had put this sign up next to the swarm box. The rest of the photos are here.
Swarm!
There's been so much action I haven't had time to keep up with the blog. I got home in the afternoon on the last day of March to find one of the colonies in my bee yard had just swarmed. They were still in the process of alighting on this branch of our large tulip tree when I saw them, or rather heard them. A swarm at home is very convenient to catch, and I had them in a box a short while later. Unfortunately, their mind was made up. Although they spent several days in the new hive I set up for them, and even began drawing out two pretty big combs, they decided to move out anyway. I found the hive empty the fourth morning after they swarmed.
We've been studying how swarms vote on the best cavity to serve as their new home. An interesting question is what happens when a beekeeper intervenes by hiving the swarm. Usually the bees take up residence in the hive they are given; so either their voting process is interrupted or the man made hive is voted the best. Why did this swarm leave? Did another cavity out-campaign the lovely Langstroth hive I provided, or did the swarm process somehow restart?
Monticello bees
On Friday we took a little field trip to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, to see the new apiary there. Our host was Paul Legrand, the volunteer beekeeper at Monticello. Paul met us at the visitor center and then we got to drive up to the house in our car, under the watchful eye of Monticello security - they're pretty serious over there.
Paul currently keeps four hives near the house and is working on establishing a second apiary a mile or so away. The setting is quite picturesque, surrounded by blossoming redbuds and fruit trees. And of course, there's also the electric fence to keep out the bears.
After donning veils and lighting the smoker, we opened up the hives to take a look. All colonies are already very strong, with plenty of nectar coming in. The honey flow seems to be almost a month early this year. One colony had already swarmed, as evidenced by several empty queen cells on the combs (see photo below).
Paul uses styrofoam hive bodies for his bottom two brood boxes. He says the added insulation keeps the bees warmer in winter and cooler in summer. You might think Thomas Jefferson had no access to styrofoam, but a little known fact turns out to be that...just kidding. Actually, Jefferson predated even the modern Langstroth hive. In his time bees would have been kept in skeps - those inverted dome-like baskets. We asked Paul if Management gave him a hard time about that. He said there were some raised eyebrows initially, but he convinced them his way was healthier for the bees.
You can see the empty queen cell on the right side of the above photo. Just after the old queen left the hive with a swarm of bees to establish a new colony, a new queen emerged from this cell and fought to the death with other emerging queens. The winner is busy laying eggs and building the population of this colony.
Before we left, Paul handed us a jar of honey made by Monticello's very own honey bees. We'll open it up for our dinner event in May. Thanks for hosting us Paul! Some more photos of our visit are here.
Spring check
Checked the bees. All hives still have lots of honey stores and are getting active again. I cleaned out the collapsed combs from the bottom of the TBH. The bees had used up the honey from them, so it was easy. Our observation hives have arrived; we need to paint them and get the glass. Nucs and queens have been ordered.
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RECEP ERDOGAN BLAMES THE OUTSIDE WORLD FOR HIS CORRUPTION SCANDALS
The Turkish overlord goes cavorting around again, looking for nickel-and-dime excuses for corruption in his government:
The political crisis shaking Turkey spilled over into the country’s ties with the rest of the world on Saturday, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed outside forces for the country’s worst corruption scandal for years and appeared to threaten the US ambassador.
Speaking at a rally at the Black Sea town of Samsun, the prime minister attributed the investigation into the scandal – which involves allegations of millions of dollars of bribes, smuggling, the fixing of tenders and illegal construction – to a plot “with international dimensions” against his government.
Oh, do tell us about it. To be sure, it's nothing of the sort, but even if it were, he'd be asking for it with his track record of bigotry against infidels.
Any hostility he may have voiced against the American ambassador in Turkey should be cause for concern too, and just shows that even a leftist government in the USA won't make him cooperative.
Turkey’s relations with the US hit a peak in 2009, when President Barack Obama praised the “model partnership” between the two countries.
But ties have become tense with differences over Egypt, where Mr Erdogan called for the West to denounce the coup against former President Mohamed Morsi, Syria, where the Turkish prime minister wanted a Kosovo-style campaign against President Bashar al-Assad and Washington’s concerns about the Turkish government’s crackdown on mass protests.
I suppose the reason he's against Assad is because the Syrian overlord isn't Islamist enough for his tastes.
“I presume this will work with Erdogan’s core constituency,” said Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations of the prime minister’s latest remarks. “There’s a reservoir of anti Americanism in Turkey and this is going back to the well.” He added, however, that despite frustration with Mr Erdogan Washington still sought co-operation with Turkey because of the country’s strategic importance.
Too bad. They could save themselves a lot of money and other hassles by not wasting their time maintaining ties with such an awful politician. And honestly, what importance does Turkey really have at this point anyway?
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM SOUNDS LIKE
PIERS MORGAN:
Piers Morgan @piersmorgan
Just as the 2nd Amendment shouldn't protect assault rifle devotees, so the 1st Amendment shouldn't protect vile bigots. #PhilRobertson
FASCISTS LIKE PIERS MORGAN BELIEVE ONLY PEOPLE THEY LIKE DESERVE THEIR INNATE AND UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.
AS IF "FREE SPEECH" ONLY APPLIED TO SPEECH YOU LIKED.
THE CODIFIED PROTECTION OF SPEECH IS IMPORTANT PRECISELY TO PROTECT SPEECH SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE - AND WANT SQUELCHED.
WHAT'S INSANE ABOUT THIS IS THAT PIERS MORGAN IS NOMINALLY A MEMBER OF THE PRESS AND SO YOU WOULD THINK HE'D SUPPORT FREE SPEECH.
BUT HE IS MORE WEDDED TO LEFTISM THAN HE IS TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT, OR THE SECOND - OR ANY AMENDMENT OR HUMANS RIGHTS THEMSELVES.
THIS IS PRECISELY WHY THE MEDIA IS SO DANGEROUS NOW, AND WHY THE MEDIA HAS MORPHED INTO WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A STATE-RUN MEDIA.
IF WE WANT TO PRESERVE LIBERTY, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO END THE STRANGLEHOLD THE LEFT HAS ON THE MEDIA.
PIGS FLY: NYTIMES REPORTING OBAMACARE SCREWS THE MIDDLE CLASS!
FRONT PAGE / NYTIMES:
"New Health Law Frustrates Many in Middle Class
Many Americans who don't quality for health care subsidies are facing steep premium prices."
OBAMACARE HAS DONE MORE HARM TO MORE AMERICANS THAN ANYTHING IN HISTORY EXCEPT FOR ACTS OF WAR.
WE'RE IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS?
MEN VERSUS BOYS
ALPHA MALES VERSUS BETA MALES.
WILL REGGIE FLY TO HAWAII?
I THINK SOMEONE IN THE PRESS OUGHT TO ASK OBAMA HOW HE FEELS ABOUT MSNBC'S ENDORSEMENT OF GAY ANAL INTERCOURSE.
"MR. PRESIDENT, DO YOU LIKE TO GIVE IT OR GET IT?"
OBAMA CHECKS IN WITH HIS BOSS
IT'S GETTING NASTY OUT THERE....
THERE'S ONLY ONE REASON WHY THE NSA SNOOPS ON EVERYONE: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
IF THE NSA AND CIA AND FBI WEREN'T HOBBLED BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THEN THEY COULD FOCUS ON THE ENEMY AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE.
INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON ISLAMISTS AND MUSLIMS FROM WELL KNOWN ISLAMIST STRONGHOLDS OR WHO HAVE VISITED KNOWN ISLAMIST MOSQUES, THEY SNOOP ON EVERYONE.
THIS HURTS EVERYONE BECAUSE IT REDUCES EVERYONE'S PRIVACY AND BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF SNOOPING ON EVERYONE THEY GET TOO DAMN MUCH INFO.
IF THEY FOCUSED ON THE ENEMY, THEN THEY'D END UP WTH MORE ACTIONABLE INTEL AND THEY WOULDN'T BE VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF INNOCENT AMERICANS.
REPEAT: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS THE REASON WE HAVE LESS PRIVACY AND AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S THE REASON WE ARE LESS SAFE.
IF WE WANT TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY AND REMAIN FREE, THEN WE HAVE TO DEFEAT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
PC IS AN ALLY OF THE ISLAMISTS AND THE ENEMY OF LIBERTY.
Isaiah 5:20: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"
Isaiah 5:20 -
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"
AND THEN THERE ARE THESE LIES DURING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ROMNEY - LIES THAT GOT HIM RE-ELECTED:
NEVER BEFORE HAS A PRESIDENT LIED SO BLATANTLY, SO FREQUENTLY OR WITH SUCH HORRIBLE RESULTS.
LIES ARE NOT CAUSED BY INEPTNESS.
DECEIT IS NOT THE RESULT OF INCOMPETENCE.
FALSEHOODS DO NOT ARISE SPONTANEOUSLY.
OBAMA IS A LIAR, WRAPPED IN A DECEIVER, INSIDE A PERJURER.
HMMM: IN THE FINAL WEEK OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, THE STATE-RUN MEDIA IS SPINNING THE ECONOMIC NEWS AND TELLING US THE ECONOMY IS DOING JUST GREAT
THEY FAILED TO ADEQUATELY REPORT THE SURGE IN UNEMPLOYMENT, OR THE SLOWDOWN IN SALES OF HOMES, OR THE SUDDEN SURGE IN INVENTORIES, OR THE WEAK BRICKS'N MORTARS RETAIL SALES, OR THE SLOWDOWN IN CONSUMER SPENDING.
BUT THEY SPIN EVERYTHING AS IF THE ECONOMY WAS HUNKY-DORY:
Revision Shows U.S. Growing at Fastest Rate Since 2011
The Commerce Department on Friday revised up its estimate of 3.6 percent to 4.1 percent, saying business spending was stronger than it originally thought.
WHERE AND WHY AND HOW HAS THE INCREASE TAKE PLACE?
ZERO HEDGE GETS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MATTER:
Earlier today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis surprised everyone by announcing a final Q3 GDP growth of 4.1% compared to 3.6% in the first revision (and 2.8% originally), driven almost entirely by the bounce in Personal Consumption which rose 2.0% compared to estimates of 1.4%.
As a result many are wondering just where this "revised" consumption came from. The answer is below: of the $15 billion revised increase in annualized spending, 60% was for healthcare, and another 27% was due to purchases of gasoline. The third largest upward revision: recreation services. On the flip side, the biggest revision detractors: transportation services and housing and utilities.
In other words, the BEA thought long and hard what it could revise and decided on the following: in Q3 the US economy was revised to the strongest since 2011 because Americans, it would appear, were gassing up more to visit (and pay) their doctor, and then going to the movies.
IT'S A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH PEOPLE WILL FEEL LIKE SPENDING MORE MONEY.
I DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK.
BURIED IN THE ABOVE/LINKED-TO ARTICLE:
Economists expect growth to slow in the fourth quarter, in part because some of the upswing has resulted from businesses building up their inventories.
SOME?!?! BS. NEARLY ALL: BBC: But the upward revision was mainly driven by a big jump in businesses restocking their inventories, the Commerce Department said...
PEOPLE KNOW THEIR OWN ECONOMIC SITUATION IS REAL NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD ABOUT THE GENERAL ECONOMY.
PEOPLE KNOW THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION SUCKS - NO MATTER WHAT THE DOL/BLS TELLS THE STATE-RUN MEDIA AND NO MATTER HOW LITTLE BAD NEWS THE STATE-RUN MEDIA TELLS THEM.
LIKE THE FACT THAT THE NYTIMES AND THE REST OF THE STATE-RUN MEDIA STILL HASN'T RUN AN AP NEWS-ITEM FROM YESTERDAY ABOUT THE SURGE IN UNEMPLOYMENT.
WHEN THE RETAIL NUMBERS ARE REPORTED IN JANUARY, WE WILL FIND OUT IF 2014 WILL BRING US ANOTHER CONTRACTION OR NOT.
I THINK WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER RECESSION AND THAT OBAMACARE WILL MAKE IT WORSE.
THE LEFT'S ANTI-ZIONISM
Caroline Glick wrote about the beliefs embraced by leftists, such as anti-war sentiments, which lately includes hostility to Zionism, and how sensible people could/should deal with it.
SWEDISH PARLIAMENT TAKES DOWN NUDE JUNO PICTURE TO AVOID OFFENDING BOTH MUSLIMS AND FEMINISTS
I don't know about the feminists, but when it's the Religion of Peace they decide to appease, you know something's wrong:
A nude painting named Juno, which was painted by baroque artist G E Schröder and has hung in the dining room of the Swedish Parliament for 30 years has been taken down for fear of offending the sensitivities of feminists and Muslim visitors, Swedish newspaper, The Local reported on Thursday.
Explaining the ban on the baroque breasts, a source from the parliament said: "You have to think of the foreign guests, especially those from Muslim countries."
Yeah, you just simply have to. Again Sweden has made a joke out of itself in their pointless quest for political relevancy.
STATE-RUN MEDIA FAIL TO REPORT TODAY'S AWFUL UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS REPORTED BY THE DOL/BLS
THE NEWS AS RELEASED AT 8:30AM TODAY BY THE DOL/BLS:
In the week ending December 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 379,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week's figure of 369,000. The 4-week moving average was 343,500, an increase of 13,250 from the previous week's revised average of 330,250.
GOOGLE NEWS RESULTS THIS EVENING - [NOTE: NOT ONE SINGLE MAJOR MSM NEWS OUTLET REPORTED THE NEWS]:
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THE STATE-RUN MEDIA DO NOT REPORT NEWS THAT HURTS OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES.
THEY ARE NOT NEWS AGENCIES; THEY ARE MERELY A PART OF THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST MACHINE.
AS PART OF THE MACHINE, THEIR TRUE PURPOSE IS NOT AN INFORMED ELECTORATE, BUT A BRAINWASHED ELECTORATE.
AND IT'S WORKING.
I LIVE AND WORK IN NYC, AND NOT A SINGLE LIBERAL ACQUAINTANCE I KNOW HAD HEARD ABOUT ANY UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER, LET A LONE A BAD ONE.
YET THEY ALL THINK THEY ARE WELL-INFORMED.
THEY ARE NOT WELL-INFORMED.
THEY ARE BRAINWASHED DUPES.
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THE LEFT CAN GAIN AND HOLD ON TO POWER - THE POWER THEY NEED TO INFLICT THEIR DYSTOPIAN TYRANNY UPON US ALL.
IT IS PART-AND-PARCEL WITH HARRY REID'S ANTICS IN THE US SENATE - HAVING "GONE NUCLEAR" AND DONE AWAY WITH THE FILIBUSTER ON NOMINATIONS IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THEIR LEFTIST AGENDA.
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA:
USE THE IRS TO HARASS THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
REWRITE THE LAWS BY EXECUTIVE FIAT.
LIE TO CONGRESS.
INSTRUCT US ATTORNEY'S NOT TO ENFORCE THE LAW.
LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVER AND OVER ABOUT KEEPING THEIR INSURANCE.
OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES ARE LAWLESS FASCISTS.
WE MUST END THEIR REIGN OF TYRANNY ASAP.
IT'S 2014, OR NEVER.
BJ CLINTON ARGUES WE NEED AMNESTY TO KEEP OUR POPULATION GROWING...
CNS VIA WZ:
Former President Bill Clinton says if U.S. lawmakers realized the economic impact of having the country’s population growth coming to a halt, it would energize immigration reform, “because it’s the only way to keep our country growing.” Clinton made the comments while discussing immigration reform earlier this month on the America with Jorge Ramos program. “I think that we're trying to pass immigration reform. The country needs it. If – I wish that all these members of Congress who oppose immigration reform, and who feel threatened by it, had been with me on my recent trip to Asia,” Clinton said.
“And they – and Japan and China where they're worried about the population growth just coming to a halt. And what it's going to do to them economically,” Clinton continued. “And I think it would give a lot more energy to immigration reform in America. The – we're going to have to do it, because it's the only way to keep our country growing. And the sooner we do it, the better.”
THIS IS TAUTOLOGICAL BULLSHIT.
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TAKING AWAY JOBS AND DRIVING WAGES DOWN, THEN WAGES WOULD BE HIGHER AND MARRIED COUPLES WOULD HAVE MORE KIDS BECAUSE THEY COULD AFFORD TO HAVE MORE KIDS.
BY ACCEPTING THE 11 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HERE, THE LEFT HAS LOWERED OUR WAGES AND OUR BIRTH RATES.
ONE REASON THE LEFT FAVORS LOWE WAGES AND AN INFLUX OF NON-WESTERN IMMIGRANTS IS THAT THE LEFT WANTS TO TURN THE USA FROM "THE EXCEPTIONAL NATION" AND "THE INDISPENSABLE NATION" - ( AT LEAST TO THE FREE WORLD!) - INTO A THIRD WORLD NATION.
WE NEED TO STOP THIS AND WE NEED TO STOP IT ASAP.
FALK SHOULD BE FIRED, BUT WE CAN'T BE OPTIMISTIC IT'LL HAPPEN
Elliot Abrams has written about why the UN HRC member Richard Falk should be thrown out of that already corrupt organization:
The special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories of the United Nations Human Rights Council is an extremist named Richard Falk. Falk is an embarrassment to the council and the U.N. whose only activity is to use violent and extreme language to denounce Israel -- most recently for "a criminal intention that is genocidal."
Canada has denounced Falk for these remarks and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said this: "Canada completely rejects and condemns the appalling remarks made by Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur to the Palestinian territories, in which he accused Israel of 'genocidal' intentions.
"Canada has previously called for Falk to be fired for his numerous outrageous and anti-Semitic statements, and these comments underscore once more the complete and total absurdity of his service as a U.N. special rapporteur.
"I call on the United Nations Human Rights Council -- once again -- to remove Falk from his position immediately.
"Not only do these comments undermine the fundamental values of the United Nations, they also belittle the terrible genocides that have tragically taken place throughout history and around the world."
Baird's comments are commendable, but unlikely to do much good. The UN is still bound to keep Falk - who's also a 9-11 truther - in place, probably for life. The UN has long been otherwise useless, and proved that in the long run.
IDF KILLS 2 JIHADISTS IN JENIN
Some success in dealing with local jihadists in Jenin:
Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli military operations in Judea and Samaria overnight.
In the first incident, Israeli troops were fired upon during an arrest operation in the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday night. The troops returned fire, killing one Palestinian.
The incident began around 10 p.m. on Wednesday night when Israeli counter-terror forces entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest an Islamic Jihad operative who had planned attacks on transportation arteries in Judea and Samaria. A disturbance broke out and Palestinians opened fire on the Israeli soldiers. The soldiers then responded with return fire, wounding several Palestinians.
In addition to gunfire, the soldiers were also attacked with improvised explosive devices, an Israeli military spokesperson said.
The wanted Islamic Jihad operative was not captured in the operation. No Israeli soldiers were wounded.
Two of the wounded Palestinians were transported to Haemek Medical Center in Afula. One died of his wounds en route to the hospital.
And he can now appear before the highest court.
EVERY VERSION OF ISLAM IS BAD
The UK Spectator wrote about the trial of the two jihadists who murdered Lee Rigby in Woolwich. But while they do have some good points to raise, it becomes problematic when the writer says that:
...the murder of Drummer Rigby had everything to do with Islam: a nasty, bigoted, backward version of Islam to be sure, but a version of Islam nonetheless.
That's basically implying that "true" Islam isn't backwards, when in fact it is, and the two savages proved it themselves when they quoted from the Koran during the trial. But, this head-in-the-sand act is something we've come to expect from most mainstream news companies.
The jihadists deserve to get a death penalty, but this being a European country, I doubt they'll ever get what they really need to be given.
THE 10 TRUTHS MAINSTREAM COMICS AVOID ABOUT ISLAM
Cartoonist Bosch Fawstin writes on Pajamas Media about ten truths mainstream comic publishers refuse to acknowledge about Islam, which he used to adhere to himself before he woke up and understood what it was really like.
WHAT IF THE SHOE WERE ON THE OTHER FOOT?
Mr. Phil Robertson has been "suspended" from the "Duck Dynasty" television program that he created, because his "personal views in no way reflect those of A+E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely." What exactly did he say to the GQ interviewers?
It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
What if the shoe were on the other foot? What if Ian McKellen, George Takei, or any other openly gay media star had said the opposite:
It seems like, to me, a man's anus—as a man—would be more desirable than a vagina. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! He’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
Would there have been any repercussions? Wouldn't every pundit and commentator in the mainstream media have applauded his courage, and noted that he was merely expressing his own preferences and desires, which should be fully respected and valued as much as anybody's? Mr. Robertson situated his own preference in the framework of his belief in Christianity and the teachings of the Bible. That also offended the mainstream media.
Now if he had quoted from the Noble Holy Qu'ran of course, whose adherents hang homosexuals in the streets of Teheran, that would have been just fine . . . to contradict him would have been Islamophobia . . . .
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA HAS DISSOLVED CONGRESS!
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA HAS DISSOLVED CONGRESS
In a de facto sense this is simply true.
The chief powers of Congress are the power of the purse and the power of oversight.
Congress no longer has either.
Congress doesn't even pass a budget anymore - (and we seem to be stuck spending 35% more now than in 2008 even though neither our nation's population or our economy has grown by 35% and we can't afford to spend this much each year and go into this much more debt each year).
And - because Congress allows Obama's executive branch members to lie with impunity when appearing for testimony - Congress no longer has any real oversight.
In addition, the president now picks and chooses which laws he wants to enforce and even rewrites them by executive fiat.
And all the while the NSA, and CIA and FBI spy on us.
WE NO LONGER LIVE IN A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.
WE LIVE IN A FASCIST STATE.
I agree with Rand Paul, Clapper's perjury to Congress is a more serious crime than Snowden's treachery and treason.
THE FED IS STILL PUMPING
It appears the markets and most economists welcome the fact that the FED is reducing QE3 from $85 billion per month to $75 billion. It is good news, and long overdue.
Had the elected leaders of the world been more responsible it could have happened sooner. BUT let's not forget the fact that $75B/month is still almost a trillion $ per year!
I would be surprised if QE will be entirely off the table in less than 6 months to a year. Is the economy really that strong? or is this move really a PR stunt on by the FED? Remember, this is more like the Captain of a ship who just told the passengers that things are improving - we are only pumping 75000 gallons instead of 85000 gallons to stay afloat...
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DON'T BELIEVE THE SPIN-MEISTERS: THE ECONOMY IS NOT DOING WELL
THE BBC SPITS OUT THE STATE-RUN MEDIA'S SPIN IN THE HEADLINE: US economy grows faster than thought
The US economy grew at an annual pace of 3.6% in the third quarter of the year, up from an initial estimate of 2.8%, revised figures have shown.
The growth rate was the fastest since the first quarter of 2012.
EVERYTHING IS GETTING BETTER, RIGHT?
THEY BURY THE REAL TRUTH WAY DOWN IN THE ARTICLE:
But the upward revision was mainly driven by a big jump in businesses restocking their inventories, the Commerce Department said....
The pace of growth in consumer spending - which accounts for about two-thirds of US economic activity - slowed from the previous quarter.
Consumer spending grew at a revised annual pace of 1.4%, down from 1.8% in the April-to-June period and the slowest rate since late 2009.
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS HEADED FOR A MAJOR CORRECTION NEXT YEAR - IT'S ALL BAKED IN THE CAKE:
ENERGY IS STILL VERY EXPENSIVE.
THE US CONSUMER WILL HAVE EVEN LESS DISPOSABLE INCOME DUE TO OBAMACARE.
EUROPE IS BACK IN RECESSION.
WHEN CHRISTMAS RETAIL NUMBERS COME IN - AND IF THEY ARE AS BAD AS I THINK THEY WILL BE...
AND WHEN INSURANCE COMPANIES ANNOUNCE NEW RATES DUE TO THE COLOSSAL OBAMACARE DISASTER....
WELL, THAT WILL TRIGGER A CORRECTION AND A STAMPEDE FOR THE EXITS.
BETTER BRACE YOURSELF NOW.
HOT AIR: In October, the level of new claims went below the 300K barrier, at least momentarily. Today, however, it’s back up to 379,000, about where it was eight months ago:
In the week ending December 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 379,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week’s figure of 369,000. The 4-week moving average was 343,500, an increase of 13,250 from the previous week’s revised average of 330,250.
WE ARE HEADED FOR A RECKONING AND IT AIN'T GONNA BE PRETTY.
SORRY MR. PODESTA, OBAMA IS MORE LIKE THE REV. JIM JONES THAN ANYONE ELSE IN ALL USA POLITICS...
... AND OBAMA'S FOLLOWERS HAVE LONG BEEN CALLED "KOOL-AID DRINKERS" FOR JUST THAT VERY SAME REASON.
WE'VE MADE THAT EXACT COMPARISON MANY TIMES HERE AT TAB.
MORE HERE AT POWER LINE.
PC POLICE AT A&E CENSOR CHRISTIAN VIEWS
IT'S NOT JUST CHRISTMAS THAT'S UNDER ATTACK; IT'S CHRISTIANITY ITSELF.
IOW: PC & LGBT OVERRULE INRI.
NO WONDER OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES DON'T CARE ABOUT THE GENOCIDE THAT MUSLIMS ARE PERPETRATING AGAINST CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE:
Genocide warning as Christian-majority Central African Republic overrun by Islamists
Russian church warns of "genocide against Christians" in Syria conflict
AT LEAST 205 CHRISTIANS KILLED BY MUSLIM IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
IRAQ: 'CHRISTIANS ARE FINISHED HERE'
Islamic Terror Attacks on Christians [just the last 4 months]:
Barkin Ladi
Ashigashia
Ashrafieh
Sadad
Rantis
Haffar
Warraq
Jaramana
Bangassou
Zangang
Dorawa
Sahel Selim
Maalula
Kunte-Kuru
Gura Dabwam
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PREDICTION: OBAMA'S NEXT MOVE: GIVING COP-KILLER MUMIA A PARDON!
JUST SAYING....
THE ANTI-COP BS GOING DOWN NOW ALL OVER THE USA AIN'T NEW; IT'S AN OLD FAV' FROM THE LEFT.
"OFF THE PIG!"
"FREE MUMIA!"
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT AND HIS AG SUPPORT THEM!
WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE ELECTED AN ACOLYTE OF SAUL ALINSKY AND BILL AYERS AND JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.
OH. WAIT. WE. DID.
LESBIAN RABBI IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPPORTS SHARIA
A bizarre story comes from New England:
A story from New Hampshire reminds us once again that liberals are often willing to commit suicide to prove how liberal they are.
It would be hard to imagine a more ridiculous scenario than a lesbian rabbi making a public stand in favor of adopting Sharia Law as the new ruling principles of any American state, but Rabbi Robin Nafshi of New Hampshire has done just that.
With the type of smug ”I’m a liberal, so I’m smarter than you” hubris only the sickest of liberals can muster, Rabbi Nafshi scolds her fellow Granite Staters in a piece she has curiously titled “The Misguided push to ban Sharia Law.”
Of course, the Rabbi takes an obligatory shot at Republicans as she whines that the final point in their statement of Party principles says, “Take any and all actions possible to protect against the implementation of any part of Sharia Law in New Hampshire, including legislation outlawing Sharia law.”
Her hollow argument makes a comparison between Sharia Law as the Muslim way of life and Halakhah, the Jewish way of life. This idiot must think that Jews cut the heads off homosexuals and blow up non-Jews in belief that doing so will ensure their place in paradise. Sure thing rabbi–not a dime’s with of difference, right?
If she's a Reform, she's one of the dumbest and most revolting in the business, shaming the religion she has no business being part of and shilling for one that would suppress her too. No wonder the Reform movement's collapsing today.
JOSHUA DYSART GOING TO KURDISTAN, BUT UNDER UN SPONSORSHIP
The comics writer Joshua Dysart has announced on his site he's traveling to Iraq's Kurdish region for goals of research. While it would seem like he's taking up a noble mission to help Kurds suppressed by Iraq's Islamofascists, his choice of whom to travel and work with isn't great:
For over a year now I’ve been in contact with some people at the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization concerned with hunger and food security. We’ve been plotting to tell some stories about the complexity and necessity of feeding the world’s displaced people in an engaging way. Now we’re finally getting started and soon I’ll be leaving for northern Iraq. There, I’ll begin researching the current situation facing Kurdish refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict and the violent push of the Islamic State. The situation is incredibly dire, especially with winter coming. In the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq the temperatures can range from 40 degrees Fahrenheit down to near 0 this time of year.
He's right that ISIS are the evil entity, and that nobody innocent should have to starve, but why does he think a political organization that's been Islamofascism's worst enabler - with some of the worst violators of human rights sitting on their own security councils - are the kind of people he should be associating himself with? The UN was also guilty of involvement in the Oil-for-Food scandal, and one of their worst members of recent was Richard Falk, an anti-Israelist and 9-11 Truther. Falk's offenses even include blaming America after the terrorist attack at Boston's marathon. Why associate himself with an organization that's not what some used to think it was, if it ever was at all?
Dysart's mission may be for a good cause, but he shouldn't be working with members of the UN to fulfill it, since they're some of the most dishonest people you can find, and willfully employed some pure scum on their payroll. If he were smart, he'd look for a better relief organization to travel to Kurdistan with.
WOW: NASA CO2 MAP SHOWS BIOMASS BURNING IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA RELEASES MORE CO2 THAN US AND EU INDUSTRIES!
Nasa's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) has returned its first global maps of the greenhouse gas CO2.
The satellite was sent up in July to help pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed.
This should help scientists better understand how human activities are influencing the climate.
The new maps contain only a few weeks of data in October and November, but demonstrate the promise of the mission.
Clearly evident within the charts is the banding effect that describes how emitted gases are mixed by winds along latitudes rather than across them.
Also apparent are the higher concentrations over South America and southern Africa. These are likely the result of biomass burning in these regions.
THE REGIONS THAT ARE RED HAVE MUCH MORE CO2 THAN THE OTHER REGIONS.
THE RED REGIONS ARE HIGH CO2 PRODUCING REGIONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOREST FIRES, AND BECAUSE THEY BURN A LOT OF WOOD AND DRIED MANURE AS FUEL: WIKI:
Dry animal dung is used as a fuel in many countries around the world. It is a source of Green fuel used by more than two billion people.[1][2] However, it might have some disadvantages, such as air pollution.[3] As a cheap bioenergy source, it has gained growing interest.[4]
Burning issues: tackling indoor air pollution, 7 May 2011 by The Lancet: "According to WHO, 2 million people die as a result of the smoke generated by open fires or crude stoves within their homes every year. Indoor air pollution has been definitively linked to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia, the risk of which is doubled by exposure to indoor smoke. More than 900 000 people die from pneumonia caused by indoor air pollution every year. 500 million households worldwide—roughly 3 billion people—rely on solid fuels, such as wood, animal dung, or coal, for cooking and heating. These fuels are usually burned in a rudimentary stove, or in a traditional open fire. It need not be a problem, at least in terms of health. But only assuming the fuel is completely combusted—wood must be dry, and the stove must work efficiently—and there is plenty of ventilation, a spacious chimney, or a sizeable window. In those places where the use of solid fuels prevails, however, these conditions rarely apply, and the consequences can be severe."
"Yet, 'despite the magnitude of this growing problem' notes WHO 'the health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution have yet to become a central focus of research, development aid, and policy making'....But the past year has had some encouraging advances."
"In September, 2010, the UN Foundation launched the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves....The Alliance—a public-private initiative—brings together partners from the range of specialties across which the issue of indoor air pollution sprawls. There is public health, of course, but also energy, international development, female empowerment, climate change, technology, and business."
"The real benefits will be seen by switching to cleaner fuels and cleaner stoves. Improved stoves—those fitted with fans, for example—combust fuel more efficiently, have lower emissions, and require shorter cooking times."[1]
IF THESE REGIONS HAD MORE INDUSTRIAL POWER PLANTS AND ELECTRICITY THEN THE PEOPLE BURNING MANURE AT HOME FOR COOKING AND HEATING FUEL COULD USE ELECTRICITY INSTEAD,
TO REDUCE CO2 THE WORLD NEEDS MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION, NOT LESS.
EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF THE LEFTIST AGENDA.
IF CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA WERE NOT REALLY AN ATTACK ON THE WEST'S INDUSTRIALIZATION - AND AN ATTEMPT OF THE LEFT TO GAIN CONTROL OVER IT, THEN THEY'D BE SUPPORTING MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA.
THE FACT THAT THEY AREN'T PROVES THEY ARE NOT REALLY AGAINST MAN-MADE CO2, AND THAT THEIR CO2PHOBIA IS MERELY A STRATEGY TO GAIN POWER OVER THE ECONOMY.
HERE'S THE REAL REASON OIL HAS CRASHED: SAUDI'S AND GULF STATES PREPARING FOR IAF STRIKE ON IRAN
1 - THE HOUSE OF SAUD IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT OF IRAN AND HANDLING OF SYRIA:
THE WSJ - 9/26/13:
The Obama administration's handling of overtures on Syria and Iran have outraged regional ally Saudi Arabia, which is signaling it wants to do more to boost the power of armed Sunni rebel groups on the ground in Syria as the U.S. pursues diplomacy.
Saudis fear that Syrian President Basher al-Assad will use the time afforded by U.S.- and U.N.-backed diplomacy on Syria "to impose more killing and to torture its people," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Thursday night in New York, in a warning that was overshadowed by the attention paid to the weekend's first public contacts in three decades between the presidents of Iran and the U.S.
Accordingly, Saudi Arabia wants "intensification of political, economic and military support to the Syrian opposition…. to change the balance of powers on the ground" in Syria, Prince Saud said in his remarks to the Friends of Syria group, a coalition of Western and Gulf Arab countries and Turkey that supports the Syria opposition against Mr. Assad. The state-run Saudi Press Agency carried a transcript of his remarks.
The Saudi government has had no public comment so far on the groundbreaking phone call Friday between U.S. President Barack Obama, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as the main military protector of its interests, and new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as its main threat.
Asharq al Awsat, one of Saudi Arabia's leading newspapers, led its front page the morning after the phone call with a photo of Mr. Rouhani, bowed over with laughter.
1A - REUTERS - 18/22/13:
In unusually blunt public remarks, Prince Turki al-Faisal called Obama's policies in Syria "lamentable" and ridiculed a U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons. He suggested it was a ruse to let Obama avoid military action in Syria.
"The current charade of international control over Bashar's chemical arsenal would be funny if it were not so blatantly perfidious. And designed not only to give Mr. Obama an opportunity to back down (from military strikes), but also to help Assad to butcher his people," said Prince Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family and former director of Saudi intelligence.
1B - HAARETZ - 3/27/14:
“Why are you abandoning your allies?” fumed Faisal Abbas, editor of Al Arabiya News’ English website, in an op-ed published in Arabic. “You” referred to the United States – and, more specifically, President Barack Obama, who arrives in Saudi Arabia on Friday for a state visit. Abbas, who reflects the prevailing opinions of the Saudi royal court, lists a large number of missteps that he believes characterize the Obama administration. The most important one is the interim deal signed last November with Iran regarding its nuclear program, as well as the present negotiations over a final agreement.
“Has Washington forgotten the long-standing cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the war on terror?” Abbas asks. “Has it forgotten that it was Iran that destabilized Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein? That it’s rocking Lebanon and Bahrain, that it supports Hezbollah and has captured three islands in the Persian Gulf that belong to the United Arab Emirates? An American strategy that ignores all these to placate Iran, while negotiating over its nuclear ambitions, raises grave concerns.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t have written a more scathing article.
1C - THE GUARDIAN - 3/28/14
The US President's flying visit – no more than an evening in the Saudi king's palace – is his first since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, which drove an initial wedge between Washington and Riyadh.
Ever since, relations have tangibly soured on every front, with the US outreach to Iran and ambivalence on Syria particularly irking Saudi leaders who believe arch foe Tehran has been empowered at their expense. So bothered has Riyadh become by what it sees as naive appeasement of Iran, that it now seems ready to project itself regionally without US cover.
"The US has underwritten the regional security order for the past 70 years and it sees now as a good time to disengage?," one senior figure put to the Guardian recently. "We will have to do it all ourselves."
2 - RALPH PETERS, TODAY:
This week, oil fell through the price floor of $60 a barrel and gas at my local filling station was $2.26 a gallon.
That’s great news for commuters and almost every business, but wonderfully bad news for our ugliest enemies.
If oil prices remain low through next year, the effect on rogue governments, from the Russian Federation to Venezuela, will go from damaging to devastating.
But Western economies (and China’s) stand to benefit, with cheap oil possibly tickling Europe’s snoozing markets awake. Even most underdeveloped states will get a welcome break.
This price plunge has been driven by Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s dominant power. While it’s true that part of Riyadh’s actions respond to the energy renaissance in North America, the greater motivation is breaking Iran’s will.The Saudis believe they can no longer rely on the US to contain Tehran’s imminent nuclear threat, so they’re out to do what our lukewarm sanctions couldn’t.
IN MY OPINION, IT'S NOT THAT THE SAUDIS THINK THEY CAN BREAK IRAN ECONOMICALLY WITH A SERIOUS DROP IN OIL RICES.
IN MY OPINION, THE SAUDIS AND THE GULF STATES, UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF A RELIABLE AND COURAGEOUS ALLY IN THE USA, (WHICH IS THE CASE SINCE OBAMA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE) - ONLY ISRAEL CAN DESTROY THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.
THEIR GREATEST FEAR OF SUCH AN ATTACK WAS WHAT IT WOULD DO TO OIL PRICES AND TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY:
PRICES WOULD TRIPLE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER AN ATTACK - IN PART JUST BECAUSE OF FEAR, AND ALSO BECAUSE IRAN WOULD MOST LIKELY BE ABLE TO LAUNCH A COUNTER-ATTACK THAT WOULD DEMOLISH A GREAT DEAL OF THE GULF STATES' OIL INFRASTRUCTURE.
THOUGH SOME MIGHT THINK THAT THE HOUSE OF SAUD LIKES ANY HIGH PRICE, THE FACT IS THEY REALLY JUST LIKE THE HIGHEST PRICE THEIR CUSTOMERS CAN AFFORD.
A $300/BARREL PRICE WOULD DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
SO THEY HAVE BEEN STEADILY BRINGING THE RICE DOWN SO THAT AFTER THE IAF ATTACKS - AND AFTER OIL TRIPLES - IT WILL ON;Y REACH $130-150/BARREL FOR A FEW/SEVERAL MONTHS, A PRICE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY CAN LIVE WITH.
SO... IF I WAS IRAN, THEN I'D BE VERY VERY WORRIED. SCARED EVEN THAT AN IAF ATTACK WAS IMMINENT.
MORE SCARED THEN SONY.
PREDICTION: THE IAF WILL ATTACK ON A NEW MOON - PERHAPS THE ONE IN MARCH - 3/20/15...
HERE'S WHY LEFTISTS DON'T CARE THAT OBAMA VIOLATED THE LAW TO BAILOUT THE CASTRO REGIME
OBAMA HAS BROKEN THE LAW... AGAIN, AND THE LEFT DOESN'T SEEM TO MIND.
THEY LIKE THE NEW PRO-CASTRO POLICY.
WE CAN DEBATE THE VALUE OF AN EMBARGO.
BUT THEY SHOULD WANT ANY CHANGE IN POLICY TO BE DONE LAWFULLY.
THE BI-PARTISAN CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT OF 1992 - PASSED BY CONGRESS AND SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE PRESIDENT - PROHIBITED ANY CHANGE IN CUBA'S DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE STATUS UNLESS AND UNTIL THE PRESIDENT REPORTS TO CONGRESS CERTIFYING THAT CUBA HAS MADE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS AND THAT CUBANS HAVE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.
OBAMA CLEARLY VIOLATED THIS LAW.
OBAMA'S MOVE IS LAWLESS.
IT VIOLATES THE PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW.
BY DOING IT IN SPITE OF THE LAW - AND IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE LAW, OBAMA IS ACTING LIKE A DICTATOR AND NOT THE PRESIDENT OF A DEMOCRATIC, CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
OBAMUNISTS SHOULDN'T SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE IT SETS A BAD PRECEDENT.
IT COULD ALLOW A PRESIDENT NAMED CRUZ OR PALIN OR WALKER ACT BY FIAT AND CANCEL LAWS THEY LIKE - SUCH AS GUN CONTROL, OBAMACARE OR THE EPA OR THE INCOME TAX, FOR EXAMPLE.
WHY ARE THEY SO BLIND TO THE DANGER F THESE LAWLESS, DICTATORIAL PRECEDENTS?
SIMPLE;
LEFTISTS ARE SO CONSUMED WITH POWER...
AND SO UPSET THAT THEY'RE LOSING IT -
BY LOSING THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE ...
AND SO MANY GOVERNORSHIPS AND STATE HOUSES,
THAT THEY RE WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYTHING OBAMA DOES...
THAT EITHER TRANSFORMS US INTO A MORE SOCIALIST NATION...
OR BRINGS US CLOSER TO A CLOWARD-PIVEN COLLAPSE ...
THAT DESTROYS ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS AND CLEARS THE DECK ...
FOR AN ENTIRELY COMMUNIST STATE.
CONGRESS MUST NOT LET OBAMA'S LAWLESS CUBAN GAMBIT STAND.
TWO ARTICLES ON TODAY'S BBC NEWS SUMMARIZE WHY WE ARE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST JIHADISM
TODAY'S BBC NEWS::
1 - Boko Haram unrest: Nigerian militants 'kidnap 100 villagers' - 33 dead
THIS ARTICLE USES THE WORD "ISLAMIC" ONCE, AND NEVER USES THE WORD MUSLIM.
2 - Geert Wilders faces charges over 'anti-Moroccan' speech:
Mr Wilders, who leads the Party for Freedom (PVV), has often expressed his distaste for Islam and mass immigration.
In response to the prosecution, Mr Wilders described the charges in a statement as "a travesty".
"The public prosecutor would do better to devote his time to prosecuting jihadis instead of me," he said.
Mr Wilders made his comments during a political meeting in The Hague.
Asking supporters in a cafe if they wanted fewer Moroccans in the country, some responded by chanting "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!"
The politician then replied: "I will fix it for you."
AS JIHADISTS SLAUGHTER AND ENSLAVE THOUSANDS EACH WEEK ALL OVER THE GLOBA, THE AUTHORITIES IN THE WEST USE THEIR COERCIVE POWER TO ENFORCE SHARIA.
WE CANNOT DEFEAT THE ENEMY IF OUR POLITICIANS ATTACK OUR PATRIOTS INSTEAD OF OUR ENEMIES.
MOST OF OUR POLITICIANS HAVE AS MUCH COURAGE AS THE WHINING, PHONY, MENDACIOUS TWO-FACED EXECUTIVES AT SONY WHO JUST CAVED INTO NORTH KOREA.
WE NEED TO EMPOWER MORE POLITICIANS LIKE GEERT WILDERS AND NIGEL FARAGE AND MARINE LE PEN IF WE ARE GOING TO DEFEAT THE LIKES OF BOKO HARAM AND ISIS, AND AL QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN AND THE FILIPINO MLF.
EU REMOVES HAMAS FROM BLACKLIST
A court for the EU has given its support for Hamas' barbarism by excising the jihadist gang from their blacklistings:
The European Union's second-highest court on Wednesday annulled the bloc's decision to keep Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations, but temporarily maintained the measures for a period of three months or until an appeal is closed.
The General Court of the European Union said the contested measures were not based on an examination of Hamas' acts but on imputations derived from the media and the Internet.
The court said it was nevertheless maintaining the effects of the measures in order to ensure that any possible future freezing of funds would be effective.
Uh uh, I don't buy their defense here. How do we know they haven't been giving Hamas some money and kickbacks under the table? This is nothing more than a show of weakness.
Israel is concerned Hamas may use the opportunity to renew its activities in Europe.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Hamas to be immediately returned to the terrorist blacklist, saying Israel was not satisfied with the EU's explanation that the removal of Hamas from the list was merely a "technical matter."
"The burden of proof is on the European Union," Netanyahu said. "Hamas is a murderous terrorist organization, with the stated goal, in its charter, of destroying Israel. We will continue to fight against it with determination and strength, so that it will never achieve this aim."
Again, their defense for this pathetic cave-in does not work at all, and if they're really serious, they should return them to the blacklist immediately.
THIS CUBAN RESET WILL BE AS GOOD FOR US THE RUSSIAN RESET - in other words, it will suck
WHY DID OBAMA PRESS THE CUBA RESET BUTTON NOW!?!?
Simple: The Castro Regime was more likely to fall now than ever.
Obama is rescuing them.
He's not for peace; he's on the other side.
TED EXPLAINS IT ALL HERE:
SONY APPEASES GENOCIDAL NORTH KOREAN TYRANNY
TGWP: Sony Bows to North Korea: Cancels Release of ‘The Interview’
Appeasement always just encourages more bad behavior.
ROB LOWE GETS' IT:
In a tweet on Wednesday, actor Rob Lowe compared Sony's decision to cancel the scheduled Dec. 25 release of "The Interview" to the strategic mistake that is widely blamed for emboldening Nazi Germany just before World War II. Lowe said the cancellation of the movie, which followed a massive hack on Sony studios, would have made former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "proud."
I cannot wait to see what's next.
If we had a patriot in the WH, then he'd have a screening of the movie this weekend!
UPDATE: The WH doesn't have a clue as to what's next. TYPICAL.
AMERICAN LEFTISTS LIE AS FREELY AS ISLAMISTS
The Apostle said:
“Who will rid me of Ibnul-Ashraf?” Muhammad bin Maslama, brother of the Bani Abdu’l-Ashhal, said, “I will deal with him for you, O Apostle of God, I will kill him.” He said, “Do so if you can.” “All that is incumbent upon you is that you should try” {said the Prophet to Muhammad bin Maslama}. He said, “O Apostle of God, we shall have to tell lies.” He {the Prophet} answered, “Say what you like, for you are free in the matter.”
AND SO THE RIGHT TO LIE - TAQQIYA - WAS ESTABLISHED BY MUSLIMS.
RATHERGATE, DUKE LACROSSE, UVA RAPE, CLIMATE CHANGE; HANDS UP IN FERGUSON, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEALTHCARE PLAN... (THE RECENT LIST IS ENDLESS) ... ALL HAVE THIS IN COMMON WITH THE TAQQIYA.
LEFTISTS - LIKE ISLAMISTS - ARE FREE TO TELL LIES IF THEY THINK IT WILL HELP THEIR CAUSE.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.
THEY HAVE TO:
THE TRUTH IS NOT ON THEIR SIDE.
UNBELIEVABLE: ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER 1200 YEAR OLD SUV IN CALIFORNIA!
SUCH A FIND IS UNBELIEVABLE BECAUSE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
RECENT ARGUMENTS THAT THE CURRENT DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA IS THE RESULT OF MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE JUST AS UNBELIEVABLE:
A new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Griffin & Anchukaitis concludes that the 2012–2014 drought in California was its most intense in at least 1,200 years.
The study used drought reconstructions from tree-ring cores, from the North American Drought Atlas (NADA) and from cores Griffin & Anchukaitis collected from blue oak trees in southern and central California. Blue oak tree ring widths are particularly sensitive to moisture changes. ...
... The study compared today’s drought conditions in California to those reconstructed over the past 1,200 years using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), an estimate of available soil moisture. The data showed that California is experiencing its most intense drought in over a millennium, the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200 years, with single year (2014) and accumulated moisture deficits worse than any previous continuous span of dry years … In terms of cumulative severity, it is the worst drought on record (-14.55 cumulative PDSI), more extreme than longer (4- to 9-year) droughts.
WHAT CAUSED THIS HORRIFIC DROUGHT 1200 YEARS AGO? SUV'S? MAN-MADE CO2?
OR COULD IT HAVE BEEN NATURAL EVENT? YA THINK?!?!?!!?
UNLESS ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND A WHOLE BUNCHA 1200 YR OLD SUV'S, I'M GONNA HAVE TO SAY THAT IT WAS NATURAL.
AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS ONCE AGAIN, TOO ALL THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS:
STFU.
THE NLG CONNECTION TO OWS, FERGUSON AND THE NATIONAL POGROM ON COPS
An adjunct prof of poetry at CUNY was arrested for assaulting a cop after the anti-cop march in NYC - his name is ERIC LINSKER.
Linsker's lawyer is big time NATIONAL LAWYERS' GUILD operative- Martin Stolar. The NLG is an old time, bigtime communist lawyers' group which is pro islamo-terror; Lynn Stewart was another big-time NLG lawyer and she was convicted of helping al Qaeda.
Linsker's lawyer - Stolar - was the NLG's point man against the NYPD's mosque surveillance program which NYC Mayor deBlasio shutdown as one of his first acts.
Holder - [whose law-firm (prior to being selected by Obama to be his AG) aided Gitmo detainees, just as the NLG did] - and Sharpton and deBlasio must all know each other via the WORKING FAMILIES PARTY - the party that propelled deBlasio's career and which is the creation of the SEIU and ACORN and which is the successor party to the explicitly socialist party "The New Party" which fwas also founded by comrades of race-hustler Jesse Jackson, was the first party line Barry Obama ever ran on.
The NLG and Stolar also were central to OWS movement which tried to shut down ur nation's financial system and painted all capitalists as evil - much like the anti-cop movement is trying to paint all cops as evil.
IOW: MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: the nation-wide and NYC anti-COP movement is a coordinated left-wing attack - a left-wing which has actively sought to defend islamo-terrorists and which is pro-CAIR, who returns the favor - a front for the Muslim Brotherhood operation.
Also note that LINSKER IS A BDS/ ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST; he signed up here: http://www.usacbi.org/endorser...
So are they all anti-Israel.
Leftist groups like REVCOM, OWS, CODE PINK do NOT SPONTANEOUSLY protest; they plan and coordinate their agitprop and their protests and their lawfare.
And they are working hand-in-glove with people in the Working Families Prty including Mayor deBlasio and USAG Holder and Al "Tawana" Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Obama/Jarrett has defended them and attacked the cops. And Soros finances some of them.
All this is aimed to advance socialism and Islam.
REPEAT: neither the Trayvon Martin tumult or the Ferguson riots or the current pogrom against our cops were spontaneous.
They are part of a concerted effort by leftist politicians and their comrades to undermine our ability to defend our civilization in order to replace it with a pro-islamic socialist one.
UPDATE: MUCH MORE HERE.
UPDATE2: SEIU IS DEEPLY INVOLVED - AND ONE OF ITS ACTIVISTS ASSAULTED A COP DURING A PROTEST.
MARZ TURNS AUSTRALIAN TERROR SIEGE INTO GUN CONTROL MISHMASH
Ron Marz puts on his know-it-all acts again, addressing the terrible hostage crisis caused by an Iranian jihadist that went on for 16 hours at a chocolate store in Sydney:
People saying "If Australia hadn't banned guns, maybe #sydneysiege wouldn't be happening" are really too stupid to even be on the internet.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 15, 2014
Curious how Marz can't at least argue that, if less Islamofacists were allowed into countries that value civility, there'd be less situations of the sort that plagued Sydney today. The jihadist, who can now rot in hell, was arrested earlier this year for sexual assault, was also arrested as an accessory to his ex-wife's murder, and faced punishment for sending obscene letters to the widows of soldiers who died in Afghanistan. And the authorities let him walk around free. Why doesn't Marz rail against an incompetent, kowtowing justice system?
Once again, Marz misses the chance to make arguments with more sense.
JIHADIST HELD HOSTAGES IN AUSTRALIAN STORE
The crisis has been stopped, and the jihadist, who came from Iran, is now dead, but tragically, so are at least 2 other people. From ABC (via Jihad Watch):
The gunman who had been holding people hostage inside a chocolate store in downtown Sydney has been killed, Australian police confirmed to ABC News.
And two other people have been killed, a highly place Australian source told ABC News.
The suspect had previously been identified as Man Monis by local news reports, and the manner in which he died still remains unclear but New South Wales police have confirmed his death. The identities of the two others killed were not immediately revealed.
Police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in the early hours of Tuesday morning, local time, and three injuries have been reported, including one policeman.
Explosions of what were believed to be flash bang grenades were heard when police stormed the shop and while there were many loud noises, it is not clear if or how many shots were fired by either police or Monis during the face off.
At 10:19 a.m. ET, a group of at least seven heavily armed police officers went into the Lindt cafe under the cover of loud bangs of what local news Channel 9 is calling stun grenades. Shortly after the police stormed the café, at least two hostages emerged, looking visibly shaken.
A few minutes later, a few paramedics were seen entering the café behind police officers with medical packs — followed by at least two stretchers. The explosive police action came shortly after a new wave of hostages emerged from the shop.
Monis was believed to be a self-proclaimed Islamic “sheikh” who is known to Australian police because he was allegedly involved in dozens of counts of sexual assault, according to Australia’s 9News.
He was born in Iran as Manteghi Bourjerdi and migrated to Australia in 1996, according to the station.
This just confirms further why immigration from Islamic countries has to be curtailed according to religious ideological background.
PIGS FLY: BBC ADMITS ARCTIC ICE IS NOT DISAPPEARING, AND THAT THERE IS NO SIGN IT EVER WILL
BBC: Arctic sea ice volume holds up in 2014
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco
Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than many observers recognise.
While global warming seems to have set the polar north on a path to floe-free summers, the latest data from Europe's Cryosat mission suggests it may take a while yet to reach those conditions.
The spacecraft observed 7,500 cu km of ice cover in October when the Arctic traditionally starts its post-summer freeze-up.
This was only slightly down on 2013 when 8,800 cu km were recorded.
Two cool summers in a row have now allowed the pack to increase and then hold on to a good deal of its volume.
And while the ice is still much reduced compared with the 20,000 cu km that used to stick around in the Octobers of the early 1980s, there is no evidence to indicate a collapse is imminent.
IOW: ALL THE HYSTERICAL PROCLAMATIONS THAT THE ARCTIC WAS ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR WERE TOTALLY WRONG.
AS IS ALL CO2PHOBIC, CLIMATE ALARMISM.
MEANWHILE, LAST WEEK THE UN'S CLIMATE ALARMISTS HAD MANY NATIONS SIGN CO2PHOBIC PROMISSORY NOTES TO REDUCE CO2.
A TOTALLY IDIOTIC ACT THAT WILL - IF EVER CARRIED OUT - DO NOTHING FOR THE GLOBAL CLIMATE.
BUT IT WILL RETARD ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD AND THEREBY HARM A BILLION POOR PEOPLE.
MAN-MADE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE THIRD BIGGEST AND MOT HARMFUL HOAX EVER PERPETRATED UPON THE HUMAN RACE - AFTER SOCIALISM AND ISLAMISM.
Erdogan's brownshirts make mass arrests of opposition media
MORE PROOF THAT TURKEY DOESN'T BELONG IN NATO, LET ALONE THE EU.
VIDEO: THIS BLACK WOMAN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!
She uses some mildly offensive language.
Telling the truth does these days...
CROSS-DRESSING JIHADISTS SHOT IN YEMEN.
BEHEADING. CROSS-DRESSING.
IS THERE ANYTHING THE JIHADISTS WON'T DO?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30465535
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IS WILLING TO JOIN A LABOR COALITION
The Likud's attacked him for willing to sit in a coalition with Labor:
The Likud attacked Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday, after he made comments saying that he is not ruling out sitting in a future coalition – whether with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Isaac Herzog.
The Likud, in a press release, said that this proves that voting for Liberman takes votes away from the right and contributes to the left.
The prime minister's party stressed that "it is clear that anyone who wants a broad, strong government headed by Netanyahu, based on the right and center-right, should vote Likud under Netanyahu this time."
Lieberman's already demonstrated his ties to corrupt businessmen like Martin Schlaff, and that's one more reason why he's ultimately bad news, not unlike Aryeh Deri from the Shas party.
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BARBARY LIONS
Territoriality, Humans, and Anger
Written June 28, 2010.
Solitary. Territorial. Bad combination in the human world, where one can barely be one of the two effectively, let alone both.
It's hard to describe the feeling of violent claustrophobia I get when my space is compromised. Hackles rise like extra whiskers, feeling every inch of lost ground like being slowly shrink-wrapped, the air tightening against my skin. An injection of incredulous indignance - someone is in my space? what? are they mad? are they blind? this is mine and they are invading it! do they know what that means?
An immediate assessment of food, not-threat, or threat. Food can be ignored unless it's really irritating. Non-threats can be frightened off by a display (body language, expression, tone of voice, standoffish or unwelcoming words). Some few people are in my comfort zone, non-threats that don't get chased off (or, occasionally, threats that go un-dealt-with); I actively seek to spend time with and share space with them. Threats - threats are either fled from or challenged. I am only now perceiving myself as old enough, adult enough, experienced and skilled enough, to stand my ground against some threats.
But sometimes it's not okay to be territorial. Sometimes it's alien to human culture to be so zealously possessive of one's space. Public transport, restaurants, parks, schools, offices - we share them all. We have to share them all. And the one who wants its own space, alone, has to swallow its instincts and suffer through repeated intrusions without letting itself react.
And people? Man, people. The ones who don't interact on any level that makes sense, not to animal, not to conscious mind. Animal concepts of strength and eye contact and body language and physical contest are all ignored; my civilized ideas of honor, courtesy, kindness, generosity, mutual respect are all dismissed. It's trying to make sense out of jumbled birdsong* - I know it makes sense to somebody, but I have no beak and no feathers, and I don't speak that language. The plastic faces, the political maneuvering and manipulation, the social protocol, the media and the pop culture, the celebrities, the deliberate malice, it all glosses over my deepwater reality like skaters on ice overhead. I don't understand. I don't get it. And I don't particularly want to get it, to speak that language. I don't find personal value in it.
Being an animal-person has as many awkwardnesses as advantages, as many challenges as joys. But I'm happy being who and what I am. Despite the difficult parts.
Despite being occasionally unable to pass as human.
(*No offense meant to any birds.)
Cat anger. Or just animal anger.
First, there is some threat, some danger, some inflicted hurt. Low levels can be ignored, tolerated, suffered through. But when the pain threshold is breached, reflexes kick in. Cat wants to display: bare fangs, bristle, make noise. Let this threat know that there is a business end of the lion and it will be dealt with. As the spectrum climbs in intensity, so the display gets fiercer and louder to match it.
But if the pain, the danger, does not cease, action must be taken. The line between the loudest display and violence is thin, crossed in a heartbeat, an eye-blink. Too much, too much, and the claws are used. A few swipes, bat-bat-bat to the head, will damage and scare. It could stop there, but the eyes are wild and white-rimmed, and there is increasingly less space between poised to defend and kill.
If pushed, the final line is crossed. It's no longer bat-bat-bat with a paw and snarl a last warning; it's a roar and a flurry, a frenzy, talons and fangs and bunching muscles and flying fur. If the threat tries to escape, it is chased - maybe not too far, but it takes a moment for cat to register that the danger has been removed.
It takes a little while to calm down after that, especially if there's any possibility of the danger returning to initiate another confrontation.
And if circumstance or human protocol dictates that no display is allowed, the urge to react physically happens that much more quickly, even when it has to be suppressed at all costs.
Content © Being Lion, 2005-2014. Header photo © Jonathan Danker. Design courtesy of Selfwright Designs.
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Pompous Shill/Professor Disses Angel!
A Presumptuous Professor commented on my last substantive posting. After I read it, I pondered the many ways that I could counter this "argument." First off, I'm not a failed adult. I didn't even do badly in law school. I go out of my way to say that TTT grads are not failed adults as well. We're all among the most intelligent of Americans with a college education and graduate degree. Also, he accused me of being hungry for power, but came off as self-proclaimed royalty. My professor was in need of a lay--a common colloquialism thrown around by all of my classmates. I tossed my arguments around and around in my mind and I decided that my readers will speak up on my behalf... and they certainly did. Thank you!
Here's what the Professor wrote:
You chose law to get power.
Yet you revile those with power over you. You vibrate with resentment that your professors had the power to ignore you. You deserved their attention and regard--after all, you are so much better/Deeper than they!
You make up sexual fantasies about them when they thwarted your expectations, which brought your ego weaknesses to the fore--and the best you can come up with is calling them women's body parts.
Hm, your failures and resentments and "disenchantment" (as though life is supposed to be enchanting) couldn't have anything to do with YOU, now, could it?
Well, it will be interesting to read your blog, and find out what happens when an obviously failed adult fails at the admittedly failed institutions of law school and law. I'm afraid there are all too many such people, blaming the world for their own failures and seething in resentment and anger. Particularly in your generation, which was told by its parents that it farted rainbows and would save the world.
Maybe you could try trade school. Though I do realize that someone as Deep as you, and as Gifted, and Special, would have a hard time with the humbling experience of fixing what's broken rather than complaining about it and expecting a reward.
THEN....Manatee Joe found this article wherein Obama's feelings about law school were covered in an interview of David Remnick, the author of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama:
Then of course, you quote Obama as saying that he found the study of law “disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power!”
DR: At law school, some courses were dull; some had a sense of adventure that he appreciated. He studied with Roberto Unger who is a real radical. Obama took two courses with Unger, not one. This is a guy who is in the current Brazilian government and very much to the left. That’s not Obama’s politics, but he was certainly taken up with and fascinated by anything that was out of ordinary contracts and all the rest. Obviously constitutional law was where he lived.
FUNNY how our Nation's Leader was disappointed in law school as well. It's not that interesting, it's not that intellectually challenging, it's not that impressive. I stick by what I said. Going to law school won't make your feel more enlightened, it will make you feel like you served prison time.
Labels: don't go to law school, no morality in a for-profit industry like higher education
Law school was the saddest, most wasteful and depressing experience anyone can ever have. Prison would have been better. Obama's photo says it all. And he was someone who could take advantage of it.
...so that jerk was a professor...I knew it! Ha! He's the one who's stuck and messed up in a profession he hates but won't leave because he's too busy powertripping.
...or maybe it was a woman...
Angel October 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM
No proof, but no denial. I say he's an academic fo sho!
Nando October 13, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Apparently, "the law" is so rewarding and refreshing...that this "law professor" has chosen to remain in academia. (I also laugh my ass off when these social retards/"law profs" claim: "I could make a lot more money in private practice, but I choose to teach instead.")
Yeah, sure you did - and I chose to marry at age 25 rather than sleep with Salma Hayek and Lauren Graham. Perhaps, these idiots could make more money - but they would also need to work MUCH more than 6 hours per week. They would also need to learn how to deal with people and clients.
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16th International Education Show to host The Education Growth Summit ‘TEGS’
Expo Centre Sharjah has announced it will be hosting, the 2nd edition of ‘The Education Growth Summit (TEGS) in Sharjah from January 22 to 23, 2020, following a cooperation agreement recently signed in Bangalore, India.
During a press conference held in Bangalore, the agreement was signed between Expo Centre Sharjah represented by Sultan Shattaf, Director, Sales and Marketing, and K2 Learning, Bangalore’s most preferred institute for commerce education, represented by Sripall D Jain, CEO and Founder of Career Uttsav and Chairman of group company K2 LEARNING.
Expo Centre Sharjah will also be hosting a special platform that will bring together some of the top companies operating in the educational technology sector, under the theme “Education Technologies”. The full-fledge platform will showcase the latest innovations in the smart education technology sector, according to the agreement.
A number of representatives from K2 Learning, media and various educational sectors in India attended the signing ceremony.
The TEGS and the “Education Technologies” platform will be organized by K2 LEARNING at the 16th International Education Show, scheduled to take place from January 22 to 24, 2020.
Quality Addition
HE Saif Mohammed Al Midfa, CEO of Expo Centre Sharjah, said: “The TEGS will surely be a quality addition to the 16th International Education Show, which enjoys the support of Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), Ministry of Education and Sharjah Private Education Authority.
“To meet the growing aspirations of students and investors in the educational sector, Expo Centre Sharjah is always keen to follow a policy of innovation and creativity and spares no efforts to stage unique events that focus on technological innovation. This year, we will be hosting a select group of companies operating in the educational technology and we are going to see a distinguished participation by Indian academic institutions with a special pavilion, the largest of the participating countries”, Al Midfa added.
Largest Expansion Ever
For his part, Sultan Shattaf stressed that the agreement comes in line with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Expo Centre Sharjah and K2 Learning last July, with a view of exchanging expertise and knowledge and learn about the best practices in the field of educational and professional exhibitions.
“The Education Growth Summit “TEGS” will be a significant addition to the International Education Show, especially as it will provide a platform for edupreneurs, bringing together an elite of decision makers, experts and practitioners involved in the education sector”, Shattaf said.
He added that the summit, through “Education Technologies” platform, will shed light on the latest innovations and possible ways and mechanisms to ensure a qualitative transition in the education sector across the region. The event will also discuss the most prominent challenges facing the educational sector as well as potential solutions. Shattaf further said.
Shattaf highlighted that 16th International Education Show will see the largest expansion ever since its inception. New hall will be added, bringing the total number of halls to three, due to the increasing number of participating universities, academic institutions and educational service companies. The event will also see new countries taking part besides a strong presence by Emirati universities, as well as the most prestigious British and German universities.
Offering educational services to more than 225,000 students
Sripall D Jain said: “We are very happy to have this exclusive collaboration with the Expo Centre Sharjah and to represent the Indian Pavilion at the International Education Show, by organizing the Career Uttsav exhibition, besides the 2nd edition of TEGS. Such important events will surely help take advantage of educational opportunities available in both countries, with more than 225,000 aspiring students from around the world expected to benefit from Career Uttsav services”.
“There is a significant gap in what students want to do and what their parents want them to do, which arises due to lack of awareness on several factors which can have a profound impact on the lives of students and their academic journey. Over the last 6 years through Career Uttsav, we have been bridging these gaps and help students and their parents make wise choices aligned to the strengths of every distinctively capable student. Our educational fair is designed to deliver this impact with over 100 universities, educational experts and edupreneurs participating and interacting with students during the fair”, CEO and Founder of Career Uttsav added.
The International Education Show is one of the most important educational exhibitions that hosts academic institutions from all over the region and the world. It helps identify talents and unlock human potentials wishing to pursue education in a variety of disciplines in the most prestigious educational institutions from around the world, including the UAE.
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Hard working weavers and lazy journalists
One of my friends (Dom Cram) has just had a paper come out in Functional Ecology. It's a really well designed experimental study looking at the effects of dominance and effort on oxidative stress in white-browed sparrow-weavers. His research found that dominant females, who work the hardest to provision young during the breeding season, suffered a large decline in antioxidant protection over the course of the breeding season. Antioxidants are the compounds that health professionals keep going gaga over in various 'super-foods', as they help to reduce free radicals which build up due to the cells natural processes and can damage DNA and thus potentially make individuals vulnerable to ageing and lots of other nasty things. So the study hints that individuals that work hard could be at risk of increased ageing and a variety of other future problems. The abstract and link are pasted at the end of the blog.
Dom has rightly received a fair amount of media attention for this piece of work, and rightly so. This is important, as the public need to know what their taxes are funding and how this work fits into our broader understanding of the world. He was even interviewed on BBC radio:
https://soundcloud.com/dom-cram/dom-bbc-radio-interview-sept2014
This coverage though has been very varied, even within the ams newspaper. The Telegraph, link pasted below, covered it well but for some unknown reason decided to lead with a picture of elephant seals.... even though the work was done on a small desert dwelling bird. They also lead with "Alpha males..", even though the abstract clearly states that males showed a decline but it wasn't related to rank, the main result was for females. Well it was a good attempt. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/11070219/Alpha-males-and-females-at-risk-of-ill-health-and-premature-ageing.html
Above is the reporting from the Times, and this again is pretty good, even has the correct species pictured (and a lovely comic). But if you read the scanned image below you'll see that some one else at the same news paper decided not only to get the species wrong but to link it massively to humans, a gross overstatement, but then also to Bertrand Russell, Francois Hollande and John Maynard Keynes. This is a prime example of awful reporting and exaggeration from what is a well respected newspaper, this is what lay people read and where the get their information. We need better reporting by people who actually understand science, so that the public is better educated and so able to help the government make better science and environmental policy decisions.
Here is the abstract:
Cram et al (2014) Oxidative status and social dominance in a wild cooperative breeder. Functional Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12317http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12317/abstract
Oxidative stress has been proposed as a key mediator of life-history trade-offs, yet the social factors that affect patterns of oxidative status amongst individuals in animal societies remain virtually unexplored.
This is important, as rank-related differences in reproductive effort in many social species have the potential to generate, or indeed arise from, differences in oxidative status across dominance classes.
Here, we examine rank-related variation in oxidative status before and after a lengthy breeding season in a wild cooperatively breeding bird with high reproductive skew, in the semi-arid zone of Southern Africa; the white-browed sparrow weaver (Plocepasser mahali).
Our findings reveal that prior to breeding, neither sex showed rank-related differences in markers of oxidative damage or antioxidant protection, suggesting that dominants' reproductive monopolies do not arise from superior pre-breeding oxidative status.
After breeding, however, females (who provision young at higher rates than males) suffered elevated oxidative damage, and dominant females (the only birds to lay and incubate eggs, and the primary nestling provisioners) experienced differential declines in antioxidant protection.
While males also showed reduced antioxidant capacity after breeding, this decline was not dependent on rank and not associated with elevated oxidative damage.
Our findings suggest that divisions of labour in animal societies can leave the hardest-working classes differentially exposed to oxidative stress, raising the possibility of hitherto unexplored impacts on health and ageing in social species.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12317/abstract
New paper....
So after finishing my PhD I went back the kalahari to help Tom Flower out with some cool work investigating deception tactics and learning in fork-tailed drongos. While I was there I also had a chance to help his honours student, Bruce, out with his research investigating the relationship between drongos and sociable weavers. The kalahari is full of cool inter-species interactions (I'll put a couple of papers below). Bruce's work has just been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, I have put the abstract and a link to the paper below. The work was really fun to do and highlights how conflict and cooperation have to coexist in both and ecological and evolutionary setting, and that this can lead to cool things evolving.
Baigrie, Thompson & Flower (2014) Interspecific signalling between mutualists: food-thieving drongos use a cooperative sentinel call to manipulate foraging partners. Proc R Soc, 281:20141232
Interspecific communication is common in nature, particularly between mutualists. However, whether signals evolved for communication with other species, or are in fact conspecific signals eavesdropped upon by partners, is often unclear. Fork-tailed drongos (Dicrurus adsimilis) associate with mixed-species groups and often produce true alarms at predators, whereupon associating species flee to cover, but also false alarms to steal associating species' food (kleptoparasitism). Despite such deception, associating species respond to drongo non-alarm calls by increasing their foraging and decreasing vigilance. Yet, whether these calls represent interspecific sentinel signals remains unknown. We show that drongos produced a specific sentinel call when foraging with a common associate, the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius), but not when alone. Weavers increased their foraging and decreased vigilance when naturally associating with drongos, and in response to sentinel call playback. Further, drongos sentinel-called more often when weavers were moving, and weavers approached sentinel calls, suggesting a recruitment function. Finally, drongos sentinel-called when weavers fled following false alarms, thereby reducing disruption to weaver foraging time. Results therefore provide evidence of an ‘all clear’ signal that mitigates the cost of inaccurate communication. Our results suggest that drongos enhance exploitation of a foraging mutualist through coevolution of interspecific sentinel signals.
Other cool interspecies interactions:
Pied babblers and scimitarbills:
Ridley, Wiley & Thompson (2014) The ecological benefits of interceptive eavesdropping. Functional Ecology, 28: 197-205
Drongos and pied babblers:Flower (2011) Fork-tailed drongos use deceptive mimicked alarm calls to steal food. Proc R Soc, 278:1548-1555
It's conference season, and as of this morning most of the Large Animal Research Group (where I am currently doing some work) is somewhere between Heathrow and Iceland, the country not the shop. I have recently found out that flying to the US via Iceland is a very cost-effective/good way to get an extra holiday in. They are all heading to ISBE 2014, in New York city, hosted by the unfortunately named Hunter College City University of New York Hunter (or Hunter CUNY - someone really dropped the ball on that naming). This is the big conference for behavioural ecologists and biologist, and is held biennially with the last one being in Lund 2012. I am of course very jealous, as there will be loads of amazing talks and chances to meet world experts and do some much needed networking. I am also sad to not be going as many of my friends from different universities all over the world will be attending and so it would be a great place to catch up with people. But this isn't supposed to be me feeling sorry for myself, I am going to put up a list below of some talks that would be great to see if you yourself are attending.
Here is a link to the conference website http://www.isbe2014.com, it isn't the best laid out in the world. It looks like it is going to be a really great conference and New York seems like a great place to host it. Good luck to everyone taking part, and hopefully loads of great collaborations come out of it.
So the list of talks that should be good:
BJ Ashton
Saturday session 3, HW615:
Group size drives cognitive differences in a cooperative breeder
DL Cram
Friday session 2, HN C-002:
The oxidative stress costs of reproduction are mitigated by helpers in a cooperatively breeding bird
JE York
Saturday session 1,Lang HN 4th floor:
‘Dear-enemy’ of the collective: cooperative contributions to territorial defence under experimentally manipulated levels of threat
MJ Nelson-Flower
Tuesday session 1, Assembly Hall:
Male and females use different mechanisms to maintain high reproductive skew in a cooperative bird
T Flower
Friday session 3, HW 511:
The coevolution of an interspecific sentry signal between foraging mutualists
D Lukas
The evolution of male infanticide in mammals
S Cunningham
Saturday session 1, HW 615:
It's cool to be dominant*: social status and thermoregulation in birds
M Zöttl
Tuesday session 1, Kaye Playhouse
Queen succession, female-female competition and forcible eviction in Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) colonies
SW Townsend
Friday session 1, HW 511
The meerkat ‘animal moving’ call: functional reference in highly variable situations
most interesting most read papers
Biology letters have just released a list of their most read papers from June of this year, not papers published in June but just those that were read the most in that month. I thought that it might be a good idea to skim these and pick out the ones that I thought sounded the most interesting/weird and just share the paper and a link to it. I was going to post the abstracts but then I got carried away and chose a fair few, and if you are like me then you get bored when reading long blog posts on the internet. I've also just put a little clarifier as to why I think the paper is cool.
So, in no particular order, my top top read papers (from Biology letter, in June 2014). In addition, by chance and not design, it's also a top 10!
1. I like signal theory and any research that shows deception is pretty cool:
Brown et al (2012) It pays to cheat: tactical deception in a cephalopod social signalling system, Biol. Lett. 8:729-732
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/8/5/729.full
2. Research on cooperation and conflict extends from intracellular to ecosystem levels, this is just a very unexpected area to find cooperation:
Pearcy et al (2014) Team swimming in ant spermatozoa. Biol. Lett. 10:20140308
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/6/20140308.full
3. Hugging trees makes you cool, enough said:
Briscoe et al (2014) Tree-hugging koalas demonstrate a novel thermoregulatory mechanism for arboreal mammals. Biol. Lett. 10:20140235http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/6/20140235.full
4. Work on mate choice in humans usually focuses on things like facial symmetry, height or smell, this work just seems to be very different (and again it looks at honesty in signalling):
Neave et al (2011) Male dance moves that catch a woman's eye. Biol. Lett. 7:221-224
5. Just an amazing title, but also interesting work:
Levy (2013) Monsters are people too. Biol. Lett. 9:20120850
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/1/20120850.full
6. An interesting study on how environmental factors can strongly shape behavioural and physiological traits that are associated with sexual selection and mate choice:
Zuk et al (2006) Silent night: adaptive disappearance of a sexual signal in a parasitized population of field crickets. Biol. Lett. 2:521-524
7. The results are not really a surprise, but it shows how easy it is to manipulate our emotions:
Blumstein et al (2010) Do film soundtracks contain nonlinear analogues to influence emotion? Biol. Lett. 751-754
8. I always like research that can span disciplines, and this work spans psychology, behavioural biology and conservation. The work helps to justify, not that it's really needed, conservation of green spaces:
Fuller et al (2007) Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity. Biol. Lett. 3: 390-394
9. An evolutionary explanation for why your hands go wrinkly, who would not love this??
Kareklas et al (2013) Water-induced finger wrinkles improve handling of wet objects. Biol. Lett. 9:20120999
10. Preferential aggression towards kin, goes against most things I was taught as an undergrad and looks like a fruitful area of future research:
Dunn et al (2014) Higher aggression towards closer relatives by soldier larvae in a polyembryonic wasp. Biol. Lett. 10: 20140229
Here is the link to the full list: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/reports/most-read
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Recent Posts by Jason Del Rey
Emotionless E-Commerce and the Death of the Joy of Gift-Giving
December 2, 2013 at 5:00 am PT
I was sitting on my couch the other evening, my wife seated across from me, when I decided it was as good a time as any to start Christmas shopping for her. She had given me some ideas to use as a sort of inspiration set, but I thought that instead I would just buy a few of the exact items on the list to get some gifts under my belt before the calendar turned to December.
A visit to H&M’s website: Click, click, click. Done.
Then, a visit to Amazon.com: Click, click, click. Done.
Hardly a thought involved. No stress. Christmas in a neat brown box for the most important woman in my life, delivered to my doorstep in just two days.
This is not a new thing to anyone anymore, as we have all increasingly turned to buying gifts online, in part to avoid going out into the jam-packed real world. Instead, by letting our fingers do the shopping, we tell ourselves that we are freeing up precious time in our busy, busy lives. Oh, the things we’ll do with the time we save!
Except, at least in my experience, that’s totally a farce. The time saved? We end up allotting it to some other digital exercise. And along the way, we sacrifice almost all of the serendipity that emerges when picking out a gift in a shop in the real world.
I take the blame for part of that, because buying someone exactly what they asked for extinguishes some of the suspense that makes for the best type of gift.
But e-commerce sites in their current state should also shoulder some of the blame. By and large, they are too easy, too impersonal, and — really — too convenient. That impersonality is perhaps part of the reason why so many young, digital commerce companies seem intent on opening pop-up shops or permanent outposts in the brick-and-mortar world.
I firmly admit that I’m painting with a really broad stroke here, but that’s okay. Because right now, with few exceptions, that’s what the e-commerce world feels like — all ease-of-use, but no emotion.
I acknowledge that there are exceptions (or at least there used to be), e-commerce sites that made you feel something, mostly through the kind of wares they sold. Etsy, for example. In its early days, when it had a much smaller community of sellers focused on handmade goods, Etsy was a delight. So was Fab, when its unusual design aesthetic seemed a lot more focused, and before it tried being a lot of things to a lot of people.
No longer. In fact, it was Jason Goldberg, the embattled CEO of Fab, who wrote about a similar idea in a blog post this past spring titled “The 3rd Wave of E-Commerce Disruption: Emotional Commerce.”
“Commodity Commerce was/is all about getting in and out as quickly as possible,” Goldberg wrote. “One-click shopping. Emotional Commerce is all about getting lost in the moment. Emotional Commerce is all about taking the best offline shopping experiences — of being lured in by storefronts, of browsing through assortments and colors, of the joy of the hunt of finding something fabulous, or having fun while shopping — and making them even more amazing online.”
When I wrote about that essay in June, as Fab was raising a $150 million investment, I translated it as such: “To me, that means impulse buying — more specifically, the buying of things that you want, but don’t necessarily need.”
But now I would broaden the definition quite a bit to include e-commerce sites that are able to both establish a connection with their visitors and sell things that help the buyer connect with others, rather than just please themselves.
As I said on Twitter the other day in response to a tweet by Braintree exec Mike Dudas, I’m not sure if Fab can reignite and sustain that emotional connection, considering the scale at which Goldberg wants to operate.
But Fab’s Goldberg has his own opinion:
@DelRey @mdudas Let's get to 2018 and then revisit that question. A lot of work between here and there and too early to write the book.
— Jason Goldberg (@betashop) November 27, 2013
Perhaps it’s not a book yet, but there are some encouraging signs in a young crop of e-commerce startups that are going out of their way to convey the story behind the products to their site visitors, in an effort to establish a connection. Those sites include Grand St., Zady, Cuyana, Everlane and the new Domino.com, which has its roots in media, but is integrating shopping into the site pretty seamlessly.
I haven’t found one that nails it through and through, but, in this increasingly digital world, they make me hopeful, because there’s a whole lot of room to inject some emotion back into commerce.
And — especially at this time of year — to help make gift-giving a lot less about the 30 percent-off Black Friday deal, and a whole lot more about helping you ensure that when the woman sitting across from you unties the bow, what she finds within the box truly feels like a gift.
Tagged with: Amazon, cuyana, Domino, Domino.com, emotional commerce, Etsy, Everlane, fab, Grand St., Jason Goldberg, Zady
That Giant Bitcoin Crash in the Wake of China Restrictions? It Never Happened.
This Is What It Looks Like Inside an Amazon Warehouse (Photos)
A New Perk for Google Employees? It Could Be Low-Interest Personal Loans.
December 22, 2013 at 12:03 pm PT
By Setting Debit Limits Following Target Breach, Chase Looking Out for Itself, Too
As Amazon’s Stock Hits All-Time High, Warehouse Issues Under Scrutiny
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Policing ‘Baghdad on the Potomac’
RACHEL MENDLESON June 30 2008
Policing ‘Baghdad on the Potomac’ RACHEL MENDLESON June 30 2008
RACHEL MENDLESON
The police roadblocks set up this month in a crime-riddled neighbourhood on Washington’s northeast side looked every bit like military checkpoints. For six evenings Trinidad was in lockdown, with yellow police tape, traffic cones and metal barriers choking off access to alleys and streets leading into the area. Traffic backed up along Montello Avenue, where drivers and passengers were required to produce ID and a “legitimate purpose” for entering, including phone numbers and addresses to verify their stories. Residents were not exempt from the lines that formed in the 40° C heat—a necessary measure, says police chief Cathy L. Lanier, for a “neighbourhood in crisis” that has seen a recent spike in homicides, culminating with a triple murder the weekend before the roadblocks were set up on June 7.
“Baghdad on the Potomac,” as Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the Washington branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called it, was the most recent in a series of drastic measures D.C. is exploring to curb violent crime—all of which have come under intense scrutiny. In the spring, city officials launched a project to network more
than 5,000 security cameras in 10 D.C. agencies, including schools and public housing. Charged with creating a Big Brother society, the administration defended it as a means to better coordinate emergency response. D.C. city council has since imposed restrictions on the monitoring, specifically on the realtime element, until a new plan is approved. Meanwhile, another proposal, this one to get guns off the streets (implemented in St. Louis in the 1990s and currently under review in
Boston), drew similar fire from residents and civil liberties advocates. When it was first announced in March, the Safe Homes Initiative envisioned officers knocking on doors in the District’s hard-pressed neighbourhoods, offering residents amnesty in exchange for a warrantless home search. A significantly scaled back version was introduced mid-month, with searches by request only.
The administration’s apparent backing off, and the end of the roadblocks on June 12, has done little to allay the concerns of critics who continue to question the legality of the tactics—a pattern, they say, of overlooking civil liberties. And council member Phil Mendelson says announcing a “very dramatic action,” and then retreating, creates ill will among residents and raises doubts about how the strategy for fighting crime in the District is being conceived. “In a way, it makes it even worse,” says Mendelson, who chaired a public safety committee hearing on June 16 to examine the effect of the initiatives on civil liberties. At that hearing, the ACLU argued the Trinidad checkpoints violated the Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure), and infringed on freedom of travel—a position it has made known since the tactic was announced. Mayor Adrian Fenty did not return calls for this story. But based on previous cases, interim attorney general Peter Nickles maintains the neighbourhood safety zone was legal, despite the opinion of the ACLU and some residents who felt their rights were violated. In an interview with Maclean’s, Nickles said “the courts are open” to anyone who wants to mount a challenge—an invitation Spitzer says the ACLU is “strongly considering” taking him up on, especially if the roadblocks return.
After six quiet evenings in Trinidad, officials hailed the checkpoints a success. So far this year, northeast D.C. has seen 22 murders—one more than it did in all of2007Lanier says much of the violence in Trinidad involved people in cars who did not live in the area. Of the 700 vehicles that arrived at the checkpoints, she says less than 50 were turned away. When asked if she would implement the roadblocks again, the chief told Maclean’s, “I don’t know how I wouldn’t.” After the barriers were lifted, long-time resident Rosetta Davis said she had mixed feelings. Davis recalled an era when community policing meant walking the beat and instilling trust. “The police officers now ride right past your house, never once stopping to wave or slow down,” she said. M
GUESS WHO’S WATCHING PORN
JUNE 30th 2008 2008 By MONIQUE POLAK
MAIL BAG
We don’t choose to be in nursing homes with our children paying forus, overstaying our welcome’
JUNE 30th 2008 2008
STÉPHANE DION’S HAIL MARY GAMBLE
JUNE 30th 2008 2008 By JOHN GEDDES
NOT JUST 'McBUSH’
JUNE 30th 2008 2008 By LUIZA CH. SAVAGE
THE PUZZLE OF FROZEN GAS
JUNE 30th 2008 2008 By NICHOLAS KÖHLER
'Bernardo and I talk about what’s in the news, or he makes some scatological remark about what's happened to Karla’
Hawaii to birthers: enough!
MAY 31st 2010 By MICHAEL BARCLAY
Is Galilee running out of fish?
MAY 31st 2010 By JEN CUTTS
Feeling the bite of a cannibal joke
MAY 31st 2010 By RACHEL MENDLESON
JUST PLUG IT INIF YOU CAN
July 5th 2010 By RACHEL MENDLESON
New website touts the criminal life
JUNE 15th 2009 2009 By RACHEL MENDLESON
Return of a troubling nativist
NOV. 2nd 2009 2009 By RACHEL MENDLESON
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Exciting things are afoot at Supernormal, and it’s time to fill you in on a little of what will be transpiring in Braziers Park in August.
First off, we’re ecstatic to announce that Supernormal 2015 will be hosting the first UK show in over twenty years from the maverick and mercurial force that is #A.R.Kane.
The new name adds the ‘#’ symbol, Rudy Tambala explains “We needed a new name that contemporises the band, was a tad ironic, and flatly stated that this line-up is sans Alex. Should Alex come out-to-play, we can easily drop the ‘#’, so to speak”
Rudy has assembled a line-up featuring ” … a couple original A.R.Kane players … and two millennial upstarts of extreme beauty and talent …” to grace us with a repertoire that remains akin to nothing else any dreamer has ever heard, before or since.
For the uninitiated, A.R.Kane was formed by Rudy Tambala and Alex Ayuli, from Stratford in East London. Between 1986 and 1994 A.R.Kane made genre-defying records that radiate with an otherworldly intensity. Early singles like ‘When You’re Sad’ and ‘Lollita’, and later albums like 1988’s ’69’ and 1989’s ‘i’ occupy a unique headspace – by turns hallucinatory, surreal, melodious and darkly erotic, this band’s music traverses into dubbed-out experimentation as seamlessly as groove-based euphoria, celestial expanses of sound and unforgiving noise-based dystopia. Rarely has a band been more haunting, harrowing and heavenly – often all at once – than this one.
Meanwhile, the visual arts programme will be announced later in the month and will include exhibits, happenings, performances and interventions around the grounds and in Braziers House.
We are also excited to announce the Supernormal team will be visiting Glasgow next week with support from an A-N research bursary, to meet new artists and initiatives who could contribute to this year’s programme and our future activity.
And as always, there is still plenty more to come, including a selection of activities, workshops and performances proposed by you, new exciting partnership projects, DJs, music, karaoke sessions and general good times.
Supernormal 2015 takes place from August 7th-9th at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. Now as ever, it remains the alternative’s alternative.
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Product Recommendation System Project Github
This method scores each item by using cosine similarity: the score for an item is the cosine between that item's tag vector and the user's profile vector. At this moment I am trying to deploy the Dionaea HoneyPot on a seperate server with Ubuntu 16. easyrec is an open source project hosted at sourceforge. Understand what users need, prioritize what to build next and rally everyone around your roadmap. Netflix is committed to open source. And on top of that, users that click on recommendations convert at a 5. What about the e-commerce websites which advocates you through options such as 'people who bought this also bought this'. The Inventory Management System (IMS) refers to the system and processes to manage the stock of. Also note that you will be able to use Project Professional 2016 and the Project Online Desktop Client, as well as Project Professional 2013, to connect to Project Server 2013. Basic recommendation engine using R In our day to day life, we come across a large number of Recommendation engines like Facebook Recommendation Engine for Friends' suggestions, and suggestions of similar Like Pages, Youtube recommendation engine suggesting videos similar to our previous searches/preferences. 10th Oct, 2019 Md. How is GitHub Enterprise different from GitHub. It seems that almost every company is building such systems. com homepage. The jester dataset is not about Movie Recommendations. I collaborated with a team of 5 members as a part of global hackathon to build “Incident Recommendation System for Production Management” using Python, Flask and Matplotlib, that uses TFIDF cosine similarity to recommend similar incidents based on searched job string. Santander Product Recommendation. GitHub Pages is available in public repositories with GitHub Free, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. Users can filter products in different ways. Building a recommendation system in Python - as easy as 1-2-3! Are you interested in learning how to build your own recommendation system in Python? If so, you've come to the right place!. View Chia Pei Tan PMI-ACP® ,PMP® , ITIL,COMIT’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. He is capable of handling the whole team, There were around 10-15 developers, and he was able to help each one of them whenever required. Much is made of what the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple know about users. recommender system of amazon product ( for final project of CSE544 ) An Optimized Recommender System from Integrating Multiple Algorithms. A recommender system or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing 'system' with a synonym such as platform or engine) is a subclass of information filtering system that seeks to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item. For this the recommendations given to the customer by this system is exact and fast. Unsure which solution is best for your company? Find out which tool is better with a detailed comparison of iccube & periscope-data. NET is a system for capturing, validation and processing SWIFT messages within an organization’s information systems infrastructure. Bill has 6 jobs listed on their profile. Cho-Jui Hsieh New low-rank approximation method using for the recommendation system. Guy Ernest is a Solutions Architect with AWS Many developers want to implement the famous Amazon model that was used to power the “People who bought this also bought these items” feature on Amazon. Explicit feedback is especially important in the entertainment and ecommerce industry where all customer engagements are impacted by these ratings. Online shopping is all over the internet. Manage and contribute to projects from all your devices. The purpose of this project is to provide the complete information about the vehicles available for a tour. Best Data Science Projects in Python for Beginners. The objective of a tag recommendation system is to propose a set of tags for a resource to ease the tagging process done manually by a user. its take less time during the execution and works smoothly. Such a facility is called a recommendation system. Generally speaking, collaborative filtering is what you are looking for for this kind of task. The Top 11 Hottest GitHub Projects Right Now. This article is the first part of a multi-part tutorial series that shows you how to implement a machine-learning (ML) recommendation system with TensorFlow and AI Platform in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This project aims to build an integrated recommender system with versatile features based on the Amazon reviews dataset. Windows can't find 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\GitHub'. I guess I. A product recommendation is basically a filtering system that seeks to predict and show the items that a user would like to purchase. Santander Product Recommendation Competition, 2nd Place Winner's Solution Write-Up Tom Van de Wiele | 01. We are going to implement a parallel collaborative filtering recommmendation engine on a single machine, and explore different optimization algorithms addressing memory access problems, and model parallelism using multiple GPUs. I have also tried a one branch per project system (where each project is in a new branch). The Open Compute Project (OCP) is reimagining hardware, making it more efficient, flexible, and scalable. In a content-based recommendation system, keywords are used to describe the items; besides, a user profile is built to state the type of item this user likes. You can vote up the examples you like and your votes will be used in our system to product more good examples. My Lords, I shall speak about regulation relating to data privacy in medical research. Developing Replicable and Reusable Data Analytics Projects This page provides an example process of how to develop data analytics projects so that the analytics methods and processes developed can be easily replicated or reused for other datasets and (as a starting point) in different contexts. Working with GitHub Pages You can create a website directly from a GitHub repository. • Built a functioning application to test the exported model for mobile devices. Bill has 6 jobs listed on their profile. ARRIS Medios Merchandiser is a component of the Medios solution that enables personalized infinite catalog marketing — including video, music, games and applications — across multiple screens, with an intelligent recommendation engine based on user preferences and prior transaction history. Download Python Projects with source code, report, synopsis and documentation. Box 2 briefly explains how version control systems work. 0 system using HTTP, the mechanics of server-to-server authentication interactions require applications to create and cryptographically sign JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), and it's easy to make serious errors that can have a severe impact on the. Developed the official website of Cyr3con from scratch using Angular 6 and Bootstrap. Hulu is using recommendation system to suggest other popular shows or episodes. The project was a part of MSDS692 course and the goal of this project was to learn how to make a simple article recommendation engine using a semi-recent advance in natural language processing called word2vec (or just word vectors). Chia Pei has 5 jobs listed on their profile. The main aim of CI is to prevent integration problems for different parts of a project. And personalization is the key to building a Recommendation Engine(RE), we see it on Netflix, Amazon, LinkedIn and it even exists in the online black market. The design system should have a demoable style guide using tools like Storybook , Styleguidist, docz; The projects comply with ES6 coding standards; As a starting point the react-atomic-lib could be used as a reference. The plugin, I am using is free trial, so its functionalities are limited. productboard is the product management system that helps you get the right products to market, faster. Basic Steps. Project Idea | Recommendation System based on Graph Database The main objective of this project is to build an efficient recommendation engine based on graph database(Neo4j). GitHub recommendations. There are several: * Apache Mahout: Scalable machine learning and data mining * LensKit: LensKit Recommender Toolkit * Prediction. Every software project on sourceLair is backed up by the Source Control Manager of your choice; Git or Mercurial. Every single bit of work I do ends up in Github for my collegues to review or incorporate immediately in their own projects, which at the same time, are hosted in Github. View Chia Pei Tan PMI-ACP® ,PMP® , ITIL,COMIT’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. The top 10 machine learning projects on Github include a number of libraries, frameworks, and education resources. 21, I’ve added the ability to easily use deep neural networks in your recommender system. Scionics Computer Innovation seeks to recruit a highly motivated individual who will be integrated into an existing team dedicated to scientific computing and bioinformatics data analysis. Movie recommendation systems based on collaborative filtering. After my earlier success in the Facebook recruiting competition I decided to have another go at competitive machine learning by competing with over 2,000 particip. The biggest online shopping website is Amazon. 2 Location of the restaurant is an important factor to be consided when building a restaurant recommendation system. However, while solving it, it is easy. A simple recommendation algorithm is included which simply returns the items associated or referenced from the selected item in the graph. When you talk about a movie recommendation system, you can’t help but think about Netflix. Use a version control system (5h), to manage changes to a project. Which is has the same “Recommender” object as engine. A New Feedback System Is Coming to docs. The only difference is, quick_reco_engine. OpenFace is a Python and Torch implementation of face recognition with deep neural networks and is based on the CVPR 2015 paper FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering by Florian Schroff, Dmitry Kalenichenko, and James Philbin at Google. 12/12/2018; 6 minutes to read +3; In this article. This week, a sub-variant of the original, Google Project (GPZ) variant 1 / Spectre security vulnerability was disclosed by MIT. Harmful Mail Scanning a Java Project. Under their current system, a small number of Santander's customers receive many recommendations while many others rarely see any resulting in an uneven customer experience. NYC Data Science Academy teaches data science, trains companies and their employees to better profit from data, excels at big data project consulting, and connects trained Data Scientists to our industry. What do you mean by a "recommendation system"? If you mean that people could get others to post testimonials to the skills of others, then the first thing you would need to do is create a database with a table for people , which could be used fo. Migrated the internal portal for customers from Angular 4 to Angular 5. Also note that you will be able to use Project Professional 2016 and the Project Online Desktop Client, as well as Project Professional 2013, to connect to Project Server 2013. Building Recommender System for GitHub. However, while solving it, it is easy. To design an online book recommendation system that will recommend collection of books that the. A May 17 research report indicated the Deep A zone at Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. • As a reciprocation for the work, was awarded with an ’On Spot Award’ by the Principal Data Scientist. Source Code. My application is not about purchasing but still user recommendations functionality applies here. If you had never thought about recommendation systems before, and someone put a gun to your head, Swordfish-style, and forced you to describe one out loud in 30 seconds, you would probably describe a content-based system. Find latest android project topics for your final year students with source code for learning. Allow for arbitrary TensorFlow graphs to be used as representation functions and loss functions. edu December 10, 2012 1 Introduction In this paper, we are going to study about recommendation systems. He understands complicated matters even when outside of his direct area of expertise. I have developed this mini project Cab Booking System on PHP and MySQL. Netflix both leverages and provides open source technology focused on providing the leading Internet television network. product perspective, product functions, constraints, assumptions and dependencies. Hear what's next for the GitHub platform, find inspiration for your next project, and connect with developers who are changing the world. A simple recommendation algorithm is included which simply returns the items associated or referenced from the selected item in the graph. Product Purchases Recommendation System. Which is has the same “Recommender” object as engine. Netflix is an American entertainment company that uses a model-based collaborative filtering approach. Cover Letter. GitHub is where people build software. These projects on artificial intelligence have been developed to help engineers, researchers and students in their research and studies in AI based systems. Over the past year, we've worked out an internal tagging system that keeps engineering and product efforts organized across repositories on Github. NYC Data Science Academy. The talk will answer these questions and showcase effectiveness of such a recommender system. Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing. We perform network analysis on a constructed graph based on GitHub data and present a recommendation system that uses link prediction. Applying Reinforcement Learning to Competitive Tetris. It’s Ctl+B shortcut lets you run the python file you’re working on straight away. A recommender system or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing 'system' with a synonym such as platform or engine) is a subclass of information filtering system that seeks to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item. Open source software is an important piece of the data science puzzle. Josifovski, A. ) Houping Jia, Xiaojiang Huang, Tengfei Ma, Xiaojun Wan, Jianguo Xiao. Join us at GitHub Universe Our largest product and community conference is returning to the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, November 13-14. At this moment I am trying to deploy the Dionaea HoneyPot on a seperate server with Ubuntu 16. How did Devvela perform from a project management standpoint? Devvela has maintained a contact person for our project. The Maps SDK for Android is distributed as part of the Google Play services SDK. I have developed this mini project Cab Booking System on PHP and MySQL. The Search box is connected with two crawlers (one for Amazon and another for Flipkart). The project hierarchy is intended to model your organizational structure (how product teams and delivery teams are organized in your company). Manage and contribute to projects from all your devices. This often makes perfect. GitHub is the best way to build software together. On GitHub it's available with an example of learning the binary search algorithm. Food Recommendation System Project Report Ipek TATLI 1395557 June,2009 Abstract— This document discusses content-based recommendation systems, i. This project aims to build an integrated recommender system with versatile features based on the Amazon reviews dataset. A recommendation system is an algorithm that can be trained to make future recommendations based on a list of users, a list of items, and a list of ratings given to items by users. View developer profile of Megha K (megha563) on HackerEarth. The jester dataset is not about Movie Recommendations. All repository data is stored on machines that you control, and access is integrated with your organization's authentication system (LDAP, SAML, or CAS). The CC2531 is a USB enabled true system-on-chip (SoC) solution for IEEE 802. All our needs are just a click away. But that is just one part of what Recommenders do. It would be nice to have an arg to re-order the batches every epoch while fitting. Featured Skills: Recommendation Systems, Item-Based Collaborative Filtering, Cosine Similarity This project's goal is to increase sales by recommending products that users are likely to purchase, based on previous purchases. Jordan Conference on Learning Theory (COLT'14) Taxonomy Discovery for Personalized Recommendation Y. I’ll leave the user based collaborative filtering recommender for another post. com, 2014 "Already, 35% of what consumers purchase on Amazon and 75% of what they watch on Netflix come from product recommendations based on such algorithms" - McKinsey. Improved user experience. Recommendation system. You can fork the project if you want to use this project as a starting point. In this developer code pattern, we will develop a hybrid mobile application using IBM MobileFirst® Platform Foundation integrated with a recommendation system, which takes age and gender as input and, based on this, returns a personalized recommendation of jewelry products. In the field of image recommendation, [5] tends to recommend images using Tuned perceptual retrieval(PR), complementary nearest neighbor consensus. Most of the libraries are good for quick prototyping. As a leitmotif we want to build a web-based wine reviews and recommendations website using Python technologies such as Django and Pandas. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system; User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful) Who is going to use it? How are they going to use it? Constraints. Bill has 6 jobs listed on their profile. Oh look I found Ubuntu Books with Unity Shopping Lens! Must Buy! In light of the FUD over the Unity Shopping Lens package that has landed in Quantal there were also some legitimate security and privacy concerns surrounding this new innovative feature that I think will be very useful to many Ubuntu Users. LensKit is an open source toolkit for building, researching, and studying recommender systems. Step-by-step guides for organizational administrators, system administrators, and security specialists who are deploying, configuring, and managing a GitHub Enterprise instance. It's a good idea to at least have a README on your project, because it's the first thing many people will read when they first find your work. Latest version. For starters, you can tag repos now in GitHub, in the form of topics. Netflix is an American entertainment company that uses a model-based collaborative filtering approach. Micronaut Data is a database access toolkit that uses Ahead of Time (AoT) compilation to pre-compute queries for repository interfaces that are then executed by a thin, lightweight runtime layer. Open solution explorer. From the dataset website: "Million continuous ratings (-10. In our project we are taking into consideration the amazon review dataset. Recommender systems (or recommendation engines) are useful and interesting pieces of software. You can use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build a scalable, efficient, and effective service for delivering relevant product recommendations to users in an online store. This is done by verifying each code push by an automated build, allowing developers to detect problems quickly and easily. During the two-week project experience, I got to realize there’s so much I can do with recommendation systems, and how powerful they can be. This project explores mathematical models to simulate tenant flows, and clustering techniques to represent the different patterns of support and care provided for segmented tenant groups. Featured Skills: Recommendation Systems, Item-Based Collaborative Filtering, Cosine Similarity This project's goal is to increase sales by recommending products that users are likely to purchase, based on previous purchases. One's choice for perfume is affected by his/her gender, age, nationality, climate, mood, the season of the year, time of a day, etc. In this article, we'll be dealing with extracting some data from a large data set, and building a Recommender using our extracted data. I've seen several similar questions (here, here and here) in SO, but none of them explains what is a GitHub project, what is a GitHub repository and when to use each one of them. It happens that MAP is also useful for user recommendation systems, like when Amazon shows you a short list of products it thinks you might also want to purchase after you've added something to your cart. Future improvements to the recommending algorithm were alluded to in the previous section. All functionalities are tested under Windows, Mac, and Linux. Project Thoth is an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D Red Hat research project as part of the Office of the CTO and the AI Center of Excellence (CoE). Improved user experience. the original m × n matrix to a product. Revenues can be increased using simple strategies such as: Adding matching product recommendations to your purchase confirmation. List of Recommender Systems. 10th Oct, 2019 Md. There is quick_reco_engine. While developing a recommendation system, especially for content based recommendation, it is important to remember NOT to optimize only for a single metric. These projects on artificial intelligence have been developed to help engineers, researchers and students in their research and studies in AI based systems. Matrix Factorization for Movie Recommendations in Python. This deep recommendation model has achieved 2~3 times of improvement against traditional shallow models for top-N recommendation (N=10), in terms of NDCG, Precision, Recall, and Hit-Ratio, on several product domains of a standard Amazon dataset. Recommendation: Although your application can complete these tasks by directly interacting with the OAuth 2. 2 Location of the restaurant is an important factor to be consided when building a restaurant recommendation system. Recommendations are used for making the work of the customer easier and faster. •Reduced 50% of execution time of automated regression test through performance optimizations based on product logs. Summary: Use these hardware recommendations regarding performance and capacity for Project Server 2013 to identify a suitable starting topology for your requirements. We ranked 1st in both the opinionated and holder subtasks for Simplified Chinese. Mehrdad Gharib Shirangi. Explicit feedback is especially important in the entertainment and ecommerce industry where all customer engagements are impacted by these ratings. The system aims to be a one stop destination for recommendations such as Movies, Books, Blog. I found some spare time to proceed with the MHN project. I believe that Amazon recommendation is currently the best in the market, but how do they provide us with such relevant recommendations? Recently, we have been involved with similar recommendation kind of project, but would surely like to know about the in and outs of the Amazon recommendation technology from a technical standpoint. Flexible Data Ingestion. This post was written by Rob Eisenberg, Senior Program Manager on the docs. There are several: * Apache Mahout: Scalable machine learning and data mining * LensKit: LensKit Recommender Toolkit * Prediction. A team of developers and designers building beautiful and meaningful software everyday. to users based off their previous choices and taste. birthDate field. On behalf of the Committee for Justice, I firmly welcome the introduction of the regulations to bring the Department of Justice's victim charter into operation on a statutory footing. Excellent and result driven. I am working on a personal project. I wanted at the time to test different recommendation…. Php projects, Mysql for Students. As an open source project, we prefer that all improvements be “shared alike,” however, some developers were hindered by the need to “share alike” their added innovations. Test Drive. Bill has 6 jobs listed on their profile. It may not be entirely accurate, but if it shows you what you like then it is doing its job right. Improved user experience. Sérgio Saraiva is a motivated, forward-thinking as well as intelligent system analyst with lots of knowledge in his field. For Sérgio Saraiva the job is obviously the most important thing to do. ) This is one of several ways to keep the application distinct from its logging. Changing or improving the system becomes more difficult over time. In case the Recommendation system depends on system cookies, then the data is available only till the time the user is using the same terminal. In another case, the target product is a music album by Michael Jackson. It’s an open-source project developed by GitHub and is very easy to add functionality for, with its packages system. , churn, recommendation, credit default). First the customer visits the site and enters the place from where to where he wishes to travel. com, 2014 "Already, 35% of what consumers purchase on Amazon and 75% of what they watch on Netflix come from product recommendations based on such algorithms" - McKinsey. Sublime Text: A great all around editor that’s easy to use. It's provide REST API so that client can query product recommendation based on product ID/SKU, The service will be charge based on how many query client does (fee based model). com is the go-to resource for open source professionals to learn about the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends. A list of R libraries for Recommender systems. LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Sal Arora discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts, and business partners. Sign up 💻 An Amazon Office Products Recommendation Engine using Item-Item collaborative filtering and Matrix Factorization. Full disclaimer, I am a bit of a data science beer geek. io * Seldon. We’ll start by explaining why GitHub (and version control systems in general) are actually the perfect place to manage software projects. System Design Cheatsheet. The following scenarios are supported by the SAR algorithm: Item-to-Item Recommendations. For more details on recommendation systems, read my introductory post on Recommendation Systems and a few illustrations using Python. What is a recommendation system? There are two main types of recommendation systems: collaborative filtering and content-based filtering. Future improvements to the recommending algorithm were alluded to in the previous section. Php projects, Mysql for Students. Quick Start; DASE; Evaluation Explained; How-To; Read Custom Events; Customize Data Preparator; Customize Serving; Train with Implicit Preference; Filter Recommended Items by Blacklist in Query; Batch Persistable. A recommendation system performs extensive data analysis in order to generate suggestions to its users about what might interest them. Peter Occil. Its application to a video game recommendation system is available on the internet as a demo of the. How is GitHub Enterprise different from GitHub. Create a business rule or business recommendation. It recommend video based on user comments in that video, and show videos in order of usefulness of the video. Using angular, git, accessibility, for project planning and development using a Scrum methodology with realizations of daily, plans, retro and groomings. Build a real-time recommendation API on Azure. Have a look at the tools others are using, and the resources they are learning from. Josifovski, A. Netflix is committed to open source. Much is made of what the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple know about users. Future improvements to the recommending algorithm were alluded to in the previous section. Project_Search. (System Report. Product: System documentation. In this project, we have designed, implemented and analyzed a song recommendation system. 5% of users have more than 1k reviews. Hi! We are Monterail. GitHub, however, has a built-in Kanban solution in the Projects tab. I collaborated with a team of 5 members as a part of global hackathon to build “Incident Recommendation System for Production Management” using Python, Flask and Matplotlib, that uses TFIDF cosine similarity to recommend similar incidents based on searched job string. We recognized that there are developers that end up with a product idea that they want to productize, and we wanted to allow and support that avenue as well. A recommendation system broadly recommends products to customers best suited to their tastes and traits. Amazon is known not only for its variety of products but also for its strong recommendation system. By Seminar Information Systems (WS17/18) in Course projects March 15, 2018 Exploring and applying current trends in machine learning to a large scale product recommendation based on implicit feedback. If you want to share your code on GitHub, Microsoft and GitHub teamed up to provide an add-in. Building Recommender System for GitHub. PKUTM Participation at TAC 2010 RTE and Summarization Tracks. But that is just one part of what Recommenders do. 2 = 1 1 * 0. This is correct so far. A similar thing happened with Redhat Linux: The CentOS Linux distribution is a totally free fork of Redhat's commercial product. Project Thoth is an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D Red Hat research project as part of the Office of the CTO and the AI Center of Excellence (CoE). Find latest android project topics for your final year students with source code for learning. At this moment I am trying to deploy the Dionaea HoneyPot on a seperate server with Ubuntu 16. Recommendation Brian McFee, Student Member, IEEE, Luke Barrington, and Gert Lanckriet, Member, IEEE Abstract—Many tasks in music information retrieval, such as recommendation, and playlist generation for online radio, fall naturally into the query-by-example setting, wherein a user queries the system by providing a song, and the system responds. Explore Popular Topics Like Government, Sports, Medicine, Fintech, Food, More. For some recommender problems, such as cold-start recommendation problems, deep learning can be an elegant solution for learning from user and item metadata. Download Open Datasets on 1000s of Projects + Share Projects on One Platform. This book provides you with the Scala knowledge you need to build a recommendation engine. Competition in online-selling sites has never been as fierce as it is now. GitHub's tracker is called Issues, and has its own section in every repository. You can think of the weights as measures of influence the input nodes have on the output. Step-by-step guides for organizational administrators, system administrators, and security specialists who are deploying, configuring, and managing a GitHub Enterprise instance. (WDO:TSX) Kiena complex "continues to impress," based on just released assays from five drill holes there, wrote analyst Craig Stanley with Eight Capital. A product recommendation is basically a filtering system that seeks to predict and show the items that a user would like to purchase. Following GitHub repositories is one such way to do so. This Specialization covers all the fundamental techniques in recommender systems, from non-personalized and project-association recommenders through content-based and collaborative filtering techniques, as well as advanced topics like matrix factorization, hybrid machine learning methods for recommender systems, and. Get news, information, and tutorials to help advance your next project or career – or just to simply stay informed. These data science projects will help you integrate all the data science skills that you have learned in DeZyre's comprehensive data science training with python. Predicting Likes: Inside A Simple Recommendation Engine's Algorithms Mahmud Ridwan Mahmud is a software developer with many years of experience and a knack for efficiency, scalability, and stable solutions. Customers spend more money across all their providers, but they spend less per retailer. Only GitLab enables Concurrent DevOps to make the software lifecycle 200% faster. Projects MachineLearning-Projects [ link ] Owner A collection of my ML projects, including : Music Recommendation System / CTR Prediction / Document Topic Model and Classifier / Financial Antifraud Model / Machine Translation / AutoEncoder etc. You can use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build a scalable, efficient, and effective service for delivering relevant product recommendations to users in an online store. The target product is a kids related product, our model gave 4 kids related products while Amazon gave 2 kids related products and 3 cellphones. Apache Spark ML implements alternating least squares (ALS) for collaborative filtering, a very popular algorithm for making recommendations. He is capable of handling the whole team, There were around 10-15 developers, and he was able to help each one of them whenever required. A simple recommendation algorithm is included which simply returns the items associated or referenced from the selected item in the graph. View Pâris MEULEMAN’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. System Design Cheatsheet. Download Python Projects with source code, report, synopsis and documentation. This movie recommendation application include web app and Alexa. an online book recommender system using machine learning (collaborative filtering) algorithm | 1. (WDO:TSX) Kiena complex "continues to impress," based on just released assays from five drill holes there, wrote analyst Craig Stanley with Eight Capital. ers such as Amazon, Walmart etc. Let's learn more about them here. In this article, we'll explore one popular implementation of a recommendation system, how it works, and how to incorporate it into your project. On Our PHP Tutorial Some Projects are given. One of the most famous and powerful recommendation approaches is called collaborative filtering (CF). View Chia Pei Tan PMI-ACP® ,PMP® , ITIL,COMIT’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Most apps that use random numbers care about either unpredictability, high quality, or repeatability. It’s Ctl+B shortcut lets you run the python file you’re working on straight away. fossa-cli on Github; Vulnerability scanning in Beta. Sérgio Saraiva is a motivated, forward-thinking as well as intelligent system analyst with lots of knowledge in his field. Scionics Computer Innovation seeks to recruit a highly motivated individual who will be integrated into an existing team dedicated to scientific computing and bioinformatics data analysis. If you haven't yet created an Android application, you can follow the guide to creating a 'hello world' app. The most widely used CI services allow for integration with third party code hosts, such as GitHub or BitBucket. - We also do not point to the license or the disclaimer of warranty in the individual source files, but we need this in every file. Add shuffle_batches arg to fit() and fit_partial() that shuffles the batch order every epoch if True. We have not included the tutorial projects and have only restricted this list to projects and frameworks. According to the most recent. A recommendation system is an algorithm that can be trained to make future recommendations based on a list of users, a list of items, and a list of ratings given to items by users. Learn Java Programming: Build a Recommendation System from Duke University. My task was to build a backend app to fetch recommendation for a requested user. The UK should have a vision to make an internationally competitive legal framework to support the use of personal data in health research—fully connected law and governance that is easy to navigate, pragmatic and risk proportionate, and regulation that ensures public confidence and trust in the use of. For instance, Amazon is using recommendation system to provide goods that customers might also like. Download Open Datasets on 1000s of Projects + Share Projects on One Platform. 12/12/2018; 6 minutes to read +3; In this article. After checking this question I still have no idea how to get a project uploaded to my Git Hub repository. Excellent and result driven. He understands complicated matters even when outside of his direct area of expertise. Highlights of the Project.
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