Rita Frances Dove is a poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as “United States Poet Laureate”. She was the first, and to date only, African-American to be appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 out of the previous “consultant in poetry” position (1937-86). Dove also received an appointment as “special consultant in poetry” for the Library of Congress’s bicentennial year from 1999-2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004-2006. Some of Dove’s works are Fifth Sunday, The Poet’s Worlf, and Through the Ivory Gate.
Over 40,000 Hotmail and MSN email addresses, along with passwords, have been discovered on a phishing Web site. Read about the incident here.
You know those spam emails that ask you to provide your username/password credentials for your bank, email, Facebook, or otherwise? Well, one user on Reddit decided to take a closer look at the Web site of a link included within one of those emails, and what they ultimately found was a text file filled with ~47,000 email addresses and passwords belonging to Hotmail and MSN users.
Though it’s unclear as to if these were successfully-phished email addresses or email addresses being used solely to send out phishing emails, the individual on Reddit wrote a script in Python to test the validity of the addresses and found that ~85% out of ~2000were accessible via the passwords accompanying them. Many of those accounts show inbox activity as well.
In the end, the Redditor reported their find to Microsoft (since Hotmail/MSN are Microsoft services). To quote:
Just finished talking to Microsoft. They have the list. The server hosting the files has been down for at least 2 hours, I don’t know if it’ll ever come back. Guys at Microsoft were extremely nice, and it also felt like I had actually done something.
If you’re a Hotmail or MSN user and you suspect you may be a victim of phishing, it wouldn’t hurt to go ahead and change your password. Overall, this is most likely nothing to be alarmed about; however, these types of lists are far more common than readily meets the eye. With a little bit ofadvanced Google search querying, it’s fairly easy to dig up these lists residing in wide-open directories on phishing Web sites.
Last of note, if you’re curious to see if an email/username of yours has been discovered within any type of list like this that’s gone public, check out pwnedlist.com. They’re a reputable site that currently houses almost 5 MILLION email addresses and usernames in their database that you can check for (assuming you trust they won’t store your email address once you enter it to search for). Needless to say, if an email address or username of yours is confirmed there, you might want to change all associated passwords for that email address/username.
Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Who’s, an almost mutated sort of munchkinlike people. All the Who’s love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriend the Grinch. Rejected by the Who’s as a child and living in spiteful seculsion for most of his life, the Grinch has always hated the citizens of Whoville. That especially goes for Christmas with the Who’s noise, phony sentiment and wasteful materialism. When little Cindy Lou Who’s attempt to transcend the festivities’ empty commercialism by inviting the Grinch ends with his public humiliation, the Grinch hatches upon on his supreme scheme to ruin the holidays.
Lydia Barashango, 64, a nurse and social worker who was the sister of Mumia Abu-Jamal, died Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Maryland of breast cancer. Friends said she had been living in Baltimore.
Mrs. Barashango was a strong defender of her brother, the Philadelphia radio reporter and Black Panther who was convicted and sentenced to death by a jury in 1982 for the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
Abu-Jamal, 57, has become the object of a decades-long debate over the use of the death penalty for his role in the Dec. 9, 1981, shooting of Faulkner. In addition to the death-penalty issue, supporters and opponents disagree on whether Abu-Jamal is guilty, and on whether he received a fair trial.
Mrs. Barashango was interviewed in 2000 for an A&E documentary about the case. She said that the day after the shooting, she didn’t recognize her brother at the hospital because he had been “brutalized” by police. When she asked him if he was all right, he told her, “I’m innocent. I’m innocent.”
In 1999, Mrs. Barashango participated in a march around City Hall with 10,000 of her brother’s supporters, many waving “Free Mumia” signs.
Demanding a new trial, she told the crowd, “This rally takes our struggle to a whole new level. We aren’t playing anymore.”
Mrs. Barashango’s husband, Ishakamusa, a minister and African American scholar, died in 2004.
A middle-income family with a child born in 2010 can expect to spend about $226,920 to raise the child to age 18, according to a Department of Agriculture report. The cost grew 2 percent from last year, with the greatest share of the increase coming from transportation, child care, education, and health care.
The department has calculated the costs annually since 1960. The first year the report was issued, a middle-income family could have expected to spend $25,230 ($185,856 in 2010 dollars) to raise a child. Then and now, housing was the largest expense. Health care expenses have doubled as a percentage of total child-rearing costs. Some common costs today were insignificant in 1960, such as child care.
In 2010, per child annual child-rearing expenses for a middle-income, two-parentfamily range from $11,880 to $13,830, depending on the age of the child, based on data from the federal government‘s Consumer Expenditure Survey.
The total cost grew almost 40 percent from 2000, according to CNN.Money.com.
The report broke down the birth-to-age-18 costs for middle income families:
Housing, $69,660. Food, $36,210.
Transportation, $30,900.
Clothing, $13,200.
Health care, $18,420.
Child care/education, $39,420.
Misc. $19,110.
Killin’ Them Softly is easily one of HBO’s best comedy specials, catching starDave Chappelle at a career high in 2000 and with an abundance of hysterical, highly polished material. Taking his time, stretching concepts and bits like a master, Chappelle plunges into a wealth of anecdotes and observations about the influx of white people into Washington, D.C. (where this show was recorded) since the 1980s. (“Who are the scariest people? White guys in black gangs. No telling what they did to get respect.”) There are fantastic tales of racing cops with Chappelle’s white friend, Chip, and a great story about being left alone in a limousine outside a busy crack house. Other good stuff: introducing a kid to a PePe Le Pew cartoon and realizing too late the skunk is a sex criminal, and why we should know our 911 calls will end up played on television.
Originally aired on HBO in 2000, “Killin’ Them Softly” is without a doubt one of the funniest standup specials available. You’ll never laugh more than you will here. Dave spares no victim as he addresses issues about the Police, Racism, Sesame Street, Kids, and the Government. It’s hilarious! Comedy doesn’t get any better than this!
Well for the purpose of this article, there are two types, Sodium Fluoride and Calcium Fluoride
Calcium Fluoride appears naturally in underground water sources and even seawater.
Sodium Fluoride is a synthetic waste product of the nuclear, aluminium, and phosphate fertilizer industries. This fluoride has an amazing capacity to combine and increase the potency of other toxic materials. The sodium fluoride obtained from industrial waste and added to water supplies is also already contaminated with lead, aluminum, and cadmium. It damages the liver and kidneys, weakens the immune system, possibly leading to cancer, creates symptoms that mimic fibromyalgia, and performs as a Trojan Horse to carry aluminum across the blood brain barrier. The latter is recognized as a source of the notorious “dumbing down” with lower IQ’s and Alzheimer’s effects of fluoride. Various permutations of Sodium Fluoride are also in many insecticides for homes and pesticides for crops. Sometimes it is even added to baby foods and bottled waters. If you live in a water fluoridated area, purchase commercially grown fruits, especially grapes, and vegetables that are chemically sprayed and grown areas irrigated by fluoridated water, you are getting a triple whammy! Better skip that fluoridated toothpaste! – source
Besides tap water, what else is Sodium Fluoride found in?
1. Toothpaste – As of April 7th, 1997, the United States FDA (Food & Drug Administration) has required that all fluoride toothpastes sold in the U.S. carry a poison warning on the label. The warning cautions toothpaste users to:“WARNING: Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poison control center immediately.”For data on how much fluoride children ingest from toothpaste, click here .
2. Infant Formula – For further information on fluoride exposure from infant formula, click here
3. Processed Cereals – “During manufacturing, infant dry cereals are processed in a slurry and placed in a revolving drying drum. The water from the slurry evaporates, and the fluoride from the water remains in the cereal. Thus, the fluoride concentration of the water used during processing can substantially affect the final fluoride concentration… Infants who eat large quantities of dry infant cereals reconstituted with fluoridated water could ingest substantial quantities of fluoride from this source.” – Heilman JR, et al. (1997). Fluoride concentrations of infant foods. Journal of the American Dental Association 128(7):857-63.
4. Juices – “Our data suggest that young children who regularly or frequently drink substantial quantities of [juice] possibly should not receive dietary fluoride supplements, since they might be at increased risk of developing dental fluorosis.” – Kiritsy MC, et al. (1996). Assessing fluoride concentrations of juices and juice-flavored drinks. Journal of the American Dental Association 127(7):895-902.
5. Soda – “Seventy-one percent of the [sodas] had fluoride levels exceeding 0.60 ppm, which is considered to contain sufficient fluoride so that dietary fluoride supplements are contraindicated.”- Heilman JR, et al. (1999). Assessing fluoride levels of carbonated soft drinks. Journal of the American Dental Association 130(11):1593-9.
6. Wine – “Analyses of nineteen California wines revealed fluoride concentrations ranging from 0.23 to 2.80 ppm (mean 1.02 ppm, with seven samples above the international limit of 1 ppm).” – Burgstahler AW, et al. (1997). Fluoride in California wines and raisins. Fluoride 30: 142-146.
7. Beer – “Soda and beer bottled with fluoridated water contain 0.7 to 1 ppm fluoride; consumption of these beverages is almost certainly more variable among individuals than consumption of water… If beer contains 0.7 ppm fluoride, heavy beer-drinkers may ingest more than 4 mg daily from beer alone.” – Groth, E. (1973), Two Issues of Science and Public Policy: Air Pollution Control in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Fluoridation of Community Water Supplies. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, May 1973.
8. Teflon Pans – “Teflon-lined cookware contributes to the fluoride ingested by humans. Full and Parkins boiled fluoridated water at a moderate rate until a one-third or one-half reduction in volume was attained, then determined the fluoride content of the residual water… In Teflon-coated ware, the concentration of fluoride ion increased to nearly 3 ppm.
9. Rat Poison – Since the 1800s, fluoride has been a key component in rat poison and insecticides. When mixed into grain or other food, rats will readily consume the poison and die
10. PROZAC! – Part of the main ingredient in Prozac is fluoride. Talk about dumbing down society.
The below countries have made a stand against fluoridation of their drinking water.
Germany: “Generally, in Germany fluoridation of drinking water is forbidden. The relevant German law allows exceptions to the fluoridation ban on application. The argumentation of the Federal Ministry of Health against a general permission of fluoridation of drinking water is the problematic nature of compuls[ory] medication.”999). www.fluoridealert.org/Germany.jpeg
France: “Fluoride chemicals are not included in the list [of 'chemicals for drinking water treatment']. This is due to ethical as well as medical considerations.”000). www.fluoridealert.org/France.jpeg
Belgium: “This water treatment has never been of use in Belgium and will never be (we hope so) into the future. The main reason for that is the fundamental position of the drinking water sector that it is not its task to deliver medicinal treatment to people. This is the sole responsibility of health services.” 000). www.fluoridation.com/c-belgium.htm
Luxembourg: “Fluoride has never been added to the public water supplies in Luxembourg. In our views, the drinking water isn’t the suitable way for medicinal treatment and that people needing an addition of fluoride can decide by their own to use the most appropriate way, like the intake of fluoride tablets, to cover their [daily] needs.”000). www.fluoridealert.org/luxembourg.jpeg
Sweden: “Drinking water fluoridation is not allowed in Sweden…New scientific documentation or changes in dental health situation that could alter the conclusions of the Commission have not been shown.” 000). www.fluoridation.com/c-sweden.htm
Denmark: “We are pleased to inform you that according to the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy, toxic fluorides have never been added to the public water supplies. Consequently, no Danish city has ever been fluoridated.” 999). www.fluoridation.com/c-denmark.htm
Norway: “In Norway we had a rather intense discussion on this subject some 20 years ago, and the conclusion was that drinking water should not be fluoridated.” 000). www.fluoridation.com/c-norway.htm
Finland: “We do not favor or recommend fluoridation of drinking water. There are better ways of providing the fluoride our teeth need.” 000). www.fluoridation.com/c-finland.htm
Northern Ireland: “The water supply in Northern Ireland has never been artificially fluoridated except in 2 small localities where fluoride was added to the water for about 30 years up to last year. Fluoridation ceased at these locations for operational reasons. At this time, there are no plans to commence fluoridation of water supplies in Northern Ireland.” 000). www.fluoridealert.org/northern-ireland.jpeg
As of 26th May 2011, 3692 medical professionals have signed the statement calling for the end of water fluoridation. Full details can be found here
• 651 Nurses (RN, MSN, BSN, ARNP, APRN, LNC, RGON)
• 539 DC’s (Doctor of Chiropractic, includes M Chiro)
• 457 PhD’s – includes DSc, Doctor of Science; EdD (Doctor of Education); DrPH (Doctor of Public Health)
• 398 MD’s (includes MBBS)
• 313 Dentists (DDS, DMD, BDS)
• 155 ND’s (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine)
• 83 Lawyers (JD, LLB, Avvocato)
• 82 Pharmacists (Pharm.D, B. Pharm, DPh, RPH)
• 79 RDHs (Registered Dental Hygienist); also DH, RDHAP, EFDA, RDAEF, and RDN
• 59 Acupuncturists (LAc – Licensed Acupuncturist, and, MAc -Master Acupuncturist)
• 35 DO’s (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)
• 25 Veterinarians (DMV, VMD, BVMS)
• 17 OD (Doctor of Optometry)
• 15 PA-C (Physician Assistant – Certified); also MPAS and RPA-C
So it is apparent that fluoride is a poisonous by-product of industry. If fluoride is a main ingredient in Procaz, are governments that allow water fluoridation attempting to dumb their people down? Are we more malleable as a society when fluoride is present? I would say Yes and Yes!!
You know the expression: Numbers don’t lie. And according to the Nielsen BDS report, Usher’s “Yeah” is the second most played record of the last 10 years with 416,267 spins. Unfortunately, the song was no match for Tim McGraw’s “Something Like That” with 487,343 rotations.Meanwhile, Flo Rida’s “Low” and Snoop’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot” own the Rhythmic and Urban formats, respectively.
CHR/Top 40: “Yeah” / Usher featuring Ludacris & Lil Jon / 416,267 spins
Rhythmic: “Low” / Flo Rida featuring T-Pain / 206,864 spins
Urban: “Drop It Like It’s Hot” / Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell / 169,511 spins
A hero grandmother told how she was forced to break down the door of a stranded Eurostar train yesterday fearing for the lives of her two grandchildren trapped inside, struggling to breathe.
Yvonne Lewis, 54, below, was among more than 2,000 British passengers stuck with hardly any food or water for up to 18 HOURS in searing 40C (104F) heat when five trains broke down in the Channel Tunnel – wreaking travel mayhem.
Terrified holidaymakers – many on their way back from Disneyland Paris – say they were treated like “caged animals” by Eurostar staff who even told some to stop breathing so heavily as “there is not enough oxygen for everyone”. (more…)
Like the vast forests of the world, which continually suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen, the planet’s oceans serve as vital carbon sinks. Last year the oceans absorbed as much as 2.3 billion tons of carbon, or about one-fourth of all manmade carbon emissions. Without the action of the oceans, the CO2 we emit into the atmosphere would have flame-broiled the planet by now.
But a new paper published in the Nov. 19 issue of Nature demonstrates that the oceans’ ability to absorb man-made carbon may be dwindling — and that has worrying ramifications for future climate change. While the ocean is now absorbing more carbon in total than ever before, the waters are sucking up a smaller percentage of the CO2 emitted by humans. That could mean that there’s a physical limit to the oceans’ capacity — and we could be hitting it (more…)
