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Washington Officials Discuss Mudslide

by DamienCorser Posted on March 23, 2014

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All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition – Mel Bartholomew

Rapidly increasing in popularity, square foot gardening is the most practical, foolproof way to grow a home garden. That explains why author and gardening innovator Mel Bartholomew has sold more than two million books describing how to become a successful DIY square foot gardener. Now, with the publication of All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition , t […]

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Dataslate: Helbrutes (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Helbrutes are the vicious Daemon bound war machines of the Chaos Space Marines. Driven insane by the sorcerous wards and chains that bind them to their armoured shells, Helbrutes are barely controlled berserkers that endlessly thirst for battle. The servants of the Dark Gods use Helbrutes as shock troops, unleashing them into enemy lines where they can vent […]

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White Dwarf Issue 8: 22 March 2014 – White Dwarf

Issue 8 of White Dwarf sports new releases for both Warhammer 40,000 and The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey. and features battle reports, how to fight Imperial Knights, drybrushing tutorials and more bears than you might reasonably expect. About this series: White Dwarf is Games Workshop’s weekly magazine, and boasts a wealth of great content, from the l […]

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Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Not all battles in the 41st Millennium are massed engagements between lumbering armies and towering war machines. In the shadows of these epic conflicts, squads of elite soldiers clash – their missions no less vital, their foes no less deadly. Designated as Kill Teams by the Imperium, or by a myriad of different names for their alien and daemonic counterpart […]

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Dataslate: Helbrutes (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

Helbrutes are the vicious Daemon bound war machines of the Chaos Space Marines. Driven insane by the sorcerous wards and chains that bind them to their armoured shells, Helbrutes are barely controlled berserkers that endlessly thirst for battle. The servants of the Dark Gods use Helbrutes as shock troops, unleashing them into enemy lines where they can vent […]

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The Honest Life – Jessica Alba

As a new mom, Jessica Alba wanted to create the safest, healthiest environment for her family. But she was frustrated by the lack of trustworthy information on how to live healthier and cleaner—delivered in a way that a busy mom could act on without going to extremes. In 2012, with serial entrepreneur Brian Lee and environmental advocate Christopher Gavigan, […]

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Dataslate: Tyranid Onslaught – Rising Leviathan III – Games Workshop

The Satys System has been all but overrun by the tendrils of Hive Fleet Leviathan. From beneath the impenetrable Shadow in the Warp, scattered pockets of Imperial resistance still fight on, even as their doom becomes ever clearer. Now the third and final stage of the Tyranids consumption of the system begins, and the largest most terrifying bio-horrors walk […]

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Be the Pack Leader – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

Bestselling author Cesar Millan takes his principles of dog psychology a step further, showing you how to develop the calm-assertive energy of a successful pack leader and use it to improve your dog’s life–and your own. Filled with practical tips and techniques as well as real-life success stories from his clients (including the Grogan family, owners of Marl […]

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, “Yes, […]

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Dataslate: Tyranid Onslaught – Rising Leviathan III (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

The Satys System has been all but overrun by the tendrils of Hive Fleet Leviathan. From beneath the impenetrable Shadow in the Warp, scattered pockets of Imperial resistance still fight on, even as their doom becomes ever clearer. Now the third and final stage of the Tyranids consumption of the system begins, and the largest most terrifying bio-horrors walk […]

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Washington Officials Discuss Mudslide

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See what environmental problem Robert Redford and Will Ferrell are fighting about

by Myrna Posted on March 19, 2014

This fake fight has a good cause. Visit link: See what environmental problem Robert Redford and Will Ferrell are fighting about ; ;Related ArticlesHow to make zero carbon cheeseCrowdsourcing an online compendium of small farmer innovationA Map of History’s Biggest Greenhouse Gas Polluters ;

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See what environmental problem Robert Redford and Will Ferrell are fighting about

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How Postmodern Jukebox Turns Kesha to Doo-Wop, Guns N’ Roses to NoLa Blues

by NormaBoismenu Posted on March 10, 2014

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Ever wonder what Miley Cyrus might sound like if it were written and recorded in the 1950s? Or what Pitbull and Kesha’s “Timber” would be like if it were produced at the height of doo-wop? Lady Gaga transposed to the ’40s? Daft Punk done by Irish tenor singers? A Motown tribute to Nickelback? Lorde’s “Royals” sung by a talented clown? “Blurred Lines” converted into a bluegrass dance tune?

Postmodern Jukebox’s “alternate history of pop music” has all that, and much more. For instance, check out the group’s recent cover of Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” featuring Miche Braden—in the style of New Orleans blues:

“Before things took off on YouTube, I was a jazz pianist,” says Scott Bradlee, the group’s founder. “When I moved to New York when I was 24, I did the thing all musicians do: played clubs and so on. I had all these ideas in my head since high school, like when would I take classic rock and made it ragtime. I was probably the only kid in my high school who really liked ragtime. I wanted to find a venue for that kind of experience. I didn’t find it in jazz clubs—i found it on YouTube.”

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Cities Are Still Too Afraid to Make Driving Unappealing

by Myrna Posted on March 7, 2014

Carrots will only go so far. Traffic jam in Los Angeles. egdigital/Thinkstock The morning I wrote this I took public transportation to work. I hopped on the bus around the corner from my house, then the train for a few stops farther. I took mass transit because it was convenient, because my card was already preloaded with the cash that diverts from my paycheck, and because the ride gave me 20 minutes to start the day browsing Twitter. Baked into this decision, however, were a number of other nearly subliminal calculations about the alternatives not taken. I did not drive the car (yes, my household has a car) because downtown Washington, D.C., is a hot mess at rush hour, and because parking near the office costs the equivalent of a fancy hamburger a day. I did not bike because it was snowing. (Again.) And I did not walk because the distance was too far. My commuting choices — just like everyone’s — are the sum of the advantages of one transportation mode weighed against the downsides of all other options. Or, more succinctly: my feelings about the bus are mediated by what I’m thinking about my car. At a macro level, this decision-process implies that there are two ways to shift more commuters out of single-occupancy vehicles and into other modes of transportation, whether that’s biking, carpooling, walking, or transit. We can incentivize transit by making all of those other options more attractive. Or we can disincentivize driving by making it less so. What’s become increasingly apparent in the United States is that we’ll only get so far playing to the first strategy without incorporating the second. Read the rest at Atlantic Cities. Originally posted here:   Cities Are Still Too Afraid to Make Driving Unappealing ; ;Related ArticlesCitizen Scientists: Now You Can Link the UK Winter Deluge To Climate ChangeHere Are 5 Infuriating Examples of Facts Making People DumberA World of Water, Seen From Space ;

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Using Putin To Push Fossil-Fuel Projects

by Myrna Posted on March 7, 2014

Will natural gas exports really solve the Ukraine crisis? Experts aren’t so sure. A trade union building being seized in Simferopol, Ukraine. Stanislav Krasilnikov/ITAR-TASS/ZUMA The hallmark of a Republican policy proposal is that it can be adapted to virtually any circumstance. Just as George W. Bush advanced tax cuts as the appropriate response to both budget surplus and deficit, congressional Republicans believe that fossil fuel promotion is the appropriate response to, well, everything. And so they have looked at the vexing problem of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea region and come up with a carefully calibrated answer: “Drill, baby, drill!” First, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was struck with a brilliant insight: If Russia’s meddling in Ukraine is dangerous because Russiasupplies Europe with oil and natural gas through pipelines that traverse Ukraine, then the U.S. should offer Europe an alternative source of fossil fuels. And so, she argues, the Obama administration should expedite approval of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals. “Our ability to respond quickly and nimbly I think is somewhat hampered by the process that we have in place,” she told reporters at an energy industry conference in Houston on Monday. “If this was a situation in which we wanted to use as political leverage our natural gas opportunities here, we’re not in that place now, and quite honestly it may be some time.” In her speech to the gathering, she also called on Congress to repeal the ban on exporting crude oil, saying, “Lifting the oil export ban will send a powerful message that America has the resources and the resolve to be the preeminent power in the world.” Read the rest at Grist. See the article here –  Using Putin To Push Fossil-Fuel Projects ; ;Related ArticlesCitizen Scientists: Now You Can Link the UK Winter Deluge To Climate ChangeHere Are 5 Infuriating Examples of Facts Making People DumberA World of Water, Seen From Space ;

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Citizen Scientists: Now You Can Link the UK Winter Deluge To Climate Change

by Myrna Posted on March 4, 2014

Anyone with a computer can now join an Oxford University research project to reveal what role global warming played the UK’s record-breaking wet winter. Flooding in Surrey, UK. Ben Cawthra/Eyevine/eyevine/ZUMA “You can’t link climate change to specific weather events.” That is the accepted wisdom that has been trotted out repeatedly as the wettest winter in at least 250 years battered England and Wales. But the accepted wisdom is wrong: it is perfectly possible to make that link and, as of today, you can play a part in doing so. A new citizen science project launched by climate researchers at the University of Oxford will determine in the next month or so whether global warming made this winter’s extreme deluge more likely to occur, or not. You can sign up here. The weather@home project allows you to donate your spare computer time in return for helping turn speculation over the role of climate change in extreme weather into statistical fact. That debate has been reignited by the devastating winter weather and the flooding and storm damage it wrought (more on that debate here). The research that links global warming to particular extreme weather events is called attribution and has already notched up notable successes. The Oxford team showed in 2011 that climate change was loading the extreme weather dice as far back as 2000, in a study that showed serious flooding in England that year was made two to three times more likely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The killer heat waves in Europe in 2003 and 2010 were also made far more likely by global warming, similar research has demonstrated, while another new study shows how hurricane Katrina would have been far less devastating had it happened a hundred years ago. Read the rest at The Guardian. Link:   Citizen Scientists: Now You Can Link the UK Winter Deluge To Climate Change ; ;Related ArticlesLow-Lying Islands Are Going To Drown, so Should we Even Bother Trying To Save Their Ecosystems?Study: Global Warming Will Cause 180,000 More Rapes by 2099Obama has a good transportation plan. Now we just need to raise the gas tax to pay for it. ;

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Global warming slowdown ‘does not invalidate climate change’

by Myrna Posted on February 28, 2014

National science academies of the US and the UK say longer-term warming trend is still evident. worradirek/Shutterstock The slowdown in rising global surface temperatures is not a sign that climate change is no longer happening, the national science academies of the US and the UK have said. Publishing a guide on the state of climate change science, the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society said the short-term slowdown this century did not “invalidate” the long-term trend of rising temperatures caused by man-made climate change. “Despite the decadal slowdown in the rise of average surface temperature, a longer-term warming trend is still evident. Each of the last three decades was warmer than any other decade since widespread thermometer measurements were introduced in the 1850s,” the publication, Climate Change Evidence and Causes, said. You can read the rest of this story at the Guardian. See the article here –  Global warming slowdown ‘does not invalidate climate change’ ; ;Related ArticlesIs the Arctic Really Drunk, or Does It Just Act Like This Sometimes?The Arctic “Death Spiral” ContinuesClimate Change “Very Evident,” So Let’s Deal With It, World Panel Says ;

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GMO soybeans are bad for Mexico’s beekeepers

by mklabs1234 Posted on February 10, 2014

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Marley & Me – John Grogan

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new material

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White Dwarf Issue 2: 8 Feb 2014 – White Dwarf

Issue 2 showcases more new Dwarf releases and an interview with the author of the new Dwarf army book, Jeremy Vetock, along with rules for the fantastic new Gyrobomber. About this series: White Dwarf is Games Workshop’s weekly magazine, and boasts a wealth of great content, from the latest new releases to modelling and painting guides, gaming features, […]

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, “Yes, […]

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Following Atticus – Tom Ryan

After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four thousand- foot peaks twice in one winter while raising money for charity. It wa […]

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Warhammer: Dwarfs – Games Workshop

From their mountain strongholds the Dwarfs march forth to war. Amongst the oldest of the races of the world, the Dwarfs have endured through long centuries of conflict and turmoil. Sturdy and stoic as the mountains they mine, in battle they are implacable foes, standing their ground behind solid shield walls and glittering gromril armour. Dwarf invention mak […]

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How to Paint Citadel Miniatures: Dwarfs – Games Workshop

Shining armour, intricate runes and flowing beards are all hallmarks of the Dwarf race. Their mastery over metals means that their armour and weapons are often the finest in the Old World, their craftsmanship far beyond the ability of Man. There are few sights on the tabletop as inspiring as ranks of armoured Dwarfs advancing on their foes. About this Editio […]

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Warhammer Battlefields: The Underway – Games Workshop

War rages beneath the mountains of the Warhammer World, subterranean armies fighting for bloody dominance of the Undgrin Ankor: the Underway. Created by the Dwarfs during their golden age, this ancient network of deep roads and cavern cities crisscrosses the roots of the world. However, during the great catastrophe that laid the Dwarf empire low, the Underwa […]

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The Art of Raising a Puppy (Revised Edition) – Monks of New Skete

For more than thirty years the Monks of New Skete have been among America’s most trusted authorities on dog training, canine behavior, and the animal/human bond. In their two now-classic bestsellers, How to be Your Dog’s Best Friend and The Art of Raising a Puppy, the Monks draw on their experience as long-time breeders of German shepherds and as t […]

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Cat Sense – John Bradshaw

Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense , renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using […]

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White Dwarf Issue 1: 1 Feb 2014 – White Dwarf

Issue 1 of White Dwarf starts with a bang as the Dwarfs march forth with some stunning new miniatures. Inside the issue you’ll find full rules for Belegar Ironhammer, a discussion of Tyranid Monstrous Creatures, painting guides and more. About this series: White Dwarf is Games Workshop’s weekly magazine, and boasts a wealth of great content, from t […]

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Do We Write Too Much and Read Too Little?

by JustinaAshbolt Posted on January 17, 2014

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I don’t remember where I saw this yesterday—which might be a symptom of the very disease under discussion—but I wanted to pass along the following from Alan Jacobs:

One of the most reliable ways to sharpen your own thinking is to find out what other smart people have thought and said about the things you’re interested in — that is, to take the time to read. But the content-hungry world of online publishing creates strong disincentives for writers to take that time. Almost every entity that has an online presence wants to publish as frequently as possible — as long as the quality of the writing is adequate. And often “adequacy” is determined by purely stylistic criteria: a basic level of clarity and, when possible, some vividness of style.

….So writers tend to trust the first thoughts that come to them, rarely bothering to find out whether others have already considered their topic and written well about it — and in fact not wanting to know about earlier writing, because that might pre-empt their own writing, their publication — the “content” that editors want and that will keep readers’ Twitter feeds clicking and popping with links. In the current system everyone feels stimulated or productive or both. And hey, it’s only reading and thinking that go by the wayside.

Actually, in some circumstances it’s best not to know what other people are saying and thinking. In particular, there are times when I keep myself deliberately in the dark in order to avoid groupthink.

But that’s fairly rare. In general, I think Jacobs is right, and I’ve certainly found it to be a problem. When I’m in full-bore blogging mode, I just don’t have time to read anything longer than a thousand words or so, even if it’s something that I should read because it would inform my own thinking. Instead, I try to save it for later in the afternoon, which is when my writing pace slows down and I can spend more time reading longer pieces. But I’m only moderately successful at this, and in the end I find myself simply not reading enough these days. The pace of blogging interferes with my ability to slow down even when I’m not sitting at the desk and actively typing characters for a post.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with just chatting about stuff, and to a large extent that’s what blogging and tweeting and tumblring is. Nor is it a crime to repeat something that’s already been said. Some things are worth a lot of repetition. Finally, despite a lot of wailing to the contrary, it doesn’t strike me that the rise of blogging and social media has actually hurt the production of books and long form journalism much. It’s all still out there and it still gets read.

Still, this is something to be aware of. Ironically, it’s also something that’s been written about to death. But it doesn’t hurt to write about it again.

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What’s Kathleen Hanna Listening to 16 Years Post-Bikini Kill?

by ggkk2121333 Posted on January 13, 2014

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Two decades ago, Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, who now fronts a quintet called The Julie Ruin, was at the forefront of the punk-rock feminist movement. I asked the riot grrrl icon what she’s listening to nowadays, and here’s what she had to say. To read the rest of our interview, click here.

1. I’d say Santigold is probably my favorite younger artist. “Creator” is the song that I listen to when I’m really like, “I can’t do it anymore!” It’s such a bold statement about being someone who makes stuff, whatever that stuff is. It gives me so much confidence.

2. I really like Grimes a lot. I love that she produces her music and she’s unapologetic about being a feminist. It sounds like a contradiction to mix fashion with feminism and I really love that she just walks through that like, “What do you mean? There’s no contradiction.”

3. I’ve been really into Vic Chesnutt lately. His music is so moving and so beautiful, and his voice is just so different than anybody else’s. I’ve lost a lot of people to suicide and I can’t listen to the music of friends who died of suicide, but I can listen to his, because he wasn’t my friend. There is sadness in his pain and also just joy. I love the idea that he survives through his music. That’s a really hopeful, sweet thing.

4. I really love LCD Soundsystem—like everybody else on the planet—just the way that James Murphy took so many references of Joy Division, or whatever he was referencing, and really was able to make it his own. He has a great record collection and knows a lot of music and it really comes out in such an interesting, beautiful way. He mixed a song on our record, so I got to meet him, and it was really fun.

5. I love old country music: Hank Williams Senior, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, and all that kind of stuff. George Jones is a favorite. I just really love the style of writing where every chorus is colored by the verse and the verses change what the chorus means. It tells stories of peoples’ lives. I listened to country music as a kid. I’m kind of leaning toward that way of writing as I get older.

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