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Monday, December 16, 2013
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Why is Bill Gates' foundation investing in private prison companies?
Mother Jones
Why is Bill Gates' foundation investing in private prison companies? http://bit.ly/1blVe5l
You won't believe the companies Bill Gates' foundation invests in.
ExxonMobil, Walmart, and McDonald's are just a few of the companies that the mega-charity supports.
Link: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/gates-foundations-24-most-egregious-investments
With an endowment larger than all but four of
the world's largest hedge funds, the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation is easily one of the most powerful charities in the world.
According to its website, the organization "works
to help all people lead healthy, productive lives." So how do the
investments of the foundation's $36 billion investing arm, the Gates
Foundation Trust, match up to its mission?
In its most recent annual report to investors, private prison company GEO group listed some risks to its bottom line, including "reductions in crime rates" that "could lead to reductions in arrests, convictions and sentences," along with immigration reform and the decriminalization of drugs.
Military contractor DynCorp, meanwhile, has faced allegations of fraud, mismanagement, and even slavery from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
See More: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/gates-foundations-24-most-egregious-investments
Twitter News
The New York Times
Bedouins Fight to Keep Their Family Land
Israeli officials have struggled to convince residents that giving
up land their families have lived on for generations will lead to a
better future.
Howard French
@hofrench
Researchers may have discovered a plan to disable Meniere's disease http://bit.ly/19qThkV
Davan Maharaj @DavanMaharaj
High School Problems @Awkward_Fun
Alfred James @mymindfulness
Sure, it's cold, but the gas company wants you to conserve gas. Some tips http://lat.ms/1hFiaRW
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Maria Popova @brainpicker
Stanford Business @StanfordBiz
Ted Coine @tedcoine
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal @WSJ
Alan Watts @AlanWattsDaily
"I’ve been stalked, followed home, threatened, attacked, hit, kicked, and groped by complete strangers." https://medium.com/ladybits-on-medium/88cac9689b94 …
Fascinating talk by Emmanuel Wallerstein (Yale) on China and the World System, with lots on Africa: http://ow.ly/ry0VF
http://youtu.be/uQV0w11vVO8
"China and the World System since 1945" by Immanuel Wallerstein
Held on November 18, 2013 at the Henry Luce Hall auditorium at Yale University
View on web
"China and the World System since 1945" by Immanuel Wallerstein
Held on November 18, 2013 at the Henry Luce Hall auditorium at Yale University
View on web
Researchers may have discovered a plan to disable Meniere's disease http://bit.ly/19qThkV
EverythingPsychology
Davan Maharaj
GREAT INVESTMENT: this #longread by @latimes reporters: The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner http://fw.to/kIDBw3Q
High School Problems
S.C.H.O.O.L. = Seven Crappy Hours Of Our Life.
C.L.A.S.S. = Come Late And Start Sleeping.
F.I.N.A.L.S. = Fuck I Never Actually Learned Shit
Alfred James
How Going to the Gym Went from Muscle to Mindful http://tinyurl.com/9nvlbqx
Sure, it's cold, but the gas company wants you to conserve gas. Some tips http://lat.ms/1hFiaRW
Gas Company recommends conservation during cold snap
Southern California Gas Co. officials are asking customers to reduce
their heating usage in order to help conserve natural gas supplies as a
cold snap descends across the region.
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Maria Popova
Pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead's love letters to her soul mate, Ruth Benedict http://j.mp/198rLMt #LGBT #loveislove
Stanford Business
What personal characteristics does someone need to become an entrepreneur? Self-confidence and a care for detail http://stnfd.biz/rytYm
If you live your life with the regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you will have no today to be thankful for!
Emotional narcolepsy: the
tendency to switch off whenever others make a demand/start to depend on
you: the compulsion to disappoint.
Ted Coine
Stress-Free Holidaze? Nah. Just Prepare
Wall Street Journal
Chinese demand is helping to fuel a boom in bitcoin, the virtual...
Chinese demand has helped fuel a boom in the virtual currency called
bitcoin. Now, investors are wondering how China's role in the market
will evolve.
Wall Street Journal
Chinese demand is helping to fuel a boom in bitcoin, the virtual currency. http://on.wsj.com/1d1n9Xq
Alan Watts
What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now.
Casual Predation
The other day while riding a Paris train, a man boarded my car and, out of all the empty places to sit, chose the seat d…
Tiger's Nest monastery in Bhutan
Our greatest fear - greater that the fear of any deadly epidemic - is the fear of losing our sense of self.
New York City as seen by RC Airplane
Nov 30, 2010
More information about our gear:
http://www.team-blacksheep.com
Update:
Interview from R/C show FliteTest here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MwfEV...
Safety discussion on AllThingsThatFly:
http://www.allthingsthatfly.com/
Official AMA statement:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/news/nyc...
Team Black Sheep flying in New York, over the Brooklyn and Verazano Bridge, around Downtown Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Enjoy!
Music: Sackcloth Fashion - Under Man (Instrumental)
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Man-Instr...
Equipment by:
http://www.immersionrc.com
http://www.lastonedown.com
http://www.ritewingrc.com
http://www.goprocamera.com
FPV shops:
http://www.nghobbies.com
http://www.readymaderc.com
More information and tipps about FPV in general:
http://www.fpvlab.com
http://www.team-blacksheep.com
Update:
Interview from R/C show FliteTest here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MwfEV...
Safety discussion on AllThingsThatFly:
http://www.allthingsthatfly.com/
Official AMA statement:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/news/nyc...
Team Black Sheep flying in New York, over the Brooklyn and Verazano Bridge, around Downtown Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Enjoy!
Music: Sackcloth Fashion - Under Man (Instrumental)
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Man-Instr...
Equipment by:
http://www.immersionrc.com
http://www.lastonedown.com
http://www.ritewingrc.com
http://www.goprocamera.com
FPV shops:
http://www.nghobbies.com
http://www.readymaderc.com
More information and tipps about FPV in general:
http://www.fpvlab.com
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Link:
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Friday, December 6, 2013
Twitter Highlights
Nelson Mandela: world wakes up to passing of 'giant among men'
His death sparks global outpouring of grief and affection from
presidents to prime ministers, to protesters and people on the street
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Worst tidal surge for 60 years hit the east coast yesterday. All the latest on our live blog http://fw.to/mRNnmzM pic.twitter.com/y8uLETo0fJ
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Slow-Mo GoPro Video Of Cliff Jump Gone Wrong Is Nothing Short Of Insane http://read.bi/1d1udUf pic.twitter.com/QDQi7R0v30
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The #Shakespeare quote #Mandela chose from the complete works of Shakespeare he shared with Robben Island prisoners pic.twitter.com/YcLNFxbJRY
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Forest Service Bought Drones To Keep Tabs On Pot Growers, Realized It...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Forest Service spent $100,000 on two drones
to track marijuana growers back in 2006. But because of aviation
restrictions and a lack of qualified pilots, the Forest Service has...
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Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President,...
Mr. Mandela’s quest for freedom in South Africa’s system of white
rule took him from the court of tribal royalty to the liberation
underground to a prison cell to the presidency.
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Watch Desmond Tutu lead a prayer in memory of Nelson Mandela http://gu.com/p/3y22q/tw @guardianvideo
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Nelson Mandela showed a divided country how to forgive – Telegraph...
I was born within a few miles of Nelson Mandela's home. At the
beginning of the Eighties my parents worked in a rural hospital in what
was then the "Bantustan" of Transkei, the strange semi-nation...
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Video: We must carry on his spirit -Dalai Lama
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says the spirit of Nelson Mandela must be continued.
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Nelson Mandela: From birth to prison on Robben Island
@Yahoo
RT @YahooNewsUK:
Nelson Mandela: A life in pictures:
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Growing pot indoors is a major environmental problem
Thursday, Dec 5, 2013
Environmental wariness and outdoor cultivation will be key for future legal marijuana production in Colorado
(Credit: AP/Ted S. Warren)
The monthly energy bill
for River Rock, a medical marijuana retailer with two dispensaries and a
warehouse in the Denver area, exceeds $21,000. According to John Kocer,
one of River Rock’s owners, that’s nothing: one of his competitors pays
a monthly bill of $100,000 for its warehouse operation.
In Colorado and elsewhere in the U.S., the pot industry generates more than enough revenue to pay its bills. The environmental cost of doing business, though, is a different matter.
In 2011, a study by researcher Evan Mills at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory showed indoor marijuana production accounting for 1 per cent of national electricity production, using $6 billion worth of energy per year, and creating greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to that of 3 million cars.
Faced with the rapid growth of those numbers, the City of Boulder put into place the kind of environmental regulation ordinarily associated with corporate polluters. Boulder requires marijuana growers to purchase wind or solar energy, or to buy carbon offsets. That increases marijuana growing costs by an estimated 20 per cent.
River Rock’s new 18,000 square foot greenhouse will primarily use solar power, rather than artificial lights.
“Our primary goal,” Kocer told CBS Denver, “is to lower our costs as much as possible and pass it on to our patients.”
Outdoor cultivation is more energy—and cost—efficient, of course, but as long as marijuana is illegal on the federal level, we can expect indoor growers to increase their market share.
A 2009 Justice Department assessment of domestic cannabis cultivation makes it plain: the primary advantage of indoor cultivation is to avoid detection, arrest, and eradication by authorities. But chasing the industry indoors as a matter of procedure and policy has its own, increasing environmental impact.
In Boulder, City Councilman Macon Cowles is proud of his city’s efforts to lessen the industry’s emissions.
“The marijuana is greener in Boulder,” he says.
How green the greenhouses prove may be an important part of Colorado’s legalization process.
Link: http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/growing_pot_indoors_is_a_major_environmental_problem_partner/
In Colorado and elsewhere in the U.S., the pot industry generates more than enough revenue to pay its bills. The environmental cost of doing business, though, is a different matter.
In 2011, a study by researcher Evan Mills at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory showed indoor marijuana production accounting for 1 per cent of national electricity production, using $6 billion worth of energy per year, and creating greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to that of 3 million cars.
Faced with the rapid growth of those numbers, the City of Boulder put into place the kind of environmental regulation ordinarily associated with corporate polluters. Boulder requires marijuana growers to purchase wind or solar energy, or to buy carbon offsets. That increases marijuana growing costs by an estimated 20 per cent.
River Rock’s new 18,000 square foot greenhouse will primarily use solar power, rather than artificial lights.
“Our primary goal,” Kocer told CBS Denver, “is to lower our costs as much as possible and pass it on to our patients.”
Outdoor cultivation is more energy—and cost—efficient, of course, but as long as marijuana is illegal on the federal level, we can expect indoor growers to increase their market share.
A 2009 Justice Department assessment of domestic cannabis cultivation makes it plain: the primary advantage of indoor cultivation is to avoid detection, arrest, and eradication by authorities. But chasing the industry indoors as a matter of procedure and policy has its own, increasing environmental impact.
In Boulder, City Councilman Macon Cowles is proud of his city’s efforts to lessen the industry’s emissions.
“The marijuana is greener in Boulder,” he says.
How green the greenhouses prove may be an important part of Colorado’s legalization process.
Link: http://www.salon.com/2013/12/05/growing_pot_indoors_is_a_major_environmental_problem_partner/
Monday, December 2, 2013
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