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  2. Happy new year to u hope 2014 is a good year for u xxxxxx
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  3. In technology news, Apple introduces the iPhone 5, which features an improved camera, time travel and the ability to text with the dead.

    On the entertainment front, “Breaking Bad” airs its final episode, leaving us with basically no reason... to go on living.

    Diana Nyad completes an unprecedented swim from Cuba to Florida, a feat made all the more difficult by the fact that she had a family of five clinging to her back.

    In the month’s biggest surprise, Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation after giving an interview to Oprah Winfrey in which he reveals that he is not Catholic.

    In other foreign-affairs news, Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea for a loon-to-loon meeting with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, who presents the former NBA star with a commemorative set of 50 political prisoners.

    NASA announces that the latest data sent back by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter appear to confirm data previously transmitted by the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Surveyor, Mars Wanderer, Mars Trailbreaker, Mars Roamer, Mars Walker, Mars Strider, Mars Meanderer, Mars Stroller, Mars Lunger and Mars Traipser, suggesting that Mars is pretty much covered with rocks.

    In a shocking interview, Lance Armstrong, after years of denial, admits to Oprah Winfrey that he took illegal drugs in all seven of his Tour de France victories, as well as using a motorcycle for certain stages of the race and “occasionally” shooting opponents with poison-tipped darts. Also he played “a small role” in the JFK assassination.
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  4. Merry Christmas dad kids have had a ball..
    Thinking of christmas's gone by and absent family .. I raise my glass cheers!
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    • Alan C Scotch Having just had my first cup of Typhoo tea in 30 years ( our local supermarket has an "international section" that just expanded) --- at 9am I raise my cup of tea a toast to a very Merry Christmas to you Paul and your family!
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  5. Thank you and have a merry Christmas xxx
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  6. To granddad Alan we are wishing u a happy Christmas Eve lots of love Codie, jack, Finley and Logan xxxxxxxx
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  7. O'Reilly: "There is no question that Jon Stewart is going to hell"
    Jon Stewart: " I make my living out of watching Fox News 8 hours a day. I'm already in hell"! http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-19-2013/the-best-of-the-war-on-christmas
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  8. 2005 TJ Maxx, Marshalls 45 million credit cards
    2009 Heartland Payment Systems 160 million
    2011 SONY 100 million
    2013 160 million - JC Penney, 7-Eleven, Nasdaq, Dow Jones, JetBlue
    2013 Global Payments 1.5 million
    2013 JPMorgan Chase 465,00...0
    2013 Adobe 150 million
    today Target 40 million
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-40m-card-accounts-may-breached-115232188--finance.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/target-data-breach-affects-40-million-accounts-payment-info-compromised/2013/12/19/5cc71f22-68b1-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html

    After I canceled the debit card ( with a $500 max) that I was using to pay Adobe -- I went out and bought a cash card to pay them instead.
    Unless you REALLY need to run up debt -- anyone using a credit card in a store, these days, is just plain ignorant.
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  9. Clicking on PREVIOUS WEEK http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm you can see how the 3 states surrounding California just lost their "SPORADIC" status. Which no doubt means CA is about to follow. Time for that flu shot. ( Last year Rite Aid was using the new short needle )
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    Look back at your 20 biggest moments from the past year.

December 2013

  1. In technology news, Apple introduces the iPhone 5, which features an improved camera, time travel and the ability to text with the dead.

    On the entertainment front, “Breaking Bad” airs its final episode, leaving us with basically no reason... to go on living.

    Diana Nyad completes an unprecedented swim from Cuba to Florida, a feat made all the more difficult by the fact that she had a family of five clinging to her back.

    In the month’s biggest surprise, Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation after giving an interview to Oprah Winfrey in which he reveals that he is not Catholic.

    In other foreign-affairs news, Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea for a loon-to-loon meeting with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, who presents the former NBA star with a commemorative set of 50 political prisoners.

    NASA announces that the latest data sent back by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter appear to confirm data previously transmitted by the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Surveyor, Mars Wanderer, Mars Trailbreaker, Mars Roamer, Mars Walker, Mars Strider, Mars Meanderer, Mars Stroller, Mars Lunger and Mars Traipser, suggesting that Mars is pretty much covered with rocks.

    In a shocking interview, Lance Armstrong, after years of denial, admits to Oprah Winfrey that he took illegal drugs in all seven of his Tour de France victories, as well as using a motorcycle for certain stages of the race and “occasionally” shooting opponents with poison-tipped darts. Also he played “a small role” in the JFK assassination.
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  2. Merry Christmas dad kids have had a ball..
    Thinking of christmas's gone by and absent family .. I raise my glass cheers!
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  3. Thank you and have a merry Christmas xxx
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  4. To granddad Alan we are wishing u a happy Christmas Eve lots of love Codie, jack, Finley and Logan xxxxxxxx
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  5. O'Reilly: "There is no question that Jon Stewart is going to hell"
    Jon Stewart: " I make my living out of watching Fox News 8 hours a day. I'm already in hell"! http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-19-2013/the-best-of-the-war-on-christmas
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  6. 2005 TJ Maxx, Marshalls 45 million credit cards
    2009 Heartland Payment Systems 160 million
    2011 SONY 100 million
    2013 160 million - JC Penney, 7-Eleven, Nasdaq, Dow Jones, JetBlue
    2013 Global Payments 1.5 million
    2013 JPMorgan Chase 465,00...0
    2013 Adobe 150 million
    today Target 40 million
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-40m-card-accounts-may-breached-115232188--finance.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/target-data-breach-affects-40-million-accounts-payment-info-compromised/2013/12/19/5cc71f22-68b1-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html

    After I canceled the debit card ( with a $500 max) that I was using to pay Adobe -- I went out and bought a cash card to pay them instead.
    Unless you REALLY need to run up debt -- anyone using a credit card in a store, these days, is just plain ignorant.
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  7. Clicking on PREVIOUS WEEK http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm you can see how the 3 states surrounding California just lost their "SPORADIC" status. Which no doubt means CA is about to follow. Time for that flu shot. ( Last year Rite Aid was using the new short needle )
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  10. The bigger challenge is to get this far WITHOUT paying! http://bigfarm.goodgamestudios.com/
    Photo: The bigger challenge is to get this far WITHOUT paying! http://bigfarm.goodgamestudios.com/

November 2013

  1. The very first Bill the Republicans passed after they took power in 2004 was to change the Bankruptcy law so that people could not file for bankruptcy and keep their home any more.
    Instead they have to stay in debt forever -- hounded by creditors.

    Meanwhile Corporate Bankruptcy remains unchanged.
    Do you know folks who are struggling?

    Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bills/

    Thanks to Awaken the mind. for the image.
    Photo: Do you know folks who are struggling? 

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bills/

Thanks to Awaken the mind. for the image.
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  2. Its got ALL the moves!
    Parrot Dancing Gangnam Style
    http://rawforbeauty.com/blog/
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  3. Fascinating and Pathetic! Massive breaches at Experian and LexisNexis .

    "I alerted the three major credit bureaus of the theft and reviewed my credit report to rule out any further damage. I then called every financial institution that I ...have an account with to set up a new, unique verbal password that they will ask me each time I call. Two banks required that I visit one of their local branches to set up the password in person. "

    "After taking these initial protections, I then submitted an affidavit to the Federal Trade Commission and visited my local police station to fill out a report. The latter allowed me to put a five-year freeze on my credit report with all three credit bureaus.
    I’ll have to jump through some additional hoops the next time I want a new credit card, but the freeze should make it much harder for a thief to open a new line of credit in my name."
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    Phil McKenna, a NOVA Next contributor, recently had his identity stolen.

    Here’s how it happened: http://to.pbs.org/1c2eMe6
    Photo: Phil McKenna, a NOVA Next contributor, recently had his identity stolen.

Here’s how it happened: http://to.pbs.org/1c2eMe6
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  4. Then Beth Huning, (coordinator of the Fairfax-based San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) Perhaps you can do something about a Sports Complex construction in the middle of 2 forks of Gallinas creek (surrounded by Clapper Rail) ? You too Cay Goude, assistant field supervisor in the Sacramento field office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. http://marininfo.org/Airport/Airport.htm
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  5. The list of locations includes many that are not protected. You can click on each and find links to pictures of the endangered animals that live there . http://irreplaceability.cefe.cnrs.fr/search?
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  6. Know that in California the only policies affected ( for replacement at a HIGHER premium) are 1% of all policies. Only 6% are INDIVIDUAL policies ( not EMPLOYER policies). And only one sixth of these are affected with HIGHER premiums.

    And... a bit of history: Originally Obamacare was SINGLE PAYER -- by the time it got hacked to death by Republicans in Committee - it emerged as it is today. The Democrats caved on many issues -- back in the Committee stage -- otherwise it would have failed to pass ( like Hilary's attempt got killed by Republicans back in 2000 ).See More
  7. Instead of converting millions of people into statin customers, we should be focusing on the real factors that undeniably reduce the risk of heart disease: healthy diets, exercise and avoiding smoking. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/opinion/dont-give-more-patients-statins.html
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  8. Once its done in Seattle it should come down to San Francisco -- where instead of spending $3 billion on a Transbay Terminal, that will do nothing to reduce traffic congestion , its time to spend it on something that WILL drastically reduce Traffic Congestion and air-pollution - the 19th Avenue Tunnel Bypass. http://marininfo.org/nineteenth_avenue_tunnel.htm
  9. Hmm --- wonder how good diet and exercise, ( which we already know benefits the brain ), effects this "brain cleaning" process ? -- by leaching into the "brain cleaning fluid" from ....? or ....? For all animals to evolve into being unconscious and vulnerable for 1/3 of their day, their brain power must have become more significant in their survival than just about anything else.
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  10. It IS strange how a big hurricane creates an EYE. (HD full screen)
    "Let me repeat myself: This is a very real danger, and we can mitigate and lessen its effects if we use the information available to prepare," - Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III

    Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest tropical storm of the year so far, has winds of 190 mph and wind gusts of 230 mph. It is expected to make landfall in the Philippines on Friday morning.
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  11. MOOC Psychology: "... we imagine that our thoughts and behaviours arise from hidden motives and beliefs and that we can understand ourselves by somehow uncovering these hidden forces, whether through therapy, lab experiments or brain scanning. This course will show you that the very idea of these ‘mental depths’ is an illusion..." https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-mind-is-flat-2014
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  12. Open University MOOC on Global Warming - anyone can enroll. World class information ( checkout the video https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/climate-change-challenges-and-solutions for the really unexpected questions to be answered in the course). Questions like "Why is the Greenhouse Effect a bad metaphor for the process of Global Warming".
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  13. A necessary law with ignorant implementation! They need to announce at a FIXED TIME EVERY DAY. And do we know that 877 is toll-free? http://www.sparetheair.org/Stay-Informed/Todays-Air-Quality/Five-Day-Forecast.aspx I'll sue their ass's if they think they're keeping me informed and I get reported! I'm not going to be making a phone call EVERY TIME I light my fire but I will check a webpage if I know what time they report !
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  14. Nearly 1 in 2 Americans are now living at or near the poverty line. 48 million, representing about a seventh of the American population now rely on Food Stamps.

    Republicans in the House have now cut the allocation of Food Stamps (by dropping the President's Stimulus of Food Stamps) and Republicans are also proposing a Bill that would slash Food Stamps (SNAP) funding by $39 billion over the next 10 years.

    SIMPLY DISGUSTING!
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October 2013

  1. Never expected to be visiting a Quantum World at −459.67° F where matter changes drastically with unrecognizable properties. Very interesting.
    What did you think of "Making Stuff Colder"?
  2. Super bacteria that kill because they are antibiotic resistant.

    And pharmaceutical companies have stopped research because "it does not pay" (patients would take the antibiotic for 10 days and be cured -- Corporations can make more money... on drugs that people take every day - till death!)

    It is time to replace for-profit Pharmaceutical Corporations (that we can now no longer rely on to help prevent our death)!
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/
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  5. I think they must have waited till no potential heart attack candidates entered .....
    It may happened on you next time!! Be ware! hiak hiakXDD
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  6. A 4-legged robot that can run at 28mph! Incredible!
    What did you think of "Making Stuff Wilder"?
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  7. Dive instructor, Jasmine Santana, was taking a nice swim in Southern California when she came upon this 18-foot-long rare, serpentlike creature. Fortunately for her, it was dead. http://bit.ly/1hWQYdo
    Photo: Dive instructor, Jasmine Santana, was taking a nice swim in Southern California when she came upon this 18-foot-long rare, serpentlike creature. Fortunately for her, it was dead. http://bit.ly/1hWQYdo
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  8. These properties include the screen size, the versions of installed software and plugins, and the list of installed fonts. For the vast majority of browsers, the combination of these properties is unique, and thus functions as a 'fingerprint' that can be used to track users without relying on cookies.
    Several top websites use device fingerprinting to secretly track users: http://phy.so/300608107

    (Phys.org) —A new study by KU Leuven-iMinds researchers has uncovered that 145 of the Internet's 10,000 top websites track users without their ...knowledge or consent. The websites use hidden scripts to extract a device fingerprint from users' browsers. Device fingerprinting circumvents legal restrictions imposed on the use of cookies and ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header. The findings suggest that secret tracking is more widespread than previously thought.

    (Image: © Shutterstock)
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    Photo: Several top websites use device fingerprinting to secretly track users: http://phy.so/300608107

(Phys.org) —A new study by KU Leuven-iMinds researchers has uncovered that 145 of the Internet's 10,000 top websites track users without their knowledge or consent. The websites use hidden scripts to extract a device fingerprint from users' browsers. Device fingerprinting circumvents legal restrictions imposed on the use of cookies and ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header. The findings suggest that secret tracking is more widespread than previously thought.

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  9. Free online courses like Game Theory, Machine Learning & "Mastering the Language of the Common Core State Standards" : http://online.stanford.edu/courses
  10. now West America in San Anselmo !
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  11. Cat and Dog Playing With Each Other!

    Share this video with friends!
  12. I got an email from ADobe today: "We recently discovered that attackers illegally entered our network. The attackers may have obtained access to your Adobe ID and encrypted password. If you have placed an order with us, information such as your name, encrypted payment card number, and card expiration date also may have been accessed."

    So there you go! If you think the CLOUD will ever be secure -- good luck to you.
    Photo: I got an email from ADobe today: "We recently discovered that attackers illegally entered our network. The attackers may have obtained access to your Adobe ID and encrypted password. If you have placed an order with us, information such as your name, encrypted payment card number, and card expiration date also may have been accessed."

So there you go!  If you think the  CLOUD will ever be secure -- good luck to you.

September 2013

  1. MEETINGS 6:30 -8:30
    Tuesday, Oct 1, - MPR at the Hill Education Center 720 Diablo Ave, Novato Wednesday, Oct 2, Marin Center, Showcase Theatre .10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael
    Tuesday,Oct 8, Kreps Conference Room Redwood High School 395 Doherty Dr, Larkspur,
    Wednesday, Oct 9, Sausalito Council Chambers 420 Litho Street, Sausalito
    Coastal Study Process
    http://marininfo.org/Insurance/FEMA_Marin.htm
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  2. FEMA Marin http://www.r9map.org/Pages/ProjectDetailsPage.aspx?choloco=21&choProj=231
    Checkout the Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA) INCREASE or DECREASE or ZONE CHANGES
    On Google Earth overlay (the Map link on the webpage) see attached pic
    And video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT5QoNuWa-g&feature=youtu.be
    Photo: FEMA Marin http://www.r9map.org/Pages/ProjectDetailsPage.aspx?choloco=21&choProj=231
Checkout the Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA) INCREASE or DECREASE or ZONE CHANGES
On Google Earth overlay (the Map link on the webpage) see attached pic
And video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT5QoNuWa-g&feature=youtu.be
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  3. Livestock is responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cow-emissions-more-da...maging-to-planet-than-co2-from-cars-427843.html

    The overall environmental impact of livestock is greater than that of burning coal, natural gas, and crude oil combined.

    So why is it that 350.org says, “we don’t really take official stances on issues like veganism”? Well why the heck not?! Why would an environmental organization committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions not officially oppose the largest cause of greenhouse gas emissions–the production of meat and meat-based products?

    Ignoring veganism in the fight against climate change is sort of like ignoring fast food in the fight against obesity.
    http://freakonomics.com/2011/11/16/agnostic-carnivores-and-global-warming-why-enviros-go-after-coal-and-not-cows/

    ----- Organizations should advocate vegetarianism as a major part of their global warming campaigns. At a minimum, environmental advocates should mention vegetarianism in any information about actions individuals can take to address global warming.
    ----- Government policy should encourage vegetarian diets. Possible mechanisms include an environmental tax on meat similar to one already recommended on gasoline, a shift in farm subsidies to encourage plant agriculture over animal agriculture, or an increased emphasis on vegetarian foods in government-run programs like the school lunch program or food stamps.
    http://www.earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm
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  4. The article has a very stupid conclusion: "..... it would be better to kill it and press for more serious legislation next year".

    There was no way this bill was going to pass other than with its present, flawed, wording. But it is so much... better than nothing. Especially when the chemicals used will finally be disclosed! We can work on more legislation meanwhile.

    PS Find out why your representative amended the hell out of this or voted against it.
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  5. In place, for more than half a century, Urban Sprawl in the United States is hard to slow, much less reverse, because numerous government policies actively encourage it.

    Federal tax policy preferences home-buying, causing the exodus of po...pulation from cities to suburbs. Families put all of their savings into as large a home as possible on which the mortgage interest is deductible. Why live anywhere but in suburbs where a mortgage will buy more tax relief and a home is more affordable? Although it will mean owning several vehicles and driving them more, automobiles and gas are so lightly taxed it scarcely matters.( in Europe they pay double).

    Whether urban America's spread-out style of settlement is a national problem requiring a National or State solution -- is a complex and debatable question. To think it through, policymakers will need to envision a lot more than the US’s (and California’s) Smart Growth policy which concentrates on “densifying” housing.

    Time to Ask our Politicians to re-examine the data and let market forces and public demand govern the TYPE of housing development and repeal the "Infill" Housing Bills burdening all our cities' general plans. Especially in this unpredicted time of recession.

    http://marininfo.org/Bay/CA_Center_Sustainable_Communities.htm
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  6. As you say -- The ONLY factor causing congestion Northbound is:
    1. lack of a double-lane Sir Francis Drake (SFD) to the Richmond Bridge
    2. un-sequenced and un-prioritised traffic lights there
    The single lane northbound exit to east SFD will not fix our problem.
    BOTH plans need scrapped (Northbound) and funding devoted to 1. and 2. plus a double lane Northbound exit to east SFD!
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  7. The Councilors have sensibly considered the danger of:
    SB375 (greenhouse gas emission targets) contains 2 private courses of legal action:
    1. A lawsuit can be brought to require a local government to change their PDA or General plans.
    2. Suing to allow development when zoning does not meet the Plan. The burden of proof falls to the city.
    http://marininfo.org/Bay/MapofPlanBayArea.htm
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  8. If only this Civic Center station was not a prime DESTINATION for those working in the Civic Center, Autodesk, hotel, Northgate, et al....

    It will never be a Departure Station. So what's the point of residential development around it?
    A...ffordable Housing is needed for people working in Marin and currently living outside it.
    Building Affordable Housing near Marin stations is only going to increase commuters to out-of-county work places. Not something we need!

    The only thing "Transit" about this "Neighborhood" is ARRIVALS.
    (See how many there will be from SMART Rail here: http://marininfo.org/SMART/Land_Use/SMART_LAND_USE_Chapt_5.html )

    Notice how this article is devoid of the word "AFFORDABLE". The real need is to provide affordable housing to those who congest the freeway by commuting from out-of-county. This is not "balance" it is adding to the weight on traffic congestion!
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  9. The ULTIMATE PHISHING scam ! And yes the greedy victim IS required. But in this case to give 1.6 million with no collateral other than Promissory Notes -- just jail the super greedy realestate agent for stupidity! And bless "Marvelous" with life on the beach!
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  10. Modeling shows that Boulder can create a LOCAL electric utility and cut the carbon emissions in half when compared to Xcel. Starting on the first day of operations.

    It could also provide more than twice as much RENEWABLE energy than Xcel,... including at least five percent of locally generated solar and hydroelectric power to start.

    A LOCAL electric utility could perform better than Xcel financially on “Day 1” of operation.
    https://bouldercolorado.gov/energy-future/energy-future-the-model

    Other Communities have embarked on this already (Marin Clean Energy) MCE https://mcecleanenergy.com/
    http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jan/06/communities-renewable-energy
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  11. To be compared with LOCAL PARATRANSIT which is subsidized $36 per patron!
    Cheaper to give everyone a Taxi voucher.
    This one is nicknamed "the Tsunami". :)
    http://marininfo.org/MTC/MTC_Bus_Performance.htm
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  12. NASA's Dawn mission launched 2007 traveled to the asteroid Vesta, where it remained in orbit from July 2011 to July 2012 before heading to Ceres, 2015. It is slated to spend five months studying Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt.

    ...Also in 2015, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will be escorting the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko around the Sun that year, while NASA's New Horizons mission will be reaching Pluto and its moon Charon.

    "2015 is going to be a great year for icy bodies"
    Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-08-dwarf-planet-ceres-game-changer.html#nwlt
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August 2013

  1. IMPLICATIONS FOR REMOVING A PDA: http://marininfo.org/Bay/Removing_a_PDA.htm -

    PDAs receive 50% of the federal and state funds for transportation projects in a County, which would be shifted to the other PDAs in the County......
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  2. Alan C Scotch The downturn in 2007 can more evidently be attributed to the greatest Recession since the Great Depression and...
    Since 2008 the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States has risen from $1.85 to $3.64.
    http://...populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/Attacking_Roads.htm

    The study ignores the Federal REAL DATA and makes up reasons, ignoring the REAL reasons for the decline which will reverse once we get out of this Recession.
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  3. What’s interesting about Hank’s situation in particular is how ignorant he is about his own insurance policy: “$177,000,” he says. “What the Hell’s he talking about? Why were they paying for my medical bills? What about my insurance?”

    Hank...’s ignorance is likely an accurate reflection of many Americans’ inability to comprehend just how crappy our system was. Most people wrongly assume that if they have coverage, they are golden. But they did’t realize that even with that precious, must-be-protected-at-all-costs, employer-paid health care, they could still go bankrupt thanks to the magic phrase “out-of-pocket expenses.” Indeed, medical care is the biggest cause of bankruptcies in the U.S.

    “Despite having year-round insurance coverage, 10 million insured Americans ages 19-64 will face bills they are unable to pay.”

    Breaking Bad couldn’t be set in any other country!
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  4. Wow! Checkout your relatively low net Premium and your "Estimated tax credit from the government" from Healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act ! http://coveredca.com/calculating_the_cost.html
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  5. Propositions to create a SPECIAL TAX (that used to need a 2/3 majority) may pass with only a 55% majority http://marininfo.org/SMART/ca_constitutional_amendment_SCA11.htm

    SB628 multi-million dollar 30-year Bonds for Transit and TOD
    without the usually required taxpayer vote!
    http://marininfo.org/Bay/SB628_Transit_Financing_without_vote.htm
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  6. I hope my grandchildren watch this.
  7. FINALLY someone in the County (Kinsey) reads IJ COMMENTS. :)

    Three times now I've posted the following comments:
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    I've see it before too many times - a company pays a bunch of high-tech consultants to implement a system - when its all ov...er the consultants are gone with all the expertise they not only had prior to implementation but what they learned during -- and the employees are left trying to figure out what they didn't learn by not being involved.

    Let me repeat here yet again what I have said before -- there must be dozens of counties in this country with sophisticated enough systems that can be utilized off-the-shelf in Marin. It is both ignorant and arrogant to think otherwise.
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    We’re excited to announce that Khan Academy has created lots of new math practice problems for the start of the school year!

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  10. This kinda makes sense -- you can still walk around ( if there's no kids in the house).
    Photo: Grow Food, Not Lawns
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  11. Peter: Can u post the pleadings on a website please? We're going to need some of its text to combat:

    ---- SB628 multi-million dollar 30-year Bonds for Transit and TOD without the usually required taxpayer vote !
    -------- http://marin...info.org/Bay/SB628_Transit_Financing_without_vote.htm
    ---- Propositions to create a SPECIAL TAX (that used to need a 2/3 majority) may pass with only a 55% majority
    -------- http://marininfo.org/SMART/ca_constitutional_amendment_SCA11.htm
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  12. This may at first seem to be a bit of a stretch -- but it is all doable TODAY!
    And if you don't believe it then find the link: "Suburban sprawl to power cities of the future" - Jul 31, 2013 University of Auckland --- on the webpage.

    A g...reat opportunity for the Marin Community Foundation to turn the Grady Ranch into a 21st Century MODEL for RENEWABLE ENERGY and RECYCLING - - a truly Sustainable Development:
    1. Build and rent affordable single family MANUFACTURED housing.
    2. Every house to have solar panels and a wind turbine on the roof.
    3. Provide the necessary electrical outlet for charging the electric car.
    4. Lease an electric car to every owner and make that a requirement of stay.
    5. Every resident MUST work in Marin. Should that change then they have 6 months to live elsewhere.
    6. Invest in the most promising of the many (already demonstrated) ways of storing solar/wind energy for charging the electric car overnight.
    7. Actively capture rain water and store it.
    8. Recycle grey water locally, per residence, for irrigation.
    9. Build, for all surrounding residences, a Sewage Water TOTAL Purification Plant ( see webpage)
    10. Locally recycle compost-able waste for local garden use and contribute to CARBON SEQUESTRATION.

    For ways on how all of this can be done today: http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/wind_solar.htm

    As the technology improves and becomes more cost effective this kind of development will eventually be everywhere.
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  13. Pristine water -- from the toilet? Silicon Valley to begin extensive use of recycled water this fall: http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/toilet-to-tap/
    Engineers say it's possible to purify sewage water until it's cleaner than much of what residents drink today.
    http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/wind_solar.htm
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July 2013

  1. Oh! That's a good idea!
    Today's TED Talk: What's an ambucycle, you ask? A motorcycle that can dart past traffic, with a trained EMT onboard to give life-saving assistance until a traditional ambulance can arrive.

    Watch this talk on an incredible idea: http://on.ted.com/Ambucycle
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  2. I agree with Schonbrunn that Regional Planning would be better when, for instance, development in Sonoma directly affects Marin traffic. But that Planning has to be right!

    Unfortunately the State's Planning is PATHETICALLY WRONG for a Sust...ainable Future.
    And Schonbrunn's obsession with RAIL is equally pathetically wrong!

    The Bay Area and even Los Angeles is not New York City or Chicago.
    People live in suburbs and want to. Its a done deal in California.
    (See California Declares War on Suburbia http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/CAs_War_on_Suburbia.htm ). Schonbrunn has never attempted to rebut any of these arguments against his failed philosophy.

    Schonbrunn wants us to spend Billions of $'s on Transit to increase its share of travel to a measly 4% from its current tiny 2%. And deprive us of freeway lanes that can facilitate EXPRESS BUS and RAPID BUS that would be far more able to reduce our TRAFFIC CONGESTION. (especially when all traffic will, soon enough, be non-polluting ELECTRIC POWERED.)

    Read about the disastrous history of rail in the US: http://marininfo.org/SMART/smart.htm
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  3. Can Kinsey explain how ANY of the PLAN's money can go towards "allowing existing single family neighborhoods to see ... remodels and second units .... " ? This is one of the major flaws in the PLAN that denies PLAN funds to this kind of af...fordable housing development outside of PDAs!

    I have to say I was embarrassed for Kinsey at the debate when he had NO rebuttal to ANY of the EXPERT's accusations:

    ---- Planners want to herd millions into densely packed urban corridors. It won't save the planet and will make traffic even worse.
    ---- Transit would increase its share of travel to a measly 4% from its current tiny 2%.
    ---- Unaffordable housing could become even more unaffordable.
    ---- Additional households in the future will continue to use their cars for most trips.
    ---- It is better to raise children with backyards than on condominium balconies.
    ---- "Between 1985 and 2010, transit service levels were increased 46 percent in the Bay Area. However, ridership declined "
    ---- "Plan should be withdrawn, since the No Project Alternative (essentially "doing nothing") achieves the required greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction objectives."
    ---- "does not consider strategies that would materially improve mobility for low income households."
    ---- "does not apply cost effectiveness"
    ----"would result in only two percent less driving volume than in the No Project Alternative. Travel by passenger vehicles would increase 18 percent"
    ---- "inhibits economic growth ".

    Kinsey made NO attempt at answering ANY of these major flaws in the PLAN. His feeble response boils down to "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
    http://marininfo.org/Bay/MapofPlanBayArea.htm
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  4. Let's empower our children by encouraging them to hold themselves responsible for everything that happens to them (with few exceptions), instead of:
    - using religion as a crutch
    - praying, in the belief that a god will obviate their need to... control their own life
    - believing that he has their life path preordained.
    If we don't understand that good happens because we make it happen (not because we pray for it) then good will not happen nearly as often.
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    I am an EOO(Equal Opportunity Offender)!!!
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  5. Hi "Papa Bear" how are you? I hope you are enjoying your weekend off? Enjoying life, hope you are too, take care and speak soon xx
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  6. For the $57 billion to be spent on Plan Bay Area - you can cover half of the 2.5 million homes in the Bay with solar panels and give free electric cars to half as well ! ( $20,000 each home).
    Or means-test-subsidise every home from 25% to ...85% discount for each home to have both an electric car AND 2.5kw of solar panels -- Reducing Green House gas Emission to one hundredth of the Plan and preparing us for a REALISTIC future. (where the majority of the Plan's transit becomes obsolete). http://marininfo.org/Bay/MapofPlanBayArea.htmSee More
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  8. As usual, Barbara and the Audubon Society make the logical and critical analysis missing from today's misguided Sustainability Plans and Development Projects. There is more going on at the State level that will take CEQA and the voters out... of it: Senate Bill SB628 multi-million dollar 30-year Bonds for Transit and TOD without the usually required taxpayer vote ! http://marininfo.org/Bay/SB628_Transit_Financing_without_vote.htm and Propositions to create a SPECIAL TAX (that used to need a 2/3 majority) may pass with only a 55% majority. http://marininfo.org/SMART/ca_constitutional_amendment_SCA11.htmSee More
  9. Bill, Just about everything you do is great but today's SUSTAINABILITY movement is lacking vision.
    http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/wind_solar.htm

    There is NO "correlation between density and transportation emissions,". And transpo...rtation is, soon enough, going to be irrelevant to Global Warming when everyone is driving the electric car charged overnight from batteries also charged by solar panels on every roof.
    http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/CAs_War_on_Suburbia.htm

    This is the GOBBLEDEGOOK from Alex Steffen:
    " streets that a person walking along has the experience of being in their own realm, that the street is meant for them. So there may be cars, there may be bicycles, there may be streetcars, but the feeling is that you are walking along a street where you are meant to be."
    "Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods."
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  12. Pow -- the President of France doesn't give in to big oil pressure, and stands by his ban on fracking.

    Click LIKE if you think ALL world leaders need to follow suit and ban fracking now.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23311963
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Click LIKE if you think ALL world leaders need to follow suit and ban fracking now. 

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  14. Super PACs with fig-leaf independence spending tens of millions of dollars on ads trying to buy the elections for their favored candidates. Politicians racing around the country raising money rather than connecting with people in their districts. No sense that most candidates deeply care about f...
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  16. Site # 1 Marinwood Plaza ----- Lower income: 85 units PDA
    Site # 4 Old Chevron Station -- Lower income: 10 units
    Site # 9 Manzanita ------------ Lower income: 1 unit
    Site # 14 Almonte ------------- Lower income: 0 units, Moderate income: 30 units
    The County Document is deficient in that ONLY Marinwood is flagged as PDA.
    See all the sites: http://marininfo.org/Housing/2012_Draft_Marin_County_Housing_Element.html
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  17. Problem is the documents are full of extraneous info and are huge. Here is the meat - - the actual planned development : http://marininfo.org/Housing/2012_Draft_Marin_County_Housing_Element.html
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June 2013

  1. And read here that the first bird (May 29) was found in San Anselmo suggesting, perhaps, that the mosquito is more prevalent -- at least - -from South Novato to there. Tho it is all over the State. http://www.marinij.com/sananselmo/ci_23464299/first-case-avian-west-nile-virus-marin-confirmed --- flu-like symptoms in the summer? How to help eliminate the mosquito: http://marininfo.org/mosquitos.htm
  2. Let me begin by stating that I am a liberal Democrat but one thing I have been dead against is over extensive transit spending, especially on RAIL transit. But even if transit expenditure and associated TRANSIT ORIENTATED DEVELOPMENT (TOD) around it was the most proven cost effective spending possible ( which of course it isn't) but even if it was the most justifiable of all government spending - ...I would still be totally against a government Bill that denied the vote of the taxpayer for or against it. And that is what they are trying to do right now in California SB628. They would be able to create multi-million dollar 30-year Bonds for transit and TOD without the usually required vote. http://marininfo.org/Bay/SB628_Transit_Financing_without_vote.htmSee More
  3. Looks like we only have a couple of weeks without exercise before our brains deteriorate. Need to find a way to exercise till the bitter end
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  4. Where do poor people of different races and ethnicities live? Explore our interactive map and find out what's going on in your city: http://urbn.is/14n4ql2 #poverty #map
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  5. Look folks its not about "supervisors not informing us" nor is it about Tea Party and 21 nor NIMBYism --- some of these comments just reek of ignorance and make even MY "future-predicting-comments" look tame! Know the history and understand... the complicated solution to AFFORDABLE HOUSING is NOT dense development next to freeways. Start here: http://marininfo.org/Bay/MapofPlanBayArea.htm . And know how we can have a CARBON SEQUESTRATED and WASTE & WATER RECYCLED future: http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/wind_solar.htm ( the Greenhouse Gas Emission issue is close to solved already ).See More
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  6. My mother rented a plot of land, which was available as part of a few acres subdivided for that purpose, in the suburbs of Glasgow, Scotland. She took the bus. Grew vegetables ( and flowers) . Our Representative, Jared Huffman, is trying to... eat on $4.50 a day -- the amount the Republicans want to change Food Stamps allocation in the Farm Bill. https://www.facebook.com/jared.huffman.9?hc_location=stream Wouldn't it make sense if places like Oakland, LA, San Jose ..... had plots like this within a 10 minute bus ride?See More
    Photo: My mother rented a plot of land, which was available as part of a few acres subdivided for that purpose, in the suburbs of Glasgow, Scotland. She took the bus. Grew vegetables ( and flowers) . Our Representative, Jared Huffman, is trying to eat on $4.50 a day -- the amount the Republicans want to change Food Stamps  allocation in the Farm Bill. https://www.facebook.com/jared.huffman.9?hc_location=stream  Wouldn't it make sense if places like Oakland, LA, San Jose ..... had plots like this within a 10 minute bus ride?
  7. Last time I saw that was over 25 years ago when I was in LA .... thot the world was ending ... ( caused by ice crystals in the stratosphere I believe) don't be looking at the sun for more than a few secs folks
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  8. And an interesting video.
    Google's new solar- and wind-powered balloons send the Internet soaring through the skies.

    Learn more: http://to.pbs.org/10qwAyt
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  9. As you may all know There are two major kinds of stroke.
    The first, called an ischemic stroke, is caused by a blood clot that blocks or plugs a blood vessel or artery in the brain. About 80 percent of all strokes are ischemic. The second, k...nown as a hemorrhagic stroke, is caused by a blood vessel in the brain that breaks and bleeds into the brain. About 20 percent of strokes are hemorrhagic.
    I wonder what proportion of the "blood clot'" variety would fall into this category -- where its deemed dangerous to administer blood thinner ( TPA) ? It appears to be only if not treated within 4 hours.
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  10. Happy Father's Day from 6000 miles away...! All my love XxxxxX
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  11. We all know abstinence has a high failure rate…
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  12. West End of Glasgow - My childhood home - wishing we'd had Festivals back then. Closest thing was the day every year when the students dressed up crazy, had a big parade of floats and collected money for charity ( with various stunts - including kidnapping famous people for ransom).
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  13. I LOL every darn time I see this. Good Morning folks!!! :) ~~CG
  14. I've see it before too many times - a company pays a bunch of high-tech consultants to implement a system - when its all over the consultants are gone with all the expertise they not only had prior to implementation but what they learned d...uring -- and the employees are left trying to figure out what they didn't learn by not being involved. Let me repeat here yet again what I have said before -- there must be dozens of counties in this country with sophisticated enough systems that can be utilized off-the-shelf in Marin. It is both ignorant and arrogant to think otherwise.See More
  15. What an ignorant editorial! The kind of hype thrust on us by our representatives that got the public voting for this waste of money train. Totally ignoring the ridership projections of traffic experts. 149 arrivals from Sonoma per day http:...//marininfo.org/SMART/SMART_DEIR_analysis.htm when today the EXPRESS BUS alternative http://marininfo.org/SMART/SMART_eliminates_Express_Bus_gets_2mil.htm is even more able to reduce traffic congestion than when this rail system was passed. See More
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  16. Map of Greenbrae Interchange as proposed by "Marin Deserves Better" http://www.marindeservesbetter.org/ . To be compared to this flyby http://www.youtube.com/embed/RtaEVbK4gXM . Difference includes no flyover from west-to-south from Francis... Drake Blvd -- instead there is a large loop. Fewer lanes on north bound exit but there is a flyover to the north onramp maybe eliminating any need for traffic lights. Tho both eliminate the southbound Lucky Exit -- this option makes yo go all the way to Madeira -- whereas Tam's is the earlier exit Wornum Dr. http://www.tam.ca.gov/index.aspx?page=195See More
    Photo: Map of Greenbrae Interchange as proposed by "Marin Deserves Better" http://www.marindeservesbetter.org/ . To be compared to this flyby http://www.youtube.com/embed/RtaEVbK4gXM . Difference includes no flyover from west-to-south from Francis Drake Blvd  -- instead there is a large loop. Fewer lanes on north bound exit but there is a flyover to the north onramp maybe eliminating any need for traffic lights. Tho both eliminate the southbound Lucky Exit -- this option makes yo go all the way to Madeira -- whereas Tam's is the earlier exit Wornum Dr. http://www.tam.ca.gov/index.aspx?page=195
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  17. Just the first step in getting Insurance Companies' profit motive out of Healthcare: In 2011, advertising by American hospitals, clinics and medical centers was $1.4 billion. And when Health Insurance Corps.spend $38 million per year lobbyi...ng congress http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=F09 . Not to mention $126.8 million in lobbying over the first three months of 2009. And $80 million a year on TV advertising alone. In 1994, whether you got insurance from a for-profit insurer, a nonprofit insurer or Medicare, all of 95% of your premiums went for health-care benefits.

    http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/sunday-forum-where-do-our-health-insurance-premiums-go-372308/
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May 2013

  1. A study out today in Health Affairs finds that immigrants strongly subsidize the Medicare Trust Fund, contributing an estimated $115.2 billion more than they took out from 2002-2009.

    Read more here: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2013/05/20/hlthaff.2012.1223.abstract
    Photo: A study out today in Health Affairs finds that immigrants strongly subsidize the Medicare Trust Fund, contributing an estimated $115.2 billion more than they took out from 2002-2009.

Read more here: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2013/05/20/hlthaff.2012.1223.abstract
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  2. Very informative (start at the 30 minute mark if you cant spend the hour) - Xenu is the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of his people to Earth in a spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes... and killed them using hydrogen bombs. Official Scientology scriptures hold that the essences of these many people remained, and that they form around people in modern times, causing them spiritual harm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu See More
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  3. Wild dandelions, once a springtime treat for Native Americans, have seven times more phytonutrients than spinach,
    A purple potato native to Peru has 28 times more cancer-fighting anthocyanins than common russet potatoes.
    One species of ap...ple has a staggering 100 times more phytonutrients than the Golden Delicious .
    ---- lettuce: look for arugula. Arugula, also called salad rocket.
    ---- Scallions, or green onions, have more than five times more phytonutrients than many common onions.
    ---- fresh herbs. Add one cup of mixed chopped Italian parsley and basil to a pound of ground grass-fed beef or poultry to make “herb-burgers.” Herbs bring back missing phytonutrients
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  4. " the Bay Area, by 2040, would be producing, in million metric tons of carbon dioxide, annually
    --- 42.9 if 'NO PROJECT' Compared with
    --- 41.3 if 'Plan Bay Area'
    "
    This says it all! Its insignificant!...
    And who has a clue WHAT kind of technology will be available by 2040?
    One thing we know for sure -- there will be far more solar panels and wind turbines on residential roofs. Battery energy density will be improved and electric cars will be more cost effective and prevalent. There is a possible future that could easily be close to this scenario:
    http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/wind_solar.htm
    which blows away ALL of the PLAN BAY AREA predictions.
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  5. Old boots transformed into pieces of art !
    http://bit.ly/13uSiwh
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  6. 2013 California Senate Constitutional Amendment 11 (SCA11)
    Replaces the 35 year law, Prop 13,
    (which legislates that any Proposition to create a SPECIAL TAX or BOND can only pass with a 2/3 majority)
    -- with a 55% majority requirement, only.

    That is PROPERTY TAXES can be raised with Propositions that only pass with a 55% majority ( instead of 2/3).
    http://marininfo.org/SMART/ca_constitutional_amendment_SCA11.htm
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  7. If your squeamish - don't read further -- What disease can be treated by injecting feces from a relative into your colon? "THE MAJORITY OF THE MICROBES IN YOUR BODY ARE NONHUMAN BUT OTHER MICROBIAL SPECIES. 10,000 MICROBIAL SPECIES IN THE ...HUMAN BODY, AND THEY ARE WEIRDLY DISTRIBUTED, THERE ARE ABOUT 140 DIFFERENT SPECIES THAT LIVE BEHIND THE EAR, 440 LIVE INSIDE THE ELBOW, THE MAJORITY LIVE IN THE HUMAN GUT AND ARE THERE FOR DIGESTIVE PURPOSES AND TO TWEAK THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. BUT ALTOGETHER THEY WEIGH ABOUT AS MUCH AS THE HUMAN BRAIN." The creature we admire in the mirror every morning is thus about 10 percent human by cell count.
    While our 21,000 or so human genes help make us who we are, our resident microbes possess another eight million or so genes, many of which collaborate behind the scenes handling food, tinkering with the immune system, turning human genes on and off, and otherwise helping us function.

    Now that 80% of the antibiotics used to today are on animals, and so much disease is anti-biotic resistant.
    And the average 18 year-old in developed countries has had 10 to 20 courses of antibiotics!
    It's time to find the good microbes from the bad -PROBIOTICS.

    (Answer to 1st Q:- 'C DIFF')
    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/videos/The-Microbes-Were-Made-Of.html
    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Microbes-The-Trillions-of-Creatures-Governing-Your-Health-204134001.html#
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  8. Tell the 45 Senators voting against Background Checks for Gun Ownership what you think of them http://populationalert.org/politics/US_Senators_45.htm
    Approval ratings crashed for these Senators who voted against gun reform.

    The message from voters is loud and clear.
    Photo: Approval ratings crashed for these Senators who voted against gun reform. 

The message from voters is loud and clear.
  9. Piezoelectric power gives 120 beats per second - but only with resonance! (View video at 720p). You heard it here first -- we'll be flyin' in our own personal dragonfly craft in 30 years !
    These tiny, fruit fly-inspired robots weigh only 80 milligrams.

    Watch them fly: http://to.pbs.org/Zsr7kI
    Photo: These tiny, fruit fly-inspired robots weigh only 80 milligrams. 

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  10. 6 friends posted on your timeline for your birthday.
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April 2013

  1. ¡Feliz Cumpleaños Alan!
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  2. happy birthday, hope u have a lovely day, love all of us, i hope ur cards get to u xxxxxxxx
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  3. Extinct Passenger pigeons swarming in flocks 2,000 times anything we see today! Darkened the sky and took 3 days to pass overhead ! - must have been tremendous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUEI47MFUs
    Heath Hen -
    Passenger Pigeon -
    Carolina Parakeet -
    Great Auk –
    Labrador Duck -
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  5. I know, Steve, that there are 5,000 other counties out there and probably at least one does everything the way we SHOULD be doing it, and indeed we could consult with them and model ourselves after them, but lets ignore them and spend $30 million on consultants instead!
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  6. What a revolution! "Adding fish to paddy fields has been found to increase rice yields by 8–15%,"
    A smart new method of farming has the potential to turn Bangladesh into a food-secure, poverty-free country within a decade.

    Read more: http://positivenews.org.uk/2013/environment/agriculture/12132/blue-green-revolution-boost-food-security-bangladesh/
    Photo: A smart new method of farming has the potential to turn Bangladesh into a food-secure, poverty-free country within a decade. 

Read more: http://positivenews.org.uk/2013/environment/agriculture/12132/blue-green-revolution-boost-food-security-bangladesh/
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  7. Stanford's FREE online classes: Crash Course on Creativity, Technology Entrepreneurship I, Mobile Health without Borders, Sustainable Design and Product Management, Finance, Hippocrates Challenge
    NovoED offers courses from top universities and institutions to students all around the world.
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  8. Tell the 45 Senators voting against Background Checks for Gun Ownership
    what you think of them
    http://populationalert.org/politics/US_Senators_45.htm
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  9. Every home will have Solar Panels and a Wind Turbine on its roof.
    Battery ENERGY DENSITY will be 10 times more than it is today.Thus every single family home will be generating more electricity than consumed.

    Charging the electric car ev...ery night.
    Home insulation will become irrelevant.

    Solar panels and wind turbines on the roof of an multi-family apartment building can never be enough to meet the needs of the multi-families below and will not be ENERGY COST EFFICIENT.
    But Single-family houses will be net ENERGY PRODUCERS -- when multi-family cannot.

    Increasing per-capita emission of greenhouse gases ( mandated by CA Senate Bill 375) not decreasing it, relatively.

    http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/wind_solar.htm
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  10. Anything that smells remotely of Grover Norquist's blackmail of dumb republican politicians (who would be denied Super Pac election funding for changing Tax Loopholes, even) should be avoided like the plague -- no matter how worthy!
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  11. OMG! Finally Google is coming back to SEARCH the way it used to be ( and should be by default -- like returning results that ONLY contain what you're searching for ... Duh! ) Instead of when you add another keyword to your search you get MORE results !!!! Use VERBATUM . ( At least I sincerely hope that's what VERBATUM does).
  12. Wonders how many are like this http://www.livestrong.com/article/511357-raw-carrots-and-stomach-pain/ That's my last raw carrot binge - - I can only take a few at a time -- I would say its 1/4 to 1/2 food-poisoning-pain for me. Gotta toss... out that huge bag of COSTCO carrots that was supposed to keep me healthy. Carrots were one of the few vegetables that I didn't dislike eating - now all I got left are tinned peas, corn and baked beans in that sweet sauce. Damn!See More
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  13. Problem is the ONE BAYer's have ALL GOT OUR FUTURE WRONG. Everyone will be driving electric cars powered by renewable energy from solar panels and a wind turbine on the roof.
    What we need is to expedite this future by promoting the single family home AND the single family, affordable, manufactured home. http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/wind_solar.htm
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March 2013

  1. That's an awful lot of money.

    If you're sick of paying out to the richest industry on earth so that they can pollute more -> SHARE this to call them out.

    Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/imf-citing-trillions-in-government-subsidies-calls-for-end-to-mispricing-of-energy/2013/03/27/09957d6e-96e1-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html
    Photo: That's an awful lot of money. 

If you're sick of paying out to the richest industry on earth so that they can pollute more -> SHARE this to call them out. 

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/imf-citing-trillions-in-government-subsidies-calls-for-end-to-mispricing-of-energy/2013/03/27/09957d6e-96e1-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html
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  2. Ami Watson
    March 26, 2013
    Jack on his 10th birthday — with Paul Watson and 2 others. (4 photos)
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    Photo: Jack on his 10th birthday
    Photo: Jack on his 10th birthday
  3. This is what Elizabeth Warren is talking about... it's greed at the expense of the American Taxpayers AND our economy! ~p
    Photo: This is what Elizabeth Warren is talking about... it's greed at the expense of the American Taxpayers AND our economy! ~p
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  4. hi alan,, hope u are well, me and paul r just getting over the cold,my skype is not working so im going to unload it to reload it the now,, we have a busy weekend this weekend jack is having some friends round for his birthday, and codie only got home today, she had a fab week away but missed home, hope to talk soon take care xx
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  5. Sorry to keep missing you online! I hope you are well.. How are you doing? x
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  6. What with the http://woodgears.ca/marbles/paul.html and this -- Today has become "Mechanical Engineering Day"
    Simply amazing.
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  7. Hope you have a wonderful day, take care x
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  8. This is CRAZY! What makes Marin think its system is any different from other county's? All they need to do is simply copy the system of another county! Not waste $28 million and spend another $794,000 on yet another consultant.
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  9. In the case of TRANSPORTATION - where residential development in Sonoma, exceeds jobs available, and directly affects Marin traffic congestion, for example. So housing development in Sonoma needs to include affects on Marin Traffic and thus..., housing development should be planned regionally.
    BUT It appears that the premise of this dense development not affecting freeway traffic ( as it is located around transit stations) is deeply flawed.
    Few will use that transit. Most US metropolitan areas will always be so dispersed that most trips require a car. Building High Density will never be desired by the majority nor reduce the demand for automobile travel enough.
    Then there is the not so distant future where high density buildings will make Global Warming WORSE not better. http://populationalert.org/GlobalWarming/wind_solar.htm
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  10. I hope you had a wonderful weekend and rested well x
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  12. Do you hear the pipers calling you to Marin Center? This show is Saturday, March 2. http://www.marincounty.org/main/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D99718470
    Photo: Do you hear the pipers calling you to Marin Center? This show is Saturday, March 2. http://www.marincounty.org/main/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D99718470
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  13. Worth watching again.......
    This is quite possibly the best video I have ever seen in my entire life! LOL It is SPOT ON!!! I have watched it about 500 times I am sure and it always puts a smile on my face and a laugh in my day! This depicts perfectly the demands th...at we must meet as parents! I have to tell you that it is one of the reasons that I am sooooooo blessed to have found the business that I found! Where I CAN BE at home to be mom and go through all the stuff, good & bad! I don't have to go slaving away at some job and then spend all the money I make at that job to pay to keep my kids in daycare...negating the purpose completely! LOL It is amazing what people put themselves through unnecessarily! Instead, I get to work from home like 3 hours a day and not only make money, but make a LOT of it! :) If you are *down* with the parent rap and ready to change your life like I changed mine, join my team today! www.en-teamnosleep.com :)See More

February 2013

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  2. And some of these green screens are pretty patchy. Six painted 4x8's in your backyard would do it.
    I bet you never know that these were filmed with green screen!

    Like 哈哈哈!笑死我了!for more videos~
  3. lol
    Bill O'Reilly might secretly be a comedian with a really good deadpan delivery.
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  4. Henry Marsh - a renowned surgeon - travels to Ukraine ever year to remove brain tumors. And after all the lives he has saved - he is preoccupied with the one operation that failed. The film, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PffLmmM0OxI closes with him saying "What are you if you don't try to help others? Nothing! "
  5. 400,000 in prison are for drug related crimes and 50% of all prisoners are convicted for non-violent crimes. Many of the drug related crimes were non-violent. And a lot of the non-violent drug crimes were first offenders sentenced to a mandatory minimum 15 years! Is that right?
  6. Earlier today Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that they are introducing pioneering climate legislation in US Congress.

    Included in the bill? A high price on carbon pollution, huge investments in renewable energy and ending fossil fuel subsides.

    Click LIKE if you're ready to get out in the streets to support bold action on climate change!

    (photo- Josh Lopez)
    Photo: Earlier today Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that they are introducing pioneering climate legislation in US Congress.

Included in the bill? A high price on carbon pollution, huge investments in renewable energy and ending fossil fuel subsides. 

Click LIKE if you're ready to get out in the streets to support bold action on climate change!

(photo- Josh Lopez)
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  7. Earlier today Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that they are introducing pioneering climate legislation in US Congress.

    Included in the bill? A high price on carbon pollution, huge investments in renewable energy and ending fossil fuel subsides.

    Click LIKE if you're ready to get out in the streets to support bold action on climate change!

    (photo- Josh Lopez)
    Photo: Earlier today Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that they are introducing pioneering climate legislation in US Congress.

Included in the bill? A high price on carbon pollution, huge investments in renewable energy and ending fossil fuel subsides. 

Click LIKE if you're ready to get out in the streets to support bold action on climate change!

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  8. Not bad for a country covered in cloud - plenty wind, wave and tide tho (holiday the last 3 weeks of August and catch the Edinburgh Festival) http://www.eif.co.uk/
  9. Full screen HD
    .............................................

    Il progetto EcologicalMind:

    1) EcologicalMind • https://www.facebook.com/EcologicalMind
    ...
    2) Ecologicalmind • https://www.facebook.com/Ecologicalmind.window

    3) CENSURIAMO LA CENSURA • https://www.facebook.com/censuriamolacensura.em

    You Tube, il nostro canale: http://www.youtube.com/user/EcologicalMind
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  10. There will be an Extra Transportation Cost of $1,611,665 due to delivering from Oakland instead of Petaluma ( not to mention the extra air pollution). http://marininfo.org/Mail_from_Oakland.htm
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January 2013

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  2. Ami Watson
    January 23, 2013
    Right boys lets do ur homework... fin and logan have both said no playing games is more fun... — with Alan C Scotch.
    Photo: Right boys lets do ur homework... fin and logan have both said no playing games is more fun...
  3. At least his mother would be proud of one thing -- he wore his balaclava.
    This man was caught on camera trying to rob a Union Bank in Mill Valley yesterday. If you recognize this suspect, call 415.473.2311 http://www.marinsheriff.org/uploads/744.pdf
    Photo: This man was caught on camera trying to rob a Union Bank in Mill Valley yesterday. If you recognize this suspect, call 415.473.2311 http://www.marinsheriff.org/uploads/744.pdf
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  4. I don't get it! There is no reason why that lot cannot continue to provide overflow parking for the Marin County Fair and other events AND accommodate a Farmers Market and Christmas Trees! Pave it if you must but wasting that space to devot...e it to only one thing does not make sense. A few days a year where its raining on Market Day does not justify spending all this money and only to degrade the flexible functionality of it. See More
  5. Laptops-in-School -- Educating kids for jobs where robots will be doing 90% of the Manufacturing - every kid needs to have a laptop NOW! ( and every kid needs to be computer language fluent).
  6. Biologists have known for decades that feeding animals near-starvation diets can boost their lifespans dramatically.
    Exercise works its magic: -- surplus, worn-out or malformed proteins and other cellular components are broken up for scrap and recycled.
  7. a fun night - thanks Cathal for making it happen
    Midway through
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    Photo: Hugh and John C
    Photo: Opening Round
    Photo: MJ vs Jose  (and John M. vs Wayne)
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  8. Got my shot yesterday at Rite Aid for $30. They use a shorter needle. Multiple Clicking on "Previous Week" on the US map at http://www.flu.gov/about_the_flu/current_flu/index.html# was what alarmed me to its sudden increase. I was the only one there at lunch time.
  9. Fascinating & incredible stories of conflict and triumph in some of the creation of Silicon Valley Co's Fairchild, Atari, Genentec, CISCO, Apple ....... http://www.somethingventuredthemovie.com/?page_id=455 - don't miss it on PBS. (KQED 9 Tuesday 2/19/2013 9:30 PM)
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  10. Paul Watson
    January 1, 2013
    Happy new year Alan C Scotch hope 2013 is a great year for u love paul ami and family

December 2012

  1. A pretty extreme diet - but it can REVERSE heart disease ( and I'd imagine it can attack cancer and cancer causes). I guess I'll be making even MORE trips to the MV Market's Salad Bar now.
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  2. Time to add that extra reservoir! so that in just a couple of years below average rainfall -- we don't start declaring DROUGHT again (and ban garden watering already! -- and stop TAKING from the Russian River).
  3. The 2012 Xbox Granma Game is - Purlplexing !
    Photo: Photography

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  4. A budding Rock Star and the other thinks he's one already! Hey! I'm here for lessons. (tho my guitar has been gathering dust for years).
    Photo: A budding Rock Star and the other thinks he's one already!  Hey! I'm here for lessons. (tho my guitar has been gathering dust for years).
    Photo: A budding Rock Star and the other thinks he's one already!  Hey! I'm here for lessons. (tho my guitar has been gathering dust for years).
  5. Ami Watson
    December 26, 2012
    Xmas 2012 — with Paul Watson and 2 others. (4 photos)
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  6. Ami Watson
    December 26, 2012
    Christmas 2012 — with Paul Watson and Alan C Scotch. (30 photos)
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  7. Wishing you a merry xmas and happy new year from paul,ami,codie,jack,finley and logan xxx
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  8. wishing you a wonderful Christmas & all the very best for 2013... from 6000 miles away xx
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  9. The original, December, 2012
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  10. Annually 10,728 homicides -- add suicides and you get closer to 30,000 ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_deaths
    List of countries by firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population in one year. It can be resorted on any column by clicking on the sort icon at the head of the column.
    Protesters interrupt the NRA press conference: http://huff.to/VaDtP6
    Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
    Photo: Protesters interrupt the NRA press conference:  http://huff.to/VaDtP6 
Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
  11. Whilst EVERY MINUTE 146 women become pregnant who did not plan or wish it -- the most cost effective attack on Global Warming is helping 3rd world countries PLAN THEIR FAMILIES. http://populationalert.org/solution.htm
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  12. 1996 Australia enacted sweeping gun-control measures. A decade and a half hence, the results of these policy changes are clear: They worked really, really well.

    At the heart of the push was a massive buyback of more than 600,000 semi-autom...atic shotguns and rifles, or about one-fifth of all firearms in circulation in Australia.

    New gun laws:
    • prohibited private sales of guns ,
    • required that all weapons be individually registered to their owners, and
    • required that gun buyers present a “genuine reason” for needing each weapon at the time of the purchase. (Self-defense did not count.)
    • Homicides by firearm plunged 59 percent between 1995 and 2006, with no corresponding increase in non-firearm-related homicides.
    • The drop in suicides by gun was even steeper: 65 percent.
    • Robberies involving a firearm also dropped significantly.
    • Meanwhile, home invasions did not increase, contrary to fears that firearm ownership is needed to deter such crimes.
    • But here’s the most stunning statistic. In the decade before the Port Arthur massacre, there had been 11 mass shootings in the country. There hasn’t been a single one in Australia since.
    • the rate of decrease in gun-related deaths more than doubled following the gun buyback, and
    • states with the highest buyback rates showed the steepest declines.

    Polls showed public support for these measures at upwards of 90 percent. Studies found a close correlation between the sharp declines and the gun buybacks. A 2011 Harvard summary of the research concluded that, “it would have been difficult to imagine more compelling future evidence of a beneficial effect.”

    The Australian leader is convinced that America needs to change its gun laws, but lamented its lack of will to do so:
    “………. So deeply embedded is the gun culture of the US, that millions of law-abiding, Americans truly believe that it is safer to own a gun, based on the chilling logic that because there are so many guns in circulation, one's own weapon is needed for self-protection. ……………”.

    After Sandy Hook, with the nation shocked and groping for answers once again, I wonder if Americans are still so sure that we have nothing to learn from Australia’s example. The situation in Australia also looked like it was so far gone there was no turning back, but they did.
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/16/gun_control_after_connecticut_shooting_could_australia_s_laws_provide_a.html?wpisrc=most_viral
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  13. Christmas (10 photos)
    Christmas by Norman Rockwell
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  14. Alan C Scotch was tagged in 6 photos in Ami Watson's album Untitled Album.
    December 12, 2012
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    Photo: all of them last one we have as codie is off to big school next year xxx
    Photo: logan p2
    Photo: jack p5
  15. lol
    Thanks Donna ,this is to funny not to share.
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  16. Damn! Jessica Biel and a soccer playing Scotsman! If only I were 5 years younger - -- (and what does she see in Timberlake ? ). http://omg.yahoo.com/video/yo-jessica-biel-embraces-motherhood-002012252.html

November 2012

  1. The ice is almost pure water, which indicates that it arrived within the last few tens of millions of years, possibly from a comet that smacked into Mercury. ..... Between the scorched equator and the frozen poles, temperatures on Mercury can be temperate, especially a few feet below the surface, where the soil insulates against the temperature swings between day and night — an ideal location to build a colony.
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  2. Ami Watson
    November 27, 2012
    Alan C Scotch u have 4 very happy grandchildren,, thank u for sending them advent calendar,, we will try and skype u later on xxxxxxx
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  3. For those of you who notice those Time Lapse videos are panning at the same time.....
    Shooting video in the Atacama Desert with the EMotimo and Stage One!
    Photo: Shooting video in the Atacama Desert with the EMotimo and Stage One!
  4. Ami Watson
    November 18, 2012 near Connel, United Kingdom
    Think me and paul have lots our laptops — with Paul Watson and Alan C Scotch.
    Photo: Think me and paul have lots our laptops
  5. This is the version I always saw in my head. Then again, I'm Psychotic
    ~Amazon
    — with Nauga Hyde and 2 others.
    Photo: This is the version I always saw in my head. Then again, I'm Psychotic ;)
~Amazon
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  6. I'm Obama happy - but with Republicans still controlling the HOUSE we need a good chunk of them to tax their rich .... here's an animation of what happened: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/07/us/politics/obamas-diverse-base-of-support.html