Palestinian workers back Scarlett Johansson's opposition to SodaStream boycott (+video) - CSMonitor.com

Palestinian workers back Scarlett Johansson's opposition to SodaStream boycott (+video) - CSMonitor.com: "Previously, he earned 20 shekels ($6) a day plucking and cleaning chickens; now he makes nearly 10 times that at SodaStream,"



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Palestinian workers back Scarlett Johansson's opposition to SodaStream boycott (+video) - CSMonitor.com

Palestinian workers back Scarlett Johansson's opposition to SodaStream boycott (+video) - CSMonitor.com: "Previously, he earned 20 shekels ($6) a day plucking and cleaning chickens; now he makes nearly 10 times that at SodaStream,"



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Best Free Anonymous Surfing Services

Best Free Anonymous Surfing Services: "The Browser - this is your primary point of entry to the World Wide Web and theprimary means through which others can access data about you. If you are serious about your anonymity on the Internet, it is essential that you harden the configuration of your browser to prevent it from revealing your private information."



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Surviving low-bandwidth internet | Petit Bourgeois

Surviving low-bandwidth internet | Petit Bourgeois: "download of large attachments is still slow, and not very reliable. But you can still forward those attachments, and they do not slow down navigation within your email. I don’t use a mail client or Chrome’s offline email mode, but I expect that I would be able to deal with a good variety of use cases, in a bandwidth-thrifty way."



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Surviving low-bandwidth internet | Petit Bourgeois

Surviving low-bandwidth internet | Petit Bourgeois: "Gmail actually got it nailed. In a low-bandwidth environment, it seems the chatter of the web interface of Gmail is rather limited. Aside from the odd “message failed to send” when my connection is actually down "



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Surviving low-bandwidth internet | Petit Bourgeois

Surviving low-bandwidth internet | Petit Bourgeois: "Consider Dropbox: opening certain documents changes their meta-information (I imagine just the “last opened” flag). This triggers a re-upload. "



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TCP Tweak test | DSLReports, ISP Information

TCP Tweak test | DSLReports, ISP Information: "WINDOWS VISTA USERS: Vista TCP tuning (tweaking) is NOT advisable. The Vista TCP stack does a reasonable job of tuning the receive window dynamically, there are no known registry tweaks that would optimize Vista better than its default configuration."



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Opera Beta Offers Email "Low Bandwidth Mode"

Opera Beta Offers Email "Low Bandwidth Mode": "Low Bandwidth Mode is a setting on mail accounts that makes Opera Mail use as little bandwidth as possible.
For IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), this means that Opera will only synchronise new messages and it will not fetch message attachments unless requested"



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How to configure TB for low-bandwidth environments • mozillaZine Forums

How to configure TB for low-bandwidth environments • mozillaZine Forums: "leave message on server" to keep a copy of the message available for webmail and use either "for at most 7 days" or "until I delete it" to keep the mailbox from getting full.

The advantage is you don't have to fetch the message body for spam, or fetch the message again if you want to re-read a message.
"



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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "It's very clear that the "official" story stinks to high heaven, as Joe and Niall clearly demonstrate. The evidence points to conspiracy and coverup, but according to Joe and Niall, it's only a limited one?? While I appreciate the hard work and research, I'm not so quick to dismiss ANY and ALL possibilities, including media plants"

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "dorky kid, not even an experienced shooter, let alone an experienced killer, turned into the Terminator for a few minutes, mowed down a couple dozen people, then shot himself just before the police got there? Yeah right. There is video surveillance in that school. If what the officials say is true, let's see the tapes!"

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "Who would be the parties most interested in gauging the public reaction, Illuminatti, one world order, secret government, 4th den STS. . It occurs to me that it might be any of the above if we view these events as tests. A test to probe the mass conscientious as to the level of awakening. In view of the timing of the last event close to Dec 21 2012,"

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "inally the massacre of elementary school students. Now in my book the level of horrendous has been increasing to reach an event involving the murder of scores of innocent elementary school students. So whoever or whatever is behind this pattern has been ratcheting up the emotional intensity gradually with the purpose of gauging the mass public reaction and response."

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "Not sure weather I believe that my subconscious can't distinguish between real and simulated violence though."

Try reading the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" or "Strangers to Ourselves", you'll be left with little doubt."

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "Such programming simply re-enforces the perception that the streets of the USA are not safe because the human subconscious does not really distinguish between real and simulated violence.

This feeling of a pervasive yet vague and unnamed threat probably plays a significant role when it comes to average American citizens deciding whether or not to buy a gun."

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "Exacerbating this feeling is the obnoxious amount of violence displayed on American TV and Hollywood-produced movies. By age 18, the average American child will have seen 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence on TV or in movies, and most of this violence is depicted as taking place on American streets. "

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "these people are encouraged by a relentless media and corporate campaigns to 'consume' and have the best of everything the American capitalist dream can offer. It's not hard to see how many of these disenfranchised might turn to crime (which in the U.S. often means gun crime because of the easy access and 'right' to guns) in an effort to secure their piece of the pie. "

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "the nature of American culture and society. There is a vast underclass in the USA that has, for many decades, been economically marginalised and abandoned by an increasingly 'broken' eduction system that turfs many of them out on to the street at 16 years of age, barely able to read or write and with job prospects somewhere between minimum wage and unemployed. "

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Details Emerge About Family of Suspected Gunman - Metropolis - WSJ

Details Emerge About Family of Suspected Gunman - Metropolis - WSJ: "A former school board official in Newtown called into question earlier reports that Nancy Lanza had been connected to Sandy Hook Elementary School, possibly as part of the teaching staff.

“No one has heard of her,” said Lillian Bittman, who served on the local school board until 2011. “Teachers don’t know her.”"

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Details Emerge About Family of Suspected Gunman - Metropolis - WSJ

Details Emerge About Family of Suspected Gunman - Metropolis - WSJ: " Ryan told authorities he had not been in touch with his brother Adam in recent years, and the official said he isn’t believed to have any connection to the school killings.

In Hoboken, Ryan lives in a newer building that was hard-hit by superstorm Sandy, Ms. Colaneri said. He lost power for a number of days following the storm."

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Details Emerge About Family of Suspected Gunman - Metropolis - WSJ

Details Emerge About Family of Suspected Gunman - Metropolis - WSJ: "Two federal law-enforcement officials familiar with the investigation said the firearms recovered at the scene — Glock and Sig Sauer handguns – were registered to the alleged shooter’s mother and are legal. A third firearm was registered to Ms. Lanza as well, the officials said."

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "Holmes was reportedly wearing a gas mask and was equipped with 'gas canisters and ballistic gear'; and yet a second gas mask and 'duffel bag with gas canisters and ballistic gear' were found hundreds of feet away from his vehicle.

Sikh Temple Shooting - August 5th 2012

Seven people were murdered two weeks after the Aurora theater shooting, on 5th August 2012, when a 'lone gunman' opened fire during worship at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin"

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "while an officer can be heard to say, "Sounds like it was a coordinated attack." The 'lone gunman', 24-year-old James Holmes, was arrested by police 1-2 minutes after the first 911 call was made because he was found either inside or next to his car (this has not been clarified), which was parked next to the emergency exit of Theater 9. Holmes was reportedly wearing a gas mask and was equipped with 'gas canisters and ballistic gear';"

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: " Sandy Hook massacre is one of many such mass shootings in the USA over the course of the last 20 years. Several of the most notable of these shootings all have one thing in common: the official story claimed a 'lone gunman' was involved, yet eyewitnesses reported at least one other shooter.

Aurora Theater Shooting - July 20th 2012

Eyewitness reports from the Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting describe a man seated in the front row of Theater 9 taking a phone call, getting up to open an emergency exit, then waiting for someone else to enter the theater. "

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "Were the police chasing two other people in connection with the shooting?
Was one person captured and "proned out" by one officer, and did other officers chase another individual into the woods behind the school?"

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: ""I have reports that the teacher saw two shadows running past the building, past the gym which would be rear ... rear shooting."
5-10 seconds later, another officer says:
"yeah we got 'em, they're coming at me down [inaudible] ... coming up the drive the left side""

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "He then left that classroom and entered the classroom of teacher Victoria Leigh Soto and demanded to know where the children were. When Soto said they were in the auditorium, Lanza shot her, another special-needs teacher, Rachel D'Avino, and four of their students, who emerged from the cupboard in which they were hiding. Lanza then left that room "

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: " it would be helpful if police authorities could clear up the question of whether or not Nancy Lanza was a teacher and if she ever had any connection with Sandy Hook school, because, as noted by W. Joseph Campbell, a communications studies professor at American University:
[The idea that Nancy Lanza was killed with her students] "is a narrative that does hang together and explains the story in ways the real story doesn't. "

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The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

The Sandy Hook Massacre: Unanswered Questions -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: "police sources have said is that a "mind numbing" quantity of spent cartridges littered the floor of the school. Eyewitnesses reported hearing "hundreds of shots" fired. The shell casings on the school floor were reportedly from a .233 Bushmaster rifle. The mainstream media reported that the Bushmaster rifle had been "found in the trunk of a car""

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Read the Connecticut State's Attorney's Crime Report on the Sandy Hook Massacre | Mother Jones

Read the Connecticut State's Attorney's Crime Report on the Sandy Hook Massacre | Mother Jones: "nventory of violent video games he owned, along with a record of some of the evidence recovered from Lanza's hard drive, such as images of him brandishing weapons, "

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Read the Connecticut State's Attorney's Crime Report on the Sandy Hook Massacre | Mother Jones

Read the Connecticut State's Attorney's Crime Report on the Sandy Hook Massacre | Mother Jones: "an inventory of violent video games he owned, along with a record of some of the evidence recovered from Lanza's hard drive, such as images of him brandishing weapons, movies depicting mass shootings, and videos of people committing suicide by gunshot."

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Sandy Hook Elementary shooting leaves 28 dead, law enforcement sources say - The Washington Post

Sandy Hook Elementary shooting leaves 28 dead, law enforcement sources say - The Washington Post: "Friday’s shooting became the second-deadliest in U.S. history, after the rampage that killed 32 students at the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. It happened in a country that had grown darkly accustomed to public shootings: just five months before, another gunman had killed 12 in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in July."

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The giant, gaping hole in Sandy Hook reporting

The giant, gaping hole in Sandy Hook reporting: "Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999 during which they killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves.Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that during short-term controlled clinical trials, 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox – that’s 1 in 25 – developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion.
Patrick Purdy went on a schoolyard sho"

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The giant, gaping hole in Sandy Hook reporting

The giant, gaping hole in Sandy Hook reporting: " “How Evil Works,” it is simply indisputable that most perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on – or just recently coming off of – psychiatric medications:

Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox – like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and many others, a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant drug called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. "

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Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza apparently phoned Oregon anarchist radio show a year before massacre | OregonLive.com

Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza apparently phoned Oregon anarchist radio show a year before massacre | OregonLive.com: "Greg and apparently taking pains to disguise his voice, Lanza weighed-in on mass murder by comparing “a teenage mall shooter” to Travis, a chimpanzee who became infamous after ripping the face off a Connecticut woman in 2009."

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Gunman Kills 20 Schoolchildren in Connecticut - NYTimes.com

Gunman Kills 20 Schoolchildren in Connecticut - NYTimes.com: "The gunman, Adam Lanza, shot his way in, defeating the security system that required visitors to be buzzed in; the school’s principal did not allow him to go through the security system after recognizing him. The article also referred incorrectly to the gunman’s mother, Nancy, whom he killed in the house they shared not far from the school. She was never a teacher at the school."

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Gunman Kills 20 Schoolchildren in Connecticut - NYTimes.com

Gunman Kills 20 Schoolchildren in Connecticut - NYTimes.com: "who recognized Mr. Lanza because his mother worked at the school, who let him in on Friday. Sometime later, she heard shots and went to see what was going on.

Lieutenant Vance said the Newtown police had called for help from police departments nearby and began a manhunt, checking “every nook and cranny and every room.”"

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Gunman Kills 20 Schoolchildren in Connecticut - NYTimes.com

Gunman Kills 20 Schoolchildren in Connecticut - NYTimes.com: "The rampage, coming less than two weeks before Christmas, was the nation’s second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, in which a gunman killed 32 people and then himself.

Law enforcement officials said Mr. Lanza had grown up in Newtown, and he was remembered by high school classmates as smart, introverted and nervous."

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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: " When police interviewed children, a little girl recalled hearing one of her classmates say "Help me! I don't want to be here!" Lanza replied "Well you're here." Others could hear Lanza curse at his victims saying; "Look at me!" and "Come over here!" and "Look at them!"[75]"

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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A six-year-old girl was the sole survivor and was found by police in the classroom following the shooting.[34] The surviving girl was hidden in one of the corners of the classroom's bathroom during the shooting.[45] The girl's family pastor said that she survived the mass shooting by remaining still, and playing dead. When she reached her mother she said: "Mommy, I'm okay, but all my friends are dead." The child described the shooter as "a very angry man".[46][47]"

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(90) TULSA: the armpit of the world

(90) TULSA: the armpit of the world: " no scenery. Hardly any flowers. Buildings dark and spiritless or beige and spiritless. The downtown area is a ghost town. There are benches and wide streets yet no one is out, even on lunch hours. "

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10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal - 99U

10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal - 99U: "I’m super protective of my nap, and my schedule generally. You have to learn how to say no. I usually keep a pretty hard line about that. You have to be rested and healthy for your job in the morning, so you have to cut some things off, and resist the temptation to go to everything you’re invited to."

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Gee, this may not be a good one for me! I need to get myself out there more! Editor- Stephen C. Sanders

The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist

The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist: "Even if there isn’t a specific skill you absolutely need to have, learning for its own sake is fun and keeps the mind sharp [4]. From survival skills (hey, you never know, right?), to getting better at Excel"

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The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist

The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist: "Hone in on one area of life you wish you had more mastery of — laundry, etiquette, personal finance — and choose two or three hacks to learn and integrate into your routine."

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10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal - 99U

10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal - 99U: "I also have tons of things that I’ve saved, dimensional items, whether its tear sheets from magazines or invitations to events that I liked, or beautiful packaging, or just anything that inspires me. And, I have these books that are not categorized by anything but are just full of visual works, so I’ll flip through those for ideas."

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The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist

The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist: " Research has shown that immersion learning helps adults retain what they’ve learned.

6. Focus on technique, not outcome.
Try “deliberate practice,” which means first working on the techniques required to master a given skill,"

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The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist

The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist: "ake more blink breaks.
Research has shown that blinking more helps us focus attention and process whatever we’re seeing."

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(2) A New Shoot Has Sprouted

(2) A New Shoot Has Sprouted: "One might view fire as a common tree's greatest fear. However the Sequoia is both resistant to fire, and even requires those natural wildfires started by lightning to protect itself from other natural enemies."

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The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist

The Ultimate Guide to Learning a New Skill in 2014 | Greatist: "1. Believe that you’ll succeed.
Prepare yourself for learning by simply being confident in your abilities. Believing in one’s intelligence has been shown to lead to success in learning "

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(1) A New Shoot Has Sprouted

(1) A New Shoot Has Sprouted: "The thing which makes my "economic recovery plan" different from all others is that I am constantly striving to bring economic recovery back to our homes and dinner tables. Many of us, who have the gift of vision and well thought out plans, dreams, and visions unfortunately were not equally gifted with just the seed money money needed to get these visions off the ground and into the word-wide-web. So this note is to introduce the formation of the very interface we need to make it happen."

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10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal - 99U

10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal - 99U: "Venture capitalist Brad Feld takes a week off every three months:

The most impactful thing I’ve done is to take a week off the grid every quarter."

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Gee; I thunk I have this one beat, I sometimes drop off the grid for many weeks! I just don't know if I would recommend it! Stephen C. Sanders- Jan 16. 2014.

10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal - 99U

10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal - 99U: "Benjamin Franklin made sure to end every day by asking “What good have I done today?”"

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Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States: "1. Shooting sprees are not rare in the United States.
Mother Jones has tracked and mapped every shooting spree in the last three decades. "Since 1982, there have been at least 61 mass murders carried out with firearms across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii," they found. And in most cases, the killers had obtained their weapons legally:"

Source: Washington Post.com

Above From: "

Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/nine-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/

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