"The Church, all of us should divest ourselves of worldliness," a visibly emotional pope said, adding: "Worldliness is a murderer because it kills souls, kills people, kills the Church." "Without divesting ourselves, we would become pastry shop Christians, like beautiful cakes and sweet things but not real Christians," he said.

Megatron has finally found his Starscream in Reggie Bush.

Miscreants who thought bitcoin would be a magical way to flout international law by selling drugs and hiring contract killers have found out what bitcoin advocates have been asserting all along: The digital-only crypto currency backed only by the good faith of nerds everywhere is private, not anonymous. The recent bust of notorious online drug market Silk Road has proven that while bitcoin can be a means for conducting secure transactions secretly, nothing about the currency is untraceable, and it can’t protect you if law enforcement comes knocking.

In this way, the takedown of Silk Road is actually good for bitcoin, because cleaning up the public image of the world’s most popular crypto currency could help it go mainstream.

Indeed, Silicon Valley heavyweights are betting that bitcoin is the future—from the Winklevoss twins, who put a portion of their settlement from Facebook into the currency, to Valley uber-investor Marc Andreessen, who compares bitcoin’s growing pains to the early days of the internet, and says that it could act as an alternative to the US dollar. “It’s going to be adopted precisely because it’s not controlled by the government of—pick a country—that has bad policies,” Andreessen told tech news site Pando Daily.

Bitcoin might some day act as an intermediate means of exchange on foreign currency markets, but in the meantime there are plenty of real world things you can buy with it, from electronics to US dollars. And there is plenty of other evidence that bitcoin is becoming bigger and more mainstream by the day, from lawsuits $75 million lawsuits between its biggest players to the mind-boggling scale of computing power currently devoted to the “mining” of bitcoins.

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Alex Rodriguez files lawsuit against MLB in New York Supreme Court New York Daily News In an attempt to save face - and his fortune - troubled Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court late Thursday night, charging Major League Baseball and commissioner Bud Selig with engaging in "vigilante justice" to destroy ... A-Rod sues MLB, claims 'witch hunt'USA TODAY Alex Rodriguez Files Suit Against Selig, MLBWall Street Journal Alex Rodriguez Sues Major League Baseball Over 'Witch Hunt' (2)Businessweek KENS 5 TV -Reuters -azcentral.com all 222 news articles »

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So, you moved to Portland because it's weird, artsy and on the cutting-edge of cool. I look different than you because I am all of the above mentioned qualities so it strikes me as ironic your obviously wealthy ass finds it necessary, if not second nature, to mean mug me and obviously judge me for my place in this city or society. Well asshole, my place in this society is to create new things that you will no doubt consume and underpay me for. Jesus fucking Christ rich transplants, go home!

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Twitter secretly submitted four drafts of its IPO prospectus to regulators before making public the version that drew so much attention yesterday. The changes made in the interim expose concerns about how much advertising Twitter can show its users and whether it can effectively grow outside the United States.

The drafts also reveal that Twitter hired about 300 people in the second quarter of this year, growing from 1,697 employees to “approximately 2,000.”

Some of the edits were subtle but telling. Whereas Twitter originally described itself as a “platform,” the official filing changed many of those references to “global platform.” And this sentence was added to the introduction: “We aim to become an indispensable daily companion to live human experiences.”

But the most significant changes concerned Twitter’s advertising revenue. The second draft of the IPO prospectus, submitted on August 21, added a disclosure that the cost of advertising on Twitter had declined and could continue to drop. The third draft, on September 9, noted that Twitter’s ability to display ads within its mobile applications is more limited than on desktop computers, but people increasingly prefer to use Twitter on mobile.

And in the fourth draft, submitted on September 26, Twitter added several more references to the risk that “ad engagement”—essentially, whether people clicks on paid tweets—could decline. Here’s what one of those edits looks like (addition in green, deletion in red):

If we fail to grow our user base, or if user engagement or the number of paid engagements with our pay-for-performance Promoted Products, which we refer to as ad engagements, on our platform declines, our revenue, business and operating results may be harmed.

Ordinarily, these kinds of changes to an IPO filing would play out in public, helping investors better understand the company. For instance, when Facebook was going through this process, an amendment to its prospectus that warned about mobile advertising revenue put a spotlight on a critical weakness in the company. The changes usually reflect comments from regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) who are trained to scrutinize these filings.

But Twitter was able to avoid much of that attention by invoking a new law, called the JOBS Act, that allows companies with less than $1 billion in annual revenue to get feedback on their IPO filings in confidence. The law requires that Twitter ultimately disclose its earlier drafts, which it did yesterday soon after the official S-1 was revealed, but because they aren’t filed piecemeal, they won’t generate headlines—like, say, this one, from last year: “Facebook Amends IPO S-1 To Admit Advertising Biz Hurt By Increasing Shift To Mobile.”

If Twitter weren’t able to edit its IPO prospectus in secret, its various amendments might have led to headlines such as:

• Twitter admits its ad rates are falling—and it might not stop
• New risk to Twitter IPO: Mobile users aren’t as lucrative
• 5% of Twitter’s users aren’t real, company confesses in new filing

Alas, all of those changes happened quietly, instead, which was exactly Twitter’s intention in using the JOBS Act. It’s hoping to avoid the kind of overheated anticipation that have tripped up other IPOs by technology companies.

Twitter submitted its first draft to the SEC on July 12, and managed to keep that a secret until the company itself revealed what it was up to on September 12. It continued to edit the document until the official filing yesterday, October 3. Twitter will make at least one more amendment before its IPO because it has to fill in a few blanks, including the stock exchange on which the company will list it shares.

In another major disclosure that was added after the first draft, Twitter said it faced significant challenges outside the US, where most of its users reside. “Differences in the competitive landscape in international markets may impact our ability to monetize our products and services,” began a very long paragraph that was added to the second draft.

Twitter’s hiring spree in the second quarter, when its headcount grew by about 300, may have cost it a lot of stock options. The first draft of the IPO prospectus said the company had issued about 66 million stock options as compensation since July 2010. By the time of the official filing, that number had grown to about 93 million.

Other small changes could point to interesting backstories. A reference in the official filing to “an entity affiliated with Rizvi Traverse,” which is a private equity firm with a large stake in Twitter, was more specific in earlier drafts: Institutional Associates Fund. A long disclosure about 1.5 million stock options granted to Alex Macgillivray, who was Twitter’s general counsel, didn’t make it into the final cut, likely because Macgillivray left the company.

You can read through all of Twitter’s drafts—and yesterday’s official filing—here. In the weeks after Twitter starts trading as a public company, the SEC will reveal what feedback it gave to Twitter this summer.

The photo above, from Twitter’s new headquarters, is by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid and used under a Creative Commons license.

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The Fine Brothers have created the Freaks & Geeks: The Game, an interactive retro-style video game on YouTube that is based on the TV series Freaks and Geeks. You play the role of Lindsay Weir who must decide between becoming a Mathelete or pushing her friend Millie aside. The game offers two possible endings based on your decision. Music and animation for this piece were created by Doctor Octoroc. The soundtrack is available to download online. Previously, we wrote about their Mad Men interactive video game.

This game is dedicated to the cast and crew of one of our favorite shows, ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ a show that sadly only had one brilliant season. This is both our’s and Doctor Octoroc’s tribute.

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The southern province of Sindh, home to Pakistan’s largest city and commercial center Karachi, will ban voice-messaging services for three months “because terrorists are using them,” the Tribune newspaper reports. The list of services to be banned includes Microsoft’s Skype and Viber. Messaging app WhatsApp may also have to go. According to the paper:

Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon confirmed the decision in a press briefing. He said that the networks would be banned because terrorists are using them, having switched over from regular mobile services. Memon said the Sindh government has also requested the federal government to contact these companies and ask them for “access.”

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 25-year-old chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party that rules the state (and son of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former president Asif Ali Zardari) asked complaining youngsters to put up with the ban for the sake of national security:

Dear Burgers, Sorry abt Skype/Viber/Whtsapp. Excuse us while we catch some terrorists and save some lives. SMS for 3months. Sincerely BBZ—
BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) October 03, 2013

“Burgers” is a mocking term for affluent, Westernized young Pakistanis.

Pakistan has a long history of banning technology. The national government still hasn’t lifted its ban on YouTube, put in place to prevent blasphemous material from setting off riots like those in Egypt and Libya last year and at one point threatened to block all of Google instead.  It has in the past banned Facebook; virtual private networks, a secure way of connecting to the internet; and in a particularly ill-thought-out move, text messages containing swear words.

On the other hand, while Pakistan is second only to Iran in the National Security Agency’s top targets for surveillance, at least Pakistanis don’t have to worry too much about being spied on by their own government. Zardari justified the three-month ban by explaining that his government does not have the ability to “extract intel” from the apps it is shutting down.

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I’ve given many teasers for the setting Schism, which I’ve been working on for some time with Mike Hasko, Ryven Cedrylle and Jeremy Morgan.  What I haven’t done is release the actual content of the settings.  Here is the teaser/setting pitch.  Expect more details of the region and culture in future posts!

Collari: a Reign of Steam and Terror

The Steam King is finally free to conquer all of Collari.  For many years his cruel reign remained constricted to his kingdom of Beltzhoover. He could not bring war to Laeda or Kitan due to the Gray Shield created by the priests of Nethane, the god of death.  The Gray Shield decomposed all undead or re-animated beings from entering Laeda, thereby keeping Beltzhoover’s ruler and his steam-powered necromantic forces.

But Nethane is dead. At a yearly event in Reach where the god took tribute, a master of shadow magic stole Nethane’s shadow.  This unexpectedly killed the god, transferring much of his power to the Usurper at the cost of the divine power once granted to his priests. The Gray Shield fell. The Steam King sensed this almost immediately and began to deploy forces in Laeda and through it, to fight Betlzhoover’s hated Nation of Kitan.

Laeda itself is fractured. For centuries worship of all other gods has been forbidden. With Nethane dead, many hidden cults have now resurfaced, and battle for political control and religious freedom.  The Usurper spends her time mostly in her tower in Reach, trying to figure out how to control and access the powers of the god she slew, and restore the Gray Shield.

It is said that the Orisha that now rule Zimare,  descended from the Heavens to prepare for these troubled times. Zimare trades with Laeda and Kitan still from across the Southern Sea, with ears and eyes out for signs of the event that prophets long said would bring the nation to ruin.

In the midst of this all you play adventurers attempting to heal or further fracture the land as you see fit. Do you want to unite Laeda? Defeat Beltzhoover? Support Kitan? The choice is yours when you enter the world of Schism.

 

Timeline:

(Thanks to Jeremy for setting this up!)

 

Previous Schism posts:

• Icons of the Schism: The Prisoner
• Icons of the Schism: The Muse
• Icons of the Schism: The Steam King
• Icons of the Schism: The Usurper
• Worldbreakers of the Schism: Yenee of the Waves

 

With a budget deal still elusive and a deadline approaching on raising the debt ceiling, Speaker John A. Boehner has told colleagues that he is determined to prevent a federal default and is willing to pass a measure through a combination of Republican and Democratic votes.

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As the US debt ceiling looms as the next crisis on the horizon, you’re going to hear it a lot of this.

“The government has never defaulted on its obligations…”

-The Associated Press

“The nation has never defaulted.”

-USA Today

“We’ve never defaulted in our history.”

-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney

“It is not acceptable for one faction of one party in one chamber to say, ‘Either we get what we want or we’ll shut down the government,’ or even worse, we will not allow the U.S. Treasury to pay its bills and put the United States in default for the first time in history.”

-President Barack Obama

When it comes to history, never say never. If you go back far enough, almost everything has happened at least once—and sometimes several times. And that’s how it is with US defaults.

Original sin

The prevailing narrative of US government debt goes something like this. After the US won its independence from Britain in the late 18th century, the country was deeply in debt, owing about $79 million to creditors. Many politicians argued that the nascent country should repudiate its debts altogether and start fresh. Into the breach stepped Alexander Hamilton, who convinced policymakers that the wiser move was to consolidate state debts into a federal pile and then pay debts in full. Hamilton won the day, laying the foundation for the untarnished full-faith-and-credit that serves as the basis for the US’s prized position in global finance to this day.

But what is often glossed over is that the US didn’t just pluckily pay off its wartime debts with a good, old-fashioned dollop of American elbow grease. No, it took the path of modern Greece.

It restructured its debts, with decidedly harsh terms from creditors. In fact, the terms were so tough that an important paper on the topic notes that “a large part of the face value of the debt was effectively written off.” In other words, it wasn’t paid. So was this a default?

Well, as we’ve seen during the ongoing European debt crisis, the word “default” is quite malleable. Technically, Hamilton’s restructuring of the US debt was a voluntary bond swap. And voluntary conversions aren’t always viewed as defaults. But sometimes they are. Just look at Greece, which arranged for a series of “voluntary” conversions of its preposterously large debt over the past few years. Did that constitute default?

S&P says yes, citing two criteria that equate to a default: 1) that investors will receive less than they were promised in the original securities, which was definitely true in the case of Hamilton’s debt swap, and 2) the swap was “distressed” rather than “purely opportunistic.” (It’s not like Hamilton was just taking advantage of a decline in interest rates, for instance.) In his excellent, all-encompassing history of public finance, James Macdonald notes “Hamilton struck a very hard bargain with creditors—one that stretched the terms voluntary conversion and sanctity of contract beyond their true limits.” (Emphasis original.)

Golden handcuffs

The other instance of US default came during the worst years of the Great Depression. In 1933, President Roosevelt devalued the dollar against gold. That violated the so-called gold clause, which required that all public debts be paid in gold coin of a fixed weight. (America’s overwhelmingly pro-Roosevelt Congress simply declared all gold clauses null and void.) The 1933 devaluation effectively amounted to paying off debts with devalued currency, which is widely viewed as a default. In fact, in her exhaustive research on sovereign debt, economist Carmen Reinhart clearly classifies the 1933 devaluation as a domestic default.

The computer glitch of ’79

There have been some other instances of default that were just, well, screw-ups. As the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig recently reminded us, in April and May of 1979—during the height of another debt ceiling debate—computer glitches resulted in the failure of the US to pay interest on $122 million in Treasury bills, which in the hardest sense of the word, was a default. Zweig writes:

The Treasury characterized the problem as a delay rather than as a default. While the error affected only a fraction of 1% of the US debt, short-term interest rates—then around 9%—jumped 0.6 percentage point and the US was promptly sued by bondholders for breach of contract. (Investors were later paid in full, with back interest.)

The latest outrage is that Florida cops have been engaging in so-called “bag-a-fag” operations around the state. They go something like this; a male undercover cop goes into a park to look for another male to have sex with, they find a partner, and they arrest that person.

Commander, FIraxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown is currently free to play on Steam through Sunday until 16:00 Eastern. The franchise is also on sale until Monday, October 7, until 10:00 Eastern. Players should also be aware that if they start a game through the free offer, they'll need to buy it before the weekend is over for $10 to retain their progress.

The free-to-play weekend is actually part of a publisher sale going on with 2K Games over at the digital distribution network. Amazon is also having a similar deal. We'll be watching your progress with interest, Commander.

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“7 Ways to Eat Good While on a Hood Budget“ by Stic of Dead Prez founder of www.rbgfitclub.com

In the work I do in promoting holistic health and fitness through the RBG FIT CLUB, I have run into the following sentiment more than a few times: “I want to eat healthier but it’s too expensive!”. Many people are interested in ways to upgrade their diet without breaking their bank. Well, I can dig it. And since I been striving to sustain the healthy grind in my life personally since way back in the food stamp days, I think I may have a few tips to share.

The following are 7 Ways to Eat Good While on a Hood Budget. But bottom line always remember, we can pay now or pay later (in suffering and doctor bills etc) when it comes to our dietary discipline and choices.

1. Choose Produce not Packages: People think eating healthy is about buying a lot of expensive boxes and packages of processed foods, but that isn’t the case at all.

The cheapest most nutrient dense food in a grocery store in the produce isle. Fresh vegetables and fresh fruits. Trying to buy costly packaged goods, potato chips and sugary juices and all kinds of over processed items, even at a health food store is when the budget starts to soar. When we feel we don’t have time to cook we often go for a lot of “quick fix” items like pizzas and pre-cut bags of French fries and stuff like that. That’s where the money adds up. But if you fill your basket with fresh greens and fruits and some basic staples like rice, noodles, beans you will not only have an optimal basket of nutritious foods … you will have saved a great deal of money of the food bill and subsequent doctor bills. Eat real foods and save real money. If you worried the fruits and veggies will spoil before you eat them, read on to number 2!

2. Cook Big and Save Some for Later: Cooking meals in large batches and freezing the leftovers for later in the week or month can save you a lot of time and money.

Instead of buying fast food or eating out at restaurants, or even cooking a full meal every time you get hungry, it’s way more cost effective and time saving and healthy for you to pull something out of the freezer and warm it up than it is to wash/chop/slice/boil/bake/wait in line/wait to be served etc.

Pre-preparing and freezing weekly sized portions of rice or salad choppings or beans etc will simplify your meal duties. Even if you have to do a little cooking you will still save money and time seven days a week. Spend an hour or so over the weekend like on a Sunday evening preparing food for the week. Then, during the week, all you have to do is pull something out of the freezer and heat it up. Them big Ziploc bags ain’t just for the D-boys! Lol

3. Soup Up your Options: Large vegetable soups over brown rice or whole grain noodles pack in vitamins and nutrients, fill you up and are easy to make and delicious. Also Bean burritos, chili, and bean soup can be easy to prepare, cheap and good for you. Going totally meatless a couple of times a week (or for good) also helps your budget and gives your palate a variety to enjoy. Frozen veggies, which are inexpensive, work great in Soups. Nothing compares to that good and filling, good feeling of a hot and hearty bowl of Soup. Cheap, packed with nutrients, easy to prepare. Its the new “Soup-er” food! Lol!

4. Make A Plan and See Where Ya Values Are:. In the hood, in all honesty, We spend a gang of money on cable, hair dos, sneakers, weed, parties expensive bottles of alcohol,video games, big screen tvs, rims, jewelry, strip club tricking, trendy name brand clothes, car accessories, headphones, cigarettes all kinds of overpriced things. But when it comes to our health, we often skimp and look for the cheapest food we can find.

But in our best interest, We have to value our health above all these other things, and make eating healthy a priority in terms of how we spend the resources we have. Makes no sense to be fronting like a rich person on the outside ,but in reality, in poor health on the inside, right? But it’s easy for any of us to make excuses without looking at at a budget, so that’s where budgeting comes in handy.

Budgets help us see where our money is really going not where we feel like its going. Budgeting is also a master ingredient to financial stability in general, so not only will it help identify funds that can be used toward more healthful food choices; its an essential tool to manage our financial responsibilities better in general. Usually when we make a budget we can see plenty of stuff we can do without to make room for healthier eating choices. You may say “shoot, I dont make enough money to budget it!” lol, but you don’t have to make a lot of money to benefit from budgeting. Budgeting helps what ever we make stretch farther and get more of what we truly value out of what we have. When we values ourselves more than our things we make healthier choices. Budget, prioritize and prosper.

5. Season your Food: Eat fruits and vegetables that are in season, that is! Otherwise you’ll be paying a much higher price. For example, if you live in the north east United States and you want some watermelon in the middle of the Winter of December, it’s gonna have to be shipped from where ever it is in season to your local market and you pay that extra cost. Also, eating foods that are current in their natural growing season helps strengthen your immune system for that season. Seasonal Fruits can be frozen and blended to smoothies. Frozen vegetables also can be used to make a stir fry. They’re convenient and they don’t spoil quickly like fresh fruits and veggies.

6. Join a Co-op or Local Community Garden: You get discounts on your groceries by being a member of grocery store co-ops. In exchange for your minimal volunteer work hours per month, you get your groceries at Co-op member’s only price. Same thing goes for community gardens. And not only that you get to learn a WHOLE lot about nutrition and health being in that kind of environment.

There are many urban farm movements popping up all over the place where folks are going back to the land, utilizing whatever small plots there are right in the hood, to grow food. Participating with these farms are awesome ways to educate ourselves on growing food. Also, there are usually harvest markets where the food is sold for really affordable prices and you can get first dibs by being a community member. Places like DTown Farms and Freedom Freedom in Detroit and Truly Living Well Farms and Habesha Gardens in Atlanta are great examples of gardens in the hood that you can google and “dig” into! If you have even the smallest plot of land in your yard growing your own food from heirloom seeds (non-gmo varieties) is also another way to save on the grocery bills while mastering a very useful and fun survival skill.

My wife Afya, has been a great source of inspiration in this area in our household. You can Follow her instagram (@AfyaIbomu) blog to see our latest harvests. And last but certainly not least….

7. Drink more water. Many times we think we are hungry, it may be actually a sign of thirst.

The fact that it is recommended by holistic healers and medical experts alike that we drink half our body weight in ounces of water each day, it’s safe to say many of us are chronically dehydrated and as Rocko’s song lyric says “we don’t even know it”. When we are drinking enough water it curbs our appetite so we don’t over eat. Drinking water also says us money on all the sugary drinks on the market that are often what we choose to wet our whistles due to the drug effect of the high sugar, high fructose corn syrup content of most beverages sold in the hood. We can save our money and our internal organs by saying no to the liquid sugar caffiene crack juice aka sodas and artificial energy drinks and just sip on nature’s good old original elixir -H20!

oh…Bottle water getting too expensive? Get a basic filter for your tap, some for as low as $20 bucks and like Kendrick Lamar’s song says “pour up, drank!”

 

 

In summary, the main thing to remember for eating good on a hood budget is that it is doable! People often say things are not possible that they haven’t truly dedicated themselves to figuring out. Many of us say it’s too expensive to eat healthy but we spend and waste a lot of money that could have been spent in a wiser manner. The reason that many of us think health food is expensive is because we are not clear on what health food is. Health food is not going to Whole Foods and stocking your pantry with fancy processed boxes and packages of this and that. Health food is simple and is the least expensive most nutrient dense food in the grocery store, basically fruits and vegetables, beans and simple whole grains. Those are affordable staple foods and even on a food stamp budget (I know from experience) have been scientifically applauded for their health benefits.

It’s important that we not be intimidated by all the health information nor swayed by all the different opposing views on what health is. A lot of it is simple common sense, if you will. We know a bag of chips isn’t a health food. We know that McDonald’s isn’t exactly a health food restaurant either. We can begin to take ownership and be ever vigilant in studying and learning all we can to educate ourselves on how to make healthier choices. Do your own research and take ownership for your health. To live a healthy life its not about always depending on the doctors and medications. One has to in essence become a lifelong student of your own holistic health so you can make wise choices for yourself and your families. Most graduating Doctors spend very little class time studying nutrition when getting their degrees. So they may have a lot of knowledge on surgery and medicine but few mainstream minded doctors are trained in Nutrition. They are trained to diagnose symptoms and prescribe medication, for the most part. However, a holistic nutritionist (as opposed to even a conventional nutritionist) is trained to help us understand the ways in which our food choices can help us heal and keep us healthy without the use of medicines and surgeries.

As mentioned, its important to plan ahead and have a weekly goal and vision on the meals and needs your family has so that we are making less impulsive decision when hunger strikes and more pre-planned long term health affirming choices based on wise consideration and preparation before hand. When we cook in bulk for the week it’s one of the biggest helpers in saving money and eating less fast food and junk food. With realistic budgeting we can see what we really have to work with and choose consciously to value our health over things. Each season nature gives us plenty of fresh foods to nourish us in harmony with our environment and these foods are plentiful in there natural seasons so they are less expensive.

And lastly, but not leastly, we need to realize that our taste buds are conditioned and can be re-conditioned. When we only eat for taste we become slaves to taste alone. And as we learn from seeing far to many of our relatives sick and miserable and overweight and diseased, eating for taste without regard to health leads to self destruction. We can eat healthy on a hood budget. We deserve the best and we can start living like we understand our value by choosing to adopt healthier habits. When the hood is strong, we are truly unstoppable. Salute!

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Londonderry, NH, September 25, 2013 - Game Salute is proud to announce Dreaming Spires, published by Secret Games and designed by Jeremy Hogan.

In Dreaming Spires players lead an Oxford college from the medieval era through to the modern day. Choose which buildings to build, which scholars to admit and how to act in exciting events which pit the colleges against one another.

The eccentric characters and tumultuous events of Oxford’s history are brought to life in cards, featuring original illustrations, famous quotes and amusing written accounts. Beautiful artwork, rich theme and top quality components combine to transport you to “that sweet city with her dreaming spires!”

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Game Salute provides top-shelf support for independent game developers and publishers.  Founded by industry veterans, Game Salute is dedicated to providing innovative and reliable tools and services to make the tabletop games industry better.  Game Salute is headquartered in Londonderry, NH and has offices through the US as well as in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.  For more information, visit www.GameSalute.com or call 1-800-459-5516.

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First time accepted submitter starr802 writes "Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea, have developed a 'jellyfish terminator' robot set out to detect the marine coelenterate and kill it. Scientists started developing the robots three years ago after South Korea experienced jellyfish attacks along its southwest coast, where they clogged fishing nets and ate fish eggs and plankton, Discovery News reports. The Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm or JEROS has two motors that let it move forward, backwards and rotate at 360 degrees." In related news, the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden was shut down recently after moon jellyfish overwhelmed the screens and filters in cooling pipes."

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