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New Exhibition at Processing.org: Max Planck Reasearch Networks by Moritz Stefaner and Christopher Warnow
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UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: UN Security Council:Threats to international peace and security →
May 05th 2012
The UN Security Council meet this morning at its 6765th meeting on Threats to international peace and security to discuss strengthening international cooperation in the implementation of counter terrorism obligations. During this High Level meeting, the concept paper dated…
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I am the 99%.
occupywallst.org
My name is Olivia. I can’t hold a sign because I’m so little.
I was born with club feet. One was so bad, it was nearly upside-down. My feet have been stretched into place and casted into position every week since I was 3 weeks old. It really hurts. I’m 3 and a half months old now, so I’ve done that a lot. It costs about $500 each time. (You can see one of my casts peeking out under my dress.)
On March 21, 2012 I had my first surgery, because the stretching wasn’t working. That cost nearly $9,000, but if my feet don’t get fixed, I’ll never be able to walk.
Medicaid is paying to fix my feet. My Daddy is a disabled veteran, but his insurance won’t cover my feet. My Mom is trying to raise my 3 brothers and I while she wracks up student loans getting her college degree, because minimum wage isn’t enough to keep a roof over our heads.WIC is paying for my formula, because Mom’s milk never came in. She feels kinda bad about that, but sometimes these things just happen.
I hear that some people want to get rid of Medicaid, the Pell Grant, and WIC, so that the 1% can have even more tax breaks. Well, I want to be able to walk. I need to eat. And my Mom would like to be able to provide for me better someday. I don’t understand why people want to take that away from me. What did I do wrong?
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If you don’t know Mark Herzlich’s story, read this.
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It’s baaaaaack! A lot of people have e-mailed asking for the instructions on how to make the double rainbow coconut cupcakes. Well the recipe is back! Click here for step-by-step photos and directions. Double rainbow cupcakes! What do they mean!? They mean DELICIOUS!
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SoundCloud Status: Scheduled maintenance →
Hey everyone!
We’ll be performing maintenance on the site starting at 8:00am CET on Wednesday, December 21st. During this time, we’re expecting to be up, but actions across the site will be delayed until we are finished.
Examples of actions that will be affected/delayed:
- posting comments…
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Into The Forrst: On the Forrst invite system. →
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just launched a substantial update to Forrst’s invite system.
We’ve employed an invite-only model since the early days of the site with a nice degree of success; it’s helped keep the community highly-focused, and ensured that only developers and designers are…
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Gowalla: Day One! →
Yesterday we turned the page on a new chapter for Gowalla. For our fans keeping score out there, the reaction has ranged from “The new Gowalla is the best thing ever!” to “I absolutely and utterly hate the new Gowalla with a passion reserved for spammers and ambulance chasers!” I’m happy to…
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the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support →
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
