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Adopt These Pets: Grover and Duffy: LAist

Grover is obviously the cutest kitten on planet earth. This 3-month-old gray Tabby is playful, cuddly, and loves to purr. He loves toys and playing with the other kittens in the cattery. This little fella charms everyone he meets.

You can adopt Grover and other cats and kittens for $18.77 today at Kittenpalooza at spcaLA. Kittenpalooza is an annual cats and kittens adoption event at the spcaLA South Bay Pet Adoption Center. Adopters will get a gift bag with items for their new kitties, enjoy delicious treats from the Rockberry and Fire House Chefs Food Trucks, free photos, face painting and craft table for kids, a prize drawing, Ask the spcaLA Trainer, and more!

via Adopt These Pets: Grover and Duffy: LAist.

Cairo clashes leave scores of Morsi supporters dead

The turmoil continues and people are dying instead of working out how to best govern for the people of Egypt… Pray that peace and prosperity will soon be plan for Egypt

Egyptian Streets

By Pesha Magid
Overnight clashes in Cairo near a large pro-Morsi sit-in have left scores of Egyptians dead. The number of deaths from violence between Morsi supporters, opponents, and security forces remains unclear, as different sources are engaged in a ‘war of numbers’.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s official spokesperson, Gehad el Haddad, reports at least 200 dead with over 1,000 injured. The BBC reports that 120 died during the clashes between former President Morsi supporters, opponents, and police early on Saturday morning. The Guardian meanwhile put the death count over 136. Reporters from Mada Masr confirm seeing at least 20 dead, and state that that officials on the scene report 70 dead. Officially, the Ministry of Health announced that 74 were killed and 7489 were injured.

The clashes apparently broke out when pro-Morsi supporters marched towards and attempted to block the 6th of October Bridge late in the evening on…

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The Union Square Greenmarket is One of New York City’s Treasures

handmade = goods and products made by an artisan

Urban Gardens NYC

All across the country, farmers’ markets are becoming a staple in many cities. These open-air markets are full of vibrant and delicious farm offerings unlike any other produce found in the city, as well as handmade goods, artisanal products, and much more. Farmers’ markets attract all sorts of people, and with good reason; they are a destination that can transport all things pastoral right to your urban neighborhood.

One beautiful farmers’ market located in the heart of New York City is the Union Square Greenmarket, one of the largest and most notable farmers’ markets in the country. The market “began with just a few farmers in 1976, has grown exponentially over the past 35 years: in peak season, 140 regional farmers, fishermen, and bakers descend upon Union Square to sell their products to a devout legion of city dwellers who support local agriculture with their food dollars,” according to its…

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Healcrest TeaPops Sold at Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor

No where near me but good idea

Healcrest Urban Farm

Healcrest TeaPops Sold at Klavon's Ice Cream Parlor

WE ARE EXCITED TO OFFER PRODUCTS AT RETAIL LOCATIONS

FIND TEAPOPS AT! Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor 2801 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15222 – SUMMER HOURS: 11am-11pm

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Pussy Riot band member remains defiant in face of parole denial | News | DW.DE | 26.07.2013

A jailed member of the punk band Pussy Riot lost her parole bid in a Russian court over her involvement in the August 2012 protest song her band sang in Moscow’s main Orthodox cathedral. She remained defiant in court.

The ruling from the Supreme Court of the Mordovia region denied Nadezhda Tolokonnikova parole on Friday, instead upholding an earlier decision not to release her after nearly a year behind bars.

Tolokonnikova had hoped she could return home to care for her five-year-old daughter. Yet she appeared before the court in an unrepentant fashion, stating that prison would not correct her behavior.

“The time I served in prison has done nothing for my correction, therefore I see no sense in keeping me behind bars,” she told the court.

No ‘guilt’

She also refused to plead guilty, which might have won her favor in the court.

“I do not admit guilt and will not plead guilty. I have principles upon which I will stand,” she said from the cage, often used for defendants or convicts in Russian courts.

via Pussy Riot band member remains defiant in face of parole denial | News | DW.DE | 26.07.2013.

Is Egypt Witnessing A Media Coup?

Don’t agree that there is a media “coup” of any sort but the international news is more than a bit simplistic and does take to framing the news according to the views of the leaders of their nations or owners. That happens worldwide and is one of the reasons that sources like Egyptian Streets help to balance the news.

Egyptian Streets

By Sara Farouk Ahmed, a resident in Cairo. Please note, opinions expressed in this article are those of Sara and do not necessarily represent Egyptian Streets’ editorial policy.

 

‘News’, especially foreign ‘news’, has been devalued to the point where you choose to watch, listen or read opinions that you agree with – where reports contain edited calls and tweets, and polls, that back up their/your take on what is happening in the world, are conducted. Egypt has been subject to this kind of biased speculation, agenda driven and blind reporting rather than any form of reputable investigative journalism.

The foreign media did a spectacular job in January 2011. By focusing on Tahrir Square, they persuaded the world that the whole of Egypt was in turmoil thus all but destroying the tourist industry and any form of investment. Luxor [and, by default, Qena, Naga Hamadi, Dendera, Kom Ombo, Esna and…

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Private Drones Spying on Surfers! OMG! Aerial Footage Lets Us Watch Santa Cruz Surfers From A Gulls-Eye View: SFist

While it is far from the first example of aerial drones being used to capture high-flying footage of Bay Area locations, this is the first time we’re taking to the skies to observe the lineup at a local surf spot.

Shot by photographer Eric Cheng using a remote controlled quadcopter and a GoPro camera over Steamer Lane down in Santa Cruz, the results are, in a word, rad:

via Aerial Footage Lets Us Watch Santa Cruz Surfers From A Gulls-Eye View: SFist.

Preclearance requirement sought for Texas on voting : SCOTUSblog

You go Holder! Yes!

Preclearance requirement sought for Texas on voting

The Obama administration, seeking to salvage significant power to stop racial discrimination in voting even after a major defeat in the Supreme Court, will be asking federal courts to put the state of Texas under a continuing duty to get official permission in Washington for any changes it wants to make in its election laws or methods. Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed that plan Thursday in a speech to the annual meeting of the Urban League, in Philadelphia.

Holder said the Justice Department will ask a federal district court in Texas to apply the “preclearance” requirement under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to Texas. That could only be done now, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling last month in Shelby County v. Holder, by having a court apply the so-called “bail-in” provision of the 1965 law’s Section 3. That provision was left intact by the Supreme Court.

Here is the Holder statement on the Section 3 issue:

“Today I am announcing that the Justice Department will ask a federal court in Texas to subject the State of Texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This request to ‘bail in’ the state – and require it to obtain ‘pre-approval’ from either the Department or a federal court before implementing future voting changes – is available under the Voting Rights Act when intentional voting discrimination is found. Based on the evidence of intentional racial discrimination that was presented last year in the redistricting case, Texas v. Holder – as well as the history of pervasive voting-related discrimination against racial minorities that the Supreme Court itself has recognized – we believe that the State of Texas should be required to go through a preclearance process whenever it changes its voting laws and practices.”

via Preclearance requirement sought for Texas on voting : SCOTUSblog.

How Cameron’s plans to block on-line porn could also block political sites

Pride's Purge

(not satire)

Back in January I wrote a blogpost about how Internet Service Providers such as 3UK and O2 were censoring – flagging or blocking – websites like this one which include political content.

At the time some political commentators dismissed my discovery that political websites were being blocked as just mistakes or ‘over-sensitive filters’.

This is because they completely failed to understand the significance of what I had got the ISP’s to admit – that they had created a new category of websites they were censoring with what they call ‘mature content‘ – not just ‘adult content‘ which would include things like pornography.

Here’s a tweet to me from 3UK admitting the new category of websites they were censoring:

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The blogpost was widely shared but – troublingly for me – not by the usual political people who read this blog but by techies who somehow…

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