tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90309915647248279142024-02-19T05:01:45.313-06:00TODAY'S DAILY POOPTHE DAILY POOPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00075499604396701531noreply@blogger.comBlogger3363125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9030991564724827914.post-64703350618114480552012-08-29T10:53:00.000-05:002012-08-29T10:53:26.780-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<h1 style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 44pt;">Pussy Riot speaks from jail, </span></h1><h1 style="color: lime; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 44pt;">calls Putin’s regime ‘scared’</span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSS0s0Z6AVVIucGEhrliRGqu3KiKQrBPph4ICe8MytqSj8VZKk-vdVCcIdHP_KaRmVtRcSYOYHknK9zYzCjzTnM86GKmtYg0Fj5Ws0J33cEE8H31hmLamxowjDB2fTDY9CyQFa3Wrsch4d/s1600/pussy+riot.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSS0s0Z6AVVIucGEhrliRGqu3KiKQrBPph4ICe8MytqSj8VZKk-vdVCcIdHP_KaRmVtRcSYOYHknK9zYzCjzTnM86GKmtYg0Fj5Ws0J33cEE8H31hmLamxowjDB2fTDY9CyQFa3Wrsch4d/s400/pussy+riot.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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"To expect justice from a court that ignores all your objections is of course impossible. So we weren't shocked and, to the dismay of our enemies, didn't faint when we got the verdict."</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Samutsevich, with Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, was found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for their February performance, despite insisting it was a form of political protest. Their lightning-quick trial, marked by procedural violations and absurdities, has highlighted the crackdown on dissent in Russia.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"More than anything, our trial showed the dependence of the justice system, and its direct authority, on Putin's power, which clearly should not be the case in a government that calls itself democratic," Samutsevich said. Pussy Riot and their supporters have accused Putin, and the powerful Russian Orthodox church, of orchestrating the case against them.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Our verdict shows just how scared Putin's regime is of anyone who can undermine its legitimacy," Samutsevich said.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She decried the government's increasingly conservative policies as well as a parliamentary vote in December 2011 that was marred by widespread allegations of fraud. Coming just over two months after Putin announced his plan to return to the presidency following four years as prime minister, they were the catalyst for mass protests that have rocked the capital since.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pussy Riot, a radical feminist band, was born of those protests. Now, nearly one year after forming, three of the anonymous collective's members have become among Russia's most famous political prisoners. Two other members of the group have reportedly fled the country fearing further political reprisals.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Samutsevich, Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova have been in a pre-trial detention centre in southern Moscow since their arrest in March, and will remain there while lawyers appeal against their sentence. If the appeal is declined, they will be sent to women's prison colonies to serve their two-year sentences while conducting light labour, minus the time they've already served.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We are all held in special cells, each made for four people, and we're all in separate cells, on different floors," Samutsevich wrote in a tiny scribble. "There are three other people in my cell, here for economic crimes. They are calm, intelligent people who support me and the ideas of our group.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"This isn't surprising, because now only blind people can't see that since March 2012, Putin's regime has moved to direct repressive actions, starting with a major campaign against all dissenters, under which our group was one of the first to fall."</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Government critics have spoken of an increased campaign of intimidation since Putin's re-election in the controversial March vote. Several other activists, including the opposition leader Alexey Navalny, are facing criminal charges.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We are mentally prepared [for jail]," Samutsevich wrote. "I don't see anything super-scary in having to serve 1.5 years and work. I don't think that it'll become some sort of especially difficult test for us – we've already lived through the past five months relatively easily and the evil plan of our authorities, to jail us so as to break us and sour us, has already failed miserably.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The problem for Putin personally now is that a lot of people no longer see his strong hand and authority, but his fear and uncertainty in the face of the progressive citizens of Russia, who grow more and more numerous with every step like our verdict," Samutsevich wrote.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The trial has driven a further wedge through Russian society, splitting mainly urban liberals from the more traditional heartland that was largely insulted by the women's performance. Yet opposition to Putin continues to grow; a recent poll by the Levada Centre found nearly half of all Russians want him to step down at the end of his term in six years.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pussy Riot has used rough punk performances to highlight the ills it sees in Russian society, from Putin's growing authoritarianism to his close relationship with the Orthodox church.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Samutsevich said the trio had not continued writing songs in jail. "The conditions in the pre-trial detention centre aren't really creative," she wrote. "For the next one and a half years, we'll have to continue to 'take a break' from our concert creative work."</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She said the women's future in the group was in question. "Right now it's hard to say what we'll do when we're free. Of course, I'd want to continue in the same form of musical performances that we started with, but will our changed conditions, because of our arrest, allow that? So far I don't know.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"What I can say for sure is that we still madly want changes in Russia – toward anti-authoritarian leftist ideas. We, along with many citizens of our country, are burning even more with the desire to finally take from Putin his monopoly on power, since his image no longer seems so total and terrible," she wrote. 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<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">All money raised will be donated to STOP!AIDS, a charity aimed at promoting the awareness, treatment, and prevention of AIDS.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Oppai momi</b></i><b> is particularly popular in Japan, and there are plenty of Japanese style pubs where you can go have a beer and also a squeeze of the waitresses breasts after a hard day in the office.</b><b><br />
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<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">An adelaidenow poll taken yesterday found that about two-thirds of 9686 people believed the police did the right thing in clamping down.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">By 4pm today, <span class="poll-pc">67.61</span> per cent, or <span class="poll-votecount">6549 </span>votes, said police had the right to intervene if a couple is too noisy during sex, while <span class="poll-pc">32.39 per cent, or</span><span class="poll-question-result"> </span><span class="poll-votecount">3137 votes, batted for the other side.</span></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="poll-votecount">You can still have your say</span> in the poll to the right.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the story make a splash across the country - and the world, with websites from India, the UK and the US reporting the tale of the very much in-love couple.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After repeated complaints about their passionate but noisy love-making, police were forced to step in to give their neighbours some peace and quiet.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The SA couple may be the first to be charged with offences under the Environmental Protection Act - as a direct result of their noisy sex.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The couple from Adelaide's Black Forest suburb are believed to be the first in South Australia to be charged with offences under the Environmental Protection Act - as a direct result of their noisy sex and could face up to a $4000 fine.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police patrols have been to the couple's unit 20 times since April. The latest callouts - last Sunday night and twice early Tuesday morning - resulted in the couple being charged with disturbing the public peace and hindering an environmental protection officer.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We exceeded the noise pollution to the point we were arrested and taken out of our own house and told we couldn't have sex," a stunned Ms Angel said.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr MacKenzie said: "It is completely over the top. I have been fined for having sex in my own house."</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Sunday night, Ms Angel, 34, allegedly the loudest, was issued with an emergency Environment Protection Order by police.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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Ms Angel and Mr MacKenzie were fined $315 for breaching Sunday's police order and again warned to be quiet.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At 3.30am, police were called again, after a further complaint about their noisy sex.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This time the couple was arrested after being woken by officers and taken to Sturt police station, formally charged and given police bail to appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court next month.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ms Angel said police told them Sunday night's callout was in response to a report of a domestic dispute and "screaming", but that was wrong.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We were just having sex. No way were we fighting. We were being intimate Sunday and into Sunday night," she said.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She said she was shocked to receive the order, but when fined for breaching that order, then formally charged early Tuesday this turned to disbelief.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">An unrepentant Mr MacKenzie, 45, conceded they were noisy during sex, but said their neighbours could easily have knocked on the door themselves instead of calling police.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"It is mostly Jessie," he said. "Our average sex goes anywhere from four, six, seven hours, basically five nights a week.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"That's pretty much why I am asleep at six o'clock in the afternoon. I will probably die of a heart attack, she is almost killing me as it is."</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr MacKenzie said he felt many complaints were malicious, and on some occasions they were not even at home. "We can't even have sex. It's ridiculous and has gone beyond a joke," he said.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"And to be charged for being too loud, what did they bring a decimetre or something with them in the middle of it? This is all going on someone's hearsay. It is bizarre. What are people doing, just sitting in their flat listening to me and then they say, 'I don't like the sound of that so I will ring up and complain.'?</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"How can you live in a place where you can't have sex? It's ridiculous."</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sturt Police Detective Chief Inspector Trevor Lovegrove said the incident was "certainly one of the more interesting matters police have had to deal with".</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Generally complaints to police about noisy neighbours related to parties or music being played too loudly," he said.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We don't want to be seen as the killjoy police because we're certainly not. People have a right to privacy within their own home, but when their actions impact others police need to step in before a situation escalates.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"In the past, police have been called to the property and warnings issued. On this occasion police had been called earlier in the night, so when called back they took steps to ensure neighbours got a good night's sleep."</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One neighbour said he was woken by the couple early Tuesday when he "heard screams".</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"It was quite loud and they sounded very obscene," he said.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I didn't call the police but they were here after I heard it. They were quiet after that for a while and then the police were back later, but I didn't hear anything after the first time."</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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Even seen-everything New Yorkers may do a double-take this week, however, when they encounter street teams with hot dog carts stocked with vibrators.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Wednesday and Thursday, Trojan Vibrations, a line of sexual enhancement devices, will hand out 10,000 free vibrators from two hot dog carts identified as pleasure carts. Along with the brand’s logo, the carts will feature sayings like “Getcha vibes here!” and “Relish the moment.” </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trojan plans to distribute 5,000 each of the Tri-Phoria device, which retails for $40, and the Pulse, which retails for $30, for a total retail value of $350,000. It goes without saying, surely, but Trojan asserts this is the biggest handout of vibrators ever. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The promotion begins Wednesday morning with a live commercial by Howard Stern on his show on Sirius XM Radio. The carts will roam Manhattan for two days, with their locations updated on the Trojan Vibrations <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TrojanVibrations" title="The page.">Facebook page</a>. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In what Bruce Weiss, vice president for marketing at Trojan, called “almost like a gateway product,” Trojan introduced a vibrating ring in 2005 that was included in some packages of condoms for an “improved condom experience.” </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The brand began selling a small vibrator, the Mini, in 2009, and the larger Tri-Phoria in 2010. The strategy throughout for Trojan, a Church & Dwight brand, has been to challenge the stigmas associated with the products. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The company has advertised aggressively, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/business/media/28adco.html" title="A related Advertising column.">even during prime time</a></span> <span style="font-size: large;">on some cable networks. In 2011, Trojan spent $10.5 million advertising its Vibrations line, according to the Kantar Media unit of WPP. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today, the Trojan devices are carried in retailers that were not on the radar for sex-toy shoppers a decade ago, including Walmart, Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So new are the devices to mainstream retailers that growth in that channel has been phenomenal. In the 52 weeks that ended July 8, revenue for sexual enhancement devices sold in drugstores and mass retailers grew 23.2 percent over the year before, to $16.1 million, according to the Symphony IRI Group, whose totals do not include Walmart. Trojan, which accounts for 66.2 percent of the category at such retailers, grew even more over the year, by 40.2 percent. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to studies financed by Trojan and published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 52.5 percent of women and 44.8 percent of men have used vibrators. Contrary to perceptions that they are used nearly exclusively by the unaccompanied, 40.9 percent of women and 40.5 percent of men report having used them with sexual partners. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“What we’re doing is taking something like a hot dog cart that is so everyday and so mainstream,” Mr. Weiss said, “and we’re showing people that vibrators are mainstream.” </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two commercials for the newest Trojan Vibrations product, Twister, which retails for $60, promote it as a spark for couples. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si3eUl0dXOo&list=UU-L-mHwSytjS8yR8SbvFIjg&index=1&feature=plcp" title="The ad on YouTube.">One begins</a></span> <span style="font-size: large;">with a woman on the telephone with a friend. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“All I did was mention it might be a Trojan Twister night and things totally changed,” she says, as her husband passes by first with a load of folded laundry, and then with an iron and ironing board. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Come on, lazybones, shoe sale today,” he says at one point. Later, he pats the couch beside him with one hand, the remote in the other. “Big game?” he says. “Heck no, let’s watch ‘Desperate Bride Makeovers.’ ” </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The campaign is by Colangelo Synergy Marketing in Darien, Conn., part of the Omnicom Group. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carol Queen, curator of the <a href="http://antiquevibratormuseum.com/?gclid=CKT6ybrj07ECFYNx4AodwlcAGw" title="The museum’s site.">Antique Vibrator Museum</a> and a staff sexologist for Good Vibrations, a sexual products retailer founded in 1977, credits the new Trojan ads with “pretty seamlessly integrating men into the campaign.” </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As both a sales strategy and to more accurately reflect how the devices are used, “a company needs to overcome this notion that vibrators are problematic for couples because men don’t like women to use them,” Ms. Queen said. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rather than seeing the growing availability of the devices at mass retailers as a threat to specialty retailers like Good Vibrations, Ms. Queen said, “what’s fabulous about the way that Trojan has entered the marketplace is that a rising tide lifts all boats.” </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some consumers who buy their first device as an impulse buy at a mass retailer are apt to eventually be drawn to boutiques like Good Vibrations, which along with Trojan devices has a wide selection of other brands — and knowledgeable staff members. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Going to a sexuality store like Good Vibrations or many others, you have trained people who can answer your questions and help you choose,” Ms. Queen said. “What most customers are probably not doing is getting the greeter at Walmart to come with them to the vibrator aisle and asking them, ‘Which one should I get?’ ” </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Claire Cavanah, co-owner of Babeland, a sexual products shop with locations in Seattle and New York, lauded the plan by Trojan to distribute free devices. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It sounds fantastic and I’m just delighted that there is a company that has the resources and the sex-positivity to do it,” Ms. Cavanah said. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the annual BlogHer conference that began Aug. 2, Trojan Vibrations gave out 4,000 devices, meaning that the brand is on pace to give away more than 14,000 of the products in August, with a total retail value of $540,000. 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It’s a peculiar, virtually tasteless gelatinous mass that admittedly has an excellent texture to it.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What may come as a shock to millions of Japanese people is that America is beginning to embrace this garnish not as the Japanese have, but as a replacement for conventional pasta.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to the West’s keen marketing sense, Japan’s often underappreciated purplish-grey slab gelatin has been reborn there as Miracle Noodles!</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">First a little background on Konjac. It’s produced in warm subtropical regions of Asia made from a plant that goes by many names and kind of resembles a yam. <b>The plant is then ground into a powder and made into a gelatin like substance.</b> Naturally this gelatin is white colored but because <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijiki">hijiki</a> is added it gains a rather unappealing grey hue.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although the healthy nature of Konjac is well known in Japan, its general lack of taste relegates it to simply adding texture to dishes like sukiyaki. It’s hardly considered a food that stands on its own. Depending on the dish it’s either added in its slab form or in a thin noodle form called <i>Ito Konnyaku</i> (Thread Konjac) or <i>Shirataki</i>.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Leave to the </b><b>US</b><b> to take this food stuff and sexify it to the nth degree. Goodbye Shirataki, and hello “Miracle Noodles!”</b></span></i></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some enterprising Americans had the idea to sell this foodstuff to a nation full of would-be dieters – and it’s working. With appearances in popular magazines like Men’s Health and television appearances on Rachael Ray, the massive masses are really getting behind it.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Konjac used in miracle noodles don’t have hijiki leaving it a white color more appealing and similar to pasta. They are also cut into noodle shapes resembling familiar pastas like spaghetti and fettuccini. On top of that, <b>because it’s already gelatinous, there’s no need to actually cook it. Just heat it to your preference and add whatever sauce or topping you like.</b></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s a marketing department’s dream since it covers all the diet fad buzz words in one product. <b>It’s fat free, calorie free, sugar free, starch free, and best of all gluten free.</b> What is does have is fiber, so let’s say you’re a little backed up after eating a Whopper with 1000 slices of cheese, Miracle Noodles may just live up to their name.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To further show that this trend is just starting to take off, we see the emergence of <i>Tofu Shirataki</i> which combines Asia’s two blandest food items (Tofu and Konjac) into one – as a pasta. There’s a fine line between genius and madness.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having lived in Japan for a long time I really enjoy Konjac, especially in Oden, and I think it’s cool that western countries are getting in on it too. And yet, I couldn’t help but cock an eyebrow and chuckle when I saw a video of a man pouring tomato sauce over an entire plate of shirataki. Just imagine the amazement Japanese people get from it.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<h1 style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 44pt;">Bitcoins </span></h1><h1 style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 44pt;">Are Back, </span></h1><h1 style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 44pt;">at Least for Porn and Poker </span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixNXvv4WNutf9WvlE4yRKXnuyV8j25zYTATId2NGccQMyd99XotsZque_PmPJ8ikkzK_BhuheTs7akYyd4r664ykTq14QgZ-UfSgbKHS-E-DcHXLNuQKCjj7FPnmiDAsmOhU56HzGMnI_M/s1600/bit+coin+accepted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixNXvv4WNutf9WvlE4yRKXnuyV8j25zYTATId2NGccQMyd99XotsZque_PmPJ8ikkzK_BhuheTs7akYyd4r664ykTq14QgZ-UfSgbKHS-E-DcHXLNuQKCjj7FPnmiDAsmOhU56HzGMnI_M/s400/bit+coin+accepted.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><h1 style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 44pt;"> </span> </h1><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If last November you had pressed an economist on the life expectancy of the bitcoin, you would have likely heard a variation of the doctor’s worst words: “It’s not looking good.” The bitcoin, a digital currency that operates free from central authority, was furiously shedding value, having lost nearly 95 percent of its spending power in the five months prior. By the time its freefall thudded to a halt around the two-dollar-a-coin mark, many of bitcoins’ biggest supporters had turned their back on the cryptocurrency.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet for the past three months, bitcoin has been making a quiet resurgence. As of today, the bitcoin is enjoying its <a href="http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg360ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv">highest value in nearly a year</a>. What happened?</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In short, it seems that people are finally learning what the bitcoin is good for. When the virtual currency was released in 2009, there was a good degree of speculation as to how exactly the bitcoin would work as a medium of exchange. What could you purchase with it? Who would accept it? Born from a code designed by an unknown programmer, bitcoins drew the notice of the Internet-savvy who were intrigued by the possibility of the secure, cheap, and—most importantly—anonymous transactions that the digital currency made possible. The problem lay in the fact that there was at first almost nothing people could buy with their bitcoins.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But the much more damaging speculation came in the form of investors, who hoarded the currency in the hope that it would boom amid a surging network of users and fawning from the media. “The bitcoin shot up a year ago because of blog posts and attention, and then there was a bubble,” said Paul Steinbart, a professor of information systems at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University who is co-authoring an upcoming paper on bitcoins. “People treated it as an investment.”</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, the popping of the bitcoin bubble on June 8, 2011, didn’t put a stop to the speculation. With values so low, almost any change in price had to be in the upward direction, meaning you could follow the mantra and sell high. (Here I will offer a mea culpa: In November, I made a small purchase of bitcoins with no intent on using them as a substitute for the dollar, though as a casual numismatist, I also saw the bitcoin as a natural addition to my modest collection.)</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then, around May of this year, a strange thing happened: The number of daily bitcoin transactions, according to blockchain.info, <a href="http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions">suddenly doubled, tripled, then quadrupled</a>. Finally, it seemed that denizens of the Internet had begun to appreciate the benefits of bitcoin not only as a get-rich-quick scheme but as a means of transaction. </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And some of the primary virtues of the bitcoin turned out to be vice. Indeed, the anonymity that the bitcoin affords its users has been a competitive advantage in the online black market. For many, bitcoins have become a reliable way to pay for porn and gambling without using a credit card, Timothy B. Lee wrote on Ars Technica in June. And for those who want to get their hands on illegal drugs or even weapons, bitcoins have become <i>the</i> way to do so anonymously online.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the number of bitcoin transactions has steadily increased, so has the currency’s value. In July, the price of a bitcoin crept above nine dollars for the first time since the midpoint of the crash. Is the bitcoin finally showing the feasibility of a digital currency? </span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It may be too soon to tell. “The big question is whether or not bitcoin is going to stay used only in the dark net or if it’s going to become an alternative to PayPal,” Steinbart said. As the bitcoin makes its comeback, it may also provoke renewed attention from law enforcement as an illegal competitor to the U.S. dollar or as a vehicle for money laundering, especially if it continues to be used predominantly on the Internet’s fringes. Still, Steinbart said, “This is the first time there has been a product that apparently seems to possess the qualities people want.”</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Global Times <a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/725326.shtml">reported</a> that the three fired employees are suspected of “colluding with external partners to delete online messages.” It’s not clear what the deleted posts were or where they were hosted. Baidu is the most popular search engine China, gobbling up about 80 percent of the market, and wielding a great deal of influence. It also owns multiple online properties, including a <a href="http://baike.baidu.com/">Wikipedia knockoff</a> and <a href="http://tieba.baidu.com/index.html">a robust assortment of discussion forums</a>.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps a business got miffed at a comment thread that tore apart their latest product, or a celebrity was displeased by an embarrassing entry on his or her biography page. We’ll likely never know.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The employees were arrested in July, but the company waited until Sunday to confirm the news.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They were apparently running quite a racket, too. A Baidu source, speaking anonymously, told the Global Times that the employees were charging tens of thousands of Chinese yuan per deletion. That’s at least $1,500 per touch of the “delete” key.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There’s an entire deletion industry in China, in fact. One service firm told the Global Times it offers annual plans for businesses, charging between $24,000 and $31,000 a year to manage a company’s online reputation through strategic bribes and deletions.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<h1><i><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 44pt;">Westboro Church</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 44pt;"> <span style="color: orange;">Protesters Confronted By Zombies</span></span></i></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHbjVhSud5B7DhqlPcS3M3whCEP1ErN2SqJdwJcnuGVWol85-pXT1pp9p7OQYSR0R1E7fmEvMALKsf01q1Boa5Yqfajh6Hb7TGSFDwuKjBJA8FYuOrb3xHUJDiqhnNuiyc6neBo5o7u8R9/s1600/zombie_protest_jef_120730_wblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHbjVhSud5B7DhqlPcS3M3whCEP1ErN2SqJdwJcnuGVWol85-pXT1pp9p7OQYSR0R1E7fmEvMALKsf01q1Boa5Yqfajh6Hb7TGSFDwuKjBJA8FYuOrb3xHUJDiqhnNuiyc6neBo5o7u8R9/s1600/zombie_protest_jef_120730_wblog.jpg" /></a></div><div style="color: #cccccc; text-align: center;">Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church showed up to picket at a Seattle-area military base last week, but were confronted with an unusual counter-protest: dozens of people dressed as zombies.</div><div style="color: #cccccc; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #cccccc; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eight members of the church, known for frequently picketing military funerals and other events as a protest against the progression of gay rights, found themselves confronted with the counter-protest while picketing outside of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord on Friday. The playful counter-protest was launched by Spanaway, Wash., resident Melissa Neace, who <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/380725841992643" target="_blank">spread the word of her idea on Facebook</a>.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We wanted to turn something negative around, into something people could laugh at and poke fun at,” Neace <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/07/27/2230529/merryman-duponts-antidote-to-westboro.html" target="_blank">told The News Tribune.</a> “It was the easiest way to divert attention from something so hateful.”</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Facebook group that Neace launched was called “Zombie’ing Westboro Baptist Church AWAY from Fort Lewis!” Soon after its launch the group gained hundreds of members, with many coming out on Friday to let their opposition to Westboro’s position be known.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though it’s unclear exactly what was officially being protested by the Westboro picketers, who are known for their extreme ideologies, a quote announcing their plan appeared on the group’s website.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“When you goofy, unthankful, flag-worshipping fools decided that you would declare war against the Lord and against His anointed, you put yourselves in the cross-hairs of a raging mad God. We will come to tell you a few things, to wit,” it read.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Picketers dressed as zombies on Friday said that their affiliations with their military and what they called the church’s “hateful” message prompted them to come out to the counter-protest.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I come from a long line of military, including my husband. So if they’re going to protest my troops, I’m going to protect my first amendment and protest them,” Ashlee Nerad <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/zombies-counter-protest-westboro-members-outside-j/nP5k3/" target="_blank">told KIRO</a>.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Westboro’s next picketing is tomorrow at the funeral of Army Sgt. Erik N. May in Valley Center Christian Church in Valley Center, Kan., according to their website. Sgt. May died in Afghanistan on July 14 while serving in Operation Enduring Freedom, according to The Associated Press.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<h1 style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 44pt;">Burglar allegedly steals more than $1,000 in sex toys from </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 44pt;">Illinois</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 44pt;"> woman </span></i></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mmguNCIqUR-OtHl6cqpdvJT2DxNjxlaTVuCV6IAZWSCLNw92KJElTLW-dbOGIrLUuP8fCVm79HhsmVaXeZa-ZKOaw8XcKZttJnZTg231M4zkrm4yRfLhV1oGwJYssAYrZfNJx_L7SWk4/s1600/sextoys27n-2-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mmguNCIqUR-OtHl6cqpdvJT2DxNjxlaTVuCV6IAZWSCLNw92KJElTLW-dbOGIrLUuP8fCVm79HhsmVaXeZa-ZKOaw8XcKZttJnZTg231M4zkrm4yRfLhV1oGwJYssAYrZfNJx_L7SWk4/s400/sextoys27n-2-web.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><h2 style="color: #cccccc; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tiara Likes came home to her Galesburg, Ill., apartment to find a trove of toys that she sells had been taken - without so much as a thank you.</span></h2><h2 style="color: #cccccc; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></h2><h2 style="color: #cccccc; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></h2><h2 style="color: #cccccc; text-align: left;"> </h2><h4 style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Tiara Likes, who sells sex toys for a living, returned home Monday to discover more than $1,000 of her inventory missing. The Galesburg, Illinois resident told police a thief made off with a bag containing the adult novelties and antibiotics, but did not take any other valuables. </span></i></h4><h4 style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></h4><h4 style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </h4><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">An Illinois woman who sells adult toys for a living may have less of her sexy stockpile than she did a week ago.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tiara Likes returned to her Galesburg, Illinois apartment Monday to discover a pink Adidas bag containing erotic playthings and antibiotics missing, the Galesburg Register-Mail reported.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Likes, who was returning from a convention in Las Vegas, told police a thief made off with more than $1,000 of her inventory but took no other valuables. The premises reportedly had no sign of forced entry, and neighbors told police they had not witnessed anything unusual in the area.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"No TV's were gone, no laptops were gone," Capt. Rodney Riggs of the Galesburg Police Department told the Daily News. "Right now the case is pretty much closed."</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We'll reopen it if we have some further information," Riggs added.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Likes, 23, did not immediately return a message asking for comment. Her Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tiara.likes" target="_blank">describes</a> her as an independent romance adviser with Intimate Expressions, an Ohio-based company that sells adult novelties at parties in people's homes. The Tupperware-style retailer markets an assortment of lubricants, gels and other toys, according its website.</span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though the department’s investigation has yet to produce a suspect, Likes told police she publicizes her enterprise via word of mouth. "A lot of people out there know this is what she does for a living," Riggs said. "That's how she promotes her business."</span></div><h4 style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></h4><h4 style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></h4><h4 style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></h4><h4 style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></h4><h2 style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></h2></div>THE DAILY POOPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00075499604396701531noreply@blogger.com0