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NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps - just the facts. RIDDLE: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court has approved 18,742 requests for search warrants and rejected 4. Furthermore, a search can be started in hot pursuit and permission obtained retroactively up to 72 hrs later. Why is a secret court hidden from public view and biased in the government's favor not good enough for the Bush administration? ANSWER TO RIDDLE: Getting warrants from FISA is impossible because the government runs computer algorithms that expand the spy net electronically to hundreds of people in a few minutes. THE SOCIAL NETWORK When an interesting call is found using the National Security Agency's voice recognition computers, all inbound and outbound contacts to that person are automatically logged and that person's social network is charted.

This is an excellent strategy if you have a target of value to begin with. There are two technical problems with reconstructing social networks: exponential expansion, and speed. NSA's COMPUTING POWER. Bookzingr - Social Bookmarking. Ten Years of Greatness - The Top Ten Best Web Sites of the Decade. KeepVid: Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more! Art, Crafts and Coffee: Woven Magazine Page Tote Bag. It has become quite popular these days to be "green. " Green is a good. It encourages people to recycle more, to keep more things out of the landfill.

More people than ever are carrying reusable bags everywhere with them instead of taking plastic bags from the stores. Reusable bags made out of recycled or up-cycled materials are even better. Since I do a lot of mixed media and collage art in journals as well as on canvas, I have a multitude of magazines that I have been hoarding. I had a box full that would soon have been going in the recycle bin, since I had foraged through them and already removed all of the images and words that I wanted for my art. Still, I was hesitant to ditch the magazines, sure that there was SOME other purpose for them, certainly there must be. I knew that people can and will sometimes make bowls or baskets from reused, up-cycled paper products. I spent a few hours going from woven baskets, to woven boxes, to woven wallets, to woven purses.

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A complete hardcopy manual for using Moodle is also available. By Jason Cole. Enjoy, and happy homeschooling. A Chore System for My Kids That Actually Works: When I only had one child and all her toys fit in a laundry basket, keeping the house clean was pretty easy. Now I have two kids that have way too much stuff, one house that is way too small and not nearly enough time to deal with working, parenting, chauffeuring, cooking AND housekeeping. My solution? Put the kids to work! Well, that was the idea but it mostly amounted to me asking them to do various things around the house and them complaining and/or procrastinating and generally resisting anything resembling a chore.

After a few nonstarters with charts and stickers and such, I almost gave up. But then I looked at my house and my work-allergic children lounging about while I did everything and decided there had to be a better way. I gave it a lot of thought and concluded that my eldest, almost eleven, always responds best to bribery a rewards system. I mentioned my dilemma to a friend who told me about a system where kids earn marbles for their chores and cash them in for money. Tips: Virtual-Browser™ - Browse and surf safely & anonymously. Dual Maps: Google Maps, Street View and Bing Maps in an embeddable control - www.dualmaps.com - www.mapchannels.com.

Conspiracies Database Part 2. True Conspiracies, the Illuminati and One World Government. What is Mind Warp Sector Four? You can’t stop the NSA from tracking you, but you can make it harder. What can regular people do to stop NSA spying? That’s the big question in the wake of the NSA surveillance news that’s shaken the nation. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a simple answer. There’s no way to block NSA surveillance completely. Even if you rebelled against technology, ditched your mobile phone, and avoided using heavily-tracked web services like Facebook and Google, you’d still be on surveillance cameras that capture your face, license plate scanners, and credit databases, among other things. But let’s not get pessimistic. There are tools you can use to make it harder for others to track you.

They won’t eliminate your footprint, but they’ll blur the picture of you that emerges through your data. Let’s start with a little context. Once the private sector collects personal data, three main things can happen to it. 1. 2. 3. Tools to help you go private For more in-depth guides, we recommend the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self Defense site and Prism-Break.org. How To Know If Someone Is Lying to You - Telling Habitual Lies. Parents often face the prospect of whether their child is lying to them. A husband or wife might believe their spouse is lying to them. But though you might suspect that a loved one is lying to you, it’s often hard to know for sure. Here are a few ways to tell if someone is lying to you. If someone displays any one of these traits, I wouldn’t jump to conclusions and convince myself that person is lying.

But if these warning signs begin to pile up, then you might be onto something. Try to use logic to back up your impressions. Also, try to compare a suspected liar’s behavior against that person’s usual behavior. E-Book: Become a Human Lie Detector Body Language 1. 2. Their hands touch their mouth, throat or other parts of the face. 3. Hand and arms movements are towards their body in general. 4. Facial expressions can be described as stone-faced. 5. The person turns away from you. 6. If body language and expressions seem to contradict one another, this might mean that a person is lying. 7. Wormhole to the Rest of the Internet.

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100 Useful Search Engines for Chefs, Cooks and Food Lovers | Culinary School Guide. By Alisa Miller While everyone has to eat, only those true foodies are absolutely devoted to their food. Whether you make it professionally, as a hobby, or just love to eat good food, you will find search engines from this list below to make your nose and tongue sing. From recipes to ethnic foods to restaurants to local farmer’s markets to wine and beer, these search engines will help you find exactly what you want when it comes to creating and appreciating delicious food and beverages. Recipes There is absolutely no reason any food lover should ever be at a loss for what to cook. FoodieView.

Various Types of Food Whether you are looking for Asian, French, or raw food, these search engines will help you find recipes and information on a variety of foods. ChineseFoodDIY. Vegetarian and Vegan Being vegetarian or vegan doesn’t mean you should rely on sprouts and hummus. HappyCow. All About Food These search engines don’t just stop at recipes. The Big Fat Food Search Engine. Restaurants Nutrition. Software Downloads: Free Programs, Utilities and Demos. The Get Rich Slowly Budget Workbook (Version 2.0) Guaranteed to Save You Money & Time: Tips for Organizing Your Fridge. I'm always surprised by how much money I can spend at the market.

While there are lots of things you can do to save money on food — limit your grocery runs to once a week, eat out of the freezer and pantry instead of ordering out, take lunch to work, shop with a grocery list — for me it all starts with having an organized fridge. Not to mention a clean one. Having an organized fridge is more than just a matter of things looking neat and pretty. It also helps me to know what I have, what I need and what I use.

And it helps me keep track of the things that I do purchase. Check the outside: A good wipe down of the outside makes an old fridge look nice and keeps a new one looking that way longer. Do the dollar test: Use a dollar to check your fridge's seal. Wipe down the inside: I like Mrs. Check your condiments: Condiments do not keep forever. Then organize them: Yes, I'm that person, but it does make things a lot easier to find. Group dairy together. Overrun with leftovers? Papier-Mache Easter Eggs. For Easter I made papier-mache polka dotted eggs. I made small pinatas using water balloons and tissue paper. I filled them with candy, then sealed them shut. You can also put toys or notes inside. They have to be ripped to open them, which is way fun. Click here: Papier-Mache Easter Eggs to find (much) more detailed instructions on how to make them.

Stencil Designs Directory of Wall and Craft Stencils. Kindergarten Reading Worksheets. Substantive Law - Rights, Common, Procedural, and Criminal. The part of the law that creates, defines, and regulates rights, including, for example, the law of contracts, TORTS, wills, and real property; the essential substance of rights under law. Substantive law and procedural law are the two main categories within the law. Substantive law refers to the body of rules that determine the rights and obligations of individuals and collective bodies. Procedural law is the body of legal rules that govern the process for determining the rights of parties. Substantive law refers to all categories of public and private law, including the law of contracts, real property, torts, and CRIMINAL LAW.

For example, criminal law defines certain behavior as illegal and lists the elements the government must prove to convict a person of a crime. U.S. substantive law comes from the COMMON LAW and from legislative statutes.