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US debt problem visualized: Debt stacked in 100 dollar bills

US debt problem visualized: Debt stacked in 100 dollar bills

Agriculture Defense Coalition 30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps As you search the web you’ll come across a wide range of interactive and graphical maps. Deciding when, where and how to integrate or display a map on your site is the first step, the second should be what technology and illustrations to use. If you’re all about interaction, JQuery, Ajax, or Flash are all effective technologies that hold their own ground. Map illustrations are a dime a dozen however, a strong and balanced display of graphics, information, and colors is what makes an infographic stand out and reach its target audience effectively. As designers, we’re constantly searching for ways to improve and style our designs, this is exactly what the following 30 infographics and sites display below; the breaking of rules. Sites with Interactive Maps Illustrative Infographics Compiled exclusively for WDD by Liz Fulghum. Did we miss any great examples?

Breivik de Norvège, criminel essentialiste! par Camille Loty MALEBRANCHE @ modeste En premier une mise au point : des propos limites injurieux style : "troll puant", ou fascisant du style : "prouvez nous avec argument [...] sinon taisez vous"....Oh que j’aime les "taisez vous", je dis bien "les" car il en revient d’ailleurs un autre après, pour bien enfoncer le clou,... doit on se mettre au garde à vous ? Mais venons en au fond : C’est extrêmement fatigant, pourtant j’ai essayé d’être le plus clair possible, je vais être obligé d’entonner la litanie des : "mais je-n’ai-jamais-dit-ça" ! ...enfin tout ce que Modeste me prête comme propos est abracadabrantesque : en tout premier je tiens à dire que je ne nie absolument pas l’impact catastrophique qu’a eu le Nord sur le Sud, absolument pas, et je vais donc être obligé de me citer, car apparemment certains ont des problèmes de lecture : Est-ce clair, ou dois-je faire une explication de texte...? je vous cite encore sur ce que j’aurais dit : "Celui qui ne connait pas l’histoire est condamné à la revivre"

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Tracking the Syndicate Through History What is very interesting and revealing is to see where else this symbol pops up: On the insignias, flags, and seals of various governments (and other organizations) around the world: The flags of Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania...the Byzantine Imperial flag...the coat of arms of the Russian Federation...the crest for the former Austro-Hungarian empire...on and on. This then is the Syndicate's virtual stamp of ownership (as are many other Masonic/occultic symbols)--their way of saying these various entities are virtually created, owned and operated by the Syndicate. Here is an interesting LINK Many independent investigators and occult researchers are claiming that almost all of the recently revealed "pedophilia holocaust" which has plagued the Catholic church...is explained through satanic practitioners who have hidden within Catholic ranks. The Catholics also have their fair share of satanic symbol flashers. Pictured above: Georges Darboy, Archbishop of Paris in 1870. Jacob Frank And so on.

The US should invest in farmers' markets, report says O’Hara estimates that these funds, along with farm to school programs, could help create as many as 13,500 new jobs. The report also recommends that the government invest more money in local infrastructure, such as meat-processing facilities, to increase the efficiency of small-scale farmers. Recent posts Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition Lastly, the report recommends that the food stamp program be expanded to allow low-income residents to purchase high-quality produce at farmers markets. “If the US government diverted just a small amount of the massive subsidies it lavishes on industrial agriculture to support these markets and small local farmers, it would not only improve American diets, it would generate tens of thousands of new jobs,” O’Hara concludes. • Graham Salinger is a research intern for the Nourishing the Planet project.

Close the Bars Down | Eager Pies If you’ve been keeping up with your visualization feeds and tweets you are probably aware of Stephen Few’s Tableau 8 critique and the subsequent debate between Few and Chad Skelton of the Vancouver Sun. Few makes it clear that he feels packed bubble visualizations are an abomination while Skelton maintains bar charts are jejune. As an exercise, lets see if we can leopard crawl our way to the middle ground and mold from it’s fertile soils a representation of the data that is more captivating than the sedate bar chart without fabricating new data or wading into the bubbled waters of Skelton’s graph. So here is Skelton’s data and the resultant bar chart that he labeled as “boring”. Our fist step begins with advice from one of the fathers of visualization Jacques Bertin. Now lets increase our information density by taking those bars and stacking them one atop the other. That’s more interesting but as you can see it takes up a lot of vertical space. The graphic above is print ready.

"Augmentez mes impôts, s'il vous plaît!" peut sembler surréaliste pour nous, mais traduit plus une ironie qu'un conseil sincère car trop tardif. : MBM Le très célèbre milliardaire US Warren Buffet, proche du non moins très célèbre milliardaire Bill Gates, fait une chronique (le 14 août 2011) dans le New York Times, se résumant à peu près à ceci : “Augmentez mes impôts, s’il vous plaît…” Il s’adresse au gouvernement, au Congrès, à Washington, pour leur demander de réviser leur politique commune qui consiste à ne pas taxer beaucoup les super-riches, et à taxer beaucoup plus les super-moins riches et les pauvres tout court. CommonDream.org reprend AFP ce 15 août 2011, pour la présentation de la nouvelle. «Buffet, «the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, proposed a tax increase on Americans who make at least $1 million per year and an additional increase on those making $10 million or more. “Our leaders have asked for ‘shared sacrifice.’ But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. »From the general taxpaying public, the reaction was almost instantaneous.

Illuminati Sellouts Exposed Spider silk spun into violin strings 4 March 2012Last updated at 19:59 ET By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News More than 300 spiders were used to generate the thousands of strands of silk making up each string A Japanese researcher has used thousands of strands of spider silk to spin a set of violin strings. The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" relative to traditional gut or steel strings. That may arise from the way the strings are twisted, resulting in a "packing structure" that leaves practically no space between any of the strands. The strings will be described in a forthcoming edition of the journal Physical Review Letters. Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan's Nara Medical University has been interested in the mechanical properties of spider silk for a number of years. In particular, he has studied the "dragline" silk that spiders dangle from, quantifying its strength in a 2007 paper in Polymer Journal.

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