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America's 9 best entry-level jobs

Job seekers need to be aware that there is always tradeoff between job security, career advancement or high pay in the job process. High paying jobs are usually at high risk for being automated or offers little growth potential over the next few years. According to a study from WalletHub, the top 9 entry-level jobs scores well in all the three categories mentioned. CBS News had compiled their findings on 28 April 2015 to guide college students and high school seniors to consider which field to major in.

Job Starting Pay Median Pay Qualification Growth 9. Financial analyst $51,848 $76,950 bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related - 8. Information security analyst $55,310 $86,170 - 37% 7. Web designer $53,041 $62,500 know programming and graphic design 20% 6. Software engineers $62,522 $90,374 bachelor’s degree in computer science - 5. Environmental engineer $57,266 $86,340 bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering or related 15% 4 Attorney $83,907 $133,470 law degree and pass a state’s written bar exam 10% 3 Network Engineer $61,744 $91,982 degrees in computer science or related 12% 2. Web applications designer $54,586 $59,000 know developer languages such as PHP and HTML 12% 1. Training specialist $47,621 $55,930 college degree and strong communication skills 15%

The starting annual salary and the median pay for all workers in the field are based on the latest information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The salary for software engineers were based on information on the employment site Glassdoor.com. Figures for network engineer and web applications designer were derived from the employment site Payscale.com. The job growth rate is projected from 2012 to 2022 by the BLS. A growth of 10 percent or higher is deemed as normal. A growth rate of 15 percent and above is consider rapid growth.

The information security analyst had the greatest potential growth of 37 percent. Their job entails a simple maintenance routine but once the system gets hacked, they will have to work round the clock to restore the system, pronto. I believe being a hacker is the best qualification for this job but there is no such thing as a certified hacker at the present moment. This may be the reason WalletHub did not list down the qualification for this job. The reason growth is not projected for financial analyst is unclear.

Growth rate for software engineers were not projected as this profession is a bit unusual. While the jobs in this field are plentiful, careers in the field may be short-lived. According to Bloomberg News, most software developers have left the profession by the time they’re 40. The industry tend to favor younger engineers because of the impression that they will be more up-to-date with the latest trends.

Although the training specialist had a low income, it top because of job openings and growth potential. About one-quarter of Web designers were self-employed in 2012 but it is forecasted that employment in this field will grow by 20 percent. I believe the forecaster is expecting these self-employed individuals would grow and had the need for expansion.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

You get what you paid for. Training specialist starts with $47,621 but it only requires a college degree. You would have saved time and money compared to a bachelor degree. This would be my choice if I had this information and could turn back the time. I would reached median salary, by the time others get a bachelor and start on other jobs with about the same amount of pay. The difference is I had tugged the ropes while a fresh graduate is just getting acquainted with the ropes.

[jackomnitrade-blog]

US Military Self-guided Bullet

The U.S. military had made great progress in developing a self-steering bullet. The .50-caliber bullets are fitted with optical sensors at the tip to follow moving targets. The bullet’s system is name EXACTO (Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance) and is developed by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The “smart bullets” passed their most successful round of live-fire tests to date, the CNN reported on 29 April 2015.

Videos supplied by DARPA show the bullets making sharp turns in mid-air as they pursue their targets. “This live-fire demonstration from a standard rifle showed that EXACTO is able to hit moving and evading targets with extreme accuracy at sniper ranges unachievable with traditional rounds. Fitting EXACTO’s guidance capabilities into a small .50-caliber size is a major breakthrough and opens the door to what could be possible in future guided projectiles across all calibers,” said Jerome Dunn, DARPA program manager. Exacto can help shooters compensate for high winds, give shooters greater range and accuracy makes American troops safer.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

There is no free lunch. Good things usually cut both ways. There is no doubt that the accuracy makes American troops safer but there will be no difference if the enemy had the same ammo. Good but dangerous products are like double edge swords. In due time psychopath killers will get hold of this bullets. With the 9/11 incident, I would not be exaggerating to put forth the idea of a coordinated attack. All Bin Laden’s successor or ISIS needs to do is to put a few guns on the key people and a nation would be in turmoil. Let’s say a gun is aimed at Barack Obama (president), Joe Biden (vice president) and Ashton Carter (defence secretary) at the same time. There is a price for everything and there will leakage somewhere. So, I won’t boast about this invention.

[savyseph-blog]

My Casino Gambling Tip is now a mobile friendly website. My next task would be to get XingCai Gambling Tales to be mobile friendly too. I had outlined the step involved to get it mobile friendly in my previous blog and will use the same procedure. The wave of mobile suffers had got Google to cater to them or lose page ranking. This would be a concern for webmasters until they fix the problem.

While Google had written to webmasters with some links to make a mobile friendly website, they provided no link to test the mobile-friendliness of the site. Using W3C tidy up could provide some additional help on the meta tags. After much surfing, I found certification from Google themselves. Visit this link and type in your website’s URL.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

I read somewhere that there is a April 21 deadline for this. Would Gambling Tales miss this deadline?

[guerrillagambler-blog]

FBI Ruse violated Paul Phua's Rights

"Law enforcement can't break something in your house and pose as repair people to get inside," David Chesnoff, defence attorney for Paul Phua Wei-seng's, said. Paul Phua was charged with illegally taking bets on the World Cup Soccer. US District Judge Andrew Gordon said in a bluntly worded decision that "the government violated the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights" against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Gordon called the evidence collected last July from Paul Phua's high-security luxury villa at Caesars Palace "fruits of an unconstitutional search", and said it cannot be used if the government pressed forward with charges that Phua operated an illegal gambling business and transmitted wagering information. Chesnoff hailed the decision as a victory for freedom. The two charges each carry a penalty of up to seven years in prison.

Prosecutors said some US$13 million in bets had been wagered before the FBI, working with Nevada gambling regulators, raided three Caesars Palace villas where Phua, his son and several other people were staying. Agents seized computers, cellphones and cash. Phua, 50, was the last remaining defendant among eight people arrested in the case, including his son Darren Wai Kit Phua, 23. Darren Phua was the last of six defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges, forfeit large amounts of money and return to Asia under plea deals the Las Veags Sun reported on 17 April 2015.

[savyseph-blog]

Picture size is my next task in getting my website to be mobile friendly. In my previous blog on this subject, I figured that reducing the size of navigation menu is a good starting point to design a website to fit mobile device. I used single word for title and double word for subtitle. This seems to work out some of the problem. I figure the next step would be to have a universal width for all pictures. Ideally the picture could be stretch or shrunk to fit across the platform without losing too much picture quality.

Given the size of webpages, stretching and shrinking a picture is not the real problem. Pictures who are magnify twice or reduce by half are never too shabby when it comes to quality. This should be enough do the trick to fit an image into a website. The bigger concern is manipulated images sometimes take a longer time to load. The 4G phones are great for speed but as the best for the current technology they are a minority user. Most people would have the lower 3G speed on their phones. The loyalist to old phone will still surf with 2G and there are still a number of these mobile surfers out there. These people will favor sites who were sufficiently fast for their devices.

I went window shopping for mobile phones using google and decided that I have 3 categories to please. Based on their minimum screen width, I simply name them mini (80 pixels), midi (321 pixels) and maxi (481). After throwing some math around, I decided that all images on my website will be 240 pixels wide. Shrinking 240 to 80 (the lower end of the mini) is one-third reduction. This will likely cause some problem in loading speed. For the higher end of the mini (320 pixels), the image is stretch less than 50% which is acceptable. For the 481 pixels width, there is no stretching of image. The image with text displayed by the side will be at least half of the screen.

I now had all my pictures resize to 240 pixels width. Going through the pictures one by one had been a tedious exercise. Some of my image were name by their sizes. A cat image, for example, had been named cat330x250. The 330 represent the width and 250 is for the height. I still maintain the old name of the image. It would sound silly but once something is publish it is not advisable to make changes. Keeping the old name will ensure that people who link my pictures will not get a blank image. I actually have three manga pages outstanding. These three cartoons are at least 600 pixels wide. The task will be to break them down to smaller pictures who are 240 pixels wide. The main picture that will adopt the old name while new pictures will carry the old name with a sequential numbering suffix.

Going through image by image can also make you see things from a different angle. I redraw two images. I hope the people who had link the old pictures prefer the new pictures. I had also came up with 5 new pictures. These are for the pages which previously did not have a picture. The remaining task, unless new development crops up, I will drop the navigation menu for the mini users.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

We reserve the right to change the terms and conditions of service without your consent. If you don’t like it – too bad. This is the policy of most arrogant big corporations. I am glad you don’t change your image’s name. In the interest of developing a gambling fraternal, I have blog all your web pages. I have also thrown links to your pictures at my forum. I will be disappointed to find them turn into blank pictures. I commend your policy to maintain the name of your pictures.

[veronglowsome-blog]

3-Year-Old Shoots, Kills Baby Brother

A one-year-old boy was shot dead by his three-year-old brother on 12 April 2015. Chief Calvin Williams said, “It’s a sad day for Cleveland. This fascination that we have with handguns, not just in this city but in this country, has to stop. This is a senseless loss of life.” Investigation had not determined where the shooting came from and how it was left within reach of a child. Braylon Robinson was taken to a nearby hospital and later pronounced dead, the CBS News reported.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

Guns give a false sense of security. It gives more trouble than aids. The people who are entrusted with it finds it a burden. My uncle who was plain-clothes detective is always paranoid about where he kept his gun the moment he gets home. Whenever I visit him he keeps check where he stored his gun. In contrast my friends who were patrol police don’t have that problem. Patrol police, in my country Malaysia, don’t keep their guns when they are off duty.

[savyseph-blog]

Paedophiles Lurks in Dark Net

Hardcore pedophiles evade detection by hiding their identity using dark net. It is accessible via a browser that masks users’ identities by encryption. It has millions of users and thousands of websites. It operates on a network of more than 6,000 computer servers spread around the world that reroute signals to hide users’ locations.

Dark net was originally developed by the U.S. military. To help dissidents in China, Russia and Iran evade censorship, it is still partly funded by the U.S. government but pedophiles had abused this facility. A recent British study found that 80 percent of traffic to sites located only on the dark net were related to child pornography.

Hans Guijt and his colleagues at Terre des Hommes Netherlands, a child protection organization, attempted to trap pedophiles. The created digital puppet called Sweetie that looks and sounds like a 10-year-old girl from the Philippines. “In the 10 weeks’ time that we were active on the Internet we were hit by more than 20,000 people, 20,000 men mainly, who were trying to get in contact with us to engage us in sexual activities,” Guijt told CBS News. He added that they can’t be so easily caught because they’re using the dark net the CBS News reported on 9 April 2015.

Greg Virgin, a former NSA employee turned cyber security consultant, who’s now helping U.S. child protection groups is trouble by this awful realization. “We found one site where users openly advertised the ages of the children they were interested in,” Virgin said. “The average youngest age they were seeking for girls was zero years old. And the average age for boys was one.”

[guerrillagambler-blog]

Pedophiles targeting one-year-old male and less than one-year-old females are beyond redemption.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

Beaten-up Child Molester Gets 25 Years

Raymond Frolander was has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious molestation of an eleven-year-old child at an apartment in Daytona Beach, Florida. The sentence was pronounce on the 18-year-old on 3 April 2015 by a Volusia County judge. Frolander was found unconscious at the time of the arrest because he was beaten up by the victim’s father.

The incident took place on 19 July 2014. The victim's father told police that he attacked Frolander immediately when he walked in on Frolander abusing his son. The victim's father called 911 when Frolander was unconscious. Frolander was motionless on the living room floor when the officers arrive. He had several knots on his face from bruising and was bleeding from the mouth. The 911 dispatcher asked if any weapons were involved and the victim's father said "my foot and my fist."

The 11-year-old later told child protective investigators that Frolander has molested him since he was 8 years old. The father has not been charged with any crime. Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood said, "Dad was acting like a dad. I don't see anything we should charge the dad with. "You have an 18-year-old who has clearly picked his target, groomed his target and had sex with the victim multiple times." Frolander was charged with sexual battery on a child under 12, CBS News reported.

[savyseph-blog]

Google wrote me a warning letter 2 weeks ago asking me to make my website more mobile friendly. According to google, the increase demand in mobile phone browsing had been tremendous. Well, it is not a warning for doing something that pissed google off. It was actually a concerned notification. Google anticipated that the wave of mobile surfers will get stronger in with the passage of time and webmasters were advised to cater to their needs. If I took it as a friendly notice I don’t need to do anything. I choose to take it as a stern warning so that I will have to adapt before I get left out.

Heck! I had no clue where to start. I hope I could just wave a magic wand with some code and bingo! Fortunately, google is a good place to start looking for those hocus pocus code. Knowing the right keyword to punch into google would help. Next comes the endless list of reading materials on the technology to make your website flexible to multiple devices. Climbing the steep learning curve was no fun. It’s just nothing but reading without having enough knowledge to start doing something.

I concluded that it was about starting small. Fit the small screen then the bigger ones and eventually the desktop. This calls for a re-engineering as my website was catered for desktop size. I have started with reducing the size of my menu. I used single word titles for the menu items to shorten it for mobile size. Sub menu items could use double or triple word titles. Whoopee, I managed nail down some of the problem. For screen smaller than 320 pixels wide, I may have to do away with the menu. I will get around to this but the next step would be resizing all my images. I am going to do a lot of experimenting to find a good size that could be stretch or shrunk to fit across the platform without losing too much picture quality.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

I don’t surf on mobile much but I do see more and more people doing it. I think Google is right. The new trend of surfers will do it with hand held devices.

[savyseph-blog]

I tried to convince my readers that gambling requires skill. There are plenty of research that would conclude otherwise. In a recent (2012) study Professor Gerhard Meyer, of the University of Bremen’s Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research, suggested that poker was largely a game of chance. There were 300 participants in his research. They played 60 hands poker each, on tables of six. The players were classified as ‘expert’ and ‘average’ players based on their ability to make money from good, bad and average hands. The research found that ‘expert’ players lost less money on bad hands, but did no better than ‘average’ players on mediocre hands - and made slightly less on good ones. Prof Meyer concluded that ‘poker players overestimate the skill factor in their play’.

A research studied 456 million hands of poker from a year’s worth of online game. Over the course of just a few hands the better-performing players fared better half the time. Their success rate gradually increased until they played 1,471 hands. Given that frequency, they could do better at least 75 per cent of the time. Dr Dennie van Dolder, of the University of Nottingham’s School of Economics, said the study showed ‘skilled players will consistently outperform less skilled players if enough hands…are played.’

Researchers from the University of Nottingham, working with colleagues from Erasmus University Rotterdam and VU University Amsterdam, also noted that players who finished in the top one per cent in the first half of the year were 12 times more likely than others to repeat the feat in the second half. Writer and TV presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, one of Britain’s top professional players, has won more than £1.5m - including £400,000 at a single event. Dr van Dolder said, “It’s up to legislators to decide whether the role of chance diminishes fast enough for poker to be considered a game of skill,” the Daily Mail reported on 25 March 2015.

[philandows-blog]

Victoria Coren Mitchell’s achievement is impressive. It must have took her some time to acquire the skill.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

Not only it would take a long time to master poker but you would have lost a lot of money in the process too. That is the price of the learning curve which I call tuition fees.

[jackomnitrade-blog]

Lincoln Continental Makes a Comeback

Lincoln Continental is making a comeback. It is poised to restore its lost glamor decades ago. The Continental is about the same length as a Mercedes-Benz S-class or long-wheelbase BMW 7-series. Cadillac’s new flagship sedan is the other contender in the high-end luxury cars market that will give the Continental a run for its money.

The Lincoln Motor Company, Ford’s luxury division, mostly sold upgraded versions of Ford cars with little difference beyond the design and some added features. Ford boasts that the Continental has a new turbocharged engine not available in any Ford brand car. Lincoln has a reclining rear passenger seat with a foot rest. A fold out table with an attached tablet computer and a champagne cooler were added to its features.

Lincoln Continental’s backwards-opening rear doors was a stylish icon of the Kennedy era. The Continental name also resonates among Chinese car buyers, according to Ford executives, despite the fact that Lincolns only went on sale there last year, the CNN reported on 30 March 2015.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

I was facinated by the backwards-opening rear doors when I visited North America.

[xingcaitang-blog]

The Great FireWall of China

Today China can be deemed as successful in their internet censorship. The Great FireWall of China had managed to keep out any content that do not play to their tune. Although VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks had been used to get around the firewall, recent crackdown by the authorities had shut them down. Roseann Rife, the East Asia research director of Amnesty International, anticipated that the success of the Chinese model will attract buyers from countries like Russia or Egypt.

Back in Jan 1999, MIT Media Lab founder and technology pundit Nicholas Negroponte declared that a “healthy disrespect for authority” was required for any successful Internet industry. A year later, then-U.S. President Bill Clinton announced that “liberty will spread by cell phone and cable modem” and that any attempt to control the Internet in China would be “like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.” Things certainly had changed now, the CNN on 25 March 2015.

While Napoleon Bonaparte was wise not to awake the “Sleeping Giant”, arrogant Bill Clinton certainly did not learn for it. Where there is a will, there will be ways and China should not be underestimated. With one-third of the world’s population, China had more web users than the population of the United States. What they had is human capital and given time they will find a solution.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

I know my country would like to buy the Chinese system. The Malaysian government had been talking about internet censorship since the 1990s using pornography as an excuse.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

Behold the Teddy Bunny

Tianshan had been known by kung fu fiction fans to be the home for endless generations of invincible swordsmen. Endowed by majestic landscape, this is the favored choice of movie makers for continuous sword clashing in midair as the actors hang down the cliff from suspended strings. Now Tianshan holds another Chinese treasure – the Ili Pika. I guess you can call this creature a teddy bunny. It is rabbit that looks like a teddy bear – a fantastic combination for cute.

There are less than 1,000 of these cute little teddy bunnies around which make them rarer than panda. These mammals are natives to the Tianshan on the mountain range in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China, says conservationist Li Weidong. Initially they were named Ochotona iliensis, in 1983. He estimates its numbers have declined by almost 70% since its discovery. "I discovered the species, and I watched as it became endangered. If it becomes extinct in front of me, I'll feel so guilty," Li told CNN.

The Ili Pika were 20 centimeters in length. They live on sloping bare rock faces and feed on grasses at high elevations. Global warming had affected their habitat. The altitude of permanent snow has risen in the Tianshan due to rising temperatures and receding glaciers. The teddy bunnies were forced retreat to mountain tops. Initially they inhabit at elevations between 3,200 to 3,400 meters. Now they have retreated to elevations of 4,100 meters. Li said.

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Tentacle erotica is a type of pornography that integrates traditional pornography with some elements of bestiality. They come under hentai titles with tentacle creatures having sexual intercourse with female characters. Fantasy, horror, or science-fiction themes were used to provide the storyline. Creatures with tentacles in erotic setting existed before animated pornography. The famous woodblock print by Hokusai Katsushika appeared in 1920. It was entitled “the Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”.

Shunga or erotic art were seen as sexual guidance for young couple from wealthy families during Hokusai’s times. It was the Japanese Karma Sutra enjoyed by men and women of all classes and superstitions and mores supports this claim. The samurai used shunga as an amulet against death. Merchant treat them as talisman to protect their warehouse from fire. [Source Wikipedia]. Shunga is literally translated as spring art. For Japanese spring refer to the blossom period and it was traditional to present a bride with ukiyo-e depicting erotic scenes from the Tale of Genji.

The picture was rated third sexiest works of art ever by the Guardian. Pablo Picasso was took second place in the Guardian’s rating.Ironically Picasso was greatly influence by Hokusai. Picasso painted his own version in 1903 that has been shown next to Hokusai’s original in exhibits on the influence of 19th-century Japanese art on Picasso’s work [Source Wikipedia].

Western critics such as Edmond de Goncourt and Jack Hillier interpreted the work as a rape scene. Based on the text above the image, the woman and the creatures express their mutual sexual pleasure from the encounter. Scholar Danielle Talerico is in the opinion that de Goncourt and Hillier would have seen it apart from the Kinoe no Komatsu collection and without understanding the text and visual references, depriving it of its original context.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

Fascinating, Shunga is the Japanese Karma Sutra. It’s a pity that Shunga was not complied and treasure like the Karma Sutra. It seem to me like every author gets to express their piece without a chief editor to compile them. With contemporary players, Shunga was gradually transformed into Hentai.

From this picture alone, I conclude that Shunga is imaginative while Karma Sutra is specific. Since this is a sex manual for couples, I believe Hokusai is telling his audience to image that their man had the hands of an octopus so that he can be all over you. Likewise he is telling the male readers to pleasure their partners as if they had the hands of an octopus. In contrast, the Karma Sutra draws out specifically the position of the male and female accompanied by written instruction on movements.

[philandows-blog]

Don't Eat Three Meals A Day

Eating three meals a day is now branded as a racist thingy. Research had shown that taking breakfast had zero effect on metabolism. Historian Abigail Carroll, author of the book Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal, told Kiera Butler, senior editor at Mother Jones that the thrice-daily eating schedule was brought to North America by European settlers.

"Civilized" Eating Habits.

The Europeans continued to eat at ridged times when they settled in America. Their meals were made up of light meal in the morning, a heavier cooked meal at midday, and a meal similar to the first later in the day. In contrast, the native eating times and portion varied according to the season. Since this eating pattern is similar to animals, the settlers reasoned that the natives were uncivilized.

Change in Lifestyle and Eating Habits

Meat was added to breakfast and dinner as the settlers prosper. The industrial revolution brought people away from their homes and turned lunch into a casual affair. The cooked meal was shifted to dinner when the people get back from work. Although lunch and dinner were switched, the amount of food consumed daily did not change.

The Heavy Breakfast

From an active farming lifestyle to a sedentary one, “People were still eating these giant country breakfasts,” says Carroll. Soon, doctors reported that more of their patients were suffering from indigestion. Nutritionist suggested a lighter breakfast and the Kellogg brothers took this opportunity to promote corn flakes as a healthy alternative to heavy breakfasts. As time progresses breakfast became known as a meal for health food. Fruit-grower associations began their ad campaigns to choke the world with newly discovered vitamins.

Science Indifferent to Breakfast

Breakfast gets glorified and the interested party warn about skipping the most important meal of the day. This doctrine continues until today but science showed otherwise. A 2014 study by the University of Bath showed that breakfast had zero effect on metabolic rate. The University of Alabama concurred the finding with a similar study. These researches affirm a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2010. In the study one group ate three meals a day, while another ate six with the same total calorie count. No weight or hormonal differences between the groups were found. Similarly in 2014, University of Warwick researchers found no difference in metabolism between a group of women that ate two meals a day and another group that ate five.

Fasting Improves Metabolic Rate

As it turn out research are proving that fasting improves metabolism. Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging, has observed mice for over two decades. He found that mice who skip feedings are leaner and live longer than who don’t fast. The fasting mice also have more robust brain cells. Mattson theorizes that caloric deprivation acts as a mild stress to trigger the self-defense. This wards off damage from aging, environmental toxins, and other threats. In another research, Satchidananda Panda of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, shown that periodic fasting may also prevent heart disease. Panda observed that mice consuming all of their calories within an eight-hour window were less likely to develop metabolic diseases like diabetes than those who ate whenever they pleased.

Back to Nature

Wooh the civilized settlers regiment were wrong and the dictated by nature indigenous were right. While eating dinner with your family to keep your girlish figure becomes a myth, it is very essence that keeps family together.

[savyseph-blog]

Eating two meals will encourage fasting. I would make sense to pace it out accordingly. You can divide you day into three base on the time you awake and go to sleep. Take you first meal after one third of your day had passed and your second meal after two third of your day.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

If portion is the same but frequency is reduced it will lead to overeating that can stretch your tummy.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

Irish Es are smiling – ecstasy and other drugs temporarily legal in Ireland

A written judgment by the Irish court of appeal pronounced part of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 unconstitutional. This would render government's orders banning substances such as ecstasy and magic mushrooms void.

Stanislav Bederev was charged for having the substance in 2012 and brought a high court challenge in Dublin seeking to stop his trial. His legal team argued the substance on the controlled drug list were no passed in consultation with the Irish parliament. The court found that the act was added by ministerial order and consulting of both houses of the Irish parliament was bypass. With their hands tied the court deemed the act unconstitutional, the Guardian reported on 10 March 2015.

The Irish government will have to go through some red-tape to rectify this matter. For the time being there will be a window of opportunity for offenders even though it could be rectify in a day through emergency legislation and laws. This case will be a point of academic discussion for a long time.

[xingcaitang-blog]

Rent a Husband Service in Moscow

Russia is using a sexist term to describe an old service. A handyman’s service is repackaged as “a husband for an hour” by Moscow’s city administration. Based on local news reports Moscow’s struggling residents could use a new social service. The service will be offered free for low-income households and charged a modest fee will for others, the Guardian reported on 10 March 2015.

Since the DIY trend had not caught on with women, advertisement were aimed at gender inequality roles. One online advertisement reads “You’ve just spent a long time in a store selecting a new light fixture for your hallway to perfectly match your new decor but you’re a beautiful woman with a killer manicure, and you’re not ready to get intimate with a buzzing and horribly vibrating drill. Who can come to your aid?”

With a solution that read, “Assertive men, who’ll call themselves your husband for an hour, are on their way to your home”, the service is most popular among young families or the elderly. I get the impression that Moscow ladies feel more secure with a person they can treat as husband.

[guerrillagambler-blog]

Sexual inequality is some form of injustice. Quiet Riot won't do. What they need is to socially reengineer their women.