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Could A Teenager Save Our Oceans?

Nearly 71% of the world’s surface is covered by ocean, and more than 97% of all of our planet’s water is contained in the ocean.

But our oceans are facing environmental catastrophe with plastic waste causing floating garbage tips of waste circulating through rotating currents around the world. 

But now, there could be a solution.

Danish teenager Boyan Slat has stunned the world with his simple, cost effective and potentially ocean-saving solution.

The Ocean Array Project is a uniquely designed series of floating booms and processing platforms designed to collect floating plastic rubbish. The Array uses the concept of ‘passive collection’ and would only be driven only by naturally occurring wind and currents. The ingenious part of the concept is that it is designed to only capture floating plastic - allowing fish and plankton to pass through unharmed. The plastic would then be collected ready for recycling – which Boyan believes could generate up to $500 million a year from recycling – more than covering the cost of building the Array.

So how did a 17 year old (Boyan is now 19) come up with this idea? While diving in Greece, Boyan was upset by the fact that he was seeing more plastic bags than he was fish. While still in high school, Slat decided to devote 6 months to understanding plastic pollution in the oceans and began studying the effects and the efforts that had already been made to clean it up.

He eventually came up with the passive cleaning concept and presented his findings to a TEDx conference in 2012. The Ocean Cleanup Array was awarded Best Technical Design at the Delft University of Technology and Boyan has been recognised as one of the 20 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs Worldwide. 

Last month, Boyan and the Ocean Clean Up team released at 530 page feasibility study which claimed that the concept is indeed a feasible method to clean almost half the plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just 10 years. 

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15 Best Useful JQuery Parallax Scrolling Tutorials

 

Jquery parallax scrolling helps to create a effective websites. These jquery tutorials are properly explained so you can learn jquery parallax effect easily.

Jquery parallax scrolling is very popular in the modern web design trends. Jquery parallax gives special effects to a website which helps to attract visitors. Jquery parallax scrolling refers to a smooth animation effect between foreground and background images or texts.  To apply parallax scrolling in your website, you need basic knowledge of jquery & javascipts. If you already have a good knowledge of jquery & javascripts then you can use parallax scrolling effect at your will. Jquery parallax scrolling effects give an outstanding visual experience. So visitors stay for a longer period of time and helps in decreasing bounce rate, which result in getting better result in google search engine. If you are facing difficulty in finding some cool parallax scrolling tutorials then here is the end of your problem because here I collected some best parallax scrolling tutorials 2014.

Best Useful Jquery Parallax Scrolling Tutorials 2014

In this article, we’d like to showcase you a list of some amazing and best jquery parallax scrolling tutorials 2014 to create some beautiful parallax scrolling websites.

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Ukraine: When the Lunatics Run the Asylum

A Ukrainian Fascist, sorry...civilian

Arsen Avakov is Certifiable

Arsen Avakov, the make believe "Minister of Internal Affairs," is certifiably insane. Anyone can check out his facebook page and read the lunatic's very own words. He believes in human sacrifice, that Ukraine needs "atonement" in the form of human lives, which explains why he is directing a Genocidal, murderous campaign in Novorossiya, committing crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against peace.

 

Avakov also considers their people who die carrying out his orders as part of the "atonement." He also stupidly makes a reference between ATO (anti-terrorist operation) and the English equivalent to "ATOnment" as though it has some sort of mystical significance. He has a sick mind, not unlike the rest of the illegal junta, particularly Mr. "subhuman" Yatsenyuk, and Doctor Strangelove Timoshenko who wants to resort to the use of nuclear weapons to get rid of the pesky Russians.

 

These words are from Arsen Avakov, Ukraine's "Minister of Internal Affairs" June 23,2014 FaceBook page

 

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In these few days talking a lot with our zone ATU - from general to soldier. And I want to say a few words about the truly important things. War cannot generate light feelings. But we can generate cleansing. False and superficial burns in the fire of war very quickly - as if deliberately leaving space THIS .. Through disorder and pain, through the death of comrades and the need to kill in response, through fear for their relatives, through observation of grief, people deprived of their home .. all not just in this war, and this purification and redemption for everyone - you need as a prerequisite of victory .. Atonement. It comes as the inevitable fee perfect. And each is his redemption - and me and you and the Donbass and Ukraine. And everyone is given as much as earned and how many survive ..Ukraine stand, and you do not give up. Bite the bullet and bear their redemption. And do, do what you have to! P / S Today noticed a strange coincidence, the English words atonement - ATOnement .. ATO- Anti-Terrorist Operation.

 

There can be absolutely no doubt at this point about the Satanic, fascist nature of the junta and its followers. Is humanity going to allow this plague to spread, because spread it will as history shows us. Forget history and you are doomed to repeat it.

 

The last people that need to go through this fire are the Russian people, whose heroic sacrifices ended fascism in 1945.

 

Kerry and Others Blowing Hot Air, Blaming Russia

 

Meanwhile, we have idiots like John Kerry sending ultimatums to Russia, like the utter piece of human excrement he is. The west is blaming Russia for everything that happens when they are the ones that used and are using these fascist Satanic barbarians as their tools for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine and the incorporation of Ukraine into the anti-democratic entity known as the EU.

 

Betrayal of the People

 

Today, the 27^th, war criminal Petroshenko signs the people of Ukraine into the hell of the world financial system and the association agreement with the European Union. Unfortunately, the supporters of this action are too uninformed and/or deliberately greedy to see what they are letting themselves in for. They believe all the lies being put out by the mainstream western media at the behest of the Kiev junta, meant to stir up hatred against Russia and Russians. Many foolishly believe the myriad of promises made by these western puppet scoundrels about how Ukraine will finally give them all sorts of advantages. Dream on, too bad you didn't check with those already in austerity hell.

 

The Truth on the Ground

 

http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/05/bbc-now-admits-armed-nazis-led-revolution-in-kiev-ukraine/#.U6wrUQYdSpE.facebook

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7TScRvpwqo&feature=player_detailpage

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKuDzXAgdf4#t=22

 

No Nazis, No Refugees, Everything is Copacetic

 

Officials in the west like to pretend that it's in Russia's imagination that fascist Nazis are running around in Ukraine. But this is the 21^st Century, with modern technology, and the truth cannot be hidden. The murder and destruction taking place in "Russia's imagination" is well documented with concrete PROOF. The lying leaders in the west are obviously as demonic as their tools/proxies in Ukraine. That gives the impression that they think the world community is either lazy or stupid or both.

 

 

Illusions and Delusions on Who International Law Vindicates

 

Not only do I want to put the west on notice that we are on to their tactics, I would like to throw in their faces another matter of international law. Of course I know they, pardon my French, shit on international law every day.

 

"The paper also quotes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as saying that "it turns out that throughout the years of its independence, Ukraine did not bother to officially register its borders as that of a sovereign state." "For that reason, the paper suggests, "there has been no and can be no" violation of the Ukrainian border by Russia. "Under the CIS agreement, the territory of Ukraine only has administrative borders as set within the USSR, while Russia is a legal successor to the USSR," Nezavisimaya Gazeta points out. According to the paper, it is now impossible in principle to accuse anyone of violating Ukraine's borders because "as far as international law is concerned, the country simply does not have an officially set border." In order to resolve this problem, the newspaper continues, Kiev must agree on border demarcation with all its neighboring states, including Russia. Although Kiev is trying to carry out unilateral demarcation, "it will be null and void from the point of view of international law," the paper concludes."

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http://rbth.com/inte...atio_37649.html

 

 

*Note: Surprise, this has since been removed from the site, but let them be put on notice, it's already too late.

 

 

The Ceasefire

 

Contrary to the stupidly repeated cynical nonsense that Poroshenko so magnanimously granted a ceasefire, there is no ceasefire. Shelling, bombing, destruction, murder and mayhem continue. The conditions set forth by Poroshenko are nothing less than a demand for total surrender, an objective his worthless gang of fascists are unable to attain. He refuses to pull back his hounds out of Novorossiya in an honest gesture of ceasefire.

 

No one should expect the freedom fighters to lay down their arms in a ceasefire while leaving the civilian population to the mercy of Poroshenko's thugs. It has been no secret that a full-fledged ethnic cleansing is being planned and that Genocide is happening as we speak. Ukraine's land agency said that it will be giving "free land" from the east to the military, Interior Ministry and Special Services troops battling the federalist freedom fighters.

 

 

Challenge

 

I challenge anyone, particularly those in Ukraine who have been fed a pile of garbage, to earnestly look and compare the behavior of the freedom fighters to the behavior of the junta and its Nazi stormtroopers.

 

I also challenge anyone to compare the behavior of Russian leaders (diplomacy, dialogue) in contrast to the bellicose, bullying, blackmailing, war mongering "leaders" in the west.

 

You have the internet, inform yourselves!

 

I call on and challenge the mainstream western media to stop parroting the accepted party line and STOP hiding the truth by only writing prejudicial nonsense, if indeed they bother to even touch the subject of Ukraine and the struggle of freedom fighters to keep the people safe from fascist murder, Genocide and ethnic cleansing.

 

I call on and challenge the leaders of the west to STOP making demands of Russia, recognize Russia's rights, acknowledge her incredible restraint and most importantly, STOP lying. They have yet to acknowedge the crimes of their puppet junta government, let alone demand that they stop. Human rights violations are being conspicuously ignored even encouraged by western governments,

 

The west is usually the first to complain and make accusations on any suspected human rights violations and threaten military intervention. Their response to everything is always violence. It is now quite evident that the intervention mania/responsibility to protect (R2P) rhetoric and slogans were nothing more than total deception to pursue ulterior geopolitical purposes.

 

Worth Repeating

Nuremberg established that there is NO IMMUNITY for crimes against humanity. The Rome Statute's Article 25 of the International Criminal Court (ICC) codified this principle, affirming the culpability of persons committing crimes of war and against humanity.In addition, commanders and their superiors are specifically culpable if they "either knew or, owing to the circumstances at the time, should have known that the forces were committing or about to commit such crimes, (and) failed to take all necessary and reasonable measures within his or her power to prevent or repress their commission or to submit the matter to the competent authorities for investigation and prosecutions."Moreover, Nuremberg established that immunity is null and void, including for heads of state, other top officials, and top commanders. Further, genocide, crimes of war and against humanity are so grave that statute of limitation provisions don't apply.

 

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Lisa Karpova

Pravda.Ru

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Why don't the Americans like soccer?

Despite the unprecedented peak of some twenty-five million viewers watching the 2-2 tie between the USA and Portugal at the 2014 World Cup venue in Brazil, average soccer viewing on US TV is way below the figures registered for American Football, Baseball, Basketball or Ice Hockey. Let us see why...

Mrs. Browne, somewhere in the United Kingdom, used to be a happily wedded housewife until one sunny June day during a World Cup match between England and the Kyrgyz Republic (which England was losing 3-0), when her dutiful and diligent, obedient hen-pecked, church-going little husband transformed into a foul-mouthed lout, and suddenly sprang up from his seat and snarled "That was a F***ING penalty!"

What shocked Dorothy was not so much the ferocity of the shout, or its volume, but rather, the intensity of the hatred on hitherto peaceful Peter's face, baring canines which seemed larger than the dog's, his eyes bursting from their sockets as he pumped the air with clenched fists and projected droplets of dribble as he questioned the referee's father's sexuality, questioned the orifice from whence the linesman entered God's world and questioned the opposing player's mother's behavior. Hardly in line with Peter's Deuteronomy readings on Sundays...

Perplexed as to why Peter had never shown such energy in bed, things would never ever be the same between Dorothy and Peter, especially after he hurled his beer glass at the TV and broke the screen.

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Just what is it with Americans, why don't they like soccer?

But things were not limited to the Browne residence. There were stories of the fan who sold both his kidneys (he was told he had four) to a Kosovar Albanian doctor so that he could buy tickets for the Germany and Italy matches, which cost 15,000 dollars each, then died before he could get off the plane. His friends described him as feeling "gutted"...

Just what is it with Americans, why don't they like soccer?

Let us spend a day in the life of the World Cup...

9.00 Nils Svenson calls a press conference before his country's game with Australia. After a two-minute silence to find his words, looking at a fixed point straight ahead of him, punctuated by an intense look on his face as he cleared his left nostril, holding the right, then after blinking hard, cleared the right nostril, holding the left, then spitting, in a dull monotone, he barks:

"I am going to work hard to try and make sure that I am in condition to be one of the options for the "Mister" if he chooses me as a member of the team so that I can make my contribution to the collective effort because winning the three points is what I am focused on at the moment".

10.00 Video footage of the game between Colombia and Turkey reveals that the Latin American player had false packets of blood which he had hidden in his jock strap, and which he smeared all over his face, writhing around screaming on the ground after another player passed by within five metres of him. There was no contact between the players.

11.00 A Netherlands player has revealed that he had the living daylights kicked out of him by all his team members after they caught him reading a book in the toilets. "There's no players ever read no books in this team," the captain said.

Just what is it with Americans, why don't they like soccer?

12.00 David Benditt, the subject of a tabloid newspaper scam last week in which it was revealed he likes to wear his wife's panties, has claimed the team coach at his Premier League club kicked a football boot into his face after his team lost a game, cutting him over the left eye. The coach has stated that "The boot-room is sacrosanct. Not even our wives should know what goes on in there" and it seems Benditt is heading out of the club after the World Cup.

12.30 Press conference called by Dilton Guerreiro Filho, Brazil's new boy on the block, who declares: "The ball is round, isn't it? Thanks be to God, yeah? It rolls both ways, yeah? Like back and front, yeah? To and fro, back and forth, thanks be to God, yeah?"

14.00 Luis Santiño is to be forced to wear a Hannibal Lecter mask whenever he sets foot on a soccer pitch and is to switch the term "meet" to "eat" when he shakes hands with an unknown person: "Nice to eat you". He is appealing against the decision because this is only the fifteenth time he has been caught biting an opponent... after all biting is sooooo gay.

15.00 England striker Justin England, whose elder and younger siblings play, respectively, for the Faroe Islands and Mongolia, has been banned for three matches for spitting at the referee after he refused to stop the game to look for a platinum and diamond-encrusted ear-ring he claims was worth 4 million dollars which had fallen out when he head-butted a little girl who had run onto the pitch. Rumor has it that the piece of jewelry was a worthless plastic fake bought on a seedy backstreet of Bangkok during his team's pre-season concentration.

16.00 Justin England's team-mate Slidebottom, declares he is "gutted" (whose "u" he pronounces as in the "oo" in "book" and replaces the double "t" with a glottal stop, so "goo'id") after his wife and kids were kidnapped after he sent them to meet him at a sleazy bar downtown while he enjoyed an orgy in a seven-star hotel with three pre-op Moldavian trans-sexuals, a detail he says he didn't notice because he was drunk, but which he described as "very embarrassing" but "could happen to anyone any time".

17.00 The dust starts to settle after a La Liga player was investigated after causing 60,000 dollars'-worth of damage in a bar after being caught in the toilets with a blonde prostitute, defending himself by claiming "We was only...you know... havin' an intellectual conservation, you know...I mean...sort of, you know, ummmm ....a talk, we was talkin' about stuff...an' fings..., you know".

18.00 Suspicions start to arise that the "The Incident" in the Uruguay versus Paraguay game, when a Uruguayan player had his ears torn off and tossed into the crowd, was a figment of production after three Asian betting agencies were found offering odds that it would happen, and sixteen advertising agencies had their campaigns ready for launch immediately after the match, with slogans such as "Ear we go!", "Come ear!" and "Ear, ear!"

19.00 Finally, the entire team of the defending champions, knocked out of the competition after heavy back-to-back defeats against San Marino, the Solomon Islands and Burkina Faso, came to apologize to their fans. All the players had blue tattoos festooned up their left arms, some looked like The Last of the Mohicans, some had shaved half their heads and had weird designs etched into their scalps, all had at least two ear-rings and were bedecked with several gold chains. Most had their left ear glued to a last-generation cell-phone... until the star striker turned round and pulled down his pants, showing a tattoo of a mouse tail disappearing up his anatomy, closely hunted by a cat, bellowing "stick it in here, Germany!"

One journalist remarked: "It looked like the entire population of the local psychiatric prison unit had been emptied onto the street and into the studio"

So just what is it with Americans, why don't they like soccer? Could it be because they are all stupid?

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY

PRAVDA.Ru

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