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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Lil B - God's Father
Tracklist:
01. Lil B - The Basedgods Layer (4:02)
02. Lil B - I Own Swag (3:28)
03. Lil B - F*ck Ya Money (4:08)
04. Lil B - Febuarys Confessions (4:30)
05. Lil B - Buss Em 4 Points (3:00)
06. Lil B - Tropics (4:00)
07. Lil B - Real Hip Hop 2012 (4:04)
08. Lil B - Keep It 100 (4:19)
09. Lil B - Fonk Ain't Dead (2:49)
10. Lil B - Feds At My Doh (4:07)
11. Lil B - Remy (3:08)
12. Lil B - Flowers Rise (2:21)
13. Lil B - God Help Me (4:24)
14. Lil B - Breath Slow (3:35)
15. Lil B - I Ain't Neva Won (3:24)
16. Lil B - Let It Drop (5:21)
17. Lil B - Gods Father (2:18)
18. Lil B - Be A Star (2:09)
19. Lil B - Deep Ass Thoughts (3:50)
20. Lil B - Go Dumb Tonight (2:13)
21. Lil B - Bitch I'm Bussin' (2:53)
22. Lil B - Glourious Basedgod (3:19)
23. Lil B - See Ya (3:34)
24. Lil B - Flash (3:07)
25. Lil B - The Deal (3:20)
26. Lil B - Pain (3:54)
27. Lil B - Secrete Obsession (3:29)
28. Lil B - Turned Me Cold (3:40)
29. Lil B - Sf Mission Music (3:17)
30. Lil B - I'm Just Livin' (3:21)
31. Lil B - Words Not Spoken (3:51)
32. Lil B - Wake Up Mr Flowers 3Mix (2:42)
33. Lil B - Water Is Dmg (2:35)
34. Lil B - I Love You (2:57)
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Bon Iver - "Coming Down" (Anais Mitchell Cover) (Video)
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Say Anything – Anarchy, My Dear (2012)
1. "Burn a Miracle" 3:54
2. "Say Anything" 3:02
3. "Night's Song" 3:44
4. "Admit It Again" 4:13
5. "So Good" 4:29
6. "Sheep" 2:55
7. "Peace Out" 5:17
8. "Overbiter" 3:27
9. "Of Steel" 4:10
10. "Anarchy, My Dear" 5:43
11. "The Stephen Hawking" 7:39
12. "Here's To You. Blue Eyes (Bonus Track)" 3:51
Greece on the breadline - HIV and malaria make a comeback
Jon Henley finds a medical aid organisation trying to plug the gaps as the health service nears breakdown.
The incidence of HIV/Aids among intravenous drug users in central Athens soared by 1,250% in the first 10 months of 2011 compared with the same period the previous year, according to the head of Médecins sans Frontières Greece, while malaria is becoming endemic in the south for the first time since the rule of the colonels.
Reveka Papadopoulos said that following savage cuts to the national health service budget, including heavy job losses and a 40% reduction in funding for hospitals, Greek social services were "under very severe strain, if not in a state of breakdown. What we are seeing are very clear indicators of a system that cannot cope."
The heavy, horizontal and "blind" budget cuts coincided last year with a 24% increase in demand for hospital services, she said, "largely because people could simply no longer afford private healthcare. The entire system is deteriorating."
The extraordinary increase in HIV/Aids among drug users, due largely to the suspension or cancellation of free needle exchange programmes, has been accompanied by a 52% increase in the general population.
"We are also seeing transmission between mother and child for the first time in Greece," she said. "This is something we are used to seeing in sub-Saharan Africa, not Europe. There has also been a sharp increase in cases of tuberculosis in the immigrant population, cases of Nile fever – leading to 35 deaths in 2010 – and the reappearance of endemic malaria in several parts of Greece, notably the south."
According to Papadopoulos, such sharp increases in communicable diseases are indicative of a system nearing breakdown. "The simple fact of the reappearance of malaria, with 100-odd cases in southern Greece last year and 20 to 30 more elsewhere, shows barriers to healthcare access have risen," she said. "Malaria is treatable, it shouldn't spread if the system is working."
MSF has been active in Greece for more than 20 years, but until now has largely confined its activities to emergency interventions after natural disasters such as earthquakes, and providing care to the most vulnerable groups in the community, including immigrants.
It is now focusing on supporting the public health sector, providing emergency care in shelters for the homeless and improving the overall response to communicable diseases. Papadopoulos, who spent 17 years abroad with MSF and returned to her native Greece three years ago, sees hope among the rubble. "What keeps me going is an increasingly strong sense of solidarity among the Greek people," she said. "Donations to MSF, for example, have of course gone down with the crisis, but donors keep giving, they remain active."
She sees a refreshing new phenomenon of self-organisation and social action. "In the past year of this crisis I have seen really encouraging, really exciting things happening – people are seeing the power of organising themselves. We have to support them."
Doctors, nurses and paramedics clash with riot police outside the health ministry last May during a protest against cuts. Photograph: Alexandros Vlachos/EPA
The incidence of HIV/Aids among intravenous drug users in central Athens soared by 1,250% in the first 10 months of 2011 compared with the same period the previous year, according to the head of Médecins sans Frontières Greece, while malaria is becoming endemic in the south for the first time since the rule of the colonels.
Reveka Papadopoulos said that following savage cuts to the national health service budget, including heavy job losses and a 40% reduction in funding for hospitals, Greek social services were "under very severe strain, if not in a state of breakdown. What we are seeing are very clear indicators of a system that cannot cope."
The heavy, horizontal and "blind" budget cuts coincided last year with a 24% increase in demand for hospital services, she said, "largely because people could simply no longer afford private healthcare. The entire system is deteriorating."
The extraordinary increase in HIV/Aids among drug users, due largely to the suspension or cancellation of free needle exchange programmes, has been accompanied by a 52% increase in the general population.
"We are also seeing transmission between mother and child for the first time in Greece," she said. "This is something we are used to seeing in sub-Saharan Africa, not Europe. There has also been a sharp increase in cases of tuberculosis in the immigrant population, cases of Nile fever – leading to 35 deaths in 2010 – and the reappearance of endemic malaria in several parts of Greece, notably the south."
According to Papadopoulos, such sharp increases in communicable diseases are indicative of a system nearing breakdown. "The simple fact of the reappearance of malaria, with 100-odd cases in southern Greece last year and 20 to 30 more elsewhere, shows barriers to healthcare access have risen," she said. "Malaria is treatable, it shouldn't spread if the system is working."
MSF has been active in Greece for more than 20 years, but until now has largely confined its activities to emergency interventions after natural disasters such as earthquakes, and providing care to the most vulnerable groups in the community, including immigrants.
It is now focusing on supporting the public health sector, providing emergency care in shelters for the homeless and improving the overall response to communicable diseases. Papadopoulos, who spent 17 years abroad with MSF and returned to her native Greece three years ago, sees hope among the rubble. "What keeps me going is an increasingly strong sense of solidarity among the Greek people," she said. "Donations to MSF, for example, have of course gone down with the crisis, but donors keep giving, they remain active."
She sees a refreshing new phenomenon of self-organisation and social action. "In the past year of this crisis I have seen really encouraging, really exciting things happening – people are seeing the power of organising themselves. We have to support them."
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
The Evil Genius is a familiar trope. It’s everywhere from Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the James Bond villain known as “Number 1.” Recent research indicates that a psychological truth may underlie the stereotype. Studies conducted by Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School and Dan Ariely of Duke University suggest that creativity fuels dishonesty and that dishonest behavior triggers creativity. “It may be a cycle that reinforces itself,” says Gino. “You could have a situation in which creativity initially pushes you across the line and then dishonesty heightens creativity, which might make it easier to cheat again. It’s a downward spiral.”
Gino and Ariely’s paper, “The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest,” published this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, focuses on the first part of the equation: how creativity affects dishonesty.
The first study featured in the paper uses survey data compiled from 99 employees across 17 departments at an unnamed U.S. advertising agency in the South. The employees were asked to indicate how likely they’d be to engage in various ethically questionable behaviors—everything from stealing office supplies to inflating business expense reports. They also rated the level of creativity required for their specific jobs. (Their answers were cross-checked by evaluations from three top managers, who also rated the creativity of each department). “We found a positive correlation,” says Gino. “The more creativity required on the job, the more unethical behavior was self-reported.” Note: Subsequent studies seem to indicate that these findings weren’t simply a result of more honest reporting on the part of creative employees.
This isn’t to say that graphic designers are necessarily more dishonest than, say, accountants. Creative types are simply “at a higher risk for behaving unethically because they can more easily find reasons why their behavior is not problematic,” says Gino. In other words, original thinkers aren’t more ethically depraved than the rest of us; they’re just better equipped to find ways of being dishonest without compromising their own self-regard.
Other studies featured in Gino and Ariely’s paper compared cheating in people who’d been primed for innovative thinking vs. those who hadn’t. Half the test subjects were asked to unscramble sentences that specifically addressed creativity—a technique proven to trigger original thinking. The other half unscrambled neutral sentences with no mention of creativity. Next, the test subjects were placed in various situations in which cheating was given an incentive in the prospect of earning small amounts of money. The result? Subjects encouraged to think creatively were consistently more likely to cheat.
The link between creativity and dishonesty may even extend to situations in which the distinction between right and wrong is quite clear, making creative justification more difficult. To test this, Gino and Ariely asked 159 primed and non-primed subjects to roll dice once and then self-report their results, from one to six. They were given monetary rewards for each roll proportional to the number displayed by their dice: $1 for a one; $2 for a two; $3 for a three, and so forth. Those primed for creativity reported an average roll score of five, compared with an average roll score of 3 1/2 reported by neutral subjects. Gino and Ariely can’t know for sure whether lying came into play, but the results are certainly suspicious.
In recent months, Gino has begun looking at the other side of the equation: how dishonest behavior influences creativity. Her preliminary findings from a study in December indicate that cheating itself may inspire and enable creative thinking. She plans to run subsequent studies to better understand the phenomenon. “We think what’s happening is that after you’ve cheated, you’re trying to justify cheating and if you’re asked to perform a task, you’ll probably going to be more creative,” she says.
So, what does all this say about MBA students, who in previous studies have been shown to cheat more than graduate students from other disciplines? Are they more creative? Not necessarily. Dishonest behavior is after all, also influenced by the environment. “Research shows that when you teach people to do cost-benefit analysis … they’ll give more weight to their own self interest,” says Gino. “Often [business students] apply that framework to contexts where maybe they shouldn’t.”
Join the discussion on the Bloomberg BusinessweekBusiness School Forum, visit us on Facebook, and follow@BWbschools on Twitter.
Gino and Ariely’s paper, “The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest,” published this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, focuses on the first part of the equation: how creativity affects dishonesty.
The first study featured in the paper uses survey data compiled from 99 employees across 17 departments at an unnamed U.S. advertising agency in the South. The employees were asked to indicate how likely they’d be to engage in various ethically questionable behaviors—everything from stealing office supplies to inflating business expense reports. They also rated the level of creativity required for their specific jobs. (Their answers were cross-checked by evaluations from three top managers, who also rated the creativity of each department). “We found a positive correlation,” says Gino. “The more creativity required on the job, the more unethical behavior was self-reported.” Note: Subsequent studies seem to indicate that these findings weren’t simply a result of more honest reporting on the part of creative employees.
This isn’t to say that graphic designers are necessarily more dishonest than, say, accountants. Creative types are simply “at a higher risk for behaving unethically because they can more easily find reasons why their behavior is not problematic,” says Gino. In other words, original thinkers aren’t more ethically depraved than the rest of us; they’re just better equipped to find ways of being dishonest without compromising their own self-regard.
Other studies featured in Gino and Ariely’s paper compared cheating in people who’d been primed for innovative thinking vs. those who hadn’t. Half the test subjects were asked to unscramble sentences that specifically addressed creativity—a technique proven to trigger original thinking. The other half unscrambled neutral sentences with no mention of creativity. Next, the test subjects were placed in various situations in which cheating was given an incentive in the prospect of earning small amounts of money. The result? Subjects encouraged to think creatively were consistently more likely to cheat.
The link between creativity and dishonesty may even extend to situations in which the distinction between right and wrong is quite clear, making creative justification more difficult. To test this, Gino and Ariely asked 159 primed and non-primed subjects to roll dice once and then self-report their results, from one to six. They were given monetary rewards for each roll proportional to the number displayed by their dice: $1 for a one; $2 for a two; $3 for a three, and so forth. Those primed for creativity reported an average roll score of five, compared with an average roll score of 3 1/2 reported by neutral subjects. Gino and Ariely can’t know for sure whether lying came into play, but the results are certainly suspicious.
In recent months, Gino has begun looking at the other side of the equation: how dishonest behavior influences creativity. Her preliminary findings from a study in December indicate that cheating itself may inspire and enable creative thinking. She plans to run subsequent studies to better understand the phenomenon. “We think what’s happening is that after you’ve cheated, you’re trying to justify cheating and if you’re asked to perform a task, you’ll probably going to be more creative,” she says.
So, what does all this say about MBA students, who in previous studies have been shown to cheat more than graduate students from other disciplines? Are they more creative? Not necessarily. Dishonest behavior is after all, also influenced by the environment. “Research shows that when you teach people to do cost-benefit analysis … they’ll give more weight to their own self interest,” says Gino. “Often [business students] apply that framework to contexts where maybe they shouldn’t.”
Join the discussion on the Bloomberg BusinessweekBusiness School Forum, visit us on Facebook, and follow@BWbschools on Twitter.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Discovery Channel Doctor: "Humans Are NOT Designed to Eat Meat"
"The major causes of death in Western countries are cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Abundant medical research linking these diseases to dietary and lifestyle factors, guidelines advanced by the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the Surgeon General, among others, counsel Americans to sharply reduce animal foods consumed and replace them with fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. In effect, they are recommending a more plant-based diet, which begs the question: Are humans designed to eat meat?
Milton Mills, M.D. has an extensive background in nutrition research, focusing on the role nutrition plays in the development of chronic diseases. He is a graduate of the Stanford University School of Medicine and is a practicing physician in the Washington, D.C. area. He also serves as the Associate Director of Preventive Medicine for the health policy group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He has lectured extensively throughout North America and is a Nutrition Health Education Video Spokesperson for the Discovery Health Channel."
Filming and editing by Dr William Harris M.D. on November 12, 2005 at McCoy Pavilion, Ala Moana Beach Park, Honolulu, Hawaii Sponsored by: Vegetarian Society of Hawaii http://www.vsh.org.
Milton Mills, M.D. has an extensive background in nutrition research, focusing on the role nutrition plays in the development of chronic diseases. He is a graduate of the Stanford University School of Medicine and is a practicing physician in the Washington, D.C. area. He also serves as the Associate Director of Preventive Medicine for the health policy group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He has lectured extensively throughout North America and is a Nutrition Health Education Video Spokesperson for the Discovery Health Channel."
Filming and editing by Dr William Harris M.D. on November 12, 2005 at McCoy Pavilion, Ala Moana Beach Park, Honolulu, Hawaii Sponsored by: Vegetarian Society of Hawaii http://www.vsh.org.
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