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Self Storage Packing Tips Whether you need to pack a few items to put in the attic, send some boxes to a self storage unit to clear the house of clutter or pack everything you own in order to move, you want to do it right. This means packing carefully and thinking ahead. Take a few precautions to help prevent damage and make it easier to find things later. When summer rolls around, you want to be able to find the other half of your wardrobe without having to open and move stacks of boxes that weren’t clearly labeled. Guidelines to keep in mind as you pack: To aid in stacking, use same-size boxes when possible. Avoid storing items in plastic bags as they are less sturdy and could trap moisture. Fill each box completely to prevent the top or sides from crushing. If your box is filled with odd-shaped or loose items like glassware or toys, fill the open spaces with crumpled paper, bubble wrap or other packing material. Don’t fill boxes too full. This may cause them to burst. Don’t make boxes too heavy to move. Use larger boxes for things that don’t weigh much and smaller ones for the heavy stuff. Use the right type of box or packing crate. For instance, use a heavy-duty box for your books as this is less likely to break than a standard box. You still need to be careful not to overfill it, though. Cell kits may work best for stemware or knick-knacks. Wardrobe boxes allow you to hang up clothing and fabrics while in storage. Criss-cross masking tape across the face of mirrors or glass-covered art. Store framed mirrors, photographs and artwork vertically rather than flat. Label boxes clearly and on more than one side. Consider providing a general description like ‘kitchen goods’ and then providing a short inventory such as ‘potholders, towels, aprons, silverware’ so that no one opens this kitchen box when they need the pots and pans. Be sure to mark boxes full of breakables as ‘fragile.’ Clean items like clothing, blankets, drapery or furniture before packing them to prevent germs and dirt from being transported to a new location and odors from spreading throughout your storage unit. Polish wood before you pack to provide a little extra protection from the elements. Treat leather items with a specially made conditioner before placing them in storage. Wipe metal objects with machine oil or another type of rust preventative. Take apart items like bed frames and tables, and remove lampshades from lamps. This will help protect them from breaking and make them easier to move. Cover furniture with sheets or tarps to protect them from stains, tears and scratches. Place heavy items on the bottom of your moving van or self storage unit. Place least used items in front of the van so they can easily be placed behind other items in your new garage or self storage unit. Place valuable items like your television behind other items so that they will be more difficult to see and to steal. Place boxes of fragile items on top of other boxes. Consider the environment where you plan to store your valuables. Will it be very hot or cold? Consider renting a climate controlled storage room for items that could be damaged by extreme temperatures or humidity. This includes things like software, paper, electronics or clothing. Some items do best in cold storage such as wine and furs. In self storage units without climate control consider using a dehumidifier. When choosing a storage unit, factor in a little more room than your belongings take up in order to allow space for you to walk between stacks of items. This will help you to find what you need after you store it. Leave a little room between the walls and the stored goods to improve ventilation. Take a little time to plan and organize as you pack. This should make it easier to finds things in the future and less likely that anything will get damaged during a move or while in storage.

29-Oct-2004 -- We left Puerto Madryn on October 28 at 4:00 pm with the intentio to get back to Buenos Aires. But when we reached national route 3, my companion and I decided to go for the most famous confluence in Argentina. So we spent the night at Valle de los Altares. The following day, at 6:00 am we took route 25 to Pampa de Agnia, first, and then to Colan Conhue; this last segment was unpaved. Then we took route 33 to the North for some 26 kms. In this place we took a left for 7 kms on a secundary road in the middle of fields of thorny bushes. At noon we left the car and started a walk of 1,250 meters in rolling hills. We reached the confluenc point at 1:30 pm. On our walk we saw mules, rabbits and choiques. We took the photos, made a toast with water and started our way back.

More Oz: See Oz Live On TV in New York, NY Edit Your Location Sponsored By Relying on Intuition Have you ever had sneaking suspicion that something was not right? Most of us tend to dismiss these seemingly irrational thoughts. But scientists say it may be time for you to tap into your gut feelings because there may be something right about it after all. Dr. Oz and Judith Orloff, author of Second Sight, go inside the science of intuition. We all have the power to collect cues subconsciously before we are actually aware of them; whether you call it a gut feeling, a hunch, a sneaky suspicion or the sixth sense, intuition offers a course of action without much rational thought. It can help you decide what you should embrace and what you should avoid long before you've had time to analyze the situation. And when it comes to our health and wellbeing, intuition is an extremely valuable asset. We've heard a million stories where people reacted on intuition; a mother is bolted from sleep when her child is in silent distress, a nurse detects a patient's downward spiral long before lab tests were ever ordered, an emergency responder is compelled to recheck a previously searched building. But one of the most powerful benefits of intuition is its ability to alert us as to what’s going on inside our bodies. Harnessing your intuition can get you to the doctor sooner, prevent certain illnesses from progressing and protect you from harm or death. It can also guide you to choose healthy relationships, including one with your doctor. The Idea Behind Intuition We subconsciously adjust our behavior many times a day. In fact, shortcuts like these were probably an evolutionary survival mechanism that allowed us to react quickly to dangerous external stimulus. Everything about the environment – what you see, feel, smell and touch – is instantaneously computed. How the brain makes these unconscious decisions is just beginning to be understood. The brain is a highly organized storage facility capable of evaluating and filing every experience. For efficiency purposes, the brain also has a fondness for patterns; all new experiences are quickly matched against ones that have already occurred. Intuition allows you to cut to the chase, act faster and use less energy. The reason for that funny feeling in the pit of your stomach is because, much like the brain, the gastrointestinal tract is home to an abundant network of nerves, which is why it is often called the "second brain." So when the brain receives certain input from the environment, a surge of nerve activity travels via the vagus nerve into your core, causing that "gut" feeling.

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The Civil War Letters of Galutia York All of Galutia York's letters are formatted as they appear in the actual letters. January 14, 1863 Fortress Munroe. Jan 14th, 63 Dear Father and Mother It is with much pleasure that I take my pen in hand to write a few lines to you to let you know how I get along I am well and enjoiing myself as well as I can. and I hope this will find you well. They have got me on another boat and it is laying out in the bay we come on day before yesterday and will probably lay hear a week or two before we start but when we do start we shall go to Neworleans we are on a sailing Craft this time but the bunks are the same as on the old Atlantic there is 7 ships going with us this time and there was __ went before. I expect there is more left in lice on this boat than there is of men for it has been used for carrying soldiers ever since the beginning of the war. it is rather cold hear to day. I received your most prescious letter of the 7th day before yesterday and you cant imagine how glad I felt for I expected to start right of and I expected if I did not get one that day to not get one at all for I expected to start. I wrote a few lines in the fournoon and sent it before I got your letter. I cant see what the reason is that my letters dont go any straiter or quicker I guess you have not got one letter that I have wrote for if you had you would have got one quicker for I have written as often as once a week Jud is well he got a letter from his mother yesterday he haint had a letter from his father yet. I got Uncle Johns letter yesterday yours come the quickest. Yes I got ___ and Lucys letters. Yes Ma I feel perfectly contented you thought the tone of my writing told that I was home sick there is not a man in the army that would like to see home any better than I should but still I haint home sick. and Ma I think you are rather foolish (if I must say so) to worry so much about me. for there will be some times that you wont hear from me in 5 or 6 weeks and perhaps that time is not far distant for if I go to Texas perhaps you wont hear from me in that length of time but dont worry for it dont do any good (but then I dont know if you can help it) it was the small pox that I vaxcinated for there was 2 or 3 men come down with it in the Chesapeake hospital yes it worked well when I was vaxcinated before and it did this time. It was more that was down hear from negro city it was his brother that died but not in our Co. Sam Bennet is about well he is going with us Dorr is gaining slowly there dident none of their friends come to see them. Hiram Gilbert is verry sick he never can get well I dont know what the matter is knowboddy knows what Jo done with his money he had 10 dollars when he died he got his pay when I did. my cloths wear first rate there haint a hole in none of them they have been riped some but I have kept them sowed up. Yes I should think hank had done extraordinair well for him I haint sure but he will make something yet. I got a letter from Sidney the other day Dave and John__ french has got over the itch.. I dont believe you can read this for I have to write with my port- folio on my knee so I cant write verry good. well I have wrote it about all so I must close. write as soon as you get this. direct to Chesapeak General hospital write soon. I remain as ever your ever loveing son Galutia York to Zebulon and Lucy York. there is 200 more men comeing on board now. I thank you verry much for that fine comb I expect to have a use for it before long I am verry much obliged for those kisses tell hank and sidney that I shall tend to their cases when I get home. oringes is only 50 cents a bushel in Neworleans wont I ___ I will eat one for each one of you When this you see remember who wrote it

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Bitcoin price today hit a new high: What the news means, and whether mining or investing makes sense Bitcoin traders might be feeling good right now: For much of September, Bitcoin’s value took a dive, at one point losing about a third of its worth from summer highs. At the time, fears about China and some harsh words from Wall Street — like when J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a “fraud” — brought the price from a high of about $5,000 per coin back down to about $3,500. But by Thursday morning, bitcoin had recovered those losses and then some: It was trading above $5,300 per coin at 3:15 p.m. Eastern, according to CoinMarketCap, having gained about 10% in the preceding 24 hours. As Bloomberg tweeted, the cryptocurrency had reached at an all-time high. Beyond the bitcoin price chart — why value is rising One theory is that investors overreacted to the crackdown in China, which banned some local exchanges as well as the process of initial coin offerings — where entrepreneurs issue new currencies in exchange for cash to fund their new ventures. Authorities in Russia also recently addressed the topic, with Russian President Vladimir Putin offering assurances that plans to regulate the currency would place no “excessive barriers” to trading — opening up a major potential market, as Fortune notes. But other factors have gotten traders excited: An Oct. 2 Wall Street Journalarticle reported that Goldman Sachs was considering opening a unit focused on bitcoin traders. A spokeswoman for the investment bank confirmed that there was client interest in the project, but reiterated that the initiative was still in its early stages. Goldman CEO Llloyd Blankfein added to the hype, tweeting that “folks were also skeptical when paper money displaced gold.” Finally, on Thursday morning, Bloomberg reported JPMorgan Chase’s chief financial officer said the firm is open-minded to digital currency — and Dimon said: “I’m not going to talk about bitcoin anymore.” Meanwhile, Citi’s CFO said his bank is taking an “intense” look at cryptocurrencies and blockchain. None of the Wall Street giants currently have a bitcoin trading desk, though Fidelity operates a project through its research and development arm, as CoinDesk reported. The validation of even one Wall Street institution would “change bitcoin” by bringing in lots of big money. One explanation for why bitcoin is so volatile is that not enough people are trading it to keep prices stable. A big bank, even one with a bit of a reputation for catering to ultrahigh-net-worth investors who like to roll the dice, could help the price stabilize. Of course, those very wealthy investors have a lot of money to lose, and if you’re looking for places to invest your hard-earned cash, there are plenty of ways to do so without having to stomach such dramatic highs and lows. Here’s a good guide on how to get started with more traditional investing. Still intrigued by mining or investing in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies? Here are two guides on what to know before you mine — or buy.

Search Site Just a quickie – Hexagon pincushion FO I had a little bit longer post in mind, but I went to the library book sale at lunch instead. (Yay books for a dollar!) I need to get back to work, but I’m just going to put this here first. Hexy pincushion! I started out looking at the skinny pincushion tutorial from Green Bee, but I wanted to do something with hexagons. At first I was going to make one that was put together pretty much like the Green Bee with both a top and a bottom piece (but using rectangles of English paper pieced hexagons instead) but then I decided that an itty bitty skinny one would be better, so I just made the one rectangular piece, about 9″ x 3½” I believe, sewed it up leaving an opening, stuffed it, and finally learned how to do ladder stitch to stitch it closed. My stuffing is a bit uneven — I was afraid to stress the ladder-stitched part too much since I’d never done it before and didn’t trust my seam, but I’d already stuffed the ends within an inch of their lives. But I squished it a bunch and it’s more or less even now.

Ducks' Penner hopes return revives his production Ducks' Penner hopes return revives his productionDustin Penner is back with the Anaheim Ducks, and potentially back on a line with old pals Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry in a move that could revitalize his career. ANAHEIM -- The transition back to Anaheim was seemingly seamless for Dustin Penner. He already lived in Newport Beach, and he obviously was familiar with the Ducks, from some of the players to the traveling secretary and others in the organization. There was just one hiccup, though, and it concerned whether Penner will be in charge of the music in the locker room. "That's the only thing I'm kind of worried about, because I don't want to come in too strong with that, so I'm going to slowly, subconsciously sneak it in," Penner said. Penner prefers house music, that thumping rave-style beat he personally chose for pregame warmups at Staples Center during his time with the Los Angeles Kings. That won't go over too well with Anaheim captain Ryan Getzlaf, who digs country. "He knows what I like," joked Getzlaf, who is giving musical control to Penner. "He's got to adjust." The Ducks would like the reuniting of Penner with Getzlaf and Corey Perry to go the same way: Just let the music play and perhaps the dance partners will remember their steps. Since Penner left after he hoisted the Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007, the Ducks have tried to fill that left-wing spot with Bobby Ryan. While it produced one of the best lines in the NHL at times, the trio didn't nearly play well often enough under former coach Randy Carlyle and even Bruce Boudreau, who sporadically put the three together last season. But Boudreau declared that Penner will be given a look with Getzlaf and Perry, at least at the start, and it's a big storyline in training camp. "I don't think that line, for six years, has had that permanent left winger that you'd love to put in there since Dustin went," Boudreau said. "It would be really cool if he could take that position and run with it. But time will tell. If he can't, he can't. But we're going to give him every opportunity to do it." Penner, Getzlaf and Perry skated together Thursday for the first time since 2007. Fans easily conjured memories of the then up-and-coming trio. Back then, all three were embarking on their NHL careers. Penner scored 29 goals, Getzlaf had 25 and Perry added 17 during the 2006-07 season. "Unfortunately we can't call ourselves the Kid Line anymore," Penner said. "It was a lot of fun to be out there with those guys again. Déjà vu. I keep noticing things like that over and over again, just from the guys, the atmosphere … even looking at pictures of eight, nine years ago and the guys that were here. It's pretty interesting as you get older to look back and see how far you've come." All three are big, power forwards who thrive on a stubborn, bullish puck-possession game that doesn't necessarily fill the highlight package. "If you look at the way we've played the past couple of years, with Bobby, it was a down-low cycle game," Perry said. "I don't know if you saw too many goals off the rush. You might see the odd one, but a lot of them came from going to the net hard and crashing the net. Dustin -- with him on the line, he's going to be doing to be the same thing. It's going to be good. We're going to be fighting over who's going to be in front of the net more." The dynamic has changed since Penner left. Getzlaf is the captain and he's coming off a bounce-back season in which he reasserted himself as a potential MVP candidate. Perry won the Hart Trophy with a 50-goal season in 2011. Penner? While he was a clutch postseason performer for the Kings first championship in 2012, his inconsistent career manifested itself with 11 healthy scratches by coach Darryl Sutter last season. Kings general manager Dean Lombardi couldn't justify re-signing Penner over other integral pieces in the summer. "I think that [Penner] knows that he's – I don't want to say on his last legs – but he's well aware of the fact that things have kind of been going downhill since he left here." -- Ducks forward Ryan Getzlaf Anaheim was the most logical fit and the Ducks signed Penner to a low-risk, one-year deal for $2 million on July 16. Getzlaf is a good friend of Penner and stated what most are thinking. "I think that [Penner] knows that he's – I don't want to say on his last legs – but he's well aware of the fact that things have kind of been going downhill since he left here," Getzlaf said. "I think that him being here and coming back, the people he knows, the familiar territory, he's really looking to rejuvenate his career and add on another five, six years at the end of it here." Penner maintains confidence that he can get back to the player that scored 32 goals for the Edmonton Oilers. He's a proven Stanley Cup Playoff performer, and he's won almost everywhere he's been in the NHL. It's not a stretch that some of that would rub off on his teammates. "You hope it does, and hopefully I can use what I've done in the past to help the team as a whole, whether it's a level of confidence –being able to win on different teams," Penner said. "Even my experience in Edmonton – the pressure that I felt as an offer-sheet player." Penner, listed at 245 pounds, said he did more yoga this offseason to maintain flexibility. He is presumably in a better place mentally as well. At one point during the 2011-12 season Kings teammate Jarret Stoll had Penner live with him while he went through a divorce. For now there is a honeymoon feel to Penner's return to Anaheim. Upon signing with Anaheim, Penner wanted to reclaim his old No. 17 Ducks jersey. "My mom led the way on that charge," he said. "She didn't want to change the number on the jersey she had at home." Can Penner come home again? He doesn't think he's far off from that 32-goal season that seems like numerous doghouse visits and several healthy scratches ago. "The thought that makes me think that is the same thought that got me to the NHL in the first place: just believing in myself," he said. He's only 17 but he can see the ice so well and he moves the puck and goes to the open ice all the time, so I just think he's a player that is ready to play in the NHL. I'm really looking forward to coaching someone like this. — U.S. National Junior Team coach Ron Wilson on Auston Matthews, the projected No. 1 pick of the 2016 NHL Draft

FEUR is an acronym for the art I teach. It's a private joke. I was showing a few variations of a move to a student each one increasing the level of violence. On the last variation I said if you really want to fuk them up do this.....The student said every thing you teach fuks people up. I said well that's why we are here to learn "Fuk Em up Ryu." If anyone thought this was dance class you should leave now! This isn't zen class or the cultural exchange society we are here to learn to hurt people! The next day one of my students presented me with this logo on a T shirt. The nick name kind of stuck. My name wouldn't work when I was registering for the forum so I used the nickname for the training group. Last edited by Feur on Sun Apr 28, 2013 4:43 pm, edited 1 time in total. Well I grew up in the UK where guns are basically illegal, as a child I played with toy guns, shot all my friends .graduated to reading cowboy books and detective novels, I even made model second world war planes and painted them. Now, in my old neighbourhood there are lots of shootings done by youngsters who have been taught politically correctness to Nth degree, and have never been allowed to play with toy guns or do war games.why do you think that is? As to the ownership of firearms, I look at the people who tell me I can't have them, they are basically politicians.and who are they? I don't elect them to Rule over me like some God king!!. they are really flawed human beings who do drugs,have affairs are obese and sometimes even worse.why should they have the right to dictate to anyone?.............look at Obama and Hilary laughing and gloating about the murder of Bin Laden, and yet they don't want people to be armed ?Politics is show business for ugly people.........why should they govern every aspect of our lives?...here is something that I read somewhere. Instead of Government substitute the words " A ginger headed man".......so you have "A Ginger headed man wants to increase your taxes so you can pay money to keep his children"......or " A ginger headed man doesn't want you to own a gun or in anyway protect yourself"..............kinda makes you think of government in a different way doesn't it 1) for your freedom 2) the fight to preserve your assets 3) the fight with your values . (Even if the response was justified we are raised to believe the response is evil so we get looped into this moral rethink of the event over and over) Hey mate that's the just for fun part most are talking about when they do martial arts, the two primary drives that derives from the self interest/survival instinct...... to do things with others or against others, martial arts caters too them both nicely, some may not admit they like the fighting or dominance games, but its all part of the human psyche Well, I can understand that people are different in so many ways, and that a few would take a 'combative' martial art for reasons other than self defense, such as Justin, the exception and not the rule by any means. Fine. But one thing now becomes somewhat puzzling. Justin, you wrote Quote: Karate, for me, is about a few things, but the self-defense aspect was always a small side-benefit. It's entertaining to think about, but especially having read more about Self Defense Realities, it's not something I would even include in a list of reasons I do it at this point. I understand that, Justin…. But, given your 'disinterest' for the self defense component of a combative martial art, such as Uechi-Ryu, and self defense realities ….if I understand correctly. Then what is your reason for following and getting involved in discussions on a self defense reality forum? Are you here for constructive reasons, for serving a useful purpose_ or for some other reason? its a crime problem period , its just lazy thinking to blame the gun , if the guns werent there and or could be removed. youd have a valid point of view , but your only targeting law abiding citizens if you make weapons illegal. I would be happy to continue this discussion with you, but this seems to be as touchy an issue as abortion so I suggest we continue in private messaging or perhaps in the 'Tough Issues' forum. I’ve been asked several times since the Boston Marathon Bombing about how to manage risk in a large crowd environment. One answer is simple: Unless you are absolutely required to be in attendance, AVOID large crowded environments. Of course when there are times when you have limited choice and must venture into that environment, then use good habits of “situational awareness” and adopt a “bias towards action.” Large groups of people will always attract a certain amount of risk. Never underestimate the volatility of people in large groups. Any significant event, even a “perceived” event, can result in a stampede. People are injured and die every year during Black Friday Sales events when they become victims of a frenzied mob. A fire, an explosion, an active shooter can all create a mob mentality that takes on a life of its own. The KEY to surviving any event in a crowded venue will depend almost entirely on your ability to control personal panic, to assess the situation, and to take immediate action. If you panic, you drastically increase your odds of injury or death. Here are a few strategies that will decrease your risk… How To Be Safe In A Crowd ◦Maintain your awareness. Keep your eyes up, off the smart phone, and scan your environment. This is can be challenging due to the large volume of people. But try actively scanning. Look for “out of baseline” behaviors. People moving upstream, against the flow, for example, are out of baseline. People moving faster or slower than the baseline, or whose gestures or furtiveness do not match the event. I have a friend that works in a department store in theft prevention. In a glance, he can spot someone about to shoplift. Their behaviors are out of baseline. A shoplifter will always stand right next to the shelf before he pockets the item, whereas a normal shopper stands back to be able to see the contents of the shelves. Out of baseline. ◦Identify specific threats or threatening behavior. Look for menacing behavior or people who by their looks cause you to feel uncomfortable. Trust your gut. There may be a valid reason why they make you feel uncomfortable. If you are in proximity, move away. As always, look for “orphans:” bags or packages without owners. Alert security if you see them, but do not stand next to them waiting for security to arrive. ◦Identify exits. Whenever I enter a room, or area, one of the first things I do is scan for exits. Are there emergency exits? Are they alarmed? Are they locked? What about windows? Can they be opened? Is there a heavy object like a chair I can throw through the window? ◦Look for exits on the opposite side of the room from the entrance or at right angles to the entrance. Most people will bypass emergency exits in close proximity to them to go back to the entrance they came in through. This behavior has led to many deaths in ballroom and concert fires. People who are panicking seek the familiar. ◦Identify cover. Cover refers to safety from fire. A brick wall may stop bullets, but sheetrock walls will not. Solid furniture may seem solid, but even a two inch thick oak table will not stop a 9mm round. You must find something substantial if shooting starts. The engine block and front axle of a car for example may provide enough cover for one person. The car door, not so much. Inside a building, there is generally not much cover. Better to head for the exit. ◦When an event occurs, grab your family members and head for the exit. Pick up and carry children. Have your family members, (spouse, others with you) grab a hold of your belt. Move assertively towards the PRE-SELECTED exit. Move with the crowd “downstream” but also in a diagonal direction, until can reach a wall inside, or if outside, the edge of the crowd, where you can better control your movement. Do not be afraid to damage or destroy the fixtures or the building itself to get out, such as breaking open windows or kicking open doors, or breaking locks Timidity will not be helpful. Your primary concern must be your family. Once they are safe, you can decide whether or not to render aid to others. ◦Carry essential gear. Essential gear for an outside event: Water bottle. First aid kit that includes a tourniquet. Knife. Multi-tool. Sun glasses that also provide eye protection. Indoor essential gear, add a small pocket flashlight which will penetrate smoke and haze, ( a cell phone light will not penetrate smoke and haze.) It is impossible to anticipate every event. However, most events will precipitate the need to MOVE. MOVEMENT to SAFETY will generally always be your highest priority. If the event is localized to your immediate vicinity, then safety generally lies elsewhere. The most important trait here is a BIAS TOWARDS ACTION. Take action to improve your crowd situation. Well, I can understand that people are different in so many ways, and that a few would take a 'combative' martial art for reasons other than self defense, such as Justin, the exception and not the rule by any means. Fine. I would wager that most people studying something called a martial art have a balance of "for the fun of it" and "for self-defense" I don't think it's an either-or kind of thing. I'd also bet that fewer more people are interested in martial arts as sport than as self defense. But that's all conjecture. Quote: Then what is your reason for following and getting involved in discussions on a self defense reality forum? I enjoy thinking about hypothetical scenarios, and I enjoy discussion of various kinds. Self defense realities are interesting to think about. There's also a lot of stuff posted here that isn't just about self-defense. I also like posting helpful links on occasion. I would wager that most people studying something called a martial art have a balance of "for the fun of it" and "for self-defense" I don't think it's an either-or kind of thing. I'd also bet that fewer more people are interested in martial arts as sport than as self defense. But that's all conjecture. I agree totally, there are many benefits to the study of martial arts including the socializing and having fun process that is different for every one of us. I would not have continued to practice it otherwise. Quote: I enjoy thinking about hypothetical scenarios, and I enjoy discussion of various kinds. Self defense realities are interesting to think about. There's also a lot of stuff posted here that isn't just about self-defense. I also like posting helpful links on occasion. 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Archives Connect with WSU Search this Blog However, for Caroline Smith, a twenty-five-year-old musician from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and her band (originally named Caroline Smith and The Good Night Sleeps), tickets were sold out to their November 14th show at Ed’s No Name Bar, where they enthusiastically debuted the new music on their new album, Half About Being a Woman. Her band has gone through some changes since their last appearance in Winona last spring, dropping “The Good Night Sleeps” off of the band name and changing up their musical genre. Initially an indie folk/rock/pop band, Caroline Smith’s new sound is R&B. Winona has been a faithful following of Smith, who has performed at Winona’s spring music festival, Midwest Music Fest, as well as other annual appearances at Ed’s No Name Bar and the Winona Arts Center. During a Meet the Artist Event held on Winona State University Campus, fans were able to meet Caroline Smith and her band mates Jesse Schuster and Arlen Peiffer to ask them questions about their band, their change in their music and their experience in the music industry. The band said several factors initiated the change in band and sound. Smith said of the new sound, “[I wanted to do] Something I would like, something I would listen to.” Smith said she has been very influenced by early 90’s R & B, including artists like TLC, Erykah Badu, Layren Hill, Jill Scott, Beyonce, and D’Angelo. When asked about the message of the new album, Smith softly and eloquently replied, “Something happens when you’re a woman and you turn twenty-five… You don’t worry about [things like] how thick your hair is anymore– you begin to embrace yourself.” Half About Being a Woman has a more “honest,” “personal” and “empowering” message, according to fans. Smith herself says the album does feel more “honest” and it “sort of reflects the advice I give to my girlfriends.” She also says that the message was unintended, however, and just wanted to make an album “to make people feel good.” That night, Caroline Smith delivered an entertaining, talented and super-soulful performance at Ed’s No Name Bar, to an energetic and engaged crowd. When asked how music improves our world, Smith said that through her personal experience as a female artist, she is often testing boundaries by simply being a woman. Smith said she has faced adversity in being a female artist. “A woman as a leader is questioned,” she said, recalling how at some shows, the sound and light tech guy comes up to shake hands with the male members of the band first, indicating their belief that the guys are in control. She says things like this push her to be “more assertive,” which is important for any emerging front-woman artist looking for respect and acknowledgment. She says she is “fascinated by feminism,” and has inspired fans to find empowerment in her female message. Smith says she was stopped while shopping when a fan come up to her telling her she has “helped her get through a tough break-up.” That “Walking on Strong” (a track on the new album) became an empowerment anthem for her. Smith’s advice to local artists and bands that want to improve the world is to work together and have good communication. She says it is important to allow each other to do individual projects for growth, happiness and fulfillment. In fact, several of her band mates are in other bands. She heavily emphasizes the fact that artists shouldn’t “have rivalries” which can hinder relationships and the art. Instead, she advocates a sense of community and communication, where everyone can speak, experiment and create in a healthy and productive way. Despite the new changes, Smith and her band have, like many other bands, encountered artistic differences in producing the new album. The band talked about how they often rewrote, rerecorded, introduced and cut songs from the new album. Smith was asked about how they resolve inter conflicts in the band, “If you don’t like an idea, don’t just say no, propose what you’d like instead.” This is good advice not just for artists, but anyone in a community who need to collaborate to get something done; this wisdom allows everyone to have their opinion and vision heard, considered and included. Music has an ability to move us and improve our lives. Half About Being a Woman, in my opinion, is empowering, soulful and honest. One of the most lively and fun songs on the album is “Magazine.”. “The song,” Smith said, “is about squashing social norms of being a woman” and explains that woman are expected to look a certain way and do domestic things in order to attract and keep a man. She shakes her head and smiles, “The video”, on the other hand, “shows happy women smashing these societal norms.” The video shows women of different sizes, shapes and colors dancing in their underwear, eating unapologetically and ripping apart a bed and smashing a guitar. I really enjoy when an artist can use their art and their vision to promote societal change, which improves our world. Even if it is unintended, Smith sends a message to women to love and embrace themselves. She wants women to “Walk off Strong,” which is a title of one of the songs on her new album, which you can buy on her website or on iTunes. In order to grow, change often occurs. Through this new album and musical direction, Smith proves that change can be good, and one must follow their heart and be true to themselves when creating art and following passions. Smith has been committed to promoting positivity, and wants to help others by taking time to talk with fans about the path to success. Her commitment to her fans, her music and her art inspires others, and we can use this inspiration can help us improve our world.​

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SwipePad is a gesture-based app switcher that lets users open a selection of apps without exiting the one they're in beforehand. The latest update isn't a large one, but it's bound to make using the launcher slightly less annoying. Now users have the option to select apps that should disable SwipePad's functionality while they are running. The recently updated version of Carbon, with its new slide-out view, is an example of one such app that could benefit from this option. What's new: Conditional Switches>Blacklist: choose apps in which you want SwipePad disabled Improvements for Android 4.4 Keep in mind, SwipePad is not a home screen replacement. Your home button will still open your launcher of choice, even with this additional one installed. After all, this app isn't interested in redesigning your home screen - it wants to reduce how often you even have to see it. A link is available below for anyone who has yet to check it out firsthand. Born and raised in the rural South, Bertel knows what it's like to live without 4G LTE - or 3G, for that matter. The only things he likes sweeter than his tea are his gadgets, and while few objects burn more than a metal phone on a summer day, he prefers them that way anyway. Comments http://www.androidpolice.com/ Artem Russakovskii Swipepad is the only app switching/starting app that survived on my phone, and I've tried many. In fact, I now can't use a phone without it. Btw, my personal preference is swiping from the bottom right corner. Then it almost never gets in the way of anything and is easy to reach with one hand on a large device. The new Blacklist support is good, but you wouldn't even need it with a corner zone. If you have not tried Swipepad, do it. Do it nao. Dan Wilczynski LMT and Switchr lasted about a week each for me. But hey I'll give it a shot! patrik Have you tried Swapps? Personally I prefer it over Swipepad. http://www.androidpolice.com/ Artem Russakovskii I have in the past, but I much prefer Swipepad. First of all, it only needs a single motion - then just let go to start the app. It also shows more apps at a glance (with MoreSpace, I have the grid set to 5x6 on my Note 3) and uses the screen more efficiently. patrik While yes, it only requires a single motion, that can also be seen as a downside. Atleast to me, I often mix certain logo's and I end up letting go over the wrong app. This doesn't happen with Swapps. Also with Swapps I feel like you have alot more customization. You can choose to only see the icons, what size the bar is etc. You also have latest apps, you also have an option to show all the apps installed on the device. So it's almost like a side-launcher. I think with all the customization that Swapps have, it's honestly the better choice for most people. However that's just my point of view. http://www.androidpolice.com/ Artem Russakovskii See, I'm used to pulling out all apps I use to my homescreens and relying on muscle memory to know where all of them are, so Swipepad is a natural extension of that. Also, it does have an add-on called DynamicPads which can do some of the things you mentioned, but I haven't used it. To each their own, of course. patrik Certainly, I'm not trying to persuade you ;) Just a question though, has stability issues been resolved? I haven't used SwipePad in well over a year and for the months that I did use it, the SwipePad "active area" failed alot. As in it just stopped working and didn't show the pad whatsoever. I needed to restart the app to fix this. Does this problem still exist? http://www.androidpolice.com/ Artem Russakovskii Never had this happen even once (at least on the Note 3 which has a lot of RAM). patrik Ah well, when I used SwipePad I believe it was on my Sensation XL :p Greetings from a fellow Note 3 owner. Darrel Dent Unfortunately I'm having the problem right now on my Note 3, which is how I found this thread. It's REALLY a PITA because my home button has never worked well, but it didn't matter. I've restarted the phone, but no luck. The next step is to uninstall and reinstall the app, which also means recreating my pads. This is the second time it's quit on me, but the first time I haven't been able to get it going again. I'm so annoyed at this point that I'm looking at other apps to replace it. George Bradford I've used swipe pad for a couple of years now. The only time I've had a problem with the active area failing is if I have disabled Indicator icon in notifications under the look and feel menu in Swipepad settings. This setting is enabled by default do not disable it . sssgadget Agree 100%. This was the one of the first 5 apps I installed on my 2011 Inspire 4g. MoreSpace addon is a god send. http://www.androidpolice.com/ Artem Russakovskii MoreSpace and WidgetPad, and you're all set. sssgadget Widgetpad with the usual " This widget is deprecated" error is a PITA. I stopped using that addon as I flash Roms often and restore using TBu. Many users on Play store have same issue. My name is…. I was feeling like that untill i installed Action Launcher. http://www.androidpolice.com/ Artem Russakovskii Does Action Launcher let you launch apps from a any app or just the launcher? My name is…. It has a feature that it lets you open quickpage (swipepad euivalent) AND quickdrawer from any app. Personally i never used that specific option, but launching shortcuts/folders/widgets from quickpage at my home screen made swipepad redundant. Plus, you can launch widgets by swiping on an app icon (and folders) Please excuse my poor English abobobilly Been using it ever since it came out. The fact that it works flawlessly on low end devices such as my i9000 without becoming a memory hog, makes me feel its one of the best apps on Android. Multitasking has never been a breeze without Swipepad.

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Each weekday I post entertainment-related updates about things you want to know, should know and may feel like sharing with everyone you know. E-mail me at wmatheson@usatoday.com. All times are ET. Friday, Sept. 30: Together again: Alias' Michael Vartan will guest star on an upcoming episode of Kitchen Confidential, according to this press release. The show's star, of course, is Bradley Cooper, who played Will on Alias for two seasons. Confidential airs Mondays at 8:30 p.m., right after another funny series you're not watching but should: Arrested Development. Posted 3:08 p.m. Uh-oh, Steve-O: It may be awhile before Steve-O is invited back to Comedy Central. The former Jackass was so drunk during his appearance on Too Late with Adam Carolla, security had to escort him from the set. During his brief appearance, Steve-O cursed, spit, tackled Carolla, broke a glass table and cut his leg. You can watch the drama unfold by going to this page and clicking on "sloshed Steve-O." Posted 1:44 p.m. No joke: We haven't seen the last of American Idol's Constantine Maroulis. The former contestant tells People that he's signed a deal to star in a sitcom for ABC. He also talks about meeting Quentin Tarantino, who apparently rooted for him to win. "(He) kept saying I was going to be a big star. He was like, 'You sucked in the last song, but that's OK. You sang it great the night you went home.'" Posted 12:19 p.m. Lunchtime listening: A couple readers have pointed out new music offerings online. First up is Veronica Mars radio, where you can hear the show's new soundtrack. (Thanks to Michele A. for the tip.) Hip reader Zac H. informed me that Nickelback's new album is available on VH1.com. "I personally can't stand them but kind of dig their new song, Photograph," he said. And me? I'm still listening to that new Fiona Apple CD, which is still streaming on MySpace. Posted 11:57 a.m. More twists and turns: If you're like me, you were 40 minutes into The O.C. before you realized Alias' season premiere was on at the same time. Here's an Alias recap, which you should obviously ignore if you were smart enough to record it. As for The O.C., Hip reader Joel D. sent me a link to this fun interview with creator Josh Schwartz. He starts out talking about sports but eventually reveals some dirt about the show. Posted 10:46 a.m. Backstage Development: Charlize Theron made her Arrested Development debut Monday; she's slated to appear in five episodes this season. Here's a clip of Theron talking about her character in several handy formats: Windows (High) | Windows (Low) | Real (High) | Real (Low)Posted 10:28 a.m. By Chris Pizzello, AP J. Clothes: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony made a public appearance last night at the debut of J. Lo's fall clothing line. The fashion show took place at a fundraiser hosted by Sharon Stone. Sweeping the nation: I've received tons of e-mail about this hilarious trailer for The Shining, which makes the 1980 horror flick look like a heartwarming comedy. Today, the New York Times ran a story about its creator, a 25-year-old film editor's assistant named Robert Ryang. He's already been contacted by several people, including a vice president of a major Hollywood studio. (Note: If that trailer link doesn't work for you, try this one or this one. Thousands of people are probably trying to view it at the same time you are.) Posted 9:58 a.m. Opening Doors: Mary Werbelow dated Jim Morrison for three years, but she's never spoken about their relationship —until now. "People don't really know Jim," she tells the St. Petersburg Times. "They don't really have a clue." She goes on to describe how they met and why the relationship ended. Morrison described their breakup in The Doors' The End. In other Doors news, Morrison's sunglasses are on eBay until Oct. 2. Current bid: $4,295. Posted 9:44 a.m. Hitched: The Food Network's Rachael Ray married her longtime boyfriend in Italy last weekend. I bet the reception was delicious — and cost-effective. Posted 9:32 a.m. Critical condition: While Bernie Mac may have recovered from double pneumonia, his show is still ailing in the ratings. The season premiere of The Bernie Mac Show received little attention last Friday and is the lowest-rated live-action series from last season that was renewed, reports the Los Angeles Times. Mac's remaining positive, though: "I feel great, and the show is as good as it's ever been," he said. "This is my baby. This show is a survivor." Another new episode airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET. Posted 9:29 a.m. Bushisms: After a 12-year break, singer Kate Bush is finally back on the scene. Her new single went on iTunes this week, and her new album, Aerial, hits stores in November. "I don't really know why it took so long, other than she took a break, had her child and was getting on with life," a record-company spokesman said in this story. Fans are also trying to decipher the hidden message on Bush's record cover, which depicts a "visual representation of spoken, or sung words over music." Early guesses include "Elvis is alive" and "We paint penguins pink." Posted 9:16 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29: Off the carpet: E! and Star Jones have parted ways. According to reports, the Emmys were Star's last hurrah; while E! says it opted not to renew her contract, Jones says she was the one who left. Either way, who cares? Let's just enjoy this moment and hope Kathy Griffin won't be filling her place at the Golden Globes. Posted 2:46 p.m. Stealing Jewel's thunder: Amber Tamblyn is no longer filming a TV series, but she's staying busy with movies and her poetry. "It's like slam poetry, which is intense," she say of her work. "It's got a certain cadence to it." Go here to read the introduction from her new book of poems, Free Stallion. Four of Tamblyn's poems have also been posted online. Posted 2:34 p.m. The Americano way: Go on, admit it. Not only did you secretly watch Dawson's Creek, you've kind of missed Pacey since the series went off the air. In the new movie Americano, actor Joshua Jackson stars as a college grad seeking adventure in Europe. The film co-stars Dennis Hopper and Undeclared's Timm Sharp, and it looks far more interesting than Jackson's previous project, Cursed. Thanks to Hip reader Ashley B. for the tip. Posted 12:56 p.m. Truly outrageous: After watching this sparkly video, my day became a little brighter. I must have a gem sweater! Posted 12:37 p.m. Off track: Here's a preview of the Jennifer Aniston-Clive Owen thriller, Derailed. Six weeks after that hits theaters in November, we'll see Aniston in a romantic comedy, Rumor Has It. A few weeks after that, her Break Up arrives. And so on. It's only a matter of time before she breaks Jude Law's record for the most mediocre movies per year. Posted 11:15 a.m. By Paul Hawthorne, Getty Images Rock-star pose: Juliette Lewis showed up at Spin magazine's 20th anniversary party last night in New York. Also there: rapper Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, members of Death Cab for Cutie and DJs Andrew Andrew. O.A.R. 4 U: Thanks to Hip reader Cory S. for pointing out that O.A.R.'s new album is now streaming for free at mtvU.com. It hits stores Tuesday. Posted 10:59 a.m. Keep the hits coming: Here's something to make you feel really old: This year, the Beastie Boys celebrate their 24th anniversary. While the band doesn't have anything new coming out, another greatest hits compilation is set to drop Nov. 8. Solid Gold Hits incorporates some tunes from the group's last album, To the 5 Boroughs, but it's mainly a retread of 1999's superior double-disc set, The Sounds of Science. If you want more Beastie for your buck, I suggest you choose the latter. Posted 10:57 a.m. Don't tease us: "Things are about to get really fun," Zach Braff wrote in his blog the other day after more than a two-month lapse between posts. All Braff would say is that he's "working on a big juicy video" and ZachBraff.com is under construction. What is going on inside that Grammy-winning head of his? Posted 10:49 a.m. Plane wrong: Some flight attendants are fuming at the way Jodie Foster's new film, Flightplan, depicts their profession. Why? Well, it has to do with the way the movie ends — so if you haven't seen the film and plan to, you might not want to read this story. Posted 10:42 a.m. Crafts for sale: If I had more cash in my pocket, I would definitely bid on an ottoman made by Joan Jett. Other items in this HGTV charity auction include crafts by Jeffrey Tambor, Amy Sedaris, Susan Sarandon and Elizabeth Berkley. For more celebrity crafts, watch Todd Oldham's Handmade Modern, which airs every night at 8 p.m. ET on HGTV. Posted 10:36 a.m. Today in romance rumors: This gossipy report about Renee Zellweger "being comforted" by singer/songwriter Damien Rice is a total yawnfest compared to this juicy rumor that the Ashton-Demi wedding was just an elaborate Punk'd prank. Speaking of the sudden nuptials, Entertainment Tonight is reporting that Soleil Moon Frye was also in attendance. Who knew Ashton and Punky Brewster were so close? (Update: Several of you have pointed out that Kutcher's producing partner, Jason Goldberg, is married to Frye. Aha!) Posted 10:23 a.m. Updated 12:35 p.m. Chat alert: If you're a Firefly/Serenity fan, you may want to participate in today's chat with actor David Krumholtz at 2 p.m. ET. Aside from a bit part in Serenity, he co-stars in the CBS series Numb3rs and has several indie flicks on his resume, including Slums of Beverly Hills and Sidewalks of New York. Posted 9:14 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28: New Danger: It's been awhile since we've heard from alt-rockers Harvey Danger, who had a big hit in 1998 with Flagpole Sitta. Now the band is back with a new CD — and you can download the whole thing for free. "Why are we doing this?" the band wrote on its website. "The short answer is simply that we want a lot of people to hear the record." Posted 4:42 p.m. Two things you can count on in autumn: 1. The start of a new TV season. 2. The start of a new Woody Allen movie. As Allen prepares next year's release, watch a trailer for his flick that opens in December, Match Point. It stars Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as a tennis pro who falls for Scarlett Johansson. (The preview is in English with French subtitles.) Posted 4:22 p.m. This is not a movie: Angelina Jolie attended a Congressional briefing about HIV/AIDS in Washington today. Earlier this week, gossip watchers reported she and Brad Pitt were spotted at a Safeway. How thrilling. Quote of the day: When asked about last year's infamous "nipple slip," Tara Reid told magazine FHM, "People act like it was the worst crime in the world. ... You would think my boob had popped out and shot Gandhi!" Let's hope that's the first and last time "boob" and "Gandhi" are used in the same sentence. Posted 2:57 p.m. Not to worry: "I banged up my ribs, but other than that, I'm fine," singer D'Angelo says of the Sept. 19 car accident that sent him to a Richmond, Va., hospital. His attorney added that D'Angelo "is anxious to finish the recording of his soul masterpiece that the world has patiently awaited." No word on when that masterpiece is due to drop, but it can't happen soon enough; D'Angelo's last record, Voodoo, came out five years ago. Posted 2:33 p.m. Back from chatting: Thanks to everyone who participated in today's chat, which included questions about the Emmys, Nip/Tuck and running naked in the rain. While I was away, several of you sent me links to Time's interview with Joss Whedon and author Neil Gaiman. Here's a longer Gaiman interview and our review of his new novel, Anansi Boys. Posted 2:21 p.m. Whale of a movie: Since writer/director Noah Baumbach is in the news this week for marrying Jennifer Jason Leigh), I figured it's a fine time to give you a heads-up on his new movie, The Squid and the Whale. Baumbach is best known for writing and directing 1995 indie Kicking and Screaming and co-writing Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic. In Squid, which opens Oct. 5, Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney play a divorced couple trying to raise their two sons. (The flick is partly based on Baumbach's childhood.) The soundtrack includes tunes by Lou Reed, Loudon Wainwright III, the Feelies and the Cars, and it hits stores Oct. 18. Posted 12:11 p.m. DMI/Mark Von Holden Pack of Cuties: No, Sarah Silverman (bottom right) hasn't joined Death Cab for Cutie. But she did share a bill with the band at last night's Nokia Unwired show in New York. The concert will air on MTV and MTV2 in December. Whoops: Jennifer Garner accidentally revealed the sex of her baby on The Tonight Show last night. "You can just start to feel really pregnant," she began saying. "Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet. ... And then I felt just bigger and bigger like she ..." After the slipup, Garner put her hands over her mouth and the audience cheered. Posted 11:24 a.m. Bruce news: Here's something you may want to add to your holiday wish list: A 30th anniversary edition of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run will hit stores Nov. 15. The three-disc set includes a DVD of a 1975 Springsteen concert in London, a Making of Born to Run DVD and the remastered album. Posted 10:46 a.m. Conan the great: It might take you all morning to get through this seven-page interview with Conan O'Brien, but it'll be worth the effort. If only I had a time machine, I could fast-forward to 2008 and find out whether Jon Stewart really will take over Dave Letterman's job around the same time Conan's Tonight Show gig starts. Oh, the rivalry! Posted 10:12 a.m. Today's Candy: Speaking of Firefly, I wrote about Serenity in this week's Pop Candy column. Both the movie and the audience were better than I expected. Chat with me about it (and anything else) today at 1 p.m. ET. Posted 9:54 a.m. Alien life forms: I'm sure this list of the top 50 sci-fi series will start some arguments among fans. Topics for discussion: Should Lost really rank higher than Firefly? And what about The Prisoner? Posted 9:51 a.m. White Wednesday: I have a feeling I'll be writing even more than usual today — I've already come across several not-to-miss links, like this one to a webcast of last night's White Stripes concert in Columbia, Md. You can also hear opening sets by The Shins and M. Ward in their entirety. My ears couldn't be happier. Posted 9:44 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27: That'll give you a cramp: Speaking of Harry Potter, one 15-year-old fan couldn't afford to buy the new book ... so she borrowed a friend's copy and wrote down the 600-page story by hand. Her five-notebook edition of Half-Blood Prince now sits on her bookshelf with the rest of her collection. Posted 3:52 p.m. Transit titles: Whenever I take the subway, I notice what books people are reading; in D.C., The Kite Runner and Agatha Christie novels never seem to go out of style. This New Yorker piece uncovers what books commuters leave on the subway, from Harry Potter to Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell. New York City Transit's Lost Property Unit also recovers Bibles by the boxes. Posted 3:12 p.m. Papa Bice: Bo Bice is a father. According to People, Bice's wife gave birth to baby Aiden on Saturday. And he might not be the only kid in his class named Aiden: A story in Monday's USA TODAY listed it (and anything ending in the "aden" sound) as one of today's most popular monikers. Posted 2:29 p.m. The secret's out: Spider-Man's Kirsten Dunst recently let it slip that Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace will play villains Venom and Sandman in the next Spidey movie. "Maybe I wasn't supposed to say that," she said, after confirming what several fan sites had already suspected. Too late. Posted 11:42 a.m. New to the force: Forest Whitaker should be an excellent addition to The Shield when its new season starts in January. His character "will present the biggest danger to Vic (Mackey, played by Michael Chiklis) and his team in the history of the series so far," series creator Shawn Ryan said in this story. Posted 10:40 a.m. By Stephen Shugerma, Getty Images His future's so bright: Al Pacino stepped out for last night's premiere of Two for the Money in Beverly Hills. Also there: Rene Russo, Matthew McConaughey, Jeremy Piven and blast from the past Richard Grieco. Catch up with Chris: If you missed last week's premiere of Everybody Hates Chris, don't fret: You can now watch it on your lunch break. Head to Google Video to see the series' entire first episode. Posted 10:21 a.m. Twelve Confessions: This list of songs on Madonna's record doesn't mean much to me, but I figured I'd pass it along anyway. I'm still on the fence about the retro cover art for Confessions on a Dancefloor, which features a red-haired Madge bent over backwards. Posted 10:15 a.m. Banned in the U.S.A.: While at the library yesterday, I was reminded that it's Banned Books Week. Celebrate by reading Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War or another frequently challenged title. Last year I wrote a column on the subject. Posted 10:09 a.m. Brit's blurry baby: Here are a couple cruddy paparazzi photos of Britney Spears and her new baby. Do with them what you please. Posted 10:03 a.m. Now hear this: Fiona Apple's new album, Extraordinary Machine, is now streaming for free on MySpace.com. When you're done, head over to NME.com to hear Franz Ferdinand's record, which doesn't hit stores until Oct. 4. (Thanks to Hip reader Chris H. for the Franz tip.) Posted 9:59 a.m. Monday, Sept. 26: Rock Star swag: You still have some time to bid on autographed guitar picks, clothing and other items in this Rock Star charity auction. Sheet music signed by winner J.D. Fortune is already going for more than $500. Posted 4:59 p.m. Even Cheaper: First of all, was there really big demand for a sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen? Secondly, was it really necessary for someone to outdo Cheaper and make a movie about two parents with 18 kids? Posted 2:10 p.m. Save yourself: Now, I'm not saying my spouse should enroll in this service. But perhaps there are some forgetful fellows there who could use some help ...Posted 1:32 p.m. Oprah's seal of approval: After choosing a string of classic titles, Oprah's Book Club is going contemporary again. The talk-show host's current choice: A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Go here to read an essay by Frey about the memoir. Posted 12:25 p.m. Will work for food: Alex Kapranos isn't only the lead singer of Franz Ferdinand. He's also ... a food critic? Kapranos, a former chef, is now a regular food columnist for London's Guardian newspaper. His first topic: stinky wine. Posted 11:55 a.m. Beach bums: Watching MTV's Laguna Beach gives me hives — it's like I'm reliving every horrible moment from high school, and I half-expect the bratty cast members to jump out of the TV and mock my outfit. For some reason, teen viewers are loving this reality series, though. In this story, Newsweek tries to figure out why. Posted 9:52 a.m. They're back: It's been four years since Maxwell's last album and nine years since The Fugees' last release. Now comes word both artists are working on records, due in early 2006. It's about time. Posted 8:30 a.m. Models get wired: If you like the Survivor blog (see below), you may want to check out another online reality offering: America's Next Top Model's talk show, which only airs on the Web. A new episode airs live each Thursday at 2 p.m. ET, but previous installments are archived on the site. Posted 12:15 a.m. By Albert Ferreira-Startraks, AP Tooting his own horn: Director and clarinet player Woody Allen posed with musician David Byrne backstage at Saturday's Parting the Waters benefit concert in New York. Also there: Elvis Costello and Mary-Louise Parker. Streep struts: Here's an early image of Meryl Streep as a high-powered fashion magazine editor in The Devil Wears Prada. I wonder if it will include a scene with PETA protestors throwing pies in her face ... Posted 12:11 a.m. Nonstop reality: Oh dear — the folks at CBS have given former Survivor castaways a blog. The new season is barely underway, but they already have loads to say. Posted 12:03 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25: Just Cos: High-quality toilet paper, occasional lattes and Neutrogena soap are all part of Bill Cosby's tour rider, posted on TheSmokingGun.com. When on tour, the comedian also likes to stay in a "Presidential Suite quality" hotel room and have a dozen bottles of Evian on hand. Pass it on. Posted 11:56 p.m. Comics report: I hope everyone had a lovely weekend — I'm doing some other work-related stuff tonight, so I figured I'd blog a little while the laptop is hot. Yesterday I went to SPX and had a fantastic time meeting cartoonists, buying comics and seeing familiar faces. Once I get around to reading the books I bought, I'll post reviews here. Assorted highlights: - I met American Splendor's Harvey Pekar, who was there promoting his Splendor collections and The Quitter (illustrated by Dean Haspiel), which hits stores in November. Pekar also told me he's working on a book about Macedonia. I love Pekar's autobiographical work, but I'm particularly excited to see what happens when he takes himself out of the scene. In person, he was incredibly gracious and friendly and not at all the way Paul Giamatti portrayed him in the movie! - You know I'm a fool for Jeffrey Brown— I got him to sign my copy of his new mini-comic, These Things, These Things. The title comes from a song by Andrew Bird, and the book mentions several of Bird's albums. Go here to listen to Bird's latest release, The Mysterious Production of Eggs, in its entirety. - Finally, a big highlight of my trip was running into Zack Smith, a comics fan, Hip Clicks reader and fellow blogger. Smith is also a huge Arrested Development fan, and during his trips to comics conventions, he asks cartoonists to draw characters from the show. Pages from Smith's sketchbook, Bluth Spirit, have been posted online. Artists include Jeffrey Brown and James Kochalka, who drew a splendid Tobias. Posted 11:50 p.m.

White House Backpedals After Claiming Bergdahl ‘Served With Honor And Distinction’ Deputy national security advisor Tony Blinken struggled to cover for his boss Susan Rice on Tuesday, backtracking from her contention that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “served with honor and distinction” in the face of tough questions from NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell. Mitchell confronted Blinken over Rice’s Sunday claim that Bergdahl “served with honor and distinction” — an assertion almost immediately disproven by scores of Bergdahl’s comrades and official Pentagon reports, which show the soldier abandoned his post and may have been seeking to join the Taliban. “Why did Susan Rice say he served with honor and distinction?” she asked. “It was clear to the military as soon as he left what had happened, according to his former fellow soldiers?” “Andrea, as Chairman Dempsey said this morning, we need to give Sgt. Bergdahl an opportunity to tell his story,” Blinken dodged, refusing to address Rice’s claim. “Right now we’re focused on bringing him back to the United States. He hasn’t even spoken to his family yet. There’s a whole transition process that goes on.” “Keep in mind,” the deputy national security advisor continued, “he just spent five years in captivity in the most horrendous conditions possible. We want to bring him home, we want to reunite him with his family, we want to get him well. And then he’ll have an opportunity to tell us what happened.” But Mitchell didn’t let up, questioning how the United States can be assured that the five top-level Taliban prisoners released from Gitmo will remain in Qatar and not participate in command and control operations remotely. Blinken stressed the commitments received from the government of Qatar, adding that “under the previous administration, hundreds of prisoners were released from Guantanamo without any restrictions on their travel or activities.” “But Tony, with all due respect, these were listed as ‘forever prisoners,'” Mitchell pushed back. “These are guys that were not ever cleared for release because of their high rank.” “So they’ve been in Guantanamo — they were in Guantanamo — for 13 years,” Blinken replied. “And precisely because we have the assurances that we need from the government of Qatar . . . we felt, and the Secretary of Defense determined, that it was in the national security interest of the United States to get Sgt. Bergdahl back, and that the risk had been sufficiently mitigated.”

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Have you ever stopped to think how any one of our rescue Cairns feel upon finding their way into the loving arms of Col. Potter? For some it means they have lost their family, their home, but for others it means a little lost Cairn has found their way out of the shelter and for many others it means they are enjoying their first taste of love and comfort in their entire lives. These furkids feel emotions just like we do. They twitch at the touch of a human, get the jitters when being picked up, shiver when being held and tingle all over with happiness. Imagine four little Cairns finding themselves packed up in a vehicle, being taken out and dumped in an unfamiliar place, being left until vet staff found them the next day. What emotions they all must have felt. Thanks to the vet staff for taking the time to contact Col. Potter to ask for help rather than just euthanizing them, these four little Cairns will soon be enjoying all new happy feelings of freedom! With great feeling, I present CP's CAN YOU FEEL IT!! Tingle: Female, cream, estimated 5 years old Twitch: Female, wheaten, estimated 5 years old Shivers: Female, wheaten, estimated 8 years old Jitters: Male, black brindle, estimated 6 years old With the number of Cairns CP has rescued during the month of September, we are desperately in need of fosters for the CAN YOU FEEL IT Kids along with another group that came in this past weekend. CAN YOU FEEL IT ... it's the need for foster homes to help these furkids on their journey to freedom. If you want to help, please read about fostering on our website and fill out the foster application. As most young men do, this handsome Cairn boy found a way to "escape" his home, probably while he was chasing some "hot prey" and then couldn't find his way home again. Instead, he luckily ended up with a local rescue group, but had a little too much Cairnitude for them to handle. So, they called for the experts to help keep this boy safe and find him a wonderful new forever home that knows just what it takes to keep these Cairn boys at home without making another "Great Escape". Oh, the girls are going to swoon when they get a look at Hilts, our new boy in town. He's estimated to be 4 years old and a real heartbreaker! Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Col. Potter really didn't have the room for another large group of Cairns -- not the finances, not the support people and certainly not the foster homes -- but after you look at these THIRTEEN little faces, how could you turn them away? They've never known comfort. They've never known good food or clean water. They've lived outside in the elements their entire lives. The most important Shape of Things to Come for these furkids is going to be a heart. We need people with a heart to step up and foster these Shapes. We need people with a heart to donate and be foster Grandparents to help support the expenses of these Shapes. We thank people with a heart for stepping up yet again to help transport them to their foster homes. Please open your hearts to the Shape of Things to Come: Square - M, DOB 4/5/06 Cylinder - M, DOB 6/17/09 Octagon - F, DOB 11/21/08 Sphere - F, DOB 6/2/07 Ellipse - F, DOB 6/2/07 Rectangle - M, DOB 6/18/10 Rhombus - M, DOB 6/18/10 Triangle - M, DOB 6/18/10 Oval - F, DOB 6/18/10 Polygon - F, DOB 6/18/10 Crescent - F, DOB 6/2/07 - Crescent and her two baby girls are already in a foster home Circle - F, DOB 8/5/10 Cube - F, DOB 8/5/10 Crescent came into CP unable to feed Circle and Cube who were severely malnourished and tiny for their age. They both had open sores and abscesses on their bodies. Had Col. Potter not gotten to these baby Shapes when we did, they more than likely would not be alive today. Circle was the larger of the two babies at 2.2#, but still small for her age. Cube weighed in at 1.4#, or the weight of an approximately 2 week old puppy,not a 6 week old puppy. Please show these Shapes what a heart looks like. If you would like to be able to foster any of these Shapes, please fill out the application online. If you are able to open your heart one more time to financially aid these Shapes, please consider becoming a Grandparent to one of these Shapes or just making a donation to CP to support the Shape of Things to Come. Wednesday is the day to be WACKY! Each week we will showcase a terrierific cairn picture with an appropriate caption. If you have a terrierific cairn and would like us to consider YOUR picture and caption for an upcoming "Wacky Wednesday" send it to us at cpcrnblog@gmail.com! (All photo submissions become the property of CPCRN and may be used for fundraising, promotion and/or outreach purposes. ) A big shout out to Neha and Zander for being the Wacky Wednesday models this week! Tuesday, September 28, 2010 So tonight I get home, let the pups out and soon Lexi and Heather come in but Rusty as usual stays outside. So I peek out and he is sitting under his favorite tree in the corner close to the birdhouse that he is obsessed with. So I take a picture - attached - and you can see the birdhouse in the upper right hand corner. For the past two+ weeks he has watched that birdhouse - barked at it, jumped against the fence at it and generally just made a fuss. I would check the b-house and see evidence of a nest being built with dead stuffy cotten left in the yard so thought he probably saw a bird fly in and out of it. So when my husband gets home he decides to pull open the house and take the nest/stuffing out and holy cow there is something in there at the bottom under all the stuffy stuff! So he shuts it quick (I think it's a bird) and then he opens it up again - and it's a little squirrel in there making a nest!! It jumps out, scampers up the b-house to the fence and runs away. Of course now T-R (Trusty Rusty) really is frantic - because all this time there really WAS something in that house - he wasn't a crazy Cairn - he was protecting the yard from those dang squirrels that had the nerve to actually set up house right under his nose!!! So the b-house is now sitting on the ground, stuffy stuff out where it will stay until T-R finds his forever home (not sure when that will be!!!) and he can no longer be tormented by the bold squirrels in my back yard. I did throw extra wine into the chicken dish I made for dinner. Thought I deserved that even though it's a week night. Rusty is being fostered in Michigan.You can check him and all of the available cairns on our website by clicking here. Monday, September 27, 2010 Dogs and cats can develop a wide variety of allergies causing them to lick their feet, scratch incessantly and develop ear infections. At times scratching can become so severe the pet’s skin will become red and hair will start to fall out. Sores, welts and hotspots can also develop, which may lead to a secondary skin infection. There are various types of allergies that may affect your pet. Food Allergies Dogs or cats with food allergies exhibit the same symptoms as pets with other types of allergies. This includes itchy skin, ear infections and red bumps. What Causes Food Allergies? Dogs and cats frequently develop an allergy towards foods they have been fed for an extended period of time. Some common pet food ingredients which are sometimes responsible for allergies include wheat, soy and protein sources, among others. Food Allergy Verses Food Intolerance There is a stark difference between food allergies and food intolerances. A food allergy is when a dog or cat’s immune system reacts negatively towards a specific ingredient. If your pet is suffering from a true allergic reaction, he will develop excessive itching and skin problems. Food intolerance is when a certain substance does not set well with your dog or cat’s digestive system, resulting in diarrhea or vomiting. No immune response is involved. Controlling Food Allergies If your pet has a food allergy, you will need to identify and eliminate the offending food from your pet’s meals. “To help diagnose the presence of food allergies, you may want to feed a novel protein exclusion type diet for 6-8 weeks,” recommends Dr. Edward Moser, a board certified veterinary nutritionist. “Wellness® Simple Solutions® is an excellent choice.” This formula contains only one protein source and one carbohydrate source, minimizing the number of allergens your dog is exposed to at a given time. A grain-free diet, such as Wellness® CORE®, can also be helpful in controlling allergies. The Wellness CORE formula is packed with nutrient-rich meat such as de-boned turkey, turkey meal and chicken liver. This diet offers your pet high-quality protein, vitamins and minerals in just the right proportions. Airborne Allergies Airborne allergies can include: Pollen Dust mites Dander Feathers Grass Trees Molds Controlling Airborne Allergies Here are a few tips to help reduce the effects of airborne allergies: Keep your house free from dust and mold. Invest in an air purifier system. Vacuum your carpet on a regular basis. Turn the air conditioner on during warm days. Keep your pet indoors if you are mowing the lawn, pruning shrubs or raking leaves. Bathe your dog after walking him through a grassy area. Be sure to use a hypoallergenic shampoo. If possible, only exercise your pet on the pavement or a gravel road. Treatment options can include the use of antihistamines to help control itching. Your veterinarian can also administer a series of allergy shots (immunotherapy) to help your pet build a resistance towards the allergen. Environmental Allergies Environmental allergies is when your pet has an allergic reaction to something he comes in contact with such as carpet, bedding, indoor plants, plastics, cleaners or other chemicals. The most effective way to treating and preventing environmental allergies is to identify the offending substance and prohibit your pet from coming in contact with it. If you suspect that your dog or cat has environmental allergies, use these precautionary measures: Feed your pet out of glass or stainless steel bowl. Avoid any type of plastic. Wash your pet’s bed regularly to remove any allergens that may have contaminated it. The best way to keep your dog or cat’s allergies to a minimum is to consider all the different types of allergies that could affect them. This includes airborne allergies, food allergies and environmental allergies. Keep in mind that your pet could suffer from multiple allergies simultaneously. So be alert, and take everything into consideration for the wellbeing of your pet. Sunday, September 26, 2010 Memorial came to me last week via lots of caring volunteers! She had had a spay and an inguinal hernia surgery. This little one had to undergo another surgery. And I feel guilty for not taking her to the vet sooner. She has had trouble peeing more than a dribble at a time. Well, the vet did a dye test and found through the following x-ray, that her little Urethra is blocked due to a huge stone that is taking up almost half of her bladder. So she had to have another surgery to get this monster out so her kidneys won't stay backed up and her little bladder can be utilized again. Memorial is out of surgery and resting comfortably, well as comfortable as she can after three surgeries in 10 days! She may develop an allergy to vets offices!The stone was bigger than a shooter marble. Think of the marbles you use to shoot the other marbles with when you're playing a game of marbles. Her bladder was pretty thick which the vet said was from the stone banging around in her bladder. She is on IV fluids as he really wants that bladder flushing well. The stone has been there for quite a while. Amazing how you don't notice till they can't pee! I am no longer kicking myself for not taking her in sooner. I thought part of her issue was the spay. And she will be okay, so foster mom is now breathing a sigh of relief! Thanks for the prayers. She sure has had enough! Now it is time to heal and get on with living the life of a dog! If you would like to make a donation for Memorial or to help Col. Potter continue its work of rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming cairn terriers, please click here. Note from CP's founder: "little Memorial would give you all kisses if she could. YOU SAVED HER LIFE." Sunday is full of SWEETS! Each week we will showcase the sweeter side of Cairns. If you have a sweet filled cairn and would like us to consider YOUR picture for an upcoming "Sunday Sweets" send it to us at cpcrnblog@gmail.com! (All photo submissions become the property of CPCRN and may be used for fundraising, promotion and/or outreach purposes.) Saturday, September 25, 2010 The Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago offers pooches their own bed, gourmet treats, and a water bowl (with bottled water to fill it) while they check out the city views from the floor-to-ceiling windows. Some lucky dogs not only go on vacation, they also get in-room massages, their own seasonal room service menu, and a welcome gift that they can chew on.A record 65 percent of American families now own a pet, and many are taking them on vacation. Last year, more than 15 million Americans traveled with their pets, and 8.5 million stayed more than three times in a pet-friendly hotel, according to Pet Friendly, Inc. Hotels are responding to these travelers with dog-friendly perks that provide dogs and their owners with winsome extras, like yoga classes and practical necessities, such as clean-up bags. According to Len Kain, cofounder of DogFriendly.com, a website that helps connect dog owners with the most welcoming properties, hotels are becoming increasingly accepting of dogs of all sizes. These dog-loving accommodations don’t just tolerate dogs, they embrace them with first-class services. “Luxury properties are creating their own high-end brand of products that appeal to both dogs and their hotel concierge can always lead her to a reputable dog-sitter. In addition to what is now considered standard fare at dog-friendly hotels — dog beds, dog bowls, etc. — certain properties are offering dogs the chance to have the same five-star experiences as their owners. The Loews Coronado Bay Resort in California gives surfer dudes the chance to share the waves with their dogs during a doggy surfing lesson — a package that also includes doggy board shorts, a surf-and-turf dinner, and a copy of The Dog’s Guide to Surfing. Mountain-loving dogs will no doubt enjoy the twice-daily hikes available at the Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch, Colo., especially since they can end their day with an in-room massage and light bath spritz. The Ritz-Carlton also provides an extensive room service menu with three sumptuous choices for dessert — including liver “kisses.” After a stay in one of these canine-friendly retreats, your dog will be begging for more than leftovers when he gets home. Hope Schultz, who has been hitting the road for the last 12 years with her dog, Max, says that’s exactly what she likes about staying at a W Hotel. “They give you and your dog the same level of respect and are gracious whenever you make a dog-specific request.” Schultz, who is the editor in chief of Webvet.com, says that she and Max also like that they both get a treat on their pillows at night — and the fact that the hotel concierge can always lead her to a reputable dog-sitter. In addition to what is now considered standard fare at dog-friendly hotels — dog beds, dog bowls, etc. — certain properties are offering dogs the chance to have the same five-star experiences as their owners. The Loews Coronado Bay Resort in California gives surfer dudes the chance to share the waves with their dogs during a doggy surfing lesson — a package that also includes doggy board shorts, a surf-and-turf dinner, and a copy of The Dog’s Guide to Surfing. Mountain-loving dogs will no doubt enjoy the twice-daily hikes available at the Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch, Colo., especially since they can end their day with an in-room massage and light bath spritz. The Ritz-Carlton also provides an extensive room service menu with three sumptuous choices for dessert — including liver “kisses.” After a stay in one of these canine-friendly retreats, your dog will be begging for more than leftovers when he gets home. Take a look at this handsome young wheaten boy, Rupper? Isn't he a teddy bear just waiting for a hug? Rupper is 1 1/2 years old, 24 pounds, wheaten, an owner surrender, and just as sweet as can be! He is a typical cairn just wanting to get at the squirrels, chipmunks and anything else of interest! His prey drive and cairn antics were more than his owner anticipated. The realization that he would be better with people who were more cairn experienced brought Rupper to Col. Potter. We are so happy to have this handsome boy! Everyone who has met him has been showered with kisses. He's been to the barber shop and is all spiffed up to make his Col. Potter debut! Rupper is crate trained and knows the basic commands. Not only is he handsome but he's smart, charming and a good hunter. What's not to love about this big boy? Friday, September 24, 2010 This time of year there's a bounty of fresh produce. Picture a nice sunny day. You decide to drive out to the country to find some fresh corn at a farmer's stand. Ah - there it is, you can almost taste the sweet corn! As you're paying the farmer you notice a young dog running around the property. Wait - it's a CAIRN! The dog has some missing fur and seems itchy. Being an animal lover you ask the farmer "Is the dog for sale?" Done deal. You head home with fresh corn and a rescued dog. What could be nicer?? Such is the story of Tice, a 2 year old wheaten boy who is now an official Col. Potter kid. The rescuer had an affiliation with a group that could help Tice find his way to Col. Potter. Tice was missing fur due to a flea allergy. His caretakers helped get him on the road to recovery and a new life. Tice is quite the boy at 20 pounds and all muscle. He is very polite knowing how to shake paws! He doesn't know a stranger - human or animal. Although Tice is a young boy and enjoys the antics of a typical teenage cairn, he's a pretty mellow fellow. During his transport he fell asleep in his crate, on his back with all four legs up in the air! Soon he was snoring. Not a care in the world for this happy go lucky kid. This is the time of year a lot of cairns out on the 'farm' are needing to find refuge in rescue. Not all cairns are as lucky as Tice to have a guardian angel just happen to come along - all because of a craving for fresh corn. For just a little more than the cost of a dozen ears of corn, Tice's life changed forever. All donations, large and small, mean a world of difference in the life of a cairn. It's because of you that a sweet boy like Tice can be a Col. Potter kid. Thursday, September 23, 2010 Does your Cairn gulp down his or her dinner in what seems like seconds? One of our CP volunteers says that even after more than a year, her boy still hasn't figured out that he's being fed regularly and no one will take it away from him. He swallows his food down whole, doesn't chew a thing, plows through it, and many times a short while after, it all comes back up. In this video, a Col. Potter volunteer uses plates with raised edges which allow the food to spread out making the dog slow down while eating. Another solution for slowing down a gulper is the Water Lily Drinking system which is pictured below. You can find these at the CP Mall in the eclectic corner. Thanks for checking out all of the wonderful items in our Mall. You can buy items that you need and support the rescue efforts of Col. Potter at the same time! As a rule, keep your food to yourself. But as a rare treat, these foods may be OK.Looking for ways to help your dog lose weight? Can’t resist throwing table scraps? You’re not alone.Most people know dogs should never eat things like chocolate, grapes, raisins, onions, and garlic. As a rule, dogs should eat dog food. But there are some “people” foods that are OK to give to dogs. Foods most dogs can safely eat in moderation include melon, berries, bananas, cooked chicken (with skin and bones removed), peanut butter, and cream cheese. Usually, it’s better to leave out the salt and other seasoning. Bernadine Cruz, DVM, a veterinarian at Laguna Hills Animal Hospital in Laguna Hills, Calif., often recommends green beans, carrots, or fruit like apples for overweight dogs.“Some people are shocked to hear that it’s OK to give dogs some people food,” Cruz says. “People usually follow exactly the letter of the law -- by not giving any people food. Or they go to the other extreme, where all they give is ‘people’ food. And then there are those clients who only give “people” food as an occasional treat.” General Guidelines People and dogs can be emotionally close. But there’s a big difference between what humans and dogs can safely eat. Human systems are designed to break down and digest complex carbohydrates and plants. Dogs do better when a higher portion of their diet is animal-based. In general, lean meat -- chicken, turkey, fish, and even pork -- is probably fine for dogs, as long as it’s cooked. “I have some dogs that love those and some pet owners who love to give them,” Weeth says.Other generally safe foods include squash, peas, sweet potatoes, and ice cubes made with diluted chicken or beef broth. One note of warning: Dogs can crack their teeth on ice cubes. Don't Overdo It Most veterinarians recommend a high-quality, well-balanced manufactured diet.And for good reason, says Cruz, who is a member of the Iams Pet Wellness Council and is featured on the company’s nutritional consultant web site. “Commercial foods are generally more balanced, more nutritious, and safer for a dog than ever trying to feed home-cooked foods,” Cruz says.Moderation is key. “As long as it’s not more than 10% of the dog’s diet, a little treat here and there is probably going to be OK,” Weeth says. That’s because commercial diets are designed to provide 100% complete and balanced nutrition. But when more than 10% of your dog’s diet is filled with other foods, you begin to dilute the essential nutrients in the commercial diet.The amount of “people” food you give also should vary based on your pet’s size. After all, “a little bit for a Great Dane is a meal for a Chihuahua,” Cruz says. If you dramatically increase the amount of fat, you may see diarrhea, or worse, pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas.). If you increase fiber with whole-wheat pasta or a complex grain, such as brown rice or barley, your dog may get constipated, or food may pass through undigested. No Begging Table scraps aren’t necessarily bad as long as you avoid fatty, sugary, and salty foods or foods with heavy sauces. About 40% of the dogs in the U.S. are overweight and we know that exacerbates diseases like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes,” Cruz says.But it’s important that your pet realizes it’s a snack and not a regular meal. Sharing your food with your dog may make for a finicky dog -- for instance, one that holds out for a bit of your steak, rather than its own dog food.If you give table scraps as a treat, Cruz recommends mixing a very small amount into your dog’s regular food and offering it when you’re not eating. Sickness to Health Certain “people” foods can help otherwise healthy animals. Like if your dog gets into the garbage and has a bout of diarrhea or vomiting.Cooked chicken breast or cottage cheese mixed with boiled white rice is highly digestible. It can provide nutrition and calories without being hard on the digestive system.A small amount of peanut butter or cream cheese to hide medication also is OK occasionally, Weeth says. Wednesday, September 22, 2010 By now you all know the EIGHTEEN has turned into THIRTY ONE Cairns!!!! Our littlest one, Cube, needs our support. This precious little baby is 6 weeks old and at intake ONLY weighed 1.4#. This is what a 2 week old Cairn should weigh, not a 6 week old Cairn. Cube, and her sister, Circle were literally starving to death as Crescent, their mama just didn't have the milk for them. In addition, Cube, also known as Sugar Cube because she's so sweet, has a sore on her side almost the size of a penny. Not very big you say until you consider you are talking about a puppy that weighs 1.4#!!! Attached is a picture of that sore on Cube's side. Little Circle had abcesses on her tiny body. How can a puppy only 6 weeks old have already had such a hard life??? Please help not only these THIRTY ONE Cairns but all the others just like Circle and Cube waiting at the gate. I am THRILLED to announce THANKS TO YOUR HUGE HEARTS AND GENEROSITY ... we have hit the first challenge goal of selling 50 raffle tickets and have added a SECOND Toto Ornament!!! You will now have TWO chances to win an ornament with every raffle ticket you purchase . A BIG AROOOOO from the Cairns! TOTO ORNAMENT RAFFLE TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30!!! Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network has helped EIGHTEEN Cairns find love and freedom in the arms of our rescue in the last week alone. We all know freedom comes at a price, and it's no different for these Cairns. Also, finding a temporary home with Col. Potter Cairn Rescue Network is Run Toto Run Ornament from the Hallmark Wizard of Oz series. These are totally SOLD OUT in Hallmark Stores. So, here's your chance to not only WIN the Run Toto Run Ornament, but HELP these Cairns! Raffle Tickets will be available through September 30, 2010. Raffle tickets are $10 each. There is no limit to how many tickets one person can purchase. You can pay via check or PayPal (instructions below): TO ORDER TICKETS:To request a raffle ticket send an email to Raffle-cpcrn@yahoogroups.com Your request for tickets MUST include the following information: To pay via PayPal you will need to go to your PayPal account and click on SEND MONEY. In the “TO” area type donations@cairnrescue.com. Amy will send you a confirmation for your request, verify your amount, fill out your raffle ticket(s) and they will go in a secure vessel. PAYMENT FOR YOUR TICKETS MUST ARRIVE TO AMY WITHIN 10 DAYS OF THE REQUEST. Tickets will be numbered and you will be sent your number in the confirmation email. Wednesday is the day to be WACKY! Each week we will showcase a terrierific cairn picture with an appropriate caption. If you have a terrierific cairn and would like us to consider YOUR picture and caption for an upcoming "Wacky Wednesday" send it to us at cpcrnblog@gmail.com! (All photo submissions become the property of CPCRN and may be used for fundraising, promotion and/or outreach purposes. ) A big shout out to Tootsie for being the Wacky Wednesday model this week! Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Remember or Remy as I have been calling her (think 'The Big Easy') has been visiting here in Arlington, Texas until today when we will be flying to Mississippi to take her to her foster mom. She is a very sweet and scared little girl who had a big secret in her belly. It's no secret anymore and she will be having 5 puppies in a matter of weeks! Here is a little video of this sweet scared girl. You'll be seeing a lot more of Remember and her puppies over the coming weeks. Thanks for getting to know her a little better and if you would like to make a donation on her behalf, you can click here. Yesterday morning I took my foster Russo (Rusty) for his first daily walk before I leave for work and as he passed a tree (that last week had some sort of critter close to it so now he and Lexi always slow down by this tree) he grabbed something from the ground which starting squealing. I thought it might be a bird (which he chases out of the back yard) - but no it is a SQUIRREL!! I tried to get him to drop it which he finally does - and as it goes flying in one direction his harness slips off!!! EEEK - the squirrel is twitching (bad sign) and thankfully Rusty (now known in our house as Trusty-Rusty..... NOT) sits there quietly (for him) watching the squirrel die trying to figure out how to get back over there. I grab his collar (thanks goodness these kids come with both) and hold on to him managing to get the harness back on him. But he is good, I get the harness back on, we leave the now dead squirrel and continue on our way so he can do his job!! He also managed to get into my daughter's back pack and chew on her retainer so I'll be replacing that. But so far he hasn't eaten any shoes or socks though he does love to steal them and play chase - everyone has been warned not to leave shoes on the floor. So today's project is adjusting this harness again to make it more snug on this big boy. I included a picture of him celebrating after a recent stuffie kill in the back yard!! Rosso is being fostered in Michigan and you can learn more about him and his adventures at our website. I was at work when a call came to my home. My husband got it. On the other end was an Animal Control officer from a nearby county. Did we work Cairn Rescue? She had an older cairn--about 10 years old--that been living outside for the past three years, flea bitten, and was due to be put to sleep (PTS) the next morning. Is there any chance we could help her? She's a sweet dog and let shelter workers do anything to her, great temperament. My husband said he'd let me know so we could contact Col. Potter. I got home and got the news. I told him if CP took her in, I'd probably be asked to foster and I thought we had decided to just foster one at a time. He said that if CP wanted to save her, she'd have a spot here as long as she needed it. After all, it WAS a matter of life and death. I started the ball rolling with an urgent email message to CP rescue. As expected I got a rapid response. Since we knew this shelter KNOWS its cairns (we've gotten 2-3 from them before), I was given the go ahead to go look at the dog, and take her as an intake IF CAIRN. I called the AC officer and could hear in her voice just how much this mattered to her. It's a long drive to the shelter and the whole time all I could think was WHAT THE HECK WAS THIS DOG DOING OUTSIDE FOR THREE YEARS? This last year weather here in Maryland has been crazy. We had record snow and now we've had record heat and during this time a CAIRN was outside...This is just horrific to me. I got to talk to the officer. Her story was even worse. Apparently they had to cut over an inch off the cairn's claws! With her claws that long, she couldn't climb the steps to the dog house and she walks badly. Well no wonder! So not only was she outside, but outside with no shelter. Grrrrrrr. The cairn had been due to be PTS yesterday but, since the AC officer came in late, her boss saved the cairn for ONE day to give her a chance to find a rescue. And the officer did. She found us. Col. Potter. Without further ado, let's welcome SHERRI! Her story is so compelling--she lived one more night, then another--and then was gifted by CP with the rest of her life. Sherri wasn't alone in that yard - she had a companion, a Pomeranian. I'll bet our Sherri protected her little pal through the 4ft of snow and 100 degree heat. The officer is going back to the home to try to save her next. Let's all pray her buddy has her luck too. (Update--The Pomeranian was saved and sent to Pom rescue!) Our Animal Control Officer was very thankful that we could be there for both of them (the officer and Sherri). I told her I'd keep her in the loop, letting her know when Sherri finds a home. I headed home with Sherri in tow. During the drive, I sang to her... Sherri(Sherri baby)Sherri no more outside at night(Come,come, come in tonight)Sherri baby (Sherri baby)Sherri no more outside at night (Why don't you come in) To my cairn party(Come in) Where the cuddles are fine(Come in) We'll kiss the night awayI'm gonna make you shine Sherri baby (Sherri baby)Sherri can you come in tonightCome, come, come in tonight) If you know a cairn in need, please email as much information as is available to CairnTerrierRescue@ yahoogroups.com (remove space after the @ symbol) . Someone in CP will contact you as soon as possible.

Sustainable Development Goals Last month, representatives at the United Nations Third International Conference on Financing for Development agreed to a number of proposals to fund the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals. Collectively known as the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, these proposals cover a range of financing sources, from domestic tax revenues and official development assistance to private sector financing and philanthropy. The Agenda also included measures to support international trade and capacity building. World leaders now hope that the financing mechanisms laid out in the AAAA will encourage countries to adopt both the SDGs and a climate change accord scheduled for negotiation in Paris this December. The SDGs are a proposed set of 17 goals that are meant to provide benchmarks for a variety of development issues over the next 15 years. The goals cover poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, energy, the environment, and a host of other global challenges. Each goal is accompanied by a number of targets that serve as tangible metrics of a country’s progress towards the SDGs. These new goals are a follow up to the Millennium Development Goals, a 15-year set of eight benchmarks that world leaders agreed to back in 2000. To improve their drafting process for the new goals, the UN organized the largest consultation program in its history that combined government input with surveys of the general public. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda, a vital part of the new development goal drafting process, is a step towards recognizing the role of international philanthropy and the private sector in supporting global development. The agreement makes several references to the importance of the private sector in economic growth, particularly the role of the financial sector in enabling small businesses. Furthermore, Article 10 of the agreement explicitly lists philanthropies and foundations as vital members of the “global partnerships” that are required to meet the SDGs. This is a substantial improvement over the funding section of the MDGs, which overwhelmingly relied on official development assistance and did not reference to international philanthropy. However, there is still a lot more that the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the SDGs could do to support philanthropy’s vital role in development. In June, the CGP cohosted the Conference on Policy Coherence for Mobilizing Private Financial Flows for Sustainable Development with the OECD Development Center. The purpose of this conference was to discuss how to best utilize private funding for the SDGs in the lead up to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development. Dr. Carol Adelman, director of the CGP, provided a number of recommendations, summarized below: Efforts to measure private financial flows and to publicize philanthropic best practices should be increased Private and philanthropic actors should be included in drafting the SDGs Innovation should be the primary criteria for creating public-private partnerships as part of the SDG targets for global partnerships Philanthropy should be recognized as a unique source of development practices rather just an additional funding source for official development goals Countries should strive to improve their legal environments for investing in both for-profits and not-for-profits Intergovernmental organizations should facilitate the distribution of private resources to developing countries by evaluating best practices and identifying successful ventures Though these suggestions were not explicitly included in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, countries looking for ways to finance their SDG efforts should still consider them. Many of these suggestions simply entail engaging with the private and philanthropic sectors, and collecting new data. However, some countries may balk at evaluating their legal environments. A major finding of the CGP’s new Index of Philanthropic Freedom is that laws created to serve the legitimate interests of the state, such as capital controls and illicit financial flows legislation, often hinder philanthropic efforts as well. Examining their legal requirements will require states to evaluate the benefits of combating illicit finance or managing volatile financial flows against the benefits that come from international philanthropy. As Dr. Adelman noted in her comments, 80% of the developed world’s economic engagement with the developing world comes from the private sector, philanthropy, and remittances. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda is an important first step in acknowledging these essential flows and how they can help meet the SDGs. But the international community needs to go further in developing a more holistic funding plan for the SDGs, and the recommendations made at the Conference on Policy Coherence are an excellent place to start. The Center for Global Prosperity is focused on educating policy leaders and the general public on the crucial role of the private sector (both non and for profit) as a source of economic growth and prosperity around the world. To accomplish this central mission, the Center produces The Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, which identifies the sources and amounts of private giving around the world and The Index of Philanthropic Freedom, which identifies the barriers and incentives to private giving in 64 countries.

WASHINGTON, September 13, 2016 — In the lead up to this week’s ‘Our Ocean’ conference hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington D.C., a new World Bank report released today examines how... Seventy years ago the eight-hour workday was standardised. The reasoning was simple, this way workers would have 8 hours to sleep, 8 hours at work and a further 8 hours of leisure time to spend as they... WASHINGTON, September 12, 2016 — Belize will strengthen the climate resilience of its energy sector as a result of a US$8 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved today by the... Apart from being protagonists to big social and technological changes, Latin America’s youth under 30 years old share another important difference to their older counterparts: they have never experienced... European Union contributes Euro 14 million to Multi-Donor Trust Fund to facilitate access by Central American countries and the DR to insurance facility WASHINGTON, April 15, 2016 - The European Commission... BELIZE CITY, April 7, 2016 - A new World Bank Group report released today examines key opportunities and constraints to foster sustainable and inclusive growth in the country as the Government launches... For the vast majority of Latin Americans, the simple fact of having electricity at home or in the office is expected, it is the norm. However, both regionally and globally, there are millions of people... New milestone for the Caribbean Growth ForumWe, the representatives of the countries engaged in the Caribbean Growth Forum initiative, reaffirm our commitment to shape a new agenda for sustainable and... How many people around you have a phone in their hands? In Latin America’s cities the mobile is king. From adverts for the next smartphone to the obligatory WhatsApp chat, it’s not unusual today to see... Even before Hurricane Joaquin’s catastrophic flooding of South Carolina in October, the storm had hit ten islands of The Bahamas with brute force. On Crooked Island, 85 percent of the homes were destroyed.... Latin America isn’t the same as it was at the beginning of the millennium. The commodities boom was the engine behind significant achievements in employment, salaries and poverty levels across the region,... This week, 60 young entrepreneurs from across the Caribbean will take part in an intensive five-day workshop on the reality of being an entrepreneur, put on by the San Francisco start-up investment fund.... “Our economies may be broken, but the pieces can be put back together in the Caribbean.” That was the rallying call from Prime Minister Kenny Anthony as he launched 3rd Regional Caribbean Growth Forum... Pigeon Island, SAINT LUCIA, June 16, 2015– A new World Bank report released today at the Third Regional Caribbean Growth Forum, suggests that the rapidly changing environment for Caribbean exports presents... Wages in Countries without Commodity Booms Stagnated or Fell WASHINGTON, June 3rd, 2015 – The commodity boom of the last decade helped raise wages for the less well off in Latin America and the Caribbean,... “When we met her, Patricia was such a sickly and small child. I didn’t even know if she would live to see the next week.” remembers Elaine Burke. “To see here today, she [Patricia] couldn’t have done better... WASHINGTON, March 3, 2015 – Belizeans will strengthen the climate resilience of its Barrier Reef and adopt sustainable alternative livelihoods as a result of a US$5.53 million Adaptation Fund project approved... For the average traveller, Customs is simply another form to be filled in when arriving in another country. But for a country like Jamaica, where exports of goods and services represent almost a third...

Complete coverage of the Angels minor leagues Fall Ball – Day Two Dallas McPherson played three innings Friday in his first rehab game of 2007. “The f***in’ problem is the f***in’ DH!” — An instructor commenting on last night’s headhunting by the Mariners’ Jorge Campillo at Vlad Guerrero. Although the big leagues are far removed from the Arizona Instructional League, last night’s dustup between the Mariners and Angels was very much a topic of conversation. Minor league field coordinator Bruce Hines gathered the young players around him to discuss the incident. It’s not my place go into detail, but he made it very clear to them that the Angels’ organizational philosophy is NOT to throw at opposing batters. That comes straight from Mike Scioscia. The best way to retailiate is to win the game. There are other ways, all legal, to retaliate. One coach who I won’t name expressed his opinion that the designated hitter has led to more headhunting episodes. In the old days — and it’s still played this way in the National League — a pitcher might think twice about throwing at a batter because that pitcher has to bat himself, and might find himself knocked on his butt. If he’s not around, his catcher might suffer the same fate. Losing cool under pressure manifested itself on September 14, when the Orem Owlz upset the Great Falls White Sox for the Pioneer League title. The Owlz won a 3-2 game in 16 innings at Great Falls. The White Sox had three players ejected from the game, and their manager too. I asked Zeke Zimmerman, Owlz manager Tom Kotchman’s pitching coach who’s here as an instructor, when was the last time Kotch was ejected from a game. He thinks it was about eight years ago, and believes it’s been that long for one of Kotch’s players to get tossed too. That says a lot about how smart the management is in this organization. They teach discipline, they teach calm under fire, and most importantly they teach how to pressure the other guy into losing his calm under fire. I recorded two interviews this afternoon. One was with Jordan Walden, the Owlz’ ace pitcher who was on the mound that night in Great Falls. Jordan is quickly becoming one of the top pitching prospects in the Angels organization. He’s scheduled to pitch tomorrow, so hopefully I can get video and post it on-line after I return home late Saturday night. The other interview was with Trevor Reckling, an 18-year old lefty out of New Jersey. Trevor attended a small prep school in Newark, but despite the obscurity of his amateur career was drafted by the Angels this year in the eighth round. He had knockout numbers in the Arizona Summer League — a 2.75 ERA in 36 innings, striking out 55 and walking only seven! Trevor seems very excited by the opportunity to soak up so much baseball knowledge from people like Zeke, pitching instructor Kernan Ronan and Tempe Angels pitching coach Brandon Emanuel. As Trevor will tell you in the interview, any meaningful instruction was pretty much non-existent at his high school. Today’s game was against the Cubs at Fitch Park. The Angels lost 8-4. More importantly, the game marked the return to action of Dallas McPherson. Once destined to replace Troy Glaus at third base for the Angels, Dallas suffered a series of back injuries and underwent increasingly drastic surgeries in an attempt to fix the damage. His last surgery was in January to have a herniated disk removed and a bone spur shaved down. Dallas started the game at third base and played three innings. In two at-bats, he grounded out and then drilled a ball off the right-field wall. His baserunning was definitely in first gear, although the Cubs’ pitcher forced him to dive back into second on a pickoff play. I have video of Dallas’ at-bats and will post them this weekend after I return to California. I also shot plenty more footage of the morning instructions. My favorite was Zeke working with the young pitchers on what’s called the strap drill. (Get your minds out of the gutter …) Zeke began by saying that what he was about to explain was passed on to him by Marcel Lachemann, the Angels’ famous pitching coach and manager in the 1990s. So although Lach is long gone from the organization, his pitching philosophies remain, and Zeke is passing it along to a new generation — including Tempe pitching coach Brandon Emanuel, who not too many years ago was a young pitching prospect himself learning from Zeke. Oh, an update on Hank Conger … He suffered a left hamstring strain in yesterday’s game. The early belief is that he won’t play again in the Instructs, but he was previously scheduled to join Team USA in the Arizona Fall League starting in mid-October so it appears the Angels will shut him down to quiet the hamstring and then let him get his extra work with Team USA. Tomorrow’s game is at 10 AM. My game plan is to check out of the motel, go work the game, then drive home to Orange County. Since it’ll probably be around 8 PM PDT before I get home, watch the home page at www.futureangels.com for the video updates from Day 2 and Day 3. 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Google Fiber could be coming to Chicago and Los Angeles, where more than 6 million people live, Google announced Tuesday. The company invited the two cities to get the 1Gbps service, then plans to work with city leaders to collect detailed information on factors that would affect construction, such as topography and city streets. “While we can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to bring Fiber to Chicago and L.A., this is a big step for these cities and leaders,” said Jill Szuchmacher, director of Google Fiber Expansion, in the blog. Google Fiber currently serves three metro areas: Kansas City (in both Kansas and Missouri), Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah. Six more cities are listed by Google as “upcoming” Fiber cities and 11 others are potential cities, including L.A. and Chicago. Those two cities would be the largest metros for Google Fiber. “Whether it’s filmmaking or entrepreneurship or more abundant bandwidth at home, Chicago and L.A. are the perfect cities to show us what’s possible with gigabit Internet,” Szuchmacher said. Google’s announcement follows by one day the news from AT&T that it plans to expand GigaPower 1Gbps fiber to 38 more cities for a total of 58 cities. GigaPower was launched in Los Angeles on Monday and had previously been available in Chicago and nearby cities. AT&T’s first city was Austin, Texas, starting about two years ago. High-speed Internet access to homes and small businesses is considered a key to a city’s economic development. Cities without it will be at a competitive disadvantage, said Jeffrey Kagan, an independent analyst. acebook is more than doubling the speed of its Wedge open-source network switch, which is good news both for Facebook users and for anyone who may want to build a 100-gigabit switch. The Wedge sits at the top of a rack of servers to connect them to Facebook’s network. It was announced in June 2014, and thousands are already deployed in the company. Plus, the social network made the design of the Wedge open source so other manufacturers could build switches like it. However, less than two years later, the 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports in the original Wedge are proving no match for the fast-growing traffic on Facebook’s network. To keep up, the company is now developing a version of the switch with 100-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. It gave more details in a blog post but hasn’t said when the new switches will be ready. Much of the traffic in Facebook’s data centers is just among the company’s own switches. But it’s growing along with much more bandwidth-intensive content on the social network, including big video files and virtual-reality content like 360-degree videos that Facebook recently introduced. “Whenever there is capacity, people will build stuff to consume it,” said Jay Parikh, vice president of global engineering and infrastructure, at the Structure conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Facebook says it has more powerful servers, and more of them, than it did when the first Wedge was introduced. As many as four servers can be hooked up to each port of the Wedge. The Wedge 100 will have 32 100G ports, the same maximum number as on today’s Wedge but all at the higher speed. Like the current switch, it has a non-blocking design, meaning that it can fully feed all of its ports at the same time if necessary. Thus the total capacity of the Wedge 100 is 3.2Tbps. Facebook designs its own switches and writes its own software for them because it wants the flexibility to meet its own rapidly developing needs. In addition to the Wedge, earlier this year it introduced the 6-pack, a modular switch for connecting server racks to each other. The 6-pack is based on the Wedge and can have as many as 128 40-gigabit ports. Facebook has also developed its own data-center network design. What Facebook invents in network hardware, it makes available for others to use. At least one vendor, Accton, already sells a customizable top-of-rack switch based on the 40-gigabit Wedge. The design has been accepted by the Open Compute Project, which Facebook founded in 2011 to share open-source hardware designs. It also plans to share the Wedge 100′s design. The company uses an internally developed OS, called FBOSS, on its own switches. But it has also joined up with Big Switch Networks to offer an open-source network operating system called Open Network Linux for others to use. The advent of so-called “white box” networking gear based on open hardware and software could trickle down from giant IT shops like Facebook to provide enterprises with an alternative to traditional systems from companies like Cisco Systems. But Cisco says its overall architecture costs customers less in the long run.

Saban calls Ellison ‘clearly an anti-Semite’ (and not on Wikileaks) The Israel lobby is battling it out inside the Democratic Party; and the US discourse will never be the same again. Last night at a fancy dinner at the Brookings Institution, toymaker Haim Saban, who is one of the biggest donors to the Democratic Party, smeared Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, who is in the running to be chair of the Democratic National Committee, as an “anti-Semite” because of his remarks on Israel. Saban said: I would just like to clarify something about Keith Ellison and him running for head of the DNC…. I think it’s important for this audience to know. First, The fact that Keith Ellison is a Muslim is a non-issue at all. That is not an issue. With that out of the way, if you listen to Keith Ellison today and you see his statements, he’s more of a Zionist than Herzl, Ben-Gurion and Begin combined. I mean, really, it’s amazing, it’s a beautiful thing. If you go back to his positions, his papers, his speeches, the way he has voted– he is clearly an anti-Semite, an anti-Israel individual. Words matter, and actions matter more. Keith Ellison would be a disaster for the relationship between the Jewish community and the Democratic Party. Now I’ve said what I had to say. The comment drew “gasps from the crowd,” said Eric Cortellassa of Times of Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who was on stage, said he agreed with Saban. CNN’s Jake Tapper, Lieberman’s interlocutor, looked gobsmacked. “That wasn’t really a question, but it is the Saban Forum, so–” he quipped, then called on another VIP, Dennis Ross, to ask a question. Ellison has become controversial to some Jewish groups in recent days because of a comment he made about the power of the Israel lobby in 2010: “United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of seven million people.” He also reportedly made anti-Zionist comments in college and has at times expressed sympathy for Palestinians. Ellison is gaining support from some centrists in the Democratic Party, including Senator Chuck Schumer and Jeremy Ben-Ami, the head of the liberal Zionist group J Street, who described the campaign against Ellison led by the Anti Defamation League as a “witch hunt.” Meantime, Forward editor Jane Eisner characterized Ellison’s remarks about the lobby in 2010 as “awful.” So American Jewish groups are squabbling over Ellison/Israel inside the narrowed confines of the Democratic Party, even as the Trump administration-in-waiting indicates that it’s going far right. Josh Marshall of TPM has said the last thing the Democratic Party needs right now is a fight over Israel. But we’ve reached our rendezvous with destiny; the leadership is now so out of step with the Democratic grassroots (as Shibley Telhami said at Brookings yesterday, examining polls) that the Ellison battle, and Saban’s hubris, are inevitable. As Saban says, this is about the American Jewish community’s relationship to the Democratic Party. Yeah, we’re split, Kussa! And I have predicted that Saban will have to go Republican in the end. Haim Saban was the biggest contributor to Hillary Clinton’s superpac, and consulted often by John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chair during the recent presidential campaign, per a series of embarrassing emails leaked Wikileaks. Yousef Munayyer echoes the point that Saban paid for the microphone. “Haim Saban paid for everyone’s dinner so he gets the first ‘question’ which he uses to slam Keith Ellison.” No one dissociated him or herself from Saban’s comments. I asked Tapper why he had nothing to say, and he said via twitter that he asks questions of newsmakers, he doesn’t make comments. In his interview of Lieberman, Tapper put himself forward as part of American Jewry that is distant from Israel and asked what Israel could do about it. Lieberman offered the usual claptrap about Israel being responsible for Diaspora Jews as well as Israeli Jews, and he wants more “Jewish Zionist education” in the United States because Israel depends on young American Jews. He’s talking about the Jewish Israel lobby. Advertising About Philip Weiss Posted In: 15 Responses So sad that the opinions, the heartfelt hand-wringing soul-wrenching of ordinary folks, taken one at a time, are not heard (or given press) whereas those of the billionaires make the world turn over on its axis (or in its grave). Imagine how nice the world could be if billionaires all donated to good causes rather than to causes they merely imagine (due to living in a hard-walled bubble) to be good. and it’s such an absurd statement. keith said nothing about “a jew”, saban is one of the dem party’s top funders and his words belie “the Jewish community” — who he does not represent (because they do not speak in one voice) — is his primary concern. so do dems decide their own fate, or is it the funders who run the party? when hops sees saban that’s what he sees “a jew”. but that is not what i see. i see a billionaire who wants to control one of 2 political parties in the united states. that’s a lot of power. and he doesn’t just “speak his mind” — that is not what i object to. he, like everyone else should speak their mind. it’s what’s on his mind that i question and the power he wields to actualize his priorities. but hops victimizes this powerhouse by claiming his adversaries don’t want to “permit” him to speak because he’s jewish!! how absurd. there should be laws in place that prevent monstrously large donations to political parties or officials. HOPHMI- “Thank you for making it clear once again that in your world, a Jew isn’t permitted to speak his mind.” You have it backwards, Hophmi. I love it when fat-cats engage in straight talk and say things usually only uttered in back rooms behind closed doors. He who pays the piper calls the tune, or at least has veto power. Curiously, some folks don’t seem to understand that as long as Lord Saban and his ilk more or less own the Democratic Party, there is no likelihood of the Democratic Party becoming truly progressive. Bernie’s “revolution” is a fraud. I repeat a previous quote and link in case you missed it. “In other words, in this article Hayden was describing, in an unusually concrete way, how the state of Israel, through its state officials and their compliant American partners, was effectively managing—exercising veto power over Democratic Party candidates, at the very least—American elections down to the level of State Assembly. In any constituency “attuned to the question of Israel, even in local and state elections,” Hayden knew he “had to be certified ‘kosher,’ not once but over and over again.” (Jim Kavanagh) http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/27/tom-haydens-haunting/ – See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/profile/keith/#sthash.WQsRsfd8.dpuf I guess Ellison has no choice now but to withdraw his nomination. Those 10s of millions of dollars he has given to the Dems are going to be very hard to replace. Too bad the Dems have given up on using grass root volunteers to run their campaigns. These days they rely on hiring workers at $15 per hour for election tasks. The burden of proof rests with the accuser. Ellis is not an anti-Semite just because Saban says so, or because Saban doesn’t approve of something he wrote or said unless it specifically incited the persecution of Jews for being Jews. I don’t buy the BS that anti-Semitism is whatever Jews say it is, especially if it is criticism of Israeli policy towards Palestinians and other subject peoples. Even if Ellis were proven to be an anti-Semite (unlikely), how is it that a bigot like Debbie Wasserman Schultz (you know, the lady who publicly bemoaned Jewish intermarriage) was acceptable? Would it be anti-Semitic to suppose it just might have something to do with Haim Saban’s knee jerk Zionism and his money? The case against Ellison rests on his involvement with the Nation of Islam, which is led by an unrepentant bigot. Ellison has repudiated Louis Farrakhan, and personally, that’s enough for me, but I suspect that most people here wouldn’t extend the same benefit of the doubt if the tables were turned. Has no one noticed that there is a total contradiction in Saban’s statement? First he says: “…if you listen to Keith Ellison today and you see his statements, he’s more of a Zionist than Herzl, Ben-Gurion and Begin combined.” And right after that he calls him an anti-semite. Support Mondoweiss’s independent journalism today Mondoweiss brings you the news that no one else will. Your tax-deductible donation enables us to deliver information, analysis and voices stifled elsewhere. Please give now to maintain and grow this unique resource.

Despite her obsessivequest to get Americans catching, spreading and, as a consequence, dying from coronavirus, Laura Ingraham also hopes nobody has the right to sue a business or employee that passed it on. After Donald Trump dangerously suggested injecting disinfectant as a treatment for COVID-19, then pretended he had been sarcastic when he clearly hadn’t, Laura Ingraham and her two-Trump worshiping guests shrugged off any possible deaths that might result, along with Trump's cowardly lie once he faced a backlash – and attacked anyone who might dare criticize Dear Leader. It hasn’t been 24 hours since Trump’s last medical improv show (press conference) during which Trump suggested that disinfectant injections just might be the ticket to a COVID-19 cure. But Trump’s Fox News website cheerleaders aren’t wasting any time defending Trump’s absurdist comedy stylings!

Gremio vs Cerro Porteno: Preview and Predictions Cerro Porteno are leading the group A of the 2018 Copa Libertadores by 2 points against Gremio. The Brazilians will be keen to reclaim the spot making use of the home advantage and with a win when these two teams meet on Tuesday evening. Gremio’s lone home match in the competition saw a dominant 4-0 victory over the Venezuelan outfit Monagas. But they had little luck in away trips so far, as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Defensor Sporting on matchday 1 before the goal-less stalemate at their Tuesday’s visitors Cerro Porteno. On the other hand, the Paraguayan club are performing above expectations up to this point. The draw against Gremio in a huge point, while away win at Monagas 2-0 and home win against Defensor set the platform for knockout qualification going into the second leg of fixtures. As we mentioned earlier, the teams are separated by 2 points at kick-off. A draw will do well to Porteno, but Gremio must win here since Defensor Sporting at third are at a 1 point gap. Gremio vs Cerro Porteno: Head-to-head Overall three meetings between the two teams at Copa Libertadores. Before the goal-less stalemate this season, Gremio won back to back games by 1-0 margins in 2007. So we are yet to see a match with more than 2 goals in their head-to-head clashes. Gremio vs Cerro Porteno: Predictions Historic data throw light to the fact that Gremio are a consistent home side in the competition. They won 7 of the last 8 here and lost just 2 of their last 19. Cerro Porteno did start their campaign with an away win at Monagas, but this is their first road win in the competition since 2011. They had lost in 10 of the previous 15 outings. Therefore, Gremio can be backed with confidence to win this fixture in style. Gremio vs Cerro Porteno: Bet Tips FT – Gremio to win @ 1.41 odd is a banker. Brave punters can give a shot at home win with Asian handicap -1.5 for 2.15 odds.

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Charly's Column Incoming TCP connections do not always end up where they are supposed to. A freely configurable redirector points digital debris in the direction of a new and better place. Just a little while back we discussed Rinetd [1], a TCP redirector. Rinetd is lean, reliable, and easy to configure; on the downside, it lacks some advanced features. This month I’ll examine Portfwd, a tool that includes some of those features missing from Rinetd. Portfwd (Port Forwarding Daemon, [2]) takes the form of a 116K tarball, which you can build and install in the normal way: ./configure; make; make install or almost. The all-important binary went into hiding in the src directory after I typed make install. A symlink (ln -s /usr/local/portfwd-0.27/src/portfwd/usr/bin/portfwd) took care of that. Checking email for viruses is typically the domain of the SMTP gateway or a server directly downstream of it. In this month’s column, Charly decides to move this protection to the other side – that is, to the client connectionswith their SMTP and POP servers. If you do not receive a response to a ping, or if the response is seriously delayed, you might like to take this as a warning. But who wants to ping all day? You need a ping-based monitoring utility like Smokeping.

You will need to sign on with your LLLID (La Leche League ID) before you can post. If you have never claimed your LLLID, create your LLLID now. To sign in, click the LLLID Sign On button in the upper right corner. Enter your LLLID Alias and click the button again. Re: Random BLS rambles we are not quite ready for solids, jack is 5 months. he is actually grabbing everything i eat though, is that a sign for readiness? he sits in his high chair but he stiil needs to get better at picking things up. i am not going to do purees but should i start giving him a few things on his tray? like mashed potatoes or something? i feel like i want to wait a bit more, he's just so crazy when i eat anything that i am unsure. also, i think i would have no idea what to do if he did start choking. Susan, did you actually need to hit gavin on the back? Re: Random BLS rambles Originally Posted by @llli*mtmama also, i think i would have no idea what to do if he did start choking. Susan, did you actually need to hit gavin on the back? Contact your local red cross and take an infant CPR class before you start. You will never need it but you will feel much more comfortable. I have BLS 2 kids and the only time I ever needed it was when DS (the one who ate NOTHING) ate a dime proud but exhausted working mammy to two high needs babies my surprise baby: the one and only D-Man born 3 weeks late (5/5/08) at 9 lbs 14 oz and 21.5 inches, and the shock H-Girl born about a week late (10/7/09) at 8lbs 15oz and 20.75 inches. If I am here I am covered in baby (probably two) and fighting for control of the keyboard. Family beds are awesome Wondering if you have PPD? Take the screening and see your doctor. You deserve to feel better. Re: Random BLS rambles Originally Posted by @llli*mtmama a dime??? fell out of DH's pocket. apparently it is perfect size to block the airway. I has my not quite one year old upside down before he turned blue though. I have never personally known a BLS baby choke on actual food proud but exhausted working mammy to two high needs babies my surprise baby: the one and only D-Man born 3 weeks late (5/5/08) at 9 lbs 14 oz and 21.5 inches, and the shock H-Girl born about a week late (10/7/09) at 8lbs 15oz and 20.75 inches. If I am here I am covered in baby (probably two) and fighting for control of the keyboard. Family beds are awesome Wondering if you have PPD? Take the screening and see your doctor. You deserve to feel better. Re: Random BLS rambles No choking here either, gagging yes, but choking no. Susan I second the mesh feeder, I don't know why they wouldn't be safe. Unless you leave LO unattended :Shrug We used one for X now and then, I would just buy one and a few packs of extra mesh bags. They aren't too terribly expensive IIRC ~Meg~Wife to Ray (09/07/07)and Mama to:Xander (01/19/07) nursed for 30 monthsLiam (12/12/09) still nursing through the night and in the mornings!Sebastian (7/29/12) my newest little nursling who graciously shares his milk with big brother! Re: Random BLS rambles Susan, sorry for all the solids trouble I would wait awhile. Connor is doing amazing. But you wouldn't KNOW it if you saw all the malarky my mother picks up for him. No jars, but all sorts of snacks, etc. Pouches of organic puree. Some of the Gerber variety that I made her take back. She just doesn't seem to understand that all these foods (even the healthy organic ones) are a marketing ploy. I tried the arrowroot cookies and they taste no different than Lorna Doone's. I'm fine with him having some more snackish things when he is older, but she doesn't get it. And she thinks I am making him "fend for himself" I am just so SICK of telling her to STOP. It is making me scared for when I go back to school. Re: Random BLS rambles Originally Posted by @llli*mtmama also, i think i would have no idea what to do if he did start choking. Susan, did you actually need to hit gavin on the back? I have taken a CPR class, and there, we learned how to unchoke a baby. And yep, I thumped him on the back when he stopped breathing. I've never had to do that before, with three BLS babies. This is entirely due to that stupid cleft and pretty common for cleft babies to choke until they figure it out. Originally Posted by @llli*meganbeth Susan I second the mesh feeder, I don't know why they wouldn't be safe. Unless you leave LO unattended :Shrug We used one for X now and then, I would just buy one and a few packs of extra mesh bags. They aren't too terribly expensive IIRC I was going to get one today, and I forgot. Oh well. I'll be out running errands again Thursday or Friday. And then yesterday, I gave him a cracker, and he was fine. I don't know. Re: Random BLS rambles I've never used a mesh feeder. I had this weird impression that those weren't safe I don't know where that idea came from. I probably read it a long time ago the dog will miss the feeding. I hurled that tray will all the food away, and it went everywhere He cleaned up for me. I didn't even care The mesh feeders never really worked for us. They always seemed to get dropped on the floor within a couple minutes. With pets in the house, they just ended up a sticky furry mess. At least with small pieces of food, I just give more if some ends up on the floor. The mesh feeder was just too much of a hassle to clean every time it was dropped. I tried hooking it onto the highchair with DD using rings, but she hated it being hooked onto the tray. DD's newest thing to do when she is done eating is to drop the leftover food piece by piece down her shirt . It usually all ends up in the front of her diaper. Re: Random BLS rambles sounds like he's doing well considering and really the puree was the main problem did he like the cracker? It was OK, but then I repeated yesterday, and he choked again. But he got this one out, and I didn't have to help. Originally Posted by @llli*wdsmom The mesh feeders never really worked for us. They always seemed to get dropped on the floor within a couple minutes. With pets in the house, they just ended up a sticky furry mess. At least with small pieces of food, I just give more if some ends up on the floor. The mesh feeder was just too much of a hassle to clean every time it was dropped. I tried hooking it onto the highchair with DD using rings, but she hated it being hooked onto the tray. DD's newest thing to do when she is done eating is to drop the leftover food piece by piece down her shirt . It usually all ends up in the front of her diaper. And I could see that happening here too...Or the dog snatching it, mid-air, and me having to haul him down to the clinic to remove it from his stomach He doesn't look. He just swallows.

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You are here How can I observe Sukkot if I do not have a sukkah? It is a mitzvah to build a sukkah and to celebrate in a sukkah. The Torah (Leviticus 23:42-43) tells us that we are to live in a booth for seven days. Of course, it is not always possible to build a sukkah of one's own. Those who live in apartments may not have the outdoor space necessary for a sukkah. We are also instructed (Deuteronomy 16:14-15) to celebrate in the sukkah. We do this by eating our meals in a sukkah. Synagogues and Jewish community centers often have sukkot (plural of sukkah) that are open to the public, where one can eat a meal. Even if we dine outdoors often, eating a meal in a sukkah is a wonderful reminder of the fall harvest and our connection to the world around us. Like Thanksgiving, it is an opportunity for us to express our gratitude for all that sustains us. Even if there is no sukkah near you, consider ways to celebrate the change of seasons and how the bounty of the harvest can be shared with others. A donation to a food pantry or to a shelter for the homeless is a wonderful way of celebrating Sukkot. One of the mitzvot of Sukkot is to rejoice during the holiday. Another tradition, ushpizin, involves inviting symbolic guests to the sukkah. Plan a festive meal, inviting family and friends, featuring food common to the fall harvest.Another important mitzvah of Sukkot is the gathering of the four species represented by the lulav (palm branches) and the etrog (a citron). There are many lovely stories associated with these symbols, which help to emphasize the agricultural basis of this holiday.

FadeSlideShow not showing 1 of 9 images in Chrome and Firefox, works fine in Safari If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. FadeSlideShow not showing 1 of 9 images in Chrome and Firefox, works fine in Safari 3) Describe problem: I have used this slideshow in the past (on the same website where I'm having trouble now) with no problems. I even think when I changed the images recently it was working fine. But NOW (a few weeks later I think) I've noticed that 1 of 9 images is not showing up on Chrome and Firefox. It works perfectly in Safari though. I've looked at the code for the problem image, and it is following the same format as the other images and the image is uploaded. I checked this before I found that it worked fine in Safari. Here is the site where I am having the trouble. The slideshow is on the right, almost half way down the home page: If you are looking at this in Safari, the image that doesn't show on Chrome and Firefox is of a side view of a man in Native American clothing playing a woodwind instrument. It comes just after 2 images, 1 of a man, and 1 of a woman, both posing against a palm tree trunk. In Chrome and Firefox this space just comes up with a beige color. My Safari (for Win 7) cannot show it either, but perhaps one on a Mac could. That image (I downloaded it): ojaiworldmusic.org/images/owmf2013/RCarlosNakai_525.jpg doesn't appear to actually be a JPEG type image. I have several image editing programs. Two are fairly sophisticated. The Gimp opens it and reports it as a "Photoshop image", and shows it at 525 × 300 pixels. The other is Paint Shop Pro 7 (old but still reliable) it opens it as a jpg, but at only 160 x 91 pixels, which I'm thinking is an embedded thumbnail, these can often be embedded in an image's EXIF or other data. So, I suspect that you saved it in Photoshop or some other image editor as a Photoshop formatted image and just put a .jpg extension on it. What I would do is load it back into the image editor and save it as a JPEG formatted .jpg image. Or, if that's not something you know how to do, use this version (right click and 'Save As' - First make a backup copy of your version, just in case): BTW, the PSD version of the image (what's currently on the website) is about 888K, the above is about 49K. The PSD version is "lossless", I also saved a true JPEG version at 100% quality (virtually "lossless"), it's about 117K, if you're interested in that version, let me know. The 49K version is about 95% quality with Image Optimizer Pro's "Magic Compression" applied, except to the face. I preserved what I think is the original date of the image in its EXIF data's 'DateTimeOriginal' field for both of the JPEG versions - 6/19/2013. I'm on a Mac: Firefox says it can't show it because "it has errors". Safari does display it. At first glance, it's hard to tell what's going on. That's partly because the file extension is only one cue on a Mac so you can still read a file in format X with extension Y. Preview (the main image viewer) can open it without problems. I'd guess it's the same image-reading engine as in Safari (and Finder, where you see a thumbnail). It's possible that this could happen when an image is simply corrupt. That's happened for me a few times with a digital camera, where only half of the data is saved and most of the image is random colors (usually blocks) or gray. Or I've even had that happen where the image is visually clear but still has some corrupt data in the file (maybe invisible information in the image, maybe metadata, I'm not sure). In that case, it's best to extract what you see (eg, via a screen capture or cut-and-paste as long as you're not accidentally then copying bad data too). Then it'll work. Anyway, back to Preview-- it showed it just fine. But in the "Info" window I could see something about Adobe Photoshop Format. It also listed a couple layers in the image (a clear indication that it's not a JPEG). So I tried Photoshop. Still on the Mac, where Photoshop isn't really a Mac program (just running there), so it probably does rely on the file extension. Sure enough, I got "Could not complete your request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found." Renaming it to PSD allowed me to open the file in PS. And there was the answer: it really is a Photoshop Document. It has two layers: one is the image, and the other is the white 'border' (actually a full rectangle filling the whole background underneath). So that's the complete explanation if it matters. John, your JPEG looks fine to me. So that's solved. But I just wanted to add the "whole story". John and Daniel - thank you both for your quick detective work. I'll have to add this issue to my tool belt of problem solving. You were both absolutely right! I don't remember if the original image was given to me by the site owner, or if I acquired it from the performer. I went back out to find another copy, and apparently there is a corrupted version out there floating around. One I tried to use gave me a similar "can't be opened in Photoshop" message. I was able to find an uncorrupted version and the slideshow now works perfectly in Firefox and Chrome. While you were answering me I found out it hadn't been working in IE either, so I'm assuming that is working fine now as well. Thank you SO much! This is my first time in the forum and I had no expectation of receiving a solution within an hour. Amazing!

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The gunners at Fort McHenry readied the 3-ton cannon known as Messenger, heaving it into position behind a wooden wall with a block-and-rope pulley system and loading it with gunpowder and a substitute cannonball of peat moss. The call came: "Clear!" and the gunners stepped to the side, with one touching a slow match to the gunpowder inside the cannon. The boom rocked the air and echoed across Baltimore's harbor as a geyser of fire and smoke poured from the cannon's mouth. Park ranger Tyler Mink said the first time he set off a cannon, the experience was "a little nerve-racking. Major League Lacrosse Berger, Buchanan shine in 16-15 Cannons victory Stephen Berger (Washington College, Mount St. Joseph) and Kevin Buchanan (Calvert Hall) each had four goals and an assist, and the host Boston Cannons held on for a 16-15 win over the Florida Launch on Saturday afternoon at Harvard. The win moved the Cannons (6-7) ahead of the Launch (6-8) in the race for the fourth and final playoff berth in Major League Lacrosse. Heading into Saturday night's game, the Ohio Machine (6-6) On February 11, 2003, JOSEPH E.; dear brother of Leroy L. Cannon and his wife Dolores Helen, Patricia Ann Winterling and the late James I. Cannon; dear uncle of Kathleen Cannon Saini, Stephen L. Cannon, Daniel and Timothy Winterling. Also survived by many friends at the Christ Church Harbor Apartments. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home, Inc., 3331 Brehms Lane (at Erdman and Mannosota Avenues), on Wednesday, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be held at the Shrine of the Little Flower Church, on Thursday, at 11 A.M. Interment Garrison Forest Maryland Veteran's Cemetery. The gunners at Fort McHenry readied the 3-ton cannon known as Messenger, heaving it into position behind a wooden wall with a block-and-rope pulley system and loading it with gunpowder and a substitute cannonball of peat moss. The call came: "Clear!" and the gunners stepped to the side, with one touching a slow match to the gunpowder inside the cannon. The boom rocked the air and echoed across Baltimore's harbor as a geyser of fire and smoke poured from the cannon's mouth. Park ranger Tyler Mink said the first time he set off a cannon, the experience was "a little nerve-racking. On March 22, 2004, BRO. GABRIEL T. CANNON, F.S.C., 78 years as a Christian Brother, of which 12 were spent as Principal of Calvert Hall College High School. Beloved son of the late Dorothy Burns Cannon and Patrick J. Cannon, uncle of Sheila Bryant and Peter Mellett of Maywood, NJ. Friends may call at the Calvert Hall College High School Fine Arts Theatre on Friday from 6:30 to 8 P.M., at which time a Funeral Mass will be celebrated and at La Salle Hall, Ammendale, Beltsville, MD, on Saturday from 11 to 12 noon, at which time a Funeral Mass will be celebrated. You would think that a 27mm cannon might help a man protect his property from a siege, but modern-day suburban invaders apparently aren't the least bit daunted by heavy artillery.Since Benfield Road resident Jack Colleran placed a World War II vintage Japanese cannon in his side yard in 1970, he and housemate Caroline Cox have stood by in despair besieged by a half a dozen different enemies.In the last 20 years:* Their home has been broken into four times.* The county condemned a wide strip of their land to expand Benfield Road. Derrick "OOH" Jones, aka Yo Slick and member of the influential Baltimore rap group Brown F.I.S.H., died Sunday. He was 38. Al Shipley's obituary in City Paper , which first reported Jones' death (cause of death has not yet been released), is essential reading to understand Jones' impact on Baltimore. Jones was an excellent rapper and live performer, but his reach extended well beyond hip-hop fans. He was a teacher at Gilmor Elementary and the director of the Baltimore Youth Advocate Program. Today they endure climbing children and have bicycles chained to them, but the cannons that flank Patterson Park's Pagoda were used in wars as much as 350 years ago, park officials have found. A cannon expert surveyed the seven historic weapons last fall and will soon undertake their restoration after finding they aren't just reproductions, as many had thought in the century since they were installed to commemorate the War of 1812 centennial. Some were likely used in the Battle of Baltimore, on land or sea, and in the Revolutionary War - or earlier. Major League Lacrosse announced on Monday that Fifth Third Bank Stadium at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga., will host the 2014 MLL championship game Aug. 23. “We are thrilled to return to Fifth Third Bank Stadium and the Atlanta region,” MLL commissioner David Gross said. “We believe in the growth of the sport in the area and having the championship game there is the next step as we contemplate future expansion.” Last season, more than 4,000 fans traveled to Fifth Third Bank Stadium to watch the Rochester Rattlers play the Boston Cannons in the first-ever MLL game in Georgia. The two-time defending Major League Lacrosse champion Chesapeake Bayhawks will open their 2014 schedule with a road game against Paul Rabil (Johns Hopkins) and the Boston Cannons on April 26. The Bayhawks return for their sixth summer at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis for their home opener on May 3 against Rookie of the Year Rob Pannell and the New York Lizards. The regular season will again be 14 games -- seven home and seven away. “We are excited about our schedule this season,” coach Dave Cottle said. Madge R. Cannon, a retired Social Security Administration worker and longtime member of Fulton Baptist Church, died Oct. 22 of heart failure at Envoy of Pikesville nursing home. She was 86. The daughter of Willie Rice, a factory worker, and Clara Fernandez Rice, a housekeeper, Madge Rice was born in Baltimore and then moved to Jonesville, S.C. In 1937, she and her family moved back to Baltimore. She attended Frederick Douglass High School, from which she graduated in 1947. She attended what is now Coppin State University and later Baltimore City Community College. Chase Winter , who recently finished his playing career as a Johns Hopkins midfielder, had four goals and an assist and was named Most Valuable Player of the Men's Open 1 championship game at the Lake Placid Summit Classic in North Elba, N.Y. on Sunday. Winter led Power-Tek, a team that featured 2012 Tewaaraton Award winner Peter Baum and several other players with Colgate ties, to a 13-10 win over the Big Red Steelheads for their second straight Open 1 title. It was Winter's first time playing in the event, which has been held annually since 1990. The already prodigious legacy of Casey Powell grew Thursday night in the Bayhawks' 13-12 victory over the Boston Cannons. The former four-time All-American and Major League Lacrosse's second-leading scorer all time had three goals and an assist for the Bayhawks in his first game of the season, but it took just one goal to remind fans of what they've been missing while he's been gone. With Chesapeake trailing 12-11 with less than 10 seconds to go, Powell raced behind the Cannons net with the ball in his stick.

p0c has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Hey all, I'm looking for some modules or example script on how to capture packets, modify and then send them further. Net::Packet is good for capturing, but I can't see how to edit the packets. I can only manage to look at the packet itself, but the packet itself is already send to it final destination then. Maybe Net::Packet isn't the right way to go? Say for example I want to replace <img src=bla.jpg> to <img src=lala.jpg> in every HTTP packet.. Can anyone give me some pointers in the right direction? Are you planning on piecing the individual packets together first, doing your substitution, and then re-splitting the packets? If not, I think you will run into complications on the splitting points of the packets. How will you know that the entire URL of your image is contained in one single packet, all of the time? Do packets always respect URLs in such a way as to make sure that they will not get chopped in two? I don't think so. As one website put it: TCP/IP implementations differ in the approach they take to deciding on packet size. It is fairly common for implementations to use 576-byte packets whenever they can't verify that the entire path is able to handle larger packets. The problem is that many implementations have bugs in the code to reassemble pieces. So many implementors try to avoid ever having splits occur. Different implementors take different approaches to deciding when it is safe to use large packets. Some use them only for the local network. Others will use them for any network on the same campus. 576 bytes is a safe size, which every implementation must support. So, what are the odds of your URL always landing somewhere in the middle of that packet, and never on the joint between two packets? Yes, but the thing is that i can't use a proxy for this. The only thing I can do is intercept the packets. The thing I want to do looks like what ettercap filters do. Like this: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/ettercapfilter Yes, but the thing is that i can't use a proxy for this. The only thing I can do is intercept the packets. I take it that you mean you cannot reconfigure the clients to direct their queries to the proxy explicitly. This does not prevent you using software that provides easy access to the HTTP protocol layer and HTML documents therein. Software that allows you to intercept relevant packets on the network and manipulate the communications protocols without configuration of the clients are sometimes called "transparent" or "intercepting" proxies. You can do this with ettercap but there are other packages that provide easier access to the HTTP protocol layer. There are Perl modules that do this and many other applications, as ikegami has pointed out in Re: Packet editing. There are Perl modules that provide rich features for inspecting and modifying HTTP protocol communications and HTML documents. There are intercepting proxies that are not written in Perl that provide access to the HTTP protocol and HTML documents and may provide better performance than you could achieve with Perl. Wikipedia has links to some of these. The squid proxy is popular and I have successfully used it many times. It can be used as an intercepting proxy, though I have not used it to manipulate the HTML myself. But, as noted previously, there are many others that you might investigate. I suggest that you cannot create a reasonably competent proxy to manipulate HTML documents in HTTP protocol streams by manipulation of individual IP packets, whether with ettercap or any other packet filtering software. You will have better results with less effort if you start with a better tool.

Coyotes Vs. Jessica Simpson Amelie Gillette & Matt Kirsch discuss important terrible things. It's Telepathy Awareness Week on the Hater podcast! To celebrate, Amelie Gillette and Onion web producer Matt Kirsch didn't speak a single word when recording this week. Instead, they just had a thought conversation about Jessica Simpson's eternal, coyote-related sadness; The stupid Ellen/American Idol debate; and the ongoing animosity between TV and the Internet, trusting that this conversation would be communicated to the listeners via their incredible telepathic powers. Go ahead: click Play and find out if telepathy is real!

National Association of County Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Directors The voice of local authorities in the nation's capital News Article Details County addressing mental health needs in the community Mar. 2--As the conversation regarding mental health continues at the state and national levels, local leaders are taking action to implement solutions in hopes to better the community. In 2019, the Platte County Board of Supervisors budgeted almost $13,000 to address mental health issues those in the law enforcement and justice fields have come across through their everyday work. The decision to fund these efforts came after a presentation by then-Platte County Deputy Attorney Elizabeth Lay in mid-2019. Lay handled various mental health commitments on behalf of the county attorney's office before stepping away from county employment recently. "I am so excited about this programming," Lay told The Telegram. "We already have people utilizing the funding and I think it is going to help a lot of people get on the path towards better choices and a better life." The Supervisors put money toward three aspects of mental health programs to address local needs. First, the board approved $5,000 in the Platte County Sheriff's Office budget to fund evaluations for defendants in criminal cases that cannot afford the evaluation on their own. To be eligible, defendants must be part of a pending adult case, be appointed an attorney by the court, and participating in a plea deal that contemplates an evaluation and treatment to be eligible for the funds. The board also approved $5,000 in the General Assistance budget for counseling services for defendants in criminal cases that cannot afford treatment on their own. The same eligibility requirements exist for these funds as for the other. The county will pay up to three sessions for a defendant, according to Lay. The board put an additional $2,500 toward mental health treatment costs in the Adult Diversion Program, which aims to provide an alternative to court for eligible adult offenders charged with lower-level offenses. "I think it is safe to say that they understand how big of an issue this is for our community," Lay said about the Board of Supervisors. Funding mental health programs was important when considering the future of the county as a whole, according to Platte County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jerry Engdahl. He said more people are facing mental health problems in the area each year, noting that it's unfortunate some of those folks end up in a prison cell because of it. "We need to look after everybody, including those with mental health problems," Engdahl said. "We're striving and hoping to make a positive influence." Coming from Lincoln, Lay moved to town seven years ago and said she has seen firsthand what happens when people with mental illness don't have the support they need to get better. "It's awful to see that cycle -- it's a vicious cycle," she said. "They do things they normally wouldn't do. It's really important to have someone who is sitting back and trying to figure out how we solve that." Platte County Sheriff Ed Wemhoff said he believes there is a direct correlation to mental health and criminal activity, noting there have been many people who have served time in the local facility that have mental health problems, substance abuse issues, and sometimes, both. Although the sheriff's office was already working with a mental health professional, Wemhoff said he was all ears when Lay approached him about how the sheriff's office could help identify mental health problems in the area. The goal was to develop a plan that would have minimal impact on the day-to-day operations of the sheriff's office, while also being able to make something like an evaluation work within officers' other duties. "It was beneficial having other supervisors here at the sheriff's office understanding and recognizing the benefits of working with such a program," he said. Mental health hits home for Lay. She suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety after the birth of her first child, and though her anxiety went away, for the most part, she acknowledged she struggles with it to some degree even today. "I, however, am lucky enough to have had needed resources available to me and to know where to find resources when I needed them," Lay said, noting she has seen family members and friends deal with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and more and watched how the effects of those diseases radiate through family units and wreak havoc in people's lives. "So many people don't know where to turn when things go south. So many people don't have resources available to them." Having lived in larger communities, Lay emphasized there is a gap right now between what can be done for mental health in urban areas and the rural ones. Lay said she has seen more and more people she deals with in the mental health system enter the criminal system and vice-versa. "That is why I am so passionate about making sure people have the help they need when they need it," Lay said. "People are dying, and if we can save lives, then we have a duty to do so. I am so proud that our county now has a hand in that. I think it's a really big step for a smaller county to take initiative on that and say, 'OK, we're not getting enough help in this area. We need to do something.'" Wemhoff said he doesn't believe the issue will ever go away completely and the impact of the funds might not be seen for a while. But, he noted, he believes they will make a difference down the line. "I would say these funds will be more likely to benefit the County Attorney's Office as they evaluate and access each case, as they attempt to do what is best for the community as a whole," Wemhoff said. "Together we recognize that many individuals currently incarcerated are suffering from mental health and if we can get them the help and support they need to keep them out of jail, this would be a direct relation to less criminal activity." Matt Lindberg is the managing editor of The Columbus Telegram. Reach him via email at matt.lindberg@lee.net. NEED HELP? National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-TALK (8255) If you or someone you know is suicidal or in emotional distress, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Trained crisis workers are available to talk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your confidential and toll-free call goes to the nearest crisis center in the Lifeline national network. These centers provide crisis counseling and mental health referrals. Special education families fear that children will not receive enough help during a prolonged school delay due to the coronavirus pandemic Plunge more than just special Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) Learn more about Mary Ellen Copeland's Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP), the format for organizing wellness tools into action plans in order to deal with Life's challenges, especially those related to mental illness.

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Magento 2 Enterprise The HiPay Enterprise module for Magento 2 is a PHP module which allows you to accept payments in your Magento 2 online store. It offers innovative features to reduce shopping cart abandonment rates, optimize success rates and enhance the purchasing process on merchants’ sites in order to significantly increase business volumes without additional investments in the Magento 2 e-commerce CMS solution. To use this module, you will need valid HiPay Enterprise account credentials: please contact HiPay to get them. Platform configuration Before using the HiPay Enterprise module for Magento 2, the following settings are required and must be configured. To do so, log in to your HiPay Enterprise back office. Configure your secret passphrase A secret passphrase is required to allow notifications.In your HiPay Enterprise back office, click on the “Integration” tab, then on “Security Settings”. Enter your secret passphrase in the “Data Verification” section. Allow your servers’ IP address(es) When a request is sent to the HiPay Enterprise servers, the IP address or IP address range from where the connection was made is verified. If it matches with the IP address previously provided by the merchant, the request will be processed. In case of missing or incorrect information, the server will respond with an appropriate error message, indicating the error in the request. In your HiPay Enterprise back office, click on the “Integration” tab, then on “Security Settings” and enter your IP address(es) in the “IP Restriction” section. Important! When changing your IP addresses, make sure that all the new ones are configured for your account. If not, your server requests will be rejected. Configure redirect URLs To use the HiPay Enterprise module for Magento 2, you need to configure default redirect URLs in your HiPay Enterprise back office in “Integration” -> “Redirect Pages”.Yet, these are not used by the HiPay Enterprise module for Magento 2 as it sends its own URLs. Accept Page: http://notused.com/accept Decline Page: http://notused.com/decline Pending Page: http://notused.com/pending Cancel Page: http://notused.com/cancel Exception Page: Empty Also, check the “Feedback Parameters” box and apply changes. Configure the notification URL In your HiPay Enterprise back office, click on the “Integration” tab, then on “Notifications”. Then, you need to enter your credentials. You will find them on your HiPay Entreprise back office (Integration > Security Settings) Anti-fraud emails configuration Based on the screening results of HiPay Sentinel, our advanced anti-fraud solution, emails can be sent to end customers. There are 3 email templates. Fraudulent: This email is sent to the customer if the payment is fraudulent. Accepted: This email is sent to the customer if the payment is approved by the merchant. Denied: This email is sent to the customer if the payment is denied by the merchant. Field name Description Enabled Enables/disables sending Payment Fraud Email Sender Sets the email sender Payment Fraud Template Sets the email template. You can customize it in your Magento 2 Admin Panel. To do so, go to “Marketing” => “Communications” [Email Templates]. Click on “Add New Template”, then upload the HiPay email template you want and modify it. Send Payment Fraud Email Copy To Email addresses you want to add in copy Send Payment Fraud Email Copy Method Selects the email copy method (Cc or Bcc) Customer’s cart items configuration This section addresses customer’s cart items sending to the HiPay Enterprise back office during the transaction. Enabling this option applies to all enabled payment methods on your site. The information of the customer’s cart, containing the shipping method, the discounts and each product with the quantity, as well as the SKU and the tax, is sent with the transaction. For Oney Facily Pay, sending this information is mandatory. This option is therefore ignored if the transactions are made with this payment method. Oney’s anti-fraud system requires additional configuration for the shipping method and product categories. The configuration is explained in the following paragraph. Please note that “Adjustment Fee” or “Adjustment Refund” are not supported with carts for refunds. Mapping categories Go to the setup screen HiPay Enterprise > Mapping Categories. Only the top level categories are displayed and must be mapped. If the mapping is not done, transactions will be refused by Oney. It is therefore important to check your mapping regularly when adding or modifying a category. Mapping shipping method Go to the setup screen HiPay Enterprise > Mapping Shipping method. A list of all the shipping methods activated on the site is displayed. This mapping is necessary to indicate a match between your shipping methods and the shipping methods defined by HiPay. For each customer’s order, depending on the chosen configuration, this information is sent as a supplement to the customer’s cart. For each mapping, you have to fill out the following information: Order preparation delay: Estimated time for order preparation, Delivery time estimated: Estimated time for delivery. From this information, an estimated delivery day is calculated and sent with the transaction. Non-working days are not taken into account in this calculation. As with the mapping of categories, all shipping methods must be mapped. Therefore, it is important to update your list if you change the configuration of your shipping methods. Other configurations Field name Description Device fingerprint Defines if a fingerprint is sent with the transaction (“YES” by default) URL of HiPay’s JavaScript Technical parameter not to be modified. Send cart Activates customer’s cart items sending or not (“NO” by default) EAN attribute EAN is not a Magento attribute by default: you must define your custom attribute if you want to send it in the cart PSD2 & SCA Given the strong growth of the e-commerce in Europe, the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) redefines the security standards for online payments, aiming to increase security during the payment process, while fighting more actively against fraud attempts. For more details on the regulations, we invite you to read our guide on PSD2 compliance. As from September 14, 2019, the issuer will now decide if a payment is processed depending on the analysis of more than 150 data collected during purchasing. Thanks to our Magento 2 module, we handle most of the data without you having to develop anything. Discover all the new parameters on our API explorer. Adding or overriding PSD2 data The accuracy of the information sent is key for making sure that your customers have a frictionless payment process. That’s why we give you the possibility to add or override PSD2 data, using a plugin on the “HiPay\FullserviceMagento\Model\Request\Order” class which can intercept the “mapRequest” method. You can either implement the plugin in your own modules or use the one that we provide. You can find this additional plugin in our GitHub repository. You can install this plugin in a standard way, then directly modify the “ThreeDSPlugin.php” file and the “afterMapRequest” method to add your information. Please note: If there is an update of this plugin, remember to save your information so that it is not overwritten. Finally, although we do our best to retrieve all relevant data for you, we cannot get the following information as it depends on the modules installed on your CMS or on your workflow. Merchant risk statement Field name Description delivery_time_frame By default, we send “1” (Electronic delivery) if it is a downloadable or an intangible product. Depending on your carrier and delivery methods, you can refine this information. Payment methods configuration Before describing the configuration fields for each payment method, please note the difference between the HOSTED and API modes. General configuration All payment methods have a basic configuration like the native Magento 2 payment methods configuration or the general HiPay Enterprise configuration. Field name Description Enabled Enables/disables the payment method Title Desired name of the payment method as displayed during checkout Payment Action Authorization or Sale. See more configuration details below. New Order Status Order status to set when the order is created before payment. Pending by default. Order status when payment accepted Order status to set when the transaction is successful. Processing by default. Order status when payment refused Order status to set when the transaction fails. On Hold by default. Order status when payment cancelled Order status to set when the transaction is canceled by the user. Canceled by default. HiPay status to validate order By default, all orders are validated/invoiced upon notification when the Capture status (118) is sent from the HiPay Enterprise platform (around 10 min after capture is requested). You can change this pattern by selecting “Capture Requested”. In this case, the order is validated/invoiced directly upon the Capture Requested (117) status. Capture When making a purchase with the “Sale” mode, the capture is automatically requested right after authorization. If the payment fails, the customer is redirected to an error page and the status is defined as “CANCELED”. If the payment is successful, the customer is redirected to the success page and the status is defined as “CAPTURE REQUESTED”. “Authorization” mode When making a purchase with the “Authorization” mode, the transaction status will be “AUTHORIZED” until you ask for the capture. Customers are not charged directly: you have 7 days to “capture” the order and charge the customer. Otherwise, the order is cancelled. If the authorization fails, the customer is redirected to an error page and the status is defined as “CANCELED”. If the authorization is successful, the customer is redirected to the success page and the status is defined as “AUTHORIZED”. To capture a transaction in your Magento Admin Panel, select “Sales” -> “Orders” -> “View” to see the details of the order and choose to submit an “invoice”.On the “New Invoice” page, select “Capture online” and save your invoice.Please note: If you select a custom item quantity, you can do a partial capture. You can also do the “capture” directly in your HiPay Enterprise back office. The order will then be automatically updated in your Magento Admin Panel.Please note: It only works for total captures (not partial). Refund Some HiPay Enterprise payment methods allow for a refund. To do so, in your Magento Admin Panel, select “Sales” -> “Orders” -> “View” to see the details of the order, then choose an invoice to refund and click on “Credit Memos”. Please note: If you select a custom item quantity, you can do a partial refund. You can also do the “refund” directly in your HiPay Enterprise back office. The order will then be automatically updated in your Magento Admin Panel.Please note: It only works for total refunds (not partial). One-click If the One-click option is enabled, your system will create an “alias” for the credit card. Customers will thus be able to use a saved credit card for their second transaction and won’t need to fill in all the payment data again. Customers can delete their saved credit cards from their account. Split payments When an order is created with a HiPay Enterprise split payment method, x installments are created (x depending on the selected payment profile). A split order is validated when the payment is captured. Upon payment capture, x installments are generated for this order. The order is fully invoiced (but not fully captured in the HiPay Enterprise platform) and you can get ready for shipment. The first installment is always debited on the payment date in Capture mode or when you capture manually in Authorization mode. Then, with a Cron task, each installment is debited on its respective payment date. Split payment methods The HiPay Enterprise module for Magento 2 includes two payment methods for split payments: Custom data It is possible to send additional information in the transaction that can then be viewed in the HiPay back office. To do so, you can use the functionality of Magento 2 which relies on the notion of plugin. To add custom information to transactions, you need to create a plugin in your custom module. This plugin must observe HiPay\FullserviceMagento\Model\Request\Order and extend the method getCustomData with afterGetCustomData. You can put what you want in the $result variable. You can get inspiration from our CustomDataPlugin plugin located in our module. Payment notifications During the payment workflow, the order status is updated only through HiPay Enterprise notifications. The endpoint for notifications is http://yourawesomewebsite.com/hipay/notify/index. It is protected by an encrypted passphrase: don’t forget to enter it in your Magento Admin Panel and HiPay Enterprise back office. For more information, please see the process in the Notify model. Transaction statuses All HiPay Enterprise transaction statuses are processed, but not all of them interact with Magento order statuses. This process only occurs when a notification is received. When a status is in process, a Magento payment transaction is created. Otherwise, we just add a new order history record with notification information. Actions according to statuses BLOCKED (110) and DENIED (111) The transaction order “Denied” status is created. The transaction order is closed. Any invoice in Pending status is cancelled. The order status changes to the status selected in configuration for the current payment method. AUTHORIZED AND PENDING (112) and PENDING PAYMENT (200) The transaction order “Authorization” status is created. The transaction order is Pending. The order status changes to Pending Review. The invoice is not created. AUTHORIZATION REQUESTED (142) The transaction order is not created. The order status changes to Authorization Requested. Notification details are added to the order history. REFUSED (113), AUTHORIZATION_REFUSED (163), CAPTURE_REFUSED (163) The transaction order is not created. The order is set to the configured status. If an invoice exists, it is cancelled. CANCELLED (115) The transaction order is not created. The order is set to the configured status. If an invoice exists, it is cancelled. EXPIRED (114) The transaction order “Void” status is created if a parent transaction exists and is in status “Authorization”. The order is set to status Processing by Magento 2. AUTHORIZED (116) The transaction order “Authorization” status is created. The order status changes to Authorized. The invoice is not created. CAPTURE REQUESTED (117) If the validation status is set to Capture: – The transaction order is not created. – The order status changes to Capture requested. – Notification details are added to the order history. Otherwise, if the validation status is set to Capture requested, please see the Captured status related actions below. CAPTURED (118) and PARTIALLY CAPTURED (119) The transaction order “Captured” status is created. The transaction order is closed. The order status changes to Processing or Partially captured. A complete/partial invoice is created. In case of a split payment, a new transaction is created. REFUND REQUESTED (124) The transaction order is not created. The order status changes to Refund requested. Notification details are added to the order history. REFUNDED (125) and PARTIALLY REFUNDED (126) The transaction order “Captured” status is created. The transaction order is closed. The order status changes to Processing or Partially refunded. A complete/partial invoice is created. REFUND REFUSED (117) The transaction order is not created. The order status changes to Refund refused. Notification details are added to the order history. OTHER STATUSES CREATED (101) CARD HOLDER ENROLLED (103) CARD HOLDER NOT ENROLLED (104) UNABLE TO AUTHENTICATE (105) CARD HOLDER AUTHENTICATED (106) AUTHENTICATION ATTEMPTED (107) COULD NOT AUTHENTICATE (108) AUTHENTICATION FAILED (109) COLLECTED (120) PARTIALLY COLLECTED (121) SETTLED (122) PARTIALLY SETTLED (123) CHARGED BACK (129) DEBITED (131) PARTIALLY DEBITED (132) AUTHENTICATION REQUESTED (140) AUTHENTICATED (141) ACQUIRER FOUND (150) ACQUIRER NOT FOUND (151) CARD HOLDER ENROLLMENT UNKNOWN (160) RISK ACCEPTED (161) The transaction order is not created. The order status does not change. Notification details are added to the order history Cron configuration Several HiPay Enterprise features require at least one cron job, which schedules activities to occur in the future. A partial list of these activities follows: – clear pending orders, – pay installment for split payments. Therefore, the Magento cron:run command must be added to your crontab. To do so, please refer to the Magento 2 Configuration Guide. Clear pending orders This cron job runs every 15 minutes. If configuration is enabled for any payment method, this cron job cancels all the orders which are paid with HiPay Enterprise and are in Pending status (API mode) or Pending Payment status (HOSTED mode) for more than 30 minutes. Pay installment for split payments This cron job runs once a day. For each split payment in Pending status, this cron job sends an API query to pay each installment. Test suites The HiPay Enterprise module for Magento 2 includes unit and functional test suites. Unit tests Unit tests are located in HiPay\FullserviceMagento\Test\Unit namespace. You can run them with the following command lines.

Up And Running Every industry, and every profession, maintains a kind of ongoing conversation among its members. The topics tend to remain the same but, at any moment, some have moved up to the foreground while others have receded. The foreground is where immediate threats and promises reside. At present, the conversation seems to be centered on management tools, often developed by rethinking an old concept and applying new technology to it, and on health. "Health" has meant everything from safe water to electrical safety; at the moment, it involves nutrition. Whatever the question of the day, there is enough threat and promise in the foreground to keep everyone busy and alert. At the risk of violating the prudent warning about sleeping dogs, we'd like to bring an old topic back to the top of the stack. That topic, broadly, is the effect that the vending machine has on the prospective customer. It provoked a lot of discussion during the full-line vending boom, 40 years ago, and culminated in the approach (and the slogan) "Clean, Filled and Working." Coined by two innovative operators in Indiana, it was picked up by the National Automatic Merchandising Association, and it never has been quite forgotten. Still, many vendors today do not remember the urgency with which industry leaders called on their peers to install coin mechanisms that held the patron's money in escrow until the vend was made; to post a telephone number that a customer could call to report a failure and request a refund; to make sure their drivers were cleaning the machines adequately and replacing burnt-out lamps; and so on and on. Today's equipment is a great deal more reliable and easier to service than the pioneering designs of the 1960s, and it is understandable that operators today expect it to work well enough, nearly all the time, unless it is vandalized. The challenge, though, is to see the vending machine as the customer sees it. While steady progress in coin and bill validation, and the rapid adoption of sense-and-feedback systems to verify that the vend was made, have taken the edge off many of the old complaints about "one-armed bandits," it remains true that anything accessible to large numbers of people and offering openings to the outside world is not always going to work properly. Operators know all the things that can go wrong, and may take quiet satisfaction in preventing most of them from happening. The general public doesn't have this informed view, and just wants the machines to work, every single time. We need to keep in mind that returning the customer's money in case of failure is only half the battle. It's important, but from the purchaser's perspective, it is not enough. If the product was not delivered, the operation was not successful. The vending industry always has known that "downtime can kill you," that an out-of-order machine is not making the sales needed to produce a return on the investment in it. They also know that frequent breakdowns annoy locations, who often cite undependable service as a prime reason for wanting to change operators. But the strategic cost is even steeper. In the past, informal surveys of vending patrons suggested that simple lack of confidence in vending machines was a major reason for not buying things from them. It was argued, eloquently, that a machine on which someone has taped a handwritten "out of order" sign is not only failing to generate any revenue, but also is sending a negative message about the reliability of any nearby vending machines - indeed, about vending machines in general. As vending finds more applications in the retailing mainstream, and so must handle a wide range of merchandise at prices far higher than the old blue-collar-based business could have imagined, confidence in vending machines becomes more and more important. All the old correctives , fast dispatch of well-trained technicians, good records of service calls and their dispositions, effective preventive maintenance programs, selection of machines and components on the basis of reliability and durability , remain important, and new ones (like telemetry) deserve study. Most important, though, is management's ability to communicate its insistence on equipment that works right, all the time. Performance will never be perfect, but perfection has to be the goal.

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Fellow offensive linemen Ryan McFarland, left, and Jameel Griffin, have been teammates since their freshman year. They are the only two seniors on the roster who have played all four years for the Largo High School Packers. Both agree it has been hard work but they’ve enjoyed it. Ryan McFarland remembers his first day of football practice. He was nervous. He was excited. • A freshman at the time, his parents never allowed him to play Little League football, only basketball. McFarland would attend his older brother's Largo High practices and games and long for the day when he too could step foot on the gridiron. • Jameel Griffin also remembers that day. He too was a freshman and ready for high school football. Griffin remembers all the other rising ninth- and 10th-graders there on the first day. But then on the second day, the numbers got smaller. The third, the numbers were even smaller. • "A couple of my friends had to quit," Griffin, 17, said. "They had to get jobs to help their families." • McFarland and Griffin are oddities on the 2008 Largo High School football team. • Of the 13 seniors listed on this year's roster, they are the only two to have played Packer football all four years. Related News/Archive "It's hard," offensive lineman McFarland, 17, said. "It's a commitment you have to make. It's like getting a job." "It feels good," said Griffin, a lineman. "I made it through all four years of playing. It was hard but I stuck to it." Friday night football brings the body-painted students to the stands. There's the band and doting mothers, fathers, uncles and cousins, cheering in support. There's the gathering at the concession stand to gossip. There's the final score. But the work put in before the lights are lit is often forgotten. There are the daily summer workouts in the weight room and the running of suicide sprints. There's standing outside a local Publix to raise money for practice shorts and T-shirts. "There's a lot that we do that people have no idea about," said McFarland. "They just know we play football." The padded and helmeted students bring in the most money to athletic programs, with $433,057 made in the Pinellas school system last season. Football brings most of the exposure, the most scholarships. Pinellas athletic director Nick Grasso said the money football generates supports many of the other athletic programs. But he said it's the lessons the students take away from the game that makes it great. "It's about goal setting and the sacrifices it takes to meet the goal," Grasso said. "You have a collective blend of our society from all different backgrounds that kids bring with them, from race to financial backgrounds. You reduce the amount of barriers for tolerance for one another when you work together for a common goal. You're a team." And at Largo, the goals and expectations are high. The Packers had their first undefeated regular season since 1977 last year, with a final record of 13-1 after losing in the state semifinal. They've won three consecutive district championships and have lost just three games in the last three seasons. Winning is expected. Griffin and McFarland know the pressure is on and they are ready for it. But they say they are dealing with other pressures as well. "People see us and they just think we are all about football," said McFarland, who also works as a server on the weekends at a retirement home. "But it's my senior year and I'm thinking about college. I'm taking the SAT in September. I want to be a police officer." Griffin, who also is preparing for the SAT and looking at colleges, agreed. "In order to play football, you have to keep your grades up," he said. "You have to know how to act and behave in school. Anything you do off the field can stop you from playing on Friday nights." That's the lesson Largo coach Rick Rodriguez wants the players to take with them. He said he wants them to understand commitment and that in life, you don't quit and that hard work is rewarded, whether it's on or off field. The two seniors who stuck to the game on the field and made sure they did the right things off the field take those lessons with them into their senior year. "It's been hard work but it's taught me that you never quit," Griffin said. "Whether you are on the field or off the field, you don't quit." Demorris A. Lee can be reached at 445-4174 or dalee@sptimes.com About this series Every week during the regular season, Beyond the Gridiron: Largo will take a different approach to the Packer football program. Fast facts Packer football District 10, Class 5A Head Coach: Rick Rodriguez 2007 record: 13-1, lost in state semifinal to Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas There is a reason why the air in Tampa Bay is filled with playoff talk. If Thursday night's 12-8 Bucs preseason win over the Jaguars is any indication, it's also going to be filled with footballs thrown by quarterback Jameis Winston. TORONTO — Two pitches RHP Chris Archer didn't execute are the ones that stood out Thursday as Josh Donaldson hit them out of the park. But the two solo home runs aside, Archer turned in a sterling outing that went atop the pile of good pitching the Rays keep wasting. CLEARWATER — Tracey Fritzinger has seen Tim Tebow play baseball a few times this year. The 40-year-old St. Petersburg resident went to two of his games against the Tampa Yankees, along with Joy, her little sister from Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

Cricket is not a game where you can practise everything and hope to win tomorrow. There may be no match tommorrow. Here's a preview of second One day International between India and South Africa on India's tour of South Africa 2006. The Weather forecast : Not good. It started with SriLanka's rained off tri-series, then to Malaysia and now to South Africa. Rain god seems to love Indian team a little too much and he is expected to have an effect in this 2nd ODI at Durban. The weather forecast says morning and evening showers - which means this being a Day/Night match, we will get some play in the afternoon and then some after the rain break. I expect umpires and both captain to be smart and start a match of not 50 overs but 30 overs. This will mean we only need 4 and half hours of playing time and little lunch break - which rain god is sure to provide. The pitch : Easily the fastest in South Africa and probably second fastest in World after Perth in Australia. What makes Durban pitch even more dangerous for the batsmen is the dew factor. They don't play Day/Night games at Perth. But Kingsmead Durban has been hosting Day night ODI's for a long time and whenever the second innings start underlight - ball not only bounces more, but swings extensively. Toss is very important here but what's more important is believe. Even if you bat first and make 200 - you should believe you can defend it. And even when you bowl first - you must know you can't let them score more than 150. The short boundaries : Makes Durban even more harder play for spinners to make a mark. The start time : This 2nd India v SA ODI will start at 1800hrs India time. But the important factor here is if there is a delay in the start of this one day International - the last time to start the match is 2245 India time. This means if rain again haunts this match, 2245 is the last till when you can wait. FastCricket welcomes your feedback : *** Related Articles If you watched Day 4 of Cape town test between India and South Africa, you will know two things for sure that Mr. Sourav Ganguly is in very good form, whereas Mr. Sachin Tendulkar is fighting within himself about what is his role in the team.. Sehwag and Jaffer departed early Indian team have their flight booked just a few hours after 5pm on 6th January - the 5th and last day of their 2006-07 tour of South Africa. Which means that last 48 hours in African nation will decide how our boys will feel on that flight back home.. and When we started the South African tour, everyone wanted Team India to do well, but also knew we actually had very little chance of beating South Africa in their own den.We lost the test series 4-0 and only consolation came in a twenty20 match. The script for the test We had a similar chance at the same time, just before last World Cup in Australia when we were 1-0 up in that "Steve Waugh farewell" 4 test match series....We blew it. Now we have exactly same chance to show the World that we - the Indians as a cricket Great people or teams, win one battle and their hunger to win the war grows. Whereas common/average people go so mad upon a single triump that they forget what more they could have done with their only lives..I feared the same when our team won the first test

From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: clisp: compile Lisp program to stand alone binary? Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <3116573412536149@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 397865928 References: <362151b1.7389655@news.newsguy.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * trashcan@david-steuber.com (David Steuber "The Interloper") | Can clisp create a binary executable that can be distributed without | relying on lisp being on the other machine? no. (the same is true for all other languages, incidentally. C just happens to have its run-time system pre-shipped with many systems.) what is the problem with shipping a file to be loaded into CLISP? | cmu doesn't seem to be available for Linux. Am I blind, or is this true? can't say you aren't blind, but CMUCL is available for Linux. #:Erik

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Ahna O'Reilly Cannes Interview About James Franco | Video Ahna O'Reilly has not one, but two projects at the Cannes Film Festival this year, and we sat down with the actress to talk about this extraordinary experience, the reception to her two movies, and what it was like to work with her ex-boyfriend James Franco as a director. First up for Ahna was Fruitvale Station, which was coming off huge Sundance success before subsequently being picked up by The Weinstein Company. Ahna spoked about reuniting with good friend Octavia Spencer for their surreal Cannes Palais moment. Ahna also revealed how much she doubted that James Franco actually wanted her to star in his adaptation of As I Lay Dying and discussed who, between the two of them, was more nervous for their big premiere. Check our chat, and keep your eye out for lots more from Ahna O'Reilly.

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On weekends, Parker likes to spend time with his girlfriend in Charlotte Name: Evan Parker Position: NASCAR Managing Dir of Content Strategy Where I’m from: L.A. Where I call home: Charlotte Focusing on right now: Trying to bring together a couple of groups that have been doing great work in their own silos. The one larger content group will do everything from our social media, to all the editorial on nascar.com to brand new content with our partners. Best advice: I was home last week for my grandfather’s 100th birthday. He always tells me, "Be happy, work hard and get plenty of exercise." I know it’s simple advice, but if it’s got him to 100 years, I can’t argue with it. Must have for a new hire: The biggest thing for me is somebody who is really a team player and easy to work with. At NASCAR and in the sports industry, you get a lot more done if people want to work with you and if you have respect. It doesn’t matter how talented or smart you are. If people don’t like working with you, you’re not going to be successful. Execs I admire: STEVE PHELPS and JILL GREGORY at NASCAR have been huge mentors to me, and they’ve been able to put me in great positions and teach me a lot. KENNY MITCHELL, who’s now with Gatorade but used to be at NASCAR, taught me to really think outside the box and push boundaries. DAVID FREEMAN, who’s now at CAA, is the first person who really taught me how to sell. Book shelf: I just finished, “RIVER OF DOUBT.” It was about TEDDY ROOSEVELT mapping a river through the Amazon after he was out of the White House. And I just finished “MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING” by VIKTOR FRANKL. I don’t read business books, but I like to read a lot of nonfiction and history books about impressive people. Talking tech: It’s a daily challenge to stay on top of all the different ways we can give people content about NASCAR, whether it’s in 140 characters or a video or a long-form article or mobile alert. It seems like every day, it’s changing, with Amazon getting into the space a little more, and as phones evolve. Must-have music: I’m probably single-handedly lowering the age demo for STEELY DAN. But I’m all over the place. A lot of indie rock, like ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES or TENNIS. I grew up on rap and hip hop, so BLACK STAR and PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS, PETE ROCK. Since I’ve moved to Charlotte, I’ve had to listen to country, and I can stomach MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, CHRIS STAPLETON and YARN. Food for thought: When I moved to Charlotte, I quickly gained 40 pounds eating barbecue at Midwood Smokehouse and drinking a lot of IPAs. So I’ve had to get a little smarter, switching from heavy IPAs back to Coors Light. The only thing I refuse to eat is coconut. I’m pretty much a garbage disposal, but I think that coconut is probably the worst thing on Earth. First thing in the morning: I try to get some exercise, clear my mind and think about the day. Then as soon as I get to the office, it’s consuming as much content as I can, not just about NASCAR. It’s SBD, Ad Age, Variety, getting an idea of what’s happening in the marketplace. How I unwind: On the weekends, I love nothing more than a solitary breakfast, sitting alone with a book or whatever I’m reading. My girlfriend works in sports as well, for the Hornets. So we don’t have that many weekends where we’re both away from our respective sports. But when we do, it’s taking the dogs to the dog park. I collect vintage watches, so I spend a good amount of time indulging that, researching them or going to shops and checking out watches. Day in the life: This is a new role and a new team. The biggest challenge is combining all these different groups that have always operated separately into one. There’s not a real road map now. News breaks 100 times a day in the NASCAR world. As much as you plan, something can pop up that you have to adapt for.

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This lesson uses the Site C Dam review by the BC Utilities Commission as a case study to: • find out more about megaprojects in BC • ask questions about where our power comes from and energy security in general • delve into the November 2018 BC Utilities Commission Report on the Site C Dam project • understand how the history and issues around the Site C dam relates to themes in Social Studies, and anticipate what the government is going to do next. This license allows you to download and share this resource (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt this resource (remix, transform, and build upon the work) for non-commercial purposes. You must credit the creator of the resource and and license your new creations under the same license as the original. 4 recommendations 1464 downloads 4 recommendations 1464 downloads Won Alexander Cumyow: Working People: A History of Labour in BC- Labour History Project Lesson Materials 6 Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "Won Alexander Cumyow" from the acclaimed Knowledge Network series; Working People: A History of Labour in British Columbia produced by Landrock Entertainment. The vignette explores the prejudices and racism experienced by Chinese Canadians in the late 19th-early 20th century. Trained as a lawyer but unable to practice law, Won Alexander Cumyow becomes an advocate for the rights of Chinese immigrants in British Columbia. This material can also be used as a background resource for the topic of the Head Tax and the Asiatic Exclusion laws in early 20th Century Canada found in the Social Studies 11 course. This is a unit created by the Labour History Project, a group of retired and current British Columbia teachers collaborating to develop a series of lesson plans, activities, and workshops focused on labour studies and labour history. See: http://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/education/lesson-plans/ Subject Cross-Curricular Social Justice Social Studies History Labour History Keywords British Columbia Chinese Canadians immigration minority rights voting rights 1907 Riots Learning Standards The materials address aspects of the key learning standards of the current social studies 10 curriculum. Critical thinking skills are applied throughout as well as research and writing skills as described in the “skills and processes of social studies”. Aspects of “Identity, Society and Culture” are addressed in the materials including gender roles, ethnicity and daily life of Chinese immigrants in early British Columbia. Additionally the limitations and advancements in democratic principles are explored in this lesson. In Social Studies 11 for the Politics and Government learning outcome, students can examine how Canadians can effect change at the federal and provincial levels. Under the society and Identity learning outcome students will also be able to assess the development and impact of Canadian social policies and programs related to immigration and minority rights. This license allows you to download and share this resource (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt this resource (remix, transform, and build upon the work) for non-commercial purposes. You must credit the creator of the resource and and license your new creations under the same license as the original.

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Comments : I'm writing a program that is going to have two external interrupt.: I wan't these interrups to occur in the order they are received without: one interrupt having priority over the other.: : my idea "temperature control": : 2 push buttons, one to increase the temperature, one to decrease it;: the main program will be doing it's own thing until an interrupt occurs;: : what is the best way of connecting my two push buttons to my 68hc11?: : if I put one push button on irq and one on xirq one interrupt will have priority over the other, and I don;t wan't this to happen: : thanks: I dont know much about the 68hc11, but how about putting both buttons (i hope theyre debounced!) on the irq line with a gate and using a couple of input port pins aswell. So when a button is pushed, the interrupt triggers and your routine checks the two port pins to find out which one is pressed. This is assuming the code runs faster than you can take your finger off the button

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Sense and Sesquisensibility: Some Random Notes About 2013, as it Pertains to 1863 Jack Neely 9:31 AM, Sep 25, 2013 In case you've forgotten, it's still the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Here it is, two months before the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Knoxville, and I'm just not feeling the spirit yet. There was more about it two years ago, when The New York Times was running a new Civil War story nearly every day. Maybe the whole country's starting to get burned out on the Civil War. I suspect that's one thing we have in common with most Americans 150 years ago. But it did help to have a look at Joan Markel's new mostly photographic book, Knoxville and the Civil War. It includes a lot of images I've never seen before and some I've seen, but not juxtaposed in this way. It's a good companion to another recent book, Earl Hess's The Knoxville Campaign, a text-heavy book about the actual strategy of the siege that, 150 years ago this week, was soon to commence. And it boosted my Civil War spirits to visit, for the second time, the exhibit at the East Tennessee History Center. "Of Sword and Pen" is a modest exhibit, in terms of artifacts, but a thoughtful one that brings out the complexity of feeling in the war. It offers some things to gawk at, some guns and some "grape shot" found at Fort Sanders, stacked in a pyramid. You always hear about grape shot, but I don't usually picture projectiles quite this big. It would be more appropriate to call it plum shot. And a large iron sphere I first took to be a he-man's bowling ball turned out to be a cannonball, found at Chattanooga. There's a wooden tobacco pipe and a cane carved from a Greeneville tree used to hang an accused Unionist saboteur. There's an invitation to an 1861 "Military Ball" held at the Lamar House, now the front of the Bijou Theatre, that included both soon-to-be Union and Confederate soldiers. There are lots of diaries and letters and maps—selected, I think, to show how much complication there was within one region and within one city. And there are original documents from Nashville pertaining to Tennessee's role as the first rebellious state to abolish slavery, two months before the end of the war. The exhibit I pored over most wasn't an actual artifact, and it was a representation of something I'd seen many times. It was at the entrance, enlarged and illuminated, a sketch of a downtown street I see every day. Late in the war, in a prison camp in Chicago, a young Confederate prisoner with a strong memory for detail and some artistic talent, maybe wanted to convey to his fellow inmates, and perhaps the guards too, something about his peculiar hometown and himself. So he drew a sketch of Gay Street as it was on one particular day: April 27, 1861. Samuel Bell Palmer's sketch showed a scene rarely seen in any city in the world: simultaneous rallies, on the same street, for opposing sides in a war that was well underway. Here, a Union rally near Main Street, under the stars and stripes. A few blocks down, a Confederate rally, under the original rebel flag, with a parade of Confederate soldiers coming this way. The center of attention of the Union rally was reportedly a Unionist U.S. senator named Andrew Johnson. He is not a well-remembered man, but he was a brave man that day. I first saw that picture in my grandfather's copy of the first edition of Digby Seymour's Divided Loyalties, when I was about 6. It holds up to magnification and scrutiny. Anyway, have a look. It's only up for another two weeks, closing on Oct. 13. That'll be the same weekend as the Battle of Fort Sanders re-enactment, at the fort reconstruction out Washington Pike, near Corryton. Check their website—last I heard, they were still recruiting. *** Meanwhile, a surprising new book just landed on my desk, published by UT Press, We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die: The Letters of Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard, a Union officer from small-town Maine, a Bowdoin alumnus who until 1861 seemed headed toward a career as a Congregationalist minister. He'd been wounded in the leg, early in the war, fighting under McClellan, but recovered enough to join the ranks again with Burnside at Fredericksburg, where he was wounded again, in the same leg. He was a 25-year-old major when he arrived in Knoxville during Burnside's occupation, just after Union troops here turned back the Confederate attack at Fort Sanders. The past tense in one passage may suggest something about the place: "Knoxville must have been rather a flourishing little city— Streets paved—regularly laid out—built upon side of a hill—two or three churches—a nice banking-building now used for Provost Marshall's office." Of course, none of the buildings he mentions are still standing. Knoxville didn't start saving interesting old buildings until recently. He adds, "Parson Brownlow ran away on Longstreet's first approach." Brownlow, Unionist-activist editor of the Knoxville Whig, was nationally famous by then. "Some of our staff dined with Mrs. B. (his wife) and saw his accomplished and heroic daughter. A Rebel Colonel taken prisoner in that assault (week ago Sunday) proved to be a brother of Mrs. Brownlow and at her request has been paroled and was staying at her house, keeping his chamber most of the time however." That was Lt. Col. Alfred O'Brien, of the 13th Mississippi. Despite his sister's intervention, he refused to swear loyalty to the Union, and ended up in a prison camp. The rambling white-frame Brownlow house, near downtown on East Cumberland Avenue, was a pretty fascinating place that fall. It remained a much-visited shrine for some 50 years after the war, especially among Republican presidents: McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, many others felt obliged to pay their respects. Of course, we later tore that down, too. Property rights. That's the way we do things around hyar. Erase our history, on a regular basis. Hit's our right.

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In the most recent admission that stuxnet was developed by the US it was mentioned that the first task they had to undertake was to survey the network layout of the Natanz site, but nothing more was said about how that task was undertaken. I'm wondering whether Flame was the tool developed for that purpose? The descriptions seem to match fairly well, can anyone with more knowledge confirm this idea? It's well-worth noting the role Microsoft has played in playing here - assisting with delivery of malicious payload in order to aid in the compromise of target systems. This seems to be breaking breaking new ground! No longer is War the sole domain of the likes of General Dynamic, Raytheon, GE, Halliburton, and the Boeing Company. Now the unstable folks in Redmond seem to be in on saving the Western World. While it's good to hear MSFT, "immediately began investigating Microsoft’s signing infrastructure to understand how this might be possible." I am happy to hear they are arresting Flame's forward momentum by adding to Untrusted Certificate Store. The arrogant ones have always been comfortable with delivery of products with known vulnerabilities and have effectively escaped Product Liability litigation for providing known defective products. 2009) MSFT created their own Microsoft Active Response for Security MARS. In their own words this is a fusion of 'Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), Microsoft Support, and the Trustworthy Computing team to annihilate botnets and help make the Internet safer for everyone. Microsoft believes the Waledac takedown will be the first of many successful endeavors for Project MARS and is already working to apply the lessons learned from this operation to future initiatives.' 2012) MSFT ZEUS Takedown wherein "Microsoft's unprecedented aggressive legal strategy in botnet takedowns came under fire from researchers in the Netherlands, charging that the software giant's most recent botnet dismantlement operation has ultimately damaged international law enforcement and private research investigations." ...[MSFT caused] "collateral damage" can affect more than the suspension of legit domains, for example, but also other investigations into a botnet. "Absent sufficient information sharing, cooperation, coordination and trust among investigating parties, there is too much room for error or interference, and one party's success can hamper the erstwhile and equally important efforts of others," Piscitello wrote today in a blog post. ... the way Microsoft set up its servers allows it to process packet data and gather HTTP requests with full headers and "actually also POST data which will contain sensitive information about the victims, including usernames, email addresses , passwords and personally identifiable information," he said. Fox-IT also contends that the affidavit contains some of the nicknames, email addresses, and instant messaging handles about the John Does allegedly involved in this cybercrime group that is identical to information it had provided under nondisclosure to a specific mailing list. "The information therein was 100% identical to information we had supplied to a certain mailing list. This mailing list has the restriction that data being shared can only be used with the permission of the person who supplied that data. This article provided a couple examples of collateral damage resulting from Microsoft's action and co-opting data against the intended use reinforces the impression that MSFT makes up rules as they go - working with the appropriate TLA for cover. To the detriment of those cited. Not trying to get too deep in the weeds, but MSFT as an active participant in State_on_State cyberwarfare is intriguing. Nothing new there. MS has been in bed with the TLA's for a long time now. Remember _NSA_KEY? Or how about the utterly flawed random number generator in Windows 2000? The academics who reverse engineered it came to the conclusion that MS either had some horrible cryptographers *or* they intentionally weakened it (they actually said this in their paper). Some of the mistakes were so horrendous that first year CS students could come up with a better design just by reading Wikipedia. And this wasn't just a theoretical weakness, but it allowed the researchers to recover any key created with the RNG (both past and future keys). It was just as bad, if not worse, than the Debian SSL bug (which was introduced when some code maintainer "cleaned up" code he knew nothing about. That was a mistake after the fact. In MS's case, it was just bad design from the get-go.) And then you have Dual_EC_DRBG which most likely has "up my sleeve numbers" that allow NSA to recover any key created with it. While not a MS creation, it is included in Windows as an option. So, the bottom line is do not trust MS if you are an "enemy" to the USA. I am surprised at just how many enemy nation-states still rely so heavily on Windows. In fact, anyone (anywhere) who uses Windows for any security critical application is an idiot. 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It is known that back in the day of "mechanical ciphers" many of the systems did not have all keys of equal strength, some were very strong and some were very weak if you knew what to look for. Later in the early days of electronic cipher machines the designs from the likes of the NSA we have seen were very brittle in design being only just strong enough to meet the keyspace and if even apparently trivial changes were made the cipher strength would drop dramaticaly. Currently we have AES, some say the NSA rigged the contest with "human nature" by having those submitting an entry writting "optomised code" that could be freely downloaded and used in products. Well the problem with optomising for speed or efficiency is in general purpose hardware it opens a lot of side channels through which information can leak. The classic being and example of remotly getting the AES key via a cache timing attack before the ink was dry on the NIST letter appointing the winner. Which ment most versions of AES software (and many still today) hemorrhage information when enciphering or deciphering that is available to anybody who has a connection to the machine... Of more recent times it has been shown that there are ways to make finding PubKey PQ primes almost trivial because the system designers either know or care little or nothing about gathering entropy and distilling it out of the accompanying bias. Instead they use "Magic Pixie Dust" solutions such as using a Hash function... I've known since the early 1980's just how difficult it is to get good entropy especialy in an environment where "Fast Moving Consumer Electronics" (FMCE) are manufactured. I know of one "special design" that was supposed to produce over a million different numbers with equal probability, after "walking the algorithm" I found it could at best produce only 180 numbers... As long as the designers make realy bad mistakes in practical implementations it does not matter how strong in theory our crypto algorithms are the NSA et al are going to read the traffic. Opps sorry some Smart Mobile devices don't like to be both "smart" and "mobile"... Just to finish, So where does the NSA, GCHQ, et al go next to ensure that they continue to read the communications of "others" whilst protecting their "own"? Well crypto algorithms come and go, lets be honest DES has been outlived by the DOD IP and later protocols. Who remembers FEAL for anything other than the fact it's weaknesses gave rise to the cryptoanalytic techniques that put the final nails in DES. The future is in making new protocols and standards with weaknesses in, whilst also encoraging all current systems to be compatible with old broken systems as transparently as possible. For instance "auto-fallback" many secure applications have to "interwork" with many other applications some of them old some of them new and thus many different algorithms are available. To get them to work they "auto-negotiate" untill they find a common algorithm and mode. Now it surprisess some people that some early Secure terminal access applications that use SSH had at the bottom of their list "tty" or "telnet" or "ascii" all of which are "plain text"... Thus if you got between the opening request and the far end reply you could cause an Auto-negotiation to plaintext, and the way most applications are designed the user won't be explicitly told (there might be a "tty" etc appearing in a small toolbar somewhere but no big flashing signs). So as we know the NSA is turning into the "face-hugger" "Vampire Squid" of the US Internet backbone, it would be fairly safe (technicaly) to assume it would be relativly trivial for them to "get in the middle" when ever they wished and "auto-fallback" the comms to a weak algorithm or mode to aid evesdropping. But unless they get into standards to weaken them then the "auto fallback-MiTM" will only be good for a few years. The secret is to pick on standards that are going to be used in "embeded systems" with a very long service life. We know that Signaling System Seven (SS7) used to set up and tear down calls on the Integrated Switched Digital Network (ISDN) used by most phone systems internationaly thanks to the ITC, was based on the UK "System X" which had a few nasties in it that alowed remote evesdropping for "test and emergancy situations" and are thus still there (yes your GSM mobile phone is supposed to support those features to meet the standard...). Now what long lived standards are due to appear due to political and other imperatives in the near future? Smart meters and "smart Implants, these will be expected to have minimum service lives of between 30-50years, so the auto-negotiation "auto-fallback" issue could be good for two to three times that so over a hundred years... The thing is that application marketers want to appeal to as many customers as possible so will bolt in any and all standards for product placment/specmanship, so will include it by default and thus make it available. Thus it will be another "Human Nature" attack (if you can call marketing people human ;-) I think all the comments answered my question. FLAME is similiar to the "breakout" of crypto into the open. Pun intended. Who can you trust? Answer from Reagan. trust but verify. Pretty hard to do in modern age...Back in the day all you had to worry about was the villiage gossip..Nowadays, everybody wants to know your business usually FOR business. Drones, Facebook, Google, etc. (frown) It intercepts Windows update via NetBIOS-related MITM attack. It then feeds the target machine a malicious package signed by a geniune-looking Microsoft certificate. Looks like Microsoft didn't do their PKI right. I think the intelligence about Natanz was acquired in more conventional ways. The US had access to many of the parts used in the reactor design so they were able to replicate it for experimentation. They also probably had at least one person on the inside (who left the infected USB key in the first place?). One analysis of Stuxnet has shown how photographs of the Natanz interior released by the Iranian government actually aided the virus authors in understanding aspects of the control system: http://www.digitalbond.com/2012/01/31/langners-stuxnet-deep-dive-s4-video/ It boils down to MD5 collision and predictable serialnumbers. New is that the attackers managed to to get a valid codesigning certificate using a signer which only accepts restricted client certificates. This is not a technical article but could lead to some interesting discussions... It could and I'll give you one thought immediatly, which is sufficiently InfoSec related for this blog, The argument presented in the article is logicaly flawed due to a basic but incorrect proposition, that what is in fact a crime is an act of war. I'll come about this the long way as it makes more sense to do so, First off is the thorny question of "weapons" and their use. Weapons are plain and simple a "tool" the use of which does not imply any "societal state" such as peace, civil war or war. As an example take a personal use gun (hand gun, rifle, shotgun), it can be used for, vermin control, game control, hunting for food, hunting for sport, target/clay shooting, defence against crime, crime and warfare. That is only one of it's potential uses is in prosecuting an existing war. Even non personal use weapons such as cannon and mortars do have non war uses (emergancy rescue at sea etc to get rescue lines to people, clearing snow build up to prevent avalanche, and I'm told similar issues in limited geological and engineering activities and more interestingly experimental reasearch on getting objects into space). So many weapons are tools and as such are agnostic to the societal state. Thus the use of a weapon does not mean your state is "at war" any more than throwing a hammer does. Therefor it's actual use therefor must have some other legal recognition to be an "act of war". Further "cyber-weapons" are compleatly unlike most conventional weapons that people understand. That is they are not "directed energy" weapons, which is a very important difference. Why is the difference important? because you need to consider how you defend against the use of a weapon. Conventional weapons require the defender to take some positive action as a defence, cyber-weapons however can easily be defended against by the negative action of not having any computers, or not allowing them to be used in a way that might cause the defender harm (thus the "blue screen of Death" in MS Office is not an act of war no matter how you might feel ;-) So the notion of "cyber-weapon" is itself called into question, infact a little further reasoning shows that what we should actually be talking about is "Sabotage" (derived from the French word for a wooden shoe or clog the sabot,) it litteraly means "to put the boot in"... That is without a machine to "put the boot in" to, no harm could be caused (outside of a "Bl**dy good kicking") by a person wielding their clogs. Thus "sabotage" is normaly considered an action against another persons property which needs a further requirment to become a "criminal act" and there are perfectly good laws to deal with crime in most countries (using them against international crime however is an issue for another conversation). Now as I've indicated what they are calling "cyber-weapons" are actually "tools" for cyber-crime and it's more restricted areas cyber-sabotage and cyber-espionage. Thus the use of the word "weapon" induces an emotional response that "tool" does not and this sets up a whole faux reasoning. Importantly neither sabotage or espionage in the societal state of "peace" can be construed as "acts of war" they can only become that after the societal state has changed to "war" and the act or intent can be shown to be more than acts of civil unrest. However and it is very important to remember this, once the social state has legaly changed from peace to war crimes such as sabotage and espionage change their state under what the article titles "Treacherous Deceit" (ie aiding and abeting the enemy). Thus the use of terms like "weapon" not "tool" or "crime" falsely colour peoples reasoning to assume "in war" not "at peace" as the initial state of the use of such "tools" for the crimes of sabotage and espionage, and thus argue incorrectly that they are defacto "acts of war" which they are not. [I could but won't go on to argue that as the "cyber-world" is not a legal entity such as a "State", and has no teritory or clear jurisdictional or geographical boundries a "war" cannot by definition be fought there so you can not have "cyber-war" thus "cyber-warfare".] As a closing point when a state of war exists those commiting sabotage or espionage are commiting "Treacherous Deceit" and are as such irespective of nationality "enemy agents" for which the lawful punishment of execution (by the "humane acts" of "hanging" or "firing squad") is allowed. The reason for the execution to be "humane" is to avoid it being used as a method of torture [5]. [1] - The reason Bush and Co had to call the criminal acts of 9/11 "war" [2][3], was to try and paint the US as being a defender (thus "just") not an aggressor (thus "war criminal"). [2] - Bush and Co were wrong because legaly 9/11 was not nor could not be considered "an act of war". [3] - War can not be legaly declared on non specific people, but only on "States" with military or other "state sponsored" forces [4] who are committing acts of aggression that are considered "acts of war" or of "endangering National Security", 9/11 did not meet either criteria. [4] - Whilst you might wish to describe an individual as an "enemy" there are certain formalities before they become either military or state sponsord forces. So there is no "enemy combatant" for good reason, they are civilians and are alowed to defend themselve, their homes, properties and possessions from invading forces who are commiting any act against civilians that are "war crimes". Even those who come from other countries to help repel the "invaders" are unless sponsored by a state civilians. [5] - Torture is technicaly a "war crime" irrespective of the social state of peace or war and is illegal providing one or both nations are signatories to various international treaties, hence the Bush and Co term "enhanced interrogation" and the need for "rendition".

How To Find Out What Your Customers Really Want I remember when the economic world around us was collapsing. Banks were failing, the US economy was spiraling out of control. During this time I had a conversation with a copywriter who worked on brands like crest, apple and hertz, that this seemingly doomed scenario was the perfect springboard for a small bank to make it huge. He continued, “Odds are, there is some bank out there that didn’t make bad loans, that stuck to their conservative roots, and all they need to do is speak up and they will emerge victorious. The concept is simple, if the world is complaining about something, that is not a problem, its a massive opportunity. It tells you there is a hole in the market, and/or a hole in consumers minds when thinking about that category. I don’t know if any bank really capitalized on that branding opportunity, but my bet would be on Wells Fargo. They seemed to come out of the mess doing just fine. As a marketer, I have been involved in many internal battles between the sales departments and my marketing department. The classic issue was about the quality of leads, but I remember clearly one specific and eye opening argument that I am proud to say I emerged victorious. Here’s the story. We were in the Junk Car space, and we promoted a free vacation voucher on our website. These vouchers cost like $5-$10 for us, and are basically remnant hotel and cruise inventory sold off to promotional marketing companies for pennies. Our web development team was much more nimble than our operations team, so we knew and started promoting the free vacation vouchers before the sales team knew about it. I got frantic calls from the sales manager, and several operations people yelling at me to take it off the website, because their team wasn’t prepared for it, and the back office wasn’t quite ready to ship them. They had customers calling and asking for the vouchers, and they weren’t confident they could deliver. What was the argument about? Well, they wanted me to stop promoting something that the customers were asking for. To me, that was blasphemy. If the customers are specifically asking for something, wouldn’t that be a great indicator of what they want, and what part of the messaging hooked them? Am I crazy? Was this an opportunity for the operations team to scramble and deliver, or a situation the marketing team should yank something thats working? If I see customers want something… I am not going to find a way to make them not want it… I am going to do whatever it takes to give them what they want. In the end that story worked out… I Realized…When Salesmen Heard Complaints, They Saw More Work. When I Heard Complaints, I Saw Opportunity. I still believe that most businesses don’t listen to their customers or are too busy trying to defend themselves than trying to do what it takes to deliver what their customers want and are asking for. In fact, with the immediacy of PPC, you can easily test 3 or 4 promotions and see which one customers ask about, and you know which one is a better hook. There is an excellent story in next months Fast Company about C&A Marketing in New Jersey, founded by Chaim Pikarski and Harry Klein. They minted in the tens or possibly hundreds of millions of dollars just by reading customer reviews and complaints. Here is their business model. Find popular consumer goods on Amazon, read through all the reviews and see what features people are saying they wish the product had. (i.e. a waterproof bluetooth speaker for the shower, or that floats in the pool.) The company than designs and developers a product with the new features customers wished it had, and than sell it on Amazon, and eventually in brick and mortar retail. What a simple and brilliant strategy. Nowadays with the internet, it isn’t rocket science to manufacture consumer goods in China, etc… C&A would then list it on Amazon, and if the item sells really well, they invest in innovating it even more, and launch it under a big brand name they are building up (Ivation). What A Brilliant and Obvious Way to Mine Consumer Complaints and Reviews For A Fortune in Profits. According to the article, C&A employs hundreds of people to comb through amazon reviews and develop products. I have always believed that businesses should check complaint website online to see what consumers complain about most in their industry, and use that as the platform to build a brand around. This is such a clear and obvious way to uncover consumer pain points, and most of the time the solution is easy to solve. I have even thought about building a scraping tool with natural language processing to identify the biggest complaints in an industry. If you know of such a tool, let me know… more importantly though… Do me a favor and do your homework for your business. Find a common complaint and fix it, and than promote the heck out of it… You will emerge victorious. (I should point out that asking them what the want will most likely not yield the results you need. Customers often don’t really know what drives them or what they really want… However, natural reviews and complaints are usually driven by emotion, and will more likely reflect their true desires.) In Simpler Terms, When You Ask What They Want, They’ll Tell You What They Think You Want To Hear. When They Take Their Own Initiative and Write Reviews or Complaints, They’ll Tell You What They Really Want To Say.

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"A seven-year-old girl is recovering after being sexually assaulted in her bed by a stranger who broke into her Mount Maunganui home, police say.The man, described as "big" and in his 30s, walked into the girl's bedroom which she shared with her younger sister and indecently assaulted her while she slept on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, police say. The man is described as having a mohawk-style hair cut - spiked in the middle and short on the back and sides, and has earrings in his left ear. He was wearing a blue jacket with white stripes, knee-high shorts with a Maori design down both sides and black running shoes." No mention of race but its pretty obvious by the description, and of course the clothing "reprezenting" his "cultcha" The man, described as "big" and in his 30s, ... is described as having a mohawk-style hair cut - spiked in the middle and short on the back and sides, and has earrings in his left ear. He was wearing a blue jacket with white stripes, knee-high shorts with a Maori design down both sides and black running shoes."[/I] No mention of race but its pretty obvious by the description, and of course the clothing "reprezenting" his "cultcha" The perpetrator is quite clearly a youth. An older youth perhaps but still a youth.

How Does Crowdfunding Work & How Did it Work For Me? Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to speak with the Phoenix West Rotary Club. I had the opportunity to share the story of how my children’s book came to life. I thought you all might like to see speech I gave to the Rotary Club…enjoy! For 23 years, the TV series Reading Rainbow captured the attention of young people across the world. From 1983 to 2006 the Emmy award winning show, led by actor LeVar Burton, helped millions of kids create a love for reading. Eight years ago the show was told it had run its course. PBS no longer had room for the program on its schedule. After a brief hiatus, Burton felt there was still room for Reading Rainbow in the homes and hearts of young readers. However, he decided the format was not just for TV anymore, he wanted to expand the program across many platforms. Burton had a vision of making Reading Rainbow accessible at your fingertips 24/7. He wanted kids be able to get the material on their iPads, computers and smartphones. He wanted classrooms everywhere to have access to all the content the program created during its successful 23-year run. The vision was there, but a very important element was not. In order to make this dream a reality, Burton was going to have to come up with $1 million. No small task, even for a guy that was on Star Trek. How was Burton going to get the funding to make this dream possible? About a year ago I asked myself a similar question. I had written a children’s book about a Moose named Maury. It was a fun Christmas story filled with puns and rhymes. The book was written for early readers but I had a bigger goal in mind. I had read a survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, which found that only one in three parents read bedtime stories with their children every night, and 50 percent of parents say their kids spend more time with TV or video games than with books. My goal was to create a book that offered something for the entire family. I wanted my story to encourage families to gather around reading instead of the TV. My book was written for ages 5-10 but much like popular animated movies, I mixed in adult humor with childhood whimsy to create a story that kids and parents could love reading together. My book was finished and Maury was ready to come to life. Only one problem. Much like Reading Rainbow, in order to get my message out to the world I was going to have to find some money. I didn’t have to come up with $1 million, like Burton, but I knew that in order to create my book and do it right I was going to need some help. Around that time, I had read a great book by Adam Grant titled Give & Take. The book’s premise was that some people are givers. Grant portrayed a group of givers by explaining that there are sites out there where people can give you money to help you get a project off the ground. I was someone who was looking to get a project off the ground. Was there really a site where people would give me funding to help me achieve my goal? It seemed too good to be true. After some research, I learned that these sites do exist and they are an online financing strategy known as crowdfunding. I did not know a lot about crowdfunding but I saw it as an opportunity to get the help I needed to bring my book to life. My campaign launched on September 23rd with the goal of raising $5,000. Within two weeks I hit my goal! With the help of 89 amazing people I ended up raising $5,725 over the course of my 30 day campaign. Crowdfunding has been described as the intersection of money and dreams. As the name suggests, it is a way of collecting financing from backers, or a “crowd” to “fund” an initiative. The initiative can be anything from a book project like mine to a non-profit looking to raise money to send children with cancer to summer camp. The first step is to choose a crowdfunding platform online. This is where you will present your project and use anything you can to attract funds from your audience. The two most popular crowdfunding platforms right now are Kickstarter and Indiegogo. I chose Kickstarter for my book. Once you pick your site, you then have to tell your story. You set up your campaign, outlining your project, covering things such as how much money you are looking to raise, what you will do with the money and why people should join your initiative. The video I showed was the introduction to my project. It gave background on who I am, what I am doing and why I need help. In order to entice people to donate, you can offer rewards. I offered everything from temporary tattoos to a chance to meet me for lunch and write a Christmas poem together. Before you are ready to launch your project you must decide how long your campaign will last. This sets a countdown clock to show how much time you have to receive funding. Next comes the most important and also the scariest part. You have to ask people for help. In a culture that often finds it taboo to personally ask for money, crowdfunding does just that. Because you are not really selling something, you have to get over the fear of asking for money. Sure I offered my book as a reward to contributing to my project, but it was still hard to ask family, friends and strangers for money. One thing I learned is that there are a lot of great people out there who are looking to help. And not only do people want to help, but they want to contribute to something they feel will be successful. This is similar to why people want to vote for a candidate they think is going to win an election. People want to be connected to a winner. Once your project looks like it will be a winner, you really start to gain traction. You may be thinking all this is great but what does it have to do with us? How can the Phoenix West Rotary Club use crowdfunding? As I mentioned earlier, crowdfunding helped companies and individuals raise over $5 billion in 2013 and the industry is continuing to skyrocket. This industry isn’t just for people with a book about a moose. It is for everyone. You might have crowdfunding ideas for each of your individual businesses, but what about bringing those ideas together for the Rotary Club. By pooling the audience from each of your companies, I think Rotary could put together a very successful crowdfunding campaign. See, crowdfunding does not build you an audience. But it does help bring your audience closer together. When I started my Kickstarter campaign I did not have a huge audience. But what I learned is that the audience I did have really came together thanks to my project. I went from having a small group of people who knew about my book, to having 89 really passionate fans who literally gave me money from their pocket to see me succeed. The key thing is developing a project that speaks to your audience about who you are. You have to pick the right project. You probably wouldn’t want to raise money to create a calendar featuring “Men of The Rotary Club.” You have to decide what your audience can get behind. I’ve heard that the rotary club is involved with the Ronald McDonald House. One option could be to use crowdfunding as a resource to raise funds and awareness for their Adopt A Room program. One charity I am very involved with is the Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Every year they hold a camp in Prescott for children with cancer. The camp is called Camp Rainbow and it does not cost the patients a dime to attend. As you can imagine this can get expensive. This year, PCH decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign through Indigogo to help raise money for Camp Rainbow. Thanks to a very generous audience, I am happy to say that their project raised over $12,000. Tomorrow I leave to volunteer at Camp Rainbow and that opportunity might not have been available if it wasn’t for the help of crowdfunding. One person who has now become a huge fan of crowdfunding is LeVar Burton. As I mentioned at the open of this talk, Burton had the difficult task of raising $1 million for Reading Rainbow. As you can probably guess by now, Burton turned to crowdfunding to help attain financing. Thanks to an awesome fan base along with many celebrity endorsers, Reading Rainbow kicked butt with their Kickstarter campaign. They achieved their goal in less than 12 hours! When the dust settled on their 30 day campaign they had raised 6 times their goal, finishing with $6.4 million. Their tremendous success will allow them to spread the joy of reading to kids across the world. And who knows, maybe one day they will make an episode about a moose named Maury!

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. LOS ANGELES—Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa slammed it as "cynical political manipulation," Los Angeles schools Superintendent John Deasy termed it shameful, but for the California Teachers Association, it was a victory. The defeat Wednesday of a proposed law that would have made it easier for school districts to fire teachers in cases of sexual and other egregious misconduct has shone a spotlight on the strong sway of the California Teachers Association, widely considered the state's most politically influential labor union with more than 325,000 members. SB 1530 had previously sailed through the Senate, but ran into a stepped up lobbying effort by the CTA at Wednesday's hearing of the Assembly Education Committee. Teachers from around the state travelled to Sacramento to testify, successfully arguing that the bill violated teachers' right to due process. The bill garnered five votes. It needed six to exit committee to head to the Assembly floor. "Clearly, they have a powerful voice," said a disappointed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, who authored the bill. "It made an impact." Padilla introduced the bill earlier this year, spurred by the case of a veteran teacher at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles who was arrested in January on 32 lewd conduct charges involving school children. Prosecutors say Mark Berndt blindfolded students and fed them his semen by spoon and smeared on cookies in what he told them was a "tasting game." He has pleaded not guilty. Police found hundreds of photos of pupils and said he'd been engaged in the activity for years. The case only came to light when a drugstore photo technician spotted the odd images and reported them to authorities. Headlines about the case sparked numerous reports of sexual misconduct by teachers around the state, and highlighted how difficult it is to remove them, typically taking years and incurring hefty legal fees through a labyrinthine process. The bill would have truncated the process, allowing a school board to make the final dismissal decision after a recommendation by an administrative law judge and permitted evidence more than four years old to be used. It would have also allowed a teacher to retain counsel and present a defense and witnesses, request a hearing by an independent arbiter and to appeal the board's decision to a court. Union officials said the bill was changing a system that already worked. They particularly objected to the provision where the teacher would have a hearing before a single administrative law judge, whose decision would be only advisory and the school board would have the final say. "Why should management be given new authority to ignore an administrative law judge?" said Michael Stone, who teaches middle school in Capistrano Unified in Orange County. Padilla said the bill was balanced between protecting children and ensuring teachers' rights and he had already amended the bill to address union concerns. Committee Chairwoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, said she supported the bill in part because of its narrow focus on cases where teachers are accused of sexual misconduct, violence and drugs against children, but other committee members said that although the current system was slow, it largely worked. "Virtually all of it can be done under existing law," said Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo. Padilla said the opposition took him aback because the bill had not encountered such a backlash in the Senate. "It surprised me a bit," he said. "I tried to answer everything." Some observers saw politics at play. The CTA is one of the state's most lavish spenders on political campaigns and has access to a huge swath of voters. Villaraigosa, a former union organizer, said in a statement that the committee displayed "a singular lack of courage and conviction" in failing to challenge the CTA. "We needed our leaders in Sacramento to put the interest of our students above their interest in preserving the status quo," he said. In a joint statement, Los Angeles Unified's Deasy and school board members Monica Garcia, Nury Martinez and Tamar Galatzan also questioned opponents' motives. "Is it really more important for them to satisfy union demands than to change a system that is not in the best interest of parents and children?" they asked. Teachers refuted the contention that politics played a role, or that they are protecting abusive colleagues. The bill was simply flawed and unnecessary, they said. "We go into this profession because we care about people, we care about students," said James Harper, a high school teacher in Elk Grove Unified in Sacramento. "Because of that, we don't want teachers in our profession who are not in that mindset, either." Definite mindless moonbattery. Good men sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. I will never understand why teachers' unions don't want to get rid of teachers who molest students, or otherwise engage in inappropriate behavior in the classroom. It makes the membership at large look bad. I will never understand why teachers' unions don't want to get rid of teachers who molest students, or otherwise engage in inappropriate behavior in the classroom. It makes the membership at large look bad.

Here is the eighth instalment of the comic strip version of Walt Disney's Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men (1952).Thiswas the first Walt Disney live-action movie to be adapted to a comic strip. It was also another way in which Disney was able to advertise his new releases and keep the film fresh in the audiences mind. The strip version of Robin Hood originally ran for twenty five weeks, from 13th July till 28th December 1952 and was illustrated by Jessie Mace Marsh (1907-1966).Down the years I have posted about Marsh and we have seen a few versions of his Robin Hood drawings in various stages of production. Unfortunately those examples were all I could find, until I was contacted by Matt Crandall. Matt runs the excellent Disney's Alice in Wonderland blog and has very kindly sent me images of the Robin Hood strips that re-appeared in the Belgian Mickey Magazine in1953. To read more about the life of the artist that drew this strip, please click here Jessie Marsh. I doubt if many film props have had their life chronicled so fully. But since I first noticed a chair designed for Disney's Story of Robin Hood (1952) being used in TV's Adventures of Robin Hood(1955-58) and Robin of Sherwood(1984-86) my eagle eyed readers have continued to spot it in many other later productions. Just recently, Laurence has sent me yet another instance of what we call Robin Hood's Chairbeing used. His still (above) shows the chair in The Black Knight (1954), which starred Alan Ladd, Peter Cushing and Patrick Troughton. The chair in Disney's Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men (1952) The ornate chair was originally designed by the talented Carman Dillon and her art department for Walt Disney's Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Menin 1951. This film was the last major production made at Denham Studios and this huge complex later merged with the Rank Organisation's Pinewood Studios. Laurence points out that The Black Knight was made at Pinewood, which probably explains the availability of the chair as a prop. Because of our discoveries, I have compiled a list of the film and television productions that have used Robin Hood's Chair (and other props from the Disney film) over the past sixty four years... The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men (Film:1952) The Men of Sherwood Forest (Film:1954) Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) Three chairs used from 'The Story of Robin Hood' in 'Men of Sherwood (1954) The Black Knight (Film:1954) The Dark Avenger (Film:1955) The chair used in The Dark Avenger (1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV:1955-58) That chair in the Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-1960) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-58) Sword of Sherwood Forest (Film:1960) Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) Sword of Sherwood Forest also used costumes from The Story of Robin Hood Robin of Sherwood (TV: 1984-86) The chair in Robin of Sherwood (1984-86) Robin of Sherwood (1984-86) Horrible Histories (TV: 2013-15) The chair in a scene from the Horrible Histories episode on Richard I A big thank you to all my readers who have sent in these examples. If you know where this chair is or have seen Robin Hood's Chair in any other productions please get in touch! These rare stills, taken from Walt Disney's live action movie The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men (1952) raise a number of interesting questions. Was this scene filmed on one of the huge sound stages at Denham Studios? On location at Burnham Beeches? Or both? Joan Rice and Richard Todd I originally believed that the scene in which Robin chases Marian through the woodland was filmed at Denham. But now I am not so sure. The sets were so realistic it is hard to tell. What do you think? Follow On Twitter A Blog about a Film and a Legend "It has always been my hope that our fairy-tale films will result in a desire of viewers to read again the fine, old original tales and enchanting myths on the home bookshelf or school library. Our motion picture productions are designed to augment them, not supplant them." ~ Walt Disney

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Inside TLDP A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Linux Documentation Project. TLDP is short for The Linux Documentation Project, an organization of volunteers authoring, reviewing and managing documents about the Linux operating system. Documents basically come in two formats based upon their length. The shorter ones generally are called HOWTOs (or mini-HOWTOs, if they are really short), the longer documents, called guides, deal in-depth with a Linux feature. The number of topics discussed in these HOWTOs and guides is practically unlimited, ranging from installing the Linux system to managing all kinds of devices, services and environments, to creating your own system from scratch. Name any topic, there's something about it in TLDP, mainly thanks to volunteers who share their experiences. All the documentation is freely available in several formats suitable for printing and on-line browsing. The main submission language is English, but several translation efforts, including French, German and Chinese, try to make this immense amount of information available to a wider public. How to Use TLDP Linux environments tend to change at a rather high speed, so do the docs. Sooner rather than later, submissions about new protocols and applications reach TLDP, outdating older documents. The main problem here is TLDP maintainers usually are rather soft-hearted, so partly out of melancholy, partly out of respect and sometimes partly because of the lack of volunteers for upgrading a document, they tend to archive everything. Given this information, it might thus be best to stick to the following golden rules when searching the LDP collection: 1. Check the revision date on a document. If it's older than a year, don't depend on it too much. 2. Check that a document is being updated regularly; this is an extra sign that it is being maintained seriously. Most documents contain revision history information in the preface. How Did TLDP Get Started? As Matt Welsh, one of the co-founders, puts it: "The history of the LDP is a pretty murky memory these days." It started in 1992, before the World Wide Web existed. It's hard to imagine how we did without HTML, but in those days almost everything was FTP and Usenet and dial-in to a BBS was most likely. In the beginning, most of the documentation was in one big file, split into sections, called the Linux FAQ. Later, Matt got together with Lars Wirzenius and Michael K. Johnson, who had the idea of producing printed Linux documentation. Michael initially started on a kernel hackers guide, Lars did the system administrator guide and Matt wrote the first installation guide. Everything was done in LaTeX, so the only way to read these docs in a reasonably comfortable way was either by printing them out or using a PostScript viewer. But as Linux capabilities grew, it was no longer possible for one person to maintain everything. Pretty soon, not even several people could manage the job. Thus, the HOWTOs were born, each describing a part of the original big chunk of information. This created an easily extendible system that allows for many authors to contribute to their areas of specialization. That effort lead to the use of SGML, which enabled the fast generation of all sorts of output formats, including HTML, from one source file or set of files. The first tests were conducted at Sunsite (a famous server machine at the University of North Carolina), which was the first Web site offering information about Linux. Also, when you wanted to download Linux software, Sunsite.unc.edu was the place to go. It still contains some kernel archives--probably by accident, there also are a lot of empty directories these days. Before the crash (May 2003) I was able to find, via FTP, a document referring to two maintainers of the LDP as it was run by the end of 1994 at UNC. It pointed to Jon Magid and a mysterious Erik with no last name, who was still at Sunsite in 1996. After extended research in the dungeon server rooms of Google, we can state with almost certainty that the mysterious Erik does have a last name after all. Most likely, we are dealing here with the Erik Troan, who supported possibly half of the Linux users in the 1993-1996 period and later on became the Senior Director of Engineering at Red Hat. Further research revealed that sometime in 1996, Greg Hankins became supervisor of the LDP project. He was the original author of the Serial HOWTO, which he began maintaining in 1993; he also was one of the main contributors to the SGML-tools development project. Comment viewing options People responsible for managing projects often ask us how we do it. This is how. There is no book that tells you how to do it. We are on a road with many bumps and ups and downs, and TLDP seemingly hangs together with hooks and eyes--but it's there and it doesn't go away. Thank you for this project. My website livedatesearch.com is developed in pure C++ for Linux, it does not use any MySQL/PHP databases. All database is held in RAM with STL and dumps at disk. TLDP has greatly helped me to create it. Thank you! Thank you for taking the chance to deliver this affair. I’m pleased I discovered your site on this material. I’m doing research on this interest right now and this was great. Keep up the great work.I’m doing research on this interest right now and this was great. Keep up the great work. weight loss fast I am so glad that I have found this your article because I have been searching for some information about various recipes from pig meat almost an hour. You helped me a lot indeed and reading this your entry I have found many new and useful information about this question. Well, I will definitely bookmark your website and wait for other useful and detailed posts like this one in the future. email marketing - According to an excerpt from the ldp-l@linux.org.au mailinglist archive that was sent to me, Guylhem took over from Lars only in 1999. - There are a couple of things left out, since this is an article and not a book: * Rise and fall of the Open Source Writers Group; * David Merrill, creator and maintainer of the LDP database and developer of LDP tools, deserves credit but is not mentioned - but on the other hand there are many others who did fantastic work and are not mentioned here. I hope these people understand the context of this article and know that I am thinking about them, eventhough they are not all listed by name; - Note the difference between old documents that are unmaintained and documents that deal with old(er) concepts or old hardware but that are still being maintained; - I might have given the impression that Guylhem took over a floundering organization, but this is not so. Lars, his predecessor, was working on major changes, including an automated submission system for updates - however this was never finished; - Not all printed copies of TLDP docs were copies of the complete collection.

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Easter games are key to league title It IS getting really tasty at the top of the East Midlands Counties League table following Borrowash Victoria’s surprise defeat last Saturday. With just four games to go, and three of them at home, Heanor Town can win the title if they can obtain maximum points. Ironically, it is Blaby & Whetstone Athletic, the conquerers of Borrowash Victoria last week, who are the visitors to the Town Ground on Saturday (3pm) for a must win game for the Lions. There has been more than a passing interest taken in Heanor Town’s results recently by the town’s people and it would be good if they were to come along to the club’s last three home games and lend their support as well. The facilities are good, there are seats and plenty of covered accommodation, so what better way to start Easter than with a visit to the Town Ground? A win from this game would set up the Easter Monday clash with fellow title aspirants Borrowash Victoria at the Town Ground (3pm). If things go according to plan it is likely that this game will be the title decider in more ways than one. But having said that, it is a tough Easter programme for the team and one which they will do well to come through unscathed. The Lions will, however, go into their Easter programme on the back of a nine game league unbeaten run during which time they have won eight of these games. It is a record which could see them win the Team of the month title for March, having already won it for two months this season so far. Last Saturday’s 5-1 win at Anstey was ample revenge for the 3-2 defeat the Lions suffered at home to their Leicestershire rivals at the end of November, and the first of these goals, scored by Gary Webster, was the team’s 50th away league goal of the season and taking their league total to 108 in just 32 goals. Title or no title, the Lions have proved themselves the most attractive team in the league to watch this season, both home and away. Nathan Benger has been responsible for 34 of these goals. His second goal at Anstey last Saturday took him into the East Midland Counties League record books as the League’s all-time leading goalscorer. In 2008/9, the first year of the East Midland Counties League competition, Holwell Sports’ Scott Mooney took the Golden Boot award with 24 goals. A year later in was the turn of Barrow Town’s Stu Wilson with 32. Last year Thurnby Nirvana’s Jordan Smith went one better with 33, and this season, still with four games left to play, Benger has surpassed them all with 34 so far, twelve ahead of his nearest challenger, Barrow Town’s Chris Adams. It’s a figure that is unlikely to be caught. And so going into what is Heanor Town’s biggest and most exciting Easter for as long as many of their supporters can remember, there is much to look forward to at the Town Ground and, hopefully, record gates to go with it. Trending A610 closed near Ripley following three vehicle collision Attempted murder case involving an alleged hit-and-run is further adjourned New driver luckily escapes Codnor crash in car taken without consent Fire crews rush to false alarm after smoke grenade incident in Ripley IN PICTURES: New £3.5m Heanor Memorial Health Centre officially opened

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Enough 444 people read this post. Breaking Free from the World of Excess John Naish Getting richer is no longer making us happier—if it ever did. Depression, self-harm, and suicide are on the rise. Families are splitting up. Children are increasingly pressured and some desperately unhappy. Success and happiness are now conditioned by job status, by the cars we drive, the brands we wear and consume, the loyalty cards we are admitted into, the airlines we travel on, or the neighborhood we live in. Success is determined by our salary and what we buy with that salary. A successful marriage is defined by how much we provide for our spouse, or by how much money that spouse can leech from her husband. However much we have, we seem to want more. More wealth, more information, more food, more happiness, more possessions, and more luxury. We never seem to have enough regardless of the cost to ourselves and the world in which we reside. This desire for more things is facilitated by a sorry overstimulated, self-obsessed culture, in which our lower instincts are aroused, and the parts of our brain that help to make us civilized are diminished. The upshot is that we fight greedily over ever-decreasing resources, to feed our overstuffed, fat lives, gorging on junk infotainment, junk food, junk aspirations, and junk loyalty to grasping corporations. The overriding message of our current culture is we do not have all we need to be satisfied. It is now time to say enough. There was a time not so long ago when people would receive the news once or twice a day then move on. The amount of news was limited by the length of the program, broadcast, or newspaper. Abstaining from the news was fairly simple: with very little effort one simply avoided it, and no one’s life felt the poorer for doing so. Then came cable television, twenty-four-hour news networks, the internet, and finally mobile phones. The news became a rolling, international, always updated goliath. It also became free and always accessible. Suddenly, almost overnight, it was possible to get news from any country, at any time, and anywhere. For many people their brain chemicals didn’t stand a chance. Every time a news outlet was updated we’d click on it, our brain would release a little bit of dopamine as a reward, we’d feel temporarily content, informed, happy even, then hunt for the next piece of news, never quite sure of the point of it all. To feed this addiction, and to gain advertising revenue, news outlets provided us with evermore tantalizing, yet pointless stories, often focussing upon celebrities or titillation. The result of this constant news is speculation, rumor mongering, nonstories, trivia, and a mind filled with exaggerated anxiety, heightened by regular reruns or updates of the same story. The stimulation of watching, checking, clicking, then repeat causes constant stress. Just thirty minutes a day of news checking leads to anxiety-related depression. In short, the news is driving us nuts, making us into addicts, and stopping us from doing anything purposeful. And it’s not just the news vying for our attention. There’s also information masquerading as knowledge, data,reviews, opinions, and constant commentary. As we are drowning in information corporations are having to try ever harder to gain our attention, especially as one in five conventional advertisements no longer have any effect. Neuromarketing consultancies are now working with major corporations in order to obtain the little that is left of your concentration. They want to embed brand loyalty into your brain. For example, a team at Baylor University undertook MRI scans of people’s brains as they drank cola. When volunteers drank cola, any type of cola, out of a red can their hippocampus and prefrontal cortex lit up like a Christmas tree. This was due to the red can of Coca Cola being positively embedded in the part of the brain that regulates emotion and memory. All those hundreds of millions of dollars spent on “Coke is it!” and “It’s the real thing” campaigns during our youth have paid off handsomely—our brains have been subverted by scientifically honed advertising. So we’re drowning in news and embedded advertising, and we still haven’t got to the 144 billion emails sent every single day. Nor the 27 billion WhatsApp messages. Nor the 500 million tweets, the 10 billion Facebook messages, and the 17 billion daily text messages. All of which lower IQ and concentration span. And then there’s blog posts and other regularly updated websites to consider. All this information and the mediums upon which it travels is bewildering, corrupting, and addicting. It all seemed so simple to avoid in the 1990s before the internet and cell phones entered our consciousness. All we had to do was take a baseball bat to the television and bin the newspaper. In England, professors specializing in the psychology of appetite have noted that people are born with hardly any preset taste preferences—contrary to popular opinion, a desire for biryani is not innate. We are born with a slight preference for sweet items, the rest is learnt. Every time we experience a new taste our appetite adapts, and we quickly start to enjoy previously unfamiliar tastes. This science is not lost on food corporations. Just as marketers are using neuroscience to embed information and advertisements into our brain, similarly, companies are exploiting the brain’s reward centers in order to get us to eat more poor-quality, industrial food. Take the case of yogurt. Real yogurt contains just one ingredient: milk, to which is added bacteria. In contrast, the number of ingredients in YoCrunch Cookies n’ Cream Yogurt is unknowable, but there are at least eighteen ingredients, many of them unpronounceable, many of them sugars, and none of them present for reasons of nutrition; they are added to make a cheap, long-lasting, desirable product. This contrast between single ingredient natural food and modern industrial food can be found on every shelf of the supermarket. So why do many prefer YoCrunch over milk, or a Starbucks Vanilla Latte over a single estate coffee? The answer lies in the reward centers of our brain and how we are allowing them to be manipulated. We like food and drink a great deal, we are wired for it, our stomachs and brains do not let us forget it. Recent studies have shown that the mere thought of Häagan-Dazs ice cream sets off the same pleasure centers in the brain as photos of crack cocaine pipes do for drug addicts—ladies seem to be especially affected. A team from the University of Michigan sought to examine this link between food and the brain’s pleasure centers. They discovered two hedonistic hotspots in the brain that control liking and wanting. However, the brain circuit for wanting exerts 30% more influence than the circuit for liking. Furthermore, these reward systems are intensified by conditioning, they are not just automatic. The problem is that we now live in a culture that has conditioned us to always want something. The YoCrunch Cookies n’ Cream Yogurt is a piece of worthless junk, but the hucksters, through marketing and advertisements, have successfully made us want it and other similar garbage. We can’t get enough of industrial, unhealthy, modern food, and the more we consume it the more we train our tastes to like it. The results of this are catastrophic and plain for everyone to see. Tens of millions of people are now consigned to a fat, waddling, truncated life. Some 86% of Americans will be obese, not merely fat, by 2030. The overwhelming number of Westerners, and those following a modern, Western diet will be fat and blubbery in less than twenty years. We face an epidemic of diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, osteoarthritis, and heart disease, because we can’t stuff enough poor-quality food into our fat mouths. Healthcare systems, governments, and children of fat parents are going to struggle with this coming crisis. All of us, regardless of our current weight or health, would do well to avoid industrial food, the advertisements and places that promote it. Our appetite for more and more is not just limited to more food and more information: we also have an appetite for more stuff. Mercedes and Porsche are two high end examples of what we strive for and desire. Our appetite for owning such products is whetted by the prospect of faster, more luxurious icons of pleasure—even if they steal life, wreck the environment, and divert wealth from needy causes to corporations. SUVs are another such example. For most people they are unnecessary and yet they are supremely popular. Sports stars and celebrities drive them, advertisements promote them, they seem to be sign of successful, powerful people. In reality, they raise the bar for ostentation, make the driver elevated like the chief monkey on the rock, and are dirty, machines that guzzle the very gas wars are fought over. The news creates a climate of danger on the roads, so we also buy them to feel safe, regardless of the environmental or aesthetic costs. It seems an oxymoron that they are associated with success. The problem is after having purchased these desirable products we get a brief burst of pleasure, but ownership never quite delivers the promise of a happier life. At first there is the desire for an object or experience, then pleasure at ownership, then this feeling fades, only to be replaced by a yearning for yet another product or experience, and so the merry-go-round continues. Emory University researchers have analyzed and confirmed this phenomenon. Through brain scans they discovered that dopamine gets released when we first see a product and ponder buying it. But we only get this chemical high while we are anticipating a new product, not during the buying, and upon purchase our brain chemicals flatten in minutes. It is this fleeting feeling that advertisers tap into. This seduction now means that one in twenty Americans suffer from buying addictions, with adverse effects such as debt. Their Canadian cousins are not far behind. But we apparently need to carry on buying, throwing away, then repeating, because if we don’t the economy is screwed, yet if we carry on consuming, the planet cannot support it—we seem to have gotten ourselves into a real mess. In order to continue buying luxury items or eating to excess many people now work longer hours. Everyone seems to be incredibly busy all of the time, to the point where being busy with work, or being busier than everyone else is a sign of status. According to the Institute of Social and Economic Research in England, being busy, not leisured, is now the new badge of honor. Unfortunately, being busy and earning more money does not lead to greater happiness, less anxiety, or greater feelings of security. It’s enough to be halfway up the earnings ladder in any country, any higher does not lead to greater satisfaction, but it does lead to problems such as family breakdown and increased emphasis on material wealth. It also brings a greater emphasis on shallow luxury, positional goods and experiences—neither of which bring any meaningful fulfillment. Perversely, we are not only less fulfilled, we are also more stressed and less happy with our materialism or earning power. Around 10% of Americans are clinically depressed; around 10–16% of their Canadian compatriots suffer from depression. These figures only deal with those who are diagnosed and being treated. They do not include anxiety, stress, or simply feeling unhappy. Nor does it include suicidal thoughts and self-harm.Fully one-quarter of Canadian deaths in the sixteen- to twenty-four-year-old age group are due to suicide. This despondency has led to the creation of a happiness industry. Books, magazines, blog posts extoll fantastic careers, amazing spouses, the cleverest children, beautiful holidays, and luxury cars. Images of beautiful women or of sophisticated alpha businessmen make us feel inadequate, and yet we still strive to imitate such people. Social media also makes a contribution. On Facebook, on Twitter, on blogs everyone has perfect lives, excellent productivity, great experiences, and wonderful photos or selfies to show how beautiful we are to the world—sadly religious leaders are no longer immune to this trend. For the most part it’s a lie, and shows the shallowness of much of contemporary culture in emphasizing material objects.So what to do? We’re not happy, we’re seemingly never satisfied, we pollute ourselves with worthless, junk information, we’re veritable corporate zombies buying the next big branded thing. We love luxury, material possessions, big cars, big wives, alpha husbands, big travel experiences, and just buying more and more stupid stuff. We don’t need to torment ourselves over every Amazon review in order to choose the very best product. Our current culture obsesses with having everything new, fashionable, hipster, or disposable, rather than quality-made products. Such quality-made products may cost more in the short term, but will last for years, if not a lifetime, and stop us from worrying about having the next great thing. With the shelving of old religious and moral frameworks, a thirst for personal possessions and pleasures is all that remains. To deliberately practice self-denial or plain, modest living seems a little too old-fashioned, a little too humble, a sign of being a loser. As our sense of purpose is focussed on pursuing more things or accumulating more wealth, it has turned us into ingrates, removing gratitude, contentment, and often generosity from our lives. Yet gratitude is inexhaustible and enhances quality of life in a way that the next consumer product never will. Generosity offers us contentment in a manner that hoarding wealth for the next big thing never does. Those people who believe they have enough and practice gratitude have higher levels of alertness, determination, optimism, and energy. According to the American Journal of Cardiology they are more motivated to exercise regularly. Gratitude is also associated with improved heart function and lower levels of materialism. In contrast, overwork, never being satisfied, wealth accumulation, overeating, and information overload leads to ill health, anxiety, mental illness, hard heartedness, and marital problems. We have enough to make us happy and comfortable. Travel is easy. Cleaning and washing are easy. We have warm houses, hot water, and easy-to-obtain quality food. We have every convenience we could possibly need. We don’t need more things. They will not make us more happy; they are not a sign of success. But we do need a different outlook, one that centers on moral principles, sees possessions and luxury as inconsequential, spends real-world time with our family and friends, has a life not committed to work and money, eats wholesome nonindustrialized food, gets off the information treadmill, and de-emphasizes job status. To all these material things it is time to say enough and to get back to what truly matters.

Winter 1994, Volume 11.1 Fiction Kevin Avery A Daughter is a Different Matter Kevin Avery is president of Writers at Work. His fiction has appeared in Utah Holidz California Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Erotic Fiction Quarterly, and Gallery Magazine. He is a music critic for The Arts Magazine and The Event. Ray walks up the driveway and into the garage, opens the car door, fits his briefcase into the space behind the driver's seat. He stops short of climbing in. Stacked pyramidally against the right-hand wall of the garage are eight cardboard boxes. Ray has stacked them there, one or two at a time, over a period of several years. He has labeled each of them "LIVVY'S STUFF" in red, green, blue, and black felt-tip pen. These are the things that Livvy no longer wants in her room, but which she won't give Ray permission to throw away. Not yet. It's not that she's outgrown them-her room still has the ability to startle first-time visitors. It's a menagerie for Snoopys and teddy bears of all sizes and a Bullwinkle and a stuffed lime-green rhinoceros the size of a pit bull and a Bart Simpson doll that, when you yank his string, says "Eat my shorts" or "Au contraire, mon frere " It's just that these toys, the ones in the boxes, come from a different -part of Livvy's childhood. Against her will, they have lost their meaning for her. Ray carries the cardboard boxes down the driveway, one at a time. He lines them up along the curb, beside the bags of grass clippings and leaves, and the army-colored plastic garbage can with wheels on it like those on a child's red wagon. He thinks he should've seen it coming, caught a glimpse of the betrayal beforehand, like a sliver of glass flashing in the carpet Just before being stepped on. But he didn't. Ray didn't know daughters could be like that. When he picks up the last box, it fools him and weighs next to nothing. He kneels in the driveway and pulls open the interlocked cardboard flaps. Inside are four Barbie dolls, their wildly undone blonde hair threatening to take over the otherwise empty box. All of them are naked and posture perfect. Ray picks up one of the dolls and runs his thumb across the breasts, which are large and smooth and nippleless. The legs are close together, and the toes come to a dangerous point. He holds the doll as if it were a pink dagger and stabs at the air. *** Ray was in bed last night when Livvy called and asked if she could sleep over at Sheila's. She'd gone over there for supper and to watch The Simpsons, the way she always does, and was supposed to have been home by ten. But the news was already over and Leno was coming on when the phone rang. "It's a school night," Ray said. "Don't be a dad," Livvy said. She reminded him that school would let out at noon tomorrow to launch the opening weekend of deer season. "Remember, Dad?" "When I went to school," Ray said, "deer-hunting wasn't a recognized holiday." He didn't think anything of the heavy metal music playing in the background. Or the muffled whispering as Livvy's small hand smothered the mouthpiece. To Ray they seemed nothing more than the naturally loud and furtive ingredients of a teenage sleep-over. While Ray waited, he closed his eyes and imagined Sheila scurrying up or down carpeted stairs in search of Mrs. Reed, whom he had met only twice. The first time had been when she carpooled Livvy and Sheila and three of their friends to the star show at the planetarium. That night, when she returned with the girls, Mrs. Reed and Ray had stood drinking his freshly-made lemonade in the backyard, the lawn still wet from the sprinklers, looking up into the night sky for Orion and Andromeda, pointing out the Pleiades. A week or so later Ray had stopped off at Albertson's on his way home from work, and there she'd been, Mrs. Reed, looking too young to be anyone's mother, let alone a teenager's. Standing in the frozen-food section, Ray in his jacket and tie and Mrs. Reed in a tight red dress that he couldn't imagine being worn anywhere except to a cocktail party, he had said, for no other reason than not wanting the conversation to end before it had begun, how fortunate the two of them were to have two such wonderful daughters when there were so many un-wonderful daughters in the world today. Ray has never forgotten Mrs. Reed's reply. Her words had been without spite or cynicism, but as she spoke them she'd reached over and touched Ray's hand on the handle of the shopping cart, gently, as if preparing him for something painful. "Someone will take care of that in short order," she said. *** Ray's eyes were still shut last night, and he was thinking how much he was looking forward to talking to Mrs. Reed again, thinking how sexy and sensible she seemed and how the two qualities complemented each other, when a voice other than Mrs. Reed's-a man's voice-came on the line. "Hello?" "Hello," Ray said. "This is Ray, Livvy's father." "I'm Lou, Sheila's dad," the man said. "Real nice to meet you." As if Mr. Reed could suddenly see him, as if he'd been caught thinking about this other man's wife, Ray sat up in bed. His heart beat faster. He used his fingers to comb his hair. "Listen," Ray said, "I just wanted to make sure Livvy's not being a bother, it being a school night and all." "Not in the least," Mr. Reed said. "We love having her." "You didn't spend last night at Sheila's?" It came out sounding like the second stupidest question Ray had ever asked. The first had been when Livvy first came in this morning, through the back door into the kitchen. Ray was standing at the stove, slurping his second cup of coffee, debating whether or not to fry himself an egg. "Didn't Mr. Reed drive you home?" he asked. "No," she said snottily, "Mr. Reed didn't drive me home." Her red parka flashed in the corner of his eye, and when he readied his cheek to receive her customary good-morning kiss she hurried past him. He caught a glimpse of her face as she turned it away from him, as if captured in a blurry snapshot. He followed her into the living room, then back into the kitchen. She stood at the sink, staring into it, and squirted too much detergent into last night's frying pan, then ran water into it. "Take off your coat and tell me what's going on," Ray said. In the yellow kitchen light he saw how tired she looked. Her hair was windblown, and when he tried to brush it away from her cheeks, still red from the cold morning air, she swatted his hand away. Livvy started to fix herself a cup of Taster's Choice, but Ray took the jar out of her hand. "Go hang up your coat," he said. "If you're cold, turn up the furnace." She sat down at the kitchen table, leaving the parka on. Ray added three teaspoons of sugar and two teaspoons of nondairy creamer to the coffee, the way Livvy likes it. He fixed it in her favorite mug, the one with the wraparound Gary Larson cartoon of two deer standing in the forest, one of them with a target painted on the white of its chest. He tried to hold the mug for her while she sipped, and at first she let him, but then took it from him and said, "I'm no baby." Then Livvy told him-too matter-of-factly, he thought, too easily-that she'd spent last night with John Wesley Rogers, a thirty-one-year-old cement contractor from West Valley. She kept calling him "JWR" and said they met two weeks ago at the Salt Palace during the Vocation Expo. Livvy and Sheila had been manning East High's booth and had walked away with second-place ribbon for their presentation "Architecture: Art We Live and Work In." "JWR said we deserved first place," Livvy told Ray. "What does he know?" Ray didn't like the way this other man's name sounded in his daughter's mouth. "You'd like him," she said. "He builds buildings." "Jesus Christ, Livvy, he's more than twice your age!" "It's not like he's old enough to be my father." "Pretty damn close," Ray said. "Biologically, he could be." "Well, he's not," she said. "That's what matters." The sight of Livvy's fists on the white tabletop, small and pink like rosebuds unable to bloom, left Ray speechless. He wanted to tell her how much he trusted her, that it was the most intimate way he knew to show his love for her, but the words just wouldn't come. The idea comes to Ray on the way to work, grows with each stoplight. It's at times like this he wishes he believed in God. He envies those who do, and thinks it must keep a lot of them in line. He can't imagine that too many of them actually drop to their knees to pray; but like the pistol Ray keeps in the glove compartment, just knowing that the option is there must comfort them. It's a nickel-plated .38. At the office, Ray spends the first hour at his desk opening mail. Most of it is junk mail, and he throws it away without opening it: advertisements for seminars and day-planners and books and tapes on how to become a better manager. The rest are new claims. He separates them into new and resubmitted stacks, which he then files away. Though he tries not to, he keeps thinking about Livvy and John Wesley Rogers and what they did last night. It occurs to him that maybe it wasn't their first time together, but he instantly puts that thought out of his mind. He looks up "Rogers, John Wesley", in the White Pages. The name occupies two lines on the blotchy paper and stands out from all the others. Ray figures John Wesley Rogers is the kind of guy who's proud of the extra space he takes up. Even his initials, JWR, contain more syllables than Ray has in his entire name. He lives at 4495 Riverchase Drive. Ray dials John Wesley Rogers's number several times throughout the morning, but always hangs up as soon as the connection is made. He doesn't want to know what John Wesley Rogers sounds like, whether his voice is slick or gruff or hoarse, what sort of filler words he uses, whether he's an "uh" or an "um" person, if he's one of those people who hum while thinking of what to say next. Ray doesn't want to know if John Wesley Rogers is at home. By midmorning he's letting the phone ring up to three times. Then he lets it ring four times and is about to hang up, has the handset halfway from his ear to the cradle, when he hears a click. "Hi, you've reached my machine," the man's voice says. Ray recognizes it as the same one he last night thought was Mr. Reed's. "I'm not here right now, or if I am I'm in the shower, or still asleep, or just plain don't want to answer your call. But don't take it personally. Leave your name and number and I'll get back with you--" Ray hangs up. For the rest of the morning he pushes the redial button several times, listens to the message again and again, memorizes the greeting, despising it more each time. He notices that John Wesley Rogers uses no filler words whatsoever, but speaks smoothly, insinuatingly, like a late-night FM disc jockey. Finally, after the beep, Ray says, "I hope you have a daughter someday," and hangs up. Ray wants, to talk to Livvy, wants a reason beyond hormones and carelessness for what she did. But he can't find it in himself to call her, and wouldn't know how to talk to her about it if he did. He opens the White Pages again, this time turning to the R's. Running his finger up and down the columns, trying to remember Mrs. Reed's first name, which he either never knew or doesn't remember, he finds only one Reed listed on Ramona Avenue, where Sheila lives. There's an uncomfortable pause as Ray thinks what to say next, how to begin. He wishes he had a window in his office so he could look outside and make small talk about the weather. But the only light in his office is fluorescent and strung with cobwebs, the only plants are plastic and in need of dusting. "Would you like to go to lunch today?" he says abruptly. He looks at his watch and sees that it's almost straight-up noon. "It took you long enough," she says. "I've been waiting for your call ever since that day at the supermarket." "So is that a yes?" "Yes, Mr. Harris," she says, "that's a yes." Just before hanging up, after they make plans to meet in a half-hour at the nearby Sizzler, it occurs to Ray to ask, "Are you still married, or should I ask?" "It probably did." Mrs. Reed reaches over and forks a cantaloupe wedge off the fruit plate that Ray built at the salad bar. He expects her to say more, to fill this gap in his education, but all she does is reach over and steal a couple of white grapes. She pops both of them into her mouth and raises her eyebrows, as if to say, "Well, what do you think?" "Things like this don't just happen," Ray says a little too loudly. "Black eyes just happen. Unwanted children just happen. Falling rocks and car crashes just happen." Mrs. Reed reaches over, and at first Ray thinks it's to swipe more of his lunch, but instead she places two fingers on Ray's hand, the same as she did that day at the supermarket, then touches them to her lips. He looks around and sees that lunch-goers at the adjoining tables are watching them. Leaning closer to Mrs. Reed, across the fruit plate, he whispers, "But betrayal is different. It has to be thought out, plotted, planned. It doesn't just happen." "Oh," she says and pops another grape into her mouth. "It's like that, is it?" Her hair is shorter and, Ray thinks, redder than last time he saw her. He notices what he's noticed before: that Sheila has inherited her mother's grand cheekbones. "You know what Chekhov said," Mrs. Reed says. Ray says, "Refresh my memory." As if the words are printed on the inside of her eyelids, she closes her eyes and recites them: ... "A man can deceive his fiancée or his mistress as much as he likes, and in the eyes of a woman he loves an ass may pass for a philosopher; but a daughter is a different matter." Seemingly proud of her recitation, she steals another grape off of Ray's plate, but he takes it away from her. "What's that supposed to mean?" he says. "Whatever you want it to mean." She shrugs. "You're saying this is all about me. Aren't you? I should've had lunch with John Bradshaw." Mrs. Reed shrugs again. "But you invited me," she says. Ray moves the remaining pieces of fruit around on his plate with his fork. "Anyway," he says, "I think she wanted it to happen." "You're afraid she did." "Livvy isn't that way." "Ray, have you looked at you daughter lately? At my Sheila? At the way they dress, the makeup they wear? Do you think it's just to look like Madonna?" "Wrong guess, I guess?" "Guess again," Mrs. Reed says. "Think about it, Ray: in a free country, why would anybody want to dress in black bustiers and cheap rayon blouses and Lycra pants? What they want is what Madonna gets for looking like that: the money, the fame, and, hold onto your hat, Ray, the men." Ray doesn't admit to Mrs. Reed that he has indeed noticed how Livvy's friends dress, nor does he tell her how uncomfortable he sometimes feels when they come over to the house. Sheila, in particular, Mrs. Reed's daughter, a pretty blonde who's too tall for her age and wears too much eye shadow. She sports jeans that are too tight and chronically forgets to button the top two buttons of her blouse. It's not just the way she dresses, but the way she looks at Ray, unflinchingly, as if daring him to think the things about her that he tries so hard not to. Whenever she comes into the backyard with Livvy, Ray excuses himself to make a phone call or wash his hands. Once inside the house, he watches Sheila's young body in slices through the slats of the Levolors. "Why did it take you so long to call me?" Mrs. Reed folds her arms and rests them on the table. Smiling, she relishes the time it takes him to come up with an answer. "Like I said," he says, "I thought you were still married." He balls up his napkin and tosses it onto the empty plate. "I can't believe Livvy didn't say something. I can't count how many times I told her to invite you over for one of our Thursday night get-togethers. That's no excuse, I know, I should've called and invited you myself, but I wish you'd have come." Ray smiles helplessly. He doesn't tell her that this is the first he's heard of any dinner invitations. He wonders why Livvy didn't say anything. "I'm afraid to answer," Ray says. "Sooner or later," she says, "whatever's supposed to happen, happens. You calling me, for instance. I don't know why it took you so long, but I'm glad you finally did. And I have faith in the cosmic calendar that there must've been some raison d'etre for it happening the way it did." She reaches across the tabletop and squeezes his hand. His first instinct is to pull it away, but he likes the way it feels and squeezes back. "As far as Livvy goes, Ray, so she jumped the gun a bit." Mrs. Reed shrugs. "What are you going to do? Hey, what can you do? Look at me: I only remained immaculate till I was fourteen, and I turned out okay." Her eyebrows rise and fall. "Didn't IT' After lunch Ray doesn't return to work. He thinks about calling in a made-up excuse, but even that seems like too much effort. He goes through the motions of heading for home, but only makes it three blocks before changing direction and getting on the freeway. Leaning across the front seat, he opens the glove compartment to make sure the pistol is still there. He checks to see if it's loaded, then places it on the seat beside him. Only twice has Ray pulled a trigger. The first time was when he was sixteen and went deer-hunting with his father. He's never gone since. It was the year after Ray's older brother Alan had died in a motel room in Bremerton. Alan had hunted and fished big-time, just as his father had raised him to. Raymond and his father came across an out-of-season moose grazing on some joint grass, and his father urged him to shoot it. "Nobody'll ever know," he whispered in Ray's ear. Ray can still recall the huge slow-motion sound of the dumb, beautiful animal's fall to the ground, the scrape of its antlers in the hard dirt. The musky smell of the carcass as they wrapped it in a plastic tarpaulin and covered it with branches and leaves and marked the spot with a small pyramid of rocks. It was too enormous for them to pack out of the canyon by themselves, and Ray's father promised him that they'd get help and come back for it that afternoon. But they never did. Then, one evening the following year, Ray's dog, a two-year-old springer spaniel bitch that had never so much as raised her whiskers in a snarl, snapped onto Ray's father's hand. No matter what he did, the dog refused to let go. Blood sprayed across the kitchen cabinets and the refrigerator door as he lifted the dog off the linoleum and spun her around. When Ray's father finally got free, the dog fled to the back porch and cowered in a corner there. Ray's father wrapped his hand in paper towel and took a pistol from atop the refrigerator. "No dog of mine does this to me," he said as he handed the gun to Ray. Ray took it -the same .38 now on the seat beside him- and coaxed the dog into the backyard. He felt the stickiness of his father's blood on the grip. The dog's fur was matted and thick with the same blood. When Ray came back into the house, he set the pistol in the middle of a half-empty dinner plate on the kitchen table, and told his father, "She wasn't yours, she was mine." *** He wonders if what happened to Livvy will change her life in any significant way; if women who lose their virginity young turn out different from those who keep it until adulthood. Do they spend their lives unhappily searching for that stolen first time? Do they hate all men for something they had nothing to do with? Mrs. Reed said she turned out okay, but Ray guesses that that remains to be seen. He spots the street sign and turns onto Riverchase Drive. He looks over and is surprised to find 4495 right in front of him, the corner house, a duplex sitting upon a hill of coal-black dirt hungry for sod. A white-doored double garage separates the left side of the house from the right, an here's there's a small off-center window in each door that, combined, render the duplex cross-eyed. A red Blazer with an NRA bumper sticker is parked in the right-hand side of the driveway. Ray drives by slowly. Five more times he continues down the street and circles the block. If there were some sign of life, be it Livvy or other young girls leaving the duplex, or just a glimpse of JWR, Ray feels certain that at that moment he'd know exactly what to do. He imagines what it would be like, walking up John Wesley Rogers's driveway, past the Blazer, using the barrel of the.38 to nonchalantly scratch the paint job as he passes by. What it would be like to knock on the front door, wait, and finally see John Wesley Rogers himself: shorter than Ray, runtier, with smooth features but kind of greasy, just what a man who sleeps with teenage girls would look like. To hear him start to say, in his well rehearsed, answering-machine voice, "Hi, can l help you?" as Ray brings the pistol up and points it at him. To feel pleasure at the look on John Wesley Rogers's face as he shrinks, gets smaller, tries to run. Ray rounds the corner onto Riverchase one last time. He takes note of how empty the street is except for the clutter of parked cars. There are no children playing on the lawns. He stops in front of the duplex, looks around, thinks how much he'd like to hurt John Wesley Rogers, how easy it would be. He leans over and rolls down the window on the passenger's side and fires three shots through the Blazer's rear window. Ray drives too fast for someone who has just broken the law. He spends the rest of the day mostly in the mountains, driving with the windows rolled down, the inside of the car swirling with cold air. Winter is getting close. It's after nine o'clock when he returns home. He steps out of the garage cautiously and looks down the driveway. He watches for any activity on the dark street. If the police are waiting for him, he thinks, they'll nab him before he has a chance to get the key into the backdoor. The house is dark. He turns on the fluorescent light above the stove and notices that Livvy has washed and put away last night's dishes as well as the coffee mugs from this morning. He goes through the living room turning on all the lamps to demonstrate that he has nothing to hide, so that his home looks nothing like a harbor for criminals, then turns on the hallway light on his way upstairs to Livvy's room. The door is slightly open. "Love Me Two Times" by the Doors blares from Livvy's stereo. Ray stops short of entering and listens to the words, the music, while watching the light from Livvy's television playing across a triangular section of the hallway carpet. He stands over Livvy's bed. She's asleep, her head turned sideways on the pillow, her long hair caressing her cheek as she breathes. Her covers are all mussed and halfway on the floor. Ray allows this untroubled view of Livvy to erase the image of her from this morning that has haunted him all day. She's wearing her oversized Yale sweatshirt and bulky white sweat socks that make her feet look too large for her legs, which have always been thin and birdlike. But now Ray notices the slope of her ankle to her foot, the swell of her calf, the smoothness of her thigh. He looks away. Gathering up the twisted sheet and bedspread while taking care not to waken her, he tucks Livvy back in. Gently he sits beside her on the bed. MTV is on with the sound off. Ray watches a ZZ Top video while listening to the Doors, watches the three men in long beards move to music that isn't their own. He finds the remote control and turns off the TV. He sits motionless in the near dark for a long time, not touching Livvy. He watches the outline of her breathing, the rise and fall of the covers. He tries but cannot think of her as being any more of a woman, or any less of a young girl, than she was yesterday. He wonders what was lost, if anything was gained. He listens to the Doors, who he liked as much when he was Livvy's age as she does now, for undoubtedly the same reasons. Though he'd never tell her so, to him their songs now sound childish. When the CD ends, the sudden silence wakes up Livvy. She opens her eyes and places her hand on top of Ray's. He smiles at her, and though she can't see his face in the darkness, he'd like to think she can and that she's smiling back at him. Her hand on top of his feels strange. It makes him uncomfortable sitting on her bed, being in her room. He wonders if this is how it will be from now on, never again being able to sit close to her, touching her and having it not mean the same thing as before. Livvy reaches up and wraps her arms around Ray. He pulls her closer and feels her face pressing into his shoulder. He thinks she might be crying, though he can't be sure. He holds her tighter than ever before, but feels her slipping away fast, almost already gone.

Harrison, Jeff, McCutcheon saying goodbye to HCC The soothing sounds of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” blared from the speakers Friday evening, always the case after a McCutcheon home baseball victory. In 36 years as the Mavericks’ coach, Jake Burton has won nearly 800 games. He made sure to enjoy this 5-1 victory over Hamilton Southeastern, though. It marked the end of the Hoosier Crossroads Conference’s ties to Tippecanoe County. From 2002 to 2004, Burton’s Mavericks won three straight Hoosier Crossroads Conference titles. McCutcheon exits the league with its third straight runner-up finish. McCutcheon, Harrison and Lafayette Jeff were ushered out of the conference and will become members of the North Central Conference next school year. “This has been the most fun in my career playing in this conference, because you’ve got to come ready to play every day, and it can be against ninth place, eighth place, it doesn’t matter,” Burton said. “We’re not going to face any better competition than we see here in this conference with the one and two pitchers.” In 14 years competing as a member of the Hoosier Crossroads Conference, McCutcheon baseball has finished in the lower half of the league just once and posted an average finish of third, the best success story among the three Tippecanoe County schools. “If you’re going to win a state tournament, you’re going to have to beat these guys,” said Burton, who has won two state championships. “(Former LaPorte coach) Ken Schreiber, when I first started coaching, he told me that if you want to be the best you can be, then you have to play the best teams.” Burton has never been one to mince words. But he’s not the first person to advocate being a member of the league because of the postseason preparation the schedule provides. McCutcheon and Harrison were original members of the HCC, which began competition in 2000. Lafayette Jeff joined in 2004 after an ugly exit from the NCC that involved that conference terminating relationships with the Bronchos. Jeff was supposed to enter the Hoosier Crossroads Conference in the 2005-06 school year, but a premature entrance resulted in the Bronchos winning their first sectional baseball title in 16 years in 2004. “Nothing against the (North Central Conference), they were great competition, but the HCC got us ready for this moment," Jeff first baseman Paul Jordan said after the title win. On the unfortunate other end was a plethora of embarrassing defeats, a struggle to be competitive in some sports and the unceremonious removal from what will now be a seven-team league with the suburban Indianapolis schools that remain. Was the move right when each made the move to the HCC? It’s hard to say, and it depends on who you ask. “A lot of times we get killed in soccer, so it would kind of put you in your place when you come back and go against teams that aren’t as good, but it gave us something to shoot for,” said Harrison junior Georgia Lawlor, who competes in girls soccer, gymnastics and track and field. “Getting to play teams ranked in the state is always a great thing. Going into a new conference, we’re probably going to do a lot better, but it’s bittersweet.” The beginning Long trips to Jay County and Connersville were not ideal for Harrison and McCutcheon as members of the Olympic Conference. When Westfield began initial plans in the fall of 1998 to create a new conference, Brownsburg was the initial invitee. According to Harrison athletic director Jerry Galema, who has served in that capacity since 1994, Brownsburg agreed to attend a meeting only if Harrison and McCutcheon were invited. “At the time, it was very enticing,” Galema said. “We picked up the Indianapolis media. Our distances were reduced. When we first started looking at this, we didn’t know the level of competition that was going to be there.” Those early years in the league, which included Avon, Zionsville, Noblesville and Hamilton Southeastern in addition to McCutcheon, Harrison, Westfield and Brownsburg, were strong for the two Tippecanoe County schools. McCutcheon won the inaugural titles in volleyball and boys and girls basketball. Harrison was the first HCC softball champion, then backed it up with a repeat title in 2002. In all, Harrison won six titles between 2001 and 2004. McCutcheon won nine titles in the same span, excluding gymnastics, which never had more than four teams competing in the league. “A thing to think about, too, is the size of the schools were different,” McCutcheon athletic director Ryan Walden said. “We were probably third or fourth or fifth biggest back then. That plays a big difference.” Welcoming Jeff In January 2003, the HCC extended an invitation to Lafayette Jeff, which had over 70 years of history as an NCC member. A month later, Jeff accepted the invitation, effective for the 2005-06 school year. Fishers High School, which was nonexistent at the time, was set to join in 2006-07. “I really don’t want to do it, but it’s the right thing to do,” former athletic director Maurie Denney, a Jeff graduate, told the J&C at the time. A Dec. 12, 2002 column by Jeff Washburn in the J&C assisted in speeding up Jeff’s exit from the NCC and ultimate arrival in the HCC. Washburn wrote: “Some NCC schools are dangerously close to inner-city environments, where safety is an issue.” When Jeff made its official announcement as a future HCC member, the North Central Conference officials sent a faxed letter to former principal Vince Bertram explaining the Bronchos were no longer considered members of the NCC and were ineligible to compete for conference championships. The softball program still owns a 53-game winning streak in NCC play. Jeff still owns six NCC track records. The Bronchos won 164 North Central Conference team titles in 72 years. Like their Tippecanoe County counterparts, the Bronchos had success early in the HCC, winning boys tennis titles in 2004 and ’05, a gymnastics title in 2004 and shared a baseball title in 2006 with Brownsburg. Jeff went undefeated in volleyball in its first season in the league, winning a five-set thriller 15-11 over McCutcheon to claim the title and then defeating Hamilton Southeastern to conclude a perfect run. Jeff’s only other team championships have come in boys basketball (2007-08) and girls basketball (2009-10). “It was a good thing at the time, and I think there were some sports being looked at that they were trying to make the move a good thing for,” former Lafayette Jeff volleyball coach Gail Gripe said. “We always feel like we can compete with some of the best schools. But over time, what happens when we weren’t successful and then we weren’t successful in a lot of sports, it really kind of works on the spirit of the kids and the coaches. “You can say we’re competing, but when you don’t get over that hump, it’s tough.” The struggle While there is proof the three Tippecanoe County schools could win in the Hoosier Crossroads Conference, there’s the notion that certain sports will never be able to compete. For others like Lafayette Jeff baseball a year ago, facing HCC competition strengthened its lineup and pitching staff for the postseason. “You never get a day off,” Jeff baseball coach Scott McTagertt said in early April. “It’s just like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Week after week after week, you are going to face incredible competition.” McTagertt spoke specifically about baseball, but his statement applies across the board. Burton recently compiled a spreadsheet of each sport at McCutcheon’s individual success in the HCC. Boys soccer has finished last in all but two seasons, when the Mavs were ninth out of 10 in 2011 and 2013. True to Burton’s words, though, that program also produced three sectional titles since 2008, the same number as the girls soccer program that finished a program-best sixth in the HCC in the fall. The HCC is considered the state’s elite soccer conference, often filling at least half of the top 10 coaches’ poll. In the fall, Avon and Fishers played each other in the girls state championship and Avon was the boys state runner-up. Like soccer, football programs suffered while preparing for top 10 opponents sprinkled throughout the schedule. The high points were fabulous. Rare football victories in recent years against anyone not from Tippecanoe County became reason to celebrate, such as when Lafayette Jeff students stormed the field following a 30-27 victory over Avon on Sept. 28, 2012. It is Jeff’s only regular-season victory over a non-county rival since 2008. Harrison has lost 36 consecutive football games. Since winning the HCC title in 2002, when Mr. Football Clayton Richard was the quarterback, McCutcheon has not finished above .500. “Football is a little bit different. I think I can support that statement by the IHSAA going to six classes in football,” Walden said. “So what it is indeed saying is that it makes a bigger difference in football with the number of athletes that you have.” Galema concurred. While there’s belief that some of Harrison’s top football players may match up with the top players at other HCC schools, the depth becomes an issue. An injury may be able to be sustained because schools with larger enrollment could have a suitable backup. As the HCC’s smallest school, Harrison hasn’t always enjoyed the same luxury. Several factors can be pinpointed, from school size, depth, talent and even socioeconomic status, depending on the sport. The bottom line is that other than rare programs such as McCutcheon baseball, most of the athletic teams have struggled to do well in conference play on a regular basis in recent years. The future Harrison softball will go down as the last HCC champion from Tippecanoe County. The second-ranked Raiders recently finished the league schedule unbeaten. As the postseasons approach for softball, baseball and boys golf and continue for track and girls tennis, the reality is Harrison, McCutcheon and Lafayette Jeff have a new slate of NCC foes to prove themselves to, some of which appear on schedules already and others that are unfamiliar to the Raiders, Mavericks and Bronchos. It surely was disheartening to be removed from the HCC, at least for some. Lafayette Jeff athletic director Peyton Stovall, a former Broncho athlete who graduated before Jeff moved to the HCC and is in his first year as Broncho AD, calls himself “an NCC guy” — but Galema was Harrison’s AD and had a big part in developing the skeleton of the conference. No one likes to feel like they’re not wanted. It was a harsh reality that perhaps will work out in the form of more wins, more excitement and hopefully more athletes wanting to compete because of newfound success. With the NCC littered with institutions more closely resembling the makeup of Tippecanoe County’s three largest schools, programs may start to see a new level of success — and travel becomes less of an issue in some instances. Given the circumstances, the NCC could be an ideal fit for two new members and a returning one that burned bridges with administrators in the conference just over a decade ago. “For us, moving forward, we’re in this situation of getting into the NCC, and we are excited about it,” Stovall said. “Our coaches are excited about it. Our students, they don’t know much about the NCC. Now it’s coming to, educate about the tradition and how great this conference actually is, and let’s move forward and be excited about it. “There’s a lot of pluses. Down the road, I think they will look back and say this was a good decision.” HCC CHAMPIONS A look at the Hoosier Crossroads Conference championships won by the three Tippecanoe County schools:

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Breaking Sticks and Ambiguities with Adaptive Skip-gram Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 51:130-138, 2016. Abstract The recently proposed Skip-gram model is a powerful method for learning high-dimensional word representations that capture rich semantic relationships between words. However, Skip-gram as well as most prior work on learning word representations does not take into account word ambiguity and maintain only single representation per word. Although a number of Skip-gram modifications were proposed to overcome this limitation and learn multi-prototype word representations, they either require a known number of word meanings or learn them using greedy heuristic approaches. In this paper we propose the Adaptive Skip-gram model which is a nonparametric Bayesian extension of Skip-gram capable to automatically learn the required number of representations for all words at desired semantic resolution. We derive efficient online variational learning algorithm for the model and empirically demonstrate its efficiency on word-sense induction task. Related Material @InProceedings{pmlr-v51-bartunov16, title = {Breaking Sticks and Ambiguities with Adaptive Skip-gram}, author = {Sergey Bartunov and Dmitry Kondrashkin and Anton Osokin and Dmitry Vetrov}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics}, pages = {130--138}, year = {2016}, editor = {Arthur Gretton and Christian C. Robert}, volume = {51}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, address = {Cadiz, Spain}, month = {09--11 May}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v51/bartunov16.pdf}, url = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v51/bartunov16.html}, abstract = {The recently proposed Skip-gram model is a powerful method for learning high-dimensional word representations that capture rich semantic relationships between words. However, Skip-gram as well as most prior work on learning word representations does not take into account word ambiguity and maintain only single representation per word. Although a number of Skip-gram modifications were proposed to overcome this limitation and learn multi-prototype word representations, they either require a known number of word meanings or learn them using greedy heuristic approaches. In this paper we propose the Adaptive Skip-gram model which is a nonparametric Bayesian extension of Skip-gram capable to automatically learn the required number of representations for all words at desired semantic resolution. We derive efficient online variational learning algorithm for the model and empirically demonstrate its efficiency on word-sense induction task.} } %0 Conference Paper %T Breaking Sticks and Ambiguities with Adaptive Skip-gram %A Sergey Bartunov %A Dmitry Kondrashkin %A Anton Osokin %A Dmitry Vetrov %B Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2016 %E Arthur Gretton %E Christian C. Robert %F pmlr-v51-bartunov16 %I PMLR %J Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %P 130--138 %U http://proceedings.mlr.press %V 51 %W PMLR %X The recently proposed Skip-gram model is a powerful method for learning high-dimensional word representations that capture rich semantic relationships between words. However, Skip-gram as well as most prior work on learning word representations does not take into account word ambiguity and maintain only single representation per word. Although a number of Skip-gram modifications were proposed to overcome this limitation and learn multi-prototype word representations, they either require a known number of word meanings or learn them using greedy heuristic approaches. In this paper we propose the Adaptive Skip-gram model which is a nonparametric Bayesian extension of Skip-gram capable to automatically learn the required number of representations for all words at desired semantic resolution. We derive efficient online variational learning algorithm for the model and empirically demonstrate its efficiency on word-sense induction task. TY - CPAPER TI - Breaking Sticks and Ambiguities with Adaptive Skip-gram AU - Sergey Bartunov AU - Dmitry Kondrashkin AU - Anton Osokin AU - Dmitry Vetrov BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics PY - 2016/05/02 DA - 2016/05/02 ED - Arthur Gretton ED - Christian C. Robert ID - pmlr-v51-bartunov16 PB - PMLR SP - 130 DP - PMLR EP - 138 L1 - http://proceedings.mlr.press/v51/bartunov16.pdf UR - http://proceedings.mlr.press/v51/bartunov16.html AB - The recently proposed Skip-gram model is a powerful method for learning high-dimensional word representations that capture rich semantic relationships between words. However, Skip-gram as well as most prior work on learning word representations does not take into account word ambiguity and maintain only single representation per word. Although a number of Skip-gram modifications were proposed to overcome this limitation and learn multi-prototype word representations, they either require a known number of word meanings or learn them using greedy heuristic approaches. In this paper we propose the Adaptive Skip-gram model which is a nonparametric Bayesian extension of Skip-gram capable to automatically learn the required number of representations for all words at desired semantic resolution. We derive efficient online variational learning algorithm for the model and empirically demonstrate its efficiency on word-sense induction task. ER -