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(a) Issuance and execution of administrative inspection warrants shall be as follows:
(1) A judge of any court of record in this state having criminal jurisdiction, and upon proper oath or affirmation showing probable cause, may issue warrants for the purpose of conducting administrative inspections authorized by this act or rules hereunder, and seizures of property appropriate to the inspections. For purposes of the issuance of administrative inspection warrants, probable cause exists upon showing a valid public interest in the effective enforcement of this act or rules hereunder, sufficient to justify administrative inspection of the area, premises, building, or conveyance in the circumstances specified in the application for the warrant;
(2) A warrant shall issue only upon an affidavit of a designated officer or employee having knowledge of the facts alleged, sworn to before the judge and establishing the grounds for issuing the warrant. If the judge is satisfied that grounds for the application exist or that there is probable cause to believe they exist, he shall issue a warrant identifying the area, premises, building, or conveyance to be inspected, the purpose of the inspection, and, if appropriate, the type of property to be inspected, if any. The warrant shall:
(i) State the grounds for its issuance and the name of each person whose affidavit has been taken in support thereof;
(ii) Be directed to a person authorized by section 501 to execute it;
(iii) Command the person to whom it is directed to inspect the area, premises, building, or conveyance identified for the purpose specified and, if appropriate, direct the seizure of the property specified;
(iv) Identify the item or types of property to be seized, if any;
(v) Direct that it be served during normal business hours and designate the judge to whom it shall be returned.
(3) A warrant issued pursuant to this section must be executed and returned within ten days of its date unless, upon a showing of a need for additional time, the court orders otherwise. If property is seized pursuant to a warrant, a copy shall be given to the person from whom or from whose premises the property is taken, together with a receipt for the property taken. The return of the warrant shall be made promptly, accompanied by a written inventory of any property taken. The inventory shall be made in the presence of the person executing the warrant and of the person from whose possession or premises the property was taken, if present, or in the presence of at least one credible person other than the person executing the warrant. A copy of the inventory shall be delivered to the person from whom or from whose premises the property was taken and to the applicant for the warrant;
(4) The judge who has issued a warrant shall attach thereto a copy of the return and all papers returnable in connection therewith and file them with the clerk of the court.
(b) Administrative inspections of controlled premises shall be made in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) For purposes of this section only, "controlled premises" means:
(i) Places where persons registered or exempted from registration requirements under this act are required to keep records; and
(ii) Places including factories, warehouses, establishments, and conveyances in which persons registered or exempted from registration requirements under this act are permitted to hold, manufacture, compound, process, sell, deliver, or otherwise dispose of any controlled substance.
(2) When authorized by an administrative inspection warrant issued pursuant to subsection (a), any person authorized in subsection (b), section 501 of this article to execute and serve the same, upon presenting the warrant and appropriate credentials to the owner, operator, or agent in charge, may enter controlled premises for the purpose of conducting an administrative inspection.
(3) When authorized by an administrative inspection warrant, any such person may:
(i) Inspect and copy records required by this act to be kept;
(ii) Inspect, within reasonable limits and in a reasonable manner, controlled premises and all pertinent equipment, finished and unfinished material, containers and labeling found therein, and, except as provided in subsection (b) (5), all other things therein, including records, files, papers, processes, controls, and facilities bearing on violation of this act; and
(iii) Inventory any stock of any controlled substance therein and obtain samples thereof.
(4) This section does not prevent the inspection without a warrant of books and records pursuant to an administrative subpoena issued in accordance with any pertinent provision of this code, nor does it prevent entries and administrative inspections, including seizures of property, without a warrant:
(i) If the owner, operator, or agent in charge of the controlled premises consents;
(ii) In situations presenting imminent danger to health or safety;
(iii) In situations involving inspection of conveyances if there is reasonable cause to believe that the mobility of the conveyance makes it impracticable to obtain a warrant;
(iv) In any other exceptional or emergency circumstance where time or opportunity to apply for a warrant is lacking; or,
(v) In all other situations in which a warrant is not Constitutionally required.
(5) An inspection authorized by this section shall not extend to financial data, sales data, other than shipment data, or pricing data unless the owner, operator, or agent in charge of the controlled premises consents in writing.


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Before I move on and pay attention to the subject of this final article, first I'd like to refresh, at least quickly, some topics that were covered with detail in the preceding part of the series. As you'll certainly recall, in the previous tutorial I extended the implementation of the bridge pattern with PHP 5, by defining a bunch of straightforward classes, which when used in conjunction, followed the principles dictated by the mentioned pattern.
Speaking more specifically, I created a bridge class called "BridgeDataValidator" which defined the generic structure of a data validation object. This is handy for checking different types of user-provided input. However, the most relevant aspect of this schema rested on the capacity offered by the referenced class to create distinct data validator objects. These objects implemented concretely the required logic for checking numbers, alphabetic values, and email addresses.
Naturally, the data validation objects were conceived as independent structures, which resulted in the complete decoupling of the "BridgeDataValidator" class from its own implementation. Of course, if you're familiar with how the bridge pattern works, then you'll realize that all the classes that I developed in the previous tutorial precisely followed that model.
Now that I hopefully refreshed the topics that were treated in the preceding article of the series, it's time to focus your attention on the current one. The question that comes up now is the following: is there anything else that can be said about the bridge pattern? Of course there is! In this final tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a highly expandable abstraction layer that will allow you to work with MySQL using different libraries. This sounds interesting, right?
Having introduced the subject of this installment, let's leap forward and discover together how to build a MySQL abstraction layer, in this case using the bridge pattern. Let's get going!
{mospagebreak title=Creating the first abstraction layer for MySQL}
As I explained in the introduction, my intention here is to develop a simple abstraction layer by using only a bridge class and a couple of "bridged" objects. The purpose of doing this is basically to have access to the MySQL server by utilizing either the conventional "mysql" extension, or the highly-improved "mysqli" library that comes bundled with PHP 5.
Having explained how I plan to use the bridge design pattern in this specific case, let me show you the first class involved in this example. It consists of a simple wrapper for MySQL, and logically uses the respective "mysql" extension as well. Here is the signature for this brand new class. Please have a look at it:
// define 'MySQL' class class MySQL{ public function __construct($host,$user,$password,$database){ if(!$conId=mysql_connect($host,$user,$password)){ throw new Exception('Error connecting to
the server'); } if(!mysql_select_db($database,$conId)){ throw new Exception('Error selecting
database'); } } // run query public function query($query){ if(!$this->result=mysql_query($query)){ throw new Exception('Error performing query '.$query); } return new Result($this,$this->result); } } // define 'Result' class class Result { private $mysql; private $result; public function __construct(&$mysql,$result){ $this->mysql=&$mysql; $this->result=$result; } // fetch row public function fetch_array(){ return mysql_fetch_assoc($this->result); } // count rows public function countRows(){ if(!$rows=mysql_num_rows($this->result)){ throw new Exception('Error counting rows'); } return $rows; } // count affected rows public function countAffectedRows(){ if(!$rows=mysql_affected_rows($this->mysql->conId)){ throw new Exception('Error counting affected
rows'); } return $rows; } // get ID form last-inserted row public function getInsertID(){ if(!$id=mysql_insert_id($this->mysql->conId)){ throw new Exception('Error getting ID'); } return $id; } // seek row public function seekRow($row=0){ if(!is_int($row)||$row<0){ throw new Exception('Invalid result set
offset'); } if(!mysql_data_seek($this->result,$row)){ throw new Exception('Error seeking data'); } } }
As you can see, there's nothing special with reference to the MySQL wrapping classes listed above. Similar to many abstraction classes that you have possibly used in many web applications, these allow you to perform some simple operations, such as connecting to the server, selecting a specific database, running queries, and processing result sets in a few useful ways.
However, the pair of MySQL wrapping classes that you just saw definitely aren't the main topic of this article. I defined them here only with the purpose of creating another application that lets you access the MySQL server, either with the traditional "mysql" extension, or the improved "mysqli" library.
In this case, the first requirement has been already satisfied, since the previous classes use the conventional extension. Therefore, it's time to move on and see how to develop a bridge class which will allow us to use MySQL by utilizing the two mentioned libraries.
Things are getting really exciting now! Therefore, if you want to learn how this bridge class will be created, please keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Creating a bridge class with PHP 5}
Building a bridge class that allows you to connect to MySQL by using either the traditional "mysql" library or the "mysqli" extension is a straightforward task that can be accomplished with minor effort.
In the prior section I defined a pair of MySQL wrapping classes aimed at accessing MySQL via a conventional approach. Therefor, the process for creating a bridge class is reduced to coding the mentioned class in such a way that it can be instructed programmatically of the type of interface to be used for accessing the database server.
Does this sound rather confusing to you? It really isn't, particularly if you take a look at the signature that corresponds to the class below:
// define 'BridgeMySQLConnector' class class BridgeMySQLConnector{ private $conInterface; private $db; public function __construct($host,$user,$password,$database,
$conInterface){ if($conInterface!='mysql'&&$conInterface!='mysqli'){ throw new Exception
('Invalid connection interface for MySQL'); } if($conInterface=='mysql'){ $this->db=new MySQL($host,$user,$password,
$database); } else{ $this->db=new mysqli($host,$user,$password,
$database); } } public function query($query){ return $this->db->query($query); } }
As you can see, the "BridgeMySQLConnector" class coded above accepts the typical set of parameters required for connecting to MySQL, that is the hostname, the user/password combination and the selected database, as well as the interface to be used for performing this process.
In addition, you should realize that the previous class strictly follows the model dictated by the bridge pattern. It will use the library passed in as a parameter for accessing the database server, but in all cases there's no specific implementation concerning how this task must be carried out.
Thus, what does all this mean? Yes, you guessed right! The logic required for connecting to MySQL has been completely decoupled from the class itself, since this procedure is tackled by the corresponding "bridged" objects, in this case referenced inside the class as "MySQL" and "mysqli" respectively. Building a bridge class with PHP 5 is actually easy after all, isn't it?
Well, now that you know how the prior "BridgeMySQLConnector" class works, it would be very instructive to develop a practical example where all the previous classes are used in conjunction. In this way, you'll see more clearly how this abstraction layer can be utilized for accessing the MySQL server.
As usual, if you want to learn how the layer in question will be put to work, go ahead and read the following section. I'll be there, waiting for you.
{mospagebreak title=Putting the MySQL abstraction layer to work}
As I stated in the section that you just read, the best way to understand how this MySQL abstraction layer can be used consists of developing an illustrative example that shows the real capacity offered by the bridge pattern.
In response to this, below I coded a pair of short scripts. They first connect to MySQL using the respective "MySQL" class that you saw before, and then use the "mysqli" library for accessing the database server. Here are the corresponding code samples:
// example using the 'MySQL' class try{ // instantiate 'BridgeMySQLConnector' class // connect to MySQL using 'MySQL' wrapping class $bmysqlcon=new BridgeMySQLConnector
('host','user','password','database','mysql'); // run query using 'MySQL' wrapping class $bmysqlcon->query('SELECT * FROM users'); } catch(Exception $e){ echo $e->getMessage(); exit(); } try{ // example using the 'mysqli' extension // connect to MySQL using 'mysqli' library $bmysqlcon=new BridgeMySQLConnector
('host','user','password','database','mysqli'); // run query using 'mysqli' library $bmysqlcon->query('SELECT * FROM users'); } catch(Exception $e){ echo $e->getMessage(); exit(); }
See how easy it was to connect to MySQL using either the wrapping class or the "mysqli" extension? I bet you do! In both cases, I also executed a "SELECT" statement against a hypothetical "USERS" database table, but logically this condition can be easily modified to run other SQL commands.
As you saw, learning how to apply the bridge design pattern with PHP was indeed an enjoyable experience, right?
Final thoughts
At this point, it's quite probable that you have learned the fundamentals of using the bridge design pattern with PHP 5. Personally, I consider this pattern to be very useful for decoupling a class from its implementation, if for some reason abstract classes are not a viable approach.
Besides, its versatility allows you to apply it in a great variety of cases. Therefore I recommend that you keep it at hand if you want to achieve a high level of abstraction with your PHP-based applications. See you in the next PHP tutorial!


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For Valentine's Day, the Department of Interior has started a tradition of asking the public for something rather romantic - photos and videos of marriage proposals and weddings.
The president's budget, sent to Congress on Feb. 2, addresses the damaging "sequester" cuts and restores funding for cash-strapped conservation, natural resources and clean energy programs.
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Why not use it until you HAVE to find an alternative. I mean the audit of 7.1a is not even done yet.
software != fruit
13 hours ago, Amazon / AWS sent out the following email:
Dear Amazon S3 Customer,
Amazon S3 now supports server side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C), a new encryption option for Amazon S3. When using SSE-C, Amazon S3 encrypts your objects with the custom encryption keys that you provide. Since Amazon S3 performs the encryption for you, you get the benefits of using your encryption keys without the cost of writing or executing your own encryption code.
Until now, in order to use your own encryption keys, you needed to encrypt your data client-side prior to uploading them to Amazon S3. With SSE-C, you now have the option to securely store your data using keys that you manage, without having to build client-side encryption infrastructure.
To use SSE-C, simply include your custom encryption key in your upload request, and Amazon S3 encrypts the object using that key and securely stores the encrypted data at rest. Similarly, to retrieve an encrypted object, provide your custom encryption key, and Amazon S3 decrypts the object as part of the retrieval. Amazon S3 doesn't store your encryption key anywhere; the key is immediately discarded after S3 completes your requests.
You can learn how to use SSE-C today by visiting "Using SSE with Customer-provided Keys" in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.
The Amazon S3 Team
Gee. Send the data in the clear along with an encryption key so it's stored at the remote site in an encrypted form. There's no way that a NLS will allow for the interception and disclosure of the key is there?
Frankly, that "solution" is a rather poor one at best and far too likely to give the customer a sense of security while in reality their data is totally accessible.
So, as the email said, just "encrypt your data client-side prior to uploading them to Amazon S3"
This encryption is about protecting data against theft of storage, or accidental loss of unwiped storage due to for instance upgrading hardware by Amazon and disks not being wiped/destroyed before they are sent off to be recycled. At the time that you are actually working with your data, it will be unencrypted and the keys to unencrypt will have to be on their systems. That means there is no way you can have your processing in the cloud happening without working with unencrypted data.
By not having Amazon u
It is fine that they introduced it. It protects against very specific things:
a) S3 data in there to stay, probably for many decades. To me it is a difference if all S3 data is unencrypted if there is a bug in the system at some point, or a new insitutional requirement in the future, or just the data which is accessed during the unfixed bug or after the change in laws.
b) One more layer of safety is never bad. You can use this to transport the key safely to the system of the user and the rest of the requests
Security is always a trade-off. Anyone who gives a shit about whether or not AWS has access to the plaintext will encrypt the data prior to transmitting it to AWS.
The use case where I could see SSE-C being helpful is where a customer has a lot of data to encrypt, and the security requirements are minimal. Rather than the customer using their own CPU resources to perform the encryption/decryption, the customer can offload that work to AWS's servers.
Another potential use case is one where the customer was ori
Does anyone else think this doesn't make any sense?
So, you give them the key to encrypt your data with, and they couldn't possibly store that key, intercept it or otherwise save it somewhere for later?
This is pretty much how all of the cloud providers operate though, the moment you hand over the keys to an intermediary its over.
Just provide a locally hosted "Amazon Edition" of TrueCrypt for the purpose of setting up import/exports. It's still great software... and sure as heck better than sending data unencrypted.
Truecrypt code remains available and currently available 7.1a online exactly matches ones I downloaded over past 2-3 years now and then. It is still good (tho the "7.2" version that was recently put out is crippled and should be ignored.)
It can be obtained at https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
and matches exactly the ones downloaded over time.
The code is being formally reviewed (still) and is likely to be picked up by others. Unfortunately one does not make money
sellig cryptodisk software (I tr
Was it needed in 1979?, only ones I could guess who needed that kind of cryptodisk software would have been governments at most?
Corporations need it too. Especially larger ones. Keep in mind that the famous Enigma machines of WW2 were derived from commercial crypto hardware developed for the commercial market, so that corporate headquarters could have secure communications with regional offices, people negotiating contracts at remote locations, etc.
A lot of espionage is industrial in nature.
Jesus Christ, Gibson's writing hasn't changed in fifteen years.
What's the web equivalent of "chewing the scenery?"
Unfortunately one does not make money selling cryptodisk software (I tried when I published some back in 1979)
You should have tried selling cryptoperfocards software back then, disks were not in wide use.
Yeah, sure, use bitlocker as sourceforge says.... because MS totally doesn't open backdoors for the NSA that makes goatse jealous. *snort*
http://truecrypt.ch/ [truecrypt.ch]
If MS wanted to 'backdoor' you, they wouldn't bother fucking with BitLocker, they'd just do it for ALL VOLUMES, which would catch your mounted TrueCrypt volumes as well.
If you're using TrueCrypt on Windows, BitLocker is indeed 'just as good' until a flaw is found. They don't NEED a backdoor in BitLocker, they own the kernel which is the place where you would actually want the back door if you were going to do it. TrueCrypt can't save you from a kernel module/driver/service that wants to see all data to
*Sigh* can you share just one of those backdoors? Or are you just spouting bullshit?
Seriously, Amazon.com should have evaluated, selected, and implemented a new encryption system in 24 hours! I am OUTRAGED!
Shit doesn't happen immediately...
Truecrypt has been the no.1 target for the NSA and GCHQ for the longest time now. Truecrypt implements encryption in the ONLY way that makes sense- known state-of-the-art mathematical algorithms used against the simplest file system driver emulation, allowing encrypted data to simply exists in monolithic data blocks. No different from Ram Disk and zip-folder technologies, with an encryption front-end. A NIGHTMARE for the full surveillance programs of the NSA/GCHQ.
Remember, Truecrypt is of no consequence for TARGETED victims of the security apparatus. If you are a true, named, subject of State surveillance, covert cameras, keyloggers, and other simple, cheap hardware solutions will be used to disable your attempts at encryption in the first place. The 'problem' with Truecrypt is that as its use spreads, large amounts of online data go 'DARK' for the security apparatus. The use of Truecrypt is like refusing to connect the NSA designed Kinect2 spy platform to your Xbox One console.
But, you argue, even so the numbers of Truecrypt users were never going to be THAT significant? Well, while this is kind of true, the reaction to Snowden's revelations was an ever growing general concern about the visibility of private data. Sheeple were rightly learning to absolutely distrust all solutions from corporations- and pressure was growing to create more publicly friendly equivalents to systems like Truecrypt. To consider a parallel, take Ad-Block. Large numbers of people ONLY began using Ad-Block, because the online ad business, even on the largest web-sites, adopted the most abusive, anti-user practices imaginable. Of late, the most mainstream sites have all been responsible for using browser exploits to deliver illegal trojan code package to unsuspecting users. And when people complain, these disgusting companies all say "don't blame us, blame the ad-serving services we use".
The consequence of the 'Wild West' of online ads is more people want to block the whole damned industry (and rightfully so). And the same now applies to encryption. More and more people want to fight back against the obscenity of the FULL SURVEILLANCE society. And the NSA wants these people to fight with 'weapons' the NSA has already ensured are useless.
It does NOT matter that Truecrypt 'could' have minor, unusual 'vulnerabilities'. All software falls into that category. What matters is that Truecrypt protected files are the greatest pain-in-the-ass for the NSA. Do not let Slashdot's NSA sponsored content tell you otherwise.
Truecrypt has been the no.1 target for the NSA and GCHQ for the longest time now.
I suspect that Truecrypt is secure, but we don't actually have any reason to believe that it doesn't contain one or more weaknesses that give the NSA ready access to Truecrypt volumes. And even if it is secure, we don't have any specific reason to believe it's their number one target.
Nice comment, until the end when you found it mandatory to take a shot at Slashdot's reporting as anti-Truecrypt advocacy.
Giveth us all a break.
Or maybe TrueCrypt is really compromised and your post is NSA-sponsored, in an effort to get people to feel secure using TrueCrypt when really the NSA can read it all.
Hmmm.... We really don't know.
Does that matter when we are all perhaps living in a computer simulation? We really don't know that either...
On Windows, BitLocker is just as secure as TrueCrypt. Well, assuming there are no massive unintended flaws in BitLocker.
If you want to get around BitLocker, you don't bother exploiting BitLocker, you just install a kernel driver that filters ALL read/writes to volumes, this would be just as effective against TrueCrypt as it is against BitLocker.
MS doesn't need to provide a back door for BitLocker, a back door for mounted volume IO is FAR more useful since it leaves BitLocker untainted and it would catch an
On Windows, BitLocker is just as secure as TrueCrypt. Well, assuming there are no massive unintended flaws in BitLocker.
Just to clarify your statement above -- you are saying that neither TrueCrypt nor Bitlocker is secure on Windows and both can easily be compromised on Windows?
On Windows, BitLocker is just as secure as TrueCrypt. Well, assuming there are no massive unintended flaws in BitLocker.
Consiring that MS tends to release software with "unintended" flaws numbering in the thousands, that eases my mind about the security of bitlocker.
On Windows, BitLocker is just as secure as TrueCrypt. Well, assuming there are no massive unintended flaws in BitLocker.
Or an intended back door. You seem to be envisioning an "evil maid" scenario, where the NSA/FBI/whatever installs software on your computer that monitors it as you use it. In that case, no, nothing's secure. In the case where the LEOs have your hard disk, and are trying to read it, having a way to monitor disk reads/writes is useless. What is useful is a way to crack the encryption w
TrueCrypt was trusted because the source code is/was open source, the binaries could be checked, it used respected algorithms, and had few flaws. Yes, there was minor fixes that could be done to make it more secure, and there are methods to defeat the keys (Flash freezing the ram chips in the computer to preserve the stored keys is one). But TrueCrypt reigned supreme with the cost-reputation-cryptostrength score.
Of course, according the (canary) Truecrypt homepage it recommends BitLocker by Microsoft, which few people take seriously. Microsoft recently peeked at its employees private hotmail account, and is known to include features in its OS to make NSA happy as well as copyright holders.
What alternative is there to TrueCrypt?
So the old project is done. Stick a fork in it, grab the source, and spin another.
You guys are aware that TCnext exists, a new effort to keep the software alive based in Switzerland.
You can get there via truecrypt
The source code for TrueCrypt 7.1a is available for download, and there are various forums where we're discussing the implementation, how to proceed, where to take the project, future audits, and so on.
Last, the general consensus is that 7.1a is "safe enough for our current needs based on what we know". Many of us in that community also feel the 7.2 shutdown in a hurry was
You guys are aware that TCnext exists, a new effort to keep the software alive based in Switzerland.
You can get there via truecrypt
Hmmm. How do we know that people behind TCnext aren't the NSA?
We don't - beyond peer reviewed code, and they're on board with continuing the independent audits and such.
Contribute to the project and find out -- let's weed them feds out!
Sorry - one more thing: there are also known (based on pre-existing signatures) binaries ready for download, if that's your cup 'o tea. So, given where the audit is (to which I'm also a financial supporter) and what we know... OKi for now, let's keep the project alive.
"You can't stop the signal, Mal."
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"


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Author Anne Lamott wrote, "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." Sue Edwards, assistant professor of Christian Education at Dallas Seminary, has waited and watched and worked—and the dawn has come.
An only child with a hard home life, Sue came to believe in Christ through the influence of two key women: her grandmother when she was six years old and her neighbor when she was a young mother of two daughters.
That neighbor invited Sue to a Bible study at the first Fellowship Church in Dallas. "I got connected with them and came to faith," she says. "I learned to teach, to lead small groups, to write study guides, but most of all I learned to love the Lord, be a believer, a mom, a wife … a woman."
Through this Sue learned the importance of community and wanted to inspire other women to learn and grow in their faith. She enrolled at Dallas Seminary in the 1980s as a student and took classes from many of the people she now calls colleagues. She read their books and studied their notes. Now's she's writing books, including her latest project, Mixed Ministry: Working as Brothers and Sisters in an Oversexed Society, and is providing notes for her own students.
"I am awed and privileged," she says. "I never saw myself in this role nor did I ever pursue it. I always saw myself in the trenches. This is a door that God opened. I love challenges, so I'm delighted to be out there on the front lines."
Aside from her writing projects Sue's most recent challenge has been to develop a new area of study for the Doctor of Ministry program. Along with her colleague Dr. Joye Baker, adjunct professor in Christian Education, Sue is spearheading the development of the Women in Ministry concentration.
"Women need credentials and need to believe in themselves," Sue says. "Many women today—even though they have master's degrees and are gifted and competent—still struggle to believe they have something to give. We want to equip and inspire women. And to really be the image of God in the academic world, in the home, in the workplace, in the church, [we need] both a male and female perspective."
The concentration will address issues such as postmodern relativism, the role of women in Christian leadership, and ministering to women in pain. And as experience has taught her, Sue emphasizes the importance of the program's cohort structure, which allows the same group of women a prolonged and consistent period to study and grow together.
"Sue brings a remarkable combination of ministry experience, outstanding teaching ability, and significant publishing credentials to her leadership in the area of Women's Ministry in the Christian Education department," says Dr. John Reed, the director of Doctor of Ministry Studies and senior professor emeritus of Pastoral Ministries. "This triple combination of competence is rare in any faculty member. We are blessed to have her as a key leader at our seminary."
Sue, who was honored by the 2006 graduating class with the Senior Class Award for Faculty Excellence, says she initially feared being such a leader. "But God says, 'I will send you and I will do it. You just stick with me.' So you just have to step out and do it," she says. "But make sure you're connected with the Savior in the way you need to be because you know this is nothing you can do on your own. We have a great community [at Dallas Seminary], and that makes all the difference."
"Sue has become a dear friend through our years of team teaching and partnering together," Joye Baker says. "She has a passion for understanding and communicating God's truth and motivates others to become all that God has created them to be. Her writing and speaking inspires others to have the courage to step through news doors of opportunity in life and in ministry."
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text: Home > Sports Messi strikes again as Barca draw, Atletico win By Mark Elkington, Reuters Posted at Feb 04 2013 01:22 PM | Updated as of Feb 04 2013 09:22 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn MADRID - Lionel Messi scored in his 12th consecutive La Liga game to help leaders Barcelona earn a 1-1 draw at Valencia, allowing second-placed Atletico Madrid to close to within nine points after a 1-0 win over Real Betis on Sunday. World Player of the Year Messi grabbed his 34th league goal from the penalty spot just before halftime at the Mestalla after Ever Banega had given the livelier hosts a 33rd-minute lead. Atletico substitute Diego Costa nodded in from a 61st-minute corner to maintain their perfect home record, lifting them seven points clear of city rivals Real Madrid in third. Barca have 59 points from 22 games, Atletico 50, and the champions have 43 after losing 1-0 at lowly Granada on Saturday when Cristiano Ronaldo headed the game's only goal into his own net. Valencia's intense pressure seemed to unsettle Barca, who looked sluggish after Wednesday's King's Cup semi-final first leg at the Bernabeu, which they drew 1-1. Their aggression paid dividends when Gerard Pique's weak headed clearance fell to Banega in the area and the Argentine midfielder fired a low shot under Valdes. "It's possible we were suffering a bit from the Madrid game, but I would point out the work of our rival," Barca assistant coach Jordi Roura told reporters. "In five years, we have only won once here. A draw is a fair result." Barca levelled before the break when Joao Pereira needlessly fouled Pedro in the area and Messi arrowed a penalty high into the top corner. Cesc Fabregas went close and Andres Guardado forced a flying save from Valdes but Barca were in the ascendancy. Substitute David Villa fired just wide of the post, but Pique was caught in possession in the last minute and Ali Cissokho crossed, forcing Valdes into a superb double-save to keep the scores level. Atletico had leading scorer Radamel Falcao back from injury but it was combative striker Costa who scored from close range in a bruising encounter against Betis. RUTHLESSLY EFFICIENT Another ruthlessly efficient performance ensured Diego Simeone's side made it 12 wins from 12 in the league at the Calderon with only six goals conceded. Earlier, fourth-placed Malaga failed to make the most of Real's slip-up when they could only manage a 1-1 draw at home to Real Zaragoza to move on to 36 points. They had to come from behind after Helder Postiga's 13th-minute volley put the visitors ahead at a sun-drenched Rosaleda. Young playmaker Isco, who agreed an improved contract with the south-coast club during the week, levelled from the penalty spot in the 23rd minute and both sides hit the woodwork. Manuel Pellegrini's side never really had complete control of the game, and there was no fairytale return for Brazilian forward Julio Baptista, who came on as a second-half substitute after some 15 months on the sidelines with injury. Zaragoza had midfielder Jose Mari sent off for a second bookable offence near the end. Rayo Vallecano also failed to close on the top sides when they lost 2-1 at improving King's Cup semi-finalists Sevilla. Ivan Rakitic, who was later sent off, lobbed their opener from 35 yards out and Alvaro Negredo backheeled a cheeky second after Rayo had levelled from the penalty spot. Betis are fifth with 35 points, Valencia sixth on 34, the same as seventh-placed Rayo, and Real Sociedad are eighth with 33 after a 3-0 home win over 10-man Real Mallorca. (Reporting by Mark Elkington, editing by Ed Osmond) Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Read More: football Barcelona Lionel Messi la liga Atletico Madrid /news/05/26/18/9-patay-sa-operasyon-kontra-droga-sa-north-cotabato/overseas/05/26/18/trump-us-in-productive-talks-about-reinstating-june-north-korea-summit/sports/05/26/18/boxing-why-trouble-free-weigh-in-matters-to-jerwin-ancajas/news/05/26/18/slain-ex-lawmaker-eriguel-laid-to-rest/news/05/26/18/pnp-quezon-city-has-highest-crime-volume-least-number-of-cases-solved


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"Where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular?". Pingdom has taken a stab at answering this question using the Google Insights for Search. Read on for our observations on the results.
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RE[2]: States - the kernel or specific distributions?
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It's a common confusion mostly premoted by the other fan camps who benefit from causing confusion but "Linux" is only the kernel, each distribution is a similar but different OS (using OS to mean kernel and userspace combination). If you stick to naming distributions it makes much more sense; like refering to cars by make and model instead of calling them all "cylindars".
I don't remember my history accurately enough to state if Linus was in university in the US or Finland when he started on the kernel. I just know that without GNU doing it's thing outside in leaving the kernel to last and Linus doing his thing inside out leaving the user-space until last; neither would have progressed very quickly.
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HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — A clerical error that caused an apparent $50,000 budget shortfall at Bitterroot College of the University of Montana has been cleared up and the funding restored in time for the spring semester.
The Associated Press reports the budget the two-year college received in August was $50,000 less than expected. School officials raised the $50,000 in the community, in part by asking residents to sponsor spring semester classes so they would not have to be canceled.
The college's executive director, Victoria Clark, made several efforts to figure out what happened, but the issue wasn't cleared up until Dec. 19 when concerned citizens met with UM President Royce Engstrom.
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The new year began for Jasper County Council this week with two new and one re-elected member being sworn in. Probate judge Albert "Buster" Kleckley Jr., administered the oath of office to Henry Etheridge, Barbara Clark and Tom Johnson.
Awards of appreciation were given to outgoing members Samuel Gregory and LeRoy Blackshear. Both thanked the citizens of Jasper County.
Blackshear, who spent eight years as a council member, said it had been a pleasure working with the council and the county.
The floor was opened for nominations for chairman and vice chairman. Etheridge was nominated as chairman, and voted into the position with councilman Theodus Drayton abstaining from the voice vote.
Clark was nominated for vice chair. The vote was unanimous.
The only business at the meeting was the second reading and ordinance to change the zoning of a piece of property at Speedway Boulevard and Alligator Alley in the Hardeeville area from Community Commercial to Rural Preservation zone.
The property will become an indoor gourmet mushroom farm, and will eventually support more than 30 jobs.
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• The State of the County Breakfast will be Jan. 23 at the new Clubhouse at Hilton Head Lakes. The event, which features information about the state of business in the county and its municipalities, is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. The mayors of Ridgeland and Hardeeville will speak, as well as the County Council chairman and members of Jasper County's Delegation will all be updating the citizens of the county on the progress being made.
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HARVARD – A round of ammunition was found Friday morning at Harvard Junior High School, police said.
Authorities were called to the school around 6:20 a.m. for a report of a suspicious incident, according to the Harvard Police Department. Employees at Harvard School District 50 told police that custodial staff had found a .22-caliber bullet in the boys' locker room.
Harvard police searched the school before students arrived for class, according to a news release. No other suspicious items were found, and no suspects have been identified.
The incident is being investigated.
This was the third time in less than four months that ammunition has been found at District 50 schools.
A Harvard Junior High School student was charged with disorderly conduct in mid-December after he brought three .30-caliber shell casings onto a bus to school. Students at the five district schools were kept in their classrooms during that incident.
Two days before, Crosby Elementary School officials found a .22-caliber shell casing on the cafeteria floor. That caused administrators to keep students in their classrooms for more than an hour while police searched the building.
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text: Story Corps A Husband And Wife Blessed Late In Life By editor • Feb 14, 2013 Harriet and Louis Caplan's love story began 20 years ago in a college town in Kansas. Harriet was 48 and working at a bank. Louis was a 56-year-old physicist. Both assumed they'd be single for the rest of their lives — until their paths crossed. It began with Wednesday evening outings when a group would meet after work. "We went to football games and concerts, and I still don't quite know how it happened, but instead of going in two separate cars, you and I would start going in the same car," Harriet remembers. "I don't think we ever had a date."


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Ho, fellow conservative Australians, and welcome to this, the foreword to Cory Bernardi's new book. I would like to thank the good senator for inviting me to write a few words but, even more than that, I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation for the very large cheque which made my contribution possible.
Like many of the hundreds of Australians who have rushed online to review The Conservative Revolution, I cannot admit to having read it. Unlike them, however, I have enjoyed spending the funds provided by the cabal of multinational mining companies, merchant banks and tax-exempt mega-churches that have endorsed and possibly funded its publication and my latest beachfront property.
While never having had the pleasure of meeting the senator, who must be very careful about his public movements given the insensate rage he seems to inspire in the lower orders when about in public, I can assure you that I like the cut of his jib. One only has to gaze into the fathomless depths of his black eyes to know that here is a fellow ready to light a fire under the feet of a complacent nation, or to use a white-hot poker on those unprotected feet, or even a handy pair of pliers, should lighting a fire prove inconvenient because of ill-conceived environment legislation.
My fellow conservative Australians - and we are all conservative Australians now, thanks to the courageous legislation promoted by Senator Bernardi to strip away the citizenship from anyone who isn't conservative and even from those who'd mask themselves as conservative when we know, in fact, that some are really about the gay marriage because they secretly want to force everyone to share their secret and shameful and intriguing lusts. My, er, fellow conservative Australians, we must heed the warning of Cory that the moral relativism of the left threatens Australia's way of life. Why, if these lentil-eating monsters had their way, it would be illegal for a fellow to whip the wretched Chinaman at the steam laundrette for putting too much starch in his dickie, to correct one's bothersome wife with the back of one's hand, or even to launch a punitive raid against the natives, should they threaten to breach the boundaries at the edge of settlement with their gibbering demands to not be shot or poisoned or run off their so-called ancestral lands.
These are the unflinching standards we must cleave to, if we are to walk the path ''to a better Australia through a commitment to faith, family, flag, freedom and free enterprise''. The senator has reminded us again and again during his time in Parliament that we must ''protect and defend the traditional institutions that have stood the test of time'', institutions such as restricting the vote to chaps with significant property holdings or at the very least a commission in one of the better regiments - traditions such as White Australia, keeping ladies out of the universities and the working man in his place.
When I think of how our founding governors were able to throw a man in irons, or have him flogged or even hanged for making the sort of trouble we now endure from Ms Hanson-Young, I cannot help but wonder if we have fallen so far from our first principles that there is no further left to fall. Bernardi's book is proof that yes, yes there is.
Oh, poor fellow my country, is there anyone brave enough to call our attention away from the hysteria of so-called global warming and on to the existential threat of Malcolm Turnbull? Yes, of course there is. And it's Bernardi! The courage of the man is found in his willingness to challenge the enemy within with the same gimlet-eyed fanaticism he unleashes on the enemy without.
Not only does the powerful gay lobby, with its millions of supporters, go weak at the knees with the very idea of a pumped-up and sweating Bernardi having his way with them, but treacherous elements within his own party are likewise cowed.
This well-dressed Turnbull, with his expensive suits and tailormade liberalism, forever wanting to extend to everyone those freedoms and privileges traditionally preserved for privileged chaps like Bernardi, where does he get off? At the first stop on the road to green left hell, that's where, with a quick detour to drop into the wedding reception for a gay marriage between a couple of Muslim fellows.
The senator knows that before he can deal with the gays and Muslims, he has to secure himself against the single mothers, and the stepchildren and the divorcees and that Warren Entsch with his suspicious and unmanly earring, but most of all with Turnbull whom, I might add, does not meet the Bernardi Eugenics Gold Standard hailing as he does from a single-parent home.
There is a reason Turnbull looks ill most every time … he has to stand next to the prime minister and explain why a long piece of string and two empty soup cans will outperform the NBN. It's because he is a watermelon - green on the outside and red within - although it might also be because Tony Abbott once thought he'd had a child out of wedlock, meaning that he, too, could not measure up to Bernardi's standards. But who among us can?
John Birmingham blogs for Fairfax Media at brisbanetimes.com.au and for himself at cheeseburgergothic.com.
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Local Market Follows Strong US Leads With Early Gains By Niall King (Sales Trader, CMC Markets)11.29 AEDT, Wednesday 27 February 2013
Local Market Follows Strong US Leads With Early Gains
By Niall King (Sales Trader, CMC Markets)
After starting the week on unsure footing with weak Chinese PMI data and renewed Eurozone debt concerns, the Australian Market followed the US market's strong lead overnight easing away from the 5000 point mark with early gains made in all the major sectors.
Tensions within the market early this week have been soothed by a variety of confidence-inspiring events overnight from the US. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's warmly received testimony to the Senate Banking committee that the Central Bank is not planning to curb stimulus anytime soon was compounded with stronger than expected housing and consumer confidence data.
The resulting appreciation of the US dollar against its Australian counterpart, trading at its lowest levels since October, has continued in early trade with the Aussie struggling to regain the losses it made overnight.
Some relief may come in the form of positive ABS construction data for the December quarter at 11.30am if this morning's reading breaches the expected 1.5%. Although more impact on the currency is likely to come from Thursday's much anticipated Capital Expenditure data.
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Sheriff's officials in Jackson County have been on the look out for a South Carolina couple suspected in a rash of mailbox thefts. They say the pair may be pulling off one of the oldest scams in the book.
It appears that hurricane relief workers weren't the only ones to visit Jackson County after Hurricane Ivan made its exit.
Mary Fant is one of at least three known victims of a recent rip off in Jackson County. "How did they choose me? Why did they stop at my mail box and nobody else?"
Sheriff Johnny McDaniel says the husband and wife team of Billy Wayne and Nichole Vuncannon claimed several victims shortly after Hurricane Ivan. "They would ride around in the community and when they would see the red flag up on a rural mailbox they knew that there was mail in there."
To the average person the flag up is an indication there's some type of mail that needs to be picked up by a mail carrier, but to these suspect it was money in the bank."
Sheriff McDanield told NewsChannel Seven the idea was to get people's checks out of the mail. "They'll have a process where they would bleach those checks and redo those and mark over them." Then the checks are re-written to themselves and others for large amounts and cashed.
Mary Fant says that's exactly what happened to a check she had made to pay a bill. "They were able to turn that into their name and were bold enough to go into my bank and cash it."
Jackson County lawmen say the couple may have fled the state, because their latest stolen check was cashed in Alabama.
Sheriff's investigators are advising people to use direct deposit banking options for their retirement and social security checks.


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On January 7, 2013, the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published three items in the Federal Register related to the transport of lithium batteries and other materials. The first item was a final rule that amends the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including recent changes to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, the International Civil Aviation Organization's Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air (ICAO Technical Instructions), and the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods—Model Regulations (UN Model Regulations). The second item responds to an administrative appeal of certain amendments to PHMSA's final rule on harmonization published on January 19, 2011. The third item is a proposed rule seeking additional comment on the impact of changes to the requirements for the air transport of lithium cells and batteries by were adopted into the 2013–2014 ICAO Technical Instructions that was incorporated by reference in PHMSA's final rule referenced above.
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Chemical Spill And Fire At Local Plant
Wichita Falls Fire Department Haz-Mat crews responded to call about a chemical spill and possible fire at Texas Recreation Corporation in the 900 block of North Beverly Drive at around 9:00 am. Wichita Falls Traffic Control also responded and diverted traffic off of North Beverly Drive while officials assessed and contained the chemical spill. One source tells us that a series of chemicals were being mixed when the container caught fire and a large quantity of the chemical was spilled. Fire and Haz-Mat crews responded and the plant was evacuated. No injuries have been reported and traffic flow along North Beverly has been restored as of noon. A special Haz-Mat crew has been dispatched from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area to complete the clean-up process. Texas Recreation Corporation is the manufacturer of the Super Soft line of promotional products as well as pool and other recreational foam products.


text: Guy Raz Miners Weather The Slow Burn Of Coal's Demise By Guy Raz & Lauren Silverman • Jul 14, 2012 At some point today, you will probably flip on a light switch. That simple action connects you to the oldest and most plentiful source of American electricity: coal. Since the early 1880s — when Edison and Tesla pioneered the distribution of electrical power into our homes — most of that power has come from the process of burning coal. Blacks, Gays And The Church By Guy Raz • May 27, 2012 Transcript GUY RAZ, HOST: Let's turn to another story we've been following in recent weeks: African-Americans and same-sex marriage. When President Obama came out in support of gay marriage, some African-American religious leaders protested. But according to new polling data, African-Americans are no less supportive or, for that matter, opposed to gay marriage than any other group in the country. Afghanistan Hit By Deadly Attacks By Guy Raz • Apr 15, 2012 Transcript GUY RAZ, HOST: And if you're just joining us, you're listening to WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. In Afghanistan today, the Taliban has launched a string of attacks across the country, including coordinated strikes in the capital, Kabul, that hit near western targets and Afghan government buildings. The Taliban says today's attack marks the beginning of what they call the spring fighting season, the period after the winter thaw when mountain passes and roads become accessible again. Disqualifications Hit Egyptian Elections By Guy Raz • Apr 15, 2012 Transcript GUY RAZ, HOST: Staying overseas, and to Egypt now, where election officials have stunned voters by banning three of the top contenders running in the country's upcoming presidential elections. Those candidates include Omar Suleiman, the vice president under Hosni Mubarak, the other two, a powerful leader from the Muslim Brotherhood and an ultra-conservative Islamist cleric. Dramatic Storms Strike Dallas-Fort Worth Area By Guy Raz • Apr 4, 2012 Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. A flight departure board at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport yesterday told the story. One word was repeated again and again: cancelled, cancelled, cancelled. INSKEEP: That was just one sign of chaos, as up to a dozen tornadoes spun through the area. Amazingly, nobody was reported killed. Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later By Guy Raz • Feb 4, 2012 Last semester, Brown senior Malcolm Burnley took a narrative writing course. One of the assignments was to write a fictional story based on something true — and that true event had to be found inside the university archives. "So I went to the archives and started flipping through dusty compilations of student newspapers, and there was this old black-and-white photo of when Malcolm X came to speak," Burnley says. "There was one short article that corresponded to it, and very little else."


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What the hell man?? I love to get up in the morning and drink my coffee while reading the latest Jets news, and lately I've been getting this FREAK to pop up on the ads.
He's a nice guy.
your mugshot pops up. then these sites, that posted your mugshot, charge you $200 - $300 to remove it. this world isn't too f*ing evil is it?
> Install google chrome
> Install adblock
> Enjoy coffee
You can install Adblock on Firefox too.
Thanks for the suggestions, will get on it, Im not really computer savvy at all.
Just for fun, can someone run ragu through the system?
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12/02/2008 (10:00PM - 10:59PM) (Tuesday) : A RAPE CASE INVOLVING A YOUNG FEMALE MARINE STIRS UP PAINFUL MEMORIES FROM DETECTIVE OLIVIA BENSON'S (MARISKA HARGITAY) PAST.
Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) is put to the test when pregnant Corporal Jessica Crewes disappears from her post as a Marine, and is about to give birth to her rapist's child. When Jessie is found dead in the trunk of her car, Navy Commander Grant Marcus (guest star Frank Whaley) attempts to take over proceedings, but Detective Benson and ADA Kim Greylek (Michaela McManus) must fight together and stand their ground to keep the case within the SVU squad. With flashbacks of sexual assault, Detective Benson soon realizes that her past may stir up painful emotions that threaten her ability to remain professional, and enlists the help of Detective Odafin Tutulola (Ice-T) to find Jessie's killer. Also starring: Richard Belzer (Detective John Much), Dann Florek (Captain Donald Cragen), Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Michaela McManus (A.D.A Kim Greylek), Tamara Tunie (Dr. Melinda Warner), and B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang).


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Sony: 'of course' PS4 can do cloud computing
Microsoft has been keen to promote Xbox One's use of the cloud. Xbox One's official website, for example, states that "thanks to the power of the cloud, Xbox One will keep getting better." Cloud computing supposedly makes Xbox One four times more powerful. It also justifies why Xbox One is effectively an always-on console.
But what about Sony's next-gen machine? Sure, it can stream games via the cloud-powered Gaikai. But can it also follow Microsoft's step in offloading computation to the cloud? "Of course," Sony's Shuhei Yoshida said.
"Linking, matchmaking... there are already many computations being done on the cloud side," Yoshida told Polygon. And although PS4 won't require an internet connection to use, Yoshida said that "if your title needs [an] online connection to provide some online features: Go for it."
There you go. Both consoles can do cloud computing. Although be warned--it's all pretty much a load of rubbish either way. Hooray for marketing!


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One day after Browns safety T.J. Ward ended New England tight end Rob Gronkowski's season, the team announced Ward has been chosen by his teammates to receive the 2013 Ed Block Courage Award.
The award is given annually to a member of each of the 32 NFL teams who exemplifies the qualities of Block, the former head athletic trainer of the Baltimore Colts, based on courage, compassion, commitment and community. All 32 winners will be honored at an event in Baltimore.
On Sunday in New England, a clean hit by Ward to Gronkowski's lower right leg in the third quarter resulted in Gronkowski suffering a torn ACL and MCL.
Ward sustained a knee injury in 2012 and was placed on injured reserve with two games left. He ranks second on the team this season with 106 tackles. He is active in the NFL's Play 60 program, helped provide turkeys to needy families at Thanksgiving and is involved in other activities for disadvantaged young people.
"It means a lot in being chosen as the winner of this award by my teammates and my peers," Ward said through a team spokesman. "It means a lot to come back from injury, period. A lot of guys go through this, like other guys on the list, (defensive tackle) Phil Taylor and (guard) Jason Pinkston, so it was definitely an honor to receive this award."
Taylor suffered a torn pectoral muscle last season. Pinkston was hospitalized with a blood clot in his lung and spent 10 games on injured reserve.
"I found out that I was even nominated for the award through the trainers, which was kind of surprising," Ward said. "I didn't think that I was going to win it since some guys had bounced back from some very serious injuries and came and played, but yet my teammates felt that I bounced back the strongest. I don't know what they felt, but it's just an honor for them to vote me for this award. It really could have been any of the three of us to win that honor, but I'm glad that I did."
Ward will be honored Tuesday night during a Providence House benefit at FirstEnergy Stadium.
Defense must step up
Coach Rob Chudzinski is not letting the defense off the hook in the 27-26 loss to the Patriots.
New England quarterback Tom Brady took possession at the Patriots 18 with 2:35 to play. He led them to two touchdowns, both on passes.
"That's one of the things we want to get better at and improve," Chudzinski said. "When you have a game in your hands, you want to close it out defensively. We gave up a couple big plays. They were able to get out of bounds at another point."
The Patriots cut the Browns' lead to 26-21 with 1:01 left, recovered an onside kick and went ahead with 31 seconds left after being aided by a controversial pass interference penalty.
Last week, the Jaguars marched from the Jacksonville 20 and scored the winning touchdown with 40 seconds left on a 20-yard pass from Chad Henne to Cecil Shorts III.
Injury update
Guard John Greco suffered a sprained knee in the loss to New England. Running back Willis McGahee suffered a concussion and is in the league's concussion protocol system.


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Torres del Paine National Park
Photograph by Peter Essick
Sunset casts a rosy glow over granite peaks encircling a glacial lake in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. Chile's prized jewel, the 598,000-acre (242,000-hectare) national park is a mosaic of landforms including soaring mountains, golden pampas, and grinding ice fields.
At the southern tip of South America, the region of Patagonia includes parts of Argentina and Chile.
Moreno Glacier
Photograph by Peter EssickMoreno Glacier rises above Lake Argentino as a rugged wall three miles (4.8 kilometers) wide and almost 200 feet (60 meters) tall. One of 47 massive ice fields in Argentine Patagonia's Glaciers National Park, this grinding, groaning force of nature covers a hundred square miles (260 square kilometers).
Copahue Provincial Park
Photograph by Peter EssickHundred-foot-tall (30-meter-tall) araucaria trees surrounding a waterfall reach for the stars in Argentina's Copahue Provincial Park. Living relics of the Jurassic period, these thousand-year-old giants stand as symbols of Patagonian tenacity in a landscape both severe and sublime.
Río Negro Ranch
Photograph by Peter EssickA single ranch can stretch for several hundred thousand acres in Río Negro, a province in northern Argentine Patagonia. Ranch workers oversee far-flung grazing from outposts called puestos, like the one above, where hours are long and comforts are few.
Seaside Village
Photograph by Peter EssickSettlements, like this twinkling village built between the mountains and the sea, are few and far between in Patagonia. The 260,000-square-mile (673,000-square-kilometer) region is so sparsely settled that population density is as low as one person per square mile in some areas.
Lighthouse on Patagonia Coast
Photograph by Peter EssickA lone lighthouse stands guard on the Patagonia coast. Cold waters rushing in from Antarctica support a wide variety of life along Patagonia's southern coast, including sea lions, cormorants, and albatrosses.
Starry Skies
Photograph by Peter EssickOnce the haunt of a few stalwart climbers, Chile's Torres Del Paine National Park now draws more than 100,000 visitors a year.
Andes Mountain Waterfall
Photograph by Peter EssickThe snowy peaks of the Andes spawn thousands of gushing streams and waterfalls in Patagonia. From majestic mountains to trembling volcanoes, Patagonia remains the unspoiled frontier of South America.
Credits: National Geographic


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Allegan County Health Department, MI
People with disabilities and disabled elder citizens of Allegan County face many obstacles in obtaining appropriate wellness education with an integrated approach to health. These obstacles include inadequate education of trainers, negative attitudes toward the disabled, self-limiting behaviors influenced by the environment, lack of knowledge and availability of effective health promotion activities, and inadequate avenues for personal empowerment. The Allegan County Health Department (ACHD) lacks funding to create the essential elements for healthy lifestyles for this population.
For its curriculum, ACHD selected the Healthy Lifestyles program from the Oregon Health and Science University, Center on Community Accessibility. With funding from NACCHO, ACHD is creating healthy lifestyle trainers and workshops to serve people with disabilities and disabled elder citizens of Allegan County and surrounding areas. With the network of new trainers, ACHD's health education and health promotion section coordinates seminars and monthly support groups throughout the county.
Project Mission
The mission of this project is to improve the health and wellness of people with disabilities through health promotion, collaborative research, dissemination, and policy development activities that address health disparities and secondary conditions.
Project Goal
The goal of this project is to develop integrated health promotion programs for people with disabilities and to empower them to have self-determined healthy lifestyles.
This project will address the following areas of essential services for local health departments:
Technical Assistance Project:
NACCHO is currently offering technical assistance support to local health departments to improve their capacity to develop or enhance health promotion programs for people living with disabilities through coordination of existing health department and community services.
Allegan County Health Department is providing technical assistance to Madison County-London City Health District, OH. For more information, visit: Madison County-London City Health District.
For more information about Allegan County, please contact:
Kathy Yonkers-Wright, RDH, MS
Health Education and Health Promotion Section
Allegan County Health Department
Tel: (269) 686-4523
E-mail: email@example.com
Web Site:www.allegancounty.org
The Allegan County Health Department trained 18 trainers in the Healthy Lifestyles curriculum. These trainers are conducting Healthy Lifestyles workshops and ongoing support meetings for older adults and people with disabilities in Allegan County. The Partnership for a Healthy Allegan County developed a task force to guide curriculum implementation, revision, and adaptation, while exploring additional funding and collaboration opportunities for 2008.


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I just got the Jan/Feb issue of Skeptical Inquirer. The cover article was "It's the End of the World, And They Don't Feel Fine", by Matthew J. Sharps, Schuyler W. Liao, and Megan R. Herrera. Now I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that apart from the introductory section (where I thought they unfairly dissed the Oracle at Delphi by the way), this article went right over my head! The authors use a lot of jargon… "dissociative tendencies", "feature-intensive processing", "gestalt Processing", "cognitive incoherence"... without really explaining what these things mean.
I gather that this is the basic point: "In this study, we have seen that dissociative tendencies at a subclinial level and in the general population incline people to cognitive incoherency; the dissociated believe in prophecies of the apocalypse even when they do not believe in the apocalypse itself." But I couldn't explain to you how they arrived at this conclusion, or even what it means! And this is not the first time I've read an article like this in SI. You guys are going to HAVE to stop writing articles as if you expect everybody to have a doctorate in psychology!