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Posted on August 22, 2013
By BOB DAVIDSON
Salina Journal
Vanessa Kresin thought they were kidding. They had to be.
She and her teammates were en route to play a basketball game against a local club team on the island nation of Curacao and not sure what to expect.
"All us girls were kind of joking beforehand because our event coordinator was like 'You'll expect more and it's different down here,' and we were 'yeah, we'll probably be playing on an outside court," Kresin said. "We kind of joked about it because that's not possible.
"Then our taxi pulled up and they said, 'Here's the gym' and we saw no building. We're looking at each other and we're like uhhhhh ... We started walking and we're like 'This is an outdoor court, are you serious?' The event coordinator said, 'Yes ... it's OK, it's still basketball."
Kresin the other members of the USA Athletes International group played four games during their trip July 30 to Aug. 6. Two were staged on outdoors courts and two others in a barn-sized building that had a roof, but no walls.
Welcome to Curacao and its fledgling state of basketball.
"It was a little weird with the wind and stuff when you were shooting free throws," said Kresin, a Glen Elder native and two-year starter for the Kansas Wesleyan women's team. "But it's cool to say we played organized basketball outside. It was an eye-opening experience."
Brown Mackie women's coach Troy Thrasher and 10 girls comprised the team that made the trip along with a USAAI softball team. Among the other basketball participants with Kresin were Ashley Carey, a Salina South graduate who plays for Bethany; current Brown Mackie players Seanna Arrendondo and Hannah Mortimer of Southeast of Saline; and former Brown Mackie player Mackenzie Coffey, who plays for Hardin-Simmons University (Texas).
The group also conducted clinics, working with Curacao girls ages 14 to 18 to help them learn the game. There also was sightseeing, scuba diving, a cruise on a catamaran and a tour of the island that's located 38 miles off the northeast coast of Venezuela.
"They were trying to help out a different country, trying to help young players get better at the game of basketball," Thrasher said. "They had to adapt to a whole different culture."
The USAAI basketball team easily won its four games, but that wasn't the point or purpose of the trip.
"I visited with one of the Curacao coaches -- we went down to watch the softball team play -- and he explained to me it's kind of hard to get the girls down there interested in basketball just because they don't start playing until they're 12 years old," Kresin said. "Here in America ... I've been playing ever since I can remember, so I can see how it would be harder to get the girls down there involved.
"Working with the clinics, we just tried to be very positive and motivational to them. Obviously, they weren't as good skill-wise as girls in America. You could tell they were playing because they did enjoyed it."
The two teams were mixed together for one game with some surprising results, Kresin said.
"There were a couple of the girls that were rebounding exceptionally well," she said. "It was awesome seeing them play with us and playing with higher ability. They definitely played their hardest all the time and went hard. It's just that they're a few (skill) steps behind us. That made me respect them a lot more and give them a lot more credit to their ability and where they're at right now."
Kresin, who averaged 11.1 points and 5.6 rebounds last season as a sophomore at KWU, said the clinics focused on fundamentals.
"We worked on dribbling, passing, shooting form and rebounding. We went through the four basic fundamentals of the game," she said. "You could tell they understood the fundamentals, skill-wise they just need that repetition. They knew you have to rebound to be successful and you have to be able to play defense. But as far as actually being able to play defense, that was a different story."
The learning experience went both ways, according to Thrasher.
"I think they gained an appreciation for we have to work with," he said. "The girls from Brown Mackie don't like the fact they don't have a gym or dorms, but after the trip they realized they have it pretty good. They gained an appreciation for what they have to work with. It was a learning experience for them and for me."
Despite a language barrier and vast differences in skill sets, Kresin said the athletes became friends.
"Even though we're at different levels of the game, in a way it united us together," she said. "Half of the girls on their team could speak English, but not very well. But basketball was there to unite us. It was kind of cool to see how a simple game could ignite a friendship."


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by James Eatock: http://bustatoons.blogspot.com/2006/07/man-e-direction.html
In the season one He-Man episode "The Mystery of Man-E-Faces" I noticed a camera angle that director Lou Zukor uses on three occasions. The first time we see it used occurs when Man-E-Faces meets Man-At-Arms, the second time; when Man-E-Faces squares off against He-Man, and the third time; when Man-E-Faces is greeted by Skeletor. It is a noticeable camera shot because it was rarely used in the series, and also in the case of Man-E-Faces proved to be a tad problematic, as we cannot see his face!

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Minnesota vs Texas Tech
I have 33 points on Texas Tech and Tech just returned a kickoff for a touchdown. 7-3 Tech
edit: I forgot...BIG TEEHHHNNNN
Has now started.
Holy MANBALL. 2 fullbacks and an absolute trucking of a DB for a big Minny gain.
Was a beautiful play.
I would love to see Minny shut up all the B1G haters. Kill can coach. The B1G is on its way back from a low point right now.
Minnesota just got a good looking TD (making it 10-7). Go Gophers! Go B1G!
believers the F up.
Oh, nevermind.
Go Gophers!!!
It is so concerning how we couldn't run against THIS run defense
You how bad our oline is/was and will probably be as good or better next season even while being very young.
I didn't realize that you could get 15 yards for playing football. Horrific call against Minnesota. How dare you hit a guy before he's on the ground. *shakes head*
This is like what happens if you play Madden on fifteen minute quarters.
with a TD pass. Woo 31 points on Tha (Red) Raidas!
Believe Minnesota made a bowl game, I thought they were horrible, really, people who bitched about Rutgers coming to the B1G, they are probably an upgrade from Minnesota and RR's rival Indiana.
I think they'll be ok in a year or 2 when the line is experienced. I'll never ever understand the Mason firing.
You are right, their line will be pretty good, can't believe they fired Mason either...where were thy trying to go? They had some of their best years under him and since have been terrible. Kill doesn't seem like a good coach either IMO.
Kill has a modest (.607) winning percentage because he is the guy brought in to fix programs that have gone beyond the pale of moribund into downright awful. And he does it, too. He's not Saban, but Saban would get his ass killed at Minnesota.
Jerry Kill has followed other successful coaches before now. He didn't have a great record in D2, and had the luck to fall into a good situation at NIU
Lou Holtz went there and it didn't take him long to realize that winning there is impossible.
Is a horrible in game manager, I've seen him make many boneheaded decisions this year alone. He has 1 year left to prove he can get to Mason's level and then he's gone. If they were smart, they would rehire Mason.
The B1G couldn't get off to a better start. I pray we win so at least I won't pay as much attention to the "B1G Hate" the media will talk about endlessly.
We are not the SEC, haaaaving said that, Guns Up!
Minnesota's secondary is horrible. If they blitz they'll get burnt all day, so it seems thus far.
on whether teams perform better or worse when their coach leaves? I took TT in this game but marked them down to 11 from where I would have otherwise given Tubberville's classy exit to the Queen City.
My dog just told me she wants more A.J. Barker. He's her favorite football player
Air Bud: Golden Receiver?
That three back set is the most Big Tem thing ever.
I'm inventing a drinking game where I drink whenever they say "deep in the Heart of Texas"
Is Gerg coaching these defenses?
Donnell Kirkwood and Rodrick Williams may very well 7 and 8-yard Texas Tech to death at this rate. Minnesota has little reason to go to the air right now if TTU's rush defense is really that porous.
Big Ten represent in an away environment yet again.
Marquiess Gray now. Why these guys get the big $.
Wow, Minny's offense came to play (if not the D).
That could be the game.
Why does it seem like no one knows how to tackle anymore?
of watching football I can't ever recall seeing 3rd and 49.
I like how the announcer said Lubbock isn't that far from Houston when it's like across the state
It's closer than Minneapolis?
it's closer from Ann Arbor to Iowa City than it is from Lubbock to Houston
2nd and 42? Wow.
Only a Big Ten team would run it in that situation.
3rd and 49
3rd and 49. Wow.
I like the draw for a 3rd and 49 call.
ed: Called it!
and they line up in the I formation.THAT is the most Big Ten thing ever.
Aaaaand another penalty as I type.
I think Jerry Kill needs my NFL Blitz skills to take care of that 3rd & 49.
3rd and 49 is a new high for me to have seen in my football watching career.
Is it really that hard to see the ball not moving when it is about four feet from you? Obvious offside is obvious on Texas Tech.
Also, Minnesota just negated all positive yardage back to the Illinois game with this 3rd and 49 play. Passing down, right?
Does anyone honestly get worried when Jerry gets so pissed? I'd rather not see him have a seizure again.
Anyone know what the longest conversion has been in college/pros? The longest I can remember is in the mid twenties.
Supposedly, according to a few sites, at the collegiate level, the longest ever converted was 3rd and 77 back in the 1930s in a game between Navy and Arkansas. As for the pros, I don't remember how long ago, but I think the Broncos once converted on 3rd and almost 40.
Minnesota is beating themselves.
Wasn't that a horrible call on Minny though? I was away and came back, and I don't have the volume on so I may have missed something, but the replay looked like offsetting extracurriculars.
a drum.
Well you have to give it to them. Nobody in the stadium could have possibly predicted run in a 3rd and 49 situation.
Still did anybody see Minnesota only being down 7 at the half?
It's tied...
Right now but I was penciling in a Tech touchdown before the half.
Kudos to the Minn D for resisting even if the offense gets it in.
Gotcha. That was probably a smart prediction.
The punt was the cherry on the top of that series
It's bad when your punt doesn't pass the 1st down marker. Of course, in this situation you'd need Will H. to boom one to get it there.
punt did not even get close to the first down marker. awesome
Stolen from twitter.
Current Drive
Drive Summary: 10 plays, -14 yards
Must be another record. Poor Jerry.
But, what's his record when he's down by 3 at half in a high-scoring game? Methinks a lot of that record is when he was down my multiple touchdowns. Not really on point tonight regardless of what happens in the last minute. Dumb.
I can say with confidence that "now a national research university" will never appear in a B1G ad.
Guns up halol
Apologies if this is too political, but of the 11 airports where TSA confiscated the most guns trying to go through security (I imagine all of them were of the "I forgot it was on me" variety), 5 of them are in Texas. Atlanta had the most fwiw.
In yo FACE, Tay-hass!!! ATL 4EVA.
than the 2 rocket/gernade launchers LA police collected during their gun buyback program? Money quote: "This is not that unusual…`we've had them in the past.'"
Maurice Clarett was in town?
A kick return TD, brutal penalty call, and a 4th and 6 have TT up by 7, but the Gophers look to be a match for them so far.
Two fullbacks and a running back. Jerry Kill knows a little something about MANBALL.
Minnesota's scripts/fonts bother me. Their take on the "M" always makes me think of Mad Magazine and the jersey numbers are all kinds of jacked up.
And I'm still not sure their uniforms will look worse than Michigan's on Tuesday.
But they look like a decent team so far in the second half...GO, GOOPHERS (as long as it's not hockey)!
Personally, I think it's funny that we've laid such a firm claim on the block M that Minnesota won't dare use it.
Loving Minnesotas Man Ball!!
wow that sounded wrong
Texas Tech's team.
Big Tehhhnn! Go Minny!
HUGE defensive stand by Minnesota.
This game is a lot closer than I think many thought would be! I'm not sure what the line is but in the Yahoo Bowl Pick 'Em I'm in more than 90% of people thought Tech would win. So much for the wisdom of crowds if they can pull this out!
Tech by 12.5-13. It was one of the biggest spreads of the season.
Or not.
Now touchdown.
Since when has Minnesota known how to play football?
Texas Tech is continuing the Big 12's tradition of not playing defense.
shockingly, i believe they have the most big ten titles behind michigan and osu. but considering they used to be a major player in the conference.....
Replay had been awful this year. How do they overturn that?
That broke the plane.
could be so much fun?
Why do teams try over and over to run between the tackles at the goal line? I get dominating people but the edge is sometimes very open and teams don't really seem too interested in running the outside zone...Just wondering?
Outside run plays take longer to develop. You need to be able to hold your blocks for a longer amount of time than you do for a run right up the gut, and that can be tough against a goal line D.
At this point I think I'm just going to root for Minnesota since I never expected them to even compete. GO BIG TEN!
I don't think Tech is playing anything close to their best football, but Minny is still all over the field. If they play like this next year, they'll win a lot more than 2 Big Ten games.
Go Gophers!
ALSO: Minnesota has some hot Cheerleaders.
"Keep on cheering through the up skirt shot"?
Minnesota's offense in conference play this year was at the bottom with Sparty. They scored 13 against us, 13 against Iowa, 13 against Northwestern, 13 against Wisconsin, 10 against MSU, 14 against Nebraska and 17 against Illinois.
Their only impressive game was scoring 44 against Purdue. (And I seem to recall folks here getting nervous when they saw how much Minny put up against the boilers.)
Now the Gophers look unstoppable on offense. Who is coaching Tech's D? Gerg?
or impotent?
But they could use some protection on defense.
Who said the Big 12 was underrated and beat up on each other...yeah. At least one of their members is down 3 touchdowns vs. the spread and might be on their way to 4, to a bad football team.
Moral of the story? Don't get too high or down over one game.
And the bowl season is weird.
Why is it that Minnesota used to be maroon and gold, but now it's like brown? It looks stupid.
What kind of TV are you watching it on?
Though matte helmets seem to continue to do well.
It's the Matte Helmets. Tech needs to get with the times.
In 15 years
5 personal fouls on Tech. Mark Dantonio would be proud.
60 seconds of sound defense.
On a related note, will they pull a LeVeon Bell and think that the team in black and white beat them if they lose this game?
We'll have to see.
Either way way to rep the conference Minnesota.
It would say a lot for the future if the B1G could somehow go 5 of 6 in bowls. (MSU can blow.)
Dantonio recruits nationally; Texas Tech researches nationally.
It's a natural fit if you ask me.
Why is Gray playing QB now? Nelson was doing so well. Really questionable move there by Minnesota. Gray looked awful on those two throws.
Did Narduzzi take the Texas Tech job while I wasn't looking?
Ed.: I see Wolv. Hist. got there before me.
Great minds think alike.
Please win Minnesota. Please.
Dang ..an interception would a been huge
Update: two plays later it's 31-31
To a game that ended 12 hours ago?
Have you Quantum Leaped to your past?
Minny dominated the game but got too conservative on offense. This game should not be close.
I'd say it wasn't their offense that was the problem.
You knew Minn was going to pay for it when they didn't score on their last two possessions. But I think they might have a FG drive in them here.
It's not like Minny made some critical fumble here. They've been dominating. Tech played dangerous, chaotic football to try to get back into it and got lucky.
Edit: Okay, now you can say it.
Except for the huge breakdown in coverage that allowed the TT reciever to waltz into the end zone
Goldy NO!!!!
Big tehhnnn :(
And that is why we call you MInneHaHa.
(*Removes hat, pukes in it*)
Why throw it there? You need seven yards, not 30.
Well, you need 30 pretty soon if you want to win.
But you don't even have to score in regulation there. Seven yards lets you kill the clock and go to OT.
this is typical big ten.
Oh Minny.
And that's Minnesota for you.
What I've learned from watching football today - it's hard to win with a shitty QB.
Fourth and 4 from the 40, up by 7. You convert and you win the game, Kill. You have to go for it there and put the game away.
The false start penalty they had at the beginning of that series looms quite large in retrospect.
I really really hope our conference does not get shut out in bowl season
That was disgusting.
That's why you don't go cover zero on 3rd down when you're winning minnesota...
Inverse prevent D. Incredibly dumb formation at that time.
This this this, all the way this. Why?
Thought the announcers were going to jinx it away.
Shit I thought he missed it the way that ball was kicked.
minnesota fans hate texas tech.
This is what they do, I mean....it's practically tradition.
It looked like the fg kicker blew it
Too bad it was only from 28
Wow. Minny handed them the game. Can't wait to hear "The B1G is outclassed every year in the bowls" for another 365 days. Michigan State better win tomorrow.
Fuck MSU. Go TCU.
that is all.
there'll be some sad thick-ankled women in East Dakota tonight.
After watching this game, I think it's safe to say that Texas Tech has a problem with ethics. That punch was ridiculous, as was the celebration, as was Mike Leach.
Minnesota gonna Minnesote out there. That's why YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME, not play to not lose it.
Well actually, I think Minnesota played to win a little too much.
Hold on. The Big Ten has played one bowl game and exceeded everyone's expectations in it (though it ended in a heartbreaking loss). Let's wait to see what happens the rest of the way.
I think Michigan gets the win!
I now understand the terms LOLphers.
Gophers lost it for the Big Ten, but Tech didn't cover.
something very important, B1G Teams usually have to play these bowl games against schools from the state they're playing or very close to it, this matters.
I don't care what analysts say, Minny was kinda impressive tonight and looked like the better team to me. Bowl games happen 4-5 weeks after season ends, just ruins the rythym and I hate it anymore really.
2014 can't come soon enough.
1st off, I think we can have a special season in 2013 if our O-Line plays up to potential despite being young.
in 2014, we'll have better top flight match-ups with the top four teams and then the other bowls will be allowed to be more selective for their games instead of having to take an average Big East Team or an NIU for example.
That's why, on 4th and 4 on the opponent's 40, with 3:30 to go and up 7, you go for it.
The 8th best team in the Big 10 lost to a team that was ranked in the top 10 in October. Minnesota got smoked by everyone in the Big 10 besides Illinois...
As easy as it is to say "BIG TEHNN", think about this:
This was an away game.
Minnesota had a freshman quarterback
Minnesota was supposed to lose handily (example picks were 45-17, etc.)
Minnesota is one of the worst teams in the Big 10
If Ohio and Penn State were eligible, Minnesota would be playing (and beating) Central Mich.
Texas Tech had the #1 passing offense in the country prior to tonight.
Minnesota was the 2nd highest underdog behind Purdue.
This close of a game wasn't supposed to happen, and yet it did, with Minnesota looking like the better team through *most* of the game. (definitely not the last 5 minutes).
There's a reason you didn't play up Texas Tech in your justification, and that would be because they sucked it up pretty hard too. They needed overtime against Kansas to not finish the season 0 for their last 5. Their claim to fame is that beat an inflated WVU team.
Did anyone mention this team had no head coach? Oops.
But you're missing the point that I'm trying to say - Texas Tech beat ranked team(s) and played in the *Big 12* so they were automatically thought to win since the Big 10 apparently is the "worst conference" because Wisconsin couldn't beat Oregon State (unranked at the time), Iowa lost to Iowa State, and Penn State v1.0 lost to Temple (who I think beat Rutgers). This whole BIG TEHNNN thing has got to die
You would kind of have a point if Minnesota actually won the game, but they didn't. They lost to a team that rode the West Virginia facade to the top 25 (which is not a solid argument in favor of Texas Tech) and then proceeded to get shallacked in the Big 12. Did I mention that this team also had no head coach?
The Big Ten may not be the worst conference, but they sure do a goob job of losing to everyone. The Big Ten has to actually win if you want that sentiment to die.
Endeth the thread!
Not so fast my friend.
Guess the Midas touch was incompatible with Meineke car care. Branding FTL
Heartbreaking loss for Minny, I was really hoping they would win and get the bowl season started off right for the big 10. I thought one of the big series that could have won them the game aside from punting with the 4th and 3 was when they put Marquis Gray in there for a series near the end of the game and had him throw it twice, both very overthrown balls


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Monday, July 5, 2010
Madness Monday - The case of the Missing Mary Kelly
I keep staring at the 1880 United States Census for District 235 in the Mill Precinct of Lancaster county, Nebraska. Many members of my Kelly family are listed. There's my great grandfather, Daniel Kelly, shown at age 22 as the head of the household. Shown next is brother Willie - or William as I know him from other records. Johnie (John), Thomas, Nellie and Maggie (Margaret) are all there. Then another William shows up. Based on the age and the fact that his birthplace is shown as Illinois, this is most likely Michael C. Kelly, not another William.
Here comes the more perplexing aspect of this record. The last person shown in the household is W. D. (William) Kelly, who is my great great grandfather and the father of all of these siblings. His age is shown as 45, which is probably close to being accurate. But a housekeeper? Somehow, I just don't think he would have given up farming at that age to care for the house, especially since daughter Maggie is also shown to to keeping house.
The other two "facts" about W. D. Kelly is that he is reported as a Female and Widowed! I'm 100% certain that he was male, and his wife, Mary Casey, did not die until 1886. That is confirmed on her tombstone and in newspaper accounts.
The bottom line - where is his wife, Mary Casey Kelly, in 1880? I'm stumped. She was not living with her daughter and son-in-law (Mary Kelly and John Fitzgerald) in 1880. However, she and daughter Nellie were shown living with the Fitzgeralds at their Lincoln mansion, Mount Emerald, in the 1885 Nebraska State Census.
My only explanation is that the census enumerator got the information wrong - or it was given to him wrong. Whatever the case may be, it drives me Mad - Monday or any other day of the week!
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Labels: Madness Monday, Surname: Fitzgerald, Surname: Kelly
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Susan, do the stats fit Mary? This could be referring to her. I have a census that lists the widow by the husband's initials, widow, female, housekeeper, etc. Was W.D deceased at this time? Kathi M.ReplyDelete
Kathi - I think you have a pretty good theory going there. However, W.D. was very much alive at the time and he outlived his wife. Mary died in 1886 and W.D. died ten years later. Although - this could be a reference to Mary - so that would make her husband W.D. the missing person. Maybe I need to be looking for him in the census instead. Either way - one of them wasn't enumerated with the remainder of the family for this census. I appreciate your insight!ReplyDelete
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Chipley- For the past five years there's been a little room tucked away in a back corner of Horizon Health Care medical supply store. The room may be small, but it's purpose has been huge. It's the Cancer Society's 'Closet.'
"They actually gave us a closet to use, but then we had some other [hutches] to store stuff in for them. But, we had the space, we already provide a lot of these services that we bill to insurance, so it works out well for us" said Horizon Health Care Owner, David Yates.
He provided the space, and employee Jane Hutchinson made it cozy.
"I came in here and painted and put up the boarder" she said. "When the ladies come in here i just want them to feel comfortable. They've been through so much before they get to me, I just want them to feel at home and comfortable."
The Cancer Society has been donating and regularly restocking the items and Hutchinson has been donating her 'know how'. She's been fitting mastectomy patients for prosthesis for the past 12 years, five of them through 'The Closet'.
"Some people come in here who don't have insurance and don't have the money to buy these types of products because, it is expensive. So you know, we can just open up the closet and if there's something in there they can use we just give it to them" Hutchinson told us.
A patient can go shopping in the closet and pick out a camisole, bra, prosthesis, wig and a hat. It's a $500 value, absolutely free."It means so much to them, you know? It makes them feel like a woman again" Hutchinson said.
'The Closet' also accepts personal donations. If you'd like to contribute, items can be taken to Horizon Health Care in Chipley. Hutchinson said 'The Closet' was particularly in need of turbans.


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Monitoring and "remote support" by KGB included free with every purchase!
When you say "Monitoring and "remote support" by KGB included free with every purchase!", are you Putin us on?
I think a Linux system that used PaX would be easy. Actually I used to maintain the list of incompatible apps--mostly Java itself, a handful of other things that turned out to be broken (and occasionally have critical security holes, none of which I personally found)--for Gentoo Linux. Thing about PaX is when something is killed, it's logged, and you get a wealth of debug data--when your program misbehaves, it usually dies from it early and it's easier to find the problem. This means developers have an easier time getting their software more correct, and the system doesn't do odd unexpected things (by bad software or by being hacked and worm-infested), and so the more secure system becomes the more usable system and the more maintainable system.
Similarly, for Unix environments, you could work on building out Minix and bolt on services that supply security guarantees as PaX does, and that interface between the user space utilities and the OS (because the OS Syscall handler is itself a service, you run the program under a DIFFERENT SERVICE) to implement namespaces and act as functional jails--virtualization, semi-virtualization. Services supplied under full microkernels like GNU HURD, L4, or Minix are small and thus easily audited for correctness--and thus improve security.
It all requires policy, of course. The PaX stuff is policy: no write/execute and no !execute to execute. If that crashes the program, you need to fix the program or remove that policy restriction. Semi-virtualization is mainly a file access policy--hide (can't see it), read-through (can see it, writes are redirected a la UnionFS), read-write (can see and change it, object is shared)--and a resource policy--PIDs, network devices/addresses, etc are hidden or shared. It's on the developer to do that, although forced policy on deployment is possible (you can externally generate a policy). grsecurity has always supplied a learning mode that logs and then develops policy automatically, which you can then audit for monkey business.
It all requires policy, of course. The PaX stuff is policy: no write/execute and no !execute to execute. If that crashes the program, you need to fix the program or remove that policy restriction.
And right there you've put your finger precisely on the problem. Fixing the program is hard--if you got it from a vendor, it might well be impossible. Removing the policy, on the other hand, is easy.
No, that's stupid. As I said, the stricter guarantees that you must follow under PaX-alikes tend to make programs easier to debug. ASLR and W^X policies cause hard failures to happen more often and earlier in the failure process, rather than letting the program off-by-one and get away with it or just hobble along half-dead until it sputters out and dies miles away from where the error actually occurred. Debugger intervention and proper core dumps (with library layouts and other memory mappings) can be us
Narrow class? 86% of the first 60 security exploits published as advisories by Ubuntu were covered by ASLR and W^X supplied by PaX.
Also, as I"ve stated repeatedly, the development changes under ASLR policy are: DON'T MAKE BROKEN CODE (really, the only break here is to assume an address for a dynamically allocated resource is always the same and hard-code it; or subtle corruption that semi-works because generally things don't move around). For the W^X protections supplied by PaX, W^X, ExecShield, and a
This is actually not as much of a problem as you think. Programs don't last forever, and they get rewritten a lot. Upgrades. New features. Refactoring, replacement. Remember the shiny new thing is more attractive, so businesses throw out the old and make new just for the sake of being more up-to-date than the competition.
As such, a feature that says "Requires you to disable the security features of your OS for this particular program" and a big scary warning box that says "Program is requesting policy
businesses throw out the old and make new just for the sake of being more up-to-date than the competition. Not so much for SCADA systems and the like.
Your entire argument becomes irrelevant because such systems aren't going to upgrade the underlying OS into a "secure OS" anyway. The OS is going to rot away with the underlying program because the WHOLE PACKAGE works, and if management wants it upgraded they're going to want the WHOLE PACKAGE upgraded--why the hell would you move a program from the 90s off an NT4 box onto an XP box? You get a NEW program and install it on shiny new Server 2008r2.
You want a secure architecture without bolt-on bullshit,
Well, maybe YOU can, but I can't. I just install the stuff and make it work, I rely on folks like to give me the parts to put it together.
Bolt-on bullshit is bolt-on bullshit because refactoring a huge multi-million-line codebase is really freaking hard. Microkernels and other modular programming designs rely on small, specialized tasks so that the pieces can be shuffled, improved, and have other pieces interposed without the whole system needing a reworking front-to-back. Even Andrew Morton would have an easier time adding stuff like LSM to Minix rather than the (already completed, obviously) task of adding it to Linux.
Micro-modular soft
Qubes OS, previously seen on Slashdot, ought to do nicely.
It looks like Linux, but it isn't. It's more like VMWare ESX Server. It's a tiny kernel that provides a desktop consisting of composited windows from guest VMs. Each window is labled according to the VM it runs in, with window borders colored according to security compartment.
It won't work. SCADA was built off the assumption of physical security. It would take firing everyone who ever worked in SCADA to design the next generation of applications to get anything with security in it. Why would anyone switch to this "secure" system, when it's already more secure (physically) than any "program" can make it?
That's a bit of a stretch. I work in SCADA and it's not the developer's who are the problem. I, myself, harp on about security every other week. However, the marketing and development managers don't give a rats arse. If it's not a new "shiny" or something the competition has, then no money gets put into it.
Even when security is called out in the standards or client specifications, it's usually just security theater. The maintainers and end users don't want security and tend to bypass the token metho
Why do critical control systems need to be connected to the Internet? Computerized control systems such as SCADA have existed far longer than the Internet. There is also a difference between allowing critical quantities to be controlled remotely and these same critical quantities being monitored remotely. It MAY be permissible to allow read only monitoring over the Internet, but certainly, critical controls should never, ever at any time under any circumstances, be accessible from the Internet, so that some
It's cheaper to run traffic over an Internet link that it is to buy a dedicated line. Knew one oil company who wanted to run an RGB composite video cable all the way underwater from an oil rig to the head office, just so the CEO's could see what was happening on the control system offshore. Fortunately, the consultants persuaded him that converting the video signal to digital and running that through the existing fibre-optic network would do just as well.
Make the client OS use DNS SEC and encrypted traffic for a secure network that is not physically connected to the internet or any network with a gateway to the internet. Why is this so hard?
This secure OS will eventually get compromised too if it has USB ports enabled, physically access to the machine, or be on a network.
All of the SCADA systems I have installed are wireless. A potential hacker doesn't need physical access, they just need to be in range.
True story: The largest wireless SCADA system I did was for an oilfield company. I originally set up passwords made of random letters and numbers, making them as secure as possible. But less than a week after the system was up and running, they complained the passwords were too difficult to remember. So I was forced to change them all to something similar to President Skroob's luggage combination or not get paid.
(The SCADA radios ran Linux, in case you're interested...)
There's more than one way to infect a system, and yes, most of them require user stupidity but there is no end to the supply of stupid users. The most commonly described example is to drop a few USB thumb drives in the parking lot with your worm on them, then just wait for some well intentioned (or not) employee to pick it up and either plug it in to see who it might belong to or start using it for day to day activities, such as updating software on the 'secure', air-gapped systems.
Make the client OS use DNS SEC and encrypted traffic for a secure network that is not physically connected to the internet or any network with a gateway to the internet. Why is this so hard?
Because management wants the real-time reports on their desks. What do mean it's not secure? Everybody else does it. You're the only one who seems to have trouble doing this!
What's so hard about a one way dump of data? Open an outgoing port and send the data. Block all incoming requests.
Why waste the time in new development. Start with one of the BSD systems (already approved under iso9001/9002 type stuff) and either set up custom configurations, or fix what needs fixing.
Once again the OpenBSD clan has stepped forward with a reasonable plan for saving the world, unfortunately as is par for the course with OpenBSD, their chosen representative refers to himself as buttfuckinpimpnugget to which the world replied with "oh god, what is wrong with you, go away, just go away!" and promptly returned to their course of apathetic self destruction.
They want their capabilities architecture back.
They want their capabilities architecture back.
Capabilities leads to complexity, complexity leads to bugs, bugs leads to vulnerabilities.
To build something secure, you need to aim for simplicity.
As far as security goes, I think one important aspect is transparency.
Threatpost: What are the most important features for the new OS?
Eugene Kaspersky: Alas, I cannot disclose many details about it.
A secure OS shouldn't need to be kept secret.
It should be publicly vetted like an encryption algorithm
As far as security goes, I think one important aspect is transparency.
Threatpost: What are the most important features for the new OS?
Eugene Kaspersky: Alas, I cannot disclose many details about it.
A secure OS shouldn't need to be kept secret. It should be publicly vetted like an encryption algorithm
That wasn't the sort of transparency I had in mind, when writing my comment. But I still agree with you. However I don't see a problem with it being kept secret in their design phase, as long as it is publicly vetted before being put in production. A bug bounty would also be a good idea.
I'm assuming they want to sandbox access to lower level hardware, which can be done with a modified OS.
Except SCADA's a strange bird in that respect. While low level access to network hardware might not be needed by the control interface, low level access to the controllers and monitoring systems is needed.
They're onto something when they're talking about a custom OS. But that problem had largely been solved in the past, until all the engineers and operators wanted SCADA interfaces that ran on Windows. A
I would guess the new OS would be binary compatible with the old OS; just like you can run Windows 1.0 applications on Windows 7 (subject to quirks...)
Which would also be why just using BSD wouldn't work.
how would a new OS help?
I'm confused about what, exactly, is supposed to run on top of this new operating system.
Is it supposed to be a new OS for devices with physical-layer control capability like PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), DCSs (Distributed Control Systems) and RTUs (Remote Terminal Units)?
If so, I don't see how it would help, since each of these devices has its own unique proprietary hardware architecture. It's highly unlikely Kaspersky could effectively support the hardware.
Or is it supposed to be for hosting cent
If I had the points, I'd mod you up. Basically summed up all I was thinking
The problem isn't the os. The problem is the programmers.
The culture, the style, the programming best practices.. It needs to change when it comes to embedded systems that need high security.
You need high standards for these things.. Instead mostly they are still slapped together like the crappiest web apps.
So now you're going to build an idiotproof os?
Well you know what they say about that...
That's how my eyes are rolling right now.
Kaspersky Lab is a company that has its whole business centered around digging through compromised insecure systems. They wouldn't know a secure design if it bit them in their faces.
That's how my eyes are rolling right now.
Kaspersky Lab is a company that has its whole business centered around digging through compromised insecure systems. They wouldn't know a secure design if it bit them in their faces.
Man, I've still got this head-ache...
Well, damn, man. Don't you think you should see about getting that bear trap removed from your head.
What bear trap?!
But then again, anyone who knows the solution would have to kill you if they told you.
assumption 1: we can have remote control work. FALSE. any backdoor anywhere will open.
assumption 2: the vendor is secure. FALSE. any fixed system password is known to somebody bad.
assumption 3: we can use lowest-cost hardware. FALSE. there will be flash drives and dongles and games placed on these machines from who knows where.
assumption 4: we can firewall the net and have Smart Grid work safely. FALSE. it's >ALL fixed passwords out there in StupidGrid, wireless here and there, customer acces
Those of us who have been around a while will remember Microsoft trumpeting Windows NT's security.
"Microsoft included security as part of the initial design specifications for Windows NT, and it is pervasive in the operating system"
The whole Orange Book / Red book, C2 security level and so on,
They would be better off improving the failings of the existing system, rather than inventing a whole new set of ways to fail.
Wow.... You know what I really want... Trusted Computing Platform for SCADA. Because, hey... If I don't have verifiable challenge-response between a sensor and controller, how can I really trust it. Maybe they can even make the Thunderbiolt connector the standard, with authentication for all the cables! That would be great... Then we could just blame system failure in a bug on the authentication layer!
The need for interoperability is where most of the problems seem to come from. Properly securing and ma
Ice Cream Sandwich? Android?
This is all good in theory, but let's not forget WHY we have ended up here:
The Customer.
The Customer WANTED to have Windows based servers, the customer wanted to have integration on to their business networks using Windows protocols and standards.
DCS vendors for DECADES had their own OS's from the PLC up to the HMI , granted they were not secure, but they didn't need to be as they were not externally accessible, nor could they run anything untoward.
When the customer sees this new OS and can't get the data t
They're writing it in C/C++. What could possibly go wrong? There are already embedded operating systems with reasonably good levels of assurance, such as LynxOS and QNX.
Look into the work that Jon Shapiro et al did on EROS and COYOTOS when he was at Johns Hopkins.
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different.


text: mmorland 16 Report post Posted December 17, 2012 (edited) The LetsGoWings.com / LetsGoWingsRadio.com podcast, The Red Line, is looking to push out a new episode sometime this week. With the NHL lockout 90+ days deep, we want to give the fans a voice and an outlet to be heard during this episode. We hope it goes beyond the Wings fan base, but at minimum, we want to give the fans a voice. There's three ways to be heard: 1.) Leave a comment on this post and we'll read it during the podcast 2.) Send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll read on the show 3.) Call (313) 638-5000 and leave a voicemail and we'll work the audio into the podcast Please include: Name (first only), City/State (country if outside North America) and your thoughts/feelings on the NHL lockout Please, no profanity since we want to represent the Red Wings fan base in a positive light. All submissions need to be made by 5pm on Thursday, December 20. As always, The Red Line can be heard at: LetsGoWingsRadio Podcast Edited December 17, 2012 by mmorland 1 Dabura reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Summer barbecue season is here, and you'll both love grilling when this savory mainstay from Mary Kaye Rackowitz of Marysville, Washington is on the menu. Hot pepper sauce adds a little zip to the tender chicken.
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- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon prepared mustard
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Dash salt
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 bone-in chicken breast halves (8 ounces each), skin removed
- In small saucepan, combine the first 11 ingredients; bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Discard bay leaf. Reserve 1/3 cup sauce for basting. Cover and refrigerate the remaining sauce.
- Prepare grill for indirect heat, using a drip pan. Place chicken over drip pan. Grill, covered, over indirect medium heat for 20-25 minutes on each side or until juices run clear, basting occasionally with reserved sauce. Serve with remaining sauce. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Down-Home Barbecued Chicken in Cooking for 2 Summer 2005, p 11
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So by now, a lot of you probably have already heard about this sale. It's been posted on at least 3 blogs I follow, but I HAD to share it as well because there are deals too good to miss!
Item 1 contains 19 items: 11 tube lipglosses and 8 trio eye shadows. $27.00
Item 2 contains 30 items: 20 double-sided eye pencils and 10 liquid eyeliners. $22.00
Item 3 contains 30 pairs of lashes! $24.00
Item 4 contains 30 items: 15 Diamond Sparkle Lipglosses and 15 Single Eyeshadows $41.25
Liquid Makeup (Glass Bottle): Each shade (7 in all) sold separately for only $1.40 each
These prices are insane for the amount of product you get. Because I can't resist a good sale, I purchased items 1, 2, 3, and 1 of each of the foundation shades. Honestly, I only purchased item 1 because of the squeeze tube lipglosses. Perfect for my kit. I'm not crazy about the eye shaodw trios usually so I'll probably give most of them away. Item 2 looked awesome mainly because of the pencil liners (the colorful side). They look like gorgeous colors. Only bad thing is that I'm going to have 20 black liners on the other side of them...haha. Item 3 was a no-brainer. False lashes are expensive and these look like awesome ones! ...and 30 pairs of them!?! Insane. I was hesitant about purchasing the foundation because I really like to use good quality foundations in my kit and I've never tried these before. But to spend only $10.50 on the entire shade range? Sold.
I believe the sale lasts until April 30th.
Thoughts? Wishlists?? GO :)
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- AnonymousApril 17, 2009 at 1:06 AM
I live in Australia and NYX doesn't ship internationally :(. I would love to buy one of the foundations off you for a profit, if you would be willing to sell it to an international buyer in Australia. Do you have an ebay account by any chance? I'm interested in the purchasing the foundation shade in almond. Please email me at email@example.com or reply to this message. Looking forward to your reply.ReplyDelete
What are the double sided eye pencils, do they sell those separately on the site anywhere?ReplyDelete
This sale is awesome! WIsh I could purchase some of them but they don't ship internationally :(ReplyDelete
I bought one of the foundations over the weekend. At the time, I didn't realize that not all of their foundation colors were on sale/listed. I have a medium skin tone (usually wear medium beige in Bare Minerals) and felt like "Tawny" would be too dark so I got "Buff"...I haven't received it yet but I already feel like it would be way too pale for me. Might have to give it to a friend or sell it =(ReplyDelete
- nalanani2121April 17, 2009 at 6:10 PM
I received my package yesturday I gotReplyDelete
Item 1
Item 3 (of course)
Item 4
& 4 liquid makeup
My sister came over and it was like Christmas for her. I'm very glad to have ordered it. I'm think of even getting some more stuff for presents. Since it's such a great deal!
bah :( yet another post about this sale to make me sad. haha... the first second i heard about it, i went to purchase the lashes and liquid foundation, only to discover that shipping to canada would be $69 bucks! only for shipping! insane... :((((ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 18, 2009 at 2:06 AM
I think they "borrowed" one of your videos?
I am sooo jealous :(ReplyDelete
I reallyw anted lot 2 and 3 until i realised they don't ship to the UK :( GGRRRRRR!!
Lisa x
Sadly they don't ship to Europe... damn :-(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 18, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Thank you for the tip. I purchased Item 4! I can't wit for the shipment to get here!! :)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for giving me a heads up on this sale. I purchased item 1, 3 and a foundation. Can't wait to get them in the mail.ReplyDelete
btw if it helps, on mua nyx cosmetics got good reviews ;-)ReplyDelete
sucks that they don't ship internationally :(ReplyDelete
Yay! I'm glad some of you have taken advantage of the sale too! :)ReplyDelete
The shipping sounds horrible though!! Mine was pretty cheap...around $7 I believe.
- AnonymousApril 20, 2009 at 9:29 AM
why is nyxcosmetics.com site down... i ordered some stuff from there and just worried about it getting to now that the site is down...ReplyDelete
I envy you girls so much.ReplyDelete
here in Brazil NYX is so expensive.
All brands, actually. MAC, Revlon, Lâncome...
what a cute idea for a saleReplyDelete
i'm interested to know about the quality of the liquid foundations. this sale would be a great opportunity for me to build my kit but i don't want to waste the time/money if they're not good.ReplyDelete
I really, really wanted to get two of those "bundles", but unfortunately they don't ship to my location (Norway). :(ReplyDelete
I'm so glad I went to your site today. I'm trying to cut back on spending but my goodness, that's a deal I can't pass up. I bought two of the foundations and item 2. I can't wait to get my stuff!ReplyDelete
- CrystalApril 24, 2009 at 6:25 PM
nyxcosmetics.com is having another sale May 1 to May 15 ALL ITEMS on the site will be 50% off. If you go to the website and subscribe to their e-mails they'll send you pre-announcements.ReplyDelete
do the eyeliners stay? do the colors have actual payoff?ReplyDelete
hm, i think i'm going to pruchase the lashes and liners and purchase eyeshadow when there's the sale.
thanks tiffany!
Can you please do a review of the products you ordered when you get them?ReplyDelete
I've always been intrigued by the NYX line but have only ventured into their eyeshadows. How do the rest of the products hold up?
Where can I find NYX cosmetics? I've been looking all over the place and no one knows what I'm asking for??!! Help.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2009 at 4:39 AM
For anyone in Australia there are some scarce shops that sell it. I picked up a eyeliner in a cheap-as-chips type store in Manly, NSW on holiday (it's one of the thin ones and I think it's kind of melted XD). But ebay is riddled with cheap NYX so that's probably the best place to go. For example the foundation is going for $1.14 AUD at the moment.ReplyDelete
How come you don't like eyeshadow trios?ReplyDelete
Is the sale advertised on the NYX website or where do I need to place my order at? A little confused on where to purchase...ReplyDelete


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Hi everybody ,this is my 1st post. I have an assignment on translation.But I'm not sure about my grammar.Please check for my mistakes .Thank you so much!
Chinese medical consulting-room:
10 millions / prescription drug without label
On 9/11, Ho Chi Minh city Health Department inspectors inspected Chinese medical consulting room (87 Thanh Thai, 14 ward, 10 district, HCM city). At the time of the inspection, the delegation discovered a phenomenon of dispersing drugs; some drugs had no labels, 2 handling drug employees didnt have suitably professional degrees; books werent updated completely . Especially, there were some 10 million prescription drugs/20 days for stomach pain. But after taking medicine, the patients didnt see the effects of the medication, contrarily, they vomited and felt indisposed .. Ministry of public health said that, traditional medicine and pharmacy services and Ministry will organize inspections to check Chinese medical consulting-rooms.
nobody here ??? plz plz help me
If its a translation, it cant be evaluated without the source text.
Sometimes naturalness damages accuracy, which may result in a bad grade.
So I didnt change the body of the text. I hope it works.
My suggestions are in blue and the parts in pink can be inferred from your sentences but arent there.
If they began to vomit, they did see the effects; the drugs had negative effects though.
- But after taking medicine, the patients didnt see the effects of the medication, contrarily, they vomited and felt indisposed.
You could say:
Taking the medicine, the patients didnt find the medication to be positively effective, and ironically, they even started to vomit and fell ill, because of being poisoned by the drugs.
- Ministry of public health said that, traditional medicine and pharmacy services and Ministry (of health and public care) will organize inspections to check/ examine/ test out/ confirm the validity of the Chinese medical consulting-rooms.
- Is traditional medicine and pharmacy services a special organizational process in your country?
If so, it should be capitalized: Traditional Medicine & Pharmacy Services.
When utilizing parallel structures, make sure that the sentence makes sense:
According to your sentence traditional medicine (as well as the pharmacy services and the Ministry) will organize inspections to check .
How is it possible for medicine to organize inspections? So, as I said, it may be an organization or something.


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Glenn Beck vs. World Wrestling Entertainment
In the current day of "Sports Entertainment", the idea of pro wrestling being "real" is passé. We all know it to be a physically demanding choreographed equivalent of a soap opera, but that doesn't mean people aren't going to take the scripted storylines to heart, and take offense when a storyline goes too far.
Recently on WWE Raw, superstar Jack Swagger returned to the ring after an extended absence. "The All-American American" returned with a harder demeanor and a new manager, wrestling legend Dutch Mantel under the new name Zeb Colter. Swagger and Colter are being portrayed as militant and extreme members of the Tea Party, using "Don't tread on me" and "We the People" as their catch phrases. Swagger is currently scheduled to appear at Wrestlemania 29 to take on the World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio, a Latino Billionaire good guy, however the match is currently in question after Swagger was arrested for DUI and marijuana possession earlier in the week. The battle between a patriotic American and a Latino billionaire seemed like an easy opportunity for the WWE to address immigration issues in our country.
WWE's storyline has stirred up quite a controversy amongst Conservative commentators such as Glenn Beck, someone already referenced in the current storyline as a pen pal to Swagger and Colter. In response to the storyline, Beck said,
'I'm sick and tired of being miscast. I am sick and tired of it. It is lazy at best. And I certainly am not going to give any more time or my money to any organization that is miscasting, is making it harder for me and my family to stand up for what I believe in. You're mocking me for standing up for the Constitution of the United States of America? You're mocking me for standing up for law and order? Equal justice under the law? Equal justice. I've been that my whole life. You're mocking me for standing up for the same principles and values that Martin Luther King stood up for? I don't think so. In my own camp? No, I don't think so. Get the hell out.'
Paul Joseph Watson has criticized the angle as a battle between moderate and conservative Republicans. Vince and Linda McMahon are both registered Republicans, with Linda spending a reported $47 million on a failed campaign a Senate seat from Connecticut last year. According to Watson,
'The fact that WWE is owned by Vince and Linda McMahon, who are part of the Republican establishment, also tells us a lot about how grass roots conservatives and libertarians are viewed by those near the top of the power structure,'
'This is part of the divide and conquer tactic of cultural subversion to manufacture racial division and to characterize the Tea Party, conservatives, libertarians, opponents of uncontrolled illegal immigration and constitutionalists as racist, extremist radicals who should be pushed to the fringes of the political discourse,'
The WWE has chosen to defend their actions, saying that they create a wide variety of characters to act as both heroes and villains, no different than television and major motion pictures. They claim to have changed Swagger's persona to have him be a substantial villain against Del Rio, an angle they hope will appeal to the Latinos who make up 20% of their audience. WWE has also issued a press release saying that they have extended an invitation to Glenn Beck to appear live on WWE Raw to address their 14 million weekly viewers about the offensive situation. Not only that, the WWE has released a video of Colter and Swagger, who use their real names, responding to Glenn Beck,
As a long time wrestling fan I'm of two minds in this situation. First, I can completely understand why people are offended by this. Dutch Mantel's portrayal of Zeb Colter is extreme and portraying Tea Party members as ignorant and racist. The WWE has had storylines that have greatly crossed the line in the past, like a storyline portraying a radical Muslim shortly after 9/11, and one where a wrestler presented a video of implied necrophilia. However, I also completely agree with what Keown and Hagger say in their video response and believe this character falls in very well with previous controversial characters, such as Sgt. Slaughter, the once American hero who became and Iraqi sympathizer during the Gulf War, a storyline that resulted in death threats to Slaughter and necessitated his wearing of a bulletproof vest at personal appearances.
What are your thoughts on the WWE's latest creative venture? Do you think Glenn Beck should accept the invite and appear on RAW?


text: Pete Duffey Springfield's Windy Knoll Golf Club Unveils First Hovercraft Golf Cart By Wayne Baker • Jul 26, 2013 Wayne Baker Springfield's Windy Knoll Golf Club will unveil on Saturday the world's first hovercraft golf cart. The golf club will become the first in the country to make the hovercraft available for public use. The Neoteric Golf Hovercraft's 65 Horsepower German engine will soon be carting golfers and their bags through water hazards and sand traps at the Windy Knoll Golf Club. It looks like a water ride at an amusement park attached to a wind fan. It travels nine inches off the ground and its fast. Fifty five miles per hour at top speed.


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HUNTLEY – A team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. will arrive April 1 to review the Huntley Police Department's policy and procedures, management, operations and support services, Police Chief John Perkins said in a news release.
Verification by the team that the Huntley Police Department meets the commission's standards is part of the voluntary process to keep accreditation – a highly prized recognition of law enforcement professional excellence.
Agencies nationally accredited in McHenry County include the McHenry County Sheriff's office, McHenry Police Department, Huntley Police Department and the Crystal Lake Police Department.
As part of the on-site assessment, agency employees and members of the community are invited to offer comments at a public information session at 5:30 p.m. April 2 at the Huntley Municipal Complex, 10997 E. Main St.
If someone cannot speak at the public information session but would like to provide comments to the assessment team, they may do so by calling 847-515-5358 on April 2 between 1 and 4 p.m. Comments will be taken during those hours by the members of the assessment team.
Telephone comments and appearances at the public information session are limited to 10 minutes and must address the agency's compliance with CALEA standards. A copy of the standards will be available for review at the Huntley Police Department, 10911 E. Main St. For an appointment, call Gary Wigman at 847-515-5356.
Written comments about the Huntley Police Department's ability to comply with the standards for accreditation may be sent to the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Inc., 13575 Heathcoat Blvd., Suite 320, Gainesville, VA 20155.


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UH Manoa Zoology Department presents Tester Symposium April 1-3
Dr. Daniel Pauly from British Columbia invited to give major addressUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Associate Professor
The Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium will be held April 1-3, 2009, in the Keoni Auditorium at the East-West Center. The symposium is held annually in honor of Professor Albert Tester who, at the time of his death in 1974, was Senior Professor of Zoology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This year's distinguished scholar is Dr. Daniel Pauly from the University of British Columbia.
The faculty and students of the UH Manoa Department of Zoology proposed an annual symposium of student research papers as a means of honoring, in a continuing and active way, Dr. Tester's lively encouragement of student research in a broad range of fields within marine biology. Today the Tester Memorial Symposium welcomes research from any scientific field.
Papers reporting original research on any aspect of science are solicited from students at UH Manoa, and these papers are presented at the Symposium. Income from contributions to the Albert L. Tester Memorial Fund of the University of Hawaii Foundation is used to provide prizes for the three best papers, judged on quality, originality, and importance of research reported, as well as the quality of the public presentation. Judges include faculty members and the previous year's student award winners. In addition, a distinguished scholar from another university or research institution is invited to participate in the Symposium as a judge and to present the major Symposium address.
Consult the Zoology Department link for a complete schedule of events.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/zoology/tester/te_index1.htm


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There are two grass handicaps on an exciting card which also includes the featured Keeneland Trophy, a 1200m conditions race and The Woodford Trophy, a quality 2000m conditions event for Purebred Arabians.
The Keeneland Trophy has attracted a field of 13 and is a truly international affair with runners from South Africa (Frosty Secret) and Saudi Arabia (Big City Man) joined by those trained locally.
These include Felix, winner of his only start in his native Peru.
However, Terrific Challenge could be hard to beat having made a winning return over course and distance on his first start for trainer Satish Seemar.
Jockey Ted Durcan maintains his partnership with the horse and said: "We know conditions suit and he should run another big race. This is a stiffer task than last time though."
Terrific Challenge, winner of the Group 3 Mahab Al Shimaal in 2007 on his UAE debut when trained by Doug Watson, looks sure to figure highly among Pick Six entries with almost AED175,000 available to be won on the night between all the forecast competitions.
The breakdown for the Pick 6 and Tricast competitions are as follows:
Pick 6/6: AED90,780
Pick 5/6: AED10,000
Pick 4/6: AED6,000
Pick 3/6: AED4,000
Early Tricast: AED15,000
Middle Tricast: AED10,000
Late Tricast: AED38,000
The first turf race at Nad Al Sheba this season is The Lexington Trophy, a 2000m handicap and Watson saddles three of the 11 who have been declared.
Stable jockey Fernando Jara rides Clasp but the trainer hopes for a big effort from all three runners.
He explained: "Mutasallil will appreciate reverting to turf, while Royal Prince ran really well at Abu Dhabi last time. Clasp deserves a bit of luck after some good runs and we have to be hopeful of winning the race."
Leitmotiv and Military Power could be the main dangers.
Racing concludes with The Jessamine Handicap, a 1600m turf race and Stalking Shadow looks sure to go close for trainer Mubarak bin Shafya.
However, the Mike de Kock prepared Tayyab looks a big danger and the trainer explained: "He is a nice horse and one we have been wanting to run on turf. Hopefully he will go well."
The opening 2000m conditions race, The Woodford Trophy, for Purebred Arabians, has attracted a field of nine, including last year's first and second, Nirwan and Markoom.
However, Richard Hills, who rode Nirwan last year, opts to ride Nesnaas this year.
Thursday's card is set to begin at 7pm and there are a number of hospitality options available to suit all tastes and budgets in both the Millennium Grandstand and the Maktoum Grandstand.
Entrance to the public area of the racecourse is free of charge and there are also complimentary transfers to and from Nad Al Sheba from Dubai Marina (by Spinneys), Arabian Ranches (Shopping complex), Wafi (in front of Pyramids) and Emirates Towers (Boulevard entrance by Cartier).
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quote:Originally posted by sahis34hossa should be in there too, but I say eberle, obviously
quote:Originally posted by Alex116quote:Originally posted by sahis34hossa should be in there too, but I say eberle, obviouslyWhy "obviously"? Cuz you're an Oiler fan? For the Lady Byng, my pick is Loui Eriksson.
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quote:Originally posted by Guest4342Also Alex, you asked why "obviously". Yet didn't give any reason for picking eriksson. Besides the fact that Eberle had more points and less pims. Oh I guess that wouldn't be reason for picking Eriksson at all. My bad
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quote:Originally posted by SlantosOriginally posted by Alex116"I asked Sahis "why obviously" because i was wondering if he was implying that his vote was being cast because he's an Oiler fan? Personally i think that's a poor way to vote on something like this as it's very biased. However, he did say he thinks Eberle is deserving of it and i have no problem with that. As for my pick / answer, i wasn't asked why. THAT would be the reason i didn't explain my pick. The question simply asked out of the three choices, who my pick would be. Now, if you're curious, my reason, much like my Norris prediction of Weber, is based on Eriksson having very similar numbers to Eberle, AND having been a finalist last year. I tend to think that the voters look at guys who've "been there before" and not won, and lean their votes towards that guy, especially for an award like this, which is not exactly the biggest prize out there!"Now I'm not trying to change your mind Alex116, I'm just going to tell you some stats/facts about the award. First off, Eberle had more points on a WAY worse team. Second, Eberle was also a contender for the award all year, your correct, maybe not last year, but that shouldn't factor into your decision as this year is the only year that counts.Third, he had less penalty minutes than Eriksson, or any other contender for the award, ya it was only 2 minutes less, but that is still a HUGE factor for the award.Fourth, yes Eriksson had a better +/-, but again, he was on a better team, and lucky for Eberle, +/- has never counted for this award. Only points and penalty minutes do, if they count +/-, it will be the first time in the history of the award. Just like the Calder Trophy, +/- has never counted for the award.(Which is why Nugent-Hopkins should beat out Landeskog for the Calder, and should have votes to spare. Look at 07-08, if +/- counted for the Calder, Backstrom would have beaten Kane for ROTY, but Kane won it because +/- doesn't count in the Calder, OR for the Lady Byng)For all of those reasons above I will confidently say, that if Eberle doesn't win, that will be the biggest mistake in the history of the award.JDC
quote:Originally posted by SlantosThat's completely fair, and good reasoning... How about if you had to choose between Eberle and Eriksson? Who do you think SHOULD win between those two?JDC
quote:Originally posted by SlantosYes. Because all of this TOI/G and GP'd is not relevant to this award. Eberle posts the best numbers in 2/3 of the only relevant stats for this award, compared to Eriksson. The only stat where he's not better in is +/-. And there is just that, only 3 relevant stats for this award. (It's fine that your basing your opinion on TOI, but voters should not). So again, with more PIM and less points than Eberle, it should be an easy choice for voters to choose between Eberle and Eriksson.
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quote:Originally posted by SlantosP.S. Also, I can't WAIT to welcome Yakupov to the Oilers! Within the next 3 years watch out Canucks!! Also I hope the Oilers get the 1st pick next year, so we could get the next Crosby (if there will EVER be one!) in Nathan MacKinnon!! (Any comment on THAT "soon to be out in the first round" Canucks fan!!! :-D :-P )JDC
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quote:Originally posted by SlantosP.S. Also, I can't WAIT to welcome Yakupov to the Oilers! Within the next 3 years watch out Canucks!! Also I hope the Oilers get the 1st pick next year, so we could get the next Crosby (if there will EVER be one!) in Nathan MacKinnon!! (Any comment on THAT "soon to be out in the first round" Canucks fan!!! :-D :-P )JDC
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quote:Originally posted by JOSHUACANADAWow, personal shots and team bashing when discussing the Lady Bing award. Learn to read (priceless), and this from a guy making a post with a huge run-on sentence. Is that Ironic or hypocritical
quote:Originally posted by SlantosIf Eberle had of played the exact same amount of TOI as Eriksson, it would have been worse for Eriksson, as their stats would of ended up like thisEberle: 90P, 12PIMEriksson: 71P, 12PIMJDC
quote:Originally posted by SlantosWho's to say Eberle would have been fatigued? It's just as wrong to assume that as it is too assume he would have more points... I simply figured it out the only logical way; and did his "on pace for"....And heres how the new nominees break down...Eberle: 76P, +4, 10PIMCampbell: 53P, -9, 6PIMMoulson: 69, +1, 6PIMAgain, better in 2/3 of the relevant stats, and since the previous 3 winners had MOST POINTS, with LOW penalty minutes. Not necessarily the LOWEST, as Datsyuk's winning year will show you.Yes we have to keep in mind Campbell's a defenseman, but we also have to keep in mind that stats shouldn't matter if your a forward or defenseman. (As Mike Green on Washington has had 76P, +39, 54PIM, yes his PIM was higher, but that tells you Campbell could've got as many points as Eberle, and could've had as good a +/- as Eberle did, but failed to)So Eberle has still run away with it even though the nominees we are debating have changed. P.S. I've never been a guest other then the post I told you I forgot to sign in.JDC
quote:Originally posted by ClattsSlantos I think Alex is arguing that the award could go to any of the nominees, he is not saying Eberle doesn't deserve or won't win he just doesn't agree with the statement " if Eberle doesn't win, that will be the biggest mistake in the history of the award".With that statement you are inviting people to argue for the other guys to show that they have as good a chance, if not a better chance of winning the award.
quote:Originally posted by SlantosWell there is no way you can argue this statement: Of the 3 statistics that have carried the most weight and been the most relevant toward winning the Lady Byng over the last 3 years, Jordan Eberle has posted better stats than both the nominees in 2/3 of these stat categories.JDC
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When you're under the weather {I've always wondered about this term and its origin. Could someone possibly be over the weather? I digress}, the only thing that's not cumbersome is simple comfort food. For the past two days I've succumbed to the infectious plague that has become New York, and I've taken to my apartment, sustaining on green juices, tea and fresh pasta — in between chugs of DayQuil, naturally. Because, quite frankly, the idea of cooking anything complicated is inconceivable.
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8 oz fresh pasta (I oped for a tagliatelle, but you can use fettucini, linguine, etc)
3 oz washed + dried arugula leaves
1 large clove garlic
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1 1/2 tbsp toasted pine nuts
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1/4 tsp cracked black pepper
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Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Your pasta water should be briny, much like the ocean, but don't overdue it as fresh pasta absorbs more salt than dried. I tend to put 1-2 tsp of salt into my water. While the water is coming to a boil, blitz the arugula, garlic, cheese, toasted pine nuts, salt and pepper until it's a thick, chunky paste and then stream in the olive oil until satiny-smooth. Scrape out the pesto and add to a large serving bowl.
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The Belgian defender left the Etihad Stadium on crutches after Wednesday's 1-1 draw with Real Madrid.
If Kompany cannot play against Chelsea, Mancini may have to partner Matija Nastasic and Joleon Lescott in the centre of defence against the European champions.
But Mancini refused to rule the centre-back out of the game at Stamford Bridge, where City suffered their first league defeat of last season.
"We need to wait until Saturday," he said. "I hope we can recover him for Sunday because Vinnie is strong."
And the City manager hopes for a double defensive boost with Gael Clichy, who missed the match against Real with an ankle problem, in line to return at left-back. "Clichy can play," Mancini added.
Without Clichy, Mancini started with a back three against the Spanish champions, with Aleksandar Kolarov at left wing-back, before deploying Pablo Zabaleta at left-back in a 4-4-2 formation after a tactical change.
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Nope, Quark [wikipedia.org] is more appropriate. The only problem is who would play "the head?"
a quark reference? Well done...well done.
If the project is successful, how do you envision the public being able to access the data from the satellite? Will it be a stream of everything, or will only selected instruments be available?
Hi, this is Dennis Wingo, Co project manager of the project.
We envision the public being able to access the data through a web portal that will take the data in live and process it and show it to screens. IF there is enough interest and volunteers it will also be made available as a app. There is a great ham site (www.solarcycle24.com) that takes input from other satellites for the amateur radio community and we will do the same.
So, if I understand this correctly, your group plans to bring ISEE-3 into LEO by using the satellite's own propulsion system to propel it into a stable orbit around the Earth via a trip around the Moon. What benefits does this offer to NASA, or to the scientific community at large, that isn't already offered by one or more existing satellites in LEO? I know you mentioned use as a "space weather" detector, but don't we have satellites up there already that can perform such a function?
Second this question. If this is just duplicating information we already have, then it's nothing but a novelty project (and a job program for Skycorp).
What benefits does this offer to NASA, or to the scientific community at large, that isn't already offered by one or more existing satellites in LEO?
TFA has something to say about this:
But NASA does feel that the data that ISEE-3 could generate would have real value and that a crowd funded effort such as ours has real value as an education and public outreach activity.
This is like any NASA mission.. the person asking "what is the point of" is entitled to make their own value judgment regarding what is or is not worthwhile use of funds.
Another question I have is this: How do you know this project will even work? The XKCD comic claims that NASA sent a shutdown signal to ISEE-3 in 1998, which apparently was either not received or not properly executed. Is there any way of telling whether or not the control communications to the satellite even work anymore? What happens to the crowdfunding money if it is discovered that the comms equipment doesn't work, or that it's simply not feasible to build a system to emulate the original hardware controls in time to bring the satellite into Earth orbit?
Hi this is Dennis Wingo, co project manager of the ISEE-3 Reboot project.
We already know that the spacecraft's two transponders are transmitting. This gives a very good indication that the power budget is positive. We also know, by looking just at the received signal that the spacecraft is still spinning at about the same rate as in 1999. We also know that the last time the spacecraft was contacted, that the vast majority of the instruments were still functional. The spacecraft is in a very stable orbit
I already saw 16 episodes of the 20 part documentary on the subject.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... [imdb.com]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... [wikipedia.org]
What exactly is it doing?
Nevermind. Another commenter mentions solar orbit.
I know a lot of us waste large portions of our workday posting to Slashdot... but aren't you folks on kind of a time crunch?
OK, level with us. What do really you think the odds are of you succeeding in getting this craft into stable earth orbit?
Have you contacted any media organisations about selling the rights to film and publish this?
It might be a good way to get further funding for this work.
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Without mentioning any other desktops - xfce seems to be on the right track for us old fogies who still use desktops or laptops as desktops to get work done.
Please in the name of of all that is HOLY - pleeeease keep it that way. I am entering a clinic tomorrow for electroshock treatment to erase, plasma/widgets/activities. If that doesn't work am seriously considering a lobotomy.... :0
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(Sacramento)-Attorney General Bill Lockyer today formally requested that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rehear its recent decision in Thomas v. Anchorage Equal Rights Commission which threatens California's anti-discrimination laws. On January 14, 1999, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of two landlords who refused to rent to unmarried couples in violation of City of Anchorage and Alaska state laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of marital status. Because California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of marital status, the Ninth Circuit's decision, if it is upheld, could undermine California's ability to enforce state and local anti-discrimination laws.
"The court's decision threatens to roll back California's civil rights laws to 19th century levels," Lockyer said. "In effect, if this ruling stands, it tells landlords, and potentially other commercial enterprises, that religious discrimination is acceptable in this state. The people of California won't tolerate such discrimination, and, as the people's lawyer, I strongly urge the court to reconsider this flawed decision."
Last week, Lockyer informed the Attorneys General of each of the states within the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction that California would be filing a brief urging the court to reconsider its decision and invited the other states to join his effort. Five of the 7 remaining Ninth Circuit states accepted Lockyer's invitation and joined California's brief in support of Alaska, including: Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
California's "friend of the court" brief supports a formal petition filed by the State of Alaska requesting that the Ninth Circuit rehear the "Thomas" case. The court's ruling concluded that a landlord's strongly-held religious views, if they serve as the basis for refusing to rent to unmarried couples, should be protected by free speech doctrines and that Alaska's anti-discrimination laws "substantially burden" a landlord's religious rights. California's brief contends that the decision in this case "seriously impairs the ability of the (Ninth Circuit) States to enforce their civil rights laws and prevent discrimination in housing." Due to the fact that many of the States in the Ninth Circuit have adopted numerous important civil rights protections for their citizens, including laws designed to prohibit discrimination on the basis of marital status and to bar discrimination in rental housing, the court's decision jeopardizes the States' ability to enforce those laws.


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