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Sheriff Joe Pelle thinks he's found a partial solution to overcrowding in the Boulder County Jail, but he may need taxpayer support to make it happen.
The project Pelle envisions would take low-risk, employed and easily supervised offenders out of the jail and into a new facility, which could cost somewhere in the range of $8 million to $10 million to build, he says.
To make it happen, officials say a bond issue may face Boulder County voters in the next few years, though nothing has been set.
The point of the project, as Pelle has pitched to the Board of Boulder County Commissioners, would be to free up space for people who need to be in jail, while providing a safer, more nurturing environment for some of the low-level criminals now lumped in with more dangerous offenders.
District Attorney Stan Garnett says he is confident the project is one taxpayers could get behind.
"Financing this expansion will not be hard," he says. "It is a relatively small expense for a construction project and could easily be handled through bonds."
Pelle has secured a grant from the National Institute of Corrections to commission an independent review by an alternative sentencing expert, who'll help determine whether a new facility is, in fact, the best fix for a jail system that's routinely running at capacity and admits to underserving many of its inmates.
He also has tentative support from the commissioners.
"It's definitely a good start," Commissioner Deb Gardner says. "We have a whole continuum of folks that are in the jail who are not necessarily in a facility that best meets their needs. Ideally, what we end up with is the right people, in the right facilities, to get the help they need at the right time."
'New facility needs to be built'
While there is no plan in place yet regarding the location, cost or build date of a potential new facility, there is consensus among local leaders in criminal justice that something needs to be done to lift the stress that overcrowding puts on nearly all of them, in one way or another.
"In my mind, there's absolutely no question. A new facility needs to be built," Garnett says. "It's an issue that's not even subject to a meaningful discussion."
And yet, it's been discussed at length for years, even while overcrowding has been an acknowledged problem for the last decade. Garnett chalks the stall up to a county that favors task forces and dense impact studies over quick, confident decision-making.
"It's not a culture in which people look at a problem and say, 'Let's fix this, and do it now,'" he says. "The issue of jail capacity has been an obvious one here for, I think, 10 years, but the culture in Boulder County is to study things long-term before doing anything."
Meanwhile, on any given day, county work-release programs — which allow inmates the chance to maintain jobs and income while sleeping at the jail — have a roughly two-month queue of people, both in and out of custody, waiting for a slot.
Even for people near the top of the wait list, it can often be two or three weeks before a single spot opens up. That generally leaves more than a dozen people waiting in jail to get into a program designed specifically to keep people out of jail and working.
'I need to start doing things'
Inmate Fernando Olivarez, 22, is one of those casualties. He wants to get into a work-release program, but, like so many others, he'll have to contend with the wait list.
"I can't just be waiting in jail, just because it's crowded in here," he says. "I got a family, man. I've been waiting for two months. I need to start doing things."
Chief Judge Maria Berkenkotter of the 20th Judicial District says the wait list has gotten so bad that, at the time of plea, many defendants now ask for a straight jail sentence instead of waiting for work release.
"That's a pretty significant problem because they may be somebody who's paying child support," she says. "They may have a home, a family. Keeping the job is something the defendant wants and, quite frankly, all the different pieces of the criminal justice system also want."
If Pelle has his way, he'll secure funding for an alternative sentencing facility similar to the one in Larimer County. That project, built in 2012, cost $10.6 million, and it costs another $4 million a year to keep running. The Larimer facility was paid for by a bond issue.
Pelle says the price tag for a Boulder County facility would be more than justifiable.
"I think we're going to need a 200- or 300-bed facility to build something that lets us expand into the future," he says. "We have an immediate need today for 125, 130 beds, and that doesn't include a more expansive use of the program."
Adds Garnett: "This is an area where we need to move quickly. My personal view is that every day that goes by is a day that we should've been moving forward."
Contact Camera Staff Writer Alex Burness at 303-473-1389, email@example.com or twitter.com/alex_burness.


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Corpus Christi (kiii sports)- Nine-hole hitter Russell Vaughan went 4-for-4 and drove in four runs to lead the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball team to a 9-4 victory over Central Arkansas on Sunday at Chapman Field. The Islanders (8-13, 2-1 Southland) emerged victorious in their first Southland series of the year with the win.
The bottom of the order did the bulk of the damage for A&M-Corpus Christi, as the 5-9 hitters scored all nine runs and were responsible for 10 of the Islanders' 13 hits. Kyle Danford, Cody Stephens and Dawson Yates each had multiple-hit games, with Yates delivering a pair of RBI.
Kevin Landgrebe picked up the win with a stellar outing out of the bullpen, striking out four in 2 2/3 innings with four strikeouts. Devin Skapura was credited with a no-decision, allowing three runs in 4 1/3 innings of work, while Kaleb Keith pitched the final two innings, surrendering just one run.
Chris Caudle was carded with the loss, surrendering four runs in 4 1/3 innings of work for the Bears (9-8, 1-2). Chris Townsend had two hits and drove in a pair, while Joey Pinney, Justin Treece and Charles Deckard each had multi-hit games.
The Bears struck first with a run in the top of the second. Pinney started things with a single up the middle and he advanced on a sacrifice. Treece then looped a single to center, and Pinney held at third, but Treece was able to advance to second as the throw airmailed the cutoff man. Scott Zimmerle then added an infield single to load the bases with one away. Charles Deckard supplied the first run on a sac fly to left to make it 1-0.
A&M-Corpus Christi wasted no time in responding, plating a pair of runs in the bottom of the second. Stephens sent the first pitch he saw into right field, then swiped second on the first pitch to Yates. Yates then dribbled a ball up the middle, sending Stephens around to knot the score 1-1. After Yates moved to second on a sacrifice and third on a grounder, Vaughan smashed a single to center to put the Islanders ahead 2-1.
The Bears came right back with a crooked number of their own, though, plating two in the top of the third. Tyler Langley led off with a walk, but he was replaced on the base paths when Doug Votolato bounced into a fielder's choice. Votolato then stole second, and Townsend looped a single inside the right-field line. The throw came to the plate, but Votolato beat it there and Townsend moved up to second on the throw with the game tied at 2. Pinney then rolled a single through the left side to plate Townsend and make it a 3-2 UCA lead.
Caudle settled in on the other side, retiring seven straight heading to the bottom of the fifth. But he surrendered a four-pitch walk to Josh Garza, and Vaughan followed by ripping a ball over the first-base bag and into the right-field corner for an RBI triple, tying the score at 3. Jordan Lee followed with a sac fly to left, plating Vaughan to put the Islanders back ahead 4-3.
Landgrebe really settled in on the other side, putting out a first in the fifth, then striking out four and allowing just one base runner over the following two innings. The Islanders bats picked him up with a trio of insurance runs in the bottom of the seventh on the strength of the bottom of the order. Frankie Salas and Garza started things with back-to-back singles, then Vaughan blistered an RBI base knock to right to make it 5-3. After Brandon Tierney walked to load the bases, Tyler Ware delivered a run-scoring ground out to push the lead to 6-3. Danford added on an infield single to score Vaughan for a 7-3 advantage.
The Islanders tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth. Stephens led off the frame with a single, and he stole second to move into scoring position. Yates then put forth a strong battle at the plate, spoiling pitches and finally lacing a double to the left-center field gap to make it 8-3. Two batters later, Vaughan delivered an RBI single to make it 9-3. The Bears cut the lead to 9-4 in the ninth, but that was as close as the visitors would get, as Keith finished it off by inducing a 4-6-3 double play.
--Texas A&M-CC Sports Information

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Yesterday, free-agent C Jorge Posada issued a statement denying any problems with new Yankees manager Joe Girardi.
According to Peter Abraham, at his blog for Journal News, this is a sign that Posada could be headed back to the Yankees.
In yesterday's Daily News, citing 'Mets sources,' Bill Madden and Mark Feinsand noted how the Mets have made Posada their top priority at catcher.
Meanwhile, in a recent report for FOXSports.com, Ken Rosenthal writes that the Mets are expected to make a 'huge push' for Posada, as well.
However, in yesterday's Newsday, Ken Davidoff quoted a friend of Posada's as saying the all-star catcher is just using the Mets 'big time,' as leverage in talks with the Yankees.
…as i have said, this story will play out as follows, as far as i'm concerned: posada will most certainly check out the Yankees first offer, which will probably be for three-years; he'll hit the open market, flirt with the Mets, get the Yankees to give him the fourth year, which may as well be titled the DH-year, and then he'll re-sign with the only team he has ever known…


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Howard hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Brett Cecil that cleared the back fence and went out of Bright House Field, helping a Philadelphia Phillies' split squad beat the Toronto Blue Jays 13-5 Sunday.
"He's starting to get his legs under him," manager Charlie Manuel said. "He's getting his stroke."
Howard's fifth-inning drive put the Phillies ahead 6-4. After missing spring training and the first half of last season while recovering from a torn left Achilles tendon, Howard is hitting .417 (10 for 24) with three homers, three doubles and 10 RBIs in nine exhibition games this year.
Domonic Brown also hit his third spring training homer, a solo shot in the fourth off left-hander Aaron Loup. Competing for a starting outfield job, Brown is batting .350 (7 for 20) in nine games.
"He shows you power," Manuel said. "He just has to get more consistent and so far this spring, he's really looked good."
Jose Bautista and Mark DeRosa homered for the Blue Jays. Bautista, who played in just six games after the All-Star break last year due to a wrist injury, has two home runs in six games during the exhibition season.
Bautista's home run came off 34-year-old right-hander Aaron Cook, with the Phillies on a minor league contract.
Cook allowed four runs— three earned — and seven hits in four innings.
Barring injuries, the Phillies' projected rotation includes Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee, Kyle Kendrick and John Lannan.
"I'd love to be a starter, but if the opportunity comes to do something else, I'll take the ball whenever they give it to me," Cook said.
Justin De Fratus pitched a scoreless fifth for the win.
Toronto's Ricky Romero, one of the few holdovers in the Blue Jays' new-look rotation, made his second spring training start and gave up one run and one hit in two innings.
"I felt good," Romero said. "I felt like the delivery is smoothing out a lot better. It's a work in progress."
NOTES: Phillies INFs Michael Young and Freddy Galvis as the other squad lost to Baltimore 12-3 in Sarasota, where RHP Kyle Kendrick allowed four runs and four hits — including two home runs — in two innings. LHP Jeremy Horst, competing for a bullpen, also allowed two home runs. He gave up six runs and four hits in two-thirds of an inning. ... The Phillies made three errors Sunday and have 13 in 10 games. ... Toronto's Emilio Bonifacio stole his first two bases of spring training. ... RHP Justin Germano allowed four runs and five hits in one inning, and LHP Alex Hinshaw gave up three runs and two hits in the eighth.


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wow. this is a new low. a dupe while first one is still on the first page. maybe it's time do downscale to weed and alcohol.
Anyone who identifies a dupe can be moderated +6 awesome for 7 days.
Anyone who submits a dupe is automatically modded -1 for 7 days.
Karma bonus for both memory over a week, and reading comprehension. And fuck dice for ruining what once was mediocre.
Anyone who identifies a dupe can be moderated +6 awesome for 7 days.
Great. So then we'll have a race to be more annoying than "Frist P0st!".
Give them a break. Somebody made a funny noise in their office and now all their machines are infected with SlashDupeW32.exe.
It's so infectous, it's already reproducing on Slashdot.
It's not a dupe, it's a ghost. whooooo whoooo BOOO!
Is it really SO hard to get rid of dupes that are less than 24 hours old? You seriously call yourself editor if you don't even manage to get those basic things straight?
Maybe one of the editors is trying to get an FP.
Bust out an oscilloscope and a logic analyzer and start looking at these signals. It shouldn't be hard to get a waveform capture of the audio running over the speaker and the handshake between a USB device and the host.
But be sure to use oxygen-free copper cables and - many people get this wrong - remember that top quality cables are directional.
A certain alphabet agency that's been in trouble for tapping all kinds of folks lately? Or are they too clueless to put together a monster like this?
1. You'd have to write a boot loader that a) loads your bare-metal-level sound and microphone driver, networking driver, sonic network protocol, and payload.
2. You'd have to write the forementioned a) bare-metal-level sound and mic drivers. Network drivers that might as well be bare-metal, implement a sonic network protocol, and then get them to successfully transmit your payload.
3. You have to TEST this combo on many different machines.
We're either looking at someone who has a LOT of free time and hardware on his hands, or a 1st or 2nd world military-level dev team with LOTS of cash to spend, IMO.
We're either looking at someone who has a LOT of free time and hardware on his hands, or a 1st or 2nd world military-level dev team with LOTS of cash to spend, IMO.
You've discounted the most obvious option - an attention whore who isn't adverse to making shit up.
Or are they too clueless to put together a monster like this?
From the various leaks it appears that such a thing is technology far beyond what the NSA is capable of. After that Star Trek set thing it's starting to look like the Albanian State Washing Machine Company is far more capable in dealing with technology.
What? You didn't know that the NSA was really a front for the Albanian State Washing Machine Company?
They've been running the world all along.
"You have to TEST this combo on many different machines."
I'm calling hoax as fuck on this whole thing, but for just your microphone and speakers, the majority of laptops are using RealTek. Bare metal for that shouldn't be too hard to handle, as the driverset remains the same across all AC97 models and HD models. Two compliant bare-metal drivers shouldn't be too hard to fit in. Now, transmitting over ultrasonic is a whole different beast, and to do this through a supposedly truly airgapped room via noise should be impossible, as real airgaps will easily kill those frequencies.
An air gap merely means that no network or other data cables cross it. It doesn't mean keeping things physically away!
the majority of laptops are using RealTek
Did you sample your office full of identical models from the same manufacturer to come up with that statistic?
Dell laptop here (so not an unusual brand), using an audio codec from IDT.
For an engineer with embedded programming experience, this shouldn't be that big of a deal. The challenge isn't only in coding it up, it is also in looking up and comprehending possibly vast documentation needed to pull it off. The code, presumably, runs in system management mode [wikipedia.org] on x86 machines.
What is being 'proposed' is NOT anything infecting through the speaker/microphone, but a pre-existing inection (that was probably USB based)
then communication through these methods - a VERY VERY different thing.
The hype and BS layers need to be peeled off this.
There is no possible infection vector via microphone/speaker, or via power cord as semi-implied (unless you had a powerline modem..), it is simply a
way to get data out of the airgapped but INFECTED machine to others that may not be airgapped.
The 'solution' here is simple, remove the infection! there is more to security than just network airgapping!
Time to go back to security 101.
You can also add, a pre-existing infection in hardware into the mix. The extra electronic component fitting into the hardware at the manufacturers that doesn't do what you expect it to do but rather simply carries a payload that it uploads into the system. You can fit an awful lot of data into a pretty small easily concealable chip but you would want to maintain some pretty surreptitious communication methods to hide the presence of that chip. The best place by far to do this stuff is always going to be at the manufacturers.
In that case, the best place for security is at the manufacturers, so essential infrastructure, local audited manufacture on all hardware otherwise you are just guessing whether it is secure or not. Hell, the chip could be embedded within a layer actually inside the motherboard completely invisible, picking up connections as they go through the mother board. Once you can insert and or substitute stuff inside the manufacturers with the use of secret do not tell warrants under threat of treason, anything at all is possible.
April Fools Day is five months away. Come back and repost this then.
Nope. It's perfectly posted on Halloween. I read this just as Jamie Lee was stabbing Michael Meyers with a hanger pokie, but this story had already raised about 80% of the hair on the back of my neck.
Where, exactly, were these "packets" flowing when the networking cards were removed?
Are they UDP or TCP?
How long does it take you to download a movie over your speaker?
How long does it take you to download a movie over your speaker?
Assuming a movie is 2GB and the data can be transferred at phone-modem speeds (say 57kb/sec), about 3 days.
Of course, nobody was suggesting transmitting a movie via sound waves; malware (and/or the data it wants to exfiltrate) would be much smaller than that.
The suggestion is that even air gapped machines that are infected can still leak information to network connected machines via audio. In future air gapped machines need to have their speakers disconnected or maybe just uninstall/disable the audio drivers.
Surely you'd want to download a movie through your camera, not your speaker, wouldn't you?
I read the original article, but I don't see any part where someone recorded what was going out the speaker and looked at it. If someone is sending data over audio, it will show on a scope. Clearly that's not going to do much unless the receiving side has some kind of modem code listening for it.
Then there are claims like "It seemed to send TLS encrypted commands in the HostOptions field of DHCP packets." Attacking via DHCP packets is plausible; DHCP clients get told a lot of things they're supposed to do, and some of the older vendor-specific extensions are very insecure. But TLS? TLS isn't used within the DHCP protocol itself. There's a way to store DHCP configuration info in an LDAP server and have a DHCP server access it via LDAP.
If someone is seeing strange DHCP packets, and reloading the BIOS won't help, it's possible that what's going on involves an attack via the network controller. The fancier network controller parts now have CPUs and EEPROM [intel.com]. This may be an attack which puts code in the network controller which in turn patches the BIOS.
The people studying this need to list exactly what network ICs the machines involved are using. Some network devices are too dumb to be used as an attack vector, but some have whole protocol stacks, WiFi support, remote administration support, etc. It would not be surprising if those were attackable.
I've expected attacks via network controllers [slashdot.org] for years. That's been used to attack servers. [slashdot.org] There's a known attack on PCI controllers [oracle.com] which can survive rebooting and reloading the BIOS.
If the machine has wireless networking hardware and the attack exploits the network controller, it may be able to do wireless networking even if the user thinks they have the hardware disabled. Time to open up the machine, clip onto the JTAG port on the network controller, and read out the device memory with a JTAG debugger. Compare the dumps with other machines.
I read the original article, but I don't see any part where someone recorded what was going out the speaker and looked at it.
Now that is somewhat embarrassing and puts this entire issue somewhere below the level of a high school project.
makes a fine covert channel to get data to or from a compromised router, and NSA has shown interest in mass-pwning routers.
.. even duped the
It's just a ghost using your machines.
But people just beat their chest and ridiculed the people posting, locking and shuffling threads or in some cases on commercial antivirus forums, deleting threads and moving them to hidden sections or trashed them altogether.
I believe this is a huge conspiracy which has been going on for years. People in malware forums have been shouting from the rooftops about this but no one wanted to listen.
What you overlooked and should have read:
1. Nobody Seems To Notice and Nobody Seems To Care - Government & Stealth Malware
http://anonymous.livelyblog.com/2012/10/05/nobody-seems-to-notice-and-nobody-seems-to-care-government-stealth-malware/ [livelyblog.com]
2. Spy agency ASIO are hacking into personal computers
http://anonymous.livelyblog.com/2013/01/13/spy-agency-asio-are-hacking-into-personal-computers/ [livelyblog.com]
3. Will security firms detect police spyware?
http://anonymous.livelyblog.com/2013/09/17/will-security-firms-detect-police-spyware/ [livelyblog.com]
And several PDF files on blackhat pages, forums, and conferences.
These attacks against non-networked computers runs deep - some changes are so subtle and appear to blend into normal black box Windows activities people overlook them. Read article #1 which includes the sad state of malware detection on *nix.
When you Google enough for firmware, PCI, AGP, BIOS, sound card malware, SDR, FRS, and why some distros autoload the ax25, rose, and netrom modules by default (including TAILS, check it for yourself with lsmod), it is quite unusual. Why would a distribution like TAILS need hamradio modules? They're in there, too, in addition to the ax25, rose, netrom modules. Batman mesh networking is included in TAILS too.
People repeat the same mantra: the only safe computer is a non-networked computer. This is a lie. The truth is, an entirely shielded TEMPEST room with no network connections and shielding down to every piece of the computer is the best test environment, but who is going to take such precautions? Is the shielded computer in the shielded room bound for other locations outside of this safe room?
Wikileaks have released Spy Files, listing many companies developing malware to root your box beyond detection often aimed at Governments and Military sources. These secret communications are no secret, and some have been detected via FRS, but that's only one source out of many.
It is.
As the Ars article points out, the individual pieces needed to do all this have already been proven over the years.
Here's why it makes even more sense to me.
A military minded person cannot allow threats to exist anywhere. If anyone anywhere has a weapon that they don't, they must immediately take steps to duplicate it, and defend against it.
Now take that mindset, combine it with a large team of military hackers. Now every single exploit ever publicly disclosed becomes a checkbox on a list somewhere. As a recent Snowden leak story showed, 0-day vulnerabilities have been purchased by the government. We can be sure they run the largest honeypot networks in existence and immediately dissect every new worm, root kit and exploit that touches them.
Every theoretical exploit must be tested for feasibility, turned into a proof-of-concept and then packaged as a tool.
And all that $$ and hacker power is under the command of someone who wants turnkey solutions and "kill switches" for everything.
So it's definitely possible that such tools exist. But why would he be a target? I dunno, maybe someone wants advance notice on what the presenters at upcoming security conferences might be talking about so they can Barnaby Jack them?
Sometimes people will claim something they strongly believe already exists in order to motivate people to look for it and find their proof. Sometimes they get lucky and proof is found, other times they get exposed for it. I hope he's wrong, I really want him to be wrong, but part of me believes it's real because it's definitely possible. After all, if it's just a few years out, then "they" have had it for a decade or more.
These machines do two things:
1. They try to infect other machines. They seem to use several methods for this. One is infecting USB sticks and other media. They have been observed abusing an old windows exploit that uses true type fonts as the vector for that.
2. They are trying to communicate with other infected machines. They use some rather inventive carriers for that it seems. One of these appears to be sound. How it works isn't published yet. Another seems to be to use out-of-band communication by putting data inside host-option packets in DHCP. It's obvious that the malware uses such side channels to avoid detection. The OOB communication is done purely to keep in touch with "the swarm" and is not used to infect other machines.
The real nastiness appears to be that this malware is able to infect multiple operating systems that are usually passed by malware manufacturers and also happens to be able to nest itself on the eeprom of infected machines. Both are more or less "a first" and the combination hasn't been seen in the wild either.
Right now, there's a lot of discovery being done and a lot of speculation taking place as to who made it, what it can do, how it gets itself in eeprom and prevents itself from being overwritten during reflashing of the bios. It's not known if the virus will attempt to infect virtual machines, or will only infect machines that will let it nest in it's bios. Also, anything malicious apart from infecting and communicating hasn't been observed. For all we know, it may be a true worm that does nothing but replicate and is an out of control experiment.
So far, no infections appear to have been seen on virtual machines, or machines that don't have an intel chipset. I haven't seen any linux infected machines mentioned, but don't hold your breath on that, if *BSD and OSX have been infected, Linux may very well be infected too. Windows is infected for certain, but what versions are exactly vulnerable isn't clear to me at this time.
Thus far, the only thing that can be advised to prevent infection is the usual; don't trust content/media from sources that could be spreading infections, knowingly or not and keep your system up to date. If applicable, set your bios read-only with hardware switches or jumpers and if at all possible, put passwords on bioses and put software blocks on updates as well. To this date it's not known if and what software blocks will prevent the malware, but it's best to give it as few attack surfaces as possible.
I don't believe the whole thing for that very reason. It infected both an OSX and FreeBSD machine, which in itself is quite impressive. Two pretty tough systems with low market share, versus a single much weaker target with large market share: Windows.
Then it managed to infect two totally different BIOSes - hard to imagine the OSX and BSD machine were the exact same hardware. So it can handle various BIOSes, too.
And then there must be a quite complex bit of software that can talk to the network stack (there
I don't believe market share is relevant. This seems to be a specially crafted attack for a very specific task. You're mistaken to think virus and rootkit writer always want to reach the biggest pool possible.
You have a point there.
However it's quite interesting that it can infect not only two different OSes, but also two different BIOSes. And that researcher happened to have the exact right version of both, for the malware to infect, and managed to get infected. Possible? Yes. Plausible? Not really.
I haven't yet seen mention of someone setting up microphones sensitive to ultrasonic frequencies to check to see what, if any, odd sounds are being made by the computers. A lot of extraordinary claims are being made and I just don't see the requisite extraordinary evidence.
I doubt you'd even need a special mic - obviously (allegedly) the receiving computer can record the sound.
Quite frankly, I see basically no evidence at all. Also, measuring ultra-sonics is easy: Just get an ultrasonic microphone (basically a 5 USD/EUR microphone with a higher-than-normal frequency range) and hook it up to a cheap digital oscilloscope. You will even see spread-spectrum signals that way immediately. And you can do even better: Connect the oscilloscope directly to the speaker input lines. There are obvious other problems, for example that nobody going to so much trouble will be as careless as to m
Why do you think network security engineers always have headphones on? They're not listening to music, they're packet-sniffing.
While ultra-sonic communication seems plausible at first, it fails to take into account that the audio-system is not up to it. For one thing, most microphones are of the ElCheapo variant, and cannot handle signals above the highest frequencies humans can hear in any meaningful way. For another, the typical, sane audio-design has cutoff-filters that prevent ultra-sonics from being processed. Then, the speakers are pretty unsuitable for generating ultra-sonics. All this leads to very, very bad signal transmis
Well, shows what you know with all your fancy book-learnin'.
While you may be correct if you go by the dictionary definition of ultrasonics, the adult human ear - my adult human ear, certainly - is incapable of hearing anything over around 15kHz. Freakin' 8kHz in my case
I generated an 18kHz tone in Audacity, played it through my 10-year-old Dell desktop's built-in speaker, and my phone's mic picked up the spike clearly from a few feet away in a mildly noisy office. None of the younger humans around me hea
"Book learning"?? 18kHz is not ultrasound. Some people will hear it. I am over 40, and my hearing goes up to 13.5kHz (just measured). People seem to have incredible bad hearing these days...
You also forget that in order to transmit anything useful, you have to put modulation on it and make sure people do not hear that.
I seem to recall some anecdote from at least 10 years ago in which an artificial life program, running/evolving on a desktop machine 'learned' to use the power hardware in the computer to signal externally using emf to an adjacent system (I think the neighboring system was a monitoring system that was empowered to 'dump' "food" into the primary when it hit certain breakpoints, and the AI was triggering that faster or something).
That could be apocryphal, though, as I've never seen anything more about it and
If it's using some sort of communications ("ultrasonic networking") it's **NOT** airgapped in any way, shape, or form.
"Airgapped" means no remote automated communications of ANY kind would be possible. You can't interact with it by remote, period- you have to have a human being log into a local console to do things with it. This is a failure of the airgapping measures being exploited is all- or it was never really airgapped to begin with.
Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out.


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Johnson School alumni Sudeshna Datta, MBA '95, and Anil Kaul, MS '94, PhD '97 are cofounders, along with Suhale Kapoor, of AbsolutData Research and Analytics in Alameda, Calif., a marketing research and analytics company they started in 2001 that now employs 200 and counts several leading companies among its clients, including GM, McKinsey, Kraft, Discover, and Staples. Kaul is AbsolutData's CEO, and Datta is executive vice president, process migration. Cofounder Kapoor runs the company's operations in India.
Datta and Kaul have always been fascinated by the idea of becoming entrepreneurs and knew when they were Johnson School students that they wanted to start their own company one day. In fact, "Sudeshna's essays for Johnson School explicitly mentioned that she was expecting the Johnson School to give her a foundation and training for starting her own company," notes Kaul.
After gaining several years of experience in marketing - including Kaul's consulting experience at McKinsey, where he had the chance to closely study a number of successful organizations, and Datta's brand management experience at Kraft - the opportunity appeared ripe to leverage the lessons they had learned and forge ahead with building a successful company of their own, one that would combine all the best practices they had been exposed to. And they would do it by tapping into a resource that was underutilized at the time: a highly educated and low-cost workforce in India.
"We saw a great, untapped opportunity in leveraging India-based resources to overcome a number of pain points that clients typically had in the marketing research and analytics delivery process," notes Kaul. "This was a very novel idea at that time, as this was much before outsourcing and its various forms had become a buzzword."
In effect, Datta and Kaul were pioneers in the Indian business process outsourcing model so prevalent today. Drawing on Datta's and Kapoor's earlier experience of employing a team in India to develop the Web site for an Internet startup, as well as Kaul's experience in marketing research and analytics, the three entrepreneurs launched AbsolutData.
Below, Datta and Kaul explain their business delivery and growth strategies, emphasize the importance of networking, describe a couple of recent projects, and share what they like best about their jobs.
Q. AbsolutData's Web site claims: "We deliver value to our clients by delivering Better Marketing Intelligence, Twice as Fast at Half the Cost." How are you able to do this?
Kaul: We deliver better marketing intelligence by using a combination of sophisticated analytics, an experienced and talented team recruited from top schools and companies, and our proprietary delivery methodology. Faster speed is achieved by leveraging global resources to run a 24x6 operation, automating as many tasks as possible, and by developing robust processes that do not breakdown under time pressure. Finally, our low cost is based on the structural cost advantage that we have because of our India team and by focusing on every small detail to develop cost-efficient delivery processes.
Q. What are the primary reasons your clients select you vs. your competitors?
Datta: AbsolutData has pioneered an innovative model for delivery of market research and analytics. By bringing together a strong and experienced front-end delivery team in the U.S. with a talented and efficient delivery team in India, we can deliver marketing insights to our clients better, faster, and less expensively. While there has been a lot of innovation in techniques and technology in the past 20 years, no company had looked at the market research and analytics delivery process. Additionally, we have built a lot of flexibility in our business processes that allows us to serve our clients for smaller projects (some as small as $2000) as well as for larger projects (some as large as $750,000). We tend to develop a close partnership with our client teams because of the constant interaction we have with them. In fact, sometimes, we have been surprised by our clients when they have sent cakes and gifts to our teams in India.
Q. Your former employers, Kraft and McKinsey, are among your current clients. What role has networking played in building your client base?
Kaul: Networking has played a very big role in building our client base. For the first five years, we did not have a formal business development team because we were able to get all our clients through networking and word of mouth. Our first client was someone who we had worked with in our past jobs and it took us only 15 minutes in the meeting to get our first project. By leveraging our network, we always came heavily recommended to potential clients, which made our prospect-to-client conversion ratio very high. Now, that we have a client development team, we are again able to leverage the network and our current clients to provide strong references to our prospects.
Q. What are the most interesting research projects you've done for clients?
Datta: We recently helped a music company identify its most valuable customers. Like many music companies, the company management assumed that its most valuable customers are hip 25-year-olds. We leveraged our analytics capability to identify the company's most valuable customers and followed that with market research to profile these customers. Surprisingly, we found that the most valuable customers for the music company were in their 40s with kids. This resulted in a complete change in the company's marketing efforts. We were very pleased to recently see an ad from the company that shows a family enjoying music rather than young people, which they used to show in the past.
We recently helped an online start-up in the social networking field develop its pricing strategy. In the first 3-4 years of its existence, the company had not charged anything to its members. In order to remain a viable entity, the company needed to charge its members. This was a do-or-die decision for the company because if the company charged too much then its customers could migrate to competition, while if it charged too little, there would not be enough revenue to survive and grow the company. We worked closely with the company management to identify the price point at which the company could balance its revenues with keeping a large proportion of its members. The great news is that the company is profitable and thriving. We just concluded another project for them to identify ways to increase the conversion of "free members" to "paying members."
Q. Your Indian office, and the operations end of your business, is in New Delhi. How do you deal with staff retention in India, where there is such high demand for - and high turnover among -- educated workers?
Datta: I head the HR function at AbsolutData, so this is a topic that is very close to me. Staff turnover is a big issue affecting almost every company in India. Currently there are significantly more jobs available than the number of skilled and experienced people. While we were doing all the basic things that every company does - competitive salary, good working conditions, good benefits, etc., we wanted to take this a step further by using the same approach that we use for working with our clients. We started off with understanding the needs and perceptions of the AbsolutData team through an online survey. The survey used an advanced analytical technique called conjoint analysis to identify the value our team members put on various job aspects. For example, we found that constant learning on the job was valued more than an increase in salary. Similarly, we found that we were not doing a great job of communicating future career path to many of our team members. By using this feedback, we have been able to design internal programs that are helping us reduce staff turnover.
Q. What do you like best about your jobs?
Kaul: I think the best part of my job is the variety of things that I get to do in this role on a daily basis. I am sometimes working closely with a client to resolve their thorny business issue; at other times, I have to think about how are we going to manage the finances for a planned IT infrastructure expansion. By nature, I enjoying dealing with such diverse topics and it keeps me excited throughout the day.
Datta: The best part that I enjoy is being able to bring my U.S. and India experiences together in a productive way. I grew up in both India and the U.S. This role provides me an opportunity to be part of both countries while enjoying the best of each. India provides the excitement of building a whole nation at a rapid pace while the U.S. provides the opportunity to dream of doing the unthinkable.


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With our Dragon Age: Inquisition coverage in full swing, the time is ripe to celebrate the best
BioWare characters. BioWare has provided us with many extraordinary party
members over the years that making a list was no easy task. After debating
internally and with my fellow staff members, it was decided that certain
characters simply had to make the cut. Cast members are memorable for different
reasons, whether we love them for their sarcasm, development, or merely because
they're different from the standard video game archetype. For this list, I have
some of the obvious choices and some neglected standouts.
Note: Characters are in no set order
HK-47 (Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic)
While BioWare's games have always had comic-relief
characters, none have come close to the simple wisdom and mean-spiritedness of
HK-47. While he hides under the guise of
a protocol droid, this assassin has derision for every "meatbag" around him.
Except for his master, of course. While most will remember him for his snide
comments to those around him, HK-47 found simple joy in what he did: murdering
meatbags or at least talking about killing them.
Garrus Vakarian (Mass
He's one of the most appreciated party members for a reason: He's
got the reach. Jokes aside, Garrus has enough charisma to top all the rest of
the Mass Effect cast. His laid-back nature is calming, and his sarcasm brings
some much-needed levity. On one hand, you have the tough-as-nails turian who
likes to shoot bottles off the top of the Citadel. On the other, you have the
caring guy who'd be right at your side should anything happen. Loyal to the
very end, Garrus has catapulted to the bro of all bros.
Minsc (Baldur's Gate)
If you played Baldur's Gate, one character stood out from the pack. You could
call Minsc crazy; after all, he's been hit so many times on the head, he hardly
makes sense as he consults Boo, his "miniature giant space hamster." Strangely
enough, this is what makes you love him all the more. Minsc is also a good
soul; he desires to be a hero so much that it's often funny how far he'll go,
but you know his heart is always in the right place. His mind on the other
Shale (Dragon Age:
If you were Shale you'd hate pigeons, too. Shale was once a
female dwarf, whose soul was transported to a golem by her own request to help
defend the people during the First Blight. The only problem is that Shale can
be activated and deactivated, and unfortunately, a mage found her deactivated
and she was put under his control. He treated her like an experiment and
paraded her around like a sideshow. Deactivated by the mage's wife after blaming
her for his death, Shale stood for years awake, but unable to move. That's time
for a lot of pigeons to use you as a resting ground, which explains her
homicidal rage towards them. She may be made of rock, but getting her to look
at herself as a person is a whole other story.
Varric Tethras
(Dragon Age II)
Who's got your back? This dwarf does. Varric, who has a
story for every occasion, supported you every step of the way in Dragon Age II,
whether he agreed or not. He may have a thing for blackmail and you never can
be sure he's actually telling the truth, but like a true sidekick, he never
lets you down. He'll always be there with a drink in hand and a crazy story to
lighten the mood. Let's face it: When the world's fate is in your hands, a
little humor never hurts.
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I have said this in a few other posts, and it seems as though everyone is ignoring my statement. So I'll say it one more time, and NOT to tick anyone off, just an analysis. So, please, I am unarmed......
Hurricane Katrina withstanding, we HAVE been here before. Brand new coach and staff; 50% of our roster brand new; playoff season; heismann running back; hope for the future. You might think I am referring to the 06 season, but I am not. I am referring to 2000.
Ditka screws us with the Williams draft trade in 99, and then proceeds to go 3-13 on the season. We get a new coach in Jim Haslett, and he inspires the team to great things, by winning the south, going to the play offs, and beating the "all powerful" Rams, and then getting destroyed by the Vikings, the next week in Minnesota. BUT, we do win our first ever play off game, something Mora could never do.
Every Saints fan on the planet went nuts, and we were all in the belief, that this was a sign of great things to come. After that magical season, we ended up missing the play offs, for five straight years. Amazing talent on offense, and defense. Never reaching their full potential, and always falling just short of breaking out.
Now, up to date; coming off of a 3-13 season; new coach and staff; 50% of our roster brand new; play offs coming up; heismann running back; new hope for bright future. I'm not one for deja vu, but come on!
I will not get over excited this time. Call me whatever you want, and tell me that I'm not a "real" fan. By some of the logic in here, maybe I'm not. I am, however, a "real-listic" fan. Which means, as far as the season goes, I am happy about it, not exstatic, but happy. Many teams go to the play offs, but only one wins the Super Bowl. That's what the team wants, so that's what I want. We've been to the play offs, more than once, so this isn't new for us. Anything less than a championship, is just..... well, less.
Please don't flame me.... I love this room, and love the discussions. This is just, what I think. I apologize if this observation makes you angry. I just want to hear what everyone thinks about it.
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RE: 2000 Saints/ 2006 Saints
With all due respect, you're wrong and here's why...
The Saints won in 2000 with a 2nd string QB, AB at QB.
And a second string RB, remember...Terry Allen at RB along with Chad Morton
Willie Jackson was our second leading receiver with 37 catches
The offense was no where as talented.
Even the defense gave up 1 more yard per play in 2000 that the 2006 squad has this year.
The 2000 team started 1-3
This team 3-1
In 2000, The Saints needed a miraculous comeback to defeat the defending SB champion Rams (in STL) in their first meeting of the season.
They also beat SF in SF thanks in part to a blown out of bounds TD run call (in favor of NO) on 4th down.
The 200 team went 3-3 down the stretch.
This year's team will have to lose their last 2 to duplicate that.
They won't
The 2000 coach was an idiot. Setting up a trend of late season collapses.
A so-called defensive genius who's team gave up 367 points that season.
The competition was also different.
In 2000,
ATL was 6-10, CAR 7-9 and ATL 4-12. The Rams were only 10-6
Bears 5-7, Chargers 1-15, Cardinals 3-13
All teams NO beat that year
A combined "not very good" 36-72
Sure this year's team has beaten CLE 4-10 and TB 3-11
But every other win has come against a team that is STILL alive for a play-off berth.
GB, ATL, PHI, SF, DAL, NYG and CAR (calling my shot)
The Saints in 2000 were the right team at the right time...
This team the 2006 Saints will be the No. 2 seed in the NFC.
They have been the second best team in the NFC all year.
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i am happy with this team and I am happy with that 2000 team. I do not dislike Haslett or Brooks. They did well. No team goes to the playoffs every year. They were always in the playoff hunt(not last year or course), and that is all you can ask for. I have no hopes for nest year, because of this year, I just cheer for them.
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Originally Posted by frankeefrankWell, we just let a last place team, in an overall weak division come into our house and outplay us. I don't buy into the let down game scenario, we just sucked. If we can do it against the Redskins, then it could happen again when there's alot more at stake. This Sunday's game against the Giants is going to tell us alot about our coaching staff, as well as our team's overall character. We'll see.
All of my similarities are based on team structure, and what the season before it looked like, not the exact statistics. We were a 3-13 team in 99, and we had a new coach, with almost all new players, and had a great run, in 2000. Only to be let down the next year. I'm not sure if you were around during the Mora years, but that was equally frustrating, getting so close every year, and then tanking in the play offs. We had an AWESOME defense back then, and a mediocre offense. If it hadn't been for Anderson's big foot, we would have lost alot of games. If defense wins championships, then I don't know what happened there.
My point is, that we have been to the play offs before, and now it's time to expect more. I don't think of that as a bad thing. We can all say whatever we want, but when we won that first play off game, every Saints fan everywhere was on cloud nine, and high on expectations. No matter what he did after that, Haslett was the man that day, in my eyes. He did something that no other coach before him had done, or after him......so far.
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Trust me, if any Saint fan is not thinking about the 2000 season, even in the farthest point in the back of their mind they are kidding themselves. I think the main difference is we have Brees. He is the torch bearer and he IS the Leader of this team, THIS year. I don't expect them to do anything, but I do Hope, Pray, and have the Faith that they will be victorious.
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Originally Posted by SapperSaintI would agree with this asessment. Brees is a major upgrade from Brooks. He has a will to win, that Brooks never seemed to have.
Another funny thing about the 2000 team, that everyone seems to forget, is that Jeff Blake was our starter for most of that year, not Brooks. If Blake doesn't get hurt in the Raider game, who knows what happens. Record wise, Blake had the better numbers.
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Re: RE: 2000 Saints/ 2006 Saints
We lost to the Redskins...true enough. It was really our first "letdown" of the season. Carolina was a much better team when they beat us. Pittsburgh is suffering from being in a powerful division, and Cincy is playoff-worthy.
Back to the Redskins...if you look at the current state of the NFL you would see that the same things are happening all over the league. The Bears just had 31 put up on them at home and were put in a position to win that game due to a blown call. The Colts lost to Tennessee. The Jags lost to Houston. Cincy lost to TB. I could go on. Good teams lose to bad teams every week. This week it happened to us. There's no evidence that this would happen again. As Chris Berman says, that's why they play the games.
Unfortunately we have to lose games from time to time. Yeah we could lose our first game of the playoffs, or we could win all of our playoffs games and win the Super Bowl.
I don't think the Washington game is an indication of one thing or another. It was just one game. We didn't repeat any mistakes that we made in previous games. They just seemed to be playing with no emotion...like they thought they could win just by showing up. And there was every reason to think this. I hate to say we came out flat but that's what happened.
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The NFC East is an "overall weak" division????
Your Kidding me?
Three teams are still alive for play-off berths.
Combined the NFC east is tied with the North for the most wins against NFC teams (22) than any other division... And that's only b/c the Bears have 10 wins.
The NFC East combined has 29 wins which is more than any other division in the NFC.
The only thing that is "overall weak" is your opinion.
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sorry for the aggresion,
but I am just sick of the losing mentality We have...
This team is different.
And BTW
Who cares about next year?
Countless times this season I have said to myself during games, "here we go, this is when the Saints I know... roll over, lose their composure, crumble and blow it."
Each time they have proved me wrong.
Sunday was a great example,
During that last drive, I BELIEVED we were going to score. Didn't think we would turn it over on downs or throw an INT.
I never felt that way with Haslett.
Sorry I guess I believe...
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RE: Re: RE: 2000 Saints/ 2006 Saints
Ok Frank, we'll agree to disagree. This topic was never meant to start static, just to compare the two teams, and the similarities, of the situation. Maybe that's the way I should have put it, the situations are very similar, not the teams themselves.
I will not lie, I thought Haslett was a breath of fresh air, after the horrible years with Ditka at the helm. He did some amazing things with the team in the first few seasons. Of course the fresh air turned to the smell of the cat food plant, outside Moss Pointe, the last two seasons he was there. So with that analogy, everytime something bad happens, I figuretively roll up the window, and hold my breath till I get to Pascagoula. Sunday's game was one of those times, along with losses to Pitt, Baltimore, and Cincy. The Carolina game did not shock me as much, because they always play us tough.
I apologize to everyone, that I am not "there" yet, on believing completely in this team. Maybe it's the scars of watching in horror, as so many Saints teams of the past crashed and burned, just when I thought things were looking up. We as Saints fans, have had to come up with our own definitions of success, over the years. What we consider triumphs, the rest of the football world looks at, as futility. We look forward to making the play offs, while other organizations, like the Patriots, Broncos, and Bears, look forward to winning the Superbowl.
I would just really like a season with no doubts, but it is hard for me, because of past experiences, and the fact that there's no such thing as a season without problems.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
There's Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
If you've purchased or perused the latest issue of Stitch, available on newsstands now, then you might have noticed that I have a project in the Spring 2010 issue.
But that's not my big secret.
This is:
I've got a second book coming out in December. This time I'm working with Interweave Press and I couldn't be more excited about the book and the projects, one of which is excerpted in Stitch.
The book has actually been available for pre-order at Amazon for a little while, but I knew that it was going to be excerpted in the Spring Stitch, so I decided to wait until then to let you all know my big news.
Folks, I can't wait for you to see this book. It features over 20 projects ranging from quilts(surprise!), several of which are lap size or larger, to bags, pillows, scarves, even a baby book that can double as a crib bumper or nursery decoration. I didn't include the kitchen sink, but there's a kitchen curtain pattern in there. All of the items were made primarily with commercial fabrics, though I couldn't help but throw in a few hand dyes, so they're very reproducible. Also, there's an extensive and thorough techniques section, an element that was aided by the fact that my wonderful editor is also an accomplished sewer and could give feedback based on her experience.
I'm so thrilled with the book that it has been an amazing struggle for me to keep quiet about it. Couple that with the fact that I'm not good at keeping secrets anyway and you have a recipe for a bit of frustration. Now I can breathe easy knowing that my secret is out.
41 comments:
- Karen said...
Thats great news! I loved your first book and now can't wait for the new one. I also now have to run out and pick up stitch, your table runner is so beautiful.
- April 20, 2010 at 11:58:00 AM CST
- Amy said...
Congratulations -- I can't wait to see it!
- April 20, 2010 at 11:59:00 AM CST
- beki said...
Excellent! I still need to get my hands on a copy.
- April 20, 2010 at 12:20:00 PM CST
- JoonToons said...
oh, wow! congratulations! :)
the book looks absolutely fantastic! already added it to my wishlist. ;)
do you have an estimate for the release date?
- April 20, 2010 at 12:33:00 PM CST
- Isa said...
You go girl :-)Congratulations!
I just love your fabric/sewing/crafting/color universe :-)
- April 20, 2010 at 12:34:00 PM CST
- Cheryl Arkison said...
What exciting relief! I can't wait to see and hear more about it. Congratulations.
- April 20, 2010 at 12:39:00 PM CST
- Calamity Jane's Cottage, Bonnie said...
Great news, congratulations and I've got to go get a copy.
- April 20, 2010 at 2:04:00 PM CST
- K said...
- April 20, 2010 at 2:08:00 PM CST
- Dyche Designs said...
Wow that's fantastic, you must be so excited. Congratulations!
- April 20, 2010 at 2:59:00 PM CST
- folksmith said...
yeah! i'm excited for you. can't wait to get it.
- April 20, 2010 at 3:25:00 PM CST
- Gerry said...
Wow, Malka ! ! !
I've been waiting for our local B&N to get the newest Stitch on it shelf.
Now I can hardly wait to see your articles.
Congrats ! ! ! !
- April 20, 2010 at 3:35:00 PM CST
Congratulations! I knew when I saw that "Quiet Quilts" article that you were seriously on to something fresh and new.
- April 20, 2010 at 6:06:00 PM CST
- wishes, true and kind said...
Yowzah! I love that table runner!
- April 20, 2010 at 6:36:00 PM CST
- Nancy said...
- April 20, 2010 at 7:22:00 PM CST
- Judy said...
You go girl!
- April 20, 2010 at 8:17:00 PM CST
- thursday said...
That IS exciting news! Looking forward to seeing the new book!
- April 20, 2010 at 8:55:00 PM CST
- Ingrid said...
must have one:-)
- April 21, 2010 at 12:18:00 AM CST
- Cate said...
how exciting, congratulations, can't wait to see it!
Cate, x
- April 21, 2010 at 8:17:00 AM CST
- Gwen said...
I will definitely buy this issue of Stitch, and I look forward to the book! Congratulations!
- April 21, 2010 at 9:01:00 AM CST
- kelly mae said...
How fun! Added to my wish list. Congrats!
- April 21, 2010 at 9:19:00 AM CST
Hi, I went to Amazon and read the comments on your first? (previous)book. Someone wrote: to be very careful of your recommendation to use vinegar in the bleach setting process. Can you comment on this and corrected this information if necessary?
I didn't see your reply to this comment on Amazon, it seems to be a very important point, and necessitates a comment either way, imo.
- April 21, 2010 at 10:08:00 AM CST
- mathea said...
I see I need to order a copy of Stitch - that runner is just lovely! And another book too? How great - I've put it on my wish list!
- April 21, 2010 at 10:33:00 AM CST
- Malka Dubrawsky said...
I did comment in response to that individual's concerns regarding bleach and vinegar. It should be there along with his/her initial review.
The crux of what I said is that in my book I detail the process I use for discharging(bleaching) fabric. I've been using this process without any problems for well over 15 years. The technique I use heavily dilutes both the bleach and vinegar in separate water baths. I have never had any problems. I do add in my book that there are those who don't like this method and then state that there are products available via dye suppliers whereby you can discharge using a different method. Those products have their pros and cons as well. I described the method that I use and have used for years. If someone would like to experiment with dyeing and patterning fabric using a different technique, I think that's dandy. I wrote about my process.
- April 21, 2010 at 11:54:00 AM CST
- Peggy said...
Congratulations! I just bought your first book and am in love. I use to dye cloth years ago and cannot wait to get back into it thanks to you inspiration!
- April 21, 2010 at 4:40:00 PM CST
- Emily said...
I made my husband pick up this issue of Stitch on his way home from work today (he got home and said "did you know this magazine costs $16?!?" and I went, yep, grabbed it and ran away.) I also am super excited because I finally ordered your book as a birthday gift to me, and can't wait until your next book is out!
- April 21, 2010 at 5:21:00 PM CST
Does your new book talk about Quiet Quilting? I was so inspired by your QQ article that I have been working on a quiet piece, though I found that I couldn't make white work for me so I'm using very pale creams and taupes.
I did find that adorable green & white Japanese lion fabric you used at a show vendor's table. Boy was I excited. I thought it was CLOCK FACES until I looked at it close up, because of the way you had cut the faces out! Didn't realize they were lions!
Never a dull moment here in quilting land.
- April 21, 2010 at 8:04:00 PM CST
- emilysmithpearce said...
Congrats, Malka! The cat is out of the bag. Looking forward to seeing the book in person and wish I could get my hands on Stitch over here in Germany. Also wanted to say I love Joey Pigza, too.
- April 22, 2010 at 2:58:00 AM CST
- Malka Dubrawsky said...
Julie- My new book has a couple pieces that use the concept of "low volume" fabrics, but I didn't write about it at any length.
- April 22, 2010 at 4:38:00 AM CST
You are such an inspiration! Your work is fabulous! Isa said it best!
- April 22, 2010 at 1:54:00 PM CST
- Sharon said...
wow! what great news...can't wait to see all the projects!
- April 22, 2010 at 5:20:00 PM CST
- shannon said...
I saw that table runner while flipping through Stitch magazine at the bookstore and I had to buy it. I love the colors on that table runner, it is gorgeous. Congratulations on the next book, can't wait to see it.
- April 24, 2010 at 9:57:00 PM CST
BTW I love your table runner and sent the link to a friend who sometimes does what I think of as "Miami modern" quilting (she used to live there). It would work in many settings, not just where superbright colors are a given.
- April 25, 2010 at 8:46:00 AM CST
- WHATUPDUCK said...
Just found your blog and LOVE it! Congrats on the book!
- April 25, 2010 at 5:34:00 PM CST
- lov2quilt said...
I picked up Stitch, what a wonderful magazine of inspiration. I wanted to make about 12 projects, and I love your table runner...now I have something to do with all of the solids I have collected. What a talent you are, love the blog.
- April 26, 2010 at 10:50:00 AM CST
- meli B said...
Hi Malka,
I have just put your book on order with Amazon. Do I really have to wait until December for it to come out? I can't imagine how much time it must have taken you to write it and put it all together. Congratulations.
- April 26, 2010 at 5:08:00 PM CST
- Cathie said...
how wierd! I just bought that Stitch this past Sunday - specifically for that unbelievably cool table runner!!! and here - i've stumbled upon YOU. so cool this runner is and that you are publishing another book. well you've found another number one fan! i'm starting my table runner this week. just bought a bunch of cool bright fabrics and am ready to go! so nice to find you.
- April 27, 2010 at 6:54:00 AM CST
- janimal said...
Congratulations! Fabulous!
- April 27, 2010 at 10:12:00 AM CST
- feel what I felt said...
The timing is perfect for me since I want to start quilting and I don't have the slightest idea how!!!!
I am going to get my copy!
- May 1, 2010 at 11:29:00 AM CST
- house on hill road said...
i'm really excited about your book, malka. congrats!
- May 2, 2010 at 9:25:00 AM CST
- Made With Bliss said...
Great news! Congratulations. So happy for you..
By the way, I found your blog from Blogging For Bliss book.
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Patriots top Holdingford, Milaca to advance to final
The Pequot Lakes Patriots faced an uphill battle from the loser's bracket as they needed to win three playoff games for a chance to double-dip the unbeaten Staples-Motley Cardinals and win their first Section 6AA title.
The Patriots accomplished the goal of a rematch against the Cardinals as they defeated Minnewaska 2-1 and then downed Holdingford 6-3 and Milaca 13-3 on Tuesday, May 28, to reach the section final against S-M on Thursday, May 30.
Patriots 6, Holdingford 3
In the first game on May 28, Pequot Lakes pushed across two runs in the top of the first on a two-run double by Hannah Zimmerman.
The Patriots added another run in the second on a bases-loaded walk to Jessica Kreitz. The Huskers threatened in the third inning with three singles to score their first run, but the bases were left loaded after a nice leaping catch by infielder Lindzee Johnson.
In the sixth, the Patriots' Maddie Galligan and Wiebolt singled and Kreitz tripled to make it 5-1. Holdingford added an unearned run in the sixth, but the Patriots would get that back in the seventh on a triple by Zimmerman and a sacrifice fly by Taylor Crocker.
The Huskers' Haley Huls doubled to start the seventh, but winning pitcher Katie White retired the next three batters for the win.
White allowed nine hits and two earned runs while striking out nine. Alyssa Ohman took the loss.
Wiebolt was 3-for-4, Kreitz was 2-3 with three RBI and Zimmeran was 2-4 with two RBI.
"We had a couple of errors, and left too many runners on," said Pequot Lakes coach Bret Sergent, "but we made some nice plays too, and got a few big hits with runners in scoring position."
In the winner's bracket game, Staples-Motley held on for an 8-6 win over the Milaca Wolves. The meant the Patriots would next face Milaca with the winner advancing to face the Cardinals.
Patriots 13, Milaca 3
Pequot Lakes grabbed a 2-0 lead in the second inning on RBI singles by Crocker and White. But the Wolves rallied for a 3-2 lead in the fourth on two doubles and a Patriot error.
The lead was short-lived as Johnson, Erin Rudbeck and Zimmerman had consecutive hits mixed in with two Milaca errors which resulted in a 5-3 lead for Pequot Lakes.
White retired the Wolves in order in the fifth, and then the Patriots broke the game open with seven runs in the sixth. The big rally was highlighted by a bases-loaded triple by Johnson. Pequot Lakes added three more runs on singles by Rudbeck and Zimmerman, a walk and a throwing error.
The final run scored in the seventh came on a single by Angela Cole and an RBI hit by Becca Langer. Ten different Patriots contributed to the team's 18-hit attack while White didn't allow a hit over the final three innings.
Zimmerman was 3-4, Rudbeck 3-5 and Wiebolt, Kreitz, Johnson and Crocker each had two hits.
White allowed three hits, two earned runs while striking out seven to earn the win.


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Oh, spare me. Rosie was utterly clear at the time, as I blogged on February 27, 2004 — 2004!
"Vile and vicious and hateful." Rosie O'Donnell gives this reason for going to San Francisco to marry her female partner:By the same token, if you opponents of same-sex marriage believe the light of reason is on your side, why don't you act as if you think it is and leave Rosie O'Donnell out of it.
"We were both just trying to come here after the sitting president said the vile and vicious and hateful comments he did on Tuesday and inspired myself and my brand-new wife to fly here this morning."Quite aside from how it sounds to cite hostility to President Bush as your reason to marry or, more specifically, whether the gay marriage cause is helped by presenting it as a political protest, is it really necessary to tar supporters of the Federal Marriage Amendment this way? It was only two years ago that O'Donnell first publicly said that she was gay. How fast can you expect social progress to take place? Only last summer, the Supreme Court withdrew the power to make homosexual sodomy a crime, and now, already, we are asked to think people are "vile and vicious and hateful" because they want to restrict marriage to different sex couples?...
Supporters of gay marriage would do well to show some understanding for the feelings and beliefs of the people they are trying to persuade. The sense of alarm about the proposed amendment is understandable, though unwarranted, but it is counterproductive to become overheated and engage in this kind of inflammatory rhetoric. The light of reason is on your side: why act as if you don't think it is?


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Deadline to file is Aug. 8. At least two seats up on all local boards.
So far the Taft Union High School District Board of Trustees election is drawing the most candidates.
With the filing deadline now just over a week away, four challengers are seeking seats on the board.
Numerous local boards have two or more seats up for election in November.
The deadline to file is 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8.
It will be extended for one week if no incumbent files.
Three seats are being contested in the Taft High District.
The incumbents are Kenneth Anderson, Stan Barrett and Carl Twisselman III. None had filed by late Tuesday afternoon.
The four challengers who had filed their paperwork as of Tuesday afternoon are Jeffery Ginn, Paul Linder, Gary Morris and Julie Ortlieb.
Both Linder and Morris are former MOT directions at the school. Morris served on the board once before but resigned to become MOT director when Linder left TUHS to become MOT director for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools
Morris served on the TUHS Board before, resigning to take the MOT director job.
West Kern Community College District
None of the three incumbents up for re-election have filed their paperwork yet, although all three have indicated that they will be running.
The three are Emmanuel "Manny" Campos, Dawn Cole and Michael Long. So far, no challengers have filed.
Taft City School District
The two incumbents, Les Clark and Michael McCormick, have filed to run.
So far, no challengers have filed.
West Side Health Care District
Four incumbents are up for re-election and one, Raymond Hatch, has filed paperwork.
The other incumbents are Eric Cooper, Ginny Miller and Adele Ward. Both Cooper and Miller told the Driller last week they intend to run. No challengers have filed yet.
Taft City Council
Three incumbents are up for re-election in November but so far, no one has filed. Councilmembers Randy Miller and Ron Waldrop have indicated they will be running for re-election.
Linder, who has filed for the Taft Union High School District Board, has stated he will not be running for council. So far, no challengers have filed.
West Kern Water District
Two incumbents are up for re-election and both have filed yet.
They are Barry Jameson and Scott Niblett. So far, no challengers have filed.


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Submission + - Microsoft Surface, Meet Apple iSurface 2
theodp writes: Responding to Microsoft's Windows 8 efforts, Apple CEO Tim Cook insisted in late April that combining a tablet and a notebook would be like converging a toaster and a refrigerator. But a patent application submitted by Apple last year — and made public Tuesday morning — proposes marrying a tablet and a keyboard to create 'a true laptop alternative,' which GeekWire notes looks a lot like Microsoft Surface (comparison pic). In its patent filing, Apple describes various ways that a tablet's cover could be used as an I-O device — as a tactile-feedback keyboard ('word processing and email become much more efficient'), to display additional output, as a touchpad replacement, and even to receive stylus input. 'The experience,' claims Apple, 'is even better in some ways than the laptop experience.' So, with Apple and Microsoft both onboard, will Chick-fil-A eventually come out in support of toaster-and-refrigerator marriage?


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In certain respects, what happened after Andrea Yates killed her five children last June was no different from what happens in any other murder case. Once her husband left for work, according to her confession taped by police, she methodically drowned her four sons and one daughter, ranging in age from 6 months to 7 years, by placing them one-by-one into the filled bathtub in her home in a Houston suburb. Those acts were followed by the predictable tragic aftermath of sorrow, pain, confusion and bewilderment, and then by the legal system stepping in to bring justice and, finally, retribution.
What it did not do, like every other similar mass murder that came before it, was resolve the seemingly age-old conundrum of criminal responsibility for acts committed while insane. Once again, media pundits raised troubling questions: Was the insanity defense implemented either too harshly or too leniently? Was mental illness treated too aggressively with myriad medications of limited value, or too haphazardly with a startling lack of collaboration among physicians?
The Yates murder case also raised gender issues. Feminist groups rallied around Andrea and her misunderstood postpartum depression, while men's rights groups railed against critics of her husband, Rusty, who was accused of a lackadaisical response to his wife's illness.
Although not in time for the Yates case, these issues may be resolved soon. The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) is scheduled to release its practice guidelines this summer, a first-ever effort to bring some consistency to forensic evaluations of mentally ill individuals accused of crimes. Two years in the making, the Practice Guidelines for Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Defendants Raising the Insanity Defense will catalogue accepted methods for handling such cases, Howard V. Zonana, M.D., told Psychiatric Times. Zonana is AAPL's medical director and professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.
"People have argued for hundreds of years about what the appropriate test for insanity is, and there's always a great deal of distress there," Zonana said. "There are a lot of myths about the insanity defense, [such as] how frequently it's used."
That passage of time, even though it has seen major advances in the understanding and treatment of mental illness, still has not resulted in forensic psychiatrists knowing any more about what makes people respond to the symptoms of their disease in certain ways.
"There are a lot of people who hear command hallucinations, but not everybody listens to the commands," Zonana told PT. "You can't just say because someone has command hallucinations that they had to follow those commands. But we don't have any test to know which people do, can or can't follow those things. We are still left to sort of dealing with a certain degree of approximations in those answers." He continued, "Most schizophrenics stop at red lights. Just the fact that you have a disorder doesn't get you over the hump."


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School district values in tight budget times — gun training?
Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
Talk about "values" is cheap. Living them is a tad more difficult. When budgets are tight, as all public school districts claim they are, where they spend those limited funds clearly demonstrates what Superintendents and School Boards believe is most important.
In southwest Missouri Christian County, Sheriff Joey Kyle believes he has the correct response to school shootings. Kyle told RiverFront Times reporter Sam Levin, "Gun ban talk is a hot topic, but I've got statistics out the ying-yang that shows gun bans are ineffectual. If these [shootings] are gonna get stopped, who's gonna be the people to stop it? You're there when the incident occurs. Let's empower people."
So far, Kyle convinced three of the eight school districts to agree to the 40 hours of training by Shield Solutions. The Kansas City Star reports that school districts are signing up fast from other regions of Missouri.
Two volunteers from a school are trained for $17,500. They will act as non-uniformed on-site respondents in the event of shootings, much like air marshals on commercial aircraft.
Odd how these districts found the funds for this unproven approach to school safety.
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General Patrick de Rousiers, Chairman, EU Military Committee
The EU's most senior military official says he wants signals from political leaders that there is a will to invest in European defence. General Patrick de Rousiers, who chairs the EU Military Committee, dissects budget cuts and ponders how nations can still pool resources effectively. De Rousiers also gives us his take on security threats in Mali and Syria.
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Direct-MS wrote:...The results were 13/44 (30%) of family members had CCSVI and 24 of 101 (24%) of non family members had CCSVI. The total for all healthy controls was 37/145 with CCSVI (25.5%)...
MarkW wrote:Choosing people without MS as the healthy controls for MS trials is not logical. Think about the basics of MS - it has an underlying genetic predesposition which is yet to be fully understood and documented. As a minimum healthy controls should be genetically tested to exclude subjects with genes, which may lead to development of MS. More cost I know, when we are still asking do pwMS have restricted veins.
MS is a truly complex disease.....................
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As far as I know, no gene has been isolated that points conclusively towards MS. Worse still, most of the study was looking for genes responsible for immune regulation, while per CCSVI, you will not find issues with those genes.
Conclusions: The CNVs contained in the HLA locus region in patients with the novel phenotype of CCSVI/VM and MS were mapped in detail, demonstrating a significant correlation between the number of known CNVs found in the HLA region and the number of CCSVI-VMs identified in patients. Pathway analysis revealed common routes of interaction of several of the genes involved in angiogenesis and immunity contained within this region. Despite the small sample size in this pilot study, it does suggest that the number of multiple polymorphic CNVs in the HLA locus deserves further study, owing to their possible involvement in susceptibility to this novel MS/VM plus phenotype, and perhaps even
other types of the disease.
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I'm afraid is we go round and round regarding who has CCSVI, and if we find it in some "normals", we miss the forest for the trees. People already have MS...they need help now, and need to have their venous issues addressed.
I'm afraid we go round and round regarding who has CCSVI, and if we find it in some "normals", we miss the forest for the trees. People already have MS.. they need help now, and need to have their venous issues addressed.
cheerleader wrote:Actually, that's not true. According to a new study, the copy number variations located in the HLA locus chromosome 6p21.32 --the locus which is already studied and found related to MS--also contain CNVs for venous malformations found in CCSVI.
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I love Arsene Wenger as much as the next dedicated Arsenal supporter.
Having witnessed the golden era of Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry and the role Wenger played in bringing them through, amongst others, and transforming them into world-class players was a joy to behold.
He seemed to have an incredible knack of spotting talent and nurturing it to produce a final product that ended up being nothing less than spectacular - Henry is perhaps the best example of this.
But is it time to face the harsh truth? Is it the end of an era?
I, along with many other Gooners I'm sure, am desperately clinging to those golden years with the faint hope of Wenger rising again.
But it's becoming harder and harder to remember the invincible season of 2003/04, where Wenger fearlessly led his troops to the ultimate English footballing victory.
One's memory seems to fade even quicker when you watch your side crash out of the Capital One Cup against a side like Bradford, a team worth just £7,500 altogether.
Your faith in Wenger then takes another blow when you watch in agony as your side fails to win what should be a routine home win in the FA Cup against a lower tier team such as Blackburn Rovers. To miss yet another chance of obtaining some silverware after a seven-and-a-half-year drought is unforgiveable.
Then, not even a week later, you watch your last shred of hope flutter out of the window as Bayern Munich outclassed the Gunners in a seemingly effortless 3-1 win in the first leg of their Champions League tie at the Emirates.
Some believe Arsenal's home is cursed and that we will never again see the triumphs of Highbury. But I believe the problem lies with our once fearless leader. I believe he has lost faith in himself. He looks beaten. The players look to him for leadership and guidance; they look to him to take the helm and guide them out of the storm but they sense the hopelessness in Captain Wenger and consequently, lose the faith in themselves and their ability.
Arsenal have some of the best talent in Europe. You have only to look at players such as the phenomenal Jack Wilshere, Santi Cazorla and Theo Walcott to know this is true. But without leadership the best battalion may not win a single battle.
Some will argue that Wenger was severely restricted by the Arsenal board and was therefore financially limited in his quest for trophies over the last eight seasons.
Perhaps there is some truth to that when one compares a club like Arsenal to the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City, but the fact of the matter is, Wenger was still able to purchase world-class players with the funds at his disposal.
The problem is he acts more like a financial advisor than a football manager, and he has failed to retain his best players because, understandably, players like Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri, Robin van Persie and Alex Song want to see silverware before they hang up their boots.
Both Fabregas and Nasri were instantly rewarded with the trophies they so desperately craved after making the moves to their new clubs, Barcelona and Manchester City respectively.
Song and Van Persie's moves to greener pastures will likely both be warranted this season as Barcelona look the likely winners of La Liga and Manchester United of the Premier League.
It's simple, without drastic change Arsenal can't win trophies, and without trophies they won't attract top players and the current star players will opt to leave as well.
It's time to look to the future and a new vigorous, forceful and ambitious manager to take this team to the heights that they deserve and to reinstall the winning mentality that the Arsenal faithful pine for.
We will always pay tribute to the near impossible feats that Wenger accomplished during his tenure but enough time has passed and too many chances to right his wrongs have gone by unclaimed and it's time to say farewell.
Hoping for a manager of Jose Mourinho's stature is perhaps a bit wishful but, more realistically, David Moyes will fit in very nicely at the Gunners helm.
With the limited funds he had during his 11 years with Everton, he did exceptionally well and the Scot is potentially the right man to steer the Arsenal ship.
Only time will tell and only the board can decide on the future of Arsenal, but time is rapidly running out for the current reign and change is desperately needed.
Sadly, in Wenger we no longer trust.
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Host Michel Martin continues the conversation surrounding the Puerto Rico Police Department. The U.S. Department of Justice recently released a report accusing the police of violating the constitution and using excessive — sometimes fatal — force against civilians. Earlier this year, the American Civil Liberties Union conducted its own investigation, finding similar allegations of police brutality in Puerto Rico. Host Michel Martin speaks with ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.
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June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Global regulators are being urged by some developing countries to amend plans that would force banks to boost their capital and liquid assets, expressing concerns the measures may harm their economies.
A survey of developing and emerging economies conducted by the Financial Stability Board revealed concerns that the measures, drawn up in the wake of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., "could have adverse consequences and may ultimately impact the development of domestic financial markets in those countries."
The nations are also concerned that U.S. proposals to ban commercial banks from proprietary trading, known as the Volcker Rule, may damage their "government, corporate securities and derivatives markets," the FSB said in the report, submitted today to a meeting of the Group of 20 nations in Los Cabos, Mexico and published on the FSB's website. It didn't name the countries included in the survey.
Regulators and lenders have clashed over how to implement the international bank-capital and liquidity standards, which are set to become fully effective in 2019. The measures, known as Basel III, would require banks to more than triple the core capital they hold to protect themselves from insolvency. Lenders deemed to be systemically important would be required to hold even more reserves.
Banks including HSBC Holdings Plc, BNP Paribas SA and Citigroup Inc. have called for changes to some elements of the Basel plans, warning they may limit growth.
Trade Finance
Specific concerns named in the report include that the new rules might make it more expensive for lenders to provide so- called trade finance services, the FSB said. These services, essential to international trade, include guarantees from an importer's bank that a buyer will pay the seller on time, as well as short-term loans.
There is also a more general concern lenders will scale back activities outside their core markets, the board said.
The FSB brings together finance ministry officials, central bankers and regulators from G-20 nations to coordinate rulemaking.
While nations have agreed to put the Basel measures onto their books by Jan. 1, 2013, regulators have already placed some parts of the accord under review. This includes a minimum level of liquid assets a bank must hold, which global regulators plan to update by the end of this year.
Separately, the FSB also said some regulators are lagging behind in implementing measures for handling the failure of cross-border banks. The measures, which include requiring systemically important lenders to draw up so-called living wills showing how they could be wound down in a crisis, are supposed to be in place by the end of this year.
"Serious problems exist" for some FSB members in meeting the rules on time, the board said in a report. "Remedial action is warranted."
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Has anyone here used one of these before? I bought one second hand from a lady whose husband only used it a few times. At any rate, I had a lot of problems with it initially. I found it hard to manipulate it. It clogged up every time I put the tiniest bit of grain and shut off. One day I got so tired of it that I got some Dust Off and sprayed the stone grinders. Probably not the best thing to do, but since that time I've ground about 15 lbs of flour.
The problem I'm still having is that it's still not grinding very fine. Also, it apparently came with a jar to catch the flour, but the original owner didn't have it. I have tried to find a jar that would fit, but no such luck. I'm just wondering if anyone else has used this grinder? If so, have you had these same issues?


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Jan. 24, 2002
Santa Barbara, Calif. -
Jerry Green, the 2001 Big West Player of the Year, scored 22 points, including the first ten in the second half, to lead UC Irvine to an 81-70 win over UC Santa Barbara on Thursday night at the Thunderdome.
Green, who was limited to two points on 1-for-6 from the floor in the first half, exploded in the second half, scoring 20 of his 22 points and nailing 6-of-10 shots from the floor, to help the Anteaters overcome a narrow 30-29 halftime deficit. Green led a second half offensive assault that saw the UCI score 52 points, make 64.3% from the field overall and 7-of-10 from three-point range. The Gauchos entered the game ranked third nationally in field goal percentage defense, but the Anteaters became the first team this year to make better than 50.0% of their field goals against UCSB, finishing at 53.7% overall.
UCSB led by as many as seven points in the first half, but troubles at the free throw line, 6-for-12 in the first half, limited them to a one-point halftime lead.
The Gauchos struggled offensively in the second half making just 34.6% from the floor. Sophomore Nick Jones, starting in place of Branduinn Fullove who was limited because of a severe contustion on his right thigh, led UCSB with a career-high 23 points. Mark Hull's struggles in games at the Thunderdome continued as he made just 3-of-12 shots overall and 2-of-10 from three-point range, finishing with ten. He did pull down a career-high nine rebounds. Adama Ndiaye had 14 points and a pair of blocked shots and Fullove finished with eight, but took just five shots.
The win gives UCI a two game lead over UCSB in the Big West. The Gauchos are now 11-6 overall and 5-3 in league while the Anteaters are 14-5 overall and 7-1 in the Big West. UCSB returns home on Saturday night to host Long Beach State in a 7:00 p.m. game at the Thunderdome.


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Dumpstaphunk and Floodwood Join Snoe.down Lineup
Al Schnier at Snoe.down 2006. Photo by Dave Bayne
Dumpstaphunk and Floodwood have joined the lineup for moe.'s Snoe.down event. As previously reported, Snow.down 2013 will take place in Vermont from March 21-24. In addition to multiple sets of moe., the event's lineup already includes Eastbound Jesus and the Original Strangefolk. Floodwood is a moe. side-project featuring guitarist Al Schnier and drummer Vinnie Amico. The festival will confirm additional acts in the coming weeks.