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I bought Fujifilm FinPix F470 Digital Camera in 2006. It is a very small easy to use digital camera. But I guess due to bad handling or too much use the poor camera finally died after clicking photos at Vineet's wedding in June 2007. I still have the unusable body of the camera.
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PORTSMOUTH — Optima Bank & Trust recently named Erica J. Ethier as assistant vice president, branch manager, of its North Hampton branch.
Ethier has had more than 14 years of retail banking experience, most recently as a branch manager. She has worked both in supervisory and customer service roles in the local banking industry.
Ethier is on the board of directors of Seacoast Youth Services, which has partnered with hundreds of families to provide education, prevention and intervention to Seacoast area youth.
She also is on the board of the North Hampton Business Association.
Brian M. Hess has been named a private banker at Optima Bank's Stratham branch.
Hess has been working in the finance industry for six years, several of those years in banking.
He has a Bachelor's degree in history from the University of New Hampshire.
Khristyna Farrell has been promoted to staff accountant at Optima Bank's Portsmouth headquarters.
Farrell, who had been working as a private banker with Optima Bank, has experience as a bank teller and a retail customer service leader. She received her Bachelor's degree in financial accounting from Southern New Hampshire University.
Laura B. Mooney has been hired as a private banker with Optima Bank's Portsmouth office.
Mooney's banking experience has been focused in customer service, including as a lead customer service associate.
She has an Associate's degree in business management from the University of New Hampshire.
Optima Bank & Trust, where "Everything is Possible," offers traditional bank products and services with competitive rates and a focus on exceptional personal service. For more information, visit the Optima branches at Two Harbour Place, Portsmouth (433-9600), 26 Lafayette Road, North Hampton (433-9633) and 17 Portsmouth Avenue, Stratham (773-5222) or the website at www.optimabank.com


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The northeast U.S. coast was hit hard by the remnants of Hurricane Sandy earlier this week. Dubbed "Superstorm Sandy" by meteorologists, the storm has devastated parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and adjoining states.
Several large scrapbook industry companies are based in the affected area.
Craft & Hobby Association (Elmwood Park, NJ): According to their Facebook page, their offices are closed through today (11/2). Their staff also does not have access to email according to their website. For updates, check their Facebook page.
Due to the widespread power outages from the storm, CHA is extending the deadline to register for the workshop lottery for CHA Winter 2013 through 5pm ET Thursday, November 8th. Conference Program Registration for CHA Winter 2013 has also been delayed and will now open at 11am ET on Tuesday, November 13th.
EK Success (Clifton, NJ): As of yesterday, EK Success was open and operating, with the assistance of the children of their employees! They reported on their Facebook account that they were hosting their employees' children, who were out of school due to the storm, so their parents could continue working. Check out their Facebook page for a photo of their impromptu kid's crafts party!
Ranger (Tinton Falls, NJ): Tim Holtz reported on his blog on Wednesday (10/31) that the power was back on at Ranger on Wednesday (10/31), and some employees had returned to work. Ranger's blog that same day said everyone was safe as far as the company knew, but were dealing with the after effects of the storm.
Of course, the area is also home to many small retailers as well. Some of them reported in on Scrapbook Update's Facebook page:
- "Rock Paper Scissors in Montclair, NJ is open!! No credit card system as of today [11/1] still, but hopefully the Internet and phone will be working soon!" — Aubrey Cece
- "Hey there! Papercraft Clubhouse in Westbrook, CT is back open for business." — Tracie Larson
- "We were very lucky in MD. We were south just far enough. Lots of rain but not much flooding. Business as usual at Photo Scraps in Eldersburg, MD." — Tracy Beck
Hurricane Sandy has seriously impacted the country's blood supply as the Red Cross has been forced to cancel blood drives in 14 states due to the disaster, and these cancellations are likely to continue for some time. The shortage of platelets is especially critical as these blood products have a shelf life of only 5 days. Please make an appointment today to donate blood or platelets to maintain the nation's blood supply. You could save a life!


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A 64-year-old man will be labeled a sex offender after accepting a plea deal in a case involving video voyeurism.
The Ocala Star-Banner reports Maximo Deherrera won't serve jail time for the crime, but he'll serve 10 years of probation and will have to complete 150 hours of community service.
He was arrested in May after a witness reported seeing him take a video of a 10-year-old boy in the restroom at a Wal-Mart.
Authorities say he deleted the photo and gave conflicting statements to police.
He faced up to 15 years in prison.
Assistant State Attorney Kristi Vanvleet says the victim's family would have preferred for Deherrera to serve jail time. They agreed to the plea deal so the child wouldn't have to go to trial.
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It's after 2 AM and I still haven't written my review. I've just sat here, staring, wondering why the words won't come to me. I've said it before--the books I've loved most are the hardest to review. And that definitely holds true with this one. But there's another problem, I think. I really, really want you to read it. So it feels like there's a lot more riding on this. Which is stupid. All you have to do is look at the other reviews on this book and WHOA. How could you not pick it up, right? But okay, the thing is you'll probably say to yourself, eh...it's historical. And sad. And literary. Shiver. "I don't do sad books," you might say.
Err. Okay. Well.
Between Shades of Gray is a book that sticks with you. That leaves an imprint on your chest, burning for days after. This book can change you. So bear with me, okay?
Please let me find the words. Please.
by Ruta Sepetys
Summary: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.
Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously—and at great risk—documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.
Often I try to relate the premises of books I review to typical occurrence in life. Bullying incidents, perhaps. Pants that split open, oversleeping and missing a test, the job that was given to someone else, et cetera. But how do you relate the premise of this story to anything in our lives today? How many know what it's like to have plans, like art school maybe and a cinnamon bun for breakfast, only to be ripped from home before the first bite and then loaded onto a packed cattle train, forced to lie in squalor and filth without food or a toilet for days? And then weeks. If you try to fight or run, you are killed. Maybe beaten up first and then shot brutally in the head. If you have family, you may be pulled from them. You may watch them die. All before you've had breakfast.
This was not an easy story to read. By chapter seven I was crying. And it had only just begun.
But imagine this life. Imagine the lives. This book is a story based on many stories. On real realities. On a history that has been denied and buried, lumped in with the rest of the skeletons in the closet. Sometimes we want to forget they exist. But there they remain, rattling, waiting to be heard. Ruta Sepetys has heard the rattling and has pulled the skeletons forth in the form of a YA novel. You can turn away from it, maybe pick up that one paranormal with the hot boy and the snappy dialogue that will crack you up. Or you can hold off on the paranormal for a day or two while you read Between Shades of Gray and cry along with me.
I know, I make it sound so enticing.
But you know what? Even if you're not from Lithuania, this is your history. It is a history of who we are and the pain that we can inflict on others. It is a history of humanity's inhumanity, of unadulterated fear and loathing and the abominable cry that goes unheard.
This story is beautiful, with a voice that carries you through. It is sometimes massive in scope, but often just the story of a girl in need. In love. In loss. In bravery. It is sometimes raw, sometimes poignant, sometimes funny. Sometimes eye opening and brutal for the things that fear and self-preservation can lead us to do to others. Though it's never really graphic, it is sometimes horrific, for the images that your own imagination can paint out of the words Lina is not saying. Of the things she does not necessarily know or understand.
But even in the horror, there is beauty and light, growth. A child maneuvering her way through murky adolescence to discover who she is, for even in the darkest of places, we will still long to know ourselves. In the midst of despair, there is still love and kindness. A spirit that cannot be broken. So for this, more than anything, Between Shades of Gray should be read. Are you looking for hope? You can find it here. You want to treasure the blessings in your life? You want to remember the true value and miracle of life and humanity--despite all the crap you must abide? Then read this book. You will come to understand that your existence is not hollow, that you are worthy of every breath you take. And in reading Lina's story, you can maybe even find that place of strength inside yourself, a place from which you can draw when you too are thrown into your own cattle train.
I fear history sometimes. If we're not careful, it can find it's way back to us in the form of repetition, of a new reality. So read this book. Read this book and weep with me. Feel the pain of our history. Hear the abominable cry and let it move you.
Be sure to check out what the other Bookanistas are highlighting today:
Elana Johnson gushes over Blood Magic
LiLa Roecker adores Hourglass
Christine Fonseca sings high praises for Possess – with giveaway
Shannon Messenger applauds A Need So Beautiful – with giveaway
Megan Miranda has a passion for Possession
Bethany Wiggins finds Bad Taste in Boys delicious
Shana Silver celebrates A Need So Beautiful
Stasia Ward Kehoe delights in Delirium
Carrie Harris thinks Wrapped simply rocks
Rosemary Clement-Moore is giddy about Hourglass
Sarah Frances Hardy finds the awesome in Okay for Now
Myra McEntire welcomes Blood Magic author Tessa Gratton into the Fort
P.S. This is my 200th post. Go me!


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When Adam Lyth and Aaron Finch combined for their wonder catch for Yorkshire against Lancashire last month, the general consensus was that the pinnacle had been reached for two-man boundary grabs.
But lightning struck twice during a Yorkshire v Leicestershire T20 match at Headingley on Tuesday when the duo re-enacted their acrobatics in stunning fashion - and it was even better than the first time around.
Leicestershire opener Josh Cobb must have expected six runs to be added to his tally after thumping the ball back over the bowler's head and towards the straight boundary.
Lyth and Finch had other ideas though, replicating their earlier heroics as the Yorkshire opener rose high over the boundary rope and palmed the ball back into play for his Australian team-mate to hold on one-handed.
Both players shared the man of the match award with Lyth saying: "I don't know what to say to be honest. I needed a bit of luck. I had to run a little bit further for this one. And it's Finchy who gets the catch."
Want more good catches? Here are some:
This one isn't bad either:
And no catch compilation would be complete without Dwayne Leverock:
And another thing ...
Mayor Eric Garcetti celebrates LA Kings Stanley Cup with an F-word on live TV
Maldives striker re-invents penalty kick with bizarre swallow dive.
Gaël Monfils and Laurent Lokoli break into dance-off at Roland Garros. Monfils is the clear winner.
Brazil's Bruno Xavier scores the greatest beach football goal . . . ever
Smooth young baseball fan hands match ball to pretty lady - or does he?
Auckland schoolboy Taniela Tupou looks an awesome rugby prospect. The new Jonah Lomu?
Andre Villas-Boas, head coach of Russian Premier League leaders Zenit St Petersburg, runs onto the pitch in a vain attempt to stop a horde of drunken hooligans bent on attacking players from rivals Dynamo Moscow.
Kyoto Sanga FC beat J-League rivals Tokohama FC 2-0, with the second goal involving this rather extravagant four-man step over. (It's playfulness recalls this beauty by German side Rot-Weiss Essen last year ...)
Kieron Pollard throws his bat at Mitchell Starc during heated IPL clash
Sir Roger Bannister's famous sub-four-minute mile from 1954
McLaren's touching tribute on 20th anniversary of Senna's death
Spanish footballers don disguises to work with average Joes in heart-warming vid
Samoan rugby player prompts laughter from the crowd as he takes comedy dive
Fifa release official World Cup song 'We Are One (Ole Ola)'
Daniel Sturridge surprises schoolkids before teaching them his dance celebration
Japan rugby sevens player Kosuke Hashino attempts swan dive – and fails
Nautico player Izaldo scores comedy own goal at the second attempt
Brett Morris scores amazing rugby league try with sensational flying touchdown
Wayne Rooney adds to David Moyes's embarrassment by nutmegging him during training
Neymar makes young South African pitch invader's day as Brazil romp to victory in friendly
Hoffenheim mascot loses his head while celebrating a goal
John Wall jumps over mascot to win dunk contest at NBA All Star Weekend
Italian footballer headbutts dugout after scoring a goal and is sent off
Real Sociedad goalkeeper Enaut Zubikarai scored an unfortunate, and bizarre, own-goal to help Barcelona to a 2-0 lead in their Copa del Rey first leg match at Camp Nou.
Former Fifa Player of the Year Ronaldinho releases his debut song
Spectator wins £50,000 after brilliant catch off New Zealand batsman Corey Anderson
Sporting Lisbon youngsters go wild as Cristiano Ronaldo wins the Ballon d'Or
Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola looks as though he's had one too many sherbets as he shakes off his Mr Quiet Guy image in training
Former Celtic star Shunsuke Nakamura arcs a free kick to hit the top of a wedding cake ... at an actual wedding
Here is Brett Lee showing off his own version of bodyline against Piers Morgan. Ouch.
Luis Suarez is rudely snubbed by a young female Tottenham mascot before her side lose 5-0 and sack their manager.
This is probably the best on-the-run basketball shot you will ever see.
Taylor University Silent Night 2013 leads to student basketball court invasion
Wayne Rooney and Rory McIlroy reveal their balls in Nike's new advert.
Nike reveal brilliant new Brazil football advert ahead of World Cup 2014
Jason Kidd, Brooklyn Nets coach, fined for intentionally spilling drink
Will Smith shows Novak Djokovic how to dance while watching match in Argentina


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AMERICUS, Ga. – Tuesday's double header between the Georgia Southwestern Lady Hurricanes and the West Georgia Lady Wolves was the second postponement made up by GSW from last week's inclement weather. The Blue & Gold tallied 18 total hits, but left 15 runners on base in their split with West Georgia. The Lady Hurricanes won game one 4-2 but dropped game two 4-1.
GAME ONE: Georgia Southwestern-4 West Georgia-2
After two scoreless innings, West Georgia would strike first after a pair of Hurricane errors in the third. Martin would overcome her own error and a Mason Moreland error to limit the damage to two runs after the first four Lady Wolves batters reached base.
Martin would cruise after the troublesome third inning as she would not give up another run for the rest of the game. She would give up a single in the fourth inning before retiring the visitors in order in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
Coach Ward and company would cut the two-run lead in half when Hayley Knight would drive in Janna Anderson with a RBI single. The Blue & Gold would tie the game in the fifth inning with a Mason Moreland RBI before taking the lead in the sixth. Back-to-back RBI doubles from Katie Wooten and Janna Anderson would give the home team the 4-2 lead, which was the final score.
Janna Anderson led the Georgia Southwestern hitting brigade with a 3-3 day with two doubles, one run scored and a RBI. GSW starter Jessica Martin would throw the complete game while striking out four West Georgia batters and earning the win.
GAME TWO: Georgia Southwestern-1 West Georgia-4
After only leaving five runners on base with four extra base hits, the Lady 'Canes would reverse the course in game two. GSW would only get one extra base hit in game two while leaving ten runners on base.
The Blue & Gold's only run would come on their only extra base hit as Hayley Knight would double down the left field line to drive in Janna Anderson in the second inning. Knight's RBI would tie the game at 1-1 after Kristen Hall drove in the game's first run in West Georgia's half of the second.
Georgia Southwestern starter Brittny Dennison would surrender the lead again in the fifth inning as she would be charged with three earned runs in the inning before being relieved by Casey Burns. After Burns threw a wild pitch to the first batter she faced, she would get the last out of the fifth inning. She would go on to throw two scoreless innings in the sixth and seventh. However, the damage was already done as West Georgia's 4-1 lead would hold until game's end.
The split decision on Tuesday puts the Georgia Southwestern record at 8-10 on the season. On Friday, March 1st they will face a familiar foe. GSW's double header at Fort Valley State will be the Hurricanes' second match-up with the Lady Wildcats in five days. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. in Fort Valley.


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There is always something to do at NMU, and often it's an activity or event organized by students. The Center for Student Enrichment staff advise most major student programming organizations, including Campus Cinema, Northern Arts & Entertainment, Platform Personalities, NoMAD, and the Special Events Committee (Homecoming and WinterFest). Finally, the Center for Student Enrichment provides assistance and support services for the members of any student organization who would like to organize, plan and implement a campus program or activity.
All students are encouraged to attend programs, events and activities that occur on the Northern Michigan University campus every year. Those who are interested in a particular programming organization are welcome to join and get in the middle of programming, planning and production.


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FRISCO, Texas – Real Salt Lake (11-5-4, 37 points, West #1) extended its club-record unbeaten streak to 11 games across all competitions on Saturday night, overcoming five key absences to beat FC Dallas (8-5-7-, 31 points, West #2) 3-0 at FC Dallas Stadium.
The victory – the team's first ever in Texas and 100th in MLS regular season play – extends RSL's lead at the top of the Supporters' Shield standings, putting the Claret-and-Cobalt four points ahead of second-place Sporting Kansas City. RSL now has a six point lead in the Western Conference race over second-place sides FCD and the Portland Timbers. The Utah side now has the most points per game of any team in the league.
Unfortunately, the Claret-and-Cobalt didn't escape the match unscathed, as GK Josh Saunders had to leave the match with a left LCL sprain early in the second half. Normal third-string GK Jeff Attinella performed very well in relief of Saunders, making three big saves and keeping the clean-sheet in his MLS debut.
With Captain Kyle Beckerman, DF Tony Beltran, GK Nick Rimando and FW Alvaro Saborio all unavailable due to international duty and DF Lovel Palmer suspended for the match, RSL Head Coach Jason Kreis ran out an unfamiliar looking lineup, starting the game in a seldom-used 4-5-1 formation. The Claret-and-Cobalt took a while to adapt to the tactical switch, beginning the game on the back foot and nearly conceding on several occasions in the opening 30 minutes.
Dallas's first chance came in the sixth minute. MF Fabian Castillo had the look, getting loose on the right wing before cutting into the box and ripping a left-footer that looked ticketed for the far post off of FCD FW Kenny Cooper.
Castillo had another opportunity five minutes later. The Colombian attacker again raced down the right side, ripping a shot on frame that Saunders parried over the bar.
Cooper missed a golden chance in the 19th minute. Dallas MF Jackson got free in the right side of the box near the end line, squaring a low cross into Cooper inside the six. Fortunately for RSL, the big striker couldn't put his shot anywhere near the target, popping it well wide of the mark.
Cooper had another big miss in the 27th minute. Castillo again got free in the right side, cutting a cross to the middle that Cooper volleyed wide from six yards out.
RSL started taking more initiative following Cooper's second miss, registering half chances in the 35th and 36th minutes before taking the lead with a quick counterattack in the 39th. The play began deep in RSL's end when FCD DF Jair Benitez drilled a 25-yard free kick into the RSL wall. The Claret-and-Cobalt quickly broke, with MF Javier Morales eventually picking up the ball on the left flank. The Argentine playmaker dribbled into the area and brilliantly shot through the legs of Dallas DF Zach Loyd and inside the far post from 15 yards to give RSL the lead.
Saunders initially suffered his injury in the 41st minute, landing awkwardly and twisting his left knee after coming off his line to attempt to punch out a cross. He immediately went down but continued playing after receiving treatment. He started the second half in net but went down again in the 49th minute after taking a goal kick, eventually subbing off for Attinella in the 51st.
Attinella had his first significant action in the 64th minute. Castillo got in yet again, dribbling into a dangerous position in the left side of the box. He looked to be in a good position to shoot, but Attinella was quick off his line, stripping the ball away with a sliding challenge.
RSL gave Attinella an insurance goal in the 79th minute, when MF Ned Grabavoy finished a fine move to double the Claret-and-Cobalt's advantage. Morales started the play, slipping DF Abdoulie Mansally in on the left flank. Mansally collected the ball and smartly cut a pass back to the top of the box for Grabavoy, who took a touch and slammed a half volley into the top-right corner from just beyond the spot.
Attinella came up with a huge stop in the 88th minute. Castillo picked up a loose ball on the right edge of the area, hitting a first time cross to substitute MF Ramon Nuñez just outside the six. Nuñez snapped a solid header that looked ticketed for the roof of the net, but Attinella reacted quickly, pawing the attempt up and over the bar.
Substitute FW Olmes Garcia made it 3-0 in the 90th minute. Morales again started the play, playing MF Luis Gil through in the right side of the box. Gil lofted a cross to the middle, where FW Joao Plata fortuitously whiffed an attempted volley to allow the ball to slip to the back post to Garcia, who slotted a half volley home from 12 yards out.
Real Salt Lake will return to action next Saturday, July 20, when it will host Eastern Conference leaders Sporting Kansas City at 8:00 p.m. MT at Rio Tinto Stadium. Next Saturday's match will be followed by postgame fireworks in celebration of Pioneer Day.
Click here to access video highlights and the MLSsoccer.com MATCHCENTER for RSL 3-0 DAL
Real Salt Lake Match Notes – RSL 3-0 DAL
- Saturday's victory was RSL's 100th MLS regular season win.
- Saturday's win extends RSL's unbeaten streak to 11 games across all competitions. The Claret-and-Cobalt is 9-0-2 in that stretch, outscoring its opposition 30-10 over the period. The Utah side continues to sit atop the MLS and Western Conference tables and now has the best points per game mark in the league with 1.85 points per match.
- Saturday's win was RSL's first ever in Texas. The Claret-and-Cobalt was winless in 22 previous games across all competitions in the Lone Star State.
- RSL GK Jeff Attinella made his MLS debut on Saturday, coming on in the 51st minute for injured GK Josh Saunders. Attinella – only in the 18 because regular RSL GK Nick Rimando is unavailable on international duty – made three saves against Dallas, including a huge stop in the 87th minute. The 24-year-old Attinella joined RSL this offseason after spending the last two years with the NASL's Tampa Bay Rowdies.
- RSL GK Josh Saunders had to leave Saturday's match in the 51st minute due to a left LCL sprain. Saunders initially suffered the injury in the 41st minute, continuing to play until the 49th, when he re-injured the knee. Saunders will be further evaluated on Monday in Salt Lake City.
- Real Salt Lake MF Javier Morales – who had a goal and two assists on Saturday – now has five goals and eight assists in MLS play this year. Morales leads the Claret-and-Cobalt in assists and is tied for the team lead in goals with FW Olmes Garcia. He now has three goals and six assists in his last six MLS matches. The Argentine playmaker's eight assists are tied with LA's Robbie Keane for second in the league, trailing only Philadelphia's Sebastien Le Toux, who has nine helpers on the year.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 1 2 3
FC Dallas 0 0 0
Scoring Summary:
RSL – Javier Morales – 39'
RSL – Ned Grabavoy (Abdoulie Mansally, Javier Morales) – 79'
RSL – Olmes Garcia (Luis Gil, Javier Morales) – 90'
Misconduct Summary:
DAL – Stephen Keel (Foul; Yellow) – 45'+
RSL – Yordany Alvarez (Foul; Yellow) – 47'
DAL – Fabian Castillo (Foul; Yellow) – 90'+
Real Salt Lake (4-2-3-1) – Josh Saunders (Jeff Attinella, 51'); Chris Wingert, Nat Borchers, Carlos Salcedo, Abdoulie Mansally; Yordany Alvarez, Ned Grabavoy; Luis Gil, Javier Morales (C), Sebastian Velasquez (Joao Plata, 61'); Robbie Findley (Olmes Garcia, 70')
Substitutes Not Used: Aaron Maund, Enzo Martinez, Khari Stephenson, Devon Sandoval
FC Dallas (4-2-3-1) – Raul Fernandez; Zach Loyd, Matt Hedges, Stephen Keel, Jair Benitez; Je-Vaughn Watson (David Ferreira, 66'), Andrew Jacobson; Jackson (Ramon Nuñez, 46'), Michel, Fabian Castillo; Kenny Cooper (Eric Hassli, 59')
Substitutes Not Used: Chris Seitz (GK), London Woodberry, Kellyn Acosta, George John
Referee: Drew Fischer
Referee's Assistants: Ian Anderson, Adam Garner
4th Official: Matthew Foerster
Attendance: 16,560


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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have defended their decision to marry young – but how young is too young?Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth should be basking in the glow of their engagement, but the young couple instead find themselves having to defend their decision to marry at a young age.
Cyrus, 19, and Hemsworth, 22, became engaged in May having met in 2009 while filming The Last Song together. It appears that some deem a walk down the aisle to be premature for the Nashville born, multi-platinum selling songstress and her Aussie actor beau.
Cyrus, cover girl of US Marie Claire's September issue, opened up to the magazine: "Life is too short not to be with the person you want to be with.
"I don't really care about the wedding or the piece of paper as much as I do the promise we've made to each other. And we want to have a long engagement."
As genuine and mature as their relationship may be, Hollywood hardly has an impeccable track record when it comes to enduring marriages. But the couple does have one impressive role model in the long marriage department, none other than Cyrus's very own godmother, Tennessee poster girl Dolly Parton.
Parton has said that she is "really proud" of her marriage of 46 years to husband Carl Dean, telling the Toronto Sun earlier this year: "It's the first for both of us. And the last."
Parton's commitment is rare but not unique in the entertainment world. The late actor and director John Derek met actress Bo Derek when she was just 16. The couple were famously forced to leave the US, lest he be charged with statutory rape, not returning until Bo was 18. They married a year later and stayed together until his death in 1998. Meanwhile, former supermodel Paulina Porizkova, 47, has been with her husband, musician Ric Ocasek, since they met when she was 19. There are, of course, others – but, in the celebrity world, those couples are conspicuous in their scarcity. There are few famous couples that marry young and last the distance.
Cyrus seems all too aware of the pitfalls of a marriage conducted in the limelight. "Neither of us is super-jealous," she told the magazine. "We know each other and would never do anything to hurt each other."
There is a litany of well-known marriages that began young and ended young – Angelina Jolie, then 21, to Jonny Lee Miller, then 23. Drew Barrymore, then 19, to bartender Jeremy Thomas. Solange Knowles, then 17, to Daniel Smith, then 19. Macauley Culkin and Rachel Miner married at the age of 17 and parted ways two years later. This list goes on.
And then there are those that began recently and are still in their neo-natal phase – Courtney Stodden, 16, and Doug Hutchinson, 51, and Peaches Geldof, 23, with her second marriage imminent to Thomas Cohen, 24.
There's no doubt that as an institution, marriage no longer has the overarching prominence it once did, yet – thanks in no small part to Hollywood, but perhaps more in response to biological clocks – many strive for the "happy ever after" fantasy of wedding bells.
Certainly, younger people are more eager to marry than their older single counterparts. A new report by the Fairfax-owned dating site RSVP has found that 67 per cent of Gen Y singletons would like to marry, compared with 39 per cent of Gen Xers and just 12 per cent of baby boomers.
Many of us know aunts, uncles, friends and grandparents who married young and have stayed together. But with generational change has come a new way of viewing marriage – and as divorce rates have incrementally risen, so too have marriage ages.
In 2010, the average age for Australians to tie the knot for the first time was 29.6 years for men and 27.9 years for women, according to the Bureau of Statistics. In 1990, those ages were 26.5 and 24.3 respectively.
Not only are Hemsworth and Cyrus comparatively young to be making a life-long commitment to one another, but they have the added complication of fame – and its difficulties – to contend with. If there's one thing the glitterati has exemplified beautifully, it is that things fall apart.
One item of certain durability, however, is the couple's choice of engagement ring, which dates to 1880 – and is nearly 100 years older than Cyrus.
"I just love that it's old and has a story," Cyrus told the glossy magazine. Whether it is a harbinger of a long marriage, only time will tell.
So, if Hollywood is where marriages go to die, and the rest of us are putting off the Big Day for ever longer, just how young is too young to say "I do"?
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The one session I was able to attend today was part one of "Health Club Industry Trends & Working with Them," which was presented by Michael Scott Scudder, owner of consulting company MSS FitBiz Connection. Michael is one of our columnists, and he always has provocative things to say about the industry. This seminar was no exception. I only wish I had had time to sit in on the second part of it.
In part one, Michael listed 10 "predictables" now and/or in the future. One of the main points that struck me was that Michael suggested that 30 percent of a club's total revenue per annum should be nondues related. This led to a discussion about whether memberships should remain bundled or whether clubs should go back to the "old" way of charging members for each program that they use. One attendee asked about how a club is supposed to track people to ensure that they are only using the parts of the club or the programs that they've paid for. Michael suggested tracking software, but he said he is still working on ways to unbundle effectively and profitably. He says that clubs who unbundle should actually see higher revenue than those who do not.
Another attendee mentioned that Microsoft's philosophy is that the more a company bundles services, the less clients value the services. Or, in other words, companies often think it's an advantage to a client if they bundle services, but few clients want all the "advantages" being offered so the bundling often has a negative effect on customers rather than the desired positive effect.
Another thing he suggested is that clubs in the mid-market should practice divergence rather than convergence. He said that a club can't be everything to everyone. However, a club can be everything to a select group of people.
Too bad I couldn't make it back for the second part of his seminar, but other responsibilities called. However, I'm sure Michael will be writing about some of these thoughts in his upcoming columns so keep reading! -Pam


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Ned Kelly Touring Route
Duration: Two days
Route taken: Round trip from Melbourne stopping at Beveridge, Benalla, Glenrowan, Beechworth, Greta, Powers Lookout, and Mansfield
Total distance: Approximately 458km
Driving time: 6 hours
Tour Kelly country and visit the places where Australia's greatest folk tale was lived and fought. Along the way discover northeast Victoria, a favourite destination for lovers of food wine and beautiful scenery.
Route: Melbourne to Beechworth, stopping in Beveridge, Avenel, Euroa, Benalla and Glenrowan
Distance: 286 kilometres
Melbourne to Beveridge: Head north out of Melbourne and travel 42 kilometres along the Hume Highway to the township of Beveridge, where Ned Kelly was born in 1854. The house that the Kelly family called home between 1850 and 1860 still stands on Kelly Street. Take the Beveridge exit, then turn right under the freeway. Turn right into Stewart Street until you come to Kelly Street. The house is in disrepair and fenced off.
Beveridge to Avenel: Back onto the Hume Highway, continue 82 kilometres to Avenel. Ned Kelly registered his father's death in this town, and John 'Red' Kelly is buried in the local cemetery. Exit the Hume, then turn right at the school and continue along past the war memorial to the town cemetery. The headstone is not the original and it is thought that Red was buried a few metres away.
Avenel to Euroa: In Euroa, 38 kilometres further along the Hume Highway, Kelly and his gang held up the National Bank, getting away with 2000 pounds and taking the bank staff hostage. The bank building no longer stands, but this pleasant town is a good place for a stop.
Euroa to Benalla: Continue a further 49 kilometres to Benalla. View the plaque on Arundel Street that describes how young Ned was charged with drunkenness and riding his horse on the footpath. He eventually gave himself up to the police and was marched across the road to the Benalla Courthouse, which is still in use.
Call in to the Benalla Regional Art Gallery to see Glenrowan, the Sidney Nolan tapestry depicting the Kelly Gang's capture, and Albert Tucker's painting depicting Joe Byrne's body, which was tied up for the press to photograph after his death.
Walk across the Broken River Bridge to the Costume and Pioneer Museum, where you can stand in the portable cell that once held Ned Kelly, and see his bloodstained sash, which he wore under his famous armour during his final capture.
Benalla to Glenrowan: Glenrowan is a focal point for anyone interested in the Kelly legend and a further 25 kilometres down the road. In 1880 Ned Kelly was captured at the Glenrowan Inn after a bloody battle, bringing his bushranging days to an end. Kate's Cottage museum and the multi-media Kellyland tell the story of Ned's life and battles.
Glenrowan to Beechworth: From Glenrowan, turn right into the Great Alpine Road, and enjoy a 50-kilometre drive to the charming 1852 goldrush town of Beechworth. Here you can visit the courthouse where Ned Kelly, his mother and many sympathisers were tried and watch a re-enactment of the Ned Kelly trial. (For details call 03 5728 2721).
View the exterior of the Beechworth Gaol where Ned and his mother were held and learn about the history of Beechworth's colourful past at the Historical and Cultural Precinct which includes the Courthouse, Telegraph Station, the Powder Magazine and Burke Museum, where a Ned Kelly death mask is on display. Beechworth offers visitors a wide choice of accommodation and gourmet local product served at local restaurants, making it the perfect place to spend the night.
HighlightsArt galleriesBenalla Art GalleryExperience a diverse exhibition program of Australian art spanning 200 years, including outstanding examples of contemporary and Indigenous work.MuseumsBenalla Costume and Kelly MuseumThe Benalla Costume and Kelly Museum is an accredited museum, specialising in Costumes from the 1750's, the Ned Kelly story and the establishment of Benalla.The...History & heritageAvenel CemeterySteeped in history, visit the many graves scattered around the Avenel Cemetery. Of important note here is the grave of John 'Red' Kelly, the father of...Heritage buildingsOld Beechworth GaolThe Old Beechworth Gaol is one of Australia's most significant post European cultural sites. Its role in the chain of events that led to the execution...History & heritageBeechworth Historic and Cultural PrecinctThe Beechworth Historic and Cultural Precinct is a collection of nationally significant buildings telling the story of how Australia grew and prospered.Beechworth...Heritage buildingsHistoric Hughes Creek BridgeHughes Creek was named after the first settler in Avenel, for many years it was a popular overnight stop for drovers. The bridge was built in 1859 by contractor...
Route: Beechworth to Melbourne, via Greta, King Valley, Powers Lookout, Stringybark Creek, and Mansfield
Distance: 172 kilometres
Beechworth to Greta: Greta (pronounced 'Greeta') is a 45-kilometre drive via Wangaratta through bush where Ned and his infamous gang roamed. Call into the Greta Cemetery to inspect the graves of several of the Kelly family, including Ned's mother, Ellen.
Greta to Powers Lookout: Allow time to explore the picturesque King Valley, young Ned's stomping ground. Stop at the Whitfield Mountain View Hotel (43 kilometres from Greta) for lunch before driving to Powers Lookout. The mountain ranges are spectacular and the lookout, a challenging 10-minute walk, is the awe-inspiring vantage point and mountain hideout of bushranger Harry Powers, who was Kelly's bushranging mentor. To reach Powers Lookout, take the Mansfield-Whitfield Road. You'll see the turn off to the left 16.5 kilometres along the road.
Powers Lookout to Mansfield: Continue your journey along the Mansfield-Whitfield Road, and at Tolmie turn right into the road to Tatong to visit the Stringybark Creek Reserve where Ned Kelly elevated himself from being a petty horse thief to Australia's most wanted outlaw after gunning down three Mansfield police officers. A plaque in the trunk of the enormous Kelly Tree marks what is believed to be the spot (Greta to Mansfield is 88 kilometres).
Mansfield to Melbourne: Mansfield is the gateway to the ski fields, and the site of the graves of the policemen shot by Kelly and his Gang: Sergeant Michael Kennedy and Mounted Constables Scanlon and Lonigan. It's a great place to spend the night, with a range of accommodation offered including guesthouses, caravan parks and B&B cottages. Follow the Maroondah Highway back to Melbourne, 180 kilometres away.
Melbourne boasts a number of places where Kelly history can be explored. Visit the Old Melbourne Gaol on Russell Street, a chilling bluestone building and the scene of 135 hangings, including that of Ned Kelly on 11 November 1880. The Hangman's Box with all its macabre contents is on view to the public.
HighlightsHistory & heritageOld Melbourne GaolSentence yourself to a day of fun or a spooky night at Victoria's oldest prison, which housed tough criminals and the infamous bushranger, Ned Kelly.


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With analogue TV going the way of the dodo in the UK, there is presumably a lot of demand for people who are still enjoying their old, analogue-only TVs, but would like to watch more than just snow when the last UK region switches later this year. Now EchoStar has produced what it says is the slimmest Freeview+ HD box ever. In fact, it claims it's the slimmest digtial TV recorder anywhere in the world at just 14mm tall.
We don't have the resources to fly everywhere and find out if there are slimmer out there, but we're also perfectly happy to take EchoStar at its word - after all, it's never lied to us before, so why would it start now. Plus, a quick look at the photos tell you that this box is very, very slim indeed. It looks like a pancake that's had a protracted fight with a steamroller, and lost.
The recorder has a 500GB hard drive, which should be good for a decent number of Hollyoaks episodes - around 300 hours worth, in SD - and you'll have 50ish channels to chose from, as well as four in HD. HDMI is a given, but there's also optical S/PDIF to convey audio to an amplifier, should you not be able, or want to, use HDMI. Dolby Digtial Plus audio is supported too.
There are twin tuners, so you can record one thing and watch another, or even record two things, and watch something you've previously recorded. It's all standard Freeview HD+ stuff here, but hopefully the EchoStar's user interface will make it a joy to use. If nothing else, the firm points out, the box will always try to persuade you to watch the HD version of any given programme, which we are pleased to hear.
The box also has net connectivity, to allow you to access various streaming services. The BBC's iPlayer is there, of course, as is BoxOffice365 for movie rentals and PictureBox. EchoStar promises more services in the near future, so we hope Netflix will be along in due course.
You can pre-order from 4 May, but seriously, does anyone pre-order a Freeview box? If you do - no judgement from us - then you can do so at John Lewis, Amazon and Maplin. More high street retailers will get the boxes from the end of May too.
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To commemorate this day and this collective protest, I would like to honor the indigenous women warriors of Areng Valley, who are speaking out and fighting to protect their land from the construction of a controversial dam.
Award-winning filmmaker Kalyanee Mam submitted an essay to VOA Khmer to mark International Human Rights Day. It is accompanied by a short film she produced looking at the lives of the women of the Areng Valley, who oppose a proposed hydroelectric dam there they say endangers their way of life.
Freshwater from the rivers of Cambodia are an integral part of life in Cambodia and a key element of the Khmer national character. The Mekong River Commission meets December 12 in Pakse, Laos to receive public input on the planned Don Sahong Dam, proposed by the Lao government to be built on a Mekong River site two kilometers from the Cambodian border and Steung Treng province. The MRC will take attendees on a field trip to the site on December 11.


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While Malawi has strong constitutional guarantees for freedom of the press, there were several substantial setbacks for media freedom in 2011. In January, the president signed into law an amended version of Section 46 of the penal code. The law previously allowed the minister of information to prohibit the importation of publications deemed "contrary to the public interest," but as amended it also allows the minister to ban the domestic publication of such materials. Although no publications were banned during the year, self-censorship reportedly increased in the wake of the amendment.
The constitution guarantees access to information, but a draft bill to implement this right has been stalled in the parliament since 2003. Access to information has remained a considerable challenge for reporters. Powerful individuals have also used court injunctions to prevent newspapers from publishing damaging articles about them. Libel is considered both a criminal and civil offense. If prosecuted as a criminal violation, it is punishable with two years' imprisonment; however, many libel cases are processed as civil cases or settled out of court. The broadcast media are licensed by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA), which is funded by the government and led by a presidential appointee. During 2010, MACRA closed at least eight private radio stations that it deemed "pirate stations" operating without licenses in violation of national law. No such actions were taken in 2011. However, MACRA ordered two stations to halt coverage of widespread antigovernment protests on July 20. MACRA is regularly accused of political bias in its operations. It issued eight new broadcast licenses in November, after an extended period of accepting applications. Two of these went to allies of the president. Other applicants, most notably a religious group seen as hostile to the president, had its application denied without explanation. MACRA also attempted to implement a new "Consolidated ICT Regulatory Management System" (CIRMS) during the year, ostensibly to more effectively monitor the performance of mobile-phone companies. This has generated privacy concerns given the capacity of the system to access the call records of users. Media professionals have warned that their ability to keep sources confidential could be compromised. In mid-2011, the implementation of the system was temporarily blocked by the courts. A permanent ruling was expected in 2012.
Violence and harassment of journalists increased markedly in 2011, bringing condemnation from international rights groups and foreign donors. By conservative estimates, at least seven journalists were assaulted during the July 20 protests, and several others were detained. One radio station had its vehicles attacked with petrol bombs in the wake of the demonstrations. Police arrested a journalist in September for photographing the president's estate, while at least three others received death threats from anonymous sources for reporting on controversial issues. Robert Chasowa, a political activist and blogger, was killed under mysterious circumstances in September. In November, several journalists had to seek police protection from ruling party thugs who harassed them as they covered the president's return to the country.
Malawi's print sector consists mainly of 10 independent newspapers, including two dailies and four weeklies. While there are numerous private stations with a diverse array of opinions, government-controlled outlets continue to dominate the broadcast media market. Radio remains the primary source of information for most people, and the Malawi Broadcast Corporation (MBC) is the only station with national reach. Most privately owned stations are located in large urban centers in the south and do not broadcast to more rural sections of the country. Although there are four television stations, only the state-controlled Television Malawi (TVM) broadcasts nationally. It recently merged with the MBC. State-run outlets are strongly biased in favor of the government and have been accused of serving as little more than propaganda tools. In the lead-up to the July 20 demonstrations, these outlets spread misinformation about the planned protests, claiming that they were pro-gay rallies. State media also have substantial control over important information. For example, according to a letter from the Ministry of Information and Civic Education, only state media are allowed to cover live events involving people the government deems "VVIPs" (Very Very Important Persons).
Advertising revenue, including government advertising, is critical to the survival of Malawi's press, which operates in a tenuous financial environment. A ban on advertising in one of the most reputable dailies, The Nation, remained in effect in 2011. Reports also surfaced that government allies planned to start a new "private" newspaper to drain advertising resources away from the second major daily.
There are no government restrictions on the internet, although only 3 percent of the population accessed the medium in 2011.


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Featuring our exclusive handles crafted from African blackwood, this collection combines superb German craftsmanship and striking design. A razor-sharp full-tang blade runs the entire length of each knife for stability. Steel double bolsters add an attractive finishing detail.
- Each knife is precision forged from a single piece of sturdy high-carbon steel that resists stains and corrosion.
- Full tangs are triple riveted to the handles for exceptional durability and control.
- Each knife has a recessed bolster that facilitates honing and sharpening the entire length of the cutting edge; a heel bolster provides added balance.
- Comfortable contoured handles are cut from dense African blackwood and hand polished.
- Included care kit contains mineral oil for maintaining the silken finish of the handles.
- Coordinating walnut block safely stores 15 items and is gentle on knives' edges.
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12-Piece Set includes:
- 3 1/2" paring knife.
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- 3 1/2" paring knife: 3 1/2"-long blade; 4"-long handle; 2 oz.
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- 8" bread knife: 8"-long blade; 4 1/2"-long handle; 4.8 oz.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by bigkiddle from The best! Pros: beautiful light weight balanced sharp easy to clean will last forever if cared for overall line of choices quality Cons: Not for those that like to toss all their dirty dishes in a soapy tub. I'm a cook, who takes pride in dicing, slicing, mincing, and carving. Bought this set in 2012. I have many sets of high end knives stored away, some donated already. These are designed to be used daily, or they may dry up and crack. They are real hardwood, very light but perfectly balanced. Although we do not wash our knives right away, we are now careful not to soak handles in water, which could mis-shape the handles. Also, once or twice per year, some cutting board oil is a good idea too. If you are slow to clean up or prefer to toss full knife in soapy water, then get the "classic ikon" - also really very nice. However, I will stick with my blackwoods whenever I can. We also added several of the Sanoku knives, and the classic Ikon deli knife. Just love them!Date published: 2019-06-05Rated 3 out of 5 by PatmosTodd from Handles crack We replaced the kitchen after a fire and wanted the best. Fit, feel, look great. All the handles cracked within 5 years. I will bring them in for warrantee, but do I want to see if Williams Sonoma is in business every 5 years and scare up my receipt? Wood handles probably better. It's just the two of us, no kids abusing it or anything.Date published: 2014-03-07


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March 5, 2008 -- Baby boomers who get ACL reconstruction surgery have a good shot at resuming their pre-injury activity level, a new study shows.
"Today's active baby boomers are pushing the envelope for when people are considered to be too old for ACL surgery," Diane Dahm, MD, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., states in a news release. "When considering candidates for ACL surgery, people's fitness levels and their desire to return to an active lifestyle should be taken into account rather than looking at age."
Dahm's team studied 35 people aged 50 and older (average age 57) who got surgery from 1990 to 2002 to repair their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which helps stabilize the knee.
About half of the patients suffered their ACL injury while playing sports. For most, the injuries weren't immediately disabling; the patients got their ACL surgery an average of two years after their initial injury.
The patients were followed for an average of four years. During that time, 83% returned to sports and their ACL returned to normal or near-normal function.
"Twenty years ago, we did not see older patients being so active later in life. ACL surgery was rarely considered for people in their 40s and 50s," states Dahm. "Older patients today want to continue to run, play basketball, and be active late into life, so they need a level of knee stability that will support an active lifestyle."
The researchers reported their findings today in San Francisco at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' annual meeting.


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Cane toads pay dearly for stretching their legs
Arthritis affects amphibian advance
Scientists from the University of Sydney and the Department of Primary Industries have offered Aussies some slim hope that they will not ultimately be driven from the Lucky Country by rampaging hordes of cane toads who continue their inexorable march across Oz.
Cane toads were introduced into Australia from Hawaii in the 1930s in an attempt to combat the cane beetle. This turned out to be a very bad idea indeed, since they proved effective in combatting anything foolish enough to get in their path, advancing 3,000km across the country from their Northern Queensland start line at up to 40km a year, in the process swelling their ranks to an estimated 200 million individuals.
Indeed, in February 2006, we reported that a vanguard had penetrated to within 37 miles of Darwin, assisted by the simple trick of growing longer legs to speed their conquest.
University of Sydney researcher Richard Shine told Nature at the time: "We find that toads with longer legs can not only move faster and are the first to arrive in new areas, but also that those at the front have longer legs than toads in older populations."
However, they may now be about to pay the price for their cunning extended leg ruse. Richard Shine is now reporting that "larger cane toads invading NSW cities are suffering back pain and arthritis from their long trek".
Shine elaborates in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: "Bigger, longer legs increase their ability to seek out new territory but also puts pressure on the body with every hop. And, with much of their energy going towards movement, less is put into their immune system, which may predispose the toads towards infection with the soil bacteria that precipitate arthritis.
"Ironically, factors that have contributed to the toads' rapid spread across the continent have also rendered it susceptible to arthritis."
But before our Antipodean cousins fire up the celebratory barbie and crack a cold one, they should be aware that "only as much as 10 per cent of the larger-sized toads are beginning to show a high incidence of spinal abnormalities", leaving the vast majority fit and able to stretch their legs in pursuit of the final conquest of Down Under. ®
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Welcome back everyone to DragoArt.com and to another drawing lesson that I worked hard on. Since the anime fox has become such a big hit, I decided to do a tutorial on another anime animal. So for my first drawing lesson of the day I will be teaching you how to draw an anime lion step by step. Now I didn't want to draw any old anime lion, I want my lion to look aggressive, mean and no nonsense. I figure if you are gonna do a drawing on an anime lion or a cartoon lion; it might as well be awesome looking right? Today's tutorials are all requests except for this tutorial. I am going to submit one anime animal a day for a few weeks so if any of you have any request for a particular animal, all you have to do is leave a comment on this tutorial and I will be more than happy to show you how to draw an anime animal of your choice. With this lesson you will learn how to draw a really cool looking anime lion step by step. The instructions are easy to read and the steps are simple to follow. I was going to leave this lion plain with no blood but then I thought, wait what fun is a mean looking lion with no awesome visual detail. So I broke down and added the blood, I just had too! Well I hope you will enjoy this lesson I worked hard on it so that you all will find this lesson easy to tackle. I will be back soon with more for you all so stay tuned, there is more on the way.
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PowerShell used as a tool in compound malware attacks is becoming more common, with 38% of all attacks seen by IT security vendor CarbonBlack and its partners involving the native Windows scripting language.
Its use is so common in enterprises for legitimate purposes that most security devices and personnel don't regard it as a threat, says Ben Johnson, the chief security strategist at CarbonBlack.
That makes it all the more effective as a component of attacks. Its scripts can run in memory only so it never creates a file on disk, Johnson says. "It creates less noise on the system," so it's less likely to draw attention to itself, he adds.
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It's also relatively easy to write a script for, making it more productive for attackers to write a PowerShell script than to create compact binary code that would accomplish the same goal, he says.
PowerShell's versatility is a strength but is also a downside when it's viewed as an attack tool. In that sense, "PowerShell is too powerful," Johnson says.
There's no sure-fire way to stop this malicious use of PowerShell, but security pros can start by monitoring its use to discover how it is being used legitimately and by what applications. In most cases, for example, Microsoft Office applications don't spawn PowerShell as a process, so that use would be considered suspicious.
If security pros log PowerShell activity and analyze it for anomalies then they can write rules to create alerts about known abnormal activity.
They should also look at the command lines. Often legitimate scripts have lines such as "Ben's Cleanup Script" that give an intuitive sense of its purpose. Attackers often use Base64 encoding on the command line, often incorporating the entire script in the line. "You'll see it with crazy arguments that humans would never use," he says.
Ben Johnson, chief security strategist at CarbonBlack
Security pros should identify who has a need to use PowerShell and others should be restricted from using it. Admins legitimately use it to help with upgrades and patches, but HR staff and the CFO's office probably don't need it, he says. Use of PowerShell can also be restricted to certain time windows to make it more difficult for attackers to sneak it by unnoticed.
As it evolves, PowerShell is gaining security features, so upgrading to a newer version can help. For example, PowerShell 5.0 supports better logging, including for deobfuscated code so it is executed, according to "'PowerShell' Deep Dive: A Unified Threat Research Report" written by CarbonBlack. "Note that newer versions of PowerShell are not supported on older versions of Windows, so you may not be able to fully upgrade all systems," the report notes.
The report recommends setting standards for how PowerShell should be used:
- Change ExecutionPolicy to only allow signed scripts to run.
- Require all PowerShell scripts to be run from a specific location or path.
- Discourage (or require exception for) the use of encoded parameters on the command line.
- Discourage (or block) PowerShell scripts from downloading content from the Internet (or specify a "whitelist" of allowed IP addresses only).
- Discourage (or block) the use of PowerShell to invoke commands on remote systems.
- Require a custom parameter to be passed on all "legitimate" PowerShell usage.
- Restrict PowerShell to specific users in your organization.
- Require PowerShell to be launched from a specific process.
A relatively new iteration of ransomware called PowerWare is an example of PowerShell used maliciously. Distributed mainly via phishing attacks, PowerWare initiates as macros within emailed Word attachments. The macros launch an .exe file that starts up two PowerShell instances, one to download the ransomware script and the other to implement it.
PowerShell gives the attacker freedom of movement within the compromised network. "You become an employee of your target," Johnson says.
This story, "Power Shell is a powerful malware tool" was originally published by Network World.
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This summer in Orange County, Enduro Stuff held a series of four races in the local country parks, entitle OC Parks Tour, starting at Aliso & Wood Canyons Park, then Santiago Oaks Regional Park, O'Neill Regional Park, and ending at Caspers Wilderness Park. I had not raced any other races put on by Enduro Stuff before, and they did a great job of organizing and running these events. They even held formal pre-rides for riders to come check out the course before the events. Being XC races, I was on my SS for this series.
The first race, held at Aliso Woods, was especially early in the morning on May 5th with a start time of 6:30am. Luckily for me, I live in Aliso Viejo, so the 5 minute drive to the event was the shortest drive ever for me to any race. It was chilly on the line with the sun having just crept above the horizon. The course was a lollipop layout starting with fire-road off the starting line (which was just across the street (Alicia) from the entrance to Laguna-Niguel Regional Park). The fire-road let to the Aliso trail-head bypassing main paved entrance. From there it headed directly to the bottom of Mathis via the main fire-road. Up until that point, the course was relatively flat. Mathis is a major climb ascending about 1000'ft. in 1 mile. The first 25% of the trail is the steepest, and clearing that part is the hardest section of the climb. On the SS is it quite a lung-burner. After the climb, Mathis leads to the ridge-line trail West Ridge. A quick right then and the course head down to Rock-it trail. If you cannot gather or guess from the name, there is a large rock garden in the middle of this trail which is like a big cheese grater. It starts out with nice, tight, and twisty single-track that opens up in the middle with the rock garden and then back to awesome, flowy single-track with a long straight chute out at the bottom. From the bottom of Rock-it, the course made one more loop up Mathis and down Rock-it a second time before returning toward the start/finish the we we came. If Mathis was not hard enough the first time, it surely was the second. I ended up with a 3rd place finish for this race.
I missed the second race of the series on July 14th at Santiago Oaks, as I was out of town.
The third race was held at O'Neill Regional Park on Aug 25th. I had never ridden in this park before, so I definitely took advantage of the pre-ride event to familiarize myself with the course. The course had two sections to it, an out-and-back first section to separate and thin out the riders, and then a single-track loop. Starting briefly with some single-track the course quickly led to a river-bed crossing. This section was sandy, rocky, loose and a potential hike if you lost your momentum. I wanted to be the first through this section as to not get bogged down by other riders struggle through or dismounting. Across the River began a short pavement climb to a longer mild upward pavement grade. After about 2 miles or so, we made a U-turn and jumped onto single-track that paralleled the road for the return route.
The first section of the course was pretty straight-forward and uneventful with a few switchbacks at the end, but the looping section of the course is where all the fun (good & bad) was to be had. Passing back through the starting area, the lap began up pavement for a few hundred yards before jogging left and onto single-track. A mild climb led to a quick single-track descent, with a quick turn at the bottom where too much speed could be troublesome. From there the course headed a pavement climb that was steep enough to be tough, at for me with each recurring lap on the single-speed. At the top of the pavement a double-track trail continues the upward grind. After quick descent the trail hit the steepest section and was just barely cleanable for me with only one gear. Shortly after this section the trail reaches it peak and a single-track drops off to the left. This is the major descent of the loop and it is fast, fun, and twisty. This was by far my favorite portion of the course. At the bottom it spits out to a pavement section that led generally down toward more laps or the finish line. I completed this race with a 5th place finish.
The fourth and final race of the series was held on Novemeber 3rd at Caspers Wilderness Park in the San Juan foothills. It was a chilly 43 degrees (F) upon driving up to the race venue and slowly warmed up into gorgeous racing weather. The course was simple one and consisted of a short loop and a long loop branching off of the same climb. Out of the gate the course started on pavement for a bit then headed to a left and began an undulating climb of varying grades. For the short course, a quick left down the hill over some loose dirt led quickly down to a lower rolling fire-road which headed back to the start for then next lap. The long loop passed the turn for the short loop and continued the climbing. At the top of the long loop, a FAST fire road descent lead down to the same lower road, but another mile or so out. I finished this race in 2nd place.
With three out of four races completed I ended in second place overall for the series. This series was unique in the it was held solely in local Orange County parks, and made great use of the available trails. The events had a great atmosphere and weas well enjoyed by the racers. Ron ,the head of Enduro Stuff, made sure to choose courses that were spectator friendly and fun for the racers. Post-race each event had food available and a raffle (in which I won a new light). Being a newer race series for the area the attendance was reasonable, but not overwhelming. In other words, if you have not been to or raced at one of these events, there is room for you!
Special thanks to Called to Creation, local MTB photog, for all the photos above. You can view more MTB photos from all the these races and other events as well on his site.