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Turning sustainable intentions into fiduciary practice
We explore why investors need to understand the sustainability of returns and potential risks on the horizon, from cyber security to tax clampdowns, are as important as understanding the valuation of assets.
A clear trajectory has built up since the end of the last century establishing good governance and oversight as an important part of the fiduciary duty of both companies and investors.
This trend shows no sign of slowing: stewardship codes for asset managers and owners are being rolled out around the world. As they become established, expectations are rising.
Investors demand sophistication and transparency
The growing demand is for those in the investment chain to be transparent about their activities, objectives and outcomes in the governance arena.
Best practice is no longer signing up to a code, voting and never discussing the issue again.
The direction of travel is clear – a better dialogue between owners, investors and companies on the thorny long term issues that companies face: strategy, board succession, and stakeholder management.
The most sophisticated asset owners are already questioning their managers, not just on their buy and sell processes, but on their approach to ownership.
They expect detailed reports and a quantification of impact. This move away from tick box governance will lead to more changes over time, and we welcome this.
More engaging investment style
Investment reporting will focus not only on performance statistics but also on engagement activity. Asset owners should understand their manager's governance style as closely as they do their investment style.
We expect to see an evolution of the fiduciary's agenda, with governance appearing more frequently in discussions.
This should all mean companies should expect to face closer oversight of their activities, and more demanding questions coming from investors as a result.
This will not take the form of a "shareholder spring", as many have advocated in the past, but an ongoing evolution and an onward push towards higher standards.
Some commentators are calling for more explicit guidance and clarification aimed at embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into investment processes as part of fiduciary duty.
Are ESG risks real?
An important first step is already well established with the existing focus on governance.
If there is an effective board, with active debate, robust internal controls and good risk management, the board should have good oversight of, and strong policies to manage, the E&S risks across the same business.
Recent comments from policy makers and regulators around the world have shown that they see fiduciary duty and consideration of ESG issues as compatible, giving further impetus to an investment approach that seeks to integrate these considerations.
As fundamental investors we know that assessing how companies deal with all of their stakeholders – customers, clients, employees and civil society – affects corporate performance and plays a role in investment decisions.
Understanding the sustainability of returns and the potential risks on the horizon – from cyber security to tax clampdowns – is as important as understanding the valuation. ESG risks are real risks.
Does ESG add value to investing?
In our experience, a rigorous understanding of all the risks that a company faces – financial, environmental, social and governance – leads to better investment decision making.
Ensuring that companies are being run in a long term sustainable manner through engagement by their owners further improve returns.
Those with fiduciary responsibility should be encouraging those managing their money to take such a long term holistic approach to investment.
They should also be looking for evidence that ESG integration is more than greenwashing but adds value to investment processes.
Current policy changes underline the importance of the process that many asset owners have already embarked on.


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Despite having lots of under eye concealers I can't help but try and seek out the ultimate product that works for all skintypes…
I got this Pixi Correction Concentrate Concealer in Brightening Peach and didn't really think much of it. It looked like a whole host of other brightening concealers I've owned before, and I wasn't really in the mood to open up another one and have another half used product lying about.
But I got bored so….
Pixi, I think, as a brand does have something about it. It isn't marketed a lot. It's easily ignored in Boots. They do have some really nice things though, especially their pencil eyeliners.
They say:
– This highly pigmented correction concealer instantly softens and blurs lines and erases darkness
– Skin immediately looks fresh, rested, bright and youthful
– This good-night's-sleep-in-a-jar cream is correction perfection
– It contains vitamins C and E to nourish, protect and revitalize your skin
– Also contains vitamin A for its anti-aging effect and rose-hip extract to boost skin elasticity
Here is the concealer in brightening peach.
It's a bright pink-salmon-flesh – weird tone. It looks weird but really I know now that salmon-pink concealers can work remarkably well on under eye circles:
This brightening concealer is really good. In fact I'd even say excellent. It reminds me of Benefit Erase Paste, but you know, it's BETTER. It has a firmer texture, less sloppy so therefore it doesn't seep into wrinkles, lines and creases so easily.
But it's also not too hard or waxy. It's thick enough though to give a good level of coverage, more so than your Touche Eclat's (if medium-high coverage is what you need).
Scary, tired eye:
I was surprised by just how good this product is and it's my current daily under eye concealer. It's pretty concentrated so you only need a bit, it's hydrating (which I like as my under eye area is dry) and it does brighten without looking too racoon like.
I can imagine this will work for fair – medium tones. Like!


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CAM Plus has an embedded 1200mAh battery.
It is rechargeable using a high-speed charger and a USB cable.
Charging with a high-speed charger (TA 1.8A)
Charging with a USB (from a laptop or a PC)
If the G5 battery level reaches 0%, and the phone gets turned off, it will not be charged from CAM Plus. When the remaining battery is above 15%, pressing one of the 3 buttons (On/Off, Shutter, and REC) will charge your G5 for a short period of time (around 6 minutes).
You will see a lightning icon in the battery icon on the upper corner of your phone if the LCD is on while charging. If the LCD is off, however, the LED at the top turns red.


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|Polk Audio LSi9 Bookshelf Speakers
|Tuesday, 01 June 2004
Page 1 of 3Introduction
Polk. It's one of those brands that almost anyone who has ever stepped foot into an electronics store chain to shop for new speakers has heard of. Their product line is immense and they make everything from micro-satellite systems for your computer to equipment racks to Earth shaking subs, floor standing loudspeakers and car audio products. Their top of the line LSi series features two floor-standing models, the LSi15 and LSi25, the LSiC center channel, LSiFX bi-pole/di-pole surrounds, the LSi subwoofer and two bookshelf models, the LSi7 and LSi9.
Cracking open the box of a pair of LSi9 bookshelf speakers, the first thing that I noticed about the speakers was their distinctive smooth black high-gloss finish on the top and rich cherry wood sculpted side panels. I've seen Polk speakers countless times in retail mega-stores, but it was usually smaller satellites or computer speakers. When I learned that I was going to be reviewing a pair of Polk bookshelf speakers, I was not expecting to receive such a large box at my front doorstep. Normally when you think of bookshelf speakers, the image that comes to mind is that of plain, square small boxes with cheap woofers and tweeters. However, Polk's Lsi9s are not your typical bookshelf speaker. Packing technology and slick design elements into a pair of bookshelves that are more reminiscent of high-end bookshelves like Wilson's dramatically more expensive CUB IIs or Revel's Gems than those from Bose or Klipsch, these Polks can actually be the foundation of a surround system or a two-channel set-up, rather than just speakers that sit unassumingly on a shelf in someone's office.
These are not small bookshelves by any means, measuring in at 14.875 inches tall, 8.625 inches wide and 15.25 inches deep. You'll want beefy stands for them, as they weigh just a shade over 32 pounds each and could easily maim a pet or small child should one of them be knocked over. The density of the speakers is obvious, based on the size-to-weight ratio. Much of the speaker's weight comes from the 1.5-inch-thick solid wood side panels. This keeps the speaker cabinets from coloring the sound with unwanted overtones. According the Polk, the LSi9s have a frequency response rating of 38Hz to 27kHz, –3dB.
On the back of the speaker is a black plastic plate that is about an inch away from the cabinet that has a foam pad on it. At first glance, I thought the purpose of this plastic bracket was to act as an isolator, should the speakers be mounted against a wall or on a shelf. However, I noticed that this bracket covers a bass port. Knowing this, I made a mental note to do some listening sans the subwoofer to see what kind of bass the LSi9s could produce. High-quality dual (bi-ampable) gold-plated five-way binding post inputs allow for an array of wiring options and have a solid feel that lets you know you are getting a good solid connection.
The LSi9s are also available with ebony side panels, for those who prefer the all-black look, priced on the Polk website at $519.95 each. Why would the speakers be priced individually, rather than as a pair? In some applications, a single LSi9 could be used as a center channel or as a rear center. However, most users will be purchasing then in pairs to use as either mains or surrounds in a surround speaker system, so the retail for the set comes in at $1,039.90. On the surface, $1,039.90 sounds pricey for a pair of small speakers, but I must emphasize the fact that these are much more advanced than your typical pair of bookshelves.
Choose among a variety of front bookshelf speakers that can go along with your center channel speaker and subwoofer.


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sfBrowserBase is the base class for sfBrowser.
Go back in the browser history stack.
Calls a request to a uri.
Test for an uncaught exception.
Clears all cookies.
returns This sfBrowserBase instance
Simulates a click on a link or button.
Available options:
* position: The position of the linked to link if several ones have the same name
(the first one is 1, not 0)
* method: The method to used instead of the form ones
(useful when you need to click on a link that is converted to a form with JavaScript code)
Simulates deselecting a checkbox or radiobutton.
This method is called internally by the {@link click()} method.
returns An array composed of the URI, the method and the arguments to pass to the {@link call()} call
throws InvalidArgumentException If a matching element cannot be found
Simulates a click on an element indicated by CSS selector.
Simulates a click on the supplied DOM element.
returns An array composed of the URI, the method and the arguments to pass to the call() call
Simulates selecting a checkbox or radiobutton.
This method is called internally by the select() and deselect() methods.
Fixes uri removing # declarations and front controller.
returns The fixed uri
Follow redirects?
throws sfException If request was not a redirect
Go forward in the browser history stack.
Gets a uri.
Gets the current exception.
Gets request.
Gets response.
Get response DOM.
Get response DOM CSS selector.
Get the response DOM XPath selector.
Gets user.
Initializes sfBrowser - sets up environment
Creates a new session in the browser.
Parses arguments as array
Posts a uri.
Reload the current browser.
Removes a cookie by name.
Resets the current exception.
Reset browser to original state
Sets username and password for simulating http authentication.
Sets a cookie.
Sets the current exception.
Sets a form field in the browser.
Sets a HTTP header for the very next request.
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I have an issue, my code is around 700 lines and there is an error somewhere that leads to an infinite loop. Now, is there a way in eclipse where i can do a single step debug? which means i want to see which loop is creating this issue.


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Colorado Buffaloes' Derrick Webb: The college football experience
Four years of Tribulations,
But Plenty of Personal Triumph
BOULDER — The floor's yours, Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre told the four senior co-captains. This was the Thursday before the Buffaloes' final home game of the season, against Southern California on Nov. 23, and Derrick Webb, the senior linebacker from Memphis, took his turn at the front of the team auditorium in the Dal Ward Center.
Webb told his teammates how much they meant to him, "putting it all out there in my senior year," and thanked them for all the work they had put in, both in the offseason and during the season. He told them how he would like it to end –with two victories, against USC that Saturday and then against Utah on the road, plus a possible bowl game. He said the one thing he could be certain of was the Buffs would play their hearts out in the final regular-season games.
Meanwhile, in Memphis, his mother, Felicia Morris, was preparing to be part of a family junket to Boulder for the Senior Day ceremony. The traveling party would include her husband, Billy Morris; and her father and Derrick's grandfather, Harold Scott, struggling physically and usually wheelchair-bound in his 70s.
As Derrick's father figure for most of his life, Scott wanted to be there. "He's already packed," Felicia said from Memphis. "He's called me about 15 times. He asked me, 'What do you think I'm going to need? I think I'm going to bring my thermos, can I bring my thermos?' I said that would be OK."
Derrick Webb's college football career at CU, which spanned three head coaching tenures and included few wins, was not particularly "glorious" when judged with conventional standards. But what of this standard? His mother already had seen her son walk across the stage on the Folsom Field turf the previous May to receive his bachelor's degree in communications, and Derrick indisputably had gotten much out of the college and college football experience.
"I'm so proud I'm speechless," Morris said. "Words can't explain how proud I am of my son. I just glow every time I look at him."
This does not have a storybook ending. The Buffaloes lost those final two games and finished 4-8. Webb's 2013 season and his college football career were over. But he walked away proud of his play and even more so, his attitude.
In late August, during the first week of the CU fall semester, the Buffs' annual Rocky Mountain Showdown against Colorado State in Denver was four days away. Webb came off the practice field and squinting in the late summer sunlight, looked ahead. "This is a lot of emotion, going into my last year," he said. "I can't let my emotions take over too much and do something crazy with the new rules about head contact. I have to be smart."
For the second consecutive season, Webb was a Buffaloes co-captain. Unimposing physically and listed at 6-foot and 225 pounds, he held his helmet in one hand and wiped sweat from his forehead with the other. He was about to play his first game for MacIntyre, his third head coach.
"I feel like coach MacIntyre came in and gave everybody an equal opportunity," Webb said. "I had to earn my spot all over again. That was perfectly fine with me. I want to be pushed. I want to be coached. I don't want anything handed to me."
In an era of increased emphasis on Academic Progress Rates and "student-athletes" getting or not getting degrees, Webb was ahead of the curve, with his degree already in hand after the May 10 commencement.
"I was so proud and so grateful to see him walk across that stage," his mother said. "All that help I got to get him to that stage, as a single mother for so long. I was so blessed that he went in the right direction, and that he had that degree."
In the fall semester, Webb was taking four classes to add hours to his transcript and remain eligible for football – Introduction to Africana Studies; Women, Sport and Culture; Introduction to Theater; and Latino Poetry. "This is Syllabus Week," he said, "so maybe we'll get a little more into the work later this week."
There was little pressure on him academically, given that he already had graduated, but his choice of classes and Outlook both were serious. Reflective and fond of writing, he was pondering a career in music, perhaps songwriting, if he weren't able to play pro football.
Felicia Morris was in the Army for five years, stationed around the country and in South Korea. She was at Fort Riley, Kan., when Derrick was born. Later divorced from his father, she left the service, returned to her hometown, Memphis, and has been working as a clerk for the U.S. Postal Service for 15 years.
Derrick had little contact with his father before he died when Derrick was young. "His grandfather's been there since the beginning," said Derrick's mother, who has been married to Billy Morris since 2010. "He's been with Derrick since he was 6, taking him to games, being on the sidelines, even trying to coach."
"Football's always been a big part of my life," Derrick said. "I started pretty young, and my mom always stressed I had to get good grades to be able to play." He laughed. "I had a lot of friends and had a lot of fun, and I got a lot of 'whippins.' Yeah, you do dumb stuff. If you would get in trouble at school, you would get a spanking. I had a bit of a talking problem in school. I wasn't a bad student. I just couldn't keep my mouth closed. If the teacher had to call my mom, that was a spanking."
As Webb starred at Memphis' Whitehaven High School, Colorado was among the schools recruiting him, and he also was looking at Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Mississippi. But he seemed ticketed to go to Tennessee until Phillip Fulmer was fired after the 2008 season. The new staff, under Lane Kiffin, backed off, and by then, Webb had mostly closed the doors to other options. But Colorado had stayed in touch and he made an official recruiting visit to Boulder, and then signed a letter of intent with the Buffaloes in February 2009.
"I was nervous about him going being so far away, of course," his mother said. "The coaches told me they would take care of him like he was their own son. I got to know Coach (Dan) Hawkins, and I liked him."
Webb redshirted in 2009. "That was tough because I wanted to play and I wanted to be the youngest player on the field," he said. "But I was able to get a lot stronger and if I had played as a (true) freshman, I wouldn't have gotten the experience of playing every down because of the number of seniors we had on that team."
He played in seven games as a redshirt freshman in 2010, when Hawkins was fired late in the season and eventually replaced by Jon Embree. "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Dan Hawkins," Webb said. "I really liked coach Embree, too. It was like he was my father or my uncle. He came in, worked us really hard and a lot of the players, players I knew, left or were dismissed from the program. He was trying to set a standard and change the culture around here. It was a new challenge."
Webb was a starter in Embree's two seasons, when the Buffs went 3-10 and 1-11, and he led the beleaguered '12 Buffs in tackles. The defense was statistically awful, but Webb drew high marks for playing on and remaining as upbeat as possible as the losses mounted. "I was so used to being competitive and when I was in football games that aren't competitive, it's tough," he said. "You don't want to be embarrassed, but we were. Colorado has such a great tradition, and I felt like we weren't doing enough."
The revolving door spun, and in came MacIntyre, the veteran college and NFL assistant who had managed a three-season turnaround in his first crack at head coaching at San Jose State.
In the opener, the Buffs beat Colorado State 41-27 in Denver. The difference was CU junior quarterback Connor Wood's two long touchdown passes to junior wide receiver Paul Richardson, making a triumphant return after missing the entire 2012 season following knee surgery. But the defense did its part and also accounted for a touchdown on defensive back Greg Henderson's 53-yard fumble return.
"We played some great football, made some plays in the clutch," Webb said. "As long as I've been here, I can't remember too many games where I felt like we won it on defense. I mean in the clutch moments where you need plays, you make plays. We made the plays (against CSU), and we even had a score on defense, so that was exciting."
The next week, Colorado overcame FCS Central Arkansas 38-24 at Folsom Field. Webb was in a total of 19 tackles in the first two games, and he was playing next to true freshman middle linebacker Addison Gillam, who looked like a future star in the first two weeks. And suddenly, the Buffs were 2-0.
"It's been a tough last few seasons and the seniors feel like we own it to ourselves to go out and be competitive and leave a winning legacy after all we've been through," Webb said. "It feels good to win in front of the home crowd and it feels good to be 2-0."
The floods hit Boulder late the next week, and the Buffs got word at a Sept. 13 team meeting that the Fresno State game the next day was at least postponed. (Ultimately, it would be canceled.) "We were getting ready to go to the hotel when they told us," Webb said. "We were shocked, but we know that other things were more important." Webb personally was unaffected, given that he lived to the south and east of campus, in the Broker Inn on Baseline Road next to the famous off-campus restaurant/bar, the Dark Horse.
Once known as a top hotel in the area, the Broker Inn now also is used for student accommodations, similar to the Regency complex's role in Denver for the Auraria Complex. Roughly a half-dozen players were living there during the 2013 season. Webb had a 1986 Grand Marquis back home in Memphis, but decided not to bring it to Boulder with him. To get around, he either walked, got rides, or borrowed a car.
Webb lived alone in his single room, and, yes, it looked like a conventional dorm room — a bed, a dresser, a study desk, a tiny closet that didn't come close to having enough room for his clothes, which were strewn around the room. The walls were bare. The terms of his athletic scholarship cover the monthly rent payments, but as noted during the debates over whether college football players should be additionally paid, there's not a lot of pocket money involved.
"I sometimes have a hard time at the end of the month," Webb said. "Things can come up. Some guys who have cars have to get them fixed, things like that. You have a set amount set aside for food, rent, cell phone bills, all that. One time I got a ticket and I was really struggling at the end of the month because I had to pay for it. A little extra money would make the situation better, maybe give me a little more freedom, maybe do a little more outside the basic essentials. Like taking a girl out on a date. Like taking yourself out to eat once in a while."
The Buffs finally were back in action on Oct. 7, and the bubble burst in a 44-17 loss to the Beavers at Corvallis. It was 10-3 late in the first half, but the Beavers scored on their final drive of the first half and then on the first possession after the intermission to take control. "I really think it came down to three or four plays both ways," Webb said. "At least that should have been a fourth-quarter game."
Next up were the powerful, high-octane Oregon Ducks, back at Folsom. "I'm very excited about it," he said during the game week. "Oregon's a great team, and I hope they get the best from us." At the team's Broomfield hotel that Friday night, Webb was with his usual roommate, freshman linebacker Kenneth Olugbode, his backup on the depth chart. They tested each other on the defensive game plan, and then Olugbode set up his laptop and watched his San Jose high school, Bellarmine Prep, play via live streaming. They compared notes about their high school football experiences, and Webb felt old, realizing Olugbode was talking about the previous fall, while Webb was talking about 2008.
The next night, Oregon romped. The Buffs led 3-0 and 10-8, but the Ducks stormed back behind quarterback Marcus Mariota and were up 43-16 at the half and 57-16 after three quarters before coasting through a scoreless fourth quarter. The scary thing was that it would have been unfair to say the Buffs didn't play well. They hung in there, but that's how wide the talent gap was.
"I'm proud of the effort," Webb said. He made eight tackles and was angry at himself for dropping a potential interception early, when he was coming up to play an anticipated screen — the blocking set up that way — and Mariota inexplicably threw the ball in his direction instead. "I was trying to get inside of the blocker and position myself to make a tackle, and the ball hit me right in the stomach," he said, shaking his head. He did recover a fumble later in the game. "I made sure I got that one," he said.
Under MacIntyre, the Buffaloes' routine was in line with an increasingly popular college football trend, with early morning meetings, as soon as 7 a.m., and then practice on lower campus fields down the hill and across Boulder Creek from the Dal Ward Center. After that, the players in theory were done with football for the day and head off to classes. Especially because of the flexibility and freedom tied to his graduation, Webb was able to build his schedule with his earliest class starting at 12:15 p.m. — Introduction to Theater on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Latino Poetry following at 5:15. On Mondays, he had the Africana Studies class at 2 and the women in sports class at 3.
On the Monday after the Oregon game — the NCAA-enforced day off for players after film study and a "correction" practice on Sunday — the small second-floor auditorium in the Clare Small Arts and Sciences Building was standing-room-only for instructor Martin Atuire's Africana Studies course. He opened with a welcome to his "brothers and sisters," then went through an African dialect greeting and response with his students that seemed to be an entrenched routine by the second months of classes for his diverse group.
Webb sat on an aisle about halfway back and signed the roll-call sheet as it made the rounds. Scrawling across the blackboard, Atuire lectured, then showed a video and led a discussion about enslavement in the Americas. "That's your history, your ancestry," Webb said after class. "The whole point of that film was to remember your past. It's pretty empowering to know of the people who endured so much."
In the Duane Physics and Astrophysics Building basement, instructor Jenny Lind Withycombe, still a competitive rower and an acknowledged expert on women's sports social issues with a doctorate in sports psychology, discussed the imbalance in coverage of men's and women's sports. She also showed a video, "Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete."
The give-and-take among the students was spirited, and Webb joined in. At the end, Withycombe reminded them that they had an assignment due soon — to interview a female athlete and turn in the transcript. Derrick said his plan was to speak with his sister, BreAnna, who lives in Maryland and had just started skating on a roller derby team.
In his Tuesday classes, he was preparing to take part in a brief play in Theater class and learning about Latino poets.
On Oct. 12, Webb had seven tackles as the Buffs lost their third straight, to Arizona State 54-13 in what was their worst performance of the season. They were down 47-6 at halftime, and the final score could have been a lot worse. MacIntyre and his staff seemed to demonstrate that they would start looking to the future, and not just with the much-discussed move at quarterback, demoting Connor Wood and removing true freshman Sefo Liufau's redshirt to install him as the starter.
The good news: Webb had finished his interview with BreAnna for Withycombe's class. "I asked her about the whole experience of roller derby, how she prepares and whether she'd recommend it to other female athletes," he said. "We talked about the double standard of women competing in physical sports."
The bad news: Webb was on the field for only 25 plays as the Buffs beat Charleston Southern, the FCS replacement for Fresno State on the schedule, 43-10. Some of that was an attempt to get more players experience, but the Buffs also increasingly were experimenting with different packages, mainly going with just two linebackers and a nickel back. What that meant was that Webb more often was competing with the other outside linebacker starter, junior Woodson Greer III, for playing time.
As the game plan and practice work for Arizona the next week made it clear that Webb wasn't ticketed to play much that week, either, MacIntyre had him, Wood and senior linebacker Paul Vigo stand at a team meeting. He praised them all for how they were handling reduced playing time and said he was proud of them.
Against Arizona on Oct 26, the Buffs opened on defense with Gillam and Greer at linebacker, and freshman Chidobe Uwuzie at nickel back. Webb was on for only 21 plays from scrimmage in the 44-20 loss. He consciously tried to be animated and supportive on the sideline, speaking with Gillam and Greer.
"The ups and downs," Webb said the next week, smiling. "All you can do is support the decisions and be there to support the team. I was more disappointed in the outcome of the game than me not seeing more action."
The next Tuesday, Oct. 29, MacIntyre said Webb would get more work in the practices that week and seemed to signal that Webb's attitude had helped make the coaches realize the futility and even the unfairness of shunting seniors aside at that point — especially if one of the seniors was a much-respected and liked co-captain. "He's handled it really well," MacIntyre said. "He's been a good leader and it's fun watching him mature at that stage and working with him on it. This (past) week has been a big test for him and I thought he passed it with flying colors."
That night, over dinner at the Dark Horse, Webb said he was determined to keep working hard and accept whatever happened. Since he lived next door, it wasn't surprising that he was familiar with the menu on the wall next to the kitchen window and cash register and knew that wait service is available only during lunch. "I come here for the student deals," he said. It also was obvious by now that at least during football season, while he isn't a loner, he mostly hangs out with his teammates at the Dal Ward Center. Plus, it's both a matter of time – he doesn't have much – and finances. "Football and school is like 90 percent of my life right now," he said. "Maybe even more than that."
Back on the field, Webb had probably his best game of the season in a 45-23 loss to UCLA in the Rose Bowl on Nov. 2, getting a team-leading nine tackles. He and Gillam were the linebacker starters, with Awuzie still opening at nickel back. If a 22-point loss could be a moral victory, that was it, since the Buffs — who fell to 3-4 for the season and 0-4 in the Pac 12 — were competitive.
Webb wasn't sure he was going to be back in the every-down rotation until game-time. "We shared reps," he said back on campus a few days later. "The way I looked at is was that I had to prepare like I was going to start and be on the field. . . The coaches are going to do what they think is best for the team and I never took it personally." He enjoyed the experience of playing in Pasadena for the second time in his career. "It's awesome, everything about it," he said. "Perfect weather, a great night for football, the field is just like a golf course."
The next Monday, he felt he aced his Africana Studies midterm and then in the women in sports class mostly listened as Withycombe laid out a convincing argument that women college athletes were treated in condescending fashion in such things as media guides, with emphasis on them wearing something other than athletic garb in pictures, for example. Webb's classmates included a few CU women athletes. He also felt good that the poem he wrote and read for the Tuesday-Thursday class in Latino Poetry was well-received.
But as this was all going on, he felt the clock winding down on his football career. "I can almost see my whole career flashing before my eyes," he said. "Coming here as a freshman, all those camps, spring ball, fall camps, all those practices, all those games. And you realize, man, where did it all go?"
Because the NCAA had granted the Buffs a waiver due to the extraordinary circumstances, they could count both wins against FCS teams in the attempt to get to six wins and bowl eligibility, CU still had hope of going to a bowl game. The players, including Webb, spoke of that without a trace of self-consciousness while sensing most outsiders believed there was no way that was going to happen, since it would require three wins in the last four games. "There are a lot of great opportunities left on the field," Webb said.
On Saturday, Nov. 9, CU's 59-7 loss at Washington was a reminder of how far the Buffs still had to go to become even a middle-of-the-pack team in the Pac 12. Webb had eight tackles and, despite the result, seemed back in the full-time playing mode. Also, Greer was out with a shoulder injury suffered in practice that week, and it turned out that he was done for the season.
There was hope, though: Similarly downtrodden California, also winless in the conference, was coming into Folsom on Nov. 16. The Buffs beat the Golden Bears 41-24, and Webb and Gillam both had 11 tackles. With blustery winds, the weather was horrible and Webb fought through severe headaches and even declined a chance to go to the interview room to meet with the media after the game. He did consent to a one-on-one interview in the hallway outside the locker room, though. He was in agony.
"It kind of stuck with me," he said of the headaches, then laughed darkly. "It's still sticking with me. I think it was the cold and the wind blowing, more than anything. It wasn't to the extent that I couldn't play. I pulled myself through. These are the last three games of my career, and everybody out there was having so much fun, making plays on defense, doing their job, hitting on all cylinders."
Webb had one home game remaining – the Senior Day matchup with Southern California. The Buffs were planning on honoring 15 seniors, including six starters on offense and defense. On the defensive side of the ball, Webb was joined by safety Parker Orms, from Wheat Ridge, and end Chidera Uzo-Diribe.
On the Tuesday of game week, Webb talked about the upcoming weekend over dinner at Moe's Original Bar B Que, on the other side of the Broker Inn. When he walked in, he waved to the crew in the kitchen, and the young woman in the Chicago Blackhawks T-shirt — the Avalanche was meeting "her" team that night in Denver — didn't have to ask his name to put it onto the order. This quest for good barbeque is a big deal for Webb, and even more so for his mother, felicia. ("Moe's?" she would ask later in the week. "OK, that's pretty good.")
"I'm excited about senior day for a couple of reasons," Derrick said. "Number one, my family is coming out to see me for my final home game as a Buff. Two, it's special because my grandfather (Harold Scott) is coming out here for his first Colorado game. He's just been a huge inspiration for me, the biggest father figure for me in my life. He always was the disciplinarian, kept my head on straight and kept me in football."
The family delegation flew into DIA on Friday, but was late enough to prevent Derrick from seeing everyone before he went to the team hotel. Then Saturday night, when it was his turn as the seniors were introduced, he ran into the field and handed flowers to his mother and greeted Harold Scott, in his wheelchair, plus BreAnna, her fiancee and her young son; Derrick's stepfather, Billy Morris; and his uncle, Kevin Scott. "Leading up to it, I thought I was going to cry during the ceremony," Derrick said later. "But when I was out there, it was all about being happy and proud, all smiles, not about tears."
MacIntyre posed for pictures with Webb's family and those of the other seniors, and the game was on. The 47-29 loss officially quashed the Buffs' longshot bowl hopes. Webb spotted his family to the north side of the bench and had a team-high 11 tackles as the Buffs closed to within 40-29 with 3:19 remaining and then failed to recover an onside kick. They were overmatched, but not embarrassed.
Because of the cold, his grandfather had to go to the rental car at halftime. His mother and most of the rest of the family delegation stuck it out.
When it ended, Felicia made her way to the spot where the players would pass on their way to the dressing room. "I thought it was a good game," she said as she waited. "I was very excited to see my son play. We were very excited to be here and it was great for Derrick to have a chance to play football here and for us to be a part of Buff nation."
Felicia Morris had seen her son receive his diploma in the same stadium and she had seen him finish his home football career, and did it really matter than in Derrick's four seasons of competition, his teams had won a total of …
No, in that context, there's no reason to do the math.
Suddenly, Derrick was leaving the field and approaching the path to the Dal Ward Center. His mother waved and the security guard holding the rope, who previously had been adamant that he couldn't let Felicia by, found cause to look the other way as she slipped past.
The hug between mother and son was a Kodak moment.
A little later in the interview room, Derrick told the media: "I feel like we left our heart out there today, and that was the most important thing for me."
The next morning, Webb ate brunch with his family at the Omni Interlocken and then returned to Boulder.
There was one more game to play, at Utah. Looking ahead to that, MacIntyre said of Webb at his Tuesday news Conference: "I almost tear up thinking about it because he is a true, true warrior. I know that word is used a lot but, if you watch him play, he runs and hits. He gives everything he has. After practice and after games he is exhausted. He truly is the kid that you would say empties the bucket. . . We had a little bit there where we made some changes during the season and he came back and he didn't bat an eye. He played really well the last couple games."
On Thanksgiving, Webb walked over to the nearby house rented by redshirt freshman defensive lineman De'Jon Wilson, and a group of about seven Buffs had their choice of entrees – baked chicken or fried chicken. The delicacy side dish was macaroni and cheese. "For football players just cooking it up for Thanksgiving, it was actually a pretty good meal," Webb said.
At Salt Lake, the Buffs fell again, 24-17, to Utah, finishing 4-8 overall and 1-8 in the Pac 12. Most frustrating for Webb, he suffered a "stinger" in the left shoulder and neck area about midway through the fourth quarter and had to leave the game. "They had a big, physical running back, and he got low, and I got low," Webb said a few days later in CU's University Memorial Center, sitting near the bust of noted cannibal Alferd E. Packer, for whom the student grill is named. "We both met in the backfield and I felt the shock. I've had stingers before and I've never come out of the game with a stinger. But this was my worst one. I'm fine now, but it took me a little longer to recover."
He wanted to get back in, but the clock ran out before he could.
"Going into the game, there was less emotion than Senior Day," he said. "Of course, I knew it was my last game and I knew I wanted to leave it all out there. I was going to play every down like it was my last game. After the game, that's when the emotions hit."
Yes, that means tears.
Later, he discovered he had finished the season with 99 tackles, second to Addison Gillam. "I wish I could have stayed in and got one more tackle and got to 100," he said. "All I can do is laugh about that now."
In the aftermath of that final game, MacInytre said of Webb: "He's a great young man. He's been exceptional ever since I got here and I'm pretty sure he was before I got here. He lifts your spirits. He's that type of guy. He loves Colorado football and he loves playing football. He'll have a great future at whatever he does."
With the season over, Webb confided that one of the reasons he had handled his temporary demotion so well was that he had looked in the mirror after he couldn't get on the field much as a backup linebacker in his freshman season under Hawkins.
"I feel I was prepared for going through the situation after having gone through it as a freshman," he said. "I handled it the wrong way then. When I was in meetings or out on the practice field, I would never say anything to my (position) coach, ask any questions. I would sit around as quiet as I could and wouldn't say anything to anybody. That wasn't the way to go around handling it.
"When it came back around, I said, 'I'm not going to get mad at anybody, I'm not going to walk around with a frown and change who I am, and start acting differently toward people.' Sometimes when you're mad and angry, you want people to know you're mad and angry and you give off vibes that you're mad. I learned from that. I just said, 'Hey, what can I do to get better?' It worked better for me this time."
Webb said he would head home to Memphis after the term ended, then decide where to work out – and with whom to do it – to get ready for CU's pro timing day during spring practice and hope for a shot in an NFL camp. His best chance is as a special teams ace — he loves playing on special teams — who could fill in on defense, but that's probably a longshot.
"Coming into college, my two passions were football and music," he said. "I would write music, rap songs, and I was passionate about it. I had a lot of fun doing that, and it would be a fun profession. But careers like that, along with professional sports, people think of it as a longshot. I give people my Plan A and my Plan B, and they say, 'You need a Plan C.' So if it comes to it, I'd like to be a business owner someday and give back to my community in some sort of way."
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From: Dale Andersen's Astrobiology Field Reports
Posted: Sunday, December 16, 2012
Satellite image showing the location of Lake Untersee and Lake Obersee
9 December 2012
Astrobiologist Dale Anderson and his team visited nearby Lake Obersee today. Lake Untersee is situated at an altitude of 560 meters and more than 100 meters in depth in many places. In contrast, Lake Obersee is located at a higher latitude of 756 meters and is smaller and shallower with a maximum depth of 55 meters.
While at Lake Obersee Dale's team took some water samples. They also dropped a camera into the lake to take an initial look around. Much to Dale's surprise they did not see any of the conical stromatolites that are a prominent feature of Lake Untersee. Either Dale's team did not happen to look at the right spot in Lake Obersee or these conical stromatolites are a feature unique to Lake Untersee. If these conical stromatolites are unique to Lake Untersee, then Dale suspects that there is something special happening in Lake Untersee given that this is the only place on modern day Earth where such features have been observed.
Image: Lake Untersee, Antarctica (-71.348°, 13.448°) Gigapixel Image from the lake: Visit this link to view this immense panorama in all its glory. Credit: Dale T. Andersen
10 December 2012
Dale reports that is was another beautiful day at Lake Untersee. Today the team obtained sediment samples from under the ice at the deep end of Lake Untersee from a depth of approximately 100 meters.
12 December 2012
Dale and his team went back to Lake Obersee to shoot some video and dredge samples from the bottom of the lake. Watching the video shot in Lake Obersee, Dale is convinced that something very special going on in Lake Untersee that is not going on inside nearby Lake Obersee. Lake Untersee is the only place known in modern times where conical stromatolites are being formed. The microbial mats see thus far in Lake Obersee are, in contrast, present as a thin veneer and thread-like in structure. It is important to note that the environmental conditions in and around these Antarctic lakes is very similar to conditions thought to exist on early Mars.
These two lakes are currently not connected in any way but there may have been some interaction in the distant past. Dale's observations in Lake Obersee were made at a depth of 20 meters. Dale thinks that some of the differences in microbial mats and stromatolites may have to do with the underlying rock in the two lakes and how it affects the overlying water composition.
This image of the large conical stromatolites in Lake Untersee was made using a Nikon D3s with a Nikkor 14-24mm lens inside a Subal Housing. Lighting was provided by two Sea & Sea YS-250 Pro strobes in manual mode. Credit: Dale T. Andersen
13 December 2012
Dale made two dives today in Lake Untersee dedicated to vidoegraphy using his Sony EX-1 video camera with him. This was to be followed by another dive focused on still photography of the lake.
The current plan is to depart Lake Untersee between 16 and 17 December. Trucks will come in from Novo station to pack up gear and people and head back. Dale and others will follow on Skidoos and then come back to Lake Untersee to pick up any remaining gear. Weather permitting, they expect to be in Cape Town on the 17 December and on their way home shortly thereafter.
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Adnan Oktar: The most wonderful thing to do is to establish Turkish Islamic Union. I mean to be the leader of all the Islamic countries, be the leader of all the Turkish states because all the Turkish states are already Muslims, generally Muslims. But also be the elder brother of the area Turkey has to protect the interests of Armenia, have to endeavor to make them wealthy too. It has to protect the interests of Israel, has to bring the peace to the area, has to completely be the elder brother in the area. This is the most urgent duty. THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF EUROPEAN UNION. GETTING RID OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, GETTING RID OF TERROR, GETTING RID OF THE TERROR, ANXIETY IS A VERY BIG BLESSING AND LUXURY FOR THEM. ACTUALLY THE TURKISH ISLAMIC UNION PROVIDES DURABLY THIS, DEFINETELY PROVIDES THIS. All the ordeals in the Islamic world shall come to an end, all the turmoils will come to an end... We are not in a state to delay the establishment of the Turkish Islamic Union, not for a single day. It has to occur immediately. This is all in favor of everyone. It is neither against NATO nor against the European Union. It is in favor of the entire world. China shall feel at ease with this, Russia shall fell at ease, especially Russia will very much feel at ease. EUROPEAN UNION SHALL REST MUCH, America shall get rich, get stronger. So there is a big advantage and benefit in this in every way. But it seems it is necessary for Turkey to be the leader.
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Adnan Oktar: Actually Turkey has state experience. I mean it has imperial experience. It has experience to administer the countries and it has the talent. Turkish Nation has remained sterilized in terms of morality. Anatolian morality hasn't spoiled. Anatolia conserved it. That hospitality, cleanliness, good morality, affection, caring, understanding of neighbourhood, understanding of compassion, understanding of altruism of it has remained the same. Europe has lost this… This is not something with which Europe would feel unease. THIS IS A SALVATION FOR EUROPE. AT THE SAME TIME TURKISH ISLAMIC UNION WILL BE LIKE GENDARMERIE OF EUROPE. BECAUSE IT IS A VERY POWERFUL STRUCTURE WHICH PROTECTS EUROPE, PROTECTS THE WORLD, BRINGS PEACE AND SECURITY TO THE WORLD. ACTUALLY EUROPE WILL LIVE IN WELL-BEING AND TRANQUILITY. Why would Europe not want it? Nothing will be change. This system supports NATO, supports European Union too. THIS IS A VERY BIG BLESSING FOR EUROPE. EUROPE SHALL BE EXTREMELY WEALTHY WITH THIS… THE CLEMENCY OF TURKISH ISLAMIC UNION WILL SURROUND THEM TOO. THEY WILL LIVE IN TRANQULITY.
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The roster of directors at IDT, the telecommunications company, has leaned heavily in recent years toward high-profile people who know their way around Washington. But in proxy filings last week for its next annual meeting, nearly all of the company's outside directors have opted not to stand for re-election.
That includes Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the former ambassador to the United Nations; Jack F. Kemp, the former New York congressman and Republican vice presidential nominee; Rudy Boschwitz, a former senator from Minnesota; and Slade Gorton, a former senator from Washington -- all four of whom made up the company's corporate governance committee. Also stepping down is James S. Gilmore III, a former governor of Virginia.
Over all, the board is reducing its size from 19 directors to a remaining seven, including the controlling shareholder, Howard S. Jonas, and the chief executive, James A. Courter. A longtime congressman from New Jersey, Mr. Courter alone will have to lend the board its political gravitas.


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- "Essential Tip # 2: In order to make a subject dance, it must first possess legs (a spell for growing legs appears in the advanced CAST-A-SPELL training handbook)."
- —The "Tarantallegra" entry on the Cast-a-Spell Kit
This spell (incantation unknown) is a charm used to grow legs on an object. It is a piece of advanced magic, as it is featured in the advanced pack of the Cast-a-Spell Kit.[1]
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- This may be the spell used by the fifth year students in Charms class during the 1995–1996 school year to give legs to teacups.
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East Bight was the great indentation in the eastern edge of Mirkwood, a treeless region that was roughly square in shape, some fifty miles to a side, towards the southern end of the wood. The "Bight" was not a natural formation, but rather the result of generations of forestry by the Northmen who had historically occupied the lands east of the Forest, from whom the Éothéod could claim descent. Because of the Bight, that part of Mirkwood immediately to the north of Amon Lanc was less than one hundred miles across, and so it became known as the Narrows of the Forest.


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For the dedicated, there are videos of Simon and Simon giving an overview of GHC, at the 2007 GHC Hackathon.
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- The Compiler
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- IntermediateTypes: Notes about the type system of GHC's new intermediate language (in the HEAD since ICFP'06)
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HOLLAND -- Recent Hope College graduate Ryan TerLouw of Pella, Iowa has received two major awards for academic accomplishment
A standout distance runner in Hope's cross country and track & field programs, TerLouw has been presented an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America first team in track & field.
A chemistry major, TerLouw lettered in cross country and track & field all four years. He earned all-conference honors in both sports and was a three-time NCAA All-American in the 1,500-meter run, finishing fourth this spring. He was also the co-recipient of the college's Otto van der Velde All-Campus Award. He will attend the University of Iowa Medical School.
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TerLouw joins classmate Lisa Smith of Dearborn, Michigan as an NCAA Postgraduate Scholar for the 2006-07 school year.
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Convinced that a series of coincidences involving a doorman hold some secret to life's largest riddles, Albert Markovski seeks the help of a detective agency unlike any other--which leads him down a path that questions the essence of existence itself. In an attempt to ferret out the meaning of these flukes, he consults Bernard and Vivian Jaffe, AKA the Existential Detectives, a pair of married metaphysicians who fearlessly investigate the mysteries at the core of their clients' secret innermost lives. Bernard and Vivian kick off their existential exploration of Albert Markovski by probing his past and present reality. Along the way, they uncover his festering conflict with Brad Stand, a golden boy executive climbing the corporate ladder at Huckabees, a popular chain of retail super-stores that wants to sponsor Albert's Open Spaces Coalition for the PR value. The Existential Detectives are convinced that Brad (seemingly Albert's opposite) is the key to cracking Albert's case, but then Brad turns the tables on their investigation, by hiring the detectives himself. As Bernard and Vivian begin to dig deeper into Brad's ambition and his relationship with Huckabees' hot blonde spokes model Dawn, Albert begins to lose faith and rebels against their conclusions. Pairing up with another of the duo's clients--firefighter, tough guy and uncompromising soul searcher Tommy--he joins forces with the Jaffes' arch nemesis, the sexy French philosopher Caterine Vauban, who valiantly battles for the contrasting point of view. Now, as Being chases Nothingness, Albert, Tommy, Brad, Dawn, Bernard, Vivian and Caterine chase one another in a wild romp through life's biggest questions to find the true answer.


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State figures show firearm-related homicides and injuries are declining in Virginia.
Figures from the state's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner show firearms-related homicides fell 32 percent, from 357 in 2005 to 242 in 2011.
Virginia Department of Health figures show firearm-related injuries requiring hospitalization declined 28 percent, from 392 to 283, during the same period.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the medical examiner's latest annual report on firearm-related homicides has a new category for assault rifles.
Previous reports listed assault rifles in the rifle category.
Forensic epidemiologist Dr. Anna Noller says one of the staff's pathologists thought assault rifles were different enough that they should be placed in a separate category.
The report lists one assault rifle homicide in 2011.


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–Chloe J.
I've made so many memories this year and I will always remember them. The best memory I have is just coming to Noah Webster Schools; knowing that I really enjoy going to school and not complaining about it in the morning. We had a lot of field trips and they were all amazing! This is the best school I've ever been too! I've learned so much more than at any other school. The students here are all friends; there isn't anyone who doesn't feel welcomed. Everyone is nice to each other and treats each other the same. No one is different. The teachers are amazing and I just have to say "Thank You" to my teacher as she's helped me out a lot and I know she will keep doing so. This year was amazing and I will never forget it!
–Catherine N.
Our son was in Kindergarten this year and he loved it and loved the teacher & assistant teacher. He learned so much through the school year. I am very pleased to have started him at this school. To end this great school year with such a fun water day he so much enjoyed and talked about the whole day.
–Annika T.
On the first day of school, while I was walking down the hall, I was kind of nervous because it was a new school. But when I walked in the classroom, I recognized some people I already knew, and that made me feel a bit better. I have learned so many things this year, such as integers, Ancient Greece, and oxymorons. I have also learned things that will help me be a better person. I learned that respect is one of the most important qualities to have in life. My teacher is wonderful. She has empathy (most of the time) for us. She knows what it's like to be in different kinds of situations, she knows how to cheer someone up, or make them feel regretful (when we misbehave). She understands our problems and gives us advice on how to solve them, whether it's from personal problems to math or reading problems. We went on a lot of field trips this year. My favorite one was the Water Day field trip at the Mesa Campus! We got to go on different water slides. I had so much fun sliding down the 40 foot tall Rhino slide and high-fiving everyone when I reached the bottom! Everyday has been a different day, which I enjoy. I will always remember my experience in 6th grade here at Noah Webster Schools.


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SAN ANDREAS - Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, this week introduced a bill to speed salvage logging within the 400-square-mile burned area of the Rim Fire.
SAN ANDREAS - Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, this week introduced a bill to speed salvage logging within the 400-square-mile burned area of the Rim Fire.
McClintock says the bill is needed because lawsuits by environmentalists or regulatory hurdles could otherwise delay such logging so long that the wood inside dead trees would no longer be usable.
At least one environmentalist, however, says he supports massive salvage logging.
John Buckley, executive director of Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center, says McClintock's bill could actually spark resistance to legitimate salvage logging because it contains provocative provisions that would allow logging within wilderness areas in Yosemite National Park.
Trying to allow heavy logging equipment into Yosemite's back country could spark opposition to the salvage logging that needs to be done in working national forest lands that are not wilderness areas, he said.
McClintock's bill, HR3188, would exempt salvage logging operations within the fire area from administrative review and from being challenged with lawsuits. It would also waive such logging from being delayed or prevented by existing laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and laws governing timber management for Yosemite National Park.
The Rim Fire, which started Aug. 17 and is still smoldering in remote areas between Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and Cherry Lake, is the largest wildfire in recorded history within the Sierra Nevada. It burned roughly a quarter of the Stanislaus National Forest as well as part of Yosemite National Park.
The Stanislaus National Forest is a significant source of logs, and the fire's damage represents a substantial loss of future timber supplies.
McClintock, however, says that as much as a billion board feet of timber could be salvaged if it is done within the next 18 months before insects and moisture degrade the wood in dead trees. "Moreover, revenues from the sale of salvage rights could be used to restore our ravaged forests and provide recovery assistance to cash-strapped local communities," McClintock said. "But this can't happen if salvage is indefinitely delayed by bureaucratic processes or the usual litigation filed by extremist environmental groups."
Buckley said he is not aware of a lawsuit having delayed a logging project within the Stanislaus National Forest any time in the past decade. And he said so much dead timber is available for salvage in accessible national forest areas that it simply isn't necessary for logging firms to seek to also take trees from remote areas in the wilderness or within Yosemite National Park.
Buckley said he supports "massive" salvage logging because it is important to remove the dead trees so that crews can plant new tree seedlings. That way the new trees can get a head start on brush and grasses that will otherwise choke out burned areas.
Co-sponsors of HR3188 include Congressman Jeff Denham, R-Turlock who represents southern San Joaquin County. The bill is scheduled to go to a hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday.
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It was nearing 11 pm, the Amsterdam air was bitingly frigid, and we were hopelessly lost.
Having taken the advice of a tourist information man upon our arrival in the city, Abby and i had elected to take the Metro instead of the tram. We'd arrived, some five blocks away from our hotel, at a station i could only assume is pronounced "Wheee-sper Plain!"
We should have taken the tram.
I'd carefully traced my fingers around the contours of the map before we left. Studied the route from the main train station to our hotel. Yet somehow, in the darkness, all the streets didn't seem to line up with our disoriented departure from the metro station. A lot of asking people on their bikes for directions ensued. The streets of Amsterdam are all well-lit, because everyone rides bikes until, you know, the wee hours of the morning. But lamps do little for the cold.
So while we were grateful for the lamps, our toes were going numb and our patience was wearing thin.
Resigned, we hailed a cab. Four euros and two blocks later, we were deposited at the elusive Hotel Prinsenhof.
As frustrating as it was that we'd been so close and yet so lost, i definitely do not regret those four euros being spent on the security of being dropped off precisely where we needed to be!
A note tacked to the door of the small bed-and-breakfast style hotel told us to ask the bartender at the café adjacent to the hotel for our keys. From over the bar counter, he produced an envelope enclosing both our keys and vouchers for complimentary wine from the bar (score!). Eager to defrost from the sub-freezing temperatures, we made our way up the three most narrow flights of stairs i'd ever beheld before beholding our room.
For all the strife of finding the place, the Hotel Prinsenhof was worth all the wait. Our room overlooked the canal, the reflections of lamps and house-lights glittering in the water between docked boats. We'd learn the next day that the breakfast served was delicious and simple, made all the better by the cappuccino machine (accessible all day!).
But for the night, there was a much-needed drink to be had and food to be found. The café, Onder de Ooivaar, turned out to have the most incredible cheese-and-sausage platter i have ever had. After what had been such a stressful night getting into the city, my first real bite of Holland was this incredible Gouda.
And just like that, i was in love with Amsterdam. The infamous "they" say the way to a girl's heart is through her stomach (or whatever). I say it's through cheese. Or wine. Or, you know, both in a picturesque European city glistening with stars in bike-lane lined canals.
The next day was going to be a packed one – a bike tour, the Van Gogh exhibit at the hermitage, and more eating (naturally) – but after our second glass of Spanish red and second platter of cheese, we were ready for much-needed sleep.
We awoke the next day to sounds of dinging bike bells and shopkeepers opening their tulip stalls, ready to see the splendor in a new, and warmer, light.
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Tesoro to buy 'green' crude oil
San Antonio-based refiner Tesoro Corp. has agreed to purchase algae-derived "green" crude oil that will be made into diesel fuel at its West Coast refineries.
Tesoro will buy the oil from California-based Sapphire Energy Inc., which maintains an algae farm in Columbus, N.M., about 80 miles west of El Paso. Use of algae-derived crude reduces the need for fossil fuels.
Full terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Sapphire said Tesoro will be its first commercial customer.
Tesoro's agreement calls for it to buy the crude through the end of this year with provisions to extend its purchases beyond that. Also, Tesoro has the option to buy more of the crude as Sapphire expands production.
Sapphire, which counts Bill Gates and Monsanto among its investors, expects production to reach 100 barrels of crude a day in late 2014.
The deal "is enormously important for the industry," Sapphire CEO Cynthia Warner said in a statement, "as it validates the benefits and advantages of green crude and confirms its place as a market-viable, refiner-ready, renewable crude oil solution."
Tesoro vice president of renewable development Joel Larkins said in a statement that the company "is continuously looking at new technologies for producing renewable fuels." Sapphire's crude "shows promise as an alternative fuel solution."
Sapphire's first barrels of oil will be trucked to Tesoro soon, said Tim Zenk, Sapphire's vice president of corporate affairs.
The crude farm now produces two barrels of oil a day.
"That's rather small," Zenk said, "but this is the first renewable crude oil every invented. You've got to start someplace." Tesoro has agreed to buy "all the amounts that we can make," he said.
The deal with Tesoro will show that the technology is ready to be used at refineries, he said.
The crude can be refined into liquid transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel and gasoline, that are compatible with existing infrastructure and engines, Sapphire said.
Also, algae uses carbon dioxide and returns oxygen to the atmosphere. The oil derived from algae is a low-carbon, renewable crude that reduces carbon emissions, compared with petroleum-based equivalents, Sapphire said.
Sapphire's crude farm is funded by more than $350 million in private and public monies, including a $50 million Energy Department grant and a $54.4 million loan guarantee from the Agriculture Department.
The algae-based oil is not yet certified for on-road use, so it will be made into diesel, going into the tanks of farming, construction and other off-road equipment.
Zenk said he expects the green crude to be certified for on-road use by the Environmental Protection Agency within six months.
"The oils that we make are very similar to the batches they're getting today." Also, he said the green crude contains almost no sulfur, which makes it easier to refine than high-sulfur oil.
Sapphire's algae farm — at 100 acres — is the largest in the world. "It's an above-the-ground oil field," Zenk said.
To flourish, the algae needs sun, nonpotable water, nonarable land and carbon dioxide, he added. Sapphire buys the carbon dioxide, which is bubbled into its algae ponds.
Sapphire plans to expand the algae farm to 300 acres: "enough to demonstrate the technical economics of a large facility," Zenk said.
Algae-based crude also uses little or no potable water and little land area, relative to other alternative fuel sources, said Les Shephard, director of the Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Sapphire was founded four years ago. Construction of the algae farm began two years ago.
In initial testing, Sapphire's green crude oil was refined into diesel fuel that is compatible with the nation's existing network of pipelines, refineries and transport systems, the company said.


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Hurricane Sandy and the climate opportunists
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, and of course Al Gore. The list could go on and on of politicians, journalists and activists who can't stop themselves from exploiting a natural tragedy to promote a pet cause — in this case the need to do more, much more, about climate change.
It simply doesn't matter to these opportunists that "while it's hardly mentioned in the media, the U.S. is currently in an extended and intense hurricane 'drought,' " University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. explained in Thursday's Wall Street Journal.
Can you imagine the hysteria when the frequency of hurricanes returns to the historical norm? Can you imagine the hand-wringing if, for example, we were to see a recurrence of what happened more than a half century ago, when "from August 1954 through August 1955, the East Coast saw three different storms make landfall – Carol, Hazel and Diane – that in 2012 each would have caused about twice as much damage as Sandy"?
By all means feel free to make a case for doing more about climate change. But citing a hurricane in the midst of a hurricane drought as evidence of the need for urgent action is simply shameless.


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Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón
Chinchilla de Monte-Aragon
Castle of Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón
- Autonomous region: Castilla-La Mancha
- Province/Island: Albacete
Located on a hill that dominates the plains of La Mancha, the town of Chinchilla de Monte Aragón has a remarkable castle built in the 15th century by Juan Pacheco, marquis of Villena, and a beautiful medieval historic quarter. Chinchilla de Monte Aragón calls for a serene walk through its streets, in order to admire the great houses and courtyards, and discover the quarter of Hondón, with its typical houses dug on the earth. It preserves the remains of the wall, some Arab vestiges, and the gate of Tiradores. It also has an impressive moat, dug on the rock, ten metres wide by six metres deep. In the urban centre we can still find ancient Arab public baths, as well as several emblazoned houses from the 16th to 18th centuries, such as the ancestral homes of López de Haro, Núñez Robles, the Palace of Barnuevo, the 16th-century house of Tercia, and the old public granary. In the main square, or Plaza Mayor, we find the City Hall, which dates from the 16th to 18th centuries. The most important religious building is the parish church of Santa María del Salvador, with overlapping styles from Gothic to Baroque. Other interesting buildings include the hospital of San Julián, the convent of Santo Domingo, and the remains of the convent of Santa Ana.
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Hi everyone, this is Gwen from This and That by Gwen with a quick and easy Valentine project for you.
I really love the papers for Valentine's Day, they are just so fun and pretty and PINK!! This cute little tea cup is from the Silhouette Store, it is by LW. The pretty white ribbon is Snow White Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot tied in a double bow.
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Premier Denis Napthine promises to proceed cautiously on issue of coal seam gas
Former Howard government minister Peter Reith says Victoria should end bans on coal seam gas exploration or face higher gas prices.
In a report written for the State Government, Mr Reith has warned retail prices will rise significantly if more resources are not developed because international buyers are prepared to pay far more.
There has already been significant community opposition in Gippsland to the exploration process for coal seam gas, known as fracking.
Mr Reith says those concerns are overstated.
"I just think the whole thing is grossly out of all whack in terms of the impact likely to be in Victoria," he said.
"In the US, with over 1.5 million operations of fracking there is not one confirmed case of contamination of water from fracking."
Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth says that is false.
"Just to take one, there's a Duke University report that identifies 420 water contamination incidents," he said.
Premier Denis Napthine says he will take a cautious approach.
"What I will guarantee to the people of Victoria is that we will consider these matters carefully," he said.
But Opposition leader Daniel Andrews says the Labor party's position remains the same, that there should be a moratorium until there is a genuine investigation of the issue involving all stakeholders.
He says a lot of people are angry at being locked out of the process.
"This has not been a good process. I don't think there's broad community support or consensus for coal seam gas extraction," he said.
"Mr Reith has been getting $2,000 a day for not actually talking to anyone. Environmental scientists have been locked out, farmers have been locked out.
"The only people Mr Reith seems to have talked to are people from the energy industry."
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The grim reaper
Last year I culled about 500 dead links from our database, but this year the total was lower- 231, just under ten percent. This doesn't include inactive sites like blogs, just sites or pages that have disappeared, and will include some sites that were unavailable when checked but still exist.
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IAX2 protocol flaw in IC_NEW could cause reflective amplification DoS
by Joel R. Voss aka. Javantea
May 15, 2007
Official Asterisk bug report
I am releasing the full Asterisk IAX2 exploit framework / alternative implementation. I am giving a talk at Toorcon Seattle 2008 about my findings. Read more about the handshake (and it's failure) at that page.
Although the Asterisk team described a bugfix and mentioned intention to fix this bug, this bug has not been fixed as of Jan 17, 2008 (Tested against 1.4.17). Since the exploit code is widely available through this website, it would seem prudent to fix this if it were indeed a fixable bug. However, it is my opinion that introducing a handshake requirement to the IAX2 protocol would make the protocol far less likely to work with third-party software and hardware.
I am running a vulnerable version at suzy.altsci.com for test (as well as development and actual use) and I intend to keep it running for the purpose of education and disclosure of this vulnerability.
The IAX2 protocol allows an IC_NEW packet to start a call. This is a udp packet that is only 18 bytes long. A call can be quite long and contains a lot of data. Specifically my simple answering machine sends 26307 bytes in 723 packets in 32.0032 seconds. That is 6576.75 bits per second. Using uLaw or another higher bitrate codec, this rate can be increased.
Since UDP can be spoofed, it seems possible that an asterisk server can be tricked into sending megabits per second (until it chokes) at a target with a very low cost to the attacker (18 byte udp packet). I have not tested spoofing an address, but I suspect that it will work.
Since this is a protocol flaw and there are hardware implementations that would be broken by changing the protocol, this does not seem to be fixable. If someone with knowledge of these type of issues could discuss this with me, I would be much more confident in this.
I wrote a python implementation of IAX2 protocol to fuzz the IAX2 protocol and I found this by accident in my first test. If you are interested in fuzzing the IAX2 protocol, I would be happy to share my code with you. I even have a gsm decoder for the project which lets you hear what the fuzzer made the Asterisk box do.
You need netcat to run the exploit below.
You might need these to research this better:
TCP Dump and libpcap
More detailed information coming soon.
Until then, look at the latest internet draft.
echo -ne '\x80\xeb\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x07\x00\x00\x06\x01\x08\x04\x00\x00\x02\xaa' | nc -u 192.168.0.3 4569
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For those of you who weren't with us at Real World and who didn't follow our live tweets during the keynote, Geoff covered a lot of upcoming changes to Real Studio, many of which are as far away as 2013. Here's what we can share with you today:
Real Studio 2012r1
2012r1 is scheduled to be released in August with the current IDE. It will include over 300 bug fixes, including over 50 Cocoa-specific fixes. In general, your app will use less memory (due to optimized variants for strings) and will be about 1 megabyte smaller. 2012r1 will also have HTML Viewer support for WebKit on Windows, and incremental BLOB support for RealSQLDatabase.
Real Studio 2012r2
This release will include the new IDE and introduce our new pricing structure. This new pricing structure will focus on the platforms for which you wish to build and end our use of editions (Personal, Professional & Enterprise).
The New IDE
It's been almost 7 years since we introduced the last major update to the user experience. Our goal is to make the IDE more intuitive, more productive, easier to update while incorporating a modern look and feel.
The New Pricing
First, yes, the IDE will be free! You only need to purchase Real Studio when (or if) you need to build. Leaving behind editions means all features are included in the IDE. If you buy Real Studio you get all the features, from SSL support to the Profiler and Build Automation.
When the new pricing is introduced this fall, all current (not expired) license keys will be converted to their equivalent within the new pricing structure and new keys will be generated in your user account. With this new pricing some of you will be paying less, some more, for some of you Real Studio will now be completely free. We're announcing this now to give everyone the ability to renew for up to 2 years at the current pricing. See this post for further details.
New Framework
The internals of many of the classes that you use every day in Real Studio were designed at a time when Mac OS 8 and Windows 95 were the current operating systems. A lot has changed since then and to move into the future, we need to make some major changes. We don't want this to impact your current code so we are building a new set of classes to replace the existing ones. You will be able to use the new with the old in your existing projects so the transition will be smooth. Also, we won't be changing everything. Many classes will be the same as they are now, but the new framework will give us a chance to improve the internal design and make them more consistent for you as well. More details will be available in the months ahead.
64 bit
The majority of the framework has been updated for 64 bit. Next, we will update the compiler and start testing. 64 bit for OS X will come first because Apple is really pushing 64 bit and starting to provide some libraries in 64 bit versions only. Linux will come next because no 64 bit distros install 32 bit compatibility libraries by default. We expect to start building 64 bit apps for OS X early in 2013 and for Linux and Windows late in 2013.
1-Click Cloud Hosting
We also announced that we will begin to offer 1-click cloud hosting of Real Studio web apps later this year. This will offer Real Studio developers a very inexpensive and simple way to deploy and host web apps starting at only $30/month. This hosting is not mandatory, you can still host your own Real Studio web apps. To offer you this we are partnering with Rackspace, an industry leader in cloud hosting. We'll abstract you from the details: zero configuration on your part, serious security, predictable pricing and the reliability of Rackspace.
iOS Support
Geoff ended his keynote with one final demo- a Real Studio app in iOS! With just 3 controls, it's still in its very early stages but it was honestly exciting to see the upcoming reality of Real Studio with iOS support!
A Night at Fulton's
After the first day of Real World, Geoff's keynote was discussed over dinner at Fulton's Crab House. The dinner was delicious and the key lime pie was even better! Attendees chatted on the decks outside with Real Software engineers past sunset...though some of us walked back to the hotel through Downtown Disney and enjoyed some Ghirardelli's chocolate along the way.
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