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As December rolled around last week, trendspotting season officially kicked off and we, like everyone else, love to look back at the year and see what most fascinated us.
From celebrities to superstorms and iconic smartphones to elections, these lists of most popular online searches give us insight into what we love – and love to hate.
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Reality-TV star and fashion mogul Kim Kardashian was the most-searched person for 2012. Not a surprise for many of us, since Kardashian and her nearly-as-famous sister siblings are on practically every celebrity news show around. We're just thankful the presidential election beat out Honey Boo Boo and her famous Go-Go juice.
Justin Bieber, the kid that met the Canadian Prime Minister this year while decked out in overalls, was knocked from last year's top spot on most searched for celebrities to number two behind Kardashian, while the hillbilly filly Miley Cyrus came in at number three.
First-timer Rihanna topped out as the fourth most searched for celebrity, according to Bing.
Other first-time names like Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift also made the list this year, pushing names like Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Megan Fox and Lady Gaga out of the top 10.
Lindsay Lohan's perpetually tumultuous and fight-filled life got her ranked number five in 2012.
Pop culture easily trumped politics, even in an election year, with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney coming in as the 43rd most searched for, and President Barack Obama ranking 46th on the list.
Our online searches reveal that excitement around the launch of the iPhone 5 release landed it as the top news story of the year, followed by the U.S. election, the Olympics and superstorm Sandy.
•Reality TV
'Mom-manger' mogul Kris Jenner must be proud since three of her six children, according to Bing, ranked as the top three most-searched for reality TV stars. Kim Kardashian helped keep it all in the family with her sisters Khloe and Kourtney coming in second and third.
Only Kate Gosselin – the mother of even more children than Jenner – landed between the Kardashian trio and Honey Boo Boo, the kid that captured the hearts and minds of America. Five was a lucky number in 2012 for Alana Thompson (aka Honey Boo Boo) because not only did she rank as the fifth most-searched for reality show star, but her show was the fifth most-searched for news story.
Don't mention Thompson's rankings to Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine though, who called the show the "decay of Western Civilization."
Although all the spoof videos of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" kept the song in all our heads this year, the singer still didn't top South Korean rapper Psy's "Gangum Style" as the most-searched song of the year and the sixth most-searched news story.
The pageantry of the 2012 summer Olympics in London and the likes of swimming sensation Ryan Lochte, gymnast McKayla Maroney and gold medal veterans Michael Phelps all pushed the sporting event to the third most-searched event of 2012.
•Social media
It's no surprise that Facebook was the top-searched social media on Bing, while Twitter and its 140 characters snapped on its heels in second place.
So if this is what 2012 looks like, what's it going to be like in 2013?
We're going out on a limb and predicting this year's 12th most-searched person, Kate Middleton, will likely usurp Kardashian for the top spot next year thanks to her recently announced pregnancy. When news broke Monday, throngs of reporters converged on a London hospital where she was admitted for morning sickness.
We're willing to bet next year Americans will be more interested in royalty and than reality (television).


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Welcome to the Lip Flapper! Each week, we delve deep into the community and get a look into both individual members as well as group discussions on various issues that surround our hobby.
Interview Spotlight
This week, we chat with Replay Studios, Shin-AMV and Corsair, who are working on a collaborative channel known as AMVlog
A: My online name is Replay Studios aka Replay. I am a part of Re-Evolution Studios, mostly active on youtube. I been editing for years now, mostly just staying in the shadows of the org and youtube.Q: Thank you for joining me today. Let's start things off and have each of you introduce yourselves.
A: I'm Shin, I've done that lip flapper before so if anyone is really curious they can just cite back to that interview again for this portion.
A: Hey, my name's Corsair, proud member of Re-Evolution Studios and founder of AMVlog! I've been editing for several years and focus primarily on motion graphics and effects. I am mainly active on Youtube.
[Replay]A: Yes, the channel has been up for couple of months now. This channel is for tutorials for basically anything an editor might use.Q: So I hear that you're all starting a new channel called AMVlog. What's this channel all about?
[Shin]A: Pretty basic tutorials on stuff an AMV editor might have a need for or find useful. The majority of the tutorials are going to be pretty basic so that anyone can get them so more veteran editors might find some of the tutorials lacking a bit, but I think we're trying to make it feel more manageable for newer editors who are learning and we don't want to overwhelm them.
[Corsair]A: The channel is basically a collection of all the AMVlogs that have been made, and will be made in the future. It acts as a easy-to-access Youtube channel full of tutorials, helpful tips, and a place for editing discussion.
[Replay]A: Yes, we will try to put out tutorials for multiple applications. I hope in the future, we can put out some tutorials for how to use the org, etc.Q: So editing and a-m-v.org tutorials? On the editing, will you cover all the different systems and software? What kind of a-m-v.org stuff can we expect to see?
[Shin]A: We're trying to cover a wide range of different editing programs but primarily focus on the Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, AE, and Photoshop) as well as Sony Vegas Pro. We plan to eventually get some really basic stuff regarding AVIsynth/Virtual Dub but probably won't do be very extensive with it.
[Corsair]A: Currently we've covered some of the most common software being Sony Vegas Pro and Adobe After Effects. All members on the AMVlog team have seasoned experience in different software, so we hope to cover all the bases so our tutorials are universal. Things regarding the org are not my department, Replay and Shin would know more.
[Replay]A: Of course, it is on our list. ^^Q: Any idea if you'd offer basic encoding/clipping tutorials? There seems to be a lot of need for that.
[Shin]A: We have plans to show better or preferred methods of encoding and clipping. We already have a pretty basic tutorial on the benefits of rendering/exporting out of an NLE to a lossless .avi and then finalizing it as an .mp4 to help people get away from low quality .wmv encoding.
[Corsair]A: I typically forget that the people who watch AMVlogs come from all backgrounds of editing experience, from people who have just opened Vegas to the more famous of veterans. Recently we've started creating videos that go back to the fundamentals and basics of editing, and we hope that helps encourage newcomers to partake in this great hobby!
[Replay]A: Yes, that is our goal (to make Code be able to use effects!). ^^Q: So, I've seen all of your works before (all three of you), and you do some crazy stuff! Will I (the most effects-challenged person in the world) really be able to keep up with the tutorials you're talking about?
[Shin]A: For the most part I think the majority of people will be able to follow the explanations and be able to utilize whats provided in the tutorials. In some sense, the tutorials all build on top of each other, so the more you watch the more you can use your imagination to combine or tweak the basics of it all to come up with something different.
[Corsair]A: Of course. Granted, some tutorials may have a harder learning curve compared to others, but we always try our best to go step by step and be clear in our speech and instructions. The best part of AMVlog's channel is that it's also completely free and allows the viewer to rewind and re-watch parts that were confusing or difficult to understand.
[Replay]A: Just about all the tutorials were requests. Q&As sounds fun, so probably yes.Q: Will you take requests? Or perhaps do Q&As?
[Shin]A: We're open to pretty much all requests and I wouldn't mind doing a Q&A session.
[Corsair]A: We love hearing feedback and helping the community. Sometimes we run out of topics to make an AMVlog on, so requests always help keep our "to-do-list" from shrinking. Perhaps we can start formal Q&As on the Org, but answering Youtube comments has been working out nicely as well.
[Replay]A: I want to interact with a-m-v.org community. I just been nervous/lazy to post in the forums about amvlog. So ya, it would be cool to involved with the org. ^^Q: Will the channel have any interaction with the a-m-v.org forum/community? Similar to how the Lip Flapper has its main thread listing all its prior work?
[Corsair]A: As someone who has never been immersed in the Org Community, I've always wanted to have a way to interact more with the editors on the forum. Hopefully AMVlog will be a gateway for me to connect with the many of the members there.
[Replay]A: Well the channel is new and starting off slow. If anybody wants to help or provide any tutorials, etc. Drop me a pm. ^^ The channel is for helping editors out. So any help is appreciated. ^^Q: Well thanks for joining me today guys, it's been a pleasure. As we leave off, anything you'd like to say about the channel in general, or perhaps anything we didn't cover?
[Corsair]A: Criticism, thoughts, and suggestions on how to improve AMVlog are always great. We want to make the learning experience as enjoyable and simple as possible. Thank you for your time, and stay tuned!


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Making sense of the REC-age
On a grassy sandhill in eastern Colorado, Wray School District Superintendent Ron Howard parks his truck and points to the spot where his district's new wind turbine will stand. "Right there, top of the hill," he says. "The wind comes from the north, funnels through the canyon, then shoots up over this rise." We get out and take the air. "Feel it?" he says. A persistent breeze combs over the hill, strong enough to make a street sign tremble.
Howard rattles off the specs. "It'll be 335 feet high to the top of the propeller. Put out 900 kilowatts, enough to power the school district and most of the town, too," he says, pointing behind him to the farm town of Wray, population 2,100, about 16 kilometers from the Colorado-Nebraska border. "You come back this time next year, it'll be here turning."
The Wray turbine will be turning thanks in part to renewable energy certificates-also known as RECs or green tags-which helped finance the project. When a renewable power source like a wind turbine generates a megawatthour (MWh) of electricity, it also produces a 1-MWh REC, which is an electronic financial instrument representing the green attributes of renewable energy (mainly, the fact that little or no carbon dioxide or other pollutants were released during its generation). Customers buy the electricity, of course, because it's the most flexible and useful form of energy ever harnessed and can do myriad jobs that once required muscle power. But the RECs are worth something too-anywhere from US$1.50 to $20 per MWh on the retail market. Sold separately, they offer a way for individuals or companies to support renewable energy even if they cannot buy it directly from their local electric utility-plus they create a separate income stream for the power generators producing the renewable energy.
RECs were invented in the late 1990s as an offshoot of "green pricing" programs. With green pricing, customers paid an extra 1-5 cents per kilowatthour (kWh, or 1/1000th of a MWh) to buy energy from renewable sources, mostly wind, biomass, geothermal, and solar. (The same sources, especially wind, supply the REC markets; see chart, page 16). Not all utilities offered green pricing, though, and some didn't have nearby renewable sources from which to buy. By splitting the product of a renewable power source into two commodities-the electricity and its renewable attribute-RECs gave utilities and consumers the ability to support green energy generation without actually hooking up to a green power source. The hope and assumption is that RECs will encourage increased investment in renewable generating capacity.
RECs remained little-known instruments until 2004, when big companies discovered them as a convenient way to "green up" their power. Thanks partly to huge purchases by corporations like Wells Fargo, Whole Foods, Vail Resorts, and Starbucks, REC sales more than doubled between 2004 and 2005, from 1.6 million MWh to 3.8 million MWh. REC retailers estimate they sold more than 6 million MWh last year. Officials who track green energy markets at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, expect yearly REC sales to hit 20 million MWh in 2010. Earlier this year the National Football League bought RECs to make Super Bowl XLI the first NFL championship game to use 100 percent renewable energy. Shoppers can now buy RECs at the checkout line at Whole Foods.
"We've seen explosive growth in the last two years," says Blair Swezey, NREL's principal policy advisor for green energy markets. "Larger companies are using RECs to green up their power company-wide, doing it with one national buy rather than negotiating utility-by-utility. Those huge deals are really driving the market."
RECs have become so convenient and popular, in fact, that some green energy leaders are now having second thoughts. Are RECs really bringing new wind farms and solar arrays online? Are green tags too cheap and convenient? Do people really know what they're buying in a REC?
The debate began in 2006, fueled in part by the clamor for carbon neutralization. Companies and individuals snapped up RECs as a way to "offset" the greenhouse gases generated by electricity use (see "Carbon Offsets 101," p. 9, for a discussion of carbon offsets). REC marketers obliged by using complex formulas to convert a REC's megawatthour into carbon offsets and selling them for around US$12 per ton. But at the end of the year, Clean Air-Cool Planet, a nonprofit global warming group, released "A Consumer's Guide to Retail Offset Providers," a report that questioned the use of RECs as carbon offsets.
The original goal of RECs, the report said, was to promote more renewable energy generation, not to offset the production of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The point of GHG offsets is to fund carbon sequestration that might not otherwise happen. RECs, on the other hand, may be generated by wind turbines in which the REC plays some part in the financing of the project-or none at all. "RECs and GHG offsets are fundamentally different environmental commodities," the report concluded, "subject to different qualification criteria that prevent them from being mixed and matched."
Green bloggers then set off a round of REC criticism and soul searching. "What, exactly, are buyers buying?" asked ClimateBiz.com founder Joel Makower. "There are no standards for offsets, and more than a little disagreement on what constitutes a 'quality' offset." Mark Trexler, a climate change risk consultant and coauthor of the Clean Air-Cool Planet report, worried about cheap RECs undercutting the market for pricier "pure" carbon dioxide (CO2) offsets. Randy Udall, a longtime renewable energy advocate, weighed in with a rant posted and forwarded in green energy circles. "I was there at the beginning, when we invented this idea, and I'm beginning to think we should have strangled it in the crib," Udall fumed. His chief complaint was that REC marketers had essentially become priests selling indulgences, letting people and companies throw easy money at the problem instead of doing the hard work required to cut back on energy use. Udall also questioned whether RECs were getting any new wind farms built at all.
Many in the REC markets counter that those critics are missing the point. Udall's worry-that some RECs are being generated by already-existing wind farms, and sold on the cheap-"just isn't a very sophisticated way of thinking about what we're doing," says Ted Rose, director of business development at Renewable Choice Energy, a REC marketer based in Boulder, Colorado. The point, say Rose and others, is that RECs offer a way to support renewable energy generation for those who can't build or plug into their own wind turbine or solar park. REC marketers also argue that bringing more renewable energy sources online decreases the percentage of power produced by coal and natural gas fired power plants, thereby reducing the amount of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere.
The one thing that nearly everyone familiar with the REC market can agree on is this: it's not easy to understand. "When you wander into the weeds of this, things get complicated in a hurry," says Randy Udall. For starters, there isn't just one REC market. There are two: the voluntary market and the compliance market.
The RECs that Whole Foods and the Dave Matthews Band buy are known as voluntary RECs, which are traded on the voluntary market. Nobody is compelled to buy them, and no government agency regulates the market.
The compliance market was created a few years ago when some states began enacting Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which forced power suppliers to include a certain percentage of renewable power sources in their overall portfolio (see map). "Compliance REC" markets developed in states that allow power companies to meet their portfolio standards by purchasing RECs.
Because states usually require power companies to buy RECs generated in-state or in-region, compliance markets often operate independently. REC prices rise and fall depending on the strictness of the RPS standard, the state's renewable energy supply, and the penalty for noncompliance. For example, a 1-MWh REC on the national voluntary market sells for $1.50-$20. Massachusetts has a tough RPS standard, few renewable power sources, and a $55-per-MWh noncompliance penalty, and Massachusetts RECs currently sell for around $54. In Maine, where power companies find it easy to meet the RPS with abundant wood-product biomass and hydro facilities, compliance RECs sell for 54 cents.
While prices in the compliance REC markets are widely known, prices in the voluntary market are closely guarded secrets. In the words of one REC marketer: "If I told you what we pay for a REC, per project, my competitors would find that information very useful." It's not a pure buy low-sell high situation, because most REC marketers want to buy from power producers at a price that will help the producer sell his power into the grid at a competitive rate. At the same time, REC marketers aren't nonprofits. So prices vary according to the "quality" of the REC. So-called "old vintage" RECs, produced by already-existing wind farms, can be had on the cheap if purchased in bulk. Prices for the Wells Fargo and Whole Foods deals were never released, but in industry circles it's widely believed that those RECs went for about $1.50. Higher quality RECs, usually tied to projects just being built, can go as high as $13 for wind, $30 for solar.
It's the price differential, and the forces behind it, that set critics like Randy Udall on edge. "The REC market is following Gresham's Law," he says. "Gresham says when you have two kinds of money circulating, the bad money will drive out the good. When you have low-quality $1 RECs available, the high-quality $10 RECs have great difficulty finding a market."
In Addition
At the heart of the matter lies the debate over "additionality," the idea that incentives like RECs actively foster the creation of new renewable energy facilities instead of merely giving a bonus to the owners of already-existing enterprises. To understand the controversy, it helps to know how a REC qualifies as a REC. Five years ago, when the REC market was just getting started, San Francisco's Center for Resource Solutions began a REC certification program in an effort to give REC buyers a sense of quality assurance. Working with stakeholders in the power industry and the environmental community, the Center developed Green-e, an organization that sets REC standards, and certifies and audits producers and sellers.
"When we started certifying five years ago, there wasn't much renewable energy supply," explains Dan Lieberman, Green-e's policy director. "We had to allow RECs from a certain amount of already-existing renewables just to prime the market. The wind farms just weren't built yet. The idea was to eventually ratchet down the number of existing facilities we'd tolerate each year. We want to constrain the market to keep encouraging the construction of new projects. Those wind farms are getting built, so we ratcheted down to the 1997 standard."
Green-e has a number of criteria for certification, but its definition of "new" projects relies on timing, not on the role RECs play in the project's creation. As of this year, renewable projects that began operating after January 1, 1997, were eligible for Green-e REC certification. Green-e is currently drafting a new standard that would ratchet down to January 1, 2000. The idea is that updating the standard will keep RECs fresh and not dilute the meaning of "new" renewable projects. But some REC marketers are asking Green-e to do more, especially when it comes to converting RECs into carbon offsets, and the role additionality plays in that conversion.
Others assert that Green-e's timing standard is hardly enough to judge a project's additionality. "For a REC to be considered additional, you have to ask the question of whether the RECs are important to the project happening. Many in the renewables field will say that, frankly, RECs play no role in whether 90 percent of projects happen," says Mark Trexler. "They're simply gravy at the end of the day."
If you really want to see what's building renewable energy sources, Trexler says, look to the federal renewable energy production tax credit (PTC). With the PTC, wind producers realize a $19/MWh credit for the first 10 years of a project's life. PTC revenues dwarf most REC income streams, and it's the tax credit and the state portfolio standards, some say, that are the real drivers behind the expansion of renewable energy facilities in the past few years. "When the production tax credit goes away," Trexler says, "people stop building windmills."
This is where Ted Rose's "sophisticated market" approach comes in. Rose and others argue that a robust REC market does make a difference. Even RECs purchased from long-existing projects have an indirect effect, both driving up the price for RECs (by curtailing supply) and sending a positive signal about the demand for green energy to investors and companies considering new renewable construction projects. "This is a serious form of revenue for many projects, but it's not just about the individual projects," says Rose. "Our clients are smart. They understand that what they're doing is building a system that's helping to change the energy infrastructure of the country."
Still, it can be hard to prove that a REC bought from a six-year-old wind farm spurs the construction of new wind turbines. FPL Energy, the biggest wind producer in America, is a subsidiary of energy giant Florida Power & Light. FPL's Stateline project, a vast 300 MW wind farm on the Oregon-Washington border, has been producing RECs since it came on line in July 2001. FPL sells those RECs as part of its wholesale power price to PPM Energy, which in turn sells the power and RECs to the Bonneville Power Administration. Bonneville markets those RECs as green tags, available to individual consumers for $20 per MWh. On Bonneville's web site, PPM Energy CEO Terry Hudgens says that Bonneville's purchases of RECs from the Stateline project "have been a significant contributor to the project's economic viability." But when the Stateline project was being planned in the late 1990s, the REC market barely existed. And there's no rule that says FPL Energy has to take its REC money and invest it in new wind turbines.
In the final analysis, the REC market may be sustained mainly by belief: Each buyer's faith that his or her money will make a difference, however directly or indirectly, in building the renewable energy market. Certification programs like Green-e offer some assurance, but it's up to the REC buyer to ask the basic questions: What am I trying to do with my money? Where are the RECs coming from? Am I directly raising a wind tower or am I indirectly building demand for renewable power?
Wray of Hope
To answer the most fundamental question-do RECs help any new renewable energy projects get built?-it's helpful to return to Wray, Colorado.
Wray is losing population. The head count at the local high school is falling, which means the district gets less money from the state. Faced with budget cuts, Jay Clapper, the Wray High School vocational agriculture instructor, came up with an idea: Why not harness the wind?
Clapper's notion wasn't half bad. A steady 20-30 kilometer-per-hour wind strafed the bluffs on the edge of town. The town council and Y-W Electric, the local utility, volunteered to buy all the power the turbine could supply. The district could cut its $80,000 annual electric bill to near-zero and make an additional $100,000 a year from selling the excess power. AWE (Americas Wind Energy), a Toronto-based turbine manufacturer, had the perfect machine to fit Wray's conditions: the AWE 54-900. There was just one problem. When District Superintendent Ron Howard ran the numbers he found the district about $200,000 short of the AWE 54-900's price tag: $1.6 million, installed.
Then somebody told him about the REC market. "They said we should look into these things called 'green tags,'" Howard said. "So I called Tom Stoddard at NativeEnergy."
Stoddard, cofounder and vice president of the Charlotte, Vermont-based energy company, explained the REC market to Ron Howard. The two of them did a little back-of-the-envelope math. A 0.9-megawatt turbine, running 2,600-3,400 hours per year, could produce 2,300-3,000 MWh of RECs. Extrapolate that out over the 20-year lifespan of the turbine, and the money could add up.
The Wray project wasn't a sure thing for NativeEnergy. Tom Stoddard had to take some calculated risks. To bridge Wray's financing gap, Stoddard would have to price the RECs fairly expensively. But he had one thing in his favor: a good story.
In the REC market, story has value. NativeEnergy is known in green power circles for its hardcore green energy clients and management team. The company's client list reads like a roster of America's leading eco-friendly corporations: Ben & Jerry's, Seventh Generation, Annie's Homegrown Foods, and the Dave Matthews Band. To a company like Ben & Jerry's, the Wray story is worth something. The ice cream maker features NativeEnergy-financed wind farms in its "Lick Global Warming" campaign. The homespun farmers of Wray are going to play better than, say, FPL Energy's Stateline project. And additionality was there on its face: the Wray turbine wouldn't happen without the REC money. Ben & Jerry's might be willing to pay a bit of a premium for the Wray RECs.
Stoddard offered Superintendent Howard a deal. NativeEnergy would buy all of Wray's RECs for a set time period (the deal's specifics remain confidential). The Wray School District would use that up-front money to help purchase their wind turbine. In exchange, the RECs produced by the Wray turbine belong to NativeEnergy. This setup, known as forward purchasing, carries additional risk for NativeEnergy and its clients. Something could go wrong with the Wray turbine-the wind might not blow as much as anticipated, or the project could fail and the RECs might not get produced at all.
"We're up front about the risks and benefits," says Stoddard. "If you buy a REC from an existing wind project that's putting out power this year, you don't cause that project to generate more energy. The wind causes that. You haven't caused an incremental benefit to that project, although you are sending a market signal that demand is there for these RECs, and for wind energy. You're making it marginally more likely for others to invest in wind projects down the road. With a forward purchase deal like Wray, what we're offering our retail clients is the chance to have a direct impact on a project that gets built because of your purchase."
Soon after sealing the deal, Ron Howard placed a call to Frank Pickersgill, vice president of AWE in Toronto. We'll take that AWE 54-900 turbine now, Howard said.
Great! said Pickersgill. Then he told Howard, in so many words, to get in line. AWE could sell Wray a turbine, but the little plains town would have to wait months for delivery.
This too was a result-perhaps direct, perhaps indirect-of the REC market. Wind power had become so popular, Pickersgill said, that his company had a one-year backlog of orders. They couldn't make the blades and towers fast enough.
Bruce Barcott is a contributing editor at Outside magazine and a Ted Scripps Fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


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New Year's Stampede Kills 61, Mostly Children, in Ivory Coast
(NEW YORK) -- A crush of people has killed at least 61 party-goers — most of them children — following New Year's eve celebrations in the city of Abidjan in Ivory Coast. Officials say over 200 were injured in a stampede of people who had been watching fireworks at the African country's sports stadium.
State broadcaster RTF 1 reported that the crush occurred when party goers were leaving Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in the country's biggest city. Firefighter Colonel Sakho Issa told the station that many of the victims were suffocated after becoming trapped in a crush of people trying to return home.
Many of the injured taken to a nearby hospital were also children, according to news agencies. One of the injured told Reuters that security forces had tried to disperse the crowds, causing panic during which people fell and were trampled.
President Alassane Ouattara has visited the scene, declaring New Year's Day to be a day of mourning in the West African state. A government investigation into what caused the accident is underway.
Hours after the stampede, soldiers patrolled the site, where victims' clothes, shoes and other debris littered the street.
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The glories of Illinois high school football
During the first days of September, as temperatures across Illinois remain in the 80s, it is difficult to think about the cool weather of fall and the excitement of Thanksgiving weekend when high school football championships will be decided at Memorial Stadium in Champaign. Across the state, high school athletes of various heights, weights and abilities are living that dream as they don their pads and begin the new football season. There is a lure to high school football that separates the game from big-time college and professional football. Perhaps it comes from the fact that there is a place for small schools and players who accomplish something with desire rather than size and speed. Perhaps it comes from the overall high school experience that many never outgrow. Whatever the explanation, the Illinois high school football season is eagerly anticipated by many.
For more than 40 years, Taylor Bell covered high school sports in Illinois. Dusty, Derek and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois is Bell's tribute to a sport he covered during his career as a journalist. It is a collection of vignettes that cover players, coaches, teams and memorable games that all contribute to the lore of Illinois high school football. Whether you are a passionate lover of the game, or just a mildly interested fan, you will find this book wonderful and enlightening. Mixing sports clichés may not be appropriate, but this book is simply a home run, indeed a grand-slam walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth.
Bell's writing is a cornucopia of information for football fans. We learn that Dick Butkus played multiple positions in his Chicago high school, including offensive and defensive line, fullback and place-kicker. Butkus, of course, played offense and defense at the University of Illinois because most players in the 1960s were two-way athletes. Butkus attended Illinois because Notre Dame, his first choice, would not allow football players to be married. The wisdom of his decision was clear in the 1963 season when he led Illinois to victory in one of its infrequent Rose Bowl appearances. Helen and Dick Butkus were high school sweethearts, joined in matrimony in 1963 and still husband and wife.
The player section of the book reminds readers of the contributions of Illinois high schoolers to college and professional football. NFL most valuable players, Super Bowl stars and Heisman Trophy winners can trace their roots to high school fields from Chicago to East St. Louis. Taylor Bell acknowledges many in his book.
Coaches as well are remembered. Local fans will appreciate the section on Ken Leonard and Sacred-Heart Griffin and their recent championships. From Arcola to Bloomington to Decatur, many central Illinois fans will find coverage of their high school.
Most interesting are the chapters devoted to the coaches. There is something special about high school coaches of all sports. Anyone familiar with high school coaches knows that they are devoted to their players and to their game. There are no million-dollar contracts in high school, no private jets or luxury homes. But the great high school coaches from Murney Lazier to Bob Reade to Pat Cronin and Gordon Gillespie shared common values for their players. They stressed fundamentals, preparation, discipline, and, most important of all, education. All of the coaches were as interested in how many of their players graduated from college as how many victories they achieved.
Like its big brothers in the NCAA and the NFL, high school football is a different game in the 21st century. High school teams are far more sophisticated in their game plans than they were in previous decades. For many teams and players, football is a year-round effort, the number of multi-sport high school athletes is dwindling. Yet, high school football remains a great game and Taylor Bell has captured what makes the game great in this bible of Illinois high school football.
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Maybe you didn't flock to the theater this weekend to see Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Jean Claude Van Damme make jokes about how they're getting too old to make jokes about getting too old to be in action movies — it's okay, Hollywood forgives you. Not only does Hollywood forgive you, it will also offer a female-driven alternative to the curdled flesh jugs of testosterone currently making spectacles of themselves in theaters across the country. According to Variety Adi Shankar (who financed The Grey) will produce an "Expendables-inspired" movie featuring "several prominent actresses affiliated with the action genre."
Variety's Jeff Sneider cites the success of this year's female-driven action movies like Snow White and the Huntsman and The Hunger Games as part of the motivation behind a lady Expendables, though it's not yet clear who's going to star in this latest venture. Linda Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver seem like no-brainers, and as cheesy a concept as Expendables is, it'd be pretty cool to see older female action stars capitalize on audience nostalgia the same way their male counterparts seem poised to do. Then we could have an Expendables gender war, which would end with four minutes of a guinea pig eating what would have been the last reel of the movie.


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By Steve Eggleston
Stop me if you heard this one before – the European Union, flush with soverign political power but essentially bankrupt in the technology world, targets a dominant American technology company to force it to "de-couple" a major part of its business model from the rest of the company's business model. This is actually the third time the EU has at least threatened this, and while the first two times, it successfully targeted Microsoft, this time, they're targeting Google. The opening paragraph of Forbes contributor Tim Worstall's piece:
Or at least that's what is being suggested in the European Parliament, that search engines should be forced to be divorced from other business activities. It's also true that they don't directly mention Google but that's obviously who it is aimed at. Fortunately, as a matter of public policy this isn't going to go very far. Because the European Parliament doesn't actually have the right to propose either actions or legislation. Only the European Commission can actually propose something and then the Parliament gets to say yea or nay to it.
Before you laugh this threat away like Worstall does, I am compelled to point out that the EU not only got Microsoft to unbundle Windows Media Player and, later, Internet Explorer from the various versions of Windows sold in Europe, but that the EU enriched itself by nearly $2 billion from Microsoft's coffers.
The interesting bit of the EU's latest attack on American technology companies comes later in Worstall's column. It seems the German press got miffed that Google News was "stealing" their articles by, get this, excerpting the articles and linking to the full versions, with the net effect of driving traffic to the German press' websites. Their attempt to use the German Bundestag to show Google what's what failed spectacularly when Google simply stopped linking to them instead of paying the suddenly-legalized extortion. They then got the German members of the EU bureaucracy involved, and here we are.
I'm sure there's a lesson for the "establishment" press here. On a related note, do read Worstall's piece for the explanation of why decoupling Google's search engine from the rest of its business is "insane".


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Last week, the Red Carnation Hotel Collection was named Small Hotel Group of the Year at the prestigious AA Hospitality Awards in a glittering ceremony at London's Hilton Park Lane Hotel. The awards have long been considered the gold standard within the hospitality industry, and this year's event was attended by hotel and industry leaders from across the country.
Assessed by an esteemed panel of judges, the AA Hospitality Award for Small Hotel Group of the Year recognises 'the consistent dedication and development of a small hotel group in terms of improvement to service and operational standards'.
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Pressure from conservatives helped push the GOP to shut down the government, strip food stamps out of the farm bill and bring the country to the brink of default.
But when many of the same groups united against an $8.2 billion water infrastructure bill, tea-party Republicans in the House weren't listening.
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Instead, GOP members joined with Democrats late Wednesday in a 417-3 vote to green-light a suite of dam, port-dredging, flood protection and environmental restoration projects, withstanding pressure from conservative groups that said the bill does too little to reform the lumbering, big-spending Army Corps of Engineers.
The near-unanimous roll call was enough to give some members "whiplash," lawmakers said, while offering a contrast to the schism that divided moderate and conservative Republicans during the shutdown. It also showed that groups like Heritage Action, FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity have limits to their sway with the current crop of House conservatives — not enough to keep lawmakers from steering money to popular projects back home.
Beyond that, these kinds of big water project bills are bipartisan affairs that have historically won by huge margins. And the House's version, while formally disavowing earmarks, offered plenty of benefits to Republican lawmakers, steering most of the projects and potential money to GOP-held House districts, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Meanwhile, Congress — and more specifically the House GOP — has been taking a thrashing in the polls after the 16-day shutdown this month. The water bill offered a chance to show Americans that lawmakers were getting back to work.
"Turns out most voters actually want to have the government work on things like water projects, dams and other infrastructure," said GOP strategist John Feehery.
West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall, the top Democrat on the House Transportation Committee that gave birth to the bill, said even small-government Republicans can appreciate the benefits of federal spending in their back yards.
"A lot of these projects are in tea-party member's districts. If you go through the list you can pretty well judge that," Rahall told POLITICO. "At one point, four, maybe five, pretty well identifiable tea-party members were having a love-in on the floor of the House with this bill."
Another factor: While groups like Heritage urged the House to kill the bill, they didn't go to the wall against it. They didn't "key vote" the bill, so a "yes" vote won't count against lawmakers in the groups' annual legislative scorecards.
"We don't key vote everything," said Heritage Action spokesman Dan Holler, who wouldn't comment on the GOP-heavy lean in the bill's projects. He said Heritage has scored only 23 votes this year out of the 560 the House has cast, though it did oppose the Senate water bill and included that vote on its scorecard.
Holler said Heritage is skeptical House Republicans will be able to secure "victories" in conference with the Senate, which in May passed a $12 billion version that the conservative groups consider worse. "Typically, [these panels] don't work well for conservative policy," he acknowledged.
The House measure, known as the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, would be the first such bill to become law since 2007, when Republicans joined Democrats in overriding a George W. Bush veto for the first time during his presidency. Bush had rejected the $23 billion bill on the grounds it was laden with pork — Heritage says it contained 800 earmarks — but the House disagreed, 361-54.
This time, many supporters credit House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) and his team for spending months laying the groundwork for passage, aggressively sending the message that the bill would create jobs and be good for business.
Shuster's bill had plenty of bipartisan appeal, and offered enough home-town benefits to attract reluctant Republicans.
A POLITICO review found that:
— Thirteen of the 23 projects authorized by the bill fall within Republican-controlled House districts, while only three are in Democratic districts. Seven projects — including port dredging in Jacksonville, Fla., restoration of wetlands and shoreline along the Louisiana coast, and a controversial flood control project near Fargo, N.D. — would directly affect both Democratic and GOP districts.
— The bill authorizes roughly $4.3 billion in federal funding for projects in Republican districts, and about $1 billion in Democratic districts. Another $2.4 billion would go to districts held by both parties.


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at Longton Library every Tuesday from 10.30am
Come along to our storytime at Longton library and enjoy some mayhem and adventure as we explore the stories on some of shelves, with music on some occasions but you will have to drop in and find out more for yourselves.
All pre-school children and their parents or carers are welcome to join us. We'll be reading from the best and brightest and most funny picture books in the library for your kids to enjoy and to inspire them to find books and reading fun!
You might also be interested in…many of our libraries also hold regular Toddler Rhyme Time sing-along sessions and Baby Bounce and Rhyme.
This event is free, no ticket required.
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What Our Patients Say
We like to be open and honest about how we treat each patient and what your expectations can be when you seek care at Positive Motion Chiropractic. Our practice is entirely referral-based, and we feel strongly that the best advertising is a healthy patient. Below is some feedback from Positive Motion Chiropractic patients—hopefully you will make an appointment to experience for yourself.
The best! Dr. Pederson's knowledge of the body as a system and his approach to whole body care and combination approach of kinesiolody and sports chiropractic produces amazing results. Dr. Pederson truly cares about his patience well being and he gives back to the community annually by volunteering to support the Susan G. Komen San Francisco 3 Day event where I first met him in 2009 in the medical tent! I remain a loyal client and he's treated many family and friends who have all had amazing results from his care. Yelp
Dr. Pederson was recommended to me by a friend. I have chronic pain and a lot of inflammation. I am just starting to work with him but my first experience was very positive, and renewed my hope for addressing the issues. He cares and it shows in his work. When someone is doing what they like and it is their thing it comes out. That is the case of Dr. Pederson. Yelp
Simply put, Dr. Brant is one of the best healers I've ever come across. It's clear he has a strong understanding of the complexities and subtleties of our human body, and for me, he explains/educates what's going on with my body in a way that is easy to understand. Definitely recommended for any ailment or issue- big or small. Yelp
I drive down from Berkeley to get treated by Dr. Pederson. Why do I pass hundreds of chiropractors in order to be treated by him? The reason is simple; because walk out feeling better and I don't have to turn around and drive back in a few days because he fixes it. I find his combination of applied kinesiology and sports chiropractic the perfect fit for me. I also love Nicole at the front. If you want to get well quickly Dr. Pederson is worth the 90 minute drive...if you're closer what are waiting for? Yelp
Dr. Pedersen has treated my husband and I for a number of issues over the years and we are always impressed with the results. Most recently, he worked with us on modifying our diets, which helped me attain a healthy weight and helped my husband get his high blood pressure under control. Dr. Pedersen's experience and depth of knowledge are without question and his approach to explaining his techniques and educating patients is exceptional. My husband and I feel fortunate to have Dr. Pedersen as our chiropractor. Yelp
I can say with utmost confidence that Dr. Brant Pedersen is the most talented and versatile physician in Northern California. Why? Because Dr. Pedersen knows more about the human body at his age than most physicians do at their retirement. It is clear from the start of your appointment that his knowledge of physiology and anatomy translates into resolution, and education of your concern. I had numerous complaints as I'm very active and he was able to break them down and show me what happened and what steps were necessary to fix them; talk about the whole package! The bottom line is Doc Pedersen was able to help me without drugs or surgery. His "adjustments" were very gentle and the way he got me excited and apart of my healthcare set him apart from any other doctor I've seen. Yelp
I had seen 3 different Chiropractors before I found Dr. Pedersen. After a few visits with Dr. Pedersen, I realized what a difference there was between him and the other Chiropractors I had seen. There are so many offices where you go in and you feel like it's a "factory", time is an issue, and you're only kind of a number. This is not the case with Dr. Pedersen. The initial evaluation appointment was so thorough, I was shocked at how much time he spent with me going over things. You never feel rushed or that he doesn't have enough time to address all of your problems during an appointment. He truly cares and listens to his patients. He's extremely knowledgable and has a true passion for his work and it shows by how he treats his patients. I work as a Massage Therapist, and being on my feet all day can be very taxing on the entire body. He was the first of 4 Chiropractors to address other "aches and pains" outside of the spine. He's helped me with my wrist pain, hip-flexor issues, and was also the first one to recommend getting custom orthotics for my shoes(which have helped greatly with having to be on my feet all day). I recommend Dr. Pedersen with very high regard and feel confident in sending any of my friends or family to him, knowing they are in the best care. Yelp
I was beside myself with pain in my lower back and could not stand up, walk, or even get out of bed. I injured myself and after seeing Dr. Brant Pedersen, oh my god it was like a miracle. My first visit I was standing, walking and getting in and out of my car. I'm beside myself because my pain went from a 10 to a 4. Thank you doctor, I am going to Facebook what you have done for us as well. My son has his Mommy back. You're an angel with HANDS OF GRACE. Yelp
Dr. Pedersen has been my chiropractor for 7 years now. He is definitely the best chiropractor I have ever had! He consistently gives great treatments that are geared toward my needs. He prides himself on treating each patient as an individual case, addressing overall health and well being. Spinal adjustments are only a part of what he does, unlike other chiropractors I experienced where it was 'crack, crack' and I was out the door! I highly recommend Dr. Pedersen to anyone who wants to have a great experience each time time they walk into his office! Facebook
Dr. Pedersen has consistently provided outstanding chiropractic care for me. If you are looking for a chiropractor, they don't come any better than this guy from my experience! Facebook
Dr. Pedersen is an extremely skilled chiropractor. He is a great diagnostician and his treatments are spot on and will quickly relieve your worst pains. He has skills in many different techniques, including rehab and nutrition. He has excellent bedside manners and you will not wait more than 10 minutes in his office. Healing can begin as soon as you walk into the door and no-- you do not need daily appointments for the rest of your life to achieve great results ;) The office staff is very polite, knowledgeable and helpful. I recommend Dr. Pedersen to all my friends and all of them have provided extremely positive feedback. Dr. Pedersen works very well with other professions and is a true leader in the chiropractic field. How do I know this? Because I am his patient and I am also a chiropractor and a nurse. Google
I've been going to Dr. Pedersen for years and can I just say that his skills and knowledge of his craft always seem to amaze me. Not only can he fix what's aching in no time, but helps me with my overall health issues as well (health isn't always just physical, but mental as well). He doesn't try to make you pay a lump sum upfront or require more visits than you need. He makes you strive to live a healthier lifestyle because you realize it does make a difference. I always leave better than I went in and it's not just a temporary fix for a few hours either. He truly cares, has a wonderful and soothing office, not to mention a fabulous staff (Nicole, I'm looking at you). I've recommended family members and friends because I want them to feel as good as he makes me feel when I leave and he hasn't disappointed any of them. Believe me, when he cracks your back, it's a glorious feeling. And I will say this again, he TRULY cares, and that's an additional gift you get in return, no extra charge. Google
I went to Dr. Pedersen for a chronic muscle pain in my shoulder. Over the past 20 years I have tried ultrasound, myofascial release, ice, heat, deep tissue massage, physical therapy, rollers, tennis balls - you name it, to try and release the knot. In just several sessions Dr. Pedersen relieved the knot using the Graston technique. Linkedin
Brant is a body expert! He gets to the bottom of our body aches and pains. If quality of life is desired, Brant can help in more ways imagined. Linkedin
I had the pleasure to cooperate with Brant Pedersen on the Susan G Komen 3-Day for the Cure in San Francisco. He was a fantastic person to work with, I can highly recommend working with him. Linkedin
He is generally my first call for advice when any health issue comes up. He is fully committed to his patients, is extraordinarily educated in his field and he continually strives to learn more. His passion and enthusiasm for his work and for his patient's health is clearly evident. He truly is the best. Linkedin
Dr. Pedersen is agnostic to technique and studies everything so he can apply the right combination for getting the desired result. His holistic philosophy allows him to be creative in his adjustments. It's never the same thing twice and it's always forward moving progress. I was amazed that he was able to help me get the range of motion in my shoulder back so quickly. Linkedin
I have known Brant Pedersen for ten years and have always been impressed with his positive energy, his competence, and his commitment to service to the community. He fits my image of the 'doctor of the future'. He is a caring and compassionate chiropractor with exceptional skills in patient care. Linkedin
Dr. Pederson is an amazing chiropractor. He is by far the cream of the crop. He approaches problems from many different aspects and customizes his care based on the needs of each patient. He has genuine care and concern for his patients and is willing to go the extra mile to help them achieve wellness. Linkedin
I have known Brant since 2000 as a valued colleague and now also from a patient's perspective. Dr. Pedersen is truely a gifted chiropractor, who can help patients with even the most challenging complaints quickly and competently. He knows the human body like his back yard and often brings a unique perspective to a problem that no other health care practitioner has considered. I trust him with my health-that says it all. Linkedin
I have used Brant many times over the years. I was a high-level athlete and went to him when anything needed an adjustment. The first time I met with him, he was extremely personable and knew exactly what he was doing. I walked out without pain for the first time in months. I since then moved to San Diego, and have been constantly in search for someone with his expertise and abilities with no luck. Brant is one of a kind and has hands of gold. Linkedin
I came in to Positive Motion with severe pain and limited range of movement from achilles tendonitis—running and jumping were very painful. After Graston treatment with Dr. Pedersen, I am completely pain-free, with no physical limitations, and my achilles tendon feels better than it has in several years.
Thanks for your time doing the YouTube video, 'golfers elbow exercises'. My 12 year old son who plays baseball, but is not a pitcher, is going through this. After watching your video now I have some more exercises for him to do. After his MRI the doctor only gave him the one exercise of stretching the wrist both ways with the arm extended. Thanks again for your video. I'm sure others find it useful as well!
I'm a 65 year old, 6' 4', retired high school teacher. For the past two years, I've experienced chronic, sometimes debilitating pain due to herniated discs in my low back. In December, 2010, I weighed an alarming 332 lbs...I was stuck in an unhealthy rut. I needed help. On February 1, 2011, I began the 28 Days to Health program with Dr. Pedersen. Under his guidance, I've received lots of useful information, great nutritional products, and terrific support. Based upon my experience, 28 Days to Health is a pragmatic program that works! I've lost 32 lbs, my fat percentage has dropped significantly, and I look and feel so much better than I did six months ago! Now, my overall fitness, energy level, and renewed motivation allows me to really enjoy life again. I continue to follow the 28 Days to Health program, workout several times per week, and am much more conscious of the benefits of good nutrition!
I had been hospitalized with stomach pain, diagnosed with diverticulitis, and informed that I had to begin a regime of soft foods and a diet with no seeds, no popcorn, no nuts, no raw vegetables—not the way I wanted to eat at all! Each time I felt pain, I started a course of antibiotics to avoid hospitalization, but two hospital visits later, my daughter said, 'please call Dr. Pedersen!' I did, and since then, in the last three years I have expanded my diet to one I enjoy again, have had no hospital visits, and don't worry that I am taking too many antibiotics. I feel my overall health has been greatly enhanced. I recommend speaking with Dr. Pedersen for any health issues you might have—you'd be surprised at the things he can help you with.
I highly recommend Dr. Brant Pedersen to everyone! He is very knowledgeable, qualified, and attentive in his ability to diagnose. I appreciate how he takes the time to really explain thoroughly what is going on with my body and the technique he uses to heal me. I really trust him. I feel Dr. Pedersen has genuine concern for my health and well being as he assists me to become healthier.
I just have to tell you how amazing I feel. I haven't had any achy body pains basically from day five on. Which is really incredible because I am always achy and my neck really hurts daily. I've had none of that, at all. I am relatively healthy but I just can't get over how amazing this 28 Days to Health program is!!!
Dr. Pedersen's chiropractic care has changed my life. Living with pain made my musical life and social life a drag. After a few sessions, a whole new body emerged and I now know the strength and balance my body is capable of. I owe my music career to Dr. Pedersen's passionate gift—helping us find our highest quality life.


text: chelslaw 14 Posted January 19, 2012 so this is the first time ive posted here even though ive been reading posts here for almost a year now my forehead, nose, cheeks, upperlip are all clear. maybe an occasional small whitehead. my chin? its a mess at times. i would call it mild (maybe 5-6 zits) but they are persistent and inflamed. My chin is rarely clear. i get one cyst a month. maybe im using the wrong term. i know cysts are 5mm- this is smalled. but its like a tiny pea is stuck under my skin and its red and inflamed. i do what wynne says and ice, take ibuprofen and dont touch it. i do use tea tree oil on it twice daily (as i do with the rest of my pimples) i have benzaclin cream from the dr (antibiotic BP) for spot treatment and i do use that too. i cannot figure out why i get these inflamed zits, only on my chin, and keep on getting a "cyst" (or nodule maybe i should call it) every month. ive been very low dairy for about 4 weeks and almost no gluten at all for 2 weeks (and plan to keep going and only consume gluten 1 day a week) i drink nothing but water and green/white teas exercise 3-4 times a week (training for a triathlon) take omega 3 (2 daily) vitamin d (3 daily) calcium/magnesium/zinc, folic acid, b12,6,9 and acedopihilis i spot conceal my pimples maybe 2 or 3 times a week for a couple of hours when i go out (i work from home) so no makeup otherwise all my products are paraben free (hair, makeup, skincare, soaps) i wash my face in the AM and PM with origins cleanser (which has absolutely nothing in it- havent had luck with medicated cleanser) i use a paraben free, frangrance free, oil free lotion with spf twice daily spot treat with the benzaclin and tea tree oil Any ideas? This has been going on for a couple of years now. Maybe 3. I had bad skin as an early teen, then it cleared up for about 4 years, then in my early 20s this started again. My skin is better in the summertime too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Microsoft is issuing five security bulletins this month, two of them critical and affecting all versions of Internet Explorer as well as all versions of Windows from XP to 8/8.1.
The first bulletin rated critical addresses a zero-day attack that was discovered last month and for which Microsoft has already issued a formal Fixit, "but this will be the permanent patch reaching a much larger audience," says Wolfgang Kandek, the CTO of Qualys. It affects IE versions 6 through 11.
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If left unpatched, the vulnerabilities could be exploited to let attackers execute malicious code on affected machines, Microsoft says in its Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued today. "These types of bulletins need immediate attention and a reboot, which is always a headache for IT teams," says Ken Pickering, director of engineering at CORE Security.
All five of the bulletins this month concern patches that affect Windows XP, which falls off the security bulletin list after next month's Patch Tuesday. "Windows XP will continue to be impacted by the majority of vulnerabilities found in the WIndows eco-system, but you will not be able to address the issues anymore," says Kandek.
Tim Greene covers Microsoft and unified communications for Network World and writes the Mostly Microsoft blog. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter @Tim_Greene.
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January 9, 2008 BALBOA PARK – It was called the shoe tree, and it was one of San Diego's strangest landmarks. Hundreds of pairs of shoes – sneakers, high heels, Rollerblades, you name it – hung from its branches. For some reason, people tossed their shoes onto the massive tree, which graced hole No. 2 at Morley Field Disc Golf Course for about three decades.
Tourists – yes, tourists – would drive to Morley Field to get a peek.
Until Sunday.
Wicked winds knocked the old tree to the ground. It had died years ago, but it was never cut down because of its popularity. Still, not everyone knew about the tree, one of 10 or so throughout Balboa Park lost to the winds.
NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune Footwear festooned the landmark two years ago. "Oh yeah, it's missed," said Mitch Zunich, who works at the disc golf pro shop. "Everybody is pretty bummed out." Zunich and other park employees suspect all of the rain-soaked shoes did the tree in. They said that when the high winds swooped in, the wet shoes served as anchors, pulling the tree to the ground. Yesterday morning, three workers used a chain saw to slice the tree into pieces. The shoes were loaded into two tractor beds – each about the size of a twin bed – and hauled to a nearby Dumpster. It took five trips to get rid of all the shoes.
Legend has it that the shoe tree started with a bet. The loser of the disc golf game had to toss his shoes into the branches. By yesterday afternoon, all that was left of the shoe tree was a single branch and a 6-foot stump. It looked as if the stump had been pushed over; the base was still attached to its roots. All of the shoes were gone, but there were two pairs of laces – one turquoise, the other white – strung around the branch. And what looked like a black handkerchief was actually a pair of Victoria Secret panties. "Somehow that's appropriate," a nearby golfer remarked. At some point last year, shoes started showing up on another tree. This one is on hole No. 11.


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2013-14: Competed in nine races … sat in the #6 seat in eight races in the Varsity 8 boat, starting against Boston College and Delaware (3/29) through the IRA Championships (5/31-6/1) … rowed in the #2 seat of the A boat during the Head of the Charles (10/20).
2012-13: Rowed in every race as a sophomore … sat in the #1 seat of the Varsity 8 A boat at the Head of the Charles (10/21) … road in the #1 seat of both the Varsity 8 A boat and the Varsity 4 B boat at thee Princeton Chase (10/28) … sat in the #8 seat of the Varsity Open 8 boat at the Foot of the Charles (11/17) … returned to the #1 seat of the Varsity 8 A boat at the Joy Cup (4/06), the regatta against Dartmouth and Harvard (4/13) and at the Dad Vail Regatta (5/11).
2011-12: Raced in the #2 seat on the MIT freshman team at Yale (4/7); against Harvard (4/14); versus Cornell (4/21) and at Penn (4/28) … saw action in the #4 seat on the club boat at the Head of the Charles (10/22) … competed on the MIT A team in the #4 seat at the Foot of the Charles (11/19) … rowed in the #1 seat on the MIT varsity four boat at the IRA National Championship (6/2).
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The dynamic Welsh capital has deep roots in the past.
Cardiff, Wales
- If Wales is the 'Land of Castles', Cardiff must be 'Castle Capital'. See medieval knights joust at the majestic Cardiff Castle or visit the fairy-tale Castell Coch.
- When it comes to sport, Cardiff is a champion. The world-famous Principality Stadium is the home of Welsh rugby and football and is also the regular venue for the British Speedway Grand Prix.
- Visit graceful Victorian shopping arcades, which tempt with independent shops and cafes.
- Just 5 minutes from the city centre is the chic Mermaid Quay — the perfect place to refuel after a busy day of sightseeing, or to relax with a romantic meal on the waterfront.
- Cardiff is a hugely creative city with a vibrant cultural scene. You'll find live music in the city every night of the week at venues like Barfly, Clwb Ifor Bach and the Coal Exchange.
- The Welsh capital is the main jumping off point for any tour of mainland Britain's most westerly country.
- Cardiff is just over 2 hours west of London by train.