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Latest Spirit News - Updates on the efforts to free the Spirit rover.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is now parked for the winter. The rover team is commanding Spirit this week to make additional preparations for the Mars southern hemisphere winter season. The team does not plan further motion of the wheels until spring comes to Spirit's location beside the western edge of a low plateau called Home Plate.
On Sol 2169 (Feb. 8, 2010), the rover's last drive before winter changed the angles of its suspension system, but it did not produce a hoped-for improvement to the overall tilt of the solar array for catching winter sunshine. Drives since Sol 2145 (Jan. 15, 2010) moved Spirit 34 centimeters (13 inches) south-southeastward. However, a counterclockwise yawing of the rover during the drives prevented it from reducing its southerly tilt.
Spirit will spend the coming winter tilted 9 degrees toward the south, an unfavorable attitude for the solar panels to catch rays from the sun in the northern sky. Spirit's parking positions for its previous three Martian winters tilted northward. Engineers anticipate that, due to the unfavorable tilt for this fourth winter, Spirit will be out of communication with Earth for several months.
Spirit may enter a low-power hibernation mode within a few weeks, shutting down almost all functions except keeping a master clock running and checking its power status periodically until it has enough power to reawaken. It may go in and out of this mode a few times at the beginning and at the end of an extended hibernation period.
This week the rover team is uploading schedules to Spirit for when to communicate with Earth or with the orbiting Mars Odyssey during the rest of this year and into 2011. Spirit will use these schedules whenever it has adequate power to wake up. Spirit will take a set of "before" images of surroundings from the parked position this week, for comparison with images in the Martian spring to study effects of wind. Images toward the south will also aid preparations for possible future drives, although, with only four of its six wheels still working, the rover is not expected to move farther than short repositioning drives. Other preparations for winter will include putting the robotic arm into a position for studies of atmospheric composition when power is available and changing the stow positions of the high-gain antenna and panoramic camera to minimize shadowing of the solar panels.
Spirit is more than six years into a mission originally planned for three months on Mars. Its twin, Opportunity, is exploring an area halfway around the planet and closer to the equator, where that rover does not need to park for the winter.
WASHINGTON -- After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after efforts during the past several months to free it from a sand trap have been unsuccessful.
The venerable robot's primary task in the next few weeks will be to position itself to combat the severe Martian winter. If Spirit survives, it will continue conducting significant new science from its final location. The rover's mission could continue for several months to years.
"Spirit is not dead; it has just entered another phase of its long life," said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We told the world last year that attempts to set the beloved robot free may not be successful. It looks like Spirit's current location on Mars will be its final resting place."
Ten months ago, as Spirit was driving south beside the western edge of a low plateau called Home Plate, its wheels broke through a crusty surface and churned into soft sand hidden underneath.
After Spirit became embedded, the rover team crafted plans for trying to get the six-wheeled vehicle free using its five functioning wheels - the sixth wheel quit working in 2006, limiting Spirit's mobility. The planning included experiments with a test rover in a sandbox at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., plus analysis, modeling and reviews. In November, another wheel quit working, making a difficult situation even worse.
Recent drives have yielded the best results since Spirit became embedded. However, the coming winter mandates a change in strategy. It is mid-autumn at the solar-powered robot's home on Mars. Winter will begin in May. Solar energy is declining and expected to become insufficient to power further driving by mid-February. The rover team plans to use those remaining potential drives for improving the rover's tilt. Spirit currently tilts slightly toward the south. The winter sun stays in the northern sky, so decreasing the southward tilt would boost the amount of sunshine on the rover's solar panels.
"We need to lift the rear of the rover, or the left side of the rover, or both," said Ashley Stroupe, a rover driver at JPL. "Lifting the rear wheels out of their ruts by driving backward and slightly uphill will help. If necessary, we can try to lower the front right of the rover by attempting to drop the right-front wheel into a rut or dig it into a hole."
At its current angle, Spirit probably would not have enough power to keep communicating with Earth through the Martian winter. Even a few degrees of improvement in tilt might make enough difference to enable communication every few days.
"Getting through the winter will all come down to temperature and how cold the rover electronics will get," said John Callas, project manager at JPL for Spirit and its twin rover, Opportunity. "Every bit of energy produced by Spirit's solar arrays will go into keeping the rover's critical electronics warm, either by having the electronics on or by turning on essential heaters."
Even in a stationary state, Spirit continues scientific research.
"There's a class of science we can do only with a stationary vehicle that we had put off during the years of driving," said Steve Squyres, a researcher at Cornell University and principal investigator for Spirit and Opportunity. "Degraded mobility does not mean the mission ends abruptly. Instead, it lets us transition to stationary science."
One stationary experiment Spirit has begun studies tiny wobbles in the rotation of Mars to gain insight about the planet's core. This requires months of radio-tracking the motion of a point on the surface of Mars to calculate long-term motion with an accuracy of a few inches.
"If the final scientific feather in Spirit's cap is determining whether the core of Mars is liquid or solid, that would be wonderful -- it's so different from the other knowledge we've gained from Spirit," said Squyres.
Tools on Spirit's robotic arm can study variations in the composition of nearby soil, which has been affected by water. Stationary science also includes watching how wind moves soil particles and monitoring the Martian atmosphere.
Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars in January 2004. They have been exploring for six years, far surpassing their original 90-day mission. Opportunity currently is driving toward a large crater called Endeavor and continues to make scientific discoveries. It has driven approximately 12 miles and returned more than 133,000 images.
JPL manages the rovers for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. For more information about Spirit and Opportunity, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/rovers.
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Serious Topics in Romance Comics - Girls' Love Stories #146 presents "Abandoned!"
Most of the romance comic book stories are light, and ultimately, carefree tales of love and lust. "Abandoned!" from Girls' Love Stories #146 (October 1969) (which looks to be primarily penciled by Tony Abruzzo) is not one such story. As you will see, it starts out typically enough but ends in a very unexpected way. Read on!
Susan is gorgeous and one of the highest paid and most elite of models in the industry. Not only does she have her amazing looks and a fantastic career, she is madly in love with her boyfriend, Peter. Only thing is... he doesn't love her.
Peter has competition in the form of fashion photographer, Clay Jones. Clay totally digs Susan, but she is just over the moon with Peter. After a shoot one day just as Susan is leaving, a young model approaches Susan to thank her for landing a big billboard campaign. Oh that Susan -- beautiful and super kind to boot! But, even Susan's good looks and winning personality can't help her keep Peter. When they return to her place he dumps her.
Susan takes it like a champ (because she is classy like that) but the inevitable flood of emotions overtake her. For weeks she stays in her apartment and mourns the loss of her love.
Finally, the tears subside and Susan decides to head back into work. Upon her return Clay is happy to see her, but Susan is emotionally drained and in no mood to deal with anyone. When the young model she helped earlier approaches her for more advice, Susan is quick to brush her off. Frankly, Susan just isn't herself after the breakup.
"So I won't be called the model with a heart anymore! A fat lot of good that ever did me anyway!"
Susan is annoyed by everyone and everything -- from taxi drivers to her own concerned mother. Just leave her alone, why don't cha?!
As the days go on, Susan starts to forget about Peter, but at the same time feels little toward anything else. One day when the head of the fashion house (basically her boss) visits, Susan is completely rude to him. Clay approaches her about it but she tells him to shut it. A few nights later Clay pays an unannounced visit to Susan at her apartment. She turns her back to him as he professes his love to her and tells her that he wants to marry her, but he is concerned for her too. She has let the breakup with Peter (a mere setback in Clay's opinion) and its aftermath ruin her. Susan tells Clay that his words are falling on deaf ears and that she feels nothing. As Clay leaves he reminds her that he is there for her, but he also ponders aloud what it will take to shake her up.
The lonely days and monotonous nights continue for Susan, until one evening when she gets a call from Amy -- the young model she had helped before. Amy is in desperate need of help after ingesting a large amount of sleeping pills. Finally, Susan is ripped out of her emotional stupor, and instructs Amy to stay upright and to not close her eyes. Next, Susan calls Clay and asks him to meet her at Amy's place.
Upon Susan's arrival, Amy is struggling to stay awake -- to stay alive. Susan and Clay prop Amy up and force her to walk as Amy cries out, "...All I want to do is... sleep... and die..."
Susan says all the right things to the ailing Amy, and from the bottom of her heart. Susan sheds a tear as she says things to Amy that they both need to hear. Amy slowly recovers and after the long vigil, Clay and Susan quietly walk hand in hand, off into the sunrise. Susan is changed, and for the better.
Quite a moving story, and pretty heavy for a romance comic, wouldn't you say? Though not necessarily a cautionary tale, "Abandoned!" is unique in that it addresses a topic of such a serious nature. In fact, I can't think off the top of my head of any other romance comic story that involves an attempt at suicide. For the bad rap that romance comics so often get for having reinforced stereotypes and professing love as the ultimate achievement, it is important to note that the suicide attempt in this story is not by the lovesick protagonist, but by a character desperately trying to find her way in the world. I was actually pretty surprised at the turn of events in this story the first time I read it. I am so curious to know what readers at the time thought about such a mature theme, but I have been unable to find any evidence in the letter columns as of yet. So you tell me! Were you a bit shocked at this story as well?

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No. 90,317
GARY STONE and DANIELLE STONE,
GARY HADDAN, d/b/a HADDAN WRECKER & EXCAVATING,
1. Where a relatively small portion of land is conveyed to a railroad for railroad use, and that use is abandoned by the railroad, the land then reverts back to the original grantors or abutting owner.
2. Where land is conveyed to a railroad which is not substantially used for railroad purposes, the land will not then revert to the original grantor or abutting owners when a railroad use is abandoned,
Appeal from the Washington District Court; THOMAS M. TUGGLE, judge. Opinion filed October 10, 2003. Affirmed.
Teresa L. Sittenauer and David R. Cooper, of Fisher, Patterson, Sayler & Smith, L.L.P., of Topeka, for the appellant.
Jason E. Brinegar, of Galloway, Wiegers & Heeney, P.A., of Marysville, for the appellees.
Before MALONE, P.J., PIERRON and GREEN, JJ.
PIERRON, J.: In this interlocutory appeal, the parties dispute the ownership of land conveyed to a railroad by warranty deed and later conveyed from the railroad to Unified School District No. 222 (school district). The landowners of the land adjacent to the disputed property, Gary and Danielle Stone, argued successfully to the district court that they gained title to the land after it was abandoned by the railroad as a part of a functioning railroad. The school district brings this interlocutory appeal of the district court's ruling in the Stones' favor on the cross-motions for partial summary judgment.
On November 7, 1883, Hugh and E.J. Little conveyed a piece of land in Washington County to The Chicago Iowa and Kansas Railroad Company (Railroad) by a warranty deed which stated the following:
"This Indenture, Made this 7th day of November A.D. 1883, between Hugh Little and E.J. Little, husband & wife, of Washington County, in the State of Kansas of the first part; and The Chicago Iowa and Kansas Railroad Company of County in the State of the second part:
"Witnesseth, That the said part[y] of the first part, in consideration of the sum of Five hundred and Seventy Three and 65/100 (573 65/100) Dollars, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, do by these presents, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto said party of the second part, its successors and assigns, all the following described REAL ESTATE, situated in the County of Washington, and State of Kansas, to-wit:
"Commencing at a point twenty (20) rods north of the South East corner of the North East quarter of Section two (2) in Town 3 S of R 3 E in Washington County State of Kansas Thence West 235 feet Thence North 15 rods thence east 235 feet Thence South 15 rods to the place of beginning.
"To have and hold the same, Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, forever:
"And said Hugh W. Little and E.J. Little for themselves and their heirs, executors or administrators, do hereby covenant, promise and agree to and with said party of the second part, that at the delivery of these presents they are lawfully seized in their own right, of an absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance, in fee simple, of an in all and singular the above granted and described premises, with the appurtenances; that the same are free, clear, discharged and unincumbered, of and from all former and other grants, titles, charges, estates, judgments, taxes, assessments and incumberances of what nature and kind soever; and that they will WARRANT AND FOREVER DEFEND the same unto said party of the second part, its successors and assigns, against said parties of the first part, their heirs, and all and every person or persons whomsoever, lawfully claiming or to claim the same."
Approximately 6 months later, the railroad conveyed a portion of the property purchased from the Littles to F.M. Cox and W.H. Emery. The deed includes the following description:
"Commencing at a point twenty (20) rods north of the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of Section two (2), in Township three (3) South, Range three (3) East of the Sixth (6th) principal meridian; thence west two hundred and thirty-five (235) feet; thence north one hundred and thirty (130) feet; thence north sixty-seven (67) degrees east magnetic for two hundred and forty (240) feet; thence south one hundred and eighty-one (181) feet to place of beginning; and also the small brick house now standing on the right of way immediately north of the above described tract."
After the conveyance to Cox and Emery, the railroad was left with a piece of land in the approximate shape of a trapezoid measuring 117.5 feet on the west, 235 feet on the north, 66.5 feet on the east, and 240 feet on the south.
The railroad line was eventually abandoned, but it is not clear from the record when this occurred.
The railroad eventually became the Burlington Northern Railway Company and the disputed land was conveyed by quitclaim deed to the school district on February 25, 1986. The land was described as,
"All that portion of Burlington Northern Railroad Company's right-of-way and station ground property at Washington, Kansas on the Odell, Nebraska to Concordia, Kansas Branch Line right-of-way August 15, 2003, now discontinued, varying in width on each side of the main track centerline, as originally located and constructed upon, over and across a part of the S½ of the NE½ of Section 2, Township 3 South, Range 3 East, lying Easterly of the West line of "E" Street in the Town of Washington, Washington County, Kansas."
The school district hired Gary Haddan, d/b/a Haddan Wrecker & Excavating (Haddan), to clear brush and remove dirt from the property in the spring and summer of 2001. The Stones filed a petition against the school district and Haddan for trespass on the theory that the railroad had obtained only a right of way and that once the site had been abandoned by the railroad, the land reverted to them as the adjoining landowners.
Although the school district responded that the railroad had originally been granted a fee simple, not a right of way, the district court ruled in the Stones' favor on their motion for partial summary judgment. The court determined that the original deed conveyed the land to the railroad for "railroad purposes (construction and maintenance)" and that the railroad had only been granted a right of way, not a fee simple interest in the disputed property. The court concluded that the land reverted to the Stones, the adjoining landowners, when it was abandoned by the railroad.
The school district filed a timely interlocutory appeal with this court.
The school district argues that the original deed granted a fee simple interest to the railroad, and that the railroad conveyed a fee simple interest to the school district in 1986. The Stones argue that the original deed conveyed only a right of way, which reverted to them as the adjoining landowners when the property was no longer used for railroad purposes by the railroad.
Kansas courts have dealt with disputes over ownership of land originally conveyed to a railroad for almost a century.
In Abercrombie v. Simmons, 71 Kan. 538, 81 Pac. 208 (1905), there was an action of ejectment to recover a strip of land 100 feet wide that had been obtained from Joseph Simmons by the Chicago, Kansas & Western Railroad Company in 1887 in Mitchell County. The conveyance was in the form of a general warranty deed. The property was described as "'all the land in the southwest quarter of section fifteen (15), township nine (9) south, of range seven (7) west, lying within fifty feet of the center line of the main track of said railroad, and containing six and twenty-three-hundredths (6.23) acres, more or less.'" 71 Kan. at 539. The land was intended to be for a railroad right of way that was never used for that purpose.
Joseph, thereafter, treated the land as his own and cultivated it as long as he lived. It remained in the possession of J.N. Simmons and Laura Simmons, who became the owners after Joseph.
However, the railroad paid taxes on the strip until 1898, when it executed a deed purporting to convey the land to John Abercrombie. In 1903, Abercrombie asserted a claim of ownership to the strip which led to the litigation. The trial court found on the mainly undisputed facts, that the strip, was conveyed by Simmons and received by the railroad for use as a right of way and that Abercrombie was not entitled to recover.
As the Abercrombie court saw it on appeal, the central issue was whether the interest that the railroad acquired by the deed was one that it could convey to Abercrombie. The court reviewed various state statutes which noted that railroads could obtain land for routes by purchase, donation, and under eminent domain. The court pondered if a right of way acquired by purchase could be held with a higher or better right than where it was acquired by virtue of eminent domain.
The Abercrombie court seemed to be saying that land acquired for a right of way by eminent domain, or perhaps by grant, could not then be sold by the railroad for another purpose to another party. Telegraphing its view of the issue, the court queried:
"May a railroad company purchase a strip of land extending a great distance through the country and over many farms, abandon the enterprise, and then sell the strip to those who will put it to a wholly different use--one that might be both obnoxious and menacing to the adjoining owners?" 71 Kan. at 542.
The court noted a railroad could acquire an absolute and unqualified fee simple title which could be conveyed to another. However, the court then quoted with approval from a treatise:
"'But where there is an implied restriction, as is often the case in regard to the right of way, or the like, of a railroad company, the grant does not ordinarily vest a fee in the company, but vests such an estate, usually an easement, as is requisite to effect the purpose for which the property is required. Where the grant is of "surplus real estate," as it is often called, that is of real estate not forming part of the railroad or its appendages, a deed effective to vest a fee in a natural person will vest that estate in a railroad company.' (2 Ell. Rail. § 400.)" 71 Kan. at 542-43.
The court cited a number of foreign decisions that generally restricted the title a railroad could hold on land which was obtained for the purpose of a right of way.
The Abercrombie court concluded its analysis by stating that the land
"was sold on the one part, and purchased on the other, as and for a right of way for a railroad. This use, being within the contemplation of the parties, is to be considered as an element in the contract, and limits the interest that the railroad acquired. It took the strip for a specific purpose, and could hold it so long as it was devoted to that purpose." 71 Kan. at 546.
After this sweeping language, the court then stated:
"We are not called upon to decide, nor do we intend to express an opinion, as to the rule applicable where lands are purchased or obtained without regard to the use to be made of them, or where there is nothing in the contract or conveyance indicating that they have been purchased for a right of way. Lands may be acquired by donation or by voluntary grant for aid in the building of railroads, and railroad companies may doubtless acquire lands for various uses in connection with railroad business that could not be taken by virtue of eminent domain, and as to these different rules may apply." 71 Kan. at 546-47.
In the conveyance from Simmons to the railroad, mention was made of the land in question "lying within fifty feet of the center line of the mail track of said railroad." Therefore, the conveyance clearly indicated a right of way was involved.
In the present case, the school district earnestly argues that in the conveyance no mention is made of the purpose of the purchase and that it would then fall outside of the general rule of Abercrombie. In support of this argument, the school district cites Nott v. Beightel, 155 Kan. 94, 122 P.2d 747 (1942).
In Nott, the real estate in question was two town lots in Holton. While there were a number of collateral issues, the central one concerned the abandonment of the land by the Union Pacific Railroad Company in 1935. Nott apparently claimed ownership through adverse possession since his title was based on the fact that "he by and through his immediate predecessors in title had been continuously in open, notorious, and actual possession of the lots for more than twenty years." 155 Kan. at 94. Beightel contended that the lots had been used, at least in part, as a railroad right of way that had been abandoned in 1935. This was asserted to have caused the lots to revert to the original owners, who had conveyed the lots to Beightel.
The original deed to the railroad showed that the lots were conveyed in 1889 in fee title by warranty deed without a reversion clause and without any mention of the use to which the property would be put by the railroad. The trial court ruled in Nott's favor. Beightel argued on appeal that Abercrombie required a finding that the railroad's abandonment of the tracks led to a reversion to the original owners, who had conveyed their title to him.
The Nott court noted the exception cited in Abercrombie, and then in helpful detail for our purposes, said:
"The reasons for such holding in that case are not present here. It is obvious that it would be contrary to public policy for someone to whom the railroad had conveyed to own a narrow strip of land such as a railroad right of way running through farms and cities, etc., when it was no longer used for railroad purposes. In this case the entire lots were conveyed. The record shows that only part of the lots were used for railroad purposes." 155 Kan. at 97.
The Nott court also cited Danielson v. Woestermeyer, 131 Kan. 796, 293 Pac. 507 (1930), where the court held:
"'Where the owners of land claiming to be abutting owners on an abandoned railroad right of way whose land is separated from the real right of way or right of way proper by a strip of land to which the railroad company acquired the fee title and used it for railroad purposes other than right of way and later conveyed the same before discontinuing operations, such separation is held to deprive the first-mentioned owners of their claim of right as abutting owners in and to the right of way proper, and also in and to the intervening strip.' (Syl. ¶ 3.)" 155 Kan. at 98
It appears from close readings of Nott and Danielson that the "use it or lose it" rule of Abercrombie, as was hinted at in Abercrombie, does not apply when the land is not mainly used as a right of way.
In the instant case, the strip of land fits the factors set out in Abercrombie except that there was not specific mention of the use being for a right of way in the conveyance. The land here was to be used for railroad purposes. Based on the language in Abercrombie, which did not restrict the ruling to cases where use for a right of way was specifically stated or implied in the conveyance, we believe the rule should be applied under these facts. The land reverts.
We have reviewed the cases of Harvest Queen Mill & Elevator Co., v. Sanders, 189 Kan. 536, 370 P.2d 419 (1962); Topeka and Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. Humberg, 9 Kan. App. 2d 205, 675 P.2d 375 (1984); and Schoenberger v. Missouri Pacific RR Co., 29 Kan. App. 2d 245, 26 P.3d 700 (2000), rev. denied 2709 Kan 889 (2001)
In Harvest Queen, the purpose of the conveyance to the railroad was clearly for a right of way as set out in the conveyance; and it was held to be only an easement with the fee title to the property remaining in the original grantors.
Humberg dealt with property obtained for railroad purposes by condemnation and then abandoned. Since it was obtained by condemnation, even though not for a right of way, its abandonment for that purpose led to a reversion.
Schoenberger focused solely on the language of the conveyance instruments. However, this apparently was done because the construction of the deed was the only issue on appeal. Schoenberger is, therefore, not on point with the instant case where another issue, namely, the use to which the property was put, is paramount. The construction of the conveyance is not of critical importance in the instant case.
We find that since the land in question was obtained by purchase for a railroad right of way, and other railroad uses, and that easement was abandoned, the trial court was correct in ruling that the land reverted to the original grantors.
As in the other cases cited above, this ruling is applicable to relatively small portions of land. We are not called upon to rule on the effect of abandonment for railroad uses of large portions of land.


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You are looking at the surface of a weathered table. It sits on the porch of a 1930s cabin in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. On a perfect day, the sun breaks through the trees and mixes with reflected light from the lake, transforming this screened space into a camera obscura. Read More
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Lisa Cooke (@LisaCooke) tweeted …
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This are the following tips on how to remove the SCVHOST.EXE virus/worm. Firstly we must know what is SCVHOST.EXE is.
In some antivirus they are detected as W32/YahLover.Worm.gen from McAfee Antivirus and Win32/Autorun.R.worm from NOD32.
This virus will installs itself into your PC by using its INF file autorun.inf. The Autorun.inf file has an scripts that will trigger to execute the SCVHOST.EXE. Mostly in a removable disk is this occurred as you noticed that there is an Autoplay instead of Open. Once you double click the drive or removable disk, the autorun.inf run its scripts that this will trigger to execute the SCVHOST.EXE and spreading itself unto your system. It also copies itself through all your shared folders directories and on your computers throughout the network and run itself in the registry entries remotely using a GUEST account (through System:Remote).
- When pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del it blocks to launch the Task Manager
- It blocks the Registry Editor.
- When you try to go to the command prompt CMD, it will restarts the computer.
- The shared folders will duplicates itself to different locations of. The duplicated virus uses a FOLDER icon with an .exe file extension. The configuration of your Yahoo Messenger has been changed.
How to Remove It
OK here we go, you must follow this step on how to remove this virus in manually method:
- Restart your PC and press F8 and select the option Safe Mode Command Prompt Only
- And after you log-in the command prompt you must log-in as Administrator.
- Type cd C:\windows\system32
- Type dir /ah, to display all hidden files on this directory folder. You will see the following files which is used by the virus to spread itself: AUTORUN.INI, BLASTCLNNN.EXE, and SCVHOST.EXE
- Type ATTRIB -H -R -S SCVHOST.EXE
- Type ATTRIB -H -R -S BLASTCLNNN.EXE
- Type ATTRIB -H -R -S AUTORUN.INI
- Type DEL SCVHOST.EXE
- Type DEL BLASTCLNNNN.EXE
- Type DEL AUTORUN.INI
- Type CD\
- Type ATTRIB -H -R -S AUTORUN.INF
- Type DEL AUTORUN.INF
You are almost done, reboot your PC you may seat back and relax.. :) while loading...
Go Start Menu and click the Run and type the REGEDIT command. Take note guys before make any changes into your Registry Editor you must make a full back-up to your registry to avoid system errors. :)
Look the location entry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, if you see an entry Yahoo! Messengger (it's spelled like this) with a value c:\windows\system32\scvhost.exe, Delete this entry.
Look the location entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, in the entry named: SHELL, a value = Explorer.exe,SCVHOST.EXE. Edit this value, delete the SCVHOST.EXE only and the value must be Explorer.exe. Once you delete all this value, your computer will not login anymore.
OK we are now done.. Please Restart your PC now and Enjoy!!! Thank you and hope this tips will help for everyone..Just post your comments about this problem.


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Robert Baden-Powell
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|— Pearls of Wisdom—Quotes From Baden-Powell
"As a youth, Robert Baden-Powell greatly enjoyed the outdoors, learning about nature and how to live in the wilderness. After returning as a military hero from service in Africa, Baden-Powell discovered that English boys were reading the manual about stalking and survival in the wilderness that he had written for British soldiers. Gathering ideas from Ernest Thompson Seton, Daniel Carter Beard, and others, he rewrote the manual as a nonmilitary nature skill book and called it Scouting for Boys. To test his ideas, Baden-Powell brought together 22 boys to camp at Brownsea Island, off the coast of England. This historic campout was a success and resulted in the advent of Scouting. Thus, the imagination and inspiration of Baden-Powell, later proclaimed Chief Scout of the World, brought Scouting to youth the world over."
After his marriage with Olave St Clair Soames, Baden-Powell, his sister Agnes Baden-Powell and notably his wife actively gave guidance to the Scouting Movement and the Girl Guides Movement. Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died in 1941.
Early life
Baden-Powell was born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell, or more familiarly as Stephe Powell in London, England, on February 22, 1857. His father Reverend Baden Powell, a Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University, already had four teenage children from the second of his two previous marriages.
Military career
In 1876, R.S.S. Baden-Powell, joined the British Army in India as a Lieutenant. He honed his reconnaissance skills during Britain's invasion of the Zulu kingdom in the early 1880s. During one of his travels, he came across a large string of wooden beads, worn by the Zulu king Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, which was later incorporated into the Wood Badge training program. He was posted in Malta for three years, also working as intelligence officer for the Mediterranean for the Director of Military Intelligence. He frequently traveled disguised as a butterfly collector, incorporating plans of military installations into his drawings of butterfly wings. [1]
Scouting Movement
On his return from Africa in 1903, Baden-Powell found that his military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller, and was being used by teachers and youth organizations. Baden-Powell decided to re-write Aids to Scouting to suit a youth readership. In August 1907 he held camp on Brownsea Island for twenty-two boys of mixed social background to test out the applicability of his ideas. In 1910 lieutenant-general Baden-Powell decided to retire from the Army on the advice of King Edward VII, who suggested that he could better serve his country by promoting Scouting.
Boys and girls spontaneously formed Scout troops and the Scouting Movement had inadvertently started, first as a national, and soon an international obsession. The Girl Guide Movement was subsequently founded in 1910 under the auspices of Baden-Powell's sister, Agnes Baden-Powell. Baden-Powell's friend, Juliette Gordon Low, was encouraged by him to bring the Movement to America, where she founded the Girl Scouts of the USA.
In 1920, the World Scout Jamboree took place in Olympia, London, and Baden-Powell was acclaimed Chief Scout of the World.
At the 5th World Scout Jamboree in 1937, Baden-Powell gave his farewell to Scouting, and retired from public Scouting life.
Baden-Powell died on 8 January 1941 and is buried in Nyeri, in St. Peter's Cemetery. His gravestone bears a circle with a dot in the centre, which is the trail sign for "I have gone home."
Selected works
- 1908: Scouting for Boys
- 1912: Handbook for Girl Guides (co-authored with Agnes Baden-Powell)
- 1916: The Wolf Cub's handbook
- 1918: Girl Guiding
- 1919: Aids To Scoutmastership
- 1929: Scouting and Youth Movements
- 1935: Scouting Round the World
Baden-Powell was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on numerous occasions, including 10 separate nominations in 1928. [2]
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text: A file image shows the flooded Red River separating Moorhead, Minn., (right) from Fargo, March 2010. National Weather Service forecasters say that the chance for major flooding this year is above 90 percent. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images The Two-Way Money For Sandbaggers? No Go, Says Fargo February 22, 2011 It's sandbag season in North Dakota and Minnesota, where communities are banding together to keep the coming spring thaw from overrunning riverbanks and swamping towns. But one town's plan to pay sand-baggers has sparked anger across the river.


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TV technology has attention of USGA, R&A
ATLANTA (AP) — Television evidence indicated a possible rules violation. The official talked to the player before he signed his card, and the player was adamant that no violation occurred.
The decision went in favor of the player because the evidence was deemed inconclusive.
This was not Tiger Woods at the BMW Championship.
This was Colin Montgomerie in the Volvo Masters at Valderrama in 2002. Video appeared to show Montgomerie's putter touch the ball before it had stopped rolling after he missed a 5-foot putt on the 10th hole.
He wasn't penalized, and wound up sharing the title with Bernhard Langer when the playoff couldn't continue in darkness.
Why no penalty?
"We went through this involved question-and-answer," European Tour chief referee John Paramor said Tuesday. "He said, 'I did not touch this ball.' We had no other evidence apart from these two-dimensional TV picture. If it had been shot from another angle, maybe it could have been proved."
Golf and television have come a long way.
Woods was penalized two shots in the BMW Championship despite arguing that his ball only oscillated as he tried to remove a branch in front of it. The video that showed otherwise was taken in high-definition, clear enough to see every dimple.
And this might be golf's next frontier, at least when it comes to the rules.
"Our Rules of Golf committees — the USGA and R&A — are always trying to look forward at what they should address," said Thomas Pagel, the USGA's senior director of rules and competition. "Certainly, HDTV has been on the forefront for the last several years."
Pagel pointed to April 2011 and Decision 33-7/4.5 as "the beginning of the review of HDTV and what impact it has."
The faces on those decisions were Padraig Harrington and Peter Hanson. Harrington was disqualified for an incorrect score when HDTV revealed his ball moved when he was removing his marker on the green. Hanson's violation was a double-hit.
In both cases, the infraction was revealed only through the use of high-def — in Hanson's case, it was played in super-slow motion.
The next edition of the Decisions of Golf is due in January 2014.
"As we continue to have these issues, it's certainly something to consider," Pagel said. "But I don't want to get ahead of myself."
Regarding the players who get far more TV coverage than anyone else, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said there was no easy answer.
"We have a lot more cameras on the players who are in contention Sunday," he said. "You've got 70-something players on Sunday. Seven or eight or 10 of them can win the golf tournaments; 85, 90, 95 percent of the camera time is on those seven or eight players."
Finchem doesn't have strong feelings about TV viewers calling in violations. He referred to it as "cumbersome and difficult and awkward" at times, yet interesting to the fans. He said the tour would take a look at prohibiting viewers calling in, though it is not believed to be a high priority.
THE FINALS: Ryo Ishikawa has received three special invitations to play in the Masters. He was awarded an exemption for the PGA Championship last month, even though he had fallen to No. 158 in the world ranking.
But getting a PGA Tour card? This time, the 22-year-old from Japan earned it.
Ishikawa had a 69-68 weekend at the third Web.com Finals event in Ohio. A week earlier, he shot 66 in the final round and finished fifth in North Carolina. Those results have assured him earning back his PGA Tour card for next year.
The Web.com Tour Championship at Sawgrass next week (Valley Course) is the final event of the four-tournament series.
The top 25 players from the Web.com Tour money list already have their cards and are playing for a priority ranking. The other 25 are based on the money list from the four tournaments. Ishikawa is sixth on that list, making him a mathematical lock.
Everyone down to Hudson Swofford can't fall out in the race for the open 25 cards. Heath Slocum and Sean O'Hair are close.
The replacement for Q-school seems to be working well for its first year. One of the curiosities about this Web.com Tour Finals was whether it would favor the players from Nos. 126-200 in the FedEx Cup or the players from Nos. 26 to 75 on the Web.com money list.
Going into the last event, the PGA Tour players have a 15-10 lead in the race for those 25 open cards.
Steve Wheatcroft is holding down the 25th spot, just $1,583 ahead of Bhavik Patel of the Web.com Tour. Among those PGA Tour players in jeopardy of not getting a card are three former Ryder Cup players — Robert Karlsson ($12,955 out of the 25th spot), Chad Campbell ($20,755 behind) and Chris DiMarco ($20,950 behind).
SHINNECOCK SCOTT: Adam Scott had a record-setting score last week, just not at the BMW Championship.
On his way to Chicago, the Masters champion played a casual round at Shinnecock Hills and wound up setting the course record with a 63. Scott played the red tees, which are the tips on the Long Island course. He made a 12-foot putt on the last hole to beat by one the record set by Raymond Floyd during a recreational round in 1996.
"It's pretty cool," Scott said. "The members got pretty excited when I came off the course, and it's one of the best tracks in the world, for sure. No one has ever shot that score in over 100 years off the tees I played. So that's a pretty neat thing."
Shinnecock Hills is one of the five founding clubs of the U.S. Golf Association. Scott had rounds of 75-75 to miss the cut when the U.S. Open was held there in 2004. It returns to Shinnecock in 2018.
"It was a really fun day, and I felt a little sense of achievement, absolutely — especially beating Raymond Floyd," he said. "It's added to a really good year."
DIVOTS: Dating to the Canadian Woman's Open last year, 16-year-old amateur Lydia Ko would have earned just short of $1.2 million. ... Peter Jacobsen is this year's recipient of the Payne Stewart Award, given each year to a player who personifies some of Stewart's traits — integrity, sportsmanship, presentation and charity. The award began the year after Stewart perished in a freak plane accident in 1999, the year he won the U.S. Open.


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Gabby Cabby Remembers 911
Peter Franklin, AKA the Gabby Cabby, will be joining me this afternoon (Wednesday) right before ort Action Packed 5 o'clock News Hour to share his memories of 911, 12 years ago today. The week of the bombing, the Gab Man did some 314 radio & television broadcasts including KSEN-AM 1150! The driver of the yellow mobile conveyance lounge had a total audience that week of 300 million people in 71 countries!. I may be "The Puffman" but this character truly IS the Gab Man. See you this afternoon.