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Recently, I've seen some major modifications in ZeuS murofet/LICAT.
Murofet (also know as LICAT) is a modified version of ZeuS, which is using a so called Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) to calculate the current botnet C&C domain.
However, a few weeks ago I've noticed that no new murofet/LICAT C&C domain names have been registered by the criminals. I was a little bit confused and decided to analysed a recent ZeuS sample (spread through a Spam campaign targeting US citizens). When I ran the binary in my sandbox, I've seen some weird UDP traffic. My first guess was: This is not ZeuS. But after I've analysing the infection I came to the conclusion that it is actually ZeuS.
*** A new (custom) version of ZeuS ***
The new version of ZeuS is no longer using a DGA to determine the current C&C domain, therefore it's also not possible to pre-calculate the C&C domains that will be used in the near future. Obviously, the criminals switched back to a hardcoded C&C domain which is stored in the ZeuS config file.
The *new* version of ZeuS (v3?) implements a Kademlia-like P2P botnet. Similar to the Miner botnet, ZeuS is now using a "IP list" which contains IP addresses of other drones participating in the P2P botnet. An initial list of IP addresses is hardcoded in the ZeuS binary. As soon as a computer gets infected, ZeuS will try to find a active node by sending UDP packets on high ports. If the bot hits an active node, the remote node will response with a list of current IP addresses that are participating in the P2P network. Additionally, the remote node will tell the requesting node which binary- and config version he is running. If the remote node is running a more recent version, the bot will connect to it on a TCP high port to download a binary update and/or the current config file. Afterwards the bot will connect to the C&C domain listed in the config file using HTTP POST.
The HTTP protocol is only being used to drop the stolen data to the Dropzone and/or to receive commands from the botnet master. In fact this means there is no longer a BinaryURL or a ConfigURL that ZeuS Tracker can track. It also makes it quite difficult for security researchers to keep track of the targets. What is interesting is the fact that if everything fails (=no working/active P2P drone can be found and the main C&C is dead) the bot will use the DGA as fallback mechanism.
At first glance these are bad news. But fortunately the new mechanism also has benefits: There is just one ZeuS C&C active at the same time, so every time the domain name gets suspended/terminated, the criminals have to push out a new config file.
*** ZeuS sinkhole data ***
During the past few weeks I was able to sinkhole several ZeuS botnet C&Cs that were associated with this new ZeuS version. The chart below shows up the number of unique IP addresses that are associated with this ZeuS version and hitting my sinkhole. The highest IP count was about 100k unique IPs in 24hrs.
The Geo location of this ZeuS botnet looks like this:
As we can see on the chart above, India seems to have the most infected systems, followed by Italy, the United Staates and Greece. Please consider that this chart just shows the unique IPs for each country. It does not count the unique bot IDs.
As usual, the sinkhole data is being sent to Shadowserver. If you are a network provider / ISP please make sure that you subscribe Shadowservers drone feed to receive reports regarding infected drones in your network/AS (the service is free of charge).
*** Conclusion ***
What I can say so far is that the encryption of this new (custom) version of ZeuS haven't changed. You should watch out for the following strings in your web proxy logs, which are being used as dropzone for this ZeuS version (using HTTP POST):
- /gameover.php
- /gameover2.php
- /gameover3.php
Since I've started to track this ZeuS campaign, I've collected more than 270 unique config files.
Since the source code of ZeuS got leaked back in the beginning of 2011, several so called custom builds popped up in the underground which are based on the leaked source code. A good example is a recently on opensc.ws introduced bot kit called Ice IX.
So are we talking about a *new* ZeuS version which we will see being sold in the underground soon? I don't think so. This seems to be just another custom build. But there is one thing that makes this custom build unique: This build (and the previous murofet/LICAT version) is much more sophisticated than all other ZeuS builds I've seen before. Also, when I take a look at the way they operate it looks like this botnet has several customers using the same botnet infrastructure.
Since the guy who wrote this version of ZeuS seems to have a lot of knowledge, it could be that Slavik (the author of the original ZeuS version) has his hands on this ZeuS build. We all know how successful ZeuS was (and still is). So why should Slavik leave this business? I believe that Slavik was unwell with the fact that his trojan was in the spotlight of security researchers, security industry and LEA. Also, ZeuS has attracted a lot of script kiddies and smaller criminal groups which weren't able to pay that much of money for a product. Slavik probably dropped this business and released the source code for public to get out of this situation. But I believe that he is still developing on ZeuS, but only custom build(s) for a small circle of customers who are able to pay a lot more money that small fishes. This wouldn't attract that much attention from LEA an security folks, but will bring in a lot more money than dealing with standard customers.
We all know that the fight between criminals and security researchers is a cat and mouse game. I'm sure this wasn't the last change made to ZeuS and we will continue to see efforts from criminals to make their malware stay more under the radar.
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Eastern storms back to hold off upset minded UC Davis
Cheney, WA - On a chilly 30-degree day in Cheney, Wash., the fifth-ranked Eastern Washington University football team was either hot or cold.
After a promising start, the Eagles were out-scored 22-0 in the second quarter, regained the lead in the fourth quarter then blocked a field goal in the final minute to preserve a 31-28 victory over UC Davis Saturday (Nov. 10) in a Big Sky Conference game at Roos Field in Cheney, Wash.
The Aggies were poised to pull off the upset with a long drive on their final possession, but Eastern's David Gaylord blocked a 52-yard field goal attempt by Brady Stuart with 46 seconds left to preserve the Eagle win and keep Eastern's Big Sky Conference championship hopes alive.
Northern Arizona fell 35-29 in three overtimes to Southern Utah on Saturday, meaning the Eagles will be playing for at least a share of the league title at Portland State next Saturday (Nov. 17). Eastern, ranked fifth in The Sport Network NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Top 25 Poll, is now 8-2 overall and 6-1 in the Big Sky.Eastern storms back to hold off upset minded UC Davis
The win was Eastern's 11th in the last three seasons when it has trailed or been tied in the fourth quarter. Of Eastern's six Big Sky wins this season, five have come by a combined margin of 21 points – two six-point wins and a trio by just three points.
"I can remember a few like that," admitted a relieved Eastern head coach Beau Baldwin after the game. "It's one of those hard-fought Big Sky wins."
Eastern trailed at halftime 25-14, causing Baldwin to admit what he said to the team in the locker room: "Basically I told them the truth. We were getting our tails kicked."
Eastern quarterbacks Vernon Adams and Kyle Padron combined to complete 19-of-31 passes for 242 yards and a touchdown, but the Eagles were out-gained in total offense 435-361. Adams scored the go-ahead points for Eastern with a 9-yard run with 8:13 left in the game.
"It is part of who we are and part of what we do in terms of still finding ways to win even when we are not playing your best ball," Baldwin. "I give credit to UC Davis in terms of what they did making plays, but I know there were some things that we need to look at and not fall into. I just felt a little bit of a lull in our team when we went up 14-3, and then it all of a sudden catapulted into a bunch of good stuff for them. We can't let that happen."
The game was the final regular season home game for 16 Eastern seniors, who were honored in pre-game ceremonies.
Junior Demitrius Bronson added 63 yards and a pair of touchdowns on the ground for EWU, and senior Greg Herd led all receivers with seven catches for 101 yards and a score. Junior Brandon Kaufman added five catches for 109 yards – the seventh time this season and 15th time in his career he has gone over the 100-yard mark.
Defensively, senior linebacker Zach Johnson led the Eagles with 10 tackles, and junior cornerback T.J. Lee added nine. Redshirt freshman safety Jordan Tonani had seven tackles, an interception and a pass broken up.
Eastern went into the game knowing the 3-6 overall record for the Aggies was deceiving. Eastern was the fifth team UC Davis faced this season currently ranked in the top 19 nationally.
Now in position to garner one of 20 spots in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs, Eastern is a win away from possibly securing at least one more game at home. The pairings are announced on Nov. 18 and begin six days later with eight of the 20 teams playing first-round games. The other 12 get first-round byes to the second round on Dec. 1.
Besides sending the seniors out with a victory, Eastern finished the regular season 5-0 at home. Since the red Sprinturf surface was installed in 2010, Eastern is now 15-2 at "The Inferno," with one of the losses a 43-26 setback to PSU on Senior Day last season.
Eastern jumped out to a 14-7 lead on a pair of impressive scoring drives led by Adams and ended by touchdown runs by Bronson. The first was a five-play, 69-yard drive that ended with Bronson's 13-yard TD run. The Aggies kicked a field goal after an Eastern fumble, but the Eagles responded with a six-play, 69-drive that was capped by Bronson's 1-yard touchdown rush.
At that point, the Eagles had a 141-31 advantage in total offense, as UC Davis failed to convert on its first five third-down attempts.
But over the next 18 1/2 minutes, UC Davis converted four of five third downs and rolled up 247 yards of offense to take a 25-14 lead at halftime. In that same time span, Eastern had only 37 yards of offense and only one first down, and had to punt on its final three possessions.
The Eagles went with Padron to start the second half, and aided by a pair of 15-yard penalties on UC Davis, the Eagles drove to the Aggie 19-yard line. But a third-down sack resulted in a 45-yard field goal by Jimmy Pavel, equaling the school record of 16 set last year by Mike Jarrett. The field goal also gives EWU 17 for the season, breaking the previous team record of 16 set last year.
After a UC Davis field goal, Eastern scored on a 76-yard drive to pull within 28-24 with 4:17 left in the third quarter. On the eighth-play of the drive, Padron found Herd down the sideline for a 51-yard touchdown on a third-and-15 play.
"The second quarter wasn't real great and we needed a spark," said Baldwin of going with Padron to start the second half. "Had we gotten the ball one more time with significant time in the first half, Kyle was going to go in then. Once we didn't, I decided to play Kyle in the third quarter. He did a great job. He led us to 10 points, which were huge."
Eastern's defense forced UC Davis to punt three-straight times, and finally, midway through the fourth quarter, the Eagles capitalized. Adams led the Eagles on a five-play, 66-yard scoring drive, capping it with a 9-yard run to give EWU a 31-28 lead with 8:13 to play.
"Sometimes, as a young quarterback especially, when you get to watch the game from the sidelines you can start to see things that you didn't see early on," added Baldwin of going back to Adams in the final quarter. "Vernon came back in with some energy. I am just trying to listen to my gut. It's not always right, but If I don't go with my gut what am I going to listen to?"
Just over a minute later, UC Davis committed its first turnover of the game on an interception by Tonani – his third of the season. But Eastern had to punt after a sure TD catch down the sideline was dropped by Herd, who had a one-handed catch for a score a week earlier versus Cal Poly in the same spot on the field.
Taking over at its own 2-yard line, the Aggies calmly picked up five first downs in driving to the EWU 34-yard line. Three-straight incompletions – including one broken up by Lee -- led to the blocked field goal attempt.
The Aggies, who are now 3-7 overall and 2-5 in their first year as a member of the Big Sky Conference (football only), were coming off a bye week. They are a hard-luck team with an excruciating schedule, and suffered narrow losses by eight points or less to three other nationally-ranked teams -- Cal Poly (28-20), Montana State (48-41) and South Dakota State (12-8). They also lost just 21-7 on the road to nationally-ranked Big Sky leader Northern Arizona.


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Despite the fact that the federal government passed a healthcare reform law almost two years ago, many people still remain uninsured and unaware of some resources that are available to them now.
Every state is receiving funds to create what is known as a "high risk insurance pool" for uninsured people with pre-existing medical conditions who are unable to afford or obtain coverage on their own.
Still, many people either don't know about the program or aren't taking of advantage of it because of red tape or the cost of premiums. In Kansas and Missouri, they are trying to eliminate the obstacles and have launched an awareness campaign. Randy Mason sat down with top officials from both states to help spread the word.
For more information on eligibility, call the Greater Kansas City United Way's – 2-1-1 hotline
The Missouri Health Insurance Pool (MHIP) is a nonprofit organization offering comprehensive health insurance to Missourians who can't get coverage in the standard market because of health conditions. Please visit their website today for eligibility criteria and an application.
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Just like some Mexican moles, this chili has a bit of chocolate in it. Serve sour cream and shredded sharp cheddar cheese alongside.
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This was lacking flavor. All of the spices could have been doubled. Also, the turkey provides no flavor at all. You may as well use bulgar or some other meat substitute if you're looking to be health conscious. Back to the chili drawing board.
This was amazing!! I added 1 jalapeño pepper and 4 chipotle chilies in adobo to really add some kick. I didn't need to add any extra broth, as a matter of fact I only used 2 1/2 cups of chicken broth instead of 3. This is def going to be "game day" chili.
I didn't have any chocolate or bell pepper so I used a can of diced green chilies and added extra chopped fresh tomato and ground white pepper.
Really tasty and easy. To add MORE flavor: add 3 jalapenos chopped, 4T chili powder, 1T chipotle chili pepper powder (or minced chipotle chili in adobo), 2T cumin, 1 bay leaf, pinch of cinnamon. For the chili consistency that I enjoy, I used 2 1/2 lbs ground turkey, 2 cans pinto beans, 2 cups chicken broth, 1 bottle lager beer and 1T corn meal. I also enjoy chopped green onions along with cheese and sour cream as toppings. Good comfort food on a cold winter day.
This is one of my go-to chili recipes. It is hearty and flavorful. I typically add one jalepeno and chipotles in adobe because my family likes spicy chili. The red bell peppers balance the spiciness well with sweetness.
Whole family loved this! Substituted 1/2 of the ground turkey for ground pork chorizo as some reviewers suggested. Completely forgot about adding in the chocolate, didn't miss it, but will try it next time.
Delicious, but not quite special enough for 4 forks. Nothing to complain about.
Really good chili. Be careful with spices if making ahead - the heat intensifies. I agreed with other reviewers; substituting 1/2 the ground turkey for turkey sausage or chorizo is an improvement. The addition of 1 bottle of lager is great as well.
made this a couple of times now and it is soooooooo good. I usually make it in my slow cooker and my husband can smell it from the garage when he comes home! TASTY
I agreed with other reviewers that this was much better with turkey sausage or chorizo and I also added some chipotle pepper in adobo and used a little mroe tomato than called for. I used 100% cacao and a little mascobado sugar since I don't have semisweet chocolate. Tiny changes, excellent chili.


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These small Paulownia wood animals are ideal gifts for kids and adults alike. They brighten up any counter, desk or table. Designed by T-Lab in Japan and handcrafted from sustainable lumber by Indonesian woodworkers.
Available in more than 20 animal shapes.
Recommended for ages 5+
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By Avi Salzman
Transocean (RIG) surprised the Street with much better than expected core third quarter earnings, and shares jumped 5.6%.
EPS of $1.37 beat expectations for 76 cents.
Transocean specializes in deepwater rigs, and drilling in places like the Gulf of Mexico has experienced a major resurgence this year. The number of rigs in the Gulf rose 60% in the third quarter from a year ago, competitor Baker-Hughes (BHI) said, according to Bloomberg.
"Transocean's 3Q12 EPS came in well ahead of expectations," wrote analysts at Raymond James. "Coming into the release our conviction on the company being able to put up this level of operating efficiency (i.e. approximately 25 cent beat at the gross profit line) was relatively low."


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Zizi now turns to plugs, with the constant and leading objective of ensuring maximum fun and safety. All our products are made of top quality TPR, guaranteed without phthalates and/or lead. Moreover, all our toys are tested in laboratory before being launched on the market.
Also somewhat intended for beginners, it is a rather simple plug to play at home. However, it can also be taken to the office, the restaurant, when traveling by train or when visiting friends. Discover a variety of more or less acceptable sensations, depending on the circumstances.
Simple, smooth, and massive, Slosh is reserved for connoisseurs and followers of maximum expansion.


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By Johanna Bennett
The multifamily rental market boomed after the housing market crashed. Many people couldn't or didn't want to own homes.
Two real estate investment trusts focused on the West Coast, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Essex Property Trust (ESS) and San Francisco-based BRE Properties (BRE) are betting that rents and occupancy rates there won't fall anytime soon.
Essex agreed today to pay $4.3 billion to buy rival BRE Properties, creating a company with 56,000 rental units in California and Seattle, as well as the largest publically-traded apartment owner on the West Coast.
The WSJ notes: Rents in markets like Seattle and the Silicon Valley have been among the fastest growing in the U.S.
Investors, however, don't seem impressed. At $54.63, BRE Properties fell 2.3%, or $1.28 in late morning market action. Essex dropped 2.3%, or $3.46 to $144.24.
MLV & Co. analysts wrote:
We anticipate that, over time, the new company will be able to leverage the geographic overlap and realize operating efficiencies and cut duplicate costs. Additionally, given ESS' strength as an operator, we believe the long-term positives of this merger could include improved NOI growth, which should lead to NAV expansion. However, during the integration period, we caution investors that this transaction is likely to be dilutive, but to what extent we are not yet sure.
Essex and BRE have been in exclusive talks since earlier this month. Under the deal, each BRE share will be converted into 0.2971 newly issued shares of Essex plus $12.33 in cash. Based on Wednesday's market close, that values BRE at $56.21 a share.
The deal is expected to close in the first quarter.


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By PATSY R. BRUMFIELD/Daily Journal
TUPELO – Karate instructor James Everett Dutschke faces three state indictments that he fondled three females under the age of 16.
Dutschke, 41, of Tupelo pleaded not guilty during his April 15 arraignment and is free on $25,000 bond.
It's unclear why the grand jury issued three separate indictments on April 1, instead of consolidating them into one charge with three counts.
The documents claim that Dutschke's alleged unlawful "touching" of one girl, now 18, occurred between January 2007 and March 2011.
The second alleged incidents involved a girl now 8 from November 2012 to January 2013.
The third charge claims he fondled a 7-year-old girl on Jan. 16, 2013.
Dutschke, a former Republican candidate for the Legislature, was first charged Jan. 18 with two counts of child molestation.
Later, his bond was reduced from $1 million to $25,000.
Dutschke successfully argued to a judge that his $1 million bond had the same effect as no bond at all.
A condition of his bond is that he have no contact with any of the minors named in his indictments or any other minor unless it is a family member.


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NARRATOR: Some months after Koons made the Made in Heaven billboard with Ilona Staller, he returned to her studio for additional photo shoots in order to make a sculpture and additional paintings.
SCOTT ROTHKOPF: Once he began this series, he realized the series had greater potential, and, in fact, he also realized that he was falling in love with his model or his costar.
NARRATOR: In 1991, Koons and Staller were married.
SR: What began as work for hire or a project between an artist an model became a document or form of self-portraiture that was chronicling their personal life. Their personal life and his work became so entwined that it became difficult to tell the difference between one and the other.
JEFF KOONS: I decided that what was really important in the body of work was the embrace of one's own body.
NARRATOR: Jeff Koons.
JK: We take it for granted, but a lot of people don't accept nature. They don't accept the concept of procreation, how it actually works or our bodies, how we function as an organism. The Made in Heaven show was an extension of this dialogue of acceptance. Accepting oneself and being able to go out and accept others.
SCOTT ROTHKOPF: Some feminist scholars, at the time, were appalled by these images because they felt that they were very degrading of Staller, Koons's wife at the time.


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Toys R Us is currently taking 50% off their Barbie toys. Shipping to home is free on orders of $49 or more; free ship-to-store does not appear available for most items. The pictured Barbie Malibu Dreamhouse is $65 with free shipping (over $100 at Amazon).
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Here's the actual story. Note that it is not Sarah Palin but the Governor's Office that is being tasked. This is exactly the reason she gave for her resignation....the relentless efforts of this one individual to find some way to embarrass her. Next we'll have a subpoena for a toilet paper inventory of the Governor's office.
Governor: Palin e-mails won't be released 'til May
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JUNEAU - The Alaska governor's office says it needs until May 31 to release potentially thousands of e-mails sent and received by former Gov. Sarah Palin.
By that time, more than 2½ years will have elapsed since at least one person and several media outlets, including The Associated Press, requested the e-mails. Palin has been out of office since July 2009.
A work plan submitted to the new attorney general, John Burns, says the Department of Law plans to assign two people to review the records full-time, including a former assistant attorney general with whom the department will contract. According to the plan submitted by public records officer Linda Perez, the cost will be $120,000.
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Gee, I don't know why? After all, farting in someone's face (and the camera) and graphically stepping in crap are on the same level as a facial tick and mild slobbering... :pQuote:
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Notice no one hardly never (bad gramer rocks!) mentions the "blh blh blh blh!" spitting of Boss in their "icky goo," breaking wind, and other crass humor examples?


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GIVEN how deftly he evaded the question Tom Rogic has presumably heard the X-Factor comparisons before.
That's not to say they are not valid, however. Simon Cowell's show plucks aspiring pop stars from obscurity, gives them a platform on which to demonstrate their talents (or otherwise), and, if good enough, turns them into global superstars. Rogic's meteoric rise has so far followed a similar path.
Celtic's latest signing was playing local football a few years ago when he was approached and asked if he wanted to enter "The Chance", a competition run by Nike to find and promote undiscovered talent. More than 75,000 hopefuls from 40 countries applied and Rogic made it through local, regional and national auditions to reach the last 100. The final stage – a three-day trial in London – produced eight winners, one of whom was a talented midfielder from Canberra, Australia. Rogic's reward was a year playing in the Nike Academy in England, part of which involved travelling all across Europe to play top youth sides including Celtic.
From there Rogic signed with Central Coast Mariners in the Australia A-League, his first involvement in professional football, and made such an impression that a queue of suitors soon formed. They included Reading and Fulham, and others in Spain, Belgium and beyond. It was Celtic, however, who won the race, doing enough to persuade the 20 year-old that his future lay in Scotland. Now Rogic, who a few years ago was playing the equivalent of Sunday League football, could soon be participating in a Champions League knock-out tie against Juventus. The most remarkable thing, though, about this rags-to-riches tale is just how relaxed and down-to-earth the player is about his stunning rise to prominence.
"My career path has been a bit of a strange one, not the typical route most players take," he said with some degree of understatement. "About two years ago I was playing in what was more or less a local league. There was a programme called the Nike Chance and, not being part of a professional football club, I entered it.
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Mom's Banana Bread
- Butter, for greasing pan
- 1 cup flour, plus more for pan
- 3⁄4 tsp. baking soda
- 1⁄4 tsp. kosher salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup canola oil
- 1⁄3 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
- 2⁄3 cup chopped pecans
- 3 very ripe bananas, mashed
Heat oven to 350°. Grease a 9" x 5" x 2 3⁄4" loaf pan with butter and dust with flour; set pan aside. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. Whisk together sugar, oil, buttermilk, vanilla, egg, and egg yolk in a medium bowl until smooth. Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients and whisk until just combined. Add pecans and mashed bananas and whisk gently to combine. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean, 60–65 minutes. Let cool for 30 minutes before slicing and serving.
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This week is trying to get away from me! Have you ever had one of those weeks where they just fly by and you have so much on your "fun"genda that it is a real challenge fitting it all in. That has been this week for me. So much going on.
With "so much going on" comes very busy even rushed out the door hair days. So we have had to really Keep 'em Simple. This one is just that nice and simple, but cute. You are first going to do some of your simple knots around the front. This is especially nice if you are trying to grow out bangs. We did three rows on the left and two on the right. Love having the balance difference. Always have and always will.
You can't really tell from the picture, but we added sparkles with a hair mascara color just for a little extra fun. In real life you can tell. In the photo, not so much. And at this point with just the knots you can call it done if you want too. We didn't.
The last step is pulling it into a low pony tail. Then find something like a Trash Tie to tie down for a long hold. I love that look. If you are going to do a low pony tail I say have a long wrap in it to finish it off. Ribbon works great too.


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The 4000 Islands in Laos is just over the border from Cambodia and is a small cluster of little islands on the Mekong River. The 4000 Islands are all pretty undeveloped and the one we would be staying on, Don Det, only got electricity a few years ago. The island also does not have any ATMs and, as far as we know, no AC.
Don Det is supposed to be a really relaxed, laid-back place, so we were expecting to find a quiet island that still had some people around. When our boat arrived at the "beach" with everyone else from our bus who wasn't still back at the shore arguing over the $2 ferry charge, a guy hanging around seemed surprised to see us coming and said to Corey, "Whoa, nice to see some people are finally on the island!" Apparently, we were coming during a quiet season, even for this place
It was already dark and we had had a long day, so we were anxious to quickly find a place to stay. The beach where you arrive is at the north end of the island, and you can either go west, down the sunset side, or east, down the sunrise side, to look for accommodation. It seemed like most of the action was down the sunrise side, so we headed down there and soon found a guesthouse with cheap bungalows and, more importantly, plenty of hammocks. Our bungalow consisted of one window, one bed, a mosquito net (with too many holes in it), a weak fan, and a squat toilet. But for under $4 a night, we were satisfied.
It was getting late and we knew that Laos is supposed to have some sort of national curfew where everything closes around 11, so we went back to the street to find some food. Walking along, it seemed like that guy from the beach was right – there didn't seem to be anyone around anywhere. We finally found ourselves in front of an Indian place that must have had 75% of the people on the island in it and figured we would try it. Corey commented that there is probably one restaurant every night that has a big crowd because once one or two tables sit down, the same waterfall effect that brought us in takes over. The food was pretty weak, and Corey refused to eat anything after a swarm of bugs attacked him and his naan
The next morning, we woke up early with the sun and decided to have a walk around the island to do some exploring of what was around. We spent the morning following the trail down the sunrise side to the bottom of Don Det but wanted to save crossing the bridge to Don Khon for the next day, so we just followed the trail back up the sunset side. It was a really hot day and whenever we found ourselves out of the shade, we were baking in the sun. We also almost took a few wrong turns near the south end of the island that would have gotten us lost and probably back in Cambodia.
Walking through the island was really nice. It seemed like a beautiful, natural place that has been totally sheltered from modern development with the people still living a much simpler life. There were a few times when we were walking around that I felt almost bad for being there exploring their little local island, as if just by being there as a westerner traveler, I was corrupting their traditional ways and leading to a break from their simple lives. Everyone was so friendly though, and as you walk along the river by the hundreds of bungalows all the way up and down, everyone says "Sabaidee" with a smile and you learn very quickly how to say "Hello" in Lao
After putting in some quality hammock time, we busted out Bananagrams for the first time on the trip and played with some of the other people staying in our bungalows. The games were getting intense and we completely lost track of time, so the only sunset we caught was the fringe of the purple and pink clouds on the river, but it looked like we missed a good one.
One of the guys we met, Frankie a Canadian, knew of a restaurant where the guy didn't mind playing the music and letting people hang out past 11, so we went there for dinner. It was a pretty cool place on the sunset side with some nice floor pillow-seating, and there were a lot of other people there hanging out. We had a fun time, and it got even better when Frankie had a few drinks and his rampant anti-Americanism and apparent pro-Somali pirate sentiments came out, leading to some interesting conversations. Walking home, I didn't even know there could be so many stars in such a clear night sky
The next morning, we woke up early when the sun made our room unbearably hot and rented bikes and headed over to Don Khon, a larger, nearby island just over the bridge. On the way, we stopped at the bakery on a recommendation from some American guy we met walking around the day before. This bakery was run by an Aussie baker who packed up and moved to Don Det 7 years ago. He makes everything fresh each day, and the food was incredible. When we were leaving, we saw him putting some fresh focaacia bread and chocolate/banana doughnuts into the oven and knew we would be back in time to get those. We ended up going back two more times before we left the island.
Biking was a much better way to get around the island, and we crossed the bridge to Don Khon. On Don Khon, we visited a waterfall that was not exactly the smallest natural waterfall but nice nonetheless. On our way back, we had to pull off the narrow road so that six songtows of Asian tourists could go past to the falls, and, for some reason, they all thought that Corey and I were hilarious because they kept waving, laughing, and taking pictures. Literally, each truck that came by had at least one old woman taking photos of us.
There really isn't all that much to do on Don Det except relax, and the rest of the day involved more hammock and Bananagrams, but this time, we managed to control ourselves and got to the beach for sunset. It was nice, but there were a few too many clouds. That night, we went back to the same restaurant, but this time, we had so many people that Frankie decided to basically rearrange the whole restaurant so that it turned into one huge family-style table with everyone sitting on the sides. That night had another great sky for stars, and we went to bed, ready to say goodbye to the 4000 Islands the next morning.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mississippi State coach Vic Schaefer couldn't say enough good things about No. 5 Kentucky after the Wildcats routed the Bulldogs 100-47 on Thursday night.
Schaefer's team played hard but couldn't keep up with a Kentucky team that blew out Mississippi State for the second year in a row on its home floor. The 53-point margin was five more than last year's loss by the Bulldogs at Memorial Coliseum.
"We lost to a good team today," Schaefer said. "Obviously, we're pretty outmanned, out-womaned, at every position but I was proud of several of my kids, too. I thought they competed for most of the game.
"Right now, that's what we're trying to teach Mississippi State, trying to teach competing and trying to teach toughness right now."
The Bulldogs (8-10, 0-5 Southeastern Conference) shot 46 percent from the field (18 of 39) but were outrebounded 46-20 by the Wildcats. Kentucky's 26 offensive rebounds alone were more than Mississippi State's total.
Add in 35 turnovers leading to 42 Kentucky points, one block and just five steals, and it's pretty easy to see how the Bulldogs lost their fifth in a row overall and sixth straight to the Wildcats.
Then again, Mississippi State faced a pretty tall task trying to end its losing streak at Kentucky, which had won its last 15 overall and 31 straight at home entering the game.
The Bulldogs struggled to contain Wildcats forward DeNesha Stallworth, who scored 25 points to help Kentucky move to 17-1 for the best start in school history. A'dia Mathies added 21 points and Bria Goss 13 in a game Kentucky led by as many as 55.
Kendra Grant had 11 points and Carnecia Williams 10 for Mississippi State. After having eight double-doubles coming in, center Martha Alwal didn't score and had just four rebounds.
The Wildcats, meanwhile, had three offensive rebounds only 37 seconds in, and Samarie Walker and Stallworth combined for Kentucky's first eight points. Goss followed with a three-point play for an 11-2 lead.
But the first half clearly belonged to Stallworth, who scored 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting and grabbed three rebounds.
"I rushed a couple of shots," said Stallworth, who also had six rebounds and four assists. "I have to continue to play tough and play through contact, so that's something I have to work on."
Walker had six points in the half and finished with nine after combining for five points in the past two games. She also had six rebounds.
Kentucky's defense harassed Mississippi State into 17 first-half turnovers, leading to 18 points. The Wildcats' pressure also forced two shot clock violations, culminating in a 46-24 halftime lead.
Mathies opened the second half with consecutive 3-pointers for Kentucky, which mounted a 27-2 run spanning the intermission for a 67-26 lead.
Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell believes that Mississippi State will be competitive as long as the Bulldogs stick to Schaefer's plan. But right now, the Bulldogs coach believes the Wildcats are the example to follow in getting there.
"He gets it and you've got to give him all the credit in the world for that," Schaefer said of Mitchell, "because at the end of the day, he's smart enough to know that No. 1, it's not about him, No. 2, he went and got himself a good staff because he knows he can't do it by himself, and then No. 3, they got players that fit their system.
"That's our job right now at Mississippi State, we have got to go get some help and get some kids that fit our system and we're trying to do that. In the meantime, we've got to teach a system and teach a way of life. It's not what we do but how we do it because that's what will separate us."


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China's industrial profits rose 5.3% in March from a year ago, down from the 17.2% growth recorded during the first two months of 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 1% today.
India raised the rate it uses to set taxes on gold imports. The S&P BSE India Sensex Index rose 0.5%.
South Korea's current account surplus rose to $4.98 billion in March, the largest since November. The Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI Index fell 0.2%.
The Philippines is considering ways to keep its currency from strengthening. The Philippines Stock Exchange PSEi Index rose 0.04%.
Malaysia's opposition has promised to lower gas prices and reduce government waste; its ruling party pledges cheaper cars, cash for the poor and low-income housing. The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index fell 0.2%.
Russia's VTB Bank sold half of its $3.3 billion issue of new shares to Norway, Qatar and Azerbaijan. Russia's Micex stock index has dropped 0.5%.
South Africa's black middle class has more than doubled during the past eight years, Bloomberg reports. The FTSE/JSE Africa Top40 Tradeable Index has fallen 0.6%.
Turkish soap operas have growth popular overseas, the Wall Street Journal says. Turkey's Istanbul Stock Exchange National 100 Index has dropped 0.4%.
Four companies went public in April in Brazil, the most since 2007.
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I've been talking to a lot of people about the "iWARP port sharing problem" lately, so I thought it might be a good idea to write a quick summary to point at and bring new people up to speed without constantly repeating myself.
To start with, iWARP is an RDMA (remote direct memory access) protocol that runs over TCP (or conceivably SCTP or any other stream protocol). It was defined by the IETF rddp working group, and the standard is in RFC 5040 and later RFCs. So what's so great about RDMA?
The rationale for RDMA is laid out in great detail in RFC 4297, but the basic idea is that allowing network messages to carry information about where they should be received and allowing the NIC to place the data directly in that buffer allows fundamentally better performance.
To take a concrete example, think of iSCSI: an initiator sends a bunch of SCSI commands to a target (probably queuing up multiple commands), and the target processes the commands, possibly out of order, and returns the responses to the initiator. Without RDMA (or at least, without "direct data placement," which is pretty equivalent to RDMA), for each read that the initiator does, it has to receive the data from the target, look at which command the data corresponds to, and copy it into the buffer that the SCSI midlayer wants it in. With RDMA and the "iSCSI Extensions for RDMA" (iSER, which is RFC 5046), the target can send the data in response to a read command and have it placed directly in the receive buffer on the initiator, which saves the copy and uses 3x less memory bandwidth (which is huge if the data is running at 10Gb/sec). In the SCSI world, this is nothing particularly exciting: pretty much every Fibre Channel HBA in the world already does the equivalent thing. What's cool about iWARP is that it allows similar optimizations for NFS (the IETF nfsv4 working group is defining a standard for NFS/RDMA, and kernel 2.6.24-rc1 already has the client side of this draft protocol merged) as well as other applications that we haven't thought of yet.
The way that iWARP is implemented is that RDMA NICs handle the full iWARP protocol including TCP in hardware — yes, the dreaded "TCP offload engine." This is crucial to the performance: if the network data isn't processed to the point of knowing where to put it on the NIC's side of the PCI bus, then the memory bandwidth savings of copy avoidance is lost. So while one can imagine an iWARP implementation with stateless NIC hardware using some super-fancy header splitting and chipset DMA engine tricks, it's not clear that it will perform as well as current iWARP NICs do.
Now, in addition to handling TCP connections, iWARP NICs also have to act like normal NICs so that they can handle normal network traffic such as ARPs, pings or ssh logins. What this means is that some packets are received normally and passed up the standard network stack, while other packets that belong to iWARP connections are consumed by the NIC.
This is what leads to the "port sharing problem." One application might do a normal bind() to accept TCP connections on port X. It might even let the kernel choose a port number for it. Then another application (possibly even the same application) does an iWARP bind and tells the iWARP NIC to accept TCP connections on the same port X. This might happen because two different applications do the bind and have no way of coordinating with each other, or it might happen because one application just passes 0 in the sin_port field of its bind requests, and the kernel chooses the same port for both the normal and iWARP bind(). Whatever the reason, the end result is not good: the NIC and the network stack are left fighting for the same packets, and someone has to lose.
The reason this is an issue is because the kernel's network stack and iWARP stack have completely separate port allocators, so there is no way for applications to prevent port collisions from happening. The obvious solution is to have normal TCP and iWARP port numbers allocated from the same space.
Unfortunately, the Linux networking developers are not too interested in cooperating on this. It seems that some people have just decided that anyone who wants to use iWARP is wrong to want that (no matter how much better than the alternatives it is for that user's app) and will just reflexively reject anything iWARP-related without trying to engage in constructive discussion. (Given that attitude, it's rather ironic when the same people preach about open-mindedness and "thinking outside the box," but let's not get sidetracked…)
Given the current deadlock, the advice I've been giving to the various iWARP NIC companies is just to sell a lot of iWARP NICs and make the problem so big that we're forced to find a solution. I don't see any other way to force people to work together.
On social networks
With Google's big OpenSocial announcement, I find myself thinking about social networking in general. I think I may be a generation or so too old to really "get it," but I do use four social networking sites at least a little bit:
If Google can open all this up so I have better control of my own information and don't have to deal with three or four different sites all the time, that would be cool. But I doubt they can pull off anything so pro-consumer….
Materials from LinuxConf.eu RDMA tutorial (at last)
At long last, after several requests, I've posted the slides, notes, and client and server examples from the tutorial I gave at LinuxConf.eu 2007 in Cambridge back in September. Hyper-observant readers will notice that the client program I posted does not match the listing in the notes I handed out; this is because I fixed a race condition in how completions are collected.
I'm not sure how useful all this is without me talking about it, but I guess every little bit helps. And of course, if you have questions about RDMA or InfiniBand programming, come on over to the mailing list and fire away.
InfiniBand/RDMA in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24
With yesterday's release of kernel 2.6.23, I thought it might be a good time to look back at what significant changes are in 2.6.23, and what we have queued up for 2.6.24..
So first I looked at the kernel git log from the v2.6.22 tag to the v2.6.23 tag, and I was surprised to find that nothing really stood out. We merged something like 158 patches that touched 123 files, but I couldn't really find any headline-worthy new features in there. There were just tons of fixes and cleanups all over, although mostly in the low-level hardware drivers. For some reason, 2.6.23 was a pretty calm development cycle for InfiniBand and RDMA, which means that at least that part of 2.6.23 should be rock solid.
2.6.24 promises to be a somewhat more exciting release for us. In my for-2.6.24 branch, in addition to the usual pile of fixes and cleanups, I have a couple of interesting changes queued up to merge as soon as Linus starts pulling things in:
Also, bonding support for IP-over-InfiniBand looks set to go in through Jeff Garzik's tree. This is something that I've been wanting to see for years now; the patches allow the standard bonding module to enslave IPoIB interfaces, which means that multiple IB ports can finally be used for IPoIB high-availability failover. Moni Shoua and others did a lot of work and stuck with this for a long time, and the final set of patches turned out to be very clean and nice, so I'm really pleased to see this get merged.
Shape up or ship out
I know I'm not in the shape I once was, but it seems rather cruel of the Cantabrigians to send around huge signs on buses that say "Run, Fatboy, Run" when I go out for a morning jog.
Force of habit…
I went to the little mini post office in the grocery store today and bought some stamps. The conversation went something like this:
Me: "I'd like a sheet of 41-cent stamps and two sheets of 2-cent stamps, please."
Counter person: "That will be $9. Do you need any stamps or postal supplies today?"
Me: "Um. Just the stamps I already asked for, thanks."
Lazyweb: best American plug to UK receptacle adapter?
As I mentioned in my previous post, I'll be traveling to Cambridge next month. I haven't been to the UK in nearly 10 years, and so I'm in the market for an electrical adapter, since even after powertop's best efforts, I still need to charge my laptop occasionally. So I'm looking for something I can use between a North American plug and a UK receptacle. Ideally the adapter would be neither impossible tight nor prone to coming out, and wouldn't fall apart until after my trip. I don't need any gold-plated active phase skew compensation or anything like that, though.
Any suggestions? Thanks….
Cambridge… England, that is
My tutorial Writing RDMA applications on Linux has been accepted at LinuxConf Europe 2007. I'll try to give practical introduction to writing native RDMA applications on Linux — "native" meaning directly to RDMA verbs as opposed to using an additional library layer such as MPI or uDAPL. I'm aiming to make it accessible to people who know nothing about RDMA, so if you read my blog you're certainly qualified. Start planning your trip now!
My presentation is on the morning of Monday, September 3, and I'm flying to England across 7 time zones on Sunday, September 2, so I hope I'm able to remain upright and somewhat coherent for the whole three hours I'm supposed to be speaking….
Who knew…
…computing icon Andy Bechtolsheim is a top-poster?
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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This is the Cold Weather Camping Fact sheet or help card that we use at my Troop.
It is a nice tool for teaching cold weather camping to the Scouts. We find it helpful to the Scouts so they can use it as a reference sheet.
We print them and laminate them.. they are light weight and fit nice in the pack.
Again, its a nice tool for teaching and reenforcing cold weather skills and first aid.
Download it here.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
NOTE: 12-31-09 revised Cold Weather Camping card posted. If you have a version prior to this date.. Download the newer card. Thanks


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PA Fiscal Year Begins Without Budget
July 1, 2014
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Midnight marked the arrival of Pennsylvania state government's new fiscal year, which comes with an election-year budget bill approved by the Legislature, but not Gov. Tom Corbett's signature.
The Republican, who used to boast about his perfect record in signing budgets on time, said early Tuesday morning as he left the Capitol that he wouldn't immediately sign the $29.1 billion spending plan that lawmakers sent him.
Leaders of the House and Senate Republican majorities couldn't drum up enough support for the pension overhaul Corbett wanted in conjunction with the budget. The plan would reduce future state and school employees' pensions to save more than $10 billion over 30 years.
What happens next is unclear. Corbett says he hadn't agreed to every detail in the main budget bill before it passed, so he wants to review it first.


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Sound of Charleston: Holiday Edition
Date & Time
Friday, December 14, 2012 - 7:00pm
Circular Congregational Church
Event Details
Well before the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen added their own twists, holiday tunes played an important role in celebrating the season. Sound of Charleston, known for performing great music that defines the Holy City's musical heritage, presents four special concerts this month, including gospel spirituals, music heard on Civil War campgrounds, and more. After the show, meet the performers and sip on traditional mulled cider. Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting St. Friday, 7pm. $28; $25 senior/military; $16 student; free for child under 13. (843)270-4903, www.soundofcharleston.com


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Give chicken stew a Southwestern twist with cumin, beans, and convenient frozen bell peppers and onions.
Use fresh red, yellow and green bell pepper strips, and 1/4 cup of chopped onion, in place of the frozen stir-fry mixture.
Garnish this Southwestern skillet with a tomato wedge and fresh cilantro sprigs.
Serve a refreshing salad of mixed greens, grapefruit and orange sections tossed with a lemon-herb vinaigrette with this flavorful chicken recipe.
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Experience Israel through the tastes and the smells: a gastronomic adventure to discover Israel's multicultural population and unique culture while indulging yourself in a wide palate of flavors.
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Begin your gastronomic adventure in Israel in the Golan Heights, which few people know has become a magnet for wine, food and olive-oil connoisseurs. Wine, oil and livestock have been the traditional produce of the Golan for centuries. One of the finest illustrations of this fact is the Talmudic village of Katsrin, where wine- and oil-presses have been discovered, and an oil press is on display and even used.
After a short tour of the ancient village, you can proceed to the nearby industrial zone to visit the Eden Water Mineral Water Plant (04-696-1050; 04-696-28245, ext. 236) and Katsrin's winery, one of many in the Golan Heights.
Drive north through the Druze villages of Buk'ata and Mas'ade, stopping for the special Druze pita bread, cheese and za'atar (The biblical hyssop).
Descend from the Golan to the Hula Valley via the headwaters of the Jordan. Due to the abundance of water, the area is dotted with fish ponds. Dinner at a fish restaurant is a great choice in this region, with trout one of the specialties.
You can also head down to the Sea of Galilee to enjoy a fish dinner along the lakefront, the local favorite being St. Peter's (tilapia).


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By Tiernan Ray
Needham & Co. chip analyst Rajvindra S. Gill this afternoon cut estimates on two chip makers, Atmel (ATML) and Synaptics (SYNA), both suppliers to Samsung Electronics (005930KS), following what he now believes will be lower sales of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 phone than previously expected.
Gill rates both stocks a Buy, and thinks the sell-off since June 7th on the names – 12% in Synaptics's case, and 3% in Atmel's case, is "overdone" and has fully baked in the downside from the lowered outlook.
Atmel shares today fell 10 cents, or 1.3%, to $7.84, while Synaptics shares fell 44 cents, or 1.2%, to $37.44.
Gill's note follows numerous sell-side reports about the S4 turning up lower sales than previously expected because of a general slowdown in sales of premium smartphones, which is also believed to be affecting Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and other devices at the top end of the pricing spectrum for smartphones.
Gill has not evidence of a slow-down, but rather refers to a "potential" slowdown of the S4, noting that his estimate for perhaps 100 million to 110 million this calendar year, which he now cuts to just $80 million. Atmel's "sensor hub" part in the S4 might have an average selling price of $1, he estimates, meaning his revenue is cut to $80 million from $100 million this year, reducing EPS by 3 cents per share. He now models Atmel sales this year of $1.4 billion, down from a prior $1.425 billion, and sales next year of $1.63 billion, down from $1.655 billion. EPS this year is now modeled at 30 cents, down from 33 cents. 2014′s EPS is seen as 70 cents, down from 75 cents.
Samsung is a measurable part of Atmel's sales, he notes:
Overall, we estimate Samsung accounts for ~10% of ATML's
sales and the S4 program, specifically, represents 5-6% of sales. We
acknowledge that the build rates differ across each supplier in the Samsung supply chain and it's difficult to gauge the exact impact of a potential slowdown; however, we believe it's prudent to adjust our high-end estimates to reflect this potential reality.
For Synaptics, which sells a touch controllerinto the S4, Gill models 30 million fewer units of the $1.10 part this year, cutting this year's revenue estimate to $623.4 million from a prior $630.9 million, and cutting EPS to $2.55 from $2.64. His 2014 estimate goes to $780 million from $810 million, while his EPS goes to $3.45 from $3.80. Again, Samsung is a measurable part of Synaptics's sales: "Overall, we estimate Samsung accounts for 20-30% of overall sales and the Galaxy S4 program, specifically, represents around 7-10% of sales."


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Sudan: Poor transportation severely limits humanitarian access to the displaced
In South Kordofan, the security situation in and around the capital Kadugli remained unpredictable. Heavy fighting was reported on 17 June in the Heiban-Kauda-Um Dorien area, according to the latest OCHA situation report.
While Kauda airstrip remains useable, Kadugli airport was closed for UN flights at this moment. To ensure the delivery of vital humanitarian aid and rotation of humanitarian staff, humanitarian partners are negotiating with parties to the conflict to establish a regular schedule of convoys between Kadugli and El Obeid in North Kordofan.
Although insecurity and transportation restrictions continue to limit humanitarian access, some assessments have taken place in several areas of the state. On 15 June, the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) reported that a total of 55,000 people were displaced in various in South Kordofan. As assessment continues, the overall number of displaced people is expected to be higher than the previously estimated 60,000.
As of 16 June, an estimated 10,000 displaced people were around the UNMIS compound on the outskirts of Kadugli, according to UNICEF.
WFP's partners have been able to provide over 31,000 people with food. While WFP was unable to reach its warehouse in Kadugli due to ongoing insecurity,. WFP moved five trucks carrying 300 MT of food from its warehouse in El Obeid to the UNMIS compound near Kadugli to meet the needs of the displaced. Screening of children for malnutrition is ongoing.
Every day, 20,000 litres of portable water are supplied to displaced people in the UNMIS compound near Kadugli and 20 latrines have been constructed by the water, sanitation, and hygiene partners in the past three days.
Health centers in Kadugli are experiencing shortages of paramedics as many fled due to the fighting. Volunteers have been called in from other non-affected places to provide assistance.
An inter-agency mission from Khartoum to El Obeid to discuss the new displacement and access to Kadugli and other parts of South Kordofan is planned on 21 June.
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Ok, time for a new one ;)
Not that much changes since the last entry, actually. I should try and keep this up on a daily basis; but knowing myself that'll probably never happen.
Some events worth mentioning:
- Recieved an IA64 workstation and a HPPA server from HP, which we're going to host for the Debian project. If everything goes fine, they should be running the non-US build daemons sometimes soon.. The IA64 is much slower than i thought, but it looks cool; blue and purplish.
- Started building a 'private' build farm here; reserved a 19" rack thing, and started filling it up with 'spare' machines. The IA64 and HPPA box are going to be in it too. Scavenged a 40 and an 80Gb disk for them, and a small switch. We now have all architectures that run Debian, excluding M68k and Powerpc. After everything's installed and stable, and we get our second ADSL uplink, we will make the buildfarm public, giving out accounts on request.
- Got accepted in the Debian security team, and brought out my first DSA (on apache/apache-ssl). Bugged wichert a lot about that :)
- Bought tickets for HAL2001. I was too late for the 'regular' payment scheme, so i had to pay by credit card. to 2600. (eeks). Anyone know of a place in holland where i can rent a camper for 3 days, _cheap_ ? :)
- The tickets for my trip to the states have been reserved; i'm going to do a talk on the LinuxWorld conference in SF, together with wichert. (about debian package development & stuff)
- Took over the 'sed', 'grep' and 'acpid' Debian packaging
- Uploaded new lvm packages, sistina-style this time.


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"It's OK," Keith replied to the apology. "I didn't mind at all. And I'd be happy to stay for supper. Gemini, how about you?"
"Weezing," Gemini's heads groaned simultaneously, though they nodded all the same. The Weezing seemed to be having a little trouble rising back into the air, presumably due to the Garbodor's Smack Down, though Keith suspected the paralysis and general battle injuries were at least partly to blame.
"All right, Gemini, how about you take a rest in your Poke Ball for now?" Keith suggested. "You battled great, you deserve a rest."
"Weezing weez," replied Gemini, nodding again as Keith withdrew his Weezing to its Poke Ball.
"As I was saying, I'd be glad to join you for supper," Keith said to the man.


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October 2013 was intense around here. Well, at least for me; and certainly for our Artist-in-Residence, Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen.
The Center was filled with excitement, anticipation and inspiration for me and the hundreds of you who participated in one of our 28 mural painting sessions.
Our community, under Jay's guidance, took 1,560 square feet and 8 planter tops of blankness and transformed them into a work of art. A work of art that communicates social justice themes such as Environmental Stewardship, Human Rights & Dignity, Economic Justice, and Food Justice.
Do you remember eating lunch outside by the J café and seeing the steady progression over 15 packed days? Or perhaps coming back after an absence to notice the work fully realized? I remember October, but this documentary by Chip Curry brought back vivid details by capturing the communal spirit and offering candid testimonials. I'm delighted to share it with you.
Want to see 150 hours of work blast by in 3 minutes?
Here's a time lapse look at the painting process.
Tours of the Grow Justice Mural and Garden are available for groups at the PJCC in Foster City, CA. Inquire at email@example.com. And, take a self-guided tour using our brochure. Get your free copy when you visit The Grow Justice Mural.


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Weekend Trip to Alexandria
Friday, September 11th
The night before, I was up pretty late with some local friends. We went to a nearby place, and there was a soccer match on…Zamalek vs. El-Ahly. Each time Zamalek scored, the room cheered. I really want to go to a live soccer match and experience all the excitement. Soon, Inshallah!
I got up at 5:45am. I called my sister and my friend who both have their birthdays on 9/11 because Cairo is 6 hours ahead of NYC time. Then I got ready because our bus was leaving at 7am. Cairo is 188 km or 117 miles from Alexandria. It was about a 2.5-hour drive (with some crazy highway driving). The bus driver was excellent in not getting into any accidents. I was quite surprised and thanked him when we returned safely.
We passed through miles of desert before we started seeing some green, then finally right in front of us, the beach-line of Alexandria. It looked like Florida for a bit with all the palm trees. But soon enough, it ousted Florida in comparison. Alexandria has Roman and Greek influences and you can see that throughout the construction of buildings. Alexandria, named after its founder, Alexander the Great had no difficulties creating the city.
Our first stop was the infamous library of Alexandria, built by Alexander's successor Ptolemy. It was one of the greatest and largest libraries in the world. It was built in 3rd Century BC, until a fire destructed it some centuries later.
Our next stop was the Qaitbay Citadel. The fortress was constructed in the 15th century by Sultan Qaitbay. It had views of the Mediterranean. There was also a small mosque inside.
After taking various pictures inside the Citadel, we went to the Fish Market for lunch. They served us an actual fish (which we all didn't really expect). It was delish. After lunch, we checked into the Regency Hotel overlooking the Mediterranean. We had a few hours of leisure time until we got back on the bus at 7:30pm to go to the Green Plaza Mall. My friends and I spent that time relaxing and talking on the beach. We dipped our feet inside the water and the temperature was perfect. It was nice and cool. The water was a nice light blue and green color. The sun was starting to go down; it was definitely beautiful.
7:30pm arrived and we boarded the bus. I didn't really shop (just bought some shawls). A friend and I discovered a mini-amusement park in the back of the mall. The RA's didn't mention this to us at all, as if this was normal in the US. There was a go-cart ride in a huge tank of water that my friend and I had to go on. It was 7 pounds for the ride. It was awkward at first because all the locals were looking at how excited we got when we saw it. Though we had a blast on it.
We boarded the bus at 11:30pm and arrived back to our hotel by around midnight. When we got back, my friend had could not find her wallet. She and some other friends went back to the beach to where she believed she left it. One of the workers at the beach said they had it, but the man who returned it had already taken out the money before it was turned it. At least she got her wallet back, which had sentimental value. My friend and I talked until about 2:30am even though we were exhausted.
Saturday, September 12
I woke up at 8am to the sound of wind hitting against our windows. The breeze from the beach was pretty strong in the morning. I took a shower and got dressed for breakfast. It wasn't all that great (the best part was the shay- aka tea). We left for Catacombs, which was a burial site for the rich. It was accidentally found when a donkey fell into the shaft in 1900. It didn't survive. There was capacity for 27,000 bodies inside this underground site. We went a few stories down and saw these massive boxes created in the walls where 4 bodies could fit into a box. There was even a meeting area for friends of the dead. The Catacombs is one of the seven medieval wonders of the world.
Our next stop was the Roman Amphitheatre, which was a huge outdoors theatre, seating thousands. This was the site for Egyptian opera and the steps were made of marble. One area was reconstructed with cement in a similar set-up for the site of concerts today. It was certainly historic.
We left for lunch afterwards at the Balbaa' Restaurant (one of the most famous local Alexandrian restaurants). I'm not sure I really enjoyed the food (just liked the pasta and dessert). I think I've had better local food.
After lunch, I bought some more shawls on the street. My friends and I decided to go across the street to the Mediterranean side for some pictures. Crossing the city streets here are a journey. Sometimes, you think you won't make it. It literally takes us a few minutes to find the opportunity to sprint across (because cars don't like stopping for people to cross). We finally got to the other side, took pictures and were trying to run across again to board the bus. This time, some guys saw us in distress, but thought it would be funny to scare us even more. They started making sounds to scare us, which we didn't really find funny until after we crossed the street. We're so sad! I'm afraid I'll come back to the states finding myself crossing streets all in the worst ways possible.
We finally arrived back to Zamalek (home) at around 5:30pm and see the need to start my homework. Classes are tomorrow. Still find it weird to have school on Sundays, but hey, I still have a 4-day/week schedule!


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By NEMS Daily Journal
STARKVILLE – The No. 10 Ole Miss men's tennis team won the doubles point on Friday, but lost five of the first six sets in singles against No. 13 Mississippi State.
Then, a rain delay of more than three hours changed the momentum
entirely, as the Rebels (13-5, 6-3 SEC) won 4-2.
William Kallberg gave Ole Miss the lead with his come-from-behind, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Jordan Angus at No. 3 singles, then Rebels' Jonas Lutjen finished off a 1-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 victory against Malte Stropp to clinch the win over MSU (13-7, 3-5 SEC).
"A great comeback," coach Billy Chadwick said. "This was a great Mississippi State team, and it's extremely difficult to beat them in Starkville."
WOMEN'S MATCH: The Ole Miss women's team scored their 24th victory in a row in their series with MSU, winning 4-1 in Oxford.


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Family: Pinaceae, Pine view all from this family
Description Widely distributed, known for its long, slender trunk and high, narrow crown. Near timberline shrub form twisted and bent. Bark thin, light brown, scaly. Branches upright, covered with short shoots. Buds reddish-brown, short pointed, slightly rotated, very resinous between 20 and 30 millimetres (0.79 and 1.2 in) long. Needles in bundles of two, dark, shiny, pointed 4 to 8 cm (1.6 to 3.1 in) long and 0.9 to 2 mm (0.035 to 0.079 in) wide. Cones brownish yellow, 3–7 cm (3/4 - 2 in), have prickles on the scales, and often need exposure to high temperatures to open and release their seeds.
Dimensions Height: 6-24 m. (20-80 ft)
Diameter: 0.3-0.9 m. (1-3 ft).
Habitat Mountains, Swamps (fresh & salt).
Range California, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Northwest, Southwest, Plains, Alaska.
Discussion One of the most widely distributed tree species in western North America.
Lodgepole pine is named for its common use in the Native American tepee lodge. The long, straight, and lightweight characteristics of the species made it ideal for horse transport in nomadic buffalo hunting cultures. Tribes made long journeys across the plains to secure lodgepole pines that only grew in mountainous areas.


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Hello Gamedev, I would like to talk about a topic that interests me very much, and that in my opinion goes overlooked some times.
With the advent of Minecraft, people in general started to really notice the survival/sandbox genre, in where you collect things to survive and modify the world around you to fit your needs. As in other similar games, the gameplay revolves around building, resource gathering and fighting. This in my opinion spawned a lot of things to focus new games on, allow me to bring some examples to the table:
In Terraria, the focus was changed to accomodate to people who liked adventure games in the style of Castlevania and Metroid, but still mantaining building as one of the core mechanics.
King Arthur's Gold focuses more on PVP combat, while again; maintaining platforming building and resource gathering.
The game Don't Starve took out the "Endgame" part of the Sandbox, and brings you an adventure in where you are always at the verge of dying, because you can never do an impenetrable fortress as in Minecraft, for example.
So as you can see, we have games focusing on aspects that, don't misunderstand, Minecraft did not invent by any chance, but that made the general public turn towards to more than before, one focusing on combat, one on adventure and fighting mobs, and one in surviving.
But what about Resource Gathering?
I may be part of a very small niche, but the very fact that you must search for, collect and organize small bits of useful stuff makes the game very fun to me. Is it possible, at least in theory, to come up with a game in where resource gathering plays a big role?
My bet would be that it is, but the focus would in this case be economics. Real economics based on simple supply and demand, or any other method (I apologize for my lack of knowledge in the area). Is it possible to play the role of the citizens of your average RTS in where you are tasked to collect things just to sell them back to a big pool of player-earned coin?
What are your thoughts? If you wish to support the discussion, I would be very glad if you could answer some of these questions:
- Would it require a big number of players to maintain a less-fluctuating economy?
- Would it be better with a final goal? or just making the personal enrichment of the player the final goal? (A lot of people have this one in real life so...)
- And most importantly: Would it be fun?
Whatever point you can bring to the table will be most appreciated.
Thanks for your time.