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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Android rootkit created in just two weeks
"Android relies on Linux version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory management, process management, network stack, and driver model. The kernel also acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware and the rest of the software stack."
It is because of that Linux link that I wanted to start sharing Android news and concepts over here.
For those of you who don't know much about Android or maybe are not up to date with the project progress, I recommend watching the following video, which concentrates on demonstrating the great new features that come with the latest release, Android 2.2, codenamed "FROYO". The video is long, but very interesting, definitely worth watching. It includes demos depicting what Android is capable of today, as well as hinting at what is in store for the near future.
As Mr. Gundotra himself stresses at the beginning of this video, Android is roughly 1,5 years old. At such young age, it has made some incredible accomplishments, but some areas are still a bit immature. This is understandable, not only because of the project's youth, but also because of the crazy evolution pace the mobile device market is under. In fact, given that Android activations are now up to 160,000 a day (!!!), you can imagine how its market and community are bursting with creativity and continuous change.
Now, it would be naive to think that all that development power would go in one direction. There will surely be people with malicious intentions, interested in exploiting potential vulnerabilities. Therefore, it is wise to keep an eye on security and continuously watch for security holes. A couple experts at Spider Labs seem to have thought of that as they created a rootkit for Android, as a proof of concept for a vulnerability they found. That malicious piece of software they built allows its developer to gain total control over the Android device.
The most concerning bit is that they apparently built this piece of malware in roughly two weeks, and, as they acknowledge themselves, "there are people who are much more motivated to do these things than we are." You may read the full story from this ARTICLE.
I think it is important to not overreact to things like this one. Making a system rock solid and fully secure takes time, and it is specially challenging within an environment that evolves as quickly as the Android one. The fact that such a vulnerability was brought up is actually good news. To begin with, that vulnerability will be fixed, but it will also trigger much more robust security features and audits from now on.
Unfortunately, the article does not really explain how that piece of malware actually works, but I found a bit more information at SLASHDOT.ORG:
"...(The piece of malicious software) is able to send an attacker a reverse TCP over 3G/WIFI shell upon receiving an incoming call from a 'trigger number.'"
Therefore, this apparently means that the actual malware must be installed on the device (they don't really explain how this would happen) before the device owner picks up that 'trigger number' call in order for it to work. It's hard to judge the real impact of this vulnerability with so little information, but it sounds to me like installing software that exclusively comes from verified sources should avoid the problem.
NOTE: It is important to understand that this vulnerability is NOT a Linux one, but specific to Android.
Thanks for reading!
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- AnonymousAugust 7, 2010 at 7:23 AM
Hi Chema, love your blog. This is slightly off topic but is still security related and i would appreciate your input on the following:ReplyDelete
Mint cant authenticate downloaded packages by default. I installed Mint 9 KDE and noticed authentication failure on every package during first update. Went googling and found this thread on Mint forum which confirms that third most popular Linux distro is not capable of authenticating its own binaries, or any other binaries.
This is not mentioned in the Mint release notes as it should be. I am not a techie but this sounds like a serious security issue which is unresolved from version 7. Would this stop you from using or recommending Mint. All the best, Singu
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Wow, I had installed KDE Mint recently to take a quick look, but did it on a virtual machine. As a result, I didn't bother updating, so I didn't realise this problem was there.
In my opinion, this is a big issue, specially from the point of view of the release itself. One has to wonder how they tested if they didn't catch something this fundamental.
In practical terms, as long as the user does not add "obscure" repositories, the distro is only including validated ones to start with. In other words, even if the client does not authenticate its own binaries, we know they have been validated on the server side, so they should be 100% safe.
Would I recommend Linux Mint 9 KDE? Probably not. There are many other KDE distributions out there that do significantly better. PCLinuxOS 2009.7 is probably the first to spring to mind.
In my opinion, if you are going to use Mint or Ubuntu, both predominantly GNOME distros, why use the alternative (weaker) options?
A bit off topic, but I personally think Canonical should concentrate all its resources in Ubuntu and abandon any other flavors. That would allow them to polish their releases, work on resident bugs, improve their artwork and go back to being a stable and reliable distro. Something similar applies to Mint.
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2010 at 6:33 AM
Thank you for your replyReplyDelete
Not one Mint review mentiones this either, people dont expect they have to check apt-get default behaviour, and think release notes or distributions web page has all the distro and version relevant info. I hope you will ad addendum about this in your previous and future Mint reviews. you would be first in doing so. I think potential users should be aware of this, since this is a security issue. All Mint DE versions have the same changed apt-get behaviour by default. From what I can gather from that linked forum thread, this is known and intentional apt-get behaviour setup for the sake of devs convenience, so this is not considered a bug or an issue on their part, which probably explains why its not mentioned in the release notes. I have left similar posts on most Mint reviews from DistroWatch links, and sent emails to DistroWatch, and others about this. I hope this will not look like I am spreading FUD about Mint or being looked upon as some nutcase. I just feel people with more media weight should ask Mint devs some questiones since Mint is the only *buntu/debian distro that has this strange apt-get behaviour. This is also third most popular distro according to DistroWatch, and it is learning Linux noobs to blast their way through authentication warnings when they update or download software. Seems like one of those "Somebody would have noticed" stories, very strange.
I can only accept your point about default repositories since I am not a technical savy person but I think most people always add extra stuff.
When I finally convinced my brother to try Linux, KDE similarity with Windows was something he immediately liked, so Kubuntu LTS it was. Mint issue jumped while testing it,only reason it was tested was post-install conveniance. I will probably wait for debian 6, which will go on my parents computers.
I could not agree more with your point about Canonical, and it applys to alot of other distros as well. Management and clear software direction in opensource looks quite more difficult then in regular companies. Devs are only obligated to their passions, and yet someone has to steer and sync them together and we all know devs egoes are second only to those of writers. On that note, this has been a long writeup, once again thanks for your reply. All the best, Singu
First off, thanks for your comments, I am glad you liked my blog!ReplyDelete
I read more about this and I agree it is a concern. Having said so, it is importanto to understand the extent of that concern.
1.- This warning appears when using apt-get, which is kinda defeating the purpose of using Mint in the first place. Mint developers did an incredible job in creating the Software Manager, which does not suffer from this issue. In that regard, apt-get is probably just a resident package manager for them. I wouldn't be surprised if they considered this a low priority for that very reason.
2.- In a perfect situation, Mint should only throw that warning when downloading unsigned packages. Therefore, the problem here is that such behavior "programs" the user to simply ignore such security warnings. This is obviously dangerous and not desireable, but like I said before, it should not have any significancy as long as no new repos are added.
3.- If dark/obscure repos are added, it is not that unusual to find unsigned packages in them. In fact, even if they were signed, it wouldn't mean much unless proper quality and security control is put in place by the repository owner(s), which may not always be the case. In other words, adding repositories which are not clearly worthy of trust is always a bit dangerous, not recommended unless you know what you are doing.
Long story short, I don't see this matter as a big issue. Mint is built with ease of use in mind, which probably explains why they are not crazy about fixing this problem. On top of that, Mint + Ubuntu repositories already include a very rich application catalog, so adding new repositories should not be a big priority. Having said so, it looks like some people agree with you and are chasing this open issue, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was fixed soon.
Thanks again!
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Thank you for your time, effort and patience.ReplyDelete
Your last post clarifies this issue further and I find it resolved, so no further discussion necessary. I hope you would consider posting similar post in Mint forum and suggesting to moderators to make it a sticky, so there is something people can be referenced to if they ask questions about this. There is nothing in the Mint web site or forum even remotely concise and clear like your last post here.
Personally, I am not ready to give up on security features that can be easily found in other distributions, more so as I wanted to put Mint on my parents/family computers.
Lack of info about this is to me more frustrating, there is no reason why something similar to your last post cant be found on Mint web site or forum sticky. Why should end users trouble third party people about issues that have enough weight to be mentioned and explained further.
Again, thanks for your time and consider this discussion closed. All the best, Singu.
@Singu: Thanks to you, that was a great point you raised.ReplyDelete
As for using another distro, just go for it. The best thing about Linux is that it is all about freedom, so be sure to give other distros a chance.
Thanks again.


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Rod from Delaware writes:
Can I get rid of those balloon tips that pop up when my cursor is hovering over something in the start menu? I have Vista Home Premium Edition.
Rod, this is an awesome question. This very same thing has been bothering me for a while. I spent hours researching this problem and still couldn't find the answer anywhere. You can get rid of the balloon tips in the taskbar, you can get rid of the pop-ups over desktop icons, but there is absolutely nothing that shows you how to get rid of annoying stuff in the start menu.
Because you were kind enough to write to us (and because it was still bugging me), I decided that no matter what, I would answer your question – for both of our sakes. And guess what? With just a little help from the internet and a lot of common sense, I can answer your question.
Just so you know (and for future reference): The tips that you're talking about (the ones that pop up by the clock) are called screen tips. The place on the lower right corner of your screen next to the clock is called the notification area. Here's the breakdown:
Screen tips: The "balloons" or bubbles that pop up when you hover over an icon in the notification area. (The notification area is on the right side of the Taskbar, next to the clock.)
Screen tips: The "pop-ups' or balloons that pop up when you hover over a desktop icon.
Screen tips: The "balloons" that hover over a Start menu item at the top of the right pane, such as Documents, Pictures, Music, Games, etc.
If you would like to understand the concept of all different kinds of tips being the same one a little (not a lot) more, click here.
Since you are running Vista Home Premium, I will show you how to get rid of the screen tips in the Start menu in the home editions of Vista. I will mention here, too, that if you get rid of screen tips in the Start menu, the pop-ups over the desktop icons disappear, too. There may be other places, as well; I haven't seen any others that have disappeared, but I may not have run into them yet. In other words, Windows made it so that you can't disable getting rid of screen tips in one place alone. (Just so you know.)
Warning: The next steps involve editing the Windows registry. If you're unsure of how to proceed, please consult a professional! You have been warned!
If you want to edit the registry in any way, we recommend backing it up first. Things that happen in the registry cannot be undone and can wreak total havoc your system. Click here to learn how to back up your registry.
Okay, before we begin: I usually start these kinds of tips by showing you with a screenshot how to go to the Start button, and then the Run box. I may have mentioned it a couple of times; if you would rather use a keyboard shortcut, just type Win + R (Win being your Windows key) and your Run box will pop up. If you still would like to access it through the start menu, the example is below.
Type regedit in the Open line. Left-click on OK.
This brings up your Registry Editor. Under My Computer, navigateto this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer /Advanced
Note: If you would like to learn more on navigating the registry, click here.
To do this, just click on the little arrow to the very left of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER line.
You will now see a long list of little folders with arrows. The next thing you're looking for is Software; go down the list until you see it, and then click on the little arrow to the very left of it, just as we did above. Keep doing this until you get to the end of the command (which is Advanced).
Okay, we have arrived at the place we need to be, to get rid of the screen tips in the Start menu. In the example below, you see two panes. The left pane is where we just were navigating; Advanced is highlighted.
In the right pane, scroll down until you see ShowInfoTip. Double-click on it.
After you double-click on ShowInfoTip, a box will pop up. Under Value data, enter 0 (zero) in the box. Click on OK.
Exit the Registry Editor by clicking on the X in the upper right-hand corner, or going up to File and clicking on Exit in the drop-down menu.
Log off, and log back on.
No more pop-ups in the Start menu!
Note: If you want to re-enable the screen tips, just do exactly what we did in this article, only instead of putting a zero in the box, you will want to put a 1 (one).
Putting a zero in the box means it's disabled.
Putting a one in the box means it's enabled.
There you go! Thanks for writing, Rod!
~ Lori Cline
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But Krystkowiak did it, saying that his freshman center Jeremy Olsen deserved more minutes on Saturday against Colorado and that he deserves much more in the future.
The facts certainly seem the bear that out. Olsen was 6-8 for 12 points in 14 minutes against the Buffaloes. He scored in a variety of ways, and his presence offensively was missed down the stretch as CU almost rallied from a 22 point deficit.
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Re: Bluewater Sailboat Question
was meant to be South pacific not ocean ty for catching that 2 different beasts there
Re: Bluewater Sailboat Question
Originally Posted by SeaSickFish View Post
there will be 4 perms and ofc a couple weekenders. it will serve as a primary home for 4. to start out we will be running the carribean for a while (since i live in florida) till we are all comfortable with the tasks that are needed on the ship and then i plan on going thro the panama and heading out into the southern ocean towards the Indonesian islands. this is why a bluewater boat is needed imo.
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If these are your goals,
"Ok so heres a little bit of detail about what my situation is. I am 28 yrs old and I was recently in a motorcycle accident that has ruined my shoulder and wrist which has made me unable to work. In less then a month or so i will be receiving my settlement. And a dream of mine is to sail the world (big dream i know) anyway ive been window shopping for a while and tbh i am a bit overwhelmed with the different types of sailboats that are 30'+. I'm looking to spend around 20k for a boat then make the boat self sufficient. like a wind generator, water maker, monitor wind vane, etc. Now my question for today is what would be a good boat to do this with. i would prefer if i had atleast a 11' beam that is roomy enough to sleep 5-6 comfortably, and one that would be blue water capable." And
"There will be 4 perms and ofc a couple weekenders. It will serve as a primary home for 4. To start out we will be running the carribean for a while (since i live in florida) till we are all comfortable with the tasks that are needed on the ship and then i plan on going thro the panama and heading out into the southern ocean towards the Indonesian islands. this is why a bluewater boat is needed imo. "
Then none of these make any sense at all:
"New York 36, Santana 34, Santana 30, Schock 35 "
In reality these boats are okay for their purpose and were proposed by a sailboat maunfacturer pushing his company's wares...but which are by no stretch of the imagination even vaguely intended for what you are proposing to do. Faced with your objectives it seems like you should have a more focused list of criteria than you appear to have assembled.
For example, the traditional rule of thumb for distance voyaging is that the boat should have somewhere between 5,500 lbs and 11,000 lbs of displacement per person, with the upper end of the limit creeping up as better hardware and the desire for more space has prevailed. This displacement per crewman was generally a compromise between carrying enough supplies and consumables and what could be easily managed by the crew. That would suggest a boat with a displacement between 22,000 lbs 44,000 lbs. Boats with that kind displacement in sound and decent condition would be nearly impossible to locate within your $20,000 budget.
Similarly, you will need adequate tankage, storage, ground tackle handling. You will need good seaberths, an offshore suitable galley and head, and a pretty robust boat to take the kind of use and abuse that distance cruising implies. Nice as they are to have as a liveaboard, showers really do not make sense on an small distance cruiser (use too much water and take up too much space)
There was a time when there were older boats with suitable offshore designs that could be purchased moderately cheaply in good solid condition. But over time this stock of older boats have aged and in may cases become effectively worn out. Its is not that I am saying that the boat as a whole has worn out, but more that slowly, one by one, key components reach the end of their useful lifespan for the rigous environment of distance cruising and offshore.
It goes without saying that a boat consists of a broad collection of parts. Over time the components of rigs and spars, chainplates, bulkhead attachements, engine mounts, rudder and rudder posts and keel bolts or keel encapsulation, deck hardware, sails, galley components, plumbing, electrical systems, electronics, deck cores, slowly wear out.
It may be possible to cheaply buy one of these older offshore capable boats and fix it up, and otherwise adapt it to your needs, but as these boats have become progressively worn out, the costs of restoring and updating will potentially exceed the purchase price of the boat several times over.
The other issue is that vast majority of yachts built in fiberglass era were conceived as coastal cruisers or racer-cruisers. When you talk about doing long distance passage making, ideally the hull and rig and structure should be of a design conceived for offshore use. As a result there are far fewer choices out there in the remaining pool of older boats. So you are looking for that needle in the haystack, that grossly underpriced, offshore capable, distance cruiser, capable of supporting 4 people full time.
My point is not to say that what you want is hopeless. My point is to suggest that you more realistically define your goals, more realistically define your budget, and then develop a plan to accomplish your goals, including meeting your budget.
Re: Bluewater Sailboat Question
ty for your post guys ill look into these
Re: Bluewater Sailboat Question
Free Sailboat Comparison Websites:
Monohull Sailboats: Carl's Monohull Sail Calculator
Multihull Sailboats: Multihull Dynamics, Inc
Both websites help, neither is the end all or be all of sailboat evaluation, they both offer unique tools and views of sailboats. I am affiliated with the multihull website.
Re: Bluewater Sailboat Question
Originally Posted by SeaSickFish View Post
there will be 4 perms and ofc a couple weekenders. it will serve as a primary home for 4. to start out we will be running the carribean for a while (since i live in florida) till we are all comfortable with the tasks that are needed on the ship and then i plan on going thro the panama and heading out into the southern ocean towards the Indonesian islands. this is why a bluewater boat is needed imo.
Mahina Expedition - Selecting A Boat for Offshore Cruising
Full List of Sailboats
I'm not affiliated with either site and only recommend them from a research perspective. I'm hoping to take off with my own dream in a few years and have been researching appropriate (for me at least) boats. Looking at the boats you're interested in in person gives you a much better feel for them. As mentioned before, if possible, getting some sea time on different boats will teach you more about what works and what doesn't than any book even if it's not a boat you may be interested in.
Best of luck with your search!
Re: Bluewater Sailboat Question
Originally Posted by galaboat View Post
Take a look at the Wharram catamaran designs!
Re: Bluewater Sailboat Question
Originally Posted by Dean101 View Post
I think you can find all kinds of boats that will fit the general requirements you stated in your OP. In order to help narrow down what would work best, you may want to mention a few specifics.
Will you have 5 or 6 people cruising with you at all times or will it mainly be overnight/weekend outings with friends while you and 1 or 2 others remain as a permanent crew? Also, what area will most of your sailing take place and where do you plan to go? That can be very important. You may also want to mention if the boat will be your primary home. Camping for a month or two and camping permanently are 2 separate horses.
The more information you can provide as to what you are looking for, the more specific advice you will get. There is a lot of experience floating around here and I dare say they can point you in a good starting direction.
A word of warning; In any group you will find those who are smart and those that are smart-a$$'s. It's the internet. So, welcome to Sailnet, have a thick skin, remember the ignore button, hang around for the good stuff, and enjoy!
Re: Bluewater Sailboat Question
ty for the posts guys, ive checked out the boat reviews, helps a bit ty. when i said 30'+ emphasis on the + i meant i wouldnt want anything shorter since the last thing i would want is to encounter a tight quarters situation plus the fact that the southern ocean is a destination that i plan on going to. i wont be solo sailing fortunately. which is also why i wouldnt want anything smaller then 30 foot altho i would prolly be looking for something bigger then that when its all said and done. especially after reading these posts. my budget is not an issue, i set the limit at 20k approx. bc i know there are plenty of deals that i could find with this economy of seaworthy vessels and i think spending more then that is a bit absurd. especially since i will prolly have to install most of the gear out of my own pocket. ive yet to see one that had the stuff that i wanted already on it. ty for linking the salts corner table ill be reading it extensively. as i do any information that i have came across on this message board you guys have collectively given me plenty of insight.
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Software was pitched to the U.S. government, but not yet sold
Raytheon Comp. (
) has created a social networking tracking program called Rapid Information Overlay Technology -- or "RIOT", for short -- which is building a database of trillions of pieces of data on
millions of users' social networking
profiles. The software digs into the usual suspects -- Facebook, Inc.'s (
) ubiquitous social network, popular microblogging site Twitter, and FourSquare, whose location-aware apps boast 25 million users.
I. RIOT is Watching You
The idea of RIOT is to allow government agents to in a click or two examine both your behavior history, and more interestingly (or alarmingly) predict your potential future actions.
Today, mobile client use has finally overtaken desktop use for Facebook, the world's largest network. But hidden in most mobile posts by Facebook's over 1 billion users is an information is
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, a special string that identifies the latitude and longitude the user posted from. By mining exif data publicly available posts (or alternatively creating Facebook softbots to friend users and lure them into RIOT's circle of friendship), RIOT is capable of tracking citizens' daily movements.
In a video, Brian Urch, principle investigator on the RIOT project at Raytheon describes, "We're going to track one of our own employees."
By mining the publicly available information, the demo shows how the client determined that "Nick" commonly frequents Washington Nationals Park. It even shows off a photo of a blonde whom Nick posed with at the park.
But RIOT's most powerful capability is trying to analyze the future. Its spidery webs of information spread out, assessing the trends in Nick's behaviors. It makes a discovery -- Nick goes to the gym each day at 6 a.m.
Mr Urch comments, "... So if you ever did want to try to get hold of Nick, or maybe get hold of his laptop, you might want to visit the gym at 6am on a Monday."
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Raytheon's spokesperson:
Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing security needs.
Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we're aware of, enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account information] being disclosed.
But Raytheon's argument that the product was "proof of concept" was not enough to convince
not to post the video. But even before the video, clues about RIOT were leaking out. A
patent application
filed by Raytheon in December -- -- contained details relating to the data mining technology in the software.
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In an interview with
, Ginger McCall, an attorney at the Washington, D.C.-based
Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC), complains, "Social networking sites are often not transparent about what information is shared and how it is shared. Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search."
III. RIOT is Even Better at Playing Big Brother Than Perfect Citizen
Raytheon, whose sales accounted for $25B USD in revenue last year, has reportedly not sold the software to any nation state clients -- yet. It reportedly demoed the software to the U.S. government at a trade show in April.
President Obama has
committed $200M USD to "big data" spending
-- including efforts to track citizens online. The Obama Administration has stated multiple times publicly that it seeks to protect citizen rights/expectations of privacy, but internally it's often
fought to step up intrusive monitoring
, arguing that such procedures are necessary to fight the shadowy ambiguous "terrorist" threat.
Raytheon is also authorized to export the software to foreign nations/corporations interested in using the "stalking software" on their targets, acccording to the "
" designation in trade documents obtained by
. EAR99 indicates that the software can "be shipped without a [government] licence to most destinations under most circumstances."
The company already has one lucrative $100M USD counterterrorism contract from the
U.S. National Security Agency
(NSA). Dubbed "
Perfect Citizen
", the NSA software aims to deploy digital "sensors" (scripts) to detect impending cyberattacks on U.S. networks. Some privacy experts have complained that Perfect Citizen was a guise for "Big Brother" style tracking.
President Barack Obama has pushed for $200M USD in "big data" spending.
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The NSA claims "Perfect Citizen" is a research and development project, and not fully deployed. But EPIC
obtained documents
that "suggest the program is operational and confirmed, and that Raytheon was contracted to develop and deploy certain components."
By contrast RIOT takes a narrower aim at popular civilian internet activities. That means it will likely serve little use in combatting terrorists (who are unlikely to post, tweet, or "check-in" during their evil escapades). However, it does make the perfect tool for companies -- or governments -- to stalk citizens, and Raytheon is eager to turn that interest into sweet cash.
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Leafs keep floundering
'Stu Barnes scored twice for the Sabres, while Maxim Afinogenov, Vaclav Varada, Miroslav Satan and Chris Gratton had one each.'
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'Now that Mikael Tellqvist has had a bad taste of the NHL, it is rather clear to the young goaltender he had better get a piece of the action in the AHL. The Maple Leafs rookie allowed six goals on 28 shots in a 6-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres in an exhibition game at Copps Coliseum last night and acknowledged afterward he needs to apprentice with St. John's.'
Sabres 6, Maple Leafs 3
'Stu Barnes scored two goals as the Buffalo Sabres completed their exhibition schedule Saturday night with a 6-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Maxim Afinogenov, Vaclav Varada, Miroslav Satan and Chris Gratton scored Buffalo's other goals.'
Buffalo 6, Toronto 3
'Stu Barnes scored twice in a fight-filled third period to lift the Buffalo Sabres to a 6-3 exhibition triumph over the Toronto Maple Leafs in an offensive showdown between Northeast Division rivals.'
Battle lines drawn
'The Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres are like the guys who purchase all those dating-tips books. They'll try anything to score.'
Senators stop Sabres, 2-1
'The power-play problems continued for the Sabres, who went 0 for 6 in Thursday's 3-1 loss against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Among Buffalo's missed power plays Friday night was a failed five-on-three advantage.'
Goalie Noronen sent to Amerks
'"I never got the feeling that they might give me a real chance," Noronen, 22, said yesterday after the Sabres reassigned him to the Rochester Americans. He was a spectator for last night's 3-0 preseason loss to the Cleveland Barons but he'll start tonight's 7:35 exhibition finale against the Manitoba Moose at the ESL Sports Centre. "They said I didn't have that good of a camp, but what's the point if I wasn't going to get a chance anyway," Noronen said. "In practice I just tried to find my game."'
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Wayne Law to Host Presidential Inauguration Program, Legal Symposium to Showcase Faculty Expertise on Jan. 20
DETROIT (Jan. 9, 2009) – Wayne State University Law School is pleased to announce a Presidential Inauguration Program from 11:45 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in the Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
The program will kick off with live coverage of the Presidential Swearing-In and Inaugural Address and will feature a symposium titled "Legal Perspectives on the Obama Administration." The symposium will be divided into two panel sessions and will highlight a broad range of legal issues facing the new administration as seen by Wayne Law faculty experts.
" This is the first change of presidential administrations in eight years, and it is likely to raise a host of important legal issues, from the future of tax policy and health care reform to Supreme Court appointments and the fate of the Guantanamo prisoners," said Wayne Law Professor and event organizer Christopher J. Peters. "Members of the Wayne Law faculty have expertise in each of these areas, and this program allows us to share our perspectives with students, the public and other members of the Wayne State University community."
This event is free and open to the public, and parking is available for $3.50 in parking structure #1 across from the Law School on West Palmer Street . For more information, please contact the Law School Dean's Office at (313) 577-3933.
Presidential Inauguration Program Schedule
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1:10 p.m.
Welcome – Wayne Law Dean Robert M. Ackerman
1:15 p.m.
Panel I – Private Law
- Tax Policy and the Financial Crisis – Wayne Law Professor Linda M. Beale
- Antitrust and Consumer Law – Wayne Law Professor Stephen Calkins
- Health Care Reform – Wayne Law Professor Peter Hammer
Moderator: Wayne Law Professor Susan Cancelosi
2 p.m.
Panel II – Public Law
- The Supreme Court – Wayne Law Professor Christopher J. Peters
- The Department of Justice – Wayne Law Professor Richard Broughton
- Closing Guantanamo – Wayne Law Professor Brad R. Roth
- The President and Congress – Wayne Law Professor Robert A. Sedler
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AUSTIN, Texas — National Safe Boating Week kicked-off May 19 with a mixed message from the previous year. Overall, boating accidents, injuries and fatalities continued to decrease; however, with about half of the accidents involving alcohol and 85 percent of boating fatalities recovered not wearing life jackets, many of the incidents were preventable.
There are approximately 620,000 registered boats in Texas, ranking it fifth in the country. In 2005, there were 204 reported boating accidents, 100 injuries and 30 fatalities. That's down from 258 accidents, 222 injuries and 69 fatalities in 1997.
"While the numbers look like an improvement, that's still 30 lives that were lost, and many of those could have been saved by simply wearing a life jacket and operating responsibly. " said Maj. Alfonso Campos, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Chief of Marine Enforcement.
Many boaters who reflexively latch their seatbelts and wouldn't think of driving drunk in their cars or trucks apply a different set of standards on the water, Campos said.
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The Curious Case of Tegucigalpa's Traveling Traitor
posted at 8:05 pm on July 15, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
I highly recommend the excellent Los Angeles Times commentary-analysis by filibustered D.C. Circus nominee Miguel Estrada; he makes an excellent legal (and moral) case that:
- The ouster of former Honduran President (and now accused traitor) Manuel Zelaya was perfectly legal (and a darned good idea), not only in accord with the Honduran constitution, but also at the express direction of the Supreme Court of Honduras;
- The arrest of Zelaya by the military was also properly carried out under both an arrest warrant and a search warrant issued by the Supreme Court;
- That the replacement of Zelaya with Roberto Micheletti (as acting president until the November elections) was also completely legitimate: Vice President Elvin Ernesto Santos Ordóñez had already resigned (to run next November for president); the newly-minted "Vice President Commissioner" (Arístides Mejía Carranza) — a position that had never before existed — was not in the line of succession; and that left Micheletti, as President of the National Congress, next at bat;
- And that this ouster satisfies no element of the basic definition of a "coup d'état." It was in fact what we would call an impeachment and conviction under the rules established by the Honduran constitution.
On point 4, as Estrada — who himself immigrated here from Honduras at age seventeen — sums up:
As noted, Article 239 states clearly that one who behaves as Zelaya did in attempting to change presidential succession ceases immediately to be president. If there were any doubt on that score, the Congress removed it by convening immediately after Zelaya's arrest, condemning his illegal conduct and overwhelmingly voting (122 to 6) to remove him from office. The Congress is led by Zelaya's own Liberal Party (although it is true that Zelaya and his party have grown apart as he has moved left). Because Zelaya's vice president had earlier quit to run in the November elections, the next person in the line of succession was Micheletti, the Liberal leader of Congress. He was named to complete the remaining months of Zelaya's term.
It cannot be right to call this a "coup." Micheletti was lawfully made president by the country's elected Congress. The president is a civilian. The Honduran Congress and courts continue to function as before. The armed forces are under civilian control. The elections scheduled for November are still scheduled for November. Indeed, after reviewing the Constitution and consulting with the Supreme Court, the Congress and the electoral tribunal, respected Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga recently stated that the only possible conclusion is that Zelaya had lawfully been ousted under Article 239 before he was arrested, and that democracy in Honduras continues fully to operate in accordance with law. All Honduran bishops joined Rodriguez in this pronouncement.
But Estrada leaves us with one very curious mystery worthy of Perry Mason: Why was accused traitor Zelaya sent into immediate exile in Costa Rica instead of being prosecuted?
(In an amusing synchronicity, Sen. — yecch — Al Franken, D-MN, not yet rated — the Clown Prince of Recount Crime — quizzed self-described Perry Mason fan Judge Sonia Sotomayor, asking which one case did Perry lose? She could not answer… but astonishingly, neither could Franken! One would think, while preparing his climactic question, that he would have sense enough to find the answer himself, even if he had to restort to Google — as I did. The answer, discovered in about a second with one query, is "the Case of the Deadly Verdict," season 7, episode 4, first aired October 17th, 1963. Oh, and in case your jaw is still hanging open, worry not… the case is reversed at the end when the real murder is caught.)
Before we get too deep into the Honduran jungle — excuse me, "rainforest" — our previous offering on the Zelaya impeachment was Piddling Away Greatness, also cross-posted here in Hot Air's rogues' gallery.
Here's how Estrada describes the case (the Honduran case, I mean, not the Deadly Verdict):
It would seem from this that Zelaya's arrest by the military was legal, and rather well justified to boot. But, unfortunately, the tale did not end there. Rather than taking Zelaya to jail and then to court to face charges, the military shipped him off to Costa Rica. No one has yet explained persuasively why summarily sending Zelaya into exile in this manner was legal, and it most likely wasn't….
True, Zelaya should not have been arbitrarily exiled from his homeland. That, however, does not mean he must be reinstalled as president of Honduras. It merely makes him an indicted private citizen with a meritorious immigration beef against his country.
I believe I have found the key to the mystery (with apologies to nineteenth-century French occultist Éliphas Lévi, who of course wrote La Clef des Grands Mystères, the Key to the Mysteries — which has nothing whatsoever to do with this post.) My key to the present mystery is contained in the two sentences I highlighted in blue above: Micheletti (and a plurality of the National Congress) share membership in Zelaya's Liberal Party.
And it's a fairly thin plurality at that: 62 Liberal Party seats to 55 National Party seats (out of a total of 128 congressmen). This is almost an exact reversal from the previous election in 2001, when the Liberals had 55 seats to the National's 61. And of course, the next election is just around the corner, less than 20 weeks away, on November 29th.
It seems to me a no-brainer that the removal of Zelaya from office, his replacement with another president (of the same party), and arrest, all for the crimes of treason and abuse of authority, stands a good chance of tainting his political party in the elections a few weeks hence, no matter what else may happen. Even though the party moved swiftly to remove Zelaya once he began angling to make himself "president for life," like his buddy Oogo Chavez in Venezuela, the reality is that some percent of marginal Liberal voters will switch to the rival (and more conservative, and very much more pro-American) National Party.
A swing of just 3% – 4% from Liberal to National could easily mean a swing of four seats, giving the National Party a plurality of 59-58. A swing of six seats — which often happens when the previous election was close — would put them nearly back where they were in 2001, with the National Party up 61 to 56.
Even worse for the Liberals, in the last election, Zelaya only beat National Party nominee Porfirio Lobo Sosa by 49.9 to 46.2 (3.7%). Again, a tiny switch of less than 2% from Liberal to National would give Honduras a new presidential party.
At the moment, the National Party has a (very narrow) working majority, being allied with other parties; but the Liberals control the presidency. If, as I suspect, the Zelaya scandal throws a cocked hat into the electoral ring, the Liberals could find themselves in the position the American Democrats were in 2001 or the Republicans are today: Exiled from all banches of national government.
So how does this explain the mysterious exiling of Zelaya? Fairly well, I believe: The only chance the Liberals have is to bury the Zelaya scandal in a shallow grave; so the very last thing they would want is an actual court trial, for heaven's sake.
With Zelaya in exile, and if Micheletti can possibly persuade him to shut his pie hole and stop making trouble, maybe things would quiet down, giving Liberals a chance to get beyond that whole "treason" flap. Perhaps the Liberals could even play off Micheletti's few months of incumbency to persuade voters at least to let them retain the presidency, even if their functioning deficit in the National Congress gets worse. With divided government, there is always hope one can get one's way at least some of the time.
So it again seems obvious which party benefits from hustling Zelaya off to neutral Costa Rica… at least until after the election.
But a vital question remains unanswered: Who actually ordered Zelaya sent away? The military arrested him under Supreme Court orders, but they would need separate, explicit orders to exile him. I can't find a precise enough timetable to see whether the exile was ordered before or after Michelitti was declared acting president.
If after, then the exile was probably ordered by Michelitti himself, under his acting presidential authority. But if before, then it would have to have been ordered by the Congress, since nobody else is left: I can't see the Supreme Court going to such great lengths to follow the law — and then issuing such a flagrantly illegal order. If Michelitti is the culprit, then all the legal blame for exile rests on the Liberal Party; but if it's Congress, then the Nationalists must also share that blame.
It would be very illuminating to find out; alack, the elite media are too busy obsessing about the Honduran "coup d'état" of a "democratically elected president" to trouble to find out such basic facts as who actually ordered Zelaya's exile.
But in either case, if Zelaya is actually brought back to Honduras before November, and his crimes fully aired just before the elections, that will almost certainly provoke a long string of pointed questions about the complicity of other members of the Liberal Party in those felonies — and their participation in and support for the machinations of Oogo Chavez and Los Bros Castro. Not to overlook the "secondary allies" of Zelaya, including Iran and their pet terrorist group, Hezbollah, who have been very active in Latin America in recent years (with Oogo's aid, comfort, and complicity).
If all the poison that lurks in the Honduran mud hatches out, as Robert Graves might put it, then almost certainly, the Liberal Party, the "presidential party, will get re-tagged as the "treason party." This could cause a much more significant vote shift, and might give the National Party not only the presidency but even an absolute majority in Congress.
Why didn't Miguel Estrada mention this possibility? I'm sure he closely follows the politics of the country in which he was born and raised. I can only conclude that, in true judicially conservative fashion, he chose to decide the case on the narrowest possible grounds. And speculating as to why Zelaya was sent into exile was not essential to finding that the removal, replacement, and arrest (though not the exile) of Manuel Zelaya was entirely legal — which was the only case he was interested in making.
Cross-posted on Big Lizards…


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LulzSec Leaked 150,000+ User Credentials, Check If Your Password Is Out There
LulzSec has a bizarrely funny website and an addictive Twitter feed, and is even going after 4chan and the members of Anonymous, you can categorize them as bad guys, but they're also doing everyone a big favor, revealing the pathetic state of computer security. The current hacking epidemic, of which LulzSec is a big part is happening because there are serious holes in the digital defenses of high-profile targets and it's site has a page full of data it has released from its various hacks. LulzSec is begging to get busted, but also in a perverse way giving back to a community that enjoys seeing the flaws of big companies exposed and the ironic twist is that these big companies are made big by the average public whose private information is being revealed in the hacks………….
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Greenland Glaciers — not so fast!
Our study does not include many of the measurements that are a part of determining total mass balance, and thus total sea level rise. In another paper that we highlight in our study, Pfeffer et al. [2008] used a specifically prescribed velocity scaling to examine potential worst-case values for sea level rise. The Pfeffer et al. paper did not produce "projections" of sea level rise so much as a look at the limits that ice sheet dynamics might place on sea level rise. It is reasonable to comment on how our observations compare to the prescribed velocity values that Pfeffer et al. used. They lay out two scenarios for Greenland dynamics. The first scenario was a thought experiment to consider sea level rise by 2100 if all glaciers double their speed between 2000 and 2010, which is plausible given the observed doubling of speed by some glacier. The second experiment laid out a worst-case scenario in which all glacier speeds increased by an order of magnitude from 2000 to 2010, based on the assumption that greater than tenfold increases were implausible. The first scenario results in 9.3 cm sea level rise from Greenland dynamics (this does not include surface mass balance) by 2100 and the second scenario produces 46.7 cm sea level rise by 2100. The observational data now in hand for 2000-2010 show speedup during this period was ~30% for fast-flowing glaciers. While velocities did not double during the decade, a continued speedup might push average velocities over the doubling mark well before 2100, suggesting that the lower number for sea level rise from Greenland dynamics is well within reason. Our results also show wide variability and individual glaciers with marked speedup and slowdown. In our survey of more than 200 glaciers, some glaciers do double in speed but they do not approach a tenfold increase. Considering these results, our data suggest that sea level rise by 2100 from Greenland dynamics is likely to remain below the worst-case laid out by Pfeffer et al.
By adding our observational data to the theoretical results laid out by Pfeffer et al., we are ignoring uncertainties of the other assumptions of their experiment, but refining their velocity estimates. The result is not a new estimate of sea level rise but, rather, an improved detail for increasing accuracy. Indeed, a primary value of our study is not in providing an estimate of sea level rise, but in offering the sort of spatial and temporal details that will be needed to improve others' modeling and statistical extrapolation studies. With just ten years of observations, our work is the tip of the iceberg for developing an understanding of long-term ice sheet behavior. Fortunately, our study provides a wide range of spatial and temporal coverage that is important for continued efforts aimed at understanding the processes controlling fast glacier flow. The record is still relatively short, however, so continued observation to extend the record is of critical importance.
In the same Science issue as our study, two perspective pieces comment on the challenges of ice sheet modeling [Alley and Joughin, 2012] and improving predictions of regional sea level rise [Willis and Church, 2012]. Clearly, all three of the papers are connected, as much as in pointing out where we need to learn more as in indicating where we have already made important strides.
Alley, R. B., and I. Joughin (2012), Modeling Ice-Sheet Flow, Science, 336(6081), 551-552.
IPCC (2007), Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, S. Solomon et al., Eds., Cambridge University Press, ppp 996.
Moon, T., I. Joughin, B. Smith, and I. Howat (2012), 21st-Century Evolution of Greenland Outlet Glacier Velocities, Science, 336(6081), 576-578.
Pfeffer, W. T., J. T. Harper, and S. O'Neel (2008), Kinematic constraints on glacier contributions to 21st-century sea-level rise, Science, 321(000258914300046), 1340-1343.
Straneo, F., G. S. Hamilton, D. A. Sutherland, L. A. Stearns, F. Davidson, M. O. Hammill, G. B. Stenson, and A. Rosing-Asvid (2010), Rapid circulation of warm subtropical waters in a major glacial fjord in East Greenland, Nature Geoscience, 3(3), 1-5.
van den Broeke, M., J. Bamber, J. Ettema, E. Rignot, E. Schrama, W. Van De Berg, E. Van Meijgaard, I. Velicogna, and B. Wouters (2009), Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss, Science, 326(5955), 984-986.
Willis, J. K., and J. A. Church (2012), Regional Sea-Level Projection, Science, 336(6081), 550-551.
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Theo Walcott was in high spirits as he left Stamford Bridge on Saturday after scoring one of the most satisfying - and perhaps one of the strangest - goals of his Arsenal career.
The England international was superb against Chelsea, winning his personal duel with Ashley Cole and setting up two excellent chances in the first half before firing the visitors into a 3-2 lead after 55 minutes.
Walcott tumbled to the ground just outside the penalty area but was alert enough to bounce back up, beat two defenders and hammer a shot past Petr Cech.
"I don't know what happened. Maybe because I'm small I managed to get past [the two defenders]!" he told Arsenal Player.
"Maybe they thought it was a free kick because I lost my balance but I just managed to sneak round both defenders. Aaron [Ramsey] said he would have killed me if I hadn't scored because he was wide open in the centre!
"I was happy that I got a goal but more happy that the team won. It was very important to come out in the second half like we did. In all competitions we've managed to win eight out of nine and that was a fantastic win against one of the best clubs around. The whole team deserves the man of the match award."
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The guided nature walk will take visitors along the along the Trail of the Spirits, a designated National Recreation Trail, and through the Sica Hollow woodland. Along the way, visitors will identify native plants and wildlife, discover American Indian legends, and learn about the natural forces that created the hollow, all while immersed in the park's famous fall foliage.
The walk will begin at the picnic area near the trailhead at 2 p.m. and take approximately one hour. Participants should dress accordingly for the weather and wear good hiking shoes and insect repellent.
There is no cost to participate, although a park entrance license is required. For more information, call the park office at (605) 448-5701. Sica Hollow State Park is located 15-miles northwest of Sisseton off S.D. Hwy 10.
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The Montford Delusion
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Update: Another review of the book has been published by Alistair McIntosh in the Scottish Review of Books (scroll down about 25% through the page to find McIintosh's review)
Update #2 (8/19/10): The Guardian has now weighed in as well.
If you don't know much about climate science, or about the details of the controversy over the "hockey stick," then A. W. Montford's book The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and political power. That idea gets planted early, in the 6th paragraph of chapter 1.
The chief focus is the original hockey stick, a reconstruction of past temperature for the northern hemisphere covering the last 600 years by Mike Mann, Ray Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes (1998, Nature, 392, 779, doi:10.1038/33859, available here), hereafter called "MBH98" (the reconstruction was later extended back to a thousand years by Mann et al, 1999, or "MBH99" ). The reconstruction was based on proxy data, most of which are not direct temperature measurements but may be indicative of temperature. To piece together past temperature, MBH98 estimated the relationships between the proxies and observed temperatures in the 20th century, checked the validity of the relationships using observed temperatures in the latter half of the 19th century, then used the relationships to estimate temperatures as far back as 1400. The reconstruction all the way back to the year 1400 used 22 proxy data series, although some of the 22 were combinations of larger numbers of proxy series by a method known as "principal components analysis" (hereafter called "PCA"–see here). For later centuries, even more proxy series were used. The result was that temperatures had risen rapidly in the 20th century compared to the preceding 5 centuries. The sharp "blade" of 20th-century rise compared to the flat "handle" of the 15-19th centuries was reminiscent of a "hockey stick" — giving rise to the name describing temperature history.
But if you do know something about climate science and the politically motivated controversy around it, you might be able to see that reality is the opposite of the way Montford paints it. In fact Montford goes so far over the top that if you're a knowledgeable and thoughtful reader, it eventually dawns on you that the real goal of those whose story Montford tells is not to understand past climate, it's to destroy the hockey stick by any means necessary.
Montford's hero is Steve McIntyre, portrayed as a tireless, selfless, unimpeachable seeker of truth whose only character flaw is that he's just too polite. McIntyre, so the story goes, is looking for answers from only the purest motives but uncovers a web of deceit designed to affirm foregone conclusions whether they're so or not — that humankind is creating dangerous climate change, the likes of which hasn't been seen for at least a thousand or two years. McIntyre and his collaborator Ross McKitrick made it their mission to get rid of anything resembling a hockey stick in the MBH98 (and any other) reconstruction of past temperature.
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text: Fantastic performance by Gracie. What a shame she won't be in the JGPF. I just think its ridiculous that with Lipnitskaya and Gold being the two class acts to emerge from this years JGP series, that one of them won't be in the final simply because she was not assigned a second competition. However, Gracie should be at Junior Worlds and that will be a competition to savour. I think the Russian newbies are fantastic, but at least we now have another great junior from somewhere on this planet of ours other than from Russia. As with all sports, figure skating requires diversity. Obviously, the reason why so many are emerging from Russia at the moment is the fact that the Olympics are being held there in 2014 - so a lot of work has been done. As for Gracie, I think she is the best American ladies figure skater to emerge since Sasha Cohen (who happened to be my favourite skater between 2001 and her practical retirement in 2006. In fact, my number 1 most upsetting figure skating moment was her losing out to Arakawa at the 2006 Olympics. After such a great Short Program, the disastrous start to her Free Skate was just gut-wrenching. If only...However, you have got to hand it to Sasha - she fought back from that disastrous start to claim the Silver). Apologies Mirai, Alissa, and Rachael fans, but I just think that it will be Gracie who will be the main American challenge for the Olympic title come 2014 (unless somebody else also comes out of the Junior ranks). The only caveat I would add in relation to that is that if only Mirai could find greater consistency (i.e. stop messing up her Free Skates), then she certainly has the ability to launch a major challenge for the Olympic title in 2014. However, maybe after living through watching Sasha struggling to put two clean programs together in competition, perhaps I find Mirai just tooo exasperating... Result & videos from the ladies event at the JGP Tallinn Cup 2011:- 1st Gracie Gold - USA - 172.69 Short Program Free Skate 2nd Risa Shoji - JPN - 157.83 Short Program Free Skate 3rd Samantha Cesario - USA - 145.96 Short Program Free Skate 4th Gerli Liinamae - EST - 140.30 Short Program Free Skate 5th Yuki Nishino - JPN - 132.40 Short Program Free Skate Highest Points Scorers In The Heats 1. Julia Lipnitskaya - RUS - 183.05 (JGP Milan) 2. Gracie Gold - USA - 172.69 3. Julia Lipnitskaya - RUS - 172.51 (Baltic Cup) 4. Satoko Miyahara - JPN - 162.20 5. Risa Shoji - JPN - 157.83 6. Polina Shelepen - RUS - 157.61 (Brasov Cup) 7. Vanessa Lam - USA - 156.58 7. Zijun Li - CHN - 156.40 8. Samantha Cesario - USA - 153.84 9. Polina Shelepen - RUS - 153.40 (Volvo Cup) 10. Courtney Hicks - USA - 151.91 Comparisons With The 2010/11 Season (Top Scores For Each Skater Only) 1. Julia Lipnitskaya - 183.05 - RUS 2. Adelina Sotnikova - 178.97 - RUS 3. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva - 172.78 - RUS 4. Gracie Gold - USA - 172.69 5. Christina Gao - 167.14 - USA 6. Satoko Miyahara - 162.20 - JPN Love Yuki Nishino's short program. Every time I see it, it takes me back to the very first time I watched the film, A Room With A view. Great film and great music. Its O Mio Babbino Caro from the opera, Gianni Schicchi, by Puccini. Just as an aside, here it is from the film - A Room With A View. The singer is Kiri Te Kanawa. I know its been done before by other skaters, but I think that Yuki Nishino has done a very good job with it. Here is great version by Kristi Yamaguchi - O Mio Babbino Caro - Kristi Yamaguchi. And another version by Josée Chouinard - O Mio Babbino Caro - Josée Chouinard. And another version by Gretchen Donlan & Andrew Speroff - Gretchen Donlan & Andrew Speroff - O Mio Babbino Caro And here is a compilation re my favourite skater, Mao Asada, to the music - O Mio Babbino Caro - Mao Asada (replacing the music to her 2008-2009 Short Program, Claire de Lune, in a pretty imaginative way). Caroline Zhang also did a version of it, but not been able to find a video for it.


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With a scope or iron sights??
I bought that 7" upper form JSE.. $313 delivered. I am going too NFA it on the lower ProjectGuns helped me with.
Thank you shotter17 for the tip.
Anyways, the problem. They were mistakenly out of them when I placed my order.
Called the company.
JSE Surplus
Woman who answered was super nice. Ordered me another one and wanted too give me all kinds of "free" upgrades for my troubles. All for the same price.
I told her no, as I am sure their was not much profit too start with.
Plus I did not know what the hell she was talking about. Nice people.
Working on getting them over here as a vendor.
What kind of range will I get out of this thing?
I am hoping for 600 meters with 1 m.o.a accuracy.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
With a scope or iron sights??
hell 4th with all of 7" for the barrel you should be able to take out a tank @ 1500M on noise alone! LOL!
you got to get that 200x 100m leupold scope on there so you can see the rust falling off the tank!
yea JSE are super good folks to deal with.
try their sister site "evil black rifle girls" --on a tip from another member here i bought some very nice bolt carriers and bolts for $105 shipped.
the look to be new colt made carriers--with del-ton bolts , chromed keys and everything. hell of a deal.
one time JSE sold some 16" uppers complete for what was it $269--iirc? they give some super deals. one thing though everything i have got from JSE/EBRG as all been quality stuff. can't bet that with a stick!
With that 7" barrel, at 600 yards you are just getting out of muzzle blast range so MOA is definitely doable. I read it at AR!%.com!
I wish you guys were here. Were so sorry 4th. Can we give you a xyz.. for our mistake.
Wendy I think her name was? Wendy. I dont know what in Gods name you are taking about, for real. Plus she is an Army Vet and was wondering why the hell I did not know what the hell I was talking about.
Targets at 600 meters will be put up. Oh yeah. This is going too be my long range varmint zombie weapon.
I hope the hell the thing works.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
Quote -on a tip from another member here i bought some very nice bolt carriers and bolts for $105 shipped.
Dam I wish someone could have given ( me ) that tip.!!! Maybe we need a best deals - Thread
It's to bad there out of stock!
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and goverment, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first" ~ Thomas Jefferson
4th; let me know when you fire that thing, I am only about 180 miles away from you, I will open the door and see if I hear it. Hell, I can see the space shuttle from here so that should not be too much of a reach
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They really were kind of nice about the last rounds out of my 10 incher.
I asked the L.O. where he shoots?
"In my backyard" Well WTF over.
No more shootin here I guess. Think I got my last warning.
Best part is I was with an off duty L.O. when I was shootin. Oh well such is life.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
now 4th we all know you bought they 7" super-shortie just for the "BLAST"!
i am sure FGF is going to be very happy with the blast and flash form that 7" -- they likely get calls about somebody fishing with C-4!
4th you'll need to invest in some good ear plugs and some good hearing protection muffs before you start pumping them into the swamp with that "super-shortie"!


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As title says, looking for a new MMO to play since all my MMO's I play are getting really boring quickly. Possibly even looking for people to search MMO's with and we could try them out with each other, after all gaming with others is more enjoyable than gaming alone. Some info ;
-I absolutely HATE PvP, and therefore I don't want any MMO's that have open world forced PvP.
-Has to have some good PvE gameplay.
-Has to be free ofcourse !
-Has to be EU based or have EU servers, I like Eden Eternal for example but it has that 2-3 second delay for EU players making it unplayable for me atleast.
Anything other than that doesn't really matter. I like anime and fantasy kind of art, I even like the WoW type of art since I've played and enjoyed WoW a fair amount. Specs don't matter either, I can run everything on max without a problem.
Thanks in advance for the suggestions, and if you'd like to go try out and look for MMO's with me and play together just add me on skype -> Rancidrode and we'll try and find and try out some MMO's together. You have to be a PvE type of player too, since I absolutely despise PvP. Anyways again, thanks in advance for the replies.