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Raw was pretty $#@!e. After Triple H apparently sent out a tweet before Raw last night saying "R u ready?" (or something), I was expecting both Lesnar and Triple H to be on the show. I was expecting the two of them to square up and then have the New Age Outlaws come out and back up Triple H, since Lesnar took them out the other month. I was disappointed when they said they were going to address it next, and then just aired a promo. Rubbish!
I'm still very annoyed about the use of Cesaro. A tiny bit of saving grace is that he had a long-ish match with Del Rio on Raw before eventually and inevitably losing, rather than a quick 3 minute match.
I still stand by what I said previously that he looks a hell of an athlete, and I do believe he could be a great heel. Sucks.
The Shield seem to be getting better and better each week. Just thought I'd throw that in.
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05-01-2013 #14801
05-01-2013 #14802
I actually like the Miz haha.
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Ill be taking a break from watching raw.....ill just keep up with the news
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05-01-2013 #14805
Sadly, i will not be following wwe any further, despite the fact that i recently started watching again after a break of...years. I use to buy powerslam for all the behind the curtain news, so i think i will be doing that again so i can keep up without watching the actual product. It really is quite bad. Some of the mic work is horrendous...i am shocked some of the ringwork actually passes as entertainment. .. Sad times.
Anybody remember pro wrestling illustrated? Ahh..memories...
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05-01-2013 #14806
I think the storyline that has me the most intrigued right now is CM Punk and what he will do when he returns. I suspect a match will be built between Punk and Austin (his last match) for Wrestlemania 30.
11 years and counting!
05-01-2013 #14807
Might as well add me to the list who will just keep up on news. Hopefully I will read "Vince Retires as CEO" soon. It just baffels me how a man could make such a good product, can turn that same product to pure $#@!. This is why we need competition. To bad Dixie messed that up by bringing in Hogan and $#@!off.
05-01-2013 #14808
TNA continues to grow, but unfortunately not at a rate we would like to see. I predict within 4-5 years the WWE will have some solid competition on their hands, finally! Perhaps then they will realize it may be a bit more entertaining to have an actual wrestling match instead of a dance competition involving a man that can barely walk, let alone entertain an audience.
Where did the WWE go downhill? That is very open for debate. Some say when Cena rose to power, but I don't exactly feel the same way. When Cena first started getting over I truly enjoyed his persona/character. I loved how he ripped every guy in the locker room with his rhymes, and how he truly played the part of a "thug", but more importantly he wasn't "super human", at least not yet. If I had to pinpoint the exact moment the WWE spiralled out of control it would be the release of Ken Anderson, and the botched storyline of a 3rd McMahon child. That would of been huge! Instead the WWE released the future of the company, and for what?
11 years and counting!
05-01-2013 #14809
IMO TNA is much better. WWE no longer has interesting characters and story lines. CM Punk plays a good heel but aside from him the WWE locker room is filled with dull generic wrestlers. And the fighting coreography has gotten pretty bad too. Nowadays I dont even watch all of RAW and none of Smackdown. But I do watch all of Impact and find it to be alot more enjoyable. WWE has lost all its good wrestlers to TNA and to retirement.
05-01-2013 #14810
There are still very skilled guys in the locker room:
Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, and the list goes on. The biggest problem is $#@!ty booking. These guys rarely get an opportunity to showcase their wrestling abilities, and when they do they are either cut short, or have to follow a stupid gimmicky end to an otherwise great match.
Also most people would say the PG era is what killed the WWE, though I agree to a certain extent I truly think an even PG rated wrestling product can work, if done correctly. It has been YEARS since there was an even semi believable storyline in the WWE. The match with Jericho and Fandango at WM was setup because Jericho mispronounced his name. That is what starts a feud? Give me a break! I want something that is compelling, feel real, and is believable. Remember when HHH and Orton had their feud and HHH attacked Orton in his own home (and threw him through a window)? That was a nice addition to a growing feud, which all started from Orton becoming a popular superstar outside of his faction Evolution. HHH's jealousy lead to his hate for Orton, and the fact he did what he couldn't at the time and that was capture WWE gold. A great storyline, and one that had meaning, purpose, and most of all heart.
MY MAIN beef with the WWE is poor booking, and lackluster storylines. These all stem from one thing, too many PPV's. If this were cut down it would allow more creative building of matches, and characters. In my opinion with less PPV's on the calendar, all of the WWE's main issues would be resolved.
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05-01-2013 #14811
Guys Guys Guys
The issue with WWE is PG, but not just that, WWE takes to much time in promoting charity's an other promotions they are just endless, the buisness alone is focused outside of the buisness an not to much in, this is why it sucks as it does today,WWE as we see it today goes to show its just an Entertainment show! just take this weeks RAW show for example when it started with Cena & Make a Wish Foundation! WWE doesnt focus on storylines, feuds that much anymore they just seem to write whatever an put on a show. so everyone can enjoy it basically.
1 other point, HHH suppose to push the Tag division back in! Where is it? HHH suppose to have brought the cruiserweight Division back! Where is it? HHH suppose to find the new big star to push the product e.g like Cena has! where is he? HHH suppose to have done all these things but it hasnt moved an inch' yet alone i dont see anyone being above Cena atm like he done the past 10 years!
05-02-2013 #14812
I agree that WWE seems to focus much of its attention to other causes now rather than their own product. Everything is about making money and marketing these days, that much is evident with the use of the previous WWE (spinner) championship constantly being on TV and public appearances with whoever the champion was at the time, and the new WWE championship belt. The fact that the WWE logo is plastered all over it, so clearly and evidently, will get the company all the exposure it wants.
I'd despise anyone who booed Cena during that Make A Wish segment on Raw because it was all for a good cause, but fans don't really tune in to watch charity work, as cold and heartless as that sounds.
I don't usually defend Triple H here, but I will to an extent.
Since he basically "took over" most of the duties, the tag team division rose for a brief period and probably got more attention that it ever would have if Vince was still solely controlling everything. I don't know if it's just because Kane and Daniel Bryan are over with the crowd, or because they're popular names, as opposed to say Primo and Epico (previous champions), but we see them on a regular basis, and that probably wouldn't have happened if Vince was in sole control. It would appear now that Kane and Daniel Bryan will be losing the title to The Shield, so another good working set of guys will get their hands on the Tag Team titles.
In terms of the Cruiserweight division, I can't say anything there. It seems that that never even got off the ground as we never saw any development in that department at all. However, they've got Rey Mysterio and Evan Bourne injured, so maybe we might have seen something if those guys weren't banged up. But I bet it sticks in Triple H's craw a little that Sin Cara has pretty much been a flop since he was brought in, as H handpicked him.
And in terms of pushing someone new to the top of the mountain, I feel that they have tried to do that with Sheamus but it just hasn't worked. When Sheamus was World Champion, he was doing everything all the time and having bloody long matches pretty much every week; in my opinion, these matches were good! But in terms of connecting with the audience, he probably got really over with the kids, and still is, but I never bought into him. That's most probably because of the character they're trying to push out, but I found myself really appreciating his ring work and effort; I actually thought that he and Big Show has some great matches!
However, it since seems that he has failed as he is doing silly things right now with Mark Henry, like a tug of war contest and a arm wrestling contest [on Smackdown this week]. Maybe he and Mark Henry will have a decent match when they finally have it, and all these things they're doing right now are just stupid things WWE are making them do since they're both powerhouses, but I'm not holding my breath.
I really like Mark Henry since he's one of the old guys, but his matches aren't that entertaining. But I'm going to go back on what I just said and now say that Sheamus might very well be able to get a good match out of him, as I never thought the matches between him and Big Show would be anything great.
So to wrap it up, since no one has appeared to have topped Cena, Cena is what we get. I'm still constantly wondering when the hell they're going to turn Randy Orton heel, as he was great the last time out and he might actually be propelled into the great picture once again when it happens. It's fair to say he's a nobody right now in front of the cameras.
05-02-2013 #14813
You know a company is in trouble when mark henry is getting pushed. I like the guy himself, but seriously, they have pushed him on and off for years with various gimmicks (usually its the 'strongest man in the world' bollocks), and he just can't hack it. Anyone remember mark henry and may? (very old ex wwe performer, did segments for the company even at the age of 80+. Did a almost sickening segment(s) where they flirted and kissed).
05-02-2013 #14814
That was funny, back when they pushed the envelope, but that was never something they could have pushed someone to the top over.
I thought it was hilarious and a great throwback when they referenced The Hand on the 1000th Raw.
I think Henry's character, although not over with everyone, had some credibility when he was World Champion because he had a good run as opposed to losing it straight away like I thought they would do. The fact that he beat Sheamus multiple times added some backbone to his World's Strongest Man character and didn't make him look so weak. I think losing that Tug of War contest on Raw, however $#@! and stupid it was, made him look weak.
05-02-2013 #14815
I think because he is limited, they throw him a bone every now and then. I wouldn`t like to see a total return to the days of meatheads...that $#@! gets boring....
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05-02-2013 #14816
Benoit murdering his family and himself nearly killed WWE, and that in my opinion is what made WWE turn into $#@!. (along with a couple other things of course) They got so much negative attention, backlash and critism from it that they really started being careful and very image conscious. That happened in 2007, and if you recall the product was still enjoyable around that time. Imo 2008 was still decent and 2009 was one of the worst years I ever witnessed.
Hiring failed Hollywood writers also hasn't done WWE any good. Sure, on paper it sounds easy and good. Write a storyline around good vs evil, done by Hollywood writers. The problem here is these Hollywood writers have no idea what does and doesn't work in the wrestling world, they havent followed the product and dont know these guys' characters.
Though I shouldnt put all the blame on the writers. Vince is still the one okay'ing everything, he's $#@!ing stupid for letting 99% of the $#@! we see fly through.
Also, to the person slamming HHH because we havent seen enough tag/cruiser improvements; Triple H isn't in charge of the company. He can only pitch things, try to push things and try his best to get the good things get on air. I said this before but I am convinced HHH can turn the company around when he takes over. Just look at all the amazing talent he's signed in 2012, look at what he's doing with development. He has alot of pull there and NXT is honestly the best WWE show atm.
@justintheman; I gotta point out to you that you're comparing a midcard fued in 2013 (Fandango vs Jericho) with a main event fued in 2009 (HHH vs Orton). And while I agree the reason for the Jericho/Fandango fued was a bit stupid, in 2001 a fued between Kane and Jericho got started because Jericho spilled coffee on Kane.. So it really isn't just lazy 2013 writing lol.
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Cena is killing the WWE, he is still getting pushed and going over wrestlers that have the talent and how far can they push Cena the milk feederPlato and Aristotle, a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael. Aristotle gestures to the earth, representing his belief in knowledge
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If they let punk leave then this shows me as a fan they dont give a $#@! about what WE want nor do they know how to build talent $#@! is not looking good!
05-05-2013 #14825
They will not allow Punk to leave. That's like the Baltimore Ravens letting Ray Lewis play for another team during his beast mode 17-year career. It just isn't going to happen. They'll find some middle ground and offer up some more money and/or better championship reigns. I can't see CM Punk not on WWE programming.
P.S - Molo! Got my "Big Eagle" Championship! Wanted to know if you ever installed a side plate before? I wanted to add the 6th plate to this belt that says "Property of WWF".
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The night before the end of Google's Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference this year in Vancouver, a tall teen dressed in khaki shorts, tube socks and sneakers was hunkered down on a hallway bench at the Sheraton hotel hacking away at his laptop.
With a $60,000 cash prize on the line, the teen, who goes by the hacker handle "Pinkie Pie," was working hard to get his exploit for the Chrome browser stabilized before the close of the competition.
The only other contestant, a Russian university student named Sergey Glazunov, had already made off with one $60,000 prize for a zero-day exploit that attacked 10 different bugs.
Finally, with just hours to go before the end of the three-day competition, Pinkie Pie achieved his goal and dropped his exploit, a beauty of a hack that ripped through six zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and slipped out of the browser's security sandbox.
Google called both hacks "works of art," and within 24 hours of receiving each submission, had patched all of the bugs that they exploited. Within days, the company had also added new defensive measures to Chrome to ward off future similar attacks.
Google's Pwnium contest is a new addition to its year-round bug bounty programs, launched in 2010, that are aimed at encouraging independent security researchers to find and report security vulnerabilities in Google's Chrome browser and web properties, and to get paid for doing so.
Vendor bounty programs like Google's have been around since 2004, when the Mozilla Foundation launched the first modern pay-for-bugs plan for its Firefox browser. (Netscape tried a bounty program in 1995, but the idea didn't spread at that time.) In addition to Google and Mozilla, Facebook and PayPal have also launched bug bounty programs, and even the crafts site Etsy got into the game recently with a program that pays not only for new bugs, but also retroactively for previously reported bugs, to thank researchers who contributed to the site's security before the bounty program began.
The Mozilla Foundation has paid out more than $750,000 since launching its bounty program; Google has paid out more than $1.2 million.
But some of the biggest vendors, who might be expected to have bounty programs, don't. Microsoft, Adobe and Apple are just three software makers who have been criticized for not paying independent researchers for bugs they have found, even though the companies benefit greatly from the free work done by those who uncover and disclose security vulnerabilities.
Microsoft says its new BlueHat security program, which pays $50,000 and $250,000 to security pros who can devise defensive measures for specific kinds of attacks, is better than paying for bugs.
"I don't think that filing and rewarding point issues is a long-term strategy to protect customers," Microsoft security chief Mike Reavey said recently.
All of which begs the question: Eight years down the line, have bug bounty programs made browsers and web services more secure? And is there any way to really test that proposition?
Security Science
There's no scientific method for determining if software is more secure than it used to be. And there's no way to know how much a bounty program has improved the security of a particular software program, as opposed to other measures undertaken by software makers. Security isn't just about patching bugs; it's also about adding defensive measures — such as browser sandboxes — to mitigate entire classes of bugs. The combination of these two make software more secure.
But everyone interviewed for this story says the anecdotal evidence strongly supports the conclusion that bounty programs have indeed improved the security of software. And more than this, the programs have yielded other security benefits that go far beyond the individual bugs they've helped fix.
In the most obvious sense, bounty programs make software more secure simply by the fact that they reduce the number of security holes hackers can attack.
"There's a finite number of bugs in these products, so every time you can knock out a bunch of them, you're in a better place," says top security researcher Charlie Miller, who's responsible for finding a number of high-profile vulnerabilities in Apple's iPhone and other products.
But one of the biggest indications that bounty programs have improved security is the decreasing number of bug reports that come in, according to Google.
"It's a hard measurement to take, but we're seeing a fairly sustained drop-off in the number of incoming reports we're receiving for the Chromium program," says Chris Evans, information security engineer at Google who leads the company's Chromium vulnerability rewards program as well as its new Pwnium contest, launched this year.
Google has its own internal fuzzing program to uncover security vulnerabilities, and the rate at which that team is finding bugs has dropped, too, Evans says. Google recently asked some of its best outside bug hunters why bug reports had declined and was told it was just "harder to find" vulnerabilities these days. Harder-to-find bugs for researchers also means harder-to-find bugs for hackers.
Bounty programs also improve security by encouraging researchers to disclose bugs responsibly — that is, passing the information to vendors first, so that they can release a patch to customers before the information is publicly disclosed. And they help mend the fractious relationship that has long existed between researchers and vendors.
In 2009, Miller and fellow security researchers Alex Sotirov and Dino Dai Zovi launched a "No More Free Bugs" campaign to protest freeloading vendors who weren't willing to pay for the valuable service bug hunters provided and to call attention to the fact that researchers often got punished by vendors for trying to do a good deed.
Patrick Webster got a taste of this firsthand last year when he reported a website vulnerability to First State Super, an Australian investment firm that managed his pension fund. The flaw allowed any account holder to access the online statements of other customers, thus exposing some 770,000 pension accounts — including those of police officers and politicians.
Webster wrote a script to download about 500 account statements to prove to First State that its account holders were at risk. But First State wasn't grateful. The company reported him to police, then demanded access to his computer to make sure he'd deleted all of the statements he had downloaded.
First State's response to Webster's responsible disclosure makes it clear that not all companies know how to play nice with researchers. But vendors offering bug bounty programs generally include a promise to researchers, like one from Facebook, that says as long as a researcher gives the company reasonable time to respond to a bug report and makes a good-faith effort not to violate user privacy or destroy data while researching their website or application for bugs, "we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you."
"What the bug bounty program is saying is, 'I'm hoping that the community does the right thing with respect to vulnerabilities in my software, and I want to reward people for doing the right thing,'" says Chris Wysopal, co-founder and CTO of Veracode, a firm involved in the testing and auditing of software code. "So the existence of the bug bounty program gets beyond just 'I'm trying to secure my applications.' It's also 'I'm trying to have a good relationship with the research community.'"
That outside research community can add a whole new dimension to a company's security efforts.
Facebook, which launched its bounty program last year, says bounties have improved its security by opening its code to a new set of eyes with different perspectives and skills.
Facebook regularly hires outside consultants to audit its code and augment the review its internal security team already does, so there were some at the company who didn't think a bounty program would be worth the extra effort it would take to run it. Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan was among those who weren't sold on the idea. But the results, he says, have "made me a total convert."
Bug reports from outsiders have introduced Facebook's internal security team to new vectors of attack they didn't know about before, and have helped programmers "improve lots of corners" of the company's code, he says.
"The advantage of the program is if some new tactic or technique comes out that we don't know about, we can guarantee that someone that wants to earn a bounty will know about it," Sullivan says. Researchers who have an incentive to look for bugs are more likely to be up to date on the latest tactics than the contractors they hire to audit their code, he says.
Ryan McGeehan, director of Security CERT response at Facebook, says that in some ways the bounty program has actually outperformed the consultants they hire. "The difference is the scope in what gets assessed. Consultants get hired to look at a specific product. But the bug bounty is wide open," he says.
Facebook was so happy with the bug reports it was getting for its social networking site that last July it expanded the program to include its corporate network as well, paying bug hunters to find vulnerabilities in its backend business infrastructure. It's the first bounty program to do so.
"I think a lot of people outside the company are a little nervous about it," Sullivan says, because they're not sure they'd be comfortable opening their own infrastructure to hackers. "This is a step that no one else has taken. But at the same time if you look at some of the biggest security issues across the internet over last few years, the vulnerabilities are just as much in the infrastructure — they can be just as harmful in that context as in the product."
The benefits from a bug bounty program, however, reach beyond the individual vendor who receives and pays for a bug report. Other software makers and service providers can learn from the steps that one company takes to secure its software, thereby increasing security for everyone.
Michael Coates, director of security assurance at the Mozilla Foundation, said they once got a vulnerability report for a web application's file-upload feature that allowed the researcher to bypass Mozilla's security defenses to upload a potentially malicious file. The vulnerability had broad implications for the upload features in other web apps.
Mozilla hardened the defensive measures across the board for all of its file-upload features and then, Coates says, "being an open source organization, we pushed that knowledge back out to the community and made it fully available so not only would we benefit, but anyone else building web applications would."
But there are also more direct ways other software makers can benefit from the bounty program of one vendor.
Microsoft, for example, recently benefited directly from one bug report that Google paid for, after the search giant generously doled out a $5,000 bounty to two researchers for a bug they uncovered in Microsoft's Windows operating system.
"Occasionally, we issue special rewards for bugs outside of Chrome, particularly where the bug is very severe and/or we are able to partially work around the issue," wrote Jason Kersey, Google's technical program manager for Chrome, in a blog post.
House in Order
Simply deciding to launch a bug bounty program can be a sign that a company already has a high level of security, says Wysopal. That's because before a company launches a bounty program, it needs to have its security house in order or it could end up racking up a large bill in payouts or, worse, receive a sudden influx of reports about security bugs that it doesn't have the resources to fix.
"The mere fact that you have a bounty program shows you have a certain amount of [security] maturity, because it would be too expensive otherwise [to launch one]," he says. "You could have your application reviewed by a third party for the price of just five bugs you might pay out [in a bounty program]."
Evans notes that when Google launched its web bounty program, it received a 10-times spike in bug submissions.
"You do want to have a decent-size security team before you undertake this, and you do want to make sure that you're fairly confident your products meet a reasonable level of robustness," he says. "Obviously you need a pretty large security team to be able to sort of absorb that increase in load."
Bug bounty programs also place increased pressure on a company to fix bugs more quickly.
Evans says Google has a company-wide policy of patching serious or critical bugs within 60 days of receiving a report. "That's a Google-wide standard that we think the industry should be held to," Evans says. But their average turnaround time for high-severity issues is around 30 days. "We were quite pleased with that as a metric," he says. "That shows quite a rapid response to non-emergency issues."
Sullivan thinks companies need to be faster than this, however. "We're fortunate in that we work at a company where engineers are pushing changes on a daily basis. And so we knew going in to the program that if someone reported a vulnerability we'd be able to turn around and fix it immediately that day or the next day."
He notes that a member of his security team recently submitted a vulnerability to another company's bug program, which he declined to name, and was told the company would get back to him in a few weeks.
"When you have a bug bounty program like we do, you have to be able to push fixes on a daily basis, because when someone outside the company reports something to Facebook, they're watching us to see how quickly we respond," he says.
Google moved more quickly during its Pwnium contest earlier this year when the company had at least 20 people on hand to address the vulnerabilities submitted by contestants. Evans says they used the competition as a fire drill to test their agility in responding to emergency situations.
In the end there were only two submissions — those of "Pinkie Pie" and Sergey Glazunov — but they involved 16 bugs, and Google was able to patch all of them within 24 hours of receiving the reports. When "Pinkie Pie" reprised his exploit feat in early October during a second installment of Pwnium, Google patched the two bugs his exploit attacked within 12 hours.
Bug Payouts
Not all vendor bounty programs are equal. Rates for paying researchers can range from $500 to $60,000, depending on the vendor, the ubiquity of the product and the critical nature of the bug.
Miller says different payouts appeal to different people. "For me, being paid $500 and $1,000 is not really much," he says. "[But] if I lived in some country [where I would] possibly make much less than in the United States, then maybe that's quite a bit of money and I can live for a month on that. There's a lot of researchers in the world who can live quite well on bug bounties."
One researcher in Canada told Wired that he earned $60,000 in a year from bug bounties, which gave him money to live on when he couldn't find a full-time job. [See sidebar.]
Mozilla pays between $500 and $3,000, and Facebook pays $500 per bug, though it will pay out more depending on the bug. The company has paid $5,000 and $10,000 for a few major bugs.
Google's Chromium program pays between $500 and $1,333.70 for vulnerabilities found in Google's Chrome browser, its underlying open source code or in Chrome plug-ins. Google's web properties program, which focuses on vulnerabilities found in Google online services such as Gmail, YouTube.com, and Blogger.com, pays up to $20,000 for advanced bugs, and $10,000 for a SQL injection bug — the everyday workhorse of vulnerabilities. The ceiling on payouts disappears, however, "if something awesome comes in," Evans says. "We've done that once or twice." The company maintains a Hall of Fame page to give shout-outs to its bug hunters.
By contrast, Google's Pwnium contest, which requires researchers to go beyond just finding a vulnerability and submit a working exploit to attack it. Google launched the program with a $1 million total purse — with individual awards paid at a rate of $20,000, $40,000 and $60,000 per exploit, depending on the type and severity of the bug being exploited. Last month, the company increased the total purse to $2 million.
Google said the higher rates for its Pwnium contest reflect the extra work it takes to develop an exploit.
"The level of effort required to find a bug is a lot lower than the level of effort required to take that bug and turn it into an exploit," Evans says. "Substantially so, in our experience."
But the higher payout also reflects the higher value Google gets from exploits.
"When we see full exploits, we can actually learn much more from that than when we just see bugs," he says. "We can look at the techniques used to exploit the bugs, and then, based on the knowledge gained from that, we can deploy defensive measures that will mitigate entire classes of bugs and make exploitation much harder."
In addition to vendor bounty programs, there are also third-party bounty programs sponsored by security firms, which buy vulnerability information in software applications made by Microsoft, Adobe and others.
iDefense, which provides security intelligence services, launched a bounty program in 2002, but it's long been overshadowed by the more prominent HP Tipping Point Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) bounty program, launched in 2005. HP Tipping Point also sponsors the Pwn2Own exploit contest each year at the CanSecWest conference, which was the inspiration for Google's Pwnium contest.
HP Tipping Point uses vulnerability information submitted by researchers to develop signatures for its intrusion prevention system. The company then passes the information to the affected vendor for free, such as Microsoft, so the software maker can create a patch. This means the software maker gets all the advantages of receiving bug reports, without having to pay for them.
The ZDI organizers also share the information with other makers of intrusion prevention systems for free, so that they can protect their customers as well.
The ZDI bounty program has processed more than 1,000 vulnerabilities since it launched in 2005 and has paid more than $5.6 million to researchers. The program pays varying rates that change depending on the vulnerability.
Vendors are required to fix the vulnerability within six months, after which the organizers will publish information about the vulnerability, along with tips for mitigating it, even in the absence of a patch. The organizers began imposing the six-month deadline in February 2011 because some vendors were taking too long to fix vulnerabilities reported to them. One IBM vulnerability, for example, remained unfixed for three years.
"At that point not only is it a pain for us to track it, but in our opinion they're making people out there less safe," says Aaron Portnoy, former head of the ZDI program. "It's not fair to users in our opinion to leave that susceptibility open."
In the end, that's what all of the bug bounty programs are about — making users safer on the web.
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Ocala's Appleton showcases Chick Schwartz in latest exhibit
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 2:53 p.m.
Be careful when viewing the new art exhibit by Chick Schwartz at the Appleton Museum of Art.
'Chick Schwartz: Cedar Key Artist'
When: Saturday through March 17. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays
Where: Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala
Museum admission: $6 for adults; $4 for ages 55 or older and students 19 and older; $3 for ages 10-18 and free for members, CF students, active military personnel (and their immediate families) and ages 9 and younger
Info: 291-4455, www.AppletonMuseum.org
You may get vertigo when taking in his ceramic, high-relief wall sculptures; you may even need to hold on to something.
Or when viewing his bronze sculptures, your mind may play tricks on you. There is much negative space in the art, and you may think you don't see anything, but then you do.
Meanwhile, his colorful landscape paintings may give you a longing to visit nearby Cedar Key, the small Gulf-side town in Levy County where the artist lives with his artist wife, Marsha.
"It's inspired the paintings for sure. When you wake up to a Cedar Key sunrise, it's pretty inspirational," said Schwartz, who's called it home for 10 years. "When you cross that first bridge, and the panorama opens up with all the little islands, it's a pretty special place. It's an exquisite place.
"All the horrible things we do to each other in this world kind of melt away when you get to the No. 4 bridge."
He brings this world — with its mind tricks and hometown nods — to Ocala this week when "Chick Schwartz: Cedar Key Artist" opens Saturday at the Appleton Museum of Art.
He said the exhibit of about 55 pieces is a retrospective of his 40 years as an artist.
Schwartz is probably best known for his Looking Downs, the perspective high-relief ceramic wall sculptures.
"They're called Looking Downs because when they work, you feel like you're five stories up looking down," he said. "You can almost get a queasy feeling in your stomach. I've done more than 300 of those over the years, and they are all over the world."
Years ago, a gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City began showing his works.
"People would buy one and then send their private planes back to New York to get it back to their home country," he said of the large pieces. "We lived off those for many years. That's how we fed our boys and sent them to college."
There are three such sculptures in the Appleton exhibit, including one of God as a woman looking down at what she has created.
Schwartz frequents a salvage yard between Gainesville and Ocala off U.S. 441 to get items for sculptures.
In fact, "The Peacock," in this exhibit, was made with items from there. "It looks like a great huge peacock, but it's just old paint can lids and old 45 records glued together and painted."
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there is no way to screw in a choke tube and it is my understanding I shouldn't shoot steel thru it.
what are my options here?
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2 - buy new barrel with choke tube options(middle $$$ option?)?
3 - buy a new gun(most expensive option?)?
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I only hunt a few times a year so a $1000 new gun isn't really an option or needed here.
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Richard III remains identified
posted at 8:28 am on February 4, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
For lovers of Shakespeare and of history, this is a fascinating tale indeed. Few British monarchs have been as reviled as Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England, whose death in battle brought the Tudors to the throne and ended the War of the Roses. Researchers have confirmed that the bones found under a parking lot where an abbey once stood — an abbey demolished by Henry VIII, the Tudor king who seized abbeys and churches in the split with Rome — really are those of Richard III, the last English monarch to fall in battle:
A team of archaeologists confirmed Monday that ancient remains found under a parking lot belong to long-lost King Richard III, successfully ending a search that sparked a modern-day debate about the legacy of the reputed tyrant.
Details of the findings were released hours after DNA tests came in late Sunday. The 500-year-old remains were discovered five months ago, using ancient maps and records to uncover the ruins of the old friary where Richard III was laid to rest.
"It is the academic conclusion of the University of Leicester that beyond reasonable doubt, the individual exhumed at Greyfriars in September 2012 is indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England," Richard Buckley, lead archaeologist of the University of Leicester, said at the announcement Monday in the city north of London.
Some believe this will prompt a re-evaluation of Richard III, depicted as a monster by Shakespeare and of historians in the period following his downfall:
The debate that has risen out of this finding has provoked the nation to rethink the legacy of Richard III, cast in British history by Shakespeare as a deformed villain, who locked his young nephews — rivals to the throne — in the Tower of London, where they are thought to have met their demise.
If I recall correctly, the skeletons of both boys — who had claims to the throne superior to Richard — were discovered in the Tower of London centuries later, in a room that had been bricked up and forgotten. Any rethinking of Richard's legacy has to account for their deaths while in Richard's custody, and that will be difficult to reconcile no matter how much rethinking takes place.


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We're rolling in greens this month! Unfortunately, it's not the type of green that's going to pay for our dreadful Visa bill arriving next week. But it is the type of green that's full of fiber and vitamins to keep us healthy and heart attack free when we do open up the envelope. We're talking about having red romaine, green romaine, red oak leaf, green leaf and "everything mesculin" lettuce up to our ears! Growing and investing in $3 worth of mixed lettuce, and mesculin mix seeds feeds us throughout the months of January- April.
Every November, we make a wish and then toss a bunch of seeds over our shoulders (like tossing coins into the Trevi Fountain when we were in Rome) into the ground and pretty much just forget about it for the first few weeks. With the help of our sprinklers, this years plentiful rain and a better behaved white dog who doesn't dig, our forgotten seeds are now exploding with baby lettuce. We've gotta start eating them now to help thin out the lettuce patch, so there's bound to be lot of lettuce dishes to be posted here in the next few months.
It's now Vietnamese Spring Roll season! Sitting on our counter is a fresh pineapple screaming out to be juiced, eaten or grilled. Lucky for us it's still in good condition so today it's going to be a pineapple pork salad for dinner. But when we're both in hyper spirits, the kitchen kinda goes crazy beyond one dish. With lots of pork, pineapple and garden fresh lettuce, we started rockin' and rollin' with fresh Vietnamese Spring Rolls. When you've got so many left over ingredients, why not roll them up into some fresh Vietnamese Spring rolls for another salad course? The salad is so versatile, especially when you decide to roll them up into the spring/salad/summer rolls (call it what-cha want). For a veggie option, just add more pineapple, some cucumbers for crunch, carrots for color and herbs for flavor pleasure and you've got a feast of salad – in two ways.
Growing lettuce is a deal we can't pass up because some knowing the price of some of these fancy lettuce's, our diverse little harvest probably produces about a hundred dollars worth every year. We've even thought about setting out a table and having a lettuce stand to help pay for some of our heating bills this winter. Any buyers? or maybe we could sell some of our Vietnamese Spring Rolls!
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Pineapple Salad and/or Vietnamese Spring Rolls Recipe
Yield: Serves 2-4
Total Time: 30 Minutes
This salad is just as tasty with out the pork so it's perfect for vegetarians! Canned pineapple will work just fine, but if you have access to a fresh pineapple, go for it! Investing in a fresh pineapple adds so much depth of fruity freshness, not to mention plenty of fruit left over for more dishes.
- 1 pound thinly sliced pork chops or pork shoulder (omit for vegetarian version)
- 1 can pineapple rings or 1 fresh pineapple, carved & sliced into thin strips.
- 1/2 cup vegetable or grape seed oil
- 1 Tablespoon sugar
- 4 Tablespoons fish sauce or soy sauce
- 3 Tablespoons pineapple juice w/ about 2 1″ inch pineapple cubes crushed in juice
- 2 cloves crushed garlic
- 1 teaspoon grated or crushed ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Lettuce
- cucumbers
- mint
- shredded carrots
- rice paper sheets for springrolls
Pineapple dressing/dip Ingredients
- 1 clove crushed garlic
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons grape seed oil
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon chili flakes
- 4 table spoons pineapple juice
- 2 tablespoons minced pineapple
- Marinade: In bowl or plastic bag, mix sugar, fish/soy sauce, pineapple juice & crushed pineapple cubes, garlic , ginger and salt. Add pork, let marinade for about 20 minutes. For vegetarian version, us this same mixture to marinade pineapple slices for about 20 minutes.
- Make dressingdip. In blender, add garlic, water, grape seed oil, soy sauce, sugar, chili flakes, pineapple juice and minced pineapple. Blend well.
- Wash lettuce, herbs, slice cucumbers & carrots.
- In hot pan, cook pork on each side for about 1 minute or until cooked. For pineapple, quickly sear each side of pineapple slices for about 30 seconds, or until light brown crust appears. Remove from heat, let cool.
- For salad, assemble lettuce , pork, pineapple chunks and toss with dressing.
- For fresh springrolls, assemble lettuce, pork, pineapple strips, cucumbers, mint and/or carrots on rice paper for rolling. Click here: SpringRolling 101 for rolling instructions.


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|Most realtors have access to a smoke eater - when selling a home that has been smoked in they place the smoke eater in the home for a time" to rid the home of the smell prior to viewing. The smoke eater runs extremely high voltage across small wires - when the air is pulled or pushed past it splits the 02 (oxygen) atoms into 01 atom (ozone) the 01 atom is unstable and will attach itself to a carbon atom and oxidize the carbon atom - remove it permanently. This is the best way to remove the smell of smoke from anything. Look to a realtor or fire Restoration Company to rent a machine - it really does not take much time to clean anything inundated with smoke
|Tip of the day - Use Vodka, place in a spray bottle. Spray the areas or in the air - it kills the bacteria, kills mold, and when done is orderless.. Have a few russian friends and you have non-stinking party to boot.
|I just light my pipe and after a few minutes I don't smell the cigarettes anymore. I've also heard that sea-sick passengers can help in acclimating one to the smell.
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Good luck with your new boat! I bought a used car that smelled of cigarettes. My mechanic suggested that I use fabreeze on the fabric and put fabic softener dryer sheets under the seats. The smell was gone in three days. Can't say it will work on a boat but it sure worked on my car!
|Good luck with your new boat! I bought a used car that smelled of cigarettes. My mechanic suggested that I use fabreeze on the fabric and put fabic softener dryer sheets under the seats. The smell was gone in three days. Can't say it will work on a boat but it sure worked on my car!
|Thanks for all replies. I ended up finding one with zero smell that looks very promising. Will do the inspection soon.
Some car dealers use Ozone Generators to get the smell out. It's kind of like one of those Sharer Image magic air cleaners. They just put it inside the car with all the windows up and let it run overnight. On a boat it may need a week but I think it will get the job done, that's what they're designed to do.
Here's one- Residential Ozone Generator Rental - ozone generator rental residential
$79.00 for a 2 day rental, does a whole house.
I know nothing about that company or that generator, googled it up.
I will post my opinion - run away.
I bought a house (a house, I know, not a boat but still somewhat comparable) from a smoker. It took YEARS to get that smell out. I ripped out the sheetrock, repainted, ripped out flooring, had ac ducts cleaned several times, all fixtures, windows, replaced flooring with tile and new carpet after super cholonating and washing repeatedly, etc.
Never, never, never again. We (as non smokers) are very sensitive to that smell. Small amount of it anywhere will stink forever. This is especially apparent when it has been shut up for a while (or even shut for not a while). And how do you get that film and smell out of the millions of unaccessible areas in the bilge or behind cabinets, or hidden in cabinets, or in the upholstry (inside), etc.
There are a million boats on the market right now and it is a buyers market. You will still have to really shop for a GOOD boat (and will probably still pay close to top dollar for a really well cared for boat), but if you are a non-smoker, avoid smoked-in boats like the plague. Let a smoker buy that one. They won't hardly smell it. And no offense, but if they were insensitive enough and thoughtless enough about resale to smoke in their boat in the first place, what other things have they neglected to care about? Maybe, maybe not... but the thougth would cross my mind. Most of the smokers I know smoke outside of their house and moke outside of their boats for that very reason.
I realize there are a LOT of smokers on this forum. My comments were not meant to frustrate any of you. I just think smokers have a difficult time comprehending how much of a turn-off the old smoke smell bothers non-smokers. So please take the comments as something to consider if you do smoke and how you may actually lose 50% of a potential buying audience if you smoke in your boat/house.
My opinions.
PS When you put clothes or any items on that boat, all of those will smell like smoke. We would leave the house smelling like smoke. It made our car smell like smoke because the clothes absorbed the smell. That crap gets everywhere and on everything. NEVER AGAIN.
I worked at a car dealersip for a few years and we used Ozium Glycolized
Air Sanitizer Spray to get rid of all the smells that came with a used car
I guess I'm the odd one out, I'd rather have a boat that smells of cigarettes, than one that smells of what some people consider 'food'.
For the most part smoke smell can be removed with a good cleaning, no more strenuous than your average 'smelly' boat.
As mentioned, white vinigar will get the smell out.
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On the Seventh Floor of Hogwarts is a birdcage that contained two birds, one white and one black. During the 1996–1997 school year, Draco Malfoy took each bird from their cage and used them to test out the Vanishing Cabinet that he was attempting to repair in the Room of Requirement. The white one was used first, and died when the test was unsuccessful. The black one was used next, and successfully traveled to the other Vanishing Cabinet in Borgin and Burkes and back again. The birdcage was visible on the Marauder's Map.
A boy named James Tuckett observed Malfoy stealing these birds. He informed Harry Potter of what he saw, though Harry was unable to act on the information because he couldn't get into the Room of Requirement.
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- The inscription encircling the band on the bottom of the cage is a line from Horace's Satires, the first words and last letters of which can be seen: "Deus inde ego furum aviumque maxima formido." ("A god thus I am - to thieves and birds the greatest fear.") In original context, in the preceding and following passages Horace has an idol of the god Priapus standing by the garden pool -- speaking of being made a god by a carpenter from some fig wood -- after it was deemed useless for anything else. The text is a classical warning against idolatry of man-made things, and adopted by medieval Christian apologetics for that purpose.


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|Yes, I have called. Various times on various people- one of which was actively tormenting a puppy right out on the street. I would perhaps leave a written note tucked in her front door screen advising her of the new law regarding tethering rope lengths. If nothing changes and you still feel the dog is not okay as is then call and file an anonymous tip.
This was in our old neighborhood....luckily we moved and our current neighborhood is a lot tamer.
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Yes, I have called AC before....one case ended up with me having to go to court a number of times to testify. It was an owner who let their pits jump their fence and terrorize our elderly neighbors. The dog may not have been vicious but any wild out of control dog could hurt a frail 85 year old women just trying to hang her washing up. One other case was a dog across the street that would jump the fence multiple times a dog....came onto my porch and barked at my dogs. I called all the time....25$ a pop for the owners every time and they never learned....dog got ran over sadly.
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|Yes, when my Jake was still a Pup. The people that live 2 houses down have 3 dogs that were running free. 2 Black Labs and a Beagle. The 90 pounder was always in our yard. When I'd walk Jake , their Dogs would come onto the street to torment Jake. I called Animal Control. They were warned and They have kept there dogs under control ever since.
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I have no problem
reporting animal abuse, I don't see how anyone could see it and not
report it.
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ETA: She's not abusing them... just not doing anything with them. Have talked with her about the puppy and asked about the tether... she just says "ok, thanks" and that's it. She's not intentionally being cruel or anything... just doesn't know better.
No, I wouldn't leave a dog tied out. But I won't report Joey Knuckle Head for doing it.
I wouldnt call based on what you said but maybe you arent filling in blanks. When I was a kid we had a timberwolf/malamute and if it wasnt outside then it was begging to get out. So a neighbor with a big poodle called animal control on us for having a malamute cross outside in winter.
I called cops after almost getting in a fight last year after seeing some guy punch his dog.
You said there were houses. That is shelter. You will do what you want to do. We have a law here that says you have to keep your house painted, or your yard mowed below a certain level -- hard to do when it rains every day almost, for months at a time. But if you start turning the neighbors in for every violation, they might just turn you in for a law that they know about that you might not be following perfectly. Neighbors can be pretty nasty at times, especially when people have GSDs.
I have heard of people calling when the dog barked a couple of times IN THE HOUSE. Talk to your neighbor, fine. Help her out, make suggestions. But if you call the authorities on her, she may retaliate.
And if you are not breaking any ordinances or laws, hopefully, most of us aren't, but you never know, there are a lot of them; well, there are other ways people retaliate. And they target dogs. People have been known to throw poisoned meat in yards, or leave antifreeze spilled.
I wouldn't do it, not unless I really felt something has to be done.
Well, she would get a warning for the first time. I do not think anyone else has called her on it before, and for the first time, she is just given a warning that it needs to change. If nothing happens within 24 hours, then it's a misdemeanor.
There is just no reason for this dog to be tied. She hasn't once tried to escape, and where she is right now, if she does try to escape, she'd get hung on the fence... and get hung. It's not long enough that she'd just end up on the other side.
And the lack of shelter in extreme cold for this area is also a concern.
I have called when the dog was trying to attack my dog every time I tried to take my dogs anywhere.
I told the neighbor to come and get her dog when it took up residence in my shed. It was a cold winter like this, -10 degrees F at night, and come to find out the bitch was pregnant. She had an igloo dog house, no bottom, just some straw in there.
She gave birth to four puppies, and never once were any of them let in the house. They all lived too, until three of them got killed in the road. 2 in one morning. I heard it, while I was out taking care of my dogs in the back before work. I took the fourth puppy and got it its shots, and neutered it and then gave it to the shelter, so they could find it a home -- it was a no-kill shelter at that time. They were pretty snotty with me, but when I said he was neutered, they said, they knew of a guy who would like him.
Chances are if you are dealing with Animal Control, which deals with laws, and ordinances, and is funded by the government, they are probably not dealing with a no-kill shelter. Government run shelters usually give strays up to two weeks for the owners to find them, and owner turn-ins, may be given 3-5 days to find an adopter, if there is room. If there is no room, owner-surrenders are often put down on the same day.
So if this gal is abusing her dog, I say call. Being euthanized in a shelter is better than being abused. If this gal is just not providing for her dogs the way you provide for yours, well, I don't know.
As for German Shepherds, it is 9 degrees here, my dogs are outside right now. I bring them in at night. But then, it gets even colder at night. They are not tethered, and they have houses and straw. But 15 degrees is not bloody cold for a dog. Today the sun was shining, it was 14 degrees, and my dogs are out there lying in the snow. They love it.
I don't understand your tethering laws. 30 foot in a 15' yard, would mean that tether would be wrapped up around stuff, and if she climbed the fencing she would likely hang herself. A 12' line, if staked to the ground gives a circle with a diameter of 24'. Most kennels sold are 5'x10' or 6'x12' -- much less room than a 12' chain is actually giving.
If you feel that you should turn someone in for breaking a tether law, I guess that is up to you. There are a lot of laws on the books that I don't feel it my business to go and turn people in for. Like going 5 miles over the speed limit, or not wearing a seat belt. If someone is being deliberately cruel, that's a whole other story. But I would consider, if the warden takes this dog, what is likely to happen to it?
Lots of dogs do not do well in a shelter environment. They become kennel aggressive, and the dog will most likely be euthanized if that is the case. If the gal hasn't been able to do shots on the dogs or pups, going to a shelter is almost for sure that they will come down with parvo.
I guess, I would feel pretty bad if the girl signed her dogs and pups over to Animal Control, and then they were euthanized for want of space, or because they felt they were aggressive, or if they got parvo. Our shelter kills them sometimes a hundred at a time with parvo -- that's why I waited for that dog to be totally vaccinated and neutered before dropping him off there. I did not take him because I wanted him. I agreed to take him because the lady was letting them get smooshed in the road. But I would have felt terrible if the dog got Parvo and had to be euthanized there.
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Posted by Laura Ramos on March 21, 2013
. . . Ok, maybe not so "live" because it is now late in the evening on the day of the conference, but I'd like to share a few insights I gathered about the state of business-to-business (B2B) digital marketing today.
BtoB magazine's one-day event features frank conversational discussion from top B2B brands (mostly tech ones like Cisco Systems, Intel, SAP, VMware, Tellabs, and IBM) in moderated panel format. Digital lead generation/pipeline augmentation, social selling, agency trends, building B2B community, developing engaging content, and mobile marketing filled out the agenda.
This was my second year at the event, and the highlight again was the social media awards. Featuring 10 categories ranging from integrated campaign, to Twitter, mobile, and Pinterest, BtoB singles out top performers in social marketing. It also unveils tech and nontech people's-choice awards as voted on by subscribers.
You can find the full list here, and I hope BtoB will publish the scripted descriptions in a future edition because all honorees were interesting and unique and offer B2B marketers a look into how to use social to advance business. Heartfelt congratulations to all award winners — well deserved!
Looking over the list, here are a few observations you can take away about the state of social marketing in B2B:


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Dear colleagues
I've recently took a new class consisting of twelve 10-12 year old elementary students (uncontrollable boys!) These guys seemed to be very gentle and disciplined in their previous class, taught by a male teacher. But in my class (of course I'm a female) they do whatever they can to turn the class into a battlefield. One is always screaming and shouting, others always asking for more games, and most are on their toes to run home just as the ring bells. However, they are quick-learners, do their homework on-time and have no learning problems.
I've tried everything, being friendly, being serious … but … no results. My main concern is for the minority of 3-4 students who are really eager to learn but suffer from the class atmosphere.
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"This card combines pink and navy in a whimsical, sweet way and coordinated perfectly with a photo of my twin girls. It will make the perfect Valentine for their first Valentine's day!"
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my name is Thorsten and i'm a SW maniac from germany. After finishing (you're never finished) my tie pilot and biker scout costumes i've started to build a boba costume.
After endless hours of research (especially in TDH) i crawl out of my cave to show my progress. There are still many things to do (jumpsuit, wookie scalps, back armor, shoes. etc...). I must not think about building the jet pack (building R2-D2 is a walk-over in comparison).
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Gillo's Bookshelf: Barb's Book for Thursday, January 24
25/01/2013 , 6:28 PM by Bren McGurk
Barb's Book this week: The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson.
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Can you tell me the name of the book about the man looking for a girl freind on the internet i think he was ocd or something like that i know it was on gillo,s program.thankyou jeff.
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Gillo it's chris Shaw from Bunbury could you please give me the name of the Book you reviewed a couple of Weeks ago about Men who fought and died in the World War who were prominent West Aussies. I was packing Fruit at the time and did not write it down and it sounds like a great read. Cheers Chris a fellow Docker supporter. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sold our B6 Passat (2006 4-Motion) a couple weeks ago with the intention of buying a used truck as it is a PITA having two sedans when you own a house, a large yard and no nearby relatives with pickups. I work from home and my wife is home with our son (almost 3) so fuel economy would not be a concern.
Was looking at used trucks on craigslist and ebay but it is crazy what even rusty, high-mileage work-trucks are going for. Luckily, we are eligible for a GM employee discount through my wifes grandfather so I emailed the internet sales guy I deal with who has sold me 2 new VWs and a Chevy. After a test drive, a night to think it over and about 15 minutes of paper work later, I think I got a killer deal on a new 2011 Silverado LT 4x4 All Star Edition
Surprised with the number of features 5.3L V8, 6-speed transmission, 4x4, electronic locking rear differential, dual zone heating/cooling, bluetooth, USB port, steering wheel controls, power driver seat, 20 wheels, adjustable pedals, rear parking assist, remote starter, homelink, OnStar, trailering package, etc
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Cuddly Wrap Chocolate Throw - Set of 2Price: $11.99Shipping Options: $5 StandardCondition: UnknownComparison Links:Google Products - Amazon - Previous Woot Sales
Cuddly Wrap Chocolate Throw - Set of 2
Price: $11.99
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Overstock has a couple of meh reviews
Just to be clear, the headless bodies are NOT included.
ThunderThighs wrote:Just to be clear, the headless bodies are NOT included.
Aw, but mom, I really wanted the headless bodies,...
There is so much joke material here, but I'll restrain myself. Honestly, the first thing I thought about was monks.
I was hoping for a Jedi Cloak.
It looks like a monk robe. No thanks.
So some Monks ordered too many robes and decided to try and resell them as something else instead? Well played monks, well played.
neerak wrote:It looks like a monk robe. No thanks.
As opposed to a vibrant colour like red or pink.
... I'll take the brown, please.
Where is the Hood?
It would be a great monk costume if it just had a hood.
Sadly, I actually have a black hood. It is the best thing for the snow, sleet, and rain.
Is this an actual robe that covers front and back and is wearable, or just a flat throw with sleeves that looks like a robe?
It really needs a white rope to complete the monk look, but really there are so many Halloween possibilities the mind boggles.
lichme wrote:Overstock has a couple of meh reviews
I don't think these two reviews were "meh" ,maybe "stay away" is more like it
mskitty42 wrote:Is this an actual robe that covers front and back and is wearable, or just a flat throw with sleeves that looks like a robe?
They call it a throw so I'm figuring it's not a robe - open at the back.
Really??!! People are actually buying these things?
jmbrown wrote:Really??!! People are actually buying these things?
I got two similar to this in an earlier woot deal in burgandy. My hubby often grades his student's school work and uses his laptop while lying on the couch and also complains of being cold a lot. The ones we got have a kangaroo pocket in them as well, handy for stashing the tv remote or other small items. Blankets with sleeves DO have some limited value.
Beware! These things shed like you wouldn't beLIEVE!!!
I regret buying one for my Mom.
I got the burgundy ones and they immediately left pills everywhere and on everything.
Caveat emptor!
Wondering what the length is. I don't want to be tripping over it as I move around.
I got a couple of the burgundy ones a couple of months ago too. I like them because I keep my house pretty cold and they are much thicker fleece than most of these things. I haven't noticed shedding but then I have cats so maybe it just mixed with the fur. Given the price, I'm guessing the brown ones are the very thin fleece and not very useful.
ThunderThighs wrote:They call it a throw so I'm figuring it's not a robe - open at the back.
Too bad. I would be in for 3. It's not cheap outfitting an entire cult.
Hmmm - I'm considering whether I want to buy these as a halloween costume for next year - my best friend and I had been talking about going around the neighborhood as the Monty Python chanting monks for years now. Even if they're open in the back, safety pins could take care of that for one night.
From the reports of shedding though, that might be the extent of their use.
jhdale wrote:Too bad. I would be in for 3. It's not cheap outfitting an entire cult.
we sold a sewing machine the other day. probably will again. You can DIY it.
I dont know, how good it would be.
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I moved my Mom from a Convalescent Home in Sacramento, to a new home closer to me on Sunday. To make small words, she had no visitors up there, no one had seen her in months. When I found out, I made no hesitation to
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Monday, I took off work early to visit her. When I arrived she was in extreme pain. We ended up in the hospital all night last night. She has a horrible fracture in her left distal femur, near her knee. Not that there can be a "wonderful" fracture, but it is really bad.
I got a few hours sleep and I am heading back to the hospital. For those who pray, please send a few our direction, or up, or where your prayers go.
My mom has a hotline to God and I know he is watching her, but I just want to ask for extra prayer. She will probably have to go to surgery today, or soon.
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Woodlands is a set of ready-to-use preset scenes as well as a complete outdoor scene construction kit. It includes 42 full scene presets, which offer various options and styles to choose from, depending upon your needs. Whether you're looking to build your own forested path, starting with the base scene and its full 3D lighting and environmental controls then adding preset blocks of wooded nature, such as an individual plant, tree or deadwood or maybe a scene that has already been put together, so all you have to do is to bring in your characters and render, this kit was designed to meet those needs.
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Lupus is a chronic disease which means it's something that is life-long with no cure. I am doing well today, but that does not mean that's true tomorrow. I knew I would be dealing with lupus for the rest of my life. Given that, I quickly realized I would have to rely on, and ask for support, from those around me. For someone who is fiercely independent and rather "Type A," this is very humbling. Asking for help used to make me feel inadequate. Now, lupus forces me to drop my pride and accept support.
If I'm in a flare, my husband Patrick does mostly everything around the house including: meal preparation, cleaning, and caring for our dog, Cash. Patrick is my warrior, ready to fight with me on the front lines through the pain. My dad is also one of my strongest supporters because his help is readily available and always unconditional.
People often ask what they can do to support me. Sometimes, the answer is as simple as taking a few minutes to grow their understanding of lupus. My friends and family offer assistance in many different ways. For instance, one time my brother snow plowed my driveway with his truck. I never asked him to do that; he kindly stopped over. My sister-in-law makes us healthy meals at times; my neighbors send over snacks and flowers; and a friend once dropped off a favorite funny movie of mine. I get cards, calls, and texts just to see how I'm doing and many prayers are said for my well-being. Trust me, it's those seemingly little things that are hugely appreciated for someone dealing with lupus.
My husband has expressed his feelings of helplessness with this disease because he can't take it away from me. Until I volunteered with the Lupus Foundation of Minnesota, I felt defeated at times too. It's only until I started sharing my story, particularity when I started fundraising, I felt as though I was participating in an answer rather than lamenting about the problem. I know I'm not curing anything today, but the money I am raising swings the pendulum in the right direction.
Sometimes there is nothing anyone CAN do but give of their gifts, whatever those gifts may be. If you've read this post so far, please go one step farther. If you feel grateful for life, volunteer your time. If you are blessed financially, consider a donation to the Lupus Foundation of Minnesota. If you enjoy the gift of good health, then please join myself and many others at the Lupus Walk for Hope and 5K Run. We have less than one week to go (for the Twin Cities event) so let's mobilize our collective gifts for those battling lupus!


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Anyone else see big changes in the open pvp RvR mmo scene arriving now?
i guess you all know Planetside 1 has gone f2p as promised by Sony.
Asherons Call is in the process of going to some form of f2p format.
Darkfall2 is not f2p but i have heard it is enjoying a resurgence of popularity due to this post:-
How do you guys feel things could go.. Will you be trying any of these games?
I feel games like Regnum, and overall open PvP, will be affected by these changes. Hope everyone evolves into new and more successes.


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I have recently been asked if I will teach a 2 month intensive English course (5 hours a day) for a group of 15 unemployed adults in Spain. Although it would be a good experience I am undecided as I have no official TEFL experience or qualifications, the students would be of a mixed level and I´m not sure how to teach a mixed group and also because the main focus of the course is grammar and I have been told that I would have to teach the grammar in Spanish! If I´m honest I find just thinking about it very nervewracking!
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