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SC SCM State Meet (Fri & Sat)
by, December 1st, 2012 at 08:39 PM (1133 Views)
Two days down, one more to go. I am swimming well for me. I have only one small selfish complaint which will come later. I entered the same events as last year with the times from last year. I have my splits but left them in my truck and am too lazy to go get them.
Fri night 1500
-- This was not a race, strictly warm up for the weekend.
Entered w/ 23:07.43 Went 22:33.39
Sat **Self inflicted trouble
Entered w/ 1:21.33 Went 1:21.15
50 Breast (10 min later)
Entered w/ 42.14 Went 40.43
Personel best
100 Back (30 min later)
Entered w/ 1:22.74 Went 1:21.31
Personel best. Best part of this race was I went 39.??/41.??. I have never split a 100 that well.
Mixed 200 MR
-Was stuck going bk and was a low 38
State Record
200 Breast (25 min later)
Entered w/ 3:22.30 Went 3:21.11
Long glide with little effort. I'm sorry, but this is just a silly event. I am sure it is a difficult event if you swim it hard and correctly. Not me.
Mens 200 FR (40 min later)
-I actually anchored this one butdon't know what i went yet.
Here comes my complaint. Ususally the take a quick break after the Relays. I was still in the pool from the relay when the first whistle was blown for the my heat to swim. REALLY?? I was so frusrated that I just floated through it. I was looking forward to this one.
Entered w/6:36.90 Went a mid 6:38
I really have no reason to complain. I swam well and I was the one that signed upnfor this mess. I just was expecting a small break.
Pasta √
Couple of beers √


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Skip to comments.Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show Live Thread, August 20 Sleeping Giant is KKK?
Posted on 08/19/2009 6:51:08 PM PDT by abigail2
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Hour 3: DAN VARONEY, Chief Operating Officer at American Solutions for Winning The Future.
TOPIC: White House Education Reform Tour and the pairing of Newt and Sharpton.
Go to HERE and order a truckful as Jesse says.....
nice bumber sticker!
Yes it is...Jesse says to buy a bundh and pass them out to your friends. How are you this morning?It's been very pleasant here the last few days, in the 70's.
here we go, we're at it again! Almost ready for another interesting show...have a great day all and enjoy.
Good Morning! I am fine, thank you. How are you? It has been in the upper 90s here this week and humid. Oh well, summer is so very short here. Soon it will be 30 and snowing.
Summer is long here, it might go on until October! Jesse is talking about New Jersey crime being out of control.There's a curfew in effect, and the ACLU is threatening a lawsuit...they don't want order or solutions, they want chaos!
Randy Thomasson on now from www.savecalifornia.com, talking about Harvey Milk. THe homosexual, transsexual, supervisor (?) of San Francisco. Randy says he was also a liar and corrupter of young men. He was a supporter of Jim Jones taking a boy out of United States to Guyana. He said Jim Jones was a person of the highest character and he should be able to keep the boy out of the United States. The bill Randy is talking about is going to teach (PC word to corrupt) children in schools about gays, having a Harvey Milk Gay day.
Did someone say RACIST?!
Patrick is explaining what all these cap and trade bills are. He explains what global warming is...LOL He is talking about Al Gore making tons of money on this scam. Basically you scare people unless they pay for something. They want you to keep your thermostat on a certain place. They want to control everything. Guy is calling in on health care reform, cap and trade. Guy is giving % that gas, natural gas etc will go up. Go to Heritage Foundation to get statistics.
Patrick says he uses formulas to break down certain issues, and its not so complicated...ie. Cap and trade is just another way to tax you!
Caller James from Tennessee...glad Patrick admitted that there are some racist out there. But he will not admit that the protesting whites are not racists. They are complaining about policy not race, James will not see. He is on racist auto pilot! Too bad. Doesnt' he remember that whites voted Obama in?
Now open lines....
Dan Varoney is on now. Jesse is wondering why Newt Gingrich is pairing with Al Sharpton to reform education? Dan is saying the American Solutions is a group that wants to offer solutions to problems. Dan says that part of the employment problem is that we have not got qualified, skilled workers. Jesse is saying that some school districts have declared bankruptcy, here in L.A. some schools have lost their accredadation. Dan says that is why they are collaborating with Sharpton...WHY DON'T THEY COLLABORATE WITH JESSE LEE PETERSON!! OR THE SURFING RABBI, OR EZOLA FOSTER!! Enough of this. It makes me sick...what is wrong with Newt!
You can let Newt know you don't like his pick...email Newt
Bring 'em on!!
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'Captain America': Sebastian Stan on playing 'Winter Soldier' villain
In this weekend's record-breaking Marvel sequel "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," actor Sebastian Stan is the man behind the mask of the lethal assassin referenced in the title. The character is one from hero Steve Rogers' past reborn in villainous form — and anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet and wants to preserve the surprise of the antagonist's identity might want to stop reading now.
Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, the film brings to the screen the famous 2005 comic book storyline by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve Epting and puts Rogers (Chris Evans) inside a political thriller. Cap begins to uncover a conspiracy at the international espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and turns for assistance to allies including Scarlett Johansson's spy Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, Anthony Mackie's veteran Sam Wilson, who has his own heroic identity as the Falcon, and Nick Fury, the cagey operative made famous by Samuel L. Jackson.
He needs the help. The Winter Soldier is a pretty intimidating foe, Cap's equal in terms of strength and speed but with a single-minded viciousness that gives him a dangerous edge.
Hero Complex sat down with Stan, who originated the role of Rogers' best friend James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes in 2011's "Captain America: The First Avenger," about the challenges of taking a character from good to evil.
Hero Complex: Did it feel at all isolating to wear the Winter Soldier costume?
Sebastian Stan: It felt great at times and other times I wanted to stab my eyes out. There were just so many pieces, but it was all just part of the process and in a lot of ways it helped me get my head straight before we started shooting. It affected a lot of things for me in a good way. For the purposes of time we wouldn't take it off because it's just such a pain to take off the mask and the goggles, and then I would be sitting around set and people would be kind of uncomfortable because they couldn't read my face or my expression. Even that made me understand how much more powerful it would be to just be still.
HC: Was that the greatest challenge for you on this film, mastering the physicality the role required?
SS: The time that I had on screen felt very specific to me, so with the time that I had, I felt like I had a lot of different things I was trying to implement in those scenes. So that was difficult because, yes, the physicality and using that to show what a threat this character could be, but at the same time you still have to see versions of the old character, of the old Bucky Barnes by the end of the movie. So with what I had available to show that, it was a challenge.
HC: Did you know when you signed on to play Bucky Barnes that this was the direction the story line would ultimately take?
SS: I knew eventually it would be a possibility, I just didn't know when. The character was written in a certain way in the first one that he had a dark influence so I was just following that.
HC: How did you prepare to play this incarnation of the character?
SS: For the first one, I'd done a lot of period-type research. This one was more, I saw it as such a good opportunity to be able to watch great movies from the '70s, the whole Cold War and spy program and thrillers. I found documentaries about the negative effects of war on people and post-traumatic stress disorder. I wanted to understand separately from what I was doing in the movie what kind of movie we were making.
HC: What's your working relationship like with Chris Evans?
SS: I could do a million of these with him. He's the right kind of mix of a professional taking things really seriously, being very dedicated and also just having fun, remembering that it's fun, we're having a good time. You can't ever take yourself too seriously while at the same time know what shoes you're filling.
Chris has a hard job. I think it's because he does it so well I feel like people might not know that right way, but it's tough. That character, if anybody else was doing it, wouldn't stand out so much. You're playing a guy who's from a different time period and who suddenly is trying to embrace the new world. That's kind of a really hard downer in a way, so to find the lightheartedness and the comedy of that while at the same time keeping what makes him be Captain America, the sort of earnestness and genuine concern and search for honesty and deep truths, that's why it's so much more than the first one on so many levels. Sequels are tough. There are some good ones out there. I hope we're among them.
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News Release: Thomasville Police Department
Thomasville, Ga. -- On Monday, March 17, 2014, at approximately 7:00 A.M., Thomasville Police Officers responded to Baytree Estates in reference to an entering Auto. Upon arrival, officers made contact with two victims on Baytree Drive, who stated that their vehicles had been entered. A resident at 162 Baytree Drive told officers that as he leaving for work, he discovered that paper work from his vehicle was laying wet on the ground. He then discovered that his vehicle, which was left unsecure had been entered by unknown persons. It was Unknown if anything was taken from the vehicle at the time of the report.
On Monday March 17, 2014, officers spoke with a resident at 95 Baytree Estates in reference to an entering auto. The resident was not aware that her vehicle had been entered until she was notified by officers who were checking vehicles in the neighborhood. The resident stated that that her prescription pills had been stolen and that a house key had been taken from the key chain. The victim told officers that her vehicle was left unsecure.
On March 17, 2014, officers responded to 59 Ivey Place where three vehicles had been entered. A victim told officers that a wallet containing currency and personal information was taken from her vehicle. This vehicle was left unsecure according to the victim.
On March 17, 2014, officers spoke with another resident at 59 Ivey Place In reference to an entering auto. The victim told officers that her vehicle had also been entered and that money was taken from a purse during the incident. This vehicle was left unsecure by the victim.
Om March 17, 2014 officers spoke with another victim at 59 Ivey Place In reference to her vehicle being entered. The victim told officers that medication was taken from the center console of her vehicle. This vehicle was left unsecure.
Thomasville Police Investigators and Crime Scene Investigators processed all scenes.
We are encouraging citizens to secure windows and doors of their vehicles at all times. It appears that these thieves were checking for unsecured vehicles to enter. Also we advise people not to leave valuables in their vehicles.
Anyone with information about these crimes can call The Thomasville Police Criminal Investigations Division at 227-3302 or CRIME STOPPERS AT 227-3305.


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Managing a Honeypotby Peter Mikhalenko
It's no secret that many intruders choose their victims by scanning large chunks of addresses and searching for services vulnerable to existing tools and exploits. This can be an effective approach, although there are still some problems for intruders. People employed in IT security must trace bug trackers and the appearance of new exploits. Even open source code cannot guarantee that the good guys will find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do.
However, the good guys have another tool--a honeypot. This is a system designed in such a way that an unsophisticated hacker will want to crack it immediately--like fake diamonds in a glass case in a jewelry shop. First, a quick story. A famous and rich man bought a super safe made of ferro-alloy. He boasted to everyone about his safe and claimed that nobody could crack it. After about a week of this, burglars came in the night and spent two hours cracking the safe with strong acid and explosives. When they opened the safe, they found nothing; the valuables were elsewhere and the burglars were caught.
What Is a Honeypot For?
A honeypot emulates a server with serious security holes. The intent is to attract network intruders so that they will spend their time on a useless job. Honeypots are closely-monitored network decoys that serve several purposes: they can distract adversaries from more valuable machines on a network, provide early warning about new attacks and exploitation trends, and allow in-depth examination of adversaries during and after exploitation.
There are two general types of honeypots: production and research. Production honeypots are easy to use, capture only limited information, and are in use primarily by businesses. Research honeypots are complex to maintain, so their usefulness is primarily in security research, military, or government organizations. With such honeypots you can easily capture a private shellcode used to crack a previously invulnerable service, learn new methods of intrusion, and, most importantly, develop intrusion-resistance methods.
Principles Inside and Legal Issues
The main principle if a honeypot claims that any attempt to connect to a non-existing IP address is prohibited a priori. It's a reasonable assumption, if no law-abiding user will deliberately connect to a non-existing service. As long as users know of no such service, you can assume that any connection to the service is the start of an attack. A big advantage of a honeypot is that you can emulate any operating system on any hardware you want. If a service runs on FreeBSD, you can fool the attacker into thinking he is looking at a glitchy ancient Cisco or a modern enterprise Linux distribution. Such emulation is OS fingerprinting. However, sophisticated intruders can detect this, since any emulator may also have its own fingerprint. Even if the developers have hidden all unique features, theoretically, overlooked bugs may appear. With a honeypot, you also have a significantly smaller volume of logfiles, reducing the probability of false alarm to almost zero. When something strange occurs, it's generally easier to watch 200Kb of logs instead of 1Gb.
Questions that inevitably arise in most organizations include: are honeypots illegal? What do the laws say about such fraudulent services?
"There are some legal issues, and they are not necessarily trivial and easy," says Richard Saldago, senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice's computer crime unit, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The main problem is that U.S. criminal law calls honeypot monitoring "interception of communications," which is prohibited and may lead to imprisonment for up to five years. Fortunately for honeypot operators, there are exemptions to the Federal Wiretap Act that could apply to some honeypot configurations, but they still leave many hacker traps in a legal danger zone. One exemption permits interception of a communication if one of the parties consents to the monitoring. Salgado suggested that honeypots display a banner message warning that about monitored use of the computer.
Yet most attack attempts don't penetrate a system through the front door -- telneting in or surfing to a web page -- and if they never see the banner, they haven't consented to monitoring. The consent exemption might apply without a banner if a court determines that the honeypot itself is one of the "parties" to the communication, Salgado said. Another relevant exemption was passed in the USA PATRIOT Act in October 2001, but only applies to cases where the government steps in to do the spying.
There is a third "provider exemption" that may be the most promising legal justification. This allows the operator of a system to eavesdrop for the purpose of protecting their property or services from attack. In this case, Salgado favors configurations that invisibly reroute an attacker to a honeypot after beginning an attack on a production machine. "The closer the honeypot is to the production server, the less likely that it's going to have some of the legal issues that we're talking about," he said, because the monitoring becomes part of the normal process of protecting the production machine. Despite the legal issues, Salgado praised honeypots as a valuable tool. He also cautioned attendees to consult with their company legal departments before deploying them.
How to setup a honeypot
There are many honeypot systems available, some commercial and others open source. A few good ones are Tiny Honeypot, Single-honeypot, KFSensor, APS, LaBrea. The last one refers a famous set of tar pits in Los Angeles that contain many bones of lost animals.
honeyd is a good honeypot implementation, because it is open source, cross-platform, and BSD-licensed. It is under active development and provides many exciting features.
To install
honeyd under Unix, first download the source files:
# cd /usr/src
# wget http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/honeyd-1.5a.tar.gz
# tar xzf honeyd-1.5a.tar.gz
# cd honeyd-1.5a
Before you can do the usual
configure and
make dance, you must install some additional packages, such as libevent, libdnet, and libpcap. In some cases (on FreeBSD especially) there may appear some problems even after installing appropriate libraries, and you may need to point the configuration script explicitly to installed libraries. For example, for
libevent, I used:
# ./configure --with-libevent=/usr/src/libevent-0.9/ --prefix=/path/to/honeyd
To get fully-featured
honeyd (to enable ARP-spoofing), you also need an
arpd daemon. It installs very easily:
# wget http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/arpd-0.2.tar.gz
# tar xzf arpd-0.2.tar.gz
# cd arpd
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My cavalier is almost 1.5 years old. He has always had a bit of separation anxiety when I leave, but he has gotten used to my new apartment and being in his kennel. I work 8 hours a day, but am able to go home for an hour lunch to take him outside to go to the bathroom and play a quick game of tug! I feel that he is obedient enough that he could be out of his crate, but contained to my kitchen.
I just began allowing him to roam kitchen area a few days ago, using a normal baby gate, but still left his crate with his bed accessible to him with the door open (in case he felt more secure going in there to sleep.) However, he seems to be crying more when I leave him out of the crate than in the crate? I have only done this for few days so far, so perhaps he just needs to get used to it? Wanted to see if anybody had any feedback on whether it may just be better off to continue crating him or give him some time to get used to having a little bit more room to wander?
I have heard advice on separation anxiety both ways - give them more room or keep them in their crate. He is not destructive, just want to do whatever makes him feel the safest
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Letters reacting to the search for Christoper Jordan Dorner, the disgruntled former Los Angeles Police Department officer suspected of a double homicide and the shooting three police officers, are finding their way into The Times' mailbag. Surprisingly, only one of those letters discusses the manhunt for Dorner, and the rest connect the shootings to the hot-button issue of the last few months: gun control.
Readers responded likewise immediately after 26 people were shot, including 20 children, in Newtown, Conn. in December, though in much greater volume. Reacting to those letters and the broader national discussion on firearms regulation, other readers and gun-rights activists said it was improper to politicize a tragedy, and I suspect some readers will react similarly to the two letters below.
The letters page (and, by extension, these Mailbag blog posts) and the comment boards on latimes.com do overlap in their functions as forums for readers. But the letters page, which I edit, is a curated forum, and judgments are made daily as to which content is appropriate to publish and which isn't. Given the outpouring of reaction in response to the Newtown shooting, it wasn't difficult to decide that printing letters touching on the politically volatile discussion of gun control in response to a tragedy that saddened both gun-rights advocates and gun-control proponents alike was appropriate. That initial reaction sparked a debate that continues today, and these letters are part of that ongoing national discussion.


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Whoever said the Swiss are efficient was talking out of their cuckoo clock. Don't go there to commit assisted suicide - you'll be queuing for so long that you'll end up killing yourself before anyone can help you. It took us 45 minutes to get through check-in (more the fault of EasyJet than Switzerland perhaps), but then the queue for security was equally long and our flight time was getting closer and closer and we hadn't had our breakfast yet. We'd been up at 7 and didn't get to the boarding gate until 11, with only just enough time to pick up an expensive sandwich. If the people of Geneva think I am coming back to their stupid city again then they have another think coming. I will just kill myself at home and buy my cuckoo clock from Korea and bore my own holes in my cheese. And all they will have is their Nazi gold to get them through the economic repercussions of my withdrawal of custom.
We were both still poorly too, though my wife was suffering a bit more than me. But it only took us eight hours to get from snow covered Argentiere to shit-coated Shepherd's Bush which even with all the queuing is quite remarkable.
And most remarkably of all in spite of my veins being full of cheese I had not put on any weight during the trip. In fact I think I've lost some. Maybe eating nothing but cheese ham and bread is the way forward. But only at high altitude.
I've been enjoying reading on holiday having completed Breakfast of Champions and Simon Singh's "The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets" and most of Vonnegut's "Time Quake". When I got home there was a parcel waiting for me containing a book called "Look Who's Back" by Timur Vermes which has the unusual conceit of being from the perceptive of Adolf Hitler who finds himself waking up on some wasteland in 2011 and observing and interacting with modern day Berlin. Obviously due to my own Hitler based work the publishers felt my interest might be piqued and they were correct about that. I dipped into it and was 100 pages in by the end of the evening. It's done very well in its original German, though unsurprisingly divided critics a little bit and it's a bit too early to for me to say if it's an ill-judged idea (but so far I'd say the satire outweighs the weirdness of a first person account from a slightly likeable, though clearly ridiculous ex-Fuhrer). It's got some neat satire about modern broadcasting. But it reminded me of my own (as yet unwritten) idea of a play in which Hitler has won the war and has taken Charlie Chaplin prisoner. It would be interesting to see how Hitler would have responded to the man behind "The Great Dictator", as well as giving Chaplin a chance to accuse the Fuhrer of stealing his moustache. I haven't yet 100% committed to the "I Killed Rasputin" idea for this Edinburgh, but if I do it and it goes well then maybe I can have a crack at Hitler/Chaplin next and continue the comedy/history theme. We'll see. I think "Look Who's Back" is going to be published in the UK in a couple of months. Although it benefits from the Hitler-obsession that it mocks, so is having its cake and eating it a little bit (maybe you could argue the same about Hitler Moustache), it is fascinating that this character still fascinates the world when no one else from World War II is really held in the same esteem. The Germans see Hitler as a comic figure initially, assuming of course that he is a satirical impersonator, which in itself is interesting. Monsters become clowns given enough time. Though I imagine the monster might reemerge before too long.
Another guest confirmed for the new run of RHLSTP. Adam Buxton will be returning on 17th February (there will probably be another guest as well). It's nearly sold out already, so book fast.
And the We're All Going To Die! tour kicks off in earnest this month and is selling well. There's only one ticket left for New Milton on Saturday, a handful of tickets for the Leicester Comedy Festival next week and Reading and Liverpool (and I think Bristol) are sold out (check with venue for returns). Don't let my previous unpopularity lull you into a false sense of security. If you want to see me over the coming weeks then BOOK NOW.


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Way ahead of his time, Mr. Poe was.I poured hot grits down my pants while Natalie Portman was petrified and naked with ninjas and pancakes.
All the cpu cycles in the world won't help if you don't know how the cypher was encoded in the first place...Well, assuming the cycles aren't used for some as-of-yet-unknown artificial intelligence.
There's 105 letters in this code (upper + lower case upside down and right way up + spaces)
He also uses 3 or 4 different letter sizes. Propably only obfuscation, but you never know... (onless you solve it that is
Someone had moderated it as "Interesting"! That is pretty funny.
as for subtile changes there's:
!dhb and dhb
!irz and !i!rz
(all lowercase, hmmm....)
I have been staring at this damn thing for an hour and it baffles me.
A few thoughts: could some of the characters be earmarks for jumping around between? Perhaps caps or upside-down indicates that the value of the letter should be added or subtracted.
...and although I wouldn't want to call Poe 'twisted' as such, he was definitely, well, shall we say 'interesting' ?
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK [linuxuk.co.uk]
However, I checked out the link to OpenAL. It looks interesting. Excerpts:
andOpenAL, the Open Audio Library, seeks to become the audio counterpart to OpenGL for audio. With OpenAL it is possible to create three-dimensional sound across many platforms, such as Linux, Apple Macintosh, Windows and more, with quality suitable for professional projects like games and multimedia applications.
But you gotta wonder if these people are serious whan they name part of their library "Al-Core".OpenAL is being sponsored by commercial software and hardware companies to help make open source work. Here is a current list of the member and partner companies:
- Creative Labs
- Loki Entertainment Software
This certainly is offtopic here, but in case the AC is right and Slashdot is not posting this for some sinister reason, I figured I'd make it seen using my +1 bonus.
Still, there's no reason to assume the worst; we don't even know if this has been submitted as a story, so don't call me a paranoid conspiracy theorist or anything
Darn. Just as one dispute was settled, the next begins. Now etoys.com will have to sue Poe postumly for using something that almost looks like their company name...
But of course! The molecular structure of a cryptogram is polar, meaning that it is insoluable in water. However, if you stir it up enough, it might look like it dissoved.
Of course, that still doesn't mean it insolvable.
Since you haven't solved anything
At least, he who will solve it will deserve it
I repost the appropriate, learnèd and interesting post from our fellow A.C. I'll probably get moderated down, but anyway.
A Hint:
It is obviously a multiply interleaved boustrophe donic [britannica.com] text. If you don't know what that means, you have no hope of solving it. I could probably solve the problem given a week or so of hard work, its fairly obvious just from looking at the typesetting as to how it should be solved. But alas, I don't have the time at the moment. The solution is fairly trivial.
It's Textmode Quake running on Ada Lovelace's mechanical computer! I remember reading on freshmeat last century [freshmeat.net] that aalib had been ported to it!
If there are so many alphabets, maybe they all map to the same letters, but should be translated one after the other.
What are the frequencies in each alphabet?
Hey! Someone else who's read it and likes to write book reviews (not me) should submit it to Slashdot.
Sorry for the amazon URL. I only buy computer books online, so I wasn't sure what other site was more acceptable to link to.
I tried seperating the alphabets, but it's very difficult because certain characters are impossible to tell apart from eachother. For instance, the lowercase 'c', 'o', 's', 'v', 'w', 'x' and 'z' are almost identical to their smallcaps counterparts.
Also, the aligment of the alphabets on certain lines makes it extremely hard to tell what alphabet a letter belongs to. For instance, try to separate the lowercase 'b' from upside-down lowercase 'q', lowercase 'd' from upside-down lowercase 'p', lowercase 'n' from upside-down lowercase 'u', lowercase and smallcaps 'o' from upside-down lowercase and upside-down smallcaps 'o', lowercase and smallcaps 'x' from upside-down lowercase and upside-down smallcaps 'x', and lowercase and smallcaps 'x' from upside-down lowercase and upside-down smallcaps 'z'.
Poe must have known this would be a problem when he constructed the puzzle. Perhaps ambiguous characters default to a certain alphabet, or form an alphabet by themselves?
The molecular structure of a cryptogram is polar, meaning that it is insoluable in water.
Humm... Doesn't it work the other way?
I intend to look at this in detail later. Don't expect to crack it, but its fun to spin the wheels ocassionally. (maybe it'll move me towards a career with the NSA or CIA)
Personally, nothing inspires me more than a challenge. (but don't send me any 'challenges', I'm a lazy-assed procrastinator, too.) And that's really what this cypher does- it challenges you to think about new things. If 'simple' cyphers can be cracked by symbol frequency, then mask the frequency somehow, by not having a 1-to-1 correspondence between symbols.
-One means of doing this using the Lewis Carrol encryption algorithm. (look it up!:) I don't think that's at work here, because of the lack of repeated characters- in a Lewis Carrol code, you could see the same character repeated several times, each appearance corresponding to a different character because of the cypher key. (that'll make more sense if you looked it up.;)
-Another means of 'flattening the frequencies' is at work here. Whether or not it's some alphabetic rotation as proposed won't be known until it's cracked.
-Following the last idea of character mapping, then there's the matter of building words, and building the paragraph line by line. Maybe the words are encoded, and then their order is determined by another algorithm. (And here I'll give thanks to the Anonymous Coward who offered 'boustrophedon', and to dictionary.com for having the definition!) This compounds the problem of decryption, because finding out how a word is encoded is now foiled by it potentially being upside down and backwards. So in trying to solve the character-mapping problem, you have to think of every which way each word could be turned.
That should be enough thought-provoking schlock for anybody either looking at the problem, or at encryption in general.
"Holy exponential permutations!" -cryptomancer
"If it's not loud, it doesn't work!" -- Blank Reg, from "Max Headroom"


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...but he is N Ireland's number 1... isn't he?
Ruddy is a good keeper. Butland I know little about but he seems to be rated by a number in the game
Touche. That must have passed me by! Still, would be a good signing if we could pip Norwich to it.
Agree on Butland, seen him in the u21s/Olympics but nothing more. Guessing everyone else is the same...


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To get another chance at that elusive title, Diggins will have to help the Fighting Irish women beat Big East rival Connecticut for an unprecedented fourth straight time this season.
"It would mean a lot," Diggins said. "I say this over and over -- not only to me but to our team and our program, the city of South Bend who have been supporting me my whole life. The opportunity is here now."
These two teams have had the best rivalry in the sport over the past few years, and tonight's meeting might be the final chapter with Notre Dame heading to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season.
Two years ago, the Huskies had won the first three meetings before Notre Dame shocked them in the national semifinals. That started an unprecedented run in which the Irish have taken over the rivalry, winning seven of the last eight meetings.
This year the two schools played three thrilling games, with Notre Dame coming out on top by margins of one point, two points and in triple overtime.
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Louisville upset streak
Louisville coach Jeff Walz says a pair of impressive upsets in the women's NCAA tournament doesn't change his team's underdog status as it prepares to play California in tonight's national semifinal.
Walz says no one expects the Cardinals to beat California, which has gone 32-3, beat Pac-12 power Stanford earlier this year and was seeded second in the Spokane Region.
The Cardinals knocked off defending national champion Baylor and storied program Tennessee to make it to the Final Four, but no team seeded worse than fourth has won a national semifinal.
Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb says her team is focused on stopping what Louisville has done offensively to become the "hot team" in the tournament. Gottlieb adds that her own players think they have something good going as well.


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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) – The University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire's interim chancellor begins his term.
Gilles Bousquet received a special welcome from UW-Eau Claire staff Monday morning.
Bousquet previously served as the dean of UW-Madison's Division of International Studies and vice provost for Globalization.
He says he plans on integrating some of the lessons learned from working in that position into his time at UW-Eau Claire.
Bousquet says he likes the direction of the University's ten-year plan and doesn't see a need to shake things up.
"It's a very clear road map and that's also an advantage for me because I don't have to create this large plan but what I can do is look at the plan and advance particular areasof the plan which I think are important," says Bousquet.
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It will feel more like Christmas today than a regular fall day.
National Weather Service Metrologist Randy Gray announced a winter storm warning advisory would be in effect Thursday night into Friday.
"The forecast for Cañon City is 2 to 4 inches of snow (from 11 p.m. Thursday night) and another 2 to 4 inches (until 6 p.m. Friday)."
"There is still a 30 percent chance of snow (this afternoon and evening)," Gray said Thursday.
The system that swept through here overnight Wednesday caused temperatures to plummet to 29 degrees in Pueblo during the day.
"It was 48 degrees, but that was just before 3 o'clock in the morning," said Gray Thursday afternoon.
With the cold front moving into the state overnight Wednesday, there was a little bit of moisture at the ground level, he said.
"Also, there is an upper level system off to the west," Gray said. "It is spreading more moisture across the state from the Four Corners through the mountain areas."
Temperatures are expected to reach between 25 and 30 degrees today and Saturday then drop to the teens overnight.
However, another weak weather system is expected to move across the state Sunday, leaving a 20 percent chance of precipitation and temperatures dipping into the teens.
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CEO: Eugene Kaspersky
Sales have slowed a bit this year but Kaspersky should be able to recover as it leverages the channel and is known for innovative technology. This year the company has been doubling down on its deal registration program to incent partners to bring new deals into the company. Kaspersky recently shook up its channel management ranks with the departure of Nancy Reynolds. But both Chris Doggett and Jean Lazano, who came to Kaspersky from Sophos and Trend Micro, respectively, have strong relationships with the channel.


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BC softball squad carrying number two seed into HCAC tournamentBy Tim Stried, SID
April 29, 2002
With a 9-4-1 record in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, the Bluffton College softball squad will travel to Manchester College this weekend with the number two seed in the 2002 HCAC tournament.
Bluffton won their final six league games in a row two weeks ago to cement their place among the HCAC's elite squads. The Beavers will now attempt to bring the HCAC tournament back to Bluffton, where it rested following the 1999 season when BC captured the first ever HCAC tournament.
The winner of the tournament will take the HCAC's automatic bid to the NCAA regional tournament.
Bluffton met Alma, Ohio Northern and Kalamazoo in three non-conference double-headers last week and came away with one victory. BC knocked off Kalamazoo 3-1 in the first game Saturday as junior Missy Neal turned in a 3-for-3 day at the plate with two doubles and senior Emily Kurtz won her seventh game of the season, striking out five batters.
Last week sophomore Stephanie Rush batted .526 (10-for-19) in six games and extended her current hitting streak to nine games in the process. Against Alma on Tuesday Rush was a combined 5-for-6 with a double and two RBIs, then on Thursday she was a combined 3-for-6 at Ohio Northern. On Saturday she was a combined 2-for-7 with an RBI and a double-header at Kalamazoo.
Rush leads Bluffton in batting average (.303), doubles (7), RBIs (15) and slugging percentage (.404). Other offensive leaders include freshman Janeen Arps (.297), sophomore Amber Fitzwater (.295, 5 2b, 9 rbi, .343 ob%), Neal (.268, 8 rbi), sophomore Amanda DeVaul (.255), freshman Michelle Pleiman (.250), sophomore Paula Fry (.247) and freshman Allison Lange (.233, 4 2b).
Kurtz leads the pitching staff with a 7-9 record and a 1.78 ERA with 69 strikeouts, while Arps is 4-6 with a 2.92 ERA.
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Just last week, NVIDIA finally launched the long and eagerly awaited GeForce GTX 480. Powered by the GF100 chip that's based on the new Fermi architecture, it blitzed the opposition, easily and comfortably reclaiming the crown of world's fastest GPU from ATI.
However, reception to the card has been mixed, with most media (ourselves included) praising it for its blazing fast performance, but lamented that it's far too power hungry and hot to run.
In the meantime, NVIDIA has yet to make any comments regarding future releases based on the GF100 chip. But word on the street is that we can expect to see mainstream variants of the GF100 to arrive on store shelves around June. And if history is anything to go by, we should also see NVIDIA following in the footsteps of the GeForce GTX 295 and 9800 GX2, and create a monster card featuring twin GF100 chips in a dual-PCB card form factor – a GeForce GTX 495 perhaps?
Today, we put two GeForce GTX 480 cards setup in a SLI configuration to see just how a hypothetical GeForce GTX 495 would perform. Also, we wanted to test out NVIDIA claims about the new GF100 being more adept at performance scaling. In fact, NVIDIA proudly proclaims that the two GeForce GTX 480 cards can, in some instances, provide up to 95% in scaling performance. Loft claims but, you'll soon see that there's truth in it.
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If a nuclear engineer and carjacker who is believed to have fled the country is found by authorities, he will have a prison cell waiting for him.
A DuPage County judge Wednesday sentenced Michael Buhrman to 40 years in prison for his armed carjacking of a woman's vehicle last year in the parking lot of a Woodridge store.
Buhrman, 32, of Coal City, was convicted last month of aggravated vehicular hijacking and vehicular hijacking. He disappeared in September and his trial went on without him.
Judge Kathryn Creswell said she has "absolutely no doubt" Buhrman fled to avoid prosecution. She said it was one of the factors she considered while handing out the 40-year sentence.
"Once the defendant is caught," Creswell said, "a lengthy sentence is required to protect the public."
Authorities say a masked Buhrman approached his victim about 10 p.m. May 9, 2012, as she sat in her parked car at a Kohl's store in Woodridge. Buhrman pointed a loaded .45-caliber handgun at the woman's head, ordered her out of the 2000 Pontiac Grand Am and then took off in the car.
Buhrman was stopped and arrested by police a short distance from the scene, still armed and wearing the mask that made him look like an elderly man. He later told investigators he was "thrill-seeking," prosecutors have said.
Buhrman, a Navy veteran and former reactor operator at the Dresden Nuclear Power Plant in Morris, was freed on $20,000 cash bail within days of being charged.
In July, Creswell put Buhrman on home confinement and GPS monitoring after prosecutors said his girlfriend came forward with details of a plot to escape to Chile before trial.
In September, Buhrman's GPS ankle monitor issued an alert that it had been tampered with and police went to his home. They found the device had been cut off and Buhrman was gone.
On Wednesday, Buhrman's defense attorneys restated their belief that Buhrman didn't leave voluntarily. They point to how his home was in disarray.
"From the looks of the scene, it looks like somebody took him," defense attorney Richard Blass said.
Blass said he doesn't know where Buhrman could be. "I hope he's OK," he said.
Police have said Buhrman's home appeared "staged" to make it look as if he was abducted. He went missing three days after he withdrew $14,000 deposited into his checking account from a foreign source a day earlier, authorities have said.
It also was revealed during an earlier hearing that a former co-worker of Buhrman's went to South America last year and hasn't returned.
Woodridge Detective Jody Porras testified during Wednesday's sentencing hearing that Buhrman tried to enlist a co-worker for "a team" that would rob banks. Buhrman told the co-worker he wanted to rob banks "to get back at the system," Porras said.
Buhrman's ex-wife, Melissa Gates, testified Wednesday that he was controlling and abusive during their nearly three-year marriage, which ended in July 2008.
Gates said she now lives in fear thinking about what could happen if Buhrman comes back to get their 6-year-old son. "I don't know what he would do with me," she said.
Assistant State's Attorney Demetri Demopoulos described Buhrman as "a dangerous and evil man" who doesn't care about following the law.
"He's a coward," Demopoulos said in court. "When he faces something unpleasant, he takes off."
After the sentencing hearing, a tearful Gates apologized to the victim in the hallway outside the courtroom. Gates said she wished she had done something sooner about her former husband.


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EduCon 2.1 is coming up in about three weeks, and with it, for me, comes an exciting (and downright scary) opportunity to facilitate a conversation that I've been having off and on for a very long time. Here's the description of the session:
The Internet as a medium, or way of communicating, is dynamic, complex, exciting, amazingly diverse, and, in plenty of substantive ways, pretty much nothing new. We have made connections through printed texts and oral stories for generations, other media have filled the gaps between peoples and cultures. There is, to quote a rather old text, "nothing new under the sun." And yet there's something about the nature of the Internet, and how it functions, that helps to flesh out a vital component of the writing process that was never quite visible before. Call it connective writing, or hypertext, or what you will, but the almost tactile connections we can make between texts and folks online are dynamic and significant. There's nothing new about making text to text connections, but there's sure something powerful in the representation of those links as semi-tangible things.
As we move forward into the new read/write web, I think it's of value to reconsider both the "reading" and "writing" sides of the equation. We'll save the reading for another conversation. Come to a session where we will revel in, and experiment with, writing and the power of language, thought, diction and connection to create and discover the world and ourselves. We'll use some very 1.0 methodologies and some very 2.0 basic tools to think about how we write, what we write, and what we do and don't do when we write and when we ask students to write for school.
I'm really interested, through the conversation, to move back a step, at least as far as my own self and career and knowledge of teaching and learning is concerned, and to refocus myself and my work around why I got into technology work in the first place – namely, because I saw computers as excellent creation and publication tools – they were and are very good for composition of all shapes and sizes.
I dig writing, and all the interesting writing's being done on computers these days (or at least it's being published via computers – Moleskines are still full of really excellent stuff).
One sideline, and perhaps even tangential, conversation that I keep thinking about is the shift to mobile devices. I'm writing this post on an HP Mini 1000, a netbook with a decent keyboard. I didn't get interested in ultra mobile computers or smart phones or the like until I saw that I could use them to thoughtfully communicate in my favorite mode – text. (My XO is another story – while I've learned to type pretty well on its little keyboard, I own that machine more out of a desire to better understand a philosophy of product development and learning than out of a desire to have a tiny laptop for me to use. Oh, and supporting what I believe to be a good cause didn't hurt, either. You could also argue that the XO created the market for the device I'm typing on. But I digress.)
I've written blog posts and e-mails and tweets and lots of other types of messages, posts, and whatnots on all sorts of devices. Cell phones, computers, typewriters, word processors, etc. And I just can't function as a digital writer without a full sized keyboard.
What I worry about, in our rush to take everyone and everything mobile (and I am very much interested in mobile technology myself, don't get me wrong) is that we'll end up with tools that won't really do what we need them to do. The tools themselves, as always, have the potential to shape what we think about, how we thinking about it, and what we do with those thoughts.
When I think about school and learning, I think about writing. Our learning tools need to have easy and useful ways for putting words and ideas into them as well as getting those words and ideas back out. Right now, I think mobile tools are more about consumption than they are about creation. (Thanks to Chris Craft for the right tweet at the right time to help me figure out that phrasing.)
And that scares me. In our conversation, I hope we get to talk about this notion I have that I'm certain that much of what we're trying to do with technology today is work that we, or our predecessors, were trying to do with their technology yesterday – teach writing well. We all should be helping students develop the ability to draft and revise and edit and be their own crap detectors and learn to think about whom they were writing to, and to tailor their compositions to that/those audience(s). That basic framework works for text, video, audio, still pictures, and any combination thereof.
I hope you join me in some time spent writing, thinking, and talking about how writing remains so essential to learning and how technology, specifically the read/write web, assists us in fulfilling the promises and opportunities of strong writing communities and might be altering our societal reading, writing, and thinking paradigms. (One question of many for me on that front – What does it mean when the text that you are reading not only suggests that you consult another source, but it can take you to that source? In real time?)
I'm looking very much forward to it. I hope you are, too.
(You are coming to EduCon, right? It's not too late to register – and if you can't be there in person, the plan is to stream all of the great content from the event – so you can still participate.)


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Hi All. In July I am heading to South Australia to cage dive with the Great Whites, with my Canon 50D in an Ikelite housing. I recently brought a Tokina 10-17 fisheye lens for the trip. I have the Ike 8" dome port, but would need to buy the superwide mounting body #5510.11 to use the lens with the 8" dome. My other option is to buy the 6" dome port #5503 and shoot with the dome shade removed. I have read that, in the cage you are better off with a less bulky rig. I was wondering if one or the other improves or detracts from the images. So the question is, am I better off with the 8" or 6" dome port. Thanks in advance for your replys.
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I actually loved this collection in person...well, except for the funky tri-colored parfait-like lipglosses. Here is what I got and the swatches! You can also check out a full video review below.
Shadesticks in Cakeshop (top) and Lemon Chiffon (bottom), $16.50
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Lipsticks in (l-r) Lollipop Loving, Bubbles, and Saint Germain, $14.00


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2014 Bentley Continental GT V8 S
Bentley is adding a sportier version of its Continental GT. The company unveiled its new S model this week that packs more range, more power and a stylish new exterior and interior.
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World Heritage Site, for the town or for its climbing? Good question, because both are incredible! Located circa 170km east of Madrid, this medieval fortified town is positioned defensively on the cliffs overlooking the Huécar and Jucar rivers. Over millions of years these rivers forged their way ever downwards, leaving behind wide gorges with exceptional yellow streaked limestone walls. And it is on these cliffs that some of the most intricate climbing in Spain takes place.
The climbing is by no means easy: the pocketed limestone is often violent and painfully sharp. But this detracts nothing from the routes and crags, which with 300+ routes remain an important climbing destination, especially in winter, early spring and late autumn. Come here for the high density of excellent quality routes, but also come here to soak in some Spanish past and present. Although the town sleeps gently during the day, it really does spring into life by night!
By the way, UNESCO justifies its nomination as follows: "an exceptional example of the medieval fortress town that has preserved its original townscape remarkably intact ... It is also exceptional because the walled town blends into and enhances the fine rural and natural landscape within which it is situated."
Cuenca lies 170km east of Madrid. From Madrid take the motorway A3 to Tarancón then continue along the N400 to Cuenca.
Powerful pocket climbing on sharp rock.
Total number of routes: 3274: 25: 226a: 206b: 376c: 397a: 527b: 657c: 418a: 328b +: 17
Campsites just outside Cuenca.
On a rest day visit nearby "Ciudad Encantada."
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I have Invisionfree & ProBoards converters which are (basically) ready to be released. However, as both IF and PB do not offer database backups for free (IF does for a fee), I do not know if it is _legal_ to post such a converter (it is a crawler-type, similar to that used on ezBoards a long time ago).
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*EDIT [April 22 2008]: removed Yuku and Proboards converters, per request.
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This converter should be run on your own computer and not your host, unless your internet connection is very slow AND your host doesn't mind a potentially demanding and/or long-running script on the server.
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*EDIT4 [Sept 17 2007]: Increased protection from bad characters. This should prevent members and posts from randomly vanishing.
*EDIT5 [Sept 19 2007]: Added delay to Proboards PM script to facilitate PM sending by non-admin users. Default delay 17 seconds; if you are an admin (i.e. username = admin) set the wait time to 0.
*EDIT6 [Jan 19 2008]: Added ActiveBoards converter and some minor updates to the others.
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*EDIT13 [Feb 18 2008]: Code cleanup; moved a bunch of common routines to "common.py", added Yuku converter, tiny bug fixes for things I've forgotten, etc. :P . The old versions are still attached for history.
*EDIT14 [Feb 24 2008]: Removed Yuku converter by request; added board crawler to Proboards converter (no more messing with BOARDS!); fixed a few minor bugs; bumped Proboards version to 0.2.
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*EDIT29 [Sep 3 2009]: Improve conversion of old topics on Zetaboards.
*EDIT30 [Sep 20 2009]: Update Forumotion converter.
*EDIT31 [Feb 2 2010]: Update Forumotion converter.
*EDIT32 [Feb 15 2010]: Update Yuku converter.
*EDIT33 [Mar 3 2010]: Update all converters.
*EDIT33 [Mar 19 2010]: Update all converters, and add Forumer phpBB2 converter.
*EDIT34 [Mar 25 2010]: Update all converters, and add Forumer phpBB3 converter.
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A South African inventor unveiled a new anti-rape female condom on Wednesday that hooks onto an attacker's penis and aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world.Who hasn't vaguely envisioned this invention?
"Nothing has ever been done to help a woman so that she does not get raped and I thought it was high time," Sonette Ehlers, 57, said of the "rapex," a device worn like a tampon that has sparked controversy in a country used to daily reports of violent crime....
The device, made of latex and held firm by shafts of sharp barbs, can only be removed from the man by surgery, which will alert hospital staff, and ultimately, the police, she said.
I think just knowing some women are wearing these things ought to be enough to deter rapists, a bit like the way some folk's having guns in the house lowers the rate of burglary and benefits all of us.
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The propane tank wasnt screwed on properly i bet.. UNREAL!!!
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ESPN's Storm to return to air 3 weeks after propane gas grill accident
ESPN anchor Hannah Storm will return to the air on New Year's Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home.
Storm suffered second-degree burns on her chest and hands, and first-degree burns to her face and neck. She lost her eyebrows and eyelashes, and roughly half her hair.
Storm will host ABC's telecast of the 2013 Rose Parade on Tuesday. Her left hand will be bandaged and she said viewers might notice a difference in her hair texture where extensions have been added.
"I'm a little nervous about things I used to take for granted," she said by phone this weekend from Pasadena, Calif. "Little things like putting on makeup and even turning pages on my script."
The award-winning sportscaster and producer was preparing dinner outside her home in Connecticut on the night of Dec. 11 when she noticed the flame on the grill had gone out. She turned off the gas and when she reignited it "there was an explosion and a wall of fire came at me."
"It was like you see in a movie, it happened in a split-second," she said. "A neighbor said he thought a tree had fallen through the roof, it was that loud. It blew the doors off the grill."
With her left hand, she tore off her burning shirt. She tried to use another part of her shirt to extinguish the flames that engulfed her head and chest, while yelling for help. Her 15-year-old daughter, Hannah, called 911 and a computer technician who was working in the house grabbed some ice as Storm tried to cool the burns.
Soon, police and rescue teams arrived at the house. Storm's husband, NBC sportscaster Dan Hicks, also had returned home with another of the couple's three daughters. As her mother was being treated, the younger Hannah calmly said something that, days later, her mom could laugh about.
"OK, Mommy, I'm going to do my homework now," she said.
Storm was taken by ambulance to the Trauma and Burn Center at Westchester Medical Center and was treated for 24 hours.
"I didn't see my face until the next day and you wonder how it's going to look," she said. "I was pretty shocked. But my overarching thought was I've covered events with military members who have been through a lot worse than me, and they've come through. I kept thinking, `I can do this. I'm fortunate.'"
Other than going to Christmas Eve Mass, Storm hadn't been outside until her trip to California. ESPN reworked its anchor schedule while she was recovering, and NBC and the Golf Channel rearranged their staffing while Hicks attended to his wife.
Storm is set to host her fifth Rose Parade, with some changes. She's left-handed, and taking notes is almost impossible. Dressing and showering are challenges, too.
Storm said that long before her accident, she'd been inspired by Iraq War veteran, actor and "Dancing With the Stars" winner J.R. Martinez, the grand marshal at last year's parade. He was severely burned in a land mine accident while serving overseas.
One attraction of this year's parade that she was eager to see - the Nurses' Float, and she hoped to use that moment on air to thank everyone who had taken care of her.
Storm wants to anchor "SportsCenter" in Bristol, Conn., next Sunday. After that, the Notre Dame alum is ready to go in person to watch the No. 1 Irish play Alabama in the national championship game at Miami. She said the school reached out after hearing about her injuries and had been very supportive.
"More than anything, I feel gratitude," she said. "Something like this really makes you appreciate everything you have, even the chance to wake up on New Year's Day and do your job."
The propane tank wasnt screwed on properly i bet.. UNREAL!!!
ESPN doesn't let the body get cold, geez. Why the rush?
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Wow I didn't hear about that. Crazy.
Sure. Propane tank accident.
She was probably trying to make meth using the one bottle method and took the cap off too quick.
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She named her daughter Hannah? Idiot.
In other terribly inappropriate news...
When I went to look up the story on Google I typed in "Hannah Storm" and then google proceeded to give me the search suggestion of: "Hannah Storm hot".
Google, you cruel bastard.
She looks good to me.
Scary to say the least.


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What's up with Mac OS X Java and QuickTime?
Chris Adamson
Some developers who installed Apple's new java 1.4.1 for Mac OS X (and didn't read the release notes or the mailing lists) got a nasty surprise when they tried to run apps they'd written for use with QuickTime for Java:
cadamson% java -classpath PlayMovie.zip PlayMovie Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/apple/mrj/macos/carbon/CarbonLock at quicktime.jdirect.QTNative._getLock(QTNative.java:111) at quicktime.jdirect.QTNative.(QTNative.java:105) at quicktime.QTSession.(QTSession.java:114) at PlayMovie.main(PlayMovie.java:24)
What's happening is that java 1.4.1, now the default when you type
So why so much breakage? The story, as well-covered by MacDevCenter's Daniel Steinberg in Apple Releases Java 1.4.1 for Mac OS X is that Apple has made a huge under-the-hood change, swapping out an AWT/Swing implementation based on the Carbon API for one built on Cocoa.
The change is quite significant, as the move to the
object-oriented, multi-threaded Cocoa environment appears to have
significantly simplified Apple's java codebase. However, it now makes
calls from Java into Carbon code much more difficult. As explained in
As a result, in many cases, they've decided to replace or
simply abandon the Carbon-bound java extras. The
Notice that both terms, "MRJ" and "JDirect" are implicated in the stack trace above. The QTJ code tries to get the carbon lock to avoid hosing the Human Interface Toolbox, but the
However, the situation is not as bad as it might sound. java 1.3.1
remains in place after a 1.4.1 upgrade, and will still run QTJ apps, and will reportedly be included in the next major release of Mac OS X. And in some cases, 1.3.1 will be the default JVM, for example, if your app is distributed as a
With java 1.3.1 sticking around on Mac OS X for the foreseeable future, and with ways to call it explicitly, there doesn't seem to be need for QTJ developers to panic just yet.
Still, the future of QuickTime for Java does seem to be up in the air. It has not been explicitly canceled or deprecated, as have other API's, but it clearly and unapologetically breaks in 1.4.1, which makes a lot of QTJ fans nervous.
It's strange because until now, QTJ had seemed like a first-class citizen in the QuickTime world, prominently featured in developer documentation (the main QuickTime API documentation even cross-references all Java equivalents to the native API's calls). Yet on the QuickTime for Java page, Apple says it is "interested in hearing from QuickTime developers and understanding what aspects of the technology they are using", as if it needs a business case to be made to commit to the technology (or some subset of it) going forward.
From what I've seen, QTJ interest is greater than it has ever been, a beneficiary to some degree of Sun's neglect of the Java Media Framework, which has not seen a major version since 1999, as Sun's media team has focused on a Mobile Media API instead. Developers who want to do media apps in Java are choosing between several imperfect options:
My fear is that if QTJ is not supported in the future, that option 5 will be the default, i.e., it will pretty much close the curtain on developing media applications in java, because the other options are too much work for too little benefit. And that will make developers like me wonder if we like QuickTime so much that we're ready to give in to the crazy square-braces and semi-automatic garbage collection of Objective-C. Time... or is that QuickTime... will tell.
Chris Adamson is an author, editor, and developer specializing in iPhone and Mac.
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Given the fact that Mexico City sprawls 573 square miles, it is no surprise that this vibrant urban center is chock-full of museums. With more than 175 to choose from, Mexico City is one of the world's premier cities for museum-hopping — and the number grows every year. From historic treasures found at the iconic Museo Nacional de Antropologia to the best collection of work from modern Mexican artists at Museo de Arte Moderno, there is no shortage of great artifacts to see, including the collections at these great yet lesser-known museums in Mexico City.
Museo JumexThe much-anticipated Museo Jumex opened mid-November to scores of modern art aficionados, and it is an ideal part of any traveler's itinerary. Dubbed the "MoMA of Mexico City," Museo Jumex is a world-class, contemporary art museum that features works of international icons such as Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan. Set in the high-brow Polanco neighborhood, the four-story building features 2,800 pieces and is known for possessing the most impressive postwar collection in Latin America. www.lacoleccionjumex.org
Museo del Juguete Antiguo MexicoPrepare for a trip down memory lane at Museo del Juguete Antiguo Mexico, which houses a collection of 45,000 toys from all over the world, some of which date as far back as the early 1900s. Visitors can spend hours reminiscing about some of their favorite childhood toys, with everything from He-Man figures to vintage board games on display. The museum owner grew up in a building next door and opened the museum to share his vast collection. The museum spans four levels, and there's an art library with painted murals from local artists. www.museodeljuguete.mx
Mucho Mundo ChocolateClients with a sweet tooth will get a thrill from Mucho Mundo Chocolate, a museum dedicated to the history of chocolate. Housed in an early 1900's residence with a central atrium and beautiful tiles, the interactive museum provides a comprehensive history of chocolate-making, embellished with art, antiques and fun quirks, such as a room with chocolate walls. After the tour, head to the cafe to sample delicious truffles made in-house. www.mucho.org.mx/acerca
Museo Dolores OlmedoAlthough history and art aficionados tend to make a beeline to celebrated icon Frida Kahlo's house and gallery, Museo Dolores Olmedo is also worthy of a visit. Allegedly one of Diego Rivera's lovers, Olmedo's eponymous museum is home to many of her works, in addition to many other crafts from Mexico. www.museodoloresolmedo.org.mx
Museo del Objeto del ObjetoThe Museum of the Purpose of the Object is exactly what it sounds like — a museum that displays a diverse range of objects from daily life. Match boxes, soda bottles and wooden stamps are just some of the items in the permanent collection, and many of them were personally collected by museum owner Bruce Newman. The site also curates rotating temporary exhibitions. The current exhibit, El Rock En Mexico, showcases rock music objects from 1955 to 2010, including magazines from the 1960s, signed guitars and original costumes. The exhibit runs until late January. www.elmodo.mx/en


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The California state Senate has once again painted a big ol' ''mock me'' target on its back by passing a piece of legislation that could bill parents as much as two hundred bucks if their kids show off a BB gun in public.
The bill, by Santa AnaDemocratic assemblyman Jose Solorio, requires parents to keep BB guns secure, and if a kid flashes one around at school or anywhere else in public, the parents had better start writing a check for $100 to pay the fine.
So you're thinking, a BB gun? Really? Like the Red Ryder model that Ralphie wants as a gift in the nifty film ''A Christmas Story'' [and then promptly almost shoots his eye out, as his mother predicted]? A gun not unlike the air rifles that Jack Finch, brother to Atticus, gave to Atticus' children, Jem and Scout, in the novel ''To Kill a Mockingbird''?
Yes, that kind of BB gun.
Yet BB guns can get people in as much trouble as real guns. A Glendale man was arrested this week for shooting at a police helicopter with a BB gun. In Anaheim, a few days before, two men were arrested after a third was sent to the hospital after being shot in the shoulder by a BB gun.


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Every year we'd do Christmas Eve at dad's parents' house. We'd come home, as a family, and each unwrap one gift from under the tree at home, then go to bed and do the rest later. I got the boxiest, shiniest looking gift I could get, and sis unwrapped hers and got something really cool, and I unwrapped mine to find......a set of bed sheets. I very nearly cried at that.
ETA: The worst was in Kindergarten, when Santa and his helper showed up at school. Yay! Santa! We queued up to sit on his lap and tell him what we wanted, but they surprised us by...giving us a shot! Yes, someone thought it was a good idea to have Santa vaccinate children.
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Damn! "Lady, you pulled out in front of an airplane."
Looks to me like the airplane was trying to land too short of the runway. And why the fuck is there a public road intersecting a runway?
There are roads going all of the way around the airport. There is a good hamburger restaurant where they were going to for lunch. Her husband was driving.
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text: This video comes from a kid out of Queens called Spectacula who has been on the rise for a minute. With a serious amount of mixtapes to his credit hosted by DJ Noodles, Nuke Knocka and an impending one with Justo Award winner Furious Styles titled Classical Music. The video has already had over 13,000 hits on myspace and the track is off the debut album from the Queens Village MC For What its Worth which is available on ITunes and other digital retailers.


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DENVER — Forget fast-break football. This was steel-cold efficiency.
Peyton Manning made quick work of the Philadelphia Eagles in a warp-speed game between the NFL's top two offenses, both of which like to snap the ball quickly.
The Denver Broncos scored more points than they ever had in their 54-year history on Sunday, blowing out the Eagles, 52-20, behind Manning's four touchdown throws and two special teams scores.
''Might have to give old Thunder an IV after this one,'' Manning said of the white Arabian gelding who trots around the Sports Authority Field following touchdowns.
If there's any IV bags left, that is.
With two TD passes each to Demaryius Thomas and Wes Welker, Manning completed all but a half-dozen of his 34 throws for 327 yards.
He didn't even step on the field in the fourth quarter and cooled his cleats on the sideline for a 12-minute stretch in the first half, no less.
Just another day in the life of Manning, whose 16 TD passes are the most in the first month of a season, besting the previous mark of 14 set by Don Meredith in 1966 and tied by Kurt Warner in 1999.
Manning also joined Milt Plum in 1960 as the only quarterbacks to throw that many touchdown passes without an interception.
''We have high expectations for ourselves and want to go out there and score a lot of points,'' Welker said. ''We were able to do that today.''
Just as they have all season, piling up 49, 41, 37, and 52 points, thanks mostly to Manning, who helped Denver outgain Michael Vick and the Eagles 472 yards to 450.
Manning drove Denver (4-0) on a trio of long TD drives in the third quarter. Those drives covered 80, 80, and 65 yards and the Broncos didn't face a third down in any of them.
The Eagles (1-3) also allowed two TDs on special teams in losing for the third straight time, all to AFC West opponents: Trindon Holliday's 105-yard kickoff return and Steven Johnson's blocked punt, which he scooped up himself and returned 17 yards.
Matt Prater's 53-yard field goal capped Denver's 15th straight regular-season win, which bested the franchise mark of 14 set in 1997-98 and also broke the previous franchise scoring record of 50 points set against San Diego on Oct. 6, 1963.
Only the 1966 Dallas Cowboys, with 183 points, scored more than the Broncos' 179 in their first four games.


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"Bruised and scratched from all sides," said the big Dutchman when asked how he felt. "But ... yeah, OK."
In short, Stage 10 was another day at the office for the charging-bull sprinters of the Tour de France.
Chris Froome, the race leader, isn't a sprinter. The Briton was just relieved to survive unscathed all the pushing and shoving on two wheels.
The "worst nightmare," he said, for riders like him -- lighter, less muscular and with eyes fixed on reaching the podium in Paris on July 21 -- is to be felled by crashes like the one that floored Veelers on Tuesday in Saint-Malo. The fall came in the shadow of this Brittany port's crenelated walls, with spectators crammed cheek by jowl to get a look.
"Every day you get through with the yellow jersey is a blessing," Froome said. "So I'm happy just to tick that one off."
Veelers' job is to help launch his teammate, sprinter Marcel Kittel, in the final mad dash for the line. He did that just fine on Tuesday, because Kittel won -- becoming the first rider at this 100th Tour to win two stages, having also won Stage 1.
As Kittel sprinted away, rival Mark Cavendish haredafter the German. In doing so, Cavendish's left arm barged into Veelers' right arm. Because both were riding at such speed, the contact was enough to tip the Dutch rider over.
"Marcel went all the way left and Cavendish dived to the left, I think to try to follow Marcel," Veelers explained after he picked himself up, climbed back on his bike and rode through the finish to his Argos-Shimano team bus, where a shoal of impatient, sharp-elbowed reporters waited.
"He touched my handlebars and knocked me over."
Cavendish was adamant this wasn't deliberate. The Briton with 24 Tour stage wins lost his temper with an Associated Press reporter who asked if he was at fault, grabbing his voice recorder.
"I touched with him. But the road's bearing left. I know you're trying to get all the 'Oh, Mark Cavendish, a really bad sprint again.' The road's bearing left. Two hundred and fifty meters to go, the road bears left ... I followed the road," he said.
"So I think if anyone's trying to get, 'Oh, Mark Cavendish, dangerous sprint.' I think you're in the wrong there, you know?"
The race jury studied video of the incident but took no action, allowing Cavendish to keep his third place behind Kittel and stage runner-up Andre Greipel, another German who won the finishing sprint on Stage 6.
Kittel also gave Cavendish the benefit of the doubt.
"I cannot imagine that it was on purpose because it was a very hectic situation and it was just the last moment of the sprint," he said. "Sometimes that is something which just happens."
Having luxuriated Monday in their first rest day, riders were generally content Tuesday to race at a leisurely pace. The pack allowed five riders to race away and build up a lead -- and then reeled them in as teams set up their sprinters to compete in the final dash.
The 197-kilometer (122-mile) jaunt from the Brittany town of Saint-Gildas-Des-Bois to Saint-Malo on its northern coast took the race past Plesse, where Lucien Mazan was born in 1882. Better known as Lucien Petit-Breton, he won the Tour in 1907 and 1908.
On Wednesday, the focus shifts away from the sprinters and back to Froome and his rivals for overall victory.
Stage 11 -- a time trial where the riders all race individually against the clock -- could be one of the most visually spectacular of this Tour where every day already has delivered a feast for the eyes.


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Submission + - Parcel sensor knows your delivery has been dropped (newscientist.com) 1
Hamsterdan writes: Called DropTag, the gadget combines a battery, a low-energy Bluetooth transmitter, an accelerometer and a memory chip. Stuck on a parcel as it leaves an e-commerce warehouse, it logs any g-forces above a set risky shock level that it experiences. The idea is that when the courier puts it in your hands, you turn on Bluetooth on a smartphone running a DropTag app and scan it before you sign for it.


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Former-Manchester United winger Wille Morgan has urged Sir Alex Ferguson to go all out to sign Liverpool starlet Raheem Sterling, according to the Daily Mail.
The 17-year-old Anfield winger has emerged as one of England's brightest prospects since breaking into the Liverpool first-team, and recent reports have linked United with a move for the England international.
Morgan, an ex-Scotland international who made 236 appearances for United in the 1960s and 1970s, thinks Sterling has the ability to become one of the best wingers in the world.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Morgan said: "I think United should attempt to buy Liverpool's left winger Raheem Sterling.
"Sterling is the first winger I have seen in a long time who looks like a proper winger. He looks very good already and I think he is going to be great.
"If you just let him go wide on the outside of the fullbacks all the time I think he will be a great player. He'll frighten people to death, so long as nobody coaches it out of him. He's the brightest prospect out there and would suit United."
No player has moved straight from Liverpool to United, or United to Liverpool, since 1964 - Phil Chisnall was the last to cross the divide.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has given Sterling an extended run in the team, and the teenage winger has rewarded the Anfield boss with a string of fine performances.
His displays on the Liverpool wing caught the eye of England manager Roy Hodgson, and Sterling won his first full England cap during last month's friendly in Sweden.
But on-going negotiations over his contract have led to speculation Manchester United could stage a sensational swoop for the Liverpool star in January.
Rodgers is thought to be desperate to keep hold of Sterling, and the report claims the Reds manager reminded him of the chances afforded to Sterling at Anfield.
But talks between the youngster's advisors and Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre are believed to have stalled, potentially opening the door for United.
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The point was made that because of the INT Sanchez is a bad quarterback, all I'm saying is that every single quarterback in the NFL has had this happen to them and it will happen again today if you watch any football this afternoon.
The point was made that because of the INT Sanchez is a bad quarterback, all I'm saying is that every single quarterback in the NFL has had this happen to them and it will happen again today if you watch any football this afternoon.
The pats d and their run game has never been great. They get to garbage time with a lead because brady and his wrs/tes make lots of great plays BEFORE garbage time...
There is a tremendous difference between a qb who gets some garbage time stats after kicking ass and a qb who get garbage time stats after getting his ass kicked.
Damn the public school system and its forever declining results.
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But it is my contention that a lot of Tom Brady's stats are "garbage time stats" because he accumulates them after his team is already up by 3-plus scores. Let me see him do it in a tight game, which he didn't do up at Gillette a few weeks ago if you recall.
Well yes but you're admitting that "garbage time" not only pads the stats of the losing quarterback but also pads the stats of the winning quarterback too...
Therefore how much of Tom Brady's stats are due to a "garbage time" passing context? I would say probably 60% of them... conservatively.
The point is that Brady does not need garbage time stats for his supporters to say "brady had a good game and is a good qb". Whereas, Mark's supporters needs those garbage time stats to say "look mark is acceptable and had a good game".
Food for thought.
Yes, some of brady's stats come from garbage time, but his legacy isn't dependent upon getting those stats. Brady makes plays when they matter not just after the game is lost already when the other team's d softens up.
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Second, the next play was an 83 yard TD pass. Let's not act like the Pats got the ball deep in Jets' territory.
Third, Brady had 323 yards and 4 TDs. He threw for two TD passes that went over 50 yards on the play. Let's not make it sound like it was all turnovers.
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I think the Jets could get to 7 and 7 and if they do it will be more proof of just how crappy a product the NFL is putting out.
If Big Ben can't get healthy the steelers could easily go 8-8 and the 6th seed could sneak in at 8-8 or 9-7.
Some serious comedy in this thread. billygreen is like a more delusional version of RayRay
Holy sh*t
That's priceless coming from you.
Yes, Ray.
The Jets will run the table, Sanchez will look like Montana in the process, Rex will make Belichick look like clown shoes in comparison, unicorns really do exist and my sh*t smells like rainbow sherbert.
Bright times ahead.
Bright times.


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For the summer months, our Meals With Wheels series brings you a sampling of what's being served by the food trucks that are circulating through the city – including those in the permitted spots in the downtown core, as part of a pilot program to reintroduce mobile food kitchens. Tell us about your meals with wheels. Tweet your reviews, Instagram your photos/reviews using the hashtag #mtlfoodtrucks and we'll add them to our food trucks interactive Food Trucks 411 at montrealgazette.com/mtlfoodtrucks.
The truck: Le Quai Roulant, est. 2013, operates out of a 1975 Winnebago purchased in St-Eustache in May. The built-in bed and other living accommodations were ripped out to make way for a gleaming new hood, a bank of deep fryers and fridges.
The team: Julien Messier and Julie Poulin are partnered with François Forest and chef Jean-Marc Mathieu from Quai No. 4 on Masson St., a neighbourhood brasserie that spotlights Quebec-made products including artisanal charcuterie from Ils en fument du bon.
The concept: Surf and turf by the roadside. Fish and seafood are the focus, but there's a sausage sandwich called the Godfather, too.
The signature dish: Messier says he spent the last three summers working in the restaurant milieu in Îles de la Madeleine and is enamoured with coastal cuisine. The crab cake and the fish and chips (battered haddock and potato chips, not fries) are variations on the dishes served at the restaurant. I preferred the crab cake, which has a summer-on-the-boardwalk feeling. It gets a bit of a kick and colour from sambal that added to the mix of blue crab and snow crabmeat, mayo and egg. Coated in panko and deep-fried, it offers an appealing play of crisped-up breadcrumbs against a moist interior. It's served atop chopped iceberg lettuce drizzled in sambal-spiked Milles-Îles sauce, more of which comes on the side for dipping. The $9 price tag is hefty, but comparable to appetizer portions at many restaurants in town.
The full order: The crab cake trio comes with homemade chips (dusted with seven spices including paprika, onion salt and garlic salt) and iced tea with blood orange-hibiscus syrup for $13. No desserts here yet.
Follow this truck: At www.lequairoulant.com or on Twitter @quairoulant