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LAHAINA - The 2012-13 Lahainaluna High School boys basketball team is a young and inexperienced group looking to climb back to the top of the Maui Interscholastic League.
Third-year head coach John Dudley is optimistic that his charges are up for the challenge.
"This is a talented group of kids that like to play basketball, and the important thing this year is that camaraderie reigns in our gym and they have a great attitude to learn and to improve," he said before last week's MIL tip-off match-up with defending champ Baldwin at the Lahaina Civic Center.
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The team includes (from left): front — Marvin Sidon, Renzo Corpuz, Jake "Genki" Francis, Emil Cariaga and Josh Corpuz; back row — Brandon Agapay, Cyrus Kama, Manny Brands, Ryan Madera, Josh Chapital and Nick Vierra.
Four players return from the 7-5 squad that finished third in the final MIL standings last season. Several crossover athletes from the football team are injured, leaving Lahainaluna to start the season with a roster 11 deep.
"We'll play everybody and use full-court, pressure defense all game long," explained Coach John, who will be assisted by Bill Ciancio, Dan Williams, John Agapay and Johnnie Ibus for the 2012-13 campaign.
"We'll be man-to-man on defense and try to breakaway on offense and motion in the half-court due to our lack of size. We can shoot the ball and we have good strength and speed, so I think we'll be all right."
Leading the way for the Lunas will be senior captains Emil Cariaga, Manny Brands and Jake "Genki" Francis, and juniors Josh Corpuz and Nick Vierra. Rounding out the roster are junior Brandon Agapay and a talented group of sophomores, including Josh Capital, Renzo Corpuz, Ryan Madera, Cyrus Kama and Marvin Sidon.
"The continuity that has been established in the girls basketball program here in Lahaina has spread over into the boys program as well," explained Coach John. "The boys are all on the same page starting from the sixth grade now, and the coaches are on board with this as well. All of the coaches - the varsity, the junior varsity and the menehune staffs - all work together now to develop this continuity.
"I've learned a lot from Coach Todd (Rickard, Lady Luna head coach)... he is in many ways a mentor for me, and it has been good for me. The support from the community has been awesome as well - they are always there for the team, always ready to be positive and do what needs to get done. I doubt if there is a better support community in the state," he concluded.
Lahainaluna will play 12 league games - three each versus Baldwin, Maui High, King Kekaulike and Kamehameha Maui - with home dates on Jan. 5, 10, 18, 26 and 29. The MIL Tournament will be played Feb. 6-8, also at the Lahaina Civic Center.
The Hawaii High School Athletic Association State Tournament will take place the following week in Honolulu.


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NORWALK, Conn. – Norwalk High girls basketball coach Rick Fuller is committed to working with the girls on his team. But the Bears lineup has changed since the end of last season.
The Bears fell to 0-2 on Tuesday night with a 58-35 loss to undefeated Danbury. Emma Oyomba scored 20 points to lead the Bears.
The senior center is the only returning player from last year's team, which went 16-7 and lost in the second round of the state tournament. Norwalk lost five players who saw significant time to graduation. But three others who were expected back are gone, too, through injury, transfer or suspension. That left Fuller to start two juniors, a sophomore and a freshman point guard against the Hatters.
"These are the players we have, and this is the way it's going to be,'' he said. "We're very young, very inexperienced. I think Emma has more experience on the varsity than all of the other girls combined."
The biggest loss was senior guard Erica Cohens, who averaged 11.8 points and 3.3 steals per game last year. She has been suspended, Fuller said, and he does not expect her back this year. Sophomore Denisha Gardener, a promising 5-foot, 10-inch forward who had several big games last year, transferred to Kolbe Cathedral in Bridgeport. Junior Shatel Butler is out with an injury.
"I'm not going to make excuses,'' Fuller said. "I can't worry about the girls who aren't here. I have to work with the players who want to be here and want to come to practice."
Tiasia Brown, a junior, scored four points against the Hatters and provided a boost with her energy on the boards. Freshman Chelsey Cerrato and sophomore Mallory Rochefort also started with juniors Shayna Bowers and Alex Weber. Freshman Mariah Ventrella, a standout at Our Lady of Fatima in Wilton last winter, tossed in a pair of three-pointers. Alex Whalen, another freshman, also saw playing time. It will take time for the underclassmen to adjust their skills to the varsity level — especially against upper-echelon league teams such as Danbury.
Norwalk trailed 19-2 at the end of the first quarter and turned the ball over on its first seven possessions without attempting a shot. The Hatters cruised thereafter.
The Bears play crosstown rival Brien McMahon on Friday, and the Senators are experiencing their own difficulties. "It's going to be a growing year for us in Norwalk,'' Fuller said.
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- Overnight strikes target weapons storage facility, rocket-launching sites, IDF says
- At least 30 people are injured, one critically, medical officials say
- Palestinian factions meet to discuss a possible truce, a militant leader says
- At least 18 people have been killed since Friday
Israel launched fresh airstrikes early Monday in Gaza, security officials and medical sources said, as talks about a possible cease-fire after three days of bombing apparently failed. At least 30 people were injured, including one critically, they said.
A spokeswoman for the Israel Defense Forces confirmed the overnight strikes, saying they were "an indirect response to the firing into the Israel community in the south." The strikes targeted a weapons storage facility and five rocket launching sites in the Gaza Strip, the spokeswoman said.
At least 18 people have been killed since Friday in the strikes, while at least 65 people have been wounded.
Two civilians, including a 13-year-old boy in Gaza, were killed Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said.
The airstrikes are a response to more than 100 rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel since Friday, Israel says.
Eight Israelis have been wounded and 500,000 have been forced into shelters, Israeli military and emergency services said.
An Israeli military aircraft targeted a suspected terrorist moments before he fired a Grad rocket at the city of Ashdod, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. The individual had also fired a Grad rocket into Ashdod earlier in the morning, the IDF said.
"The IDF is prepared to defend the residents of Israel and will respond with strength and determination against any attempt to execute terrorist attacks," the statement said.
The IDF generally does not comment on other reported casualties in such incidents.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Sunday that the new cycle of attacks and counterattacks resulted from a successful Israeli strike on "an arch-terrorist who organized many attacks against the state of Israel."
Two people were killed in that strike: Zuhair al-Qaisy, secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees, and Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Hanini, a Hamas military leader.
"Naturally, this led to another round with the Popular Resistance Committees, Islamic Jihad and other groups," Netanyahu said, naming Palestinian militant groups.
Israel's military "is striking at them in strength. ... We have exacted from them a very high price; naturally, we will act as necessary," Netaynahu said.
Palestinian factions met Sunday to discuss the possibility of a truce to be implemented Sunday night, according to a spokesman for the Salah Edeen Brigades, one of the militant factions. Hamas leadership in Gaza and Egyptian officials were working to trying to bring about a truce, said the spokesman, who goes by the name Abu Muhamad.
However, Islamic Jihad rejected the possibility of a truce until certain conditions are met, including an end to the airstrikes and "targeted assassinations," according to the militant group's official radio station.
The IDF statement Sunday warned that groups that "carry out terror attacks against the state of Israel will bear the consequences of these actions in any future operation embarked upon by the IDF. The Hamas terror organization is solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip."
Palestinians named Sunday's child victim as Ayuub Assilla.
He was killed near the Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza city.
The other victim was a 60-year-old Palestinian man who was guarding a farm grove in Gaza City, Palestinians said.
They were the second and third civilians killed in the weekend's violence, after a 51-year-old man was killed on the back of a motorcycle on Saturday. The other victims have been militants, according to Palestinian sources.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Israel makes its "best effort to target terrorists and not the civilian population," but added: "We will not accept the constant disruption of life in the south of Israel, and I advise all heads of terror to think well about their actions."
He blamed Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that runs Gaza, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for the violence.
"Abbas must decide if he wants to conduct serious negotiations for peace or align himself with Hamas and Islamic Jihad and become a part of the map of world terror," Liberman added.
He was referring to ongoing talks between Abbas' Fatah faction and Hamas, aimed at forming a new Palestinian unity government. The two factions have been bitter rivals since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
A total of 130 rockets have been fired into southern Israel since Friday, the IDF said. Ninety-three landed in Israel, while 37 were shot down by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, the IDF said.
Israel closed schools Sunday in the southern part of the country as precaution.
Palestinian officials accused Israel of trying to disturb a "truce" that was already in place. But despite efforts to bring about a truce over the years, rocket attacks have continued from Gaza.
Both sides sent dueling letters to the U.N. Security Council on Sunday, calling for an end to the violence.
Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian lawmaker in the West Bank, slammed a "provocation that is planned in cold blood by Israel to undermine the cease-fire in Gaza and to undermine the nonviolent nature of the Palestinian struggle today."
Hanan Ashrawi, executive committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, accused Israel of "targeting of isolated civilians through air strikes and targeted assassinations."
She insisted Netanyahu was seeking "to provoke the Palestinian side by dragging them to the circle of violence and destabilize the stability of the region and violate the truce agreement which the Palestinian factions committed to."
"Nothing could be further from the truth," responded Mark Regev, spokesman for Netanyahu. He said instability was being wrought by "Iran and its allies in Gaza who have been shooting scores of rockets at Israeli civilian population centers, at townships and at cities.
"I would hope that Dr. Ashrawi would unequivocally condemn the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians by the terrorists in Gaza."
On Saturday, Abbas called on international leaders to bring a stop to the attacks. However, Hamas' armed wing threatened Israel over the attacks.
Israel "will pay the price" for its actions in Gaza, said Abu Obaida, spokesman for the Izzedine al Qassam Brigade of Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged both sides to "avoid further escalation" and "re-establish calm."


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SOAP ROLES: Tim Gould, ALL MY CHILDREN (1993); John Eldridge, AS THE WORLD TURNS (1991-1992); Jack Fenelli, RYAN'S HOPE (1975-1989)
1980 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
1979 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
1978 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
Connie Passalacqua Hayman (Marlena De Lacroix): As reporter Jack Fenelli on RYAN'S HOPE, he was a volcano of emotion. All kinds. He and Kate Mulgrew as Jack's wife Mary Ryan were just fascinating to watch. Tumultuous love, tumultuous acting
Alan Carter: He could have read the phone book outloud and it would have been dramatic.
Lynn Liccardo: I could fill a book with memorable moments from just the first half of Michael Levin's 14-year run as Jack Fenelli on RYAN'S HOPE – dozens, if not hundreds of scenes with Kate Mulgrew, Helen Gallagher, Bernard Barrow and Sarah Felder, among others, from which to choose. But it was part of a quiet little scene with Tom Aldredge's Matthew Pearse from 1980 that caught my eye recently. They're discussing Jack's problematic pursuit of Matthew's strong-willed daughter, Rose, both as a lover and step-mother for his young daughter, Ryan.
Jack: So you are saying Rose will cross her daddy –
Matthew: And take great pleasure in doing so.
Jack: Ryan will never do that to me.
Matthew: No, of course not.
Hold on Levin as he mines the subtext of what Matthew is really telling Jack – which is what a lesser writer would have written, and most people would have said in the same situation – some variation of "Just you wait!".
Roger Newcomb: Jack Fenelli was such a fascinating character brought to life by Michael Levin. It was a perfect casting, one of all-time best.


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Serge Ibaka reaches agreement on four-year extension with Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City forward Serge Ibaka has reached agreement on a four-year, $48 million contract extension, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Ibaka, 22, could've been a restricted free agent next summer, and his deal now locks into place three of the Thunder's core young stars --- Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Ibaka. Durant and Westbrook each have the maximum contracts allowed under the NBA's collective bargaining agreement.
This deal leaves the future uncertain for guard James Harden, who could command a maximum contract on the league market as a restricted free agent next summer. Along with the remainder of Kendrick Perkins' three years and $27 million, the small-market Thunder will be hard-pressed to invest so much money into their payroll.
In his third NBA season in 2011-'12, Ibaka averaged 9.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.6 blocks per game. He's one of the league's best rim protectors, and been rapidly developing his offensive game. Ibaka was a key player on Spain's silver-medal-winning Olympic team this month in London.
I think Ibaka is already one of the best PFs in the nba and he should get better, improving his offense and rebounding. 12 million a year right now looks fair for what he does, especially for what he means to the OKC team, but it could become a bargain if he becomes an allround player.
I do think OKC FO will find it difficult to keep Harden, as he will also be able to get a maximum contract from other teams. They'll have little money to fill out the rest of the roster if that happens.
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No way, some team would have definately given Ibaka even more than 12 million a year, most teams would actually. Ibaka is already a valuable part of the thunder, I'd say third most valuable after Westbrook and Durant. I also think they'll keep Harden, they have to to continue being a contender.
Ibaka will only improve and imagine if he adds a good offensive game, he'll be one of the best players in the league, like Dwight.
Ibaka will only improve and imagine if he adds a good offensive game, he'll be one of the best players in the league, like Dwight.


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I rather like telling them to hold on while I go into the other room so I can hear them better, then setting the phone down with the line still open and going back to whatever I was doing before they called.
I deliver them to a VM i run just for this purpose, with the background of goatse.cx
I then tell them it's not so much the infection as it is the distention.
Is it a linux VM? Or better yet, a VM that runs olde-tyme UNIX V7 on emulated PDP-11 hardware. Now that would be classic...
How could you get goatse.cx as the background on a V7/PDP-11?
I guess you *COULD* use ASCII art...
Absolutely, there is an ASCII goatse just for such MOTD occasions.
Legend, and they could appreciate the beautiful thing I have built in all its awk and glory.
Did that too. Protip: The reaction generated from using lemon party is just as good.
Me: "Does your mother know you are an Internet scam artist for a living?"
It's not harmless stringing them along like that. What you're really doing is giving them invaluable experience and training in responding to people who might simply be on the cusp of getting taken.
Acting like an idiot who types slow and has a LOT of questions is not only amusing but wastes time cutting into profits and capacity to contact new victims. As a bonus the experience may help advance your acting career. Ultimately on the job training arguments don't appear to me to carry sufficient heft to outweigh competing arguments. When you hang up and they talk to an honest to god sucker this also counts as on-the-job training.
Remember kids your computer is off, you have to walk slowly down creeking stairs into the basement to turn it on.. and once there it is very old... it takes *FOREVER* to boot. Be sure to express your displeasure with the performance of your computer.
Did this and amazingly they stayed online with me for 30 minutes.
Then I said: But wait, I think we have the wrong computer. Let me boot the other one.
Whole call lasted 40 minutes.
When I pretty much start the call by telling them that I have 18 years of desktop, server and network administration you would think that should scare them off, but no. They have a script to follow, and they'll follow it to the end of the Earth and over the edge. Most of the guys that I get tell me they work for Microsoft, and having worked on campus (and in fact having done security for a lot of those buildings) I find it amusing to take them on a mental tour of the Redmond campus. Eventually they drag
I got a call two days ago from these people. I strung them along until they gave me a web address to go to in order to download some software and run it on my computer. Then while they were expecting me to do that, I ran a WHOIS on the host and IP, found out who was hosting them (it turned out to be an American company) and I contacted their abuse team and reported the site as being fradulent. 24 hours later, their web site was shut down.
It also helps when you contact their abuse department, that you tell them you work for an antivirus company and you're going to add the IP address of the site to your blacklist. In many cases, there are hundreds if not thousands of web sites operating from the same IP. They will take quick action rather than have one bad customer cause 900 other customer sites to not be accessible.
Did the same thing. When I told him I was running Linux, he said "Sir, you have been wasting my time!" to which I replied "You called me." Then he hung up. Priceless.
My high score was 50 minutes. I kept pretending my computer was rebooting on it's own and took a long time to boot up. When I finally caved and told him I run Linux, he STILL tried to sell me because I could gift his product to my parents because 'older people are not so good with computers'.
Time permitting, I always take the call and keep them on as long as possible.
Sir or madam, I truly admire your tenacity - and your sense of the sublime. I'm a little more direct and short. As I've said here before, when I get such a call I immediately start talking in a soft and quaky voice. Like that of an eighty year old. This makes them listen closer and hopefully turn up their volume. I lead them on for a couple of minutes so they're focused and calm and then scream at the top of my lungs like I'm being murdered with an axe. Reactions range from screaming themselves, cursing me out and once trying to find out if I was OK at which point I laughed and *then* they cussed me. All quite cathartic.
Moral: If you work for sleazoids you're a sleazoid, don't expect civility.
On my first one, this is how it ended as I went to the website and downloaded the application and offered him the options of "Save" or "Cancel". This confused him for quite a while. He asked me to "Open" it , so I opened it in Package Manager and found the Exe contained another file inside the container. So I extracted that. Finaly we got to the non Windows issue and he hung up. This took almost 40 minutes due to trying to get remote access working.
These guys are getting smarter in regards to people being on to them.
The latest call was much shorter as they expalined my PC was uploading to some server. I reacted supprised and inquired as to the server my machine was logging into so I could check my router log. He immediately queried me on why I was skeptical. I explained that I wasn't, but needed to follow up on the breech with the network team to find the target server that was collecting our information. He again accused me of being skeptical and as I again said I wasn't, but needed security to follow up on the breech and check the network gateway logs, he simply hung up on me. They don't want to deal with anyone that understands computers.
That call never got to the event viewer or remote access. Was fun to have him hang up on me wihout even saying goodby.
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Last century, I worked for a magazine sales company that did telephone soliciting. We loved it when people slammed down the phone because it meant no wasted time. The worst was when someone wanted to chat. One time a kid answered the phone and I asked for the dad. She said, "He's out in the garage under the car" and ran off to fetch him. It was a dillemma what to do next. Hang up? wait?. Another time the person on the other end kept repeating only the word yes during my sales pitch and then 5 minutes in switched to "can you please speak chinese". Even when I said "goodbye".
These days, I tell them I'm really glad they called and I need to move to the phone by the computer so I can purchase what they are selling. Then I set the phone down and go about what I was doing.
guy pranks a scammer using a soundboard
True, but the gap of "standard knowledge" isn't as bad as it used to be. At least it's getting better. If any message has gotten through, it's been not to give out information to an unknown phone caller. I'm sure it must work sometimes or they wouldn't be doing it, but since email spam has been largely eliminated from most end-user experiences, it seems going back to the phone scams is a bit too late because folks are going to click on an email link much more readily than give out any info to an unknown phone caller these days.
I have a friend in her 50's who's parents are in their late 70's, and they just got one of these calls last week. To give you an idea of their technical proficiency, they still use AOL mail (and Facebook is too difficult for them to use). The caller wanted their windows installation ID. They kept them on the phone for like 20 minutes - while they used their other phone to call Microsoft, LOL. The scammer gave up when they realized what was going on, and they never gave them any personal info. So, even they knew something was "wrong" and didn't fall for it. That's just one anecdotal example, granted, but again these are the very folks that they are trying to get who have wised up and are especially vigilant about phone callers in particular (organizations like AARP are actually really good at educating folks about not falling for scams).
The funny (sad?) part was the parents understood exactly what happened during the attempted scam (bad guy trying to get their computer info), but what they didn't understand was why Microsoft didn't seem very interested in "getting 'em" after the fact - they wanted to fill out a report about the scam, etc., and MS basically said "you did the right thing, thanks,
Is this the weekly article about people who decide to "take the call" and "investigate" and "make fun of the scammers" ?
We've seen this MANY times...
I was taking my boys out bowling last summer when I got a call from my father telling me that "Windows" had called him and told him his computer was infected with a virus. I immediately told him it was a scam and to just hang up. At first, he didn't want to "just in case they were telling the truth", but he eventually hung up on them. They had gotten him to go to a website but not run a program. I told him that even opening a website could infect him and to treat his computer as if it was infected. Later, when I examined the website and his computer, I concluded that the website was a simple page that linked to remote access tools. These were perfectly valid tools (e.g. TeamViewer) from the company's own servers, but obviously being used for nefarious purposes. Running these tools themselves wouldn't have been a problem - except for the scammer on the other end of the connection. The fact that he stopped short of running their tool saved him.
The same scammers (or others running the same scam) called him back a few times since. My dad might not be the most computer savvy, but he does learn. He's not going to fall for the same thing twice and now that he knows it's a scam he berates the person for a few seconds before hanging up on them.
What they hell do they do? Drop a key logger onto the machine?! Scary stuff. I can see the elderly getting hit by this.
And this is why I recommend Apple products. If you run the newer OSX, programs can't run unless it's blessed by Apple (signed). You can over-ride the default behavior, but that's something you rarely do if ever (well, unless you're a developer or toy with someone's pet project app).
The scammers wanted my father to run a remote access tool. My assumption at the time was that they were then going to load some trojan or something to take control of the PC (likely silently to harvest as much data as possible). Going by the TechCentral article, they have you enter Paypal and/or Credit card information on a page (while watching what you are typing) to pay them a "PC cleaning fee." If you don't pay them, they start rooting through your PC for valuable documents and/or delete any documents
My mother fell for the scam. Didn't lose anything but did get the remote service tool installed. She explained that since they called her it seemed legitimate.
Later she was put in contact with some web site that did identify theft clean up, and I tried to discourage her but she said her friend had used it (turns out it was semi-legitimate as it had some downrating from the better business bureau for pushing unneeded services).
Nice reference, Sir! That is one of the classics in 419 eater.
http://www.419eater.com/html/m... [419eater.com]
My personal favorite was The Incredible Shrinking Artwork (http://www.419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm). But you can waste far too much time on that site.
you aren't getting contacted by a Nigerian 419 scammer with some dead relative or something or other and trying to deposit a magical sum of money in your account.
you aren't getting contacted by a Nigerian 411 scammer with some dead relative or something or other and trying to deposit a magical sum of money in your account.
And then he offers to look up phone numbers for you! [wikipedia.org] Perhaps you meant 419. [wikipedia.org]
In my experience, most do 'semi' legitimate work, using normal tools for disinfection and optimization. These tools are things like hitman, MBAM, ccleaner, etc. Unfortunately, the techs do not seem very skilled, sometines causing damage, and more importantly they lie in a very convincing confidence game to get payment info and perform service. While I have yet to see anyone have extra fraudulent charges placed on them, the initial bill is fradulent given that the work never needed to be performed.
Also, if these "services" are so unethical as to lie to get you to pay, it is a small step to later using that payment information or selling it to third parties.
The worst one I saw is from a personal friend who called one of these services for assistance, paid 300 dollars for 3 years of remote assistance. One onthe to the day later, another company cold called him (he thought it was the first company). He allowed them remote access, and then when they wanted payment and he realized it was not the first company he asked them to disconnect. He was emotional and turned off his surge protector when they became pressuring and refused to disconnect. He left the room failing to realize it was a laptop and still on. The 'tech' then proceeded to delete most of the recently dated files in his user profile. These were very important files, and I was only able to recover about 85% with file recovery tools.
Unfortunately all these companies need to operate is a phone number and a simple VOIP system..maybe a quick templated website and domain. They can be set up in a very quick time, and exist outside of any willing jurisdiction to fight them. Education is the ONLY way at this time.
Best way to annoy these guys is get them to call my grandma. She has 15 year old computer with 64MB ram that somehow runs xp. It literally takes 10 minutes to boot the pc. She also barely knows how to turn on the monitor. These guys were talking to my grandma for about 50 minutes when finally she said "maybe you should talk to my grandson he is in IT support", they promptly hung up after that.
She asked me if it was legit I said no, never ever listen to what these guys say because they will try to scam you and get your money. Unfortunetly sometimes she has a bad memory and 2 years later she fell to the exact same scam. I got her to call her credit card company to halt/cancel any payments, and I told her to buy a new pc because there was no way in hell I was reformatting a 64MB xp box. It took me over 2 hours just to backup documents.
LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Almost the same thing happened to my Mother in law. She got diverted from HP's tech support to some third party who proceeded to help her printer to work. I think it was an HP CSR that gave her an alternate number to call, but they went though the song and dance, talked her into paying big bucks to load and configure her printer drivers and loaded their "support" software package.
Took me 2 weeks to get the credit card charges reversed and I had to totally reload the laptop from scratch to undo all the stuff they did to her machine.
I don't know if HP actually sent her to this company or if the CSR did that on their own, but this is a growing problem. If it was the CSR, I hope they got fired and quick. If it was HP, well they get what they deserve... Personally I don't use HP for anything, but I won't go into that story here...
Here is a 419 (Nigerian scam) back-and-forth [cracked.com]. It is quite a bit funnier...
This scam can have serious repercussions
Yes and thats why no one should do it. aside from dicking around with foreign scammers you're also making a very bold assumption that theyre not part of an organized criminal syndicate capable of learning from this mistake, gathering more information about you, and directly targeting you or your family members for not only clowning around with them, but publishing an article on the hubris of your interation. Antispam researchers are absolutely familiar with everything from death threats to kilos of drugs
please provide link to news article about spam researcher who was sent explosives or narcotics.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/201... [krebsonsecurity.com]
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The trouble is how to hit back at them. Normally the most that you can do is to waste their time & phone bill -- but your time is more precious than that. I wanted to try to get some of them to stop scamming and, to a limited extent, succeeded.
I had a phone call from one of these crooks claiming to be from Microsoft security center trying to tell me about a problem on my MS Windows machine (I run 100% Linux). After a few seconds I interrupted him and asked him if he was a religious man. He was puzzled and, after a couple of prompts, said 'yes'.
I told him that I was worried about his eternal soul ending up burning in the fires of hell because he was trying to steal money from people while he was alive. I asked if it was really worth it spending billions of years burning in hell for the sake of making some money in the few short years that he is alive. None of us is alive for many years compared to the billions of years in heaven or hell after we die.
I asked him to think about it before he went to sleep tonight. Where did he want to spend eternity ? Should he be doing the job that he is doing ? Is it worth it ? How will he be judged by God ? He was by now sounding a very different man from the one who started the 'phone call a few minutes earlier. Thanked me for being concerned about him. The call continued for another minute or so, me laying the eternity bit on very thick. Him getting quieter, before quietly thanking me again before the call ended.
I don't know what long term effect this will have on him, but hopefully he will decide that he ought to get another job. I did this a few times, some just laughed, then I got bored with the game.
What happens if they end calling the cops, FBI, power plants, ECT Will they be tracked down?
He proceeded to introduce himself as "John Connor." I laughed quietly
It's part of the scam. Disarming misdirection. For a while, part of you was favorably disposed toward the scammer and you were thinking about the ridiculous name instead of screaming in your head "This is a SCAM!".
Just added lenny to my sip phone address book. If you use IPPI, the full address won't work as it won't take the two dots in the address. Remove the first sip. from the address and it works great.
I know two elderly people, both bilked out of $300. I see dozens of stories in this thread about how so many of us have been called and how you like to string them along and frustrate them. I've been called at least a dozen times. We need something other than just frustration to battle them. How can we prepare tools and tactics to respond and try to stop this?
I wonder if banks have some sort of honeypot credit card numbers, which one could give to a known scammer to help catch them in the act. I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about, but there ought to be some way to turn the tables on the scammers here. (And yes, I've heard about the elaborate ways people have trolled 419 scammers, I'm thinking of something a little less time-consuming.)
These scammers also have web pages that offer "AOL technical support," "PC technical support," and so on, with 800 numbers prominently listed. So if an un-aware person (like my Aunt . . . ) hunts for help via Google they'll often end up getting in touch with these jerks.
I have a couple of variant responses worked out:
"So, in India, do they use the term 'con artist' or 'confidence trickster'?"
"So, does your mother know what you do for a living? Did she teach you to be a crook or did you go bad on your own?"
I'm not surprised that these scams work. People will readily give their bank and credit card details to random strangers in the street, with clipboards, and wearing colourful vests with logos on, who claim to be collecting subscriptions for charities. How do you find out if they're legit?
I took a call from one of these guys.
I happened to have a VM I use for testing up and running and I snapshotted it and figured I'd follow along with him just to see what he wanted done. This VM is on its own VLAN and behind its own firewall and public IP, but I kind of got cold feet about creds that could be on the machine or connectivity to my production LAN so I stopped before anything got installed (and I reverted to the snapshot, too).
Anyway, after I quit playing along I started to gently question who he said he was and the guy became really abusive and threatening, like he was going to save up for a plane ticket to fly to the US and beat me up or something if I didn't keep going. I was really kind of surprised at how far he took it.
At that point I figured dishing it out was fine, so I went full-on nasty with him and again I was surprised at his willingness to keep it up, especially considering I was pretty harsh.
Windows is on its way out, and soon everyone will be using a Mobile OS -- the scammers will IM you and claim they need to connect to your tablet or phone to remove malware.
Or have I just come up with the next great thing(tm)?
A while back I tried to turn the tables on a scammer who royally pissed me off.
I posted an ad looking for a roomate and I got interest from someone claiming to be relocating from spain with moving costs paid by her company. Sounded good to me....after a quick exchange I took down my ad and a day later got the bad news "I will be sending a money order, can you cash it and forward on the difference too...."
I immediately recognized the scam and put my ad back up, but I was mad.
So I said "Sure sounds good".... the money order came, I said "never got it, when is it coming?"....got another one.... then I decided to have fun with it.... I sent a url for some pictures on my webserver and asked questions that would requiore looking at them to answer...about the room of course.... soon as I had an IP, I looked it up and told "her"
"I have seen better fakes, you wont fool me" I told "her" and that I knew she was somewhere outside Lagos Nigeria. Suddenly she admitted to being a he, and had a new tune.... he was trying to recruit me. Too easy.
Pretty quickly it shaped up what he wanted...someone with a US addrss to remail packages. I would get a package of papers to send out, all I had to do was put them in envelopes, slap postage on, and that would be $500 for me, each time.
So I figured....no way I am helping this scammer who tried to scam me, but, lets see if I can scam him out of $500 by getting him to pay up front. He mentioned counterfit bills, so I was like yes, cool, I will take counterfit bills, then I can report you directly to the Secret Service oooh fun.....
in the end we could never work out a deal that sounded good to him and I was willing to burn him on so, it never happened. Oh well.....
I never get these calls, so I miss out on the fun. Just as well - I am pretty busy, so I don't have a lot of time for hijinks..
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.


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British-bred Arlington Million candidate Treasure Beach, owned by Mrs. Fitriani Hay, Derrick Smith, Mrs. John Magnier and Michael Tabor, is scheduled to go to the post in Ireland's Group III Ballyroan Stakes at Leopardstown Thursday evening in a final tune-up for the 30th anniversary edition of the upcoming Grade I Arlington Million on Aug. 18.
Adrian Beaumont of the Newmarket-based International Racing Bureau advised Arlington racing officials that Treasure Beach is training well and that Thursday's run is to serve as a preparation the Million, and that unless he runs poorly he remains "all systems go" for Chicago's traditional showcase Thoroughbred race.
Ryehill Farm's Awad won the 1993 Secretariat and returned two years later to capture the Arlington Million in 1995.
Also scheduled for a run in Thursday's Ballyroan is Dr. Ronan Lambe's Irish-bred Galileo's Choice, who remains a candidate for the inaugural running of the $400,000 American St. Leger Stakes at Arlington Aug. 18.
The Arlington Million is run at a mile and a quarter over the suburban Chicago oval's world famous turf course, and the American St. Leger is to be contested at a mile and 11/16ths over that same local lawn.
The Ballyroan has been run at a mile and a half since 1995 and received its Group III status in 2007.
Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd.'s Irish-bred Sense of Purpose, another candidate for Arlington's inaugural American St. Leger, captured the Ballyroan last summer.
Hall of Fame jockey Earlie Fires, Arlington's all-time leading rider, continues galloping horses each morning during training hours in preparation for Arlington's upcoming jockey challenge Aug. 17 that will match five retired riders against Arlington's top five active jockeys.
"I got on several horses this morning," said Fires during training hours Thursday. "I'm getting pretty fit now. I started getting on one horse a morning a little over a week ago but I'm picking up the pace now."
Fires, 65, retired as an active rider at Arlington on Sept. 21, 2008, but finished second to active rider Inez Karlsson in Arlington's first riding legends race two years ago and was the runner-up once again in last summer's renewal behind Arlington's 2009 jockey champion Junior Alvarado.
"I probably should have won that race last year, but I don't think I was quite fit enough," said Fires Thursday. "Two years ago, I just didn't have enough horse under me."
Although born in Rivervale, Arkansas, Fires has made his home in Palatine for most of his career as well as in the years since his retirement. He retired with 6,470 career wins with 2,886 of those coming at Arlington. He won riding titles at Arlington in 1966, '69, '75, '79, '83 and '84.
Arlington's top five active riders entering Thursday's races are almost certain to remain the top five by the time of the upcoming jockey challenge.
Current leading rider Francisco Torres became the first local rider to reach the 60-win mark last Sunday with a win aboard Sugar Daddy Stable's Toast With Honey in the third race of the day.
Current runner-up and Arlington's defending jockey champion James Graham had 57 wins after taking Sunday's opener on Curt Gielow's Distant Bugle.
Third-place rider Rosemary Homeister Jr. had a pair of winners Sunday sweeping the late daily double on Charles Middleton III's Affair Dabbler and Equiforce Inc.'s Baba Lucy.
Fourth-place rider Seth Martinez was shut out Sunday, but remains one win in front of jockey Jeffrey Sanchez, who won three successive races Sunday with Mark Detampel's Isle of Skye, Timothy Keeley's Sara's Cape, and GDK Stables' Chase the Weasel.


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Apple patent pic revives touchscreen Mac buzz
To touch or not to touch
Just days after rumors of an impending touchscreen iMac were put to rest, a US patent application has been published that revives them once again — but with a twist.
The patent filing in question, "Integrated Touch Sensitive Display Gate Driver", describes a display system that can be switched between touchscreen and traditional display mode.
As the filing's title suggests, the application focuses on gate driver circuitry, and describes a system for allowing the gate driver to switch between touch and display modes. "Because display and touch capabilities can impose different requirements on the touch screen," the filing reads, "it can be challenging to mesh those requirements so that the touch screen can perform both display and touch capabilities effectively and efficiently."
Although the filing, at 42 pages, is unusally long for this class of application, it has at its core a relatively straightforward concept: the gate driver it describes can transmit LCD signals or receive touch-control signals by switching between those functions on the same signal path.
This 'exemplary' gate driver can switch between voltage supplies
The concept may be straightforward, but its implementations — or, in patentese, its embodiments — described in the filing require an EE-level understanding to fully grok.
What's clear to even the non-engineer, however, is that this filing is one more proof that Apple sees touchscreen control as central to its vision of the future — in this case by employing a gate-driver design that can "advantageously integrate display and touch circuitry in a more efficient effective manner, thereby realizing cost and power savings."
An "efficient effective" integration of standard and touchscreen displays that would be both cheap and power-miserly would help make the touchscreen iMac rumored to be in the works early this year more likely.
But after that rumor resurfaced, bolstered by an earlier patent that described a nifty tilt-and-slide base for a just such a touchscreen iMac, it was quickly snuffed by the company said to be providing Apple with display samples.
Today's filing, however, includes as its final illustration the following bit of rumor-restart temptation:
This may not be an iMac, but that laptop's display is most definitely labeled "Touch Screen"
First came the iPhone, then the iPod touch, then the iPad. Those three are all iOS devices, to be sure — but the earlier touchscreen iMac patent and today's filing make it clear that Apple is mulling over the possibility of a touchy future for its Mac line, as well. ®
Interestingly, this patent application doesn't list a person or company as its Assignee, as do the majority of such documents. It does, however, instruct that correspondence concerning the filing should be sent to "APPLE c/o MOFO LA", and the address given is that of the Los Angeles office of international mega–law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP, aka MoFo. No, not that MoFo — though some may argue an equivalence.
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After eight years of hard work, the day has finally arrived. Today, September 14, the Haiku project has released its very first alpha release. With the goal of recreating one of the most beloved operating systems in history, the BeOS, they took on no small task, but it seems as if everything is finally starting to come together. Let's talk about the history of the BeOS, where Haiku comes from, and what the Alpha is like.
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I've been subscribed to the Haiku mailing lists almost as long as they've existed. For the first few years progress was (understandably) slow. But over the last year or two, I have seen almost exponential growth in the project. It seems like there are new developers contributing all the time. I don't see any reason why this growth won't continue to R1 and beyond.
Congratulations to the core developers who put so much time and effort into Haiku over the years and continue to do so.


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Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post "Effects of Poverty on U.S. Children's Educational Achievement Redux" [Hake (2013b)]. The abstract reads:
ABSTRACT: In response to my post "Barriers to Better K-12 Math Education: Poverty and the Inadequate Undergraduate Education of Prospective K-12 Teachers" [Hake (2013a)] at http://bit.ly/V6azOZ. Ed Wall (2013b), in his Math-Learn post at http://yhoo.it/10CO8af, made 2 points: (1) My statement that Wall implied that the dumbing down of elementary school mathematics in the U.S. is due to Math Education Researcher's preoccupation with the secondary years is "more than a little un-thoughtful." (2) His post "Re: Do We Learn All the Math We Need For Ordinary Life Before 5th Grade?" [Wall (2013a)] at http://yhoo.it/W6fn5y had more to do with (a) his agreement with David Hawkins - see signature quote - which Wall assumes I have refuted, and (b) people such as myself who " 'imply' that children are less than capable because of their socioeconomic status." [Non-subscribers to Math-Learn can access Wall's post by taking a minute to "Join this List" at the Math-Learn archives http://yhoo.it/fF6D9w.]
Here I refute Wall's 2 points with emphasis on Wall's incorrect point 2b: "people such as myself 'imply' that children are less than capable because of their socioeconomic status." On the contrary, I implied that children in poverty are less capable of academic achievement than children not in poverty.
I think that children in poverty are probably just as inherently capable as children not in poverty, but societal and home factors conspire against their academic achievement. For example many of them: (a) are subjected to poor teaching, (b) attend dilapidated schools with high student and teacher turnover, (c) have academically uninvolved parents, (d) partake of few out-of-school enrichment activities, (e) have limited access to books, (f) receive inadequate nutrition, (g) live in slums, (h) come from broken families, (i) are threatened by gang violence, (j) have few academic role models, and (k) suffer from environmental hazards such as lead poisoning.
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". . .I will look primarily at our traditions and practices of early schooling through the age of twelve or so. There is little to come after, whether of joys or miseries, that is not prefigured in these years."
- David Hawkins (2001) in The Roots of Literacy, p. 3.
"Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that more than 40 percent of the variation in average reading scores and 46 percent of the variation in average math scores across states is associated with variation in child poverty rates. . . . . Can anyone credibly believe that the mediocre overall performance of American students on international tests is unrelated to the fact that one-fifth of American children live in poverty"
- Ladd & Fiske (2011)
"For the short term, preparing teachers in mathematics and science is a wise and useful step toward improving schools. As quickly as possible, we must understand the link between poverty and educational outcomes in the U.S., devise solutions, and finally test and implement them. . . . . I hope that proponents of teacher quality and charter schools will recognize the weakness of a single-minded approach before it is too late, and that we will not damage public education, let down our most vulnerable students, and lose technical leadership we take for granted."
- Michael Marder (2012)
REFERENCES [URLs shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 19 Jan 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013a. "Barriers to Better K-12 Math Education: Poverty and the Inadequate Undergraduate Education of Prospective K-12 Teachers," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/V6azOZ. Post of 16 Jan 2013 15:40:33 -0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists and are also on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at http://bit.ly/SPOkQ8 with a provision for comments.
Hake, R.R. 2013b. "Effects of Poverty on U.S. Children's Educational Achievement Redux," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/VC0jza. Post of 19 Jan 2013 09:49:56-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
Hawkins, D. 2001. The Roots of Literacy. University of Colorado Press. Amazon.com information at http://amzn.to/h3cbtf.
Ladd, H.E. & E.B. Fiske. 2011. "Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?" New York Times Opinion Piece, 11 Dec.; online at http://nyti.ms/vx3nub.
Marder, M. 2012. "Failure of U.S. Public Secondary Schools in Mathematics," Journal of Scholarship and Practice 9(1): 8-25; the entire issue is online as a 2.7 MB pdf at http://bit.ly/KPitWM, scroll down to page 8.
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Feb. 1, 2004
The women's swimmers fared as their male counterparts did at this year's HYPs, falling to both Princeton and Harvard in the meet held in New Jersey. Princeton won the event with dual wins over both the Bulldogs and the Crimson.
The Harvard-Yale score was 162-157, while Princeton defeated the Bulldogs 208.5-110.5.
Moira McCloskey had the best showing of the meet for the Elis, winning both the 100 and 200-yard backstroke events with times of 57.03 and 2:01.40, respectively.
McCloskey was also part of the 400-yard freestyle relay team that earned second place with a time of 3:28.30, with the other Yale swimmers in the event being Meg Gill, Chase Butler, and Paige Harazin.
Gill earned a bullet of her own with a top finish in the 100-yard butterfly, posting a 56.91 time and managing to defeat Princeton's Kelly Hannigan by just one one-hundredth of a second.
Christina Hession also had a good meet, earning second in the 500-yard free with a time of 4:58.28.
In diving, Melanie Loftus won the 1-meter competition with a score of 251.95, and earned third place in the 3-meter with a 264.60. Liz Foglesong grabbed third in the 1-meter with a 246.10.
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"Compared to last year, it's pretty much night and day," Cushing said in an exclusive interview with Texans All-Access. "I'm probably about a month away from being fully 100 percent. I've already started running on the field and I just feel great. I feel great physically, I feel great mentally, seeing that light at the end of the tunnel. It's so much earlier this year than last year."
One year ago, Cushing's rehab was still underway and he was still five months away from getting clearance from his surgeon, Dr. James Andrews. While he did return for training camp and started every game until his Week 7 injury cut his season short, Cushing feels more optimistic about his recovery this time around.
Cushing was placed on injured reserve after suffering a tibial plateau fracture and torn LCL in Week 7 at Kansas City on October 20. Before his season-ending injury, Cushing led the team with 65 tackles and had 1.5 sacks and an interception returned for a touchdown in Week 1 against San Diego.


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If you can, fly over and visit the campus. It will be different from US universities that you've visited - in small ways that you wouldn't be prepared for, despite their efforts to welcome overseas students. If you like the differences, as I said, finances shouldn't get in your way much.
Bang for the buck
If you prefer the UK schooling style to US schools, go for it. If you're savvy about booking flights, it won't actually be much more expensive than a US school. For one thing, you won't have car expenses. (Though if you do end up driving in the UK, for whatever reason, you'll gain valuable experience driving in a different style! [I am here referring to the whole 'other side of the road on the other side of the pond' thing; as well as a different road infrastructure, and a different way of doing signs, and you get the picture] )
Will enjoy being here
My cousin has visited the campus and really liked it. For UK students, it's away from home without being, say, on a different continent. For US students, it's a great school in a lovely place with enough cultural differences to be an experience without being overwhelming. After all, they speak the same language! (Well, actually...)
Will learn a lot
I'm a US student from the UK, and I've been talking to my cousin in the UK about colleges/unis. She's applying here, and it's one of her top choices. She says it's a great choice for her degree program; she's interested in Architecture and Civil Engineering.
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Inuit hunter Nukappi Brandt steers his small boat as he and his daughter Aaneeraq, 9, scan the water for seals, accompanied by his other daughter Luusi, 8, outside Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland, July 21. Brandt, 49, has been a hunter since age 14, and said roughly 20 years ago, when winter sea ice became too thin to support dogsleds, seal hunting ceased to be a sustainable way of life here.
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Inuit hunter Nukappi Brandt aims his rifle to shoot a seal, which dived underwater before he could get off a shot, as his daughter Luusi, 8, keeps low inside their small boat outside Qeqertarsuaq, July 21.
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The old hunter was troubled by the foreigners encroaching on his Inuit people's frozen lands.
"The Inuit say that they are going to heat the 'siku' (the sea ice) to make it melt. There will be almost no more winter," the elder says of the southerners in Jean Malaurie's "Last Kings of Thule," the French explorer's classic account of a year in the Arctic.
The year was 1951. A lifetime later, another Inuit hunter looks out at Disko Bay from this island's rocky fringe and remembers driving his dogsled team over the solid glitter of the siku all the way to Ilulissat, a town 90 kilometers (50 miles) across the water.
"The ice then was 1 to 2 meters thick," Jakob Jensen, 65, recalled of those winters past.
"Now, it's a few centimeters. It's very thin and you can't go on dogsled."
The winter sea ice that defined Greenlander life for millennia is melting, and it's the southerners who did it, as Malaurie's Inuit foretold long before science showed industrial emissions were warming the planet.
Read more here and check out more images below.
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Greenland sled dogs are shown in Qeqertarsuaq, July 21. Some hunters, who relied on winter game to feed their sled dogs, have been unable to continue to support large numbers of dogs, and have been shooting them.
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An Inuit fisherman pulls in a fish on a sea filled with floating ice left over from broken-up icebergs shed from the Greenland ice sheet in Ilulissat, Greenland, July 18.
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Inuit family members from left, Estrella Brandt, holding her daughter Noelle, Louise Brand and their mother, Rosa Marie Brandt laugh during Rosa Marie's husband's 50th birthday party at their home in Qeqertarsuaq, July 20.
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A narwhal whale tusk from a hunt along with miniature replicas of traditional kayaking and hunting tools adorn a wall above a television set inside the home of an Inuit family in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland. Whales have long been a central part of Inuit life in Greenland, where a regulated subsistence hunt continues to this day.
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An Inuit woman sweeps the steps of the church in Qeqertarsuaq, July 20.


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Hi Grant, and welcome to Using English.
I used to think that the Internet was having a bad effect. But then I started really paying attention to my own child, a teenager. Her writing in e-mails to her friends makes my cringe: Hy! Meh... All kinds of non-words and random punctuation.
Then I read her essays that she writes for school. They are perfect.
I don't think that ghastly Internet speech has improved anything, but it hasn't distracted from her abilty to write good, cogent arguments using entirely standard English.
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The product lines acquired consist of turbo pressure blowers, industrial exhausters, inline centrifugals, radial tip blowers, and airfoil centrifugals.
Integration of these products will begin immediately and production will begin within a few months in the Piqua facility. Future expansion of the Piqua operation is pending to accommodate the manufacturing of the larger diameter centrifugal fans.
"This announcement by Hartzell Fan shows how our local companies are growing despite the economic downturn," said Michael A. Cox, chair of Grow Piqua Now. "It also demonstrates their confidence in our community as a great place to invest and grow their business."
Bill Murphy, economic development director for the City of Piqua, added, "We are
fortunate to have a company like Hartzell Fan reinvesting in our community. The City of Piqua has been working with the company and stands ready to do whatever is needed to assist it in this proposed expansion."
Hartzell Fan is a leading manufacturer of industrial fans and blowers with plants in Piqua, OH and Portland, Indiana. In addition to manufacturing centrifugal fans, we also offer general ventilation fans, heating equipment, marine duty fans, and corrosion-resistant (fiberglass) fans. For more information, visit www.hartzellfan.com.


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At MasterCard Worldwide, we regard diversity as the root of innovation. As such, it is a critical element for developing creative, breakthrough responses to the needs of our customers and other stakeholders, thereby achieving our Vision of a "World Beyond Cash".
"At MasterCard, our Diversity and Inclusion initiative enables employees to harness their unique skills to enhance our products and services to ensure our global reach."
"As a company, we believe diversity sits at the root of innovation. Diversity of culture, experience and thought all drive innovative thinking. That's why we encourage employees to express their diverse opinions and ideas. We want them to feel empowered and to recognize that their contributions make a difference."
MasterCard Worldwide has put a premium on nurturing an inclusive culture where employees with wide-ranging backgrounds and qualities are highly motivated, engaged and connected.
Winning companies always want to hire top talent. At MasterCard, however, we take that concept a step further. Our culture is built on the fundamental belief that only by bringing together people with a variety of strengths, skills and experiences will we best be able to meet the unique payment needs of those we serve.
From such diversity comes the capacity to truly understand and appreciate the differences in our customers, merchants and cardholders around the globe. That, in turn, leads to the generation of innovative ideas and the ability to see the future in perceptive, ground-breaking ways.
We are proud to be not only a leader in the global payments industry, but also an "employer of choice" where the best and brightest prefer to work. They do so because they know that our culture of inclusion provides opportunities for growth, fulfillment and, ultimately, career success.
To compete in today's complex, ever-changing global marketplace, a diverse workforce is not merely an asset-it's a necessity. That is why MasterCard Worldwide has put a premium on nurturing an inclusive culture where employees with wide-ranging backgrounds and qualities find themselves highly motivated, engaged, and connected.
We leverage the unique strengths, views, and experiences of our employees through our support of Business Resource Groups (BRGs). These self-governed groups are comprised of individuals who come together based on similar interests or experiences, such as gender or ethnicity. BRG members help us to identify business programs that address the needs of diverse consumers by providing feedback on new ideas and initiatives, partnering with specific organizations, and reaching out to their communities. In turn, employees in BRGs gain an opportunity to enhance their cultural awareness, develop leadership skills, and network with colleagues across all business units and at all levels, including senior leadership.
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'Rabu' Conquers All
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Vol. I: Fiction
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Vol. II: Poetry, Drama, Criticism
Listening to the anguished cries going up in Washington these days of Japanese might wiping out American industries, it seems almost unbelievable that a little over a century ago Japan was a wholly traditional society living in more or less splendid isolation from the rest of the world. Japanese culture, to a large extent, was a "world within walls"—the apt title of Professor Keene's study, published nine years ago, of premodern Japanese literature. By the middle of the nineteenth century it was a decadent world and the walls were rapidly crumbling, but it was a self-contained little universe yet to be directly confronted with the West, then at the peak of its power. The Industrial Revolution was still distant thunder to the Japanese, most of whom, especially in the rural areas, were living in the economic middle ages.
The literature of the period reflected this isolation. As Keene puts it in the introduction to his most recent history of modern Japanese writing: "Literature of the mid-nineteenth century so little imitated the literature being written elsewhere that it had become almost unintelligible outside Japan, the equivalent of family jokes." Jokes, moreover, that were only intelligible to a small number of Japanese up on the latest fashions in the major cities, the setting for most early nineteenth-century fiction.
When this cozy universe was finally challenged by barbarians rude enough to want to enter it by force, there were two things the Japanese could do: fight them or join them. Both methods were tried. And the Japanese, though unimpressed with Western manners and bathing habits—or rather the lack thereof—were quite impressed with foreign fire power. They wisely perceived that the barbarians had something they did not and decided to acquire it fast. After restoring the power of the emperor, a shadowy figure-head secluded in his Kyoto palace, and moving the capital to Edo, renaming it Tokyo, an energetic new class of mostly country samurai set to work to make Japan a modern nation, modeled after the Western powers.
As US congressmen keep on reminding us, the Japanese succeeded admirably in this aim. But there was a price to be paid for making a traditional Asian country with few natural resources into the world's second economic power in little over one hundred years. A horrible war and several ecological disasters are part of the story. What it did to the psyche of a people to be turned first into fake Westerners, then fanatical patriots, and finally "salary men" of the Economic Miracle, is at least as important a story. And this is the underlying theme of Keene's two volumes—both monuments of impeccable scholarship and excellent prose. They describe how the modern world impinged on the consciousness of Japanese sensitive enough to articulate it in literature.
The emphasis is on literature. Keene does not attempt to make general statements on Japanese cultural history. He discusses politics and other nonliterary matters only as they influenced particular writers and literary schools. And he does not really…
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Submission + - Database finds Fugitive after 35 years
Hugh Pickens writes: "The Guardian has a story on a woman who was claims she is innocent and was apprehended 35 years after escaping prison by a computer database created by the Department of Homeland Security. Linda Darby was convicted of killing her husband in 1970 and sentenced to life at an Indiana prison but escaped two years later by climbing over a barbed-wire fence at the Indiana Women's Prison. She knocked on a stranger's door in Indianapolis, telling the woman who answered that her cuts and scratches were from a fight with her boyfriend. In Indianapolis she met the man who would become her third husband and moved to his hometown of Pulaski, where they raised their two children and watched eight grandchildren grow up. As Linda Jo McElroy, she used a similar date of birth and social security number to her real ones which allowed a computer database created by the Department of Homeland Security to identify her. Darby says she is innocent and fled prison because she did not want to serve time for another person's crime."


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Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is a 2D action video game developed by Armature Studios. Blackgate is the companion title to the upcoming and highly anticipated game Batman: Arkham Origins. Blackgate will take place after the events of Batman: Arkham Origins. In Blackgate, Batman is sent in to investigate a prision uprising at Blackgate, which turns out to be a much bigger problem than he expected. Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate will be out for the PS Vita worldwide on October 25, 2013.
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This is a discussion on Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate Trophy List within the PlayStation & Trophy News forum, part of the PS3Trophies.com Headquarters; Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is a 2D action video game developed by Armature Studios. Blackgate is the companion title to ...
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So many golds compared to the regular Batman series games!
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Looks like an easy plat, the 100 hit combo can be tough but if it's anything like Asylum and City I can do it.
Thanks Mailman!.
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6 golds? That's quite a bunch. I hope that doesn't foreshadow the length of the game...
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The trophy set images
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i wonder how hard the 100 combo will be. other than that it seems pretty easy
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This trophy list looks much easier than other Batman games. I will have to pick up this game after I finish Arkham Origins.
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thanks for the list, hopefully it would be a fun game
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I was curious if this game would have a "hard mode" trophy. Seeing as it does not, I'll definitely be picking it up now. Hopefully you'll be able to replay areas for items, or that's gonna mean a lot of missable trophies.
Also curious how that 100-Hit combo is going to work with this being a 2.5D game, from the looks of it. Unless you can just juggle enemies after defeating them to continue your combo.
UPDATE- Actually picked this up, it's really fun. The combo system works almost exactly like the console version, with the enemies crowding around you in a pseudo-3D environment, with you jumping from one to the next just like the other arkham games, but your direct control is only over left and right movement. It actually works rather well. Still have no clue how we're supposed to achieve a 100-hit combo, unless there's an arena area with an endless stream of enemies. I got the 40+ hit combo in Asylum, but 100? Ugh...
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Seems to happen on most vita titles now. Trophy images are the same for each type of trophy.
Anywho, maybe I'll pick this up before the ps3 one.
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text: Chudzinski was Cleveland's tight ends coach in 2004 under Butch Davis. He coached San Diego's tight ends the past two seasons. Great move IMO, TE is where the talent lies on this team and bringing in a guy who has been credited with developing guys like Franks, Shockey, and Winslow is a step in thye right direction. I think it's important to realize Winslow's game changing potential and who better to do it than a former tight end who has spent the last two years coaching a guy like Antonio Gates. I think Cleveland will make some big moves in the off season this year to make this team better and this was a step in the right direction.


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RINGWOOD– Modine Manufacturing has announced it will close its Ringwood facility over an 18-month period, resulting in the loss of 135 full-time jobs.
Modine designs, engineers, tests, and manufacturers heat transfer products for a wide range of applications and markets.
Modine Spokeswoman Margaret Kelsey said she expected the bulk of layoffs to come in 2015.
"I would not expect anything by the end of this year, or at least not anything significant," she said.
The plant, 4400 Ringwood Road, has been open since 1961, focusing on the company's light-duty vehicular and automotive segments.
That portion of Modine's company has seen a gradual decrease in sales due to competition outside the U.S., Kelsey said.
"We've seen, from a competitive point of view, some of that market shift to low cost countries in particular," she said. "So there has been a decrease."
Today, the Ringwood plant makes parallel flow and serpentine condensers, oil coolers and radiators for the automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway and building HVAC markets, according to a Modine news release announcing plans to close.
That production will move to current Modine facilities in North America, including those in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; and Jefferson City, Mo.
Kelsey said the company will have will have opportunities for laid off employees willing to relocate, but said such positions won't be guaranteed.
"There will be job growth at these other facilities and we certainly would welcome our McHenry employees to apply if they're interested in going to those locations," she said.
In the release, Modine Regional Vice President for North America Scott Wollenberg said the move will help the company "rationalize production, maintain the scale we need in our manufacturing operations and improve our overall competitiveness and profitability."
Modine stock had jumped $2.66 a share to $17.12 in two days since the announcement.
Kelsey reiterated that company management wanted to bring manufacturing up to scale production.
"We just couldn't see a path [in Ringwood] to getting it up to scale at this point or any point in the future," she said.
Jeffrey Poynter, director of the McHenry County Workforce Network Board, said he had just learned about the closing Thursday but would be reaching out to the plant manager to start working with employees.
Employers that layoff 50 or more employees are typically required to give workforce officials at least 60 days notice before the job losses – a threshold Modine likely can still meet, given Kelsey's statement that the bulk of cuts will come next year.
Poynter said his agency would work to make the employees aware of Workforce Network programs and put them in touch with other county agencies.
"We'll work with them in any way," Poynter said. "We'd like to get in there and so some rapid response for the employees."
NOTE TO READERS: This story has been changed to reflect the town the plant is located in. The Northwest Herald regrets the error. It has also been changed to reflect the year the plant opened, due to incorrect information provided to the Northwest Herald.


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Police say robbery suspects remain in SW Ohio bank
SPRINGBORO, Ohio (AP) — Police say two suspected robbers have refused to leave a bank in southwest Ohio and a SWAT team is on the scene of the standoff.
The dispatcher says the armed suspects wearing masks entered the bank in Springboro shortly before it was scheduled to open around 9 a.m. today.
No injuries have been reported.
An FBI spokesman in Cincinnati says only one employee was believed to be in the bank at the time of the alleged robbery, and that employee got out safely.
FBI spokesman Michael Brooks says the FBI is working with local authorities in negotiations to attempt to get the suspects to surrender.
The Dayton Daily News reports that nearby businesses including a preschool are locked down.
Springboro is about 20 miles south of Dayton.
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