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SANFORD — The Sanford Professional Firefighters & Paramedics IAFF Local 1624, with the assistance of East Coast Marketing Group, will host its 5th annual fundraiser for the Imelda Fund, which goes toward those in need of heating assistance within the Town of Sanford. There will again be two PG-17 comedy shows that will be held on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at the Nasson Community Center at 457 Main Street. The first show will start at 7 p.m. and the other at 9 p.m. East Coast Marketing Group, of Westbrook, will be calling local businesses and residences to raise support and enthusiasm on behalf of Local 1624 for this very important cause. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for the first show. For more information, send an email to email@example.com.
SANFORD — The 42nd Annual Waban Telethon will be held at the St. Ignatius Parish hall on Riverside Avenue on Saturday, March 16, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, please call 324-7955 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
SANFORD/WELLS — Sanford High School's Project Graduation Committee is sponsoring a "St. Patty's Polar Plunge" at Wells Beach on Sunday, March 17, at noon. Proceeds will benefit Project Graduation, the annual SHS program that provides seniors with a safe, fun and memorable night following their graduation ceremony in June. Participants can raise funds by pledging to "take the plunge" into the Atlantic during the event. The "plunge" will take place on the beach in front of Forbes Restaurant in Wells. There will be tents for shelter, heaters to help people keep warm, and hot chocolate, coffee, clam chowder and baked goods. Prizes will be awarded to the individual and team that raises the most money. Students can sign up at school during their lunch times. You also may register by sending an email to Michelle at firstname.lastname@example.com. You will receive a pledge sheet and medical release form upon registration.
SANFORD — Carl J. Lamb Elementary School is joining Sanford Junior High School for the Sanford Backpack Project, in which individuals and groups are encouraged to donate food to help feed local students who are hungry at home. The school is hoping to fill and send home backpacks with hungry students every Friday. Peanut butter, jelly, cereal, oatmeal, macaroni and cheese, tuna fish, canned chicken, spaghetti sauce, pasta, chili, soups, beef stew, nonperishable food items and money for bread are examples of donations that the school is seeking. If you have any questions, or would like to donate in any way, please call the school at 324-8481.


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A league of their own
Leading off is Mother Teresa, followed by Mom and Catherine of Siena. Batting cleanup is Mary. Readers have chosen an all-star lineup of saints, nuns, family members, and other holy women for the U.S. Catholic Reader Survey on inspirational women.
Of the men and women responding to the U.S. Catholic Reader Survey on inspirational women, 49 percent said the church offers good female role models to women and girls. Is this a positive statistic? Certainly those who responded, most of whom were women, sang the praises of women they admire, from their own mothers to the Mother of God.
But the statistic could also read that just 49 percent of readers think the church offers good female role models. Almost one third of respondents look to women outside the church for their inspiration. Less than half tend to be inspired by women in their parishes, female saints, women in the Bible, and prominent Catholic women. Two thirds worry that young women find the church lacking in female role models because not all leadership positions are open to women.
The issue seems to be not whether there are female role models, but how well these strong women are promoted within the church. "They are all over the place," a website visitor says. "We just need to be pointing our young women toward them."
For generations of girls the church's model woman was the traditionally obedient and submissive Mary. Although this image of Mary has lost favor since the feminist movement, a strong Mary continues to inspire readers who voted her as one of the most inspirational Catholic women.
Following God's will shows that Mary is courageous rather than submissive. She was an unwed mother, admired especially by modern mothers; she was a refugee; and she saw her son killed. We have to "get past the vision of a holy woman such as Mary as meek, quiet," Nancie Chmielewski of Milwaukee says. "I wonder if she really was meek?"
Another woman is just as popular as Mary among readers because she, too, combined humility with strength: Mother Teresa. News about the recent book (Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light [1], Doubleday) that documented her long crisis of faith has seemed only to increase readers' admiration of her.
"Although she felt that God was not listening to her prayers for years, she did not lose faith because she believed that faith is not a feeling but a gift," says Ana Marie Clemente Pinzón, a website visitor from Makati, Philippines.
The strength of her faith, though, is just part of what makes Mother Teresa inspiring; readers also admire what she did with it. "She chose to work with the poorest of the poor and continued to do so despite her own crisis of faith," says Laurice Bonannella of Budd Lake, New Jersey.
The most admirable group of women, earning esteem from 68 percent of readers, are women who work for peace and justice.
Working for justice within the church is the reason readers voted Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. by far the most inspirational woman currently alive. "She works for change from within the community she calls her home. She is an example of what it means to be on fire with the Spirit, loving her church so much that she can not sit quietly in the face of injustice," says Kaija DeWitt of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. DeWitt adds, however, that "some of the most inspiring women in the church today, Chittister first among them, are not touted as so by the hierarchy."
Inspirational Catholic women focus on others. What makes them commendable is "their relationship with God and how that relates to their relationship to others in the community," says a reader from Springfield, Virginia, reflecting on the two greatest commandments: Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself.
Women's relationships with others are also one reason readers list personal role models almost as often as they listed Mary or Mother Teresa. Family members and women in their parish inspire more readers than saints, biblical women, or public figures. "The women I encounter in my daily ministry use their personal experiences, good and bad, to help others with compassion, love, and justice. They empower the poor and marginalized to find their place in the community and church," says Mary Britanak of Seaside Park, New Jersey.
These women are lawyers, teachers, volunteers, lay ministers; they are nuns, sisters, mothers, and daughters. "She dares to be herself and is holy in doing so," says an Omaha, Nebraska mother of her 22-year-old daughter, who has studied in India and works to address hunger issues. "She is loving and creative and faith-filled, and she walks the talk."
When ordinary women "place into action the virtues of faith and love," as Ronald Hill of Aliso Viejo, California says of his wife, they become extraordinary role models.
Although an exceptional few women have gained fame while humbly serving God and neighbor, their focus on others is what hinders most female role models from having greater name recognition. "You can find plenty of female role models if you want to model women's work," says Terrance Brown of Charleston, South Carolina. "But you can't find them in real, public leadership positions."
The lack of women in church leadership worries the majority of readers. Lisa Ford of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who is inspired by women outside Catholicism, thinks the church's stance on women's ordination hurts it: "Women are leaving the Catholic Church and taking their love and talents to other denominations. The Catholic Church has made clear that it does not want female leadership, so it is not getting it."
Others respect the leadership roles that women currently hold, even if they are not priests. "While our female roles are different and limited, I don't think of them as less significant," says Jane Ross Laguna of Santa Ana, California.
Women religious, Sandy Calabro of North Stonington, Connecticut says, are "one of the church's greatest resources. I am inspired by their faithfulness, vision, and level of education." But their numbers are dwindling.
"Many parishes don't have nuns to offer inspiration," says Dianne Keller Smith of Columbus, Ohio. She adds, "My feminist daughter wants to be pope," not a nun. Smith's 15-year-old daughter doesn't consider herself Catholic because of the issue of women's ordination. Smith, however, remains Catholic because other women have taught her "that the Catholic Church has a beautiful, complex history. If I disagree with anything, I could leave, but the best way is to work within the church to make changes."
Beyond Mary, Mother Teresa, Chittister, and a few other notable names and saints, women may not always be recognized for the work that they do for society and the church. Women who are strong in their own faith, however, play the most important role in the church: They are the torch-bearers of the faith, passing it to the next generation of Catholics. As a Web visitor says: "Face it, in most households it's the woman who drags us to Mass."


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08.13.13On the heels of a two-day ribbon cutting event to inaugurate its newly expanded facility in Kalama, WA, Emerald Kalama Chemical - a business group of Emerald Performance Materials – announced further plans to increase capacity for its K-FLEX non-phthalate plasticizers and coalescents. The company has already doubled its U.S. capacity for the K-FLEX line at its Kalama facility since 2011 and will dedicate an additional reactor for production and R&D this fall to accommodate needs for increased manufacturing and product development.
More than 100 customers, employees, family members and representatives of federal, state and local governments attended the celebratory event to hear the announcement, as well as attend a luncheon program, formal ribbon cutting and tours of the expanded facilities.
According to Edward Gotch, president of Emerald Kalama Chemical, the execution of its latest expansion was a success. "This business has completed a major project or acquisition every year since the company was formed in 2006. Our growth will accelerate going forward to align with our strategy of expanding as an innovative leader in this key platform. With ten new product concepts active in our R&D pipeline the new large, semi-works reactor will support product and customer scale-up. It will also provide an additional 10 million pounds of capacity to support production needs. Future expansions are planned in the United States, Europe and Asia."
"The long hours, hard work, skill and expertise needed to successfully reach this momentous landmark in our expansion, while also meeting all codes and standards, exemplifies our continued dedication to growth, ingenuity and teamwork," said Emerald Kalama Chemical plant manager Jarrod Kocin. "At the height of construction, there were up to 90 contractor personnel on-site, and as much as 6.4 miles of pipe, 140 tons of constructional steel and 1200 cubic yards of concrete were used, not to mention the number of valves, pumps and motors that were installed."
Shamsi Gravel, K-FLEX product line director for the Americas, conducted the ribbon cutting event, which also included several leading industry officials, such as Mark Wilson, executive director of the Port of Kalama, and James Griffing, 2012-13 president of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). Both Wilson and Griffing were guest speakers at the event and emphasized the importance and benefits of community in their messages to the audience.
Wilson, a long-time resident of the area, indicated that Emerald's Kalama Chemical business is a vital part of the fabric of the Kalama community, impacting economic development, attracting capital, increasing the tax base and providing jobs.
Griffing spoke about the benefits of technical organizations, such as SPE, and the value derived from active participation and networking. SPE is the "go-to" resource for plastics technical information and is comprised of nearly 20,000 plastics professionals in more than 70 countries. He added that continuous exposure to a broad range of problems, products and solutions through participation in a host of events and committees may generate new ideas that provide inspiration for the next generation of products.
Gravel agreed, adding "product innovation has been a key part of the K-FLEX growth strategy. It was just one year ago that the company gathered to celebrate its 50th anniversary and dedicate its new expanded Technical Center. As a result, we have accelerated our efforts to develop creative, environmentally friendly solutions that deliver performance to targeted applications. We are looking forward to the next phase of our growth."
K-FLEX plasticizers and coalescents are low-VOC, phthalate-free ingredients used in adhesives, PVC compounds, coatings and other latex polymer applications. In these applications, K-FLEX products are known for enhancing film formation and adhesion, processing characteristics and improving the resistance of the end-product to oil, grease and water. Other important benefits include improved scrub resistance, gloss retention in coatings, stain resistance and toughened wear layers in plastisols when compared with other materials.
Emerald Kalama Chemical also produces sodium and potassium benzoate, benzoic acid and intermediates and specialty flavor and fragrance ingredients, which the company sells globally through its distribution partners. The business has manufacturing operations in Kalama, WA and in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Emerald Kalama Chemical products are used in a range of applications from beverage preservatives to personal care and household products, as well as industrial applications.


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This government shutdown may have lasted just 16 days, but the effects will be felt much longer. Economists estimate the cost of Congress's gridlock — over funding government obligations as well as basic services — has already run well into the billions. And the prospect of another potential government shutdown lies just 12 weeks away.
For many affected Americans, the fallout isn't just financial. Brides and grooms who were set to marry at national parks or monuments had to scrap or postpone their plans. The future of some school programs is in question. Cancer patients awaiting acceptance into NIH-funded clinical trials have watched their wait times grow longer. And hundreds of thousands of government workers have more than two weeks of work (and pay) to catch up on.
We spoke with seven women who were affected by the shutdown. Here are their stories.
Table of Contents
- Lingering Effects
- Jillian Bullock, fitness director, Environmental Protection Agency
- Laura Flynn, early childhood special education teacher, Head Start
- Maggie Shartel, disabled veteran, graduate student, Etsy shop owner
- Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D., federal contractor
- Miriam Liberatore, planning and environmental coordinator, Bureau of Land Management
- Crystal Kendrick, president, marketing research firm The Voice of Your Customer
- Jenna Shepard, U.S. Army civilian spouse, homeschooling mother
Lingering Effects
This government shutdown may have lasted just 16 days, but the effects will be felt much longer. Economists estimate the cost of Congress's gridlock — over funding government obligations as well as basic services — has already run well into the billions. And the prospect of another potential government shutdown lies just 12 weeks away.
For many affected Americans, the fallout isn't just financial. Brides and grooms who were set to marry at national parks or monuments had to scrap or postpone their plans. The future of some school programs is in question. Cancer patients awaiting acceptance into NIH-funded clinical trials have watched their wait times grow longer. And hundreds of thousands of government workers have more than two weeks of work (and pay) to catch up on.
We spoke with seven women who were affected by the shutdown. Here are their stories.
Jillian Bullock, fitness director, Environmental Protection Agency
How she was affected: A U.S. veteran, mixed martial artist and boxer, Jillian Bullock has spent the past five years working as the fitness director at the EPA's Philadelphia office. Along with her coworkers, she was furloughed during the government shutdown, but the effects of the crisis acted as sort of a wake-up call.
How she handled it: "It's always been my mission to work for myself and leave the 9-to-5 job behind," Bullock says. So she spent her furlough building her fitness and filmmaking business, Jillian Bullock Enterprises. Projects she worked on during the shutdown included a film about veterans using mixed martial arts therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
"I do want to go back to work because I'm not getting a paycheck, but I'm not going to mope around and play the pity game," Bullock said during the furlough. "I am working on improving myself and my life. My goal is to get to the point where I'm making movies full time and branding my fitness business so I don't have to rely on the government, or anyone else, for a job. [The] shutdown forced me to focus more on my business. No job is guaranteed, and I no longer want to be dependent on leaving my fate in the hands of anyone else but myself."
Laura Flynn, early childhood special education teacher, Head Start
How she was affected: While federally funded special education programs were not affected by the government shutdown, the program where Laura Flynn works is located in a Head Start preschool in Alabama. When the government shut down, that Head Start was one of many that lost its government grant funding for the year and was scheduled to close.
How she handled it: Flynn, her coworkers and parents of children in the program rode an emotional roller coaster throughout the 16 days of the shutdown. First, they were told the program would close on Oct. 11, when funding ran out. Next, they were told philanthropists had offered funding to keep the school open, but then the money was not available because Head Start was under the local school district's jurisdiction. Finally, the school district relinquished its grant so that Head Start could come under the authority of a community action group and accept the donation.
"It has been stressful and disconcerting to work in a place of uncertainty," Flynn says. With a shortened workday, Flynn and other special ed teachers were required to serve an overload of students in a shorter time. As a result, "the activity level within our classroom has increased significantly, and our established routine has been suspended," she says. "As a teacher, I know that consistency is crucial, and to disrupt our students mid-year would be detrimental. My co-workers have made the best of things, and clearly have the interest of the children at heart. We have done our best to communicate the most recent happenings with our parents, and are doing our best to meet the needs of our students."
Maggie Shartel, disabled veteran, graduate student, Etsy shop owner
How she was affected: A disabled veteran married to an active duty soldier and living on a military base in Washington state, Maggie Shartel says the government shutdown was just another bump in the roller coaster that has become government employment. "While technically we are 'not affected' per the news, we really are," she says. The Commissary, or on-base grocery store, closed for a few days. Shartel and her husband were "on edge about pay — again," she says. "As Congress battled, both my husband's military pay and my veteran's disability were up in the air. My reopened disability claim was also on hold until the Veterans Administration could find out if they had funding."
How she handled it: Shartel says she spent her time working on her online retail business, where she sells handmade jewelry, but she couldn't escape the stress. "The constant wondering is stress inducing," she says. "I wondered when I would have to talk to my landlord about our lease if neither of us gets paid. If my disability doesn't come in, that is a large portion of our grocery budget for the month. It's a constant battle of never knowing. Now I don't know if the market is going to tank and if my business will go under. While it seems like it was not a direct hit for our family, we are going on several years of ups and downs related to not having a continuous budget. Continuing resolutions do not suffice because they keep so many people on edge."
Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D., federal contractor
How she was affected: A self-described "older mother" with middle school children, Linda Burke-Galloway and her family depend on her income to pay the mortgage and other expenses each month. But her federal contracting job, in which she provides risk management, compliance and medical liability consulting to federal agencies as a contractor, came to a sudden stop when the government shut down. "One of the great things about being a consultant is that you have more flexibility with your time but you also do not have a steady income nor do you receive benefits," Burke-Galloway says.
How she handled it: Fortunately, Burke-Galloway's husband was still working throughout the shutdown, "but it put pressure on him as the sole income earner in the family," she says. Burke-Galloway spent a lot of time "watching the news, hoping to hear good news," but it was a long time coming, she says. And the wait led her to lose some faith in the nation. "Our country is considered to be a world leader," she says. "Our economy was showing signs of recovery prior to the furlough. My biggest concern is that we will adversely affect the global economy."
Miriam Liberatore, planning and environmental coordinator, Bureau of Land Management
How she was affected: A federal government engineer working on a new natural gas pipeline in Oregon, Miriam Liberatore was sent home for more than two weeks during the shutdown. As the sole provider of income for her family, which includes a high school student and a college student, Liberatore says after taxes, insurance and retirement deductions, living expenses use up the rest of every paycheck — so going without paychecks wasn't easy.
How she handled it: Liberatore considered finding part-time work but "who would hire me, knowing I would leave them the minute the shutdown is over?" she says. She applied for unemployment insurance but couldn't supply proper paperwork — all her pay stubs were stored at work and she wasn't allowed to access them, and the federal websites from which they could be downloaded or where the state could verify her wages were also shut down.
To cut expenses, Liberatore and her family stopped eating out and going to movies, concerts or plays, and delayed normal seasonal purchases like winter clothes and gravel for maintaining their driveway. But the shutdown affected more than her finances. "It was the first time I've ever been off work in almost 30 years, even counting when I had my children," Liberatore says. "It's strange, having arranged my life for 30 years around my work, to not have that structure all of a sudden and for an indeterminate length of time. It's nothing at all like being on vacation."
The worst part, Liberatore says, was not knowing how long the shutdown would last. "It's like having a long string of Sundays," she says. "Every day has the potential to be followed by a work day."
Crystal Kendrick, president, marketing research firm The Voice of Your Customer
How she was affected: Crystal Kendrick's marketing research firm works regularly as a federal contractor for the National Institutes of Health. As a result of the government shutdown, her company's contracts and work assignments were put on hold and outstanding invoices were not processed. Additionally, because so few federal RFPs were released during the shutdown "the future workload of federal contractors will be affected as well," she says.
How she handled it: Frustrated to see her company's resources sit idle and wait for delayed receivables, Kendrick assigned her staff to other internal activities and located other resources to manage their cash flow. She also delayed spending with contractors and other suppliers. "The shutdown is about more than national parks and zoos, landscaping and passports," Kendrick says. "The effect of this shutdown on federal contractors, medical research and federally funded social services is becoming insurmountable."
Jenna Shepard, U.S. Army civilian spouse, homeschooling mother
How she was affected: Jenna Shepard left her communications job a few years ago to stay home with her children while her husband Daniel works for the U.S. Army as a civilian government employee. When the government closed, Daniel joined the rest of the family at home.
How she handled it: "The government shutdown has left families like ours feeling like we are pawns in a political game," Shepard says. "It left us living on hundreds less each month, and with a lot less faith in our current political representatives in Washington."
Shepard says the family put off many purchases, from clothes for the kids to major household products. "For many families this isn't about not getting to see the Statue of Liberty during vacation or missing out on a National Park visit," she says. "This is about hundreds of thousands of families with children and a mortgage and bills not knowing when their next paycheck will come."
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Summer Academic Programs Calendar
Carleton Summer Science Institute - Session B
CSSI students, faculty, and Carleton student research assistants engage in classroom and laborotory research in range of science disciplines
This event takes place each day from July 21st, 2013 to August 9th, 2013.
This event occurs on:
- Sunday, July 21st, 2013
- Monday, July 22nd, 2013
- Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
- Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
- Thursday, July 25th, 2013
- Friday, July 26th, 2013
- Saturday, July 27th, 2013
- Sunday, July 28th, 2013
- Monday, July 29th, 2013
- Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
- Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
- Thursday, August 1st, 2013
- Friday, August 2nd, 2013
- Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
- Sunday, August 4th, 2013
- Monday, August 5th, 2013
- Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
- Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
- Thursday, August 8th, 2013
- Friday, August 9th, 2013
The Carleton Summer Science Institute will help students learn to think and write like a scientist by doing science. Current high school rising juniors and seniors work closely with Carleton faculty and current Carleton students in class and in the lab on guided research projects across a variety of the science disciplines. Students will complete a collaborative guided research project which will culminate in a presentation at the CSSI Research Symposium held at the end of the program.
Sponsored by Summer Academic Programs. Contact: Amanda Williams, x4038


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here's to living in a swing state. jigggggggga!
first off, can i say that i don't believe that i got to see a full jay-z concert FOR FREE. i mean, wow. he played over an hour and half straight full of all of his hits - and he has a lot of them.
being a huge jay-z and general hip hop fan this concert was something that i needed to attend regardless of my political views.
some of you know that i'm a republican, i mentioned it here on my blog a while ago. but on the other side of the coin i've been vocal about the fact that although i am a republican i'm not sold on the mccain/palin ticket. mccain, i've liked you for a very very very long time - but i'm having issues voting for you because of who you chose for your running mate. seriously, why palin?!? ugh.
now i'm no where near changing my party affiliation - no way. but i'm still confused, there is just so much propaganda flying around - it's hard to wade through it all. maybe obama is the change we need? or is it mccain? hrrrrrumph.
ok, enough of this political gibberish onto the amazing event that was the jay-z concert.
my partners in crime for the evening were muffin, court, donkers and nameless. (sidenote: seeing nameless at a hip hop show was the funniest thing EVER). we didn't really know what to expect in the concert - like was jay going to perform two songs and be done? thankfully that wasn't the case and we got a full show.
obviously jay-z is and icon, he's got that classic swagger, an amazing performer and basically a hip hop god. so many hip hop concerts are lame - but not HOVA, he done and brought it (and a live band) to cleveland and the fans appreciated it
so here's my experince/observations in list form:
- lebron should stick to playing basketball, he's not a rapper or a dancer. you don't see jay-z going out there trying to play hoops. also, he sounded waaaaaay drunkie, hope he doesn't blow cavs game tonight cause he's hungover.
- mayor frank jackson totally got booed by the crowd when he got on stage
- no one was drinking but my group, which was odd - i mean it's a concert!
- out of 14,000 people in attendance there were only approximately 257 white people
- everyone was smoking
- lots of roc signs being thrown, bounce baby
- jay-z saying "girl, you're cute - don't tell my wife though"
- you still can still dance in stadium seating
- some of the most ridiculous outfits i have EVER seen in my life
- everyone in the crowd knew every word, to every song
- i will pay a lot of money to see jay-z perform again in the future
after the show it's the after party and after the party it's the view. the place was packed as expected for the eighty81 after party but we still managed to run into some friends, make a few new friends and even got a picture with a rapper.
once our feet started ti hurt and lebron decided to not make an appearance we knew it was time to go home, but not without a panini's stop. delish.
talk about a nice wednesday huh?


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It wasn't a no-hitter, but R.A. Dickey and the Mets will certainly take the results.
Dickey pitched his third career shutout Saturday after Johan Santana threw New York's first ever no-no the night before, and the Mets beat the Cardinals 5-0.
Dickey (8-1) gave up seven hits, including two in the ninth inning, and struck out nine without issuing a walk.
The knuckleballer threw 73 of his 100 pitches for strikes -- the last one was lined to right field by Carlos Beltran, stranding a runner at third to wrap up Dickey's fifth complete game and first shutout in almost two years.
"When he's got that knuckleball working like he did today, I feel bad for the hitters," said Mets third baseman David Wright, who homered. "I faced him in spring training, and it's not fun. It makes you look foolish. You look up at the radar gun and it's high 60s, low 70s miles an hour."
Santana tossed 134 pitches in his no-hitter, an 8-0 win to open the four-game series. It came in the franchise's 8,020th game. Santana and Dickey were also the last two Mets pitchers to throw back-to-back shutouts on Aug. 12 and 13, 2010.
"I went to bed last night reminding myself to bring what I bring, whatever that is," said Dickey. "[Santana] did a fantastic thing yesterday and I just wanted to give our team a chance to win."
Cardinals righty Lance Lynn (8-2), with a chance to become the majors' first nine-game winner this season, was no match. He lasted just 4 2/3 innings in his shortest outing of the season, giving up three runs -- two earned -- on five hits and four walks.
Dickey, who tweeted after Santana's no-hitter that he had "never been more proud of a teammate," continues to show an uncommon level of control for a knuckleballer. He has 30 strikeouts and one walk in his last three starts and in unbeaten in his last eight (6-0).
He was strong till the end, striking out the side on 12 pitches in the eighth before giving up back-to-back singles to Rafael Furcal and Daniel Descalso to start the ninth. After a double play, Beltran lined out to give the Mets their sixth win on an 11-game homestand.
"The knuckleball was moving all over," said Mets catcher Josh Thole. "The wind direction kept changing so every inning it was a challenge for everybody."
Descalso had two hits for the Cards, who have lost four in a row to fall to 1-4 on a 10-game road trip.
Beltran had the first hit of the series for St. Louis, a leadoff double in the second inning. He went to third on Yadier Molina's single but the Cardinals stranded both runners.
The Mets took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the inning after some sloppy play by St. Louis.
After Ike Davis led off with a single and Omar Quintanilla was hit in the hand, Josh Thole loaded the bases with an infield single. The first run scored on Dickey's grounder to the second baseman Descalso, who dropped the ball trying to turn a double play and then threw low to first baseman Matt Adams, who also dropped it. The other two runs came home on consecutive ground outs by Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Andres Torres.
Lynn came out with the bases loaded in the fifth and Victor Marte got Thole on a ground out to end the inning.
"Dickey pitched a great game and I wasn't able to match him. That's what it comes down to," said Lynn. "I gotta pitch better than that, and I wasn't able to do that today."
Dickey escaped a first-and-third jam in the sixth when he caught Matt Holliday looking at a third strike. He pitched a 1-2-3 seventh, helped by the shortstop Quintanilla's diving stop on Molina's grounder up the middle.
Lucas Duda hit a leadoff single in the bottom of the seventh and went to third on Daniel Murphy's double. He was out on a force play at the plate, but Murphy scored on Eduardo Sanchez's wild pitch to make it 4-0.
Wright hit an opposite-field homer to right off Mitchell Boggs in the eighth to make it 5-0. It was his sixth homer of the season.
Game Notes
The Mets are 9-2 in Dickey's starts this season...Lynn and Phillies lefty Cole Hamels both failed to become the majors' first nine-game winner this season on Saturday. Hamels had the only hit in Dickey's last shutout...Mets left fielder Mike Baxter was out of the lineup after crashing into the wall Friday night on a catch to save Santana's no-hitter.


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Reuse water, reduce nutrient discharge, and save drinking water
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Reusing water will reduce nutrient discharge and save aquifers for drinking water, says Middlesex Supervisor Pete Mansfield.
See the plan, which Mansfield will pitch at the Middlesex Board of Supervisors meeting on May 7, at 7 p.m.


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Taco really was assking for it with the "office-party-bums dept" bit.
I somehow knew this topic would be the butt of every joke.
Only the cheeky ones.
I always take care to disguise my ass before photocopying it.
Well in my day...
"People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting. And I believe that time can come again!"
It was your butt? That explains why one image filled the whole copier hard drive.
that and a lot of them these days have email capabilities (scan and email) so you get the directory full of usernames and email addresses. We actually barely remembered in time to do this when we shipped back a bunch of dell all in ones after their lease was up.
Your basic deskside all-in-one isn't much of a risk.
You mean cheap all-in-one are more secure than expensive ones? I wouldn't say that if it wasn't for this article...
Seems one more thing to have in mind when buying a printer...
Security thru lack of features, maybe.
It's supposed to be obvious when your giant MFP has a goddamn HARD DRIVE in it, and I've seen many that do.
See, I don't even know what an MFP is, so whether or not mine has a hard drive in it is really not obvious to me or my coworkers at the buffalo police office sex crimes division.
(For those of you who didn't RTFA, the "buffalo police office sex crimes division" was a humorous reference to the article. You missed out on that very funny joke. That'll learn you to not RTFA.)
I never would have guessed the copy stayed in memory on the device.
When I copy, scan to email or, scan to file it doesn't give me the option to 'scan again without reinserting original'... or does that imply the ones we have don't have this 'feature'?
Generally it doesn't. Many devices have the ability to store at the same time as copy, however it's a feature you generally have to explicitly choose (unless enabled as a security mechanism by the device administrator). Some devices also have the option to keep the last job in memory (however not permanent storage such as HDD) in order for a "fast reprint" or "fast resend", but it's not a common feature, so I wouldn't be too surprised that the ones you're using don't have it.
A far more pressing concern than memory is the permanent storage. Most devices these days have an HDD that will store data for various purposes. Actual images of copy/print/scan jobs are only rarely stored, and usually only when explicitly set to do so (as above), however user data information in the form of job logs, counter information, credit information (for embedded accounting applications) and so on can be quite a concern. Most decent devices will however have a "secure erase" feature to be used by the administrator before disposing of the device, and often also an option whereby data going through HDD and RAM is encrypted on the way in/out (except of course actual operating code - but that doesn't contain YOUR sensitive data, only the manufacturers...).
To all: Feel free to ask for clarification on anything copier/MFP related... writing code for these things is my day job. Many things in the article are half-truths and some are just flat out wrong.
I just had this wonderful image of you in a lawn chair, pants up to your nipples, with a bunch of little tykes sitting attentively on your lawn while you waxed nostalgic about the days of the parallel port, the Internet being a bunch of BBS's, and having to enter in the heads and cylinders of your hard drive into CMOS. When CPUs had numbers and not fancy marketing names given to them by Nancy boys with MBA's and real men used punch cards....
I got to call my Gramps, brb
Well, the original submission says,
Coupled with the tendency of older employees to consider hard-copy to be "secure"...
...so it looks like this is only a problem for the geezers; after all, digital photocopiers are like magic to them. There's virtually no chance that any of the savvy young hipsters in your organization could fail to be aware of this threat.
If they are anything like our photocopiers, the criminals will have to wade through a sea of lolcats and fail posters to get to any actual business information.
the criminals will have to wade through a sea of lolcats and fail posters to get to any actual business information
Unless they find a way to make the text searcheable and just search for "social security number" or "credit card number" and look at what's written right next to it. And while I don't know how to do that personally, it seems like the type of thing that would take about 10 minutes to figure out and then another 10 minutes to actually do.
Why did they start designing copy machines to have long term storage, and to keep a copy of everything ever copied?
It depends on the model, but a lot of features need long-term storage. Things like "secure" printing, where you have to type in a PIN before it will release our document.
Other features like "print from the web interface" or "print from e-mail" (running on a server on the printer itself) need storage. Keeping a history can also make management easier - some people use it to keep track of who is using company printers for personal use.
Why did they start designing copy machines to have long term storage, and to keep a copy of everything ever copied?
In the old days, if you wanted 5 copies of a sheet of paper, the scanner would scan 5 times. Then someone thought "Hey, what if we could save the scanned image?" So you could scan once, and print out 5 copies. The easiest method is just to toss in a hard drive, and store the copies on there. Now, copying a variable number of pages, then erasing them immediately is extra wear and tear on the HD. You can get a longer drive life by distribute the data all over the HD so it's easily written, then only overwrite when the entire HD was full.
Pretty simple, really. The only downside is that the HD inside contains the last items scanned, up to the memory of the device. (So while it doesn't keep a copy of "everything ever copied", it could easily be the last several thousand items copied.)
Keeping a copy for 6 months is more of a function of the office workload. The manufacturer makes the available memory really high so that it isn't going to be "broken" by really high workloads. If an office manager gets a pimp photocopier only to be used for a few copies a day, that is on the office manager.
Also shouldn't the manufacture's be responsible for this somewhat? It's obvious when you save a document to a computer that the drive needs to be wiped, not so obvious when it's a copy machine. Shouldn't there be big warning labels and a "wipe all" button on the back somewhere? Sharp apparently offers a product to wipe copy machine hard drives.... for $500:
I worked for a company a few years ago where one of the things I did was to oversee all leases and support contracts, including copier leases. Our supp
Every HDD out there, as part of the ATA standard, supports a secure erase command. The utility HDDErase is one such tool which tells a drive to erase itself. And since this is done at the drive level, it is a lot faster than a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdwhatever because there is no data having to be moved through the drive's I/O channels, the drive head is just writing the zeroes itself. Some drives AES-256 all the contents automatically, and a secure wipe tells the drive just to drop the existing key it uses for encrypting/decrypting data, and generate another one. This is a lot faster because once the old key is erased and a new key is put in, the remaining data on the disk is useless.
Another method is to do a file encryption method similar to how Windows Mobile post 6.0 stores encrypted files on a memory card: Generate a random 256 bit key for every item going on the HDD. Store the key to every file in the copier RAM (unless there is a reason to have persistent storage, then store it on some non-volatile memory that is easily erased.) Then when done with the copy and the data on disk isn't needed, drop the key from RAM (perhaps overwrite it in RAM a few times), and delete from the disks's filesystem. Since the encryption key only persists in volatile RAM for the lifetime of using the file, this method makes it almost impossible to recover data, unless someone is attacking the copier while it is live and in use (which then there are even bigger problems.)
Why did they start designing copy machines to have long term storage, and to keep a copy of everything ever copied?
The copiers scan the originals into memory, and then print from memory. It allows them to print 5 copies of a 100 page document, all perfectly collated. The long term storage is a side effect.
Having a hard drive also enables new features, like network printing to the photocopier, and network scanning. These command a significant price premium with minimal hardware cost. As such, the photoc
Why did they start designing copy machines to have long term storage, and to keep a copy of everything ever copied?
The news report is being sensationalist, and leading you to believe that it's keeping the data. Listen to the report again: they use a forensic program to get at the files. In other words, unless you tell the device to save the image, it's deleted. (The catch is that "deleted" means "entry deleted", not "file wiped off the drive".)
In other words, companies aren't wiping the hard drives of leased copiers. (Then again, are companies wiping the drives of leased PCs? Of PCs they owned, then threw away?)
I think you missed the part where it said,"...available for free on the Internet..." Anybody can get the program.
And that is not the blindingly obvious how?
I don't know what you mean.
It probably comes down to cost.
If a printer has a 22ppm rate and has 64MB of RAM, you're not going to be able to print more than one or two larger print jobs at a time - particularly if they're RAW jobs. You'll need a print server for that, and you'll have a significant bottleneck before getting to the printer/the printer accepts the job. This leads to user agitation.
So, while 128MB costs $100 (at the time), a 40G disk costs roughly the same amount - and you can cache to disk with marginal overhead and prov
No one is going to sort through millions of pointless memos about employee picnics and birthday party announcements on the off chance that there's something potentially valuable to someone somewhere.
No one is going to sort through millions of pointless memos about employee picnics and birthday party announcements on the off chance that there's something potentially valuable to someone somewhere.
Want to bet? Oh, that's right you already are betting. If no one goes through your copier data you win -- nothing. If someone finds a password or credit card number you lose -- big time.
So nothing to gain and everything to lose. Sounds like wiping the copier disk is a "must do"!
Personally, I think finding the drive/memory and smashing the shit out of it would be cheaper and more effective. Shame that the photocopier can't be reused, but spending $500 to wipe a photocopier that you can sell for $300 isn't very efficient either. Recycle the parts, and give $300 to a charity so they can buy a used photocopier from someone else.
If you are making photocopies of a sheet with your password on it, you have way bigger security issues to worry about.
Data is valuable. Labor is cheap.
Your statement is an example of "security through obscurity" or "hiding in plain sight". That model of security was already disproved long ago. And, by "long ago", I'm referring to thousands of years, not weeks. It not only predates the invention of the photocopier, it predates the invention of paper. It probably even predates the concept of walking upright.
Hiding important things in an ocean of unimportant things means that someone can still get at the important things if they try hard enough, or are a
I didn't say it was secure, just that no one will bother.
Do you have any idea how much electronic waste gets sent to Africa? Do you have any idea what the economy there is like? Do you have any idea how much identity theft originates from Africa? These are people with very few legitimate options, and a very low risk to reward ratio for the illegtimate options.
sure they will, there are those who go through entire dumpsters looking for valuable papers
and your stereotype is silly, such "pointless memos" are done via e-mail, copiers mostly do business papers
I'm not surprised - there are all sorts of nifty things mere "copiers" do. They can store documents forever, especially "secure" ones that you have to release with a PIN. They provide network services - some include (hackable!) FTP servers.
HPs printers support SNMP, but usually in the most insecure method possible. One of the simpler things you can do (Google it, perhaps not using SNMP) is remotely change the LCD text and blink the status lights. I wrote a script that would make all the HP printers on campus flash an animated ASCII Kirby dance.
Print servers are just that - servers. But, they look like copiers, so they get thrown out with secrets.
I wrote a script that would make all the HP printers on campus flash an animated ASCII Kirby dance.
Travis! You finally made a slip of tongue. Us sysadmins has been hunting the culprit for years now and now we finally got you!
My favorite was to change the language file and make "ready" be "insert coin"...
Years ago (circa 1999 I guess) I discovered that many of the campus printers at my university were wide open to telnet. One could log in to any of them without a password and change multiple settings. I worked for one of the departments that had a lot of computers that we administered so ours were pretty locked down. But most departments relied on the campus-wide organization for pretty much everything. I e-mailed their security people about the problem and pretty much got blown off with "we don't think it
Better write 'Pro golf tips at the bottom' in the subject or the CEO isn't going to read it.
So you're eager to tangle with both HR and the CEO? Around here that's a sign that you hate your job.
Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive - like the one on your personal computer - storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.
Having worked in the digital industry up until 2007 I can tell you, that is a laughably inaccurate statement. We had half a dozen industrial-class copiers, all from 2004 or newer. The only one with a 'hard drive' in it was the high end color copier/printer; and we had to specifically add that option. I think it would be accurate to say that nearly all digital copiers might be configured to use a hard drive, though many are external and often separated from the device when it's sold.
"digital industry"?
what? you carved atoms into bits for a living?
The salesman who sold it to us had helpfully left scans of his current account statement in the document server
Hummm... that must have been a really awesome hookers and blow party your company had!
Isn't there a spec for deleting data? Seems it would be a good selling feature and cheap to implement a system in the BIOS of all PCs and any device that has a hard drive a way to securely delete all data. This would make it much easier to get rid of old equipment without having to worry about what data is left.
Yes, are secrets ar in da printed memory...oh noes!
What are the odds that any printer happens to have some damming secret in it that's being reomoved? Is it worth going there avery single decommissioned printer to find it?
Every? yea that would be a waist.. but you know if you showed me different copiers - i could tell you roughly what each one would be used for (aka the departments) and if you could get any of the back history of the last lease.. that is when you start targeting companies or government groups for specific info.. and that my friend is where you start getting info that can make you money.
even where i work - i know of 1 copier that gets used for a couple random things BUT it is also the one the book keeper
That depends. They tend to get shipped to cheap labor countries to get stripped and buried where the environmental and workplace safety laws are non-existent. It might be worth the cost of labor THERE.
In the U.S., it might be a good way to employ a few meth heads. They tend to be hyper-focused, love doing dull repetitive work, and don't really want to talk to authorities about anything like being paid less than minimum wage or what their urine test might reveal. Since legitimate work that they can do while
They aren't really finding files. The files, of course, are marked for deletion and are deleted with the data left behind in unallocated sectors. What they're doing is using forensic tools to take this raw data off the hard drive and re-assemble it into files, something well-known about computers. The point of the story is that nobody knows it's true about many digital copiers, too.
As for the $500 device to wipe the drive, this device is expensive because it's a little computer that does a "wipe" of the
As for the $500 device to wipe the drive, this device is expensive because it's a little computer that does a "wipe" of the hard drive data to FIPS 142-2 and NIST 800-88 4 standards.
Well, after putting the drive through that it won't be usable by the copier anymore (unless copier will accept and format any plain-Jane drive, but I seriously doubt that), so why not just get DBAN's Boot N Nuke and be done with it? Or a hammer? Or a gun? Most of those cost less than $500 and meet the same security standards.
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http://www.dban.org/faq/software [dban.org]
No hard drive, no real issue.
I see this issue crop up with large-format printers/copiers, but the issue is really the same as what the article is talking about. Many photocopiers, printers - both small format and large format - have the ability to re-print from history, and this is because all the jobs are saved locally to the device. Depending on the device and manufacturer, this may or may not be a real problem. On some of our devices (large format), the history is set in terms of gigabytes - usually t
Yes, TFA is a bit of scare-mongering. Quite honestly, most businesses are not in jeopardy if their old printed/scanned documents get out of their hands; by the time anyone else has access to the device, the documents aren't timely.
Having said that, the article also points out that two of the devices they scanned were from police departments and contained documents that, if leaked, would put their previous owners in liability, and the subjects of the documents in jeopardy of blackmail or worse.
I think that,
When they eventually get tossed, very few companies bother to scrub them.
With years of ass-stain buildup, who's going to bother scrubbing them? Better to just incinerate the lot. It's the only way to be sure.
I'm starting to really think that we're making a mistake putting full-fledged computers in everything we build. They allow for an amazing array of features, but it makes fully understanding our machines much more difficult. Security problems like this one are inevitable.
A dumb analog xerox machine is pretty easy to understand, and one that runs on a microcontroller and a few KB of ram (if that) isn't much harder. But who but the most dedicated hacker has any real idea about what is going on inside a modern Xerox. It *might* not have any undocumented "features," but you have no way of knowing. Security has gone from being a matter of applied common sense to involving a large amount of blind trust in these manufacturers.
It's a symptom of a larger issue though. We're rapidly getting away from having a society where a well educated and technically minded person can understand the actual inner workings of the technology they interact with every day. The tradeoff might be worth it, I'm not a luddite. But we should remember that we are entering into a new kind of relationship with our machines,
We dispose of our e-waste through a disposal company that certifies the destruction of all the data on the devices. We started disposing of fax machines and copiers this way when we realized that these things store potentially confidential documents.
Wipe those old copiers and fill them with images of your butt to send a message to the industrial spies.
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The OUYA Kickstarter project, which proposes to make an open, Android-based home console, is still going strong and has well surpassed its initial goal. With the extra funds, OUYA is looking to find out which game ports are at the top of potential players' most-wanted lists.
A survey collects 20 of the most requested titles and asks for user input on the ones they want the most. It includes notable indie titles like Bastion, Minecraft, and Super Meat Boy, alongside bigger-budget blockbusters like Mass Effect, Skyrim, Call of Duty, and Battlefield. Keep in mind that the survey is meant to gauge interest, and doesn't necessarily mean any of these games will appear on the eventual OUYA console.
The project itself has gone well past the $950K mark, now hitting more than $4.7 million with 26 days to go. The initial announcement teased that it may fund some first-party titles, and now it seems to have plenty of capital to throw towards that effort.


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A SEAT in Maranoa Gardens is dedicated to a deceased elderly couple who visited the site regularly and found ''peace and comfort'' in the tranquil surrounds.
One can understand why. The native garden, tucked away in the backstreets of Balwyn, is a hidden botanic gem. Registered with the National Trust as a site of state cultural significance, and run by the City of Boroondara, it is one of the few public gardens devoted to Australian plants. Right now it is testament to an early spring with the first of the wattles - there are 140 species in the gardens - a study in patriotic green and gold.
A stunning hakea displays its red poker-type flowers, while Grevillea 'Superb' is a haven for birds. Co-curator of the 111-year-old gardens Andrea Dennis says the wattles will flower for another month along with the grevilleas, hoveas and correas, providing banks of colour.
This weekend Maranoa is holding its fourth annual festival with guided walks, tours of the acacia collection, displays by the Australian Plant Society, entertainment and refreshments. In past years there have been plant sales but due to myrtle rust, a serious fungal disease found in Victoria and affecting species of the Myrtaceae plant family, Dennis and co-curator Paul Birch have decided to exclude them this year.
''We don't have myrtle rust in the gardens but someone could come in with a plant to sell that may have been affected so it's not worth the risk,'' Birch says.
Entertainment will be provided by the Connies, a troupe of former tram conductors, performers, educators, ecologists and nature lovers, who will highlight Boroondara's recent Sustainable City of the Year prize awarded by Keep Australia Beautiful for its backyard biodiversity program, which among other things encourages residents to allow a continuous wildlife corridor through their properties.
There are more than 550 trees in the gardens, including 200-year-old red gums and wonderful older specimens such as a Queensland fire wheel tree (Stenocarpus sinuatus) and a smooth-barked apple (Angophora costata). The gardens are divided into a central arboretum and lawn, a dry area for hardy shrubs and plants, a temperate woodland and heathland, and a rainforest section. There are collections of grevilleas and banksia and flowering shrubs such as correas, croweas and acacias including A. cognata 'Limelight', which is planted near the entrance around the variegated brush box Lophostemon confertus 'Variegatus'.
The highest point in metropolitan Melbourne after the Dandenongs, Maranoa is the result of a purchase in 1901, by John Watson, of 1.4 hectares to develop a private garden using Australian and New Zealand plants. This was a rarity at the turn of the century, when the emphasis was on European trees, exotic plantings and Victorian or Edwardian landscapes.
In 1922, it was bought by the former Camberwell Council and opened to the public in 1926 as a botanic garden. In 1962, land was acquired from the adjoining Beckett Park to build a rockery, which was extended 25 years later to accommodate plants considered difficult to grow in Melbourne.
When I visited the gardens four years ago, the effect of the drought was obvious, with many plants under stress. Today it's a different story thanks to bountiful rains that have worked their magic, transforming the 2.6-hectare site into a lush treasure. ''There has been lots of new growth, which is wonderful, but we've also planted a lot over the years and everything's come up really well,'' Birch says.
Dennis says some plants have responded well to the increased rainfall during the past two years but others have not.
''Some have turned up their toes,'' she says. ''They survived the drought but all the rain was the nail in the coffin. We've lost a lot of old plants such as correas, as have many gardens.
''What is surprising is that a lot of old rainforest plants that you would think would need more moisture survived beautifully in the drought, such as the Queensland bottle tree (Brachychiton rupestris), but putting in new ones is where we had problems.''
While the oldest trees in the gardens are the indigenous red gums, the firewheel tree is thought to be more than 100. ''We've got records from the 1920s of plants that went in and there is a historic reference from 1910 from a person, then a child, who was given the first flowers from the firewheel tree by John Watson,'' Dennis says.
Over the years the council removed all the New Zealand species except for one tree, a kowhai (Sophora tetraptera), to create a unique Australian public garden, now a valuable resource for plant collectors, students and botanical enthusiasts, and a tranquil place for visitors. Just like the couple to whom the seat is dedicated.
■Maranoa Gardens festival will be held today, 10am-3pm, Yarrbat Avenue (off Parring Road), Balwyn.


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If it wasn't your SIL/someone with hep C would you say something? Most people would so you should say exactly what you would say to them (touch my drink and die' comes to mind but you may be more polite)
I'm not sure, but it kind of sounds like you're worried about offending her. Like she might say, "What? You think I have GERMS or something?"
Taking a sip from someone else's water bottle to a) swallow a pill or b) because you are *dying* of dehydration is marginally acceptable.Drinking from someone else's glass in a restaurant?!?!? That's just bizarre. there is no shortage of liquid refreshment on offer, and no excuse. What does DH say? Has she always done this?When she reaches for your glass, put your hand over it and say (with a smile) "That's mine."
If your SIL comes to visit you, I'd hide your toothbrushes. If she is this cavalier about drinking out of someone else's bottle or glass, I wouldn't put it past her to use someone else's toothbrush. And if the gums bleed, that would make the transmission risk that much higher!
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Marketplace Morning Report for Thursday, November 1, 2012
Insurance claims from Sandy will reach an estimated $15 billion. But many people will have to cover damage to their household possessions because they don't have renter's insurance. Well we are just about five days away from election day which means one way or another the economy is going to get a little certainty. So what does that mean for ordinary investors and people with retirement accounts?


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MOBILE, Ala. – King College closed out the 2011 men's tennis season with a 5-3 win over Roberts Wesleyan (N.Y.) College at the NCCAA National Championship to wrap up pool play Wednesday.
King's season comes to an end at 15-9 with a 1-2 pool-play record.
The Tornado finished third in the four-team pool with a 1-2 record. Roberts Wesleyan went 0-3. Palm Beach Atlantic (Fla.) University won the pool thanks to a 5-1 decision over Campbellsville (Ky.) University.
King started with two doubles' wins. Pablo Vidal (Madrid, Spain), Seth Hale (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Eiki Magnusson (Reykjavick, Iceland) were the winners in singles for the Tornado. Magnusson, a senior, used his victory to clinch the contest for King by rallying for the 4-6, 6-1 and 6-1 decision.


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Under the new structure, Microsoft, which employs nearly 100,000 people, will distribute activities across four divisions -- half as many as now. Given the size and scale of Microsoft's operations, it was no doubt a huge undertaking to realign the company's talents to fit its evolving goals. Nevertheless, renaming divisions and shuffling executives will likely seem simple compared to what comes next -- making the new strategy pay off.
Observers on Wall Street and throughout the IT world will be watching closely for signs of progress. Microsoft's stock price has been on the rise in recent months, propelled by strong earnings in the face of the PC market's worst downturn in history. Even so, CEO Steve Ballmer remains under pressure, as the meteoric progress of cloud-oriented businesses such as Windows Azure and Office 365 has not distracted from Windows 8's mixed reception and poor progress.
The full effect of the reorg won't play out for months, but Ballmer will face a stiff test over the next nine months; the company hopes that Windows 8.1 will jumpstart device sales over the holidays and tempt enterprise users as businesses move off of Windows XP, which remains popular but will lose support in April.
[ Looks like Microsoft is finally seeing the light. See Microsoft Understands Its Windows 8 Mistakes, Finally. ]
Julie Larson-Green, who had overseen Windows, will lead a new devices and studio group whose purview will include Xbox hardware, the Surface line of tablets, hardware accessories and games.
Operating systems, including the Xbox, will be consolidated under Terry Myerson, who previously oversaw engineering for Windows Phone.
Qi Lu, who had led Bing, will take over a new applications group and manage the company's Office and Skype businesses
Satya Nadella, who had been running Windows Azure, will head a new cloud and enterprise group.
Aside from the four divisions noted above, Ballmer has also expanded the role of Tony Bates, the former president of Skype. He will lead mergers and acquisitions, business development and relations with developers. Kurt DelBene, who ran the Office division, is retiring.
Some product groups will continue to operate relatively unchanged at the local level, but with new managers and cross-divisional cooperation added to the mix. Kirill Tatarinov will continue to run Microsoft Dynamics, for example, but will report to Qi Lu for product development, Tami Reller for marketing, and to the COO group, which will continue to be led by Kevin Turner, for sales.
"As the times change, so must our company," Ballmer wrote in a memo to employees that introduced the changes. Rumors of the shakeup had grown louder in recent weeks. The CEO reportedly confined reorg planning to a small group of close associates, a decision that allegedly left some excluded execs uncertain about their futures.
The anxiety of Microsoft employees aside, the new organizational hierarchy appears well-positioned to address at least some of the old system's flaws.


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Submission + - Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers
Coryoth writes: "While California is suffering from critical shortage of mathematics and science teachers, Kentucky is considering two bills that would give explicit financial incentives to math and science students and teachers. The first bill would provide cash incentives to schools to run AP math and science classes, and cash scholarships to students who did well on AP math and science exams. The second bill provides salary bumps for any teachers with degrees in math or science, or who score well in teacher-certification tests in math, chemistry and physics. Is such differentiated pay the right way to attract science graduates who can make much more in industry, or is it simply going to breed discontent among teachers?"


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Research and anecdotal evidence indicates that two or more displays are better than one. Early studies indicate between 9% and 50% increased productivity by moving from one to two displays. But setting up two displays can be challenging if you have limited desk space or are frequently on the move. One solution is to use an iPad as a second display for a Mac or Windows PC. Let's look at four iPad apps that let you do that with minimal additional cost and travel weight.
The four iPad apps in this roundup range in price from free to $9.99. All require installation of free display extension Windows-side software. Three of the four apps also can be used with Macs. One app even lets you use an iPhone or iPod touch as a second display.
Avatron Software's Air Display, $9.99, tries to simplify the process of turning an iPad into a second display for a Windows PC. Part of this requires installing Apple's Bonjour zero-configuration networking software. If Bonjour is not already installed on your PC, Avatron's Windows-side software installs it for you.
Avatron's Windows software uses Bonjour to detect iPad devices that have Air Display installed. You can then select which iPad on the local network to use as your second display. The only downside to this approach is that if there's more than one iPad in the vicinity with Air Display installed, it might be hard to tell which one to pair up with.
Air Display is the only app in our roundup that can also use an iPhone or iPod touch as a second display. Of course, the much smaller screens on these devices limit their usefulness as a second display. Single-purpose gadget apps such as calculators or social-network status software might fit fine on an iPhone screen, but Microsoft Word is obviously not a good fit (see screenshot below).
DisplayLink, the only free app in our roundup, is made by DisplayLink Corp., which is better known for physical multi-monitor products.
DisplayLink's Windows software is easy enough to set up. Once you set up the required password, the iPad app displays a list of PCs on the network running the Windows-side software. Selecting a PC from this list on the iPad prompts you for the password the first time the iPad and PC are used together. However, unlike the other apps in this roundup, DisplayLink's Windows-side software can't be closed--it has to run for the app to work. It is also the only app that does not work with Macs.
As with the other apps here, configuring the iPad as an external display is the same as configuring a second physical monitor using Windows' Control Panel. You can see in the screenshot below that the iPad can be configured for use in either landscape or portrait orientations.


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This is where I am stuck-
For the rear speakers, would it be better to use coaxial 6.5's or a matching 6.5 component set? Are components used for rear, or should I just go with coaxials? or is this another matter of opinion like asking "whats better, blondes or redheads or brunettes?" I would like to stay with the image dynamics brand for sq, price, and comparable output to the front channels. What would be better for the rear speakers- coaxial 6.5's or a component set?
This is actually what made me want to post this thread- THE AMP!!!!
At the car show yesterday, I talked for quite a while with the audio guru that does all the installs at the shop that hosted the car show, and I had a long list of amps that I had looked at, including amps from Alpine, kenwood, polk, precision power, RF, Cadence, audioque, and MB Quart. He pretty much shot them all down and said to go with either Audison, Memphis, or Hertz. However, the only one of these that are within my price range is the hertz HE4.1, but its still a little high in price, and it only puts out 70 watts x4, and the ctx65's are 100 w rms. Ive been told over and over that its better to overpower than underpower, and people run the ID's as high as 150-200w per channel, which I don't really want to do, 100-130 will probably be best i think, right? He assured me that Hertz's 70w x4 would be ample, but i am still not sure. He said that of any of the amps on my list, alpine is the only one that would be okay or acceptable in terms of stuff he would ever use, and cadence he has no experience with but he had heard good things.. So after reading and searching for hours for a good 4 channel amp to power the front and rear speakers, I'm between the Alpine MRX F65, a Cadence Q4000, a Cadence D100.4, or a Cadence Vegas. I started comparing stats and I have no idea what damping factor, SN ratio, or any of this actually means, so I really have no way to compare these. What would you all go with between these 4? Any input on experience with these amps would be great.
I listen to a wide range of music,alice in chains, beats antique, black sabbath, citizen cope, coal chamber, cream, deftones, faith no more, fear factory, five finger death punch, godsmack, gorillaz, jerry cantrell, joe satriani, korn, lamb of god, meshuggah, mushroomhead, ozzy, opeth, pantera, a perfect circle, powerman 5000, primus, pucifer, rammstein, red hot chili peppers, rob zombie, static x, stone temple pilots, system of a down, tool, white zombie, to name a few
I am doing a complete overhaul of the stock system in my 2005 Saturn Ion Redline series. I have a LITTLE bit of an idea of what I am doing , but I AM fairly new to this. I did do an install on my old vehicle years ago, but I didnt really know what i was doing then, and heres what I have lined up so far:
I ruled out double din head units because I am on a student budget- I would love a double din with navigation and everything, but just not enough green! So single din for now- I read hundreds of threads, everything from naga to Mckintosh, old alpines, but i wanted something with good/ decent SQ AND modern features like iPhone connectivity, etc. It was between a Clarion CZ702, a Alpine CDE-HD138, a Sony DSX-S310BTX, or a Kenwood KDC-X996. I chose the Clarion because it has digital time alignment, 5v pre-outs, built in bluetooth, pandora, the works. It was a real tossup between the 702 and the 138, the only con for both was there was no HD radio on the 702, and the 138 had no digital time alignment. I went with the 702 because I am on a budget, and from my understanding, Alpine is going to be putting out new decks in may that will allow cloud sharing of thousands of presets and eq settings, and a mind boggling array of other things, so I will upgrade to that then, but for now just the clarion, $159 shipped.
Front speakers:
There are component 6.5" stock speakers, and I decided to stay with components. I was shopping around for weeks, reading forum posts and calling local shops, and I was ping-ponging between Phoenix Gold components, Morel Maximos, Hertz, Polk MM, and Image dynamics. I went to a car show yesterday and there was some incredible work there, and so I started to look at 3 way systems, but they were too pricy (hertz=$300-$500 a set), Hertz and morel seemed to be a standard, but they were simply out of my price range, so I finally landed on the Image Dynamics CTX65cs set for $125 shipped.
To recap:
Should I go with coaxials or component 6.5's for rear speakers?
AND, which amp should I use to power 2 pairs of image dynamics 6.5's- cadence q4000, Cadence D100.4, Cadence Vegas, or Alpine MRX-F65. All of these are within my price range, just not sure which one will make the CTX's sound the best. Thanks for reading and helping!


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Besides relying on summer's bountiful vegetables, authentic gazpacho also contains a bit of bread and extra-virgin oil. But since I've been trying to consume more raw foods and less fat (emphasis on trying, succeeding is another story), I omitted the bread and cut back on the oil. If you use best-quality produce, honestly, you won't notice any difference; this soup is a symphony of summer flavors. If you're feeling like something more substantial, by all means, add bread, oil and anything else you think will pump up the volume. Whatever you do, just be sure to play Paco de Lucia while you're enjoying it.
- 6 medium tomatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 large cucumber, peeled and sliced
- 1 small red pepper, roughly chopped
- 1 small vidalia onion, chopped
- 2 T red wine vinegar
- 1/2 T extra-virgin olive oil
- Garnish (use any or all): Chopped avocado, cilantro, peaches, mangoes, cucumbers, onion, tomato, bell peppers
Process all soup ingredients in a blender. The consistency is up to you. I like gazpacho thoroughly blended, but other people prefer a chunkier texture. Chill for at least 4 hours. Ladle into bowls and top with your garnish of choice.


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In about a month, Airport Road will have a new line of defense against floods.
By the end of March, Longmont expects to get a new set of "Jersey barriers" — modular concrete barriers normally used for traffic control —to set up ahead of the spring runoff. The city currently plans to put the barriers down the middle of Airport, starting a little south of Mountain View Avenue and continuing for a quarter to a half mile.
September's flood overtopped that part of Airport Road, catching city officials by surprise as the water headed for the Greens, Champion Greens and Valley neighborhoods. By setting up barriers in the median, public works operations manager Bob Allen said, water could be kept away from homes and channeled into the road itself.
The barriers would have openings to let drivers turn normally off of Airport, but those openings would be closed if a rapid rise in the St. Vrain is reported. It takes a water surge about four hours to travel from Lyons to Longmont.
"I'm certain we would all rather be inconvenienced by having to drive up the road and come back around, rather than have runoff come into the neighborhood again," Allen said. "I think it's something the neighbors can live with."
The barriers are expected to cost between $50,000 and $100,000, Allen said.
Public works director Dale Rademacher said he expects the St. Vrain's channel to be able to hold a flow of 2,500 cubic feet per second, which would be an exceptionally strong runoff. The spring snowmelt usually sends an 800 to 1,000 cubic feet per second flow through Longmont; the winter snowpack has been reported to be at 140 percent of normal.
The Jersey barriers are just one of the steps Longmont is taking to prepare for future storms. For example, the city also plans to put cameras with infrared capability at key points along the St. Vrain, so that the river can be more easily monitored in real time. During the September flood, the full scope of the flood's path wasn't known until observed from the air by city officials in a helicopter.
This should leave the city better prepared, Allen said. But if the last flood taught anything, he added, it's that surprises can still happen.
"We always fight the last event," he said. "You never know what the next one might bring."
Contact Times-Call staff writer Scott Rochat at 303-684-5220 or email@example.com


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