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File sharing recognized as a religion in Sweden
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• Music piracy plunges in Sweden thanks to Spotify
Can the gospel of file sharing really be recognized as a religion? In Sweden it can.
In the midst of a worldwide debate about Internet piracy, Swedish authorities have granted official religious status to the Church of Kopimism, which claims it considers CTRL+C and CTRL+V (shortcuts for copy and paste) to be sacred symbols, and that information is holy and copying is a sacrament.
The church was founded by philosophy student Isak Gerson, who is also the self-appointed spiritual leader of the movement.
In a statement on the church's website, he says its religious roots stem back to 2010 and that it formalized a community of file sharers that already has been "well spread" for a long time.
"The community of kopimi requires no formal membership," he writes. "You just have to feel a calling to worship what is the holiest of the holiest, information and copy."
(For those who are unaware, kopimi is pronounced "copy me.")
According to the Church of Kopimism website, church services consist of "kopyactings," whereby the "kopimists" share information with each other through copying and remixing.
Bertil Kallner of Sweden's Financial and Administrative Services told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that a religious community could "basically be anything."
"What's important is that it is a community for religious activities," he said.
Still, it took the Church of Kopimism three tries over the course of a year before members were able to formalize their way of praying or meditation so that they could be recognized as an official religion.
The blog Torrent Freak reports that membership in the church has grown from 1,000 to 3,000 in the last six months, and the founders expect more people to join now that its religious status is making a splash on the Internet.
"Being recognized by the state of Sweden is a large step for Kopimi," said Gerson. "Hopefully this is one step towards the day when we can live out our faith without fear of persecution."
Kopi that.
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HIV-Positive Olympian to Join AIDS Activists in LA Marathon
Australian Olympic trampolinist Ji Wallace, who recently announced he is HIV-positive, will join the AIDS fundraising team running in the Honda LA Marathon this March.
For the fifteenth year, AIDS Project Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest HIV/AIDS service organizations, will send a team to the LA Marathon to raise big funds to support its programs. This is the first time that a big-name athlete will join the Team to End AIDS, also known as T2.
"This is pretty exciting for us," said APLA Director of Endurance Events Kerry Quakenbush. "We look forward to welcoming him."
Last summer during the London games, Wallace became the third Olympian in history to make public his HIV status.
"When Chris Richey from the Stigma Project asked if I was interested in joining T2, I jumped at the chance. Like becoming a parent, you don't know what having HIV is like until it happens to you," said Wallace, who won a silver medal in the 2000 Sydney games.
He said the power of strangers and support systems has motivated him to participate.
"The generosity of strangers can go a long way, in fact it can take you to an Olympic medal dais," he said. "I might not be on the same continent as the U.S., but I can let every single HIV-positive person they have a friend in me."
Last year, T2 was the largest charity participating in the marathon and raised more than $325,000. This year's team is smaller, but its 125 members have already raised about $100,000.
"All of the money we raise goes to services that APLA provides to the community," Quakenbush said.
APLA's food pantry, dental services and housing assistance program are just some of the services the agency provides for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS throughout Los Angeles County, most of whom live on less than $10,000 a year. Each fall, the APLA puts on AIDS Walk Los Angeles, which raised $2.9 million last year.
The LA Marathon is just one of several athletic events APLA participates in, part of its year-round Endurance Training Program. Dozens of participants, ranging in experience, train each week and raise funds for events around the country and abroad.
"We do about four to five events a year in the LA chapter, and we generally raise between $1 million and $1.5 million a year," Quakenbush said.
In addition to the LA Marathon, this year, T2 is doing the Tinker Bell Half Marathon in Anaheim, the Nautica Malibu Triathlon and plans to hopefully run in the Xterra Trail Run in Hawaii.
Quakenbush said it isn't too late to sign up to run with T2 in the LA Marathon on March 17.
"If anyone wants to sign up, we can get them a slot in the race." Registration for summer events opens Feb. 1.
APLA Communications Specialist Kristen Hellwig ran with T2 for the first time last month at the Xterra Trail Run.
"I've written about the program a lot, but after going through it myself, it truly is life-changing. I wasn't an athlete at all before I did T2 and I never dreamed I would do something like that," she said.
"Knowing I could raise that much money, knowing how much it affects our clients' lives and being able to help financially, it feels really good. It's such a good group of participants and it's totally changed them," she told EDGE.
For Wallace, the marathon presents another challenge, as it is the complete opposite of his sport.
"It is hours long and the total flip side of my trampoline event, so it has been a personal dream of mine to complete one," he said. "I am doing as much as I can as an HIV citizen to show that HIV does not stop me, and in every difficult situation you face in your life, if you look a little harder you too can find a silver lining."
For more info, visit www.lamarathon.com/ or http://www.t2ea.com/

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Indianapolis, IN - Today, Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita applauded the decision of the state's Election Division co-directors to sign off on his plan to cleanup Indiana's voter rolls which are plagued by duplicate registrations, inaccuracies, and inflated with deceased voters. The cleanup plan, including a statewide mailing to all of Indiana's more than four million voter registration records, had previously been opposed by the state Democratic party. Rokita worked with the U.S. Department of Justice to secure a positive outcome for Hoosier voters.
Bowing to pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice - which agreed with Rokita's plan - state Democrats opted to sign off on the decree rather than undergo lengthy and costly litigation with the U.S. government. The cornerstone of the cleanup is a statewide mailing designed to identify and remove ineligible voters according to federal law.
"The need for this cleanup is indisputable by any rational person," Rokita said. "As my office, the Department of Justice, and statewide media have pointed out, when we determined that 19 of 92 Indiana counties have more registered voters than actual citizens, age 18 or older, we knew there was a problem. When our brand new statewide voter registration system found 290,522 possible duplicate records, we knew there was a problem."
Rokita's plan follows the timeline prescribed by the National Voter Registration Act and gives inactive voters two notices and plenty of opportunity to let election officials know they continue to live at their current address and want to stay on the rolls. Every voter in the state gets a mailed notice including election-related materials. If it is returned undeliverable, a second notice is sent that can be forwarded on to a voter's new address. If there is no return again, the voter registration is placed on an "inactive" list. An eligible voter can "reactivate" their status simply by voting in any of the 2006, 2007 or 2008 primary or general elections. If they do not, only then after 2008 will that registration be fully removed from the rolls.
"I am pleased that the state's Democrats have finally agreed to clean up Indiana's voter rolls in the manner which we proposed and prescribed by law," Rokita said. "While it is unfortunate that the Democrats' delay has wasted Hoosier taxpayer money on unnecessary litigation, I thank the Department of Justice for working with me to force them to comply with our plan. Unfortunately, their previous resistance to the cleanup has now greatly limited the time available to do it."


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Swedes satisfied with fifth place at Cozad Invite
COZAD—Getting three Swede wrestlers into the championship round at the Cozad Invite on Saturday was quite an accomplishment for Gothenburg.
The lineup of competitors included a host of returning state qualifiers and medalists among the 16 teams.
"I thought going in if we could finish in the top five it would be great," said Swede wrestling coach Eric Manstedt.
Fifth is exactly where the Swedes finished with two weight class champions, a runner-up and two in sixth place.
Junior Mitchell Spiegel pinned his way to the title at 103 pounds, including a pin in the championship over Dillon Horstmann of Nebraska City.
"Mitch fought back when he needed to," Manstedt said of Spiegel's first-round match against Devin Ushio of Alliance. "He didn't crumble and fold, he just came back strong."
Senior Tre Ostergard also took the gold medal at 215 pounds.
"Tre gives up 20 to 25 pounds to wrestle that weight," Manstedt said.
Ostergard found himself behind against Sean Neal of Sidney in the semi-final round and had to throw the kid down to get back in the match, the coach said.
He responded with a pin in both the semi-finals and the finals against Michael Gill of Ogallala.
"Tre wrestled smart," Manstedt said.
Senior Tanner Schwanz was the other Swede in the finals at 130 pounds.
Despite falling to Joe Tickle of Hastings St. Cecilia, the state runner-up in Class C last year, Manstedt said it was probably the best tournament of Schwanz's career.
"He was really on the attack and got back to the takedowns he used to use," the coach said.
In the championship match, the score was tied 1-1 going into the third period.
Manstedt said Schwanz hit Tickle with a lateral drop but couldn't secure the takedown and keep Tickle in bounds.
Schwanz gave up a takedown late in the match to fall 3-1.
"You've got to have tough competition to make you better," Manstedt said. "That's what we got from this tournament."
That was especially true in the 171-pound class with eight returning state qualifiers including Swede senior Kyle Demoret.
"For Kyle to get sixth in that weight was outstanding," Manstedt said.
And for senior Aaron Lauer to finish sixth at 189 was tremendous too, the coach said, as Lauer is at least 15 pounds lighter than every opponent.
"We hammered pretty hard this opening weekend," Manstedt said of the three straight days of wrestling. "But the kids have to learn to keep that mental focus and make weight for three days in a row. We'll do it again at the end of the year (at state) so they might as well get used to it."
The Swedes head to Columbus Friday and Saturday for the 14-team Nebraska Duals.
Gothenburg is in a pool with Wayne, Millard South, David City, Blue Valley West, Plattsmouth and Neligh Oakdale.
The first dual begins at 1 p.m. Friday at Platte Community College.
"It's going to be another tough weekend," Manstedt said. "Not many of these kids are used to wrestling five times a day."
TEAM RESULTS: 1. Aurora 181; 2. Hastings Adams Central 171; 3. Cozad 151.5; 4. Nebraska City 130; 5. Gothenburg 108; 6. Alliance 98; 7. Seward 95; 8. McCook 93; 9. Ogallala 89; 10. Hastings St. Cecilia 76; 11. Medicine Valley 66; 12. Wayne 52; 13. Sidney 49; 14. Lexington 48; 15. Minden 46; 16. Wahoo 23.
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China's respect for international law understated
3 June 2013
The commonly held view of China as a law-breaker in international matters has been dismissed by a Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney.
In a paper published in this month's Asia Studies Review, Professor Ben Saul argues many countries expect China to comply with higher standards of international law than western nations, including the US and Australia.
"There are a lot of calls by the West for China to be a good international citizen and respect international rules through mechanisms like the UN Security Council and international treaties," says Professor Saul. "This paper shows China by and large does this in a way comparable to other powerful countries; sometimes it breaks the law but a lot of the time China respects it."
In China, Natural Resources, Sovereignty and International Law Professor Saul demonstrates how China has actively integrated itself with international legal norms since gaining a permanent seat on the UN Security Council in 1971.
Its accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 is another case in point. Not only has WTO membership helped China become the world's largest exporter, it has also bound it to international trade laws, says Professor Saul. Countless national and local laws and regulations have required amendment in order to comply with WTO obligations. China has both benefited from, and been punished by, the WTO's binding dispute resolution mechanism.
On territorial issues, Professor Saul says China's emphasis is geared towards reclaiming or defending sovereign territory and resources. It is not expansionist.
"The West has sent mixed signals about complying with international law when it comes to China. On the one hand most governments accept China's claim to Tibet, which actually has a strong case for independence. But many oppose the idea of China taking back Taiwan, a territory lost in a civil war to which China legally has a much stronger claim."
Maritime claims such as the current dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands with Japan can be dangerously fuelled by popular nationalism which can make Chinese behaviour unpredictable, says Professor Saul. Nonetheless, China is staking its claim to the islands through the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, a convention to which it is a signatory and the US is not.
Professor Saul acknowledges China's utilisation of domestic resources has been socially uneven in its dividends and its record in handling environmental issues across national boundaries is mixed. Dealings with Russia over the pollution of the Songhua River in 2005 were done in accordance with international law principles, but China's development of hydropower dams on the Mekong River Basin have shown little regard for poorer downstream Southeast Asian states.
While negotiating on climate change China brokered the norm of "common but differentiated responsibilities". This recognises the historical responsibility of developed countries for carbon pollution while enabling developing countries to "catch up" without bearing an unfair burden for mitigating emissions too soon. China took this philosophy to negotiations in Copenhagen in 2007, dividing itself with developing countries differentiating themselves from a richer, higher polluting China.
"It remains to be seen whether China adapts this negotiating position to its new status - or whether it continues to instrumentally rely upon a principle now ill-suited to its changing responsibilities," Professor Saul says.
Professor Saul says many countries are hypocritical in attacking Chinese investment in African nations. "The dominant narrative is China disrespects labour standards and engages in corrupt practices in order to meet its resource needs. That's true in part but just as many Western countries are plundering African resources. Western commitment to corporate responsibility might be stronger, but China is catching up and also doing positive things through bilateral aid.
"China is not a perfect international citizen," he concludes, "but we should not hold it to standards we don't hold ourselves to."
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PLYMOUTH, N.H. - A Plymouth State College women's soccer player has been named the Little East Conference Co-Player of the Week for her contributions last week, as both the Panther men and women inched up in the regional and national polls.
Sophomore forward Caitlin Cook (Cutchogue, NY) was selected the LEC Co-Player of the Week for the first time this season. She had four goals in a pair of Panther wins last week, including the game winning goal in a 3-0 win over previously top-ranked Bowdoin College, and three goals in an LEC win over UMass Dartmouth. On the season, Cook has seven goals and three assists, and is ranked No. 10 in the LEC in points scored with 17.
The PSC women, 10-2-0 overall, have moved to the No. 9 spot in the NSCAA Women's Division III National Rankings, and No. 1 in the New England regional poll. Plymouth plays at Southern Maine Tuesday (3:30 p.m.), then hosts Curry College Thursday (3:30 p.m.).
The Panther men's soccer team, 9-2-1 overall and in 1st place in the LEC, is enjoying a successful season. PSC is currently ranked No. 15 in the NSCAA Men's Division III National Rankings, and No. 2 in the New England regional poll. Senior Brett Scaccia (15 goals, 2 assists, 32 points) and junior Shawn Higgins (7-3-17) rank No. 1 and No. 8, respectively, in the LEC in total points scored.
The Panthers' next two games are LEC contests, beginning with Southern Maine Tuesday (3:30 p.m.), followed by a road game at UMass Boston Saturday (11:00 a.m.).
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Holden Cup Results - Round 19
A quick whip-around of all the results from Round 19 of the National Youth Competition - the Holden Cup Under 20's.
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Individuals who want to learn about volunteer opportunities can find more than 100 different openings through United Way of North Central Massachusetts' Community Builders, a volunteer center for the region. This week's featured opportunity: senior dining assistant, Littleton.
Create a welcoming community for seniors in Littleton. Help one day a week or more in the Dining Cafe at the Littleton Senior Center, make new friends and be part of something big. Assistants are ordinary people with an extraordinary concern for others, are reliable, sensitive to the needs of the elderly, and familiar with their community. Assist the meal site manager with delivery of fine dining services for seniors who gather for lunch to socialize, share a nutritious meal and enjoy games, etc.
To learn more about this volunteer opportunity or view others, visit www.community-builders.net or contact United Way Community Builders at 978-345-1577.


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Elasticsearch Takes In $24 Million
CEO: Steven Schuurman
Elasticsearch (http://www.elasticsearch.com) raised $24 million in Series B funding in February, led by Mike Volpi of Index Ventures with Benchmark Capital and SV Angel also participating.
Elasticsearch, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, developed an open-source, distributed search engine based on Apache Lucene that's capable of searching and analyzing terabytes of data. At the same time it announced the new funding, the company said it had surpassed the two-million downloads milestone.


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ILLABAROOK has sent an SOS less than two months out from the 2013 Central Highlands Football League season.
The Bulldogs are desperately hunting senior players to help boost their numbers.
President Nick Gray said the club had about 25 to 30 open-age players, but needed another 10 to 15, including eight of senior-team quality, to be competitive this year.
"It is reasonably serious," Gray said.
"Our numbers at training haven't been great. (Coach) Rod Gladman is very concerned as are the committee members."
Gray said it was just the senior group that was lean for numbers, with junior football and all netball grades well situated ahead of the new season.
"We've got too many blokes sitting on the fence trying to make up their mind which way they want to go. We've had a few more retirees than what we thought we were going to get because people have got crook knees and crook backs. That's understandable. It's part of football and sport," he said.
"We find ourselves in the situation in that we've actually got probably one of the best committees that the club has had for the last 10 years. We've taken care of financial problems and got things sorted out there, and now we are faced with this new problem of being short on players."
Despite the lack of faces, Gray said he was confident the club would field a senior team in 2013.
"The people that we have got that have committed are a mixture of senior and reserves players. The last thing I want to do is break the fellas' hearts and will and have them being flogged by 30 to 40 goals every week," he said.
Gray admitted it was hard to attract players to a club that had won just one senior match since joining the league two years ago.
"I think that is pretty much it. You try and put on a brave face, but when you do get belted by as much as you do it has got to take its toll on the players, the coach and everyone who supports the club and make them wonder what they're doing," he said.
Illabarook took the drastic measure of suspending player payments last season.
Gray said some players would be paid this year, with incentives to remain.
Anyone interested in joining the Bulldogs can contact Nick Gray on 0409 633 324.


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Former Cal State Fullerton gymnast Kelly Mathiasen opened Our Little Secret — a full-service hair, skincare, wax and spray-tan boutique — one year ago after taking a turn from a career in teaching and discovering her true passion lies in the beauty industry.
"After graduation and spending time in the teaching world, I quickly found out that teachers are, unfortunately, very undervalued and overworked," she said. "I did a bit of soul searching and realized that I truly loved the beauty industry and spent years having to be 'done up' for my gymnastics competitions."
Mathiasen said she realized she was particularly interested in skin care, which prompted her to go back to school to become an esthetician.
"Finding a true love in the industry, I decided that I wanted to make my own way in the world and open a quaint salon that really specialized in pampering our customers rather than so many that seem to be more of a cattle call of just doing mass customers and losing the focus on what we're actually here for — to make our clients feel special," she said.
After about three months of construction and design, Our Little Secret was born last year in mid-July. Despite the career change and leap into an entirely new industry, Mathiasen hasn't looked back since.
"It's amazing how word of mouth and the buzz of our results have quickly spread," she said. "Being a self-funded small business in today's economy is a challenge, but we're thankful everyday for all of the positive response we've had this year."
One of the reasons the tucked-away salon has been whispered about from the lips of satisfied customers may stem from the fact that the ladies at Our Little Secret make customers their top priority.
"We want each and every customer to have an amazing and unique experience tailored to his or her every need. We're not a big national chain store that has 30 stations and a revolving door. Our goal is to have every client feel spoiled, pampered and perfect," Mathiasen said. "Our priority is to make certain each customer walks away feeling amazing and smiling ear to ear."
That mentality, she said, results in a high repeat client base who love to come in and enjoy a little shop talk, unwind and leave feeling relaxed.
"We go the extra mile to let our customers know we're here to put a smile on their face," she said. "I think we're doing a pretty bang-up job based on the 45 reviews we have on Yelp, averaging 4.5 stars, not to mention our return customer visits are at 85 percent."
In celebration of its first successful year in business, Our Little Secret is hosting a red-carpet gala celebration on July 29 to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring and empowering wounded soldiers.
"We actually teamed up with Wounded Warrior for our grand opening last year and we are thrilled to be able to help give back again this year," she said. "We are thrilled to share our anniversary with all those who have helped us get where we are and want to share an evening of fun, fashion and good times."
The event will feature food, drinks, live music, photo opportunities, swimsuits, models and product discounts. Complimentary tickets will be given to any customers who take advantage of Our Little Secret's services through July 28. Tickets will also be available for purchase at Our Little Secret, located at 6437 Caminito Blythefield, Suite A.
First time customers who mention La Jolla Village News or LJVN will receive a 50-percent discount on any of the salon's services on their first visit. Clients can also sign up for the salon's newsletter, which contains special discounts several times a month, or sign up to become a member for additional offers on tanning and waxing services.
For more information about Our Little Secret, visit www.ourlittlesecretsd.com or call (858) 454-Shhh (7444).


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Animals have rights too!!!
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I felt really bad when i was acknowledged about the fact that
animals were disrespected in our world. Yes, scientists can use
animals for their experiments before using the procedures on
humans. However, it feels like a lot of torture and violence when
a lot of animals are being shifted to labs in cages....
Animals have rights too! There should be laws implemented to
conserve our environment. These animals look good swinging on
trees and being conserved in zoos and parks, not in cages trying
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People keep telling me that my life will "experience a wonderful change" if I decide to have children. Probably not. I don't have a child-shaped hole in my heart. My least-favorite arguments are "kids make your life better" and "we had kids to be happy" and "you learn to be less selfish with children". Kids only make your life better if you want them, and even then they don't make you happy. They make you feel fulfilled, sure, but again that's only if you want them. You have PLENTY of struggle ahead if you have them. And excuse you, but I'm going into a field that's all about helping people, my family donates thousands to charity every year, and I do volunteer work on the side. Not having kids won't make me the epitome of American selfishness/materialism.
-"It's so selfish to not have kids!" No it's not in the least, for pete's sake.
I'm surprised how many people ask if I've talked to my husband about not wanting kids. It seems bizarre to me that anyone would not have that conversation.
Quote from: RingTailedLemur on November 28, 2012, 03:17:29 PMI'm surprised how many people ask if I've talked to my husband about not wanting kids. It seems bizarre to me that anyone would not have that conversation.It seems to me that if you're possessing a *husband*, that you should have already had that discussion... I would consider it vital in the "let's get married" discussions.
My hate it 'salt to taste'. I usually cut the salt in half anyway, but I need a place to start! I finally decided to try 1 tsp. per quart of product and go from there. Sigh.
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GROTON -- After years of dormancy, businesses are inquiring about the mostly empty Shaw's plaza at Four Corners.
Planning Administrator Michelle Collette told the Planning Board that an unidentified Realtor inquired about a change in use for the Riverbend building and the possibility of converting it into office space. Local attorney Robert Collins is said to be exploring a medical office building use.
Collette could not say if the inquiries represented one or two parties. "They are just putting out feelers," said Collette. "But something's going to be happening at that Shaw's."
The plaza includes a supermarket and a vacant retail building, home to Riverbend high-end appliance store until recently.
The owners are permitted to add buildings but have not, leaving its 232-space parking area mostly empty.
The only question for either inquiry at such an early stage, asked Collette, was if the Shaw's site was permitted for office space or medical office space.
Board Chairman John Giger said office space is permitted. All members agreed that medical space will require more septic capacity.
A recent attempt to establish a Lost Lake Sewer District, which would have had its wastewater line run past Shaw's into Ayer, could have made the underdeveloped property more attractive to potential investors but fell through when Town Meeting voted the plan down.
Also languishing is the lot across Sandy Pond Road from the supermarket.
Also Thursday, board members:
* Voted to confirm that a housing unit at the Academy Hill subdivision is to be designated as the third of five affordable homes in the growing development.
Located off Townsend Road, Academy Hill will include 94 homes on 100 acres. As part of developer Bruce Wheeler's agreement with the town, parts of another 213 acres will be donated to the town and the state's Division of Fisheries and Wildlife as conservation land.
* Voted to postpone a public hearing on a plan by the Groton Electric Light Department to install banks of solar-voltaic panels on property off Nate Nutting Road until June 13. According to Collette, the site might harbor an endangered species.
* Voted to postpone a public hearing on a plan by landowner Gerald Croteau to develop his North Street property as the Bluestone Drive Residential Development. According to Collette, the delay was sought due to engineering issues.
Croteau's plan calls for dividing his 20-acre property, the former site of the Colonial Stoneyard, into at least seven lots with half the acreage to remain open space.
Most lots would be reserved for home construction along a 400-foot access road, taking the form of an elliptical-shape cul-de-sac with a lot set aside for two possible affordable-housing units which would be located in the former stoneyard's office building.
* Discussed ongoing plans to fashion town-center overlay-district design guidelines involving streetscapes, landscapes, parking, access, lighting and signage.
According to a draft of the document, the guidelines are needed to "promote a socially and economically vibrant town center by enabling civic, commercial and residential development that is consistent with...the town's master plan."
The guidelines will also provide landowners "with the opportunity to elect an alternative form of development which provides greater flexibility and density in exchange for advancing the town's design and land use goals."
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The Bexar County Kennel Club had Friday duty in San Antonio TX and they asked Barbara Dempsey Alderman to choose a Best from the English Cocker Spaniel, CH Nonnies Deja Vu, the Wirehaired Dachshund, CH RaydachsPlaying with Fire V Gleishobach SW, the Rottweiler, CH Cammcastle's Friar Tuck, the Skye Terrier, CH Cragsmoor Buddy Goodman, the Affenpinscher, CH Tamarin Tug, the Standard Poodle, CH Dawin Spitfire, and the Australian Shepherd, CH Copperridges's Fire N Bayouland. Her BIS was our friend these last three seasons, the Affenpinscher, Taser. That gives Taser and handler Jorge Olivera four BIS this year.


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Ex-Yahoo! bigwig! admits! insider! trading!
He spilled beans on Microsoft search deal
Posted in Security, 22nd May 2012 11:28 GMT
The US stock market regulator has charged an ex-Yahoo! exec and a pal with insider trading after the pair discussed a search engine partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Robert Kwok, who was Yahoo!'s senior director of business management, breached his duty to the company when he told Reema Shah, a mutual fund manager at a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, that the deal was on.
Shah had asked Kwok about the deal as rumours did the rounds in July 2009 that Microsoft and Yahoo! would team up; Kwok told her that the info was being kept under wraps at Yahoo! and only a few people knew.
Shah then told the mutual funds she managed to buy over 700,000 shares in Yahoo!, which were later sold for profits of around $389,000.
Kwok let on about the deal because, a year earlier, Shah had done the same for him: she tipped him off about an impending acquisition announcement between two companies that she knew about and he traded on his personal account on the tip. He only made off with a measly $4,754 however.
"Kwok and Shah played a game of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours," Scott Friestad, associate director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a canned statement.
"When corporate executives and mutual fund professionals misuse their access to confidential information, they undermine the integrity of our markets and violate the trust placed in them by investors."
Both Kwok and Shah, who live in California, have agreed to settle the SEC's charges of insider trading. A court will later decide how much of their ill-gotten gains they'll have to pay back and what other fines they'll face.
Under the settlements, Shah will be permanently banned from the securities industry, and Kwok will be permanently blocked from serving as an officer or director of a public company.
However, the pair are also in the dock for charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, which they pleaded guilty to and are awaiting sentencing.
Aside from the two specific cases in the insider trading charges, they had been exchanging tip-offs since they met in January 2008.
Kwok regularly gave Shah information on Yahoo!, such as whether its quarterly performance would meet analyst expectations and Shah would give him information she learned through her job so he could make personal investments. ®


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2009 Softball
Bluffton moves to 4-0 with Tuesday victories
Late game offense propels Beavers to a pair of victories
March 3, 2009
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - After digging a 3-0 hole for the second time in as many days, the Bluffton University softball team found its offense in time to dispatch Catholic University and Gwynedd-Mercy on Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Bluffton rallied from three runs down after three innings to knock off Catholic 6-4 before piling up six fifth-inning runs in a 7-1 victory over Gwynedd-Mercy.
Bluffton 6, Catholic 4
With Bluffton struggling to put together any offense through the first three frames, Catholic took advantage of a Bluffton error that would have ended the inning and the team from Washington D.C. pasted three unearned runs on the scoreboard in the home half of the inning. Much like it did a day ago, Bluffton cut into the deficit with a single score in the top of the fourth. Freshman Jessica McDonald (Mechanicsburg) was hit by a pitch with two outs and she went to second on a wild pitch. Kellie Kenney (Toledo/Emmanuel Christian) made it 3-1 with an RBI single up the middle.
An inning later, Chelsie Osborn (Chillicothe/Waverly) ripped a one-out double down the right field line. Jayme Marbaugh (Ohio City/Parkway) plated Osborn with a single through the left side. Following a free pass to Emily Manahan (Columbus/Bishop Watterson), McDonald knotted the contest with an RBI base knock up the middle.
Catholic used a Bluffton error to reclaim the lead, 4-3, with another unearned run in the bottom of the fifth, but the Beavers took the lead for good with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth. Back-to-back singles by pinch hitter Tiffany Buckmaster (Lima/Bath) and Torrie Wilson (Delphos/Jefferson) sent Catholic's starting pitcher to the dugout with one out. Lindsay Miller (Wapakoneta) made it 5-4 when she scalded a Catholic offering down the left field line for a two-run double.
Doubles by Emily Manahan and Kellie Kenney in the top of the seventh provided the Beavers with a valuable insurance run and Brooke Babcock (Findlay), who came on in relief in the sixth, set Catholic down in order to secure the 6-4 victory in game one.
Wilson, Miller and Babcock all collected two hits and Miller plated two runs, including the game-winner. Bluffton out-hit its opponent 12-4, but the Beavers committed two errors that kept it interesting. Kenney improved to 2-0 on the year after giving up four runs, all unearned, on four hits in 5.1 innings of work. Babcock nailed down her first save of the season with four strikeouts and 1.2 innings of shutdown ball.
Bluffton 7, Gwynedd-Mercy 1
A Brooke Babcock sacrifice fly put the Beavers up 1-0 in the home half of the second inning. She picked up Marbaugh who drew a leadoff walk.
After two scoreless frames, Gwynedd-Mercy used a free pass, a stolen base, a sacrifice bunt and an RBI single to make it 1-1 miway through the fifth inning. The home half of the fifth saw the Beavers explode for six runs on five hits and two miscues. Babcock smoked a one-out double down the left field line and she moved to third when the visitors misplayed Allison White's (Lima/Shawnee) grounder. Another error loaded the bases for Torrie Wilson who singled home Babcock and White. Buckmaster's perfect squeeze plated McDonald and she went to second without a play. Lindsey Miller ended the scoring frenzy with a three-run bomb to straightaway center field for her third home run in four games.
Babcock came on in relief of freshman Kristin Agauas (Bloomfield, Mich./Andover) and picked up the win, giving up one run on four hits in 4.2 innings on the mound. She fanned five batters and walked two in the victory. Miller and Wilson combined for five RBI.
Bluffton returns to action against Adrian College at 11 a.m. on day three of the Rebel Spring Games in Kissimmee, Florida.


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Title: Above World
Author: Jenn Reece
Publisher: Candlewick
May Contain Spoilers
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Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean with the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after centuries spent hidden from the Above World, her colony's survival is in doubt. The Kampii's breathing necklaces are failing, but the elders are unwilling to venture above water to seek answers. Only headstrong Aluna and her friend Hoku are stubborn and bold enough to face the terrors of land to search for way to save their people.
But can Aluna's warrior spirit and Hoku's tech-savvy keep them safe? Set in a world where overcrowding has led humans to adapt—growing tails to live under the ocean or wings to live on mountains—here is a ride through a future where greed and cruelty have gone unchecked, but the loyalty of friends remains true.
After reading Dark Life by Kat Falls, I became fascinated by the idea of living in the ocean. When I saw Above World by Jenn Reese, I was chomping at the bit to read it. In this Middle Grade adventure, Aluna, a girl who lives in the ocean, must venture Above World to discover why the technology that allows her people to breathe underwater is failing. I loved the spunky Aluna, and I also thought that her best friend, Hoku, was a wonderful character, too. Both of them have to deal with very frightening situations, and as they face down death time and again, the thought of saving their people gives them the courage to continue on their journey.
When Aluna finds the body of one of her friends, she discovers that the elders are keeping a secret from the residents of her city – the breathing tech that allows the Kampii to live underwater is failing. Each Kampii has a bio-tech breathing necklace that keeps them from drowning. Several of the necklaces ceased functioning, and the elders, including Aluna's father, have quickly covered up the resulting deaths, not wanting to start a panic. Instead of trying to discover why the necklaces are starting to fail, the elders are firmly denying that there is a problem. The Kampii in her city have kept themselves hidden from the Above World for generations, and they don't want to have anything to do with the surface world. Aluna runs away from home, determined to save her people.
I loved the world building in this post-apocalyptic adventure. As the population swelled and the available land was consumed by growing numbers of people, new environments were exploited with the help of bio-technology. The Kampii, who are like mermaids, were allowed to live under the water with their necklaces. Centaurs were engineered to live in the desert, and Aviars were given wings so they could live on top of mountains. Disease swept through the human population, and chaos followed. Now the remaining life forms are at war, battling for control of the old technology.
Aluna is a strong, determined protagonist, and I liked her a lot. She is impulsive and stubborn, and these flaws work to get her out of many dicey situations. She isn't able to give up, and and she can't accept failure. That's just not an option for her. The thought of quitting never occurs to her, even when she is standing up to very scary enemies that would have had me running, screaming, in the opposite direction. She is also self-reliant, which almost gets her, as well as her friends, killed.
I also loved the pacing of this novel. The reader is never given the opportunity to become bored. Aluna and Hoku meet one challenge after another, in rapid succession. They barely have a chance to catch their breath before they are thrown into danger again, which made it difficult to put the book down. Their race against time to save their people from drowning kept me on the edge of my seat. Both Aluna and Hoku had some major sacrifices to make, and they never hesitated to do whatever was necessary to save the Kampii. I completely bought that these two young kids could save their underwater city. Aluna is fierce and Hoku is clever, and together they make one heck of a team. I loved their interaction, and how they complimented each other. Where one was weak, the other was strong.
I can hardly wait to read Aluna and Hoku's next adventure. Above World has a satisfying conclusion, and left me content with the thought that they had saved the world, for the time being, at least. There isn't a huge, disappointing cliffhanger, just the sense that there are more conflicts to resolve in the near future. I hate cliffhanger endings, so this conclusion worked for me. I wasn't all twitchy at the thought of Aluna and Hoku, frozen in time, facing an early demise, until the release of the next book.
Grade: B
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BIG NIGHT: Ralph Lauren is a born and bred New Yorker, so where better to mark his 40th year in fashion than in Central Park? On Sept. 8, the designer will stage his spring 2008 show at the park's Conservatory Garden. Afterward, the designer and the Central Park Conservancy will host a black-tie dinner party there to celebrate the anniversary and a gift Lauren is making to the park. He is the first designer to stage a runway show at this venue at Fifth Avenue and 105th Street, and the company will build special structures to accommodate the runway show, as well as the dinner for about 500 guests.
MYSPACE FASHION: As fashion continues its migration to the Internet, MySpace, the online community that generates 115 million unique monthly visitors worldwide and is the top-ranked Web domain in terms of page views, will kick off a newly designed fashion section on Tuesday called MySpace Fashion.
Currently, MySpace has a page on which it features designers and fashion-related videos. It will beef up fashion content with new programs such as MySpace Presents: The Fit, a behind-the-scenes look into the closets of celebrities and musicians, and MySpace Muse, in which editors scope out profiles of MySpace members to feature fashion stars in the making.
The Fox-owned site also is partnering with In Style magazine to feature In Style News. On the video side, MySpace will feature a collection of amateur and professional videos from runway shows as well as streaming and highlight videos of New York Fashion Week. MySpace Boudoir will be another community designed to coincide with the couture and men's ready-to-wear shows in Paris.
Even without a dedicated section, MySpace has already made connections on Seventh Avenue. Companies that have profiles on the site include A|X Armani Exchange, Hollister, Bongo, Victoria's Secret Pink and Hennes & Mauritz. Last week, Paris Hilton gave the site access to her clothing launch at Kitson, and Alexander McQueen used MySpace to help cast the campaign for his diffusion line, McQ.
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I like Cro and resign Landry.
Get a conditional 1 or 2 and a 3rd and i'm happy~
Draft a Qb Rb Cb Rg Fs Lb????
We'll get 3 players for Revis who will give one useless year while we're rebuilding then move on..just the way I see it.
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The skin trade is back in Launceston with a new strip club offering ''a never before seen visual experience'', planned for a revamped Hub hotel.
The club's proponent, Glenn Millhouse, said he planned to spend $150,000 on a 1930s themed gentlemen's club at the Tamar Street venue.
For tourists, upstairs will offer 38 beds marketed at backpackers.
Details of the proposal are contained in a liquor licence application lodged with the Commissioner for Licensing.
''Patrons will feel they have stepped back in time whilst enjoying high-class performances such as burlesque and feminine women,'' Mr Millhouse, a former car-rental operator, said.
''I believe it will not only benefit the local Launceston area, in that there will be a new and exciting venue for patrons to attend . . . (but) tourists visiting Northern Tasmania will have yet another attraction to visit.''
The club would operate three nights a week and hire 25 staff, including strippers performing ''world-class shows''.
The Hub has seen plenty of skin in the past, with a straight and gay strip club located there several years ago.
Mr Millhouse said reopening it would reinvigorate an area, which had become ''tired and in need of refurbishment''.
The club's vision statement incudes ''always trying to find new ways to make you happy, after all this is your time to relax''.
Mr Millhouse said his passion for hospitality stretched back to the 1970s when he worked at hotels such as the Four Seasons.
He said he aimed to buy the Hub outright and ''be here for a long time''.
The Launceston City Council said it would be keen to ensure the club did not have a detrimental affect on the area.
''Any such proposed use would involve extensive conditions to manage potential adverse impacts from the use,'' council general manager Robert Dobrzynski said.
''Occupancy permits and place of assembly permits are some of the approvals that might be required, along with planning permits.''
The council has already received one anonymous complaint.


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Carl Jenkinson | Arsenal
He's come a long way since Theo Walcott was seen passive-aggressively screaming into his face in a style that only Walcott could during Arsenal's 8-2 mauling at the hands of Manchester United back in 2011.
Against Bayern Munich in the second-leg he was excellent, similarly against Swansea. With Bacary Sagna struggling for fitness, and potentially set to leave at the end of the season, Arsenal fans shouldn't be too concerned.
But his name still often conjures up funny images of hapless defending in the minds of many Premier League fans. Some see him as out-of-his-depth, a Championship player masquerading as an Arsenal defender.
He's still struggling to shrug off that initial impression, but a 21-year-old Jenkinson has improved remarkably since his first, admittedly shaky, performances in a Gunners shirt. If he continues to improve on this trajectory, he'll be an excellent full-back. Not getting the praise just yet, but there's plenty of time.
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One of the main services that the American Red Cross of Southwestern New York provides is service to the Armed Forces.
The original service of the American Red Cross started during the Civil War as the "Angel of the Battlefield" Clara Barton provided emergency care to soldiers injured during war, and after the battles would locate the families of deceased servicemen.
Now nearly 150 years later, the Red Cross is still supporting and helping the Armed Forces. These services include, but are not limited to, providing emergency communication between the family and the serviceperson anywhere they may be in the world, some financial assistance, casualty travel assistance, information and referrals. The Red Cross has earned a reputation for providing objective, timely, confidential, factual, complete and verified reports on emergency situations. These reports enable service members and their commanders to make informed decisions about leave and other matters in order to prevent, prepare for and respond to a family emergency.
The most common service that the Red Cross provides to the Armed Forces is emergency communication between the family and serviceperson. A Southwestern New York family turned to the Red Cross for help when the Roberts* family needed to contact their son about his father's quick decline in health and quite possible death. Mrs. Roberts called the Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces helpline and was able to get a message to her son who was currently serving on a naval ship in the Pacific Ocean. She also asked if he could come home to hopefully be with his father in the last few days of his life or at least be home to attend the burial services.
When her son was notified, a Red Cross representative and Chaplin were there to help him accept the news. Fortunately, he was granted leave, and the next day he was on a plane headed back to New York. He made it back just one day before his father passed.
During the processes, several Red Cross workers were verifying the call with the hospital, calling the naval command, working out flight arrangements and all the while trying to provide counseling to the family during their hard time.
After all of the commotion a few weeks later, a Red Cross worker called the family to see how they are doing, if the serviceperson made it home safely and/or made it back to their station safely, and if there is any other services that the Red Cross could help them with.
Without the grants from the United Way agencies in Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua Counties, and support from other organizations, the Red Cross could not have helped provide 191 services to members of the Armed Forces, which included 110 emergency communications. Other services provided were crisis counseling, family follow-up, information and referrals, locator services and verifications from July 2011 to June 2012. In the years to come the Red Cross will continue to support the Armed Forces with help from our community members throughout Southwestern New York.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Stamp Simply October blog hop
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
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Totally adorable Michelle!ReplyDelete
I need to learn how to make simple stunning cards like this. You totally rock 'em, Michelle! Love it!ReplyDelete
This is so pretty.....I love your DP too....thank you for sharing...ReplyDelete
What a cute snowman.!ReplyDelete
LOVE that delightful snowman and your card...the placement of your designer papers are always perfect, Michelle!ReplyDelete
Cute, Cute, Cute!!!ReplyDelete
So cute love all the different strips of DP and how you layered them .ReplyDelete
Such a pretty card. Love the white background... the papers just pop. :o)ReplyDelete
What a cute and creative card, Michelle! I love how the patterned papers pop against the white! That snowman is too cute! Wonderful CAS design!ReplyDelete
Super cute ... so colorful and FUN :)ReplyDelete
That snowman is adorable!ReplyDelete
I just love snowmen and this one is especially cute.ReplyDelete
- sharon dOctober 12, 2010 at 6:27 AM
Your card is sooo cute. The snowman is adorable.ReplyDelete
Michelle, great card! Yes, the paper kits are absolutely gorgeous, so hard to choose:)ReplyDelete
How fun is your snowman with these bright cheery papers!! Love your layout, it works really well here. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Love this card! The red ribbon is a lovely touch to this fresh, happy snowman card. :)ReplyDelete
Great card layout.ReplyDelete
Great card!ReplyDelete
OH, Michelle -- another fun-loving CAS creation that I MUST try out myself!!! LOVE what you are doing of late with these fun cards!!! I, too, am a HUGE fan of the Kaisercraft papers! Love the glitz in them! Perfect project!!!ReplyDelete
Simple and Sweet Michelle! Love your fun layout and fab coloring!ReplyDelete
Great layout for making a group of cards. The snowman looks good to me. Thanks for sharing your design.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2010 at 7:32 AM
So very very cute!! Love snowmen!ReplyDelete
Great card, love all the layering!ReplyDelete
- CharletteOctober 12, 2010 at 7:53 AM
What a wonderful card. I really love that you left the background of the card white. It makes everything else on the card really pop! TFSReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2010 at 8:07 AM
Such cute and whimisical cards! - Mary R.ReplyDelete
What a FUN creation, LOVE it! Love the design!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I am loving the CAS look lately, this is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Michelle, this little snowman is so adorable!! I absolutely love your coloring and coice of paper! Hugs, SabrinaReplyDelete
Simply fabulous. The snowman is so darn cute!ReplyDelete
Love snowmen!! So full of fun & whimsy!!! Love this card!ReplyDelete
How cute is this! Love your project.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM
What a fun layout on your card!ReplyDelete
Debbie S
Looky at you using that double off angle sketch so wonderfully :) Love the DPs and your snowman is coloured wonderfully :)ReplyDelete
Great card!!! I so love the snowman!! I have a room that I put out snowmen every year for Christmas. This one is darling!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing.
Debbie B
what a darling card, its simple and so in the spirit of the holiday.ReplyDelete
Love your card Michelle! So clean, simple and adorable! Love the little red flakes! I love that sketch - had to try it after I saw it on your blog last week.ReplyDelete
- Linda MOctober 12, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Such a happy, whimsical card! The white cardstock makes everything pop, and the dps add just the right touch of detail!ReplyDelete
Adorable! Love all the white space!ReplyDelete
What a fun card!ReplyDelete
Sharon L
"Simply" cute! !ReplyDelete
I can see absolutely nothing wrong with the coloring of your snowman, Michelle. He's just as cute as he can be, popping right off the card. Great job with thanks...ReplyDelete
Cute, cute cards. I really like the happy colors!ReplyDelete
Hi Michelle~ReplyDelete
I LOVE this card. The layout is incredibly fabulous! Thank you for sharing it! What I like about this card...besides the amazing coloring...is that it has a bit of all types of Christmas. The Brown strip looks a bit like it could be from Christmas' long gone. The paper with the circles could be current. The stripes are for every Chrsitmas...it could clean up all of our scraps after making bigger projects with this paper pack. It is so exciting!
You did a wonderful job here. Thanks so much for sharing!
He IS Able,
Traci S.
Very cool, CAS layouts, yet with lots of color and character! What a fun Christmas card.ReplyDelete
What??? Your colouring looks wonderful to me. What a fun card and I really like this sketch.ReplyDelete
I love this fun card! Great design.... you put it all together so well.ReplyDelete
Beautiful card. I love those papers.ReplyDelete
Adorable card!! LOVE the bright colors!!ReplyDelete
Adorable card!! LOVE the bright colors!!ReplyDelete
Super adorable card...love the white space!ReplyDelete
Love the unique paper design!!ReplyDelete
Great card. Love the design and papers.ReplyDelete
- Rhonda ZOctober 12, 2010 at 3:28 PM
i think the snowman is so cute!ReplyDelete
Cute card--I like the layout!ReplyDelete
Awesome work, love love love it.ReplyDelete
Sweet, sweet card, love your simple layout. So very cute!ReplyDelete
Cute, cute card! The snowman is darling and colored perfectly to match your papers.ReplyDelete
Michelle! your card is totally perfect! love the strips of pp!ReplyDelete
- Linda CarlsonOctober 12, 2010 at 5:37 PM
Love snowman, but not looking foward to the stuff that makes them!ReplyDelete
Michelle - I think your snowman is awesome! Love the simple background you did - would never have thought of something like that, but I think I'll try it sometime. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Oh this is so fun and cute!! I love your style :)ReplyDelete
I love the clean crisp look of this card and especially those cute little stars as finishing touches! Beautiful!ReplyDelete
This is so beautiful hun! Love the layered pieces of paper and those cute stars! I think you did an awesome job on the snowman :)ReplyDelete
What an adorable snowman card. Love your creativity, always!ReplyDelete
I love that cute snowman!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM
I love that snowman! Your colors are so cool - sorry about the pun! Oh, I wish someone would make a card like this and send it to me for the holiday! How could you help but smmile? Thanks for sharing your talent with us!ReplyDelete
Chris R. from Iowa
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Oh Michelle... your card is so adorable, snowmen truly have a place in my heart come Christmas time. The layored paper, andyour coloring is perfect. Linda DukeReplyDelete
This is such an adorable Christmas card, Roomie...the little snowman is sooo sweet and I love the sketch!!!!ReplyDelete
I love your projects, very cute. I love the fresh cute style!ReplyDelete
So, so cute! Love it!ReplyDelete
This is great. The white background makes everything else pop. Very cute.ReplyDelete
What a cute card, I love the colors you used on it and the papers.ReplyDelete
Love this CAS snow guy card!ReplyDelete
Cute card... love the layout!!!ReplyDelete
- Donna GOctober 13, 2010 at 7:29 AM
Hi Michelle,ReplyDelete
I love the snowmen stamps from Just Rite, too, and I think your card is so cute. Other than the coloring, these would be quick and easy to make multiples of for Christmas. TFS
Donna G
I love it!! Snowmen are always adorable!!ReplyDelete
Love the clean, beautiful lines of your card Michelle!ReplyDelete
I am a huge fan of leaving "white space" on cards. I sometimes tend to over embellish and my original idea gets lost. This is just lovely!ReplyDelete
I adore this modern, edgy snowman! He is awesome!ReplyDelete
Beautiful, simple card and your bow and the ribbon are perfect!ReplyDelete
Wow how lovely! And the prize this month is amazing too!ReplyDelete
Silly me accidentally got my dates mixed up and entered into last months blog hop, and didnt realise until the very last page! I guess thats what comes of hopping on my first day of having a blog....
Thanks for the opportunity to win! :) x
super cute christmas card!ReplyDelete
Very cute and cheery snowman card!ReplyDelete
I am not sure why, but I love, love, love the simple cards. But I cannot make one! I don't know why I love the way they are so striking, and yet when I attempt to make one I feel that it is all wrong. Your simple cards are wonderful!ReplyDelete
This is so cute... I love it!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing!!!
okj83 at live dot com
So cute!!! I just love snowmen. Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talent.ReplyDelete
Cards with lots of "white space" are always favorites of mine--and yours are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Oh this is way too cute! Love the CAS design...just fabulous!ReplyDelete
Love the simple effect of this. Great color and layout.ReplyDelete
these are so beautifulReplyDelete
I am always on the lookout for great ideas using scaps. This is one of them.ReplyDelete
Great card! Just love your use of white!ReplyDelete
That snowman is too cute. Love the simplicity of your card. I need to make more like that but can't seem to stop from adding things to it.ReplyDelete
- Barb(GrandmaUpNorth)October 15, 2010 at 5:34 AM
Very cute - bright and cheery!ReplyDelete
This is such a fresh, whimsical, cute card!! Love it!!!ReplyDelete
- Kathyc on SCSOctober 15, 2010 at 6:23 PM
Speaking of "THUD"!!!! I love this card; the white space is so clean next to these super holiday papers and the fabby red ribbon!ReplyDelete
Kathy Camasso
This is too cute! I looked at several of your posts and think your cards are wonderful! Have you on an RSS feed now. Keep up the good work and inspiration.ReplyDelete


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Linked by David Adams on Wed 4th Aug 2010 17:51 UTC
RIM announced Blackberry 6 yesterday, along with a new device called the Torch, to be released in the US on August 12. Users of some older Blackberry devices will be able to upgrade to the new OS, but unfortunately the upgrade will not be extending too far back in the product line (Bold 9700, Bold 9650, Pearl 3G). A Cnet article has a nice rundown of the new feature, which are no secret, because RIM has been keeping up a steady stream of information and video demos of the new OS for several months.
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I am trying to use the CJKutf8 package to TeX up a document in Japanese.
I want to do this:
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I need the Japanese text in the chapter and sections. I can't think of another way unless I manually make Contents pages by hand, and just use large fonts for the section names. There must be away....
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...but where will I get all my v14gra now??
How about some cheap Propecia? I'm tired of paying 3 dollars per pill (per day).
You spend more than $1000 per year instead of accepting that you're going bald?
It's a whole lot cheaper to just go bald.
There, I saved you $3/day.
This is nice (if reactionary) but how long before we can get a court order to legally fight the botnet by 'infecting' the target computers with a patch, or at least some sort of message that warns the user to seek help?
Would Microsoft ever go that far? Would that be admitting that the only solution to the holes in Windows is vigilantism?
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
When you can prove that your patch will in no way adversely affect any computer that it is installed on.
Ever heard of Malicious Software Removal Tool [microsoft.com] that is rolled out in in the monthly patch cycle. It kills software MS deems bad. No court approval for that.
Ever heard of Malicious Software Removal Tool [microsoft.com] that is rolled out in in the monthly patch cycle. It kills software MS deems bad. No court approval for that.
No court approval needed, you clicked that you agreed with the TOS, EULA, description of what these files contain. Last time I used MS update (admittedly over a year ago) each download had it's own name. If there was a name like Malicious Software Removal Tool I would definitely take a peek inside the description to see exactly what it was doing.
This brings us back to the whole user issue. Most users accept all updates from MS (and pretty much any software vendor) without even so much as looking at the titles of the files their downloading. Maybe if people took a little more responsibility they wouldn't be surprised as to why their friendly purple gorilla buddy disappeared (I thought that thing had died years ago but I just saw him on someone's computer in the library last week).
Even if the control machines loose DNS resolution, might not the botnet be configured to fall back to connecting to well known IP addresses to accept commands? Seems like the logical thing to do if you are creating an illegal network...
1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally.
2. They have quite a few domains for a reason, and normally they don't all go dark at the exact same well-coordinated time.
1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally.
If you break your leg tomorrow. Were is your money coming from? Right, your boss. Sick leave. Burglers haven't got it.
Neither can you boss turn out to be carrying a gun and blow your brains out rather then pay you.
If you botch up your work, you won't land in a small cell with a guy named Bubba who likes you very very much.
You ex-gf can't turn you into your boss, even if you really screwed up.
A live of crime sound easy, but it isn't. If it was, more people would do it.
Take the pirates of somalia, sounds like easy money, but how many regular sailors can have their brains blown out by a sniper and nobody gives a damn? And if you think it sucks that your wife wants your wages, wait till you have to deal with the crime hierarchy. They are like the IRS, but not as nice. Oh, and then there is the IRS who can hook you up with Bubba again if you can't account for every penny in your pocket.
Sick leave. Burglers haven't got it.
And increasingly, American workers haven't got it either, along with health care, retirement and other benefits. Shit, more and more American workers don't even have Saturdays off any more.
Companies love contract workers just for that reason.
Ask the "tech workers" around here, whether their working conditions, hours and benefits have increased or decreased every year since 1980.
I doubt you'll earn more money robbing ATM users with your kitchen knife than an office job.
ATMs have limits on withdrawals, people going to an ATM tend to be doing so because they don't have much cash on them.
At some point you'll pick the wrong guy and get shot, or get caught and go to jail.
Small time armed robbery sounds to me like the one of the worst ways to earn a living through crime too - the punishments are reasonably high, the risk of being identified and then caught are reasonably high, the risk o
I doubt you'll earn more money robbing ATM users with your kitchen knife than an office job.
That's why counterfeiting is the way to go. You don't have to employ violence, you just print your own money.
Counterfeiters are the princes of thieves, IMO.
But truly, the way to succeed here in America, statistically, is to be born to a rich family. It's the #1 predictor of whether or not you will be well-off during your life. If you're born poor, you have less chance to move up the social/economic scale than if you were born in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, France...
The notion that "anybody can make it in the US if they work hard" is a fairy tale.
Seriously. Be born rich. That's the way to go.
That's why counterfeiting is the way to go. You don't have to employ violence, you just print your own money.
But to be successful at it AND avoid having the Secret Service come down on you, you need to do it by owning a Federal Reserve Bank.
The notion that "anybody can make it in the US if they work hard" is a fairy tale.
Seriously. Be born rich. That's the way to go.
The notion that the notion is a fairytale is a fairytale. People love to blindly spread memes like this because they enjoy feeling sorry for themselves, but it simply isn't true:
Rags To Riches Billionaires [forbes.com]: "Almost two-thirds of the world's 946 billionaires made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination"
That doesn't mean everyone can end up a billionaire, but it's simply false that this notion that 'anyone can make it' is a fairytale; it's borne out on practically a daily basis. If you open your eyes and look, you'll find true-life rags-to-riches story under every second stone you turn --- especially in the USA, but also these days frequently in places like China. But yeah, not everyone is born hard-working, I guess, so keep sitting and feeling sorry for yourself and you'll definitely ensure that nothing ever changes for you.
Rags to Riches CEOs [minyanville.com]
7 greatest celebrity rags to riches stories [peoplejam.com]
Rags to Riches [arabianbusiness.com]
Entrepreneur takes women from rags to riches [iol.co.za]
Rags to Riches billionaires [forbes.com]
Asian American Rags to Riches Sagas [goldsea.com]
Case Study: From Rags to Riches (Brenda French) [womenslead...change.com]
Cordia Harrington: From Rags to Riches Success Story [womenhomebusiness.com]
Local cosmetics magnate reveals rags-to-riches life story [taipeitimes.com]
China: A rags-to-riches story to dream about (Yan Huiyan) [atimes.com]
China's paper magnate is a rags-to-riches story, literally [indianexpress.com]
Rags to riches: Bill MacAloney: from orphan to successful business owner to CBA [findarticles.com]
From rags to riches: Filipino weavers trade up [reuters.com]
Etc. etc. blah blah
The notion that "anybody can make it in the US if they work hard" is a fairy tale.
Whom do you know who has worked hard and yet failed to secure a comfortable life for themselves? Millions of immigrants prove you wrong by coming with almost nothing, starting restaurants / laundry shops / convenience stores, and then sending their kids to college to become doctors and lawyers.
Sure, if you want to become filthy rich, you need a lot of breaks: talent (not necessarily the "getting good grades" kind of talent), opportunity, and drive. But I don't know anyone who worked hard at improving their situation who is still poor.
1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally.
Yes, really. Just ask Tim Gaitner, Hank Paulson or any of the Chief Embezzling Officers or anyone working for Morgan Stanley.
There are two ways to make a lot of money. Commit big enough crimes, or inherit it. Favorite method: Have your ancestors commit the crimes and then inherit it.
1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally.
It's really not. If you've ever been involved with, or known anyone involved with selling illegal drugs, you'd know how false that statement is.
It's really not. If you've ever been involved with, or known anyone involved in politics, you'd know how false that statement is.
its actually pretty hard. you have to be a committed passionate demagogue
sure, if you are in politics, its easy to rip people off
however, its very hard to get in that position in the first place
so, just as the post you are responding to says, it is easier to make money legally than illegally
I tend to wonder at the accuracy of that assumption. I think that drug dealing is a lot like acting - people see all the famous actors and say "I can get rich as an actor", but don't notice that it is only the top one percent or so that truly make it - the rest struggle to get by, or make a moderate living at best. Additionally, as a drug dealer, you also have to avoid the law - being wildly successful for 5 years then getting caught and put in jail for ten to twenty makes flipping burgers more profitable an endeavor over the long term. Not to mention the rather short life expectancy of many of the most successful due to "competition".
So, short term, yeah, dealing (or many types of crime) is easier than making money legally. But long term, you either have to be really good, and thus invest much effort in staying one step ahead of both the law and those looking to "replace" you, or you lose the advantage that crime had, and then some. And if you are investing the required effort successfully, you likely could have done equally well working legitimately. Sure, there are the Dons and Columbian drug lords that are the exception, but again - only the top 1% or less enjoy that privilege.
1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally.
Even if I wasn't handing over around half my income to the gubmint, I doubt this would be true. If it were true there wouldn't be many crims left...
Even if the control machines loose DNS resolution, might not the botnet be configured to fall back to connecting to well known IP addresses to accept commands?
You'd have to store that IP somewhere, which means in the clients, which means it'll be found and either disabled or lead them right to your door.
Even if the control machines loose DNS resolution, might not the botnet be configured to fall back to connecting to well known IP addresses to accept commands? Seems like the logical thing to do if you are creating an illegal network...
Well, here are a few thoughts:
As others have pointed out, this teaches every other botnet author a lesson on what can be done. The problem ain't solved by a longshot, but maybe the Internet is safe for another night (cue Batman music).
Sounds like a DMCA violation if you ask me. Won't someone think of the (botnet) authors?!
Domains and IRC are dead ends for current botnets anymore exactly because authorities can shut them down.
The newer botnets use Peer to Peer networks for command and control. Either a In House private P2P or (most likely since they're already established) a public P2P like Kademila or Gnutella. Then all you would have to do is search the network with a authorization string+botnet command string embedded in it(IE: randomhexspamtheworld). When the bot receives the search string, it validates against the author
I would have it passively scan well-known websites for hidden messages. For example, browse Slashdot at -1 and pick up posts which contained a specifically formatted payload. Once the message was decoded, verify the message's signature against a public key and execute the payload.
Or on places which allow for image uploading. Use steganography to embed the payload into the images. Or Twitter status messages... look for specific hashtags such as #flamewar or something relatively obscure then follow the UR
##Monkey Cow Chicken Fly 128!k93>>22k5gg91
I find your proposition utterly preposterous!
Presumably if Microsoft have done their homework, they have identified every possible machine that these bots could try to contact to receive new instructions (such as new SPAM messages to send) and had VeriSign disable every domain name so it cant be registered or used.
Does this mean the botnet is dead?
If so, great. And lets hope people are working to repeat the excercise and block the domain names used for control of any other botnets that talk to specific servers by name for instructions.
If i was a botnet author, i would keep a list of my zombies and code the bots in a way they respond to a secret password.
Thus it doesn't really matter if a command center is down, i could just start a new one and it reclaims all orphaned zombies.
Cutting a few command centers is futile.
The only solution is to burn all zombies overnight and prevent reinfection.
If i was a botnet author, i would keep a list of my zombies
Which would leave a trace back to you, because that list has to be assembled somewhere.
Given the way these worms/trojans spread and the sort of PCs they are most likely to infect, even if you COULD compile a list of valid IP addresses its a good bet that those machines would be
A.No longer infected (because its been cleaned by the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool or by anti-virus or by a re-image of the computer from a recovery partition/CD/DVD or a standard corporate disk image)
B.Firewalled off (corporate networks etc)
C.Running behind NAT (again corporate networks using NAT or home use
1,5 billions of spam messages per day. Multiply each message by 10 seconds of working time it takes to activate e-mail window and delete the spam-message, and it becomes clear what damage to the word economy it brings. Let alone disrupted work-flow.
It is the weapon of mass economic destruction.
Such spammers should be warned, once, twice, and if they do not cool down a drone should come above their building and shoot a "Hellfire" missile right into the server room.
Or at least black-clad agents should enter t
As glad as I am when botnets are crippled or shut down, I can't help but ask: Why is Microsoft the one pursuing this in court, rather than the government? Under what legal principle does Microsoft, a private corporation, have standing to sue for control of these domain names?
You must have missed where Microsoft bought out the government. Please report to your local Microsoft (Re)Education Center for more details. Bring your passport.
I assume that by owning @hotmail.com and @microsoft.com, Microsoft itself was the target of a large amount of spam from this botnet. That would give Microsoft standing to sue, as well as a lot of evidence to back up its claims.
At least that is what the headline could be. Disabling foreign internet service is a big deal.
Could be a serves them right for registering as
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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The guy didn't harm anyone and we're locking him up in a cage for 5 years. Well I guess it serves him right for living in this stupid country. Being born here was the dumbest thing I've ever done and remaining here when I could leave is even dumber.
Well, leave then. Plenty of places will accept you if you have a degree. Don't let the door hit you where the dog should have bit you.
Leave to where? Is there somewhere that the Global Police Force doesn't give itself jurisdiction?
No one harmed? Somewhere there is a movie exec still driving a 2012 S-class Mercedes because he can't afford a new one. How can people live in such utter poverty?
Actually I messed this up. What I meant to say was "Somewhere there is a mistress of a movie exec still driving a 2012 S-class Mercedes because he can't afford a new one." The movie exec is still driving a Bentley.
Prison time for conspiracy, not infringement.
Yeah, but if this guy hadn't been pirating then the movie industry wouldn't have lost out on billions of dollars of revenue and this recession thing might not have been so bad. After all, half the people without jobs lost them because of him.
Maybe it's just the fact that a physical structure (the movie theater) has been compromised in a way similar to breaking and entering, but I honestly think there's a difference between copying a DVD and setting up receivers in a movie theater to capture a proprietary audio broadcast.
I don't. I think the dividing line is the commercial benefit. Nobody should ever see jail time for downloading copyrighted materials. But selling them without permission? How else are we supposed to provide them an incentive not to do this? On one hand, copyright has been distended all out of proportion, on the other hand these guys were selling current media and the more current the better. I have limited sympathy for them. The only sympathy I do have for them is that nobody should be placed into our priso
I don't really see it, maybe if it was an unique theme park ride that lost a lot of its "uniqueness" when people could see it without going there but the movie theater he recorded it in didn't suffer any particular negative effects - not any more than any other movie theater trying to show the same movie at least. Sure it's probably a violation of the cinema's rules like not bringing your own food and drinks, but we don't put people in prison for 5 years because of that. The clash is between this guy and th
He did make over $400,000 in profits. It's hard to argue he didn't take that money from theaters that were paying for the rights to show the movie
Actually, it's very easy. He paid for entry to the cinemas. He never took a cent from the cinemas. He didn't prevent them from showing the movie. No one contemplating going to a cinema would stay at home and watch a lousy cam rip instead if you imply he reduced their market. Though if the movies were complete crap maybe some downloaded it as a preview and decided to skip it. But in that case, they probably would have just gone to another film and the cinemas still sold the same number of tickets on average.
breaking and entering
Nobody is accused of that.
intellectual property
Propaganda term.
criminal theft
No such thing happened here.
he set up PayPal accounts
accept payment for IMAGINE's releases
Did a judge decide that IMAGiNE was not engaged in fair use? See, long before our copyright system was hijacked and turned into a weapon aimed at the Internet, we relied on judges to decide if an act of copying was legal or not. You know, back when copyrights wer
He made more than $400,000 in profits from his illegal wiretapping.
I don't see that figure, or any figure, in TFA.
Otherwise you use the words "Illegal wiretapping", "criminal theft". Makes him sound really evil. But I didn't see those words in TFA either. Though I don't doubt the *AAs would use them. Did you just make them up?
I don't see how anyone could make more than pocket change distributing movies online. Who'd pay? You can get them free in a minute if you want. Especially since it sounds like he was making cam rips in cinemas. I wouldn't watch a cam rip if you paid
He made more than $400,000 in profits from his illegal wiretapping.
Bingo! We have a winner here. 5 years for stealing (yes, stealing) $400k is not terribly unreasonable. That works out to about $80k a year. Definitely a reasonable salary.
I'm glad to not live in USA. Prison is meant to prevent individuals from physically harming others; someone arguably causing profit loss to some corporation belongs to a civil (not criminal) court.
Unlike theft, with copyright infringement there is no loss of the source, its someone taking a photograph of a painting without permission, not someone taking it away from its owner.
Besides copyright in USA was meant to put a limit to hereditary rights from the English printer guilds, not preserve them. That is wh
I am so glad our Justice Department is busy locking up such horrible and dangerous criminals. Thank goodness the Department of Justice is hard at work locking up these criminal masterminds. Now we can all feel safer.
They go to great lengths to ensure the content industry fat cats don't lose any money, because how else could they afford their eight figure salaries if a few people get their disgusting hands on their content without paying? They might have to go down to
At least here, they're going after someone who was systematically and deliberately distributing copyrighted content, rather than just some poor kid running bittorrent.
You do know these corporations are publicly owned? That people who work for a living have 401K retirement programs that share in the profits of these films? Unlike so many that simply downloaded films for their own use this dude had a business going where he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit. He is the type of pirate who the criminal copyright laws were written for originally. He belongs in prison.
Although I agree that commercial infringement like this deserves the slammer, I don't agree that anyone lost any money. The only way copyright infringement costs sales is if the book or movie sucks and people are warned that it sucks. On the other hand, there are many fine books and films that will lose money because nobody heard of them. Nobody but bad authors ever lost money from copyright infringement (in this case I'd say the money the guy made belongs to the studios) but many artists starve from obscur
It's really hard to say but the way I always look at it is that if someone downloads a movie from someplace like a torrent then you can't say if they would have paid for it or not. On the other hand here we have people that did pay for it and the money did not go to the studios. You can't really say they didn't lose money because technically any money he made was lost to the studios.
In this case I agree, folks were paying for these downloads. I mentioned in another comment that this was in fact wrong, that the money paid should have gone to the studios. TPB is entirely different; studies all show that piracy sells content, although counterfeiting does not. Piracy and counterfeiting are two didfferent things.
I remember getting quite a few releases from IMAGiNE back in the days where I still had lots of FTP accounts. Nowadays I don't really know/care who releases it as I just grab it from usenet.
IMAGiNE made telesync cam copies. If that wasn't bad enough they then encoded the already shitty video using xvid thus guaranteeing it would be soft and blocky with muddy colours.
I'd give them another couple of months.
I'd give them another couple of months.
You remind me of a joke my wife told me:
A retired couple was on their porch swing watching the neighborhood when the wife leans over and suddenly slaps her husband. "That's for forty years of bad sex!".
They continue sitting still for a few minutes when the husband leans over and suddenly slaps her back. "That's for knowing the difference!"
There's plenty of free software and media out there... no need to rip people off.
Sigmund Freud is alleged to have said that in the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.