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Discover the beautiful town of Spoleto in the region Umbria, the green heart of Italy, an ideal place to spend a holiday of culture and culinary cooking art!
In the beautiful region of Umbria, the "green heart" of Italy, is the fascinating town of Spoleto. Besides the well known destinations of Perugia, Assisi and Lake Trasimeno, Spoleto offers an interesting cultural vacation destination, that leaves nothing to be desired. NOVASOL offers a lot of holidays homes in Umbria. Admire the dominant Rocca Albonorziana that offers daytime and at night an impressive spectacle! From the castle like building you can enjoy a wide view of the imposing, 230 meters long and 76 meters high bridge "Ponte delle Torri", which connects two mountains and is the most famous symbol of the city. The ancient bridge overlooks the valley and offers breathtaking views of the typical, marked by dense and lush vegetation, pristine landscape of this region in Central Italy. Art lovers will find in the city several churches from different periods and architectural treasures. Particularly interesting are the Romanesque Cathedral Santa Maria Assunta with an impressive facade and bell tower, right on the beautiful main square, where also the theatre Caio Melisso is; The church of San Filippo from the 17th century, and, outside the city, the wonderful church of San Salvatore, one of the most important testimonies of Longobard architecture, which was included in the list of UNESCO world Heritage Sites and will surely enchant you. In addition to the ancient Arco di Druso, history lovers will find in Spoleto a Roman theatre, which will make the visitor travel back in time. This Umbrian city is also the seat of the annual international music and cultural event Festival dei Due Mondi. Not to forget the many good restaurants with local dishes: a true highlight for gourmets !! Typical of the area are black truffles, cured meats and fine wines to enjoy in your holiday home in Umbria. Art, history, good food: Spoleto invites you! Enjoy your stay in this nice holiday destination and discover the beautiful region of Umbria!


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Stories from Bug Garden
One by one by one, the bugs move into a forgotten garden. They make friends, go on adventures, and learn to call this very special place Home. Come peek between the blades of grass at the secret lives of a garden's tiniest inhabitants.
Squirrel's Fun Day
Squirrel wants to have a fun, fun, fun day, but Mouse is too busy. Turtle is too sleepy and Rabbit is too worried. It's Squirrel to the rescue!
Cowboy Boyd and Mighty Calliope
Calliope isn't like all the other horses at the Double R Ranch. She's a rhinoceros, and Boyd has a real strong belief in her.
Railroad Hank
Railroad Hank and his fine little train are headed up the mountain. He's heard that Granny Brett is feeling kind of blue, and he is bound and determined to help.
Perfect Soup
All Murray wants is a carrot for Perfect Soup, but everyone demands some outrageous favors in return. When Snowman offers a simple gift, asking nothing in return, Murray learns that friendship is more important than perfection.
Kisses on the Wind
Grandma takes Lydia on a very special walk and teaches her how to say good-bye, and more importantly, how to keep love alive.
Squirrel's World
Squirrel is busy, busy, busy. He has to help all of his friends—usually to disastrous results.
The Monster in the Backpack
The Monster in the Backpack is the story of a lively little monster and the girl who comes to love him.
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The Gallatin Art Crossing just got a whole lot cooler! The program aimed to beautify downtown Bozeman now has a spiffy new website full of great information about the dozens of sculptures you see around town.
Ever wonder what the spin-able stone near the corner of Bozeman and Main is about? Click here and read all about the artist, Pete Stecher, and even ask the artist questions. Using the new interactive map on the Gallatin Art Crossing's website, you can locate 'Turning Stone' and browse the other 50+ sculptures and see their locations and hi-res photos.
Do you have a favorite sculpture? Vote for it in the Peaple's Choice Awards. There are four scultpures holding this honor including my favorites: 'Tortoise' near Helly Hanson and 'Turning Stone' near the intersection of Bozeman and Main.
The Gallatin Art Crossing is also responsible for possibly the coolest looking electrical boxes in the nation! Have you seen the art on the electrical boxes? Did you know it was a huge collaborative effort between artists and people wanting to keep Bozeman beautiful? It's called the Downtown A.R.T Project and you can see all of the boxes and their art right here.
About a month ago, the Gallatin Art Crossing installed an information kiosk constructed of a recycled Bridger Bowl chairlift pole in the Soroptimist Park, on the south west corner of Rouse and Main. Here you can see a map of the sculptures around Bozeman and soon there will be a mobile app so you can take the tour with you on your phone!
I could go on and on because I'm a huge supporter of the effort the Gallatin Art Crossing is putting into making Bozeman even better than before. I think the old saying goes something like, "We should all aim to leave this world a bit more beautiful than when we arrived."


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This week, Microsoft addressed two vulnerabilities in the Ancillary Function Driver (AFD) that could allow non-privileged users to elevate their privileges to SYSTEM. In this blog entry, we look at one of the patched vulnerabilities and demonstrate practical exploitability against x64 Windows 7 using the techniques presented at INFILTRATE 2011 on modern kernel pool exploitation.
The Ancillary Function Driver (AFD) is the kernel management layer of the Windows Sockets interface. As with many other popular operating systems, Windows and AFD manages network connection endpoints as sockets. The socket paradigm was adapted for Windows in Windows Sockets 1.1, and supported the most basic functionality traditionally found in BSD. The main goal behind this design was to make it easy for Unix developers to port their existing network aware applications to the Windows platform. Microsoft later introduced the Windows Sockets 2 architecture, compliant with the Windows Open System Architecture. Winsock 2.0 defines a standard service provider between the application programming interface (API), with its functions exported from WS2_32.dll and the protocol stacks. This allows Winsock 2.0 to support multiple transport protocols, whereas Winsock 1.1 is limited to TCP/IP only. Over the Winsock standard, Windows also includes additional extensions to primarily enhance performance (e.g. TransmitFile) and conserve use of memory and processing such as in providing the ability to reuse sockets (e.g. supported by ConnectEx and AcceptEx).
Winsock Architecture
The Winsock architecture is divided into a user-mode and kernel-mode layer. At the highest level, applications interact with the Windows Sockets API (ws2_32.dll), which offer familiar functions such as bind, listen, send, and recv. These functions call into a suitable provider, either defined by the system or by an application. For instance, VMCI sockets can be used by VMware virtual machines to communicate with other virtual machines. Here, the VMCI provider (installed by VMware Tools) calls in to the VMCI socket library (vsocklib.dll) which then calls into the VMCI driver (vmci.sys) responsible for managing and calling out to the host/other virtual machines. Similarly, Windows registers a provider for the Winsock API (mswsock.dll) for its natively supported protocols such as TCP and UDP. Winsock then operates through the Ancillary Function Driver (afd.sys) to perform the necessary socket management and callouts to TCP/IP.
Although the networking architecture in Windows changed notably in Windows Vista, the way applications interact with the Windows Sockets API and their interaction with AFD remains largely the same.
Socket Management
The Ancillary Function Driver, or afd.sys, is responsible for creating and managing socket endpoints in Windows. Internally, Windows represents a socket as a file object, with additional attributes defined to keep track of state information such as whether a connection has been established or not. This allows applications to use standard read and write APIs on socket handles to access and transmit network data.
When AFD is first initialized, it creates the AFD device (in turn accessed by Winsock applications) and sets up the associated driver object IRP handlers. When an application first creates a socket, the IRP_MJ_CREATE routine (afd!AfdCreate) is called to allocate an endpoint data structure (afd!AfdAllocateEndpoint). This is an opaque structure that defines every unique attribute of each endpoint as well as the state it is in (e.g. whether it is connecting, listening, or closing). AFD functions operating on the endpoint structure (e.g. the send and receive functions) will typically validate the endpoint state before proceeding. Additionally, a pointer to the endpoint data structure itself is stored in the FsContext field of the socket file object such that AFD can easily locate the socket management data. AFD also keeps track of all endpoints through a doubly linked list (afd!AfdEndpointsList), such as for determining whether an address has already been bound.
The majority of the functionality found within AFD is accessed through the device I/O control handler. AFD also provides fast device I/O control routines in order to service requests which can be satisfied directly from the cache manager and don't require an IRP to be generated. AFD will attempt to use the fast I/O dispatch routines whenever possible, particularly when reading and writing network data. However, in some situations where more extensive processing is needed, it will fall back to the regular IRP-based mechanism. An example of this is whenever the size of a datagram exceeds 2048 bytes, or when a connection (endpoint) isn't in the expected state.
When looking at functions in AFD, particularly those called by the dispatch I/O control routine, it is important to pay attention to the validation being made immediately to the request. In fact, looking over most functions in AFD, one may repeatedly notice validation (compares) against constants such as 0xAFD0, 0xAFD1, 0xAFD2, and so on. These are constants describing the state of the active socket endpoint/connection and are stored in the very first 16-bit field of the endpoint data structure. For instance, 0xAFD1 indicates an endpoint representing a datagram socket while 0xAFD0, 0xAFD2, 0xAFD4, and 0xAFD6 indicate endpoints representing TCP sockets in various states.
AFD!AfdPoll Integer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0148)
The Windows Sockets API allows applications to query the status of one or more sockets through the select function. These requests are handled internally by the AFD.SYS driver in the afd!AfdPoll function (internally calls afd!AfdPoll32 or afd!AfdPoll64 depending on the process that made the I/O request), and are processed whenever the AFD device is issued the 0x12024 I/O control code. This function processes a user-supplied poll information (AFD_POLL_INFO) buffer that contains all the records (AFD_HANDLE) for the sockets to query. The definitions of these structures are listed below (based on ReactOS).
typedef struct _AFD_HANDLE_ { SOCKET Handle; ULONG Events; NTSTATUS Status; } AFD_HANDLE, *PAFD_HANDLE; typedef struct _AFD_POLL_INFO { LARGE_INTEGER Timeout; ULONG HandleCount; ULONG Exclusive; AFD_HANDLE Handles[1]; } AFD_POLL_INFO, *PAFD_POLL_INFO;
Upon receiving this data, AFD calls afd!AfdPollGetInfo to allocate a second buffer (from the non-paged pool) to aid in storing information returned as the individual sockets are queried. Specifically, each AFD_HANDLE record is denoted its own AFD_POLL_ENTRY record in this internal buffer structure (which we call AFD_POLL_INTERNAL).We describe these opaque structures as follows.
typedef struct _AFD_POLL_ENTRY { PVOID PollInfo; PAFD_POLL_ENTRY PollEntry; PVOID pSocket; HANDLE hSocket; ULONG Events; } AFD_POLL_ENTRY, *PAFD_POLL_ENTRY; typedef struct _AFD_POLL_INTERNAL { CHAR Unknown[0xB8]; AFD_POLL_ENTRY PollEntry[1]; } AFD_POLL_INTERNAL, *PAFD_POLL_INTERNAL;
Before processing the user-supplied buffer (AFD_POLL_INFO) to query each individual socket, afd!AfdPoll ensures that the buffer is large enough to fit the number of records indicated by the HandleCount value. If the size is too small, the function returns with an insufficient size error. While this prevents user-mode code from passing bogus HandleCount values, it does not account for the fact that the size of the records allocated internally by the AfdPoll function exceeds that of the provided poll information buffer. For instance, on Windows 7 x64 the size of an AFD_HANDLE entry is 0x10 bytes, while the size of the corresponding entry allocated internally (AFD_POLL_ENTRY) is 0x28. An additional 0xB8 bytes is also added to store metadata used internally by the poll function. With enough entries, this difference may lead to a condition where AFD sufficiently validates the poll information buffer passed in from user-mode, but triggers an integer overflow when calculating the size of the internal buffer.
Once the function proceeds to query each individual socket and fill in their respective AFD_POLL_ENTRY records of the undersized buffer, a pool overflow occurs as the original HandleCount value is used to determine the number of records to be processed.
The security impact of a vulnerability is in many ways tied to its exploitability. In order to assess the exploitability of the described vulnerability, we need to understand both the conditions under which the vulnerability is triggered as well as how the affected module interacts with system components such as the kernel pool allocator.
In order to trigger the vulnerability, we first need to allocate enough memory to ensure that the multiplication/constant addition results in an integer overflow. This is because AFD internally validates the size of the user provided buffer by dividing it by the size of each record (AFD_HANDLE) to see if the supplied count (HandleCount) is consistent. On x64 (Win7), 0x6666662 elements are enough to cause a wrap, meaning that a user-mode buffer of size 0x10 + (0x6666662 * 0x10) is required to be passed to the driver. This translates to 1638MB which furthermore needs to be cached in an internal kernel buffer by the I/O manager as the affected IOCTL uses METHOD_BUFFERED. On x86 (Win7), a user-mode buffer of size 0x99999970 (((0x100000000 – 0x68 / 0x14) * 0xC) – 0x10) has to be allocated. As this is only feasible in /3GB configurations, and the kernel needs an equivalent amount of memory to be cached, we don't consider this vulnerability to be practically exploitable on 32-bit systems.
As the vulnerability results in an out-of-bounds copy to an undersized pool allocation, sufficient knowledge about the pool allocator and its inner workings is also needed. When dealing with pool overflows, one of the most important questions that comes up is whether the attacker is able to limit the number of elements that are written outside the allocated buffer. As the kernel pool is used globally by the system, any memory corruption could potentially affect system stability. In the most frequent case, the vulnerable code will use the count value that was initially used to cause the integer overflow and thus copy elements until an invalid page is hit either in the source or destination buffer. As both buffers are allocated in kernel-mode (METHOD_BUFFERED has already cached the user provided buffer), we cannot rely on unmapped pages to terminate the copy if say the buffer was passed in directly from user-mode. However, there are also cases where validation is enforced on each copied element, which may allow the attacker to terminate the copy arbitrarily (e.g. see the vulnerabilities discussed in "Kernel Pool Exploitation on Windows 7").
In the vulnerable function, AFD copies the user-supplied AFD_POLL_INFO structure to an internal and potentially undersized buffer allocation. This internal structure is later on processed by the same function when querying the status of each individual socket. Before each AFD_HANDLE entry (embedded by the AFD_POLL_INFO structure) is copied to the internal buffer, afd!AfdPoll64 calls ObReferenceObjectByHandle to validate the socket handle and retrieve the backing file object of each respective entry. If the validation fails, the function terminates the copy operation and ignores the remaining entries. In the context of exploitation, this becomes very valuable as we can terminate the pool overflow at the granularity of the size of an internal record structure (sizeof(AFD_POLL_ENTRY)).
At this point, we know that we can limit the overflow at 0x28 boundaries. We also know that we can overflow the size of the internal buffer structure because we control n in size = 0xB8 + (n * 0x28). The next task then becomes to find a suitable target of the overflow. For this particular bug, we leverage the PoolIndex attack as described in "Kernel Pool Exploitation on Windows 7", and overflow the pool header of the next pool allocation. In order to do this reliably, we have to do two things.
- Manipulate the kernel pool such that reliable and predictable overwrites can be achieved.
- Find a suitable size to allocate such that we overflow just enough bytes to corrupt the adjacent pool header.
Finding the desired size essentially depends on the allocation primitives we have at our disposal. Since the pool overflow is in the non-paged pool, we ideally want to use APIs that allow us to allocate and free memory arbitrarily from this resource. One possibility here is the use of NT objects. In fact, the worker factory object (created in NtCreateWorkerFactory) is of particular interest to us because on our target platform (Windows 7 x64), the size of this object is 0x100 bytes (0x110 including the pool header). By providing the AfdPoll64 function with an AFD_POLL_INFO structure and a HandleCount value of 0x6666668, we can cause the size of the internal buffer allocation to overflow and result in a 0xF8 byte allocation. When rounded up to the nearest block size by the pool allocator, the internal buffer will be 0x100, the same size as the worker factory object. This way, we can manipulate chunks of 0x100 bytes in order to position the buffer allocated by AFD to be positioned next to a chunk that we control.
When we trigger the overflow, we copy only two chunks to the internal buffer structure. We do this by providing an invalid socket handle as the third AFD_HANDLE entry. The first record is copied to offset 0xB8 of the internal buffer (whose size is now 0x100), while the second record begins at 0xE0. Because each AFD_POLL_ENTRY record is actually 0x24 bytes in size (padded to 0x28 for alignment), we overflow 4 bytes into the next pool allocation. Specifically, we overflow into the pool header bits (nt!_POOL_HEADER), enough to mount the pool index attack. We fully control the first four bytes in the pool header because the Events value (ULONG) in the AFD_HANDLE structure is copied to offset 0x20 in the AFD_POLL_ENTRY record.
When mounting the pool index attack, we leverage the fact that the pool allocator in Windows does not validate the pool index upon freeing a pool chunk. Windows uses the pool index to look up the pointer to the pool descriptor to which it returns the freed memory block. We can therefore reference an out-of-bounds pointer (null) and map the null page to fully control the pool descriptor. By controlling the pool descriptor, we also control the delayed free list, a list of pool chunks waiting to be freed. If we furthermore indicate that the delayed free list is full (0x20 entries), it is immediately processed upon the free to our crafted pool descriptor, hence we are able to free an arbitrary address to a fully controlled linked list. In short, this means that we are able to write any given controllable address to an arbitrary location. From here, we can overwrite the popular nt!HalDispatchTable entry or any other function pointer called from ring 0.
Update (2012-02-18): Thanks to @fdfalcon for pointing out a miscalculation regarding the memory usage on x64.


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Tonnes of coal is burnt to give us electricity. The extraction of this coal leaves behind a long trail of destruction. Soon, we will run out of this resource as well.
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U.S. Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), notorious on the Web for authoring the widely despised Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), unveiled a new bill this week that seeks to further spread U.S. intellectual property regulations around the world.
Entitled the "Intellectual Property Attache Act" (IPAA), the bill would move the IP attache program, which is currently part of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), to the Commerce Department. IPAA would also expand the IP attache program by making it a full agency, as well as creating a new position, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property.
IPAA was originally a part of SOPA, under Section 205, but was sidelined along with the rest of SOPA after the contentious anti-piracy bill was all but killed following mass online protests against the legislation.
Formally established in 2006, the USPTO's Overseas Intellectual Property Rights Attache program has one mission: "to promote high standards of IP protection and enforcement internationally for the benefit of U.S. economic and political interests abroad," according to the official description. In other words, IP attaches are U.S. government "diplomats" who push for other countries to adopt similar intellectual property protections as those in the U.S., and make sure other countries aren't establishing policies that allow for the infringement of U.S. copyrights. Or, as IPAA describes it, IP attaches would work "to advance the intellectual property rights of United States persons and their licensees…"
TechDirt's Mike Masnick, a strong and outspoken opponent of U.S. intellectual property regulation, sees IPAA and the IP attache program in general as nothing more than the U.S. government forcing the will of Hollywood on the rest of the world. IP attaches, say Masnick, are effectively "Hollywood's global police force."
"[IP attaches] do not have the best interests of the public or the country in mind," writes Masnick. "Their job is solely to push the copyright maximalist views of the legacy entertainment industry around the globe, and position it as the will of the U.S. government."
Masnick also takes issue with the fact that IPAA was basically a "secret" from the public, and is being fast-tracked through the House, with the House Judiciary Committee set to hold a markup on the bill today. (At the time of this writing, the committee had not yet covered IPAA.)
So, should the average Internet user worry about IPAA? That depends on how broken you believe U.S. intellectual property protections are. If you oppose expanding the interests of U.S. copyright holders, then you should probably oppose IPAA. If, however, you are more trusting of the current system, then IPAA probably won't rub you the wrong way. We must also add that one of the co-sponsors of IPAA is Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who fiercely opposed SOPA and just this week became the first congressman to sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom, a petition that seeks to further the goal of an open Web.
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Though the Audi automaker was established in 1909, most of its significant pre-world war two success occurred when the corporation became part of the Auto Union in the 1930s. Attached to evolutionary front-wheel drive cars between 1933 and 1940, the Audi name would go dormant during and well after the Second World War. Through the 1950s, Auto Union (owned at the time by Daimler-Benz) was struggling for survival as the company struggled to maintain profitably selling vehicles under the DKW name. DKW automobiles were far from stellar performers powered by antiquated two-stroke engines. In 1964, a monumental change came as German rival Volkswagen bought into the Auto Union company. With a modern four-cycle engine already in the late development stage, Volkswagen envisioned a stronger new presence resurrecting the Audi nameplate for the post-war era. Featuring a more refined four-cylinder internal combustion powerplant, the Audi division was reformed under the F103 series of vehicles.
Introduced late 1965 as a 1966 model, the Audi F103 line-up consisted of products identified by their engine power ratings. The Audi 72 was first, followed by the Audi 80 and top-performing Audi Super 90. Assembled with strong unibody construction, the Audi F103's 172-inch total length is only 3 inches longer than the current Audi A3. Sold in two-door and four-door body styles, a three-door wagon called the Variant were shapes for the first Audis in 25 years.
A qualified go-getter, stopping was equally noteworthy with the Audi F103. A rarity in the family and smaller vehicle segment, front wheels were equipped with disc brakes. Rather underwhelming compared to even modern entry-level cars, it seems the technology usage for the time by Audi was a precursor to what would be a reputation for performance and handling.
Built between 1965 to 1972, the chance of finding this used Audi in North America is slim. The Audi brand did not land on United States soil until 1970 where the growth was gradual. In actuality, it appears Audi wants American focus on their heritage to center on the Ur-Quattro. However, at this time 45 years ago, the relaunched German auto brand owed their modern success of cars like the A4 and R8 to a mighty little four-cylinder.
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At this year's RSA conference, one of the panel's questioned whether software security is a waste of time. A panellist, John Viega, said a few things that I agreed with, and a lot that I didn't. Especially that
"peer reviews for security are a waste of time."
This statement is wrong on every level.
Everyone should know by now that code reviews find real bugs – even informal, lightweight code reviews.
"Reviews catch more than half of a product's defects regardless of the domain, level of maturity of the organization, or lifecycle phase during which they were applied". What We Have Learned About Fighting Defects
Software security vulnerabilities are like other software bugs – you find them through testing or through reviews. If peer code reviews are a good way to find bugs, why would they be a waste of time for finding security bugs?
There are only a few developers anywhere who write security plumbing: authentication and session management, access control, password management, crypto and secrets handling. Or other kinds of plumbing like the data access layer and data encoding and validators that also have security consequences. All of this is the kind of kind of stuff that should be handled in frameworks anyway – if you're writing this kind of code, you better have a good reason for doing it and you better know what you are doing. It's obviously tricky and high-risk high-wire work, so unless you're a team of one, your code and decisions need to be carefully reviewed by somebody else who is at least as smart as you are. If you don't have anyone on the team who can review your work, then what the hell are you doing trying to write it in the first place?
Everybody else has to be responsible for writing good, defensive application code. Their responsibilities are:
- Make sure their code works – that the logic is correct
- Use the framework properly
- Check input data and return values
- Handle errors and exceptions correctly
- Use safe routines/APIs/libraries
- Be careful with threading and locking and synchronization
A good developer can review this code for security and privacy requirements: making sure that you are masking or encrypting or – even better – not storing PII and secrets, auditing, properly following access control rules. And they can review the logic and workflow, look for race conditions, check data validation, make sure that error handling and exception handling is done right and that you are using frameworks and libraries carefully.
This is what code reviews are for. To look for and find coding problems. If you find these problems – and code reviews are one of the most effective ways of doing this – your code will be safer and more secure. So I don't get it. Why are peer reviews for security a waste of time?


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Three easy ways to make an informal complaint are to use the Enforcement Hotline, Dispute Resolution, or Landowner Helpline.
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The Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) amended the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), 5 U.S.C. §§ 601 et seq, to require that federal agencies establish policies and programs to make their regulations more understandable to small businesses. SBREFA also contains congressional review provisions that require agencies to submit information concerning most new rules to Congress and the Comptroller General. When an agency issues a rule that requires analysis under the RFA, the agency must publish a guide explaining how small businesses are to comply with the rule. Finally, SBREFA amended the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) to allow certain small businesses to recover post-complaint attorney fees in instances in which the agency's final demand is substantially in excess of the decisions of the adjudicative officer and is unreasonable when compared with that decision, given the facts of the case (this provision is limited to adversary adjudications, judicial review of agency enforcement actions, civil penalty actions, and adversary administrative adjudications initiated on or after March 29, 1996).
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We'll start with a Christmas confession. The deer we found to illustrate our holiday cards is more likely a white-tail deer than an actual reindeer. But who were we to resist his cheeky smile? After all, sometimes the holidays are best served with a little dose of irony.
Perhaps you'll ask what's the difference anyway. A deer is a deer and Santa (cover your ears, kids) is a bit of fiction. But actually there are some wonderful facts and contradictions to explore.
Reindeer are called Caribou in North America. Like many members of the deer family, they shed and re-grow their antlers every year — but caribou are the only species where female sport antlers, too. And here's where it gets interesting. Mature males lose their antlers as winter begins, while the females keep them through to Spring. So those eight reindeer helping St Nick at Christmas? All had antlers, and therefore all must have been ladies. While we're not pretending we've cracked the Da Vinci code, it's interesting to consider that the holiday reindeer we always assumed were male must, in fact, have been female.
And Santa was definitely savvy to choose reindeer for his drivers. A study conducted just this year at the University College London established that reindeer are actually the only mammals that can see ultraviolet light, which definitely gives them an edge during snowy nights.
These are but two of our holiday card designs. The whole 14-card collection can be seen .


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Note to self: playing catch-up gives short shrift to each prompt; it would be fitting that I sink my teeth into something occasionally. Is this one of them?
Technology (Prompt 26)
Technology is. I don't like or dislike it, it's just there. Swiftly changing, moving, improving, upgrading, dazzling, and inevitably intimidating the crap out of me. New technology is not necessarily embraced in this cave.
blinking>> Luddite! Luddite!
Say what you will about you or your ancestors living through dramatic new technology changes, the World Wide Web and the Internet win these days, hands down. This is not to disparage the industrial revolution, space travel, or the flush toilet. Nor do I ignore the safety pin, the zipper, velcro, plastic, crazy glue, duct tape, and spandex which are definitely underrated, powerful inventions (that I classify as technological). But let's face it, every generation thinks its new technology is the most significant. And they are right.
So back to the Web and all that, including computers. Failure to adapt to initial steps could potentially leave you behind forever. Or that's how it looks some days. My computer technology curve began with the excitement of a brand-new Family Roots software program. It was shortly after being the recipient of an office discard ― a 1980s IBM computer. What a grand companion this software would be, my cutting edge new BFF! Together we would go places I'd never gone before. My family genealogy would be professionally assembled, charted, preserved.
But the friendship was torpedoed at birth when the stubborn thing erased itself with a little accidental help from me. Disappeared right off my screen and the floppy disk it lived on, away on its own bloody-minded trip to the clouds or wherever. A pivotal moment that forever unhinged me: abused and abandoned. A very kind Steve Vorenburg in Massachusetts listened to my inarticulate weeping on the telephone (another expedient technological invention) and replaced the unrepentant software, but our relationship was never the same again. It's my considered opinion I never recovered from PTSD.
What I'm really missing is the spark or the patience to focus on learning technology that has no interest for me but ironically offers bits and pieces that could make my life easier. Or so they say. Truth is, I find it boring. Bigod, it must be an outright miracle I can even manage a computer. Three quarters of the time, that is.
Luckily I can limp along thus far using a computer, a scanner, and a digital camera. It will take one of my kids and and a good day's intensive training to operate one of those newfangled cell phones.
Now my grandchild is in the hand-held generation. As far as I can tell, her life revolves around that glowing little screen. Unlike her, I was not born instantly wired. My excuse is that I'm a writer and I write.
Cars and Transport (Prompt 27)
CARS! This takes me back, way back!
At first I was going to post some conventional drivel but instead, my four-wheeled life looked something like this. Like my children later, I don't feel like I'm driving unless it's four-on-the-floor. Some are not precisely as pictured! The old family slides are only now slowly being digitally scanned.
|MGA: Poor car got burgled often downtown
when in grad school
|Daimler SP250: BEFORE (only it was painted bronze)
|Daimler SP250: AFTER ((hill climb competition accident after a friend bought it from me)
|TR4: Input from the other half
|Porsche S90: Much more manageable than a Daimler!
|Jaguar & GTO: Not exactly the best photo (of the cars, that is)
|Formula Ford: The other half gets serious
|Formula B: More serious; the Watkins Glen NY, Lime Rock CT, St-Jovite QC, Mosport circuit. The Canadian Race Drivers Association held wonderful dinner dances off-season.
|BMW 730: There was also a BMW 630
|Dodge Caravan: It was all downhill after that
I think that's enough on cars for a lifetime. Nowadays I prefer driving a camel.
© 2014 Brenda Dougall Merriman


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|Broom Regulatory Control
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Level 6, Ministry of Magic, London
Authorises and regulates Broom usage
- "Level Six, Department of Magical Transportation, incorporating the Floo Network Authority, Broom Regulatory Control, Portkey Office and Apparition Test Centre."
- —Voice of lift at the Ministry of Magic.[src]
The Broom Regulatory Control is part of the Department of Magical Transportation in the Ministry of Magic. This particular branch is in charge of managing the usage and maintenance of magic Brooms and is located on the sixth level of the Ministry of Magic Headquarters.[1]
There has never been any mention of licencing requirements in order to use broomsticks, even racing brooms like Harry Potter's Firebolt. The Broom Regulatory Control may be responsible for regulating the manufacturers of magical broomsticks, rather than policing their users.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 7 (The Ministry of Magic)
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Kurt Busch channels LeBron James, says: 'I'm taking my talents to Denver'
Kurt Busch, rather amazingly, fit in just about every major sports meme of the past three years into one answer.
The former NASCAR champ and newest driver of the No. 78 car for Furniture Row Racing, on Friday was asked about moving to the Denver-based garage. He said:
"I had the wrong approach I think in the beginning of the season. I was following my Zen master Charlie Sheen and that wasn't going very well. I had to look around and then I followed a fellow most top 10 hated athlete guy LeBron James. He brought his talents down to Miami and won the championship down there.
I'm going to use that motivation, I'm going to take my talents to Denver and bring the championship out there.
Then I decided that I didn't need Charlie Sheen so I'm going to look at a new Zen master, I found him, it's Bryce Harper. 19-year-old phenom out of Las Vegas, he is the Nationals guy that has helped their team get into the playoffs. He is so wise he told the media 'no more clown questions. I'm not going to answer any clown questions.' I'm really looking up to a 19-year-old Bryce Harper to help me through all this."
Busch was introduced at his first Furniture Row news conference Friday morning in Dover, Del., with team general manager Joe Garone.
Busch on Monday became the newest, loudest voice in Denver sports when it was announced he would join Furniture Row Racing and drive the No. 78 car in NASCAR's Sprint Cup next season.
Then on Thursday, Regan Smith, the current and soon-to-be former driver of the 78, said Busch was going to replace him even sooner — just a few weeks from now, at Charlotte.


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Even though most advisors are running their business better with improvements in such hard areas as technology and compliance, many of them have made less progress in building strong relationships with today's clients. They also risk missing out on tomorrow's growth by neglecting audiences beyond the traditional affluent white male client.
These advisor alerts aren't mine. They come from an eye-opening "Investor of the Future" study released in June by Pershing Advisor Solutions.
Consider this: More than half of adult Americans are single, according to Pershing's Kim Dellarocca (as reported by ThinkAdvisor.com on June 6). Many women are their family's sole breadwinner. Same-sex marriage is already legal in 10 states (and the recent Supreme Court ruling will extend federal benefits to same-sex couples), and racial minorities will become a majority of our population over the next 30 years.
How can advisors use this information to stay current and embrace the future? I questioned Dellarocca, head of segment marketing and practice management at Pershing, to glean her insights and recommendations.
Olivia Mellan: According to the study, female advisors tend to have a more diverse client base with whom they are more deeply engaged. Does this imply that male advisors focus more narrowly on niche markets?
Kim Dellarocca: I think the male advisors we surveyed grew their business by focusing on where the wealth was during that time. For example, if an advisor is 55 years old and has been working since age 25, his typical client over the past 30 years—an affluent white male head of household—reflected top earners during that time.
When women entered the advisory business, many looked elsewhere for clients: for other women, for clients with different lifestyles, for more ethnic diversity. Some male and female advisors haven't changed their business model to catch up with where the wealth is now.
OM: Should advisors have a diversified "portfolio" of clients? What research findings point to (or against) this idea?
KD: Yes, they should be diversified, and they don't have to look far to diversify. Among their existing relationships, they can diversify immediately by cultivating the wives and children of their existing male clients. These different genders and generations are important segments to develop.
OM: I've urged advisors for years to not only cultivate both spouses but to facilitate family retreats involving all generations. Speaking of client diversity, your survey report says "Diverse groups almost always outperform homogeneous groups […] by a substantial margin." Can you explain further?
KD: Several outside sources have reinforced the point that diversity is good for business. For example, companies with more women in management positions and more diversity among the staff tend to perform better [than those with a more homogeneous makeup].
Diversity—whether measured by gender, age or ethnicity—encourages you to look beyond your sameness. If you're always around those with whom you agree, where's the innovation? Who's going to point out your blind spots? With a more diverse advisory practice, you will also get more views that closely mirror the demographics of future clients and the work force of the future.
OM: What does your research tell us that male advisors might learn from female advisors? What could female advisors learn from their male counterparts?
KD: Men could learn from women that clients have moved from looking for performance to looking for a relationship. And women are good at developing relationships. So men could learn from women to be great listeners; they could learn to engage with more members of a client's family; they could focus on competencies other than just managing money, like estate planning, family governance or special-needs children, to give some examples.
Women could learn from men to be more confident. This doesn't mean that a woman should act like a man. She should just be herself and ask for what she needs to be successful in her job or career. Men are likely to start with a "yes" and then negotiate for what they want, whereas women think about what they want or need but don't know how to ask for it. Their hesitation to say "yes" can take them out of the negotiation.
OM: Two-thirds of advisors in the survey said they believe widows and widowers will be an important client segment in the future, yet we've learned that 70% of new widows fire their advisor within a year. What are advisors doing wrong or not doing right?
KD: They're not building a relationship with their female clients. If the male head of household is their client and they haven't taken time to focus on the spouse, a widow may turn to another trusted source for financial advice. A financial advisor should have such a close relationship with the wife that if something happens to her partner, the advisor is the first person she would call. The relationship should be that close.
OM: Do many advisors turn off younger investors? How can they reach this 35-and-younger group more effectively?
KD: I don't think younger clients necessarily want to see a younger advisor; they just want to see someone who "gets" them. So my suggestion is to take time to understand them before you market to them. Understand how they want to be communicated with, what motivates them, what are their concerns. Then build an offering and an office around them. Don't just try to serve them the way you serve boomer clients.
OM: Advisors in the survey who say they're "doing better than ever" are optimistic about future growth. But given that many of them aren't planning to hire more advisors in their practices, is this expectation of growth truly realistic?
KD: Growth can mean different things, depending on the advisor's age, business goals and so on. You want to use your [existing] staff for maximum efficiency, and there are many other ways to improve efficiency, such as with better technology. So while you may need to hire to support your goals, you wouldn't automatically say, "I'm optimistic about growth, so I'll hire 10 more people."
OM: Considering the small percentage of business owners in the affluent segment and the fact that owners' assets are typically tied up in the business, should advisors limit their pursuit of this kind of client? Why or why not?
KD: It's true that business owners have a lot of money tied up in the business, but other marketing opportunities exist. An owner's staff might have money that needs to be managed; she may have other business owner friends and networks that you could work your way into. Or you might provide help for the business itself, like managing their retirement plan. You could provide lending solutions, help with succession planning. Because of this big ripple effect, I wouldn't discourage advisors from taking on these clients.
Today's well-established financial advisors did a lot of things right originally. From my perspective, they now need to take a step back and look at where the investors of tomorrow are. They will need to build bridges with population segments who are different from them but who may need their services in the future. That means researching these audiences to learn their values, how they like to be approached and what they're looking for in an advisor. Armed with this knowledge, advisors should find it easier to determine the changes they will need to make in order to achieve success.


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[Editor's note: Today's post comes to you from guest blogger Tal Kopan. If you'd like to write an injury-related post, message me on Twitter. Thanks!]
Hi. My name is Tal. I'm an athlete, and I have trouble accepting my weaknesses.
I recently learned one of my weaknesses is my IT band.
By way of introduction, I'm a medium distance runner and am working toward a first triathlon, but I consider that my off season. First and foremost, I am an ultimate frisbee player. Continue reading


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Committee set to vote on gun transfer bill
Legislative committee set to vote on gun transfer bill
MADISON, Wis. — A legislative committee is set to vote next week on a bill that would allow Wisconsin residents to purchase rifles and shotguns from dealers anywhere in the nation.
The U.S. Gun Control Act from 1968 banned interstate firearm sales but allowed dealers to sell long guns to buyers in contiguous states. A federal law enacted nearly two decades later granted states the ability to permit people to buy long guns from dealers in any state.
The Republican bill would lift the contiguous state ban on Wisconsin residents.
The Assembly's natural resources committee is set to vote on the bill on Wednesday. Approval would clear the way for a vote in the full Assembly.


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FBI Preaches Dangers Of 'Cybercrime' To The Choir
from the getting-sick-of-the-word-'cyber' dept
FBI Director Robert Mueller recently spoke at a cybersecurity conference where he reiterated his belief that so-called cybercrime will soon surpass terrorism as the biggest threat in America. Perhaps this means that the FBI plans to start manufacturing cyber-threats like they do with terrorist plots—or perhaps it means that, as some people have been saying for years, cybercrime is just crime. Of course, in a room full of professionals who stand to make more money if people are scared of online threats, he's not likely to get a lot of argument.
That's not meant to dismiss cybersecurity professionals—obviously they do a lot of important work, and obviously the FBI is going to need their assistance for plenty of things. But to call cybercrime the country's biggest threat is to lump together a whole bunch of unrelated crimes, most of which aren't even new:
"We are losing data, we are losing money, we are losing ideas and we are losing innovation,' Mueller said at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. 'Together we must find a way to stop the bleeding."
The dangers posed by organized cyber-crime, rogue hacktivists and computer breaches backed by foreign governments have become a focus for the FBI.
Counterterrorism is still the agency's top priority, but the agency has retooled to prepare for Internet-based aggressors, Mueller said. Cyber-squads in every FBI field office now monitor for crimes ranging from mortgage and health care fraud to child exploitation and terror recruiting, he said.
Presumably the FBI already has people specializing in mortgage and health care fraud, child exploitation and terror recruiting—so why portion off the "cyber" versions of these crimes into a separate "squad"? To then combine those things with hacktivism and online espionage just makes the category of "cybercrime" utterly meaningless. It is indicative of their struggle (which mirrors that of governments, the entertainment industry and others) to understand a core concept: the internet is not a separate thing. And even if there is a good administrative reason for organizing things in this way, it is highly misleading to call such a diverse array of crimes a single giant threat.
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High Hopes, Much Success
I could make it easy for myself and just list names of the people who weren't at the Marriott City Center on Saturday night for the High Hopes Tribute Dinner.
But that wouldn't do now, would it?
Nine hundred, give or take, hauled out the heavy artillery — designer gowns, major jewels, hair and makeup professionally done — to be a part of an elegant and star-studded evening that was chaired by Peter and Cathy Culshaw and raised $750,000 for the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes.
Davis and her late husband, Marvin, as we've told you a million times before, started the Carousel Ball 30 years ago when their daughter, Dana, then 7, was diagnosed with diabetes. Twenty-five years ago the family left Denver and moved to Los Angeles so that Marvin, who'd made his fortune in the oil industry, could better oversee his expanding interests. They included show business (he once owned Twentieth Century Fox), real estate and other investments.
They took the Carousel Ball with them — during its Denver years, the ball attracted such as Henry Kissinger and Lucille Ball — renaming it Carousel of Hope and upping the starpower to include not only movie and television figures but presidents and other heads of state.
No other Denver event even came close to the Carousel Ball until the Davises, who have always had a soft spot for their longtime home, started the High Hopes Tribute Dinner. Like the Carousel Ball and Carousel of Hope, it's a fundraiser for the Barbara Davis Center.
High Hopes has always been good, with entertainment provided by such favorites as Neil Diamond and Bob Newhart. But this year was the best, with Grammy- and Academy Award-winning musician/composer David Foster flying in with such friends as the legendary Smokey Robinson, comedian George Lopez, singer/composer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and "American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee to put on a show the likes of which Denver has not seen since the Carousel Ball ended its run in the mid-1980s.
Everyone — from the headliners to the backup singers and boys in the band — donated their services for what must have been a very long day for them. They arrived in Denver around 9 a.m., checked into the Marriott and spent the afternoon rehearsing.
All but Robinson, who was suffering from flu-like symptoms and appeared just long enough to sing two songs, was dressed and ready to party not long after the first guests arrived at 5:30 p.m.
In fact, Lopez's wife, Ann, proved to be one of the best shoppers in the pre-dinner silent auction. Browsing the Jewels for Hope tables, she spotted a diamond-encrusted owl pin that Barbara Davis had donated for the occasion and snapped it up for the $6,000 asking price.
Melly Kinnard, one of the volunteers staffing Jewels for Hope, said Ann Lopez told her she planned to give the VanCleef & Arpels pin to her mother for her 75th birthday.
Katharine McPhee added fuel to the gossip that she has become engaged to longtime beau Nick Cokas, by purchasing the Maui getaway offered for sale in the live auction. Cokas accompanied McPhee to Denver, and fans were wondering if the trip would be used for their honeymoon.
The head table, long and rectangular and situated at the head of the ballroom, was reserved for Davis and the celebrities. They were joined by Davis' daughter and son-in-law, Nancy Davis and Ken Rickel; Nancy's son, Jason; and High Hopes Award recipient Steve Farber and his wife, Cindy.
Another celebrity in the crowd was four-time Indy 500 champ Al Unser. There with his wife, Susan, Unser told us he was attending the benefit to honor Dr. Igal Kam of the University of Colorado Hospital, who had performed a life-saving heart transplant on him several years ago.
Earlier Saturday, a ceremony had been held at the hospital to dedicate a new transplant center. Kam is the director, and his position was endowed by the Farber family, in gratitude for the care Steve Farber had received during his own kidney transplant operation in 2004.
Steve Farber has been a member of the Barbara Davis Center board since the start and the Farber and Davis families share a friendship that spans the decades. As Barbara Davis said at the benefit, she and Marvin had been the hosts for Steve and Cindy's engagement party and had since celebrated many other joyous occasions with them, including the births of children and grandchildren.
Barbara Davis also pointed out that it is fitting to honor one who has had a kidney transplant because kidney problems, sometimes so severe as to necessitate a transplant, are but one complication a diabetic can have.
So who all was there?
From the medical community, Dr. Richard Krugman, dean of the CU School of Medicine; Drs. Peter Chase and George Eisenbarth from the Barbara Davis Center; Dr. Jules Amer, who'd been the Davis family pediatrician; Drs. Georgeanna and William Klingensmith; Dr. Michael Schaffer; and Dr. Richard Abrams, a longtime Barbara Davis Center board member and a co-chair of the High Hopes Tribute Dinner.
From The Guild of the Children's Diabetes Center: Debbie Gradishar, Connie Pohs, Sally Frerichs, Lisa Corley, Herminia Vigil, Wendy Aiello DeHaven, Suzanne Adler, Gretchen Pope, Georgia Imhoff, Bonita Carson, Helen Hanks, Peggy Crane Epand, Goldie Zerobnick, Sandy Alpert, Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons, Margy Epke and Judith Ann Bien, just to name a few.
Also, Steve Farber's father-in-law, Herb Cook, and his wife, Barbara; his law partner, Norm Brownstein with wife, Sunny; Debbie and Jimmy Lustig; Shelly and Rick Sapkin; Deb and Bill MacMillan; Dana and Chuck Farmer; Lorna and Gerald Gray; Sandy Vinnik; Marsha and Ted Alpert; Alice and Jack Vickers; David McReynolds; Evi and Evan Makovsky; Arlene and Barry Hirschfeld; Ellen Robinson and Mark Schwartz; Diane Huttner; Faye and Wayne Gardenswartz; Josh Hanfling; Sue and Doug Seserman; Jody Epstein and Don Yale; Barby Sidon; Bonnie and David Mandarich; Molly Broeren and Bill Mosher; Robin and Steve Chotin; and Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey.
Pictures from the High Hopes Tribute Dinner can be seen at denverpost.com/SeenGallery.
Society editor Joanne Davidson can be reached at 303-809-1314 or email@example.com. Her column appears every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.


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On Wednesday night, after several months of personal inactivity, a Goatse Security administrator finally realized his admin password allowed him to edit the (in)famous security blog Goatse Security. Oblivious to the fact that blogs are generally irrelevant, he and his army then proceeded to vandalize the homepage and cause incalculable damage and loss of life. When the smoke cleared from the battlefield of blogs, many an ego was mortally wounded.
The victory speech went as follows:
Dear Goatsec,
I have taken the liberty of exposing your gaping hole, and hope in doing so that I've given your balls a good twist. As you are a group of self-aggrandizing twats, I have also contacted the media to ensure that this incident gets the coverage it deserves.
In cracking this site, I have sent specially crafted requests to the server with my browser ID spoofed to that of an iPad. Please know that while this was not instrumental in this wondrous crack, it _WAS_ poetic in many ways. I also gave Goatsec the same warning that they gave AT&T… none at all, to patch their gaping hole.
User Accounts have been deleted, and passwords changed.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND THE PREVIOUS ADMIN PASSWORD IS… T2!p*uje7ru*
Props to: The FBI, OseK, MadMax, mre|666, Scratch (Isuki), Sigdie, anyone who knows what Sigdie is, Krashed (because it'll make Bratty happy to see his name on a deface page, even if he didn't have shit to do with it)
Fuckoff to: LoRez (FUCK YOU), weev, Apple, AT&T, MI-5, Harry Pierce, and Gay Niggers everywhere.
The previous admin password, which, as stated, was T2!p*uje7ru*, should be considered compromised. Goatse Security advises the general public never to use this password to protect their personal data again.
Big ups, Krashed;


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"A fur jacket is seriously fabulous". The resurgence of big, fluffy fur jackets on and off the runway gives quite a bit of authority to this claim. For many designers, nothing matches the play in proportions and textures quite like fur. For the wearer, very little can compete with the sensation of leaving the house wrapped in a warm fur coat.
Making a series of trans-Atlantic observations, the team at Mytheresa has noticed how each city has its own unique play on how a fur jacket is worn. In Sydney, where temperatures never go too low, Sydneysiders make good use of natural long wavy hair, denim and a fur gilet. A refreshingly upscale solution to beachside bohemia, and that pesky good weather. On the other end of the thermometer, are girls in Moscow. While fur in Russia has a long-held tradition, more recently we have seen some wonderfully new ways to wear fur jackets that are seriously inspiring our own wardrobes. Bold colours or, in contrast, a cream fur jacket and muted greys, worn either laidback with flared trouser suits or super glamorous, the girls wearing fur straight off the runway can certainly be found here.
The Parisians also have a fond history with fur. One of the things we love to observe on the streets of Paris, is that even young girls run about town in a perfect mink jacket. Classic and understated in their execution, French girls are often drawn to wearing classical coffee hues or furs in their natural state, with neat trousers and flat shoes or little black dresses. That said, Paris haute couture week is always an exception to the rule, with wild puffs of vibrant colours in the form of a short fur jacket, seen on iconic figures crossing the Jardin des Tuileries.
The Milanese women must be influenced by the high level of artistry that surrounds them. With labels such as Marni, Fendi and Prada close by, it's no wonder. A pair of driving shoes worn with black leggings and a creative fur jacket, finished off with a splattering of costume jewellery, is a very Milanese look. London girls really know how to wear a shearling jacket! High-waisted black jeans or girly dresses matched with heavy sheepskin jackets, the Burberry look can be seen across town from Shoreditch house to Sloane dinner parties.
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Energy Efficiency and Solar Electricity Go Hand in Hand
A version of this article appears in the Solar & Efficiency Special issue of Home Energy Magazine.
March 19, 2007
While zero-energy homes (ZEHs) are still more of a goal than a reality, near-zero-energy homes—those that produce as much electricity, but not quite as much total energy, as the residents consume—are up for sale. Indeed, about 12 cutting-edge builders have constructed whole communities of these near-zero-energy homes (NZEHs). These communities of NZEHs have attracted widespread media attention and, more importantly to builders, have sold either better than or as well as their more conventionally built counterparts. These visionary builders have learned some important lessons about how to build and sell homes that are practically energy independent. DOE, through its Building America (BA) program, has been collaborating with these forward-thinking builders, as together they work toward DOE's 2020 goal of creating marketable homes that are highly energy efficient and that produce as much energy as they use. BA research focuses primarily on developing and integrating leading-edge technologies into ZEHs, on developing rate structures to encourage reduction of electricity demand during the summer peak periods, and on developing controls to assist or automate reduction of peak demand. There are currently six BA teams in the United States. Each team is responsible for developing practical and affordable approaches to ...
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ezungu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 577 diseños de 91 diseñadores freelance.
We're launching an innovation hub in Nairobi, Kenya, and we call it the iHub.
This space is a tech community facility in Nairobi, Kenya with a focus on young entrepreneurs, web and mobile phone programmers and designers. It is part open community workspace (co-working), part investor and VC hub and part incubator. It is the nexus point for technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers in the area.
This hub is a community space that is open to all web and mobile phone developers. It is owned and supported by the local tech community and organizations that care about seeing the tech community grow.
The audience is made up of programmers, web designers, mobile application developers and young entrepreneurs. They're usually the college and young professional age, and this place is their zone. A place for them to sit down on super-fast internet connections, work, have events and meetings.
It's a place for the tech community to plant the seeds of their future business ideas and launch startups out of.
The goal is to create a logo that is fun, fresh and embodies the tech spirit, but with an African flair.
The mark is "iHub" with no other text needed.
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- The captain of the East High basketball team and the key member of the academic club shock the student body by teaming to audition for the upcoming school musical in a Disney Channel Original Movie that's all about being yourself and following your dreams. Troy (Zac Efron) is best known as the player who keeps the East High basketball team on the scoreboard. Of course, life isn't always about athletics, though, and as Troy slam dunks on the boards, beautiful and brainy Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) is raising the reputation of East High as the key member of the school's successful academic team. Despite their outgoing natures, no one would ever peg Troy and Gabriella as theater types. When word gets out that this popular pair has secretly chosen to reach for the stars and try their luck on the stage, the students of East High are about to learn an important lesson in teamwork while gearing up for a musical performance that will have their audience dancing in the aisles. © Disney
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Subject: Handling Event-Related Misconduct
- Introduction
In accordance with the Board of Regents Policy on Event-Related Student Misconduct (Policy No. V-8.0), University of Maryland Global Campus ("UMGC") has adopted this Policy to require strong disciplinary sanctions against students who participate in event-related misconduct.
- Definitions
- "Event-related misconduct" is rioting, assault, theft, vandalism, fire-setting, or other misconduct related to an institution-sponsored event, occurring on- or off-campus, that results in harm to persons or property or otherwise poses a threat to the stability of the campus or campus community.
- "Institution-sponsored event" is any event on or off UMGC or University System of Maryland (USM) premises that is initiated, aided, authorized, or supervised by UMGC or USM.
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- Allegations of event-related misconduct will be handled in accordance with the procedures in UMGC Policy 151.00 - Code of Student Conduct, Sections IV through VIII.
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- A student suspended for committing event-related misconduct shall not be admitted to any other institution in the USM during the term of the suspension.
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How to Answer Stupid Job Interview Questions
"Trifecta," said my friend Becky on the phone, although she lives in Colorado; if there's a racetrack around here, it's news to me.
"Trifecta what?" I asked her.
"I just got home from a job interview where they asked me not one, not two, but all three of the idiotic job interview questions you're always railing about."
"All three?" I asked her. "That's amazing. Were these people otherwise reasonable, or was the place a petri dish full of amoebas?"
"Amoebae, I think," said Becky. "I think 'amoebae' is the plural for 'amoeba.'"
"Either way, what were these people like?" I pressed her. "Toads," she said. "I almost didn't go to the interview at all, because the recruiter who set up the appointment said 'Don't be late' to me before she hung up. I knew then and there that I didn't want to work with these people, but like you always say, it's good to go on the interview and get more practice."
"And grow your mojo," I added. "Oh, brother!" said Becky. "This was the world's most slam-dunk mojo-growth interview, let me tell you. As horrible as it was to talk with the toad people, it is nice to remember that I have something valuable to offer, too. It was nice to walk out of there thinking 'If I live to be a million years old, I'll never work for people like that.'"
"Hurrah for you, Becks!" I said. "Now, tell me about the trifecta."
"Here's how it went down," said Becky. "First, they asked me 'Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"Geez Louise, people are still trotting out that awful dusty thing?" I asked. "This lady, the Marketing Manager, was way into it, too," said Becky. "She peered at me intently while I pretended to ponder the question. Finally I said 'I plan to be working hard among smart and committed people doing something I love, five years from now. How about you?'"
"Good for you," I said. "How did the lady react?" "She wasn't into my answer at all," said Becky. "She asked me one of your other Top Three Most Idiotic interview questions, too. She asked me 'What's your greatest weakness?'"
"Oh, mama," I sighed. "I thought about saying 'Chocolate,'" said Becky, "but I finally said "I used to think I had a lot of weaknesses, things that I needed to improve on. I hit 40 and I realized that the things I don't do well are things I don't need to be doing." I told the lady that the older I get, the more I understand the signals that nudge me in the direction of doing things I'm good at and love to do — like graphic design, for instance — and push me away from things I suck at, like spreadsheets. She didn't like that answer, either."
"Did you say 'suck' in the interview?" I wanted to know. "Who can remember?" said Becky. "It was so tedious, I wanted to stick pins in my eyes anyway."
"So what about the last question, "Why should we hire you?" I asked her. "That was another guy, the Art Director," said Becky.
"I'm looking at this guy, the opposite of a creative thinker, someone I couldn't work with if you paid me a million dollars, and I thought 'I bet you any money he asks me why should they hire me.' And he did. He came out with it, like in case it wasn't already clear that these people have as much spark and energy as a pencil eraser."
"How did he phrase it – do you remember?" I was dying to hear the gory details. "He said it the usual way," said Becky. "He said it like he thought it up himself. He was really proud to have this classic 1942 brainless interview question all teed up and ready to go. He looked straight at me and asked me 'With all the talented candidates we have to talk to, why should we hire you?'"
"Oh no," I giggled. "Poor guy."
"Yeah, poor guy," said Becky. "I smiled a really big smile and said 'That is a great question, and I'm not at all sure you should hire me. I haven't met the other candidates, but I'm certain many or all of them will be smart and gifted and full of ideas. I can't compare myself to those folks, of course, but I can tell you that I'm a big believer in things working out for the best, so I'm sure that when I'm sitting in a room with my next manager, both of us will feel the vibe."
"HA HA HA," I bent over double laughing. "Dude's head must have exploded." "It totally did," said Becky. "He said 'What a novel answer.' He wasn't sure what to do next. He walked me to the revolving door after that, and I wondered how many times that guy has asked that same brainless question in job interviews, and waited for people to grovel in front of him and tell him how they're loyal and hardworking and walk old ladies across the street. It's sad, really."
"How do you feel now?" I asked her.
"Amazing," she said. "I just got a massive project designing an annual report and a ton of investor materials, so I'm being choosy about my next full-time job. These guys definitely didn't make the cut."
"One good thing about those godawful interview questions," I said, "is that they make it really easy to know when you're interviewing with people who don't deserve you."
"Truth," said Becky. "Want to hike tomorrow morning? Chinook won't last forever."
It's a new day in the hiring arena. Sharp candidates realize that the employers who don't get them also don't deserve them. Isn't that a wonderful thing to know?


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Houston won its third game in a row with a flurry of first-half activity. Joseph Ngwenya, acquired in a trade for Alejandro Moreno, scored in his third consecutive game, but Moreno responded to tie the game just three minutes later. The decisive goal came in the 29th minute, when Kelly Gray crossed a pass that deflected in off of Crew defender Chad Marshall for an own goal. Houston evened its league record at 5-5-1.
Houston Dynamo (5-5-1) vs. Columbus Crew (1-4-5)
June 10, 2007 -- Crew Stadium, Columbus OH
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Joseph Ngwenya 3 (Brad Davis 3) 22
CLB -- Alejandro Moreno 1 (Guillermo Barros Schelotto 3) 25
HOU -- Own goal (Chad Marshall) 29
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Craig Waibel, Ryan Cochrane, Eddie Robinson (Patrick Ianni 62), Wade Barrett, Brian Mullan, Kelly Gray, Richard Mulrooney, Brad Davis (Corey Ashe 58), Joseph Ngwenya, Chris Wondolowski (Stuart Holden 74).
Substitutes Not Used: Zach Wells, Mike Chabala, Nick Hatzke, John Michael Hayden.
Columbus Crew -- Andy Gruenebaum, Tim Ward, Marcos Gonzalez, Chad Marshall, Rusty Pierce (Jason Garey 81), Ned Grabavoy, Duncan Oughton, Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Robbie Rogers, Alejandro Moreno, Andy Herron (Eddie Gaven 72).
Substitutes Not Used: Bill Gaudette, Kei Kamara, Stefani Miglioranzi, Danny Szetela, Jed Zayner.
Misconduct Summary:
CLB -- Guillermo Barros Schelotto (caution; Delay of Game) 27
HOU -- Joseph Ngwenya (caution; Dissent) 43
Referee: Kevin Stott
Referee's Assistants: George Vergara; Frank Anderson
4th official: Jorge Gonzalez
Attendance: 12,661
Weather: Cloudy-and-79-degrees
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BRUSSELS, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- EU top foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday she was "delighted" that U.S. Sen. John Kerry will take over at the U.S. State Department.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is stepping down Friday from her post as President Barack Obama ushers in a new Cabinet for his second term.
U.S. senators Tuesday overwhelmingly backed Kerry, long-time Democratic senator for Massachusetts, to become secretary of state.
"I am delighted that Sen. John Kerry has been confirmed to succeed Hillary Clinton as U.S. secretary of state," Ashton said in a statement Wednesday. "(His) huge experience and impressive track record, most recently as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gives him the ideal profile for this key post."
Kerry, in opening remarks during his confirmation hearing Tuesday, said economic policy is part of U.S. foreign policy. The European Union has struggled under debt burdens in the wake of the global fiscal crisis.
U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, cast one of the few votes against Kerry. He said that despite Kerry's long record, he's "been, unfortunately, consistently on the wrong side of history" on issues ranging from Latin America to Middle East policies.