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In our Internals and Performance Immersion Event (IE1) in Atlanta this past December (12/2011), a fellow SQL MVP (Aaron Nelson, @SQLvariant) started a discussion about moving LOB data. He was sure that you could move it using DROP_EXISTING but he wasn't sure of the exact scenario. The subject didn't really come back again but it stuck in the back of my mind until last week. During another Immersion Event (IE3 – High Availability/Disaster Recovery) where we discussed ONLINE operations and data balancing this came right back to the forefront…
QUESTION: How can I move LOB data associated with a table?
ANSWER: It depends. There are actually a couple of ways… this week we'll tackle moving LOB data using OFFLINE operations. Next week we'll look at how to do this using ONLINE operations (in all versions of SQL Server)!
Moving LOB Data with OFFLINE Operations
In versions prior to SQL Server 2012, an index that includes LOB columns cannot be built or rebuilt using online operations. However, even with OFFLINE index builds or rebuilds, existing LOB data is not moved. The one exception is when you change from a partitioned table to a non-partitioned table or vice versa. In honesty, the limitations and requirements around LOB data are a bit strange. When you create a table you can specify TEXTIMAGE_ON. This allows the LOB data for that table to reside on a filegroup other than where the data resides. However, this option (TEXTIMAGE_ON) is NOT available for the CREATE INDEX statement. So, where does the LOB data go? It depends on how you execute the statement!
To show you the behavior, I'll create a simple scenario around a table called LOBTest. Here's the definition for LOBTest:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[LOBTest]( [c1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [c2] [char](8000) NULL, [c3] [varchar](max) NULL )
This table will reside in the filegroup that is the database's default filegroup. If you're unsure of what the default filegroup is, use SELECT * FROM sys.filegroups and see which filegroup has a value of 1 for the ier New">is_default column. Instead of allowing a table to be created on the default filegroup you can specify the filegroup by using ON filegroupname. For example,
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[LOBTest]( [c1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [c2] [char](8000) NULL, [c3] [varchar](max) NULL ) ON [Filegroup1]
Additionally, you can use TEXTIMAGE_ON to define the text/image (LOB) data to reside elsewhere – from the data. For example,
>CREATE TABLE [dbo].[LOBTest]( [c1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [c2] [char](8000) NULL, [c3] [varchar](max) NULL ) ON [Filegroup1] TEXTIMAGE_ON [LOBFilegroup]
In this case, the data resides on Filegroup1 and the LOB data on LOBFilegroup. Without a clustered index, this table is an unstructured HEAP on Filegroup1. If you decide later that you want to cluster the table (which literally organizes the data based on the clustering key), then the "data" of the table will be moved and structured based on the clustered index definition. If you create the following clustered index then the data will reside on Filegroup2 but the LOB data will still reside on LOBFilegroup.
CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [LOBTestPK] ON [dbo].[LOBTest] (c1) ON [Filegroup2]
NOTE: This article is NOT about choosing a clustering key or why/when it's appropriate. However, this is generally a good idea. Beware, a poorly chosen clustering key can cause numerous negative performance problems in the database. Check out some of my other articles on this topic for more help on how to create an appropriate clustered index. You want to choose the key wisely!
What if you want to move the LOBData to another filegroup? The TEXTIMAGE_ON option is not allowed during a CREATE INDEX statement. So, if you want to move the LOB data to another filegroup – which is different than the data, then "game over" there is NO way to do this without exporting/importing or using INSERT/SELECT or SELECT INTO. Of these, the best option is INSERT/SELECT as you'll need to first define the table (and you can specific exactly where you want both the data and LOB data will reside) before you copy it over. But, this is single, large transaction and while you're migrating there will have to be some downtime to switch everything (by dropping the original table and renaming the newly created table). And, I haven't even started to mention what happens if this table is being referenced by others. That further complicates this process.
However, there is an interesting trick, one that does NOT require dropping/recreating keys but will still be an OFFLINE operation in versions prior to SQL Server 2012. It's to create the table on a partition scheme using the DROP_EXISTING option. This moves the data and the LOB data to the SAME filegroup (you do NOT have an option to separate them) but you can still move them and with little work. What will be required are a partition function and a partition scheme. The data does not have to be physically partitioned but the data will only move when the table/clustered index goes from partitioned to non-partitioned or vice versa OR from one partition scheme to another.
(1) Create a partition function using the primary key column's data type. Add only one boundary point that's much higher than any existing values in the table. You want to do this so that all of the data ends up on the same filegroup and in the same index structure(s). Choose a right-based partition function so that all of your data (lower than the boundary point value specified) ends up in the first partition.
(2) Create a partition scheme with two filegroups specified. The first partition (the one where the data will reside) should be naming the filegroup to which you want to move data. The second filegroup can just be PRIMARY as no data will reside there.
(3) Rebuild the clustered index on the new partition scheme using DROP_EXISTING.
(4) Create a new table with the same definition on the filegroup where the data resides.
(5) Switch out the partition into the standalone table.>
(6) Drop the partitioned table
Conversely, instead of running steps 4-5-6 you could rebuild the clustered index AGAIN on a new filegroup. This would move the data and the LOB data but not the nonclustered indexes. To move the nonclustered indexes you need to do this using DROP_EXISTING as well.
This is not something you want to first test in production so make sure that you have all of the steps correctly defined but the end result is that you CAN move LOB data without exporting/importing or using INSERT/SELECT.


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Futurama The Game is the first videogame of Futurama. Versions are available for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, both of which use cell-shading technology. A version for the Nintendo GameCube was planned, but later canceled due to a belief that the show's popularity was too limited. A Game Boy Advance version was also planned, but it was cancelled as well.
Released: August 13, 2003
Recurring antagonist Mom buys Planet Express for cynical reasons and the team of Fry, Bender, Leela, and Zoidberg must thwart her evil plot to take over the universe.
As the game begins, Professor Farnsworth has sold the company Planet Express to Mom, after realizing the company has been losing money. With her purchase of Planet Express, Mom now owns over 50% of the planet Earth, and becomes its supreme ruler, taking all humans for slaves and instituting a curfew with 'hoverbot death troopers' patrolling the streets. Fry, Leela, Bender and Farnsworth attempt to escape Earth but the ship is broken and scorched so whilst the others repair the ship, Fry finds a hammer. However, when the two ton pile of steel and junk the hammer was supporting falls on him, he is killed. He is brought back to life by the Professor's Re-Animator and finds all the Professor's tools to fix the ship. Alas, the professor couldn't fix the dark matter engine so Fry must go to the pawn shop and reclaim the back-up engine via the Sewers, Old New York Subway, Old New York and two levels in New New York. Once he does so they escape earth with the Re-Animator and the railgun the professor pawned the back-up engine for.
Mom's plan is bigger than the mere conquest of Earth; she plans to turn the planet Earth into a gigantic warship to conquer the universe. However, in order to move the entire planet off its orbit, she requires a large dark matter engine, that only Professor Hubert Farnsworth knows how to build. She captures the Planet Express ship in a tractor beam from a scrapyard on a desert asteroid. Bender escapes with the Re-Animator and shuts down the tractor beam. Mom's ship, in the shape of Mom's head, captures the Planet Express ship in its mouth and Mom and her sons board the Planet Express ship. They cut off the Professor's head and put it in a jar before hurling the Planet Express Ship into the sun.
In a twist, the Sun actually has a habitable surface, where the Sun People live in fear of the Mighty Sun God, that has killed much of the star's population and created an undead army out of their bones. Leela defeats him, in exchange for dark matter to fuel up the ship, and the crew heads to the planet Bogad, Dagobah spelled backwards minus two letters, home of Professor Farnsworth's mentor Adoy, Yoda spelled backwards, presumed to be the only person capable of hatching a plan to solve the situation. As the crew journeys to Bogad, Mom succeeds in powering up the Earth's Dark Matter engine and proceeds to destroy nearby planets.
On Bogad, the crew meets Adoy, who reveals he's invented a time machine capable of sending them back in time and stop Mom before she became unstoppable. The ship and crew travel into the past but arrive completely out of control, crashing the broken, scorched ship inside the Planet Express hangar with not much time left to prevent the original sale of Planet Express. They leave in their original ship, the broken ship becoming a time paradox.
The crew arrives at Momcorp just in time to prevent the sale, however Mom forces them to fight the robot Destructor. The crew manages to defeat him, but then they are crushed and killed. Professor Hubert Farnsworth has a face-off with Mom and then returns to Planet Express to give his employees some good news. The cutscene shown at the end is actually the first cutscene from the beginning. The game ends the way it began, returning to Level 1 and completing the circle in the timeline, thus creating an infinite parodox loop.
In Futurama, the player controls each of four playable characters on different levels designed for using just one of the characters at once. Most levels include a combination of fighting, jumping, and some puzzle-solving. Making use of each of these characters and their abilities, the player furthers the story along by unlocking interstitial cut scenes that provide more information about the story for the player.
In addition to these playable characters, many other characters from the series make cameo appearances, as well as new characters being introduced for the first time.
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As well as the levels being character specific, each character is also provided with items, health pick-ups, and valuables to collect that will help them in some way.

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Bar Leadership Academy applications now available
Bar Leadership Academy applications now available
First session is set for the Bar Convention
Megan E. Davis
Associate Editor
As The Florida Bar's new Leadership Academy readies to begin accepting applications March 1, the Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism is hard at work developing a diverse and thorough curriculum to shape new leaders for the profession across the state.
"The Leadership Academy provides an exciting opportunity for the fellows to learn new skills not taught by most law schools or legal employers that are going to strengthen the lawyers' own personal and professional development, while benefitting their employers when they bring back and share their knowledge and expanded network," said Linda Calvert Hanson, director of the center.
The topics to be covered will range from strategic planning initiatives to building consensus and synergy to team building to harnessing the power of relationships to leaders looking at the future of the legal profession.
The academy is a key initiative of Bar President-elect Eugene Pettis, who said a growing need for leaders in the profession provided the impetus for the idea.
"It is my hope that fellows who graduate from the academy will be inspired to be leaders within our profession in their chosen path," said Renee Thompson, who worked closely with Pettis in drafting the program. "Fellows will be given a curriculum tailored toward enhancing personal and professional leadership skills which they can utilize in organizations like voluntary bars, bar sections or divisions, the judiciary, governing boards or their local community. The academy hopes to develop effective leaders at all levels within our profession, which will hopefully create a network of those leaders to allow them to best utilize resources and work with one another on common initiatives in the future."
Thompson will serve as chair of the Leadership Academy Committee in the coming year.
During its inaugural year, the program plans to invite a diverse group of attorneys from throughout the state to participate as fellows.
The fellows will be divided equally into two geographical branches, a Northern branch including the First, Second, and Fifth district courts of appeal and a Southern branch including the Third and Fourth districts.
The academy is set to kick off at the Bar's Annual Convention June 28-29 in Boca Raton.
Two additional full group meetings will take place at the Bar's fall joint meeting in September and January meeting in Tallahassee.
Each branch will also hold three meetings in July, November, and March at rotating locations within their jurisdictions.
Meetings will include two half-day sessions, a networking dinner, and an overnight stay.
Fellows of the program's inaugural year will graduate at the Bar's Annual Convention in 2014, as new program participants for the second year gather for the first time.
In addition to leadership skills, the academy plans to instill an in-depth knowledge of the Bar and how its component parts can best function together.
"As a decades-long legal educator, I'm highly pleased that the Center for Professionalism has been entrusted to shape the curriculum that we are designing to maximize the fellows' experience by including interactive and reflective learning styles in addition to panel discussions and presentations," said Calvert Hanson.
"It will provide fellows with several self-assessment tools and the opportunity to put their newly gained knowledge into action by designing and implementing a team service project."
To practice what they're learning, the program will require each branch to brainstorm, plan, and execute a service project.
The fellows will be responsible for formally presenting their proposals to the Bar president and Leadership Academy Committee at the Bar's Fall Joint Meeting, assigning duties for the project, and making sure it's executed before the end of the program year.
Networking will also be a key focus of the program.
"The practice of law is about relationships, and the Leadership Academy is being designed so that fellows will be able to foster and build new relationships with our leaders on a statewide basis as well as within their own community as the fellows develop their leadership skills," Calvert Hanson said.
Through the academy, fellows will have an opportunity to network with both past and present Bar leaders, including presidents and Board of Governors members.
Midway through the program, fellows may indicate two preferences for Bar sections, divisions, or committees in which they would like to become involved following graduation.
The program will facilitate introductions to fellows' preferred committees, divisions, and sections, though fellows will not be guaranteed particular positions or roles.
"As part of the academy curriculum, fellows will be given the unique opportunity to look at what they think the future of the legal profession holds and come up with ideas to help change it for the better," Thompson said. "Fellows will be taught skills to assist them in implementing a service project related to issues affecting our profession. The academy will give them the tools, and even a class budget to help them bring that project to life. Part of being a leader is giving of your time and talents for the greater good, and the academy hopes those who graduate from the program will be able to share their gifts to make our profession better for the people it serves."
Diversity is also an important component of the program.
"The fact that the Leadership Academy Committee is seeking applicants with different backgrounds, who are employed by diverse types of employers, will make the experience richer not only for all participants, but also by providing training and opportunities that fellows who may be employed in a small firm or by a legal services organization or by a state attorney or public defender or other government agency would not typically have available to them," Calvert Hanson said.
Applications will be made available at www.floridabar.org/leadershipacademy on March 1. Completed applications must be emailed to Arnell Bryant-Willis at [email protected] by 5 p.m. April 1.
Applications will be reviewed by the Leadership Academy Committee.
The Bar's president-elect will appoint a committee chair and co-chairs of the two branches.
The Bar's immediate past-president will also be invited to serve on the committee.
In reviewing applications, the committee plans to consider geographical and practice area diversity; professional experience level; prior leadership roles; whether applicants are in good standing; and any disciplinary records.
Successful applicants will be notified by May 1.
Fellows will be responsible for accommodations and travel to meetings.
The academy plans to offer scholarships to about half of the participants to help offset the costs of travel and accommodations.
This month, information about the application process is being sent to voluntary bars.
Voluntary bars as well as Bar sections and divisions are encouraged to nominate applicants. However, applicants are not required to be nominated by a section, division, or voluntary bar.
To apply or for more information about the academy, visit www.floridabar.org/leadershipacademy.


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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Umm ... yes, please
I hadn't seen anything about this line yet. That azure line has my name written all over it. The tarragon's pretty awesome, too.
It has me seriously rethinking my fabric plans for my upcoming virtual quilting bees ...
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Oh wow! I am so all over that persimmon colorway.ReplyDelete
I love the tarragon! Wow!ReplyDelete
ok I TOTALLY have to get the persimmon line, that is gorgeous!!!ReplyDelete
Mmmmm- the azure color way is catching my eye... I'll have to keep a watch on that website! ~ JennieReplyDelete
Aren't these fabrics great!! I love the persimmon line, love em! Good find John, thanks :)ReplyDelete
oh, i just saw those yesterday there! :) love, love, love the persimmon, can't wait to get a hold of those ones!!ReplyDelete
I love the persimmon line. wowwwww.ReplyDelete
how fun.
the good news is...
i'm in 2 bees with you so my chances are pretty high for playing with these fabrics!!!
I love the azure and the persimmon! Both colorways speak to me.ReplyDelete
Droool.....Love the tarragon. And the persimmon would be perfect for this gift quilt I need to make. (And I'd promised myself not to buy any more fabric the next few months!ReplyDelete
LOVE the Azure! I hope you get one of them for the bee inspired bee so that I can play with them!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Have I told you how much I love your new banner? I love it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:42 AM
I'm loving the persimmon!! I really like Joel Dewberry's fabrics too.ReplyDelete
The 'coming soon' part of FQS is dangerous for me. Their sale section is pretty fun.
Love the new fabric line! I am with Amy... love the new banner.ReplyDelete
Wow a man quilting, is very good. I want to see stitching.kissesReplyDelete
Those are great! I'm glad to see a new line of fabric from him!ReplyDelete
Wow. Lovely stuff.ReplyDelete
They look great. Can I just say that your style really is fantastic. I really think that I need to follow you.:) Great taste in fabric.ReplyDelete
The persimmon is calling to me! Yes? Buy you? ok!ReplyDelete
Just stumbled across your blog tonight and must say I've enjoyed reading so far! I love the colours you work with. I've bookmarked your blog and will check it out more often.ReplyDelete
Jacqui in Canada
Those are definitely gorgeous!!!ReplyDelete
Loving the tarragon!ReplyDelete
oh yea, that azure and persimmon are so wanting to come live at my house!!ReplyDelete


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cat charm quilt
Originally uploaded by aviva_hadas
Some of the blocks from before the quilt became a quilt. (Do you see the fishies on the orange - clever, huh?)
The baby is fine, the doctor is not worries about the rash. It is only on his tummy which rules out a lot of things like a reaction to the flu shot & food allergies.
I just have to apply cortizone & it should clear up on its own.
Back before blogging & before quilting as a matter of fact, I had an elective lumpectomy. I had found a lump while shaving. It was tested and determined to be "nothing." (According to my cousin, we are "lumpy.") Call is a personality flaw, but I could not live with it. & I knew that id I had "lived with it" that I would have become complacent about any others... So I had it removed - So I am predisposed to be a "take the baby to the doctor" type of mother.
(I am not willing to admit that I am a hypochondriac though.)


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ESA pavilion at the 49th Paris Air & Space Show
The 49th Paris Air & Space Show will take place 20–26 June at Le Bourget, bringing together key players from international space agencies and industry to highlight the increasingly important role of space in a rapidly changing world.
The ESA Pavilion, themed as "Space, a key asset for Europe; L'espace, un atout essential pour l'Europe", will be located in its usual place between the full-scale models of the Ariane 1 and Ariane 5 launchers.
It will showcase the importance of space systems and applications in facing global challenges and providing decision-makers with tools to respond to critical challenges such as climate change and global security.
At the same time, the pavilion will showcase the key importance of space to inspire new generations and to foster a knowledge-based society.
Le Bourget is also the opportunity for ESA to underline the importance of international cooperation to build the future of space.
The exhibition features the many dimensions of space: space for a better understanding of our Earth and its place in the Universe; space as a generator of new technologies and innovation; space for improving the quality of life and fostering European growth, knowledge and employment.
The visit is a journey from the boundaries of the Universe to Earth's core. The visit starts with a multi-mirror space tunnel with spectacular views of our vulnerable planet from the International Space Station.
After this first immersion in space, visitors are plunged into the heart of the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, where Vega and the Russian-built Soyuz are shortly to be launched for the first time, offering, along with the highly successful Ariane 5, a wide range of launch services, key for the strategic independence of Europe.
Visitors will be introduced to the mysteries of the cosmos with the spectacular results from Herschel and Planck. Herschel is looking into the cosmic gas and dust clouds in the infrared to understand how stars and galaxies are born and evolve. Planck is surveying the first light in the cosmos to improve our knowledge about the Universe today.
Visitors can also learn more about the upcoming launch of BepiColombo, a joint mission with Japan that will explore the enigmatic innermost planet Mercury, and the new joint ESA-NASA programme for the future exploration of Mars.
Touring the exhibition, visitors travel from our neighbouring planets to the different facets of our ever-changing Earth: atmosphere, oceans, land and ice.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the results from the three Earth Explorer satellites.
CryoSat is measuring changes in the thickness of continental ice sheets and marine ice.
GOCE has provided a new gravity model of Earth and a new reference height model for the oceans.
SMOS is measuring soil moisture and ocean salinity for a better understanding of the water cycle, a vital indicator for weather patterns, climate monitoring and predicting extreme events.
Earth observation plays a key role for rapid response to major disasters: by combining data from different space agencies, an international Charter allows timely delivery of data for rapid risk and damage assessment to assist the coordination of resources and expertise from around the world.
ESA will show how space allows meteorological satellites to provide data on the atmosphere, clouds, temperature, humidity, ozone levels and wind flow.
Examples of services from the EU-led GMES initiative – Global Monitoring for Environment and Security – will be displayed for improved land use, atmospheric, ocean and coastal monitoring, risk and emergency management.
The first satellites to be launched in 2011 as part of the Galileo satellite navigation system will be shown together with a special focus on aviation applications of EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service.
Telecommunication satellites will be highlighted with the coming launch of Alphasat I-XL satellite, a public-private partnership between ESA and Inmarsat
From Earth we arrive in the microgravity world of the International Space Station: a special multi-screen display will show the wealth of scientific experiments being carried out in the Columbus laboratory in weightless conditions, covering material sciences, human physiology, fluid science, Earth observation and plant biology.
Europe's contributions to the Station will be featured, including the launch and docking of the second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), Johannes Kepler, last February and new stunning views from Cupola, an unequalled window in the Station, provided by Europe.
A unique film will show images of the Station with the Shuttle and ATV attached taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli some weeks ago, at the end of his MagISStra mission.
During the weekend, ESA experts will give overviews of ESA programmes on exploration of the Solar System and deep space, Earth observation and meteorology, launchers, human spaceflight and space laboratories.
ESA astronauts will be at the pavilion to share their exciting experiences working and living on the Space Station, along with a virtual tour of the orbital outpost.
The audience is also invited to discover more about space with a new 3D space quiz.
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An observation I gleaned from my copy of Investor's Business Daily (IBD) is that energy stocks are still the unpopular cousin of the stock market. As was the case when I conducted this little exercise back in December, the energy space had more stocks with single-digit ratings for price and earnings momentum that the rest of the sectors combined. I know oil prices have been weak for the past few days and natural gas has corrected from its attempt to push higher last autumn, but many of these stocks are trading like no one will ever use the stuff again.
Let's take a look at the bigger energy picture. The world's economy will eventually recover and energy demand will rise again, spurring higher crude oil prices. Low natural gas prices and an abundant supply is going to cause the U.S. to look harder at using it to generate more electricity, power more plants and even run our automobiles, buses and trucks. Even coal will see increased demand despite ecological concerns. From a long-term point of view, energy demand will pick up and the companies that produce it will have far more value than is reflected in the current stock prices.
It is not just the smaller oil and gas companies that have seen their prices slip and their rankings in IBD fall into single-digit levels. Apache (APA) is one of the largest exploration and production companies in the U.S. and the stock price has fallen by more than 30% in the past year. For the first time in the last decade, you can now buy the stock at tangible book value in spite of a strong outlook for the company. They are feeling the pinch of lower natural gas prices, but they have made several smart acquisitions in the past few years that should lead to decent production increases. Apache is a premium asset at a bargain price and I think long-term investors can begin buying the stock now with hopes of adding more at lower prices during the next year.
One of today's stocks in the news is also a single-digit IBD stock with enormous long term potential. Linn Co. (LNCO) was formed last year to hold shares of Linn Energy (LINN) for investors who didn't want to deal with the tax structure of an MLP. Today the announced a $4 billion deal to acquire Berry Petroleum (BRY). The deal increases Linns oil exposure to 56% of production totals and raise total about by more than 30%. I would wait for the excitement generated by the deal to die down a bit but the shares have a generous yield of more than 7% and should trade higher with oil prices.
Trading at just 50% of tangible book value WPX Energy (WPX) is one of the cheapest oil and gas stocks so it is no surprise they have a low composite ranking. The company was spun off from Williams Companies (WMB) in 2011 and they had high legacy costs after the deal. Renegotiating midstream costs such as transportation and storage could cut as much as $200 million in costs over the next two years. They have a strong presence in most of the US unconventional shale gas fields including the Marcellus and Bakken fields. They also have a 60% stake in Apco Oil & Gas International (APAGF) an Argentina-based E&P company that is worth more than $250 million. Some analysts think WPX may sell that interest along with other noncore operations to concentrate on core oil and gas production in the US. At this level the stock is too cheap not to own for long term value investors.
Coal stocks are on the list of unloved and underperforming stocks as well. Arch Coal (ACI) is still a single-digit selection and at less than 60% of tangible book value is a buy. Peabody Energy (BTU) stubbornly refuses to decline below tangible book value but I am hopeful it will before the end of the year. If the market continues to weaken, I will be looking to sell the June $18 and $19 puts to create the stock below book value.
Energy stocks are unloved and underappreciated right now. Although the near-term outlook may be bumpy as concerns about global demand, excess natural gas and political issues create some volatility, the long-term outlook is pretty solid. At current prices, it is time to start buying energy.


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I mean, whats your selling point?
So let me get this straight.
You want me to abandon the illusions that give my life purpose even though they make my life objectively better?
Are you sure you thought this premise through?
I think the reputation for nihilists being brooding, melancholic, fragile, phobic and obsessed with death is somewhat deserved. There is also a tendency to associate nihilism with people who are bi-polar or have wild mood swings with the occasional manic episode.
I always get the feeling that the narrator is somehow trying to paint the setting as better than the real world, but its actually far worse.
A nihilist trying to sell you on nihilism because it will somehow make my life better or make me happier should maybe take a look in the mirror. I know this is anecdotal, but most of the nihilists I've met are some of the most miserable people on earth. They either spend every waking moment in a state of existential despair or in pursuit of hedonistic debauchery in order to try and chase away the blues.


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Charity fund "ZNATOK FOR CHILDREN" once again took part in the action of the First Channel "The First in the Army", which took place in Izhevsk.
And, despite the fact that it began to snow (!), The atmosphere of the holiday was so warm that no one noticed the cold. Stars of the First Channel, Olympic champions, actors of theater and cinema, participants of the show "Golos" spent time and presented gifts to children, who have a very difficult destiny.
A modern rehabilitation center was inaugurated. In a football match, which was commented on by Vladimir Gomelsky, children from orphanages won the first-channel stars.
In the evening there was a big concert, the main star of which was Philip Kirkorov.


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The current status of American politics has gotten everyone to open up and pass on judgments and convey what they believe to be right and just. This phenomenon is not just limited to general public only. People belonging to different prestigious offices are also on the same path. When Justice Ruth Bader expressed negative comments about Donald Trump perhaps he was just passing his judgement on the man just like
he is used to in court. This was not just a press release in fact he responded to a question asked by a reporter. But that incident has already sparked a new debate; whether the Supreme Court as an institution be allowed to influence the public opinion? Should Justices contributed to the political narrative? These are some of the profound questions that need to be answered.
But we have to look at it from a different angle too because debating it in a vacuum would be wrong and not justified. What I am pointing out is that politics have been heavily influencing this institution and its ability to do what it is there for; to provide justice through a proper process. This institution is being prevented from appointing certain judges. Judge Merrick Garland is one example in this regard whose appointment did not go through because of Republican obstruction. According to Kenneth Padowitz, a local Fort Lauderdale attorney and political commentator, in such a scenario it is not difficult to justify the fact that Supreme Court Justices currently are allowed, and should be allowed and permitted to contribute to the political discussion. Far more important is the fact that we have candidates running in the presidential elections who are thugs and are coming up with unconstitutional proposals that need to be rebutted instantaneously. In such times, the question is not of permission rather it becomes a moral duty to voice truth and expose such unconstitutional proposals. And those proposals are not mildly unconstitutional; in fact they challenge the very fabric and values on which this nation is built and these principles have long been upheld by the Supreme Court. In this regard, it is worth noting that Ginsburg's comments move away from the standard tradition of abstinence in the political matters but this could prove to be a significant positive step in the right direction. In short, in the current political scenario we should appreciate such comments instead of condemning them.
This debate regarding Supreme Court's intervention in the politics did not start when Ginsburg opinion. Rather this has its foundation in the event when Merrick Garland was passed on for the office of Supreme Court Justice back in February by the Senate primarily controlled by Republicans. So, this is not something that Trump started. The politics in February basically is to be accused of dragging this sacred non-political institution into this debate. Due to the nature of Presidential election candidates, these elections will play a huge role in the future of this country for better or worse. Any factor that could tip the scale in one direction is of utmost importance. And therefore, the significance of opinions of Supreme Court Justices cannot be overemphasized. Once we have a new president, he or she will take full charge of the executive branch but what is worth noticing here is that judicial branch will also be in full control by the President.
However, despite all of these implications the nation was quite stunned after hearing the opinion of Ginsburg on Donald Trump. The public acted in a manner as if she is not allowed to contribute to the public debate. What prompted her to speak was a list of unconstitutional proposals including a complete ban on Muslims. He also expressed racism and expressed negative remarks about Judge Gonzalo Curiel. These remarks did not just violate the sanctity of one individual rather it violated the sanctity of the whole institution. Keeping all this in mind, her criticism of Trump was justified and necessary. And she is not to be blamed for anything.


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2013 Homecoming Weekend Young Alumni Showcase:
Creating Impact Through Design
On Saturday, October 26, we welcomed back fourteen young entrepreneurial and creative alumni to sit on the Young Alumni Showcase Panel. This year's theme was Creating Impact Through Design, and the panelists were invited to share the lessons they have learned, the ventures they have undertaken, and the ideas they have been exposed to since leaving Middlebury. They pitched their ideas, challenged students to share their own, and offered their advice on pursuing an impactful and creative career path.
The panelists and participants culminated the session by collectively coming up with a list of ways in which we can be successful in our creative work. Here are the 10 things we came up with. What would you add to the list?
How to Work Creatively:
1. Practice!
2. Don't Design in a Box
3. Think About the Problem First
4. Find People Whose Skills Compliment Your Own
5. Hang Out With Little People More. Children are inspiring.
6. Focus on the process, not the product
7. Innovate Within Constraints. Challenge yourself.
8. Invite Criticism & Constructive Feedback
9. Listen and Ask Questions
10. Know Your Weaknesses and Know What You Need From People Around You
The panelists included:, Ryan Kellet '09.5, Maggie Smith '09.5, Pier LaFarge '10 , Ben Silton '11, Annie Maleka '11.5, Doug DeBold '12, Shane Scranto '12, Brian Sirkia '12.5, , Esme Lutz '12, , Kara Shurmantine '12, and Austin Ritter '12.5, Hannah Judge '12.5, Anna Clements '12.5, Peter DiPrinzio '13, Corinne Prevot '13


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Using the iPad as a Standalone Device
Can the iPad can be used totally on its own, or must you sync it with another computer? If I bought an iPad for my grandmother, who has no other computer, would she be able to just download apps and music and rent movies solely via the iTunes Store on the iPad?
Yes, but with a catch. Based on what Apple (AAPL) has said, iPad owners will be able to buy apps, music and books, and buy and rent video, right on the device, without requiring a PC or Mac running iTunes software. You can also synchronize contacts, email and calendar items over the air, from an online source, instead of over a cable from your computer.
However, Apple's Web site suggests you'll need to connect to a computer running iTunes in order to back up the iPad, and, if the iPhone is any guide, you will likely need to do the same to upgrade the iPad's operating system whenever Apple updates it.
I enjoyed your article on the two new Lenovo computers you've tested. The ThinkPad Edge sounds like a machine that will suit my needs quite well. You mentioned in the article that the machine you tested was upgraded from the base model. What were the specifications of your test machine?
The $799 model I tested differs from the $579 base model by having a more powerful Intel (INTC) processor; 4 gigabytes of memory instead of 2 gigabytes; a 320-gigabyte hard disk versus 250 gigabytes; a different graphics card and a higher-capacity battery. Full specs are in the left-hand column on this Web page: http://bit.ly/7jNBcw.
In your column of March 18, you gave the advice: "There are easier ways to erase all cookies, by using a function in your Web browser." How do you do this?
In Internet Explorer 8, select the Safety menu, choose "Delete Browsing History," uncheck everything but "Cookies," and click "Delete." In Firefox 3.6, select the Tools menu, and then "Clear Recent History." Then click "Details," uncheck everything but "Cookies," and pick "Everything" from the time range list.
In Safari 4.0, go to Preferences, then "Security," then "Show Cookies," then choose "Remove All."
You can find Mossberg's Mailbox, and my other columns, online, free of charge, at the All Things Digital Web site, http://walt.allthingsd.com.
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While you are in college, you must answer one big question. What do I want to major in? A major is a field of academic inquiry, and a subject you will study in depth. Your selection of a major should be based simply on your own curiosity. What most interests you? What subject is most fun to study?
Minors offer you a way to explore a department or interdisciplinary theme with less commitment of time than a major. Where a major requires at least 50 credits, most minors require only 25 to 35 credits.
Because the courses in your minor can also count toward general education requirements, if you plan carefully you may be able to complete one or two minors within the 180 credits required for your degree.
Minors are optional. You may complete as many as three minors per degree, or none at all.
A list of UW Bothell majors and minors can be found here.
You are also allowed to combine your major with one or more minors from other UW campuses. You can find a list of other UW minors available to you here.


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Don't Expect a Dirt-Cheap Smartphone From BlackBerry
Not yet, anyway.
"You will not see us getting into the $50 or $60 phone segment," BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said at the Communitech Tech Leadership Conference in Waterloo, Ontario, Thursday. "This is not BlackBerry. That segment will not serve our purpose."
Which is not to say that BlackBerry doesn't plan to build a BB10 device for more price-sensitive consumers — just that the Z10 is doing well enough in emerging markets, like India, that the company doesn't yet feel compelled to roll out a cheaper, entry-level device. Better to sell the marquee device first, foremost and in volume than to spread yourself thin fleshing out the lower end of your portfolio too early.
Remember, BlackBerry 10 isn't yet a well-established platform. It's not the culmination of the company's turnaround strategy, it's the first move. And it's perhaps the most important one of all: If successful, it will recast BlackBerry as a true rival to Apple and Google, not the also-ran that it's in danger of becoming.
So, everything in its right time. BlackBerry's road map includes less-expensive handsets, and the company will release them when it's good and ready. Said Heins, "You will see new products being launched this year based on BlackBerry 10 that are more geared towards those lower price bands."


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On Sunday morning, we'd wake up to baskets of candy placed at the foot of our beds that had magically appeared overnight (although of course we knew our parents put them there). My brother and sister and I were obsessed with counting every piece of candy in our baskets. We had to make sure we all had the same number of Cadbury eggs, green jelly beans, peanut-butter or coconut or marshmallow or strawberry cream filled chocolate-covered eggs, etc... I was always willing to trade the black licorice jelly beans for another flavor, though.
There was always ham and mashed potatoes for Easter dinner, although never hot cross buns, so I will be making those this year for the first time. Of course, for most kids, eating dinner, even something as delicious as ham, is really just a chore to get through in order to be allowed to have a piece of candy or cake afterwards.
The wonderful thing about this cake is that it doesn't require any special tools or cake pans, just a little bit of your time and creativity. It's also such a fun cake to make and decorate with your kids!
For an Easter dinner with some friends next Sunday, I'll be making this cake, but of course I won't be making it until Saturday. So for Part 1 of the post, I'll provide the instructions (which are crazy easy) for how to make the cake. Then next Saturday, I'll finish up with Part 2, with photos of my finished cake and the decorating process.
If any of my readers decide to make this cake, cupcakes, or any other cute idea you have, I'd love to see photos, so feel free to post them on my Facebook page!
Here's what you'll need for the Easter Bunny Cake:
- 2 round 8 or 9-inch cake pans
- paper
- marker
- ruler or measuring tape
- your favorite cake recipe, homemade or boxed mix
- 2 1/2 - 3 cups frosting
- gel food coloring
- 1 bag sweetened, shredded coconut
- jelly beans, candy eggs, and other assorted Easter candy for decorating
For my own cake, I plan to make a white cake (probably boxed mix to save time) with a little coconut extract, and a fluffy cream cheese coconut icing. Any flavor combination that you like with coconut would be great!
Step 1:
- Trace the bottom of your cake pans onto the paper with a marker.
Step 2:
- Take a ruler or measuring tape and lay it across the middle of one of the circles. My cake pans are 8 inches, so just adjust your measurements a little if yours are 9 inches.
- Mark the paper at 3 inches and 5 inches so that you've divided it into thirds, with the middle section being slightly narrower.
- Now mark the circle at 12:00, 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00. Using those marks as a guide, mark the paper at 1:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 11:00. Draw a line to connect the 1:00 and 5:00 marks, through the mark in the center of the paper, to create a football shape. Do the same to connect the 11:00 and 7:00 marks.
Step 3:
- Cut out the circles, then cut along the lines you drew in one of the circles.
- Arrange the pieces of paper as shown below to create a bunny face with ears and a bow-tie.
- You can now use the paper cutouts as a guide when you're ready to cut and decorate your cake.
- Just picture how cute it will look once you have it frosted and decorated with icing and candy!
For Part 2 of this post, which I'll continue next Saturday with photos of my cake:
Step 4:
- Bake your cake and cool it completely.
- Use the paper cutouts as a guide to cut your cake, then arrange it on a platter or baking sheet.
- Frost top and all sides of the cake with about 2 cups of white icing, or as much as is needed - be sure your icing is not too thick or it will tear the cut edges of the ears and bow tie.
- Press 2 cups of the shredded coconut (toasted if you like, or not if you want it pure white) against the sides only of the cake, leaving the top with just the white icing.
- Take the remaining 1 cup of icing and color small amounts of it with gel food coloring.
- Pipe it onto the cake (just a plastic baggie with the corner cut off should work just fine) to create bunny features. Just Google cartoon drawings of bunnies for inspiration!
- Sprinkle the rest of the coconut onto the platter or baking sheet - you can even dye it green for fun.
- Scatter assorted candy over the coconut
- Show it off to your family and friends and enjoy!


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There's more than one way to set up a PC to make it more accessible, depending on your needs. Everybody works differently, and there are lots of settings you can change so you can use your PC the way you want.
The most commonly used accessibility options are available in PC settings. To get to them, swipe in from the right edge of the screen and tap Settings (or if you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, and click Settings), tap or click Change PC settings, and then tap or click Ease of Access.
Common accessibility options are also available from the sign-in screen. Click the Ease of Access button
You can also get to accessibility settings from the desktop. To do this, press the Windows logo key + U.
For more info about other assistive technologies, go to the Microsoft Accessibility website.


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ReefLux is the first true 10000K full spectrum metal halide bulb to be offered to the aquarium market. Other manufacturers claim to offer a 10000K lamp but that is just a marketing number of their best attempt to offer a full spectrum 10000K lamp. This is why they have a yellow or orange appearance and need to have some kind of fluorescent actinics to balance it out. Generally the more yellow or orange a bulb the more PAR the bulb will produce. ReefLux offers you the highest PAR rating without having to flood your aquarium with high powered fluorescent blue bulbs. The ReefLux 12000K has the performance of the 10000K but with a touch of blue added


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At first glance, the city of Venlo in the southeastern Netherlands may appear rather ordinary. With a modest population of 100,271, its young people traditionally sought work outside the city upon graduating, but that's now changing. This unassuming Dutch city is undergoing a remarkable transformation into the world's first cradle to cradle hub, attracting the attention of environmentalists and investors alike. Inspired by the landmark work by Braungart and McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, and the subsequent 2006 documentary that aired on Dutch television, local politicians and community leaders envisioned an economic and ecological rebirth for their city. With assistance from the province of Limburg and the Dutch government, Venlo embarked on its ambition plans, which appears to be coming together much more quickly than anyone had anticipated.
The project is the result of many collaborations, between local industries and intergovernmental development organizations. Chief among these is the Venlo Cradle to Cradle Exposition Center, also known as ExpoLAB, which has developed its own point system and procurement criteria for each structure in the new development. Andy Hix of the Guardian had the opportunity to speak to Roy Vercoulen, ExpoLAB's managing director, who described the ideal building as producing oxygen, sequestering carbon, purifying water, improving the health of its occupants, and promoting biodiversity, while not sacrificing creativity in aesthetic design. These seemingly ambitious targets, as it turns out, are not only being satisfied but far exceeded by young competitive designers.
The development will be host to the Floriade 2012: World Horticultural Exposition, in which the city hopes to demonstrate new methods for linking natural ecosystems to man-made cycles—in essence, how to maximize our coexistence with the natural environment. Quite naturally, the city also hopes to attract international investment, exhibiting the benefits of C2C infrastructure and the accompanying culture. Indeed, a significant portion of the city's business guide is already dedicated to selling these concepts:
Another important aspect of Venlo is innovative sustainability. Venlo has strong sustainability ambitions, specifically in the form of Cradle to Cradle (C2C): Waste should ideally be non-existence. All the raw materials used for a product should be re-used, after the life of that product, as input materials of equal or better quality for the next product or for the environment.
Both in restructuring existing business parks and in developing new facilities, Venlo aims to keep making quality breakthroughs with the focus on Cradle to Cradle, sustainability and the environment. The aim is to create an inspiring business environment which will stimulate innovative developments. The key factor is that the physical setting promotes partnerships between research, education, government and entrepreneurs. The campus model provides an ideal basis. It creates and optimal mix of companies that complement and inspire each other, and together form business parks with a diversity of activities and an innovative climate. Campuses inspire spin-offs and promote entrepreneurship.
Clearly, Venlo is not simply interested in fostering a more sustainable way of doing business, but also in creating a culture for innovation. In this sense, the completion of Venlo's Greenpark and Greenport developments mark the beginning, rather than the end, of the city's sustainability vision.
Although in Dutch, the following YouTube video offers a fascinating glimpse into Venlo's marketing approach to its C2C development:


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- Subject: [mg55306] Re: [mg55247] Re: [mg55204] J/Link problem on Mac OS X
- From: Todd Gayley <tgayley at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:45:08 -0500 (EST)
- References: <email@example.com>
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At 05:23 PM 3/17/2005, Mike Honeychurch wrote: >Todd, > >I'm afraid this is incorrect. > >I invite anyone reading this posting to download JLink_3.0.2_OSX.tgz, >decompress it and check the version number of Jlink. Unless this has been >changed since my original post you will see that it is version 3.0.1 > >(notwithstanding that JLink`Information`$Version returns "J/Link version >3.0.2" when this package is installed.) Mike, JLink`Information`$Version _is_ the correct way to get the version number. I'm curious as to why you think this isn't version 3.0.2 despite that. If it's the line in the Release Notes, well that is, er, a typo. >In =System`Private`FindFile["JLink`"] >Out=/Applications/Mathematica 5.1.app/AddOns/JLink/JLink.m > >Bottom line is that this package does not allow J/Link to work on my Mac >(Mathematica V5.1, G4 Mac running OS X 10.3.8). No examples in the J/Link help >reference or GUI kit help reference work with this newly installed package. >I suggest that whatever gets read to return J/Link version 3.0.2 is not the >actual Jlink application but perhaps some other information file in the >package. > >(the release notes file is also rather strange: > >Heading: J/Link 3.0.1 Release Notes > next line: Welcome to J/Link, version 3.0.2.) If you indeed have installed 3.0.2 correctly and still see the problem, then perhaps the original bug is more complex than we realized. I will send you separately some tests to try to help us figure out what is going on. I invite others with Mac OS/X 10.3.8 who cannot get InstallJava[] to work in Mathematica 5.1 to contact support at wolfram.com to let us know whether the 3.0.2 version did or did not fix the problem for you. Todd Gayley Wolfram Research


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This is a personal reflection from Paul Miller, the director of the Haiti Justice Alliance.
I remember very well where I was when I learned that President Aristide had left Haiti in the early morning hours of February 29, 2004. It was my "where were you when you heard JFK was shot" moment, although I have that memory, too. It was at Caribou Coffee in Woodbury, Minnesota and my friend, who had traveled with me to Haiti in December of 2003, 3 months earlier, informed me that news reports were saying that Aristide had left Haiti. "Left Haiti? No way," was my first thought. I didn't think that Aristide would ever abdicate his presidential term in Haiti by his own choice after the 1991 coup against him and his 1994 return. Stunned and devastated would accurately describe how I received this most depressing news.
The facts would come to show that my instincts were right. President Aristide had no intention of leaving Haiti on that night or on any night during the remaining time of his presidency. Clearly he did not leave that night of his own volition. You can choose to believe whatever you want to believe about US actions on this or any other given day. However, if you choose to value the truth, then you must accept that the facts show that Jean Bertrand Aristide was removed by US force/s as yet another coup d'état took place in Haiti. The only evidence offered of an alternative scenario are self-serving statements from those at the top of our government, chiefly George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and the sycophantic Colin Powell.
It's not ancient history, like a lot of our nefarious actions towards Haiti. It was 8 years ago. Monday it was announced that President Aristide is being investigated for drug violations. Our hypocrisy really knows no bounds. What a coincidence that once again we are asked to question Aristide's integrity and ethics rather than to be reminded that a US-sponsored coup undermined Haiti's hope for democracy and stability on this day, 8 short years ago.


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At a quick glance you can determine an asset's status by modality, contract, and location. Easily enter new work orders and track current and historic service data without disrupting your workflow. View reports, contract details, and inventory lists, anytime you want, 24/7. And it comes with every Philips Equipment.


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President Barack Obama opened up a decisive lead over Mitt Romney in the new NBC/WSJ poll, pulling ahead of his embattled opponent by five points.
The poll — which was taken after the conventions and last week's crisis in the Middle East, but before the recent firestorm over Romney's 47 percent comments — is the latest national survey to show Obama sustaining a strong bounce in the wake of the Democratic National Convention.
Significantly, the poll has Obama's job approval rating reaching the crucial 50 percent threshold for the first time since March.
Like other recent surveys, the NBC/WSJ poll also shows that Obama has erased Romney's advantage on the crucial question of which candidate would better handle the economy. On that issue, the President now ties his opponent at 43 percent, wiping out the six-point lead Romney held last month.


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It's a good thing for the rest of us that so few criminals are truly "masterminds"—and thus end up so easy to find. Case in point: the FBI's arrest, announced today, of an alleged sextortionist named Karen "Gary" Kazaryan in California.
First, let's be clear on the charges. According to the FBI, the 27-year-old spent huge amounts of time breaking in to e-mail and social networking accounts—usually Facebook—and then scouring them for sexually provocative photos. If found, the photos were then used to approach the account holders and blackmail them into making further displays, usually over Skype, to the watching hacker. If they didn't comply, the original photos might be posted to their Facebook page.
Here, for instance, is how FBI Special Agent Tanith Rogers describes a November 20, 2010 encounter between the hacker, who had obtained a topless photo of a woman in a hot tub from one victim's Facebook account, and two sisters:
The unknown persons then demanded that [victim 1] and [her sister, victim 2, who was actually in the picture] take their tops off and show their breasts on the Skype camera or he would post the photos on their Facebook walls for all of their friends to see. The unknown person told [the sisters] they had 10 seconds to do this. The girls attempted to stall the unknown person.
In retaliation for not complying within 10 seconds, the unknown person, without authorization, logged into [a friend of both girls'] Facebook account and added the [topless] photo of [victim 2] to [the friend's] Facebook wall. The unknown person then instant messaged [the victim] on Skype and sent the link to Facebook with the compromising photo attached. The link was [sic] the photos he had just put on their Facebook walls since they did not comply to his demands.
[The victims] were scared and felt threatened by the unknown subject. They were crying and both then showed their breasts to the unknown person on Skype. The unknown person said they did not show them for a long enough period of time and demanded that they do it again. The girls again complied to his demand and he took the link to the photos off of their Facebook pages. The victims immediately logged off of Skype.
[Victim 1] stated she is emotionally distraught and stated that [victim 2] said she felt as if she was raped. According to [victim 1], both victims closed down their Facebook and e-mail accounts. They are scared to use the computer and scared to be home alone.
In the end, the government claims that Kazaryan's computer held 3,000 photos of nude or semi-nude women, some seized from their own e-mail and Facebook accounts, some snapped from Skype chats like the one described above. More than 350 women may have been targeted.
So how did the FBI find Kazaryan? Well—pretty easily. They simply asked Facebook. By December 27, 2010, Facebook's internal security team had wrapped up an investigation in which it simply pulled the IP addresses for everyone who had accessed the various victim accounts over the last two months, then correlated them. One IP address was common to each: 184.108.40.206.
So Facebook's team then did a different search, looking for every account that had been logged into from 188.8.131.52. This produced a new list of 176 different accounts, and here was the remarkable thing: a huge number of these accounts had recently been disabled due to hacking or had filed tickets with Facebook complaining about being hacked.
So 220.127.116.11 was likely to be the hacker, but who was he? Facebook wouldn't know for sure without the cooperation of Internet service providers, but it had a pretty good guess. That's because the single most commonly accessed account from 220.127.116.11—and by a huge margin—was for one Karen Kazaryan. The account had been accessed nearly every day and, just as crucially, Kazaryan had never reported his own account having been hacked.
So the next day, the FBI ran Kazaryan's name through various database and quickly found that he lived in a Glendale, California apartment and had "an arrest and pending trial for a rape charge in 2008."
It took another week for Charter Communications to confirm that the 184.108.40.206 address was registered to the Glendale apartment owned by Kazaryan. On January 18, 2011, a federal magistrate judge agreed to a search warrant of Kazaryan's property, though it took one more year before the evidence was all gathered and an arrest was finally made.
No, seriously, the Internet isn't "private"
I've covered a lot of computer crime, and the one thing that never ceases to amaze me is how few precautions most criminals take. Even in these sorts of the extreme cases where the amount of time spent harassing young women must have amounted to a full-time job, the alleged perpetrators rarely bother to do anything as simple as hide behind a proxy, much less take further measures. That's not a universal rule, of course, especially when it comes to true professionals operating commercial fraud rings, but this idea that operating on the Internet isn't actually all that anonymous has yet to sink in with at least some significant percentage of the online criminal class.
Many of these schemes, especially those in which the perpetrator isn't in it for the money but for some sort of deviant sexual motive, seem premised on the belief that no one with subpoena power will ever come looking for them. The "hackers" appear to conflate the difficulty that their victims have in locating them with being truly hidden; in reality, most are leaving digital trails all over the Internet. Most end up identified with nothing more complicated than an IP address lookup.
Of course, the truly brilliant criminals may simply not get caught at all, and therefore we see only the stupid ones. But let's hope not, because most Internet users aren't particularly savvy, either. In every "sextortion" case I've seen, the victims also believe in the privacy of their online communications. They store compromising photos on Facebook, they e-mail them to other people, they post inadvisable images on sexually oriented dating sites—all in the belief that these things will not be leaked, hacked, or tied back to them. And yet it happens over and over. (Encryption? Fuggedaboutit.)
While using a smartphone or computer from the comfort of one's bedroom feels private and anonymous, it simply isn't once you connect to the 'Net. Both perps and victims would do well to remember it.


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Do you think Alex has what it takes to walk the walk in the modeling world?
The Real Housewives of New York City star Alex McCord just got a HUGE modeling deal! "I just signed with the celebrity division of New York Model Management," Alex told HollywoodLife.com exclusively Aug. 26 at the 11th Annual BNP Paribas Taste of Tennis Charity Event at the W Hotel in NYC.
"The director of the agency and Simon and I had all met some years ago at a fashion event. We kept in touch," Alex said of how she got the contract.
"We kept in touch with him as friends," Alex's husband, Simon van Kempen explained. "Until we went out to dinner with him again a month ago, it was never on the radar."
"It was just something that was brought up and seemed to make sense," Alex added. "This is all happening literally just now. I'm excited. It seems like a lot of fun."
"I had a great time walking the runway before," she told us. (Remember when Alex walked the runway for a charity event in season three?) "I've done a lot of photo shoots especially recently for building up this book and I had fun doing that too. I think that usually the way it works is the agent goes to clients and they figure out what models they want to use for what."
Though no gigs are lined up yet, it doesn't seem like Alex is that picky about who she works for first. "I love clothing as wearable art. I said that on season one of the show," Alex said. "There are so many amazing designers that are so creative."
And at least Simon is super supportive of Alex's new career. "I'm super proud," Simon gushed. "An old woman can still be beautiful, look at that!"
"I'm actually the youngest one on our franchise," Alex jokingly reminded him. "Thank you very much!"


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Ladies, we need them. Friends of the double-X variety, that is. Three cases in point.
Case No. 1 brings us back to Lara Logan, the foreign correspondent who was brutally attacked and raped in Egypt, and then tsk-tsked by many observers for, you know, being there in the the first place to do her job. Writing for both ProPublica and the New York Times, foreign correspondent Kim Barker tells us precisely why we need women in jobs like hers — and why they need to speak out. She writes of a time when she herself was groped by several men while covering a story on the Chief Justice in Pakistan:
At the time, in June 2007, I saw this as just one of the realities of covering the news in Pakistan. I didn't complain to my bosses. To do so would only make me seem weak. Instead, I made a joke out of it and turned the experience into a positive one: See, being a woman helped me gain access to the chief justice.
And really, I was lucky. A few gropes, a misplaced hand, an unwanted advance — those are easily dismissed. I knew other female correspondents who weren't so lucky, those who were molested in their hotel rooms, or partly stripped by mobs. But I can't ever remember sitting down with my female peers and talking about what had happened, except to make dark jokes, because such stories would make us seem different from the male correspondents, more vulnerable. I would never tell my bosses for fear that they might keep me at home the next time something major happened.
You caught that, right? To complain means to be sent home. As in: See, girls? This job, it's not for you. Barker continues:
I was hardly alone in keeping quiet. The Committee to Protect Journalists may be able to say that 44 journalists from around the world were killed last year because of their work, but the group doesn't keep data on sexual assault and rape. Most journalists just don't report it.
The CBS correspondent Lara Logan has broken that code of silence. She has covered some of the most dangerous stories in the world, and done a lot of brave things in her career. But her decision to go public earlier this week with her attack by a mob in Tahrir Square in Cairo was by far the bravest.
And then there's the case of 17 former and active duty military women who have filed a class-action suit against the defense department for, according to the Washington Post:
…alleging that the military had failed to stop rapes, investigate reported crimes or prosecute perpetrators. Despite ample evidence of the problem, the suit alleges, Gates and Rumsfeld "ran institutions in which perpetrators were promoted . . . and Plaintiffs and other victims were openly subjected to retaliation." While the suit is new, the problem of sexual assault of service members by other service members has long been known to the military leadership.
But nonetheless, kept quiet. When women soldiers bring such stuff to light, it just verifies the outdated notion that they shouldn't be there in the first place.
And finally, there's the (appropriate) firestorm over last week's House vote to deny federal funding to Planned Parenthood because they provide (whisper) abortions. No matter that Planed Parenthood also provides a number of other health services, including contraception, for poor women who have no other access to health care. (And no matter that while funding was denied to Planned Parenthood, funding was approved for Pentagon sponsoring of NASCAR) It took California Congresswoman Jackie Speier to stand up and courageously talk about her own "procedure" — something she says she did not take cavalierly nor did she welcome — to make the debate real. As Amy Davidson writes on a New Yorker blog:
Is there a way to talk about the health of women and children that is about women and children's health, and not about politics? Part of the issue is abortion, of course, as when the House voted today to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood, even for other services. (It still has to pass the Senate.) In the debate over that measure, right after Chris Smith, of New Jersey, made a graphic anti-choice speech, Jackie Speier, a California congresswoman, had her turn: "You know, I had really planned to speak about something else, but the gentleman from New Jersey has just put my stomach in knots." She said that she had had an abortion, years ago, because of complications in a pregnancy:
I'm one of those women he spoke about just now…. That procedure that you talked about was a procedure I endured. I lost a baby. But for you to stand on this floor and to suggest, as you have, that somehow this is a procedure that is either welcomed or done cavalierly or done without any thought is preposterous.
That was brave of her. That is also why it would be helpful to have more women in Congress: to make these discussions normal.
Our point exactly. Whatever our jobs, we need to be part of the conversation in order to normalize it. And to do that, we not only have to stick around — but like our sister sufragetttes, we need to multiply.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - When it comes to exercise, some like it hot, some like it hotter, and some like it under the air conditioner.
Experts say heat can be help your workout, boosting circulation and increasing flexibility, but it's a relationship that can also turn nasty.
"Your body is engineered to exercise in the heat," said Michele Olson, Ph.D., professor of exercise science at Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama. "This is why we sweat."
Olson, who is also an expert with the American College of Sports Medicine, said it's actually the evaporation of sweat from the skin that cools our bodies to maintain our normal body temperature.
Heat also speeds up the heart rate, increasing the circulation of blood around the body, including the muscles, decreasing friction and making it more comfortable to stretch, she said.
"This is why we warm up before exercise," she explained.
But heat-related illnesses that strike during a sport or recreational activity send nearly 6,000 people in the United States to emergency rooms every year, according to a report released in 2011 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sometimes the problem is really not the heat, but the humidity.
"If it is too humid, sweat cannot evaporate and this can prove dangerous, causing a heat injury, such as dehydration, heat cramps or heat stroke," Olson said.
Dr. Cedric X. Bryant, chief science officer of the American Council on Exercise, said it's usually a combination of the two.
"With humidity the environment is not conducive to evaporation, so the body stores more heat, the core temperature goes up, and your physical performance in negatively impacted," he said.
When ambient temperature is 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or more and the humidity is 60 percent, he said exercise should be indoors.
At 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) and 30 percent humidity you'd still be able to exercise safely, he said, depending of the intensity of the workout, which determines how much heat is produced.
"Generally speaking if temperature is 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.6 degrees Celsius) and humidity is below 50 per cent, that's going to be pretty comfortable," Bryant said.
Acclimatization, the gradual adaptation to environmental changes such as heat, can also reduce risk of injury, according to Bryant. The body usually takes 10 to 14 days of heat-exposed exercise to adapt.
To beat the heat, adequate hydration before, during and after exercise is a must, Bryant said.
He recommends drinking copious amounts of fluid 30 minutes before exercise, drinking at least six ounces every 20 minutes during exercise, and drinking beyond thirst after exercise.
"Water is generally best," he said. "But consider a sports drink if you're going to exercising for more than an hour."
During the dog days of summer, Bryant suggests working out in the morning, before the day heats up, and protecting skin and eyes with sunscreen and sunglasses.
When Kay Kay Clivio teaches her hot yoga class at Pure Yoga in New York City, she likes to keep the room between 95 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit (35 to 37.7 degrees Celsius).
"Heat has a healing, therapeutic aspect," she said. "The hot room opens your muscles more and makes you more flexible."
Students in her hot class are encouraged to drink plenty of water and take breaks as needed.
"It's not usual to get nauseous in the first classes. Heat turns up a lot of toxins. Like steam cleaning a carpet, it really dredges stuff up. So the body reacts," Clivio said. "A lot of the benefit is that you're detoxifying."
For her non-hot yoga classes, Clivio likes to set the thermometer at 75 degrees Fahrenheit (23.8 degrees Celsius).
"If you have people in the room, the heat will come up," she explained. "I don't ever think the air conditioner should be on."
Besides flushing toxins and increasing flexibility, Clivio said heat can reduce stress and even sharpen the mind.
"It pushes you out of your comfort zone," she said.
Sadly, one thing exercising in heat cannot do is burn more calories.
"You do not burn more calories by sweating, per se," said Olson.
She said the energy cost of walking a 15-minute mile is the same, whether the temperature is balmy or sweltering.
"The idea that a hot room or area to work out and increase sweat results in increased calorie burning is a myth," she said. "Sweating is a passive process."
Reporting by Dorene Internicola; editing by Patricia Reaney


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There is this guy called Joshua Steimle who applied to Harvard Business School (HBS) and got rejected without even an interview call. While MBA applications are considered private and personal by most people, this guy took a bold step and published his entire application in pdf form to the public for comment. I must say that's a very bold step and in all my sanity, I would never do that. But if you read his applications and then the comments section, you will get many different points of view and will develop a fresh perspective on leadership and management.
Here he publishes his application. Although he does a preliminary analysis himself before opening the application to the public, there are more aspects for improvement than he ever imagined. An interesting read. Go here for his entire pdf application.


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Outrage over gang rape of 15-year-old girl; more arrests made overnight
Outrage grew in a Bay Area town over the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl as police made more arrests overnight.
National attention has been focused in Richmond over what police described as a gang rape of a 15-year-old student who struggled with attackers -- some of whom took photos and laughed -- as more than a dozen witnesses passed by and did nothing. Police said last night that as many as 20 people saw the attack, and some might have shot video on their cellphones.
"We are outraged that this happened," Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin told reporters Tuesday.
Overnight, Richmond police served search warrants at the homes of several suspects and arrested three people, bringing the total number of suspects in custody to five.The girl was repeatedly assaulted Saturday night at Richmond High School after she left a homecoming dance early to wait for a ride from her father. At least seven males beat, raped and eventually robbed the girl in a dark alley behind campus during an ordeal that lasted two to 2 1/2 hours, according to Richmond police.
Two people -- a 19-year-old former Richmond High student and a 15-year-old student at the school -- were arrested Saturday and Monday in connection with the assault, which began about 9:30 p.m.
The suspects allegedly described how some of the attackers laughed and took photos of the girl with cellphone cameras as she was being raped, said Det. Ken Greco of the Richmond Police Department.
"It was a pretty brutal scene," he said.
"We're getting more information about who was there and who played what role," said Lt. Mark Gagan. "The physical evidence is pretty supportive of the direction we're going."
He declined to elaborate on the evidence, citing the ongoing investigation.
Police were alerted after a female student overheard people talking about a rape. She called 911 and told dispatchers what she had heard, Gagan said.
Police said the victim was still being assaulted when officers arrived on the scene. The suspects fled as officers found the girl lying in the alley. She was unconscious and naked from the waist up, Gagan said.
The former Richmond High student, Manuel Ortega, 19, was arrested a few blocks away Saturday night and booked on charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping, police said. The 15-year-old was booked on suspicion of felony sexual assault.
Gagan said that alcohol had been consumed at the scene but that toxicology tests were pending.
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LAS VEGAS – Not sure if nicknames are an important part of Brazilian fighting culture?
Ask UFC 143's Rafael "Sapo" Natal (13-3-1 MMA, 1-1-1 UFC).
"My nickname comes from doing capoeira," Natal told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) in his native Portuguese. "When I showed up, I didn't have a nickname, so they gave me one. There was a book about animals. They opened the book to a page with a frog. So that was it."
A native of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Natal started his martial-arts training at 14 years old in capoeira, the artful Brazilian striking system. Shortly after, he started jiu-jitsu, and he naturally progressed to other arts, as well.
"I don't see capoeira as my base, but it helps with a lot of agility and kicking," Natal explained. "I'm a blue cord in capoeira, but my base is jiu-jitsu. I also take Muay Thai and wrestling but there's no ranking."
Natal continued training through his younger years in eyes of a professional fighting career. He eventually established his own team in Belo Horizonte, Sapo Team, but three-and-a-half years ago moved to New York to train under the legendary Renzo Gracie.
"Vinicius 'Draculino' Magalhaes, my Brazilian jiu-jitsu master, was already teaching in New York," Natal explained. "He invited me to stay with him when I came for a training camp. I was very well received. He invited me to stick around, so I went from student to teacher at his academy.
"I received my black belt from 'Draculino' and Renzo Gracie, both, on September 12, 2009."
On year later, Natal – who had been competing in MMA since 2005 – earned a shot in the UFC's middleweight division. Things didn't exactly get off to a rousing start, as he suffered a decision loss to Rich Attonito before fighting to a majority draw against Jesse Bongfeldt.
"Against Rich Attonito, I was doing well, but then I got knocked down, and I went into autopilot," Natal said. "Later I was able to examine the video of my fight and pinpoint my mistakes.
"After that fight – I was still a bit dizzy – Dana White met me in the locker room. He praised me for my fighting spirit. At one point during that fight, when I got knocked down, the lights went out. When I hit the ground, I woke up, and I still made it to the end of the fight. I think that's why they kept me in the UFC – and I was able to learn from that fight too."
An injury limited Natal to just one fight in 2011, but he finally earned his first octagon victory, scoring a unanimous-decision win over Paul Bradley.
"Up to that point I hadn't managed to implement my game," Natal admitted. "On the third fight, I was able to apply what I had been practicing at the academy, including my wrestling. I think I found my groove."
Natal now meets newcomer Michael Kuiper (11-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) on the preliminary card of Saturday's UFC 143 event, which takes place at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Events center. Portions of the event air on pay-per-view and FX, but Natal's bout streams on Facebook.
The undefeated Dutchman is a relative unknown on the global scene, but Natal said he's not taking his opponent lightly.
"I know he's a judo black belt and a good kickboxer," Natal said. "He's a complete fighter. He may have fought competition whom we know little about, but he ran them over, so he's experienced and complete in all areas. He's a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
"It will be a very hard fight. I'm ready for that. We are pretty well-matched, but I feel my advantage is when it comes to jiu-jitsu. It will be tough."
Natal's current UFC run may very well hang in the balance of Saturday's fight. At 1-1-1 in the octagon, wins are imperative. But Natal said his confidence is at an all-time high, and he's unconcerned with anything past this weekend.
"I believe in myself, my friends, my family, my students, my fans," Natal said. "The people who believe in me and support me lift me up.
"I take things one fight at a time. My entire focus is on beating the opponent in front of me. I'll deal with other things afterward."
For more on UFC 143, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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Since summer is officially half way through and there's only one month left to soak up the sun while sporting your tunics, sandals, and ridiculously huge, yet totally chic, large brim hats, I thought it was a great time to share some more illustrations from the talented Audrey Schilt.
These designs are for the Ralph Lauren Cruise Collection of 2004. Audrey described this collection by writing "I could have fun being creative with ideas that were more about the surf and sand. Beading with a shell inspiration, or coral motif. Swimsuits, coverups, easy soft suiting, sarong inspired dresses for both day and evening!
"The sketches have an airy lightness with lots of movement. Cruise is the time of year people travel to warmer climates...they want cloths that travel easily and are free feeling...not restricting. I always tried to make the sketches reflect the freshness of the season."