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Securities America Adds 130 Investors Security Company Reps
Independent BD experiencing 'outstanding' 2012 recruiting results
LA VISTA, Neb.--()--Independent broker/dealer Securities America, a subsidiary of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. (NYSE MKT: LTS), announced today that Investors Security Company Inc. of Suffolk, Va., will become a branch of Securities America. Investors Security has approximately 130 registered representatives.
"I have spent time with the executives from Securities America and Ladenburg Thalmann and have found them to be quality individuals running a strong broker/dealer that is committed to the advisor experience."
"We're honored that Investors Security is joining the Securities America family, continuing our outstanding 2012 recruiting results," said Jim Nagengast, CEO and president of Securities America. "We have significant experience working with smaller broker/dealers that want to merge their advisor force into a strong, industry leading broker/dealer. Our branch structure gives us a culture and infrastructure that smaller broker/dealers find attractive when considering their options for the future. With our unmatched technology and business growth services, Investors Security's advisors can continue to provide the quality, comprehensive financial services their clients have come to associate with the Investors Security name."
The branch, which will be one of Securities America's largest, will continue to do business under the Investors Security name. It will be led by Christopher Holloway, who was recently named president and has been a managing director at Investors Security since 1999, and Cabell Birdsong, founder and CEO of Investors Security.
Birdsong said the decision to affiliate with Securities America was based on the company's strength as an independent broker/dealer. "I am excited to entrust my life's work to a firm with the sense of family and community like Securities America," Birdsong said. "I have spent time with the executives from Securities America and Ladenburg Thalmann and have found them to be quality individuals running a strong broker/dealer that is committed to the advisor experience."
Birdsong founded Investors Security Company in 1964, pioneering the independent broker/dealer model. He managed Old Dominion Investors Trust, Inc. from 1964 until 2004 when the trust merged into another fund complex. He attended the University of Virginia and has held positions on the boards of Paul D. Camp Community College and the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts. Birdsong was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002.
About Securities America
Headquartered in La Vista, Neb., Securities America Inc. is the nation's eighth largest independent broker-dealer (as ranked by Financial Planning magazine, June 2012, based on 2011 total revenue). For more than 25 years, Securities America's mission has been to foster the success of financial professionals so they can provide quality, objective counsel and services to their clients. Advisors benefit from the firm's industry-leading programs in practice management, advisory services and retirement income distribution, supported by state-of-the-art technology. Founded in 1993, Securities America Advisors Inc. is an SEC-Registered Investment Advisory firm that offers investment management, financial advice and financial planning through a national network of independent financial advisors. Securities America Financial Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. (NYSE MKT: LTS). Securities America received the inaugural Thought Leadership Award from the Retirement Income Industry Association in March 2011. Additional information is available at www.securitiesamerica.com.
Advisory services offered through Securities America Advisors, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Advisory Firm. Securities offered through Securities America, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC.
Investors Security is not affiliated with either Securities America or Ladenburg Thalmann.


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Each shop hours are 09:00 to 17:00 (except for some shops).On Monday to Friday almost every shop are open.On Saturday about 90% shops are open.On Sunday and public holidays about 30% shops are open.Holidays vary by shop.For more information, please visit the website of each shop.
Kappabashi Dougu Street is located in Tokyo's Taito City, along the west side of Asakusa's main entertainment district, and just midway between Ueno and Asakusa.
Merchants first began gathering in the Kappabashi area around 1912, selling old tools and a wide range of implements and hardware. Today, one can find almost every kind of restaurant equipment imaginable, including bakery equipment, Japanese, Western, and Chinese tableware, china, laquerware, restaurant equipment, packaging, containers, decorative goods, "fake" food samples, chefs' coats, signs, noren (shop curtains), bamboo wares, baking ingredients, food and beverage ingredients, confectionary wholesalers, Japanese furniture, Western furniture, kitchen equipment, refrigerators and refrigerated showcases, showcases, displays, shop design and construction services, and much more. At 800 meters (nearly a half-mile) in length, and with over 170 shops, this is Japan's largest shopping street devoted to kitchen implements.

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Welcome to Emotional Intelligence Guide
Emotional Intelligence Online Test Article
For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for further reading, click here.
How Emotional Intelligence Workshops Can Help You Succeed In Lifefrom: Jim Holden - Staff writer
Human emotions can be very powerful things. Although it is our knowledge that we utilize in the progress of the human race, it is our emotional intelligence that determines just how much progress we are willing to make.
We have only recently realized just how much emotional intelligence can affect our lives, and in fact emotional intelligence is an essential part of our existence. Even if we have exceptional abilities, they are useless without emotional intelligence, and it is the case that these two characteristics need to be in balance in order to have a fulfilled life.
Many of us have begun to realize our need to cultivate emotional intelligence and we have sought ways to fulfill that need. Emotional intelligence workshops, self-help books, seminars, and other types of activities and materials, have been made available to help us increase our emotional intelligence.
In this article, we will focus on one subject in particular, which is how emotional intelligence workshops can help you as a human being!
We need to know what an emotional intelligence workshop is before we answer this question however. An emotional intelligence workshop is an activity designed to help groups of people cultivate their emotional intelligence through different techniques. Here are some ways in which emotional intelligence workshop can help you succeed in life :-
Decision-making - Throughout our lives we face decisions all of the time, and sometimes those decisions involve a lot of thinking, and some decisions need to be thought about before being implemented. However there are times when we let our emotions take over, and we make decisions that we are sure to regret.
An emotional intelligence workshop can help us learn how to distinguish our emotions from our thoughts, and because of this an emotional intelligence workshop can help us sort out our decisions, based on what we think is best for us. We will not be prone to irrational action.
Social interaction - Emotional intelligence not only involves your emotions, but those of other people as well. An emotional intelligence workshop can teach you how to understand the emotions of the people around you, and this can help you create better ties with those people.
We all know how important other people can be in order to succeed in life. This is not a question of using other people to get what you want, but it is a question of reality. In life today it is sometimes true that who you know, matters more than what you know, so by learning about other people's emotions, you learn how to interact with the people you may encounter in life. You can learn how to deal with an irritable boss, or you can learn how to deal with disgruntled employees. In a sense, you will acquire the skills you need to face the fact that you need other people.
Stress management - There are times in life when we feel distress, and during these times heavy emotional burdens may cause us to lose sight of the joy of living. Emotional intelligence workshops can prepare us for these episodesm and helps us realize that despair does not answer anything.
Emotional intelligence workshops can prove to be very useful when you are faced with a heavy emotional burden, whether it is your burden or those of another person An emotional intelligence workshop can equip you with the ability you need to deal with the situation in the best way possible.


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Appearance of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 4
Today, like the eternal sun, / Your Icon appears in the sky, O Theotokos. / With rays of mercy it enlightens the world. / This land accepts the heavenly gift from above, / Honoring You as the Mother of God. / We praise Christ our Lord who was born of You. / Pray to Him, O Queen and sovereign virgin / That all Christian cities and lands be guarded in safety, / And that He save those who kneel to His divine, and Your holy image, O unwedded bride.
Kontakion — Tone 8
O people, let us come to the Virgin Queen and Mother, giving thanks to Christ God. / Let us fall before her miraculous image, and let us cry: / O sovereign Mary, your glorious image now inhabits this land. / Save all the Christians of this world, showing us the heavenly life. / To You we faithfully cry: Rejoice, O Virgin, the salvation of the world!


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Leaders of the One City, One Library initiative, a collaboration of the city, schools, public library and community, hope to open a refurbished library at Roosevelt School in mid-October, according to Christina Andreoli, executive director of the Worcester Public Library Foundation, a nonprofit that raises money for library initiatives. The library will be open to teachers and students during the day and open to the public, via a brightly painted yellow corridor, after school and on Saturdays.
Similar libraries at Goddard School of Science and Technology and at Tatnuck Magnet School should follow in November, but adding a library to Burncoat Street Preparatory School has proved harder. An existing modular classroom that was considered for a library space there is not strong enough to hold the collection, and a new one will likely have to be added. That will probably not happen until spring.
In the meantime, the library foundation is honoring a private citizen who has helped rejuvenate the city's elementary school libraries: Patricia Eppinger, whose daughter's Worcester Academy Destination Imagination team helped open the library at Union Hill School and whose involvement grew from there. Mrs. Eppinger, the wife of Hanover Insurance Group President and Chief Executive Fred Eppinger, will receive the first Dr. Richard E. Greene Founders Award at the library foundation's annual meeting at 5:30 p.m. Sept 18. Mr. Greene, who met Mrs. Eppinger Wednesday, is a former president of the library foundation and a former president of the library board of directors.
Mrs. Eppinger said she has had the time to put into library advocacy and sees it as an urgent need. 'After food and shelter, education is what kids need the most,' she said. The libraries' extended reach, she added, is 'going to affect people's lives.'
A handful of Worcester elementary schools still do not have libraries, and all but three elementary schools lack a librarian. More than a third of the district's students do not speak English proficiently, and more than half of the district's thirdgraders score below proficient on the state's English language arts test.
Ms. Andreoli said 'a lot more people than we ever thought' have stepped up to support One City, One Library.
The University of Massachusetts Medical School provided $700,000 for the first four schools in the One City, One Library initiative, and the foundation has also received more than $100,000 from the Fuller Foundation, Ms. Andreoli said. Businesses like Cardinal Construction, Coghlin Electric, Rotmans, Knight Security, and Nal's Paint have agreed to work on the project at an extreme discount, she noted.
Each of the new libraries will be staffed by Worcester Public Library librarians, paid through payments-in-lieu-oftaxes from Clark University, MCPHS University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Each library will also have a set of 25 iPads, connection to the C/W MARS library network, and 5,000 new materials, including books, electronic books and DVDs, Ms. Andreoli said.
Each school has presented its own challenges. At Goddard, for instance, a security buzzer from the outside will be routed to the librarian's desk so he or she can let the public in after hours, said Michael T. Andrews, a project manager with Cardinal Construction. Tatnuck Magnet held a branch library once, but since then a wall was erected that divided the space and which needed to be removed.
There are other considerations to opening a branch library in a school, too. During the school day, for instance, Internet service in the library will be filtered for appropriate content. After hours, it will be unfiltered, Ms. Andreoli said.
Backers are still looking for major sponsors for each of the four schools for things like automated check-out stations. They're also still looking for a sponsor for a 'mini Libby,' a $115,000 smaller version of the larger bookmobile sponsored by the College of the Holy Cross. The hope is that increased service from the mobile libraries can serve the schools that lack the space to have a library.
Worcester is not the only place putting public libraries in schools. Chicago recently opened a public library branch that is meant to double as a school library for students attending the Back of the Yards High School.
The Worcester Public Library Foundation's annual meeting is open to the public, but registration is required. Call (508) 799-1656 to register.
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I happened to be perusing Summit Racing's redesigned website, which recently added a section on its homepage for Late Model Muscle. Naturally the fifth-gen Camaro was one of the three choices, and since I wanted to check out the tire options (having recently added some Weld wheels to our 2012 Camaro SS project) – I clicked on the Wheels and Tires section. The first thing that caught my eye was a set of Dorman tire pressure monitor sensors (TPMS). Why, you might ask, would I be interested in this product for a brand-new car with less than 3,000 miles on the clock? Well, as luck would have it, in the process of transferring the TPMS on the stock wheels to the new Weld Racing wheels, the valve stems were damaged and started leaking significantly on at least one wheel. Some shops recommend installing traditional metal valve stems, throwing the TPMS in the trash, and putting some tape over the gauge cluster to block out the warning light. But, the Dorman TPMS (PN RNB-974-009) come with metal valve stems and are a fraction of the cost of the GM sensors at under $31. So I figured we'd give them a shot in the name of science. After just a few clicks, the sensors were in route from the Georgia shipping center to our Tampa, FL headquarters.
Dorman Tire Pressure Monitor Sensors - The TPMS Fix
Plug in these aftermarket tire pressure sensors and turn that light off in your dash


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tie someone in knots
tie (one) (up) in knots
To make one confused, anxious, worried, and/or upset. I've been planning to propose to James on Sunday, but the nervousness is tying me in knots! It's something about the austere, imposing way the boss speaks that always ties everyone up in knots.
tie someone in knotsor
tie someone up in knots
If someone ties you in knots or ties you up in knots in a discussion or argument, they confuse you by using clever arguments, so that you cannot argue or think clearly any longer. He could tie her in knots in an argument and never once missed an opportunity to prove his intellectual superiority. He had easily tied her up in knots, cleverly casting serious doubt on her mental faculties.
tie someone (up) in knotsmake someone completely confused. informal
1996 Daily Star It looks like an open and shut case until the brilliant QC starts getting the prosecution witnesses tied up in knots.


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Homeland Security reviewing border use of force
Secretary Jeh Johnson has been reviewing the rules about when border agents can use their guns since he took office in December
By Alicia A. Caldwell
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — New Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is reviewing the department's use-of-force policies, a Homeland Security official said Friday.
The official said Johnson has been reviewing the rules about when border agents can use their guns since he took office in December.
The official was not authorized to publicly discuss internal deliberations and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, has been criticized by civil rights groups and others for allowing border agents to use deadly force against people blamed for throwing rocks at them.
Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher said last year that a report by the Police Executive Research Forum, a group that led a government-commissioned review, recommended a ban on deadly force against rock throwers and assailants in vehicles. CBP rejected the recommendations, which Fisher described to The Associated Press as "very restrictive." Now, agents can use deadly force if they have a reasonable belief that their lives or the lives of others are in danger.
The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that it obtained a copy of the report, which it described as critical of the Border Patrol's "lack of diligence" in investigating agents who fired their guns. The newspaper said the report also concluded that "that some border agents stood in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to open fire and that agents could have moved away from rock throwers instead of shooting at them."
The report found agents sometimes put themselves in harm's way by remaining close to rock throwers when they could have moved away, according to a person who read it and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because it has not been publicly released. It said agents may have been partly motivated by frustration in some rock-throwing cases.
The 21-page review of incidents from January 2010 to October 2012 raised questions about cases in which agents fired across the border fence into Mexico and said "too many" cases don't meet the threshold for use of deadly force, the person said.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said she read the report and found it "very disturbing."
"It makes clear that there needs to be very serious reform efforts at the agency," she said. "You don't use lethal force against nonlethal force."
The Homeland Security official said Johnson's review was not prompted by any additional incidents or new details.
CBP's policies have been criticized by some civil rights groups and questioned by others.
"When a young person throws a rock across the border ... some agents respond with a gun and others don't seem to respond at all," U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said at a congressional hearing in January. "There seems to some need for consistency in the response to these incidents."
The Border Patrol has long maintained that rocks are lethal weapons.
According to the Homeland Security inspector general, agents were attacked with rocks 339 times in the 2011 budget year. Rock-throwing incidents were the most common assault reported. Agents responded with gunfire 33 times and with less-than-lethal force 118 times.
The latest incident happened on Feb. 18, when an agent fatally shot Jesus Flores Cruz, 41, who allegedly struck the agent in the head with a rock near San Diego. The Border Patrol said Agent Daniel Basinger feared for his life.
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Study Suggests Why Heart Attack Victims Do Better With Social Support - 09/18/08
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Researchers have identified specific damages to the brain that may occur when heart attack victims are socially isolated from others.
The study in mice found that those animals that lived alone before undergoing a heart attack showed five to eight times more damage to neurons in one part of the brain than did similar animals that lived with others.
While studies in humans have shown that socially isolated heart attack victims have a lower survival rate than others, this study may help reveal the mechanisms behind that result, said Zachary Weil, co-author of the study and former doctoral student in neuroscience at Ohio State University.
Mice that were socially isolated prior to the heart attack showed five to eight times more damage to their neurons compared to mice that were housed together. Socially isolated mice also showed evidence of greater inflammation in the hippocampus, when compared to socially housed and control mice.
"This study shows that there are basic changes that occur in the brain when a heart attack victim is socially isolated," Weil said.
"In these mice, living with others seemed to provide strong protection from some of the damaging results of a heart attack."
The study appears in the October 2008 issue of the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
In the study, mice were put into two groups – members of one group lived alone, while the others lived communally in a cage with four other mice.
After two weeks with these living arrangements, some of the mice underwent a surgically induced heart attack. Those in a control group underwent the same surgical procedure, but the researchers prevented any loss of oxygen to the brain that would occur in a typical heart attack.
Brain tissue and blood samples were later collected from the mice. Researchers compared damage in the hippocampus, the area of the brain that plays a key role in memory. A lack of oxygen during a severe heart attack – one where the victim stops breathing – can either kill or seriously damage neurons, the primary cells of the nervous system.
Results showed that the mice that were socially isolated prior to the heart attack showed five to eight times more damage to their neurons compared to mice that were housed together, said Weil, who is now a post-doctoral researcher at Rockefeller University in New York.
Socially isolated mice also showed evidence of greater inflammation in the hippocampus, when compared to socially housed and control mice.
"There was a runaway inflammatory response in the tissue of socially isolated mice, which is damaging to the brain," said Randy Nelson, a co-author of the study and professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State.
Socially isolated mice showed increased activation of microglia, a type of immune cell in the central nervous system that responds to damaged neurons, the study found.
One of the ways microglia respond is by releasing tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-a), one of a large family of proteins called cytokines -- chemical messengers that are mobilized when the body is injured or has an infection. These cytokines cause inflammation in their effort to repair an injured or infected area of the body.
Levels of TNF-a were elevated in isolated mice, but not in socially housed mice, compared to the control mice.
The higher levels of TNF-a in the socially isolated mice, and the inflammation it caused, was the main reason for the increased neuronal damage in these animals, Nelson said.
"Inflammation is normally good, but in this case it is too much of a good thing," he said.
In addition, results showed that the isolated mice had higher levels of the stress hormone corticosterone following the heart attack. Other studies have linked elevated levels of this hormone to increased neuronal damage.
"We found that the hormonal stress response network is more activated after cardiac arrest in socially isolated animals," said Courtney DeVries, in whose lab the work was conducted and another co-author and associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State.
"This is contributing to damage in the neurons."
DeVries said this study, and others in her lab and in labs across the country, have highlighted the importance of social isolation and relationships in health, and specifically in recovery from heart attacks and strokes.
In fact, studies have shown that social isolation is as strong a predictor of one-year survival rates among heart attack victims as more classic risk factors such as high cholesterol and hypertension.
"One of the stumbling blocks has been that we haven't found the mechanism that explains why socially isolated individuals don't fare was well when it comes to heart attacks.
"But this study shows there is a physical reason why isolated people don't do as well, and it has to do with the inflammatory response to a heart attack."
If these findings continue to be replicated, it may suggest new ways to help treat heart attack victims.
"It is very difficult to alter people's social networks, but if we can understand the exact mechanism behind why socially isolated people don't fare as well after a heart attack, we may be able to develop therapies that can improve their outcomes," DeVries said.
Other co-authors on the study, all from Ohio State, were Greg Norman, Jacqueline Barker and Alan Su. The work is part of ongoing studies at Ohio State's Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research.


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Mermaid Tales is a Maritime Themed Album Mastered by Red Pipe Mastering NY & Produced by Red Pipe Productions, Giuseppe D. & Alan "Bagga" Mitchell in the genres of Tropical House, Reggaeton, & Pop featuring Rally Rally Ree on "Missed Out" & Henno on "Heart Too Far". Fado style inspired the track "Harbour of Lisbon" and check out the music video filmed in Lisbon, Portugal now on YouTube. Two album songs are sung in French, one of which titled "Au Naturel" is co-written with James C Taylor which his half of the songwriting profits will go to UM Sylvester Cancer Center in his honor. This song is included in the album in both English and French.
From the crystalline sea above the dome,
Comes mermaid tales from myths unknown,
Secrets of the past hidden in plain sight,
Coming to light through mermaids delight
But who could argue with the powers that be,
Lest he who knows the magic of the sea,
The majesty of a god who dominates this place,
Whose face seldom revealed yet rules our race
With an open heart take a chance on a siren song
Leading to oceans deep can't be wrong


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The ICCJ serves as the umbrella organization of 40 national Jewish-Christian dialogue organizations world-wide. The ICCJ member organizations world-wide over the past five decades have been successfully engaged in the historic renewal of Jewish-Christian relations.
The Young Leadership Council (YLC) is the youth branch of the International Council for Christians and Jews (ICCJ). Currently our board includes people from various Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions from around the world.
To our Muslim brothers and sisters throughout the world
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Updated at 8 p.m. ET: NEW YORK - A suspected terrorist parked a van packed with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb next to the Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan and tried to detonate it Wednesday morning before he was arrested in a terror sting operation, authorities said.
Quazi Nafis, 21, the former student accused of plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve, had tried to find likeminded people on Facebook to join him in his violent jihad. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
The suspect, 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, is a Bangladeshi national who came to the U.S. on a student visa in January for the specific purpose of launching a terror attack here, authorities said. He allegedly told an undercover agent last month that he hoped the attack would disrupt the presidential election, saying "You know what, this election might even stop," according to the criminal complaint against him.
"He clearly had the intent of creating mayhem here," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters Wednesday, saying his actions went "way past aspirational."
The complaint said Nafis wrote a statement claiming responsibility for what he thought would be the Fed attack, saying he wanted to "destroy America" by going after its economy. He referred to "our beloved Sheikh Osama bin Laden" in the statement, which was stored on a thumb drive.
More about the alleged plot on NBCNewYork.com
He also proposed various other targets beyond the Fed building at 33 Liberty St., just blocks from the World Trade Center site, prosecutors said. He considered targeting a "high-ranking U.S. official" as well as the New York Stock Exchange.
NBC News security analyst Michael Leiter discusses Quazi Mohammad Reswanul Ahsan Nafis' alleged attempt to blow up the New York Federal Reserve, including how the FBI helped identify him early as a radicalized student.
Kelly said he knew who the official was but refused to name the person, saying only that any details not in the complaint would be revealed in future court proceedings.
Nafis, who lives in Jamaica, Queens, attended Southeast Missouri State University for a semester, studying cybersecurity as a sophomore from January through May 2012, a school spokesman said. He sought a transfer to a New York City ESL program and left Missouri after the spring, according to a law enforcement official.
The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old man from Bangladesh who was riding in a van carrying a powerful bomb meant for the Federal Reserve in Manhattan. Federal agents say the suspect came to the U.S. in January on a student visa. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
Federal criminal complaint filed against Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafi (PDF)
He allegedly sought out al-Qaida contacts to help him, unknowingly recruiting an FBI source in the process. At that point, the FBI and NYPD began monitoring him as he developed the plot, prosecutors said.
This Twitter profile picture, obtained by AFP, allegedly shows Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis of Bangladesh.
An undercover FBI agent posed as an al-Qaida facilitator, supplying him with 20 50-pound bags of what he thought were explosives to use in building his bomb. Nafis also visited the Lower Manhattan site multiple times as he planned the attack, officials said.
The complaint said he told an agent in July that he wanted "something very big ... that will shake the whole country."
Prosecutors say Nafis met the agent Wednesday morning and put the bomb inside a van before driving to the Fed building, assembling the detonator while he drove.
The pair parked the van by the Fed, got out and walked to a hotel, where Nafis covered his face, put on sunglasses and recorded a video statement he meant to be released after the attack. He then tried to detonate the bomb through a cell phone detonator, officials said.
More on NBCNewYork.com: Man pleads guilty in plot to kill Saudi ambassador
Law enforcement officials stress that the plot was a sting operation monitored by the FBI, Homeland Security and NYPD and the public was never at risk. The materials he believed were explosives had been rendered inoperable, officials said.
Nafis was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida. His attorney declined comment after a court appearance.
"Attempting to destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure, " said Mary Galligan, FBI acting assistant director in charge.
"The defendant came to this country intent on conducting a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and worked with single-minded determination to carry out his plan," said U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch. "The defendant thought he was striking a blow to the American economy. He thought he was directing confederates and fellow believers. At every turn, he was wrong, and his extensive efforts to strike at the heart of the nation's financial system were foiled by effective law enforcement."
Jonathan Dienst is WNBC's chief investigative correspondent. Shimon Prokupecz is a WNBC investigative producer.
The FBI and NYPD arrest a suspected terrorist involved in an apparent plot to attack the Federal Reserve of New York, reports WNBC's Jonathan Dienst.
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Photo Sense is a powerful, but very easy to use photo editing software for Mac OS and iOS. Its younger brother Photo Sense Lite is also updated to version 1.2.0.
VeprIT Photo Sense is designed to make photographs more attractive quickly and easily, without spending a lot of time and money on learning, purchasing, and using professional photo manipulation software. Photo Sense enhances photos automatically, and allows users to customize results to their liking. It ensures that the users get great results very quickly by supporting batch processing and image settings synchronization. In addition, the users can apply various creative effects.
In more detail, Photo Sense 1.8.0 provides:
- Professional image enhancement techniques automatically applied to multiple photographs
- Results customization at two levels: semi-automatic and manual
- Batch processing (working with multiple images at a time) in automatic and semi-automatic modes
- Image settings synchronization between photographs (including manual adjustments) to speed-up the workflow
- Crop and straighten tool (its settings can be synchronized between images of the same size, providing batch operation)
- Batch image rotation
- Batch image resizing (down-sampling)
- Batch image format conversion
- A number of creative effects (applied in a batch mode)
- Non-destructive operation
- Convenient ways to compare photos before and after processing, including a side-by-side comparison
Instead of adjusting every photograph manually, as required in traditional image editors, the user can let Photo Sense process multiple photos completely automatically. Then the user can choose to save the automatic results and finish, or to improve them. In semi-automatic mode, it is possible to choose what adjustments should be applied to particular photographs. Moreover, the user can fine-tune the results manually. Finally, the photos can be given an artistic finishing touch by applying creative effects.
The unique automatic photo enhancement algorithm implemented in Photo Sense embraces everything its developers learned during over 4 years of professional photography experience. The only shortcoming the application has compared to manual processing is the lack of human vision, which sometimes can lead to a suboptimal choice of automatic image processing parameters. With the tools provided by Photo Sense (two customization levels, batch processing, image settings synchronization etc.) the user can easily and quickly perfect the automatic results.
New in Photo Sense 1.8.0 and Photo Sense Lite 1.2.0
This major update brings the creative effects in Photo Sense and Photo Sense Lite to a new level. In addition to choosing the pre-defined color presets, the user can now stylize photos by applying various textures, noise, and vignetting. In addition, this update brings the following
* Several new pre-defined creative effects.
* Images are now first cropped, then processed. This slightly decreases the crop tool performance, but improves the automatic enhancement results and performance, because the processing is now based only on the most important (cropped) image part. It also improves manual adjustment performance for cropped photos. As a result, after cropping, the image look may significantly change.
User interface improvements:
Bug fixes:
Pricing and Availability: A trial version of Photo Sense (with disabled results saving) is freely available for download at the application webpage. The current price is 22 Euro. The license can be purchased from VeprIT online. Photo Sense is also available on the Mac App Store. Photo Sense Lite is only available on the Mac App Store. Photo Sense for iOS is available on the iTunes Store. Category: Graphics & Design, Photography, Art, Video
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China-based Brian Chang (he was born in South Africa) was in the 70s and 80s one of Singapore's most famous entrepreneurs, building a major offshore marine business. He ran into a spot of bother and relocated to China where he rebuilt his fortune again and again in the offshore marine sector.
So in late 2007, when his son, Malcolm, took a 29.5% stake in very thinly traded and capitalised Wepco, there was speculation that the Changs would use Wepco to list some offshore marine assets. Nothing happened until Monday
Wepco announced that it iwas acquiring real estate firm HSR in a reverse takeover. Patrick Liew and Kellie Lim, who own 100 per cent of HSR, will sell their entire stakeholding to Catalist-listed Wepco Ltd for S$40 million. Wepco will issue some 80 million consideration shares at a price of 50 cents per share.Mr Liew and Ms Lim will own 83% of Wepco's enlarged share capital.
Malcolm Chang bought into Wepco at around 60 cents, so he must be hoping that the new Wepco will attract investor interest.


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- I floss my teeth twice a day.
- Dora, the world's best dog, and I eat lot of sprouted black bean chips every evening. With hummus.
- I tried to learn how to play the bagpipes.
- Chardonnay is no longer my favorite cocktail of choice.
- I do not like my hamburger bun to be toasted.
- I broke a tooth once during a bad dream.
- My feet smell like watermelon.
- My children are going to graduate from college on the very same day next year.
- I have been told that I have a nice singing voice.
- I am not much of a swimmer.
- I have eaten corned beef for the last 5 days.
- Kale is one of my favorite vegetables.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
This 'n That Thursday
17 comments:
- joanne said...
no on the corned beef..the rest yes! Have a nice day MPM.
- March 21, 2012 at 11:11 PM
- Chesapeake Bay Woman said...
I have a hard time believing the Chardonnay one, unless you've replaced it with a fine Malbec.
- March 22, 2012 at 5:43 AM
- Daryl said...
Yup, I'm with CBW .. tho I suspect you arent drinking while having the radiation .. how are those hot flashes? Any better?
- March 22, 2012 at 7:22 AM
- Jamie said...
I concur with CBW. And I did learn to play the bagpipes. And had no corned beef at all this month.
- March 22, 2012 at 8:51 AM
- Hilary said...
The only one I believe is the watermelon feet. ;)
- March 22, 2012 at 8:57 AM
- Pix at Under the Oaks said...
#2 for sure!
NO on the corned beef.
Watermelon scented feet, maybe.
Are you going to tell us?
Have you smelled Dora, the world's best dog's feet. I bet they smell like Fritos :)
Enjoy you Thursday MPMama!
- March 22, 2012 at 9:22 AM
- Debbie said...
LOL I definitely don't believe the bagpipes!
No toasted bun? I do :)
I would think you would be a good swimmer, but afraid of sharks hahaha.
This is good! And hard!
- March 22, 2012 at 9:27 AM
- Sally said...
Actually, I think maybe you have been eating corned beef! I have never smelled my feet, but hope they smell like watermelon; you know just in case someone else smells them. eeewwwww
HUGS to you, mama.
- March 22, 2012 at 10:14 AM
- Joanie said...
That must have been quite a dream to break a tooth???
- March 22, 2012 at 10:19 AM
- I Am Woody said...
Are you crazy? Toasted buns are the BEST!
- March 22, 2012 at 11:08 AM
- Magpie said...
Hmm. I think you've been eating watermelon and your feet smell like hummus.
- March 22, 2012 at 1:25 PM
- Country Girl said...
I believe in the graduation, the watermelon, the tooth, the toasted buns, and possibly the kale. But I'm thinking the rest might be made up.
So you must tell us.
- March 22, 2012 at 7:42 PM
- abb said...
They are ALL TRUE!
- March 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- Sassy said...
Living here in Arizona....you get your buns toasted weather you like it or not hahahaha
YUM!!!! Watermelon feet...how cool is that....and I love corned beef!
I think bagpipes are soooo cool....I am just an ol' bag with leaky pipes......old age stinks hahaha
LOVE YA my friend!!!!!
- March 23, 2012 at 4:41 PM
- Unknown said...
Hope they don't graduate on the same day ... what WILL you do????
- March 23, 2012 at 7:53 PM
- Camellia said...
I think everything is true. Unless your lying to me. It causes confusion. and sometimes suspicion. and sometimes grief. And if I am into relaxing into true, joy.
I hope your feet smell like watermelon. and the graduation? I guess you might have thought about that before you had twins, my ____ would say.
- March 27, 2012 at 6:52 AM
- Snooty Primadona said...
You are definitely a paradox, my friend... I wish I had feet that smelled like watermelon instead of sweat.
- March 28, 2012 at 8:21 AM


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Finding Aid to the Ecology Action Records, 1965-1988, bulk 1968-1978
Finding Aid to the Ecology Action Records, 1965-1988, bulk 1968-1978
Collection Number: BANC MSS 88/126 cThe Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
- August 2012
Scope and Content of Collection
Container List
Series 1 Correspondence 1968-1979
Anderson, Eugene 1968
Clements, Dale circa 1976
George, Leroy 1970-1971
Hopper, Bill circa 1971
People of the Valley 1970-1971, undated
Princeton Ecology Action 1969-1975
Rodale Press 1969-1971
Rowe, Marguerite 1976, 1977
Seeger, Pete 1969-1976
Sonoma County Board of Education circa 1970
General Information Requests 1968-1974
General Information Requests 1975-1978, undated
Incoming 1968-1979, undated
Incoming- thank you from elementary school class undated
Outgoing 1968-1978, undated
Series 2 Administrative 1968-1978
Scope and Content Note
Mailing Lists 1968-1969, undated
Press Releases 1969-1970
Income 1969-1971
Press 1971-1978
Minutes 1977
Miscellaneous circa 1970
Series 3 Program 1968-1989
Scope and Content Note
Chuck Herrick Peace and Freedom Park- Berkeley, California- photographs May 1968
San Francisco "A People's Park"- photographs 1968
Car Sacrifice- photographs 8 June 1969
Ecology Seminar- photographs 1969
Fault Tour- Berkeley- photographs 1969
Smog Free Locomotion Day (including photographs) 1969
Sign of the Times Exhibit- photographs 1969
Unfill the Bay- photographs 1969
Earth Re-birth Parade 1970
Survival Walk (including photographs) 1970
Survival Crisis Exhibit (including photographs) undated
Bikathon poster undated
Various (including photographs) 1969-1978
Unidentified Exhibit undated
Activities and Events- various (slides) 1969-1977
Educational Materials circa 1968
Model Ecology Unit circa 1970
Science for Citizens Proposal 1976
New Melones Dam
State Water Resources Control Board 1968-1976
Environmental Defense Fund vs. Ellis Armstrong 1972-1973
Legislation 1973
Correspondence 1974-1980
Press 1974-1980
Californians Against Proposition 17 1974
Friends of the River 1974
Proposition 17 1974
Petitions Opposing Proposition 17 1974
Needs for New Melones Project Water 1974
People of the River 1974
Management Plan Proposal circa 1974
New Melones Lake 1976
Supplement to Final Environmental Statement 1976
Senate Bill 1482 1976
Friends of the River circa 1979
Friends of New Melones 1979
State Water Resources Control Board 1979-1981
House Sub-Committee for National Parks and Insular Affairs 1980
Stanislaus River Basin Alternatives and Water Allocation 1980
Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement 1980
Miscellaneous 1974-1980
Notes undated
Photographs undated
Peripheral Canal 1976
Proposal for a Community Conservation Corps undated
Project Epi-Center 1971
Agenda for Ecological Alternatives (Ecology/21 Foundation) 1976-1979
Project MATER (Metabolic Approach to Environmental Research) 1971-1974
Recycling (including photographs) 1970-1989
Recycling- poster and calendars 1978, 1980, undated
Correspondence 1970-1976
Ecology Action: The Journal of Cultural Transformation 1969-1971
What's Ecology circa 1969-1973
Feed the World: A Food Tract by E.N. Anderson, Jr. circa 1970
Eco Facts circa 1970
An Eco-Activist's Fable 1971
Establishing Environmental Priorities circa 1971
Sorting it Out in Modesto 1977
Ecology Action Newsletter 1978
Ecology at Home undated
The Green Handbook: Alternatives to Extinction undated
Present and Future Trends in Transportation in the Central Valley of California by George M. Sinclair undated
Short Guide to Environmental Problems by E.N. Anderson, Jr. undated
Flyers and Handouts circa 1970
Posters undated
Series 4 Speaking Engagements 1969-1979
Scope and Content Note
Speaker Inquiries 1969-1971
Wayne Short Lecture Management 1970-1971
Day of Concern 4 March 1969
Merced College Convocation 1 April 1969
University of California, Irvine 2 October 1969
Berkeley Citizens United 27 October 1969
San Joaquin Delta College 13 November 1969
San Jose State University 6 January 1970
Santa Barbara City College 28 January 1970
Planned Parenthood- Marin 4 February 1970
United Jewish Community Center- San Francisco 19 February 1970
Merced College 1 April 1970
International Design Conference- Aspen 14-19 June 1970
University of California, Santa Barbara 1 July 1970
Flint, Michigan 28 September 1970
American Sociological Association 19 October 1970
University of California, Irvine 3 November 1970
University of California, Davis 4 November 1970
California Environmental Health Association 29 January 1971
West Winston Manor Community Association 11 February 1971
University of California, Davis 14 February 1971
United States Forest Service, California Region- Environmental Management Conference 22-26 February 1971
Education for Environmental Awareness- Sierra Club 26-28 February 1971
Round Earth Conference 15-17 April 1971
The First Day- Estancia High School 21 April 1971
Ecology in Crisis- What is Your Role 1 May 1971
National Science Foundation 13-14 May 1971
Phi Delta Kappa 26 May 1971
Environmental Priorities Conference 3-6 June 1971
Garcia Ecology Action Center 7-10 August 1971
San Joaquin County Bar Association 21 October 1971
Implementing Environmental Awareness in the School Environment 18 March 1972
Lion's Club 20 July 1972
Stanislaus Area Community Council 19 December 1972
The People and the University- University of California, Davis 22 June 1973
California Recycling Convention 9-11 October 1973
Ethics and the Environment Conference- Ministry of Ecology 24-25 January 1975
Planning and Conservation League- Annual Meeting 15 November 1975
Co-Op Recycling Committee 15 August 1977
National Science Foundation Technology Forum- Eugene, Oregon 8-9 September 1978
Paying for Environmental Management 26-27 July 1979
Department of Energy- Hearing on Industrial Energy Conservation Program 31 July 1979
Various 1969-1978, undated
Series 5 Writings 1968-1977
Scope and Content Note
Global Conservation 1968
KPFA Commentary June 1968
The Anthropologist and Contemporary Society 1969
Declaration of Interdependence 1969
Ecological Dynamics of Social Change 1969
KPFA Commentary 16 June 1969
Sweeping Social Change is on the Way... 1969
Freedom News 1969-1971
Ecology and Overpopulation 1970
From Institutionalized Inaction to Action Institutions 1970
The Green Paper 1970
Constructing New Lifestyles from an Ecological Perspective 1971
On Promoting the General Welfare 1971
Preface- Ecology Action Volume 2:1 1971
The Peripheral Canal Debate 1977
Recycling Pioneers undated
Footnote on Ecology undated
A Frame of Reference for Ecologically Sympathetic Decision Making undated
Notes on Securing a Future undated
On Living the Ecology Life undated
On the Way to Delano undated
Overpopulation from the Ecological Perspective undated
Where We are Going and How Will We Know When We Get There? undated
Speeches/ Remarks 1968-1972
Unidentified Fragments undated
Unidentified Notes undated
Series 6 Subject 1968-1988
Scope and Content Note
Agriculture/ Irrigation 1976-1977
Anderson, Eugene N.- writings undated
Aspen Resource Recovery-Recycling Program- Art Emery 1975
Back to the Garden by Larry Borowsky circa 1988
Banana Belt 1977-1978
Bibliography undated
Bottle Bill 1977-1979
California Resource Recovery Association 1976-1980
Clear Creek circa 1971
Cole, Lamont circa 1968
Cotrell Centennial Symposium- Air Pollution and Its Impact on Agriculture 1976
Earth Day 1975
Earth Day- 10th Anniversary 1980
The Earth Family Ecology Handbook 1971
Earth Read Out undated
Ecological Living Handbook undated
The Ecological Way by Connie Walck 1973
Ecology Center Communications Council 1970-1973
Ecology Education Corridor circa 1974-1976
Economics Undated
The Economics of Survival undated
Energy, Economics and Survival by Robert Hickerson undated
Energy-Water Workshop- University of California, Davis 1976
Environmental Agenda Project 1976
Environmental Studies- University of California, Santa Cruz 1970-1971
Gerlach, Luther 1970
Huxley College of Environmental Studies 1972
Importance of the Physical Environment in Regional Planning undated
Italian Delegation Visit 1975
McHale, John- writings 1968-1971
National Recycling Conference 1978
NeWorld Fair 1976
Our Household- drafts undated
Overcoming World Hunger 1968
The Pipe/ Peripheral Canal 1975-1980
Planet Drum 1974-1975
Politics 1970-1973
The Politics of Human Ecology by Bruce Finson undated
Population and Pollution- A Devisive Approach to World Peace circa 1972
Quixote Press, Madison Wisconsin 1968
Radke, Ted undated
Recycling 1977-1981
San Diego circa 1971
The Shape of Things to Come by Garrett Eckbo undated
Southern Delta 1976
Survival Times 1971
United Nations 1969-1975
Water Action Plan- California 1974-1975
Water Action Plan- California 1975-1977
Series 7 Other Organizations 1969-1975
Scope and Content Note
Birth Environment Movement 1971
Center for Ecological Living 1970-1971
Eager 1971
Earth Action Council- University of California, Los Angeles 1970
Earth People News 1969, 1970
EARTH, The Ecology Movement- Moraga, California undated
Ecology Action- Austin, Texas 1970-1971
Ecology Action- Berkeley undated
Ecology Action- Boston Area 1969-1970
Ecology Action- Denver, Colorado circa 1970
Ecology Action- California State University, Long Beach 1971
Ecology Action- San Diego State College 1969-1970
Ecology Action for Rhode Island 1970-1971
Ecology Action Club- California Polytechnic University 1970
Ecology Center of Louisiana 1970-1971
Ecology Center- San Francisco 1970-1971
Ecology Center- Washington, D.C. 1971, 1975
Ecology Information Center- Sacramento, California 1971
Ecology Information Group 1970-1971
ECOS- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1970-1971
ENACT Ecology Center- Ann Arbor, Michigan 1970-1971
Environmental Action- Washington, D.C. 1970-1971
Environmental Action Committee- Denver, Colorado 1971
Environmental Center- Santa Rosa, California 1970-1971
Environmental Education Committee- University of Miami circa 1970
Environmental Works 1971
Interested in Saving South Utah's Environment 1970-1971
Lodi Ecology Action 1971-1974
Merced Ecology Action 1969-1972
Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association 1971
North Shore Ecology Center 1971
Northern California Committee for Environmental Information circa 1971
Ocean Beach Ecology Action 1970
Ogontz Ecology Action 1971
Oregon Environmental Council 1970
Planning League for Environmental Action 1970
Pollution Endangers World- Louisville, Kentucky undated
Riverside Ecology Action circa 1969
San Diego Ecology Centre undated
South County Ecology Center 1971
Student Council on Pollution and Environment- Northwest circa 1970
Student Council on Pollution and Environment- Great Lakes Region 1970-1971
Student Council on Pollution and Environment- Pacific Southwest Region 1971
Valley Ecology Center- Livermore, California 1970-1971
Youth Ecology Services 1971
Environmental Organizations- California 1970-1971
Environmental Organizations- United States (not California) 1970-1971
Environmental Organizations- International 1971, 1975
Series 8 Personal 1965-1978
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence 1965-1974
College papers 1966-1968
Summer Residence College 1967
People's Park (includes photographs) 1968, 1969
Campaigns for Public Office 1968-1972
Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee- Stanislaus County 1974
California Solid Waste Management Board 1976-1978
Photographs undated


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Last night on the news, the newscasters spent five minutes talking about world events and about 20 talking about the recent change in the weather. That drives me crazy. It reminds me of the Grande Prairie Herald Tribune, which would have one page of Canadian news, another of world events and a whole sports section each day. Of two sections to the paper, one was sports. "What? There was a conflict in Rwanda? Um, I'm not sure about that but I could tell you which of our two high schools had the best curling team."
Anyway, back to winter. To stave off the winter blues, I've decided to write about the things I've been enjoying this fall/winter.
1) Mittens: I just love mittens and my sister Heather has made me two fantastic pairs. Not only are they cute but they also make it so that I don't have to touch doorknobs all winter. My mittens are a fashion-conscious germaphobe's dream!
2)Pomegranates: I am having such a great time eating pomegranates. Kyle thinks that they're too much work but that's part of what I love. Picking out the seeds is like some sort of meditation for me.
3)Puffy birds: I love waking up and looking out our kitchen window to see the round little birds puffing up their feathers to stay warm.
4)Less time for playground zones: We have a playground zone down the street from our house. I don't really mind slowing down during the day but I relish being able to whip through there at 5:30pm. Take that, kids trying to play at the park before supper!
5)Mandarin oranges: Everytime I break the peel of a mandarin orange, the Ghost of Christmas Past bursts out and flies up my nose.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Full-on Winter
Last night on the news, the newscasters spent five minutes talking about world events and about 20 talking about the recent change in the weather. That drives me crazy. It reminds me of the Grande Prairie Herald Tribune, which would have one page of Canadian news, another of world events and a whole sports section each day. Of two sections to the paper, one was sports. "What? There was a conflict in Rwanda? Um, I'm not sure about that but I could tell you which of our two high schools had the best curling team."
Posted by Jamie at 9:04 a.m. 8 comments
Monday, November 26, 2007
Does not follow directions well
Posted by Jamie at 8:10 p.m. 4 comments
Thursday, November 15, 2007
New and Improved Stereotypes
These are taken from http://newstereotypes.blogspot.com/
Black people can extinguish a fire just by dissing it.
During the great Chicago fire of 1871, it took nearly 100 men implying the inferno's mother was promiscuous to smother the blaze
Germans can get pregnant from the sound of David Hasselhoff's Voice
And yet they just can't resist his dulcet tones. Which must be why one in three German women are impregnated by him at any given time. (Watch out Kristina)
Indians lose their nipples every full moon...
But on the bright side, when they reappear they smell exactly like fresh-baked sugar cookies.
Posted by Jamie at 11:15 a.m. 3 comments
Monday, November 12, 2007
Repeat, repeat, repeat
Today's soundtrack Weighty Ghost by Wintersleep
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Friday, November 9, 2007
Code Yellow!
This afternoon my friend Cherie and I were on our way to the Farmer's market. As we were stopped across from the hospital, I noticed an odd looking guy jaywalking near Cherie's car. He looked sneaky and was walking strangely so I watched him for a minute while we waited for traffic to clear. Suddenly, I realized that he was wearing only wool socks on his feet and was furiously tucking a blue hospital gown into his coat.
An escapee from the hospital!
Cherie pulled out her cell phone and called the hospital switchboard to tell them that a patient was on the lam. We stealthily tried to follow him in Cherie's car but he quickly vanished. Cherie and I drove through my neighbourhood looking down streets and alleys for a while before giving up. We'd totally been out-sneaked. Two hours later we returned from the Farmer's market and the cops were still trolling the area.
When I worked at the hospital, they would call Code Yellow over the intercom when a patient went missing. Upon hearing the call, I was supposed to stop and look around my office to make sure that nobody was hiding behind my filing cabinet or taking refuge under my desk. As we were phoning the switchboard, I could just imagine the code-yellow going out. Maybe I should go check our garage...
Posted by Jamie at 5:17 p.m. 3 comments
Saturday, November 3, 2007
What? I didn't like the pair with the Wayans brothers on them
Last weekend my sister Amisha's husband Andy stayed at our house. Somehow, a pair of my underwear left with him, hitching a ride from the dryer to Edmonton inside Andy and Amisha's laundry hamper. Or at least that's what my panty-stealing creep of a brother-in-law would have you believe.
Anyway, Amisha blogged about my underwear, making fun of the fact that they say "Sammy's Snack Shack" on the butt. Sadly, almost all of my underwear have something lame written on the back. I don't buy them because I actually want underwear that says "Twin Kitties", or "Valet Girl - Who me, park? " or "Boy Scout - Scouting for Cute Boys." It's just that the cheesy underpants that Wal Mart markets to 14 year old girls happen to be insanely comfortable.
The last underwear I bought was on clearance. Strangely, most of the ones on sale said "Everyone Loves an Asian Girl" on the butt and had a picture of a Chinese take-out box with chop sticks. Apparently, there isn't a huge market for mildly racist panties at Wal Mart. Despite their obvious flaws, the price tag called out to me - $1.39 (1.39!). In response, I picked up two pairs and tossed them in the cart. I also bought some that say "Everyone loves an Italian girl" with a picture of spaghetti and meatballs. Now I could probably get away with telling people I'm Italian. However, nobody would ever, ever believe that I, a giant, blue-eyed, translucent woman am even remotely Asian.
I bought the underwear thinking the "design" wouldn't matter because nobody would ever see them. However, more than once I have been struck with horror when I suddenly realize that I'm wearing my Asian Girl underwear when changing at the gym. There are only a couple of conclusions a person could draw upon seeing me in them.
a) I'm a creep who is slyly hitting on the Asian ladies at the gym
b) I've beaten up some poor proud Asian girl and stolen her underwear
c) I buy second-hand skivvies
d) I'm mocking any and all Asian people who dare look at my bum
e) I'm just a weirdo who either doesn't care, or has no idea what she's wearing (correct!)
Lesson learned: Sometimes it is just best to let a bargain pass you by.
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Grant boosts Generation Texas college prep initiative
Posted by Jayme Blaschke
University News Service
January 30, 2012
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has awarded a grant to the E3 Alliance and the Center for P-16 Initiatives at Texas State University-San Marcos for Success for ALL: Closing the College Participation and Success Gaps in Central Texas.
The grant will allow the Center for P-16 Initiatives to continue the pilot project Generation Texas, which the center implemented throughout San Marcos for the duration of the 2010-2011 academic year.
"We're excited that Texas State University's Center for P-16 Initiatives, together with regional partners in the Austin College Access Network, are working collaboratively to take a strong pilot project and make it truly regional," said Susan Dawson, executive director of the E3 Alliance. "Increasing college participation and success in our region has a direct and positive impact on our economic future."
Generation Texas (www.GenTX.org) is a statewide grassroots movement designed to create a college-going culture, and to train the next generation of Texans to be both college-minded and career-ready.
"The Center for P-16 Initiatives is determined to train families to access and apply for a college education," said Michelle Hamilton, director of the Center for P-16 Initiatives. "With the expansion of Generation Texas we are now able to reach more families, and to truly establish Central Texas as a college-going region."
The Center for P-16 Initiatives and E3 Alliance were awarded approximately $236,000 of the total $1.5 million available through the U.S. Department of Education in order to implement long-term infrastructure aimed at closing the gaps to college participation and success by 2015. E3 Alliance, which is the Central Texas P-16 Council, was one of 10 councils in the state to receive funding. The programming created by the council will be in accordance with the Texas College and Career Readiness Standards, which are designed to achieve secondary and post-secondary academic alignment.
"Our grassroots efforts from last year will be supplemented and magnified in 2012, allowing us to reach and teach more young people with the knowledge of how to participate and succeed in post-secondary education," said Isaac Torres, the grant's outreach director for the region.
For more information contact the Center for P-16 Initiatives at (512) 245-8192.


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The last time Britney Spears attempted a comeback, with 2007's Blackout album, she didn't tour, didn't do any interviews and didn't really promote the album beyond appearing in a few videos.
This time, though, Spears appears poised for a true return. According to E! Online, the singer, who said last month that she planned to hit the road to support her upcoming Circus album, has signed a deal with major promoter AEG Live to produce her new stage show.
E!'s unnamed source did not say when an official announcement would be made — and reps for Spears and AEG Live could not be reached for comment by MTV News at press time — but given Spears' comments on New York's Z100 a few weeks ago that she hopes to tour the world in 2009, the reported hookup makes sense. AEG is the same company that booked sold-out multi-night runs for Prince and the Spice Girls at the O2 Arena in London and recently handled sold-out world tours for Bon Jovi and Justin Timberlake.
Spears appears to have overcome some of the personal problems that caused her life and career to veer off the tracks in recent years and has already made a strong comeback bid with the seductive video for "Womanizer," the first single from Circus. The clip, in which Spears appears naked, has been too-hot-to-handle for some outlets, and some fans have already predicted the success of Britney 2.0.
"Britney is by far the Madonna of our generation, and through the good and bad she just keeps on doing it again and again," one fan, dalton1202, commented after MTV posted the uncensored version of the video.
"She's amazing," Sannah22 wrote. "And I love how she steers the wheel with her foot!"
And headoverheels echoed many others' sentiments, saying, "I cannot believe she is finally back. I love her, always have and always will. This song and video rock."
Spears will finally break her silence about her past few tumultuous years on November 30, when she stars in a 90-minute MTV documentary, tentatively titled "For the Record," in which the singer promises to "set the record straight."


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Receipt, N. M'Cracken to William Hutchinson
Author: Morgan, J. F.
Date: November 27, 1856
Unlike most of the other receipts for money or merchandise saved by James Blood for the Kansas State Central Committee, this one was on a pre-printed form and issued by "N'Mcracken" of Leavenworth for merchandise to be delivered to William Hutchinson at Lawrence. It was actually signed by J. F. Morgan, who apparently delivered the goods from Leavenworth to Lawrence and "received pay of J. Blood" on January 26, 1857.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: James Blood Collection, # 281, Box 1, Folder 4
Item Number: 101316 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Blood, James; Hutchinson, William, 1823-1904; Kansas State Central Committee; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Leavenworth, Kansas Territory; Merchandise; Receipts; Relief; Transportation
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Why I Hate Star Wars
Posted by popreflection in Everything on May 4, 2017
Maybe "hate" is too strong a word here. Maybe "strongly dislike" would be more appropriate. Or "highly annoyed by it" Whatever it is, I am likely one of the few who think it is highly overrated and just plain dumb.
For the record, I am a sci-fi fan through and through. There is nothing I love more than science fiction but Star Wars never truly struck me as one to begin with. In fact, if you think about it, it is really not sci-fi, more like a fairy tale set in space with some flashy, glitzy technology that is never explored beyond its optics. I mean sure, they use technology, but the stories do not revolve around the effects that these technologies have on these ,what I am thinking are, humans (they never really say – are they humans? ). Therefore, for all intent and purposes, light sabers and hyperdives may as well be Excalibur and chariots.
See, science fiction is a "what if" story or scenario whereby the effects of a technology or various technologies that currently do not exist are explored. Like, "what would the world look like if we could travel at the speed of light?" or "if we could teleport from one location to an other within seconds" or "replicate matter from energy in fancy little 'replicators' ". Thus, it is "fiction" that revolves around "science."
But none of that is present in Star Wars. The light saber is just this fancy looking laser sword that looks really cool and has a special appeal when you are a 9 year old. But we do not know more about it really or how it affects the people and societies in it. Same thing with their hyperdrives. We dont know what it is, how it affects them, how it works, how it has affected the various worlds in their system. It is just a means to an end. In this case, traveling through space and Chewy just beating up on it every now and then when it needs repairing.
In fact, the only aspect of the story which drives the tale as a whole is the Force, which is just this magical, supernatural element that defines their universe, not a technological one (even with the unbelievably hackneyed addition of "midichlorians" to the mix). You're born with it or you aren't and unlike a technology, you can't pick it up as you go or refine it or improve or it or learn it. And whether you have it or not is not based on having had the smarts to build it or know-how on how to acquire it, but just a result of sheer dumb luck.
How exciting is that?
I find Sci-Fi more engaging than Fantasy because it is more relateable. I'll very likely never ride a dragon, nor rescue a princess or be a chosen one. But I use technology all the time, and I've personally witnessed "what if" scenarios with respect to changing technologies and their effects on humanity.
Star Wars also does not have any real people in it, more like archetypes. It had one real person in it. Han Solo. Everyone else was a guru, a princess, a chosen one, a villainy villain, or a wooly mammoth. Most of its "characters" do not have a story arc or motivations which grew and shifted over time, or even realistic interests and a satisfying growth. They are just not real, well-rounded characters or persons. Instead they are these one-note clichees that got destinies. They are archetypes. They aren't real people with flaws, hopes, dreams, setbacks, and strengths. I've never been a chosen one, or a mysitcal monk, or a giant furry mercenary. It just does not hold any interest for me.
Star Wars is devoid of intellect. It is like a steady diet of dessert but eventually you'll long for some meat and potatoes. For something with more substance. It is for kids and adolescent boys, really. It is like walking into a candy shop – all nauseatingly saccharine and just frosting and nutritionally deficient crap. It isn't even really nerdy because at least that implies something of intellectual value worthy of dissecting. Fantasy is not nerdy, that would be Star Trek, which I am a huge fan of.
As a kid I loved Star Wars (the operative word here being kid) because it satisfied my limited intellect at that age. But as an adult, the same old tired and recycled "good vs evil" and "magical force" story elements do not hold any interest for me and just strike me as dumb.


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A 10-year-old Indonesian girl named Juraida was swallowed by a saltwater crocodile yesterday while she and her father and brother were hunting for turtles in a river, news that might lend itself to a comment about the circle of life if it weren't so sad. Lembata Deputy Regent Viktor Mado Waton told the Jakarta Post, "Juraida was seized when she was in about a half-meter of water at the river's mouth," and that her father and brother were unable to help her before the prehistoric monster disappeared. River mouths are one of those very dangerous aquatic environments because so many creatures congregate there to work their way up or downstream and eat each other. Villages found a piece of Juraida's clothing but her body remains missing. This attack comes a month after a young boy was killed by a crocodile in the same river.
10-year-old girl swallow by crocodile [MSNBC]
School-student eaten by crocodile [Jakarta Post]


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How about dis?teatpuller wrote:Stopped by Frank's Pizzeria in Appleton a couple of days ago. Great pizza. Cracker crust. Very old school. Cash only. Wish I had my camera to take a picture of the old-school oven they have.
sundevilpeg wrote:Appleton has always given me a Twin Peaks-like vibe. Nice locals and lovely river-town scenery aside, there is a bust of Joseph McCarthy in the Outagamie County Court House (saw it with my own disbelieving eyes), and the national HQ of the John Birch Society is in Grand Chute, a nearby suburb. Creepy.
ParkLaBrea wrote:A statue of Joe McCarthy??? Good Lord that is disturbing...who knew????
That being said, I've never gotten any type of creepy vibe from the locals (unlike Fort Wayne where something disturbing comes out of someone's mouth on nearly every visit)...quite the contrary, even seems to have a bit of a liberal vibe if anything due to the college


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OH my gosh! I love, love, love them! Want them!!!! xoxox Beth
Day 8 - Corner
@marisa: I'd love to learn how to make that beautiful metal!
This has been so much fun! Learning so much!!!
Love the coffee theme you have going on Megan.
Journal Card Have a great weekend everyone.
Day 8 Border
What is a photo mask? I tried to google before asking but all I see are actual photos of people with masks.
EDIT: (I don't know how to delete a reply)
Nevermind.. I knew exactly what they are after searching PS for it. I haven't made one in a really really long time. I used to make them in an old version of PSP but I never use brushes in X4 so I'll have to find some to download because all I have are the standard ones that came with the program.
I have never made a photomask, so I was not sure I did it right, but I had fun trying:)
Here is my border, glitter, tape, journal matte, and photo mask.
@ Cynthia - Thank you... I am creating a kit specially for my website (caffeine fueled momma.) I am a bit of a coffee addict
My Metal elements... Thank you Brooke for the mug template!
Man! Striped tape is hard! Especially if it's supposed to be wrinkled. Still not perfect but I'm getting cross-eyed so this will have to do for my first effort. Next time I think I'll just scan some striped tape.
(later) I did a little more editing this morning.
Ok and for week 2. I will be posting a few of my faves on their own too.
Bigger, Clearer Version: HERE
First part of my week 2 elements. No one said what kind of "tape".
Looking amazing everyone! I'll be back later with my glitter
Someone was interested in the metal I used for flowers. It's an action that I bought online, however that store is no longer open so I can't really help you out. Sorry!
Here's my glitter for today:
Each day you make me more admired with your skills and feeling more like a little padawan...
Photo mask starting with a couple of brushes from HG designs cesstrelle.wordpress.com
And this one from scratch
Journal cards. Shadows are for the preview only.
Masks and journal cards:
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Oakland, CA --Longtime host of KPFA's Dead to the World, David Gans, is a busy guy: working on a new book, performing solo and with others – and as always at this time of year – combing through music collections (his own and others), preparing for the annual phenomenon known as the Grateful Dead Marathon. Now in its 27th year, this fundraiser for KPFA is a 16-hour extravaganza hailed by Deadheads and music lovers around the world, who can access the fun via the airwaves and streaming on the web. The Marathon is scheduled for Saturday, February 23, 9:00am - Sunday, February, 24 1:00am on KPFA-FM, 94.1.
Hosted by David Gans with help from Tim Lynch, the 2013 Marathon will feature exclusive music by the Mickey Hart Band – in advance of their upcoming tour – a live in-studio performance by Sycamore Slough String Band, interviews, hours of tasty audio featuring rare tapes from the Grateful Dead vault, and more.
"It's music that makes people dance, cry, think," Gans said in a 2011 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle's Carolyn Jones. "To play the Grateful Dead for 16 hours is not a tiring job. It's actually very energizing. I could go even longer."
Thank-you gifts include the beautiful Blue Rose t-shirt, designed by Papa Lindsey (see attached) HYPERLINK "http://papalindsey.com/ [1]"http://papalindsey.com/ [1], concert tickets, CDs, and more. What's even more fun than listening to this circus? Joining it! Sign up to volunteer in the phone room by calling 510.848.6767 x206. In addition to being surrounded by the on-air music, volunteers get to munch on tasty treats from the generous supporters of the Grateful Dead Marathon, including The Grand Bakery, Comal, Grateful Beans, and other generous food and beverage donors, talk to all kinds of interesting people on the phones and around the table. And best of all, it all helps KPFA!
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Founded in 1949 by Lewis Hill, a pacifist, poet, and journalist, KPFA was the first community supported radio station in the USA. KPFA broadcasts on 94.1 FM and KPFB 89.3 FM, Berkeley, and KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California. Our signal reaches one third of the state, utilizing 59,000 watts. Much of our programming is local, original and eclectic, with a well-produced mix of news and in-depth public affairs, ongoing drama, literature and performance series, interviews, and reviews. Our music ranges from folk to hip hop, Bach to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. We travel the region to broadcast live music, demonstrations, and cultural events. The majority of our staff is unpaid community volunteers donating their time and energy to bring you our programming. http://www.kpfa.org [4]
The Mickey Hart Band features Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools, Grammy winning percussionist and longtime bandmate Sikiru Adepoju, Tony Award winning vocalist Crystal Monee Hall, singer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Bagale, drummer Ian "Inx" Herman, guitarist Gawain Matthews, and keyboardist / producer, Ben Yonas.JamBands.com gave the band's recent tour stop in NYC rave reviews stating that "Mickey Hart is nothing short of a musical genius and it shines through in everything he does. Whether he's working with George Lucas, NASA, or throwing together a unique group of musicians for a band, its apparent that Mickey isn't satisfied doing the same old thing…". HYPERLINK "http://mickeyhart.net/ [5]" http://mickeyhart.net/ [5]
With a shared affinity for the music of the Grateful Dead, and acoustic music chops galore, the four members of Sycamore Slough String Band first came together in an Oakland recording studio in January 2012 to see what they could conjure. This session resulted in an ensemble that evokes the purity of the acoustic form with a side of rhythm and psychedelia that honors the source while taking it in new directions. The band includes David Gans (guitar and vocals), David Thom (mandolin, guitar and vocals), Roger Sideman (upright bass), and Fiddle Dave Muhlethaler (fiddle and mandolin). HYPERLINK "http://www.s3b.us/ [6]" http://www.s3b.us/ [6]
Saturday, February 23, 9:00am - Sunday, February, 24 1:00am KPFA FM, 94.1
BROADCAST on KPFA-FM 94.1 in Berkeley and KFCF-FM 88.1 in Fresno
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B's Business Viewpoint: New leaders will make decisions about our economic vitality
Special to the Tribune
When we exercise our right to vote, we are casting a vote for the future of education, property values, safety, economy and the very fabric of our community. As individuals we conduct our research and check the boxes for the candidates we believe will honor the collective vision and greater good of our entire community. We trust that the candidates won't arrive with a personal or political agenda that colors their decision-making. When we choose well, we get officials who have the capacity to review issues from all perspectives, enabling them to cast their votes from a place of enlightened integrity in alignment with the aforementioned community vision.
Soon those we've already elected will be faced with the thankless task of casting our votes for us. On Tuesday, our City Council will hopefully appoint a fifth council member to fill an 18-month term. It is my belief that council must make this appointment no matter how difficult. The alternative of holding an election needlessly exposes our community to the potential of council deadlocking in 2-2 votes creating a moratorium on our progress, not to mention the economic strain of an election.
Sacramento officials will be making two appointments in the coming months that greatly affect our community. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board is comprised of local jurisdiction representatives in addition to State of California and Nevada appointments. At the December board meeting, Byron Sher, California Senate Rules Committee appointee, resigned, and this week Mara Bresnick, California Assembly Speaker appointee, annouced her resignation.
The appointed city and TRPA officials alongside their peers will be faced with making community altering decisions impacting the economic, aesthetic and environmental future of the South Shore. Over the next 18 months, these two boards will vote on the Tahoe Valley Community Plan, the South Shore Tourism Core Community Plan and the Highway 50 Revitalization Project. Additionally, the TRPA board will vote on area plans from around the basin, including Douglas County's Stateline Community Plan aligned with the South Shore Tourism Core Plan. Given the lasting impacts these plans will have on residents and visitors, it is extremely important that the appointees are open-minded and possess the ability to evaluate these items on their merits to improve the future economic vitality of the South Shore.
I am urging city and state officials to use the utmost integrity and judgment in their process. Consider that some of these applicants are first-timers. There are others on the sidelines watching and considering whether they, too, might enter a future race. Please recall the courage it took each of you to enter this competitive and combative arena, and do all you can to ensure the process is transparent and professional. Let us use this as a teaching moment for our youth and as encouragement for future leaders.
And finally, I thank each of our public service officials for their commitment and dedication. It is a personal and family sacrifice not sufficiently appreciated and recognized.
– Betty "B" Gorman, J.D., B.S., A.C.E., is the president and CEO of TahoeChamber.
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Cape Frontier Wars 1834-53
The range covers conflicts between the British, the Cape Colony, and the amaXhosa for the 6th, 7th and 8th Cape Frontier Wars of 1834-5, 1846-7 and 1850-53. This range will tie in with the two volumes of 'Cape Warriors' by Col Mike Snook that Perry Miniatures are publishing and the first of which can be found in the Book section from the 16th April.
The range will also include the amaNdebele, amaZulu and Basotho as well as figures for the Anglo-Boer confrontations in Natal (1842) and across the Orange River (1845 and 1848).
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Augustana Women Upset #1 Team in the Nation, Advance to NCAA Division II Semis
The Augustana women's basketball team is one win away from playing for a national championship, as the Vikings routed the #1 team in the country Tuesday afternoon in San Antonio, in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Tournament, downing Clayton State (GA) 81-68.
Clayton State opened the game with four straight points and played with an aggressive style that led to 15 first half Augustana turnovers.
But after trailing by as many as six points, the Vikings began to climb back in it, as Alex Feeney's nine first half points keyed a 29-16 run for Augie, giving them a 32-25 lead at the break.
Augustana picked up right where they left off when the second half started, as the Vikings scored 11 of the first 12 points, led by five from Emily Schulte, to give Augie a 17-point cushion with 16:39 left.
That advantage ballooned to 23 moments later, as Shaunteva Ashley hit for seven points over a 3:30 stretch, and Augie was up 56-33.
The Lakers did find their shooting touch in the final five minutes and turn up the defensive pressure to close to within seven points, but Augustana hit free throws down the stretch to preserve the win, despite turning the ball over 32 times.
Ashley led the scoring with 17 points, All-American Drameka Griggs had 23 for Clayton State, which had won its last 17 games by 13 points or more coming in.
Augie shot a blistering 53%, nailing 10 three-pointers, while holding the eighth most accurate shooting team in the nation to just 32% from the floor.
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Rawalpindi Board Matric Result 2017 Click Here Now
In 2017 Rawalpindi bise announced matric class result on 08 april 2017. Matric Annual Exams every year organized the march all over the Punjab Board. Rawalpindi Board announced the result on the same day in Punjab. Now Matric Annual Result 2017 will be announced in 25 July 2017.
The result will be updated on Rawalpindi board official website on 25 July 2017 about 10:00 AM. Biseworld.com will try to upload Rawalpindi board result as soon as possible. (Dated: July 25, 2017) Rawalpindi Punjab board of intermediate and secondary education will be announced 9th and 10th class matric annual result 2017 on 25 July 2017.
There are Nine educational Boards are functioning in Punjab and organized the exams in fair way. These Punjab educational Board include Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Sahiwal, Bahawalpur, Sargodha, Gujranwala and Rawalpindi boards, Federal Board of Islamabad each bise board has about 3 to 4 districts in them that include Attock, Bahawalnagr, Rawalpindi, Bhakkar, Chakwal, Chiniot, Dera Ghazi Khan, Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Gujrat, Hafizabad, Jhang, Jhelum, Kasur, Khanewal, Khushab, Rawalpindi, Layyah, Lodhran, Mandi Bahauddin, Mianwali, Rawalpindi, Muzaffargarh, Narowal, Nankana Sahib, Okara, Pakpattan, Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur, Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Toba Tek Singh, Vehari.


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Rant: On Website Passwords
This morning, my email included a now-familiar tune: A site that I occasionally visit may have been penetrated, so the company was informing the registered users that they needed to reset their passwords. Logging in would take you immediately to a page that let you request a link for password reset. Nothing new, and not that big of a deal. Like I said, it's been happening quite a bit lately.
But then when I entered a new password, the form comes back immediately, with a message in red that is also becoming all-too-familiar: My password contained characters other than letters and digits. That is not allowed. Please choose another password.
Are you freakin' kidding me? This is 2014, not 1993. Why in the world does your system limit passwords to just the
[A-Za-z0-9] character range? What database, what content-management package are you using, that having a "
!" or "
$" in the password would break the application? This is just ridiculous. And surely you aren't storing these passwords as plain-text, I hope? I recently read an excellent article on how one should store passwords in databases, using a combination of salting and one-way hashing functions. Unfortunately I've lost the link or I'd include it here. But the point is, you aren't storing the passwords as plaintext, you shouldn't be comparing them as plaintext, so why should you care what characters are in the passwords? And then, just to put icing on the cake, once I had selected a new (weak) password they emailed it back to me as part of the confirmation message.
They emailed it to me. In the clear. Not encrypted. They are not the only ones who have done that, either.
I use KeyPassX as a password store. I like it because it is cross-platform; I have it on my MacBook, on my Linux desktop machines, and I have apps that are compatible with the key-store that run on my Android phone and my iPad. All of the installations can configure the location of the key-store, so I have them all pointing to the file on my Dropbox account, thus keeping my passwords in sync across all devices. (Yes, Dropbox is not 100% secure, but the encryption on the key-store file is strong so I'm not worried about someone getting it.) When I looked at the list of sites and passwords this morning, as I was updating the entry for this site, I could tell by looking at the passwords which sites do or do not have this silly restriction on password characters. Among the offenders are two telecoms, a health insurance provider and no fewer than three financial institutions. And these are just the ones that I personally use. I would really have expected more from the financial places, because they have so much more on the line.
Look, I write software for a living, even if I don't specialize in security. Characters are characters… your software doesn't view "
$" any differently than "
Z", unless the software is doing something horribly badly. Unless your stuff is written amazingly poorly, you can do better on the password front. And if it is written that poorly, consider finding a new vendor… you aren't doing yourselves any favors with what you currently have.