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NASA's prolific Kepler space observatory never ceases to amaze planet hunters. Last week's announcement of two "super-Earth" type planets sharing the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Kepler-62 further ratcheted up our optimism that life-bearing planets are all over the galaxy.
Kepler scientists explained that the only data the stellar transits (when the planets pass in front of their stars) have to tell us is the planets' orbits and diameters. Still it's hard for experts to resist speculating that these planets "may have polar caps," or may be "water worlds," or, "we may have found the first ocean planet," The scientists finally did acknowledge in the April 18th NASA press conference that they were doing "a lot of arm waving."
Kepler-62: A Star System With Two Earths?
The same would be true for my imaginary alien astronomer Zork, on a planet 1,000 light years away. Zork reports to colleagues that photometric observations of the yellow dwarf star Sol (a.k.a. our sun) reveals three planets inside or on the edge of Sol's habitable zone: Venus, Earth and Mars. He considers this a great SETI target because you get three inhabitable worlds for the price of one observation!
Because we live here we know the reality is that only Earth can support advanced life. Venus and Mars could have started out habitable, with oceans on their surfaces, but both took sharp turns in planetary evolution. Venus' oceans evaporated away and Mars' ocean froze over.
When pondering the inhabitability of planets for advanced life, we need to consider planetary evolution and how it changes the weather and surface environments of the planets. The first question is: how much water was available to these planets when they formed? Our terrestrial planets may have been irrigated by asteroids slingshot toward the inner solar system by Jupiter's gravity.
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But what happens in systems without Jupiters? A 2010 study by Rebecca Martin of the University of Colorado reported that only a tiny fraction of planetary systems observed to date seem to have giant planets in the right location to produce an asteroid belt of the appropriate size to influence inner planets. If it's more massive the planets are rototilled by frequent asteroid hits — and this might not be good for biological evolution.
Another study by Martin found that our terrestrial planets formed from rocky debris in a dry, hotter region, far inside of the solar system's so-called "snow line." The snow line currently lies in the middle of the asteroid belt. Beyond this point the sun's light is too weak to melt the icy debris left over from the protoplanetary disk. Conditions within disks will vary from star to star and so the solar system's comparative dryness cannot give us insights into Kepler-62.
Compounding the astrobiology question is the fact that Earth's own evolution shows how a planet even in the habitable zone can dramatically change over time. Four billion years ago Earth had a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere and green oceans full of iron. At 700 million years ago Earth was entombed in ice because of runaway glaciation triggered by changes in ocean currents caused by the appearance of a super-continent. Earth has only had a rich surface biosphere for the past 500 million years.
ANALYSIS: Kepler-62 is a Ripe SETI Target
Therefore, planetary evolution keeps shuffling the playing deck. The inner planet, Kepler-62e, may really be a super-Venus rather than super-Earth. It would be a hellish place with a chocking carbon dioxide atmosphere and continuous volcanism. One the other hand could "Venus be just a fluke?" speculated one Kepler scientist.
Kepler-62 is a 7 billion year-old system, it's got the jump on us by 2.5 billion years. So any Earth-like planet may have evolved into unknown territory for astrogeologists.
What's tantalizing is that anyone living in a 7 billion-year-old system should be a lot smarter than us! If Kepler-62f and 62e were inhabited, space-faring civilizations might visit each other. My guess is that the atmospheres could be so different that visiting species might have a hard time without wearing spacesuits, and this would preclude any attempt at a preemptive interplanetary invasion. Inhabitants of either planet would need awfully powerful rockets to escape stronger gravitational fields. They might be restricted to twittering through interstellar radio transmissions, or exchanging small payloads.
Likewise, the only way to determine habitability would be through a radio or laser beacon sent earthward by Kepler 62's inhabitants, as Discovery News' Ian O'Neill recently wrote. Kepler-62 is so far away there are no telescopes envisioned — or affordable — that would be capable of observations that could be done to assess the planets' physical characteristics.
Our best bet is NASA's recently announced Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Call it Kepler-2. The TESS is expected to identify approximately 1,000 exoplanets around nearby stars.
Planned for a 2017 launch, TESS will find targets for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that will study planetary atmospheres in infrared light. Webb has the capability of offering the first observational evidence for a true extraterrestrial ocean.
The JWST will launch only a year after TESS, and so the two observatories will work together in seeking out Earth-clones where habitability can at last be assessed. But for now, it's all just educated "arm-waving."
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They live in financial and social self-serving circles for more powerful than the Trade Unions they detest.
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YEI, 17 February 2011 (IRIN) - With independence only months away, Southern Sudan will need to invest in infrastructure to feed and employ its people, while seeking alternatives to its economic dependency on oil, say analysts.
The key is agriculture, and one aspiring farmer, Baba Samuel Manoah has big plans for his land, which until recently was covered in dense underbrush. Now it is dotted with pineapples, young avocado trees and bananas. He envisions a commercial operation that produces not only fruit and vegetables, but also farmed fish and honey.
While his father, an MP, is busy with political affairs, Manoah plans to move home and run the farm full-time when he completes university in Kampala this year. "You can't stay somewhere that's developed and leave your place underdeveloped," he said.
Six years of peace have allowed Manoah's family to reclaim some of their land, which lay fallow during the war. He plans to expand operations and tap markets expected to develop rapidly in Africa's newest state.
Not only could agriculture provide a lucrative business opportunity, but also jobs for the community, while helping to alleviate the desperate need for increased food production, he says.
About 2.5 million Southern Sudanese experienced food insecurity last year, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. That figure was 40 percent above the average during the previous decade. World Food Programme officials have told IRIN that the sharp rise in the number of people requiring food aid coincided with an influx of returnees in the run-up to January's independence referendum.
Many experts say Southern Sudan should be able to feed itself. The region encompasses vast amounts of arable land, but decades of fighting prevented the agricultural sector from developing. On the eve of independence on 9 July, they say, Southern Sudan needs to focus on farming to feed and employ its people.
"In the bigger picture, agriculture has to be the main driver of economic growth," said USAID mission director William Hammink. He added that more than 80 percent of the population depended on agriculture for their livelihoods.
In May, USAID launched a five-year, US$55 million programme in the "greenbelt", which stretches across the region's southern borders through Western, Eastern and Central Equatoria states, where Manoah's farm is located. The road-building and training programme aims to "increase farm productivity, trade, and the capacity of people engaged in the agricultural sector in southern Sudan, including producers and those in the private and public sectors".
Officials also see agricultural development as a way of weaning Southern Sudan off oil sales, which currently account for 98 percent of government revenue.
"Right now they are almost totally dependent on oil," said Hammink, who added that the government felt the crunch when oil prices fell last year. "They had a budget crisis here. It was difficult to pay salaries."
Hammink noted that farming, along with other sectors of the economy, will require massive investment in infrastructure in order to develop. To this end, USAID is funding the construction of a key road from the capital, Juba, to the border with Uganda. This will substantially bring down the cost of importing goods, he said.
But in a region estimated to have less than 100km of paved roads, such projects are needed almost everywhere. Boma, for example, is a collection of grass and mud huts clustered around a dirt airstrip about 60km from the Ethiopian border. The town has no running water, electricity or mobile phone network. Goods trucked in from Kenya over punishing roads are prohibitively expensive once they arrive.
"You can see the food prices are very high and most of us don't have jobs," said Elizabeth Kadai, a resident of Boma. "The little money you get you buy food. We cannot even get clothes or send children to school."
Despite the need for food, the market is relatively empty. Local produce consists mainly of small piles of mangos carried down from the nearby mountains. It is the dry season and there is not much else to harvest.
Kadai called on the government to provide farm equipment, training and irrigation that would allow locals to produce enough food to feed themselves all year round.
"It's extremely expensive, this food that is imported from neighbouring countries," she added. "If it was grown locally here and prices would decrease, then life would really be OK here."
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0300096844, Hardcover)The meteoric career of the Austrian cellist Emanuel Feuermann ended with his sudden and tragic death in 1942, aged only 39. A brilliant soloist and chamber performer, many expected him to inherit from Pablo Casals the reputation of the greatest cellist of all time. The trio he formed with Jasha Heifetz and Artur Rubinstein was considered the leading chamber ensemble in the world. This biography of Feuermann - a combination of documentary and oral history and narrative - discusses his life, work and legacy, and seeks to award him the place in musical history that he was denied by his early death. Born 100 years ago in a humble Galician shtetl, Feuermann grew to maturity in a tumultuous era. Annette Morreau gives an account of the world wars, politics, music culture, and recording history that form the context of his achievements. She also provides invaluable detail about Feuermann's life, drawing on interviews and private letters of family, colleagues, students and friends, as well as on a wealth of first-hand recollections from some of the most distinguished musicians of the 20th century. Morreau describes Feuermann's unique style of playing, basing her assessments on the many surviving recordings he made and on contemporary press reviews gathered worldwide. Moreover, so that readers can judge Feuermann's extraordinary talent for themselves, a CD with examples of his performances is included with the book.
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Dancing With The Stars is trying all sorts of new things this year – and this week is no different. The theme this week is all about Disney, the music and the costumes. Who is more excited about this magical theme, the fans or the dancers?
A new co-host, new music director and even a partner switch are all things that DWTS has done this season to try to boost ratings. Now this week the show is going to be absolutely magical with a Disney theme. Who wouldn't want to try some Disney music after the huge success of Disney's, Let It Go song?
But it's hard to tell who is more excited about the Disney theme, the fans or the contestants. Facebook and Twitter are abuzz with excitement over tonight's Disney theme. NeNe Leakes tweeted out a picture of herself dressed as Cruella DeVille and asked her followers, "Do u think I can pull this off? Sho gonna try LOL! Tune n 2NITE."
And of course all of NeNe's followers chimed in to say that there is no doubt that she will pull this outfit off.
But what would be a Disney night without some animation? Disney fans will also get to enjoy some fun animation that's being added to tonight's show. Plus, Donny Osmond is set to be the guest judge for tonight's performances.
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fq parameter) which is sent to Solr is quite large (can be thousands of characters) and can not be trimmed down. As the query parsing takes only a fraction of the overall time, I want to experiment with zipping this query part and sending it to Solr.
I was thinking of modifying the client so instead of
fq it uses another parameter (e.g.
zfq). Solr can then decide - if it receives
zfq, it uses it and decodes the data into
fq. Otherwise it should behave as usual.
What is the standard way to achieve the above? Looks like there is
<queryParser (both in solrconfig.xml) and many others and I'm not quite sure what's least intrusive. I'm fairly confident with Lucene/Tomcat but don't know much about Solr data structures.


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GERD — what a funny-sounding word that rhymes with nerd! But GERD isn't exactly funny. Its letters stand for gastroesophageal (say: gas-troh-ih-sa-fuh-jee-ul) reflux (say: ree-fluks) disease. You can't catch GERD from someone else, but it's a fairly common disease. In fact, millions of kids and adults have this problem. Chances are that you know someone who has GERD.
Let's talk about eating for a moment. Chewed-up food slides down the esophagus (say: ih-sah-fuh-gus), or swallowing tube, and into the stomach. There, acidic digestive juices begin to break down the food. A special type of muscle called a sphincter (say: sfink-ter) connects the esophagus and the stomach. The sphincter works like a gate. It opens up so food can get into the stomach, and then it closes again. This keeps the food and acidic stomach juices from flowing back into the esophagus.
However, if the sphincter opens at the wrong time, there's a problem. Whatever's in the stomach goes the wrong way, which is back up into the esophagus. This is called reflux.
Putting it all together, then, gastroesophageal refers to the stomach ("gastro" means stomach) and esophagus. Reflux means to flow back or return. So gastroesophageal reflux is when the stomach's contents flow back up into the esophagus.
Just about everyone has gastroesophageal reflux once in a while. Many people don't even feel it happening. Other people might feel something commonly known as heartburn. Heartburn describes an uncomfortable burning feeling behind the breastbone. Heartburn has nothing to do with the heart, but everything to do with your stomach and esophagus. When stuff from the stomach goes back up into the esophagus, the esophagus can become irritated because what's in the stomach is high in acid. That's what causes the burning feeling.
Heartburn commonly happens after a meal. Eating too much at Thanksgiving, having extra-spicy salsa, or wolfing down some pepperoni pizza right before bed can cause heartburn in a lot of people.
Many people, even newborn babies, have this problem so often or so severely that it becomes a disease. It's no longer just reflux. Now it's GERD.
If you have GERD, you have a lot of company because it's estimated that millions of people in the USA have it. Most are adults, but kids and even babies can have the disease, too.
Here are some signs and symptoms of GERD:
These uncomfortable feelings can last as long as 2 hours. Lying down after eating, wearing tight clothes around the waist, or even just bending over can make these symptoms worse. So can some medicines.
Certain foods can make GERD worse. Here are foods that affect some but not all people:
It's possible that a doctor can tell you have GERD just from hearing about your symptoms. But your doctor may also want you to have a test to get a better idea of what's going on.
The most common test is called a barium (say: bair-ee-um) swallow or an upper gastrointestinal X-ray series. First, you drink a thick liquid containing a substance called barium. (It can be chalky, but sometimes it's flavored.) Then the doctor uses a special X-ray to track how the barium has gone down the esophagus and into the stomach. The barium is visible on the X-ray to give a clear picture of any reflux.
Another test is called a pH-probe study. In this study, a thin, flexible tube is inserted into the esophagus through the mouth or nose. The tube is connected to a machine that records the pH (or acid level) at the lower end of the esophagus. If acid refluxes from your stomach into the esophagus, the machine picks up an increase in acidity. The thin tube is kept in place for several hours (usually overnight or sometimes for 24 hours). You're probably wondering how this feels. It doesn't hurt to insert the probe, but it may be a little uncomfortable. The doctors, nurses, and a parent will be there to help you feel at ease during this test.
A milk scan lets your doctor see if stuff in your stomach refluxes into your lungs. This test uses a special scan to follow the path of a liquid after you've swallowed it.
Upper endoscopy is the name of another test. The doctor also uses a thin, flexible tube for this test, but now the tube has a light and a tiny video camera on the end of it. This lets the doctor actually see and take pictures of the esophagus and stomach. A person getting this test would receive anesthesia, a special medicine that keeps the person from feeling pain or discomfort.
Your doctor can tell you and your parent about diet changes and medicines to help with GERD. Medicines called antacids can be helpful for some people who have GERD. These work by lowering the amount of acid in your stomach. They should only be used for a short time because they can cause side effects and they may not control the problem for very long.
For long-term problems, a doctor may give you a prescription for other medicine. Some medicines work to lower stomach acid. Other medicines can help make the sphincter muscle stronger and help the stomach empty more quickly. If nothing else works, a person may need surgery to treat GERD, but this isn't done very often.
If you have GERD, there are ways to help prevent or reduce your symptoms. Some tips to try:
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Date reviewed: April 2008
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I've noticed that when a user drags a folder from a PST file into his Zimbra mailbox, if it's not at the root level, the folder gets created but the emails never sync to the server. If the folder is created at the root level, then the emails sync, and then you can move it into a nested structure. The same thing happens if I try to migrate the .pst file directly.
Is this by design or a bug? Is there any way round it?
We're in the process of migrating several thousand users away from Exchange, and many of them have very complex folder structures, it's really not practical to do this for everyone.
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EmailDirect for Salesforce Version 1.3 Released
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EmailDirect for Salesforce Version 1.3 is now available. There are 2 main updates in EmailDirect for Salesforce version 1.3: The ability to sync permanent removes using the standard salesforce email opt out field and the ability to sync salesforce Lead and Contact Owner data fields.
The ability to sync permanent removes using the standard salesforce email opt out field enables Salesforce users to easily send email addresses into their EmailDirect account and flag them as permanently removed. This feature effectively syncs your Salesforce email suppression list with your EmailDirect email suppression list.
The ability to sync Salesforce Lead and Contact Owner data fields now provides Salesforce users with an easy way to get Owner information like Sales Person's Name, Phone number and/or Email Address into EmailDirect for use within email campaigns. This is especially useful for companies that want to include Sales Rep information within emails to customers/subscribers.
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Former Fugitive in Multi-Million-Dollar New Square Fraud Scheme Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 27 Months in Prison
|U.S. Attorney's Office July 26, 2010
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AVRUM DAVID FRIESEL was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 27 months in prison for his participation in a long-running scheme to defraud millions of dollars from a number of federal and state programs, including the Pell Grant and Section 8 Housing programs. FRIESEL fled from the United States to Israel in 1997, shortly before he was charged in the case. Following the arrest of a co-defendant who had also fled to Israel, FRIESEL absconded to the United Kingdom in 1999, where he hid until he was arrested in 2008. FRIESEL was extradited to the United States in August 2009, over 12 years after he was initially charged. United States District Judge BARBARA S. JONES imposed the sentence on FRIESEL.
According to the Superseding Indictment, documents filed in court, and statements made during the guilty plea and sentencing proceedings:
FRIESEL and several other co-defendants defrauded a number of federal and state grant, loan, and subsidy programs of millions of dollars for the benefit of themselves and other residents of the Village of New Square, an incorporated village in Rockland County. For example, FRIESEL and his co-defendants defrauded the Pell Grant program funded by the United States Department of Education. The Pell Grant program provides funds to post-secondary school students with financial need who are seeking to obtain an academic or professional degree, vocational certificate, or other recognized undergraduate educational credential. FRIESEL and his co-defendants assisted in enrolling thousands of New Square residents and others in fraudulent postsecondary educational programs in order to obtain tens of millions of dollars in Pell Grants and other forms of student financial aid to which they were not entitled. Most of these students were enrolled in "independent study" programs that did not require the students to attend classes, but instead permitted them to study independently under the guidance of "mentors," who supposedly met with them periodically to gauge their progress and administer examinations. Members of the conspiracy lied repeatedly to conceal the fact that many of these "students" were actually ineligible to receive financial aid because they were not seeking any certificate or degree, or because they were still in high school.
Among other things, and in order to execute the fraud, participants in the conspiracy: created entities through which federal and state funds could be fraudulently obtained; submitted fraudulent documentation in order to establish the eligibility of New Square residents and others to participate in these programs; used the funds obtained from these programs for impermissible purposes; and concealed their fraud by using false names and nominee bank accounts.
In addition to the Pell Grant program, co-conspirators, including FRIESEL, defrauded other federal programs and departments, including: a Small Business Administration program designed to provide venture capital to small, minority-owned businesses; the Section 8 rental subsidy program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; the Social Security Administration; and the Internal Revenue Service.
Judge JONES also ordered FRIESEL to pay over $11 million in restitution and to serve two years of supervised release following his prison sentence. FRIESEL previously pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge HENRY B. PITMAN to one count of conspiracy to defraud a number of federal agencies and programs.
Four of FRIESEL's co-defendants were convicted on January 25, 1999, following an 11-week jury trial in White Plains federal court before Judge JONES and received sentences of between 30 and 78 months in prison, which were commuted in 2001 by then-President CLINTON. CHAIM BERGER, the leader of the scheme who fled the United States, was arrested in Israel in 1999 and was later extradited to the United States. He pleaded guilty on January 23, 2002, and was sentenced to 72 months in prison. The remaining defendant, NATHAN ADLER, remains at large.
In sentencing FRIESEL, Judge JONES also explained that one of the reasons for the imposed sentence was that FRIESEL left the United States and remained out of the country after it had to be obvious that he was going to be charged. In response to FRIESEL's request that his sentence should be lower to take account of the fact that the sentences of several of his co-conspirators were commuted in 2001, Judge JONES stated that she gave "no weight" to the fact that several of FRIESEL's co-defendants had their sentences commuted.
U.S. Attorney PREET BHARARA stated: "Avrum Friesel stole millions of dollars in federal and state funds that should have gone to the poor and needy, among other worthy recipients, all to benefit himself and his co-conspirators. He spent 11 years on the run on two continents to avoid facing those charges, but today's sentence confirms that it is never in a defendant's interest to flee the authorities. Our Office, together with our law enforcement partners here in the United States and around the world, will work tirelessly to bring to justice all fugitives, no matter where they go or how long they are gone."
Mr. BHARARA praised the work and cooperation of the U.S. Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Small Business Administration, and the Social Security Administration for their investigation and their extraordinarily dedicated commitment to the prosecution. Mr. BHARARA also praised the efforts of the United States Marshals Service for locating FRIESEL, helping to apprehend FRIESEL in the United Kingdom, and providing essential support in obtaining his return to the United States. Mr. BHARARA also thanked London's Metropolitan Police Service, Extradition Unit, for its assistance in the location and apprehension of FRIESEL and the Crown Prosecution Service, Extradition Unit, of London in his extradition.
The case is being prosecuted by the Office's Complex Frauds Unit. Assistant United States Attorney DANIEL W. LEVY is in charge of the prosecution.


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Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - Dwight Howard totaled 22 points and 18
rebounds in the Houston Rockets 105-83 rout of the Golden State Warriors from
Toyota Center.
The Rockets jumped out to a comfortable 31-12 lead after the first quarter and
cruised the rest of the way. The 12 points Golden State put up in the first on
4-of-20 shooting was the lowest output against Houston in any period this
James Harden led Houston with 34 points as the Rockets broke out of a two-game
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Terrence Jones added 16 points, 10 boards and three blocked shots in the
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Welcome to my first trip report on A.net! My dad and I were flying to SRQ for 7 days for a vacation, as well as a C172 flight from SRQ, a visit to Embry-Riddle, and planespotting at SRQ and TPA (although those aren't included in this post).
We booked the flight about 2 months in advance and the prices favored a multi-city itinerary. So we booked BOS-SRQ for the outbound flight and TPA-BOS on the way back.
We had about an hour to burn before the flight, so I took some pictures before we boarded. Luck was on our side that day because we saw a B6 A320 with sharklets, a AA 738 with the new livery, and a CM 737.
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Burn It Off With Boot Camp
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If this boot-camp circuit doesn't whip you into swimsuit-ready shape, nothing will. Not only does it burn up to 600 calories in just 45 minutes, it also targets those stubborn spots that make you want to skip the beach altogether. Lashaun Dale, national group fitness manager at Equinox, designed the routine based on the new Equinox Training Camp (ETC) class she co-created.
It alternates between strength sets and cardio intervals. "That blend is like a magic bullet for burning fat," Dale says. Three times per week, go through the routine once, rest for 60 seconds, then repeat. Walk for 5 minutes first to warm up, then cool down afterward with a full-body stretch.
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Egyptian violence
A supporter of ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi shoots a slingshot against Egyptian security forces during clashes in Cairo Aug. 14. Egyptian police in riot gear swept in with armored vehicles and bulldozers to clear two sprawling encampments of Morsi supporters, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out. See related story.
Wednesday, August 7
Nairobi blaze
A massive fire destroyed the international terminal at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. There were no reported casualties. The cause of the fire remained unclear, but it broke out on the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The airport, one of the busiest in Africa, closed for a day and then slowly resumed flights through the domestic terminal. The fire is likely to have economic ramifications: The country is at the peak of its tourist season, and the airport is a hub, among many things, for the country's substantial export of flowers to Europe.
Dinner for one
In a high profile snub, President Barack Obama canceled his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled ahead of the September G-20 summit in St. Petersburg. The cancellation appeared directly tied to Putin's one-year asylum offer to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, but the White House said that was just one barrier among many between the two leaders–including being on opposing sides of the Syrian war. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Obama was "absolutely right" to cancel the meeting: "There's nothing to talk about."
Bush unclogged
Former President George W. Bush was discharged from a Dallas, Texas, hospital after a successful heart operation. Doctors inserted a stent after finding one of his arteries clogged. The 67-year-old Bush's lifestyle isn't to blame: He's known for his relentless exercise and low resting heart rate.
Thursday, August 8
Cholera culprits
A Yale University report said UN peacekeepers were responsible for the sweeping cholera outbreak in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake that killed 8,000 and sickened 640,000. The UN has denied responsibility for the epidemic. The report offers detailed evidence otherwise, showing that UN peacekeepers set up camp by a river, which they contaminated with sewage. The river fed into Haiti's main sources of drinking water. Until the peacekeepers came, Haiti had had no cases of cholera for 150 years. Soon after the peacekeepers' arrival from Nepal (where cholera is more common), Haitians began to show symptoms of the disease.
Friday, August 9
Accusation denied
Former St. Louis Cardinal and sports radio talker Jack Clark lost his job after saying on air that Albert Pujols–a former Cardinal and current Los Angeles Angel–had used performance enhancing drugs. Pujols, denying the accusations, said he planned to sue Clark, and added, "My faith in Jesus Christ, and my respect for this game are too important to me. I would never be able to look my wife or kids in the eye if I had done what this man is accusing me of." Pujols' former Cardinals teammates came to his defense as well.
Calling from prison
The Federal Communications Commission ruled 2-1 that phone companies could not charge extra-high rates for prisoners making phone calls. A handful of phone companies have contracts with prisons and charge prisoners up to $17 for a 15-minute phone call, a higher rate than many international phone calls. Prisons themselves receive some of the phone revenue, pulling in at least $104 million last year. The FCC vote capped phone rates for prisoners at 25 cents a minute. Justice Fellowship, Prison Fellowship's advocacy arm, hailed the ruling, saying the exorbitant phone call rates have divided prisoners from their families and spiritual mentors.
Saturday, August 10
Singer silenced
Grammy-winning gospel singer Donnie McClurkin said he was disinvited from a concert he was supposed to headline commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech because of his position on homosexuality. McClurkin, who has said that he struggled with homosexuality, wrote in 2002, "I am delivered and I know God can deliver others, too." Gay activists in Washington, D.C., pressed D.C. mayor Vincent Gray against McClurkin's appearance, and McClurkin said the mayor's office called the night before the Aug. 10 concert to ask him not to attend. Local pastors called Gray to reconsider, to no avail. "Quite unfortunate that today a black artist is uninvited from a civil rights movement depicting the love, the unity, the peace, the tolerance," McClurkin said in a video statement. "It's bullying, it's discrimination, it's intolerance."
Sunday, August 11
Grand reopening
Most U.S. diplomatic outposts reopened on August 11 in the Middle East and North Africa after precautionary closings based on intelligence that terrorist threats were imminent. The Obama administration was not specific about what the threats were, but during the closures it stepped up drone strikes in Yemen. Yemen reported U.S. drone strikes against dozens of suspected al-Qaeda militants in the space of two weeks. The U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, remained closed as well as the U.S. consulate in Lahore, Pakistan.
In the hospital
Kenneth Bae, an American sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea in May, was transferred to a hospital after his health plummeted at the camp. Bae, a Christian who spent time in North Korea as a tour operator, may have been conducting missionary activities. The state said he plotted to undermine the regime through religion. Labor camps can often be a death sentence; Bae's family said he has lost 50 pounds and is struggling with diabetes, kidney stones, loss of vision, back pain, and high blood pressure. The U.S. government has repeatedly urged North Korea to release him.
Monday, August 12
Deficit drops
The Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal deficit, though still enormous, has shrunk considerably. As of July 2013 the federal deficit stands at $607.4 billion, a big drop from this time last year, when the deficit reached $973.8 billion. Economists credited the drop in the deficit to federal cuts under sequestration, higher taxes, and economic growth–although entitlement spending has continued to grow. The government also has had the windfall of billions in repayments from the now-profitable mortgage investors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Super tubes
Elon Musk–the entrepreneur behind Paypal and the space company SpaceX–unveiled a proposal for a supersonic form of transportation dubbed the Hyperloop. Musk has lambasted California's plans for a $70 billion, high-speed rail system. He says for a fraction of the cost the Hyperloop could transport passengers at 800 miles per hour from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The Hyperloop technology is still in its early stages but the basic idea Musk outlined involves pods shooting through elevated vacuum-sealed tubes. The satirical newspaper The Onion posted a headline: "New Super-Fast Transport System Powered By Passengers' Screams."
Wednesday, August 14
Time to serve
Former Chicago congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., and his wife Sandra were sentenced to serve prison terms for their misuse of campaign funds. The Jacksons spent $750,000 in campaign donations on themselves, including mounted elk heads, cashmere capes, and a $43,000 Rolex watch. He was sentenced to 30 months, she to one year. Jackson had been a rising Democratic star.
Motion denied
The California Supreme Court, in two sentences, felled Proposition 8, the voter-passed constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. The state's highest court denied a motion from Prop 8 proponents to preserve the measure, thus allowing gay marriages to continue statewide. The state Supreme Court was the last hope for the amendment's defenders. The court gave no explanation for its dismissal, and so the dismissal did not reflect any position by the court on the constitutionality of Prop 8. The state, which has declined to defend Prop 8, had ordered clerks to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Thursday, August 15
Andes discovery
Smithsonian zoologists announced the discovery of a new species of mammal, the first such discovery in the Western Hemisphere in 35 years. The brown, furry olinguito takes his place as the smallest member of the raccoon family. Olinguitos live in the Andes Mountains and eat fruits and insects. Scientists had captured and seen olinguitos for years without knowing what they were exactly.
Big blundering brother
The Washington Post published more leaks from Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency analyst, showing that the NSA had broken privacy rules thousands of times a year in collecting data. The Post published the agency's internal audit showing that most of the privacy breaches were unintentional. In one instance the agency accidentally collected phone records from Washington, D.C. (area code 202), instead of Egypt (country code 20). "We're a human-run agency operating in a complex environment with a number of different regulatory regimes, so at times we find ourselves on the wrong side of the line," a senior NSA official told the Post.
Saturday and Sunday, August 17-18
Back to work
The Obamas returned to the White House after a week's vacation in Martha's Vineyard. The first family has chosen the island for summer getaways, though the Obamas skipped their vacation last year during the campaign. The president stayed out of the public eye except to make a statement on the violence in Egypt. He returned to Washington facing not only the devolving situation in the Middle East but another federal budget ultimatum Sept. 30.
British authorities detained Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald's live-in partner David Miranda as he was passing through London's Heathrow Airport. Miranda was returning to Brazil after meeting with a U.S. filmmaker in Berlin who has access to leaked documents from former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden. Greenwald had said publicly Miranda has helped him with information for his stories on the NSA. British law enforcement only had the authority to detain and question Miranda for up to nine hours, at which point they released him, but without his cellphone, laptop, and other items. The White House denied involvement in the detention but said the British had informed U.S. officials of their plans.
For the first time in 1,600 years, priests did not hold Sunday mass in the Virgin Mary and Priest Ibram monastery near Minya, Egypt. Muslim Brotherhood supporters torched and destroyed the monastery, one of the oldest in the world, in a string of attacks on churches in the country (see "Egypt burns"). Vandals turned a remaining church in the complex into a mosque, a priest said.
Monday, August 19
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, facing a battery of sexual harassment allegations and calls for his resignation, returned to work after two weeks of behavior therapy. Filner, a Democrat, has not admitted to the allegations from 16 women and has refused to step aside despite a recent poll showing 80 percent of city residents think he should. Some San Diegans are collecting signatures in an effort to hold a recall election.
Big foot
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, signed legislation banning so-called gay conversion therapy for minors in the state, only the second state to do so after California. The law, which the state legislature passed in June, forbids counseling minors about changing their sexual orientation or sexual behaviors (but allows counseling about changing genders). Family groups said the ban was a violation of parental rights. Christie acknowledged those concerns: "Government should tread carefully into this area and I do so here reluctantly." Christie reiterated what he has said in previous interviews, that he does not believe homosexuality is a sin, while acknowledging his view runs counter to his Catholic faith.
Tuesday, August 20
Days in court
A Pakistani court charged former president Pervez Musharraf with the 2007 assassination of opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the first time any of the nation's generals have been charged with a crime. The court also indicted four extremists and two police officers in the assassination. Bhutto had been a lone top Muslim advocate for the country's Christian minority, speaking out against the nation's harsh blasphemy laws. The initial investigation into the combination bombing-shooting assassination was late and haphazard, and Musharraf's lawyers said the charges were "baseless." The man whom Musharraf ousted in a 1999 coup, Nawaz Sharif, now leads Pakistan again.


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Analyzing SAP Security Notes April 2014 Edition
SAP is a complex and ever changing system, whether because of changes introduced to your SAP implementation to better suit your business or through the application of Security Notes (Patches) to ensure that newly disclosed vulnerabilities are mitigated. In order to provide a predictable and scheduled flow of vulnerability mitigation information and security patches, SAP releases their latest Security Notes information on the second Tuesday of every month. Due to this regular disclosure of new security issues that could potentially weaken the security of SAP systems within an organization, it's highly recommended to carry out periodic assessments on a monthly basis at least. At Onapsis we are very concerned about our client's SAP system security and also the state of SAP security in general, so to assist our customers, we perform a detailed analysis of the monthly SAP Security Notes as soon as they are published. The goal of this is to provide SAP clients with detailed information about the newly released notes and vulnerabilities affecting their SAP systems and help guide their testing of these systems within their organization. This month 23 Security Notes were
- 1778940 by Nahuel D. Sánchez
- 1974016 by Nahuel D. Sánchez
- 1993349 by Will Vandevanter
- 1929473 by Sergio Abraham
We have generated a plot graph illustrating the distribution of CVSS scores across the Security Notes released in April. 15 out of the 23 SAP Security Notes were assigned a CVSS number by SAP. As you may observe in the graph, the SAP Security Notes this month have a range of values from 2.6 to 6.0 with a median of 4.9.
SAP Security Notes with higher CVSS score The highest CVSS score this month was 6.0, which was assigned to five Notes. Of these five notes, there are two which are highly important to be applied, as they could lead to arbitrary ABAP code execution in the applicable SAP system:
- 1985100; with a CVSS score of 6.0 (AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P). Applying this Note will fix a vulnerable Report. This will prevent the execution of arbitrary ABAP code in the target system.
- 1971516; with a CVSS score of 6.0 (AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P). There was a command injection vulnerability found in the ST-PI component. This Note fixes the corresponding RFC functions preventing them from being exploited.
The next three Notes with CVSS of 6.0 were:
- 1983739 (AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P). This Note fixes hardcoded user credentials in Financial modules.
- 1929473 (AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P). This Note fixes hardcoded user credentials in certain classes.
- 1987413 (AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P). Applying this Note will prevent an authenticated user from using functions of user management to whom access should be restricted.
SAP HANA Vulnerability SAP HANA, short for "High-Performance Analytic Appliance" is an in-memory, column-oriented, high-performance relational database management system developed by SAP AG. This month, SAP released one security note for HANA based on a vulnerability discovered and reported by Onapsis:
- SAP Security Note 1993349 fixes one of the latest product releases of SAP; SAP HANA. There was an unauthenticated exploitable vulnerability which could lead to reflected XSS attacks in HANA Administration Tool.
Additional Technical Information SQL Injection attacks [1772839, 1583685] These attacks use code injection techniques to compromise data driven applications. The technique consists of inserting malicious SQL statements in certain fields to access and compromise a database. Example of an affected ABAP Report is: LSZRSF03. Arbitrary code execution attack [1826001] A code execution attack is used to describe the ability of an attacker to execute any command on the target machine or system. This type of vulnerability was found in SAP's Web Intelligence Rich Client module. Path Traversal attack to SWIFT adapter [1600105] The component SWIFT File Adapter had a vulnerability in which an attacker could potentially write arbitrary files on the remote system, which could lead to data corruption or even altering the behavior of the remote server. Operating System code injection vulnerability [1940405] Exploiting this type of vulnerability gives the attacker the possibility to control the system or escalate privileges by the execution of shell commands. The Note fixes the vulnerability in certain ABAP and RFC functions. Other attack vectors remediated
- Missing authorization checks [1974016, 1073396, 1955908]
- Update to Security Notes [1590834, 2000095, 1990096]
- Potential disclosure of information [1986895, 1974046]
- Security improvements for Certificate handling, and CSRF prevention [1975842, 2001778]
- HTTP Verb Tampering [1778940]
- Note related to the Security Audit Log [1878371]
The analysis of the notes was performed by Nahuel Sánchez and Emiliano Fausto. Each month Onapsis updates our flagship product Onapsis X1 to allow you to check whether your systems are up to date with these latest SAP Security Notes as well as configured with an appropriate level of security. Stay tuned for next month's Security Notes analysis from Onapsis Research Labs.


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No Fees: Clear from American Express
Posted By Jim On 07/02/2007 @ 3:21 pm In Credit | 6 Comments
No annual fee, no late fee, no over-limit fee, no balance transfer fee, no cash advance fee… that's the pitch from American Express – Clear has absolutely no fees. American Express is capitalizing on the fact that there's been such an outrage over the ridiculous fees (ridiculous in amount, not in nature) charged by credit cards, banks and other institutions. The reason why this backlash exists is because all these financial companies are using fees for revenue generation and not what they were originally created for, which was to reimburse the company for actual financial loss. Now it looks like American Express, which I believe has always been fast to react anyway, is swinging the pendulum the other way and nixing all fees.
The big fee that they nix that is very appealing to most consumers is probably going to be that no balance transfer fee because when you couple it with their
0% APR on balance transfers* for one year, that's another balance transfer you can take advantage of in order to get a better handle on your existing credit card debt or to use in a credit card arbitrage play. To my knowledge, this is the only no fee 0% APR American Express balance transfer available. So if you've tapped out Citi and Discover or have a big American Express credit limit, it might not hurt to open it, transfer your credit over, and snag a nice fat transfer.
* I mis-read the 0% intro APR to include balance transfers, which is erroneous. APR on balance transfers are 4.9%, which appears as the second bullet point – I have no idea how I missed that unless they modified the copy. My apologies for any confusion it may have caused and thank you to marylandterps for pointing it out and gnoorts for getting on my tail to fix the error. I'm usually better about fixing errors but my head has been swimming lately dealing with wedding caterers so I haven't been reading comments as diligently as I have in the past.
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Wake Field Hockey Routs Radford, 6-1, in Home Opener
Sept. 12, 2007
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - In front of a home crowd, fifth-ranked Wake Forest toppled Radford, 6-1, on Wednesday night in its home opener at Kentner Stadium. The Demon Deacons amassed four goals in the first period and added two more before the game ended.
With the win, Wake improved to 3-2 on the season, while Radford dropped to 2-4.
Radford came out strong to start the game as it took the first shot on frame, but goalkeeper Crystal Duffield was there to make the save.
Minutes later, Wake attacked the Radford defense as Chelsea Cipriani and Kim Romansky took shots, but Highlander goalkeeper Jennifer Wisniewski along with the defense stopped any shots from hitting the back of the net.
Finally, Wake Forest took a 1-0 lead at the 10:41 mark when Cipriani scored off of an Emily Cummings pass. The Deacs received three more goals before the first 35 minutes would end - two of them off of penalty corners.
Assisted by Melissa Martin, this week's conference Player of the Week, and Cipriani, Liz Fries added the home team's second goal of the night at the 14:01 mark. Hilary Moore scored her first career goal to put the Deacs up 3-0 at the 16:30 mark.
The Highlanders got on board late in the first period when Kay Tufts scored the lone visitor goal of the night at the 27:23 mark.
As the first period came to a close, Wake's offense once again pressured in front of the net and after back-to-back-to-back shots, Michelle Kasold tapped in the fourth goal of the half.
Freshman goalkeeper Alex Mann started the second half in goal for Wake, marking her first collegiate appearance in the net.
The Deacs out-shot the Highlanders 10-0 in the second period and added two more goals. Kim Romansky rocketed a shot from the top of the circle to give Wake a four-goal lead at the 51:57 mark. Two minutes later, Melissa Martin took a penalty corner and after receiving the ball back from Minou Gimbrere, knocked in Wake Forest's final goal of the night from the right side of the net.
Wake Forest out-shot its opponent 28-4 and had 12 penalty corners to Radford's one. Duffield recorded 4 saves in the game, all in the first half.
Wake Forest is back on the road and heads to Bloomington, Ind. to take on Ohio on Saturday and Indiana on Sunday.


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NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — After 11 years of reflection, Mike Mudd Sr. still can't understand why his brother Stephen took his life on that first day of spring 2003.
Yes, Stephen had problems. Alcohol had long been a factor in some of the difficulties. On occasion, Mudd said his younger brother didn't feel very good about himself, as if Stephen thought he was unworthy of love.
Not once, though, did he mention to Mudd that he ever wanted to die. Nor did he exhibit any of the other warning signs in front of his brother.
How these feelings morphed into Stephen, at only 49 years old, committing suicide at the bottom of his Virginia driveway is something that the Clarksville resident can't comprehend.
"The one question I always have is what propels you to get to that point in your life where you choose to take your own life. How do you get there? How does that happen?" Mudd told the News and Tribune (http://bit.ly/1hTHCza ). "And that's what we'll never know."
Mudd, 64, isn't alone in his wondering.
Every year, about 38,000 people in the United States commit suicide. More than 100 men and women die this way each day, leaving behind friends and family members to ask why and ponder if they could have done something to prevent their deaths.
"The thing I can't grasp and can't get over and I can't get through is the fact that I couldn't do anything to stop him, and as his older brother, I should have been able to have done something," Mudd said. "That will haunt me to the grave."
Affecting people of all social and economic classes, the consequences of suicide can be felt as much in small towns as they can in big cities. Right here in Clark and Floyd counties, 126 people took their own lives between 2006 through 2010, according to the Indiana State Department of Health's Suicide in Indiana report. During the same period of time, 530 patients in these counties visited emergency departments due to suicide attempts. Underreporting by survivors caused by stigma and shame can skew the real numbers. Many believe the true figure to be much higher.
Studying data can tell both a lot and surprisingly little. Through it, researchers have discovered that men are four times more likely to die by suicide than women, yet 75 percent of all nonfatal suicide attempts are committed by females. Ninety percent of those who took their own lives in 2010 were white, with the rates greatest among Americans 85 and older.
Most significant, perhaps, is that research documented by the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, or AFSP, shows the connection between suicide and mental illness.
Of those that took their own lives, 90 percent had a mental illness at the time of their death. While there's no single cause to the complex issue, depression remains the most common psychological disorder associated with suicide. More than two-thirds of those who kill themselves are considered depressed. Other mood and personality disorders as well as substance use disorders also may play a role.
Still the numbers can't explain the reasons why people make the decision to do it. Nor can the data alone necessarily tell the tale of how to prevent it.
That's where local mental health, government and nonprofit organizations come in.
As the Clinical Director for LifeSpring Health Systems, Marta Myszak has studied and treated mental health issues in Southern Indiana, including depression and suicidal thoughts. Through the years, she and others in the medical community have gathered information that could warn friends and family members someone close to them may be thinking about taking their own life.
These warning signs may include one or more of the following: changes in eating and/or sleeping habits; social withdraw; becoming less active in beloved activities; neglect in self-care; increased substance use; overly emotional behavior such as excessive crying or rowdiness; and tying up loose ends.
Not all of those who die by suicide communicate their intentions to self-harm. But nearly two-thirds of all cases do exhibit some signs, according to the AFSP. The knowledge of these signs can allow medical help to be found before an attempt can be made.
"Every situation is different," Myszak said. "Anytime anyone is talking about suicide, you need to take it seriously. But people who don't talk about it do it more often. That's been my experience."
Myszak said the best thing to do should a loved one exhibit these warnings is straight out ask the person his or her intentions. Don't worry about putting the idea into their head. Research has shown that simply isn't the case.
"If you suspect someone is thinking about suicide, you need to ask," she said. "And if they are, don't just walk away from it. Take action. Let somebody else know. Get them some help. They may not want it. In fact, they'll probably be resistant to the idea. But you need to get them some help."
In the area, that help may just be a phone call away.
Across the Ohio River in Louisville, trained counselors with the private, nonprofit Seven Counties Services are ready to answer questions and provide support to callers in crisis 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Of the 60,000 calls to their Hope Now hotline each year, about 40 percent come from people they consider at risk for suicide. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline also routes nearby callers from their nationwide phone line to the center.
"We don't charge for anything we do. Our phone services are all free and everything they tell us is confidential," said Geneva Robinson, clinical supervisor for the Hope Now Hotline. "The only time we would break confidentiality would be in what we call active rescue situation. That's where somebody is either at imminent risk — meaning we know if we don't take action now, someone is going to end up dying — or has already taken an overdose or done something to hurt themselves."
Counselors, Robinson said, listen to the callers without judgment and learn their unique stories. Then they help the person prioritize what they want to start working on in order to begin to feel better. Referrals can be given for mental health professionals, as well as recommendations for financial assistance and other social programs that could help alleviate some of the stress of daily life.
"We have no judgment," Robinson said. "We're just there to support that person and to let them know they deserve to be healthy and that there are resources that we can connect them with that can make a difference."
In addition, the hotline answers questions from family and friends concerned about loved ones.
"We can help them understand warning signs and risk factors. We can talk to them about their fears, about how to approach the topic, and we can provide education and materials so they can better help the person they care about," Robinson said.
Information from: News and Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind., http://www.newsandtribune.com


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Have you ever seen a noise maker like this?
I didn't buy it the first time I saw but when I went back and saw it again I decided I needed to buy it. I've never seen a little wooden noise maker like this, I have several noise makers but none like this. I'll be putting it away with our New Years Eve supplies, pretty sure there will be a fight over it too.
I picked up a few Architectural Digests to browse through. The local thrift store gives magazines away so whenever I see a few I'm interested in I grab them. When I'm done I re-donate them, as a matter of fact I donate any magazines I happen to get.
This vile bright orange fabric is perfect for a couple accent pillows on our bed. We have a turquoise/white bed spread and I've been looking for 3 months for a piece of orange fabric. Not being in a hurry to make the pillows covers made it possible to find enough fabric for 50¢. I could have easily bought the fabric brand new but it's the thrill of the "not buying retail hunt" that I enjoy.
And one bit of interesting excitement for me this week, I won a giveaway over at Cheerful Thrifty Door. I never win anything so this is neat for me. On that note I want to encourage everyone to make sure you keep coming back because my 3rd blog anniversary is coming up and I have an awesome giveaway dreamed up.
How about you, did you find anything exciting this week?
Peace and Love--


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Number of Reviews: 1381
Average Score: 65
Visit Spring Break Fantasy
While all those hot coeds are out there partying, we're hard at work doing our review of Spring Break Fantasy. There's just something about the sun, the surf and the time off from studying that seems to bring the exhibitionist out in every gal. That's okay since their flashing brings out the voyeur in any red-blooded male, not to mention a few females too (based on the reactions of some of my lady coworkers here in the office).
This particular genre has some well-established and well-known competitors on the market, so when I first read the sitename I thought it would be a badly produced, generic rip-off, but I was wrong. Ironically, it seems that being less famous (or infamous some might say) has caused SpringBreakFantasy to compete by producing better quality content.
For example, currently there are 114 galleries. The pics of candid bikini-clad beach revelers and partygoers are not only high-res, but also sometimes extra-large as well. You definitely have the impression that many shots are taken on the sly, but unlike so many other so-called voyeur sites, this one lets you see the details clearly, without compromise. (Which is the perfect Peeping Tom experience, don't you think?) It isn't all good news, though.
There are only six great-quality videos and you don't get any full-length files. You get either a couple clips to as many as 16 for one video. Another downside to the collection is the fact that the movies can't be downloaded, only streamed in Windows Media files.
This site has many chicks misbehaving badly - you'd be surprised what some will do to win a $50 cash prize. (You would be surprised to see what I would do for $50!) The videos are most often shot during bikini contests, a daisy duke-to-duke competition, a salsa wrestling match and from various spy cams.
When I read the other section headings I wasn't expecting much, but again I stand corrected. You'll find bonus sites to enjoy, each with high-res galleries and more streaming videos. The subscription is similar or even a bit lower than other sites, so Spring Break Fantasy might be okay for some coed voyeur fanatics - as long as your fanatisism is geared toward pics rather than vids.
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Pokémon Secrets and Rumors
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May 14th, 2008 (9:41 AM).
Hi there, it's been awhile.
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Hmm, Im beginning to wonder with these little bugs if the IPS didn't make right for some reason. For example there is an old man blocking you from getting to the house in viridian forest, and the little tile bugs and things with the team rocket's pokemon rosters. the pokecenter is a genuine bug, I found that out after I released it that I forgot to save typing in the pointer to the new event data in there. Let me fix that and remake the IPS so ti should fix these things. Your old save states will work fine if you play with the new patch, expect it later today. My apologies for the IPS patcher not working properly (What I get for using "Smart IPS" instead of Lunar IPS like usual XD) and not saving repointing that.
You could try out Snestool, iv never had any problems with that for the 7 and half years iv been into emulation.
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Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL), the sole domestic nuclear fuel provider to the countrys indigenously built nuclear reactors, is poised to start a giant uranium mining-cum-processing project in Kanampalle.
The company is already on the verge of completing its 3,000-tpd mine-cum-processing plant at Tummalapalle in Andhra Pradesh.
To be taken up on full completion of the Tummalapalle expansion project, the neighbouring Kanampalle project is slated to be a very, very big project of around 6,000 tpd, three times the size of its largest and most modern 2,000-tpd Narwapahar mine.
Interacting with the media at Narwapahar, UCIL CMD D Acharya said that the uranium producers 3,000 tonne per day (tpd) mines, along with a processing plant at Tummalapalle in the recently-named YSR district of Andhra Pradesh, was almost complete and was scheduled to become operational before March 31 this year.
We are proceeding with segment-wise trials of the 3,000-tpd processing plant, said the UCIL CMD.
Acharya said UCIL would now be undertaking a 1,500-tpd mining and processing plant expansion of the Tummalapalle project site at a cost of around R760 crore, which would take the total Tummalapalle project capacity to 4,500 tpd at an investment of R1,860 crore.


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With my iPod nano 3G, I could use the alarm to start a playlist at a given time (e.g. for waking me up).
With my iPod Touch 2G (FW 3.0.1, not jail-broken), I can only choose from a list of pre-defined signals (like ring tones).
Is there any way to make the iPod touch use a playlist instead?


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Is there anyway to include the signature when using "auto" forwarding ?
I have a user A wich forwards all mail too the distlist B (wich include multiple people). I would like to include A`s signature in the auto forwarded email. The signature will include som instructions for what people are supposed to do with the diffrent emails that arrive.
It works when you do it manually, but iguess the auto forward behaves differently.


text: Had a very nice ride this morning--on my Christmas present KHS 650b Team. Friends rode by to scoop me up and we hit the local trails early. I was worried about the steep and rough stuff on the hardtail with "only" 120mm of travel up front (coming from a dual suspension), but I was pleasantly surprised. The bike felt great under me. The 27.5 wheels felt like they rolled over stuff a bit easier than my 26 did, and it felt easy to flick around--and it's light! I really wanted a Niner, but this bike really feels like it's "just right." More ride reports/pics to come!