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The Creative Meltdown That Is
Like many others I felt outraged by a featured story in the magazine section of last Sunday's New York Times, The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't. At the suggestion of Chris Castle, lawyer and respected blogger who has been fighting on the side of artists since 2007, I sent a letter to Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor at The Times, expressing my disappointment and betrayal by The Times for running such a biased, factually inaccurate article.
"Thank you for contacting the public editor. My assistant and I read every message that we receive. Please note that this office deals specifically with issues of journalistic integrity at The New YorkTimes. Due to the number of e-mails that we receive on a daily basis, we are not able to respond personally to everyone who writes."
Margaret Sullivan; Public Editor, New York Times
Attn: Margaret Sullivan
I've always looked to the NYT for solid, truthful reporting and while you've had your moments where you've faltered, this story never should have seen the light of day.
First off the article is basically a rehash of Mike Masnick's 'The Sky is Rising', a much derided and criticized overview of the entertainment industry and how in January of 2012 things were actually looking up for artists. Many of the points made in Masnick's Techdirt post and 'The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't' are actually the same ones used by the proponents of online piracy attempting to make a case for the positive attributes of illegal free file sharing.
No coincidence that the author referenced Napster, even challenging the statements of Lars Ulrich, which many of us in the pro-artist camp see as prescient given the fifteen years that have passed since Ulrich testified under oath.
What I find even more difficult to understand. The NYT is struggling in the digital economy itself, just like authors, filmmakers, musicians and photographers. I'm sure I don't need to point out that your own David Carr talked about this extensively in the 2011 documentary 'Page One: Inside the New York Times'.
While it was encouraging to see the outpouring of over 200 detailed, predominantly negative comments about shoddy research and flawed conclusions, tens of thousands of your readers probably never saw them. They may have even believed the fairy tale. Some Congressmen may use the article as validation for maintaining the statue quo as they debate critical changes to our copyright laws for the first time since 1976. Not to mention the highly problematic and counter-productive Section 512, Take Down notification process contained in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
I have spent nearly every day for the past four years following and writing about the destruction that is happening to our creators by a distribution network taken over by tech companies. Companies run by individuals with limited understanding of the needs of those who create the content that powers their success.
It is probably asking to much for the New York Times to print a retraction of the article, but your readers and every working journalist, artist, author, filmmaker, musician and photographer deserves to hear the truth, as does the public.
Here are two articles written in response that you might consider running in rebuttal:
Steve Johnson & A Thesis that Isn't by David Newhoff
Why is the New York Times Coverage on Artist Rights So Oddly Inconsistent? by Chris Castle
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This is a long story, but it makes me
feel better to tell it.
I was 28 when I divorced my husband, we had a 3
1/2 year old son, I received primary custody. I had not been using birth
control so I decided to use the IUD.
I was dating two guys after the divorce, one guy (Steve) I was having sex with
and we were getting close, and the other guy I occasionally went out with. I was
trying not to get close with anyone to give myself a breather from being married
and was trying to get over the divorce. Then I realized I had missed my period,
I went to the doctor and sure enough I was pregnant. He took out the IUD and said
I could lose the baby, if so, it would be within a couple weeks. I was so scared,
I was a single mother and did not know who was the father. I did not wait to see
if I would lose it, I had Steve take me to a clinic and I terminated the pregnancy.
3-years later, Steve and I were still together, but it was rocky and we
had a fight and he kicked me out of his house. I was a waitress. I had no family
near except my ex-mother-in-law. She was nice enough to let me stay with her.
I was bruised and scraped up from him kicking me out. I was trying to get my shoes
on but he wouldn't let me get them so he choked me and threw me around. I know
I did not say or doing anything that deserved the way he treated me. Shortly after
that I found out I was pregnant.
Alone in a town with no family, I decided
to keep the baby, but every day Steve would show up at my work and tell me he
did not want it, and to get an abortion. I wanted the baby, because I thought
I still loved him, and I wanted to have part of him. Then one day I had a panic
attack, I thought: I will be alone, how can I do this? What about my son? What
about his financial well being? I would have no support. Obviously, Steve would
not be of any help. So I called him and he took me to get my 2nd abortion. He
told me he was so proud of me that day after the abortion. He took me back to
his house to stay for a few days. I remember I was very depressed about it, I
hurt and felt a loss.
I went home to my son, and I was depressed for a
while, I tried to remain busy with friends and work. I finally started feeling
better, I had not talked or seen Steve, and about 2 months after that he stopped
by my house and asked me to forgive him and that he hoped God forgave him. This
was very confusing to me because, he wanted to start seeing me again. So we dated,
I think he was just feeling guilty.
About 1-year later, I was hired by a
lawyer to be his office manager, taking me away from the waiting tables. He trained
me and sent me to computer classes. It was a 8-5 job, so much better than the
night job of waiting tables. I was excited, I got a break. I took it. In the meantime,
Steve was coming over to my house every now and then. Steve was dating another
girl (his wife now) I was seeing another guy as well. But I had a hard time letting
go of Steve. Why? I do not know. Maybe because he had given me an engagement
ring, and at one time I felt he loved me.
Anyway, I find out I am pregnant
again. I thought about keeping it but I couldn't with a new job, and a single
boss who did not have any children or had never been married. How would I explain
it? I was so embarrassed with myself. Did I not learn the lesson from the last
one? Now I have had 3 abortions. Why me? Sometimes I feel so guilty. I wish
I could erase it but I cannot.
My son is 18 years old now, and I feel my
role changing, as he prepares to go out in the world. If I would of kept one I
would have a 9 or 10 year old with me. I am still single, and still live away
from my family.
I hope someday I can just know in my heart I did the right
thing. At the time I thought I knew, but reflecting hurts me. I need to stop reflecting,
and go on with the future.
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It's a red-hot field right now—because of twin revolutions going on in the amount of computer data available to study and the dramatic evolution of algorithms and analytics used to study that information.
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Crew chief Lance McGrew: How fast can he work miracles? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
BROOKLYN, Mich.
So, is Dale Earnhardt Jr. really getting his act together, or just barely treading water?
He won last summer's Michigan 400, on gas mileage, turning a 24th place car into a winner – his first NASCAR tour win since May 2006.
Now that's a long, long dry spell. Particularly for the man considered the sport's most popular driver.
Can new crew chief Lance McGrew make things happen again for Earnhardt?
Dover was good for the two; Pocono wasn't.
Earnhardt, who starts a distant 30th Sunday, is trying to remain upbeat: "The communication with the team is good. Lance is doing a great job. All of the other guys on the road crew have stepped up…and what that means to me is when I come in here and I can see the different disposition on everyone's faces I'm more positive about what kind of lap time I'm going to get ready to run in the car.
"Lance and I have been talking during the week about everything that comes to mind, and having discussions to understand where each of us is at, what our opinions and attitudes are.
"It just feels like this should be turning around and should begin to work…and I feel confidence.
"It gives me confidence.
"I know in this sport you can be great one day and not so great the next. We ran really, really bad (at Pocono), and it was very frustrating during the race last week. But even though I didn't know at the time what had went wrong with the car, even at the end of the race I said I still see a lot of positive things happening with the team and feel good about Lance.
"I feel good we're leaning on our teammates a lot. And if they can run fast with this 'such and such' setup, I should be able to make it work. And I need to learn how to drive it if it feels different.
"So I'm really open-minded and trying to adjust whatever I need to adjust to.
"And it will work or it won't work. But giving it your best effort is the best way to go.
"People say often-times the best things to do are always the hardest thing to do.
"We're just putting our foot down and trying to work hard.
"The guys have a better attitude. The team was really beat down over the last several months, and that's gotten better.
"That affects me, and affects everybody.
"We just really want to see some results in the next couple of weeks, to give us affirmation. We need to move forward and keep improving. I think we will.
"We ran way better than I thought we would at Dover.
"The car was good in practice at Pocono, and we felt we were going to be all right. It felt pretty good the first couple of laps, but we had an issue.
"We'll just see how it goes. I feel pretty good about it."
Certainly team owner Rick Hendrick has his entire operation on a full-court press to get Earnhardt back winning again.
"Rick has gone far beyond what I anticipated, in trying to get us assistance and trying to help me," Earnhardt says.
"More so, I'm surprised by how much the crew chiefs and drivers are trying to help us.
"Everybody is really trying to help, and it feels great.
"That has to give you confidence….because I see that they want it to work just like I do."
But just how long will it take?
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Im not a big Little E fan, but I think in this instance you have to have patience with the change. They need to crawl before they can walk and need some consistent top 10 runs. When that starts to happen, they can set their sites on some top 5's and ultimaltely victories will follow.
I'm a big Sr fan and of course moved to Jr went Sr died (nascar's Buddy Holly moment). He certainly isn't his father but who is? I look for this year to be a momentum building year. If he and the team can get the car figured out etc I think they'll be in good shape for 2010 which for me is the defining year, put up or shutup you know.
My fear is he will become a Kyle Petty on the race track,....just there.
I am sick to death of Jr.
Well, then, just wait till Danica Patrick shows up next season....the 'new' most popular driver in NASCAR
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Read the full interview: Kate Hudson Fabletics Interview 2016
Nowadays, finding good workout clothing that fits well and is affordable can be difficult. The reason for this is because workout clothes can be way too expensive for the average budget and can cause you to feel badly when purchasing anything. This is why the brand has been created and why its owner, Kate Hudson, has made it her mission to truly provide a company that you know you are going to be able to trust. In a recent article featured in the Marie Claire Magazine, Fabletics was mentioned and talked about for those interested in buying these types of clothes.
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Working out can be a whole lot easier when using the Fabletics brand. Kate Hudson is a wonderful owner for this company and has helped to design all of the clothes that you will be able to find and wear throughout the line. Because of this, you can feel confident in what is being purchased and this can help to save you both time and money in the long run.
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How to keep your ribs from tasting like HAM
I went to college down in the west Texas town of Lubbock. Growing up in the culturally diverse and blue voting city of New York, I needed a change and Texas provided it in spades. Antagonism ran high in NY vs TX. Texans were no more interested in New York culture than the New Yorkers were interested in ostrich skinned cowboy boots. New Yorkers were godless heathens and Texans were unread right wing nutjobs. To be fair we haven't really deviate all that far in public sentiment.
As far as BBQ goes now, New Yorkers love Texas BBQ. Specifically Central Texas BBQ. We now eat our meats on butcher paper and people now pay by the pound. As of 2013 we have no less than 5 groups doing Texas style BBQ around and more are on their way! These are not faux Texans either, they're really going out of their way to reproduce the product and it's really good.
One strange by product of this is the simplistic salt & pepper rub being used on everything in New York. In Texas, they put salt & coarse ground pepper on their BEEF products but are much freer with the seasonings when it came to pork ribs. Somehow this got translated into ONLY salt rubs for ribs, leading to somewhat unpleasant results.
It's not that you can't get great ribs just using salt & pepper. You can indeed get GREAT ribs just doing the duo. The danger is that you get "hammy" ribs. This happens where the salt, smoke and long cooking accidentally "cures" the meat. Now you'll get some of that in pork butts but it's not as much of a problem given the large amount of interior meat to mix with it.
Hammy ribs tastes -- just as the name implies – like ham on a long bone. And not complex good ham either, just sodium inflected meat.
There's several ways you can make sure that you don't serve ham on a bone.
#1 Salt late!
You should only season your ribs right before you toss them into the smoker. Because of how thin a slab of ribs are, seasoning your pork with a rub and letting it sit overnight will cause it to cure.
#2 Cook hotter
Low and slow is the mantra of BBQ and it's a good thing. REALLY LOW and REALLY SLOW is just ridiculous and doesn't produce a superior product. In fact, it doesn't help the pork ribs render fat very well. So now, not only do you have hammy ribs, you have fatty hammy ribs. No good. You hear of people cooking ribs for 9 hours? = HAM
#3 Avoid Enhanced Pork
Many places sell enhanced pork which have been injected with a brine mixture to give the illusion of juiciness. You know what that produces? Well you guess it. HAM. Don't get me wrong, I love ham but you're looking make ribs not ham right?


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Mike Scioscia doesn't want expectations to soar too high for his talented batch of rookies, cautioning after Tuesday's lopsided win that "there's going to be a learning curve for a lot of these youngsters."
What the Angels manager failed to mention is there will be learning fastballs, sliders and changeups.
The Angels saw — and missed — their share of them from Oakland right-hander Tyson Ross, who needed only 76 pitches to breeze through seven scoreless innings Wednesday.
The 6-foot-6, 230-pound Ross gave up four hits, all singles, struck out three and walked one, but like Angels starter Dan Haren, who gave up one unearned run and three hits in seven innings, Ross got a no-decision.
Haren, a control freak who rarely issues a free pass, walked one and hit a batter with a pitch in the third, an inning that included first baseman Howie Kendrick's fielding error. The A's scored on Daric Barton's sacrifice fly to left field.


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This spread draws inspiration from the Sephirot of the Kabbalistic tree of life. This is an introspective card. The tree of life is used as a tool to understand the relationships between all things and how they relate to us. This particular spread represents you and your worldly goals. Start with a clear mind and shuffle the deck. Draw ten cards and place them face down in front of you in the order of the diagram. If you're unsure of the card meanings, take a look at our Card meanings for quick and helpful reference and interpretations
The cards represent the following.
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Do you have 3 minutes?
Can you spend 3 minutes to visit this most unique and thought-provoking museum exhibit via video? It's good to stop, be silent, and reflect every once in a while.
How many cans in the exhibit? Millions!
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I don't know if I still need to write a wrap-up considering that I have this post already. I want to do it anyway. Haha.
I have enjoyed the event immensely - it was good, and full of excitement. Sadly, though, I couldn't manage to fully participate in it, since my schedule became so madly chaotic by the end of the year. Anyway, here's what I did (unless mentioned, plays are by Will Shakespeare):
I also want to express my apalogy for not being able to finish the monthly meme for this challenge. Nor did I monthly participate in Character Thursday.
But trust me, if anyone holds similar event in the future, I'm in.
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Chicagoland IL Arthritis Support Network Meeting - February
Chicagoland Arthritis Support Network
Our Arthritis Support Network provides help & support to adults living with all types of arthritis and rheumatic diseases.
Join our network for Connection, Education and Empowerment.
Enjoy a tropical getaway without going far from home! We will take another much needed break from the cold for our February meeting. Oak Park Conservatory offers a beautiful environment to relax and be refreshed. Those of you with allergies, please remember to practice self care due to the variety of plants! And for those who are interested, stay awhile and join us for lunch at nearby Lou Malnati's Pizzeria.
Free admission to conservatory, donations are accepted. Those of us heading to lunch will be going dutch.
Please RSVP so we know who to expect. We understand that RSVPs can be difficult to keep, so no pressure and come if you're able. My contact information will be provided upon your RSVP.
Spouses/Significant Others, Adult Loved Ones and Friends are Welcome!
Please feel free to share this event with others living with arthritis and their loved ones.
Hope to see you there!
The information presented is for informational and education purposes only. This information should not be construed as personal medical advice. Because each person's health needs are different, a physician should be consulted before acting on any information provided during this meeting.
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To: Scott Jenkins,
Subject: Re: Clean Vehicles
Date: Mon Apr 28 03:07:03 MDT 2014
Also, sorry. I messed up in a fact I sent you. The U is <10% not less than 1%.
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Great news.
I also contacted Rep. Snow about this. We were talking about his incentives bill for buying alt. fuel vehicles. Turns out that entities such as the U. don't get the same incentives that individuals do. I wonder if it might be easier for places like the U. to get these vehicles if they had some sort of incentive.
Are you investigating how it will look for cities, universities, etc. etc?
If you'd like us to help you in any way, please let me know. I'd be happy to.
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Yes, I will be looking into this for next year. Thanks. SKJ
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> Hi, Senator Jenkins,
> I was sitting in the University of Utah's Air Quality Task Force meeting the other day, and we were talking about clean fuel vehicles. Apparently the University's fleet is less than 1% of alternative fuel vehicles (CNG, hybrids, etc).
> I thought of your bill last session that would require the state to be 50% alternative fuel vehicles by 2018. I was thinking how great it would be if there were a bill that pushed all state entities towards that sort of a goal (maybe not 50%, since the U is currently <1%).
> Would this sort of a bill be something that you'd have interest in looking into?
> Thanks,
> Carl
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Now days when I get home from work I really don't feel like doing much of anything. I do run at least every other day, but some days I try to get my workout done throughout the day so I can
Here are some ways to workout at work.
Friday. I completed it a few times in one day and I was definitely feeling it the next day.
5. Going to check the mail? Going to make coffee for your bosses? Do some lunges on the way.. dont worry the stares will stop.
9. Chair crunches I mean you're already sitting there anyway....
10. Calf raises. again move your chair and stand on your toes then back down. Do it until you feel the burn.
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text: I must admit I do like a bit of kitsch now and again and at one time owned a collection of snow domes, which I have a bit of a penchant for. I inadvertently stumbled across this one which made me smile. When I first saw it I thought it was a joke but it seems like its a real item that you can actually buy here. Its what I think of as a classic snowdome in terms of shape and format. Looking through the rest of the website which is strangely captivating, it seems that spam consumption is alive and well. It has a fan club as well as a museum. You can even listen to a charming country and western ditty called "Pam don't take my Spam" So, if you're ever at a loose end in Austin, Minnesota you'll know where to go. Personally, I can't believe people still eat it and I certainly haven't touched it since the dreaded spam fritters (yes - deep fried spam in batter) were force fed to me at school . Just as well Jamie Oliver didn't exist then.


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The Naugatuck Cultural Council ("NCC") will host a Community Conversation on Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM at Naugatuck High School, 543 Rubber Avenue, Naugatuck, CT 06770. Trained facilitators will engage participants in small group discussions focused on issues of cultural diversity in Naugatuck.
The Community Conversation is open to anyone who wants to make Naugatuck the best community it can be. Participation is free, and light refreshments and child care will be provided. The NCC will attempt to accommodate English-language learners with translation services if possible. Anyone interested in registering can contact Ed Carter at 203-720-7208 or email@example.com. Please include your name, contact information (email and/or phone number) and any special requests that would make your experience more enjoyable.
The recent release of 2010 Census information confirms what many of us see in our everyday lives: Naugatuck continues to become a more diverse community comprised of individuals and families representing numerous cultural backgrounds. Recently, the NCC was formed to recognize and celebrate the numerous cultural heritages that embrace the American Experience in the Borough of Naugatuck. Over the past two (2) years, the NCC has been working to ensure that Naugatuck is an open and welcoming community to new and emerging populations while honoring the numerous, cultural traditions embedded in our great Borough.
The guided discussions will encourage stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to speak in a respectful and thought-provoking manner on issues related to cultural diversity in Naugatuck. A discussion guide is currently being prepared to focus the conversations. Through this process, the NCC hopes to:
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The NCC is seeking anyone interested in serving as a facilitator for the Community Conversation. This represents a great opportunity to to learn the marketable skill of facilitating small group dialogues. A facilitator training session will be held on Saturday, March 10, 2012, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Naugatuck Historical Society, 195 Water Street, Naugatuck, CT 06770. We are grateful to the organization Everyday Democracy, which will be providing facilitator training to support the Community Conversation at no cost to Borough taxpayers. Anyone interested in registering for the training can contact Event Coordinator Sandra Heller at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Chinese New Year is not an unfamiliar concept for many students at UBC. Whether you yourself are of Chinese descent, or you have friends that are, it is inevitable that you will be faced with the many social media posts of a Chinese New Year's feast come January 28th. While the dishes that decorate a CNY dinner table vary from region to region, my personal favorite, nian gao (literally sticky rice cake) is bound to appear as the iconic Chinese New Year dessert. Nian gao is a play on the words "year cake" to mean "higher year," which is to symbolize that in the coming year, everything will grow- wealth and prosperity will ascend in the family, children will grow taller, breadwinners of the family will get promoted.
Nian gao is an extremely versatile dish. My mom likes to add red bean and red dates, but I know that flavors can range from mung bean to coconut to caramel. Below, I've attached a simple recipe (http://www.nutfreewok.com/chinese-new-year-nian-gao-recipe/) for the classic brown sugar nian gao, and refined it so it is accessible for the normal household kitchen. Keep in mind that if you are to make it yourself, prepare it two days before the day you would like to eat it, as the nian gao is likely to be too sticky to serve or eat on the first day and needs time to firm.
- 1.5 cup brown sugar
- 1.5 cup water
- 1 lb. sweet rice flour
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Use peanut oil or non-stick cooking spray to oil a round cake pan.
- Put a steamer rack into a large pot with a fit lid. Add 1.5 inches of water to the pot.
- In a bowl, add ¾ cup of water and add brown sugar. Stir over low heat or microwave on high for 50 seconds until the sugar is dissolved.
- In another large bowl, combine the sweet rice flour and brown sugar water. Add another ¾ cup of water, oil, and vanilla extract. Stir until the mixture is smooth. You may choose to sift this until it is free of lumps.
- Transfer the mixture onto the oiled pie plate, using a spatula to smooth out the top.
- Set the cake inside the pot and steam for 90 minutes.
- Every once in awhile, check the water level of the pot, replenish with hot water if necessary.
- Allow the cake to cool completely, cover with plastic wrap and wait patiently for it to firm! It will ready to serve the next day.
After your nian gao is firm, able to be cut and ready for consumption, you may choose to serve it in many different ways based on your preference of texture. While I get lazy and eat it as hard bricks of rice flour, many prefer to re-steam it so that it is sticky and soft. You can also choose to cut into smaller squares and pan-fry them so that they are crusty and chewy on the outside and warm and gooey on the inside. I suggest to share this dessert with family and friends in exchange for a red pocket!


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Type:- software and hardware
Tools needed:- Keylogger software or keylogger device
Special skills needed:- no special skills needed but some commonsense , some prior knowledge of the target and convincing power.
Main enemy:- Antivirus software and Firewalls.
Keylogging is one of the easiest and most widely used hacking method for hacking Facebook passwords. The word keylogging means to keep a track / log of the keys pressed on the computer.There are mainly two ways of keylogging, Software and hardware.
1) Hardware:- Special computer devices for keylogging are available. They are connected to the keyboard wire and then to the CPU. It looks like the keyboard wire's part and cant be easily detected.When needed the device can be disconnected and the logs can be viewed.
*Bad points:- This method is mostly not preferred for hacking facebook passwords, as the devices are costly and need physical access to the computer.
2) Software :- There are thousands of different keylogger software which provide the user with a wide range of options.From them the keylogger which can be remotely installed is preferred for hacking Facebook passwords.They keep log of the keys pressed on the target's computer while remaining hidden and after some specific time send it as a email to the user without the target's knowledge..
*Bad points :-Most of the keyloggers are detected by the Antivirus and Firewall softwares, but some keyloggers are able to bypass the Antivirus and Firewall software. You also have to convince the target to install the keylogger while remote installing it.
Personal Tip:- Try the keyloggers which come under the parental control category which are used by parents to keep an eye on the child's online activities. This keylogger are mostly Antivirus and Firewall friendly. The AV and firewall wont detect them because if they did detect it then the child will come to know about it and it will be of no use. The only short coming of these keylogger is that they dont have remote installation feature.
Special skills needed:- no special skills needed but some convincing power.
Many enemy:- Intelligent targets.
Phishing is the most widely used hacking method for hacking Facebook passwords. In phishing the attacker sends the target a link. When the target clicks on the link, it takes the target to a fake website which looks same as the real Facebook login page. The attacker convinces the target to log in through that page. When the target types his password and clicks the log in button, the password is instead send to attacker and the target is again redirected to the real website.
Here is a tutorial about phishing.
Step 1) First you must sign for a free webhosting service like www.byethost.com
And register your subdomain.
after signing you will have a subdomain like www.yourname.byethost.com
Step 2) Now login to your account go to "control panel" then in site management option go to "online file manager" and open the folder "htdocs".
Step 3) Now DOWNLOAD THIS FILE (Alternate link)to your computer add extract the file. Inside the folder you will find two files index.htm and write.php.
Step 4) Now replace the index.htm file in the "htdocs" of the "online file manager" with the file index.htm of the phisher folder in your computer and also upload write.php file in "htdocs" thats it! you are done.
Step 5) Now your homepage www.yourname.byethost.com has become a phisher. open it, you will see that your page www.yourname.byethost.com has become the login page of the site you want to hack.now all you have to do is send this link to the person whose account you want to hack.when he tries to login through it you will receive a file password.html in your "htdocs" folder of your phpnet.us account which contains the username and password of your victim.
Personal Note:- The attacker must have a very good convincing power to hack the facebook password with this method. Please try this method carefully as now it is widely known and the target may soon guess the attacker's intentions. The target may report the fake site and you may get in trouble.
3) HTTP SESSION HIJACKING (Cookie Stealing)
Tools needed:- FIRESHEEP software and a laptop, as this is a wireless Internet vulnerability.
Special skills needed:- No special skills is needed.
Main enemy :- Blacksheep
This method is a bit less known but in recent months it has become widely popular due to the introduction of the software 'FIRESHEEP'. When you log in to your account at a website, your web browser sends your username and password to the website server. The password is first encrypted and then send over the network. Then the server checks the username and password against the database and if they both match then sends to the user's browser a "cookie" (a text which the browser uses for further requests to the web server) but unlike the password the cookies are not encrypted and are sent as it is over the network, this cookies can be easily captured as they travel through the network or a busy WI-FI. The newly released Firefox extension "FIRESHEEP" makes it more easy. Actually so easy that even a total nube can capture this cookies. For a detailed tutorial on Firesheep CLICK HERE
PERSONAL NOTE:- The addon Firesheep had become very popular recently so software Blacksheep was developed which stops Firesheep.
Type :-Psychological
Special skills :- Patience and Confidence.
Main enemy:- intelligent target.
This is not a sure way of hacking facebook passwords but given the time and Patience can yield pretty interesting results.Social engineering attack means to gather information from the target or by using the prior knowledge of the target and then use it to hack the target's facebook password by guessing the password or resetting the password. Gather basic information about the target like
- Birth date
- Mobile number
- The skill he is good at.
- favourite historical personality etc
Personal Note:- Though this is a effective method don't waste too much time in it as there are other aspects of social engineering which i am know presenting in front of you try them.
Type:- it is a type of social engineering.
Special skills needed:- Logic.
Main enemy :- Intelligent targets.
Every social networking site has a password retrieval system to help the user in case he or she forget their password. Facebook also has a password retrieval system which can be wisely used to hack facebook accounts.
I had written a post on how you can use the information from facebook to hack the targets account.
Click here to read the post
5) Revealing Saved passwords in Firefox.
NOTE:- If any of the above procedure or link is not working properly, please report. I would be very grateful. Thank you.


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I am going to start with what you really pay for, the packaging and branding. I am not so naive to think that the quality of these lipsticks really justify the inflated price of these lipsticks compared to cheaper alternatives.
One thing i do enjoy about higher end products is the attention to detail with the packaging. This is totally aesthetic and unessential however to me it screams luxury. There are two types of Chanel lipstick packaging a traditional twist up (albeit great quality black and gold loveliness) and what i believe to be the new case design, a push to release case. Both are weighty, shiny, embossed with gold and understated glamour. A lipstick that anyone would be proud to display.
|Traditional lipstick case
|Push button case
I currently own 6 of these beauties, one is on loan (i imagine long term) to my mother bear and two are in the car so i cant share them all right now.
|41 Rouge Allure Charisma - 60 rouge Coco Shine Antigone- 197 Rouge Allure Evivree
Of the Chanel lipsticks i have tried i prefer the Rouge Allure line more than the Coco shine as the consistency is creamier and lasts longer. As you can see from the swatches below, all of them have a shimmer however i feel the Coco shine is a mix between a gloss and a lipstick and is much more sheer.
|Top Rouge allure charisma, Middle, Rouge Allure Evivree, Bottom, Rouge coco shine Antigone
There is a wide selection of colours and finishes in the Chanel range, however i feel the stock photos when you buy on-line do not do them justice or are not true to colour. Something you cant see on-line is of the lipsticks i own have understated glitter which i love but others may not. I would advise people to visit a Chanel counter to try them before you buy them, that was you might also bag some samples, winner!
The Rouge allure lipsticks wear a little better than the Coco Shine, but all of them last well. Lipsticks always require touch ups, they are subject to drinking, eating and kissing (if your lucky!) so i don't expect miracles. These do last longer than some of my drug store lipsticks and when they do wear off leave a nice tint to the lip.
At around £24 these are pricey. I have purchased a couple of mine on-line for a much bigger discount and was given one as a gift to save on cost. Please be aware there are fakes flying around eBay at the moment and have almost exact packaging to the real deals. I was stung by an on-line fake (i paid £15 for it) and instantly noticed the poor quality, plastic smell (Chanel have a yummy scent) and the lack of the embossed Chanel logo, i got a refund.
They are luxurious and make me feel special when i have them on and for me that makes it worth the extra pounds.


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Yay for finishing your first semester! That's a great achievement. I hope you get some play time to wind down when it's all over. :)ReplyDelete
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still reading blogs when appear. Sometimes Real life gets in the way. Once you have time, then start playing and blogging again.ReplyDelete
I am also still reading your blog! My life has been busy (in a good way) with other stuff, too, so that my Sims have had to take a bit of a back seat, but I am soon going to complete the current round and will hopefully then do what I've been meaning to do for a long time: Re-organize New Maximiliania!ReplyDelete
Thank you all :) Still a bit of studying to do... well actually a lot because the course is worth 5 credits but once it's finished I'll definitely start playing again.ReplyDelete
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How Many Grams of Fat Should You Eat a Day to Lose Weight?
Reducing calories and increasing levels of exercise are good ways of initiating weight loss. Decreasing your daily intake of fat will also help you reach your goal weight. In order to do this, you need to determine how many grams of fat you can eat per day, as well as how many calories you should be taking in. If you want to lose weight safely, you should talk to your doctor about your weight loss goals and how fat grams affect those goals.
Why Fat Contributes to Weight Gain
Despite fat's bad reputation, our bodies still need it as a nutrient in order to function properly. Fat provides energy to burn as we exert ourselves physically. If we limit ourselves to a certain amount of fat in our daily diet, we can maintain our weight. But if we allow our intake to go out of control, fat will be stored by the body and cause weight gain. One gram of fat contains nine calories, which means you need to be aware of the number of fat grams in the foods you eat in order to lose weight.
Fat and Calories
The more calories in a food, the more energy that food provides. If you eat more calories than you expend, you gain weight. Consider this: 1 lb. of fat equals 3,500 calories—that means you must reduce your weekly intake of calories by 3,500 through diet and/or exercise to lose 1 lb. a week.
Determining Fat Gram Requirements
A healthy adult should ideally strive to keep daily total calories from fat between 20 and 30 percent. To determine calories from fat, check food labels. Many will tell you the percentage, or you can calculate the percentage using this formula: Multiply fat grams by 9, divide by the total number of calories in the product, then multiply by 100. This will give you the final percentage of calories from fat.
Fat Gram Requirements
If you are a woman, you have a different requirement for fat grams than a man. A woman of normal weight should take in no more than 65g of fat per day, while a man probably needs no more than 88g of fat a day to maintain weight. That's based upon a 2,000 calorie diet. Women and men who are overweight should consult a physician or registered dietitian for help in determining their daily requirement of fat grams for weight loss.
Making Good Fat-gram Choices
It's easy to reduce fat grams if you stop and think about your food choices first. Choosing a fast-food hamburger rather than a cheeseburger, for example, saves 100 calories and cuts intake of saturated fats and trans fats nearly in half. Three medium slices of bacon contain 9.5 fat grams, while 3 oz. of boneless ham contain 3.7 fat grams.
One cup of whole milk contains 8g of fat, while 2 percent milk has 5g. Or enjoy further reductions by choosing 1 percent milk, which contains only 2.5g of fat.
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Stir-Fried Pork, Green Beans, and Red Bell Pepper with Gingery Oyster Sauce
Why This Recipe Works
When developing a stir-fried pork and vegetables recipe, we found that marinating the pork tenderloin in a simple soy-sherry mixture and cooking it quickly (about two minutes) in batches over high heat kept the meat tender and beautifully seasoned. Because different vegetables cook at different rates, we had to batch-cook the vegetables and add aromatics (like ginger and garlic) at the end so they cooked long enough to develop their flavors but not long enough to burn. Chicken broth gave the sauce in our pork stir-fry recipe some backbone, and cornstarch slightly thickened it so that it lightly cloaked the meat and veggies.


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As a stylist, I aim to maintain the strength and integrity of my client's locks – and I know that you do, too. Because of this, I often find myself cursing the 'miracle' that is the Internet – and here's why: Drastic changes. More often than not, my client's have unrealistic expectations relating to how fast these changes should occur – plus what type of investment these changes will require. Why? They see celebrity before-and-after pictures.
But the same-day-miracle is rarely as simple as it seems. Often, these changes require over a dozen hours of time and a significant financial investment. Luckily, with a few simple tips and tricks, you can educate your clients about the time required for real change. Read on to discover how to prepare your clients for a multiple-day service – plus make sure that they're satisfied with their end-results, today.
How to: Adjust Client Expectations
As a colorist, when one of my clients wants to take their hue from a level 2 to a level 10-beige, I'm thrilled – because I love a challenge. But I also wonder if she really knows what she's in for. This change isn't as simple as a finger snap – and it certainly isn't a single process. There are MANY shades that fall between 2 and 10. I'm always careful about the promises I make, and I take care to be conservative in my estimation of what's possible in a single day. For reference, the before and after results pictured below took 4 days to achieve (no, this is not my master creation).
It's Good to be Direct
- Today's change will not happen in two and a half hours. Most transitions take eight to twelve hours – and this one will likely be no different.
- This is the perfect time to tactfully explain your pricing, because after all, color corrections don't come cheap – and you shouldn't short change yourself, and end up working for free. Your time is money. It's best to make your client aware of the investment beforehand, so there are no surprises at the front desk.
- It's ok to say: "This is an estimate of the time required to create this look, and the corresponding price. We may have to add in additional services (such as deep conditioning treatments), which will add time and dollars to your final bill.
- It's great to have pictures for reference. But make your client's aware of any variations that could prevent their results from looking exactly like that of those pictured. Variables include density of the hair, natural base color, underlying tones in the hair, plus porosity.
- Make your client aware: how much of a change will they see today? In this case, it's great to use the Internet for reference. Pull up pictures of expected results, and make sure that they are ok with the transitional color.
- Points of difference: Is your client's skin-tone lighter or more ruddy than the model in the reference picture? Let your instincts guide you. If you feel the color could use adjustments, let them know this, beforehand.
- Sometimes, a big change just isn't in the cards. If a client's locks are brittle or breaking, it's good to be honest. Sure, you could loose the client – but in some cases, that's preferable to client who's walking around with your work on her hair, which is barely hanging on.
When making a big change, communication is key. Though being direct can feel uncomfortable, it can save you from an awkward front-desk experience – and a frustrated client. So make sure that you're giving your guests as much information as possible before a big change – and you can be sure that you'll both be happy with the finished product.
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Most organisations are already using Microsoft products (e.g. Outlook and Office), so it makes sense when considering an investment in other business critical systems, that they take a close look at the full suite of Microsoft products.
The Sheffield IT Partnership is a group of independent specialist companies that provide complimentary business driven IT solutions for medium sized organisations.
The partners often found themselves working on the same independently contracted projects for the same clients, so it seemed natural that they start working together in a more co-ordinated way to further improve the service delivered to their mutual clients. The partners were able to complement each other and deliver integrated solutions that exceeded client expectations.
A suggestion was made that the independent specialists come together to deliver a series of one day workshops to demonstrate how the different parts of the Microsoft suite can be used to provide an integrated solution on a common platform. The sessions were previously well attended and the appetite for the partnership was demonstrable.
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When she was diagnosed with this disease at 10 years old she was told to rest, half days at school, no sports etc etc.. Drs said she'd need a transplant before 16 years. She made it to 19 and why, because she did everything the Specialist advised her not to do. She didn't sit around feeling sorry for herself except when kids bullied her of course for her blown up appearance on steroids!!
She has always lived to the fullest and never complains.
Sure if she crashed she was in bed for a week but she was back living life to the full again once she'd caught up on rest.
Since the translant she's married, born a son, worked fulltime since 9 months after the transplant, helped on the farm, supported DH and DS at motorcross, worked as a Practice Manager and seen a firm through a merger and successfully reorganised their work loads and created a place where people wanted to work. She supported me through breast cancer surgery but sadly she picked up the novo virus from the hospital and ended up in one herself for 3 weeks. Eeekk. Nette has no immunity on the antirejection drugs so even a cold will knock her back for a week longer than the rest of us.
But Nette lives a full and happy life with heaps of get up and go and if she's not feeling well, you'll never know.. she doesn't complain. It's just another ordinary day. In fact she hates people asking how she is.. because it reminds her she has an illness and she'd rather forget.
You know I've often said I wish it was me, not my daughter but maybe I wouldn't have coped as well. Who knows why life gives us challenges and strife, it's not how much crap life throws us, it's what we do wth it that counts.
Okay rave is over. We all have wonderful kids but I wanted to share the wonderful news Nette has had about her career My Aunt told me she takes after me.. I have been known to write articles for people but not ;for publications... So was my Dad a good writer. And my other children Haylee and Ken write excellent articles too. Even my grandson wrote a story last year at age 9 about Jan Molenaar who killed a policeman and shot two others whilst holing himself up in his home, then turned the gun on himself. It They had to write a story about something in the news but Cam really got into the guys head.. it really gives everyone a shock. But he does have an uncanny sense of knowing when somethings wrong and asking how you feel.
Nette wrote "This is a story my son wrote last year - aged 9. I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that he wrote this in school. I asked him why he wrote it and he said "coz we had to". I asked him how he felt about it and he shrugged. I was somewhat concerned about what was going on in his wee head to be writing this. But sometimes as parents I think we freak out about our kids when we don't need to. They're more together than us really I guess - less experience = less issues, less fears. Childhood innocence - at it's best?".. Jan Mollenaar - by Cameron Kendall
I am Jan Mollenaar, the gunman from Chaucer Road, Napier. I like guns.
On May 7th I came home and there were policeman in my house. I saw a gun and I shot Len Snee because they were going through my stuff. At night I thought the police were coming to get me so I set booby traps. This way when they came in they got injured by the booby trap.
I didn't want to shoot them but I did. Bang! Bang! Bang! I didn't want to go out of my house because I didn't want to get arrested by the police. My mum will be so sad.
Days later I started to feel so thirsty, hungry and cold. Throughout the night it was so silent like a mouse. I was so scared that I sat in the middle of the house all night without going to sleep.
I am going to shoot myself. Goodbye.
You can read all of Annette's column's on Facebook - Annette Kendall Professional Speaker.
I promise tonight I'll post pictures of quilts again and get back to normal haha.


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Marketline Report for Thursday, January 18th
by Bob Larson, click here for bio
Program: Market Line
Date: January 18, 2018
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Virginia McGathey ... "The cattle market jumped up. The futures rallied to a two-week high. We haven't seen this kind of movement in quite a while and I think we've got a few of the traders a little bit happy. It certainly looks like the lows are in and the market is starting to turn to the upside. It looks like the trend has turned upward and we knew that it was coming, but the next test is the $125 mark for the April futures and perhaps we can get there. Now we have been talking all along that normally, this time of year, that we get a stronger market. Well, this big sell-off that came in a couple of days kind of threw everyone for a loop, but the market is really starting to come back some."
Chicago March Wheat prices closed yesterday up 5 at 421 ½
March corn was up 4 ¾ at 352 ¼
Portland prices for soft white wheat of Ordinary Protein for January ended the day up 3 ½ ranging from 5-20 to 5-30 Hard Red Winter wheat with 11 ½ % protein, prices for January were up 5 ranging from 5-72 to 5-87 DNS wheat with 14 % protein, prices for January were up ¼ ranging from 7-26 ¾ to 7-46 ¾
Live Cattle for February were up $2.87 ½ at 121.10 January Feeder cattle are up $2.27 ½ to 147.80 January Class III milk was up .09 cents at 13.86
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I headed to their website, and was immediately impressed with the number of colors they offer. I had quite the difficult time narrowing down which I wanted to try out, but after a great debate, I made my choices...and then stalked my mailbox until my package arrived. ;)
My thoughts then turned to what I wanted to try the paint on. Luckily, I was in the middle of a project that could benefit from a little metallic paint.
We had a large wooden tray that needed a major makeover. {Yes, I had already started sanding when this "before" was taken...whoops!}
Once that was dry, I tapped off {and aluminum foil-ed off} the areas of the tray I didn't want to get paint on. Then I grabbed a couple different widths of stencil tape from my craft basket and started laying out patterns. {And before you ask...nope, I didn't measure a thing. I just eyeballed everything to make sure it appeared even. One of my requirements for this design was that I did NOT want to have to measure a. single. thing.}
After all the tape was down, I used an exacto knife to cut away the pieces I didn't want.
Then I took my tray outside and gave it two coats of gold spray paint and primer {Rustoleum's Universal in Pure Gold...best gold spray paint out there...in my opinion, of course}. I wanted the design to appear pretty opaque, and I wasn't sure how sheer the metallic paint would be. So I figured, better to prime the surface and be safe, rather then sorry!
Once the spray paint dried, I pulled out the new paint...woohooooo! {I used Brass - ME289.}
I placed a few small blobs of paint onto the tray and rolled 2-3 coats on, waiting only a few minutes in-between each of them.
Then I peeled back the tape to see things unfold...
It's amazing what a little metallic paint can do, huh?
Word even got out to a friend of mine that I loved the paint so much, that she graciously volunteered a table of hers to be made over with the Blackened Bronze - ME238 Shade. ;) Keep a look-out for the reveal of that next week, and enter my very first giveway below!! :) One super lucky reader will win their choice of either one quart and 6 oz. container of any color OR four 6 oz. containers of any color OR a metal effects kit {one pint primer, one pint reactive paint, one 4 oz. solution or rust activator, one spritzer cap, one pint of Permacoat Xtreme for rust only} from Modern Masters!! :)
Good luck everyone!
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Parsippany, N.J. (February 2, 2016) – Wyndham Vacation Rentals, the world's largest professional manager of vacation rental properties and part of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), today announced that it offers more than 1,700 vacation rental accommodations in the top three destinations on TripAdvisor's list of Travelers' Choice Destinations on the Rise for 2016. TripAdvisor's ranking is based on the year-over-year increase in positive feedback and booking interest on the site.
"We're excited to see three of our destinations top TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice Destinations on the Rise for 2016," said Mary Lynn Clark, president, Wyndham Vacation Rentals North America. "As travelers continue to discover these hidden gems, vacation rental accommodations can give them the authentic experience they're looking for along with added space and privacy."
Travelers can find great deals on select Wyndham Vacation Rentals properties across all three destinations:
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee: Scoring the number one spot on TripAdvisor's list, Gatlinburg combines natural beauty with southern charm. Travelers can visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most visited national park with abundant hiking and biking trails, or head downtown for attractions like arts and crafts shops, restaurants, distilleries and museums. Wyndham Vacation Rentals offers nearly 300 rental properties in the Smoky Mountains. Travelers can enjoy some of the best cabin rates* on stays now through March 17, 2016, when they book by March 1, 2016. A two-night minimum stay is required.
- Orange Beach, Alabama: A great family vacation destination, Orange Beach stretches along the Gulf of Mexico offering plenty of beach activities like dolphin siting cruises and fishing charters. Travelers can also enjoy a range of great dining options and entertainment like free concerts. From beachfront condos to larger private houses, Wyndham Vacation Rentals offers approximately 500 rental properties in Orange Beach. Book by May 11, 2016 to enjoy 20% off* a late spring stay three nights or more from April 11, 2016 through May 16, 2016
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Ideal for families and groups of all sizes, many Wyndham Vacation Rentals properties offer amenities like kitchens, a washer and dryer, multiple bedrooms for privacy, and ample space for everyone to come together under one roof. Wyndham Vacation Rentals also offers guests a Vacation Rental Bill of Rights®, which allows them to enjoy peace of mind throughout the entire vacation rental experience.
* Bookings are limited, subject to availability and are on a first come, first served basis. To learn more and take advantage of current deals, visit http://www.wyndhamvacationrentals.com/vacation-rentals/campaign/best-kept-secrets.htm.
About Wyndham Vacation Rentals
Wyndham Vacation Rentals, the world's largest professional manager of vacation rental properties, is part of Wyndham Destination Network and the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN). Backed by one of the world's largest hospitality companies, Wyndham Vacation Rentals provides access to over 105,000 vacation rental properties in more than 550 unique destinations worldwide. Wyndham works closely with property owners to ensure all rentals meet its standards for customer service, quality and comfort. More than 25 regional rental brands fall under the Wyndham Vacation Rentals umbrella including Hoseasons, James Villa Holidays, Landal GreenParks, Novasol, and ResortQuest. Through this collection, Wyndham delivers distinct vacation experiences ranging from beachfront condos, private homes and villas to private residence clubs and yachts. Many properties offer kitchens, washers and dryers, and other home-like conveniences along with maid service, spas, fitness centers, and golf courses. For additional information visit our media center or wyndhamvacationrentals.com. Also find us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Google+.
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French citizens living in London have complained of three hour long waits to vote in the presidential elections.
Voters said they felt organisers were "discouraging" voters with "bad organisation" at polling stations.
Alexandra Marquez, who lives in Clapham, told the Evening Standard: "I got to the French Embassy at 11am and I've been asked to join the end of the queue three blocks away.
The 24-year-old continued: "I've been told the waiting time was three hours. I'm glad to see that there is such a big turn up for these elections, but it's bad organisation.
"Why isn't there more places open we can go to vote to? It makes it really discouraging and annoying."
Others echoed Marquez's sentiments on social media, while some were keen to point out the lines simply showed the French were taking voting "very seriously".
France is going to the polls to appoint the successor to Francois Hollande, who is not running after serving a single term in office. Nine candidates will be eliminated in Sunday's vote.
Twenty Five polling stations were set in London up to cater for an expected 50,000 voters.
The election comes against a backdrop of terrorist attacks in France, including one in Paris on Thursday in which a gunman carrying a note praising Islamic State killed a police officer before being shot dead himself.
British police officers were stationed around the polling stations in South Kensington as long queues wrapped around the block as people queued patiently - often with their children in tow - to cast their vote.
Eleven candidates will contest Sunday's first round of voting, with the frontrunners including centre-left candidate Emmanuel Macron, the far-right Front National's Marine Le Pen, the Gaullist Francois Fillon and leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon.
Edouard de Guitaut, volunteer president of one of the polling stations at the lycee, said there had been a surge in registrations since the Brexit vote in June last year.
He said: "The French population (in the UK) has increased, in fact it increased quite massively.
"The number of French people who registered to vote here and registered their details at the French consulate increased by about 10% in the last year, post Brexit vote.
"A lot of them were worried and wanted to feel they had some administrative contacts here that they could call on if they needed to.
"So, we have a big pool of voters, we expect 50,000 French citizens to vote here in South Kensington and in my polling station I expect about 1,200 voters compared to about 800 five years ago."
Polling stations have also been set up in Wembley, Birmingham, Leeds and Edinburgh for the large expatriate community to cast their votes, with 70 polling stations in total across the UK.
The last opinion polls before voting opened showed Le Pen and Macron narrowly ahead of Fillon and Melenchon, but it is being billed as one of the most unpredictable elections in generations.
British bookmaker Coral made the controversial far-right leader le Pen the 4-6 favourite to take the most votes in the first round of voting.
If a candidate reaches 50% on Sunday they win, but if not the top two will go head-to-head in a decisive second round of voting on May 7.
De Guitaut added: "It's the first time since the Second World War that you don't have the two main parties that are leading the polls.
"You have four candidates and it would be a very brave person or pundit to predict who the first two will be.
"I have an idea who one of them will be but I can't tell you, but we will know soon enough."


text: I have a solo show called Vantage Points going on now until Feb 25 at the Pacific Grove Art Center. The opening was Last Friday night, and I really felt like a princess--so many wonderful people and great music and food. Many thanks to the staff and members who did an amazing job hanging and lighting the work. If you are down by Carmel and Monterey, please stop in.


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Discovering the value of fed cattle today is an exercise of mind over matter. If you don't mind thousands of cattle trading each week for virtually the same price - even though their actual value differences represent hundreds of dollars - then it just doesn't matter.
"It's always mystified me why all cattle in the U.S. feedlots, regardless of quality, are worth the same price live," says Ben Thorlakson, president of Thorlakson Feedyard at Airdrie, Alberta and Cattle Land Feedyard in Strathmore. "It must be discouraging for those cattlemen who spend their whole lives trying to develop better genetics."
Indeed. The U.S. marketing system has evolved to entire show lists trading for the same price in a single marketing window so short each week that sellers miss out if they aren't near the phone. In fact, there are times when negotiation revolves more around which pens of cattle the packer will take at the price offered, than the price itself.
Feeders don't like it. "When you get to the point in the week you have to market cattle, you're not worried about price, you're worried about when the market happens," says Perry Owens, manager of Kan Sun Beef Inc. at Leoti, KS.
Some packers don't like it, either. "The packers would rather bid and buy cattle five days every week because the packer is selling beef every day of the week. It's a better hedge," says Tim Schiefelbein, manager of value-based procurement for Monfort.
Selling By Sealed Bid All of this is a mystery to Thorlakson because the system works much differently in Canada. "All cattle are not created equal. Unless a person is selling on a carcass basis, which is the best way to sell, there has to be an opportunity to move values up and down," says Thorlakson.
In a nutshell, better than half of the fed cattle in Canada are sold through a sealed bid system, according to Can-Fax market analyst Anne Dunford. It works like this:
Feedlots tell packers which cattle are on the show list. If interested, buyers place a sealed bid, via phone, by a time designated by the feeder. Bids are placed on a live or carcass basis. The seller can accept the bid or pass.
Besides giving feeders more control of when they market and packers a better sense of when they're buying, the system uncovers a range of value differences between pens because folks aren't standing around waiting to see who's bidding what. Across the industry, from Tuesday morning to Thursday night, Thorlakson says 1,000-2,000 head are traded every hour on some type of bid system.
"At least on this basis, we are trading cattle with different weight, quality, days on feed and history at different prices ... having a $5 range in prices on a day to day basis is no surprise," says Dunford. What's more, seeing a similar range between pens is commonplace (Table 1).
Of course, U.S. feeders used to enjoy pen by pen bidding. "When every pen had a different price, we probably had more range over the course of a day. That should have given packers an opportunity to match the bid to the pen of cattle, which should have improved price discovery," says Clem Ward, professor and Extension economist at Oklahoma State University. "When we sell at the same price, we still have some price to base the next transaction on, but it's not as good from a price discovery standpoint of matching the price with the quality," Ward adds.
Moreover, a system like this could improve other mechanisms ultimately dependent on live prices - tools like formulas and grids. For that matter, a sealed bid, live or hanging, could represent the negotiated grid base price many say is necessary for grids to take another step.
Would It Work Here? Today, if a packer bids its top early in the week, few feedyard managers would take it because weekly opening and closing bids have been a few dollars apart for so long.
It is possible, though. Owens of Kan Sun Beef says, "It would be fascinating to do something like this ... If I had a sealed bid, and I thought I was getting good, honest bids, and we were getting fair value, I probably wouldn't market as many grid cattle because I think this would have the potential for packers to bid up more on the cattle."
Schiefelbein believes packers would be open to any workable system that allows them to trade cattle more than one day each week. "If cattle are worth X and they sell in the meat for Y, there are a number of ways to determine the margin in between," he says.
In fact, going full circle to the days of selling pens of cattle for different money rather than entire lists for the same dollar could be downright revolutionary. Owens says, "I think it could have some merit if it was mutually agreed upon by packers and feeders, where you force the industry into it. Over the long haul, it could be one of the best things to happen to this industry."


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When I was first introduced to Compuserve over a hacked retail till modem running at 14.4kbs I struggled to comprehend what I was seeing. When, back in 1994, I was told "just type in whatever you're looking for", in my naivete, I didn't think to enter "tits" or "porn" - I just put "carrot soup". From memory there were about 36,000 results. My brain hurt. In 1994 the internet was amazing.
Years later, as I wrote entire DMS systems in HTML and Javascript (long before it was cool to call Activex objects AJAX) I was blown away by how anyone could not only contribute to the internet (not just the world wide web), but build massive, complex systems on it. In 1999 the internet was amazing.
Seeing those fantastic, simple animations and tiny file sizes when Flash hit the 'net was pretty amazing too - then it became a fully-fledged web publishing platform, for games, apps and even music and video online. It was all pretty amazing stuff -as was watching it all disappear again, as Web 2.0 rebooted the 'web - and almost every application became a browser-hosted application.
In short, the internet is pretty impressive. It was when it first came to public consciousness, and it still is today. More than anything, as well as being a massive repository of data and information, the internet has made interaction not just possible, but essential. Not stupid social media, and tw@tter updates, people showing photos of their morning breakfast toast-and-jam-(nom-nom), but being able to speak with people, literally from all over the world. Talking about anything. For any reason - sometimes for business, sometimes to buy, sometimes to sell, and sometimes just over a shared interest.
What amazes me more than anything about the internet are the people who use it. People who give up their time, expertise and experience - all for free. For no reward other than seeing a job well done. Lots of people use the internet to give things away: whether it's open source software, designs for the latest 3d printer, or - sometimes - something a little more personal.
I had one of my "isn't-the-internet-brilliant" moments last night, when I received an email from Martin (who runs JustAddSharks.co.uk). He'd been reading this blog, seen we'd had problems laser cutting some design ideas, and rather than wait for the next painful installment of disappointment and broken laser tubes, he downloaded the designs and cut out some of our projects, so we could see the results straight away!
Without prompting, and for no reward (we had no idea he was doing it) Martin tried out one of our ideas and sent the results straight back. He even sent some comments and suggestions for possible improvement (yes, the tiles do look a little to far apart in the final cut!) and used different materials to demonstrate the different effects. And all because something had piqued his interest enough to want to contribute.
Our favourite has to be the (left-most) 0.8mm birch ply version: the tiles look about the right thickness (though the left-most 2mm mdf looks pretty good too, for a rough-built log cabin, say).
What was really amazing was that someone, somewhere, saw what we were doing and wanted to get involved. And just did.
Some days I really hate the internet.
I work with it every day. I build websites. I write complex software and use a mix of web- and non-web languages. I love the underlying technology, but some days I hate how it's abused. I hate adverts on just about every YouTube video. I hate that people allow them to be put on their videos (the person posting the videos can decide to turn them off if they want). I hate viruses and pirated software. And stupid in-jokes about cats, and massive video attachments in pointless emails, asking me to "share this".
And porn. Maybe it's considered weird - but I don't want porn on "my" internet. I want it to be a place of learning, shared interests, marvellous inventions and a community of people making everything better, one stepper-motor-driven device at a time!
But some days I really love the internet.
Thanks to Martin's email, today is one of those days.


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Ok, let's be bluntly honest, the one and only reason that I pulled this book off it's shelf and hurried off to purchase it, was because gleaming off the front cover, gorgeous as ever, was Daniel Radcliffe!
I know it is shallow, and I certainly know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but come on, I can't help it if I have been 'in love' with the teen actor ever since he first swish and flicked his wand and uttered the words winguardian leriuosar!
Away when I first settled down the read the book, I was utterly confused, I couldn't work at which was DanRad (as I like to call him). After a quick Google, it came clear that he was Maps- and Maps came to be my favorite character.
The book itself follows five orphan boys, Maps, Choker, Spark, Misty and Fido as they are let loose from their orphanage convent for a nine week holiday by the Pacific. As the holiday goes on, the narrator (Choker) stumbles upon a secret that could change one of the boys lives forever. It calls everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other into question, and could conclude in tearing their friendship apart.
We meet them as boys, but nine weeks later leave them as men. It is a book about love and change, showing that family can be found in many shapes and forms.
Yes, it is a far cry from J K Rowling, but once you have got over the fact that everyone in the entire novel has a strange unexplained nickname, it is...refreshing. but if all else fails, at least you can have a sneak peak of Daniel on the front cover, every so often.