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She is only 15, but Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head by Taliban in October for campaigning for girls' education, will not be silenced.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting, Malala has released a video message spoken in Pashto, Urdu and English reaffirming her commitment to the cause:
"Today you can see that I am alive. I can speak. I can see you, I can see everyone.
Today I can speak and I'm getting better day by day. It's just because of the prayers of people - because all the people. Men, women, children - all of them, all of them have prayed for me.
Because of these prayers God has given me this new life and this is a second life. And I want to serve. I want to serve the people. And I want every girl, every child to be educated.
702 Drive's Richard Glover spoke to journalist Mubasher Bukhari from Lahore about what Malala's recovery has meant to the people of Pakistan.
"After this incident a mindset was changed. The majority of people condemned this incident of shooting at an innocent and small girl," said Bukhari.
"I met several people in Pakistan who were previously (advocates for) the Taliban and now say that no, they are wrong. So it was a great incident to change the mindset of Pakistan," he said.
Mr Bukhari praised Malala's continued commitment to girls' education, despite the real threat to her safety should she return to Pakistan.
"I don't think she would be completely safe. Security in Pakistan cannot be assured," he said.
Despite the danger, Mr Bukhari believes Malala will return to Pakistan to continue her work.
"What matters is that she is ready to sacrifice again for the cause of education in Pakistan," he said.
"She is a brave girl."
Listen to Richard Glover's full conversation with Mubasher Bukhari here.
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Until now, foreign policy has barely been an issue in the presidential race. That must change; here is how Mitt Romney should go about it.
First, he should be bold and explicit in declaring that recent events demonstrate that Barack Obama's foreign policies have been not just a failure, but a disaster. Obama thought he could reason with the mullahs. He was wrong, and now Iran is on the brink of becoming a nuclear power. He thought he could mollify Islamic radicals with sweet talk and apologies. He even claimed that his mere inauguration would improve America's relations with the Muslim world. He was wrong, and four Americans are dead and American embassies and consulates are under attack from Morocco to Yemen. Obama thought that America's alliance with Israel was a key reason for Muslim hatred of the United States. He was wrong, and now America has been estranged from its only real ally in the region. Applause line: "The job of the president is not to apologize for America. The job of the president is to defend America!"
Further, Obama's policies toward the Arab world have been inconsistent if not perverse. He was eager to intervene in Libya and to overthrow the U.S.'s principal Arab ally in Egypt, apparently without giving much thought to what would come next. Meanwhile, he has stood by and done nothing with respect to Syria. We now see the fruits of those policies in Libya and Egypt; Obama has empowered radical Islam and thereby made the world more dangerous for America, not less so.
Second, Romney should stand up for the First Amendment. He should engage in no ritual denunciations of movies, cartoons, ministers in Florida, or burnings of the Koran, real or imagined. These things are all pretexts. The radical Muslims will never run out of pretexts; not until they get what they want, which is our entire submission to their ideology. Screw that, Romney should say–I'm paraphrasing here–Americans are a free people, and our freedoms will not be limited or constrained by howling mobs of fanatics. Not under a Romney administration, anyway.
Third, Romney should tie the current crisis directly to the Obama administration's disdain for military power. The administration is in the process of reducing our armed forces, especially the Navy, to a level that experts believe will drastically impact our ability to project power around the world. Further, the impending "sequestration" will have the impact of cutting military spending to the bone, while social welfare spending continues to skyrocket. This chart shows the numbers:
These cuts would, among other things, reduce spending on security for our embassies and other facilities abroad. The Obama administration has its priorities wrong: the only area where it is willing to cut spending is the first responsibility of the federal government, national defense.
These are simple points, and I am sure Romney is comfortable with all of them. The key is that he must be bold–he must not let his advisers turn him into Obama lite–and he must tie the debacles in Libya, Egypt and elsewhere directly to Obama administration policies and explain how his administration will be different. If he does that, foreign policy will become a strength of his campaign, not a weakness.

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ONARCHITECTURE- Downzone Mall: Developers not 'taken' with new plan
More than a year ago, we asked what our downtown skyline might look like in 2o years [#9 dreams: Invasion of the super towers," June 1, 2006]. A year an half later, city officials are still wrestling with that question.
During a joint Planning Commission/City Council session on December 12, city staff presented a plan that would effectively "downzone" much of the downtown area, reducing by-right density allowances from 87 dwelling units per acre to 43, and reducing height limits from 101 feet to 70 feet, a plan that had many downtown property owners riled.
Developer Oliver Kuttner called it a "good way to shoot deals in the foot" and advised the city not to "regulate" their concerns about unchecked growth downtown. Though the plan would still allow developers to increase density and height by obtaining a special use permit (up to 200 units per acre and up to 101 feet in height), Kuttner later pointed out that serious investors won't commit to projects based on what a special use permit might allow.
"People who buy properties are only really concerned about the by-right determinations," he said. "They're not going to develop a property with the hope of getting a special use permit."
And as Kuttner and others at the meeting pointed out, the math simply doesn't compute. "If these zoning regulation were in place when I built the Terraces," he said, "I would have had to build 4,000-square-foot apartments. If you want investors to build, and you want affordable housing downtown, leave the density alone."
In addition, Kuttner suggested that concerns about nine-story buildings invading the Mall might be overblown.
"Once you get above 60 feet, it's a whole different kind of construction that's very expensive," he said. "Very few developers are going to be able to do that."
Indeed, the city's proposed downzoning plan is the direct result of worries about the future of the Mall's skyline.
In the spring of 2006, seeking to take advantage of the 2003 city-wide zoning changes that sought to encourage greater and density, developer Keith Woodard proposed a nine-story mixed-use behemoth for his property at First and East Main streets. Already, the city had seen architect Bill Atwood's plan for a nine-story building on Water Street, and talk of another tower at 201 Avon Street, Coran Capshaw's Coal Tower project, as well as plans for a hotel on the Mall were in the air.
In May, the BAR gave Woodard a thumbs down on his plan to demolish much of the building at the First and East Main site, but Woodard appealed that decision to City Council in June. Councilors seemed prepared to side with the BAR, but after former councilor Blake Caravati argued on Woodard's behalf, the decision was deferred, and a committee was formed to study the impact of tall buildings downtown.
In January 2007, Jim Tolbert, director of neighborhood development, presented the committee's findings, including a sunlight study that showed how buildings above 70 feet would cast long shadows over the Mall and nearby Lee Park.
The goals of the committee, according to Tolbert's old report, included preserving the "human scale" of the Mall and saving existing historic buildings while still allowing developers to build bigger buildings.
"Now that we're seeing the reality of development starting to take place on the Downtown Mall," Tolbert wrote, "was that really what we wanted to see? Was that what we intended all along?"
Almost a year later, density restrictions (which were not recommended by the committee studying height issues) have accompanied the sunlight study, along with various changes in setbacks and street height limits, to curtail any unchecked development. Or, as Tolbert put it, the downzoning plan "leaves us a tool to have a discussion" with developers. It's a touchy tool at a minimum. At the December 12 meeting, development-minded South Street property owner Julian Calvet expressed concern.
"Under this plan, our density will be reduced more than other places downtown," said Calvet, "and this will make us lose property value."
Tolbert sent the Planning Commission a memo from the City Attorney warning hinting at legal challenges, or as he put it, the "danger" of downzoning properties.
"In spite of that warning," wrote Tolbert, "it's our recommendation that we move forward with this process, and in this case the greater community good calls for these changes."
Tolbert has declined to release the memo, citing attorney/client privilege. During the Planning Commission meeting, City Councilor Dave Norris asked about the memo and received the same answer from Deputy City Attorney Richard Harris.
"A number of the speakers said they felt the proposed guidelines constituted either spot zoning and/or a 'taking,' and I was hoping the deputy city attorney could shed some light on that," says Norris. "Obviously, he felt he couldn't."
So called "takings" doctrines are based on the Fifth Amendment guarantee that "private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation," and takings have been a rallying cry for property rights advocates. However, evolving federal, state, and local laws have been quite complex, seeking to balance property rights with the "greater community good," as Tolbert pointed out.
Local lawyer Jennifer McKeever, who specializes in real estate law, suspects the "dangers" referred to in Tolbert's secret memo could be lawsuits from property owners who think their property rights are being abrogated.
"Downzoning takes away one element of a property owner's rights," she says. "It affects the maximum profitability of that property, and maximizing profit is a right associated with owning property."
While McKeever isn't familiar with the City's proposed down-zoning plan, she says there's a high standard for the city to meet if a property owner were to challenge the changes in court. "The city would have to prove that there are very real and tangible benefits from the downzoning," she says.
Although Tolbert said he was not asking for an immediate decision from the Planning Commission, he did encourage members to come back with recommendations in January. "This thing has been out there for a year, and we'd like to see you move on it," he said, "not drag it out forever."
Considering the property rights issues raised by the plan, that might be a bit of wishful thinking.


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Although my heart belongs to the original series, I have a lot of respect for Deep Space 9, which I think explored a lot of themes and subjects where the other Trek series were not bold enough to go. One of the series writers is working on a documentary about Deep Space 9 and is conducting an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to produce it:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/what-we-left-behind-star-trek-deep-space-nine-doc#/They already achieved their initial goal and their stretch goal. I think this could be interesting, and they have almost all the original cast involved (except for Avery Brooks, aka Captain Sisko, who is a bit of an... outlier). So check it out and pitch in if you support it.
What about Avery Brooks is an outlier?
Those are the newly updated Klingons.
One of the key elements of Star Trek was that starships were not built to survive the atmosphere. The episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday" is the first time it is mentioned (if memory serves).The 'Voyager' was the first of it's kind to actually be designed to enter and atmosphere and land.So having a the 'Discovery' flying through the clouds really spoils it for me. Looks like more reboot, don't care about the original.
Didn't Enterprise (NX-01) feature the ship flying through a planet's atmosphere? At least the pilot appeared to show that.
Visually very nice. Dialogue is dire (but it usually is in promos). "We have engaged the Kling....errr, bad aliens, that aren't copyrighted"
And sorry to say it, but, THOSE ARE NOT KLINGONS!
To me, the "new Klingons" look more or less like the old ones (plenty of variety there too), except for the hairstyle. Add the long black hairs from the TNG/DS9/VOY era again, and you would probably recognize them as Klingons. A temporary fad? Anyway, I am ready to give the series the benefit of the doubt and watch the first seaaon.


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The event will start on: Jan 22, 2013 7:30 PM
And will end on: Jan 22, 2013 8:30 PM
Location: Westland Area Library
Address: 4740 W. Broad Street Columbus, OH 43228
Crafty Tuesdays - for ages 9-14
Westland Area Library - 6:30 p.m.
January 22
Booklovers - Make your own decorative bookends; materials, snacks and drinks willbe provided.
February 19
Mug Hugs - Come make a "Mug Hug" and we'll drink hot chocolate and make some chocolate dipped snacks. For ages 9-14. Register by calling 614-878-1301 x232 or register online.


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The need to create small, precise holes with high depth-to-diameter ratios in hardened materials is on the rise. Such holes are used as start holes for micro wire EDM work for machining miniature molds and stamping dies. They may also be found on small vacuum plates, turbine blades, and miniature medical and electronics components that require tiny, burr-free holes.
Small holes have commonly been produced on dedicated, fast-hole EDM equipment. These machines operate in much the same fashion as ram EDM equipment, with a few differences. Fast-hole EDM feeds a rotating, small-diameter electrode tube into the workpiece on a programmable Z axis. The dielectric fluid is pumped through the hollow center of the tube at high pressure to provide flushing as the hole is produced.
Makino (Mason, Ohio) brings the two EDM techniques together on the same machine platform with the Fine-Hole option on its Edge2 ram EDM unit. According to Jeff Kiszonas, Makino's EDM product manager, the machine can switch from ram to fine-hole mode in a matter of minutes once the Fine-Hole option is accurately installed. A change of the oil-based dielectric fluid is not required. The Edge2 is said to be the only machine that can operate in both fast-hole and ram EDM modes.
In Fine-Hole mode, the machine can produce holes ranging in diameter from 0.03 mm to 0.51 mm. Edge2 machines with the Fine-Hole option are fitted with all the hardware required for the W axis, which holds the middle guide, die guide plate, die guides and electrode tubes. Fine-Hole programming macros are also provided. In addition, a workpiece reversing device allows the machining of very deep holes by allowing the operator to begin drilling from one side of a thick workpiece, flip the workpiece 180 degrees while maintaining positioning accuracy and finish drilling the hole from the other side.
The dielectric system is oil-based, rather than water-based, to allow fine spark gap control for a quality surface finish and hole accuracy. In ram mode, the Edge2 is capable of standard EDM functions, which include 60-amp burning with full orbiting capabilities.


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To begin with, and if you're interested in following along with this tutorial, I've grabbed a copy of a compromised workstation which has kindly been provided by the ForensicKB blog. Everything you'll need to get started is available here
The first step of creating a forensic timeline varies greatly and may depend much on the initial information you've been provided. Harlan Carvey, author of the Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit books, recommends creating a timeline based on the 'minimalist approach' which allows the analyst to build their timeline layer by layer. Other analysts prefer the 'kitchen sink' type method, as Harlan describes, where an analyst dumps as much information as possible into the forensic timeline. As we'll be using many of Harlan's tools we'll be building our timeline by layers but still providing a large amount of information in our initial timeline dump. Lets start with generating an output file for the file system meta data.
For the majority of this tutorial we'll be using the timeline tools provided by Harlan here.
The are a number of ways we can do this and I'm going to go through two for the purpose of this tutorial. The first method, although not my chosen method, is using FTK Imager to provide a directory listing of our acquired image. Using the downloaded image we can automatically load this into FTK Imager which hopefully we have some familiarity with after our previous introduction.
Select the File menu and then select 'Add Evidence Item'. Next select 'Image File' press next and locate the image file you download above by selecting the browse button. Once you've selected your image press the 'Finish' button. By now you should see your forensic image and the contents of the drive listed underneath the Evidence Tree (expand the nodes to see the directories).
Highlight WinXP2.E01 underneath the evidence tree and then select the File menu again. Select the option 'Export Directory Listing' and save the output file to a location of your choice on your computer. On my computer this took five seconds to produce the output.
Now the reason why this method is not my chosen method is because although I can use this tool on a live system, to provide a directory listing, I'm unable to run it remotely on a live system automatically via a batch script. There are options however to script FTK Imager on a local forensic image which you should keep in mind when you have a hard drive to conduct investigations upon. There are additional tools that can assist running FTK against remote drives such as F-Response tools but these do come at a cost and I do not have experience in using those tools.
At this point I'd like to deviate slightly and walk through a second feature of FTK that we'll be using later in the tutorial. FTK has an ability to mount a drive to a drive letter on your computer. As we have a local image of the workstation we are investigating we can now mount this drive to a drive letter on our computer. What does this achieve? Well by doing this it allows us to run some of the timeline scripts later down the track against our mounted drive. To mount the drive within FTK select the File menu and then Image Mounting. If not already listed point the image location to your image file. See the following settings for assistance with mounting your own drive.
Lets move on and discuss the second method we have for producing a directing listing of our file system meta data.
The second method we have of producing our directory listing is using The Sleuth Kit toolset, or TSK for short, available here. In particular we'll be using the fls component to create our output file or more specifically our bodyfile. After you've downloaded the tools extract them to a location of your choice and navigate to the folder location using command prompt. Running the following command to produce your output file.
fls -i ewf -r -p -m C:/ "<Path-To-Image>\WinXP2.E01" > bodyfile.txt
The command is used because the image downloaded is in encase format and we've asked the output to recurse on directory entries (-r), display full path for each file (-p) and display output in mactime input format with dir/ as the actual mount point of the image (-m). In this case for the -m option we've selected C:/ as the root of our path.
The format of the bodyfile must be converted to TLN format before we can include this within our timeline. Fortunately Harlan has provided us with the tools to do this for us very easily. He has also provided the tools we need to convert FTK directory listing output.
Run the following command from command prompt to convert the bodyfile to TLN. In regards to the following command the -s is the computer name.
bodyfile.exe -f <Path-To-Bodyfile>\bodyfile.txt -s REG-OIP81M2WC8 > events.txt
In this case we've sent our output to the events file. We'll send a number of sources to this events file before converting it to our final timeline csv file.
As we've mounted our image in the prior steps we can now run other timeline tools to add event sources to our events file. Lets walk through some of the other events of interest. As we mounted our drive earlier using FTK we can run our commands against the mounted drive to add to our events file. In the following examples you'll notice that we output to the events file using '>>' which means that we want to append our command output to the contents already within the events file. In doing this we are able to add additional events to our file instead of overwriting what is already there if we used a single '>'.
Using the following commands to generate more events into your events file
Windows event logs
evtparse.exe -d <MountLetter>:\WINDOWS\system32\ config -t >> events.txt
Prefetch files
pref.exe -d "<MountLetter>:\WINDOWS\Prefetch" -s REG-OIP81M2WC8 -t >> events.txt
At this point we have an initial events file which includes file system meta data, windows event logs and windows prefetch files.
If we track back at this point to the initial case description it mentions that the user noticed that the computer was responding in an unusual manner and that support had seen a number of active connections via the windows netstat command. What we need to identify is how those connections are created and which process could potentially be creating them.
There are a number of ways malware maintains persistence such as, but not limited to, the following:
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- DLL Search order hijacking
- Rootkits
- Scheduled tasks
At this point we need to move onto RegRipper to gather this information and add it to our timeline. In Part 2 of this tutorial I'll be discussing how we do that and will provide further information on which RegRipper plugins we can use to gather this information.
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Baby ducklings on a ledge.
Little Red Bird in Desert Tree
Koi fish in the pond by the lilly pads.
Looking the other way
Hawk on display.
Two fish in a bowl.
Little yellow bird amongst the rocks
Snowy Egret Reflection in Black and White
Magnificent luminous purple color on this small hummingbird resting on it's branch.
Look at me with my beautiful pink and green head!
Hummingbird in flight
This is the craziest way for the flamingo to be on top that I have ever seen! Pyramid time!
Ruffled feathers up close of pink flamingos.
Ruffled feathers.
Closer image crop of the group of pink flamingos seen in Parc Ornithologique du Pont-du-Gau near the town on Les Saintes Maries de la Mer in the Southern Region of France.
Ready, set, Go! Flamingos taking off in the bird refuge, Parc Ornithologique Pont de Gau, near the town of Les Saintes Maries de la Mer (The Three Saint Mary's of the Sea) in the Southern Region of France.
Flamingos in a Row
Flamingos on the Run
Flamingo up close and personal.
American white pelican enjoying the sunshine.
Flamingo showing its fabulous colors.
White pelicans cruising in the morning light.
Pelicans ready for flight.
Pink Flamingos interacting with one another while the rest are resting. Parc Ornithologique Pont De Gau, a bird refuge near the Les Saintes Maries de la Mer (The Three Saint Mary's of the Sea) located in the Southern Region of France.
Close up of baby ducks in a pack.
The Willow Ptarmigan, a bird in the grouse sub family and the Alaskan State Bird.
Little yellow bird on the beach
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The Mount Elgon region straddles Kenya and the east of Uganda, extending over an area of approximately 772,000 ha, of which 221,000 ha have been set aside as reserves and national parks. The remaining 550,000ha consist of farmlands and settlements. Mount Elgon itself rises 4,321 m above sea level and stretches over a distance of 80 km from north to south and 50 km wide. It nourishes a vast array of rivers and streams that feed into the important river systems of Africa, most notably the Nile. The area is important for species conservation thanks to the richness of endemic plant and animal species found on the mountain.
The Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) intervention in this area targeted a relatively small part of the overall landscape, an area referred to as the 'Benet landscape' in Uganda, after its indigenous forest-dwelling inhabitants. The Benet landscape has long been a source of tension between the Benet peoples and the Mount Elgon National Park authorities following a 30-year old decision to resettle the Benet peoples outside the boundaries of the national park. In part as a result of these tensions, but also because of poorly-defined land tenure rights, unsustainable cattle grazing and crop-growing practices, the land in the Benet landscape has been degraded and no natural forests remain in the Benet landscape, not even remnants. Furthermore, efforts by the Benet to eke out a livelihood had failed to yield important benefits.
LLS interventions implemented in the landscape sought to improve the income opportunities of the Benet people through efforts to rehabilitate the severely degraded landscape through the planting of contours, improve farming and crop cultivation practices, and develop products, such as milk and honey, for sale in local and regional markets. The goal was that interventions would yield co-benefits in terms of improved livelihoods and environmental rehabilitation and conservation. Going forward, the objective was to take the lessons learned and scale them up in neighbouring landscapes and beyond.
The LLS interventions used a multi-stakeholder approach to engage with local communities and local and national authorities as part of efforts to identify common needs and approaches and common goals. At the same time, the approach sought to address tensions between the Benet indigenous people and the park authorities surrounding natural resource use and access rights.
As a result of the interventions described in detail in the following report, considerable progress was made to diffuse tensions, improve farming practices, increase and diversify products for sale at markets, enhance livelihoods and contribute to protection of the landscape. Much of the emphasis of the interventions was on stakeholder engagement to ensure that measures implemented corresponded to local needs and prevailing conditions and on learning-by-doing.
The project yielded a host of important lessons, including the need to manage expectations of stakeholders and communities. The LLS in the Benet landscape has on the whole been successful and the area and its communities have been selected as a REDO+ pilot site as part of efforts to tackle climate change.


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Pittsburgh, September 11, 2012 — Building on growing success and expansion, Dirt Rag and Bicycle
Times magazines have created a new parent company, Rotating Mass Media LTD, to oversee a collection
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"We realized we are now more than just Dirt Rag, and we needed a new name—a new brand—to include
all our efforts in the world of cycling," said founder and Publisher, Maurice Tierney. "We didn't get
bought out by some corporation, we're making it our own."
In addition to Dirt Rag and Bicycle Times magazines, other Rotating Mass Media endeavours include
Dirt Fest, a mountain bike festival that welcomes more than 2,000 visitors to the Allegrippis Trails in
Central Pennsylvania each spring, plus the Bicycle Times Gran Fondo of the Alleghenies, and a growing
digital and online portfolio.
Dirt Rag is celebrating its 25th year as a rider-owned, independent mountain biking publication, and
Bicycle Times is entering its fifth year of inspiring and educating readers about practical and recreational
cycling. Both magazines are celebrating a banner year, as the paid circulation of each title has reached
30,000 copies. Dirt Rag increased its readership 20 percent for 2013, and Bicycle Times increased 25
percent. Subscriptions are available on all major digital platforms as well.
Rotating Mass Media also has a new online presence, www.rotatingmassmedia.com, where advertisers
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
For those who don't know, Louis Kahn is one of the most important architects of the last century. For years, the iconic Kahn was also a Philadelphia local: He was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design and designed one of his best-known residential homes in Chestnut Hill.
This week, another residential home designed by Kahn in Hatboro, known as the Fisher Kahn house, will go on sale for $600,000. The listing agents are local Realtors Janice Manzi and Louise D'Alessandro of Elfant Wissahickon Realty in Chestnut Hill.
The Fisher Kahn house was built for Dr. Norman Fisher and his wife, Doris, in 1967 after four years of planning. The Fisher family gave the house to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which covered the home in easements to preserve its architectural character and the character of the landscape surrounding the home.
The trust decided recently to sell the home and invited Realtors to bid on the rights to sell the home. Manzi and D'Alessandro won the bid
"We were invited to make a proposal," Manzi said in an interview Monday. "Based on what we said and our experience, we won the bid. We have a lot of experience with these kind of houses."
Unlike most homes, which would require listings in print ads and real estate websites, the sale of the Fisher Kahn house called for a full-court marketing push. Manzi said the difference has amounted to a lot more work.
"Well, we've done a lot that is certainly above and beyond a typical house," she said. " We've set up a website, a Facebook page. We've put out a press release. This is a significant house. It's one of Kahn's most important residential homes. When architecture professors talk about Kahn's residential work, this is one of the houses that very much gets his philosophy of big public areas with high ceilings and lots of light and intimate private spaces."
Adding complexity to the sale is that the house is being sold in a narrow window of time, with bids accepted from Wednesday, July 18, through Tuesday, August 21. It's also the kind of home that requires a special type of buyer.
Any prospective buyer, Manzi said, would have to understand that the home in its current shape and form, from the interior to the gardens outside, is protected by conservation easements that make it difficult for anyone who owns the home to change things.
Also, the home must be open to the public two days during the year, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation will make an annual walk-through to inspect the property and enforce the easements. As a board member of the historic Cliveden house in Germantown and an old-home owner herself, Manzi said she understands the position of any buyer.
"It must be someone who gets the whole idea," she said. "A lot of us with old houses know we're stewards of these homes."
So far, Manzi said there has been a lot of interest in the home "up and down the East Coast."
The public sale was scheduled to open Wednesday, July 18, with an open house from 4 to 8 p.m.


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Why Consider Information Science Masters Programs?
Many graduate schools offer Information Science Masters degrees that span Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS), a Master of Library Science (MLIS), Masters in Informatics, Masters in Information Systems or MBA Information Sciences programs. Finding a university campus with the program that aligns with your academic and career goals is important. These days, more graduate schools offer convenient schedules to accommodate the working student or mid-career professional. Whether you are interested in the management, technical computer technology or an applied science perspective, attending classes on campus can be an enriching experience.
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Information Sciences Masters Degree: The MSIS Degree
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Rick Steves' Europe "Copenhagen" Rick finds reminders of Viking history, strolls Europe's first great pedestrian boulevard, ogles crown jewels in the palace treasury and visits Tivoli Gardens.G
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Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "France's Champagne Region" The Champagne region of France bubbles over with fine wine, gourmet cuisine, picturesque towns and gothic spires. We base in Reims, home of the historic cathedral where French kings were crowned. From Reims, we tour wine country, visiting champagne producers both large and small. D
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The Desert Speaks "Pilgrimage to a Party" Many Mexicans consider San Francisco a "true" saint - one who delivers the "miracles" and "promises" that thousands of faithful make with him every year. But he demands that they live up to their end of the vow, which for most involves a pilgrimage. The Desert Speaks follows the faithful as they travel by foot and on horseback (some more than fifty miles) to the church in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora to pay homage to San Francisco in the hope that he may transform their lives. D
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Ciao Italia "Handmade Fresh Cheese/Formaggio Fresco Fatto A Mano" Boston Mozzarella Co. owner Giuseppe Argentieri invites Mary Ann to his factory, to visit with master cheese-maker Maria Cubellis, who shapes and forms mozzarella balls faster than the eye can see. She gives Mary Ann enough to go nella cucina - in the kitchen -- to prepare Burrata with Roasted, Marinated asparagus, Scamorza Cheese Casserole, Telephone Wires, and tops off this cheese festival with a lighter-than-air, Whipped Ricotta Parfait with Cherries. D
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Cooking Odyssey "Hersonisos and Ag. Nikolaos" Eva makes a day trip to a little island with a unique history and explores a teaching museum while Chef Yianni makes kalitsounia, bakaliaros with revithia and rakomelo. D
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Pati's Mexican Table "Cinnamon" Mexico is now the largest importer of cinnamon in the world - but how is it used there that's so special? Just how different is the Ceylon cinnamon used in Mexico from the Cassia cinnamon of Southeast Asia? This show will look at how cinnamon traveled from Asia to Mexico and how you use it in delicious foods today, like: Horchata: Rice and Cinnamon Drink; Amarillito Mole with Chicken; Cinnamon Chochoyotes: Corn Dough Dumplings; Cochinitos: Piggy Shaped Cookies. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Gnocchi and Panzanella" Test cook Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make foolproof Gnocchi at Home. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus reveals her top pick for rotary graters. Then, Chris discusses with science expert Guy Crosby the science of soil and its effect on the taste of tomatoes. D
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GardenSMART Plants for sun, plants for shade; what works, even thrives, in each situation? GardenSMART is back on the road visiting experts who tackle these always-important issues. Beauty and knowledge combine into a "do not miss" show. D
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The Artist Toolbox "Jason Alexander" In this episode, join host John Jacobsen in the beautifully-remodeled Saban Theatre in Los Angeles as he attempts to crack up classic funny-man Jason Alexander, perhaps best known as George Costanza from the ground-breaking sitcom, "Seinfeld." While having such a successful show often typecasts actors for the rest of their careers, Alexander talks about breaking the mold and forging a career based on craft, training and ambition. Having enjoyed an active career on the stage for the past twenty years, including his Tony Award-winning performance in Jerome Robbins' Broadway and the Los Angeles production of The Producers with Martin Short, he has also appeared in numerous films, including Pretty Woman. D
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Music Voyager "The New Medellin" Despite its notoriety as the home of drug baron Pablo Escobar, Medellin is a modern, thriving city nestled in a scenic mountain valley. Host Jacob Edgar tours a local hip-hop school and community center in the Aranjuez neighborhood that provides a positive outlet for inner city youth. He also enjoys a virtuoso freestyle display by local hip-hop collective Crew Peligrosos, a private performance by reggaeton superstar J-Balvin in his luxurious penthouse apartment and a visit to El Cielo, one of Colombia's most inventive restaurants. D
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Sesame Street "Cast Iron Cooks" Just as Alan finishes packing Elmo's lunch, the lights go down, the music goes up, and Superchef pops up and announces that Alan has been chosen as the next challenger on Cast Iron Cooks. Alan is not even sure what that is, but Chris and Elmo are excited to be his assistants. The first challenge is to prepare a bowl of P Stew, which is made up entirely of ingredients that begin with the letter P. Elmo, Chris, and Alan race around throwing P foods like pickles, peaches, and porridge into a pot. D
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Dinosaur Train "An Apatosaurus Adventure/Nature Art" The Pteranodon kids visit the Jurassic Time Period to meet Apollo Apatosaurus, a huge, long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur who likes adventure. Apollo loves to whip his long tail, and does so as he leads the kids on a pretend adventure to find a hard-to-reach tree with yummy, delicious leaves! Mrs. Pteranodon cleans out the clutter from the family nest and the kids are amazed at the pile of stuff - leaves, flower petals, pieces of wood, and shells. Tiny stops Mom from throwing out all the stuff, determined that she and Buddy, Tiny, and Don will find a use for it all. D
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Super Why! "The Beach Day Mystery" Whyatt and the other fairytale buddies have found a clue leading to treasure and they need a little help! So the superhero readers fly into The Beach Day Mystery where they set off on a swashbuckling scavenger hunt adventure filled with clues, pirates, and of course, treasure! Will Super Why and his friends be able to outsmart the trickiest pirate of them all? Educational Objectives: To learn how to figure out clues. Kids will follow the alphabet, rhyme with AIL words, and use the power to read to change the story!. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Many Ants Make Light Work/Nest Best Thing" Many Ants Make Light Work - Nick and Sally are trying to put up a tent in their backyard but it's not working! Nick is pulling when Sally is pushing and it's just making a giant heap! Good thing the Cat knows a million trillion friends who are experts at teamwork! He whisks the kids off to visit an ant colony where Nick and Sally learn that you can do anything when you work together! Nest Best Thing - Nick and Sally have found some bird eggs in their backyard, but their nest is destroyed. Where are they going to keep them? The Cat in the Hat brings them to an expert nest builder, Mrs. Robin, who shows the children how to build a nest especially for those robin eggs. D
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Wild Kratts "Mystery of the Squirmy Wormy" Aviva miniaturizes Chris and Martin for an underground mission with earthworms, in search of the answer to the mystery "Why do worms come above ground when it rains?" But they have to hurry, as they soon discover that life as a worm is full of dangers at every turn. Science Concept: Wet objects can be changed by heating and cooling. If a worm is left in the hot sun, their skin will dry up and they will die. D
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Global Spirit (Expired) "Dreams, Visions and Realities" Human beings have always been fascinated by their dreams, and have long debated their meaning, purpose and significance. As scientists investigate the chemical and biological origins of dreaming, many indigenous cultures explore their dreams as a deeply spiritual connection that links humanity with the core of all life. In this Global Spirit episode, host Phil Cousineau invites Jungian psychologist Dr. Stephen Aizenstat and Aboriginal elder "Yidumduma" Bill Harney into a conversation about dreaming as a connection to meaning in life. D
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Though not required by law, riding gear is nearly as important as wearing a motorcycle helmet. This California rider isn't even wearing a shirt so he's one accident, hideous road rash, and septic shock away from winning a Darwin Award.
"My protective backpack will save me."
Remember, four wheels good, two wheels good, but mixing stupid with two wheels can be much worse than with four. And another thing, shirtless motorcycle guy, in traffic try to keep your hands on the grips. We all know you're a badass on account of your not wearing a shirt and all, but I don't want your flailing Yamaha FZ1 and limbs scratching my car when you wreck.
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The Nittany Lion as Penn States mascot originated with Harrison D. "Joe" Mason 07. At a baseball game against Princeton in 1904, Mason and other members of Penn States team were shown a statue of Princeton's famous Bengal tiger as an indication of the merciless treatment they could expect to encounter on the field. Since Penn State lacked a mascot, Mason replied with an instant fabrication of the Nittany Lion, "fiercest beast of them all," who could overcome even the tiger. Penn State went on to defeat Princeton that day. Over the next few years, Mason's "Nittany Lion" won such widespread support among students, alumni, and fans that there was never any official vote on its adoption.
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Mario to Hit the Links on 3DS This Summer
Time to dust off those 9 irons. Nintendo announced the new Mario Golf: World Tour will be arriving on the 3DS in a few months.
The Nintendo 3DS catalog will expand tremendously this year with even more first party releases. Joining the likes of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Mario and Luigi: Dream Team will be the new Mario Golf: World Tour. The first golf game since 2004's Gameboy Advance title, this new 3DS entry will again be developed by Camelot.
Mario Gold: World Tour will feature both fantastical courses based on the Mushroom Kingdom, and more traditional golf courses. The brief amount of footage shown off thus far revealed Mario and Luigi would be joined by Wario, Bowser, Waluigi, and Donkey Kong as playable characters.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
DC Pink House Transition
Three years ago, on March 1, 2007, we opened the doors to a brick townhouse in the northeast quadrant of DC and decided to call it home. Little did we know in the years to come this 5-bedroom house near Capitol Hill would become a ground zero for CODEPINK activism in the halls of Congress. We not only brought a flash of hot pink to the sea of drab gray and black Congressional suits, but we broke through the inside-the-beltway politics with a refreshing dash of people power. The costs of maintaining the house and paying the rent have become an overwhelming burden for CODEPINK and we must now move on from the house into the next course of action. The Pink House will close at the end of February, 2010, but CODEPINK in DC will maintain a virbant presence and invites activists to join powerful actions in March in the beltway!
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THQ, responding to community demand, has shed light on a few details about its upcoming UFC Undisputed 2010 demo. One of those details is not the demo's release date, although THQ hopes that will arrive before April 25.
While no specific demo release date was fixed, THQ did say "we'd like to release the demo a full month before Undisputed 2010 hits store shelves on both PSN and Xbox Live." UFC Undisputed 2010 is due for a May 25 release.
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Which Christian denomination is the fastest-growing in North America? I'll give you a hint: They don't go to church on Sundays .
Newly released data show Seventh-day Adventism growing by 2.5% in North America, a rapid clip for this part of the world, where Southern Baptists and mainline denominations, as well as other church groups are declining. Adventists are even growing 75% faster than Mormons (1.4 percent), who prioritize numeric growth.
For observers outside the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the growth rate in North America is perplexing.
"You've got a denomination that is basically going back to basics . . . saying, 'What did God mean by all these rules and regulations and how can we fit in to be what God wants us to be?'," said Daniel Shaw, an expert on Christian missionary outreach at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. "That's just totally contrary to anything that's happening in American culture. So I'm saying, 'Whoa! That's very interesting.' And I can't answer it."


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Introducing IlliniQuest
Last year Minnesota flirted with being the worst Big Ten team in about 50 years until they had the audacity to win games at the end of the year. Ugh, as if.
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This should help normalize for the fact that football has gotten progressively higher-scoring as the years have progressed.
If they lose all their games Illinois will be the worst team since X if they do Y…
2005: Lose all their games
The last winless Big Ten team was 2005 Illinois.
1981: Lose and finish with scoring ratio below 21%
2005 Illinois managed 21% and their 1997 team matched that. The 1981 Northwestern Wildcats scored 75 points in nine league games but gave up 425 for a scoring ratio of 15%.
1961: Lose and finish with scoring ratio below 15%
1961 Illlinois never reached double digits or came within two touchdowns of an opponent (23-9 versus Purdue was their closest game) and had a scoring ratio of 12.3%.
1960: Lose, scoring ratio below 12.3%
1960 Indiana managed just 11.8.
1957: Lose, scoring ratio below 11.5%
1957 Indiana.
1944: Lose, scoring ratio below 8.9%
Iowa 1944 set a low bar, and then they lost to Iowa Pre-Flight, though Iowa Pre-Flight was 10-1 that year.
Pretty Much Ever: Lose, scoring ratio below 8.7%
Harry Kipke's 1934 Wolverines managed this.
Illinois is currently on pace to be the worst Big Ten team since…
Illinois's scoring percentage stands at 21%. The Illini are a couple of bad games from falling to 1981, but they're scoring too much to be threatening the 1960s like Minnesota did last year. Those Northwestern teams were horrible almost beyond modern comprehension, and the league isn't good enough to pound bad teams as much as they should be.
NEXT WEEK: Illinois takes on undefeated Ohio State.
Purdue's nowhere near as depressing as certain past teams: their scoring ratio is currently 33%.


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Jacqui Smith said she did not hesitate to name and shame those who foster extremist views.
Britain's Home Office said it decided to exclude the 22 in the last several months. The decision follows measures introduced by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith last year against people "who have engaged in spreading hate," the Home Office said.
The Home Office named only 16 of those on the list; it said it was not in the public interest to disclose the names of the other six. A spokeswoman declined to elaborate on why the Home Office would not publicly identify six of the 22.
One of the most recognized names on the list may be U.S. radio talk show host Michael Savage, who is listed under his real name, Michael Alan Wiener. The conservative's daily show can be heard nationwide in the United States.
Savage is on the list for "seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence."
Savage lashed out at Smith on his Web site, calling her a "witch" and asking how she knew of his show when it isn't syndicated in England.
He also questioned why six names on the list weren't released and why North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez didn't make the list.
In an audio clip on his Web site, Savage said he had seven attorneys working on a defamation lawsuit against Smith and encouraged his listeners to call off any travel plans to England and boycott all British products.
"She has painted a target on my back, linking me with people who are in prison for killing people," he said. "How could they put Michael Savage in the same league as mass murderers when I have never avowed violence?"
Outspoken Kansas Rev. Fred Phelps and his daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, are also listed for "engaging in unacceptable behavior and fostering hatred."
Phelps and his followers at Westboro Baptist Church oppose homosexuality. They picket the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, saying their deaths are God's way of punishing the United States for supporting homosexuals.
They have expressed similar views about the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks and Hurricane Katrina.
The church's slogan is "God Hates Fags."
Phelps did not issue a response on his Web site. However, he linked to a British news story on the ban and wrote his own headline, calling Smith a "neo-Nazi dyke" and "filthy God-hater."
Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black, who has said he despises U.S. President Barack Obama, is also on the list. Black established the white supremacist Web site Stormfront, which the Home Office called one of the oldest and largest hate group sites.
Eric Gliebe, chairman of the National Alliance, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United States, is on the list for "justifying terrorist violence, provoking others to commit serious crime and fostering racial hatred."
The Home Office cited Gliebe's "Web-radio broadcasts in which he vilifies certain ethnic groups and encourages the download and distribution of provocative racist leaflets and posters."
Several Islamic clerics are also on the list, including Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Amir Siddique, Yunis Al Astal and Safwat Hijazi. Prolific speaker and writer Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim is also listed.
The list includes Mike Guzofsky, the leader of a militant Jewish group. He has ties to Kahane Chai, a group that the U.S. State Department lists as a foreign terrorist organization.
Russian skinheads Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky are also on the list. The Home Office says they are "leaders of a violent gang that beat migrants and posted films of their attacks on the Internet."
Samir al Quntar, a Lebanese man who spent three decades in prison for killing four Israeli soldiers and a 4-year-old girl in 1979, is also on the list. In an exchange with the militant group Hezbollah, Israel freed al Quntar last year for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers.
Al Quntar is "engaging in unacceptable behavior by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence" in order to provoke terrorist acts, the Home Office said.
Nasr Javed and Abdul Ali Musa round out the 16 names made public.
"Coming to the UK is a privilege, and I refuse to extend that privilege to individuals who abuse our standards and values to undermine our way of life," Smith said. "Therefore, I do not hesitate to name and shame those who foster extremist views, as I want them to know that they are not welcome here.
"The government opposes extremism in all its forms and I am determined to stop those who want to spread extremism, hatred and violent messages in our communities from coming to our country," she said. "This is the driving force behind tighter rules on exclusions for unacceptable behavior."
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Two judges scored the bout for the Japanese champion 116-113 and 115-113, while the third favored Ruiz 117-113.
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