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Deputy President William Ruto said US President Barack Obama's decision to snub Kenya will not cause the Kenyan leadership sleepless nights.
Ruto said Kenya has many other friends worldwide with whom they will continue to cooperate with. He said the Jubilee alliance will remain committed to deliverings its election promises to Kenyans with or without the support of the US.
Ruto at the same time hit out at Obama over his push for recognition of gay rights by African governments and said Kenya will not accept it.
During the opening leg of his three-nation visit to Africa, Obama had past Thursday commended the US Supreme Court's decision for allowing same-sex marriages saying it was a "victory for American democracy. Obama had urged African countries where homosexuality is considered a crime to make sure that there was no discrimination against gays.
"We respect the US but let them also respect Kenyans," said Ruto after attending mass at St. Gabriel Catholic Church Bahati, Nakuru County.
He said Kenya was 'a God fearing nation' and would not accept "alien mannerisms" that were in conflict with Christianity and African practices and traditions."
"We are a God fearing nation and will not cooperate with those who believe otherwise," he added. Obama is expected to be in Tanzania today after visiting Snegal and South Africa. He said he would not visit Kenya as it was not 'an appropriate time' for such a visit due to the crimes against humanity charges facing President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto at the International Criminal Court.
Ruto's case is scheduled to start on September 10 while Uhuru's will commence on November 12. Obama, who is scheduled to end his visit to Tanzania on Wednesday told a town-hall meeting in Soweto that he would visit Kenya at the end of his term as president.
Yesterday, Ruto said Obama was well within his rights to choose not to visit Kenya at this time. He said the snub would not affect Kenya's bilateral relations with America.
Ruto yesterday said the Jubilee government was keen on deepening trade and economic ties with other friendly countries and cited the recent visit by President Uhuru Kenyatta to Uganda where he held a tripartite meeting with Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame of Rwanda. "The President will be proceeding to Burundi this week on a similar mission," he said.


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The editors of this book contend that one of the world's best-known and most influential bodies of literature is one of the least understood. This is due both to the proliferation of modern hermeneutical approaches and to the lack of understanding of the historical backgrounds of the New Testament. In their sequel to their earlier work, New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Black and Dockery present essays on current issues and methods with the purpose of enhancing New Testament interpretation, teaching, and preaching, and providing a useful means of learning what the New Testament is all about.
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David S. Dockery is President and Professor of Christian Studies, Union University. He has written and contributed to many articles and books and is the founding editor of the Criswell Theological Review. He and his family currently reside in Jackson, Tennessee.
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The NRA National Silhouette Championship completed action in the smallbore standard rifle event with a familiar face garnering the national championship.
Cathy Winstead-Severin (Joplin, Mo.) won the smallbore standard rifle national championship with a 3-day score of 113 (39-38-36). She also won the smallbore events in Ridgway last year.
Enrique Kuess Jr. (Laredo, Texas) was second overall in the aggregate with a total of 109 and Angelica Kuess Davila (Laredo, Texas) as third at 105.
The NRA National Silhouette Championships continued Tuesday with the second day of three days of shootings in smallbore standard rifle at the Ridgway Rifle Club smallbore rifle.
Cathy Winstead-Severin (Joplin, Mo.) and Angelica Kuess Davila (Laredo, Texas) each had scores of 38 and Gabriel Guerra (Monterrey, Mexico) was third with a 37.
The NRA National Smallbore hunting rifle competition continued Monday in the second day of three days of shooting.
Gabriel Guerra (Monterrey, Mexico) was the match winner on Monday with a score of 37. Susan Peery (Churchton, Mass.) was second overall at 37 and Mallory Nichols (Fort Smith, Ark.) was third with a 36.
The NRA smallbore hunting rifle championship took place Monday afternoon at the Ridgway Rifle Club smallbore range as part of the NRA National Silhouette Championships.
The overall team winner was "Mexico 1" with a score of 202. Team members are Gabriel Guerra (Monterrey, Mexico), Angelica Kuess Davila (Laredo, Texas), and Enrique Kuess Jr. (Laredo, Texas).
The overall runner-up was team "B.A.S.S." with a score of 201. Team members are Susan Peery (Churchton, Mass.), Laura Goetsch (Whites Creek, Tenn.) and Cathy Winstead-Severin (Joplin, Mo.)
The smallbore standard rifle team championships were held Monday at the Ridgway Rifle Club as part of the NRA National Silhouette Championships.
The overall team champions were "B.A.S.S." That team finished with a total score of 207. Team members are Susan Peery (Churchton, Mass.), Cathy Winstead-Severin (Joplin, Mo.) and Laura Goestch (Whites Creek, Tenn.) Winstead-Severin had a 77 to lead the team.
BRADFORD – Rain showers throughout the day on Saturday did little to deter a large crowd from gathering at Parkway Field in Bradford for this year's Big 30 Don Raabe Charities Classic All Star Football Game. Under the direction of the Kane Area High School coaching staff of head coach Jason Barner and assistant coaches Rick Fisher, Todd Silfies and Jim Sirianni, the Pennsylvania squad romped to a 28-3 victory over New York.
MT. JEWETT - The St. Marys Little League Baseball Senior all-stars lost a 14-5 contest to the Crawford County Mets in the finals of the Section 1 Tournament played at Mt. Jewett Saturday afternoon.
Crawford County advances to the state tournament, scheduled for July 27 through Aug. 1 at Emporium.
St. Marys held a 5-4 lead going into the sixth inning when Crawford County exploded for nine runs on four hits, five walks and two errors to take a 13-5 lead.
The St. Marys Little League Senior all-star team advanced to the finals of the Section 1 tournament with a 6-4 victory over Harborcreek Friday night.
St. Marys will now meet Crawford County this afternoon at 3 p.m. at Mt. Jewett for the right to advance to the state tournament scheduled for Emporium. If a second game is necessary, it will be played immediately following the 3 p.m. game.
A single by St. Marys' Gabe Kraus in the bottom of the seventh inning scored Hayden Tettis to give the St. Marys team a 4-3 victory over DuBois last night at Memorial Park in the finals of the winner's bracket of the District 10 Tournament.
St. Marys tied the game at 3-all in the home half of the sixth inning to force the extra frame. DuBois led 3-0 going into the bottom of the sixth.
St. Marys had five hits in the contest, all singles. Getting those hits were Hayden Tettis, Timmy Wehler, Gabe Kraus (the game winner), Logan Hoffman and Alex O'Neill.
The Ridgway softball 13- and 14-year-old all-stars lost 7-3 to St. Marys in action Thursday at the Ridgway Little League fields located along Grant Road.
St. Marys took the lead in the first inning. The St. Marys all-stars were designated as the visiting team and Jackie Lenze led off the game with a single. Lenze would eventually score the game's first run on a wild pitch. Rachel Stauffer walked with one out and would score on a Ridgway throwing error to make the lead 2-0 for St. Marys after half an inning.


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Will Fed Day Gains Continue?
Tomorrow is yet another Fed Day -- a Fed Day in which Bernanke & Co. is all but guaranteed to keep rates unchanged at 0% for the 34th meeting in a row dating back to December 16th, 2008. Fed Days have been extremely positive for the market since ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) was enacted during those dark days of the financial crisis. So good that more than 30% of the market's gains over this time period have come on Fed Days alone!
As shown below, the S&P 500 is currently up 73.60% since the close on the day before ZIRP was first implemented on December 16th, 2008. If you just look at the S&P 500's one-day change on all Fed Days since then, the cumulative gain is 23.69%, which represents 32.2% of the total gain. Pretty astounding.


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The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has advised the government that the chemical naphyrone, marketed as the legal high NRG-1, should be made a Class B drug. It is also calling on the Home Secretary to implement an immediate import ban on naphyrone.
The review into naphyrone is part of an ongoing review of the legal high market and follows advice already made to government in recent months and the subsequent bans on mephedrone, SPICE, GBL and BZP.
Reflecting on the review, ACMD chair Professor Les Iversen said:
"Naphyrone is a drug with the potential to cause real harm due to its potency and associated health effects.
"Users of 'legal highs' should be aware that just because a substance is being advertised as legal does not make it safe, nor may it be legal.
"Test purchasing has demonstrated that what you think you are buying is often not what is in the packet. The harms and effects of your purchase may be different and/or greater than you expect."
Naphyrone has a close resemblance to other cathinones. The review shows that due to its potency this drug has considerable potential for abuse and also accidental overdose.
The predicted harms of this chemical include adverse effects on the heart and blood vessels, hyperthermia, dependence and psychiatric effects.
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In a large non-stick skillet heat remaining tablespoon oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and cook cauliflower, covered, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes. Uncover skillet and sauté cauliflower until tender and browned, 5 to 10 minutes more. Transfer cauliflower to a bowl and toss with olive mixture and parsley. Season cauliflower with salt and pepper.


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The Division sponsors several programs throughout the state just for women.
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The Division and the Division of Social Services are working together to help women receiving cash assistance learn to support themselves financially without abusing alcohol or other drugs. There are 8 of these comprehensive residential substance abuse programs.
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Two gubernatorial candidates, TNA's Abdallah Mwaruwa from Mombasa and ODM's Jack Ranguma, faced a setback yesterday when their papers were rejected by the IEBC.
Transport minister Amos Kimunya was cleared to defend his Kipipiri parliamentary seat while his assistant minister Hassan Joho will be on the ballot of the race for Mombasa governor.
The Mombasa county returning officer Laban Mwadime Mwashighadi said Mwaruwa, a former managing director of the Kenya Ports Authority, did not follow due procedure as the academic certificates he presented to the Independence Electoral and Boundaries Commission had not been certified by the Commission for Higher Education.
Mwashighadi said concerns were also raised as Mwaruwa's documents indicated that he had done a diploma and then got a Masters' Degree from the University of Southampton without first acquiring a basic degree.
He said only the Commission for University Education (CUE) could determine whether or not to classify Mwaruwa as having acquired a degree to be able to meet the academic requirements that all gubernatorial candidates must be holders of a degree.
"According to our rules, if the documents are coming from outside the country, then the one agent we have in the country, the Commission for Higher Education or the Commission of University Education, has to authenticate and certify that the institution awarding the degree is recognised in that country and also in Kenya," said Mwashighadi.
A distraught Mwaruwa immediately flew to Nairobi to have his papers authenticated by the CHE. His running mate Obutu Osoro also faced a similar problem when he presented his degree which was awarded by a university in India. The two have until 4.30 pm today to present their papers to the IEBC.
In Kisumu, Ranguma was also asked to get the Commission of Higher Education to authenticate and certify the academic certificates awarded by several US universities. Ranguma had presented a certificate indicating he had an MBA awarded by the University of Illinois.
Kisumu county returning officer Dolly Kili however gave the go-ahead to Ranguma's running mate and Prime Minister Raila Odinga's sister Ruth.
Three Trans Nzoia gubernatorial candidates-- Joel Gesuka of TNA, Ford Kenya's Patrick Khaemba and New Ford Kenya's Kakai Bisau --were also turned away for the same reason.
Gesuka degree was awarded by a university in India which the CHE does not recognize. Khaemba and Bisau were turned away because they presented copies and not original documents.
The three also flew back to Nairobi to seek the CHE's certification before they return to present their papers today. The only candidate cleared for the race is Forestry minister Noah Wekesa who has been nominated by ODM.
Kimunya was given the go-ahead after the High Court dismissed a petition which had been filed by a voter--Ítanley Kihiko-- in which he alleged the minister was involved in malpracises during the party nominations.
The nomination of Joho and his running mate Hazel Katana had also been challenged in court by a voter Janet Ndago who accused the pair of using "unorthodox and fraudulent means" to pretend that they are holders of degrees from universities recognized in Kenya.
Janet Ndago who was represented by Kibe Mungai pleaded with the court to order the Kenya National Examinations Council to produce certified copies of Joho and Katana's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education result slips.
She also sought for copies of transcripts from the University of Nairobi to prove the two had valid papers. Also cleared was Othaya parliamentary aspirant Mugambi Gichuki who had received the Saba Saba Asili nomination ticket after he failed to get the TNA certificate which was eventually given to Mary Wambui.
An Othaya voter, Michael Nderitu, sought to block the IEBC from clearing Gichuki claiming that the candidate was a registered TNA member by the time the deadline for the party nominations expired and he defected to Saba Saba Asili.
Wachira claimed Mugambi had forged the documents which he presented to the IEBC. However, Mugambi claimed he had ceased being a member of TNA and said the court had no jurisdiction to hear the complaint.
Judges David Majanja, Weldon Korir and George Odunga said they will on Tuesday next week, give their reasons for dismissing the cases against Kimunya, Joho and Mugambi.
The three judges however rejected a plea by former LSK chairman Okong'o Omogeni who is challenging the decision by the IEBC tribunal to declare his competitor Abuya Abuya as the ODM nominee for the Nyamira senate race.The court directed the IEBC tribunal to hear the dispute afresh.
The former LSK chairman has accused the tribunal of surpassing its mandate and declaring Abuya the ODM nominee even though he had been disqualified by the party.
Abuya had been given the go ahead by the tribunal to hand in his nomination to the IEBC. Yesterday, O'mogeni said the decision was wrong since Abuya has not paid the nomination fee as required by law. He also accused Abuya of failing to disclose his relation with a member of the tribunal.


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'Good Wife's' Julianna Margulies on 'ER,' 'The Waltons' and more TV showsAdd to Favorites | The Good Wife
Julianna Margulies of "The Good Wife" is gracing the cover of Vanity Fair's annual television issue. In the above behind-the-scenes video, she talks about when she knew "The Good Wife" was a hit and how she wasn't really allowed to watch TV growing up.
"After the first official season [of 'The Good Wife'], I realized that we were gonna go for a few more," says Margulies. "After the first six episodes, we started realizing people were actually watching. and the critical acclaim started coming in, but you never know if it's a hit."
"I wasn't allowed to watch much television growing up. One year, we had a TV in our house and we were allowed to choose between 'The Waltons' and 'Little House on the Prairie.' I chose 'The Waltons,' that was my favorite show," she continues.
"The last time I watched an episode of 'ER,' oh my goodness. A full-on episode was probably the last episode I did, where George Clooney comes, or I go to him, and we ride off into the sunset together ... oh no, I'm sorry, then we both came back for a reunion and I watched that episode," says Margulies.
"The Good Wife" airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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BP America subsidiary agrees to $19.5 million settlement over copper mine pollution
Residents of northern Nevada have been awarded a settlement of up to a $19.5 million in a class action case regarding the toxic chemicals that leaked from the Anaconda copper mine, operated by BP America's subsidiary Atlantic Richfield Company.
The legal action was started in 2011 by a group of nearly 700 local residents, who claimed that the mine operator and its parent company had deliberately tried to hide the truth about the extent of contamination caused to the environment and to their drinking water by toxic chemicals, including uranium and arsenic. The Anaconda mine was opened in 1941 and covers an area equal to the size of 3,000 football fields, the Associated Press reported.
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Although neither company admitted any wrongdoing in the way the mine was managed, both BP America and Atlantic Richfield agreed to pay out $7 million in property damages. In addition, they will contribute $900,000 to a medical screening and monitoring fund. The companies will also cover the cost of extending city water supplies to 200 residents, estimated to cost between $6.5 million and $12.5 million. As part of the settlement both companies are required to pay $2.6 million in attorney fees, the news source said.
In an email sent to the Associated Press, BP America said that the settlement was "fair and reasonable," adding that it guarantees clean drinking water to the local community.


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I am often asked why I became an archaeologist. People then offer their own interpretations for my occupational choice. Do I long to discover gold and treasure? Do I want to find the missing link? Do I want to hide from contemporary life by studying the dead?
Actually my involvement in archaeology is far more basic. I love old stuff and dirt. Putting the two together as archaeology is paradise. I learned to love dirt as a child making mud pies. My parents instilled within me an awe for old things by caring for our family's treasures and taking me on countless museum trips.
In essence our homes are family museums. By preserving the family photographs, toys, quilts, papers and furniture we are all curating for future generations. Sometimes we acquire another family's objects at auctions and add them to our collection. In other cases we create new family treasures as we add current photographs and newspaper clippings.
But do you ever find that you may need an archaeologist to dig out all your family's treasures? Where are those old photographs that you always meant to frame? And how did they get so brittle sitting in the attic the last 20 years? In fact, you may need a conservator even more than an archaeologist!
Now is your chance to get professional expertise to help you properly preserve your historic materials and collectibles. The Fort Ward Museum is hosting its popular lecture series "Home Care of Heirlooms and Collectibles" on Saturdays beginning October 15, 1994.
On four consecutive Saturdays you will be able to listen to specialists in paper, furniture, textiles and photographs discuss guidelines for handling, storing and displaying. You can bring one collectible corresponding to the lecture topic for consultation.
Photographs are one of the biggest issues for most families. Not only do we have many from previous generations, but we are creating them at a faster pace as technology changes. Larry Baume, an appraisal archivist with the National Archives, will discuss how to identify and care for your photographs. He will deal with daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes and cartes-de-visite as well as videotapes. You will learn how to archivally store and display your photographs so that you can protect them from environmental agents that cause deterioration.
Call Fort Ward Museum now for a reservation either for the four-part series ($17) or individual lectures ($5 each), 703-838-4848. This series is extremely popular, and there is limited seating. This is a rare opportunity to learn current techniques for protecting your own family history.
Pamela Cressey is the Alexandria City Archaeologist.
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Inventory management software turns out to be an able ally for an establishment that wants to gain control over inventory levels of products and items. The enticing features of this tool help establishments to track serial numbers, expiry date of products and price structure among other features to take good control over the inventory at warehouses.
Inventory control is one of the key components that produce a telling impact on the productivity of an organization. A company has to adopt surefire inventory management measures and processes, if it wants to meet market demands at the right time. As a worthy addition, inventory management software has been built to aid establishments in this process of inventory control measures, as it also helps a company that strives to gain market leadership in a specific niche. The enticing features of this software take care of all aspects concerning inventory control, which allows an establishment to be well prepared to meet market demands and meet customer recognition in the process.
Real-time Inventory Tracking An organization may have warehouses at different locations to cater to the demands of the customers, and the establishment is able to take critical decisions when it receives timely information about the stocks and inventory levels at the warehouse. This software allows establishments to get benefited from real-time inventory control data, made available at various warehouses, which works in favor of the establishment that implements this tool.
Serial Numbers Organizations make use of serial numbers to differentiate products and items that enter into the warehouse, as they also require a foolproof method to take control over the serial numbers that differentiate items. With the help of inventory management software, an establishment can track innumerable serial numbers, as the personnel responsible for inventory control can take informed decisions with the help of relevant validation and historical information afforded by the tool.
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Pricing and Discounts Configuration Organizations might come out with different price packages for different items, as they might even introduce volume discounts for different products to lure the attention of customers. With this software, unique price levels can be provided to products, as price discounts that are based on volumes purchased by a customer can also be allocated with the help of this tool.
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An establishment that wants to take good control over inventory control can make good use of the inventory management software, and the alluring features of this tool have been built to help an establishment take good control over the inventory levels of products.
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D2L: Facilitating Active Online Participation
Event Description:
Well-designed online classes offer a variety of ways for students to interact with instructors and each other. This workshop offers an overview of the tools available to facilitate rich and authentic online interactions.
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Must-See Architecture in Spain
City:Marbella, Spain
Attraction:"Avenue Del Mar," Salvador Dali sculpture lined breezeway.
Historic Period:Park: mid-1990's, Dali sculptures: mid-to late 20th century surrealist period
My Review
This past spring in March 2010, my family and I took a week long trip to the historic Andalusia region at the southern coast of Spain. The atypical spring weather did not permit any sun bathing or beach bumming, but happily we were forced to spend every rainy day exploring a new town in the sun belt of Spain, rather than cooking away on the beaches of Costa del Sol. The region is famously known for its white washed "pueblo blanco" hill towns, the Islamic architecture of the Alhambra in Granada, the flamenco flare in Seville, but a fairly discreet and hidden gem right on the southern coast was the Salvador Dali lined breezeway known as Avenida del Mar. Nestled between Alameda Park and the beach and promenade is marble clad walkway featuring a large collection of Salvador Dali sculptures. Tourists and citizens alike use the walkway as a comfortable place to rest and to enjoy the surrealist displays without the cost of a museum admission.
What used to be an abandoned park in dire conditions, Alameda Park became, in the 90s, a beautiful respite from the hustle and bustle of the nearby urban center of Marbella. In 1995, after being elected Mayor, Jesus Gil, an infamous businessman and politician decided to clean up the streets of Marbella and promote the town nationally and internationally. Part of this campaign involved purchasing about a dozen Salvador Dali sculptures created throughout the versatile artists prolific career during the 20th century. Some of the purchased sculptures included "Gala at the Window," 1933, and "Perseo," 1976, depicting the slaying of Medusa.
The park itself is a lush botanical garden, scattered with ceramic and tile benches painted with scenes depicting Marbella's history. The combination of the park and the surrealist sculptures along the breezeway finally leading to the active beach make this designed and natural landscape a masterpiece of architecture and city planning, as well as a thrill to the senses. There is just a lot going on here!


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Everything you need to know about serials librarianshipin one handy volume! For library science students and library professionals, Introduction to Serials Work for Library Technicians is a practical, how-to-do-it text that shows you how to perform the behind-the-scenes tasks your job...
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Learn how information professionals are addressing the electronic resource issues being faced in their own libraries and around the world! This informative volume gives you an up-close look at the increasingly important role that electronic serials play in the overall library collection, today and...
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The price quoted is in Canadian $ making it currently good value for US travelers heading north to Alaska. The RV park switched on their water a couple of weeks ago and are now fully open for the season. Although, last night the temperature dropped below freezing so first thing this morning I had to thaw the faucet and supply pipe leading to the RV. All the services worked as expected with good water pressure and no fluctuations in power. All forty rental sites have full hook ups with 20, 30 and 50 amp power. There is no wifi and very limited over the air tv reception. Being so early in the season we had no problem getting the site we wanted but when I enquired about the May long weekend I found that the park was already over booked.
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Having spent several weekends at Coyote Creek this year, nothing has really changed since last year. The water was switched on during the Easter long weekend and all the services worked flawlessly on all of our visits. The bathrooms remain amongst the cleanest we have ever encountered. Showers have lots of hot water at good pressure. The daily rate this year was $40 cnd before tax (5%) but this is no longer listed with Good Sam, so no discounts are available. I don't know about the weekly or longer rates are so they may have a built in discount. There is a very pleasant short (1 km or so) walk to the river through Crown land. The cool, refreshing river is a welcome relief during the hot days of summer. The campground remains very quiet at all times. For a break from cooking or preparing meals I would recommend the nearby (within walking distance) Coyote Creek Golf Club. The have a really good selection of bar food at very reasonable prices. By next season, their brand new club house and 80 seat restaurant should be open for use. - Hutch333id
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Once again, this year we have spent several relaxing weekends at this RV Park in Sundre. There is little else I can add that I haven't already said. They don't have WiFi because it is cost prohibitive and a pool would also be too costly for the amount of time it would be serviceable. With that said, it is a very relaxing location set in a golf course. The restaurant offers very good food and you can get WiFi there. This year both the golf course and the RV park suffered extensive flood damage in June, just prior to the busiest part of their season. Both have now fully re-opened and are repairing the damage caused. The services at the RV park work as flawlessly as ever and do not appear to have suffered too badly. Some of the roads in the park have been damaged and the asphalt has been washed away in several places. On the same note, the township road leading to the campground was also damaged but has been temporarily repaired by the town using gravel. We will continue to use this park for our weekend breaks. - Hutch333id
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Stephanie Valberg, D.V.M., Ph.D., a professor at the University of Minnesota, spoke about the genetic basis for different forms of tying-up. Horses possess 20,000 genes on 33 chromosomes. Through mutation, the genetic code of horses can be altered. Mutations are usually corrected before they are passed on to their descendants, though this is not always the case. Too, as horses age, DNA repair fails or becomes less efficient.
Following a discussion of recessive and dominant traits, Valberg introduced genetic testing, stating that expression of a gene mutation may not be identical among all affected horses. Environment and diet, for example, might change expression between two horses with the same gene mutation. Many diseases have complex genetic traits, where more than one gene is implicated in a genetic defect.
According to Valberg, genetic approaches to disease identification have been researched for glycogen branching enzyme deficiency (GBED), malignant hyperthermia (MH), and certain forms of tying-up.
Valberg explained the importance of genetic mapping of disease genes. Mapping uses the "position-dependent" approach, identifying the chromosomal region first. She implemented this approach with horses affected with polysaccharide storage myopathy (PSSM). She found one area on the chromosome that was similar on all genetic profiles. Identification of a sequence change must be followed up by a definite change in the gene's function, which Valberg and her coworkers discovered. The next step is to survey the population to find which breeds are affected. The researchers found many breeds that have the genetic disorder.
With regard to recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis, another form of tying-up, most affected horses are high-strung fillies. Muscle biopsies and breeding trials revealed no sex predilection. Clinical signs, however, showed a sex predilection was verified. On a genetic level, a few genes have been identified. One segment is significantly associated with both sexes; another segment is associated with females only. Further research is ongoing.
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article about this yesterday and then this pops up today.
The sheriff's office in Provo, Utah, arrested a man for trespassing and now they are wondering if it could be missing DA Ray Gricar.
Ray Gricar, disappeared in April 2005 (read story here) and was just declared legally dead yesterday.
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Bridal Fashion Inspiration From New York Fashion Week
We've been busy checking out the hottest designs for fall 2013 at New York Fashion Week and we have yet to be disappointed. Despite the prêt-à-porter designs, many of our favorite ready-to-wear collections have hinted to bridal fashion nonetheless. Here's a glimpse at the ready-to-wear runways and our predictions of what's to come for weddings!
Trend Alert: Art Deco
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If you weren't already aware of the Great Gatsby trend for 2013, here it is again and we're in love! These art deco stylings will have you sparkling all night. We expect to be seeing much more of this.
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Sheer, dainty, embellished, and playful are the words to describe these trendy sleeves. Wedding dresses with sleeves are hot for 2013 and we're thinking they're here to stay.
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Feathers and fur are making a huge comeback on the runways. Make a statement with your Little White Dress by choosing a wedding dress or reception dress that is fun and flirty.
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From romance covers we moved on to science fiction, wondering if sci-fi cover art might offer more. And holy moly, what we started seeing was bizarre, hilarious, campy, creepy, striking, surreal, sometimes sexy, and extremely cool. Flying saucers, planetary landscapes, lots of rockets, babes in inter-galactic distress, alien monsters, cyborg enemies, and on and on. The covers we came across were sinister, lovely, and completely ridiculous. Below, a selection of some of the sci-fi cover stand-outs.
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BRADENTON – Ace Sanders was an integral part of the Manatee High football team that upset No.1 ranked St. Thomas Aquinas in the 2009 state semi-final. Sanders caught 65 passes that season for just under a thousand yards. His talents caught the eye of legendary coach Steve Spurrier who recruited him to play for South Carolina, where the dynamic athlete has emerged as perhaps the best punt returner in the conference.
Sanders (5'8, 175) was selected by Southeast Conference coaches to the first-team All-SEC squad as an all-purpose player. Considering that the SEC has been the most competitive football conference in the nation over the past decade – with teams like LSU, Alabama, Florida and Auburn – the selection is quite a tribute to the local player's talent.
Sanders, a junior majoring in visual communications, was the second leading receiver for the Gamecocks last season and set the school's single-season record for punt return yardage this year with 363, while also topping the SEC in return average. As a true freshman in 2010, Sanders played in all 14 of South Carolina's games, earning SEC All-Freshman team honors.
Ace's father, Tracy Sanders, was the QB for Manatee's first state championship team in 1983, before going on to play DB for Florida State and the Buffalo Bills. The elder Sanders currently coaches defensive backs for the Hurricanes.
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A glimpse of our health care future courtesy of the VA.
What started as a story of bureaucratic malfeasance at the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix, Arizona is quickly turning into a national scandal.
In Arizona, it came to light that VA Hospital administrators were cooking the books to make it look like eligible veterans seeking appointments for medical care were being seen in a timely manner. In fact, there was an 'off-the-books' waiting list containing the names of hundreds of veterans who were waiting for months or even years to be seen. According to reports, as many as 40 died while waiting for the medical attention they were promised in return for serving their country.
Since that revelation, we are hearing similar stories from all over the country on an almost daily basis. The Veterans Administration is being revealed as a lumbering, bureaucratic and sclerotic government agency that cannot carry out its mission and goes to great lengths to hide that fact.
The VA is charged with many duties attendant to serving America's military veterans but by far the highest of those duties is attending to their medical care. In that regard, the VA is a perfect example of a single-payer health care system. Given what we are now seeing from the VA, charged with providing health care to approximately nine million veterans, how does anyone imagine that the same federal government can successfully provide health care to 300 million of us?
How many will die if the Department of Health & Human Services becomes to the U.S. general population what the Veterans Administration is to our military veterans?
Good analogy & horrific example; but as in other good analogy or examples it will not be absorbed nor heed learned by those who don't want to see or heed it.
Many see only what they want to see or learn what they wish learn
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The truth will set you free but 1st it hurts like the dickens.
Glad to see this point made, Paul. When these further problems at the VA came to light, my first thought was, "This is how government "health care" works, or to be more precise, fails to work. If the government can't/won't be honest and reliable in caring for our best, our heroes, what can we expect of a similar system designed for ordinary citizens, including millions who will pay nothing for what they get. And it may turn out that even those who pay nothing will find themselves overcharged.
How timely this being sent. My husband just got back from an appointment at the VA in Temple. He said that it is nothing like it was just a couple of years ago, having gone down hill at an advanced rate. The thing is, like all government ran agencies, YOU have to wait on them to schedule you an appointment. This may take weeks or months, at their determination. If obama has his way, we will be like the VA in short order and people will NOT be getting the treatment needed by our healthcare providers! People didn't believe there were death panels in the pages of obamacare…now those doubters are finding out there really was/is. We are seeing the results starting with our veterans!
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The US Air Force is within two months of installing the final piece of a broad shake-up of its approach to airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) in Afghanistan.
Sierra Nevada's Gorgon Stare pod is expected to be deployed to Afghanistan before April. The pod adds as many as 12 video cameras to the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned air vehicle.
On the ground, processors can further split up the video feeds into 50 different spots, allowing a single aircraft to stare across a city like an unblinking eye.
The USAF confirms that the pod remains in final tests before deployment, which was originally scheduled for late 2010.
Gorgon Stare - named for Medusa and her sisters in Greek mythology - represents the final piece of a broader airborne ISR strategy hastily launched by USAF leadership in May 2008. The move came only one month after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates publicly called out the service's top officials for moving too slowly to support ground troops in Afghanistan.
By the end of June 2008, Gates had fired the USAF's top leaders - Michael Wynne and Gen Michael Moseley - even as the new strategy started moving forward.
Until virtually that moment, USAF officials had stood by as the US Army and US Marine Corps had launched a new wave of airborne ISR assets to support the unique needs of counter-insurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In particular, the USMC had deployed a system called Angel Fire, using Beechcraft King Air 90s equipped with wide field of view cameras featuring instant playback capability.
Seven years after the Afghan war began, the USAF responded by launching three initiatives in May 2008. It launched the MC-12 Liberty programme, which has rapidly fielded nearly 40 King Air 350ERs to Afghanistan.
The air force also hired 2,500 intelligence analysts to help process the influx of new intelligence data. Gorgon Stare forms the third piece of the new strategy.
The Sierra Nevada pod is intended to solve the problem of a chronic shortage of MQ-9s. The USAF is funded to operate 50 continuous "orbits" by MQ-9s around the world. Until now, each MQ-9 came equipped with a single camera, providing a "soda straw" view of the battlespace. Fielding Gorgon Stare means one of those orbits will be equipped with as many as 12 cameras generating up to 50 video feeds.
The number of Gorgon Stare pods remains relatively small. The USAF has been funded to deploy one set of pods this year and in 2012, plus a third set of pods in fiscal year 2014, leaving 47 orbits without the system.
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What can you expect from ukulele lessons in Singapore? First of all, once you decide on learning how to play the ukulele, you have made the right decision as the ukulele is one of the easiest music instruments to learn in a music school in Singapore. Ukulele lessons are easy as the ukulele has only four strings, compared to the guitar which has six strings. The music instrument itself is small and portable. If you check out the ukulele for sale in your local music store, you will find that the beginner ukulele is very affordable compared to other music instruments.
Before you start on your ukulele lessons in Singapore, you will need to select and buy your ukulele. There is a wide range of ukulele for sale, price starting from fifty dollars for a beginner soprano ukulele to a handcrafted one that costs thousands of dollars. You can ask your ukulele teacher in Singapore to advise you the type of ukulele to buy.
Now I will proceed to advise you what you can expect from ukulele lessons in Singapore:
Firstly, for your beginner ukulele lesson in Singapore, you will be taught to identify different parts of the ukulele. Your ukulele teacher will identify for you the tuning pegs, the four different strings on the ukulele, and so forth. You will be taught how to care for your ukulele. After each practice, use a cleaning cloth to wipe your ukulele before storing in the bag.
Secondly, your ukulele teacher in Singapore will teach you how to tune the music instrument. As a beginner, you will need to use a music tuner to tune your instrument. It is important to tune your instrument before you play, so as to be able to strum to a tune perfectly. As the ukulele is a string instrument, and the strings are in tension all the time, it is normal for the strings to be out of tune a couple of days after you have tuned it. The other factors that causes the ukulele to go out of tune is the strength which you use to strum the instrument, temperature differences and humidity changes.
Thirdly, you will learn how to position you finger to play on your music instrument. Where you position your fingers determines which notes are produces. You will be able to strum to a song with the combination of correct finger positioning coupled with strumming at the right time. With four strings on the ukulele, you can produce many different chords with different finger positioning.
Fourthly, your ukulele teacher in Singapore will teach you how to read chord diagrams. It may look very complicated to someone with no music background, but actually picking up different ways of playing chords is easy.
Finally, you need to have a grasp of rhythm and an idea of how to strum to the correct rhythm. Your ukulele teacher will demonstrate this a few times for you, and you will follow your teachers lead. On your part you will need to practice and practice to perfect learning to play the ukulele.
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Early in his address to Armstrong Middle School students, Warren Martin recited a parable he said he had seen in a magazine.
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Mr. Robert L. Gillespie Jr., 72, died Thursday, April 19, 2012, at his residence in Starkville.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time.
Mr. John Michael Young, Sr., 57, of Starkville passed away at his residence on Sunday, April 15, 2012.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lawrence William Young and Elsie Whatley.
Mr. James Thomas Garrard Jr., 81, of Perkinston died Thursday, April 19, 2012 in Hattiesburg.

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Reserve guard Nate Robinson has agreed to sign with the Nuggets for two seasons, a league source confirmed Monday. The source confirmed that the two-year deal is for the bi-annual salary cap exception, which is $4.03 million combined.
Robinson, 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds, averaged 13.1 points, 4.4 assists and 24.4 minutes in 82 games last season with the Chicago Bulls. He made 141-of-348 (.405) 3-point attempts last season, which would rank higher than only two Nuggets — Wilson Chandler (.413) and Evan Fournier (.407) — who made more than 50 attempts in 2012-13.
With the Bulls last season, Robinson made waves with a 23-point fourth quarter against the Nets in the playoffs, on his way to 34 in that game. At the 2010 all-star weekend, Robinson became the first three-time slam dunk contest winner. He also won in 2006 and '09.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- For the first time in eight seasons, members of the PAC-10 media have voted someone other than USC as the team to beat.
Defending champion Oregon was selected to repeat, edging USC in balloting 314-311 and garnering three more No. 1 votes than the Trojans.
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MovieClips have been the stalwart workhorse of Flash since the very earliest days of ActionScript, so I'll skip the details and gushing adoration and instead move on to some of the shortcomings:
So you can now probably guess what SwagMovieClip does.
As with most of the SwAG classes, SwagMovieClip doesn't make assumptions about how it's going to be used. You can either extend it:
import core.instances.SwagMovieClip; public class myMovieClip extends SwagMovieClip { ...
…or you can instantiate it (just make sure to pass a reference to the MovieClip instance you want to control to the constructor):
import flash.display.MovieClip; import core.instances.SwagMovieClip; public class myMovieClip extends MovieClip { var swgClip:SwagMovieClip; public function myMovieClip() { this.swgClip=new SwagMovieClip(this); ...
If you're extending SwagMovieClip, all of the class' methods can be invoked using simply "this". For example, to play the clip 3 times at double speed from the "startAnimation" frame to the "endAnimation" frame would look like:
this.playRange("startAnimation", "endAnimation", false, true, 3, 2);
Using the instantiation method, this would be:
swgClip.playRange("startAnimation", "endAnimation", false, true, 3, 2);
As you can probably guess, the playRange method plays from a starting frame (label or index), to an ending frame (label or index), optionally resetting to the start of the animation when done, optionally looping (including a specified number of loops), and at an optional playback speed (2 for double speed, 0.5 for half speed, etc.) This works just as well if the starting frame comes after the ending frame — the clip will play backwards with the specified parameters. Essentially, this one function covers the first three shortcomings I mentioned above.
A related method is playToNextLabel which, as the name suggests, will play the clip from its current position with the supplied parameters until the next label is detected. As with the playRange method, the label might precede the current (starting) frame. Here's the method signature from the SwagMovieClip class showing all the parameters:
playToNextLabel(startFrame:*, includeLabelFrame:Boolean=false, resetOnEnd:Boolean=false, loop:Boolean=false, repeatLoops:uint=0, playSpeed:Number=1)
The addition of a pause method might seem a little redundant but it comes in handy when you need to determine if an active animation is currently in progress (and paused), or simply stopped. One great reason for wanting this information is to know whether to play out the remaining animation loop such as when a game character is coming to a rest after moving. In fact, games are primarily why I built SwagMovieClip (I used similar functionality to control the animations in the Sidekicks vs. Villains game).
Along these lines I also added a frame trigger mechanism, a method call that's made whenever a target frame is reached during an animation. Here's an example (minus the "this" or "swgClip" part):
public function myFrameTrigger():void { trace ("Frame 9 was just reached in the animation"); } ... addFrameTrigger(9, myFrameTrigger);
Obviously I skipped a detail; the addFrameTrigger call belongs in a function somewhere, but otherwise this is pretty much all you'd need. In this case, the myFrameTrigger method will be triggered any time frame 9 of the animation is reached. Since the other methods (playRange, etc.) are responsible for actually starting the animation, all of their features can be used in combination with addFrameTrigger. Here's a slightly extended example from the one above:
public function myFrameTrigger():void { trace ("Frame 9 was just reached in the animation"); } ... addFrameTrigger(9, myFrameTrigger); playRange (10, 8);
Here we're playing the clip backwards from frame 10 to frame 8 (all other parameters are default — no looping or custom speed), and the myFrameTrigger method should be invoked on frame 9 of the animation. To loop the animation 7 times (stopping on the last frame), at half the current frame rate, the same code would be updated to:
public function myFrameTrigger():void { trace ("Frame 9 was just reached in the animation"); } ... addFrameTrigger(9, myFrameTrigger); playRange (10, 8, false, true, 7, 0.5);
Every time frame 9 is encountered here during playback our trigger will be invoked.
Triggers are useful for figuring out how a game character is supposed to be interacting with an environment, for example. If your game character is picking something up from a table, the target object should be "attached" to the character's hand only when the hand animation is at a certain position. This isn't hard to achieve by hardcoding frame values into your code but becomes cumbersome if you need to change the animation length, and even more difficult when you need to start playing the animation in various non-standard ways.
Most of SwagMovieClip's other functionality comes straight from MovieClip along with expected behaviours. As with any other SwAG class, I won't recommend using SwagMovieClip unless you actually have a need for such functionality (why bloat your code?) but if you find you're struggling with customizing your MovieClip animations then this might be worth a gander.
P.S. Thanks for another mention, Adobe!
patrickb September 19th, 2014
Posted In: Development / Coding, Internet / Web
Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, AIR, animation, AS3, Flash, MovieClip, Swiss Army Gear Toolkit, timeline
I admit to having more than a soft spot for Adobe's technology, but that's not why I was so peeved when Steve Jobs made his much ballyhooed announcement that Flash on mobile was just the worst thing since Hitler.
For starters, much of Jobs' characterization was just plain wrong. His problems with Flash not being "open" were gloriously misinformed as Adobe's open source efforts, which included Flash and Flex, plus many of the video, audio, and networking technologies they contain, were already well established as open source technologies at that point.
If the argument is that the Flash virtual machine isn't open source, one can easily turn that around and correctly state that Safari, the virtual machine for HTML5 / JavaScript, is also not open source. To say that Apple has been a champion of giving people choice is not exactly true, so claiming that they're championing HTML5 "for the people" is equally as dubious. In fact, HTML5 itself is not as open as some may claim.
Jobs' insistence that HTML5 is a "standard" was equally incorrect, as the myriad of sites, services, and projects that have sprung up trying to either work around or at least document the many incompatibilities, quirks, and just old plain lack of support in the HTML5 "standard" attest to. This lack of standardization is so pronounced that it alone can be used to successfully identify individual browsers and de-anonymize users (perhaps even much worse).
Jobs didn't think Flash was needed to access video since HTML5 formats like H.264 (MP4) were so ubiquitous. On this point I'd have to agree, but that was never the sole reason that Flash became synonymous with online video. The reason Adobe's player won out was because of a robust server architecture that, coupled with Adobe's edge Content Delivery Networks, makes the technology a viable solution. Delivering MP4 streams over HTTP to browsers from a server farm is a lot more prohibitive, with cost being just one factor.
In his Flash critique, Jobs made the unsubstantiated claim that Flash was the number one reason why Macs crashed, a statement he never bothered to back up and which, as far as I know, was purely fictional or at best incredibly scape-goaty.
While Flash wasn't a great mobile experience, mostly because it wasn't set up to both deal with mobile gestures and co-exist on a web page, the same could be said of unresponsive or badly designed HTML5 sites. And whatever shortcomings the Flash player had, I'm sure they could have been addressed.
I'm not the only person to think that Flash was done away with unjustly. Amazon is trying to revive it for their devices, BlackBerry never lost it, and it Android can't quite seem to shake itself of it. Judging by the popularity of the "How do I manually install Flash on my mobile device?" topic over at Adobe — 24.7 million views as of today– Flash is far from fading away.
The biggest injustice in this debacle, however, is the one I see being imposed on web developers.
As someone who has worked in ActionScript 3 for years, going to HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript was like taking a step ten years into the past. The same issues we were dealing with in Flash back then — performance, load times, code organization — are all back with a vengeance.
Even something as basic as frame-based animation is only partially supported in most modern HTML5-capable browsers with most requiring reams of code and workarounds for "full compatibility".
Rudimentary sound support, along with the same issues we were grappling with in Flash many years ago (synchronization, maximum mixing channels, etc.), has made it's way into HTML5. Instantly, developers learned that the web "standard" wasn't quite up living up to its name.
Companies too have learned that they prematurely jumped on the HTML5 bandwagon and have had to re-think their approaches.
But it's not that HTML5 is terrible.
In fact, as devices get faster and capable of handling more complex code, the mobile browser will slowly evolve to become it's own robust virtual machine, much as Java and the Flash player are now. Eventually, much of what is today erroneously called a "standard" will actually become one, mostly, give or take, across most browsers. But we're not even close to getting there yet.
Still, now that I've had time to truly immerse myself in HTML5 and experience how it works across browsers and devices, I see the potential for a much improved web experience.
Up front, the only real improvements are in the tools available for expression — better ways to animate, addition of sound and audio, improved font handling, dynamic drawing APIs, and so on. This can all be put together to produce nice, expressive web sites and games, examples of which are more quite numerous these days. I've even done a couple myself. And it's because of this exposure that I can't recommend HTML5 for anything other than nice, expressive sites and somewhat basic interactive games. The so-called "standards" required for more demanding code are simply not up to snuff and are more often a hindrance than a help.
patrickb August 14th, 2014
Posted In: Development / Coding, Internet / Web
Tags: Adobe, CSS3, development, Flash, HTML5, internet, JavaScript, web
Yeah, application frameworks are a dime a dozen these days. That's why SwAG isn't a framework but rather a toolkit — the Swiss Army Gear toolkit for ActionScript 3, to be exact.
As the name implies, this small-ish library contains useful code that can be employed wherever needed, as needed, without the full weight or presumptuousness of a full-on framework. In other words, it should be useful for you whether you have a project that's well under way or are just starting out.
Because the library has lots of disparate features, I'll be dedicating a number of future posts discussing them in detail and providing (hopefully) useful examples. Here is a brief preview:
Some of these are used extensively in SocialCastr and Araknid and they definitely made my life easier. SwAG doesn't presume to be the only code running so adding it or removing it, mid-project or otherwise, is easy and straightforward. I've chosen to not include it in pure AS3 projects like TorAS or WRASE because they're much more useful as autonomous libraries. Applications, however, are meant to be used rather than incorporated into other projects, so in those cases I happily stick SwAG into every nook and cranny.
SwAG had additional functionality which has been yanked since these make way more sense as individual projects:
I don't know if / when I'll get around to updating and publishing these but I'm not averse to sharing if you want to get in touch with me directly.
Otherwise, grab yourself a copy of the pretty-well-documented toolkit here: https://code.google.com/p/swag-as/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk
…and stay tuned for SwAG fun and frolic.
patrickb January 29th, 2014
Posted In: Development / Coding, Internet / Web
Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, AIR, AS3, Flash, framework, SwAG, Swiss Army Gear Toolkit, Toolkit
As I mentioned earlier, accessing the Windows Registry tends to require Administrator privileges (via UAC) in many cases. The ActionScript library I wrote for this purpose, unfortunately, is no different.
In the previous version of WRASE, all Registry operations were done this way, which has many and obviously sucky connotations. To get around this, the users of your application could always disable UAC altogether, or there's the option of running it in Administrator mode, but both solutions are less than ideal.
Luckily, there's a third option.
But first, the bad news: most Windows Registry keys still require Administrator privileges to update. The only Windows Registry key tree that's mostly update-able without Admin rights is "HKEY_CURRENT_USER". I say mostly because there are sub-keys that are also inaccessible to non-Admin updates, usually because they've been created by other privileged processes or are in some other way locked.
The good news: almost all of the settings and information that you may need to have update access to is within "HKEY_CURRENT_USER". Most other keys are still accessible as read-only, which makes sense once you start looking at what they contain. Also, if you really do need to update these keys, WRASE can do so by launching the registry editor with Admin rights as it did in the previous version.
To accommodate this I've made some changes to WRASE. The most notable include:
While making the recent spate of changes I learned that there are additional ways of accessing the Windows Registry that are more direct ("reg.exe" simply has more options than "regedit.exe"), which is extremely useful when accessing high-level keys. The current version of WRASE exports such keys and all their sub-keys which can produce massive amounts of data; usable in theory, but in practice not so much. This has elegant solutions but until someone complains I'd rather work on other projects, so please drop me a line if you are running into problems or need some improvements.
WRASE r5 is available for download here: https://code.google.com/p/wrase/source/browse/
patrickb January 29th, 2014
Posted In: Development / Coding
Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, AIR, desktop, Microsoft, reg.exe, regedit.exe, registry, UAC, User Account Control, Windows, Windows Registry Editor
I imagine that this application would benefit from a little TorAS integration but in the meantime it's still pretty useful [downloads are at the bottom of this post].
Since I spent time figuring out how to describe it on Google Code, I thought I'd rather post that than hurt my brain again. So here's what Araknid does:
[Araknid is] An Adobe AIR application that crawls and archives web pages and assets such as images and scripts into a searchable/convertible SQLite database file. Use it to create a deep search index of your (or any other) site, your intranet, or even the whole web. Uses user-defined regular expressions to match and extrapolate links and other dynamic site information. Built on SwAG Toolkit ActionScript 3 application framework, user interface developed in Flash CS6 (.fla file). Dynamically supports latest versions of Adobe AIR on mobile.
Araknid is still quite new, meaning database interactions will need to be optimized, regular expressions will need to be tweaked, and some important features will need to be added (for example, crawl only under a specific URL or domain). But core functionality should be there, along with plenty of room for growth for anyone who wants to fiddle with the source code.
Here's what you'll see when you run the software…the legend is below:
1. Click here to select where the Araknis database (SQLite) will be stored. Once set, clicking here will open the SQLLite database file in the default application.
2. Pauses and unpauses any currently running crawl.
3. Opens the currently running crawl URL (#6) in a new browser window (if you're curious to see what's being crawled).
4. Variable crawl delay (in seconds). Prevents servers from flagging Araknid as an attacker or malware.
5. The percentage loaded of the currently running crawl URL (#6).
6. The currently running crawl URL. Pause Araknid, enter your own URL, and unpause to start a new crawl.
7. Countdown clock showing when the next crawl will happen (in seconds). Based on the crawl delay (#4).
8. A list of URLs extracted from the currently running crawl URL. These are added to the database (if not already crawled), and queued for subsequent crawls.
TIP: Rename or delete the database file to reset Araknid (like a new install).
ADVANCED TIP: You can update the regular expressions used to filter / extract URLs from various HTML tags. To do this:
1. Shut down Araknid.
2. Update the configuration XML file (config.xml) in the Araknid installation directory (for example, C:\Program Files (x86)\Araknid\config.xml).
3. Delete the Araknid application storage folder: C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Roaming\Araknid\Local Store
WARNING: This step resets your application settings (you'll need to re-select the database file on next startup if you want to continue previous crawls).
4. On next restart, Araknid will use the new regular expressions for subsequent crawls.
All desktop operating systems:
Windows (32/64-bit):
Source code (ActionScript / Flash CS6 user interface):
…and something to view the resulting SQLite database:
patrickb January 21st, 2014
Posted In: Development / Coding, Internet / Web
Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, AIR, Araknid, Flash
This TorAS thing is going to be a lengthy project — there's still lots left to implement and older code to one day upgrade — but I received some great feedback about the appropriateness of communicating over Tor using unencrypted HTTP (it's not very appropriate in many situations). So I've branched the current stable version and added TLS/SSL support (courtesy of as3crypto), in a development branch:
I'll add it back into the main branch as soon as I get some time to document it fully, but the bulk of the new functionality has been covered in the updated Developers Guide:
I may also have added source code comments so have a peek.
TorAS ActionScript source code is made public under a liberal license (MIT), developed on open source technology (FlashDevelop), incorporating open source technology (Tor "Expert Bundle" binary , released under a similar license and spirit), and comes with a handy step-by-step guide. It's most powerful on Windows (on account of the bundled Tor binary), but you should be able to use it on AIR for Android with something like Orbot (is there an official Tor router app for iOS?), and in fact anywhere AIR and Tor can run together.
patrickb January 21st, 2014
Posted In: Development / Coding, Internet / Web, Privacy / Surveillance
Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, AIR, HTTPS, SSL, TLS, Tor, TorAS


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The Archbishop of Lubango, Dom Gabriel Mbilingui, on Saturday called for the government of the southern Huila province, to invest more in Gambos municipality, so as to develop this region.
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