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A force of 300,000 online activists has gathered signatures and petitioned the House Intelligence Committee to reconsider the reintroduction of the controversial internet freedom Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which came before US congress this week. In it, activists have demanded the protection of their private data. In April, CISPA was first passed the Republican-controlled House but was not picked up by the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Facebook was hit by "a sophisticated attack" last month, the company announced Friday. No user data has been compromised in the hacking after a malware entered employees laptops after they had accessed a mobile developer's website. Law enforcement have been notified and an investigation is continuing. It appears that the social media giant was hit by a similar wave of attacks that the Wall Street Journal and others reported last month.
A French student studying in Turkey as an exchange student has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for "terrorist propaganda" but allowed to return to France pending an appeal. Sevil Sevimli, a French student of Turkish origin was sentenced to a total of five years, two months and 15 days in jail, for being a "member of an armed organization." She is accused of participating in May Day demonstrations, and holding a banner reading "We want free education."
She is planning to appeal the decision. The court has also ordered the lifting of Sevimli's travel ban after bail of some $6000 is paid.
Police in Thailand have seized nearly two million methamphetamine pills in the country's northern border. Three people, belonging to the ethnic minority Hmong, have been arrested in one of this year's largest drug busts. Law enforcement apprehended the men after chasing two pickup trucks near the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Rai province on Thursday night. Twenty kilograms of meth and 1.97 million tablets of methamphetamine were found in one of the pickups. Bangkok is planning to ask for Interpol's help in tracing the drugs' producers in Myanmar. More than 15 million methamphetamine pills were smuggled through Thai's northern borders in 2011.
Syria's foreign ministry has sent a letter to the United Nations accusing Anakara of harboring "terrorists from Al-Qaeda's network," the SANA news agency reported. Damascus also accuses Turkey of having an "increasingly hostile stances towards Syria, by blocking measures taken by Damascus for a political solution to the crisis." The letter also claims Turkey is training terrorists. "Turkey has turned its territory into camps used to house, train, finance and infiltrate armed terrorist groups, chief among them the Al-Qaeda network and the Al-Nusra Front," said the letter. The dispatch also states that the neighbor is pressuring the country's opposition to refuse negotiations with the government. The UN estimates that around 70,000 people have died in the conflict.
An object reportedly fell from the sky and exploded loudly over the province of Cienfuegos in southern Cuba, the local TV service Rodas cites eyewitnesses as saying. Residents described the object as being comparable in size to a bus, adding that their houses shook following the explosion. Cuban specialists are examining the scene for potential remains of the object. No damages or injuries have been reported.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has reached an agreement with Jamaica for a $750 million loan. "The mission has reached a staff-level agreement with the Jamaican authorities on the key elements of an economic program that can be supported by a 48-month arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility," the IMF said in a statement. Earlier this week, Jamaica launched its second debt swap in three years. Jamaica's debt – which stands at 140 percent of gross domestic product – is one of the highest debt ratios in the world.
Dozens of people have been wounded in clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers. The violence occurred at a rally in support of a prisoner observing a hunger strike. Around 200 Palestinians threw rocks at soldiers, who responded by firing teargas during the demonstration outside Ofer prison in the West Bank, the Israeli military told AP. The protesters called for the release of Samer Issawi, who has been engaged in an on-again, off-again hunger strike for several months. Issaawi is serving time for alleged terror activity.
Four people have died in clashes between police and protesters in Bangladesh. The violence occurred in the Cox's Bazaar region, after 5,000 supporters of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party took to the streets in protest against their leaders being put on trial in a government-appointed court. Jamaat supporters, armed with homemade firearms, bombs and stones, attacked the security forces who then retaliated with gunfire, police officers told AFP. At least 13 people have died in clashes over the Jamaat leaders being tried for their role in the country's 1971 independence war. Opposition parties said the trials are based on false charges, and are part of a wider political vendetta.
The Venezuelan government published photographs of Hugo Chavez on Friday, the first public pictures of the president since he had cancer surgery in Cuba on December 11. In the photos, Chavez was smiling while lying in bed and reading a newspaper, surrounded by his two daughters, Reuters reported. Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said that a communique on the socialist leader's health would also be announced. The government said the photos were taken in Havana, Cuba, on Thursday. On Wednesday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Chavez was undergoing "complex" alternative treatments.
The EU on Friday announced fresh aid worth 20 million euro to help restore law and order in Mali, as well as basic state services. The aid comes on top of a quarter-billion-euro EU package also to be released, AFP reported. Friday's aid will be used to restore law enforcement and security, especially in the northern parts of the country, where French-led forces have routed Islamist insurgents. In the capital Bamako and other urban areas, funding will go to protect against the threat of future attacks. The EU money, provided through a special conflict prevention fund, will also help restore state services such as schools and medical centers.
Two tons of explosives have been seized en route to the Sinai Peninsula from Cairo, Egyptian officials said Friday. They said the explosives were confiscated last Saturday in the main Suez Canal transport tunnel that links Egypt to the Sinai. The truck driver is currently undergoing questioning. In the past two years, Egypt's Interior Ministry has confiscated hundreds of weapons smuggled from Libya. Officials said that some of those weapons are then smuggled into Gaza. Sinai's Islamist militants have taken advantage of the deterioration of security in the area, launching bolder attacks against police and the military.
A case of H5N1 bird flu has been discovered during initial tests on a poultry farm in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. The duck farm was carrying out its own tests, the Brandenburg state agriculture ministry said on Friday. Final tests are currently being carried out, and the farm has been sealed off. The H5N1 virus mainly affects birds, but occasionally infects humans. Bird flu is currently present in Asian countries, and has also been reported in wild birds in parts of Europe.
India's Defense Ministry said Friday that it has put on hold a $750 million contract to purchase helicopters from Italian company Finmeccanica over allegations of bribery in the deal. A formal notice has been sent to Finmeccanica's AgustaWestland helicopter division requesting cancellation of the contract. The company has seven days to respond to the notice. India signed the contract for the purchase of 12 helicopters in February 2010, three of which were delivered in December. New Delhi has launched its own investigation after the Italian defense and aerospace giant's chief executive was arrested in Milan on Tuesday on charges he paid bribes to obtain the contract.
President Vaclav Klaus signed into law on Friday legislation that makes it legal to use marijuana for medical treatment in the Czech Republic. The law was earlier approved by both houses of parliament. Marijuana can now be imported and later grown locally by registered firms licensed for such activity. Patients will not be allowed to grow marijuana at home, and will need a prescription from a doctor to get the drug at pharmacies. The treatment will not be covered by health insurance. Medical marijuana use is legal in a number of European countries, and parts of the US.
Mali will hold its presidential election on July 7, the Malian government has said. The election aims to "reunite the minds of Malians, reunite their hearts, and to enable Mali to remain one and indivisible," Territorial Administration Minister Moussa Sinko Coulibaly said in the capital Bamako on Thursday. To win in the first round, a candidate will need to earn more than 50 percent of the vote. Legislative elections will then be held on July 21, along with a second round of the presidential vote if a run-off is required.
Conservatives in the US House of Representatives want to extend the current freeze on cost-of-living pay increases for America's two million civilian federal workers. They have fought to block a 0.5 per cent pay raise proposed by US President Barack Obama for the last nine months of this year, claiming the move will save $11 billion over the long run. Representative Ron DeSantis said federal spending is out of control, and that his bill "tackles Congress and our bloated federal government head-on." The move was met with opposition from Democrats, who said federal workers have already done their fair share in helping reduce the country's deficit.
Thousands have protested on the streets of western Iraq's Anbar province against what they claim is selective enforcement of anti-terror laws. Protesters said that Iraq's predominantly Shia government uses the law to persecute Sunnis, and demanded the ouster of PM Nouri Al-Maliki. Organized protests have continued for a week in the towns of Samara and Ramadi. The Iraqi government claimed that Al-Qaeda and its affiliates deliberately provoke sectarian tension to destabilize the country.
Bulgaria reportedly expelled a visiting delegation from the Palestinian group Hamas on Friday. Bulgarian security service agents "entered the hotel rooms of the three deputies early on Friday morning and drove them to the airport," said Mohd Abuasi of the Center for Middle East Studies, the organization that invited the lawmakers. "The agents explained to them that they had to leave because of strong political pressure on Bulgaria from Israel," he told AFP. The visitors were reportedly sent to Istanbul, Turkey. Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the lawmakers had left Bulgaria, without specifying if they had been expelled.
Some 150 rebels and government troops were killed while fighting for control of the international airport in Syria's northern city of Aleppo and a major military air base nearby, activists said. The reported death toll is from fighting on Wednesday and Thursday, and is almost evenly divided between opposition fighters and regime soldiers, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Rebels and government forces were reportedly shelling each other in renewed clashes in the area on Friday.
Georgian politician Givi Targamadze is now wanted in Russia, the Moscow department of the Russian Interior Ministry said. On Thursday, investigators charged the head of the Georgian parliament's defense and security committee with plotting mass riots in Russia, Investigative Committee spokesperson Vladimir Markin said. Targamadze was charged in absentia with preparing to organize mass riots in Russia. In October, a documentary was aired that claimed Targamadze had met with Russian opposition leaders to plan riots.
Pakistan has test-fired from an undisclosed area a Hatf-II ('Abdali') nuclear-capable missile, which has an effective range of 180 kilometers, Pakistani intelligence said. The launch, witnessed by Pakistan's military brass, was part of a wider review of the country's ground-based ballistic missile systems. Earlier this week, Pakistan test-fired a similar missile with a range of 60 kilometers.
Turkish artillery has retaliated against a shell fired from neighboring Syria that breached Turkish territory, causing no casualties, Anatolia news agency said Friday. The shell fell near the town of Yayladag in Hatay province near the border with Syria Thursday night, and Turkish forces retaliated immediately. Turkey has retaliated against every cross-border shelling after Syrian fire killed five Turkish nationals on October 3.
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, one of the biggest names in world sports, was charged in a Pretoria court on Friday with murdering his girlfriend. The Paralympic champion broke down in tears after being charged, Reuters reported. Police detained Pistorius after they found Reeva Steenkamp dead from multiple gunshot wounds at his house in the middle of the night Thursday.
An estimated 40,000 people have fled a town in eastern Syria after three days of fighting, the UN food agency said on Friday. The World Food Program (WFP) has delivered additional rations to the area in recent days, Reuters reported. "A WFP team visited the area and estimated that around 40,000 people have fled al-Shaddadeh to al-Hassakeh city," the agency said. Rebels reportedly seized al-Shaddadeh in Syria's oil-producing east on Thursday. At least 30 opposition fighters and 100 Syrian troops were killed in the fighting, a monitoring group said.
Processed foods marked as beef but containing horsemeat may have been re-exported to Russia, the country's Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) said Friday. "It is not excluded that such products may have entered Russian territory," Reuters said, citing a VPSS statement. The service also requested that European consumer protection authorities share the results of their investigation. The VPSS said there were "serious problems" with export controls in the European Union.
Authorities have re-introduced a strict curfew across most of Indian-controlled Kashmir ahead of Friday prayers. The Himalayan region was rocked by violent anti-India protests after Mohammed Afzal Guru was hanged Saturday in a New Delhi jail for his role in a deadly 2001 attack on India's parliament that killed 14, including five gunmen. The curfew has been in place since the execution, but demonstrators have defied it and clashed with government forces. Three protesters have been killed and more than 100 have been detained. Many in Kashmir believe Guru did not get a fair trial.
A Bahraini police officer died after being hit by an incendiary device thrown during clashes with protesters, the interior ministry said Friday. The incident happened in a Shiite village overnight, AFP reported. Bahrain saw daylong violence on Thursday in which a teenager was shot dead as protesters marked the second anniversary of a Shiite-led uprising against the kingdom's Sunni rulers.
Indian troops have killed a Pakistani soldier who crossed the Line of Control in the Khoi Rata area of Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army reported. Pakistani military officials have claimed the soldier crossed the line accidentally because he was lost. The Indian Army has agreed to return the soldier's body to Pakistan.
Heavy rains in Bolivia have claimed at least 23 lives in recent days, civil defense authorities said. Nearly 10,000 families across much of the country have been affected by rain-swollen rivers. A river in the southern region of Chuquisaca has overflowed its banks, and a bridge has collapsed over a swollen river south of La Paz. The Bolivian government may declare a state of emergency.
Seoul said Friday it has so far failed to detect radioactive elements that may have been produced by North Korea's third nuclear test. South Korea is halting sea operations to collect samples, and will continue monitoring at land stations. China and Japan have also reported no success after collecting air samples, which will be crucial in determining whether Tuesday's detonation used uranium or plutonium – a uranium test would be seen as a major step forward for Pyongyang's nuclear program, as highly enriched uranium degrades quickly. No radioactivity was detected after Pyongyang's second test in 2009.
The number of those killed in a blast at the Vorkutinskaya mine in Russia's northern Republic of Komi rose to 19 after miner Gennady Nesterenko died overnight in a Vorkuta hospital, the regional department of the Emergency Situations Ministry said Friday. Four people were hospitalized after the 800-meter-deep methane blast. During the explosion, 259 people were working at different sections of the mine, and most were evacuated. The mine resumed operations on Friday, except in the section where the blast happened.
Carnival Triumph, the cruise ship disabled for days at sea has finally been pulled into the port at Mobile, Alabama. Many of the 3,143 passengers however still have hours to wait before they can come ashore as there is only one working elevator on board. Some 100 buses have been chartered to deliver passengers to the Texas cities of Galveston, Houston and New Orleans. The 13-storey, 272-metre cruise liner has been without power since an engine fire on Sunday.
A fugitive convicted in a marijuana smuggling case has been captured in Mexico after a 26-year run. Manuel Lopez-Castro, a former banker and an attorney has been arrested in Cancun Mexico with the help of the local authorities, but is now in Miami. The 61-year-old fled before his 27-year sentence for marijuana smuggling and other convictions was due to begin. During his decades-long run, Lopez-Castro is believed to have lived in Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Venezuela and Panama before settling in Mexico.


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Compare Energy Prices
Given the sky-high cost of heating and powering a home these days, it makes sense to compare energy prices online to identify the best deal for your needs - and switch supplier if necessary.
It's a quick and straightforward process at MoneySuperMarket's comparison tool. You enter details of where you live, the type of property you live in, and the amount of energy you typically consume.
Single or dual fuel tariff?
Most of us use gas and electricity. If you opt to take both types of fuel from a single provider, you will probably receive a 'dual fuel' discount. In other words, they'll charge you less than they would if they charged you for gas and electricity separately.
But that doesn't necessarily mean a dual fuel deal will be the cheapest. You might be able to get single fuel tariffs from different suppliers that, when added together, cost less than the cheapest dual fuel deal.
That's why it's important to shop around and run a number of quotations. The time you invest - and it is still only a matter of minutes - will be repaid in lower energy bills.
How you pay
Monthly direct debit will be the cheapest option as gas and electricity providers offer discounts to customers who pay in this way. However, millions of people still pay for their energy quarterly by cheque or cash, which can cost them between 6% and 10% a year more.
If you are on a pre-payment meter, monthly direct debit won't be an option.
Look at the small print of what you are signing up for. Fixed and capped deals will give you comfort that you are not paying above a set amount for a period of time, but the sting in the tail is that if you want to leave before the end of the deal, you might have to pay a cancellation or exit fee. This could wipe out much of the saving you stand to make by switching to another deal.
Some contracts also have tie-in periods, where even though your deal might have come to an end, you are contracted to stay with the same energy supplier on their standard tariff, and again you will pay a penalty if you leave it.
Not all fixed-term contracts include an exit fee, so you can opt for one of these if you prefer, although it might not be the absolute cheapest deal on offer.
Fixed rate deals are popular as they guarantee that you will be protected from further price increases for a set period of time. However, if prices fall during the period - which is possible but, we think, unlikely - you would not see any benefit.
If you think energy prices are likely to go down, then a variable rate tariff will allow you to benefit, but if you are wrong and prices rise, then you will be hit with higher bills.
Customer service
It sounds unimportant, but there are plenty of people who are prepared to pay a little extra to get better customer service. While everything is working fine and you have no problem with your energy supplier, it is largely irrelevant.
But when something goes wrong and you need some help to resolve an issue, good customer service is key. You can ask friends or check forums to find out which energy suppliers have the best customer service.
Online services
Online energy services are those run over the internet, so you will be expected to manage your account online and won't receive bills through the post.
Because the costs of running customer accounts are lower, online tariffs are usually cheaper than standard tariffs so if you are comfortable using the internet, this type of deal is well worth investigating.
What's more, you can submit meter readings online at any time, making it simple to keep track of your usage and ensure you are being accurately billed.
Switching process
There should be no difficulty in switching from your current energy supplier to a new one.
Once the application has been made online via MoneySuperMarket, your switch will be completed soon after.
Traditionally, it takes between four and six weeks to switch, but energy suppliers are now moving towards a 17-day switch, including a 14-day cooling-off period, should you change your mind.
You do not even need to speak to your existing supplier. All you'll have to do is send your new supplier a meter reading.
Your energy supply will not be interrupted, and there'll be no need for work to be carried out at your home or in the street outside. You will simply see a new name on your bill, and lower costs.
*51% consumers, MoneySuperMarket data, December 2014

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Ex-Conversion Solutions Officer Gets 23 Years in Prison
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Three former officers of Conversion Solutions Holdings Corp., based in Kennesaw, Georgia, were sentenced to prison terms as long as 23 years and ordered to make restitution of $44 million for running a so-called stock pump and dump scheme, the Justice Department said.
"These significant sentences reflect the seriousness of the massive fraud these defendants committed against numerous victims who invested in the defendants' company," Sally Q. Yates, U.S. Attorney in Atlanta, said in a statement. "While the defendants got rich, victims lost millions."
The trio were convicted in federal court in Atlanta last year of conspiring to issue false press releases and financial statements to inflate the share price from less than $1 in August 2006 to $3 and $4 a share in October 2006, prosecutors said.
They transferred shares secretly to family members to cash in on the higher price, prosecutors said in the statement.
U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten sentenced Rufus Paul Harris, 43, a co-founder and chief executive officer of the firm, to 23 years in prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Harris, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, fled while on trial in Atlanta last year, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. He was captured in Utah four days later, the prosecutor's statement said.
Harris's lawyer, Howard Manchel of Atlanta, didn't immediately respond to e-mail and phone messages seeking comment on his client's sentence.
Chief Financial Officer
Benjamin Stanley, 48, of Kennesaw Georgia, co-founder and chief operating officer, was sentenced to 16 years. Chief Financial Officer Darryl Horton, 50, of Okemos, Michigan, got four and a half years in prison. Horton pleaded guilty to mail fraud while the jury was deliberating, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
"We are disappointed in the length of the sentence" for Stanley, said his lawyer, Donald Samuel of Atlanta. Stanley "believed in the validity of the business model, the legitimacy of the investments," said Samuel, acknowledging that the jury rejected the claim that he was duped as the investors were.
Efforts to reach Horton's attorney by e-mail and phone after regular business hours weren't immediately successful.
Prosecutors said the $44 million they are to pay in restitution will go to more than 5,000 victims.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission referred the case to the federal investigators, according to the statement. The firm, a diversified holding company, has been delisted.
The company claimed $800 million in assets, most of it in foreign sovereign bonds, and income of almost $20 million a year in interest revenue. None of that was true, according to the government.
The case is U.S. v. Harris, 1:09-cr-00406, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta).
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Contact Center is a powerful new way to keep in touch
Contact Center is the latest app from Contrast, the developers behind Launch Center Pro. Contact Center could actually be described as Launch Center Pro for Contacts. It uses the same grid setup as LCP, and allows you to create simple yet powerful shortcuts to make communicating with other people as easy as possible.
Contact Center lets you customize how you communicate. You can choose, for instance, to dedicate one square on Contact Center's grid to group email, or calling a contact. Or you could decide to dedicate that square to a specific contact. Pressing and holding that square will display a new grid with all of the ways that you've set up to get in touch with this person.
In customizing contacts, you have several options available to you. You can set up one-button FaceTime or FaceTime Audio calling. The app has built-in support for WhatsApp. You can set up a custom canned message for just that contact. Contact Center has support for Giphy, so you can message your friend a funny GIF. You can also easily message photos, email your clipboard, and much more.
Contact Center is free to download, with a $2.99 in-app purchase to remove the ads and reclaim the squares. It's rolling out in the App Store now, so grab it when you can and tell us what you think.
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Contact Center is a powerful new way to keep in touch
Wait and try again later and later in the day. Also try searching for Launch Center Pro and choosing Related.
Wait and try again later and later in the day. I will do this because it will not load for me in the store. I searched for Launch Center Pro or Contrast.
Update: Downloaded, removed ads. I am now going to set it up later.
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iMovie '11 — much like its mobile counterpart — just keeps getting better.
Updated about a week ago to version 9.0.4, the new iteration includes the regular bug fixes and stability enhancements. However, in an unexpected (and, somehow, largely undiscussed) move, Apple managed to toss in one seriously noteworthy feature: iMovie for Mac can now open imported videos from iMovie for iOS!
To be honest, I didn't know the previous build couldn't do that. Since they're both called iMovie, I naturally assumed the two were compatible from the start. Naivete aside, though, it's nice to know that iMovie fans can now easily access a (potential) ton of additional content.
Noted on Apple's website, the latest update also:
- Fixes an issue where some audio adjustments were not preserved.
- Addresses a performance issue when using large quantities of video clips with keywords.
- Resolves issue with slow application launch when working with large iPhoto libraries.
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Millwall goalkeeper Steve Mildenhall has signed a new contract at the Championship club.
The 32-year-old, who has been back-up to regular number one David Forde all season, has committed himself to The Den until 2013.
"When I was offered a deal I was more than happy to stay and help this club continue to move in the right direction," Mildenhall told the Lions' official website.
"I am disappointed not to have made a first-team appearance but the side have been doing well and so has Dave.
"I've got to keep persevering.
"I'd like to think I have helped get the best out of Dave."
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One Bike to Rule Them All?
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Joined: Oct 2012
Location: The Green Between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
Oddometer: 321
Still reading a boatload on this site. It's like a library for adventure riding.
I have pretty much boiled it down to:
- Multistrada 1100 S which looks to have incredible handling and solid reliability. My understanding is this model goes 15k between valves,as opposed to 7500 on the DS 1000? Two thoughts. First, how much of a bank-breaker is the 15k service and second, is that the kind of thing one can do for oneself? It seems a lot of people have learned to do the valve work on the MTS themselves?
- Buell Ulysses, which are popping up with low miles in my range and below. From what I have seen, there is a big difference/improvement in bearings in the 2008 models and later. Also, the general thought seems to be to get an extra belt, just for peace of mind, and learn how to change it, just for peace of mind....Thoughts?
- Tiger 955 which seem awfully rare in clean, low mile condition (though I just saw one pop up on this site...on the wrong coast). Reliability-wise, people either love them or hate them, though most seem solidly in the love camp.
Still having a great time reading thoughts and reviews, but I really prefer this site as it gives real-life ownership perspectives as opposed to mag articles which seem to have simply cut-and-pasted the dealer specs...
Looking forward to Spring when I can actually get out and ride. And make a decision.
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EYES ON THE ROAD: Get caught texting while driving in the Sunshine State and it will cost you some money.
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Building A Better Contact Center Agent
Filed under: Engagement, People
National Customer Service Week was set aside by George H. Bush in 1992. The week has turned into a month-long celebration by many service organizations. In the Proclamation, President Bush sited the clear value of service excellence in a free market economy. He said, "A business will do a better job of providing high quality goods and services by listening to its employees and by empowering them with opportunities to make a difference. Customer service professionals work in the front lines where a firm meets its customers; where supply meets demand. With responsive policies and procedures and with simple courtesy, customer service professionals can go a long way toward ensuring customer satisfaction and eliciting the next round of orders and purchases."
As par of the celebration, I had the opportunity to team-up with ICMI, the nation's leading global provider of resources for customer management professionals, to write a blog series designed specifically for frontline agents. We know that great technology and processes only go so far towards the goal to create a "customer obsessed" organization – while the frontline agent really owns the experience. Their importance cannot be under-valued.
As I developed my outline for the posts, I landed on four key concepts that I think are important. You can read the posts on the ICMI website:
- Perspective
- Attitude
- Readiness
- Coaching
- The entire list of these posts and more can be found here.
Agents can make or break the customer experience – building great agents is an important part of building successful contact centers.
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Contact Centers – Choose Your CRM Wisely – Bluewolf
Where Are You On The Knowledge Continuum? – ICMI
Is Your Contact Center Living Up To Expectations? – Bluewolf
Was that OK?
Filed under: Leadership, Management, People, Relational Leadership
In her commencement speech at Harvard yesterday, Oprah Winfree shared an idea that she called "the most important thing she has learned in her career…." If you work in a contact center – then please watch the video and think about how important it is to what we do as leaders. "People want to be validated."
Actually this is a concept that I learned from John Maxwell several years ago in his book "25 Ways to Win with People." Although it does not happen every time, I try to live by this concept on a daily basis). He said that he seeks to say something positive to a person in the first 30 seconds of every conversation – to validate that person – and he seeks to make it personal.
Oprah's concept is a simple yet powerful one to, not only contemplate, but to make a part of who you are. My challenge is this – watch the video and read the script. Then try the concept for the rest of the day. Seek opportunities to validate people for their accomplishments. And don't forget to do it with people that need it most – the people that may be doing just what is expected – not just those that are exceeding expectations. If we can find ways to validate and improve the 3s, 4s and 5s, we can move them to 5s, 6s, and 7s – and imagine the impact of that on your contact center.
Quick Idea: Seek to validate three people in the next hour! They want to know, "Was that OK?"


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OK, I give up. I have been trying to set up my Slackware 10
box to print on my old HP 4L for over a month with no
I got my wheel mouse to work, sound was another challenge,
and getting 1024 x 768 took a while. But I am completely
baffled with CUPS. I moved from SUSE which had YAST to
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Earlier this week, Oscar nominations came out, and while once again I've seen a paltry number of the films nominated, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring and make some predictions I will likely eat in the end.
But ah well, that's part of the fun, but we're going to shake things up a bit this time. For this year's prognostications, I'm going with two categories, what I believe will happen and what I would like to happen.
Let's get to it (and good luck to you all playing the home game). See you in February.


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July 13, 2006 2:51 PM PDT
Help (still) wanted: Cybersecurity czar
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On July 13, 2005, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the creation of an assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications post as part of his "six-point agenda" to reorganize the sprawling agency.
Currently, the agency's top cybersecurity officer is a low- to mid-level position further removed from the secretary. The new official, charged with leading the government's responses to threats and attacks, is supposed to report directly to the undersecretary for preparedness, one of three top level officials who answer directly to Chertoff.
"It's apparent that the department is moving at dial-up speed in hardening this infrastructure to respond to cyberattacks," Rep. Bernie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who serves as co-chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement Thursday. The vacancy has also inspired outrage from his colleague, California Democrat Zoe Lofgren.
Homeland Security spokesman Jarrod Agen said the department is "close to the final stages of the hiring process" and should be naming a candidate soon, though he wasn't sure precisely when that would occur.
He admitted, however, that the process has been challenging, since the government must compete with the higher salaries and other perks, such as stock options, dangled by the private sector.
"It takes a unique candidate to make the personal and professional sacrifice to join a relatively young organization like DHS and take on the responsibility and the criticism that they'll encounter in that very demanding role," he said.
But without a strong leader in charge, it's unclear how well the nation would be able to respond to cyber-catastrophes, critics charged.
"It is indicative of the ongoing lack of attention being paid to cybersecurity at the most senior levels of government," said Paul Kurtz, executive director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, an advocacy group with security companies as its members. "There is no shortage of qualified candidates to serve as assistant secretary, just as there is no shortage of hackers eager to wreak havoc on our information infrastructure and national economy."
The Business Software Alliance, whose members include Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Dell and Microsoft, took a gentler tack in voicing its concerns. In a three-paragraph letter to Chertoff dated July 12, President Robert Holleyman said he appreciated the position's creation and was "hopeful" a qualified individual would be appointed "in the near future."
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- All to simple really
- All to simple really, they can't find one dumb enough or stupid enough to be a rubber stamp yes man!
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- not so tough a decision
- Lets see. Should I take a job that
1/Doesn't carry the authority to implement anything worthy of the name security while at the same time being used as the scapegoat whenever the inevitably successful attacks on national security networks take place.
2/Will have to oversee security of disparate and incompatible systems, some of which are over 4 decades old, without any of the personel that remember how to support such equipment.
3/Have to completely replace software in a hostile environment while political backstabbing and preventative tactics attempt to hold onto each person's own little kingdom. In other words not a single user will give new systems time to bed in and adapt because existing managers whose positions will no longer be unassailable due to systems that only they had the required knowledge to support or even operate will do their best to bias their employees against any sort of change.
3/Whenever a new virus or worm trickles out from some Russian mafia's workstation, the ensuing over-reaction and end-of-the-world scenarios are over-hyped by a media with little or no understanding in computer security. This is then exacerbated by antivirus and security software companies hoping to cash in on the fear caused by such hysteria.
So trying to deliver a healthy dose of reality, such as the only people going to be affected are those that can't be bothered to implement patch management systems and the subsequent manual labor involved in cleaning and then patching affected systems is hardly life threatening - especially as no systems exist that control power plants, dams or city water supplies that could be affected by Windows malware will probably go unnoticed or worse, be discredited by CompUSA store employees whose vast knowledge of computer security amounts to little more than how to install overpriced antivirus software.
4/That the real solutions to things like identity theft have more to do with prosecuting companies that store people's personal data without adequate protection or those that dispose of media containing such information without appropriate safeguards (shredding, disk wiping, etc) will definitely be ignored in favour of solutions that will actually make the situation worse - in a similar way that Can Spam has introduced a world with more spam per legitimate email than previously thought possible.
hmm let me think about it for a moment..
My guess is the successful candidate for this position will have absolutely no legitimate background in systems security, but will be a political grandstander, who's career is nothing more than a sleazy climb up the corporate ladder - or will be George Bush's buddy from college that let him copy his science assignments.
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- The reason why is.....
- all the people (er, cronies) they wanted to put in the position were too busy downloading kiddie porn and standing near schools wearing raincoats.
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- Lets make it even easier for high-tech fraudsters..
- The government's response to security breaches really is amazing. After the recent laptop thefts, hackings, phishing scams, trojans, etc. something like this should be top priority.
http://www.techknowbizzle.com/2006/06/20788366461-brief-history-of-data.html
Information contained within government computers puts all Americans in risk, if it is something that can be accessed by a creative hacker. Proper safety precautions should be their top priority at this point.
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- Much needed change....
- Although I agree with previous comments made by ajbright, and how the position would most likely turn into a lose/lose scenario, I can't help but feel that the government is in dire need of a leader in tech security.
I'm somewhat relieved to see that the government is even taking action into trying to refresh the position. It shows that they atleast recognize that they're facing a huge security problem....one that's going global.
http://www.techknowbizzle.com/2006/06/data-security-gets-worse-as-hackers-go.html
http://www.techknowbizzle.com/2006/06/us-government-finally-sets-standards.html
But yeah, it's good to finally see some action taking place over at homeland security. But if it's going to take over a year for the government to start making some much needed changes, we should probably take our own private security into our own hands.
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Valerie Harper is confronting a terminal cancer diagnosis with a brave face, and she says her husband, Tony Cacciotti is her coach.
Harper sat down with Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on "Access Hollywood Live" to talk about her memoir, "I, Rhoda," and share her struggles and triumphs as she faces a rare brain cancer, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.
"I get terrified at night sometimes and think, 'Oh my God, I'm gonna die,'" says Harper. "And if I feel like crying, I do. And if I feel like walking around the house and taking deep breaths, I do. I have experienced grief. And I find giving space for what your emotion is, that's being here now. You must be afraid. Let yourself be afraid. Then the fear doesn't have you. You have control in that moment."
Valerie points out, "It's not crazy to be afraid of death. No one wants to embrace it. I'm just saying, don't let your fear of death rob your living now. You don't need a cancer diagnosis to do that. You can just do that. You can just live that."
Harper's memoir reveals behind-the-scenes details about her 1970s sitcom, "Rhoda" and it's predecessor, "The Mary Tyler Moore" show. She also describes in the book falling in love with hher husband, who started as her personal trainer. Valerie says though Cacciotti initially hid her cancer diagnosis from her, he is once again her "coach," helping her to figure out how to keep living while she's alive.
"He's the love of my life and I don't want to leave him," Harper says of Cacciotti. "But I have to face what may be ahead. And he's saying 'let's extend the time.' He was my coach then, he's my coach now, and he's my beloved, loved heart. He's just my heart."
Harper says she worries that pressure on her brain may cause abnormal behavior and leave her husband and daughter in a lurch having to take care of her. She's also concerned that funeral plans be set, so Tony won't have to deal with them on his own.
On the bright side, Valerie says she's been fielding job offers since her illness came to light. "I have been asked to do some jobs, which is wonderful," says Harper. "And I'd be pleased to do it."
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Illegibilus - Nathaniel Osborn by takatsuyaWatch
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Name: Nathaniel Osborn
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Height: 6'3" / 191cm
Weight: 176lbs / 80kg
Birthday: February 2nd
Nationality: British/French
House: Ravenclaw
Year: Sixth
Blood-status: Muggleborn
> Passive
Rarely the one to strike up conversation and will only speak when needed. Appears distant and unsociable, sometimes rude at first, and prefers to work in the background.
> Laid back
Not one to be easily angered or irritated by something since he tolerates mostly anything and everything …until you disturb his sleep
or try to harm his pet. Nevertheless he definitely likes and will do things his way at his own pace.
> Unmotivated Bookworm
He is less-academically motivated than most of his Ravenclaw friends. He doesn't really care about it since he thinks getting more knowledge is more important than the actual scores he gets.
>A Waste of Talent
He is gifted with high intelligence and displays remarkable talent in wizardry, especially spells as he is able to perform spells with high efficiency and is a quick learner. Sadly, he rarely has the will to put his brain to good use and prefers to use spells for his own convenience.
>Highly Observant and Resourceful
He is quick to perceive and good at noticing what's going on around him. But when he knows something, he usually keeps it to himself. He also tends to have an unusual way of thinking.
No, he doesn't like sticking his nose in other people's business. He is just too eager to know about things, once it catches his interest.
Likes : Sleeping, books, quiet places, good food (especially yorkshire pudding), singing
Dislikes: Unnecessary commotion, crowds, getting into trouble
Nathaniel was born in London to a British doctor Frederick Osborn and French singer Sylvianne Osborn. Growing up in a lively family of six, Nathaniel oddly developed a quiet and aloof personality-a trait not shared among his siblings- and quickly became the oddball of the family, but being the youngest of the four Osborn siblings earned him all the attention and affection from his parents and his much older siblings. His parents are more than proud of him. As a gifted child with high intelligence, his outstanding reputation at school made him the center of attention and he received praises and words of admiration from his friends and teachers, but Nathaniel didn't seem to enjoy the attention he gets. Nevertheless, he lived his childhood life like any other kid.
When he was 8, something very unusual happened. An annoyed Nathaniel accidentally made his alarm clock combust to flames, which actually terrified him that he ran to his parents for help. Surprised at their son's newfound ability, they decided to keep it a secret while hoping that one day their son will be able to control his ability properly. As time goes by, a curious Nathaniel began experimenting with his new ability which mostly ended up in failure.
On his eleventh birthday on February 2nd, a mysterious messenger came to deliver a letter, which was revealed to be his admittance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, much to his family's confusion and surprise. Having learned that there are more people like him, he decided to attend Hogwarts with his parents' approval. He spent his days trying to adjust with his new environment, getting to know things around him, and of course, being sorted to Ravenclaw (and snorted upon knowing that their common room is located at the very top of the tower). He also began spending most of his free time in the library reading about things he should know about the wizarding world, eventually making his curiosity even bigger resulting in him reading more and more books until he fell asleep and trying out new spells in secret at night. This quickly became a hobby of his, as he prefers to spend his time getting to know this new world he has just discovered through books to socializing, making him more distant than he already is.
He managed to make some friends after all, and spending some time with them slowly made him to open up.
- Frederick Osborn (father, muggle, 49)
- Sylvianne Osborn (mother, muggle, 46)
- Raeden Osborn (older brother, 24)
- Clarissa Osborn (older sister - twins, 23)
- Cassandra Osborn (older sister - twins, 23)
Core: Dragon Heartstring
Length: Thirteen and ¾ inches
Wood: Hornbeam
Flexibility: Hard
"A fine tuned, but stubborn wand that refuses to perform any kind of magic in the hands of others except its own master. It seems to have adapted to the owner's offensive style of duelling"
Silencio - Silences the victim, preventing any form of vocalization. Can be used to disrupt powerful magic that requires a verbal component.
Evanesco - A transfiguration spell used to vanish both animate and inanimate objects.
Expelliarmus - Causes the target's wand to fly from their hand. With sufficient power behind it, this charm may throw a victim back forcefully.
Protego - Creates a shield from the caster's wand which deflects jinxes, hexes, and curses.
Oppugno - Causes conjured objects or creatures to attack a victim.
Revellio - Analyzes the special properties and enchantments affecting a magical item.
>> Apparition, Alchemy, Care of Magical Creatures, Arithmancy, Study of Ancient Runes
>> Earth Magic, Magical Theory
Name: Spilvens
Species: Tarantula (Chaco golden knee)
Gender: Female
Personality: Quiet, timid, docile
A tarantula that he purchased as his birthday present. When he brought it home, the tarantula seems to be very comfortable hanging around him. Until now, this somewhat timid tarantula likes to sit on his bushy hair.
> Nicole Hyland - The first person to make him snap. He is very aggressive when it comes to her and is always the first to suspect her when something goes wrong. They bicker 24/7.
> Courtney Blake - Nicole's friend who is always there to stop him and Nicole when they start bickering. Nathaniel first thought of him as a narcissist, but somehow they became friends. He thinks this guy makes the best pun.
> Tristan Llewellyn - Extremely wary of this Gryffindor boy. He will never again trust his sense of direction.
> Autumn Lerwick - A girl he befriended on summer break. He's definitely pleased to find a friend with similar interest and they soon became gaming buddies (he can never beat her at fighting game).
> Alex Ang - Aiden's twin. Is quite surprised at how different they are (in terms of personality)
> Catherine Featherstone - Drinking buddies. He met her during QWC at the drinking competition
> Daniel Hyland - Nicole's little brother, he finds him more likeable than his sister and somehow they get along well. Sometimes he helps him study.
> Ein Schutzhauer - A very kind Hufflepuff girl who seems to cry easily. Finds her company enjoyable and somehow feels the need to look after this girl.
> Oliveria Rulstein - He recognizes her as 'the girl who calls him Gnomie'. Actually thinks she's a fun person to be around with.
> Aiden Ang - BALLS.ON.FIRE--loljk He owes her a lot for helping him during his first year.
> Eve Blotts - A talkative Ravenclaw girl. He will never forget about the discount coupon she gave him.
> Elizabeth McGuire - A fellow Ravenclaw, she seems to be good with animals..
> Paris King - A mysterious and quiet Slytherin girl. He doesn't mind telling her things about muggle world since she seems curious about it..
> Isabella Bonnaud - A Slytherin girl he knows of, but somehow he finds her motherly?
• Voice sample : youtu.be/7SlNDoyTEIw{ACHIEVEMENTS}
• He is thinking of trying out the Quidditch Team this year (gotta try quidditch at least once)
• Best subject : Transfiguration, Arithmancy
• He has weird laughing fit
• He likes listening to old musics
• He is left handed
[1000 House Points, Prefect Badge, Quidditch Captain, House Cup, QWC Badge, Gala Badge, Yule Badge]
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I'm not rly sure about the exact topic but I want to RP with him hngg o)-(
beautiful! <3
*Reads "Passive" and "Dislikes unnecessary commotion* Isadora loves passive people and it's terrified by the too emotional one!
Nathaniel is so lovely!!! He has a great personality and a intresting bg story! I love the fact that his mother is a singer, it's kinda cool.
Want to RP sometimes?
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Nathaniel is so lovely!!! He has a great personality and a intresting bg story! I love the fact that his mother is a singer, it's kinda cool.
Want to RP sometimes?
Here is my creature fav.me/d7t45o5
Sobsss, wow, what a cute! ; v ; he's so handsomeee///
aksjdaj //princess carries him to the trashbin o)--<
hope i can rp with you sometimes tho!
hope i can rp with you sometimes tho!
holy...that spider looks real oAo
Are you open for rps?
Are you open for rps?
gosh I love him also that spider omg asjdklasjfkl
I'd love to rp sometime ;A;
I'd love to rp sometime ;A;
askjfas ahh thank youu ;7; and sure sure just tell me your preferred rp method!


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Vault Collection| WB Archive
Friendships, Secrets And Lies DVD
Price: $17.99
- Technical Specs
- Format: DVD [MOD]
- Rating: Not Rated
- Number of Discs: 1
- Run Time: 97 Minutes
- Region: 1
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
- Language: English
- Studio: Warner Archives
- DVD Release Date: May 18, 2010
- Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
- Color: Color
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All but two of the various seniors featured in a new Challenger commercial were born in 1914 or before -- if we are to trust Dodge's captions. They all show plenty of spunk and even a sense of humor in the 1 minute, 18-second spot. Their dialogue actually has very little to do with the featured vehicle -- except in an abstract way.
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Passepartout was delighted. His master's last exploit, the consequences of which he ignored, enchanted him. Never had the crew seen so jolly and dexterous a fellow. He formed warm friendships with the sailors, and amazed them with his acrobatic feats. He thought they managed the vessel like gentlemen, and that the stokers fired up like heroes. His loquacious good-humour infected everyone. He had forgotten the past, its vexations and delays. He only thought of the end, so nearly accomplished; and sometimes he boiled over with impatience, as if heated by the furnaces of the Henrietta. Often, also, the worthy fellow revolved around Fix, looking at him with a keen, distrustful eye; but he did not speak to him, for their old intimacy no longer existed. Fix, it must be confessed, understood nothing of what wasRead More »
Granser recollected himself, and with a start tore himself away from the rostrum of the lecture-hall, where, to another world audience, he had been expounding the latest theory, sixty years gone, of germs and germ-diseases. "Yes, yes, Edwin; I had forgotten. Sometimes the memory of the past is very strong upon me, and I forget that I am a dirty old man, clad in goat-skin, wandering with my savage grandsons who are goatherds in the primeval wilderness. 'The fleeting systems lapse like foam,' and so lapsed our glorious, colossal civilization. I am Granser, a tired old man. I belong to the tribe of Santa Rosans. I married into that tribe. My sons and daughters married into the Chauffeurs, the Sacramen-tos, and the Palo-Altos. You, Hare-Lip, are of the Chauffeurs. You, Edwin, are of the SacramentosRead More »
"Come on!" he shouted to the others. "Be quick!" They all ran forward and passed under the tree without injury, except Toto, who was caught by a small branch and shaken until he howled. But the Woodman promptly chopped off the branch and set the little dog free. The other trees of the forest did nothing to keep them back, so they made up their minds that only the first row of trees could bend down their branches, and that probably these were the policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in order to keep strangers out of it. The four travelers walked with ease through the trees until they came to the farther edge of the wood. Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to beRead More »
hroughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure. Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business. But, in general, they toil with their jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's fancy. Image Credit – Matt Kaufenberg Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition inRead More »
I was a little depressed at first with the contagion of my wife's fears, but very soon my thoughts reverted to the Martians. At that time I was absolutely in the dark as to the course of the evening's fighting. I did not know even the circumstances that had precipitated the conflict. As I came through Ockham (for that was the way I returned, and not through Send and Old Woking) I saw along the western horizon a blood-red glow, which as I drew nearer, crept slowly up the sky. The driving clouds of the gathering thunderstorm mingled there with masses of black and red smoke. Ripley Street was deserted, and except for a lighted window or so the village showed not a sign of life; but I narrowly escaped an accident at the cornerRead More »
The train reached Ogden at two o'clock, where it rested for six hours, Mr. Fogg and his party had time to pay a visit to Salt Lake City, connected with Ogden by a branch road; and they spent two hours in this strikingly American town, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, like a checker-board, "with the sombre sadness of right-angles," as Victor Hugo expresses it. The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons. In this strange country, where the people are certainly not up to the level of their institutions, everything is done "squarely"—cities, houses, and follies. Image Credit The travellers, then, were promenading, at three o'clock, about the streets of the town built between the banks of theRead More »
"Steelkilt rose, and slowly retreating round the windlass, steadily followed by the mate with his menacing hammer, deliberately repeated his intention not to obey. Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose. And in this way the two went once slowly round the windlass; when, resolved at last no longer to retreat, bethinking him that he had now forborne as much as comported with his humor, the Lakeman paused on the hatches and thus spoke to the officer: "'Mr. Radney, I will not obey you. Take that hammer away, or look to yourself.' But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shookRead More »
We went down the lane, by the body of the man in black, sodden now from the overnight hail, and broke into the woods at the foot of the hill. We pushed through these towards the railway without meeting a soul. The woods across the line were but the scarred and blackened ruins of woods; for the most part the trees had fallen, but a certain proportion still stood, dismal grey stems, with dark brown foliage instead of green. Image Source On our side the fire had done no more than scorch the nearer trees; it had failed to secure its footing. In one place the woodmen had been at work on Saturday; trees, felled and freshly trimmed, lay in a clearing, with heaps of sawdust by the sawing-machine and its engine. Hard by wasRead More »


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So, your teen is ready to learn to drive. Eek. You probably want them to have the smoothest learning and testing experience that they can can. It's an undeniably stressful process (for you, as well as your children!) however, with a bit of planning it can be made much less so!
Getting started early
Firstly, in terms of preparing your kids for the experience of driving it's sometimes a good idea to start a lot earlier than booking driving lessons once they get to 17! If you have access to private land that's easy to drive on (a wide open field in summer where the surface is stable, smooth and not wet, for instance) then getting them used to just using the pedals is a good start, as that's easily the hardest part of learning initially-as we all know with practice you can do it without thinking, but with everything else a learner has to get to grips with, getting the basic motions down before they start formal lessons can be very helpful. This way, they can focus on learning the rules, signs, safety procedures and so on, which should help greatly when it comes to their lessons and the practical test later on.
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Taking the theory/practical together
If you can, having the theory and practical tests fairly close together is for the best (as long as the driver is ready) so that they can focus on getting it done, if you leave it too long the theory test can expire and keeping the process of actively learning how to drive concentrated should help to develop your children's skills to a greater extent as well. Obviously you don't want to overwhelm them though, so try and get a feel for how comfortable they are with the speed of their learning. (This will inevitably be influenced to some extent by the instructor as well) If you're not comfortable with the instructor after a few lessons by the way, don't persevere with them-just go with someone else, and don't worry about being rude. It's important that they're good at actually instructing people as well as the depth of their automotive knowledge.
Timing the practical
Try to warn your children if you can about trying too early, as well-although some have a natural aptitude and pick things up very quickly, others may need a bit more time to feel comfortable enough with driving. Young people are naturally keen to get driving as soon as they can and they might be tempted to rush in headfirst, which might mean they're not as prepared as they could be. On the subject of creating the best chance possible in terms of the actual test, on the day of the test a short 'warm-up' drive is a good idea either with the instructor or yourself. Don't make it too long though, you don't want your kids to peak too early on test day!
There are a few ways of booking the actual test-by phone is generally preferable as long as you have everything you need to hand when you ring up, although doing things by post has its advantages as well .You can also book a test online, however the Directgov website can be a bit tricky and laborious to use, so you might want to look for alternatives. For example, bookyourpracticaltestonline.com offer a service that's a bit simpler and relatively hassle-free compared to the Directgov service.
In terms of a summary of what you'll need in the course of booking the test, Directgov have provided a PDF that covers pretty much all of the information that you might need; it might be an idea to print it off and keep it in case you need something to refer to during the process.
Hopefully, as long as your youngsters stay calm and remember what their instructor's taught them they'll be just fine on the big day!
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Miley Cyrus Has One Young-Looking Mom: You Won't Believe How Old Tish Cyrus Is! (PHOTO)
Mama Cyrus is just as gorgeous as her 19-year-old superstar daughter.
Miley Cyrus tweeted this photo of herself and her equally blonde mom, Tish Cyrus, on August 30, writing, "Photoshoot withhhh mommmmmyyyyy #mileycyrus.com ❤"
Yes, Tish was the woman who cured Miley's dad, Billy Ray, of his achy-breaky heart... though the couple came thisclose to divorcing a couple years back amid rumors that Tish had an affair with Bret Michaels. Fortunately, Bill Ray dropped the divorce in early 2011.
Tish is turning 53 on Saturday, but she doesn't look a day over 40! This is just further confirmation that Miley has some damn good genes. So jealous.
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Communities like Okinawa in Japan and Loma Linda in California are home to some of the longest-living people in the world. These communities are called "Blue Zones", a phrase coined by National Geographic writer and explorer, Dan Buettner.
Almost two years ago, the Blue Zones Project became integrated in many Iowa communities, with the goal of fostering healthy behavior so residents live long and happy lives.
While most of us were enjoying Thanksgiving leftovers, 61-year-old Iowa City resident John Little was completing his 13th Ironman Triathlon in Cozumel, an island off the Yucatan Peninsula.
An Ironman Triathlon consists of a 2.4-mile (3.86 km) swim, followed by a 112-mile (180.25 km) bicycle ride and ends with a marathon, which is a 26.2-mile (42.2 km) run. There are no breaks between each leg of the race. Host Ben Kieffer sits down with Little to discuss his extreme hobby, which he took up at the age of 55.
"For virtually any health outcome...
How strong is the link between physical activity and success? Ben Kieffer talks with Adele Diamond, one of the world's leading researchers on the brain's cognitive functions, as she gives her answer. Diamond talks about the real difference exercise can make in how you think, feel and interact with others.
Also, several members from Iowa's Blue Zones project talk about the project's current endeavors.
Having a child changes everything including how you eat and how you move. On today's Talk of Iowa, Charity talks with Dr. Helene Laroche, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Iowa about how becoming a parent can change your diet. Later, we hear from Matt Stancel, Assistant Director of Fitness Programs for Recreational Services at the U of I about how becoming a parent might change your exercise routine.


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2007 and the "next" big media thing
The barrier to entry into the media sphere has been lowered drastically, giving access to a vast new
The barrier to entry into the media sphere has been lowered drastically, giving access to a vast new
by Tom Armitage Published
The new replaces the old; that's the way it has always been. When we describe something as new, we imply that something old has been replaced. And this nomenclature drives a wedge between the two. The "old" becomes more stubborn, less inclined to modernise; it hounds the "new", eager to lecture it whenever it stumbles. This only causes the "new" to pull further away, and the wedge between the two is driven even deeper.
Nowhere is this gulf more obvious than in the gulf between new media and... And what, exactly? Before "new media", media was ageless. It was even honoured with a definite article - "the media" - and everyone understood the concept as a placeholder for journalism, publishing, and broadcasting.
What is this "new media" that emerged around ten years ago? For the purposes of these awards, the New Statesman considers new media to be not only the web, but "all digital and mobile technologies?". That may be a wide-reaching, fuzzily-defined beast, but it is not one to be afraid of.
Try telling that to "old media" outlets. There is a never-ending struggle between print media - newspapers, magazines - and the web. After all, Google is the great leveller, unswayed by the establishment, and will take readers wherever the facts are. The barrier to entry of the media sphere has been lowered drastically, and a vast community of self-publishers, such as bloggers, has emerged.
It is heartening to see so many fresh voices on the web, but they are not to be feared. Blogs were never competition for conventional publishing: they were an adjunct to it. Blogging gave a printing press to anyone who wanted one; what the bloggers did with their presses - whether it was emulate journalism or something else entirely - was up to them. Conventional publishing companies have begun to realise this over the past 12 months and are starting to explore how blogs can enhance their existing output.
When riots erupted in the French banlieues last autumn, the Swiss newspaper l'Hebdo (www.hebdo.ch) sent journalists to blog from the epicentre of the disturbances, working out of a microbureau in the town of Bondy. In doing so, they discovered that what makes a blog successful isn't the technology that powers it, or any aspiration to journalism, but the voices that write it.
As a result, l'Hebdo changed tactics. It took seven Bondy residents back to Switzerland, gave them a crash course in journalism and blogging and then handed the blog over to them. The resulting Bondy Blog (previon.typepad.com) continues to be a great success, and is still of relevance in the current French political climate. It would not exist without a fusion of old media skills with new media technology and attitude.
As well as blogging, print outlets, such as the Telegraph and the Guardian, are also branching out into broadcast through podcasting. Podcasting took off through amateurs because recording equipment was becoming ever-more affordable, and mass distribution ever more trivial. It was also in part a reaction to the relatively poor quality of talk radio in much of the world.
Those criteria are just as applicable to media corporations, particularly print. The aim of the newspapers is not to compete with broadcast media - it's to take their brand to wherever their target audience already are. And they are not entering this sector naïvely - many excellent print journalists already have broadcast experience. Like so many amateurs, the newspapers are simply putting their existing skills to good use.
But, while print media organisations seem to be understanding the potential of broadcasting, established broadcasters and film distributors are perhaps misunderstanding the challenges facing them. Video has always been expensive and complex to distribute, and yet by providing infrastructure and making the process simple, the video-sharing website YouTube (www.youtube.com) has exploded in popularity.
Film studios and television companies have long been afraid that the illegal online distribution of their content is denying them revenue. Yet, in a recent keynote speech, the American programmer and essayist Paul Graham outlined the real threat: "The big media companies shouldn't worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their own stuff on YouTube, and audiences will watch that instead."
Some of the target audience already are. Videobloggers and amateur programme-makers are putting out regular, scheduled, free, high-quality content for download, and the audience for these shows is growing. Ze Frank's highly entertaining "The Show" (zefrank.com/theshow), a daily, three-minute comedy programme, gets around 10,000 hits each day. That may not be many viewers in broadcast terms, but, for a programme with a cast and crew of one, with marketing by word-of-mouth, and an engaged, vocal audience, it's impressive. When you consider that Frank's programme is just one of an ever-increasing multitude, the emerging threat to TV networks seems more credible.
The key to making progress given that there is so much new technology available to us is to break away from the old paradigms; to consider how new technology can create outputs in a format that was inconceivable in previous times. The future is not distributing TV over the internet, but finding new ways to make TV with the internet.
We will never break away from the old paradigms entirely, for the new and old will always inform one another. The Guardian recently announced G24, a printable edition of the paper updated every 15 minutes, and available to download from the web. This would have been impossible before the technology was in place to publish the website.
All this is based on today's technology. In future, quality colour printing technology may be cheap enough and fast enough to enable the newspaper you buy to be printed on demand at your newsagent, the second you purchase it.
Would that be new media? Would that be old media? It is neither - like all the innovations of this age, it is just another step along the path of progress. "New media" is too limited and divisive a term for what is being created right now. Recast it as "next media", and a sense of its ongoing purpose emerges: to create information, tools, and services not just for tomorrow, but for every tomorrow.


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The KHL President Aleksandr Medvedev has unveiled the leagues future expansion plans as the regular season is about to end next week.
Speaking with the Sport-Express paper Medvedev stressed the current season was certainly the most intriguing in the league's history.
"It was a great pleasure to see so many teams struggling for places in the playoff zone, especially in the Western Conference," he said, refusing to make any predictions on which of the five teams – Slovan Bratislava, Lev Prague, Donbas Donetsk, Dynamo Minsk or Moscow region's Atlant – will fill the remaining three playoff slots.
The inclusion of Slovan, Lev and Donbas has been dubbed successful, according to the KLH boss.
"Look, before Lev joined the KHL the record attendance in Prague couldn't surpass 5,000 for years, while the derby between Lev and Slovan this year attracted a crowd of 16,000. The same surge in interest is witnessed in Bratislava, where we could see around 10,000 spectators at almost every game," Medvedev said.
As for the future expansion, Medvedev said the most likely candidates are now Croatian Zagreb and Italian Milan. Polish Gdansk has also become an official candidate recently.
"Perhaps, one of these cities will join the league starting from the new season," stressed Medvedev, adding, that the KHL is mulling over creating a third conference one day.


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7/4/13 Charlie Sheen Pleads to Stop Child Support
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
A guy says he has proof of Alex Rodriguez's steroid use and he's holding the evidence ransom -- for $1 million. According to TMZ, Porter Fischer -- an ex-employee at the drug clinic where A-Rod and other major leaguers allegedly got their juice -- met with baseball execs on Tuesday. His attorney says he has records on more than 100 ballplayers, including Rodriguez, but he's not going to turn them over out of the goodness of his heart. Fischer is reportedly holding out for at least seven figures.
Charlie Sheen may have a decent point here -- he says Brooke Mueller doesn't need child support while she's in rehab and Denise Richards is taking care of their kids. Charlie is asking a California judge to cancel Brooke's $55,000 monthly check. He believes that she's using the money to pay for her latest rehab stint, and since he's already shelled out for a couple of those, he shouldn't be on the hook again. Meanwhile, he's offered to boost Denise's child support while she watches the twins, but she turned him down. Brooke entered rehab last month and will likely be out in August.
Amanda Bynes claims she recently underwent plastic surgery to fix "webbing" between her eyes now says she adores going under the knife. She says, quote, "I Love Surgery. I Plan On Having Surgery On My Whole Face Straight Up."
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Stabroek, Belgium
It is rather premature to draw any conclusions about a link between testicular cancer and PVC/phthalates (This Week, 24 January, p 13).
Nearly all in-vivo tests of phthalates, even administered over two generations, show no hormonal influence whatsoever, neither on uterus weight for female rats, nor on sperm count or motility for males. In no case were more testicular cancers found, even if extreme amounts of phthalates, comparable to 500 grams per day for an adult, were given. So it is very unlikely that phthalates are the culprit.
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