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Nightmare Circus (Sega/Funcom, 1996)Posted on December 1st, 2009 11 comments
After nearly 14 years, someone (a Brazilian dude, of course) has finally figured out how to finish Nightmare Circus without cheats and posted the results online. You can probably click on the video to find the remaining parts.
Serious Genesis collectors probably know about this one. Announced in 1995, the side-scrolling action game (starring a guy who looks a little like John Redcorn) received perfunctory previews in US game magazines but ultimately found official release only from Tec Toy in Brazil. It was reportedly on the Sega Channel for a short time, too, before that service ended in 1998.
The game, as Tec Toy released it, seems about 95% complete by my estimate. Full debug controls are easily available, there's no story element or ending (besides the credit roll), and actually trying to work your way through the title is a long trial-and-error process. For most players tooling around with the ROM on an emulator, it takes a while even to figure out the controls — Nightmare Circus is meant to be played with a six-button pad, and Mr. Redcorn moves a lot like he's a Street Fighter II character, right down to the strong/weak melee moves.
There are a lot of good things to say about this game — some of the setpieces are pretty, some of the music atmospheric — but it plainly needed another couple months. As is, it's a depressing journey into the depressed minds of some depressed Scandinavian programmers. And yet I watched the entire walkthrough anyway. I'm incorrigible.
11 responses to "Nightmare Circus (Sega/Funcom, 1996)"
Sardoose December 1st, 2009 at 01:59
I wondered what this game's deal was. I watched the whole playthrough — it's like someone took the sheer inexplicableness of a bad point-and-click adventure game and put it in a platformer.
This is also the only Genesis game I've seen that makes you use the Mode button during gameplay. And in combination with other buttons, even.
Ah, Genesis music- not really good quality, but somehow endearing nonetheless.
Don't point to a game that uses the GEMS sound driver (which was used in a lot of American games – the music on Nightmare Circus was done by Americans including Kurt Harland of Information Society) and tell me Genesis music is bad. Go listen to something involving Hitoshi Sakimoto.
EDIT: Go listen to something involving Hitoshi Sakimoto and then tell me how bad Genesis music is.
Oh, I didn't mean to say that all Genesis/MD games had crappy soundtracks- but to me there is a Genesis "sound", just like when you hear an NES game you can tell what system it's for just by hearing it alone.
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Hair: Starting to look like I've been in The Beatles >.>
Makeup: Does facial hair count?
Eating: Just eaten cookies
Drinking: Snapple - Mango Madness
Thinking: Can I trust this bottle of Snapple...? Should I study for the tests I have tomorrow?
Feeling: A bit nervous for this week, school work is kind of going to hell...
Talking to: No one
Listening to: Lamb Of God - 11th Hour
Watching: The live recording for the song
Loving: It's a bit hard to love anything this week...
Hating: The fact that I have 2 tests tomorrow that I'm not prepared for
Wanting: The school to burn ^^
Waiting for: 1 week vacation
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Mobile photo-sharing app SnapChat has one claim to fame, compared to other ways people might share photos from their cellphones: the photos, once viewed, disappear from view, after a pre-set length of time. However, it turns out they don't disappear as thoroughly as users might like. New submitter nefus writes with this excerpt from Forbes: "Richard Hickman of Decipher Forensics found that it's possible to pull Snapchat photos from Android phones simply by downloading data from the phone using forensics software and removing a '.NoMedia' file extension that was keeping the photos from being viewed on the device. He published his findings online and local TV station KSL has a video showing how it's done."


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Sharon Osbourne Disses, Dismisses Megan HausermanMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Sharon Osbourne has gotten to know the women on Rock of Love Girls: Charm School quite well.
And while she had some nice things to say about Angelique - "she's done porn, stripping, she just f***ing loves it and owns it and she's just fantastic..." - the show's host doesn't possess the same sort of affection for Megan Hauserman.
"She said her ambition was to be a trophy wife. Oh God. Well she has got the f***ing brain of a peanut. She does have a pretty damn good body, but no f***ing brain. Her brain is between her legs. She told me she was an accountant and an estate agent."
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Boffins working for the maker of expensive printer ink HP, think they have come up with something that will make glass displays a thing of the past.
Carl Taussig, the head of HP Labs' Information Surfaces Lab, has told Cnet that in a decade glass will be as much a memory for displays as cathode ray tubes (CRTs) are today. Plastic substrates are cheaper than glass which is currently used in displays.
Taussig and his team have built super-thin plastic 50 microns thick which is half the thickness of a piece of paper and 40 times lighter than glass.
Since the plastic is flexible, it can be put on spools and put into a machine and have its resistors printed onto it.
So it all ends up being faster, lighter and cheaper than anything that is on the market now.
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Lawmakers in Washington are applying more pressure to BP and its chief executive to give them answers about last month's discovery of an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico that has been traced to oil from the company's blown-out Macondo well.
Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Henry Waxman of California, both of whom led investigations of the British oil giant following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster off Louisiana, sent a letter to CEO Robert Dudley on Tuesday seeking a briefing by Oct. 30 on the company's investigation.
They want to know the size of the leak, verification that the oil came from a piece of equipment associated with the well as BP believes, and assurances BP is cleaning up the oil and repairing and damage caused by the slick. Among other things, the lawmakers are seeking documents, maps, underwater camera footage and other materials related to the probe.
"The recent report of a new slick from the Deepwater Horizon's riser raises questions about BP's efforts to stem the long-term impacts of the 2010 oil spill," they wrote in their letter.
BP spokesman Brett Clanton said the company has received the letter and will be responding directly to Markey and Waxman. He said the company will continue to work closely with the Coast Guard and other federal agencies to investigate potential sources of the sheen.
The letter follows a U.S. Coast Guard order on Friday informing well owner BP and rig owner Transocean that they may be responsible for costs related to identifying the source of the sheen and cleanup.
The Coast Guard said at the time that the examination would include satellite observations and mobilizing a remotely operated vehicle to scan the original Macondo well area as well as the wreckage, debris, and the riser on the sea floor.
The remotely operated vehicle was supposed to be in place by Sunday, with oversight from the Coast Guard. A spokesman, however, declined to provide an update Monday of what was going on subsea, and on Tuesday did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Clanton said BP is in the process of implementing the joint plan approved by the Federal On-Scene Coordinator.
Confirmation that an oil sheen reported Sept. 16 in the Gulf of Mexico is consistent with oil from BP's blown-out well comes at a critical time, just as talks intensify about resolving penalties and fines from the Deepwater Horizon disaster 2 ½ years ago.


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SASNET lunch seminar on Indian research culture vs. Swedish and Australian
This is the fourth and final SASNET Brown Bag seminar for the fall semester 2012, as usual held in collaboration with Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund (ABF) Lund, and Lunds konsthall.
Dr. Baird is involved in an exciting research project on the aerobatic maneuvers of insects, a project carried out in collaboration with the the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental research in Bangalore. More information about the project.
The frequent interactions, both in Lund and in Bangalore, not only gave interesting scientific results, but also gave an interesting insight into how culture affects approaches to scientific research. Given Dr. Baird's experience of being a researcher in both Australia and Sweden, this insight has helped her to have a broad understanding of research culture in different environments and to identify both advantages and shortcomings of different approaches. See conference poster


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Jackson, MS (PRWEB) May 06, 2013
Taylor Auction & Realty, Inc. is proud to offer the Roberts Walthall Hotel of Jackson, MS, formerly The Historic Edison Walthall Hotel, via an online auction. The bidding on this hotel will begin on May 9 at 8 A.M. and close on May 22 at 11 A.M.
The Roberts Walthall Hotel features 8 floors with 205 partially finished rooms, totaling about 100,000 square feet. It comes with a 4 floor parking garage with 200 spaces. This hotel also boasts a second floor banquet area, complete with a separate kitchen, totaling 7,200 square feet. There is also a swimming pool on the 5th floor.
The hotel was built in the early 1920s as the Jackson Baking Company, a large bakery. A group of enterprising businessmen saw opportunity in the popular first-floor tea room, and decided to transform the bakery into a hotel. The new hotel, opened in 1928, was named the Walthall Hotel after local Civil War hero and politician Edward Cary Walthall. The following decades saw additional enhancements and remodels to the hotel in an attempt to attract more business. However, as is the case with older downtown properties, the hotel closed in 2010. This is a great opportunity to participate in the revitalization process of Downtown Jackson, MS.
Please see the complete Terms and Conditions of the online bidding procedure at http://www.TaylorAuction.com.
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In this video I show you a family favorite recipe, Tortilla Soup Mix in a jar.
I really like this recipe because you can make a lot of jars at once (and should), plus each jar results in an impressive amount of food.
Great for those of us who want a little (or a lot) on the shelf. This recipe is especially great for people who are just getting into food storage as it is one way to put a substantial amount of food away quickly and for little cost!
Since learning this for myself I have made over 20 jars and they go awfully fast. I hope yours do too!
These are great for preps, and also as gifts. Just make sure you let folks know how to use it.
Along with a paracord keychain fob, this is what Everyone in our family got for a present during the holidays!
The recipe:
Two cups crushed tortilla chips
1 cup rice
2 Tbs chicken or beef bouillon (both are great)
2 tsp lemonade powder
1 tsp dried cilantro
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup dried grated onion
You put the crushed tortilla chips in a quart canning jar, and everything else goes into a sandwich size zipper baggy and then into the same jar. Top it off with an O2 absorber is desired (keeps for a lot longer if you do). Done.
Now to make it:
1) Add the baggy ingredients to 8-10 cups of water (8 is thicker, 10 is thinner). Then you add a can of tomatoes (diced, stewed, sauce) or a can of dark beans (pinto, kidney, black), or half and half – be creative. Get it boiling and then drop to a simmer for 20- 30 minutes (let those flavors mix).
2) Turn off the heat, add the crushed tortillas, cover and let sit for 5 minutes.
3) Serve in bowls and enjoy. Sour cream, shredded cheese, and your favorite picante or hot sauce are great adders also.
Food storage can be a challenge. How to store food long term can take many forms! This is a pretty cool way to roll.
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Revenge will be a prime motivator for Rochdale Hornets when they host Championship rivals Leigh Centurions in the fourth round of the Tetley's Challenge Cup at Spotland on Sunday (2.00pm).
The Hornets were beaten 34-22 at Leigh last weekend when Rochdale coach Ian Talbot feels his side were not too far off, despite coming away with only a bonus point. And with home advantage, Talbot believes his side can turn the tables.
"We went to Leigh under no illusions, they are a good side and we knew it was going to be tough," said Talbot.
"My lads always give it their all and in the changing rooms after the game there was a feeling that we deserved something more than a bonus point. On another day more decisions go your way but that didn't happen this time."
Despite playing the same opposition, Talbot was keen to stress that this was a fresh chance for his team to get something out of a game against the Centurions.
"Last week's game has already been put to bed," he said. "It does add to the spice of the game though; I wouldn't say Leigh underestimated us but I'm not sure they expected us to be that close to them with five minutes to go.
"We wanted a home tie, and we know we're not going to go all the way to Wembley and win it, but it's a good competition to be in."
Leigh coach Paul Rowley is acutely aware that Sunday's tie won't be straightforward for his side against opposition who surprised many people by defeating Batley last month.
"People say it's a shock when you see Rochdale beating a team like Batley but I don't believe that," said Rowley. "I don't think there are any shock defeats in the league and we generally probably don't give them the recognition They deserve.
"They've got a half-back with a great kicking game in Paul Crook, and there are some areas that we've identified that we need to improve on. We'll just be looking to stick to what we do well and I'm sure they'll take the same approach.
"There are two ways of looking at the competition, you can either want the big club or get that realistic pathway which ourselves and Rochdale have got, so both clubs are chasing the dream."
The clubs have agreed to offer free entry to Under-16s in an effort to give more youngsters the chance to experience the magic of the Tetley's Challenge Cup, an initiative which Talbot and Rowley are both supportive of.
Talbot said: "On the back of last season we're trying to promote the club – the fans and kids especially want to come and watch a successful team. We need firstly to make it accessible and secondly, attractive."
Rowley added: "I think the game in general needs to have a big push on creating tomorrow's hardcore fans. We definitely need the new era of fans coming through, especially at Championship level where the average age of the fan base is probably a bit higher."


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Having lived in Memphis, TN for most of my life… we were constantly reminded about all things Elvis. This includes him riding the hell out of the Zippin Pippin at Liberty Land, theories on if he's still stomping around Midtown, and the infamous peanut butter banana and bacon sandwiches he loved so much.
Elvis LOVED his PBB&B sandwiches (although the bacon part isn't mentioned in all accounts). He'd inhale these things one after another… explaining why he grew into such a tubby-pants later in his life. This sandwich is also appropriately dubbed The Elvis.
Jim Ether has portrayed what Elvis is doing RIGHT NOW. He's in Heaven (or floating in the stratosphere, in Candy Land, or whatever the fuck you want to call it where sunshine and magic flow in the afterlife) still eating the fuck out of these sandwiches. He's eaten so many of these damn sandwiches that the PBB&B Heap of Doom has been summoned to constantly feed him.
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Palace intervenes to address issue on Manila truck ban-A A +A
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
MALACANANG has decided to intervene on the row between the Manila City Government and trucking operators over a truck ban that is being imposed by the local government.
In the regular press briefing on Wednesday, deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said national government officials are reaching out to both sides to move forward or at least reach a compromise.
"Everyone is looking for ways to move forward or at least find a compromise agreement," she said.
She said the office of Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras had called the concerned national government agencies to "explore ways to move forward" on the issue.
These agencies include: Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Department of Public Works and Highways, Department of Transportation and Communications, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, Presidential Communications Operations Office, Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office.
Valte said MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino was tasked to coordinate with Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada on the matter.
Philippine Ports Authority head Juan Sta. Ana is talking with the truckers' group, she added.
"Pareho silang well-meaning, may kanya-kanyang dahilan. Ang task natin is to help them come up with a compromise acceptable to both of them," she said.
The Bureau of Customs earlier expressed concern on the possible huge revenue losses that the government might incur because of the issue on the Manila truck ban. (SDR/Sunnex)
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Hubley &Layout & Design &Models &Tissa David 30 Aug 2012 05:15 am
Layouts Cool Pool Fool – recap
- Here are the Layout drawings by John Hubley for the Electric Company piece, Cool Pool Fool. Tissa David animated from these layouts and the verbal instructions from John.
A couple of drawings are missing #7 and #18
Here are some frame grabs from the spot. They've been severely touched up in photoshop since the video has lost all color and is almost unwatchable except as a silhouette film. I've reconstructed the colors as near as I can remember them. At any rate, the purpose of these grabs is for you to see what Tissa has done with John's layouts.
Thanks to RIchard O'Connor, here is the
poor YouTube version.
The indomitable Billy Taylor wrote and performed the music.
What a great piano! I had the treat of spending a couple of
hours talking with him about his music for the Hubley films.
We talked for about a half hour about this music.
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Healthyway Dairy has lots of Real Milk!
We buy most of our milk from Healthyway Dairy in Santa Fe, Texas. It's the closest licensed Grade A raw milk dairy to our house, and we really enjoy talking to Bill and Irene Nelson about their cows.
Earlier in the year the milk supply was low, but the birth of several calves has greatly increased the volume of milk available. They now have plenty of milk! Healthyway is a small family dairy farm where the grass-fed cows are very well cared for and cared about. Bill and Irene know exactly how each one wants to be treated.
Our most recent weekly trip to pick up milk found both of the dairy's refrigerators full of half-gallon jars of fresh, cold, creamy milk. Each jar is labeled with the cow's name and the date of milking.
If you are looking for a good supply of delicious and nutritious Real Milk, I can highly recommend a trip to Healthyway Dairy. You will be glad you got your fresh milk there!
Healthyway Dairy is located at 15525 Cedar Street, Santa Fe, Texas. Healthyway Dairy Facebook page.
We've been buying milk from Bill and Irene for several years, and I've written about their dairy before. You might want to read my previous posts:
Milk is Plentiful at Healthy Way Dairy
Toddlers have a great time at Healthy Way Dairy!
If you're still not sure about why you should drink raw milk, RealMilk.com has good information about its benefits and safety.
Update September 20, 2014: Bill and Irene Nelson are good people who care about their cows and helping others be healthier by drinking their raw milk. Watch a superb documentary about life on their dairy farm here.


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Three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ambassador Tony P. Hall is a leading advocate for hunger relief programs and improving human rights conditions in the world.
Tony Hall retired from official diplomatic service in April 2006, and is currently serving as the executive director of the Alliance to End Hunger which engages diverse institutions in building the public and political will to end hunger at home and abroad. The Alliance has more than 75 members: corporations, non-profit groups, universities, individuals, and Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious bodies.
In February 2002, President George W. Bush appointed him to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture.
Prior to diplomatic service, Ambassador Hall represented the Third District of Ohio in the U.S. Congress for almost 24 years, their longest serving representative in history. During his tenure, he was chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger and the Democratic Caucus Task Force on Hunger. He founded the Congressional Friends of Human Rights Monitors, and authored legislation that supported food aid, child survival, basic education, primary health care, micro-enterprise and development assistance in the world's poorest countries. Ambassador Hall also founded and chaired the Congressional Hunger Center, a non-governmental organization committed to ending hunger through training and educational programs for emerging leaders.


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Need to cut your grocery costs?
Prevention magazine offers these tips in its article "20 Ways to Feed Your Family for $100 a Week."
- Plan in advance by making menus.
- Buy in bulk.
- Shop the sales.
- Steer clear of convenience.
- Stick to store brands unless you find a good sale.
- Use coupons wisely.
- Consider alternatives to supermarkets such as ethnic markets, warehouse stores, and farmers' markets.
- Buy less expensive meats and use meat extenders.
- Select canned meat and produce when fresh becomes too expensive.
- Consider buying bags of frozen produce.
- Make items yourself.
- Serve soups and stews.
- Use beans instead of meat in some dishes.
- Stock up when prices go down.
- Utilize leftovers.
- Plan family outings around activities not food.
- Leave money in your budget for an occasional splurge.
- Grow a garden.
- Shop less often and buy more when you shop.
- Don't shop when you're hungry and pack lunches to save money.
See the article for details on each money-saving step.
For more information for boomer consumers, see my blog The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide.


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Posted on: April 26, 2016
A newer spine surgery technique called cervical spine disc replacement leaves you far more mobile than traditional spinal fusion. By Dr. Marshal D. Peris, Co-director of Spine Surgery at the Orthopedic and Spine Institute of Northern Westchester Hospital
If you have discomfort – such as neck or arm pain – due to problems with cervical spinal discs (those in your neck), you've probably heard of the spinal fusion procedure, a common surgical solution, which locks cervical vertebrae together permanently after removing damaged discs. While this spine surgery offers excellent results, you need to know about a newer technique, called cervical spine disc replacement that leaves you far more mobile. Here, I explain this advanced and exciting treatment option, and help you determine if you might be a candidate.
The cervical spine is housed in the neck, with seven vertebrae separated by discs. Because cervical disc malfunction can impact the spinal cord, you can have problems throughout your body. You may experience neck or arm pain; weakness in the arms; numbness and tingling in the arm or hand; or balance problems. Symptoms can be intermittent, chronic, or triggered by specific activities.
Ultimately, all symptoms result from compression or narrowing (stenosis) of the space for the spinal cord or the nerves exiting the spinal cord. Stenosis occurs in various ways. As you age, your spinal discs lose height (that's why we all get shorter), causing them to bulge. Picture gently squeezing down on a cream donut: It gets shorter but also wider. A bulging disc can press on a nerve exiting the spinal cord. At a later stage, the bulge can harden (calcify) into a bone spur, which can also compress a nerve. In the case of a herniated disk, now you're squeezing the cream donut so hard that cream leaks out. This disc material can put direct pressure on a nerve.
Now, a sophisticated procedure called cervical spine disc replacement a goes a step better for suitable candidates than traditional fusion surgery, which reduces movement. By replacing the damaged disc with an implant closely resembling a human disc, the procedure maintains the mobility of the cervical spine; in some cases, even improving motion. In other words, your neck retains some – or even better — range of motion.
The best candidates are active people under 60 years, who want to maintain greater mobility. In fact, post-surgery movement is so good, that I don't recommend the procedure for patients with existing arthritis in the neck joints. If you increase movement in a place with arthritis, you actually increase pain. While documented outcomes for cervical spine disc replacement are positive for 15 years, no longer-term data exists.
Following surgery, you will likely go home the same day, take precautions for six weeks, then resume full activities. Northern Westchester Hospital is one of the few hospitals in the region to perform cervical spine disc replacement; surgeons use the most advanced version of the procedure, which permits the implanting of two discs at once.
Dr. Marshal Peris is a member of the Mount Kisco Medical Group, Co-Director of Spine Surgery at The Orthopedic and Spine Institute at Northern Westchester Hospital and President of the Medical Staff at Northern Westchester Hospital. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Peris completed his internship, orthopedic surgery residency, and a fellowship in spine surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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Nike seems to get the youth of today. Aside from making cool kicks, the company took some time to whip up this concept cleaning system. Modeled after a floor hockey set, there's a vacuum that doubles as a goal. You must sweep dirt and rubbish into it with a broom that resembles a hockey stick. You score some points, Mom is happy and the living room is no longer a mess. Sounds like a winning design to me, Nike. If only it weren't a silly concept.
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I recently wrote a guest post on the popular OnProductManagement.net blog about the pitfalls to look out for in introducing product management into an established organization. In my next post, I'll share lessons learned from my experience in how product management can be set up for long-term success. If you have ever been through this experience either on the organizational side or as a product manager, I'd love to get your thoughts.
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An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.
House and Home and Unsustainability
One aspect of how invested we are in unsustainable behaviors. And how we got that way.
Part of how and why we (and I include myself) exhibit so many unsustainable behaviors is that the patterns of our lives -- the fundamental decisions that overdetermine our behaviors -- are generally made with no thought of sustainability at all. Some examples:
- We burn more gasoline that we'd like because of where we live. Unless you're lucky enough to live in a city with good public transport (and those are few and far between in this country, certainly compared with other developed nations), you probably drive pretty much everywhere. Not because you want to, particularly. Because you don't have any reasonable alternative. You knew that when you bought the house, but your housing decision probably didn't focus primarily on how many miles you'd be driving. It focused on curb appeal and number of bedrooms and size of garage and quality of schools and prestige of neighborhood and monthly mortgage payment. If the implication in terms of miles to be driven during the years you'd live in that house was considered at all, it was probably limited to miles to and from work. Likely not considered were miles driven to shop, to visit friends and family, to see a movie, to take the kids to soccer and piano lessons and anything else beyond the daily commute. Not considered was the lack of public transit, because most of us weren't raised to expect public transit. Certainly, not clean reliable enjoyable public transit. We were raised to expect -- to aspire to -- single-family houses with large lawns and low population density and good public services but low property taxes. Twenty-five years ago, a guy I knew unfavorably characterized America as "the most over-housed society in the world"; he was in the mortgage finance business. (And since then, the size of the average newly built home has gone up by about 50%.) Where and how we live wastes energy in a myriad of ways, but increasing the number of miles driven in private cars is a major one of them.
- We eat cr*p (as one commenter noted) for some of the same reasons, or at least for corollaries thereof. You see, having to drive pretty much everywhere to do pretty much everything consumes more than just gasoline -- it also consumes time. So (broad generalization, I know) we're all convinced that we're incredibly busy. Not because we're actually doing more than our parents or our grandparents did -- in fact, we're probably accomplishing less -- but because each of our activities imposes a higher transaction cost in terms of time and conscious effort than used to be the case. So we value any life option that saves us time. So, on average, we rarely cook. (Heating up commercial frozen lasagna or anything similar isn't cooking.) So we lose any real sense of what we're eating. (Don't believe it, read the ingredient list. "Cr*p" is often an understatement, even before we get to unintended/unlisted ingredients like insect parts and rodent feces.) Time implications likely factored into the housing decision even less than gasoline consumption implications did.
- A couple of generations ago, many families raised the bulk of their own vegetables, grew at least some of their own fruit, had some chickens in the back yard. They knew not only what ingredients went into the cookpot, they also knew where those ingredients came from. And how those ingredients had been treated when they were alive. Rather than paying extra for "organic" (interesting term, that) produce or "free range" (don't get me started) chicken, once established they paid little or no money -- just time and attention. Which they could afford because they weren't constantly driving from hither to yon and back again. Somehow, I doubt that "will I be able to grow my own food?" factors into very many housing decisions.
- What does factor into housing decisions, of course, is space. We love our space. That's why the average house (certainly, the average newly built house) keeps getting bigger. And why suburbs keep getting sprawlier. The default decision is to keep going further from the urban center until you can afford the mortgage on the size of house and lot you think you deserve. (Oops, I mean "need".) But then you've got all those square feet of enclosed area and nothing to fill it with. So you need some stuff. And more stuff. And it has to be inexpensive stuff because your house is twice as big as your parents' house was but (on average and adjusted for inflation) your family probably isn't earning as much as your parents did at a similar age. So you drive (and not just once per week) to the big box retailer and buy as much stuff as you can afford at as low a price as you can find. Which (often) means that the stuff is cheap and breaks easily so you get to repeat the experience again in a couple of years or months or weeks. And if it isn't just plain cheap it's probably designed for rapid obsolescence. Like almost anything electronic these days. But we need more electronics because we have to keep ourselves (and our kids) occupied and entertained and placated inside the big house because the alternative is to drive somewhere to see (and be entertained and placated) by other actual people and that's too much bother and so 20th Century.
Am I disparaging The American Dream?
Not really.
What I'm doing is pointing out some of the realities concomitant with pursuing a bad caricature of anything anyone should actually dream of. And, maybe, that the post-WWII version of the American dream was actively and intentionally concocted and sold to the public to benefit the construction industry and the automotive industry and all the secondary industries that depend on those two.
IMHO, we in higher ed can't claim to be doing much to promote sustainability until we're willing honestly and forthrightly to question -- and to encourage our students to question, and to encourage our alumni and donors to provide real-world alternatives to -- a lot of the implicit decisions that are inherent in how things currently are, whether we refer to that current state as The American Dream, the prevailing narrative, or the dominant paradigm.
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Can we find anything optimistic in Friday's dismal employment report, which said that the economy created only 18,000 jobs in June and that the unemployment rate crept up to 9.2 percent from May's 9.1 percent? Well, economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics thinks he's located a bit of good news: All of the increase in unemployment occurred among people who voluntarily quit their jobs. This suggests, Zandi says, that job-quitters think the labor market is strong enough — despite the gloomy statistics — that they'll easily find a new job more to their liking.
Maybe. Or Zandi's upbeat news might be a statistical fluke. If you delve into the numbers, his trend exists only in the seasonally adjusted jobless figures. The raw figures (not altered for normal seasonal shifts) show higher unemployment in all categories. That's consistent with the rest of the report.
"I've been looking for the good news — and I can't find it," says economist Nigel Gault of IHS Global Insight. Here's his short list of downbeat indicators from the report. All portray a weakening labor market:
- The length of the average workweek declined, from 34.4 hours to 34.3 hours.
- Average hourly earnings in the private non-farm economy were flat at $22.99, virtually identical to May's $23 (normally, hourly earnings rise a few pennies or more a month).
- Total private payrolls — the amount of wages and salaries paid out — fell for the first time since November 2010.
The weak employment report stunned many economists. Gault had projected a gain of 140,000 — 165,000 among private employers offset by a loss of 25,000 government jobs. Zandi was in the same range.
The actual: private payrolls up 57,000; government payrolls down 39,000. "It's as if the economy hit a brick wall in May," said Gault. In the three previous months, payroll jobs had increased an average of 215,000; the May-June average was 22,000. Keep in mind that, with an expanding labor force, the economy needs 100,000 to 125,000 new jobs a month to prevent unemployment from rising. Reducing it requires even more job-creation.
It isn't clear what happened. Standard explanations for the economy's sluggish first half of 2011 cite three causes: bad weather (flooding in the Midwest); Japan's earthquake, which depressed auto production by disrupting supply chains; and high oil prices, which sapped consumer buying power. But all this was factored into the June job forecasts.
The question now is whether the meager job creation heralds prolonged stagnation. Many economists have predicted a rebound in the second half of the year: Zandi expects the economy to grow at a 3.5 percent annual rate, up sharply from the estimated 1.9 percent for 2011's first half; Gault is slightly below that. Both are sticking to their forecasts. They expect the negatives of the first half to reverse: lower gasoline prices will bolster consumer spending; restored supply chains will raise auto production; better weather will permit more construction spending.
But the bleak job market raises the specter of much worse. It could trigger a vicious circle. Here's how. Slow employment growth depresses consumer spending and confidence. Cautious consumers in turn cause companies to curb hiring and new investment, which feeds back into lower growth and confidence. Should this unhappy sequence unfold, it would surely transform the economic debate (do we need more "stimulus"?) and the 2012 campaign.


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What is Identity Finder?
Identity Finder is a scanning tool that searches for confidential information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and passwords that may be stored on your computer, file shares or removable drives. Identity Finder helps prevent data security breaches and identity theft by locating sensitive personal information and providing options for removing or protecting it. Clark has licensed Identity Finder to help its faculty and staff find and protect this kind of data.
How does Identity Finder work?
Identity Finder scans all the data on your computer, similar to an antivirus application, looking for patterns within the data that would look like possible sensitive information. For example, finding sixteen numbers in a row, separated in groups of four is probably a credit card number. The tool will then report back to you where it found this data making it easy for you to take the appropriate action. More details are available at www.identityfinder.com/us/HowItWorks
How can I get Identity Finder installed on my computer?
If your Windows computer is managed by ITS, the software will be installed automatically. You may have to restart your Windows computer (possibly twice) in order to have the application properly install. If you have an Apple computer, ITS will schedule a time with you to install the client. The Identity Finder icon (located to the right) will appear on your desktop once the application has successfully installed. If you need assistance with the installation, please contact the ITS Help Desk.
Can ITS cleanup my data for me?
Although ITS may install the software and can provide assistance with the cleanup process, you must ultimately decide what data to securely delete or securely retain given your needs. Additionally, the software may find sensitive information such as passwords and personal financial account numbers that you should keep private, even from ITS staff.
Am I required to have Identity Finder installed on my Clark computer?
Yes. Similar to the University's deployment of antivirus software, this tool is required to help protect Clark's confidential data.
Am I required to scan my computer using Identity Finder?
No, but we strongly encourage everyone to do so. While the software is capable of supporting scheduled scans configured by ITS, the University has decided to launch Identity Finder as a self-service utility. Protecting and securing the personal data of Clark community members is everyone's responsibility and we are counting on you to do your part.
I've heard that Identity Finder reports some information back to a central server. Is this true?
The home edition of Identity Finder does not report any information anywhere. When you run Identity Finder on a Clark managed computer, some information is sent back to a centralized reporting console. The information reported back helps ITS maintain the software (what version of the software is installed, what version of the configuration the client is using, etc.). When you initiate a scan on your computer, the time of the scan is reported back. If any sensitive information is found during your scan, the type of sensitive information found (credit card, SSN, financial account number) is reported back, but the location of the sensitive information (i.e. what file it was located in) and the specific sensitive information is NOT reported back. If any action was taken on the sensitive information found using Identity Finder, the specific action taken is reported back (i.e. deleted data).
Where can I get more information on how to use Identity Finder?
Help Docs
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Educator shares 'Terms of Engagement' tips at Victoria College
Jan. 12, 2013 at 6:02 p.m.
Updated Jan. 11, 2013 at 7:12 p.m.
Getting students motivated to learn and become active participants in their own education was part of Elizabeth Barkley's presentation during Victoria College's 2013 Spring Semester Convocation.
Barkley, an internationally known scholar, author, educator and consultant, teaches music history at Foothill College in Los Altos, Calif.
She told VC faculty and staff that students are active participants in building their own brains. But before they get to that point, they must first be motivated to learn.
"Students should care about what they think and think about what they care about," Barkley said.
Barkley's presentation coincides with the college's work to develop and implement a Quality Enhancement Plan, a required component of the college's reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Active learning is the program's topic, summarized with the slogan "Students Engaged in Active Learning."
Illustrating her talk with a humorous slide presentation, Barkley discussed terms of engagement on how to get students to participate in their own education.
The California instructor said she wanted to teach her students about Beethoven but found "their musical heroes were Tupac and Nine Inch Nails."
Barkley admitted that there is no quick fix to get students engaged. She said educators cannot motivate students, but they can create the context in which more students find motivating.
She said all educators are facing the same basic challenges. Many grew up in an era when information was important, and education was often the answer for gaining new information, she said. Today, students are overloaded with information, often in entertaining forms. Different approaches are required to get students to apply knowledge they've already gained and combine it with new information being learned in the classroom, she added.
In her classes, Barkley developed what she called a good student bonus, which "helps me promote the behavior I like," and the junk effort penalty, to "discourage things I don't like."
She cited an extreme example of one instructor who used the latter technique when a student turned in a paper full of errors. The teacher took out a match and burned the offending paper then put the ashes in an envelope and returned it to the student. Barkley said she didn't think VC faculty would want to do that but stressed that students need to understand the importance of putting effort into their work.
In an afternoon workshop for faculty, Barkley presented her theoretical model for student engagement.
"Her methods had been tried and modified over the years," said David White, a VC physics and mathematics professor who has been teaching at VC for 29 years. "This is how we want to construct the QEP by bringing in people like her to share techniques to engage students in critical thinking."
Jonathan Anderson, associate professor and men's basketball coach, echoed White.
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"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." – Benjamin Franklin
Rumours of Victoria's return to the Grayson family fold soon circulated as summer fast approached the Hampton's and a media circus entailed, as the American public demanded confirmation of the matriarch's possible return.
"No comment!" Charlotte repetitively screamed, as she battled her way through the wall of news reporters camped outside her childhood home, all in protest of the Grayson's deathly silence. Her father had refused to publish a statement, much too proud to be forced to answer to outside forces, but his decision only seemed to provoke more backlash. An exhale of relief escaped her body as she stepped into the property lines and the reporters were locked out and she made a calmer entrance into her home.
From the den, Victoria appeared with a demure frown on her face, "Your father said security would deal with them." She hadn't dared to near the windows but she could hear the furious screams outside; it reminded her of Daniel's murder trial and how easily the public could turn on families like hers.
Charlotte furiously removed her coat, "If they're not in our property lines, they can't be prosecuted."
The claustrophobia started to squeeze like a noose around Victoria's neck, no matter how broad Grayson Manor was, and the frustration threatened any common sense she possessed. She refused to be hounded like an animal. "I'll speak to your father and have him release a statement." The reaction to her return interfered with the children's lives and Victoria knew Charlotte already held a disdain for her and her past crimes. "This madness needs to end."
"I couldn't agree more," Charlotte nodded, civil but not openly communicative toward the woman. She smoothed over her plaid skirt and peered into the den, "Where is everyone?"
"Your father is in the kitchen and I believe your mother's on her way home from Nolan's." Before Charlotte could slip away in the hopes to avoid her presence, Victoria reached for her hand and softly held her back, "Charlotte," Victoria's hand immediately loosened when Charlotte faced her with a resentful expression. "I hope you know how sorry I am for the chaos my return has introduced to your lives. My intentions were never to cause so much trouble."
"Well, that's okay then, isn't it?" She snapped, "Your intentions were honourable so you shouldn't be punished." Charlotte narrowed her eyes and motioned to the entrance, "Why do you think those people are out there, Victoria? They're there because my father somehow ruffled feathers at the SEC and you've escaped any justice for what you did to David Clarke."
"They're there because they like to stand out from the crowd, Charlotte." Her father's voice boomed in return, defensive of his mother as he watched the scene from the kitchen. "And I didn't ruffle anyone's feathers, your grandmother was cleared of any charges because her role in the cover-up was minimal and the real perpetrators are behind bars." Daniel corrected, "Now the people outside are there because they want to stir up more trouble for the one-percent but if they see that we're not to be played with and remain loyal to one another then the entire scandal will die down." Daniel could see the defiance in Charlotte's eyes; so reminiscent of his own once before. "If you don't think you can do that, ask yourself this question; is it because you're really as outraged as those people out there, or is it because your loyalty's torn between your mother and mine?" Her father asked, able to see just how little Charlotte understood of the situation.
She shook her head, her eyes lowered to the floor momentarily before they met her father's, even more defiant than before and Daniel knew she wouldn't easily drop it. "One of the rules you most drilled into me when I was growing up was the importance of honesty and justice. When I purposely snapped off the head of Sophia's Barbie doll because I was jealous, you were the one who convinced me to confess and accept the punishment. You explained to me how justice wasn't about an eye for an eye but about acceptance of the mistakes you've made. Why doesn't that apply now?"
"Your grandmother regrets what happened, you know that," Daniel protested.
"Yeah, she does now, doesn't she?" Charlotte snapped, "But like you asked me back then; does she regret what happened or does she just regret that she got caught?"
Daniel stood speechless for the answer and Charlotte turned on her heels in the direction of her bedroom. He turned to his mother with a sorrowful expression and exhaled, "I'm sorry…"
His mother sadly shook her head, "Don't be." She pursed her lips and watched the brunette curls fly into the bedroom moments before the door slammed shut. "She has every reason to be mad. All I've done since I came back is cause more tension… I haven't even spent much time with any of my grandchildren. In fact, Sophia's probably the only one I've held down a real conversation with." Whenever she spoke to Hannah, the child would simply ask why her aunt Charlotte didn't come back from heaven with her and Jacob seemed reluctant to even make eye contact. To strike conversation with Charlotte just seemed to become more painful with every attempt, not just because of Charlotte's resistance but the kind of memories it provoked from Victoria. "She reminds me so much of your sister sometimes; it's eerie." She forced a smile onto her face as she blocked any memories of Charlotte that threatened to suffocate her chest. "How's dinner?"
"Almost ready and not burnt," Daniel proudly answered.
Victoria looked surprised, "My son, the cook… I remember the years when you only knew how to burn toast."
Her son rolled his eyes, "Ha-ha, those were the days." Daniel peered into the oven and checked his watch, "I hope Emily makes it home before it's served. She's the one who taught me to cook, you know?"
"Really?" She checked, a smile instilled on her face at the information, but Conrad's words had only acted as another splash of petrol to the already furious flames of fire that had represented the distrust Victoria had in the woman. "Well, I'll wash up and I'll be back down in a second."
On her way to her bedroom, Victoria paused outside Charlotte's room and knocked, against her own judgement. "Come in."
She pushed open the door and found the teen stretched out on the bed with "The Catcher in the Rye" in her hands. "One of the themes of that book is teen confusion. Holden ends the book with as much confusion as he started with. His views didn't find a different perspective and the questions he had remained." Victoria stood beside the bed, "I know you must have some questions for me, so why don't you ask me what you want to know?"
An annoyed frown came from Charlotte and she discarded her book aside. "I know all I need to know about you."
Victoria raised an eyebrow, "Oh…"
Charlotte shuffled to a more superior position, "You framed David Clarke, a man who loved you and you claimed to love, because you didn't love him as much as you loved the wealth and position Conrad could offer you. You helped Conrad and one of the most dangerous organisations in the world to carry out an act of domestic terrorism on American soil. In court, you took the stand and testified for the prosecution and you ripped away the only parent my mother had left. Not only did you strip her from the only family she had known, you locked her away in an institution because you knew she was the only one who knew your sordid little secret and could expose you. Did I miss an important part?"
"Did you know David fathered your aunt?" Victoria nonchalantly added and Charlotte's eyes widened in disbelief. "I found out I had fallen pregnant on the eve of David's arrest and I attempted to save him before they could arrest him but…" She had been too late with her change of heart and David's fate had already been sealed.
"Does my dad know?" Charlotte checked.
"The truth came out around the time your parents became engaged. It broke Charlotte. It probably spiralled her abuse of prescription pills and your father's probably never had the same trust in me since then." She rubbed her forehead, "I know your mother suffered a loss because of my actions but I suffered a loss too when David was arrested. Worse still, I was the one responsible for what had happened and I lived with it for years. Perhaps, if I hadn't let it happen," Victoria settled on the very tip of the bed and bowed her head, "Then we could have lived a different life than the one we did." The family portrait of herself, David and their children settled in her mind but she desperately shook herself free. "And Charlotte's addiction wouldn't have had such a hold over her and she would be here." No doubt, David would have shown Charlotte the unconditional love Victoria had never been able to show their child and her addiction may never have developed. "Whether you believe me or not, there's no greater punishment than the realisation that your own actions may have inadvertently caused your own child's death. I know because I'm overwhelmed with the guilt."
"I don't know what to say –" Charlotte admitted, overwhelmed with even more revelation of secrets.
"Well, just know that, in answer to your question, I'm sorry for what happened. I'm not sorry that the truth came out," she confessed. "I waited every day since David's trial for the cover-up to be exposed." And the wait had been unbearable.
When her grandmother rose from the bed, Charlotte paralleled Victoria's own actions and reached out for her hand to hold her back. A half-hearted smile spread across her lips, in a silent form of acceptance, and she pulled the older woman into their first ever embrace. None of Victoria's pain – just another repercussion of her own actions – made a difference to the way Charlotte felt about the injustice but she started to wonder if anything ever would.


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Parenting is an ongoing challenge in many ways, and learning the positive techniques and skills to parent your child properly is critical. The more you work at learning how to be a better parent, the more effective your parenting skills will become.
Disciplining Your Child: What Will Work For You?
Think about how your child will perceive your words and actions. You want your kids to feel like they have complete faith in your honesty.
Even though time with your kids is important, it is also important to make time for yourself. Doing so helps you to retain your individuality.
Parents who have a teenager that is beginning the college selection process need to make sure that they do not try to influence their child to go to the same university that they did. Sometimes teens will do the opposite of what is right when they are under stress, pressure and feel controlled.
Any child who walks to school should wear some sort of reflective material on their clothing or their backpack. You can find reflective material that can easily be applied with Velcro strips to any surface. Your child will be visible to cars and also crossing guards, this is very important in the early hours of the morning.
You have to remember that every child is unique. Perhaps you have already established a good parenting style with your first child: do not expect things to be exactly the same with your second child. That is the case with rewards, and punishments as well. Keeping all of this in mind, still use the same techniques you have had success with in the past.
Don't expect an instant bond with your stepchildren. A lot of kids are still angry about their parents' divorce. By going slowly and not trying to accelerate a bond, you and your stepchild will gradually learn to coexist and perhaps even become buddies.
No two children are alike. Just because one parenting style is effective with a child does not mean it will be as effective with another. This includes rewards as much as punishment. However, you should remember what worked on other children and try that first, before moving on to new methods if necessary.
If your child is miserable from teething, you could try to put cucumbers, carrots or even sour pickles into a mesh teether. Even though there are many ways to relieve the discomfort of teething, a child is most likely to enjoy using this method because of the taste. Encourage them to chew for as long as they desire, and the longer this is, the better their mood should be.
It is important to realize that stepchildren do not always like their new stepparent right away. If you are becoming a stepparent soon, it is important to keep this in your thoughts at all times. A lot of kids are still angry about their parents' divorce. Try to be understanding and eventually the two of you can build a unique bond.
Encouraging your child to play team sports will help build their self-esteem. Attending your child's games demonstrates the kind of encouragement and support that will build positive character traits and fond memories.
The information you just read was certainly pretty useful. Apply the advice that has been given to you and the relationship that you will build with your children will have all the other parents jealous. Let yourself enjoy spending time and having fun with your children by using the information you have been given. You Need To Read This Parenting Advice
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Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Mark Begich (D-AK) released a joint statement on Wednesday blasting the introduction of S. 600, the "Use It or Lose It" bill. They're exactly right. From "Sens. Murkowski and Begich Opposed to 'Use it or Lose it': Unwarranted Fees on Energy Companies Will Result in Less Production, More Imports, and Higher Prices."
Murkowski, the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said the bill was an attempt to shift blame for rising gasoline prices to energy producers.
"While I don't accept my colleagues' analysis, I am glad to see them acknowledge that increasing domestic oil production will help address rising energy prices," Murkowski said. "Unfortunately, their bill is misguided. Our laws already reflect a use-it-or-lose-it policy; that's why we have lease terms and a range of lease fees. It is the current administration's intentional slowdown of the permitting process that is stopping millions of acres onshore and offshore from producing the energy we need. In Alaska, ConocoPhillips and Shell have both seen work on promising oil projects blocked by government obstruction. To hold them responsible – and force them to pay for delays that are not their fault – is simply absurd."
Sen. Begich:
"I'm glad to hear that some of my Senate colleagues are as impatient as I am to develop our domestic oil and gas reserves," Begich said. "However, the most important thing we can do to encourage oil companies to develop existing leases is to clear the bureaucratic red tape in federal agencies and minimize the roadblocks to development. In Alaska, responsible development efforts on federal land have regularly been stalled or stopped in their tracks. Before we impose new punishments on the industry, let's reexamine what's not working with leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, federal land set aside specifically for oil and gas development, and efforts to develop reserves in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas."
Shell has invested nearly $4 billion in leases off Alaska's northern coast, but its exploration plans have been blocked for five years by permitting delays and environmental lawsuits.
Sens. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Charles Schumer of New York, and Bill Nelson of Florida held a news conference yesterday to announce the bill. Even though the Senators do not represent oil states, we hope their constituents will recognize the politically motivated legislation for what it is — a distraction from addressing America's serious energy needs.
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Max Clifford – a life in photos
MAX Clifford – celebrity fixer and tabloid hero – a life in photos:
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Publicist Max Clifford holds a news conference at the King's College Hospital, London, this afternoon (Tuesday) where he spoke about his client Mandy Allwood. Miss Allwood was admitted to the hospital yesterday after losing three of the eight babies she is expecting. Photo by Tim Dickinson/PA. SEE PA STORY HEALTH Allwood.
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Passwords are a primary piece of information that intruders will try to acquire in order to gain unauthorized access to systems or networks.
When users enter passwords for the network or operating system, they or some facsimile of them must be stored so there is something to compare user login attempts to. There are three primary choices for password storage:
The storage locations may be:
Passwords are more secure when they can only be read by the administrator or root account. Also the best password storage security is to store the hashed value of a password.
Passwords should be chosen wisely and a dictionary word should never be used. This is because if an attacker can get the hashed or encrypted value of a password, they can run password guessing programs to eventually guess the password by comparing the encryped result of the guess to the actual encrypted password. The easiest password attack is a dictionary attack where dictionary words are used to guess the password. Other attacks include a brute force attack which can take much longer than a dictionary attack. This is why passwords should have a minimum length and a minimum degree of complexity. The complexity requirements should include three of four of the following four types of characters:
For help in choosing passwords wisely see the article Tips for choosing Passwords that can be easily remembered, but are secure


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A Thing or þing in Old Norse and Icelandic was the form of governing assembly found in the Scandinavian world that was also introduced into some Celtic societies. It is an assembly of the free men of a country or province and is located in specific sites identified for that purpose. At 'the thing', decisions were made and disputes settled. Although presided over by a king or chieftain in theory it was a democratic assembly in that each person had a vote. The decisions made were recited by the speaker to everyone at the thing. Probably the most famous thing site in existence today is the Manx Tynwald (Manx Gaelic: Tinvaal) said to be the oldest continuous parliament in the world. The name Tynwald is derived from the Old Norse word Þingvǫllr,meaning the field of the thing.
Thing associated sites and place names are located in Norway (Tingvoll), Sweden, Iceland (Þingvellir) and in the Faroe Islands (Tinganes). Then further south more such meeting places are found. This reflects the strong Norse influences that were spread by the Vikings through the northern and western islands of Scotland, parts of the Scottish mainland, then into the Irish Sea to the Isle of Man and Ireland from the 8th - 15th centuries. So as well as Tynwald on the Isle of Man we have Tingwall in Orkney and Shetland in which Tingaholm is also located. Dingwall in the Highlands of Scotland, Tinwald in Dumfries and Galloway in south-west Scotland and in Dublin there also used to be a site known as Thingmote that was used for the same purpose.
In 2014 in what is known as The Thing Trail, a converted Norwegian fishing boat, MS Nybakk Venner made a tour of various of the 'Thing sites'. The vessel also housed an exhibition, provided by Orkney Museum to promote an understanding of the sites. The journey took them from Gulatinget in Norway visiting Orkney, Shetland, Isle of Man and various ports in Scotland. The Thing Trail is a European Union-funded three year project and highlights the historical links between Norway, Iceland, Faroes, Shetland, Orkney, Scotland and the Isle of Man. The aim of this enterprise is also to promote and develop the economic potential of some of the more remote communities located on the edge of north-west Europe. Next year the boat Nybakk Venner will embark on journeys to other thing sites in Iceland and the Faroes.
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Lately i've been playing on softnyx and i was wandering if anyone else was also. If you are, what's your gamer id? I've been playing in the rookie zone but i still have my old account on there so i can play in the other zone as well.
BTW, they have added a classic server. I have not yet gone in there because only about 30-50 people are in that server.
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Let's work through a few examples and just ponder for a second at what the world would be like if the following inventions never got past the thought stage:
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These are just a few products that shape the 20th and 21st centuries, but where would we be without them? We would be stuck in the dark ages; we take all of these inventions for granted but the fact of the matter is that we need all of these inventions to keep and maintain our modern lifestyles.
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Migraines are severe, chronic headaches that can cause significant pain for 4 to 72 hours. The frequency with which these headaches occur varies from person to person, from several times a month to much less frequently. A typical migraine attack may include symptoms of moderate to severe pain on one or both sides of the head, head pain with a pulsating or throbbing quality, pain that worsens with physical activity, pain that interferes with regular activities, nausea, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound.
A migraine may be preceded by sensations of "premonition" several hours or a day or so before the migraine actually strikes, such as auras (changes to vision, such as seeing flashes of light, and feelings of pins and needles in an arm or leg), feelings of elation or intense energy, cravings for sweets, thirst, drowsiness, or irritability or depression.
Migraines usually begin in childhood, adolescence or early adulthood. Although much about the cause of migraines isn't understood, genetics and environmental factors seem to both play a role. They may be due to changes in the trigeminal nerve, a major nerve in the head or imbalances in brain chemicals such as serotonin (which drops during migraines). Migraines may be more common in people under 40, in women, and in people with a family history of migraines. Stress, certain foods, strong stimuli (such as lights, sounds or smells), disruptions to sleeping patterns, physical exertion, changes in the weather, medications, and hormonal changes can all trigger migraines.
Western medicine treatment for migraines includes medications to help reduce the frequency and severity of migraines. Unfortunately, medications may cause side effects such as abdominal pain or ulcers or rebound headaches, which is when a medication stops being effective for the treatment of headaches and actually becomes the cause of headaches. Lifestyle changes that can help manage migraines include being well-rested and getting enough sleep, meditation or muscle relaxation exercises, and keeping a diary to identify migraine triggers.
From a Chinese medicine (TCM) perspective, migraines can be caused by a combination of inherited constitution and lifestyle factors such as diet and stress, including emotional stress and overwork. Over time these factors can contribute to a pattern of imbalance that leads to migraines. Because there are different causes for migraines, the symptoms that are experienced will differ from person to person, and so will the treatment. An acupuncturist can create a very targeted and effective treatment by catering it to a person's specific causes.
For migraine sufferers, acupuncture is an option well worth considering, offering both immediate and long-term relief. Initially, acupuncture can help to relieve both the severity and frequency of migraine symptoms. In fact, it is common for people to see relief after a few acupuncture treatments, although more treatments are typically needed to resolve the problem.
As treatments progress and begin to rebalance the body, the frequency of migraine episodes begins to decrease. And long-term relief is possible- many patients reduce or eliminate their need for migraine medication through acupuncture, demonstrating just how effective an option acupuncture can be.
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Getting read for Boomer theatre I met Joan for lunch at Denali's in Beloit because I knew she was directing a play at the local theatre.
I had many questions, among them why she spells her name with lower case letters. "Let me say, there's no money in theatre," she began.
"You cannot make a living at it. so one of the things that I had was my own consulting-training company. I found a font I absolutely loved. I did it as a marketing tool; it drew people's attention.
"Now," she says. to untrain them to do it the regular way would be far too challenging, and I like it."
Her simpler explanation: "It's little letters for a little lady."
This petite lady has a passion for theatre that is not petite. Joan is completing her second doctorate. Her thesis: Creating a theory of directing for senior theatre production in a community theatre setting.
"Because..?" I asked.
"Senior theatre is growing by leaps and bound," she explained.
"In year 2000, there were 2000 community theatres. Now there are closer to three times that.
"Boomers," she continued, "will be different than today's seniors. It's not OK anymore to just do plays, charge people for it, and watch seniors make fools of themselves. Horrible," she winced.
"A serious thing is very funny because it's so bad, but don't charge people to come to see that. My position is that when we increase the standards, the professionals will come."
She believes Baby Boomers, as they age are different than seniors of past years.
"They are going to be actors, designers, or audience members. They have far more education than today's (typical) seniors. They have far more experience in professional occupations, far greater exposure to the cultural arts. I"m talking about doctors, lawyers, accountants, plumbers, electricians. Those people will bring with them a certain set of expecations into a theatrical setting."
"How long before they're here?" I asked.
"Not very long," she smiles, almost rubbing her hands in glee.
"Here's my goal: Not everyone wants to go play golf and make quilts, or go to Florida and play tennis. They're not going to pay $25 to see someone sitting in a wingback chair and talk about what it was like the first time I got a computer. They want somethings intellectually stimulating, entertaining."
Joan is from Michigan, where she earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State. She spent summers apprenticing at The Barn Theatre in Augusta, the oldest company in Michigan. That gave her experience and a philosophy.
"All those equity actors who moaned and groaned about how little work there was. I mean, I loved it, I just loved it, but in the back of my mind was, I have to support myself, and I'm not going to be able to do it in theatre."
Joan's hummus and pita arrived.
"Oh that looks wonderful!" with charateristic enthusiasm.
"What do you look for in a good hummus?" I asked.
"Cumin, coriander, garlic. This is good," she said. A circuitous route took Joan through California, Ohio, Florida, and Colorado, where she completed her first doctorate in interpersonal communication at the University of Denver. But she was dedicated to community theatre. She met husband Carl at a grocery store in Colorado, and soon after were transferred to San Francisco, and then to Illinois, not Chicago.
"I felt like someone had reached across Lake Michigan with a long hook and pulled me back, because I said I would never return to Michigan until it became a cosmopolitan as Chicago."
After a period of adjustment, Joan's love for community theatre led her to direct for several community theatres. She became President of Main Street Players in Boone County, Illinois.
"Oh look what the board has done in three years (there) she," she said. "We have people who are repeaters, who have 40-hour jobs, kids, family."
"What brings them back?" I asked.
"Every time we do a show, we up the ante. That was my goal. Every show we did quality directing, scenes, publicity, organizing the theatre, and keeping it going. It's wonderful. It's established our credibility. It's inspiring to the board to look at where they were and where we are.
"Community theatre is the training ground for professional theatre. That's where the opportunities are for actors and directors. It's the place for people who've never been on stage."
Watch out for joan e Kole, Baby Boomers! she has the experience, the standards, the passion to take our local community theatres to the stars.
NOTE: This story originally appeared in The Rock River Times in early 2000's. Joan is currently the Artistic Director at St. Mary's Care Center's AgeQuake Theatres in Madison, Wisconsin.


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Volunteers needed for 2012 Olympic 'army'
Over 1,000 Northern Ireland hopefuls have put their names down to become part of the 70,000-strong volunteer army at the London 2012 Olympics.
Now the local selection committee are seeking volunteers to help them choose which of the volunteers will be invited to London in 18 months time.
Over 40 are needed to assist with the selection procedure at Queen's University in Belfast between April 20 and 29 April next year.
Those picked will be known as Games Makers, and they will have responsibility for helping to keep the Olympic machine running smoothly in the largest workforce mobilisation in peacetime the UK has ever seen.
The search is now on for 40 selection event volunteers to help conduct interviews, support the check-in desk and provide information to applicants.
Duties will involve a minimum of four shifts, with one day's training in competency-based interview skills provided at Queen's on April 2.
Applications close at 5pm on January 14 and can be accessed at www.volunteering-ni.org or phone Volunteer Now on Belfast's Ormeau Road, 02890 236100.
Belfast Telegraph