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For my second make I drew and cut out a teepee, used the logs stamp at the top and the border stamp from 'Tala catching dreams' for the decoration along with the cat's paw from the 'Good luck set' and drew my own stitching.
I coloured and cut out Silverheels and the bow and arrow again from 'Tala catching dreams' and used the border stamp for his quiver.
Distress inked the backing paper, tore the sand base and stamped the vultures.
Adding a silver tomahawk from my treasure chest.
Finally adding 'Be Brave' and the 'courage lies within' sentiments
Our NEW 'Sentimental September challenge' has started HERE, 1st prize has gone up to a fabulous £20 :D
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Labour's 'mansion tax' is coming under increasing fire from critics, as despite it being trailed extensively at their party conference, the policy appears to be lacking in detail, and the number of homes affected may be significantly higher than the shadow chancellor's own estimate of 50,000.
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The arbitrary level of £2 million has been criticised by senior figures within Labour for failing to take into account regional variations in house prices. Labour party London-Mayor hopefuls Lord Adonis, Margaret Hodge, and David Lammy have all signalled objections to the scheme as despite only homing thirteen percent of the British population, 95 percent of the properties affected would be in the capital or southeast of England.
Variations in prices are so severe that in some parts of London a small family home, or even a two bedroom flat would incur the tax whereas significant properties in the North or Southwest of England, Wales or Scotland would not. A property search using a popular estate agency today showed dozens of castles, manor houses and estates complete with extensive land, medieval barns and historic formal gardens presently for sale that would comfortably escape the tax.
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MAX is Back! Max 2: White House Hero - Own It May 23! {& Enter For Your Chance To Win!}
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the DVD I reviewed in this Blog Post. The opinions I share are my own.
My kids loved the first chapter in the story of MAX and when Warner Bros. Home Entertainment contacted me about sharing the second installment of this heroic tale, I knew it was something my family and yours would love! Not only do a I have a sneak peak into who MAX is saving next, but keep reading 'cause I've got your chance to win a copy of your own!
Duty calls again, and our hero dog Max returns to action in "Max 2: White House Hero." His new assignment brings him to Washington, D.C. to serve on the U.S. president's Secret Service detail. When a foreign leader arrives with his precocious daughter Alex (Francesca Capaldi), tensions arise between both countries. First Son TJ (Zane Austin), along with Max and Alex, uncover a dangerous plot that puts both kids and both nations in jeopardy. A highly-sensitive mission will push Max's specialized skills, intelligence and loyalty to the test.
We have a lot of dog lovers in our family so naturally, MAX 2 was just as big of a hit as the first movie. There's something about watching man's best friend give all he's got for his humans that just makes your heart sing. From start to finish this movie left us all cheering for Max as he overcame every obstacle he could, quickly becoming one of my kids favorite heroes!
MAX 2 easily became one of my kids favorites. If you are looking for a family friendly movie, perfect for kids and adults of all ages, look no further than MAX 2! He's eagerly waiting to soon become one of your family's favorite furry heroes just like he has ours. MAX found his way into our hearts and left our family not only standing up and cheering, but more importantly, a deeper understanding and appreciation for all of our real-life service dogs who willingly lay their lives on the line ever day for our military and service men and women!
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remember my hunt for the perfect backpack? well, a few weeks ago, the kind folks at Baggu sent me their striped backpack to test out. I've been test driving it for almost two weeks now and I LOVE it!! it's cute, comfortable, and packs just about everything I need. I've taken it grocery shopping, to the gym, on walks and even on a hike last weekend. I love the front pouch and keep all my necessities in there. {much better than digging into an endless abyss aka my purse!}
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T-Mobile U.S. may have been brushed off for the latest Lumias, but they are not finished with Windows 10 Mobile. Windows Central has verified that the carrier is expected to announce support for the upcoming Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL.
News of the Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL was first revealed by @evleaks back in September with an unofficial render (see above) of the phone posted by him in October. (Note: despite the Windows Hello screen in the render the Fierce XL does not have bio-authentication). The Fierce XL is by all means an entry-level device and fits in with T-Mobile's previous efforts with Windows Phone.
Interestingly, the T-Mobile variant will ship in cyan and is a nice nod to old-school Lumia fans who preferred a more colorful phone. Marketing also appears to have dropped 'Mobile' from Windows 10 Mobile to keep sloganeering for the phone direct.
T-Mobile U.S. Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL
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Alcatel OneTouch has an extensive history making Android smartphones e.g. the recent Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3. They have also boldly claimed that the future of Windows Phone is in the entry-level and that does look to be holding true.
As to when the T-Mobile version will launch in the U.S. it is expected in the coming weeks, and it should be less than $100 off contract. Alcatel OneTouch is likely to feature the phone at CES in Las Vegas next week and Windows Central will be on hand to cover it and any other launches.
On a final note, T-Mobile has also set up an extensive training guide for employees on Windows 10 Mobile suggesting the Fierce XL may be part of a larger portfolio. Although the Fierce XL does not support Continuum the Windows 10 Mobile training guides do hinting a higher-end phone that supports the 'phone as a PC' experience may be coming to T-Mobile.
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Growing up in the 80's and 90's I still have a love of both sending and receiving a hand written letter whether it be a note to say Thank You, a letter, or a "just because" note. In an age where texting, tweeting, and email are the new normal, getting something in the mail that is not a bill or magazine just puts a smile on my face.
As we start to look for last minute gifts this holiday season let's keep in mind the lost art of the hand written note/card/letter and encourage our friends and family to pick up a pen and sit down to write. A great way to do this is to gift a pen. Now I'm not talking about your stand pack of gel-rollers that we pick up down at CVS, no I'm talking about a luxury pen, one that deserves to be kept on that fancy writing desk and used to craft a note of love and thanks.
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I took my own advice this year and instead of doing the easy thing of sending out digital Christmas cards, I sat down and hand wrote cards to all those nearest and dearest to me.
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From the sage to the risqué, the late Pauline Phillips dished out a generation's worth of great one-liners
Pauline Friedman Phillips, better known by her pen name, Abigail Van Buren, died on Thursday at age 94, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer's. She was born 17 minutes after her identical twin sister, Esther Lederer, and published her first Dear Abby column in 1956, three months after Esther's debut as Ann Landers. Phillips chose her pen name from the Bible ("Then David said to Abigail 'Blessed is your advice and blessed are you'" —the Book of Samuel) and our eighth president (she liked the "old-family, presidential ring" of Van Buren, says Margalit Fox in The New York Times). And after charming and cajoling her way into an advice columnist job at the San Francisco Chronicle, Abby transformed the staid, prudish world of dishing out syndicated advice, along with her sister.
"Any of us who do this owe them such a debt," advice columnist Carolyn Hax tells the AP. "The advice column was a backwater of the newspaper, and now it is so woven into our cultural fabric. These columns are loved and widely read, by people you wouldn't expect. That couldn't have happened without them." But as intertwined as the sisters' rival columns were, they "differed in style," says the AP's Jocelyn Noveck. "While Ann Landers responded to questioners with homey, detailed advice, Abby's replies were more flippant and occasionally risqué." Here's are some of Dear Abby's best one-liners, frisky or otherwise:
Dear Abby: My boyfriend is going to be 20 years old next month. I'd like to give him something nice for his birthday. What do you think he'd like? —Carol
Dear Carol: Nevermind what he'd like, give him a tie.
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Dear Abby: Our son married a girl when he was in the service. They were married in February and she had an 8 1/2-pound baby girl in August. She said the baby was premature. Can an 8 1/2-pound baby be this premature? —Wanting to Know
Dear Wanting: The baby was on time. The wedding was late. Forget it.
Dear Abby: Is it possible for a man to be in love with two women at the same time? —Jake
Dear Jake: Yes, and also hazardous.
SEE ALSO: The daily gossip: Kim Kardashian's baby is due in July, and more
Dear Abby: I've been going with this girl for a year. How can I get her to say yes? —Don
Dear Don: What's the question?
Dear Abby: I've been going steady with this man for six years. We see each other every night. He says he loves me, and I know I love him, but he never mentions marriage. Do you think he's going out with me just for what he can get? —Gertie
Dear Gertie: I don't know. What's he getting?
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Dear Abby: My wife sleeps in the raw. Then she showers, brushes her teeth and fixes our breakfast — still in the buff. We're newlyweds and there are just the two of us, so I suppose there's really nothing wrong with it. What do you think? —Ed
Dear Ed: It's O.K. with me. But tell her to put on an apron when she's frying bacon.
Dear Abby: What's the difference between a wife and a mistress? —Bess
Dear Bess: Night and Day.
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Dear Abby: About four months ago, the house across the street was sold to a "father and son" — or so we thought. We later learned it was an older man about 50 and a young fellow about 24.This was a respectable neighborhood before this "odd couple" moved in. They have all sorts of strange-looking company. Men who look like women, women who look like men, blacks, whites, Indians. Yesterday I even saw two nuns go in there!... Abby, these weirdos are wrecking our property values! How can we improve the quality of this once-respectable neighborhood? —Up In Arms
Dear UP: You could move.
Dear Abby: I joined the Navy to see the world. I've seen it. Now, how do I get out?
Dear Navy: Simple. Go to your superior officer and say these 2 words: I'm Gay.
SEE ALSO: The daily gossip: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez break up again, and more
Dear Abby: I have always wanted to have my family history traced, but I can't afford to spend a lot of money to do it. Have you any suggestions? —M.J.B. in Oakland, Calif.
Dear M.J.B.: Yes. Run for a public office.
Dear Abby: What inspires you most to write? —Ted
Dear Ted: The Bureau of Internal Revenue.
SEE ALSO: The daily gossip: Taylor Swift and Harry Styles allegedly break up, and more
Dear Abby: Are birth control pills deductible? —Bertie
Dear Bertie: Only if they don't work.
Dear Abby: I know boys will be boys, but my 'boy' is seventy-three and he's still chasing women. Any suggestions? —Annie
Dear Annie: Don't worry. My dog has been chasing cars for years, but if he ever caught one, he wouldn't know what to do with it.
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Every year Doylestown has an Arts Festival which I think is an amazing collection of interesting artists and talented people. I remember going to this festival as a child with my parents and being amazed at all of the creative handcrafted pieces.
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18th Annual Doylestown Arts Festival 2009
Saturday & Sunday, September 12 & 13, 2009
10:00am to 5:00pm
The Arts Festival takes place in the heart of Doylestown, and the event is FREE to the public. There will be areas designated as free parking, and there will be entertainment, food, and artwork for sale. I think this will be a fun event and there will be something for everyone to enjoy.
For more information on vendors/artists exhibiting, and photographs from last year, please visit: http://www.doylestownartsfestival.com/index.htm.


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Clone: CS46C, CS163C, CS27A
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Fruit source: Oude Nektar farm in Jonkershoek Valley (Block 5)
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Slope: South Westerly
Details of vinification and oaking:
This wine is based on our best block of cabernet — a higher elevation block with a finely textured decomposed granite soil with a clay sub-soil and a gentle Southwest-facing slope. The wines made from this vineyard (including our single-vineyard syrah) always seem to have good ripeness coupled with good natural acidity and a unique floral note that sets it apart from our other blocks of cabernet. There are five different clones within the block, but I usually focus on just three that have quite different characters: clone 46 which is well structured, but with less forward fruit; clone 27 which varies from vintage, but tends to have a firm tannin; and clone 163 which is quite fruit forward. The grapes for this wine were hand-harvested in mid March. They were picked into small lug boxes and cooled overnight in a refrigerated container to about 14 degrees C., then de-stemmed and carefully hand-sorted and crushed into small open fermentation vats and cold-soaked for 2-3 days until natural fermentation started. The following day they were inoculated with a mix of yeasts, half with a South African strain and the other half with an imported Bordeaux yeast. About 25% of the wine was fermented with natural yeasts. Regular, vigorous punchdowns were given every 4 hours for the first half of fermentation, then every 6-8 hours thereafter. The wine was basket pressed and racked directly to barrel for malo-lactic fermentation and subsequent barrel maturation. A mix of coopers was used, all French oak, all 300 litre, about 70% new and the balance second-fill. The wine was bottled without fining and with only a light polishing filtration after 22 months barrel maturation.


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Talk about your fall and winter color palettes. Geez this home is stunning. That mixture of a dark, charcoal gray with that warm, honey-red wood is making us almost pass out. And surrounded so closely by those tall and narrow pine trees makes this just such an amazing example of how modern architecture can really work with nature. It's clear this home would look beautiful anywhere it was located, but it just really seems to vibrate with beauty being nestled into this grove of trees.bak architecture
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I'm not someone who is obsessed about Lush products however whenever I'm near the shop, I do get sucked in by the amazing aroma and, obviously have to buy something.
This bath bomb is called 'So White' and smells...appley? It literally smells just like apples, citrusy and fresh, not what I would expect a snowball to smell like but I'll go with it! Now, when I used this last night, I decided to push the boat out, and put the whole thing in; and as it happily fizzed away, it slowly turned my bathwater white! Basically, I bathed in amazing smelling milk...and loved it! It isn't too overpowering, yet it's not like some cheaper bath bombs where you don't even notice you've used one. Really subtle yet really relaxing, leaving a gorgeous, fresh scent lingering on the skin!
What are your favourite Lush products? I really want to get into them because I hear so many good things about the brand yet become overwhelmed when I go into the store!
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Our weekend in pictures - Annie's 1st Birthday 🎂💕
Wow what a weekend! I may have forgot to get the invitations to Annie's party sent out (can I still use the baby brain excuse?) but the sun did make a guest apperance and it was so welcome!
I got really emotional on the lead up to Bella's first birthday but I didn't see it happening again for Annie's. I thought with her being the second child and knowing that the next stage is so much fun, exploring the world with them and watching a real wee character shine that this would stop the tears this time. Nope. My emotions ran high the day before and the day of her party, I relived so much of the past year and also wondered how it all went by so fast! I am hearing I'm not alone though on this 1st birthday thing? Maybe it's because it feels like we are finishing the baby chapter? Good thing they will always be our babies.
Annies rumper - Grace James by Lucy Evangelista
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We had a BBQ at the house which I love to do as it feels very intimate with our close family and friends. Everyone gets to play a role though, I was decorating little bits from a few days out, my mum helped with the food and my brother in law made the most amazing salad... Which ended up on the kitchen floor. 🙈 I think it's really special having their birthday at home but like Bella's the second one can be in fun factory where we just have to turn up.
We spent Monday at the Zoo, packed a picnic and enjoyed the most glorious weather then hurried home to get the paddling pool out.
I think it's fair to say Annie had a ball this weekend with the highlight being her first taste of birthday cake. We even let her have a second slice today at the zoo while Colin, Bella and I got to sing Happy Birthday to her, this time I even got the words out.
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Tracks must hold a minimum number of races to run card tables.
Animal activists argue "decoupling" the two could reduce deaths.
DAYTONA BEACH — Two-year-old racing greyhound Facebook fell during a late-evening race last May at Daytona Beach Kennel Club & Poker Room.
The fall caused a compound fracture in one of Facebook's legs, and, under the advice of the track's veterinarian, the dog was put to sleep.
Facebook was one of 15 dogs based at the kennel club who died between May 31 and Feb. 17, according to state documents. The Daytona Beach Kennel Club & Poker Room led the state's 12 other kennel clubs in deaths during that period.
Ninety-seven dogs have died statewide since May, when a law that requires tracks to notify the state of dog deaths went into effect.
"This was the first real look into the greyhound racing industry in Florida, and I think there was a lot of public shock that a greyhound is dying every three days (through the end of 2013)," said Carey Theil, executive director of Boston-based GREY2K USA Worldwide, an organization that works to end greyhound racing.
Greyhound racing is not the money-generator it once was. A 2013 study by Spectrum Gaming Group found that the amount wagered on greyhound racing in Florida fell from nearly $934 million in 1990 to a little more than $265 million in 2012, even though the number of races run annually only fell slightly over that period. Florida boasts more than half of the remaining 21 greyhound tracks in the nation.
Still, Florida law requires track operators to hold a minimum number of dog races per year for them to run card tables, which are much more lucrative.
Animal activists like Theil argue that by "decoupling" dog racing from card gambling, the racing industry will die a natural death and future greyhound fatalities will be averted. They also want to require tracks to report dog injuries as well as deaths.
Decoupling has supporters on both sides of the aisle in the Florida Legislature, and some tracks, including the Daytona Beach kennel club, are on board, arguing that decoupling will give them greater flexibility in scheduling races.
However, opponents say decoupling would in essence create 13 standalone card rooms across the state and eliminate thousands of jobs supported by the greyhound industry in Florida.
"It would be the greatest expansion of gambling in the state's history," said Jack Cory, a spokesman for the Florida Greyhound Association. Cory maintains that implementing tougher safety standards for tracks would prevent greyhound deaths.
About 700 greyhounds are based at the Daytona Beach Kennel Club & Poker Room, said manager Dan Francati. The facility has a 550-yard track and nine kennels that are owned by the kennel club but independently operated.
At least eight of the 15 greyhound deaths recorded for the Daytona Beach kennel club occurred after the dogs suffered injuries while racing. At least four occurred while the dog was in a kennel or otherwise away from the track. Three death reports don't contain information about where or how the dog died.
Francati said safety conditions at the track are reviewed regularly, including every time a dog dies.
"Our overwhelming concern is the safety of the greyhound," he said.
Still, some legislators and activists want to know more not only about dogs that die at racing facilities, but also those that are injured.
A pair of bills introduced in the Florida House and Senate would require race tracks to report such injuries to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, whose Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering oversees greyhound tracks.
"Animals are being hurt in a regulated sport, and we should be able to see what's going on," said state Rep. David Hood, R-Daytona Beach Shores, who co-sponsored the House bill to require injury reporting.
Francati said he supports injury reporting so long as the industry gets a say in what gets reported and how.
"I don't think there is a lot of opposition to that, as long as the metrics are well-defined," he said.
Though no bills calling for a full decoupling have been introduced, a general gambling bill introduced in the Senate has provisions that require injury reporting and would lower the number of greyhound races each track is required to run each year to continue their card-gaming business.
Whether any of the bills introduced this year will be put to a vote is still up in the air. The Legislature still has nearly six weeks left in its 2014 session.
"It really is changing by the hour," Theil said in a telephone interview Tuesday from Tallahassee, where he met with lawmakers. "But there is tremendous momentum for decoupling."
"I think it would be a good idea to decouple," said state Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, who represents Flagler County and part of Volusia County. "Track owners said they'd still run if they'd decouple, but most people in the business — the greyhound tracks — feel there is more need for flexibility in ... how often they run."
Francati is one of those people.
"We believe decoupling should come so that we don't have a fixed formula on which to run," Francati said. "Right now, I don't have any flexibility at all."
Decoupling came close to becoming reality in 2011 when legislation passed in both the House and Senate but whithered after the bodies couldn't reconcile differences in the bills.
The 2013 Spectrum report estimated that decoupling would lead to a 40 percent drop in the number of races held annually.
Rich Alvord, 67, and Lollie Bolander, 56, both of Edgewater, took in several races during a Thursday matin�e performance at the Daytona Beach kennel club. They go to the races about once a month and sometimes take out-of-town friends to see them. Alvord said he wouldn't want to see fewer races in Daytona Beach, let alone an end to greyhound racing altogether.
"We look forward to coming out," he said. "This is one of the area's draws, especially for the senior crowd."
Greyhound association spokesman Cory said death reports are overblown, racing greyhounds are treated well and decoupling would kill an industry that adds $200 million a year to the Florida economy and employs thousands.
He noted that deaths registered in 2013 constitute less than 1 percent of the approximately 8,000 dogs that race in Florida.
"Half died from accidents on the track," Cory said of the 2013 deaths, adding that the state should have more stringent standards for track-surface maintenance and lure safety and a requirement to insulate the electrified bar that runs around tracks and powers the mechanical lure.
"That would save the vast majority of the 50 percent that died on the track," he said. "One premature death of an animal is too many."
Francati said his track, which was built in 2008, operates with an unusual lure system it installed about two years ago. The system was designed by the track's head of maintenance and is used at only three tracks nationwide, Francati said.
Francati said the lure at the Daytona track doesn't need to be collapsible — as Cory calls for — because it is held over the track by fiberglass, which unlike bars at other tracks, is lightweight and flexible.
Further, the bus bar that powers the lure doesn't need to be insulated because power can be cut quickly by race operators and it sits behind a metal bar that prevents dogs from sliding into it, he said.
"We don't have to insulate it because ... if we see a problem we could instantly cut the electricity," he said.
"You've got someone who can press a button and instantaneously cut power?" Cory said incredulously upon hearing Francati's claims about the lure system. "Please. That's just magical."
None of the Daytona Beach greyhound death reports indicate that a dog died by electrocution at the facility.


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Syntactic persuasions , Semantic tech
Platform of my voice.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Friday, September 22, 2006
All that you need is a generic telnet client. Local echo should be turned
on so you can see what you type. Also, it is important to note that SMTP
servers do not handle backspaces, so you must type everything correctly.
Telnet to port 25 of your target SMTP server (more on SMTP servers
selection below). The server should respond with a generic welcome message.
You will type HELO domain.name. Use any domain name you wish as most
servers do not check the name against the IP you are telneting from. Type
. This is where the message will appear to be
from. Next, type RCPT TO:
. This specifies who will
receive the message. Type DATA and type the body of your message. To send
the message, enter a line with only a period. Type QUIT to disconnect.
Sample Session
220 hq.af.mil Sendmail 4.1/Mork-1.0 ready at Thu, 14 Mar 96 00:26:46 EST
HELO prometheus.com
250 hq.af.mil Hello prometheus.com (prometheus.com), pleased to meet you
... Sender ok
... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
This is the body of my message.
250 Mail accepted
221 hq.af.mil delivering mail
What about message subjects?
The subject, date, to, etc. are part of the DATA area. After the DATA
command, start with date and continue is the fashion illustrated by the
example code below. Make sure there are no mistakes, because the first
mistake will cause the data to appear in the body of the message, not
header. It is interesting, because these fields take precedence over the
MAIL FROM: and RCPT TO: when displaying. A message can be routed to a
person even though the message itself appears to be addressed to someone
else. The key is to type VERY carefully.
Date: 23 Oct 81 11:22:33
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
To: email@example.com
Subject: Mail System Problem
Sorry JOE, your message to firstname.lastname@example.com lost.
HOSTZ.ARPA said this:
End Example
Can my mail be traced?
Yes, the IP address you mailed from can be traced if you are not careful.
All mail will show a line in the header listing the IP address that you
originally telneted from. If the person you are sending mail to doesn't
know much about IP's and the like, you shouldn't worry too much.
Furthermore, depending on your the nature of your connection, there are
different implications. For instance, if you have a direct connection, you
can be easily traced by your IP address. On the other hand, if you have a
dial-in connection or service such as AOL, you will not have a defined IP
address. You will be assigned a temporary one. The only way your mail can
be traced with this type of connection is to check against the dial in
service's system logs. The take-home message is that you are safe with this
type of connection unless you do something really stupid. Finally, the best
case scenario is a public access terminal with no logging. This type
connection is untraceable.
I have found some servers that don't log IP. Read No IP SMTP Server
What SMTP servers can I use?
An easy (but hit-or-miss) way to find random SMTP servers is to look at web
addresses on Yahoo! or another search engine. Universities and government
agencies are always good choices. Find a URL and telnet to port 25. If you
get a response, you have located an available server. 95% of servers will
accept your mail. The others will not allow external mail forwarding for
security reasons. Always test the server first.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Google has acknowledged the presence of a phishing hole on its Public Service Search application and has blocked access to the service until the problem is fixed.
The problem went public when blogger Eric Farraro posted details on Thursday on his software development blog. Farraro said that the customizable code in Google's public service search , which enables nonprofit institutions like universities to install ad-free Google search functions on their Web sites at no cost, could be used to create a page hosted on the google.com domain.
Scammers could then use this to build fraudulent Google pages to lure people into handing over personal information, Farraro noted. He demonstrated this by creating a false "Gmail Plus" page: When unsuspecting visitors to the page tried to use their Gmail password to log in, the site delivered a "You (could have) gotten served!" message.
Search giant Google confirmed the existence of the security hole in a statment posted in its blog on Friday. The company has temporarily disabled all login access to Public Service Search clients and has placed a moratorium on new sign-ups. The search functions on current clients' Web sites, however, remain intact. According to Google, a temporary fix has been installed in the service, with a more permanent one in the works.
The Public Search Service phishing hole was particularly alarming because it used real Google URL, similar to the case of a PayPal flaw found earlier this summer. Many safeguards against phishing depend on being able to identify a fraudulent domain posing as a legitimate one.
Phishing remains a growing online crime, despite attempts by major Web companies to curtail it with browser warnings and add-ons. Recent trends have shown that phishers are beginning to expand their horizons.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Boostup Your firefox speed
Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.
If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now
Friday, September 08, 2006
Top Ten Engineers of All TimeEngineers are the people who have built our world. Everything we use today was at one point nothing but an idea in someone's head, that was successfully designed and built. So who are the best engineers throughout history?
10. Nicolaus Otto
Nicolaus Otto developed the four-stroke or Otto-cycle engine and the first internal combustion engine, where fuel is burned directly in the piston chamber. The Otto-cycle is still used in the internal combustion engines that run all of our cars today. Despite developing the engine, it was Otto's peers such as Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz who first apply it to locomotion, forever changing how people move around the world.
9. Alan Turing
Alan Turing developed the binary architecture now used in all computers, as well as much of the theory behind computers. He is regarded as the father of computer science. The computer you're currently using would not exist without his contributions to the field. He also broke the German Enigma code during WWII, without which victory would have been far more difficult, if not impossible. After the war he made many other contributions to code making and breaking. While he never really built anything physical, his enormous influence in computer science earned him a place in the top ten.
8. Mikhail Kalashnikov
While much of Kalashnikov's AK-47 was borrowed from other guns, his simplification of their designs to make a nearly flawlessly functioning rifle was his genius. The gun is cheap to manufacture, easy to use, and hard to break. It's hard to argue with success, after 57 years the AK-47 is still in production, and there are dozens of different varieties from shotguns to sniper rifles and the familiar assault rifle. It is arguably one of the best guns in history, and definitely one of the most influential. After all, what other gun has African children named for it?
7. Archimedes of Syracuse
With Archimedes it's difficult to separate the legend from the man. The engineering feats he is rumored to have accomplished include a mirror death-ray and a crane capable of lifting and smashing Roman ships, although they probably never existed. He did improve the catapult, develop levers and pulleys, and invent the Archimedean Screw, a device used to raise water for irrigation or mining. He also calculated pi and developed many mathematical insights without which modern engineering would be impossible.
6. Wilbur and Orville Wright
A clear indication of engineering brilliance is when you essentially invent your field. Other pioneers of flight came before them whose work was invaluable, but it was the Wrights who truly created aeronautical engineering. In a time when people thought of the mechanics of flight as ground locomotion in the air, the Wright brothers saw it as something wholly new. Their development of the three axis control system was necessary to fly controllably. They were also the first to really look at propeller design and aerodynamics. Their work profoundly changed the world.
5. Hero of Alexandria
This man could have started the Industrial Revolution in 50 AD with the invention of the Aeolipile, a form of steam or jet engine where jets of steam spin a ball. However, he failed to realize what the device could do, and thought of it as nothing but a toy. Some have speculated that the abundance of slave labor negated any need for a labor-saving device, so no one applied his device in the manner of the Industrial Revolution. Hero also wrote many works on subjects ranging from pneumatics to mathematics to physics.
4. James Watt
James Watt's incarnation of the steam engine ushered in the Industrial Revolution. His centrifugal governor kept the engine running at the desired rate, and is a modification so simple and elegant that it may be one of the best ideas of all time. The governor was only one of his countless modifications to one of the most influential devices of all time. Watt's perfection of one of the most important devices in history easily puts him in the top ten engineers.
3. Thomas Edison
Edison is the most prolific inventor in history, holding a record 1,097 patents. He developed the phonograph, incandescent light bulb, stock ticker, motion picture camera and projector, and hundreds more. He also created the first electrical plant and distribution infrastructure. Without these inventions, modern life is almost inconceivable.
2. Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla is perhaps the greatest electrical engineer of all time. His inventions include fluorescent lighting, the Tesla coil, the induction motor, and 3-phase electricity. He developed the AC-current generation system comprised of a motor and a transformer. Some have said that he "invented the 20th century." Unfortunately, he became something of a mad scientist in his later years, and died in obscurity, but his invaluable contributions are remembered today.
1. Leonardo da Vinci
Perhaps the most visionary man of all time, Leonardo foresaw everything from the helicopter to the tank to the submarine. Modern engineers have proven that many of his designs, including bridges, hang-gliders, transmissions, parachutes, and more would have worked had they been built. There have been few individuals in the history of engineering who have designed so many revolutionary devices that actually worked. Leonardo is, by far, the greatest engineer of all time.
Honorable Mentions:
Eli Whitney – Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts
Rudolf Diesel – Diesel Engine
Wernher Von Braun – Rocketry
Enrico Fermi and Leó Szilárd – First Nuclear Reactor
Three files are installed in Windows XP
System Folder:
\WINDOWS\system32\ WgaLogon. dll
\WINDOWS\system32\ WgaTray.exe
\WINDOWS\system32\ LegitCheckContro l.dll
disable WGA by removing the execute bit on WgaLogon.dll. That way,
winlogon can't call it as a notification package at boot, and since
WgaLogon is responsible for running and maintaining WgaTray.exe, no
more tray pop ups either.
To change the execute bit of WgaLogon.dll,
1.turn off Simple File Sharing.
2.right click the file in Windows Explorer and open the Security Tab.
3.Advanced button,
4.uncheck the Inherit box at the bottom,
5.hit the Copy button, then hit OK.
6.Go through each listed user/group and remove the "Read &
Execute†permission for that file, leaving the "Read†permission
Hit OK to apply the permission changes and close the file properties
dialog. Restart the machine. You can now turn "Use simple file
sharing†back on,if you want.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
What's neat about Google's products, and the way they announce them, is that no one ever knows whether the product is:
a) A 20% pet-project developed by a couple of engineers in their spare time over a couple of beers, or -
b) Part of Sergey & Larry's master plan for world domination for which they're hiring 1000's of engineers and spending a shitload of $$'s on capex.
There's no confusion as to the significance of Vista or Live.com or adCenter for Microsoft, for example. But with Google's product you just never know and that is quite amazing when you come to think of it.
My take on Google's video ads? - If it is option A (20% pet-project of a couple of engineers), feel free to ignore all of the following.
However, if it is option B (part of the world domination master plan), then I think this is actually a pretty smart move. Not that I think the current implementation will work very well - I actually don't. As Mike Arrington pointed out, the incentive for the user to click on the video ad is questionable, there are no conversion opportunities, etc.
The chicken&egg problem of any marketplace makes it very tough for insurgents to break through an existing leading marketplace and become a viable one themselves. So if Google's long term master plan is to become for TV networks what AdSense has become for online publishers, it will find it nearly impossible to do regardless of how great their technology for aggregating and serving video ads is.
The TV networks simply have all the ad inventory and the advertiser relationships and there would be no reason to use a great technology that's absent of real advertising $$'s behind it.
But that game completely changes if Google were to come to the TV networks (or TiVo & Co, which will surely get into the ad game sooner or later) with a war chest of tens of thousands of advertisers, and billions of $$'s in unspent budget. That solves the chicken&egg problem, and would enable Google to quite easily become the dominant ad platform for digital TV (not to mention taking over all advertising for the exploding online microchunked TV in the form of YouTube, iTunes and of course Google Video).
So using Google's existing asset (AdSense) to leverage them into the real target marketplace is a smart way to do it, regardless of how lame the current implementation on textual websites may seem. Microsoft has proved over the years how well criss-cross product leveraging works for creating monopolies in markets it didn't even play in, and Google seem to have taken notes. They did it in the past by leveraging their huge search user base to create a huge advertiser base (AdWords), which they later leveraged to become a huge ad network (AdSense), which they now seem to be leveraging to create a huge video advertiser base, which they will probably later leverage to become the dominant TV ad marketplace.But then again, this may just be an engineer's pet-project... ;-)


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Doing exercises may not be for everyone. In fact, a lot of people hate going to the gym. Gym memberships can be expensive. In fact, a lot of people who are carefully budgeting their expenses don't see gym memberships as a priority. However, what if you are already overweight and you need to lose weight? The good news is that there are ways on how to lose weight without the use of any type of gym facility.
Do squats
If you are going to lose weight and you want still want to exercise, you really don't need to go to the gym. The good thing about squats is that you are using your own weight. Be sure to concentrate on proper form and you are already going to burn a tremendous amount of calories since you are going to work on your large leg muscles including your quads.
And if you feel bored, you can do a lot of squat variations. You can even do single squat variations that can help fix imbalances in your body while it helps you lose some weight.
Running is a great way to burn calories without using the gym. However, keep in mind that you should never overdo running. The reason is quite simple. You can lose some muscle mass if you overdo running. This means that eventually a sluggish metabolism.
Eat small meals throughout the day
You also want to make sure that you carefully watch how much you eat. Instead of eating a large amount of food at once, you want to make sure that you are just going to distribute the food that you eat throughout the day. Eating frequent small meals can help make a big difference in your metabolism. It can also give your body enough time to digest the food that you eat. And of course, having food introduced to the body every now and then, you get to fight the cravings that can make you gain weight.
Eat foods rich in protein
A lot of people find it difficult to lose weight because they are not eating enough protein. So what makes protein so crucial to losing weight? It helps in building muscles. By raising the body's muscle mass, you are able to improve its metabolic rate.
There are food options such as chicken breast, eggs, salmon, and lamb that can be a good source of protein. On the other hand, you also have supplements such as whey protein that can help fill the body's protein requirement.
Eat a lot of vegetables and fruits
Vegetables can help you lose a lot of weight because these are low caloric and highly nutritious foods. You will most likely improve your immune system and even boost the body's ability to recover.
It is possible to lose some weight even if you don't have a gym membership. The good thing about these tips is that you can actually save a lot of money in the long run. Diet and some lifestyle changes are the most important things that you have to address in order to live a healthy life.


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by Kelsey Zalimeni
Carole Feuerman very recently completed her latest addition to The Diver series- this powerful life-size bronze stands at 6'5", a gleaming testament to the glory and sheer athleticism of the human body.
The model for The Diver is Richard Nuzzolese, whose father Mike Nuzzolese first modeled for Carole earlier in her career.
Richard underwent Carole's intensive casting process, getting covered from head to toe in a rubber mixture which captured every aspect of his body, down to the pores on his face. The process pushed the crew to the physical limit, for Richard had to sustain the diver's pose for hours while those applying the rubber had to capture his form perfectly.
Clearly this tedious process yields massive rewards; the bronze Diver stands proudly as a wonderful addition to Carole's oeuvre.


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The home of Nebraska head coach Scott Frost was burglarized over the weekend.
Police said an estimated $165,000 worth of memorabilia from his various playing and coaching stops, including his time as the Huskers' starting quarterback, was stolen from his Lincoln residence.
What items were stolen?
According to Lincoln Police captain Jeri Roeder, 14 different championship rings were stolen from Frost's residence: two from his playing days at Nebraska, 10 from his time as an assistant at Oregon and two from his head-coaching run at Central Florida. Additionally, five pairs of Air Jordan shoes and a Nintendo Wii were swiped as well.
However, Frost later clarified in a statement that some of the items initially reported missing have been located.
"The incident that occurred at our home is obviously very disappointing and discouraging. All of our belongings were gone through and it will take some time to determine exactly what is missing and the value of those items," Frost said in a statement.
"I would like to clarify that some items initially reported as missing have been found, including some of the rings listed on the police report. Also, the value of what we believe to actually be missing is lower than what has been publicly reported."
The house is being renovated
After two seasons as head coach at UCF, including last year's undefeated run to the Peach Bowl, Frost returned to Nebraska, his alma mater to resurrect its football program. Frost was the quarterback on the 1997 team that won a share of the national championship under Tom Osborne.
Frost and his family purchased a home south of campus in Lincoln, but were not currently living in the home as it undergoes renovations.
Police said the thieves entered the home through an unlocked garage door between 5:30 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Sunday. There are currently no suspects in the case.
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I use ArchLinux, and an IDE called PyCharm. On its download page, it recommends using Java 6 instead of OpenJDK. ArchLinux has an OpenJDK package (
jdk7-openjdk) that I have installed, installed, and from what I had read in the Arch Wiki on Java, it should be possible to install Oracle Java 6 along side OpenJDK 7 via a packages called
jdk6-compat and
jre6-compat, which install these versions of Java in
/opt/ instead of the normal location.
However, after installing
jdk6-compat and
jre6-compat, I still see that I am running OpenJDK 7 when I run the following:
% java -version
java version "1.7.0_09"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.3.3) (ArchLinux build 7.u9_2.3.3-1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode)
...even after I have set
JAVA_HOME and added
/opt/java6/bin to my
PATH in my
.zshrc file.
How can I get PyCharm (or other applications) to use Oracle Java 6 instead of OpenJDK?
Thanks, and apologies if I've posted in the wrong place.
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