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Thought I would start up a new thread for candidates of the 2017/18 MP intake. This way we can get to know one another and ask tons of questions without bombarding other threads. Coyote489
Great idea. Is this for officer or ncm? Sent from my SM-N920W8 using Tapatalk
Ooooh, thanks for reminding me... I'm applying as NCM so I guess we can stick to that, I don't really care but I guess there is a bit of difference between the two
If I could make a suggestion; given the many commonalities and small numbers of MPO, it probably wouldn't hurt to have a combined thread.
Military Christmas Break usually starts Friday. If you haven't heard anything by now, it's likely you won't hear anything until January.
Gryphman, that's awesome! Congratulations. Now just to hear something from my VOT and I'd be happy lol
Same Reading all the posts about people getting their MPAC interviews and I'm here a year into my OT twiddling my thumbs waiting for one.
Morning all!I have a somewhat off topic question but I think I can still make ut fit this topic and save having to start a new thread:Former MP (conscription) solder from Sweden. Just shy of 10 years as a correctional officer both provincial and federally.Grade 12 only, nothing else.I'm the process for CF now, looking at Armour.What, if any, are my options of getting over to MP?Cheers!
Without a diploma in police foundations or equivalent from an accredited college your options for becoming an MP are either join the armoured corps and after a few years apply for an occupational transfer to MP if you can. You can also get a college diploma in police foundations or equivalent and then apply to join as an MP.
Yeah I'm looking at what I can do online once I'm in, and the do the transfer. Lunchmeat, could you elaborate a little on portion the educational requirements and the 180 tour.Never heard that, so it's nice to see there are options.


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Research Report: "Open Source in the Enterprise", a Review
This is a review of a relatively new resource, called Open Source in the Enterprise (OSIE) by Bernard Golden. The report's raison d'être is to help companies to decide if open source applications are right for their enterprise, and if so, how to implement it intelligently.
In OSIE, Golden runs you through the issues you'll likely confront while deciding whether to adopt open source. It is published by O'Reilly as part of its Radar Report series, which the company bills ones that "provides corporate clients with early insight into technologies that may either disrupt their business or provide new, high-growth markets."
Judging by the content and tone, the target reader is an experienced IT manager with minimal knowledge of open source. Those using open source already will find it interesting and informative, reinforcing what they already know.
The report appears to be a good fit for the author Golden, who is CEO of the firm Navica, a management consulting firm "focused on open source and innovation." He also authored the book Succeeding with Open Source by Addison-Wesley.
What's Inside
It is quite clear that Bernard Golden is an open-source advocate. He is confident enough in it to say that it is good for all businesses, asserting that "it's clear that open source's many benefits should be attractive to [businesses that have or have not adopted open source], given the challenges that they face." Despite his predisposition, Golden is aware that arguments and data are what will win people over, so he provides plenty of both.
Golden kicks off OSIE with an introduction to open source, including facts and figures that illustrate how open source has come of age. Some of those figures include the number of projects on SourceForge growing from around 12,500 in 2000 to nearly 200,000 in late 2007 and 1000% average annual download growth. His opening argument for open source is that enterprises are under pressure to reduce IT costs of around 7-8% annually in real terms. The biggest barrier in the way of realizing those cost reductions is the inexorable rise in software-licensing costs.
The facts and figures are set up for the bulk of the report, which is organized around six key adoption drivers that Golden claims exist regarding open source. These adoption drivers are:
- Agility and scale
- Quality and security
- Breaking vendor lock-in
- Cost
- Sovereignty
- Innovation
OSIE covers each adoption driver individually in its own section. Golden outlines the extensive array of business conditions addressed by each adoption driver, including many examples of how these business conditions play out in various types of enterprises. Furthermore, he makes a step-by-step for case to argue how each particular trait of open source can help firms to address their IT challenges. Then, Golden illustrates each adoption driver with an extensive case study that illustrates how a particular firm has implemented open source to its advantage. Finally, he closes each section with two succinct sets of bullet points, one that outlines key best practices, i.e. useful action items related to each driver, and another that summarizes potential pitfalls that may arise if one pursues an open-source strategy.
The author also explains clearly in a table format why these adoption drivers exist. Their basis lies in open-source characteristics such as expansive licensing, development transparency, ability to inspect and modify code, the community aspects and redistribution benefits
An Example of an Adoption Driver: Breaking Vendor Lock-In
To give you a feel for what Golden offers in the report, let's explore how he treats the adoption driver called "Breaking Vendor Lock-In". Golden begins the section by explaining the basics of vendor lock-in, how providers of proprietary software seek to gain a monopoly type situation over their customers and why proprietary software is so 'sticky', or costly to switch away from.
Golden then explains what this stickiness means for software users, elaborating the following consequences each with a roughly one-paragraph explanation:
- Vendors have most of the power in the relationship so customers suffer
- Vendors increase lock-in though implementation of non-standard functionality
- There is little potential price competition for incumbent vendors
- Customers have no control over the pace of feature implementation
- Customers can't modify the product to fix critical bugs
- Customers can't modify the product to better suit their individual business circumstances
- Customers are forced to signal business intentions to potential competitors
For the most part, the author explains the dynamics behind each issue but also sprinkles in several real-life examples. For instance, regarding being forced to signal business intentions to potential competitors, Golden reveals how Microsoft generally wants to sit down and talk with anyone who wants new functionality in its software, saying how it wants to "discuss your plans for what you want to do with our products." While these examples are useful, it would certainly be advantageous to have even more of them to better understand the dynamics in context.
In the following part of the section, Golden explains in detail how open source significantly reduces the risk of vendor lock-in. These aspects of open source, each also outlined with a paragraph-long explanation, are as follows:
- Source code availability means that customers are not dependent upon the software provider for access to the product.
- Customers are not dependent on vendors for functionality implementation
- Open source vendors have little ability or incentive to implement non-standard functionality
- Open source vendors have no permanent control of the product due to open-source licensing conditions
- Open source licensing enhances price competition
- Open source licensing enhances support quality
Several of these claims are backed up with evidence, such as the fact that Red Hat tends to sit at the top of CIO Insight's annual Vendor Value Survey, as well as how open-source vendors like MySQL charge tens of thousands of dollars for enterprise-wide support while Oracle charges millions.
These sections are followed by a case study of Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a division of Kaplan, a $2 billion education-related company. In the half-page case study, Golden explores how Kaplan Test moved from Microsoft and Java "DIY" IT shop to open source strategy, including Linux, Apache, Twiki and Alfresco. Kaplan Test implemented open source gradually in three phases, starting with easier, stand-alone applications and moving later towards and enterprise-wide strategy. Each phase of greater usage of opens-source is explained, and Golden concludes that Kaplan essentially broke vendor lock-in with open source.
While insightful, the case study's weakness lies in its brevity. It would be much more helpful to the reader to learn more than just Kaplan Test's implementation strategy and assume that everything turned out just 'peachy'. How have their experiences been? Where was the effort better or worse than expected? Which applications proved better or worse? What personnel issues arose, for better or worse? Whose support services turned out to be worthwhile? Would they pursue the strategy similarly if they knew what they know now?
Following the case study is a collection of robust suggested best practices,with each having a one-paragraph explanation. These best practices regarding vendor lock-in are:
- Recognize that IT is infusing all future business offerings – and lock-in limits the potential for a company to deliver innovation.
- Analyze your future business offerings against the likely directions of your vendors.
- Identify upcoming projects/applications and analyze for lock-in vulnerability.
The final part of the section is a coverage of issues related to vendor lock-in, again each with a one-paragraph explanation. These are:
- Current vendors will work hard to convince you to adopt incremental functionality in existing applications.
- Avoiding lock-in requires a longer-term perspective and a willingness to direct investment toward viewing IT as a competitive differentiator and requiring in-house skill building. .
Besides the limitations mentioned above regarding the depth of the case study, the section regarding vendor lock-in offers a wealth of suggestions and insights on the implementation of open source.
A Special Adoption Driver: Sovereignty
I personally like the fact that this report doesn't just cover the U.S. or wealthy countries. While the bulk of OSIE offers examples from the U.S., the "Sovereignty" section explores in-depth how open source can be a tool for non-U.S. governments and companies that to do not want to be beholden to entities in other countries that often do not consider their needs. Some of these concerns include local functionality, high costs for poor countries, keeping software revenues 'at home', ensuring national security and the development of native IT capabilities. As Golden shows, the characteristics of open source can be a powerful economic development and emancipation tool.
In this section, Golden offers perhaps the deepest range of best practices and issues to consider.
Other Case Studies
Besides the Kaplan Test case study, the report includes five others, which are as follows:
- In the "Scalability and Agility" section, the author tells how PayPal has used Linux to meet these requirements, including integration with partners' systems. While the case focuses a bit heavily on PayPal's business details, it does explain how PayPal uses Linux to gain business advantages that can only occur rapidly if the source code is available. In addition, the case lacks information about challenges encountered with open source.
- In the "Quality and Security" section, Golden elaborates on the Coverity study contracted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that analyzed the software quality of Linux and several other popular open-source projects. The study found open-source applications immensely more bug-free than commercial ones. The only drawback is that it appears that information on this study came only from other publications and not from original data collection by the author.
- In the "Cost" section, the case of Big Lots is used, explaining how the firm chose Jboss Application Platform as its core technology infrastructure. The author explains in sufficient detail the ways in which Jboss improved IT management for the company and saved perhaps $10 million or more. Like the PayPal and Kaplan Test examples, the Big Lots case lacks depth, such as challenges encountered.
- In the "Sovereignty" section, Golden provides two case studies, one from Brazil and the other from northern Africa. In the Brazilian example, he outlines the Telecentros project that uses open source applications to power machines supplying Internet access and computer training in poor neighborhoods. He also describes how the Brazilian government is widely pushing open-source initiatives such as an open e-government interoperability standard, an electronic voting system and its tax system. He also adds a wide variety of examples of how governments in wealthy countries are moving to open source.
The North African example explores the Multinational Information Sharing Initiative (MISI) that allows the U.S. Departments of State and Defense to collaborate with several nations in the region. MISI is unique in that it expressly avoided using any proprietary software from a U.S.-based firm and must work on nearly any device since PCs are rare in the area. Drupal, Jabber and Asterisk are the core application. This is a fascinating example of how open source can make international relations more diplomatic.
O'Reilly Does Its Own Metrics to Measure Open Source
We are all quite familiar with the difficulty of measuring the installed base of Linux and other open-source applications. Who knows how many of us have installed Linux on every machine we can get our hands on with one single ISO we downloaded. To get around these challenges, as well as to focus on the enterprise, the author and publisher O'Reilly took a unique path. They data-mined enterprise Web site job postings to see how many open-source related employees are being sought by large companies and what skills they seek. Both the methodology and results are explained, the latter with interestingly positive results. Also included is a ranking of which open-source applications are in highest demand from both growth and popularity perspectives. The data is fascinating.
Open Source Action Plans: The Icing on the Cake
Golden wraps up the report by outlining three different action plans for implementing open source, one each for early, mainstream and advanced users. While at times basic they are thorough, making them great brainstorm provokers. The nicest aspect of this section is that Golden appears to have a solid handle on what firms at need at different levels. At one end of the spectrum are the 80% of firms who are at the "What, there really is open source at our company?" level and really, more than anything, need to take an inventory of what's going on internally. In the middle are 10% of firms that actively use open source but don't lean too strongly in either direction. Finally, the advanced users, 1% of firms, tend to use open source as a rule and only deviate from the rule when the application is inadequate for the job.
Data sources: The Report draws on research and interviews as well as innovative data mining to describe how enterprises are leveraging open source software in support of their business goals.
Thoughts and Impressions on OSIE
Though one could argue differently, I think that OSIE lacks enough counterweight to help firms make a fully informed decision. Are there any cases, I wonder, where companies came away extremely disappointed with their open-source experiences? Clearly Golden is a dyed-in-the-wool open-source advocate. Otherwise he wouldn't be writing this report. He mission is to make the case for open source to new adopters. Admittedly, at times Golden does put many of his arguments in perspective to be sure the reader knows he is not overly ideological. For instance, Golden reviews the two schools of thought in security, namely the closed "security through obscurity" and the open "security through transparency" approaches - and refrains from dismissing the former as a non-option.
Golden also cautions repeatedly that quality of open source projects can very widely, such that users must do their homework before moving forward. At the same time, Golden doesn't adequately address the issue that some applications simply don't exist in the open-source space, which takes some wind out of the sails of his enthusiasm.
In my view Golden holds a latent assumption that the dynamics of and incentives surrounding proprietary software mean that its developers are nearly incapable of providing a solid product that offers strong value and is secure and maintained well. Certainly the incentives in place with open source are favorable, but one must not forget that while Microsoft can do nearly anything it wants due to its de facto monopoly status on the desktop, most other firms must do all they can to maintain happy customers and that typically many alternatives exist in today's hyper-competitive market.
Golden is at his best in the "Innovation" and "Sovereignty" sections. The "Innovation" section offers scores of concrete ways in which firms are driving innovation forward in ways unimagined just a few years ago. This area shows his depth of knowledge, his range of contacts and the research done to make a report like this possible. Meanwhile, the "Sovereignty" section is especially fascinating since it covers information and case studied not often covered in the mainstream IT press. Furthermore, it offers a wealth of ideas for people in poor countries for using open source as an economic development tool.
OSIE is also strong when Golden is explains each adoption driver, where he lays out the numerous business challenges that exist in enterprises today. When making the case for open source, his arguments are generally convincing because he backs each one up with numerous real-world examples, though in some sections the examples are thin. He clearly did a great deal of research in real enterprises to find out what is going on.
Indeed OSIE is a useful document, especially for those less familiar with open source. It offers not only facts and figures but scores of great examples, arguments, case studies, strategies and potential pitfalls. It is hard to imagine reading this report and not come away excited about open source.
If you are considering a move to open source, certainly read the report, but it would be wise to investigate other information sources to balance out Golden's strident argumentation. Seek out case studies where not everything worked out so smoothly and talk to peers in your industry to get more real-life feedback.
Also, if you are already an open-source convert, perhaps out in the field trying to convince others of the merits of Linux and open source, you'll find a wealth of great material for making your pitch.
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Virgin Media and BT in broadband subsidy row
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The government risks "sleepwalking into another monopoly" in the way it is allocating funds for rural broadband, shadow business minister Chi Onwurah has warned.
The Labour MP says she plans to tell the House of Lords communications select committee on Tuesday that the current system is "skewed towards BT".
Rival Virgin Media has already accused the government of subsidising BT.
BT says that others are welcome to bid for funds.
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Counties around the UK have been allocated a share of £530m of government cash. The aim is for them to match the funding and appoint firms to roll out super fast networks in their areas.
But the process has been slow. So far, just two contracts have been awarded - in Lancashire and Rutland. Both have gone to BT.
BT rivals Fujitsu and Cable & Wireless have withdrawn from the process in many areas - leaving the telecoms firm as sole bidder in some places.
In a letter published by the Guardian newspaper , Virgin Media chief operating officer Andrew Barron said it was not in consumers' interests for BT to win all the contracts.
"If we agree competition is the best way to encourage further sustainable investment, and that embedding dominance in markets is bad for consumers, we must also accept that providing the vast majority of available public funding to an incumbent is not in the UK's best interests," he said.
The money would be better spent funding alternative networks such as 4G and wi-fi, he added.
In response, BT called on Virgin Media to open up its network to rivals.
"BT would be more than happy to compete directly with Virgin for BDUK funds but we doubt that will happen. That is because Virgin have steadfastly refused to provide open wholesale access to their network - a key BDUK requirement - and because they have shown no interest to date in supplying rural areas with broadband," a BT spokesman said in a statement.
"This is in contrast to BT who offer broadband services on a wholesale basis to 99% of UK premises. Fujitsu have announced their intention to bid for funds and so there will be a competitive process. We are already seeing this in several parts of the UK."
Ms Onwurah told the BBC that she was not impressed by BDUK - the group set up by the government to oversee the government's broadband strategy.
"BDUK does not regard competition as its responsibility. We risk sleepwalking into another monopoly," she said.
"BT is in an advantageous position because it has an existing network. Fujitsu is always going to have higher costs," she added.
Virgin Media has publicly thrown itself behind Fujitsu plans.
Project failure
Andrew Ferguson, editor of broadband news site ThinkBroadband, said the system set up by BDUK was not perfect, but at least it was getting broadband to rural areas faster than before.
"Certainly the way the funding has been set up does favour the large telecoms companies, and particularly those that have a big presence and wholesale service already up and running. Short of excluding the BT group from bidding, almost any system would have seen them getting a large chunk of the projects," he said.
But he argues that is not such a bad thing.
"If the money had been spent on new start-ups, then it is possible that some projects would have failed, requiring further investment by the public purse to avoid collapse," he said.
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The largest and most densely populated region on the island of Crete is Heráklion (Iráklion). Nestling picturesquely among two imposing mountain ranges – Ídi (Mt Psiloritis) to the west and Dikti (Lasithiótika mountains) to the east– Heráklion boasts exceptional archaeological treasures, significant coastal settlements, a series of picturesque villages, vast valleys with olive groves and vineyards as well as the best organised tourist infrastructure in Crete. A unique combination of urban scenery and natural wealth makes the region of Heráklion an appealing all-year-round destination.
Crete's capital, the city of Heraklion presents a unique mixture of civilizations where Byzantine remnants stand side by side with Venetian constructions and Ottoman buildings. The city is also renowned for the medieval fortress of Koulés overlooking the Venetian harbour and the Venetian walls that still surround a part of the city. At the southernmost bastion of the fortress, Martinengo Bastion, lies the tomb of Nikos Kazantzakis, the famous Cretan author, whose epitaph reads: "I believe in nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free". Morosini Fountain, adorned with four lions, is one of the best known sights in the city. Built by the Venetian governor Francesco Morosini in the 17th century used to supply the fortified city with water. The reconstructed Lóggia across the fountain housed the Venetian headquarters. Today it houses the Town Hall. Admire a plethora of old churches decorating the streets of the city, like Áyios Títos, San Marco Basilica and Ayía Ekateríni. Stroll down the pedestrian streets of the old town with its hive cafés and restaurants and amble around its squares (Lion, Eleftheríou Venizélou and Kornárou squares) to soak up the city's buzzing atmosphere!
Discover the natural wealth of Heráklion in its stunning gorges (Karterós, Almyrós, Roúvas, Vorisianó, etc.), in the Ecologic-Archaeological Park of Mount Yoúchtas and in a number of caves (most of which are accessible to the public). Explore among others the cave of Ayía Paraskeví, which is said to be part of the Minoan Labyrinth or the cave of Faneroméni. Follow centuries-old footpaths that formed the road network of past times, and explore wonders of nature and the history of the region at the same time.
The most important hiking network of trails is E4, which crosses the region from Mount Psilorítis in the west to Mount Dikti in the east intersecting the most important mountain paths and habitats of the prefecture. Trail E4 from Akólyta to Zarós is quite easy and it takes about 6.5 hours walking. Another splendid trail to Zarós is the one starting from Análipsi springs on Nida plateau, and allows hikers to cross the unique Forest of Roúvas and discover the artificial Lake Vótomos. It is a relatively easy path, about 20km long. An easy 18km trail starts from Áno Arhánes heading to Angaráthou Monastery. In the traditional village of Myrtiá you can find oil and wine presses, while at Astráki you can see the watermills and the springs that supply water to Heráklion.
One of the most beautiful hikes in the south starts from Stérnes, crosses the Arch Passage and ends at Koudoumá Monastery, in a small cove on the coast of the Libyan Sea. Hikers crossing the rough mass of Asteroússia Mountains could even encounter the griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) of Crete.
A dense network of archaeological sites shows the region's importance in the past, which was continuously inhabited since the Neolithic Era. Trace centuries of Cretan history and tradition at:
• The archaeological site of Knossos, where one of the most glorious civilizations of humanity, the Minoan civilization, flourished. Situated among olive trees, vineyards and cypresses on the hill of Kefálas, the Palace of Knossos was not only the royal family's residence but also the administrative and religious centre of the whole region. The Throne Room is situated in the west wing. The eastern wing incorporates the royal chambers, the double axes room, the Queen's Suite with the celebrated dolphin fresco, the workshop areas – where the stone carver's workshop holds an eminent position – and the storage rooms.
• In close proximity to Knossos, in the area of Arhánes, you can visit the palace complex at the district where the Turks lived, the cemetery at Fourní, the largest prehistoric cemetery in the Aegean Sea, the Minoan mansion with the famous wine press at Vathýpetros and the Sanctuary of Anemospiliá.
• At Kastélli Pediádos visit the ruins of Lýttos (or Lýctos), one of the most powerful cities of ancient Crete, which was a Spartan colony.
• The archaeological site of Phaestos (Festós), which was the second most important administrative, economic and religious centre in Minoan Crete after Knossos. The Minoan Palace was built around 1900 B.C. and extends over an area of 18,000m2 (the second largest after Knossos Palace).
• In the area of Messará pay a visit at the ancient Górtyna whose regime gained Plato's admiration. It is not only the archaeological site but also the old churches that attract visitors' interest.
• Wander among the remains of the Palace of Mália, which resembles the palaces of Knossos and Phaestos. One of the most significant finds is the well-known gold pendant of two bees (which can be seen in the Heráklion Archaeological Museum). The palace was built during the same period as the Knossos and Phaestos palaces and follows the pattern of Minoan palaces, with a west and a central court, storage rooms, workshop areas, ceremonial halls, chambers, holy crypts, etc.
Numerous thematic museums show Crete's glorious past and modern cultural life:
• Heráklion Archaeological Museum exhibits significant findings of the Minoan Civilisation and is considered to be one of the most important museums of its kind in the world. Thousands excavation finds, from the Disc of Phaestos to the gold pendant of Mália and the clay dancers from Kamilári reveal an ancient-old illustrious past.
• Heráklion Historical Museum presents the evolution of the city during the centuries; among the exhibits stand out three paintings by El Greco and manuscripts of the famous author Nikos Kazantzakis.
• Cretan Ethnology Museum at Vóri reveals the island's folk life.
• Natural History Museum at Dermatás Bay promotes the unique habitats in Crete and the Mediterranean.
Traditional settlements and historic villages built on mountain slopes and valleys are often surrounded by vineyards and olive groves. Discover the local architecture and spirit of Crete at Arhánes, where neoclassic nobility coexists with rural simplicity, or visit Episkopí with its Byzantine churches. Áno Hersónissos is a picturesque hamlet with Byzantine churches, old wells and stone ovens.
Sun-kissed beaches await the fanatic beachgoers! Enjoy a swim at:
• Amnissós (a beautiful long sandy beach, 7km east of Heráklion),
• Ayía Pelayía, Kalí Liménes (a long sandy beach), the beach of Mália (a crowded resort with thin, white sand, 36km east of Heráklion),
• the beach of Cháni Kokkíni (a wonderful beach with thin, white sand, 13km east of Heráklion known for its north-west winds, which make the place ideal for wind-surfing),
• the beach of Liménas Hersoníssou (a beautiful sandy beach along a small peninsula 27km east of Heráklion, one of the most crowded in Crete),
• the beach of Mátala (a beautiful beach with crystal waters 70km south-west of Heráklion, famous for the caves carved into the rocks, "discovered" by the hippies in the 70's), and
• the beach of Ammoudára (an organised large sandy beach with crystalline waters, 6km west of Heráklion).
Religious celebrations and festivals, traditional popular events, culinary feasts and cultural activities organised throughout the year shape a unique cultural profile. One of the most colourful festivals in Greece, "Heráklion Summer Festival" is held by the Municipality of Heráklion and comprises a rich variety of cultural events. Every summer sea lovers gather in the harbour of Heráklion, where the yacht club of the city organizes yacht races, sailing or rowing lessons and sail rides for the public.
The Wine Festival at Daphnés, organised throughout the first fortnight of July, is dedicated to the local wine of Daphnes and Cretan gastronomy. Sample snails cooked with groats, rabbit with aromatic herbs, pork with celeriac, kaprikó pork grilled with herbs, kalitsoúnia (a pastry filled with cheese) and kserotíyana (honey dipped spiral pastries). Savoury local specialties are complemented with local wine. The region of Heráklion has three VQPRD zones (Vin de Qualité Produit Dans Une Région Déterminée: Wines of Quality Produced in Determined Regions): Pezá, Daphnés and Arhánes, with plenty of wineries and wine museums.
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Orange County is known as an ATM for political fundraisers – Mitt Romney came for the dough four times in 2012 – but the sums brought in by the county's own Congress members are relatively middling.
That's particularly true when you consider that the county has the 64th highest median household income – $72,300 in 2011 – placing it in the nation's top 3 percent. The national median income is $52,800.
The county's seven representatives brought in $10.95 million in the last election cycle – an average of $1.56 million each over the two-year period, or $2,143 per member per day.
The average member of Congress raised $1.69 million to win their seat in the last cycle, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan group Maplight, which studies the influence of money in politics. Only two county representatives topped that.
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Fullerton (pictured), led the Orange County list with $2.75 million. Royce, who's long been a strong fundraiser, was particularly motivated this time around by a well-funded opponent. Jay Chen raised $793,000 and a PAC funded almost entirely by Chen's brother spent an additional $1 million on his behalf.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista – whose district was shifted to take in part of south Orange County starting with last November's election – raised $2.48 million. Issa's high-profile role as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has popularized him among many ardent Republicans and helped his fundraising efforts.
The rest of the county's representatives:
- Loretta Sanchez, D-Santa Ana: $1.68 million
- John Campbell, R-Irvine: $1.29 million
- Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach: $1.21 million
- Linda Sanchez, D-Lakewood: $1.05 million
- Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa: $493,000
Tops nationwide among House members was popular Tea Party Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., at $25.89 million – and she needed nearly every dime of it in her 1.2-point win over Democrat Jim Graves. The next biggest fundraiser among the winners was House Speaker John Boehner at $22.02 million.
Senators individually raised far more than House members, on average bringing in $10.48 million each – or $14,351 daily among those who won last year. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-San Francisco, raised $12.67 million – a chunk of which replaced money embezzled by campaign treasurer Kindee Durkee.
Raising the most among winning senators was progressive Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who beat incumbent Republican Scott Brown by 7.4 points. Warren raised $42.51 million.
So why isn't more money spent on O.C. members? Lowenthal had a potentially competitive race and I suspect if polling showed it close going into the last month, there would have been more money coming. The others were incumbents in partisan districts who won easily. That includes Royce, who won by 15 points.
And while Orange County is the 64th highest of about 3,000 counties in income, it is the 10th most expensive place to live in the nation (Manhattan tops the list).
Oh, and seven of the top 10 places in highest household income are Washington, D.C., suburbs.


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When reader Socialvegetable shared photos of this wicked mud buggy for sale we had to know more so we dialed the seller up to ask him what mixture of genius and poverty led to its creation.
This beast started off as a 1978 Toyota FJ40, which our hero, Kenny, stripped down and started building into a buggy to use for off-roading with his pals. Halfway into it, Kenny discovered how much a pain in the ass finding parts for FJ40s can be and decided to toss in the whole powertrain from an '86 Chevy K5 Blazer — a GM 350 V8's a whole lot easier to maintain.
The entire roll cage is custom made and there's extensive water proofing. To top it off it's got a certain blisteringly cool, form-over-function aesthetic we can't help but love. And it's still for sale for the low-low price of $1,500. The only question, really, is what kind of apocalypse is this beast best suited to?
(Thanks for the tip Socialvegetable!. And by the way, that was very on-topic)


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In an effort to try and prepare myself for Vidalya's run this weekend, I have been fervently running HoT heroics like they were going out of style. Having hit 85 only two weeks ago, I didn't want to show up and be "that person". By Friday night the key piece that I was missing was a helm. My beloved heirloom helm, while trustworthy, needed to go. I wanted a meta gem. I wanted to enchant it. I just wanted a new hat, dammit! That is how I ended up in End Time late Friday Night – most likely to be disappointed, yet again, when Murzanod forgot that he had a leather caster helm in his loot table.
After accepting my queue I found myself zoning into Sylvanas, with a dead group. This is never a good sign. But it seems it's an all guild group, so how bad can it be? Famous last words, I know. I wait until everyone is there, and then buff, and advise the group that I am ready to go. The tank, a DK, pulls. And the very first time Sylvanas drops her purple pile of doom, the DK doesn't move out of it, and dies. No big, I'm a druid, so I rez her. However, as soon as the zombies spawn the DK cuts herself in half on the purple lasers – and we wipe. So we run back in to get ready to go.
And we wait. And wait. And wait.
After roughly 5 minutes passes, the warrior in the group advises me that he's going to tank and we pull. The DK is still blood, but whatever. We get to the zombie part, and the DK cuts herself in half on the purple lazers….again. We wipe. Once again, I release and run back. The group thanks me for being so patient – I suspect the healer that left was not. I get there, buff and we wait.
And wait, and wait, and wait.
The DK finally indicates that she's ready, and I ask her if she has something other than a blood spec, and she says "Oh, opps, I just put unholy presence on". No, not presences, do you have something other than a tank spec? Finally she swaps to a frost spec, and we pull. We get to the part with the zombies, surprisingly she lives! However, she dies immediately after when she doesn't move out of the purple goo. Whatever, we ultimately won and can move on. I portal myself to the next shrine and, you guessed it!
I wait. And wait. And wait. Probably about 10 minutes this time.
Now, I generally have a lot of patience for players who seem a little green. Who clearly don't have a lot of experience with a zone. I mean, people have got to start somewhere, right? And it's not going to do them any good to have people raging at them about how terrible they are, or how stupid they are, because they don't know what they are doing. In fact, it's likely counter productive to their improvement as a player. So I try to be an understanding person, and try to be helpful and patient. But…these AFKs are starting to wear on me.
Finally someone in the group, probably the DK's significant other, says "sorry, she's back, little ones! Twins!".
And so we pull the totem guy, and we wipe somewhere around 10%. ARGH! Alright, no big deal, we are REALLY close, we've got this. So we release and run back. And if you guessed that we waited around for another five or ten minutes, you'd be absolutely right! Finally, after another AFK we are ready to go. But we wipe again. People just couldn't figure out how to get out of the damn lava. At this point, my patience is starting to fray. Because I know that a wipe means another five or ten minute AFK, and at this point we've had roughly forty minutes of AFKs…in an instance that can be cleared in fifteen.
As we get back and wait, yet again, I say to the group "I don't really want to leave the group, and I understand the reason for the constant AFKs, but in the future you may want to find a guild healer or a healer from your realm who understands the situation, and doesn't mind all of the AFKs during the run". I thought this was a fairly diplomatic way of letting the group know that the AFKs were really starting to wear me down. The response I got? "Stop your bitching".
Really? REALLY?!
I told them that I didn't mind learning the encounters with them, but that it was a little unfair to pick up a healer via the LFD tool and expect them to sit through so many AFKs throughout the course of a very short instance. To which I was told "Well, life isn't fair, stop bitching". Finally the DK gets back and says "Well, I have babies who need tending too, and they are a little more important than this".
I completely, 100% agree with that statement. Your children are more important than this instance. But have a little fucking common courtesy for the others in your group, would you? Had our roles been reversed, about the second or third time that I had to step away from the computer to tend to my small children I probably would have come back to the group, said "sorry guys, this is a bad time" and asked them to find a replacement. But instead, the expectation was that my time wasn't also valuable and I was in the wrong for commenting on that.
I didn't really want to drop the group. We'd already killed a boss, I was going to be locked into it, and I wanted a chance at the last guy in the zone. But here I was, being held hostage by the group. I couldn't vote to kick the DK because it was an all guild group. So if I wanted to leave, I was not only going to be penalized with a 30 minute deserter debuff but had the possibility of being locked out of the zone. At this point, I was seeing red.
I asked the group to kick me.
And when I asked I got yet another "stop bitching, leave if you want". I didn't want to leave, I didn't want a deserter debuff, that wasn't fair to me. I shouldn't be penalized for 30 minutes because I didn't want to sit through an extensive AFK each time we wiped, which was multiple times each boss – through no fault of my own. I asked again to be kicked. Finally the group relented and I was removed.
As I raged to Brade, he said "heh, I probably would have left before they killed the first boss and taken the 30 minutes". And in hind sight, I would have spent less time trying to clear the zone had I done just that. But I didn't. I tried to stick it out and help an obviously inexperienced group of players through the zone – and then in no uncertain terms got told to piss off. I was livid.
Here's the thing. I 100% agree that this woman should care for her small children and it should be more important than slaying internet dragons. However, if the children were requiring so much of her attention she should not have been participating in a group activity unless the entirety of the group was on board with her needed so much time. To expect a completely random person, with absolutely zero ties to you whatsoever, to just be OK with that is an unfair assumption on that person's time. And it's disrespectful. To basically be told, via the group's actions, that my time wasn't important was a slap in the face.
I understand that life happens. I absolutely encourage people to tend to life and to prioritize it over a video game. But in doing so, please have the courtesy to also be respectful of those around you. If you don't have the time to commit to a group activity, don't. If something occurs during a group activity that requires your attention, tend to it. But don't hold the group, or members of the group, hostage while doing so. You understand that your time is valuable, but please also understand that other people's time is equally as valuable to them and should also be treated with respect.


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Hélas, Je me suis Transfiguré Les Pieds ("Alas, I have Transfigured My Feet") is a play written by the French wizard, Malecrit in the early 1400s. It featured the characters of Grenouille and Crapaud, and featured an early reference to Quidditch, showing how the game had spread to Europe.[1] The play's main conflict occurs when Crapaud performs the titular foot-transfiguration, an act traditionally accompanied by a puff of yellow smoke from a special effects wizard.[2]
A particularly infamous performance of the play took place at some point in wizarding history. The performance started out bad enough that the audience threw pumpkins at the subpar actors. The special effects wizard, in an attempt to liven up the play, replaced the puff of smoke he was supposed to perform with a Fire-Making Spell. Though this succeeded in attracting the audience's attention, it also caught the theatre ablaze. Though the actor playing Crapaud attempted to save the performance with a Flame-Freezing Charm, the overall confusion made it so the fleeing audience could not hear him.[2]
- Hélas, Je me suis Transfiguré Les Pieds is a French phrase meaning "Alas, I have transfigured my feet".
- The words Grenouille and Crapaud mean "Frog" and "Toad" respectively.
- Quidditch Through the Ages (First appearance)
- Wonderbook: Book of Spells
Notes and references
- ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages - Chapter 8 (The Spread of Quidditch Worldwide)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wonderbook: Book of Spells - Chapter 2, Part 1


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|Rom Name
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|Rom OS Version
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|Rom Type
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|Software needed
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|Arbutus Max 7S
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About the Author
Victoria Sweet, MD, PhD is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Following her BS in Mathematics from Stanford University and her MD from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Dr. Sweet earned an MA and a PhD in the History of the Health Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the 12th-century German abbess, composer, theologian, visionary, and medical practitioner Hildegard von Bingen.
In God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, the author weaves stories of her experiences caring for patients at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, the last almshouse in the country, with her studies of medieval medicine. In the process, Dr. Sweet comes to appreciate the importance of slow medicine and the efficiency of inefficiency.
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Dr. Victoria Sweet will present The Ewing Halsell Distinguished Lecture in the Holly Auditorium on the Long Campus of the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio on the evening of Thursday, March 17, 2016. A reception will be held at 5:30 pm with the author's presentation at 6:00 pm and a book signing to follow at 7:00 pm.
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Copies of God's Hotel will be available for purchase at the event through the UT Health Science Center San Antonio Bookstore.
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John Brecher / NBC News
Tenured professor Rosalind Petchesky, left, and adjunct professor Marcia Newfield have similar job descriptions but are on opposite ends of the income scale.
Marcia Newfield and Rosalind Petchesky are both professors at the City University of New York. They both have advanced degrees. They both have been teaching for decades and are in their seventies.
But there's a big difference between the two: Petchesky is a distinguished professor, and Newfield is an adjunct.
That means Newfield makes a fraction of what Petchesky makes: After 26 years, Newfield still only earns $3,622 for each of the two classes she teaches per semester at Borough of Manhattan Community College, hardly a living wage in the most expensive city in the country, but above the average of $2,987 per course for adjuncts nationwide.
At the same time, public records show that CUNY's distinguished professors, like Petchesky, make around $144,000 a year. Petchesky's tenure—meaning she can't be terminated without just cause—renders her one of the most protected workers in the nation. Newfield's course load could be eliminated for any reason, even after classes begin. Through the Professional Staff Congress' Welfare Fund, adjuncts have health insurance (for now), but Newfield has no job security, disability benefits, permanent office, or input in her department's curriculum, and only a meager pension. Petchesky has time to do her own research thanks to sabbaticals and a reasonable course load; Newfield has had to hustle to make ends meet.
"To students, everyone is just 'professor,'" Newfield said. But long-term adjuncts like her "are in a different class. They're poor. There's no other way to explain it."
The CUNY system employs about 7,000 full-time faculty and 13,000 non-tenure-track faculty—3,000 of which are cobbling together their living teaching a full course load. This isn't uncommon—the ratio of adjuncts to full-time professors has been growing for decades, creating a microcosm of the wealth gap worsening across the country.
While adjuncts struggle to pay basic expenses, some tenured professors teaching in the same classrooms are recruited to campus with lucrative salaries well into the six figures, sometimes lured by luxurious homes subsidized by the university. While tuition has skyrocketed by almost 80 percent in the past ten years, parents and teachers may not realize that their money is partly going into the pockets of the "academic one percent": a handful of well-paid superstar professors and administrators. (The chancellor of CUNY, which has steadily lost state funding, made $574,004 in 2012.)
Meanwhile, a growing majority of precarious, struggling faculty are teaching the next generation.
Adjuncts look to unions
Adjuncts are a diverse group: graduate students building their resumes, professionals making money on the side, and long-time faculty like Newfield who simply never managed to score a tenure-track position. The position of "adjunct" was popularized in the 1960s in response to a shortage of qualified professors wielding a Ph.D. Nowadays, there's a surplus. According to the American Association of University Professors, the ratio of tenure-track openings to new doctorates is around 1 to 4. Universities, particularly cash-strapped public schools, have responded in kind. Three quarters of American college and university instructors fall into a contingent faculty category.
On a growing number of campuses across the country, adjuncts are unionizing to demand a living wage and benefits, some with the help of a recent national campaign run by the Service Employees International Union. Still, these victories haven't yet reversed what has long been a reality in academia: a two-tiered university system for professors who have virtually identical job descriptions.
Take Kip Lornell: He's been teaching ethnomusicology at George Washington University since 1992, has his Ph.D., and has published 14 books. As a regular part-timer, his course load is limited to three classes plus service work, for which he receives $23,000 per year. "Those are poverty wages," he said.
Lornell does intellectual property research for Smithsonian Folkways to make ends meet, and if it weren't for his wife, he said, he wouldn't be able to provide for his two kids, especially in a pricey metropolitan area like Washington, D.C. He's been involved in unionizing the adjuncts at GWU, and he knows many full-time faculty who are "quietly neutral to supportive." But the university's "top down" approach assures that "they're not really involved in the process. It's more a quiet solidarity than anything else."
In some cases, the conditions of adjuncts are often outright ignored by full-time faculty. Cary Nelson, a tenured professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and the editor of the anthology "Will Teach For Food," said that on a large campus like his, contingent faculty are "sort of invisible. The two groups just don't interact with one another."
Adjuncts usually aren't allowed in departmental meetings. They often live far from campus. They teach night classes, or juggle side-gigs, or commute to jobs on several campuses. Meanwhile, "so many tenure-track faculty are like racehorses—they have blinders on left and right," said Nelson.
Some chalk this up to the nature of the profession. Academia can be "very individualistic," said Mike Fabricant, who is a tenured professor at Hunter College's School of Social Work (and, according to public records, makes six figures). Many professors choose to "focus on their own research" rather than "disrupt their work life, even when they're working alongside folks who are being exploited terribly."
Fabricant said some "believe strongly in a meritocracy, that adjuncts are lesser versions of themselves." No tenured professors would go on record with NBC News saying they believed this. But a handful declined to comment, citing limited knowledge or opinions about adjuncts at their institution.
Disagreement in the ranks
Of course, there are plenty of full-time professors speaking up for more equity in the university system. Andrew Zimmerman, a tenured professor at George Washington University who has attended a few meetings with adjunct organizers, said tenured faculty like him "have a responsibility to speak out against" the marginalization of adjuncts, and that "given the protection of tenure, we have no excuse."
Petchesky, the distinguished professor at Hunter College, agrees. She posted an open letter online in 2010 addressed to "all my full-time colleagues," urging them to stick up for contingent faculty. "The two-tier labor system in public higher education weakens and destabilizes working conditions for us all," she wrote. "As long as management can be assured of a huge, vulnerable contingent workforce… it can resist the demands of full-time union members."
In the last few years, CUNY professors have joined protests and donated award money to the Adjunct Project, a crowdsourcing effort to chronicle adjuncts' wages across the country.
To many, the first step is getting everyone on the same page, since even the two-tiered system has tiers within it. Petchesky said that graduate student adjuncts can be disengaged "because they are still thinking of this as a temporary stage," even though "you also have adjunct faculty for whom this is a dead end." Jack Dempsey, a long-time adjunct at Bentley University who supplements his paltry contract by raking leaves and editing books, thinks "it's important for full-time faculty to know what adjuncts make." Many, he said, don't have a clue.
The contingent sect of the university system is so diffuse that even adjuncts can't agree on the best solution to their plight. In October 2013, Bentley's adjuncts narrowly voted against joining a union. Paul Mark, a CPA who teaches one class during the summer, sent out a faculty-wide email announcing his plans to vote "no."
"I have never believed that unions were created to represent white collar workers," he wrote. "If ours was an industry such as mining or construction, I would fully support a unionization drive…However, as university professors, we are far from such worlds."
Dempsey begs to differ. "It's wishful thinking that a Ph.D. is still a mantle to the upper-middle classes," he said. For a shrinking tenured population, that's still the case. But "when you're making minimum wage, you're simply another wing of America's low-wage workforce."
Education coverage for NBCNews.com is supported by a grant from the Gates Foundation.
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Friday, February 7 @ 4:00 pm - 5:45 pm
An event every week that begins at 4:00 pm on Friday, repeating indefinitely
This program offers something to all chess players. Whether a total beginner or a more experienced player, everyone can get something out of this class. A variety of resources will be used to improve chess knowledge, including books, chess studies, and videos. The most important thing about this class is that it offers real experience, attendees can learn about chess ideas and test them out on the board. The club will provide a community where the game of chess might be appreciated and enjoyed.
For more information, contact email@example.com. There is no need to register.
The club will meet from 4:00 – 5:45 P.M. at the Camden Public Library in the Picker Room every Friday. Everyone is welcome, no matter the age or experience.


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News & Notes: Game 126
Friday, August 19, 2011 (7:35 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, WGR Sportsradio 550, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (53-72, 5th(-18.0), North)
RHP Chris Schwinden (7-6, 3.76)
Toledo Mud Hens (60-67, 4th(-20.0), West)
LHP Fu-Te Ni (5-2, 3.35)
TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons host the Toledo Mud Hens in the final game of a four-game set at Coca-Cola Field (7:35 p.m.). After opening the series with two straight wins against the Hens, the Herd lost last night and is now 5-4 on its current 10-game homestand. Tomorrow, the Bisons begin an eight-game trip to Ohio to face Columbus and Toledo.
VS. THE HENS: The Bisons are now 2-1 against Toledo. Buffalo has lost a home series against the Mud Hens just once since returning to the IL in 1998 (2003). Overall, the Herd is 30-25 against the Hens in Buffalo. The teams will play the Fifth Third Field portion of their season series, August 24-27.
SCHWING AND MISS: RHP CHRIS SCHWINDEN will make his team-high 23rd start of the season tonight. The righty leads the team with a 3.76ERA and 113 strikeouts. His strikeout total is tied with RHP Kyle Denney (2004) for the fifth most strikeouts in a single season in the Bisons modern era. Next on this list is RHP Randy Kramer, who fanned 120 in 1988.
TEUFEL SCUFFLE: Son, LHP SHAWN TUEFEL, got the better of father and Bisons manager TIM TEUFEL in last night's 4-0 Toledo win. Shawn struck out a career-high seven batters in six scoreless innings. It was the first time father-son competed in the same game since August 21, 2001 when Ottawa's Tim Raines and Rochester's Tim Raines Jr. split a doubleheader in Ottawa.
SMOOTH AS: INF JOSH SATIN brings a six-game hit streak into tonight's game. The Triple-A rookie has 10 hits in his last 21 at-bats (.476) and now has his average up to .350 in his first 26 games with Buffalo. Satin has already fashioned a 14-game hit streak in his limited time in Buffalo, posting a .400 average (22-55) from July 24 – August 8.
RUN STOPPER: C RAUL CHAVEZ has thrown out 29 of 57 would-be base stealers this year. His success rate of 50.9% is 12% greater than any other catcher in the league. The last International League catcher to finish the season with a better than 50% success rate was Louisville's Corky Miller, who threw out 22 of 40 attempts in 2001.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (60-63) were off yesterday to get ready for a three-game home set against the Milwaukee Brewers. RHP MIKE PELFREY will get the start for the Mets looking to improve on his 6-9 record for the year. He will face the Brew Crew's LHP Shaun Marcum. First pitch is 7:10 p.m. at Citi Field.


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This one's from the northbound 3rd & Union stop, in front of the post office:
(I also have a closer view.)
OK, so it isn't as good as the snowboard guy or the rooster, but I'm counting on you witty types to make it so.
Best caption wins the admiration and envy of the rest of us.


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Jefferson Safehouse
The Jefferson Safehouse is a safehouse located in Jefferson, Los Santos, in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Carl Johnson, the player character, can purchase the safehouse for $10,000. The safehouse does not have a garage and vehicles cannot be stored there. The interior has a bed, television, a bathroom, a kitchen and wardrobe to change clothes. A Ballas gang member is seen fixing a car parked in the driveway in a mission.


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- Annaleise Carr swam for nearly 27 hours in chilly waters
- The course across the lake is more than 31 miles
- She swam to raise money for childhood cancer
- She raised nearly three times her goal by Sunday evening
A Canadian 14-year-old completed a nearly 27-hour, 31.6-mile solo swim across Lake Ontario on Sunday, becoming the youngest person ever to make the trek.
As Annaleise Carr approached the Toronto shore, her red swimming cap bobbing up and down as she swam freestyle, a crowd of supporters cheered and clapped. As they watched her approach shore they chanted, "You can do it, Annaleise! You can do it, Annaleise!"
Annaleise began her charity swim at 6:17 p.m. ET Saturday at Niagara-on-the-Lake. She climbed out of the water at Toronto's Marilyn Bell Park two minutes before 9 p.m. Sunday.
The teenager did not speak to the gathered crowd after her swim, instead going to the hospital for a standard check-up, a spokesman said.
Staff in a kayak and an inflatable boat accompanied her to shore.
CNN affiliate CTV said Annaliese was allowed breaks during her swim so she could eat, but she had to stay in the water.
The teenager did her swim for charity, aiming to raise $30,000 for Camp Trillium, a childhood cancer center. As of 5:23 p.m. Sunday, she had raised close to $80,000, according to her parents, who were updating her progress online each step of the way.
"Unbelievable!!!!!" her parents wrote on her website, Annaleise's Lake Ontario Crossing. "We are so proud!!!"
The first person to swim across Lake Ontario was 16-year-old Marilyn Bell in 1954, according to Swim Ontario, the sport's provincial governing body.
Nearly 50 other swimmers have completed the swim since then, but Annaleise is the youngest, according to Solo Swims of Ontario, a non-profit group that monitors the safety of long-distance swims.
One of the solo Lake Ontario swimmers was Diana Nyad, who on Sunday was attempting to swim from Florida to Cuba. The 62-year-old Nyad -- who completed her Lake Ontario swim in 1974 at the age of 24 -- was a third of the way to her goal as of Sunday evening.
In Annaleise's last blog post before setting off, she said she was well rested after sleeping nearly 12 hours the night before.
She wrote, "Dad says he thinks I have ice in my veins :) I guess we'll find out because the lake flipped yesterday and I'm looking at very cold water in Toronto now! I'll do my best to deal with anything that comes my way...not just the cold!"
Annaleise says on her site that she has swum competitively since she was 4 and that distance swimming has always been her passion. She began swimming in the lake three or four years ago and said competing in open water is "way quieter" than in a pool.
She says she chose Lake Ontario for her swim because it's one of the hardest open-water swims in the world, and she wanted to "accomplish something difficult" for children who fight cancer.


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Quickblade and I were mentioning to each other one night that we'd each like to 'tighten' our MOCs. I challenged him (and myself) to build a castle on a 32x32 baseplate. Josh gave me the green light to open it up to anyone else who would like to participate as well.
**This is not a contest and as such there are no prizes, nor is there a winner or losers.**
The challenge lays as such:
1. Build a castle for minifigs of which the base of it is on 32x32 studs worth of baseplate.
2. As this is a minifig creation, figs should be included.
3. Try and get it done before September 1. Use your own timezone.
4. Have fun.
5. Control your own action. If you don't think what you're building fall into the spirit of points 1, 2, 3 and 4 that's on you.
Now that we have someone with something built, I thought it may be a good idea to collect the links to each of the threads here.
Nanuck95's 32x32 castle
Athos' wizard's tower
LegoLord's can be found in page two of this thread
Ye Olde Republic's Tower of the East
RichardAM's Sansalias
Aliencat's Valenpeak Castle
Quickblade22's Crown Road Keep
Tycho McKorley: The Occupied Ruin
Bucks' The King's Keep
eti's Castellum Diabolicum
stuifzand's Water Castle
Griffon: The Guardian
Karrde's Dalebottom Keep
Elephant Knight's Yellow Castle


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Read here from Cheeseheadtv.com. Aaron at Cheeseheadtv must have been listening to MM's 1pm press conference. If indeed McCarthy is on board with moving to a 3-4 as Aaron indicates, suddenly, I like the Capers hire more. I was hesitant to endorse the hire right away in part because at that time, I didn't have a sense for whether Capers would actually bring a 3-4. Aaron's a reliable source though, so I believe now the Pack will move to a 3-4. (This has been confirmed now by jsonline, though their article link is not working).
I have outlined my reasoning for wanting to move to a 3-4 in a past post. Many are worried about how a 3-4 scheme will fit with our present personnel. My simple response to that, as I've said before, is that a 4-3 certainly hasn't worked that well with our present personnel. So why not make a change and move to a defensive scheme some argue is better suited to the modern game (thanks Joshy for pointing our this article)? Read here from NFL.com's Pat Kirwan…an interesting breakdown of 3-4 vs 4-3 and why 3-4 may just be a more effective scheme in the modern-day NFL.
An interesting stat I just looked up – in 2006, as defensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins, Dom Capers led their 3-4 defense to a #4 overall ranking, #5 ranking against the pass and a #8 ranking against the rush. Nice.


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December 19, 2013: Darryl Sergison (University of Exeter) has requested AAVSO assistance with a campaign he is carrying out on five T Tauri stars. This study is the one for which AAVSO observers carried out a preliminary campaign last year (see Alert Notice 473 and Special Notice #306). The star list is revised and expanded from last year's list of targets. This campaign will run from now at least through the end of the 2013-2014 observing season.
December 18, 2013: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 493, Dr. Hans Moritz Guenther (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) has been given the precise times of the Chandra X-ray observations to be made of the T Tauri star BP Tau:
year:day:hour:min (in UT):
2013:356:22:52-2013:357:10:00 = 2013 Dec 22 22:52 through Dec 23 10:00 UT
2013:359:14:46-2013:360:06:06 = 2013 Dec 25 14:46 through Dec 26 06:06 UT
2013:361:17:58-2013:362:16:18 = 2013 Dec 27 17:58 through Dec 28 16:18 UT
December 18, 2013: Dr. Hans Moritz Guenther (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) has requested nightly observations of the classical T Tauri star BP Tau in support of upcoming Chandra X-ray observations in his study of the accretion processes underway in this star.


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Apple has hired a noted computer security researcher who helped Microsoft lock down its Windows operating system.
Kristin Paget — formerly known as Chris Paget — now works on Apple's security team. Just over five years ago, she was part of a small team of elite hackers brought in by Microsoft to lock down Windows Vista.
Criminals have long preferred to focus their attacks on Microsoft's operating system — still the world's most popular — but lately, there have been signs that they're eying Apple's Mac OS X too. And Apple, slowly, has been trying to make inroads into the security community. This summer, an Apple engineer spoke at the Black Hat security conference for the first time.
Reached via e-mail, Paget confirmed that she is now an Apple employee, but referred all questions to Apple's public relations group. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on Paget.
Paget's work at Microsoft had been similarly secretive. She'd been forbidden from speaking about it for five years after her work there ended.
But in 2011, the NDA expired, and she spilled the beans on her Vista hacking at the Black Hat Las Vegas conference. In short: Microsoft's security team had expected Vista to be pretty clean when Paget got her hands on it, but they were wrong.
"We prevented a lot of bugs from shipping on Vista," Paget said, according to a recording of her talk. "I'm proud of the number of bugs we found and helped get fixed."
Paget and company's bug-hunt was so successful, in fact, that it forced Microsoft to push back Vista's ship date. When the work was done, the hackers received special T-shirts, signed by Microsoft Vice President of Windows Development Brian Valentine. They read: "I delayed Windows Vista."
@radian Building things, ideally security-focussed hardware.I've done too much breaking of things, it's time to create for a change...— Kristin Paget (@KrisPaget) July 9, 2012
Until this past summer, Paget had been chief hacker at Recursion Ventures, a company that specializes in hardware security. When she left in July, she said she was looking for a break from bug-finding, hoping to find a job that involved building "security-focused hardware."
"I've done too much breaking of things, it's time to create for a change," she said on Twitter.
She was hired in September as a core operating system security researcher at Apple, according to her Linkedin Profile.
Paget made headlines in 2010 when she built her own cellphone-intercepting base station at the Defcon hacker conference.
Back then, Paget was known as Chris. She switched genders last year.
Although Paget said she was "total Unix head" — and expressed a dislike of Windows during her 2011 Black Hat talk — she didn't have anything to say about Apple.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.