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NANGALE, Tanzania — Huddled with his younger brother, the young man laughs easily, conspiratorially, at the commotion caused by the presence of curious foreigners in his family's modest compound outside this small village.
But when you ask 19-year-old Maduhu Ginyebu about the scars that tightened and twisted his face, his mood darkens and he sighs heavily. He talks about "other boys laughing" at him.
His father, in a woolen sport coat he has put on to greet the visitors on on this 90-degree October day, says his family has been taunted in the village as "hyena leftovers."
The Ginyebus know wild animals. They live six miles from the world-renowned Serengeti National Park, where tourists pay thousands of dollars to photograph the same wildlife the family sees as part of ordinary life: leopards, wildebeest, jackals and, most often, hyenas.
But the animal that visited them in September 2000 was different, its body coursing with a disease that had maddened and would soon kill it. The rabid hyena, 100-plus pounds of slavering predator, burst into the family's sleeping quarters and tore at Maduhu's and whatever other flesh it could find — his father's wrist, his brother's chest, his mother's hand — before being beaten away and running off to inflict a similar hell upon a neighboring family, disfiguring several young girls.
"We had fences. We had dogs," the girls' mother, Magaja Misozi, said. "When it comes to the rabid hyena, there is nothing you can do."
The fight to end such attacks traces to an unexpected place: Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, a 35-acre lakefront attraction half a world away, in a country where rabies is all but invisible. The zoo heads a decade-long effort to keep rabies from spreading into wildlife by vaccinating dogs against the virus in villages that border the Serengeti park.
Last spring the project delivered its 1 millionth vaccination, a standard concoction that also protects against canine distemper and parvovirus. If that milestone shot was administered in the project's usual manner, it was done with almost the opposite of fanfare: a dog squeezed between its owner's legs, a needle pulled from a battered cooler, a quick skin prick and a plunge.
The results have been far less prosaic. Lions and African wild dogs, already endangered predators, were dying in the Serengeti of canine distemper and rabies. With the infectious diseases all but wiped out in the dogs that were the diseases' main carriers, the lion population is back to pre-epidemic levels and African wild dogs have recently been reintroduced to the park.
More powerful has been the effect on people: The program, known as the Serengeti Health Initiative, has virtually eliminated rabies transmission from dogs to humans in the villages within the 6.2-mile-wide vaccination zone around the Serengeti. Hard statistics don't exist, but scientists estimate that has saved up to 150 lives annually, many of them children who are the caretakers of domestic dogs.
"You learn about this vaccination program, and the goal of it was to prevent these (disease) outbreaks in Serengeti National Park and to conserve the wildlife and the ecosystem there," says Anna Czupryna, a doctoral candidate from Chicago studying the effects of the vaccination program. "But along with that we've eliminated rabies in villages such as Nangale."
She recalls meeting the Misozi girls earlier in the day. Twelve years after the attacks, one girl still can't chew properly; one, ashamed of how she looks, rarely leaves the house. "That we can actually prevent that from happening to other people is amazing," Czupryna says.
The program — and others like it — has helped spur new global action against rabies. The most optimistic scientists believe they can essentially eradicate the disease worldwide after years of living with a toll conservatively estimated at 70,000 deaths a year, almost all of them in Asia and Africa.
Other zoonotics — diseases that transfer from animals to humans — get more publicity: SARS, swine flu, avian flu. But rabies is many times more lethal and almost wholly preventable. To many, that is an unconscionable combination.
"It's just wrong, it's basically wrong, that a child living in a village bitten by a rabid dog is going to die a horrible death because he can't afford to go to a hospital," says Sarah Cleaveland, who was a lead scientist in the Serengeti initiative and remains, from her post at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, a leader in global anti-rabies efforts. "It's a disease that we just simply shouldn't have to be living with in the 21st century."
Dog by dog
Animals are central to life in this arid, grassy region of east Africa.
At the Ginyebus, chickens strut through the center of the yard, meals almost ready to eat. Eleven head of cattle, the family's wealth, mill about in a pen attached to the tree-limb fence that defines the family's domestic enclosure, or "kaya," in the local Sukuma language.
In a dark, protected cranny of the grain storage hut, a dog nurses the pups she gave birth to the night before.
The Ginyebus' is "Nhh076," or "Nangale Village household No. 76," in the ongoing research project chronicling the Serengeti Health Initiative's impact. The visitors this day include Czupryna, 31, a Northwest Sider who lives in Tanzania from August to December each year to lead the research; Chunde Bigambo, the Tanzanian who is Lincoln Park Zoo's jack-of-all-trades — equal parts scientist, driver, ambassador and translator; and Lisa Faust, the zoo's recently appointed vice president for conservation and science and one of Czupryna's doctoral advisers, who is touring the Tanzanian effort for the first time as an administrator.
Czupryna, an effusive, compulsively organized, first-generation Polish-American, focuses on the household dogs. She is especially interested in the new births, because she is trying to learn what happens to the size and health of an area's dog population after it starts receiving rabies vaccinations.
"I've got at least four puppies, possibly a fifth," she announces, emerging from the protected birthplace. Domestic dogs are the key because they are the "reservoirs" for rabies. The virus spreads into wild animals when there is contact with infected dogs — as they tangle alongside grazing cattle, for instance. But research has shown that vaccinating 70 percent of a region's domestic dogs will prevent them from becoming a host population.
Czupryna gathers as much data as possible, recording it in field notebooks, in photographs and on a small laptop. She weighs the dogs when she can, photographs their teeth, takes fecal samples she'll transport to Chicago for analysis.
"It gets a little OCD at times," says Faust, an expert in population genetics and a former field researcher herself, "but then you have this rich data set to go back to."
Part of that data set involves the Ginyebus' firsthand experience with rabies.
"Six people were bitten by hyena in year 2000," says the questionnaire the family fills out, with help from Bigambo, in the section labeled "Table N: Human Bite Incidence."
Below that, the form asks: "Do you know what rabies is?" The response: "Disease that caused animal to go mad (crazy and starts to bite people)."
"We (have been) participating in the study because of the attack," says the father, 69-year-old Buyombo Ginyebu.
Telling of that night, the family members speak, in Sukuma, without dramatic flourish. "We just accept what we have," Buyombo Ginyebu says. "We blame the rabies and the hyena, too."
Hyenas look like some sort of genetic misfire, animals whose component parts seem just on the brink of fitting together, but they are forceful enough to drive a cheetah from its downed prey in the Serengeti grasslands. Imagine that power stoked by madness and unleashed in darkness, within a rural family's close, mud-brick walls.
Maduhu's mother holds up her left hand to display the place where a thumb was once attached. His father pushes back his long sleeves to show wrists badly damaged from fending off the carnivore. Maduhu, just 7 when he was bitten on the nose and cheek, doesn't have to make any special effort to show what happened to him, nor can he hide it.
After the attack, the wounded family members were taken to a medical clinic in the much bigger town of Bariadi, 37 miles away. The family sold its greatest asset, seven cattle, to pay for months of further treatment; the herd has been rebuilt through the kindness of relatives, the Ginyebus say.
Early the next morning, villagers tracked and killed the hyena, beating the rabies virus to the punch.
'As old as civilization'
In the developed world, it is easy to think almost nothing about rabies. We know the legends, of course. Viciousness. Depravity. A disease that, unless treated before symptoms appear, is nearly 100 percent fatal and horrific in its final throes.
In their 2012 cultural history "Rabid," Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy describe the disease's tortures. A common one: Almost all rabid humans develop a passionate thirst and an equally passionate revulsion to water. Rabies, they note, may have inspired the werewolf, vampire and zombie legends.
"Rabies is a scourge as old as human civilization, and the terror of its manifestation is a fundamental human fear, because it challenges the boundary of humanity itself," write Wasik, a science writer, and his wife, Murphy, a veterinarian. "For the rabid bite is the visible symbol of the animal infecting the human, of an illness in a creature metamorphosing demonstrably into that same illness in a person."
We also know that Louis Pasteur took care of all that. In 1885, the French scientist and his team developed the first working vaccine by spreading rabies to rabbits, then drying their infected nerve tissue and mixing it into a potion. A 9-year-old boy bitten by a rabid dog was the first human recipient, and Pasteur's gamble worked.
Instead of contracting rabies, the boy produced antibodies that fought off the virus before it spread through his nervous system into the brain.
Now — in most of the developed world, at least — domestic dogs, once rabies' greatest transmitters, get annual vaccine shots, and incidence of the disease is reduced to the occasional bite from an infected bat, fox or raccoon. In the U.S., human deaths related to rabies have declined to one or two a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Through science and custom, rabies has been reduced to a relic of a darker past.
But in the developing world, in parts of Africa and Asia, science wasn't sure that domestic dogs were the transmitters. It wasn't sure how many dogs were, in fact, domestic: To Western eyes, all of the dogs — sleeping outside, foraging for food — looked a little wild.
"There was so much in the literature saying there's no point trying to control rabies in Africa," says Cleaveland, the Glasgow epidemiologist. "All of these reasons were really sort of barriers to doing anything about rabies."
And because people lacked cash and education, and rabies treatment was expensive and often distant, thousands of people were dying each year of bites from rabid animals.
That was the state of things when Cleaveland began working in Tanzania in the 1990s. Not only were people dying, but canine distemper was ravaging the Serengeti's lion population, eventually killing a third of the estimated 3,000 lions living there. The rabies virus was even more lethal to the park's African wild dogs: A much smaller population disappeared, going off to die, it was theorized, in underground dens.
After an effective trial project, Cleaveland and her colleagues won National Science Foundation grants to, in part, test the Western model of rabies prevention, beginning in 2003. They would inoculate the dogs in villages bordering the park, testing their theory that the viruses were entering park animals through contact with domestic dogs.
Known then as the Carnivore Disease Project, it was able to prove two things quickly.
First: There were few stray dogs in Tanzania, meaning that previous assumptions were wrong, and, if owners bought into the project, dogs could be vaccinated in rates sufficient to be effective.
Second: Vaccinating the dogs was seemingly wiping out the incidence of rabies, not only in park animals but also in people. In lions, meanwhile, the canine distemper epidemic faded to sporadic cases.
"By year three, this was, like, 'Wow,'" says Dominic Travis, the Lincoln Park Zoo's former conservation vice president, who helped persuade the zoo to take over the program after year five. "There was surveillance all over the place, people taking blood, doing autopsies on animals and looking for (rabies) really hard — and starting to not find it really quickly. By year six or seven there hadn't been a case found in a few years."
New fronts in fight
Paying for science is much easier in a project's start-up years. The glamour is in proving a new point, and big funders like to help prove new points.
"It's always challenging for large projects where you're trying to do the sustaining activities, rather than the flashy start-up," Faust says.
But in the case of an illness such as rabies, sustainability is necessary. Experts say stopping rabies vaccination programs after starting them is almost worse than never having been there at all, because the disease will spread more quickly through a "naive" population, one that hasn't been exposed to the virus recently.
Between roughly 2000 and 2005, Lincoln Park Zoo was in the midst of a philosophical change, "from being a funder to a doer," says Travis, and the rabies vaccination program fit the new goals.
"It was the right project at the right time for us," says zoo CEO Kevin Bell. "We were one of the first zoos in the U.S. to have a full-time epidemiologist on staff, and we wanted to do more about zoonotic diseases. It seemed to fit a lot of things we were doing, plus we had a number of other projects going on in Tanzania."
Those projects include analyzing the elephant population in Tarangire National Park, east of the Serengeti, and chimpanzee research, partnering with the Jane Goodall Institute, in Gombe Stream National Park, to the west.
The zoo's thinking is that, for maximum effectiveness, it's better to concentrate research work in one area, come to know its customs and officials, make the most of scarce travel dollars.
But beyond the practicalities, the real-world impact meant the vaccination work was "also cool," says Travis. "This is a cool project."
Zoo funds, private donors and partnerships with other institutions — especially, of late, Washington State University — have helped pay the roughly $150,000 a year it costs. Another key has been the continued willingness of pharmaceutical giant Merck to donate the vaccine, zoo officials say.
Local donors have also helped.
"This struck me as a success story," says Dr. Susan Sherman, a North Shore veterinarian and zoo board member whose family has helped to defray the costs. "It's rare in conservation that any organization is able to combine programs that benefit the humans living in an area and the animals. Usually, they are at odds."
Now, large-scale rabies vaccination efforts focused on domestic dogs are under way in South Africa and elsewhere in Tanzania. There are programs in Chad, in India, in the Philippines.
Fighting rabies "is a fairly big wave around the world," says Travis, now an epidemiology professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota. "This project, I think, is really one of the seminal case studies."
The Gates Foundation, with a focus on "neglected diseases," is funding some of this. A World Health Organization five-year plan "aims to halve the currently estimated number of human rabies deaths in endemic countries" in Southeast Asia by 2016.
A leader in the coordination is the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, a group that formed seven years ago because, Executive Director Deborah Briggs says, "everybody was saying other diseases that were causing fewer deaths were getting more attention than rabies. Instead of just scientists talking to scientists we decided to take our message to the streets."
Since the inception in 2008 of a GARC-sponsored "World Rabies Day," Sept. 28 annually, "we went from 140 people involved in rabies control to over 15,000," Briggs says.
A subgroup, the Partners for Rabies Prevention, meets once or twice a year and includes researchers, health officials and pharmaceutical industry representatives. It publishes a "Blueprint for Rabies Control and Prevention."
"We really think we can do it across the whole of Africa," Cleaveland says. "There's no reason we can't."
All of that is a long way from a tiny village in Tanzania where electricity is scarce and pavement nonexistent.
But people here have witnessed rabies' effects firsthand and know the value of controlling it.
It's why, once each year, they put leashes on their dogs and bring them in for their vaccination, and why they are willing to put up with foreigners asking them to relive terrible events.
At the Misozis, the second family attacked by the hyena in 2000, family members put out low stools and chunks of wood to form a circle for conversation next to the half-finished walls of a new building. A bicycle leans against a hut. Two very young girls, dressed in what look like pageant gowns, vie for the adults' attention.
The wounded older girls sit outside the main circle, quiet, their faces downcast. "I am still frightened when I hear hyenas," says Nkwaya, 20.
But Magaja Misozi, the girls' mother, talks in sudden rushes as she describes the attack. She recalls screams and commotion coming from the direction of the Ginyebus' home.
Then the hyena was upon them. "It was biting everything," she says. "The bed, the mattress, children, goats. ... A normal hyena just grabs the livestock and goes."
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Depression was linked with an increased risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in a study of more than one thousand men and women with heart disease conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
PAD is a circulatory problem in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the limbs usually the legs and feet resulting in pain, reduced mobility and, in extreme cases, gangrene and amputation.
The study was published electronically on July 26, 2012, in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Marlene Grenon, MD, CM, a vascular surgeon at SFVAMC and an assistant professor of Surgery at UCSF, led the analysis of data from 1,024 participants in the Heart and Soul Study, a prospective study of men and women with coronary artery disease who were followed for an average of approximately seven years.
"We discovered that there was an association between depression and PAD at baseline, and also found that the patients who were depressed at the beginning of the study had a higher likelihood of developing PAD during follow-up at seven years," said Grenon.
"These findings add to the growing body of research showing the importance of depression in both the development and progression of PAD," said senior author Beth Cohen, MD, MAS, a physician at SFVAMC and an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF. "This also emphasizes the need for medical providers to be attentive to the mental health of their patients who have developed, or who are at risk for, PAD."
The authors found that some of the risk for PAD was partly explained by modifiable risk factors such as smoking and reduced physical activity.
"We still don't know which comes first," said Grenon. "Is it that patients with PAD become depressed because their mobility is impaired, or that people who are depressed engage in unhealthy behaviors such as smoking and lack of exercise, and are thus more at risk of developing PAD? Or might it be a vicious cycle, where one leads to the other?"
Further research is needed to tease out cause and effect, she said.
The study authors suggest that whatever the initial cause, lifestyle modifications such as being more physically active, eating better, quitting smoking and managing stress more effectively might reduce the risk for the association, as well as potentially address symptoms of both PAD and depression.
"These lifestyle changes would be considered healthy for anyone, and would also help overall cardiovascular health," said Grenon.
"As providers, we can help patients recognize the connections between mental and physical health," added Cohen. "This may help reduce the stigma of mental health diagnosis and encourage patients to seek treatment for problems such as depression."
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For me personally the limited offering for 2014 is a mixed blessing. I almost want to say, "I have enough of these two factions, bring on the next two factions." Given how the Kingdoms line ended, I made the assumption that 2013 would be the same. So when I purchased what sets/extra figures I would need I made sure not to put off buying until 2014. If the battle packs are the only Castle LEGO released in 2014, then one positive I can start saving up for the next factions in 2015(a guess on the release date).
I am hoping that this is not the new release pattern model for LEGO Castle. It would be nice to have new figures released in the second year to give us something to look forward to, an added incentive to purchase the second year sets. For me, the battle-packs are not needed as there no variation from figures already released. I realize that some of us are looking forward to them to add more figures. At least there are these sets in 2014 to let us know that we Castle fans are not forgotten.


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Apple vs Google: Why Wall Street has turned from one to the other
Apple churns out products that are revered by customers with cult-like obsession while Google dominates the world of Internet search and advertising, but only one of the Silicon Valley tech giants is feeling any love these days from Wall Street.
Even though Apple can't produce enough of its new iPad Minis to meet demand, investors have yawned at Apple's overall suite of recent products and are waiting to see if it will unveil a less-expensive iPhone and a 5-inch "phablet" this year in response to cheaper competitors. Its stock is nearly 40 percent lower than its all-time high of $702.10 on Sept. 19. At the same time, Google has had phenomenal success with its Android software, which has made the company a huge force in mobile computing -- in addition to its search engine that continues to generate billions worth of annual Internet ad sales. Its shares are near their all-time high.
"Google dominates the search industry and has no serious competitor," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies. "Apple now has more competition and that means they have to drive that much harder to innovate faster. The street's only going to love them again if Apple continues to have significant products that drive huge demand in the Apple ecosystem."
Shares of Google closed Monday at $834.82 -- up 49 percent from June when its shares reached a recent low point.
Apple shares, by contrast, closed Monday at $430.47, down 23 percent over the same period.
Some of Apple's troubles with investors began in September when it unveiled a flawed Maps App feature in the iPhone 5 that misplaced famous landmarks and sent users on dead-ended goose chases. The failure of Apple's Maps App led to the firings of two high profile managers and caused Apple CEO Tim Cook to issue a mea culpa.
The embarrassment not only exposed Apple to ridicule -- Cook told users to turn to competitors' apps, including Google's, until the Apple's map app improved -- but also offered a glimpse of its vulnerabilities.
"The maps debacle showed investors how valuable Google's technology was -- how hard it was to replicate -- and how Apple may struggle as the world moves beyond iTunes toward cloud-based services," analysts with Barclays Capital Inc. wrote to investors last week after meeting with Apple executives.
Cook seemed to scratch his head over Apple's disappointing stock performance last month at Apple's annual shareholder meeting -- even as he ticked off a long list of accomplishments for his company that included the launch of its popular iPad Mini in October and customers who sent 2 billion messages per day over Apple products.
Cook told shareholders that he and Apple's board of directors share their "disappointment" in Apple's stock price.
"I don't like it either," Cook said. "The board and management team don't like it."
Apple continues to follow a formula of trying to build the best phones, tablets and laptops on the planet but its recent products "have been a little bit under-whelming," said Ken Dulaney, vice president and mobile analyst for Gartner.
At the same time, Google remains a darling of Wall Street despite a philosophy of what Dulaney calls "chaos management."
"Some of what they do fails and some of it succeeds," he said. "But that's what they want. Google is like a giant university where if an idea fails it's no big deal. Just go onto the next thing."
Roger L. Kay, the founder and president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, Inc., believes that Apple shares should be trading higher and thinks that Apple's actual stock performance is the result of an "emotional response" from investors.
"We like to play king of the hill and once you get to be king, we like to push you off," Kay said. "At one point, Apple could do no wrong. Now it can do nothing right."


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During the 2013 N.C. legislative session, nearly 1,000 people were arrested and tens of thousands more mobilized for the Moral Monday demonstrations in opposition to the racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ, anti-worker, and pro-big business agenda of the Tea Party extremists that took power. The actions taken by the N.C. General Assembly should be viewed as nothing short of a criminal and wholesale attack on the people of our state.
The Moral Monday/Forward Together Movement is a mighty force of resistance to the Jim Crow politics and shows the power of building unity across the barriers that are meant to divide us – race, gender, and sexual orientation – especially in this reactionary period.
In recent weeks, many of those arrested have begun to stand trial. The state knows that its case is hollow while the support for the Moral Monday movement is overwhelming. The conviction of the first Moral Monday arrestee to stand trial – Saladin Muhammad – is a dangerous attack on the basic democratic right to protest. Muhammad's conviction must be fought and overturned, and the charges dropped against all Moral Monday protesters.
Capitol Police Chief Jeff Weaver has used the Moral Monday trials as a stage from which to red-bait, violence-bait, attack, and single out our organization and two members of our organization. This is a conscious effort to remove the focus from the real issues at hand– the criminal policies of the N.C. legislature and the massive resistance that has been awoken. It is also an attempt to criminalize protest, to normalize police surveillance, and to create cracks in the unity that has been the bedrock of the Moral Monday/Forward Together movement.
Listening to Weaver's testimony, one would think it is now a crime to be a Marxist, an anarchist, or to simply attend demonstrations against the backwards agenda of the N.C. Legislature. He stumbled through 30 minutes of testimony about previous actions that FIST had organized. Weaver also revealed that the Raleigh Police Department's Threat Assessment Unit has been conducting surveillance on our group and other groups.
Youth & Students Resist Tuition Hikes in the UNC system – March 2010
As the N.C. legislature was set to vote on massive tuition hikes, and after organizing with students across the state to oppose the hikes, FIST helped organize a demonstration of young people and students at the legislature. We held a rally outside and entered the committee meeting where members were voting on the hikes and then requested to speak. When we were denied, youth and students began speaking out about the impact these hikes would have on their ability to attend the UNC system – that education should be a right for all and not a privilege for the rich, and that it would saddle students with more and more debt just to get an education.
High School Students Oppose the Worst Education Budget in Over a Decade – May 2011
Raleigh FIST worked with other organizations to hold a demonstration of 200 young people who marched from North Carolina State University (NCSU) to join more than 8,000 N.C. teachers who were rallying at the legislature. As we rallied outside, the legislature prepared to vote on a draconian budget with massive across the board cuts to education and other vital public services. Members of NC HEAT (Heroes Emerging Among Teens), a high school student-led organization and FIST wanted to speak out and take action in the face of the worst budget in the past decade. They unfurled a banner that read: "Tax Corporations – Bail Out the People – Defend the Public Sector" and disrupted the session as the vote on the budget was being taken, resulting in five arrests.
Since 2004, FIST has organized demonstrations in opposition to U.S. wars abroad, campaigned to kick military recruiters off high school and university campuses, fought against police brutality, demonstrated in solidarity with revolutionary Cuba and other peoples movements across the globe, for immigrant rights, for freedom for political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal and CeCe McDonald, and much more.
Throughout our history, FIST has unapologetically stood on the side of all people in the U.S. and across the globe who are exploited, disenfranchised, and oppressed by the capitalist system. We are not ashamed of being Marxists and believe that fighting for socialism – a system where the people have the power and the vast wealth of society is not monopolized by the 1%, but used to meet the needs of all people – is the only way to put an end to war, poverty, and all forms of oppression and injustice. We stand shoulder to shoulder with all our sisters and brothers, who want to fight back and create a better world – no matter how one identifies politically.
It is not a crime to oppose the policies of the Tea Party legislature or any form of injustice. The real criminals are Governor Pat McCrory, Art Pope, Thom Tillis, and Phil Berger, who have launched an all out assault on the people of this state. They want to bring back Jim Crow, turn back the clock on gains that have been fought and died for throughout our history, and deprive people of the most basic rights. The real criminals are on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms, the militarists who drop bombs on people across the globe, and the 1% who will do anything to preserve the decaying capitalist system that serves only their interests.
The dirty tricks that Weaver and the state are using to divide our movement have been tried before. These attempts to cause confusion and division demonstrate that those in power are terrified of the movement from below that is being built across this state – which is part of a growing global resistance.
They are scared of working class people, youth, people of color, women, LGBTQ, and all people moving forward together. They want nothing more than to break the solidarity that has been built through our struggles. But we won't let them. Solidarity Forever! Onwards!
Stop the criminalization of the right to protest!
Drop the charges against Saladin Muhammad and all Moral Monday arrestees!
Build the Moral Monday movement and fight back against Tea Party legislature!
All Power to the People!


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I am trying to show that the functor category $\operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$ has enough injectives (meaning that for each $F\in \operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$ there is an injective object $I\in \operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$ and a monomorphism $F\to I$ in $\operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$), where $Ab$ is the category of abelian groups and $J$ is the category
$$0\leftarrow 1 \leftarrow 2 \leftarrow \cdots$$
(so $J$ is the opposite of the category associated to the poset of non-negative integers).
($\operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$ is the category of functors from $J$ to $Ab$, with arrows being natural transformations).
Here is what I was able to do:
I can show that $Ab$ has enough injectives.
I know that a natural transformation $\phi: F\to G$ is a monic arrow in $\operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$ if and only if $\phi_i:F(i)\to G(i)$ is monic for all $i$.
Given $F\in \operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$, I can find $I\in \operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$ and a monomorphism $F\rightarrow I$, where $I(i)$ is injective for all $i$ (I just use the fact that $Ab$ has enough injectives to construct monomorphisms $\phi_i:F(i)\rightarrow I(i)$ with $I(i)$ injective and then use the fact that the $I(i)$ are injective to define $I$ on arrows so that $\phi$ becomes a natural transformation $F\to I$). The problem is that now I can't prove that $I$ is an injective object in $\operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$:
Is it true that if all the $I(i)$ are injective in $Ab$ then $I$ is injective in $\operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$?
(I don't think so, but I didn't find any counterexamples).
I know that if I take an injective object $A\in Ab$ and consider the constant functor $F(i)=A$ for all $i$ and $F(\alpha)=\operatorname{id}_{A}$ for all arrows $\alpha$ in $J$, then $F$ is an injective object in $\operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$.
I tried using limits:
I know that the functor $\lim:\operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)\to Ab$ is left exact and I used this to show that if $I\in \operatorname{Func}(J,Ab)$ is an injective object then $\lim I\in Ab$ is an injective object.
- Is it true that if $\lim\;I$ is injective then $I$ is injective?
I would be very grateful for any hints.


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I had managed to sail through the time change like a champion.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Time Warp
Posted by Unknown at 9:48 AM
Labels: random thoughts
6 comments:
- Carpool Queen said...
I think "Talk me off a ledge" is a perfect title. That's what I tell my bff when I'm calling with a crisis.
And I have not been up since 5. I got up at 9. It's going to be REALLY hard when break is over.
- March 12, 2009 10:31 AM
- Heather said...
When I was in Poland (way back when I was in college and dating my husband) I managed to do that same thing, except the opposite--since we were 9 hours ahead) and call my then boyfriend now hubby at dark o-clock in the morning. He was less than thrilled.
- March 12, 2009 10:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
LOL I totally did that when my parents were in Hawaii :-P I am sure she will forgive you :-)
- March 12, 2009 11:51 AM
- Unknown said...
Our clocks don't change for a few more weeks - just in case you were contemplating phoning Ireland!
- March 12, 2009 5:29 PM
- Jackie said...
I am so not a fan of the time change - and now NM is thinking about doing away with it (isn't that how it was in AZ for you?)
So excited about your new weekly series!
- March 12, 2009 9:38 PM
- mer@lifeat7000feet said...
Time change is STILL doing a number on me. Just one more reason that I'm thankful for spring break.
- March 20, 2009 12:43 AM


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Nine life lessons from reality hit Married at First Sight
Hi, I'm Bec, and I'm a Married at First Sight tragic.
I know I'm not the only one on the NSW South Coast! Seems to be the talk of the office every morning after the show.
I believe there's always a bit of treasure in trashy, reality TV.
1. Good guys really do exist
Matthew, all of Australia loves you.
One week in and Lauren has fallen in love with you. She says, "He would put me first, before anything."
Matthew can express his feelings about his partner, and, even when pressed, will keep the most intimate details of their relationship under lock and key.
Yeah, good guys who are available might be rare, but if you're single and looking don't give up.
Matt is such a fucking nice respectful guy and Lauren is lovely don't you dare ruin them #mafsau producers— Konera Hunia (@KoneraHunia) February 10, 2019
2. If you're going to bring up an issue with your partner, do so when you're sober.
We all know the devil's drop can bring out the worst in us.
Poor Jessika learnt pretty quickly that Mick has zero tolerance for drunken rants. While he may have been in the wrong, she shot herself in the foot by screaming and blubbering at him. Her point was lost in the delivery.
Mick slept in the other room, packed his bag and was ready to leave. Instead of fighting back in the heat of the moment, he chose to confront her in the morning.
And Jessika seemed to appreciate his maturity, and recognised she had some growing to do.
3. Men are from Mars…
Heidi's alpha male Mike had no clue what he was in for at the commitment ceremony.
Sustained by their physical connection, little did he know Heidi was less than impressed with their emotional connection, or lack thereof.
And did anyone else throw up in their mouth when he said, for the second time that episode, "I've been sleeping like a baby, let's put it that way"?
Yuck, mate.
Thankfully, he's been paired with someone assertive enough to pull him up on it.
4. If it starts badly, chances are it's not going to improve.
Elizabeth...pack your bags and leave.
You cried on day two of your marriage, Sam wasn't there to console you. In fact, he was missing in action (with his ex) for nearly a week, and to rub salt in the wound he didn't return contact when you reached out and bravely tried to call him.
You're staying because you want to get to know where he's coming from? You want to give it a go? See what he's actually like?
Trust your instincts, mate, and leave him before he does any more damage.
5. If you're above the age of seven, saying, "WHATEVER" during a fight isn't cute.
And it's not going to help your cause.
Sam, we're looking at you. Dramas only escalate when you add hostility and passive aggression into the mix.
Am I the only one who thinks Sam really isn't that hot? AND I thought that before his ugly inside came out #mafsau#MAFS— LeeLee (@leeleesober) February 10, 2019
6. Struggling to connect? Be vulnerable with your partner.
If you're struggling to connect, talk about what's going on.
Nick didn't know why Cyrell was pushing him away, until she admitted her domineering behaviour was due to a fear of abandonment. Nick appreciated her honesty.
Cyrell has been paired with an understanding, patient man in Nick.
Whatever the outcome, I think she's in safe hands.
7. Agree or disagree with your partner, you need to have their back.
Mick, we all know alpha male Mike was throwing around nasty comments about your partner, Jessika.
You think it's not your battle?
Maybe not. But smart people with happy partners always offer their support.
Whether you overheard Mike's tripe or not, it wouldn't have hurt to sit down beside your partner, put your arm around her chair, and show your support when she confronted him.
At the end of the day, you're going home with Jessika, not Mike.
8. Being polite isn't that hard. Unless you're Ines.
She is condescending, she operates without a filter, and she appears to be genuinely delighted when others are experiencing trials.
Ines disparages Bronson, someone she hardly knows, to the extent it's uncomfortable to watch.
"I wanted to fall in love, I didn't expect it to be with THAT."
"I'm sick of having this liability attached to me."
"Do you want him? Take him."
Wow, just wow. Leave her, Bronson. It's emotional abuse.
9. Don't let superficial things get in the way.
Before Jules met Cam, she indicated height was important – she was hoping her groom would be tall.
Cam's no beanstalk. I have a sneaking suspicion he's shorter than Jules.
Thankfully, it wasn't a deal-breaker.
Their relationship is nothing short of gorgeous to watch.
"It's been fantastic from the moment we met," Jules said at the commitment ceremony.
"I feel like he was tailor-made for me; trustworthy, honest an all-round good egg."


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The children will have access to both Oxford Owl and Bug Club (online reading website). In Bug Club the children have been allocated books that they can choose to read from. In Oxford Owl the children have a free choice. Please ensure that your child reads the same book as many times as they can so that they can gain fluency in their reading. Also if you can ask questions about what they have read this will help them to develop their understanding and comprehension skills.
Oxford Owl
Class Login User Name EYFS Password EYFS
Bug Club
Below is a guide to our reading book band colours and where children should be with regards to their age (RA). The children should be reading fluently at their Year group book colour and be able answer and respond to comprehension questions, inference and deduction and understand the new words that they are reading.
Children in FS2 should be on red/yellow/blue books.


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- Super Six Alloy
- Ø31.8mm
- Rise: 5/15/30/50mm
- Length: 777mm
- Geometry: 4°Up / 8°Back
- Dual XGT Taper with Impact Ends
- Weight: from 280g to 318g
- Color: White/Black/Chrome and New Race Red/Blue/Green
Mtbr's take:
Wide bars are cool. These are 777 mm or 30.5 inches so they are plenty wide but they can be cut down to size. Wise folks will advice the uninformed to buy very wide bars such as these, ride them, move the grips in, ride them and decide on the best length for them. Then get that hack saw and cut away.
The Spike 777 EVO is perfect for this application. They are very wide and strong. The sweep is 4 degrees up and 8 back. So it is a low riser with more back sweep. This is a very modern geometry and it works very well for all mountain and downhill applications. Furthermore, 29ers and 650b wheelsets put the front end up more than the old wheelset so low rise bars like this are very timely.
It's not easy to review a handlebar as it is not a moving part after all. It usually just does its job admirably and you notice it when there's a problem. But we'll try anyway. Installation is easy and the bar's consistent exterior mates nicely with the stem. The finish is smooth and attractive and it allows slipping in all the handlebar controls and accessories nicely.
The weight is pretty amazing at 290 grams. This is almost 31 inches long and it is World Cup tested. So we are quite impressed that it is under 300 grams for an alloy bar. And finally, it feels good. The rise and sweep are just right and the bars dampen trail vibrations quite nicely.
OOZY LTD Bar
- Material: Zirconium Doped Alloy
- Ø31.8mm
- Rise: 5/15mm
- Length: 700mm
- Color: White/Black
- Weight: from 208g to 220g
- Dual Extreme Gradual Taper ~ with "Impact Ends"
Mtbr's Take:
We also spent a bit of time with the OOZY LTD bar. Our Specialized Epic was ok in stock form with it's long stem and short bars. But we put on a 70mm stem and the OOZY 700 mm bar and the bike came alive. The bar just did its job and never interfered with our ride. This one is such a great upgrade to those stock bike setups with narrower bars.
Like the Spike 777 bar above, finish and construction is top-notch.
Spike Race Stem
- 2D Forged Weight Optimized CNC Construction
- Bar Bore Ø31.8 / Rise 0º
- 55mm Wide Chamfered Bar Clamp
- 35mm Stack Height
- "Snap Fit" Sealed Topcap Included
- Length: 35mm / 50mm
- Weight: ±145g / ±160g
- Color: Polished Black / Red / Blue / Green
Mtbr's Take
$69 for this bad boy and it's quite a stunning piece of work. It's got a beautiful shape and finish plus the top cap just integrates nicely in there as it snaps in to place. Weight is 150 grams and it is as stiff as heck. It's kind of an enigma being so light and affordable. But it has been trouble free for us and we know and it can take much more abuse than we can deliver.
Spike "The Standard" Director Stem
- Boxxer / Fox40 / Manitou / BOS / XFusion Compatible
- Forged – CNC Weight Optimized 6 Series Alloy
- 50mm Extension / 31.8mm barclamp dia.
- Low Profile 15° Dropped Barclamp
- Weight only 150 g
- CNC engraved faceplate logo
- Integrated Design blends with fork crowns beautifully
- Chamfered clamping zones for improved handlebar/stem fatigue life
- Polished Snap-Fit Sealed top-cap included
- Colors: Polished Anodized Black / Red / Blue / White (Powder Coated)
Not Tested Yet.


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Business Development Manager, Security
Electronic Control Units (ECUs) started out in the 1970s as discrete modules with each one doing one particular thing, at that time mainly for emissions controls and mileage. Then they became connected via in-car networks with the invention of the CAN bus in 1985. In-car networking represented a big improvement in capability. However, being networked means that ECUs became vulnerable to mischief and thus they, and what the connect to (such as domain and area controllers) need to be secured cryptographically to ensure that the signals being sent have not been tampered with or corrupted, and perhaps most importantly, that they are authentic. There is also the emerging need for confidentiality (i.e. encryption/decryption).
The picture below shows the top attack points. This range or targets indicates just how vulnerable cars have become:
Trust is paramount in digital systems, and increasingly so in automotive. Trust comes from cryptographic solutions that:
- Securely store secret keys
- Securely issue, manage, renew and revoke security certificates
- Include a mix of software and security hardened hardware devices, and
- Are manufactured in highly secure facilities
What Creates Trust?
A major tenet of security is that each system and sub-system will have different types of threats and a range of options to provide countermeasures to those. This means that the automotive security equation has many variables and thus is difficult to solve.
However, two things are always common to trustable cryptographic security, and they form the basic foundation of modern security:
- A proven algorithm (e.g. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)), and
- A secret cryptographic key (to provide the required level of security for the selected algorithm).
Trust Anchor
On a CAN bus, which was designed without security in mind, ECUs are exposed. So, connected cars should employ best practices for security, but cost, complexity (especially of the supply chain) and time get in the way. Having said that, best practices will eventually prevail and that will likely include a hardware trust anchor system to establish, maintain, and update cryptographic processes.
From the diagram you can see the four basic things that create a PKI-based hardware trust anchor:
- A trusted hardware anchor that stores the key
- That key, which becomes the root of trust
- The certificate chain anchored by the root of trust, and
- A signing mechanism that creates the anchored certificate chain
Multi-level Security
Because there are so many systems in the increasingly software-defined car, security has to be multi-layered and fit the specific application. In other words — it must be tailored. You have to figure out what you are securing, what threats that system will face, and what countermeasures should be employed. You have to pick what pillars of security to apply; namely, confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-revocation. Making sure you are doing the right security things on each system is what Blackberry is positioned to help you with, from consulting, to design, testing, certificate management, securing the supply chain, making updates, and applying cryptography to the in-car and around-the-car networks.
To learn more about cryptography for automotive please contact Blackberry's Certicom
subsidiary, and for more information and/or help regarding reliable, secure, and trusted software for safety- and mission-critical applications such as automotive please contact QNX.
The bottom line is that BlackBerry, Certicom, and QNX can help your system become not just secure, but BlackBerry secure.


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Successful public financial management is one of Sierra Leone's main achievements since the end of the civil war.
Benefits and drawbacks of a community-driven development programme that funded small-scale development projects in Afghanistan.
Now out the ReCom summary on 15 key findings relevant to the post-2015 agenda.
The most successful civic education programmes are those that give local partners real ownership over the development process.
Improving the access to safe drinking water and sanitation systems is significant in achieving a positive difference to the lives of the vulnerable.
An ambitious new approach to aid is needed to make the transition from low productivity agriculture to high productivity manufacturing.
A review of ILO interventions shows that targeting women directly and specifically is crucial to improve gender equality.
How can the costs of climate change be minimized in Mozambique?
Only three out of 36 World Bank investments in Malawi, Mali, Niger and Rwanda appropriately address women's unpaid care work.


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The Department of East Asian Studies offers an in-depth and wide-ranging series of courses dealing with the history, culture, and language of pre-modern, modern, and contemporary East Asia. Our program enables students to develop a necessary understanding of China, Japan and Korea as cultures and societies of global importance.
East Asian Studies (specialist, major and minor options)
EAS 103H1 – Premodern East Asia
EAS 105H1 – Modern East Asia
EAS 100Y1 – Modern Standard Chinese I
EAS 101Y1 – Modern Chinese for Students with Prior Background
EAS 110Y1 – Modern Standard Korean I
EAS 120Y1 – Modern Standard Japanese I
EAS 121H1 – Modern Japanese for Students with Prior Background
Students who wish to pursue the specialist, major or minor programs in East Asian Studies are required to take EAS 103H1 and EAS 105H1. All students interested in East Asian studies programs are encouraged to begin, as early as possible, the study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean. No language course is required for the minor program.
Students who pursue a degree related to East Asia will be rewarded with knowledge, skill, and critical appreciation of the value of the languages, cultures, and socio-economic and political impact of the region. Some of our graduates work in government, business education and the legal field. A specialist or major program will serve as a foundation for graduate studies that lead toward careers in higher education and academic research.
Possible career options include:
• Education
• Research
• Arts and Culture
• Media
• International development
• International trade
policy and research
• Work in Foreign Service and non-governmental organizations
• Law
A career in any of the fields above may require additional technical training, graduate education and /or experience beyond the undergraduate level. Students are advised to use the resources offered by the University of Toronto's Career Centre.
Students who wish to minor, major or specialize in East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto should apply to the Faculty of Arts & Science, either the Humanities or Social Sciences admission categories on the St. George campus, for which six Grade 12 U or M courses, including English are required. Students outside of Ontario should have the equivalent senior high school credits. To apply, follow the instructions found on the Faculty of Arts & Science website.


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Comeback falls short
The Bisons' Andy Green helped to pull the Herd to within one run of the Toledo Mud Hens when he hit his second home run of the season in the ninth inning. Unfortunately it was not enough as the Herd ultimately fell to the Mud Hens 5-4.
Mike Hessman would homer for the third time in three games against his former team. His two run blast to center field now puts his total for home runs at 17 for the season, three more than Dan Johnson of Durham. Hessman added two RBI to bring his total for the season to 53 which is ten more than second ranked Pedro Alvarez of Indianapolis.
Entering the sixth inning the game tied at three, Jeff Frazier hit a solo home run off Toby Stoner. Stoner (3-5) went 5.2 innings and allowed six hits and four earned runs was saddled with the loss.
Jesus Feliciano went 2-4 and increased his league high batting average to an astonishing .383. His average is a remarkable 60 points higher than any other player in the International League. The Herd will finish their four game series with the Mud Hens Sunday at 1:05 p.m. when right hander Dylan Owen (1-0, 3.75 ERA) retuns to the mound.


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Professional ultimate frisbee is now a thing. The eight-team American Ultimate Disc League held its season opener last weekend, and the league is doing all it can to get the word out. This afternoon, we got an email from a PR guy with the Indianapolis AlleyCats, and while it's the standard sort of promotion that ordinarily wouldn't catch our eye, this paragraph did:
You may know the AlleyCats from the April 17th edition of ESPN Sportcenter's Top Ten Plays. Coming in at number 6 during the heat of the NHL playoffs and NBA playoff races is no easy feat but it gives you an idea of just how exciting this sport, new league and AlleyCat team truly is. One would imagine an upstart league and team couldn't get that kind of national exposure in just one game, but after already being featured on ESPN2's Sportsnation earlier in the day, there AlleyCat team captain Brodie Smith was, sandwiched between Boston Celtic Rajon Rando and Arizona Diamondback Chris Young.
Oh, right. Of course. Those guys.


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The Respect of Your Peers?
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Back before Napster's legal morass, the ultrahip Web music provider's ability to attract tens of millions of MP3 file-swappers virtually overnight caught everyone's attention-and led to dozens of copycat peer-to-peer networks. Indeed, P2P networking among individuals is supposed to be the proverbial new computing paradigm. Some have gone so far as to deem 2001 "The Year of the Peer."
If so, that's not necessarily a good thing. There's a chance your company could get served a heaping helping of P2P before the concept is fully cooked. So? That's how streaming video, biometrics and most new technologies come to fruition, isn't it? True, but the acronym "P2P" doesn't refer to only a technology. It's also a socio-economic philosophy that's best summed up as "What's yours is all of ours."
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The last time we checked, you're all about making money and holding down costs. With those priorities in mind, you should take a careful look at P2P before inviting it onto your network. It still has three major shortcomings that could drain your company's IT support and networking budgets-or worse:
1) Lack of common programming standards and protocols,
2) Lack of security, and
3) Lack of respect for people's private property.
The first problem will get worked out-probably long after the current trickle of P2P applications becomes a flood. Security is likely to be a problem, resulting in higher costs overall and the occasional expensive disaster. But that last problem, that's the tough one. It arises from our changing social mores and isn't likely to be helped by bestowing an identifiable address on every PC-or, in the P2P vision, on every file on every PC.
With Friends Like These . . .
Yes, the unused processor cycles of the 100 million or so computers hanging off the Internet is a wonderful untapped resource. Yes, bizarre projects like SETI@Home (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Home) demonstrate that unused processor time can be harnessed for the most ambitious tasks. But who owns those unused processor cycles? Apparently, the answer from the most ardent P2P enthusiasts is: The People.
Voluntary communal projects like SETI have little impact on your company. The stakes get higher as we pass through your firewall and take a peek at some of the things your employees might already be doing on your company network. Research company Computer Economics vice president of research Michael Erbschloe reports that personal activities, such as online banking, recreational Web browsing and MP3 file-swapping, can consume as much as 25 percent of a company network's capacity today.
Gartner Inc. research director Rob Batchelder puts that figure below 20 percent as a rule. Either way, monitoring or policing unauthorized Web use in a 100-person company requires the full attention of approximately one IT staffer, suggests Erbschloe.
That's today. Now let's imagine a future in which staff members swap not just music files, but also your network's data files and executables with others on a large scale. That's exactly what some segments of the P2P glee club envision-giving your employees the unfettered right to share your company data and other material with whomever they deem appropriate.
To get a feel for this mode of thinking, read any of the reports or editorials from the recent P2P Conference held by technology portal The O'Reilly Network. "You hate the IT department, and they hate you right back," writes Clay Shirky, a partner in the investment firm Accelerator Group. "The mutual enmity between the average IT department and the average end user is the key feature driving P2P adoption in the business setting."
Batchelder insists these attitudes are foreign to the for-profit segment of the P2P community-the ones who want to bring products in through your front door. P2P start-ups like Groove Networks and XDegrees have real, live business plans with cash-flow models and strategies to address enterprise security, network load management and other IT concerns. But they exist alongside people who are intent on bringing Napster clones in through your back door-and have a resonance with the public. The majority of Internet users recently surveyed by the Consumer Electronics Association said they should be able to download online content for free. And a very vocal segment of the P2P community wants to take the locks off the doors and see what happens.
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Batchelder believes the attitudes of legitimate market stakeholders are likely to prevail-at least for business products. Companies like XDegrees envision something like virtual private networks extended to audiences outside the firewall. CEO Michael Tanne, whose P2P application-development server should ship this summer, is going to great lengths to ensure security.
of respondents in a recent survey reported computer security breaches; 26 percent reported theft of intellectual property totaling $151 million.
SOURCE: Computer Security Institute
But like all PC locks, his system will only be as effective as its least conscientious user. No one is more thrilled by the possibilities of P2P than hackers, who live to uncover human error. P2P complicates security issues by orders of magnitude, says Rob Clyde, vice president and chief technologist at Symantec Corp., and greatly increases the potential for mistakes.
Security experts are unanimous that a key element of network and desktop defense is to simply not be visible to Internet prowlers. Once you've invited a hacker through an open PC port and onto your hard drive, it's a whole different ballgame, says Clyde.
Hackers were the first to write P2P applications. They're called Trojan horses, and P2P networks like Napster and ICQ are their preferred channels of distribution, says Jim Weaver, 45, owner of Cyber Resources, a Crestview, Florida, security consulting firm.
Based on the fact that the best and brightest of Silicon Valley-right up to Intel itself-are all worked up about P2P, there's a certain inevitability to it. But don't forget about the vampires out there. The Internet is dangerous enough outside your firewall. But, as anyone who has ever seen a vampire movie knows, your troubles really begin once you invite one in over your threshold.
It's 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. Do you have any way of knowing whom your always-connected computers are talking to?
Mike Hogan is Entrepreneur's technology editor. You can e-mail him at email@example.com.


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My great great Gandad HARRIS, Alfred and Great Great Gandma Maria Jane Harris (nee PREBBLE)are buried at the Waimati North Church in Northland. I am trying to find his brother and his brothers 8 sons that came out from England with him.. I don't have name as the family don't seem to know. My Great Great Gandfather went south and his brother moved north to the Hokianga Harbour. I heard stories that he started a ship building yard and worked the land. I would love to find out about them and their decendent.
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Coup de Cœur – Part One: Let's start at the very beginning
Actually, Julie Andrews, let's not. Start at the very beginning that is. The fact is that this particular serial .. Oh! I feel the need to digress – I LOVE a serial! All those wonderful adaptations that the British do so well – from The Forsytes, through The Pallisers, much Jane Austen, many Thomas Hardy's and no doubt a glut of Dickens whose great works were written as episodes for a variety of journals, only later being published in book form. This explains two things – firstly, why he serialises SO successfully on television and secondly the minute detail in his descriptives which can be the finish of many a secondary school student's tolerance of his work …. his narrative can feel achingly slow to the modern reader but gathers pace and impact on the screen. Not so for everyone but I have carefully explained to four teenaged daughters and many attendant friends that he should not be dismissed as boring without giving the films and series a whirl first. And it is not just a British phenomena – for instance Alexander Dumas serialised The Three Musketeers (Three Musky Queers as my first husband irreverantly and, quite possibly these days illegally, always referred to them) in 139 episodes in Le Constititutionnel.
Back on piste … I do love a serial and this will be one. But I can't quite start at the very beginning for the simple reason that the story of finding and buying this place feels as though it should be a novel. Based in the factual, it would be work of fiction with all players and places concealed and touched up with the clay and paint that an Author has the licence to apply at will.
So here it is. We bought a village house that needs renovating in France. Other's do that too. And they blog – I follow one in particular because she captivates me. You can too, if you want to – just here. So that's not unique. Where we bought it as English people is unique: Marcolès: newly recognised as 'Une Petite Cité de Caractère' In fact only three villages in the entire Auvergne region currently hold this accolade and the award was made to the three as recently as May this year. But most important is what it is.
Looking at the picture you would be forgiven for thinking – nice but so what? It's a nice little town house. In a village. Somewhere in France. What makes it special, if you will, is that it is a Monument Historique de France … gosh, wowy zowy. Boom!! But take a closer look and ask the question beloved of toddlers and indeed, I think, the smartest people throughout their lives …. why?
The thing with this little baby is that it was originally built as the City Watchtower. It is a tour médiéval – this is what it would once have looked like in 1203 when it is first accurately recorded:
As a point of interest, all of these examples are within 50 km of our own village
Sadly the community of Marcolès was less caring then than it is now. Or more accurately, I am sure, had other vital criteria for survival. The tower fell into ruin and the stone was pillaged for other buildings. However. For reasons unrecorded (but we intend to do our darndest to trace and clarify), the village or perhaps just one villager, decided to rebuild it from what was left (and some other stone they found lying around). And the result …la Maison Carrée. For non French speakers, that means 'The Square House'. Which it is. It is also the only house within the city walls to stand entirely on it's own. Detached. Reliant on no other. As the locals charmingly put it – you can walk right around it. Completed in 1830 it has been inhabited by a variety of people including a very tall Russian lady who the present Mayor (Marcolèsian born, raised, elected and something of a saviour) remembers vaguely from boyhood. I'm very tall and I love Russia and all things Russian (shoot me – I know its not de rigeur just now) … I rather hope I'm remembered too. As someone who DID something for the Commune. Gave something back, if you will. My HB² of a Spouse feels just the same.
So here we are. We have the house. Without giving anything away we signed the papers for the purchase in March 2014 exactly a year from the start of the purchase … but we didn't get the keys til Christmas 2014. Stick with me – Part Two is all about le vider. No! NOT the la vida loca! though translated as 'Living a Crazy Life' it could be apt in this instance. Vider means 'to empty'. You also use it when referring to gutting something prior to cooking. Which is about right in this case. It's a whole story in itself.
À très bientôt
PS: I've called this series Coup de Cœur because it is the expression that French Immobiliers – those are Estate Agents to my UK readers, Realtors to those in the US (and apologies to everyone else) – use. Coup de Cœur means a favourite thought that doesn't cover it, really it is more something that pulls at one's heart strings. Immobiliers generally use it to imply an irrisistible attraction to a house. That overwhelming almost lusting for a place the moment you lay eyes on it, much less walk inside. A feeling which doesn't necessarily have either foot in the common sense field …. which in this case, fits perfectly!
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Spooky or what…I was just about to send you a message asking for an update on the restoration of La Maison Carré! I await the next instalment with bated breath!July 14, 2015
it is a beautiful piece. I was educated in French, so it is nice for me to read the blending of the French and English literature. Thank you.July 29, 2015
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Love, love this. I have read part of this before also. We have a newish home which we had/help build, from the design to the laying of tiles. It is our sanctuary. I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum from you. In one hundred years, what will have changed, will the new owners laugh at my choices and complain bitterly at what I thought were cutting edge ideas. Will my beautiful garden be paved over for more parking? It boggles the mind.
Love your way with words, on your own blog and comments on other blogs.
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Nancy Lombardo, Information Technology Librarian, presented the Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL at the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS) 2010 meeting in Tucson in March. Three separate presentations were made to various NANOS membership groups.
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A hearings officer has ruled against expansion plans at Hyatt Lake Resort in southern Oregon's Jackson County. The decision could lead to the removal of park model cottages, a restaurant and other improvements, according to the Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.
In a 53-page decision mailed out Friday (Sept. 25), Donald Rubenstein concluded that the park models referred to by the resort owner as recreational vehicles are in fact dwellings that potentially pose a fire danger for the resort and the surrounding forest.
He said the resort 20 miles east of Ashland resembles a high-density residential development with some units only 7 feet apart.
Rubenstein concluded county planners erred in allowing 22 of the cabins at the resort. He rejected a request to add an additional 13 spaces.
Rubenstein acknowledged that his decision, which is subject to appeal, could be an economic blow to the developers of the resort.
"The owner finds himself in an unenviable position having invested large sums of money and effort which are jeopardized by this decision," he wrote.
Neighbors had appealed Jackson County's approval of a limited expansion at Hyatt Lake Resort, which is operated by the same group as nearby Campers Cove. Owners of the resort, known as Campers Cove Resort LLC, also appealed a county planning decision, saying they were entitled to additional changes they've requested. Rubenstein reviewed more than 900 pages from the two sides and the county.
Bob McNeely, one of the resort owners, said previously that he had already sold units that look like cabins on the 22 recreational vehicle sites and was in the process of selling four more on 13 additional sites when he was ordered to stop by the county.
McNeely has 21 days to appeal Rubenstein's decision to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals. He was not immediately available for comment Monday. His Coos Bay attorney, Jerry Lesan, declined to comment, and his land-use consulting company, CSA Ltd. of Medford, didn't respond to a phone call.
Pam Hardy, a Bend attorney representing the neighbors' group, called Southern Oregon Citizens for Responsible Land Use Planning, said, "Obviously, we're pleased with the decision, and we're anticipating an appeal."
Sandy Speasl, a member of the land-use planning group, said she thought the hearings officer did a very thorough job. She said she hadn't known what to expect going into the land-use challenge, but was happy with the results.
"To me it means that sometimes the little people have a voice in things," Speasl said.
The resort owners wanted to install the park models on 35 spaces, but county planners determined they were legally entitled to only 22 spaces that can have water, electricity and sewage hook-ups. Those spaces have what the owner refers to as park models.
But Rubenstein wrote, "Park models are not recreational vehicles for purposes of land-use planning, and the staff erred in finding otherwise."
He added that crowding the cottages together with 120-gallon propane tanks next to each unit posed a significant fire danger.
"The absence of setbacks and other standards that are conventionally applied to high-density residential developments substantially increases the likelihood that once the unit is substantially involved in a fire, nearby decks, cabanas, and park models will ignite as well," Rubenstein wrote.
He also found the cottages would generate more sewage than typical recreational vehicles.
Other improvements to the property — including construction of 30 recreational sites without water and sewer, a cabin, a workshop and a restaurant — will require approval by the U.S. government because some of the development falls on federal land, Rubenstein wrote.
The opinion said the disputed cabins are permanent or semi-permanent buildings, as opposed to recreational vehicles which are temporary. The park models also have structures such as garages or cabanas that aren't typically built next to recreational vehicles, he wrote.
Referring to the website of Nor'wester Industries Inc. of Washington, which produces the cabins, Rubenstein noted the manufacturer refers to the units as "destination vacation homes" rather than recreational vehicles.
Glenn Munsell, who lives on Hyatt Prairie Road, said he agreed with Rubenstein's decision but wasn't ready to celebrate because it could be appealed.
"We're just kind of waiting to see what happens next," he said.
Munsell said he had maintained all along that McNeely has built a high-density residential park that goes well beyond the original idea of the resort.
"It's really not an RV park," Munsell said. "There are cabins or houses and the density is terrible."