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Looking back toward Skeiðarársandur and Skeiðarárjökull as well as Öræfajökull. The volcano beneath these glaciers has had only two erruptions in modern history, one in the 1300s and one in the 1700s. But it is not death yet, actually there has been some activity ongoing lately again. The more difficult part with this volcano is that there are no records about the previous erruptions, so nobody knows what to expect. Of course, Katla and Breiðabunga have also shown some signs of activity lately and just a day ago the people of Höfn were gathered to discuss what might happen in an emergency. If one of those volcanos errupts they have about 20 minutes to evacuate.
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An estimated $24.9 billion was spent on gift cards this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. You were probably part of that statistic.
While many people like to hold on to gift cards for something special to buy, that's a bad idea. You're much more likely to get the full benefits if you use a card as quickly as possible. Here are the reasons why.
Stores go bankrupt. The most important reason to use a gift card as quickly as possible has to do with the current economic climate. A number of major retailers have already gone bankrupt in the past year, and it won't be a surprise to see others follow suit in 2009.
When a store goes bankrupt, the bankruptcy court holds the final say as to whether gift cards can be redeemed. While the retailer can petition the court to allow it to continue to accept gift cards, the bankruptcy court considers unredeemed gift cards to be debt and, depending on the situation, may not allow the store to honor the gift card. Basically, once a store enters bankruptcy protection, all bets are off.
Gift cards get misplaced or lost. Even with the best intentions, if you don't use your gift card right away, there is a decent chance it will never be used. You may put it somewhere and forget about it or place it in a pile of other stuff never to be found again. It is estimated that anywhere from 10% to 20% of gift cards received are never redeemed for merchandise, which results in billions of dollars being wasted. While this is good news for the store and its bottom line (and why they love gift cards so much), it doesn't help your personal finances. By using the gift card right away, you avoid adding your gift card value into this unredeemed gift card number.
Gift cards come with fees. Time is never your friend when it comes to gift cards. While bank-issued gift cards by Visa and MasterCard are more likely to come with fees, retail store gift cards can come with fees as well depending on which state you live in. Bank gift cards usually carry a host of fees such as an activation fee, a dormancy fee, a maintenance fee and transaction fees, to name just a few. Any fee that comes with a gift card will usually significantly reduce the amount of money that can be used by the holder and can theoretically wipe out the entire amount if you wait too long to use it.
Gift cards can expire. If you don't use your gift card quickly enough, the card may expire. There are a few states that prohibit gift cards from expiring. Even retail store gift cards often come with expiration dates these days, so it's important to read the fine print to know exactly how long you have to use it. If you fail to do so, you may find that it has expired and is no longer good when you finally do get around to using it.
Your card may end up as a gift to the state. More states are treating unused gift cards as "abandoned property" as a way of shore up their own finances. Gift cards that aren't used after a certain period can be claimed by the state as abandoned property in as little time as a few years. When this happens, the state requires the retailer turn over the gift card amount to the state, which returns the abandoned money to the rightful owner. Of course, since there is no name attached to the purchase of gift cards, this is, in reality, impossible to do. When the money is not claimed, the money goes to the state treasury.
It's best to remember that gift cards come with little consumer protection. The FTC has even created a page devoted to them. Your best defense is taking the gift cards you have received this holiday and using them on post-Christmas sales for any of your current needs instead of finding out they are worthless down the road.

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NEW YORK -- Zenas Ackah has heard it all his life: What kind of name is that? You must not be from here. You must be foreign.
NEW YORK -- Zenas Ackah has heard it all his life: What kind of name is that? You must not be from here. You must be foreign.
Actually, he's not.
The 22-year-old college senior with the Greek first name and the Ghanian last name was born in the United States and grew up in Philadelphia.
But Ackah is hopeful that change is coming and that the idea of an "American" name will expand beyond monikers like Tom and Harry and Sally and Jane and Smith and Jones.
For at least the next four years, he figures he's got a strong weapon on his side as people look to the most powerful American in the country -- soon-to-be President Barack Hussein Obama.
"I think it will help people understand that people in America aren't just John, Jack, Mary," Ackah said. "They're Zenas and Barack."
Obama's name gave him his share of trouble during the campaign. He acknowledged its unfamiliarity to most Americans, and there were times when his foes made a point of using his middle name to try to cast doubt on his background and faith.
But the next four years will ensure that his name is no longer unfamiliar.
People already have named their children after him.
The more people hear it, the more mainstream it becomes, said Don Nilsen, a professor of English linguistics at Arizona State University and co-president of the American Name Society.
"Who is more American than the president of the United States?" he said. "There's no question it will have a ripple effect because of the power of the position."
Names traditionally considered "American" tend to be "British-sounding stuff," said Cleveland Evans, professor of psychology at Bellevue University in Nebraska. "We are still basically an English-culture country. We really are still in many ways at our base an Anglo-Saxon culture."
He and Nilsen pointed out that immigrants long have had a history of changing their names to fit in more with the United States, or have even had others change it for them.
Obama, born in Hawaii and named after his Kenyan father, went by Barry for years before deciding to use his full first name.
Ackah can understand. He still finds the comments about his name irritating, along with the assumptions people make upon hearing a name they're not familiar with.
"People start talking down to you because they think you're foreign," he said.
Electing someone named Barack Obama president reflects a shift in attitudes about names that has been going on in American society for the past few decades, said Laura Wattenberg, a name expert and author who runs a blog called the Baby Name Wizard.
"As a group, American parents are naming much more creatively and are striving to be distinctive with the names they pick," she said, pointing out that the shift started in the 1960s when Obama was born and has only accelerated during the past 25 years or so.
So while certain names might be more popular and prevalent than others, it's not by much, she said. In 2007, Jacob was the most popular name for boys. But Wattenberg pointed out that only 1 percent of boys were given that name.
In contrast, a century ago, 7.5 percent of parents chose the top name, John.
A president named Obama could break down the perception "that there is such a thing as a 'normal' name," Wattenberg said.
"It's a powerful symbol of breaking down barriers where it wasn't that long ago where kids with a non-English name would go to school and teachers would routinely change it. The president having a non-English name is a sign that we're not squeezing everyone into that box," she said.


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...isn't that essentially what i posted the other day?http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,18024.msg190007.html#msg190007deknow
i wonder what bees think of a sheet of foundation preventing them from clustering properly...pollutant?deknow
i don't agree bjorn,...and i'm not talking about contaminated comb.although wax is found in a beehive...and even a swarm might find a deadout (or weak) colony to take over drawn comb, no where in nature do bees encounter (or make) sheets of wax with hexagons embossed on them.when bees draw comb freely, they cluster, and draw both sides at once as they work down. they don't start with a midrib and then draw cells out.they certainly never use wax that has been melted, sheeted, and embossed.i don't really care about the definition of "natural"...what's the point? but foundation is not something the bees encounter in nature. not something that would be in their hive.foundation is a naturally occuring substance (beeswax) that is in the wrong place (where bees will be drawing comb), in excess, and in an unnatural form (embossed foundation).i'm not sure how this could not be considered a pollutant by your definition.deknow
You guys and your chemicals and artificial hives! Wood? Metal? Then you stick your honey in a glass jar.. have you ever seen a glass jar in nature? They don't pick those off of glass jar trees y'know...I only harvest honey naked (no artificial clothes) by poking open-air hives with a stick that I knawed off a tree until a honey comb falls to the all natural dirt! Then I squish out the comb with my bare hands into a leaf. Sales have been slow lately, though...I'm not sure why, but people tend to run from a naked man holding out a leaf filled with a dirty golden liquid :roll:
pol⋅lu⋅tant–noun1. something that pollutes.2. any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, water, or other natural resource harmful or unsuitable for a specific purpose.Origin:1890–95; pollute + -antDictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Definition of a pollutant: a pollutant is any naturally occuring substance that is in the wrong place or is found in excess. Seems many thing we place in the hive and try to justify it's use, can be classified as a "pollutant".
I find it sometimes best to look ahead of the going bandwagon. 5 to 10 years ago, anyone even suggesting illegal chemicals being used in the industry was black balled. But oh have we cracked that door. Some are still pushing it closed. But with CCD, we now know that this stuff can not be denied anymore. So perhaps we need to quit following the trends, the manufacturers suggestions as to what is safe, and start looking at what is best for the bees. Time and time again, we have done what was thought to be best, only later to find out how unsafe or contaminating the stuff really was.Sorry for the rant. I just woke up....
BT is used as an organic pesticide. From my understanding, growers may use BT and still be considered organic. Not according to you though.


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Deliberately passing off somebody elses original expression or creative ideas as ones own. Plagiarism can be a violation of law if copyrighted expression is taken. Often, however, plagiarism does not violate any law but marks the plagiarist as an unethical person in the political, academic, or scientific community where the plagiarism occurs.


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Pope Francis Cancels Morning Meetings Due to a Cold
But despite the illness, he presided over an afternoon Mass at which he ordained a new bishop.
VATICAN CITY — It was announced earlier today that Pope Francis canceled all of his morning meetings due to a cold, but still presided over a scheduled Mass in which he ordained a bishop in the afternoon.
In a statement issued to journalists on Nov. 15, Vatican Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi noted that, although the Pope had four audiences scheduled with various heads of dicasteries within the Curia, he decided to postpone them because the officials live in Rome and can be met with at any time.
However, despite his illness, Father Lombardi revealed that the Pope still decided to preside, as previously planned, over a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in the afternoon.
During the Mass, which occurred at 4:30pm local time, Pope Francis ordained Msgr. Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, secretary general of Vatican City's governance, as a bishop.
Bishop Vérgez is a member of the Legionaries of Christ and was appointed to his position as secretary general by the Pope earlier this fall.
It was noted upon his appointment that bishop-elect has not been appointed as a titular bishop, which is a traditional custom for the position, causing some to question the possibly that this is a signal of a new policy of Pope Francis.
Born in Salamanca in 1945, Bishop Vérgez made his perpetual profession with the Legionaries in 1965, receiving his priestly ordination in 1969. He studied philosophy and theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University and obtained a diploma from the School of Archives at the Vatican's Secret Archives.
Bishop Vérgez first began his work for the Vatican more than 40 years ago, in 1972, at the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Afterwards, in 1984, he was transferred to the Pontifical Council for the Laity, before becoming the head of the Holy See's Internet office 10 years later. He served there until becoming head of the telecommunications office in 2008.
There are no current dates set for the morning's audiences to be re-scheduled.


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Lynne McTaggart, architect of the experiments, is working with leading physicists and psychologists from the University of Arizona, Princeton University, the International Institute of Biophysics, Cambridge University and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
These experiments are being run at McTaggart's seminars and conferences and on the web, and have produced extraordinary results.
This is not about sending intentions to make a million dollars.
The targets are only philanthropic: healing wounds, helping children with attention deficit or patients with Alzheimer's, counteracting pollution and global warming.
Besides the big Intention Experiments, this web site runs informal Intention of the Week for people or situations with illnesses or problems.
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In the pilot experiment, McTaggart asked a group of 16 meditators based in London to direct their thoughts to four remote targets in Dr. Popp's laboratory in Germany: two types of algae, a plant and a human volunteer.
The meditators were asked to attempt to lower certain measurable biodynamic processes. Popp and his team discovered significant changes in all four targets while the intentions were being sent, compared to times the meditators were 'resting'.
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April 28, 2011 -- Being tall and obese boosts the risk of blood clots, especially in men, according to new research.
Obesity has long been linked with dangerous blood clots in the deep veins, usually in the legs, and with blood clots in the lungs, known as pulmonary embolisms. More recently, experts have found a link with height and cannot thoroughly explain it.
''The present study is the first to investigate the joint effects of obesity and height on the risk of venous clots," says researcher Sigrid Braekkan, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tromso in Norway.
The study is published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association.
''The risk is higher in tall, obese men than in tall, obese women," Braekkan tells WebMD in an email interview. "In men, both body height and weight are associated with increased risk of venous clots. In women, body height is not a risk factor alone. However, when combined with obesity, the risk is higher than for obesity alone."
The combination of height and excess weight ''yields a synergistic increase in risk in both men and women," Braekkan says.
Depending on gender, height, and weight, the risk of these blood clots for tall, obese people was up to more than five times higher than for shorter, normal-weight people, Braekkan and colleagues found.
More than 275,000 people a year are hospitalized in the U.S. with deep vein blood clots or lung clots, the American Heart Association estimates.
Risk of Blood Clots: Short vs. Tall, Obese vs. Not
For the study, the researcher evaluated data from the Tromso study in Norway. It includes periodic health surveys of adults, aged 25 to 97, in the Norwegian town of Tromso.
The researchers gathered height and weight information on 26,714 people. They followed them for a median of 12.5 years (half longer, half less).
During the follow-up time, which ended in 2007, 461 blood clots in the deep veins or lungs occurred.
The researchers compared the risk of short, non-obese men to taller and obese men. For the study, short was defined as a man 5 feet, 7.7 inches or shorter. Normal weight is defined as having a body mass index of BMI of under 25. Obesity is having a BMI of 30 or higher.
Compared to the short, normal-weight men:
- Obese, tall men had a 5.28 times higher risk of clots
- Normal-weight and tall men -- with tall defined as at least 5 feet, 11.7 inches -- had a 2.57 times higher risk
- Obese, short men had a 2.11 times higher risk.
Women were defined as short if they were 5 feet 2.6 inches or less. Normal-weight again was defined as having a BMI below 25; obesity was defined as a BMI of 30 or higher.
Compared to short, normal-weight women:
- Obese, tall women -- anyone more than 5 feet, 6 inches -- had a 2.77 times higher risk of clots
- Obese, short women had a 1.83 times higher risk
- Normal-weight, tall women had no increased risk
Behind the Link
Exactly why the link between height, obesity, and blood clots occurs is not known, Braekkan says. In taller people, the blood must be pumped a longer distance. That may cause reduced blood flow in the legs and raise clot risk.
Obesity is linked with constant low-grade inflammation, and that may make blood more prone to clot, the researchers speculate.
''It may be that tall people have more venous valves," Braekkan says. "Venous clots often originate in the area around a venous valve pocket. Height is to a high degree genetically determined. Though it seems unlikely, it cannot be ruled out that height and unrecognized venous clot risk factors have shared genetics."
Advice for Tall, Obese Men and Women
''The most important [advice] is to stay slim or lose weight when obese," Braekkan says. Doctors should take into account body height and weight when considering a patient's risk for blood clots, Braekkan says.
Ravi Dave, MD, a staff cardiologist at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center & Orthopaedic Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., agrees. A tall, obese person should take extra precautions to avoid blood clots, he tells WebMD. That is especially true, he says, if they are in situations that raise the risk, such as taking a long airplane flight.
"Wear loose clothing, try for an aisle seat, get up and walk around," he says. Smoking also increases the risk, he says.
He reviewed the study findings for WebMD. The risk found for tall, obese men of more than five times, he says, is ''pretty dramatic."
Although the study does not prove cause and effect -- only a link -- the statistics are strong, says Roy Silverstein, MD, chair of cell biology and a hematologist at Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Institute. He also reviewed the study findings for WebMD.
One take-home message, he says, is to lose weight if you are obese, tall or short. "I think it would be a mistake to think if you are short you don't have to worry about obesity [and blood clot risk]," he says.


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georgiedenbro wrote:I just finished a first-time read of The Jesus Incident after having finished a second read-through of D:Void. I have to say it was a bit tough to get through. Stylistically it doesn't have the same feel as a book written entirely by FH, and I also felt it was beating around the bush quite a lot in getting to the theme in its culmination. The mystery of the kelp seemed to be built up so much that towards the end it was almost plainly obvious what the answer would be.
That being said, this book has a lot in common with Dan Simmons' Hyperion series - most notably the last couple of books. Most notably, my hypothesis that FH subscribes to the same esoteric school of thought as Simmons has mostly been validated by TJI. D:Void hinted at the idea that true consciousness is awareness that all of space and time are connected and that distance isn't what we think it is, and TJI more or less states it directly. Empathy seems to be the experience of instantaneous contact with remote lives in this book, much as it was in Simmon's four Hyperion books. I'm rather happy, in the end, to have this model of FH's thought to go on in the future, as I suspect it will elucidate some of the more obscure elements in some of his books (I'm not sure all of then employ this model of physics at the Pandora and Dune series do). It certainly goes a long way towards explaining prescience in Dune, as well as perhaps the BG and Tleilaxu abilities.
Probably a nice link to make in this vein is the strong emphasis on love in the final two Dune novels.


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Hey, Pat Quinn! Here's how to improve the Hockey Hall of Fame
Incoming chairman Pat Quinn (right, with Mats Sundin) will replace Bill Hay (left) on August 1. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Hey, Pat.
Congrats on the new gig! Chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Not bad for a kid from The Hammer.
I'm sure you'll be telling people that you've got some big shoes to fill. Your predecessor, Bill Hay, had a decent run of it since taking the reins in 1999. He oversaw $50 million worth of expansion and renovation to the current Hall location, which is awesome, by the way. I took my kids for their first visit last summer. Not a week goes by without them asking if we can go again this year, so good job, everyone!
Hay also made it easier for women to gain entry to the Hall by setting up a unique category so they wouldn't have to compete with men for votes. Of course, it took him until 2010 to make that happen, but hey, progress is progress, right?
And that's really what I want to talk to you about. Progress. Change has occurred at a fairly glacial pace around the Hall. I think you have a chance to address that.
Now as I understand it, most of your time will be spent shaking hands and shaking people down for funds soliciting donations. Not the most glamorous aspect of the job, but a necessary evil when you're running a massive not-for-profit like the HOF.
I'm guessing it'll be your abilities in that area that will determine how highly you're regarded by the board of directors, so good luck there. But what hockey fans care about is the integrity of the Hall itself.
The thing about you is, you're a leader. A great leader. Change requires great leadership. See where I'm going here? It's time for some serious reform around those parts.
First thing you need to do is increase the number of voters. Currently there are 18, 14 of whom must support a candidate to grant admission to the Hall. That tight gap makes it too easy for a small bloc to prevent someone from gaining admission for any perceived flaw or slight. More to the point, it gets a little too incestuous, too tightly knit. Open it up a bit, decentralize the voting power and get some new blood in there.
What's the right number? I don't know, maybe 25? 50? I'll leave that up to you. You don't want to be like baseball where everybody but the popcorn vendors chime in, but there are experienced voices out there that could contribute to the process. More of them need to be heard.
And when you get around to adding those voices, how about breaking up the old boys club a bit? Yes, the NHL is and always should be the primary focus of the Hall. But it's the Hockey Hall of Fame, not the NHL Hall of Fame. You've allowed women in as honored members. Now how about a couple of women on the selection committee? A few more European voices wouldn't hurt, either, judging by the absence of players like Vladimir Krutov, Sergei Makarov and Sven Tumba in the Great Hall.
And while we're on about members, maybe you could have a talk with the guys about the builders category. I'm sure there's a reason why everyone who's ever been a part-owner of the Calgary Flames is in while legendary coaches like Pat Burns, Fred Shero and Mike Keenan have been snubbed time and again, but it needs to be addressed. And seriously: Don Cherry. It's time.
And then there's the process. It's a little too...Canadian. I get that you want to spare everyone the potential for embarrassment or hurt feelings, but it's 2013. Do we really need to keep the names of the nominees confidential? Same with the voting. A little transparency would go a long way to maintaining the integrity of the institution.
I'm not too crazy about the one member-one nomination rule, either, or the four-player maximum rule. If Martin Brodeur, Jaromir Jagr, Teemu Selanne, Daniel Alfredsson and Jarome Iginla all decided to retire this summer, is it reasonable that one of them has to wait a year to get that spiffy jacket? Of course not. Honor the players who belong, when they belong.
Speaking of that, it might be worth easing up on the "we'll get around to you eventually" honorees like Mark Howe, Dino Cicarelli and Dick Duff, among others. If a player doesn't pass muster in the first year or two, there's probably a good reason for it. You want to create a Veteran's Committee to re-examine the accomplishments of players, say, 25 years after their retirement, that'd be great. Time has a way of altering perspectives that could prove valuable. But inducting guys like these five or 10 years after they became eligible feels more like a political gesture than an honor. And that kind of cheapens the whole affair.
Look, I know it's not an easy job, and everyone has different opinions about who does and doesn't belong in the Hall. Reforming the selection process will require bold leadership. And that's why you're the man for the job, Pat.


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I must admit that the following question is one that I don't have a very good answer to. However, I'll offer what I know and hopefully the readers of the site can also chime in with their thoughts in the comments of this post. This question was posted in the comments of my previous EMR Stimulus question and answer post.
Can you help out another reader with a pressing question? Where can I find a good listing of EHRs for dentists? I'm looking specifically for ONC certified products that cater to dental practices and I'm coming up short so far. I know that DDS/DMDs can qualify for incentives under ARRA and they'll be dinged on the Medicare side if they don't use EHRs, but how are they supposed to comply if the software's not out there for them? I've talked to several vendors with ONC certification who basically said they're ignoring dentists in their outreach/software development (due to the larger potential market for internal medicine/general practice, the specialization required for dental systems, etc). A lot of dentists have PMS that they mistakenly believe are full EHRs, but it seems like there is a huge market out there for dental EHRs that is being ignored.
There was some discussion in the comments of the post where the above questions and comments were posted about whether Dentists do in fact qualify for EMR stimulus incentives. My understanding was that they could qualify. This of course assumes that they have enough Medicare and they were meaningful users of a certified EHR (as with everyone else). Although, I believe dentists are considered eligible providers (I'm sure someone will correct me in the comments if I'm wrong).
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any EHR list by ONC or anyone else for that matter that has EHR software for dentists. Of course, I posted a link to the official ONC-ATCB certified EHR list before. So, watching that list might be the place to start. Although, that list is going to grow between now and the end of the year quite quickly. I won't be surprised if that list is at least double or triple the size that it is now.
I must admit that I don't know many of the dentist specific EHR, so I couldn't go through the list to find the EHR software that is a certified EHR for dentists. If someone else does and wants to share it in the comments, I'll post that list for others to see too.
I have heard of one dentistry software called Dentrix. I asked my friend who does some work with them about their take on the EHR stimulus money for dentists. He said that he's asked for more info himself and the only answer he gets is that they need to talk to Dentrix Enterprise. I guess they have multiple versions of their software. Sounds like they are a bit like Allscripts with a ton of different EHR packages depending on size of the office. Unfortunately, Dentrix didn't answer mine (and others) request on Twitter for information about the EHR stimulus for dentists.
One thing is certain. Dentists that try for the EHR stimulus money will likely be happy to evoke the exception clause for some of the meaningful use requirements that don't apply to them.


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I just read a story titled Can a CISO Serve Jail Time? Having been Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Mandiant prior to the FireEye acquisition, I thought I would share my thoughts on this question.
In brief, being a CISO or CSO is a tough job. Attempts to criminalize CSOs would destroy the profession.
Security is one of the few roles where global, distributed opponents routinely conduct criminal acts against business operations. Depending on the enterprise, the offenders could be nation state adversaries largely beyond the reach of any party, to include the nation state hosting the enterprise. Even criminal adversaries can remain largely untouchable.
I cannot think of another business function that suffers similar disadvantages. If a commercial competitor took actions against a business using predatory pricing, or via other illegal business measures, the state would investigate and possibly prosecute the offending competitor. For actions across national boundaries, one might see issues raised at the World Trade Organization (WTO), assuming the two hosting countries are WTO members.
These pressures are different from those faced by other elements of the business. When trying to hire and retain staff, human resources doesn't face off against criminals. When trying to close a deal, sales people don't compete with military hackers. (The exception might be transactions involving Chinese or Russian companies,) When creating a brand campaign, marketing people might have to worry about negative attention from hacktivists, but if the foe crosses a line the state might prosecute the offender.
The sad reality is that no organization can prevent all intrusions. The best outcome is to prevent as many intrusions as possible, and react quickly and effectively to those compromises that occur. As long as the security team contains and removes the intruder before he can accomplish his mission, the organization wins.
We will continue to see organizations fined for poor security practices. The Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Communications Commission are all very active in the digital security arena. If prosecutors seek jail time for CSOs who suffer compromises, I would expect CSOs will leave their jobs. They already face an unfair fight. We don't need to add the threat of jail time to the list of problems confronting security staff.
Monday, November 17, 2014
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Monday, November 10, 2014
Thank You for the Review and Inclusion in Cybersecurity Canon
a list of must-read books where the content is timeless, genuinely represents an aspect of the community that is true and precise and that, if not read, leaves a hole in a cybersecurity professional's education that will make the practitioner incomplete.
The Canon candidates include both fiction and nonfiction, and for a book to make it into the canon, must accurately depict the history of the cybercrime community, characterize key places or significant milestones in the community, or precisely describe technical details that do not exaggerate the craft.
It looks like my book is only the second technical book to be included. The first appears to be the CERT Guide to Insider Threats.
The Practice of Network Security Monitoring (PNSM). It is clear Rick spent a lot of time reading the book and digesting the contents. Even the post headings, such as "Network Security Monitoring Is More Than Just a Set Of Tools," "Operate Like You Are Compromised: Kill Chain Analysis," "Network Security Monitoring as a Decision Tool, Not a Reaction Process," "Incident Response and Threat Intelligence Go Together," and so on communicate key themes in my book.
With his background at the Army CERT, Counterpane, and iDefense, it's clear Rick converted his experiences defending significant networks into a worldview that resonates with that in PNSM.
Rick also emphasizes one of the goals of the book, which is to get anyone started on the road to network instrumentation. I wrote the book, and teach a class -- Black Hat, 8-9 December, near DC -- for this very purpose.
I wanted to add a bit more detail to the last section of the blog for the benefit of those who have not yet read PNSM. Rick mentions some of the tools incorporated in Security Onion, but I wanted to be sure readers understand the full spectrum of SO capabilities. I captured that in Figure 6-1, reproduced below.
If you would like a copy of PNSM, consider buying from the No Starch Web site, using discount code NSM101 to save 30%. One benefit over buying from the publisher is getting the digital and print editions in a bundle.
Thank you again to Rick Howard and Palo Alto Networks for including PNSM in the Cybersecurity Canon.
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Seek Holiness Before Seeking a Spouse
Single Life column by Catholic singer-songwriter Jackie Francois: From our July 29 issue
I really enjoy being single — until someone tells me they want me to date their kin in order for me to bring them back to the Church.
Sometimes I want to respond with, "Hey lady, I don't flirt to convert!"
It seems, though, that God has granted me the gift of slow wit in the most inopportune times.
When people find out I'm single, they either 1) try to set me up (either with another supposedly pitiful single person or with a convent), 2) tell me how lucky I am to be avoiding marriage or 3) assume I have an incurable disease.
I don't mind the setter-uppers; they mean well and often want me to enjoy the same bliss they have experienced in their vocation. The jaded marriage-avoiders are another bunch, though. Many times they pressure me to live the pleasures of intimacy without the levels of commitment. They especially flip out when I tell them that I'm a 28-year-old virgin striving to live a life of chastity, because, as they tell me, I "have missed out on life." The "incurable diseasers" who condescendingly ask, "Why aren't you married, yet?!" figure that if I'm still single in my late 20s, there must be something wrong with me.
Regardless of these assumptions and reactions, I have never felt more joy or peace in my life than I feel now in the midst of my young-adult single life.
Truthfully, it has taken me years of faith, humility and dating to get to a place where I know that God alone satisfies the yearnings of my heart to love and be loved. God alone is the one for whom my heart longs.
Even though I would like to get married someday, God is the one who I want more than anything. If God called me to give up a husband or family for the sake of the Kingdom, I would.
When there are days that I begin to idolize marriage as the ultimate fulfillment of this life, I remind myself of my God-directed priorities.
If I died tomorrow, would I be happy? Of course! I would be so excited to be with the One whom my heart loves (especially after an excruciatingly purifying time in purgatory, I'm sure).
Obviously, I am not perfect and am still learning how to navigate my way through single life, figuring out how to date properly, wanting the best for others (even if it means being rejected), and practicing what I preach — all the while trying to draw closer to the heart of God in the busyness of everyday life.
My hope for single people who are discerning is that they seek holiness before seeking a spouse, knowing that Jesus the Bridegroom gives a peace and joy that no person on this earth could ever give.
I hope that they practice enjoying the present, since every state of life brings with it trials and sacrifices that train us in virtue and prepare us for heaven.
Lastly, I hope they become witnesses to a twisted culture that scoffs at virtues like purity, chastity, modesty and self-control (see Philippians 2:13-14). Our world surely needs that bold witness.
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LOS ANGELES, April 14 (UPI) -- The voices of U.S. actors Sean Astin, Giovanni Ribisi and Anjelica Huston will be featured in the animated fairy tale "Spirit of the Forest," producers say.
Astin and Ribisi are to play gophers whose home is imperiled when an evil businesswoman (Huston) plans to demolish their forest to construct a highway, the Hollywood Reporter said.
"In 'Lord of the Rings,' my favorite element in the story was the Ents, these massive trees getting cut down that fought for their own survival; in 'Spirit,' the trees also come to life," Astin told the trade paper, noting the environmental message in both films. "It's another way of telling a story that needs to continue to be told. Progress comes at a price."
Astin has starred in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, as well as the films "The Goonies" and "Rudy."
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Hello everyone!
So I'm just at a wall right now. I'm a very very beginner java programmer. I currently have to write a program that displays a table. The user will enter the base number, then the maximum exponent. It will then be displayed like so:
Enter the base: 2
Enter the maximum exponent: 7
The base is 2 and the maximum exponent is 7.
Powers of 2
x 2^x
0 1
1 2
2 4
3 8
4 16
5 32
6 64
7 128
I have to use for loops.
If someone could explain a loop that can carry out this function, then it would be greatly greatly appreciated.
I can post what I currently have in order to see I am making an effort (Although the for loops are way way off.) I am not on here to ask for straight answers, but to instead build onto my knowledge of Java. Any help is appreciated and thank you very much in advance!
Here's my code: (Totally lost)
import java.util.*; public class Practice { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in); int b = kb.nextInt(); int y = kb.nextInt(); int result = b ^ y; for(result = 1; result <= y; result = result * b){ System.out.print("\t " + result); System.out.print("\n"); } } }


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Life lessons: Robert Karlsson
The Swedish professional golfer shares his life's wisdom
Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper's Bazaar.
Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group. She writes a beauty blog www.beautyorbeast.uk.
Her third novel, The Arnolfini Marriage, based on a romance that evolves around a van Eyck masterpiece came out in 2016. As well as contributing regularly for newspapers and magazines, writing short stories and studying for a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge, Helena is also working on a thriller called Welcome to Smullö that will be published in spring 2020.
Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don't Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and came out in paperback in April 2018.
Helena was educated at Durham University and lived in the Languedoc region of France for eight years, where the family still have a home. She lives between there and London with her husband Rupert and their three children.
More France Please, we're British; Gibson Square 2004
Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)
All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006
Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007
So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)
More, More France; Gibson Square 2009
To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)
The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009
Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011
The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013
Smart Women Don't Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016
The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016
Smart Women Don't Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018
The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019


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Residents rally for change in gun control
Friday marks six months since Newtown shootings, people asking for change
It has been six months since the Newtown, Conn., shooting massacre that left 28 dead. To mark the time that has passed, gun control advocates Friday protested Congress' inaction on the issue.
Some stood outside Congressman Scott Perry's office in Wormleysburg, Cumberland County, Friday. They're trying to press Perry to support a gun background-check bill in the house. It's similar to one that failed in the Senate.
"Gun sales are going through the roof. People are afraid people are going to take their guns away. I'm more afraid about people taking their lives," said Mary Ann Tatara of East Pennsboro Township.
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Rival Angels - Rookie Year Volume 3
Rival Angels follows the story of Sabrina Ultragirl Mancini and her threeroommates in the fight of their lives as they battle against the best wrestlersin the world. As Sabrina begins her career she finds the road alreadyfull of personal and professional rivalries to contend with.
Rookie Year! Volume 3: 152-pages
This is the story about four girls who battle for survival in the ring of women's wrestling, only for them to discover that surviving their battles with each other outside the ring is a completely different matter.
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I have two books geared toward learning JSP. From what I've read, one motivating feature/benefit is that it is easier for web designers (they apparently don't, as a rule, know Java) to work with dynamic pages via EL/JSTL.
From what I've seen so far, learning EL/JSTL requires a basic understanding of Java. I have yet to see an example that doesn't have a Java class to reference. Since that is what I've seen, I wonder if someone can tell me that this is true or not.
To make the question clear: Do web designers have to get a grasp, on a very basic level, of how a Java class works (e.g. fields, setters, getters, args, constructors...)?
This question is really meant to help me decide whether or not to ask another question; it is a qualifier.


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In his remarks Wednesday at the opening of Pershing's Insite 2013 conference in south Florida, Chairman Brian Shea welcomed the 1,400 attendees by providing some disappointing news and some good news.
The disappointing news was that keynote speaker Hillary Rodham Clinton would not be appearing, since she was eulogizing the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., at his funeral (the replacement speaker for Thursday would be another former Cabinet member, ex-Defense Secretary and CIA chief Robert Gates). The good news for advisors and broker-dealers who work with Pershing is that in his expanded role with Pershing's parent, Shea is committed to "unlocking the value of all of BNY Mellon to all of you in this room."
Shea began by considering the state of BNY Mellon—"It remains very strong"—mentioning that not only has the bank performed well in the Treasury Department's stress tests, but also that those tests revealed that BNY Mellon would remain profitable even under the most stressful conditions.
"That should give you confidence," he told attendees of Pershing's 15th annual Insite conference, "that you've chosen the right partner." As evidence of the parent company's commitment, Shea said that BNY Mellon invests $2 billion annually in technology, with "a large chunk" of that going to Pershing, "which serves you."
Shea is now chairman of Pershing, but he is also taking on additional responsibilities at BNY Mellon domestically and globally. Longtime Pershing executive Ron DeCicco is now CEO of Pershing, and replacing him as COO is Lisa Dolly, another veteran Pershing executive (more about this in a future blog).
Among the key solutions that Pershing now makes available to RIAs and broker-dealers, Shea highlighted the combination last year of Lockwood and BNY Investment Management, which provides more heft and choice to advisors in the separately managed account space, and the move in May 2013 to combine Pershing Advisor Solutions' brokerage custodial offerings with BNY Mellon's bank custody operations.
In a presentation Wednesday following Shea's welcoming comments, PAS CEO Mark Tibergien said the combined offering—"one solution with a common service charge"—adds "a layer of efficiency for advisors," since some 15% of all advisor assets are currently held at a bank custodian for various reasons. Bank custody is often preferred, he said, for trusts, foundations and the holdings of multigenerational families, many of whom perceive bank custody to be safer.


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Air pollution is one of the grand environmental challenges in developing countries, especially those with high population density like China. High concentrations of primary and secondary trace gases and particulate matter (PM) are frequently observed in the industrialized and urbanized regions, causing negative effects on the health of humans, plants, and the ecosystem.
Meteorological conditions are among the most important factors influencing day-to-day air quality. Synoptic weather and boundary layer dynamics control the dispersion capacity and transport of air pollutants, while the main meteorological parameters, such as air temperature, radiation, and relative humidity, influence the chemical transformation of secondary air pollutants at the same time. Intense air pollution, especially high concentration of radiatively important aerosols, can substantially influence meteorological parameters, boundary layer dynamics, synoptic weather, and even regional climate through their strong radiative effects.
As one of the main monsoon regions, with the most intense human activities in the world, East Asia is a region experiencing complex air pollution, with sources from anthropogenic fossil fuel combustion, biomass burning, dust storms, and biogenic emissions. A mixture of these different plumes can cause substantial two-way interactions and feedbacks in the formation of air pollutants under various weather conditions. Improving the understanding of such interactions needs more field measurements using integrated multiprocess measurement platforms, as well as more efforts in developing numerical models, especially for those with online coupled processes. All these efforts are very important for policymaking from the perspectives of environmental protection and mitigation of climate change.
Keywords: air pollution, synoptic weather, climate change, meteorological processes, feedbacks, aerosols, planetary boundary layer, East Asia
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Tax incentives and/or other incentives for drivers of electric vehicles in Silverdale.
The AFV Program offers rebates to assist eligible residents with the incremental cost of the purchase or lease of new AFVs, including all-electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, electric motorcycles, and propane vehicles. Eligible FCEVs must have a total purchase price not exceeding $75,000, and all other eligible AFVs must have a total purchase price not exceeding $50,000. Beginning March 1, 2020, rebates are available in the following amounts:
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An additional rebate of $1,000 is available for all vehicles if an applicant meets the low-income requirement, as defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Applications much be received within six months of vehicle purchase. Rebates will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including forms and detailed requirements and restrictions, see the AFV Rebates website.
(Reference Title 73 Pennsylvania Statutes, Chapter 18E, Section 1647.3)
PECO provides rebates of $50 to residential customers who purchase a new, qualified PEV. For more information, see the PECO Driver Rebate website.
Conventional original equipment manufacturer passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks may be converted to operate on alternative fuels as a dedicated or bi-fuel AFV. Vehicles altered to operate on propane, natural gas, methane, ethanol, or electricity are classified as aftermarket AFV conversions. All vehicle conversions must meet current applicable U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or California Air Resources Board standards for aftermarket conversions. (Reference Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Policy on Clean Alternative Fuel Conversion Systems)
A low-speed vehicle is defined as a four-wheeled electric vehicle that has a maximum speed greater than 20 miles per hour (mph) but not more than 25 mph. All vehicles must comply with the safety standards established in Title 49 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, section 571.500. Drivers must maintain a defined level of insurance coverage for all registered vehicles. (Reference Title 75 Pennsylvania Statutes Part I, Chapter 1, Section 102 and Part II, Chapter 17, Subchapter H, Section 1788)
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection offers competitive grants for the replacement or repower of Class 8 local freight trucks and transit buses. Model Years (MY) 1992 through 2009 local freight trucks and MY 2009 and older transit buses will be eligible for replacement or repower with new diesel, electric, or alternative fuel vehicles or technologies. Grant reimbursements are available in the following amounts:
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Vehicles or engines being replaced or repowered must be scrapped in accordance with program guidelines. This grant program is funded by Pennsylvania's portion of the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust. For more information, including program guidelines, grant amounts, and application periods, see the Driving Pennsylvania Forward website.
DLC offers a one-time bill credit of $60 to residential customers who purchase or lease a PEV. For more information, including how to apply, see the DLC Electric Vehicles website.
FirstEnergy residential customers can lease a Level 2 EVSE for a monthly rate for three years. Included in the lease is the installation of the EVSE and a repair or replacement guarantee for the life of the agreement. For more information, including terms and conditions, see the FirstEnergy Electric Vehicle Charger Lease website.
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English: Seven Senses of the ReunionJapanese: 七星のスバル
Type: TVEpisodes: UnknownStatus: Currently AiringAired: Jul 6, 2018 to ?Premiered: Summer 2018Genres: Action, Fantasy, Game, Sci-FiDuration: UnknownRating: None
There was once a legendary party named Subaru in the globally popular MMORPG Union. The group was made of elementary school friends. They earned fame in the blink of an eye for their unparalleled abilities in the Sense system at the core of the game. However, there was an incident where a player passed away inside the game. As a result of the death, Union ended service. Six years pass. Haruto Amou, who was a key member of Subaru, has become a hopeless high school student. His personality has changed, and he has no friends or ambition. A classmate gets him to log in to the new Re'Union game, and he ends up having a "reunion" that is hard to believe. He meets his former in-game partner and real-world childhood friend Asahi Kuga. The girl who was supposed to have died six years ago was there. Haruto can't believe his eyes. He thinks he must be ill or Asahi must be a system error or bug. Yet, she really seems to be there in the game. A new legend begins after the pair's reunion.


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Governor tours Boscobel flood damage
Hundreds of homes damaged by heavy rain
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker is touring flood damage in southwestern Wisconsin where hundreds of homes have been damaged by heavy rain.
Walker is taking a driving tour of flooded areas in and around Boscobel with Wisconsin Emergency Management and local officials Wednesday afternoon.
The National Weather Service said that since Friday, Boscobel has received more than a foot of rain. Storms with heavy rain continued to pound south central Wisconsin Wednesday, closing roads, stranding cars and flooding basements.
Forecasters say 2 to 4 inches of rain fell early Wednesday from Sun Prairie to Sauk City, closing Highway 23 in Loganville.


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The Obama administration is proposing an updated blueprint for Great Lakes environmental restoration that puts greater emphasis on climate change and using science to select projects and measure their effectiveness.
Congress has appropriated roughly $1.6 billion for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, with the first installment in 2010. The administration is proposing to extend the program another five years.
The initiative is designed to accelerate progress toward dealing with the freshwater seas� most pressing environmental threats, including toxic pollution, invasive species, loss of wildlife habitat and runoff that causes toxic and nuisance algae blooms.
A task force including 11 federal agencies and led by the Environmental Protection Agency released a draft of the updated plan Friday for public review. A final version is scheduled for adoption by Oct. 1.


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1. There is no normal.
When I was pregnant it seemed as if I was wearing a huge sign that said, "Please tell me all about your personal experiences with having a baby." This happened to me constantly! Whether I was at work, church, the grocery store, or a public bathroom, there was always a woman ready to tell me her childbirth story. I didn't mind hearing these in some ways because it helped me realize that _everyone _is different. Some women have short labors, while some are in labor for days. Some women have their children at home and others in a hospital. The variations go on forever. When you start into your labor, or even further along into the pushing stage, be ready for anything and plan on anything happening. If anyone tells you what's normal and what's not, here is my advice to remember: there is no normal!
2. You need to push like you're…
I am going to come right out and say it: you need to push like you're pooping. This was shared with my husband and I in our Lamaze class and guess what? It's true! When you begin pushing keep in mind the same effort that goes into having a bowel movement and you will find your efforts paying off. Another bit of advice that was given to me during the pushing phase was to not fear pushing. It was great advice because after hearing that I was able to let go of my inhibitions and use all of my strength.
3. There will be swelling.
This might sound like an obvious thing to share, but to honest I was not prepared for how swollen your vagina can become. Please note that there will be swelling and things will not look normal down there. To help with all of the swelling make sure and use ice as much as you can for the first 24 hours. The nurses in the hospitals have excellent solutions for this, too! My nurse stuffed an infant diaper with crushed ice for me to use and it was heavenly! An extra tip: bring along some cheap cotton undies in the next size up. These will give you room to breathe and will feel much more comfortable than your usual snazzy pair.
4. You might feel better than you anticipate.
I kept thinking that labor and delivery was going to leave me utterly exhausted and worn out. For the most part I was tired afterwards, but was able to get up and walk around very soon after my son was born. In fact, it felt great to get cleaned up and put on my own nightgown from home. I ate a nice meal and a lovely chocolate brownie. I felt human again.
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The Twitterverse exploded in a ball of snark and outrage in early June when Edward Snowden leaked the news that the National Security Agency was collecting vast piles of data on ordinary Americans' phone and Internet use. Later, tweeters threw a tantrum over Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's announcement that the Fed would wind down its quantitative easing program.
Meanwhile, the MSCI cut Greece's index from developed to emerging-market status, and gold bugs got jittery.
Here are 15 of the best finance tweets of the month:
On general economic topics:
For past 12 mo, the amount of $ flowing into funds with "Income" in their name is 3X larger than funds without "Income" in their names.
— Russ Kinnel (@RussKinnel) June 5, 2013
"US stocks seemingly go up everyday while EM stocks couldn't find a bottom in a Sir Mix-A-Lot video." http://t.co/aOGcRJErcE
— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) June 30, 2013
On Greece's downgrade to emerging-market status:
Greece is first advanced economy cut to emerging market status by MSCI. You can call that an upgrade…
— Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) June 13, 2013
Greeks inventing democracy appears to be a lot like the English inventing football. Bloody useless at it now.
— Pawe Morski (@Pawelmorski) June 20, 2013
On the NSA surveillance programs:
They're saying Snowden joined Booz Allen just to infiltrate and expose the NSA. Probably what Tebow's up to in the Patriots organization.
— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) June 24, 2013
The NSA should just fund the government by selling targeted ads based on all the data it mines.
— John Carney (@carney) June 7, 2013
.@MilenaRodban @CrispinBurke basically the government is trying to declare the entire Internet their property and that is a serious problem.
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) June 14, 2013
We don't need Google Reader anymore. I hear the NSA is going to open up an Everything Reader.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) June 30, 2013
On the Fed's announcement that it may soon slow its bond buying:
There is a risk the #Fed is in La La Land. I hope I'm wrong, but while Fed hopes, I can't base investment decisions on hope. #gold
— Axel Merk (@AxelMerk) June 19, 2013
#FOMC #Bernanke says unemployment to fall to 6.5% by end of 2014. That is $1.53 trillion more #QE3 which equals $90,000 per job!! #insane
— Mark Jasayko, CFA (@McIverWealth) June 19, 2013
You'd think a guy who couldn't even see the housing bubble would be a little more circumspect about his new forecasts. #bernanke #fomc #fed
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) June 19, 2013
Grow up, people. It's time to stop blaming Bernanke for your losses. http://t.co/sG1xnVcvxW via @BloombergView
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) June 27, 2013
Fed drug dealer may visit markets while in QE rehab. Fed Stimulus to Persist After QE Taper? http://t.co/6ArbfSENEh
— Andrew Wang (@RunnymedeCap) June 25, 2013
On gold:
Gold bugs strangely silent and quiet. They must be eating crow…
— Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) June 26, 2013
Gold is a barbarous rock It doesn't compete well with stock An ugly tradition A form of sedition Demand for it leaves us in shock
— The Limerick King (@TheLimerickKing) June 21, 2013
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Two teenagers find themselves in less then magical adventure when a young man with a cat show up at his door. Now all of a sudden Rade and Crimp are caught up in a quest for a magical pipe that can grant a wish to anyone who asks. The closer they get to the Pipe, the darker and more entangled things become. What starts as a grand adventure, only seems to lead to Bad Luck. Updates weekly!


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We truly come alive on Midsummers, we love our country, our traditions, the weather and the people around us. This is the day the swedes act unswedish.
My fiancé Andrew & sis-in-law Emily
This Midsummer was also my sister in laws first ever, seeing as she and my finacé are from Australia she had never celebrated midsummers before. The day started at home, we got all our food ready. Marinated the soyfillets and mushrooms, made the cake, packed all the things we would need for the day and left to go to my parents house. There me and my sister in law picked birch tree branches and flowers to make ourselves a traditional hair-wreath (a krans), to keep in our hair all day. Then we all left for a traditional Midsummer celebration with tons of other celebrating people, we saw the maypole getting decorated and raised, the old music played by a man on a accordion and sung by another, people dancing with their families and more people having picknics on blankets in the grass. This is true swedish summer!
We also looked at the old house on the homestead/ folk museum and after that went to my aunt and uncles summer house for a nice midsummers with the family. There we had some fika, cooked a nice bbq dinner and had the strawberry cream cake for dessert. Leaving us all feeling very full.
After the cake me and my sister in law went to the forrest so she could pick herself seven different varieties of wild flowers. There is this old swedish tradition, that if a single woman picks seven flowers and then sleeps with them under her pillow, she will dream of the man she is to marry. So that is what we did. After the flower picking we were on our way home. On the drive home the people in the car screams I have to stop, there was a moose in the forest next to us. My sister in law was on cloud 9, she has been wanting to see a moose for a while and there it was. Standing still just a few meters away, just staring at us and then turning around and running further into the woods until he wasn't visible any longer.
So the recipe from this midsummers is Strawberry Cream Cake, YUM!
You Will Need:
For the sponge base (for a tall cake bake two batches of this):
- 50-75 grams (≈ 0.5 stick of margarine/ 5 1/4 tbs) Dairy Free Margarine (melted)
- Egg Replacer (I use Orgran "No Egg") equal to 2-3 eggs
- 2 dl (0.8 cup) White Sugar
- 3 dl (1 1/4 cups) Plain Flour
- 3 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 tsp Vanilla Powder (or essence)
- 1 dl (0.4 cup) Vegan Milk or Water
- Start with baking the sponge base by mixing all the dry ingredients in a bowl and then adding the melted margarine, milk or water and the egg replacer (mixed according to the packet). Mix with a beater until smooth.
- Grease and bread crumb a round baking tin. Pour in the batter.
- Bake the cake at 200C / 390F for 40-50min in the lower part of the oven. Leave to completely cool down, over night or from morning to night is good.
Filling/ Topping:
- 4-5 servings of Vegan Vanilla Custard (I use a powder/cooking one called Ekströms "Marsán" and mix with vegan milk option)
- 2-3 ripe Bananas
- 2-3 boxes of Vegan Whip Cream (I use GoGreen "Visp") Mixed with a sprinkle of vanilla powder and sugar.
- Lots of Strawberries
- If you are using the cooking custard make it and leave it to completely cool down before using.
- Cut the cake so you have three layers of sponge.
- On one layer you spread half of the custard and top with sliced banana.
- Place another sponge layer and then top that with the rest of the custard and either sliced or mashed up strawberries.
- Place the lid layer and cover the entire cake with a good layer of cream. The cream is best whipped cold from the fridge. (If the cake isn't to be eaten right away store it un decorated in the fridge)
- Then decorate the top with strawberries. You can dust with icing sugar if desired, but remember to decorate the cake just before serving it. If not the strawberries can bleed and make the white whip cream around the strawberries pink.
Our hair-wreaths
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Igloo Choir Rehearsal
June 2, 2018 @ 13:30 - 17:30
We sing a variety of upbeat acoustic pop and heartfelt ballads, and have started recording this year.
No previous experience is necessary at all. You need bring nothing more than your life experience, and willingness to join in. When you are new, you will be supported by other singers in your section, and invited to additional rehearsals as needed.


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Release date: 28 September 1976
Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) Disc 1: Love's in Need of Love Today / Have a Talk with God / Village Ghetto Land / Contusion / Sir Duke (4/2/77, #1 US, #2 UK, #1 RB, #3 AC) / I Wish (12/4/76, #1 US, #5 UK, #1 RB, #23 AC) / Knocks Me Off My Feet / Pastime Paradise / Summer Soft / Ordinary Pain
Disc 2: Isn't She Lovely (1/8/77, #23 AC) / Joy Inside My Tears / Black Man / Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing / If It's Magic / As (11/5/77, #36 US, #36 RB, #24 AC) / Another Star (8/27/77, #32 US, #29 UK, #18 RB, #29 AC)
EP: Saturn / Ebony Eyes / All Day Sucker / Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)
Sales (in millions): 5.0 * US, 0.3 UK, 11.0 world (includes US and UK)
* Because this is a double album, the RIAA certifies it as having sales of 10 million.
Peak: 114 US, 2 UK
Review: Thanks to a boatload of Grammys and a slew of hits in the early 1970s, Motown renewed Stevie Wonder's contract to the tune of an unprecedented $13 million sum. Then two years went by – "an eternity in R&B." TL However, he spent that time working relentlessly, sometimes logging 48-hour sessions. NRR The resulting album proved well worth it; it "featured more true classics than even most great artists write in a lifetime." TL
Originally packaged as a double album plus an EP, Songs in the Key of Life, was "Wonder's longest, most ambitious collection of songs." AMG It "is a Grand Artistic Statement, meant to demonstrate Wonder's ability to entertain just about any audience he chooses." EK It is "like stumbling into a cave full of treasure" JM and not knowing "which piece of gold to stuff into [one's] pocket first." JM It "touched on nearly every issue under the sun, and did it all with ambitious (even for him), wide-ranging arrangements and some of the best performances of Wonder's career." AMG
Isn't She Lovely
However, as is generally true of double albums, one can "argue what can get cut to make a lean, mean single album. Songs in the Key of Life could almost be gotten down to fighting weight just by cutting tracks off when they start to drag. Do we need three minutes of baby noises on Isn't She Lovely," EK an otherwise lovely celebration of the love for a newborn child? How about "the two-part, smooth-and-rough Ordinary Pain" AMG where "the second half…sounds like a completely different song?" EK The album showcases "all of Wonder's most endearing characteristics – intricate and inventive arrangements, the sheer joy of music-making – and all of his most aggravating (mawkishness, a less-than-industrious approach to his lyrics) in one package." EK "Stevie seems to be vacillating between pure genius and only-slightly-inspired mediocrity—sometimes within the same song." JM "It's like one of those giant novelty sundaes that's free if you can finish it in one sitting. Delicious, but in the end a bit much." EK It might be necessary to try "skipping by the schmaltzy, whip-creamed tracks and focusing on the funk and jazz fusion-driven scoops of goodness." JM
One long track which holds up well is As, "which builds perfectly over the course of its seven minutes, thanks in large part to one of the most memorable choruses Stevie Wonder ever wrote (which is seriously freakin' saying something)." EK It "could have/should have been the 'Hey Jude' of the 1970s." EK
Sir Duke
Among highlights are "the torrid fusion jam Contusion" AMG and Sir Duke, "a big, brassy hit tribute to the recently departed Duke Ellington." AMG It "is not only a delight, but it also something of a statement of purpose for Wonder. It's telling that he name-checks Basie, Miller, Armstrong, Ellington, and Fitzgerald over, say, Mingus or Miles." EK "The bumping poem to his childhood, I Wish," AMG is "one of the most joyous of Stevie's singles…[which is] really saying something." EK
I Wish
While not organized as such, Songs in the Key of Life "contains nearly a full album on love and relationships, along with another full album on issues social and spiritual. Fans of the love album Talking Book can marvel that he sets the bar even higher here, with brilliant material like the tenderly cathartic and gloriously redemptive Joy Inside My Tears, …the bitterly ironic All Day Sucker, or another classic heartbreaker, Summer Soft." AMG
"Those inclined toward Stevie Wonder the social-issues artist had quite a few songs to focus on as well: Black Man was a Bicentennial school lesson on remembering the vastly different people who helped build America." AMG This "eight-minute tour of Stevie's prowess as a musician and a lyricist" JM has been called "the apex of the album," JM but can also be an example of excess. It "starts out great – positive message, bubbling funk, nice flourishes throughout. But as those teachers go on hectoring those poor students (which, by the way, flies in the face of all known pedagogical theories), [one] can't help wishing they would just knock it off already." EK
Pastime Paradise
"Pastime Paradise examined the plight of those who live in the past and have little hope for the future." AMG It became the basis for Coolio's smash rip hit, "Gangsta's Paradise," nearly two decades later. Village Ghetto Land is "a fierce exposé of ghetto neglect set to a satirical baroque synthesizer" AMG while "Saturn found Stevie questioning his kinship with the rest of humanity and amusingly imagining paradise as a residency on a distant planet." AMG
"If all this sounds overwhelming, it is; Stevie Wonder had talent to spare during the mid-'70s, and instead of letting the reserve trickle out during the rest of the decade, he let it all go with one massive burst. (His only subsequent record of the '70s was the similarly gargantuan but largely instrumental soundtrack Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants)." AMG
"Songs in the Key of Life was a powerhouse – a rare moment when a master was faced with a new level of pressure, and responded by taking his game to new heights." TL
Resources and Related Links:
- Stevie Wonder's DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- album page on DMDB website (even more in-depth look at album)
- AMG All Music Guide review by John Bush
- EK Eric Klinger Counterbalance series at PopMatters.com
- JM Jason Mendelsohn Counterbalance series at PopMatters.com
- NRR National Recording Registry
- TL Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Albums by Josh Tyrangiel and Alan Light (11/13/06).


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Cause of massive Leominster blaze may remain mystery
Former Columbia Hotel collapses during 6-alarm fire Saturday
Two firefighters were injured battling a six-alarm fire on Main Street in downtown Leominster when the rear of the building collapsed Saturday night.
Officials said with the collapse, they may never know for sure what caused the fire.
Fire Chief Robert Sidleau said the firefighters who were injured were in a bucket on a ladder truck when a wall collapsed on them. The firefighters, from the nearby Westminster department, were treated at Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster for non-life threatening injuries and released.
Images: Historic building destroyed in 6-alarm blaze
The fast-moving fire destroyed the former Columbia Hotel at 65 Main St. The building was built in 1900, according to the city's assessor's office.
Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella said the owners had invested a lot of time and money to restore the building.
"This is a staple, and the owners spent just incredible amounts of resources to restore this building. There was a beautiful ballroom that was up in the back of the building, and they restored it to its origin," Mazzarella said.
He commended the firefighters who worked tirelessly to get the blaze under control.
"They did everything they could to save the building," Mazzarella said. "Unfortunately, it looks like the building is going have to come down."
More than thirty people lived in apartments in the building including two Leominster police officers.
"The fire this Saturday evening at the Columbia Building left many Leominster residents without homes and the loss of most of their personal effects," said Chief of Police Bob Healey on the department's Facebook page. "The building and most of its contents were a total loss."
Eight businesses were also lost in the fire, which required 100 firefighters from Leominster and surrounding communities to fight it. Authorities said the blaze was the largest they have seen in more than 100 years.
Sidleau said all residents made it out of the building safely.
At 11:18 p.m., fire department radio broadcasts reported a "major collapse" in the rear of the building that injured the firefighters.
The Sentinel & Enterprise's Leominster bureau is located in the first floor of the building. No one was working that late on Saturday, the newspaper said.
Diane Gariepy who worked in an art shop said everything inside is gone due to water damage.
"I was devastated. It's so much beautiful artwork gone. There are some unbelievable, fantastically trained artists in there, and their artwork is gone," Gariepy said.
The State Fire Marshal's Office is working to determine the cause of the blaze.
The American Red Cross is assisting 39 people who have been displaced.


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Guest poem submitted by Mac Robb:
(Poem #1834) Verses Turned...
Across the wet November night The church is bright with candlelight And waiting Evensong. A single bell with plaintive strokes Pleads louder than the stirring oaks The leafless lanes along. It calls the choirboys from their tea And villagers, the two or three, Damp down the kitchen fire, Let out the cat, and up the lane Go paddling through the gentle rain Of misty Oxfordshire. How warm the many candles shine Of Samuel Dowbiggin's design For this interior neat, These high box pews of Georgian days Which screen us from the public gaze When we make answer meet; How gracefully their shadow falls On bold pilasters down the walls And on the pulpit high. The chandeliers would twinkle gold As pre-Tractarian sermons roll'd Doctrinal, sound and dry. From that west gallery no doubt The viol and serpent tooted out The Tallis tune to Ken, And firmly at the end of prayers The clerk below the pulpit stairs Would thunder out "Amen." But every wand'ring thought will cease Before the noble altarpiece With carven swags array'd, For there in letters all may read The Lord's Commandments, Prayer and Creed, And decently display'd. On country mornings sharp and clear The penitent in faith draw near And kneeling here below Partake the heavenly banquet spread Of sacramental Wine and Bread And Jesus' presence know. And must that plaintive bell in vain Plead loud along the dripping lane? And must the building fall? Not while we love the church and live And of our charity will give Our much, our more, our all.
How wonderful now to be into John Betjeman! If we were to work our way through Philip Larkin's version of the English canon Betjeman of course ranks high on the roll. Here is another [poem by him; see Poem #1815 for the previous example -t.], from Betjeman's survey of English country churches. You don't have to be a staunch Anglican or an Anglican at all to enjoy these poems. (Possibly these days that is a bit of an oxymoron in any case, but I'm certainly far from it, either by ancestry or conviction. I am, though, an anglophone of some few generations' standing and it's my adoptive culture, so to speak. Doubtless at least some subscribers to the Minstrels share that view.) The pieties in Betjeman's lovely little poem about the parish church at Chislehampton in Oxfordshire (for so it is) are in the long view of these things a little off the mark. But it contains a potted history of matters which while now vastly irrelevant at one time issues considerably exercised the full range of national life in England, from ecclesiastical potentates to the judicial committee of the Privy Council to ordinary churchgoing citizens. Readers of Jane Austen, George Eliot and Charles Dickens will be well attuned to them, quaint though they may now seem. The actual church is indeed a lovely little gem of Georgian (the 18th, not the 20th century Georges) elegance, with, certainly, a.. The "high box pews of Georgian days." Eighteenth century Anglican churches had box pews in which the congregation sat facing each other screened from each others' view for the decidedly non-sacramental recitation of prayers, the hearing of a sermon and the singing of hymns led by a band in the gallery. b.. The Ten Commandments on the wall over the Communion Table (sic, for certainly that's what it was in the 18th century - no "altars" in those days). This was the standard decoration if, indeed, the chancel wasn't entirely blocked off from view so as not to cause anyone erroneously to infer any "popery" from the unseemly display of the pre-Reformation site of the altar. c.. A lofty pulpit for "pre-Tractarian sermons./Doctrinal, sound and dry." Well, maybe they were dry, but generations of the faithful seem to have found them sustaining and indeed Methodism sought to raise the sermon to even greater prominence. d.. Below the pulpit, the desk where "firmly at the end of prayers/The clerk.[w]ould thunder out 'Amen.' The Prayer Book services of Morning and Evening Prayer were in some measure a duet between the parson and the clerk, who took the part of the congregation, in the manner that in pre-Vatican II Catholic churches there was a duet between the presiding celebrant and the altar boy. e.. And a west gallery for a parish band to lead in "Tallis's tune to Ken" (ie the non-jurant bishop Thomas Ken's Morning and Evening Hymns - "Glory to thee who safe has kept/And hast refresh'd me while I slept" and "All praise to thee my God this night/For all the blessings of the light/". "Praise God from whom all blessings flow/Praise him all creatures here below." The 19th century saw the introduction of pipe organs and elegant chancel choirs, possibly robed in cassock and surplice - somewhat known beyond Anglicanism by the popular recordings of choirs such as those of Kings College Cambridge and Westminster Abbey, and also in prosperous evangelical Protestant denominations of other historical traditions - but 18th century parish worship was heartily led by a gallery band of trumpets, strings, and other catch-as-catch-can instruments. It is, indeed, a considerable anachronism: a parish church whose "living" is (or till recently was - haven't checked up on the current state of affairs) in the gift of the local squire. Betjeman rather gilds the lily with 19th century piety when he suggests sacramental small-c catholicism in such a place: it is quintessentially of the kind of stoutly Protestant Anglicanism that Samuel Pepys knew in the 1660s - when he spoke of going to "hear Mr X preach," assuredly not to "take the sacrament." An old friend of mine is a Canadian Anglican prelate and a cousin of the squire of Chislehampton who vastly relishes the quaint family prerogative of visiting there and dressing up in 18th century rig complete with clerical bands (alas, not a wig though) to say Morning Prayer or Evensong. Far more Congregationalist or Presbyterian than Anglican by current sensibilities, to be sure, but authentically a part of English history. Mac Robb Brisbane, Australia External links: John Betjeman home page [broken link] http://www.johnbetjeman.com/oldhome.htm