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A company manager stated that the company network was invaded and the invader was able to get sensitive information, like bank account data, passwords, personal info, etc.
I know that I need first stop current and future invasions (unplug the internet cable), then later nuke all data and reinstall all OSes and software in each PC.
But I'm worried about if is it possible track some info about the invader before the reinstall. What is the basic or common places in the system where can I find logs, traces or tips of the invader and their steps? There are some recommended tool to perform that job?
EDIT - Most PCs are running Windows based OSes (mostly WinXP or Seven). All PCs connected to basic network hub-switch and the network is linked to internet via ADSL Router. Probably no logging (unless Windows let some kind of network logging activated as default - it is included in my question)


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20th Century Fox has made a doozy of a release date announcement today, with the first dates for two highly anticipated sequels and a big shift for Steven Spielberg's next film. Briefly:
- The currently untitled sequel to X-Men: First Class will be released on July 18th, 2014
- The sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, now titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, will hit theaters on May 23rd, 2014
- Director Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film Robopocalypse has been pushed from July 3rd, 2013 to April 25th, 2014.
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Fox is poised to have a massive year in 2014. First up, the highly anticipated sequel to last year's excellent X-Men: First Class has landed a prime July 18th release date in 2014. Director Matthew Vaughn is poised to return once again, with all of the original cast—including Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult—contracted to reprise their characters. The sequel is currently untitled, but Simon Kinberg—the scribe behind X-Men: The Last Stand—recently came onboard to write the script. Vaughn has had a hand in the screenplay in all of his previous projects, so I expect he'll have a lot of say in the script. Production is expected to get underway in January once Lawrence wraps The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Additionally, the sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes not only has a release date it but now has a fantastic title. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will hit theaters on Memorial Day, May 23rd, 2014. Rise director Rupert Wyatt is thankfully returning to helm the follow-up, and he previously talked at length about his ideas for further entries in the franchise. Contagion and The Bourne Ultimatum scribe Scott Z. Burns is writing the screenplay, and I'm incredibly eager to see Wyatt and star Andy Serkis continue the Apes saga. Sony's animated film Pixels is also slated to open the same weekend, but the film's main competition will be repeat business from Marvel's untitled film that's slated to open one week earlier.
Finally, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the sci-fi novel Robopocalypse has been pushed nearly ten months from July 3rd, 2013 to April 25th, 2014. Though Spielberg is known for working fast, the futuristic thriller likely has a great deal of visual effects work to be done and a production start date hasn't even been announced yet. Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) wrote the screenplay for the pic based on Daniel H. Wilson's novel that tells the story of a sentient artificial intelligence that takes over our global technology and begins a systemic attack on mankind. The only other films slated for the month of April in 2014 are Stretch Armstrong on the 11th and Captain America 2 on April 4th.


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Two things.
One, will someone please explain to me how Republicans keep getting away with playing the "anti-elitist" "I hate Harvard/Yale/people who speak French" card when they themselves went to Harvard or Yale and speak French?
How did Bush keep getting away with it? I've never understood that. Andover, Yale, Harvard Business School, grandfather a Senator, father the President, oil money up to the eyeballs, and he got away with pretending to be a Texas workin' stiff just by drawling and being pig-ignorant.
Now apparently Romney's getting away with it.
Mitt Romney likes to take jabs at President Barack Obama for representing the values of the Harvard faculty lounge. He should know.
Like the president, the former Massachusetts governor is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Unlike the commander-in-chief, Romney also has a second Harvard graduate degree, in business.
While bashing Harvard is intended to paint Obama as an ivory tower theorist out of his depth in the presidency, Romney owes his chief White House credential — his business career –to the school.
That Ivy League pedigree undercuts Romney's appeal to many Republicans who already doubt that he shares their values. So as he heads for his party's nomination, Romney lacerates his alma mater on the campaign trail, seeking to channel the resentments of voters soured on elite institutions.
"I didn't learn about the economy just reading about it or hearing about it at the faculty lounge at Harvard," Romney, 65, said on March 18 in Illinois, in a swipe at Obama.
Why don't people just shout "You pathetic liar!" when he tries that?
Two, oh for the good old days.
Brains and determination were taken for granted at Harvard, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution that is consistently ranked among the world's top universities. Romney, seen as smart, though not exceptionally so, stood out for the intensity of his work ethic and his commitment to his Mormon faith.
"He was very serious about his religion and his relationship with God," says Mark Mazo, a member of Romney's law school study group. "That was highly unusual at the time."
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Wavemakers is an initiative I've kickstarted with Femme-O-Nomics' founder Leah Eichler (@Femmeonomics) that profiles female innovators — women who are constantly blazing new trails, inspiring others and revolutionizing the status quo.
This week we meet Andrea Lekushoff, the president and founder of Broad Reach Communications, a full-service PR agency. You can follow her on Twitter: @alekushoff1. Describe your current state of mind.
Excited and optimistic. I am proud that Broad Reach is among the leading proponents of "lifestyle-driven virtual teams," an emerging approach to flexible workplace arrangements that allows women to pursue fulfilling careers while maintaining true work/life balance. This business model rewards results over face time, so practitioners can devote more time to their personal lives and interests. I strongly believe that adopting a variation of this business model will give companies a competitive edge when it comes to attracting the talent they need to be successful.
2. If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
My 17-month-old daughter, Thea, who is vocal, fearless and tough-as-nails as a result of keeping up with her four-year old brother. I plan to nurture these characteristics, as opposed to telling her how girls "should" or "should not" behave, as many of us heard as we were growing up. Also, girls born today will have an unprecedented number of opportunities to create the type of fulfilling international careers and personal lives they desire. When Thea enters the workforce, I am hopeful that many of the gender equality and work/life balance issues women still face today will no longer be a concern. By then there will be many examples of strong, successful women in all levels of leadership roles to inspire her. And finally, if she is lucky, she will have a partner who shares in most (if not all) domestic responsibilities, making work/life balance much easier for her than it has been for our generation and those before us.
3. What is your greatest indulgence?
Great travel and good food are two of my greatest indulgences and passions. Although my husband and I don't travel as much as we would like now that we have young children, we have been diligent about scheduling regular long-weekend escapes to exciting destinations across Canada and the U.S. Not only does travelling allow us to reconnect as a couple, it helps us recharge and think about the future. When we do travel, we like to experience memorable meals at great restaurants.
4. What or who helped you the most to achieve your success?
My parents taught me to believe in myself and encouraged me to both pursue and achieve my dreams. They supported me in every endeavour, even when they may not have agreed with my choices. Knowing their support was unconditional and unwavering has given me the strength to take many personal risks (e.g. climbing Mount Kilimanjaro) as well as professional ones (e.g. moving to Washington, D.C. to work at the Canadian Embassy) throughout my life. It also allowed me to embrace the risk-taking mindset of an entrepreneur. My husband inspires me to be a better person, a better parent and a better business leader each day. He is a pillar of strength and a fountain of invaluable strategic counsel. His innate business instincts, combined with an Ivey MBA, and the experience he has gained running his company make him the most significant contributor to my success today.
5. What is the best advice you've ever received?
I come from a long line of women with many mantras. One of my mother's many mantras is "If you're going to do something, don't do it half-way." I now embrace this mantra as my own, so when I founded Broad Reach, I set out to ensure everything we do is done exceptionally well. One of my grandmother's mantras was focused on the importance of getting a good education. Growing up as a young girl in Macedonia, she wasn't given the opportunity to attend school, so she firmly believed a good education was the key to both success and independence. I followed that advice by doing both a BA and an MBA and am so grateful to reap the rewards of her advice every day.


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Carlos Alberto Santana Barragán (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico. His father was a mariachi violinist, and Carlos learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight. His younger brother, Jorge Santana, would also become a professional guitarist. Young Carlos was heavily influenced by Ritchie Valens at a time when there were very few Latinos in American rock and pop music. The family moved from Autlán de Navarro to Tijuana, the city on Mexico's border with California, and then San Francisco. Carlos stayed in Tijuana but joined his family in San Francisco later and graduated from James Lick Middle School and Mission High School there. He graduated from Mission High in 1965. Javier Bátiz, a famous guitarist from Tijuana, said to have been Carlos's guitar teacher who taught him to play a different style of guitar soloing. After learning Javier Batiz's techniques, Santana would make them his own as well.
"The '60s were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves."


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SHENZHEN, China—China's economy faces an uphill battle for the rest of 2014, adding pressure on Beijing to step up government spending or free up money to spur growth.
The latest sign of sluggishness came Thursday, when preliminary August manufacturing data showed an unexpectedly sharp drop in growth. It follows other signs of a slowdown in July, including weak domestic investment demand, a sharp drop in credit and a third consecutive monthly decline in housing sales.
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Turtles - Aquatic - Diseases
What are some of the common diseases of pet turtles?
Common conditions of pet turtles include Vitamin A deficiency, respiratory diseases, abscesses, shell infections and fractures, and parasites.
What are the signs of these diseases?
Vitamin A deficiency (hypovitaminosis A) occurs as a result of feeding turtles an inappropriate diet. Turtles that are fed iceberg lettuce, an all meat diet, or a poor quality commercial diet are most likely to develop hypovitaminosis A. Lack of Vitamin A produces changes in the epidermis (outer layer of the skin) and in the mucous membranes and mucus-producing glands of the mouth, eyes and upper respiratory tract. Symptoms include a lack of appetite, lethargy, swelling of the eyelids (often with a pus-like discharge), swelling of the ear (actually an ear abscess) and respiratory infections.
In turtles, most respiratory infections are caused by bacteria and are often secondary to Vitamin A deficiency. Turtles with respiratory infections may have excess mucus in their oral cavities (seen as bubbles in the mouth), nasal discharges, lethargy, loss of appetite, wheezing, stretching the neck out with each breath and open-mouth breathing or gasping. If the infection is severe, or spreads into the lungs, causing pneumonia, the turtle will often be seen swimming tilted to the side as its buoyancy will be affected.
"In turtles, most respiratory infections are caused by bacteria and are often secondary to Vitamin A deficiency."
Abscesses, (an infected, pus-filled swelling within a tissue of the body) appear as hard tumor-like swellings anywhere on or perhaps in the pet's body. Reptile pus is usually very hard and dry, with the texture and consistency of cottage cheese. Abscesses often develop in the ears of turtles and they appear as a large swelling at the side of the head just behind the eye. Abscesses in turtles are often related to vitamin A deficiency.
Shell infections (shell rot) are often encountered in turtles. These bacterial or fungal infections are often secondary to trauma, burns, or bites. Some of these infections can penetrate deep into the body of the shell, causing deep ulcers or pitting on the body of the shell. Remember that the outer (keratin) layer of the shell protects the live bone underneath; the shell is an extremely important form of protection for the inner organs which are located beneath the shell.
"Shell infections (shell rot) are often encountered in turtles."
Internal parasites, such as roundworms, are common in pet turtles. In most cases, parasitic infections cause no clinical signs; they are detected on a routine fecal examination. In severe infestations, they may cause diarrhea or weight loss.
How can I tell if my turtle is sick?
Signs of disease in turtles may be specific for a certain disease, such as nasal discharge in the case of a respiratory infection.
"More commonly, signs of illness arenon-specific, such as a turtle with anorexia (lack of appetite) and lethargy, which can be seen with many diseases."
More commonly, signs of illness arenon-specific, such as a turtle with anorexia (lack of appetite) and lethargy, which can be seen with many diseases. ANY deviation from normal is a cause for concern, and your pet turtle requires immediate evaluation by your veterinarian.
How are turtle diseases treated?
Vitamin A deficiency is treated with either oral or injectable Vitamin A. Treatment should only be done under veterinary supervision as hypervitaminosis A, a condition resulting from the incorrect usage and over-dosage of Vitamin A, can occur. Vitamin A deficiency indicates that your turtle's diet has to be corrected or improved.
Respiratory infections are most often caused by bacteria. Many of these turtles also have Vitamin A deficiency that requires treatment. Your veterinarian recommends radiographs (X-rays), blood tests and cultures to determine the cause of the infection. Treatment for respiratory infections usually involves antibiotics, which may be given orally, as injections or possibly as nose drops. Sick turtles may require intensive care, including fluid therapy and force feeding in the hospital.
Abscesses are treated surgically. The abscess is opened, the pus is drained and the affected tissue flushed with a medicated cleansing solution. A culture of the abscess may be needed to determine the type of bacteria that caused the abscess. Topical medication, oral or injectable antibiotics may also be required.
"It is important that you seek immediate veterinary care if there is any deviation from normal in your pet red-eared slider or other aquatic turtle."
Shell fractures can usually be repaired by your veterinarian. Infections can be challenging to treat but usually involve identifying what type of organism (virus, bacteria or fungus) is causing the problem, thoroughly cleaning the shell and using the appropriate antibiotic.
Parasites are treated with the appropriate deworming medication. The type of parasite identified on the microscopic fecal examination will determine which drug is needed.
In summary, it is important that you seek immediate veterinary care if there is any deviation from normal in your pet red-eared slider or other aquatic turtle.


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Can dogs detect cancer?
By Corinne Ryan, AAHA Accreditation Coordinator
Cancer sniffing dogs—are they a hoax? Not according to research. A 2011 Japanese study showed that ordinary dogs can be trained to use their sense of smell to detect various kinds of cancer with near-perfect accuracy—even better than any standard medical test for the disease.
The study reported an 8-year-old black labrador was 97 percent accurate in sniffing out colon cancer when she was asked to choose among stool samples doctors collected from 185 patients with and without cancer. In breath samples, she was almost as good at detecting cancer. It didn't matter whether the patient had early-stage or advanced cancer, the dog was able to accurately detect the samples from cancer patients.
This all suggests, the authors write, that "common scents may exist among various cancer types." Their study appeared in the journal Gut, an affiliate of the British Medical Journal. It didn't matter if the patients were smokers or not, nor was the dog confused by other factors like infection or inflammation.
When the dog detected the smell of cancer in the samples, she sat down in front of the sample and did not sit when the sample was from a cancer-free patient. Her reward was the chance to play with a tennis ball.
For years, studies have shown that dogs of various breeds and ages can become whizzes at spotting cancer in breath, blood, urine, and tissue samples from patients with lung and breast cancers, ovarian cancer, and bladder cancer.
And further research on ovarian cancer-detecting dogs is currently underway at the University of Pennsylvania's Working Dog Center, where researchers are training three dogs to sniff out samples that contain ovarian cancer markers. The particularly deadly form of cancer affects about 20,000 women in the U.S. each year and is often not detected in time for treatments to be effective.
So where is all of this going? Should you expect to see a dog in your physician's office in the near future? That's not likely, as it would be difficult to have even well-trained dogs in the offices of physicians or in cancer clinics. And the ability to detect scents can vary between dogs and even the same dog on different days, so accuracy is still an issue those involved are working on.
So, what's next?
Researchers are now trying to figure out exactly what it is the dogs smell. If that can be determined, it could result in electronic equipment that could sniff out cancer as well as, or better than, any dog's nose and lead to earlier detection of cancer and a brighter outcome for patients—all thanks to man's best friend.


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Jenny White is a writer and a social anthropologist. Her first novel, The Sultan's Seal, was published in 2006. It was translated into fourteen languages and is available as a paperback and audiobook. Booklist has named it one of the top ten first novels of 2006 and one of the top ten historical novels of 2006. It was shortlisted for the 2006 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award. The sequel, The Abyssinian Proof, was published in February 2008 (W. W. Norton) and a third Kamil Pasha novel, The Winter Thief, in 2010.
Jenny White was born in southern Germany and emigrated with her mother to the United States at the age of seven. They lived in New Rochelle, NY, where she learned English and attended grammar and high school. She studied at Lehman College in the Bronx, part of the City University of New York that had been set up for immigrant children. Working her way through school, she has held a variety of jobs. At various times, she has been a bookkeeper, librarian, file clerk, language teacher, receptionist, patient associate in a clinic, copyeditor, research assistant, teaching assistant, tour coordinator, professor, and now novelist. While at Lehman College, she studied abroad in Germany, where she first met people from Turkey, from which sprang a lifelong interest. After finishing college, she traveled to Turkey and stayed for three years, eventually earning a Master's degree in psychology from Hacettepe University in Ankara. After working for a couple of years in Montana, she moved to Texas to begin graduate work in anthropology, specializing in Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jenny White taught social anthropology at Boston University as a tenured professor for many years, but in 2016, she moved back to Europe to take up a professorship at Stockholm University's Institute for Turkish Studies. She has published three scholarly books on contemporary Turkey. Money Makes Us Relatives, a description of women's labor in urban Turkey in the 1980s, was published in 1994. Islamist Mobilization in Turkey was published in 2002. It explains the rise of Islamic politics in Turkey in the 1990s and won the 2003 Douglass Prize for best book in Europeanist anthropology. Her latest book (2012 Princeton), Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks takes a look at the transformations that Turkish Islam and secularism -- and the idea of the nation -- have undergone in the past decade. What is behind Turkey's leap to international prominence, and what should we make of it? Foreign Policy selected it as one of the Best Books of 2012 on the Middle East. Jenny White lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
"I learned English as a second language, primarily from books. This nurtured my relationship with language and made books my friends. As long as I can remember, I've wanted to be a writer. From my earliest days of learning English, I carried around a notebook in which I sketched the world in words. However, I also had a bent for science, so opportunity and curiosity took me in that direction, to graduate school and a career as an anthropologist. Over the years, the two desires merged, as my scholarly writing became more and more literary (although not fictional), and my experience in Turkey and knowledge of Turkish culture and history infused my fiction writing."


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Following on my last post, I'd like to add a condensed version of my understanding of the Constitution. The people of Wyoming are considered sovereigns, as all Americans are, which means that the people are the source of power in America.
The terms laws of nature and nature's God are stated at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence. The Latin word for nature is birth. We are by nature born equal. All men are created equal means just that.
Lincoln, in the Lincoln-Douglas debates explained it this way: He argued that when you look at a Black person and a White person, they appear different. But when you look at a Black person and a White person and a hog, it's self-evident that the two people of different colors are equal in nature, each different in nature only from the hog. The equality of our nature is shown by what nature it is not equal to.
If one wants to argue that hogs are made of atoms and people are made of atoms, therefore people and hogs are equal by nature, I would say that we're not establishing a government of hogs but of people. The Constitution applies to governance of people by our own nature. Would a hog even agree to being governed? 🙂
Because all persons are equal in nature, no White can own a Black and no king (like King George at the time of the American Revolution) can rule over the people. This also excludes a person of "privilege" of any kind from ruling over an equal people. This is at the heart of why America declared independence from King George and then created a Constitution upon the two principles of nature and equality and governance by representation, separation of powers and limited government.
A republic was set up in America and not a democracy. A democracy allows a majority to rule over a minority. A republic allows the people, as sovereigns, to hold the source of power. The people then give their consent, as a whole and equal people, to their representative government who are separated in power in order to prevent the hoarding of power by any branch or executive.
The government is limited in power to securing and protecting the interests of our equal people, not to invading our lives with REGULATIONS as to what we can do, what we can't do, when we can or can't do it, how we can or can't do it or where we can or can't do it and to expand SURVEILLANCE everywhere to catch what we're doing or not doing.
These rules only make ENFORCEMENT of the rules even more invasive. If we break one of these thousands and thousands of rules, then we lose our property, our savings, our good names and we likely go to JAIL (and how difficult would that be with rules against everything?). Where's the liberty and freedom to follow our dreams in this scenario?
Lincoln also stated: "Free labor argues that, as the Author of man makes every individual with one head and one pair of hands, it was probably intended that heads and hands should cooperate as friends; and that that particular head, should direct and control that particular pair of hands. As each man has one mouth to be fed, and one pair of hands to furnish food, it was probably intended that that particular pair of hands should feed that particular mouth — that each head is the natural guardian, director, and protector of the hands and mouth inseparably connected with it; and that being so, every head should be cultivated, and improved, by whatever will add to its capacity for performing its charge. In one word Free Labor depends on universal education."
Simply put, Lincoln says that universal education allows the head to place food into the hands which in turn place the food into the mouth. People are equal and should and can educate themselves, with a representative government simply there to protect their right to govern their own bodies and lives — liberty.
When I hear so much today of the heads being chopped off in Mexico (thousands of them) and other countries, including the U.S., I imagine that it's not just a matter of these madmen ending their victims' lives, but it's also a matter of separating the governing force of their bodies. In ending their lives, they're ending their independence. When people want to take our ability to govern ourselves away from us and lord a government over us, it's a similar thing. Metaphorically, our heads as sovereigns are being chopped off.
James Madison rightly stated that if men were angels, there would be no need for government. Men are equal in nature to each other but not to the nature of angels or of hogs. Therefore, government is necessary, balanced and limited so as to prevent "non-angels" from tyranny over the people.
Those who oppose a constitutional republic do so on the basis that history is a process of change and CIRCUMSTANCE. They argue that times have changed, therefore our governmental process must also change with whatever circumstances we find ourselves in.
They argue that scientists and AUTHORITIES are more capable of making governmental decisions than are the everyday people of America. This implies that people are not, in fact, equal. It implies that there is a privileged class of experts or ELITE who are more capable of managing power than an equal or sovereign people who are equal in nature.
If people are, in fact, equal in nature, then it follows that no person or persons can be above another person. If that is true, then a republic is the best system of government for preserving our nature and equality.
It can only be true that a republic is not the best system if it is also true that all people are not equal by nature, as the people of the first choice have to believe by desiring the rule of an elite, specialized class over a LOWER CLASS.
One either believes that we are equal, or they don't.
In the next election, there is one CHOICE that matters above all. Do we want to revise or abolish our Constitution according to changes of circumstances in our history, or do we CHOOSE to keep our constitutional republic which has worked so well for 236 years to keep power in the hands of the people with a balance of powers to keep "non-angels" from imposing tyranny over a people who are equal in nature by race, religion, sexual orientation or otherwise. Our constitutional government has worked for 236 years but is in a clear and tangible danger today.
I believe that we are equal and that no person or persons have a right to lord power over the people. I believe that we can, in fact, educate ourselves to govern ourselves — liberty.
There is only one presidential candidate who has consistently held the above view, and that is Ron Paul. President Obama desires a governmental elite class with a BUREAUCRATIC, ADMINISTRATIVE government over the people, and the other three remaining Republican candidates: Romney, Santorum and Gingrich desire a capitalistic/corporate/industrial military complex ELITE government over the people.
Ron Paul has consistently fought for a simple, limited and representative government with balanced powers and sovereign citizens who "own" the source of power in our country. He wants AGRESSION against other countries only when that country represents a direct threat to our country, not whenever we decide to impose democracies in other countries.
How odd it is to me when we attempt to impose democracies in other countries when our own government is a republic. For me, this is proof that the center left and center right, who have governed seemingly forever, desire a majority rule over the minority, throughout the world, clearly indicating that they do not believe in equality of mankind by their nature. This is because a people who are equal by nature do not impose governing over other countries as if the people of those countries were not also equal to us by nature.
If they want to kill us, then we have a right to kill them before they succeed in the job, but not otherwise. Personally, I would have our friends across the border, the drug lords, vaporized. If they are a threat to any of an equal people, as they have shown they are, then they are a threat to the rest of an equal people.
Ron Paul stands alone against all other candidates.
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We've had a lot of nerdy things going on here at Anglophenia lately. Well, that's because Chris Hardwick's The Nerdist special is coming to BBC America on Saturday, September 24th at 10/9c. Doctor Who star Matt Smith is a guest. And in celebration of that and all things Who-related, we thought we'd go by the way of Trock Rock a.k.a. "Time Lord Rock." For those who aren't in the know, the Doctor Who Tumblr has a nice explanation of what it is — "music based on, and written about, the TV series Doctor Who."
But it is Nerdist Week after all, so why not, right? So here's our little tribute… are you ready to trock?
Chameleon Circuit
These British guys started it all. Alex Day was inspired by what was happening with wizard rock, which of course is the genre supporting music made about Harry Potter. So Day and some of his Who-lovin' pals, Charlie McDonnell, Liam Dryden, and "Ginger Chris" Beattie, crafted their own indie rock sound in 2008, and a year later, they issued their self-titled debut. A second studio album, Still Got Legs, arrived in July, along with some lineup changes. We imagine many of you reading this right now adore this lot to bits. How can you not with songs like "Exterminate Regenerate" and "An Awful Lot of Running." Oh yeah, The Nerdist gushed about' em last year, too.
Check out the blokes below at this summer's VidCon. Charlie's sporting a "nerd" T-shirt too. Awwww… how fitting.
Allegra Rosenberg
We've featured this ginger-haired teen on Anglophenia a couple of times already. We just cannot get enough of her clever-catchy ukulele tunes. Seriously. Neil Gaiman has tweeted her, plus his wife, singer Amanda Palmer offered up her own rendition of Rosenberg's "Say Hello" with musician/comedian Reggie Watts in an outtake from one of BBC America's Doctor Who specials in August. This list would not be complete without her. Here's a new song called "Amy Pond's Lament."
Turn Left
These Oxfordshire-bred twins have done the wizard rock thing under the Riddle™ moniker for a number of years now. When they're not muggling about, the Minnear sisters also create a merry sound under their first names, Victoria and Georgia. But we also totally heart them as trock band Turn Left. "When Autons Attack" is adorable, but "Time Lord Spaceship" is even more so. Both are included on their debut LP, Void Stuff, which dropped in April and includes references to Vashta Nerada, the Weeping Angels, and more. Squee!
Mr. Saxon
While this Aussie singer/songwriter shares an assorted mix of covers and originals (plus heaps of vlogs) via YouTube, his Who-homage called "Doctor, Doctor" — as heard on the Trock On! compilation curated by Chameleon Circuit's Alex in 2009 — is a charmer. Plus, "The Doctor's Message" is another trock fave.
The Doctor's Daughter
Yeah, yeah, it's another from the Trock On! set, but the blissful space rock-tinged hypnosis that is "Jennyrated Anomaly" has had our jaws on the floor for ages. David Tennant and Catherine Tate fans will surely jump for joy for this one.
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team jumped out to a 26-8 lead in the first half and then held off the Vermont Catamounts for an 82-68 victory on Sunday afternoon in Burlington, VT. The Blue Devils (5-3) were led by senior Jessica Babe's career-high 24 points. Vermont falls to 3-4 on the season with the loss.
The Blue Devils led 36-28 at the half, but a second half charge by the Catamounts cut CCSU's lead to a single-point with 5:47 left to play. A layup by sophomore TeJahne Malone helped CCSU regain the momentum and a three-point advantage. Babe followed with a pair of free throws 40 seconds later to give the Blue Devils a 62-57 led with 4:53 left to play.
Following Babe's free throws, CCSU controlled the action before eventually finishing the game with a 14 point lead.
Babe's 24 points came on seven-of-13 shooting, including a perfect four-of-four from behind the three-point arc. Babe was also a perfect six-of-six at the free throw line. All six of her free throws came over the final five minutes of regulation.
Senior Lauren Arbogast (14 points) and Malone (10 points) also finished in double-digits. Arbogast hit-four-of-nine shots from the floor and six-of-seven from the free throw line. Malone was two-of-three from the floor and six-of-nine at the line.
Malone narrowly missed a double-double as she pulled down a career-high nine rebounds in addition to her 10 points. Malone was also credited with five steals and just one turnover in 17 minutes on the court.
Twelve Blue Devils saw action in the game with 11 scoring multiple points. Nine CCSU players recorded a rebound in the contest.
The game featured 56 total fouls with Vermont being called for 32 and CCSU for 24.
With several CCSU players in first half foul trouble, sophomore Raven Makins came off the bench to contribute four points and four rebounds in 14 minutes of play in the half. She finished the game with six points, four rebounds, an assist and a steal.
The Blue Devils shot 44.4% (24-54) from the field and 50.0% (5-10) from behind the arc. They also hit 29-of-40 free throw attempts in the game for a 72.5% mark.
The 82 points match CCSU's season-high total, which it set against Hartford.
The Blue Devils are now 3-0 against America East teams this season. CCSU will return to action on Sunday, Dec. 15 against America East member UMass-Lowell.


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Carrey on 'Snicket' Ticket
NEW YORK (Variety) - Jim Carrey is in talks to star in the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed "Lemony Snicket," which Paramount Pictures hopes will be its ticket to a Harry Potteresque franchise.

The picture, which the studio is developing with Nickelodeon Films, is an adaptation of the Daniel Handler children's book series "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events."

The wildly popular Snicket series has grown to eight books since Handler hatched the series in 1999. The saga revolves around a trio of orphans who are passed around to a series of quirky people. The first of those is the mysterious Count Olaf, who is counting on separating the children from their inheritance.

The series has the kind of kid-appropriate edge evident in J.K. Rowling ( news - web sites)'s "Potter" series, and that prompted the studio to bring in both producer Scott Rudin and Sonnenfeld, who showed a flair for black comedy in the Rudin-produced "The Addams Family" and its sequel. The script has been written by Handler. Rudin and Carrey previously collaborated on "The Truman Show."

Sources said that Carrey has sparked to the Count role, and the talks going on right now are aimed at sorting out Carrey's busy dance card. He's filming the Tom Shadyac-directed comedy "Bruce Almighty" at Universal with Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman, and Carrey expects to start work early next year on "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," a Focus-based film written by "Being John Malkovich" scribe Charlie Kaufman.

"Snicket" would likely follow that film. Carrey is also poised to play Howard Hughes in a Castle Rock-based film that is being scripted and will be directed by "Insomnia" helmer Chris Nolan.
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 The wildly popular Snicket series

Is it? First time I ever heard of such thing.

Mon

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What the "H-E-Double-hockey-sticks" is "Snicket?" I've never heard of it. Then again, I don't watch Nickelodian. Nickelodion. Nickelodien. (sp?) *shrugs*

Another project we'll have to watch. "The Count," huh?

"1, ah! ah! aaaaah! 2, ah! ah! aaaaah! 3, ah! ah! aaaah!"

Sorry. "Sesame Street" flashback, there. hehe

Carrey on!

BCDavis

Count Olaf
CableClaire created a hilarious rendition of what she thought Jim would look like as Count Olaf. Check it out here:

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HAHAHAH!!!! Looks kinda like Count Olaf!! Hey BC, can you add my pencil drawing of Jim on your site?  I had one drawn on the computer but I lost it.

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Re: Count Olaf
Dear God, I feel so artistically inferior!! >_<

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muahahhah. I had fun with that LOL.
I'm really thrilled about the books, now I've visited the site and all..

www.lemonysnicket.com

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Heeeheee heeeheee
Looks like I'm starting to get a good response to my site. THANK YOU ALL WHO PARTICIPATE!:-)))

I think the Count Olaf role would suit Jim nicely.:-)

Carrey ON!
BCDavis

"Funny the things you remember, not so funny the things you forget..."

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I recently caught a glimpse of the covers for the Lemony Snicket series. Two words immediately popped into my head: "Harry Potter." I mean, one of the main characters has black hair and circular-framed eyeglasses! All he needs is a lightning bolt scar on his forehead and -- boom -- we get Harry Potter's long lost cousin.

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Carrey cast in Lemony Snicket

Jim Carrey will play the evil Count Olaf in the movie Lemony Snicket , based on the extremely popular books in the children's series Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events . To date, there are nine books in the series and by the time the movie comes out, thirteen will have been released. The books follow the misadventures of three young orphans who are taken in by strange people. Lemony Snicket begins filming on December 1st in Los Angeles.

this is wesleyisme by the way...i accidently logged in under the name I use for my band's webpage

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December 1 ?!?

That's seems awfully soon for a film with no other cast members (or a director) announced yet.

Besides, I thought Eternal Sunshine seemed pretty set to start in January.

Re: Carrey on 'Snicket' Ticket
Good point, although, the Count Olaf thing could be just a small part, like in "Simon Birch". They shot Jim's SB appearance in 1 or 2 days. Just a thought...

Carrey ON!
BCDavis

"Funny the things you remember, not so funny the things you forget..."

Re: Carrey on 'Snicket' Ticket
Actually, Count Olaf is one of the main characters of the series of books called "A Series Of Unfortunate Events," by Lemony Snicket. He is after the fortune of 3 orphans, therefore is the villian. So, Count Olaf has a major part. Jim Carrey is gonna have lots do do with this movie.

By the way, the guy with the glasses on the cover of ASOUE, is an orphan named Klaus, not Harry Potter. I've read the series (ASOUE), and there are absolutely no descriptions of that particular character.

The director of this movie WAS Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black). But he quit, and if someone replaces him, he's officially out. The producer WAS Scott Rudin, but he quit after problems with the budget.

As for the cast, Joan Cusack may be playing Justice Strauss, and Johnny Depp will be playing Lemony Snicket. There was one more actress who was playing Aunt Josephine but I forgot her...D">
For the 3 Baudelaire orphans, they are holding auditions in some places in Canada and there was one in New York, a while ago.

With all due respect,
Orangey Snicket
*~*~*~*~*~*"Bngan maanpii kiing." Saw signs indicating there was a dairy nearby. Did not approach due to fear of being milked.

Yes, don't view these books as a ripoff of "Harry Potte
They are really outstanding in their own very unique way and deserve to be recognized as something distinctly separate from "Potter." There is more than enough room for both.

Apart from a sham sideshow psychic in the ninth book, the "ASOUE" books have absolutely nothing to do with magic. The orphans have to rely on their wits, their individual gifts, and the profound self absorption and stupidity of the adults to make it through each twisted book.

They are highly entertaining reads!

to all of u who said u neva heard of ASOUE
they are books,not a TV show,remember this,read them, and burie them.

all due respect,
rinna

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I'm a power-tool woodworker. Sure I use hand tools for some parts of furniture building, specifically when cutting dovetails. But I doubt you'll ever catch me with a Bridge City Tool Works VP-60, Veritas router plane or a Lie-Nielsen shoulder plane if I'm trying to complete a project quickly. It's just not my thing. The jobs completed with those tools, I accomplish with my router and a router jig.
The next time you venture into your shop to work on a project, take a survey of what's stacked around your shop. I'll bet you have the material to create a boatload of simple, useful jigs that, when combined with your router, will increase your woodworking abilities. The routing techniques shown in this article are a combination of the correct router bits along with dirt-simple jigs made from leftover pieces from other projects, such as scraps and plywood.
A Square-platform Jig
We all know you can guide your router by placing the router's base against an edge to make a straight cut, but who wants to calculate the offset of the base each time you go to use it or struggle with clamping requirements? If you use my favorite router jig along with a pattern bit, you have a setup that is a multi-tasker and is as easy as can be to position for accuracy.
That jig I call a square-platform jig. To make the jig, start with two pieces of plywood cut to the same size. Attach the two with glue and a few brads (keep the brads away from the edges), then add a third piece to the front edge to act as a lip – similar to a bench hook – and the jig is ready for work. The key is to keep the edges of the jig straight and square with that third piece, which I call a catch rail.
This jig is best when used for cutting dados for shelves or for creating a dovetailed socket for drawer dividers. Due to its usefulness, I have more than a few of these jigs in my shop made in different sizes and thicknesses for different techniques and for use with different router bits, but my favorite setup is a 1″-thick jig (two pieces of 1/2″ plywood). This thickness is perfect for working with a 3/4″-diameter, top-mount bearing router bit with a 1″ cutting length.
The greatest thing about this jig is the ease of clamping. No longer is it necessary to use more than a single clamp. One clamp holds the jig to the workpiece and does not allow any movement of the jig. When a clamp is positioned at the lower left-hand corner of the jig as shown in the photo below, the jig cannot move away from the workpiece due to the clamp. And the jig cannot slip to the left because the front piece acts as a catch. As long as the clamp is secure, no amount of force will allow a shift in the jig. This makes it easy to clamp and quick to adjust from one work area to the next.
To use this jig, do any layout work, then slide the jig into position, always aligning the jig to the left of the work area because the normal operation of a router pushes the tool to the left (if the jig were set to the right of the work area, it would be a struggle to hold the router firmly against the jig in use). Next, add a clamp keeping a clear path for your router base and allow the pattern-bit bearing to ride along the edge of the jig. With this setup, wherever the jig is, the router bit follows.
Use the Same Jig for Dados
If you're wondering about hogging out the waste with a straight bit prior to cutting with a dovetail bit, I seldom, if ever, take the time to work this way. My router bits are sharp and able to make this cut without difficulty. If this extra step is important to you, I would mount a 3/4″ bearing on a 1/2″ straight bit so I was always registering off the jig.
How about housed dovetail sockets? The beauty of this jig is that you simply make a first pass with the 3/4″ pattern bit to make the shallow dado. Then follow up with the dovetail bit in a second router, as shown in the opening photo of this article. The entire operation is completed with one clamping setup.
Also, here's a tip: Create the dovetail slots while your case sides are wider than the final dimension by 1/8″. Once the joinery is complete, trim the extra material from the edges to leave a clean front edge.
Are you wondering why I suggested you keep the brads located away from the edges of the jig? When you nick the jig's edge – and you will ding it with your router bit spinning – you can simply take a pass at the jointer to straighten the jig's edge.
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Dear sister Madaline:
At last we have decided to stop hiking and do some drilling instead. The last few days we boys have done nothing but hike practically all day. My feet surely do ache me theirfore I am resting today to recuperate. We are stationed in a fine city the largest we have been in yet. This is my first opportunity since we left our last town to write you so you see we boys are kept busy continually all the time. As yet our regiment has not received any mail or money but hope to receive both before the end of this week. I am feeling fine except for my sore feet but a few days of rest will bring them around OK.
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Exit of US forces has shifted the scales away from Iraq's fledgling democratic institutions
While Americans have been welcoming the "end" of the war in Iraq over the past few days, a political crisis of serious proportions has been unfolding in Baghdad.
The fragile governing coalition that has teetered between dysfunction and collapse for the past year appears to be splintering, strained by personality clashes, governance disagreements and sectarian rivalries coming to a head.
Only a matter of hours after the last convoy of US troops exited, the Iraqi government issued an arrest warrant for one of the nation's vice presidents on terrorism charges; the prime minister urged Parliament to eject one of his deputies for calling him a dictator in the news media; unruly protests followed a vote in favor of greater provincial autonomy; and Iraqiya - the Sunni-dominated political coalition in an uneasy alliance with the party of prime minister Nouri Al Maliki, a Shiite - walked out of Parliament. Meanwhile, Iraqi parliamentary leaders of various stripes are gathering in the northern Kurdish region, likely to debate their options for opposing Maliki's "centralising tendencies" and increasingly strong grip on power.
Some observers will point to this series of events as further proof that the US should not have spent a moment longer trying to stabilise what is inherently an unstable country. But that is vastly oversimplistic. In actuality, the events of the last few days - and the weeks and months ahead - are better understood in the context of two specific developments.
First was the withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq well before the nascent political institutions had gelled. (Yes, that decision is widely viewed as having been made by the Iraqis themselves, but there is little question that the Barack Obama administration could have done much more to change their minds had it wanted to.)
The US military presence in Iraq served several purposes, such as training Iraqi soldiers and police and helping them provide security. But for some time now its most meaningful function was as psychological ballast for the governmental and civic institutions so painstakingly crafted by Iraqis, with American and international help, since 2003. For eight years there has been a persistent tension between Iraq's fledgling democratic institutions and the traditional Iraqi political culture - which tends toward the authoritarian and the centralised.
In this competition, the new institutions survived and gradually strengthened in significant part because there was the perception that the US was standing behind them. As long as American forces were in Iraq - even in small numbers - few thought that more "traditional" methods of resolving political disputes (through force or coercion or extra-judicial means) would be tolerated. The events of the weekend suggest that the departure of US forces has removed that ballast and shifted the scales in favour of Iraq's traditional political culture - at least for the moment.
The second frame through which to view the events of recent days is the spectrum of unresolved political issues, most important of which is disagreement over Iraq's federal character. The constitution calls for a federal state, although the breadth and depth of this federalism have long been disputed.
Although many Iraqis were and are willing to accept a Kurdistan Regional Government with significant autonomy, far fewer believed the concept of federalism had any meaningful application to the rest of Iraq. The 2005 constitution provided a rough road map for areas other than the Kurdish region wanting to claim greater autonomy from Baghdad, but many Iraqis at the time considered this a theoretical gesture.
Over the past year, however, several of Iraq's Arab provinces - frustrated with Baghdad and seeing the success of the Kurds - have sought to move in this direction. These tentative steps have generated fierce opposition, from some who live in those provinces and especially from Maliki, and many in his Cabinet, who specifically but not exclusively see the dangers of oil-rich provinces assuming greater control over their resources. Longstanding disputes between Baghdad and the Kurdish regional government over the extent of the latter's powers mean that both the road to and the endgame of a more federal Iraq are contested and ill-defined.
All this came to a head in the last week when Baghdad opposed the latest effort of an Iraqi province - ethnically and sectarian-mixed Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad - to position itself to "become a region" and assume greater powers. Quickly, demonstrations and clashes with local security forces broke out in the province, and Diyala's governor fled to the Kurdish region.
These developments were ostensibly an impetus behind Iraqiya's walkout in Parliament. Even more significantly, they will almost certainly weaken the enthusiasm of the Kurds for supporting Maliki without further concessions.
The manner in which the current political crisis is resolved will be a harbinger for Iraq's political path in the years ahead. If tensions are resolved in a way that clarifies and strengthens Iraq's political institutions and reinforces support for them among all political, sectarian and ethnic factions, Iraq's overall trajectory is much more likely to point upward, albeit at a modest slope. If, however, force is used to quell federal aspirations, to silence opposition and to consolidate the government's power, one might anticipate a slide to a less democratic, more unstable Iraq.
In the past, the US would have played a significant, if not necessarily determinative, role in resolving such a crisis. No doubt, the current ambassador to Baghdad, Jim Jeffrey, is busy trying to help Iraqis defuse the situation and chart a sensible way forward.
How this - and future - Iraqi political blowups are resolved matters hugely for the United States. Troops or no troops, the course Iraq takes has major bearings on American interests. Iraq's orientation in the months and years ahead will be of great consequence for regional stability and the direction of continuing Arab revolutions, for international oil markets and their ability to meet rising energy demand, and for how the international confrontation with Iran will be resolved.
All of this underscores how modestly we should regard claims that the Iraq War is over. Yes, we have "ended" the aspect of the war that was in our power to end: the American military presence in Iraq. But it is far from the end of US interests in Iraq. And it is not the end of Iraq's ability to stabilise or inflame events in a critical part of the world.
For Iraqis, it is not the end of the difficult transition out of dictatorship and its many ugly legacies. For thousands of American families who lost loved ones, and tens of thousands of US troops wounded, it is not the end of the struggle. Nor is it the end of America's obligation to these veterans.
Hopefully, it is also not the end of the US's ability to think strategically about Iraq or to influence events there in favor of post-Saddam Hussein institutions over traditional political culture. As the Obama administration rightly underscored during Maliki's visit to Washington last week, there are many ways in which the nonmilitary connections between Iraq and the United States can be strengthened.
Maintaining financial and other support for the large US Embassy and civilian effort in Iraq will be critical. So, too, is translating still-nascent US business interests in Iraq into real commercial ties between the two countries. Consolidating intelligence and other security links will be an important aspect of a transformed bilateral relationship, as will be continued mechanisms for discussing regional issues and aligning interests where possible.
Each dimension of a new, robust, nonmilitary relationship will be difficult to fashion and maintain. We have seen this already in waning congressional interest in Iraq and in Iraqi reluctance to take a tougher stand against the violence waged by the neighboring Syrian regime against civilians. So, rather than talk of ending the war in Iraq - which makes such efforts more, not less, difficult - we should talk of transcending the military relationship and realizing a more mutually beneficial one.
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