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Tyler Perry's HOUSE OF PAYNE
CJ finds instant chemistry with Nicole, the assistant principal at Malik & Jazmine's school
"The Perfect Storm" � Wednesday, Aug. 22, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) � TV-PG
There's a huge storm over Atlanta, and the firehouse is buzzing with calls for help. Meanwhile, Ella and Claretha go to pick up the kids from school, but CJ doesn't get their message and heads over to the school himself. Upon arriving, he finds out Ella, Claretha and the kids have already left, but he also meets assistant principal Nicole Jamieson. They feel an instant chemistry and decide to remain together to ride out the storm.
Created and Directed by Tyler Perry
Written by Christopher Moore
Series Regulars
Curtis "Pops" Payne � LaVan Davis
Ella Payne � Cassi Davis
C.J. Payne � Allen Payne
Malik Payne � Larramie "Doc" Shaw
Jazmine Payne � China Anne McClain
Calvin Payne � Lance Gross
Recurring Cast
Claretha Jenkins � Denise Burse
Bart � Bart Hansard
Keenan � Cedric Pendleton
Angel � Joyce Girard
Nicole Jamieson � Robinne Lee


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What to do in Ubud
Ubud is, in many ways, the cultural hub of Bali. Home to one of Bali's royal families, this traditional country town has royal palaces and ancient temples. It's also where some of the world's notable artisans and collectors have visited and worked in. Along the main street are dozens of art studios and galleries, as well as an excellent local crafts market selling antiques, woodcarvings, crafts, textiles, paintings, and jewellery.
A short drive outside Ubud will take you to Tegenungan Waterfall, Ubud Monkey Forest, and the photogenic Tegallalang rice terrace. Join a day trip to local villages like Campuhan, Penestanan, Peliatan and Batuan, where you can see locals making and selling authentic Balinese crafts.

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This is the neighbors house, I walk by it everyday and look at it imagining all kinds of historical scenarios. Today I got to go inside and hear all about the history and it was even better than my imagination could dream up.
No one lives in it and the historical society opens it periodically. I suppose I could tell you where it is and if you really want to know you can email me but for now I'll just say it is in a small New England town.
The same family lineage lived in it until there was no more children to pass it on to. It ended up in a distant relative-by-marriage hands and it sat empty full of stuff for many years. She donated it to the town.
The stuff is cool! All kinds of books and toys and carriages and furniture that is actually still in the crates it was ordered in. The last man to live it died unexpectedly in 1878 as he was making some renovations. There are rolls and rolls of wallpaper he ordered and carpets and I hope your mouth is watering as I was walking about with drool.
I wasn't able to take indoor pictures (wah) it's magnificent in the sense that things have stayed the same and the glamour is clearly evident amidst the aging and settling. The third level is a ballroom with an arched ceiling and you can almost hear the guests making their way up the two grand staircases.
This town was a busy place in 1800 when people were getting rich with textile mills. There are many old glorious houses here. By the mid/late 19th century it had kind of settled into it's small town vibe as the railroad went to other textile towns and people went elsewhere to get rich and be social. I think it's okay though as they left behind these great old houses.
I wish I could go in each one!


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Giotto, ESA's first deep-space mission: 25 years ago
In 1986, ESA's Giotto passed closest to the nucleus of Comet Halley and revealed the first evidence of organic material in a comet. Much of what we know about comets comes from the pioneering Giotto mission.
Twenty-five years ago, during the night of 13-14 March 1986, the Giotto spacecraft swept within 600 km of Comet Halley, obtaining the first ever close-up images of a comet nucleus. The image sequence taken by the Halley Multicolour Camera revealed a black, potato-shaped object, partially illuminated on the warmer, sunlit side with bright jets spewing gas and dust into space.
Giotto had a number of other very impressive 'firsts' and achievements to its credit. It was the first deep-space mission to change orbit by returning to Earth for a gravity-assist manoeuvre. It was also the first spacecraft to encounter two comets and in doing so measured the size, composition, and velocity of dust particles and measured the composition of those two comets.
Giotto made the closest comet flyby to date by any spacecraft (about 200 km from Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup) and studied the interaction between the solar wind, the interplanetary magnetic field and the comet itself. Comet 1P/Halley was the logical choice for a cometary encounter mission. Aside from its fame with the public, Halley is a young, highly active comet and, with 30 recorded appearances, its nature and orbit are perhaps the best understood of any comet.
Launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in July 1985, Giotto was one of a small armada of spacecraft sent to rendezvous with Halley – two Soviet, two Japanese and one from NASA. An agreement was set up between the various agencies and information passed (especially from the Soviet Vega 1 and 2 missions) on to the Giotto team, which was the last to fly by the comet, to help the final targeting of the spacecraft.
By spacecraft standards, Giotto was small, weighing around 960 kg (reduced to 550 kg after its solid motor had burnt out and the various orbit correction manoeuvres had been made) and about 2 m wide by 1 m in height plus the antenna on top. Its design was based on the GEOS Earth-orbiting research satellites.
The most difficult problem to overcome was how to ensure that Giotto survived long enough to take pictures of the nucleus when the spacecraft and the comet were heading towards each other at a combined speed of 245 000 km/h (equivalent to crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 11 minutes!). At this speed, a 0.1 g dust particle would be able to penetrate 8 cm of solid aluminium. Since it was out of the question to equip Giotto with a 600 kg aluminium shield, engineers turned to a more subtle design first proposed by American astronomer Fred Whipple back in 1947.
The spacecraft's dust shield consisted of two protective sheets, 23 cm apart. At the front was a sheet of aluminium (1 mm thick), which would vapourise all but the largest of the incoming dust particles. A 12 mm thick sheet of Kevlar at the rear would absorb any debris that pierced the front barrier. Together they could withstand impacts from particles up to 1 g in mass and travelling 50 times faster than a bullet.
After completing its mission to rendezvous with and observe the comet, Giotto went into hibernation for four years to be woken up in summer 1990 and to go to sleep again until early 1992] . Although a few of the instruments were damaged during the encounter, the spacecraft had survived the battering by cometary dust and a second cometary flyby, this time of Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup, took place in July 1992.
The success of Giotto inspired a succession of cometary encounter missions including ESA's Rosetta mission. ESA's Rosetta is due to encounter Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.


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City of Portland issues parking ban
Ban begins at 10 p.m.
The city of Portland has declared a parking ban beginning at 10 p.m. Thursday and ending at 6 a.m. Friday.
Vehicles left on the street during a ban will be towed at the owner's expense:, $135 plus any outstanding tickets must be paid.
Vehicles will be towed to the city's impound lot at the Ocean Gateway International Marine Terminal at 40 Commercial Street. At the end of the day following a parking ban, unclaimed vehicles will be towed to private tow company lots, and storage fees of $25 per day will accrue.
There are a number of places people can park at no charge during a parking ban, including:
• Deering Oaks -- on the left-hand side of Tennis Court Road only
• State Street gravel lot -- abutting Deering Oaks
• Fitzpatrick Stadium parking lot
• Hadlock Field parking lot
• All Portland Public School lots -- except the lots at Reiche School, which abuts the school and playground
• Parking lot at Nathan Clifford School
• Parking lot on Munjoy Street, formerly known as the Adams School lot
• Cutter Street lot, off the Eastern Prom
• Beach Street lot, accessible from Commercial Street. This lot is available after 8 p.m.
• Lot across the street from the International Marine Terminal on Commercial Street, at the corner of Park and Commercial Streets
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- Chris Davis went 4 for 4, including his AL-leading 14th homer, and the Baltimore Orioles got a three-run shot from Matt Wieters in a 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees on Wednesday night.
Nick Markakis added a solo home run for the Orioles, who took two of three from New York to pull within three games of the first-place Yankees in the AL East.
Curtis Granderson homered, doubled and singled for New York. Needing a triple to reach the cycle, he drew a walk in the seventh inning.
David Adams hit a ninth-inning homer for the Yankees, his second in three games. The teams combined for 13 home runs in the series, including five in the finale.
Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda left in the third with a bruised right calf, one inning after he was struck in the leg by a line drive off the bat of Manny Machado. Kuroda (6-3) allowed five runs and eight hits in two-plus innings.
Jason Hammel (6-2) gave up two runs and seven hits in 6 2-3 innings to even his lifetime record against the Yankees to 3-3. The right-hander allowed a combined 13 earned runs over 8 2-3 innings in his previous two starts.
After Kuroda retired the first two batters he faced, Markakis homered. Adam Jones followed with a single and Davis hit a 3-2 pitch over the wall in center.
In the second, Nate McLouth singled with two outs, stole second and took third on Machado's single off Kuroda's leg. Although Markakis hit a fly to end the threat, at that point the Orioles had six hits -- one more than Kuroda allowed in his complete game shutout against Baltimore on April 14.
The Yankees got a run back in the third when Granderson doubled and scored on a single by Robinson Cano.
But Baltimore pulled away in the bottom half. Jones doubled and after Davis singled, Kuroda grimaced near the mound. A discussion involving the New York trainer, Kuroda and manager Joe Girardi ensued. The right-hander eventually walked off the field.
Preston Claiborne entered, and Wieters homered on the rookie's second pitch. It was the first run allowed by Claiborne after seven straight scoreless outings in the majors.
Granderson homered in the fifth to make it 6-2. Playing in his seventh game since returning from a broken wrist, Granderson batted leadoff and played center field for the first time.
"It's like an opening week of the season for me. No different," he said before the game.
NOTES: The Orioles will recall RHP Kevin Gausman on Thursday, and the 22-year-old will make his major league debut against Toronto. Gausman was the fourth overall pick in the 2012 draft. ... After a day off Thursday, the Yankees begin a three-game series on the road against Tampa Bay. ... Orioles INF prospect Jonathan Schoop will need 6-8 weeks rest after an MRI revealed a stress fracture in his lower back, Orioles VP Dan Duquette said. ... New York 1B Mark Teixeira (wrist) and INF Kevin Youkilis (lumbar spine sprain) faced six minor league pitchers in a simulated game at the team complex in Tampa, Fla. ... Ichiro Suzuki extended his hitting streak at Camden Yards to 21 games.


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MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- One loved the spotlight. Another was nicknamed "The Wall" because of the force he brought to the soccer field.
When a top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., it took with it 24 lives. Seven of them were children at Plaza Towers Elementary school; two were only babies.
These are the victims' stories.
JaNae Hornsby, 9
One of seven children killed inside the Plaza Towers Elementary School, JaNae loved to draw and sing. She loved being the center of attention, her father said.
JaNae's house, just three blocks from the school, also was destroyed by the tornado. Her father wanted to go back to the property to see if he could find a few of JaNae's things to keep.
"JaNae was the life of the party. If JaNae was there you were having a good time. She liked to sing, be a big sister, be a big cousin. She liked to draw," he said, smiling, as he remembered his little girl.
As family gathered to make funeral arrangements and comfort one another, Hornsby looked behind him into the house.
"If she was here she would just have everybody laughing and she would be in the midst of everything. She loved the spotlight," he said.
Karrina Vargyas, 4
Karrina was not quite old enough to be at school like her two older siblings. So she was at home huddled in a bathtub with her mother, younger sister and grandmother.
The tornado threw the women and children in different directions. Her parents could not find Karrina that night. It was only later that they learned that searchers had found Karrina's body in the rubble of what had been a neighbor's house.
Her father, Phillip Vargyas, said Karrina "had a smile that would light up the room." And whenever he fells the pain of her loss, her father said he likes to think of Karrina giving him a little hug.
"She was something else," Phillip Vargyas told The Oklahoman newspaper. "She wanted to figure skate. That was her dream in life."
Sydnee Vargyas, 7 months
Just 7 months old, Sydnee had crawled for the first time on Sunday. But she never really got to enjoy her newfound freedom.
Sydnee was huddled in the bathtub of her south Oklahoma City home with her older sister, mother and grandmother as a tornado bore down on them. The strong winds pulled Sydnee out of her mother's grasp.
When the debris stopped swirling, Laurinda Vargyas said she found Sydnee on a driveway.
"She was just laying there helpless. All I could do was sit there and hold her. She was already gone," Laurinda Vargyas told The Oklahoman newspaper. "They say she didn't suffer. So I've got to find peace with that."
Terri Long, 49
Long, a mother of three, was driving home from her job as a registrar at the Federal Aviation Administration when she stopped at a 7-Eleven store about 2 miles from her home. That's where she died when the tornado hit.
"I have no idea why she stopped there; I'm still trying to figure that out," said her husband of 10 years, Ken Long, his voice cracking with sorrow. But he has a guess: "She was probably trying to get away" from the tornado.
For several hours after the tornado, Long didn't know of his wife's fate -- not until her brother called her cellphone, and a police officer answered by saying her purse had been found at the convenience store.
Terri Long may have fared no better had she made it home. Her husband, who was at work at the time of the tornado, said their house was destroyed, too. A couple of days after the tornado, Long still didn't even have any pictures of his wife in his possession. He had only memories.
"She was just a happy person that loved her kids and family, loved Harleys and loved to be outside," Ken Long said.
A funeral was planned Friday for Terri Long. She would have turned 50 on Monday.
Kyle Davis, 8
He was known to his friends as "The Wall."
It was a tribute to the ferocity Kyle brought to his beloved sport, soccer, and the way other players seemed to bounce off him as they went for the ball, said his grandfather, Marvin Dixon.
Kyle was among six 9-year-olds who died in the Plaza Towers Elementary School. Kyle had taken shelter in the school's gymnasium with dozens of other students.
"He was in the position that the teacher told them to be in --crouched down with their hands over their heads," Dixon said. "The medical examiner said either some big rock or beam or something fell right on the back of his neck. He said he died instantly."
It would take a sizeable force to bring down Kyle's large but playful personality.
"He was a pretty big kid," Dixon said. "Whenever he had the ball, other kids would just bounce off of him. That's why they called him that. ... He was just the kindest, most giving kid you would ever meet. He had a grin from ear to ear."
Christopher Legg, 9
Christopher's years were defined by courage in the face of daunting illness.
Diagnosed with skin cancer and Osgood-Schlatter disease -- an illness which can cause painful inflammation in the knees of young athletes -- Christopher nevertheless loved to play sports and "roughhouse and wrestle with his Daddy" and his brother and sister, according to a statement issued by the family.
He was among the children inside Plaza Towers when the tornado hit.
"He is not in pain, but in joy with our Lord," the statement said.
"He was greatly loved by all who knew him," the family said. "He never met a stranger. You were always a friend in his eyes. Just last Sunday, his grandfather remarked that Christopher was going to play center for the University of Oklahoma someday."
Megan Futrell, 29, and Case Futrell, 3 months.
Futrell had picked up young Case from a babysitter as the storm approached Moore. She eventually took shelter in a nearby convenience store at the suggestion of her husband, according to a relative.
Both died Monday when the EF5 tornado destroyed the building as the two tried to ride out the storm in the store's walk-in freezer.
Futrell was a doting mother, active in the Little League association where another son played, her cousin, Amy Pulliam, told The Oklahoman.
"She was my sister I never had," Pulliam said. "It's hard, it's hard, it's hard. But there's nothing you can do now."
Futrell's husband, Cody, who told his wife to seek shelter inside the store, was overcome with grief, Pulliam said.
"As soon as the tornado went over he just took off running," she said. "When he made it as far as Little River Park he saw there was nothing" left of the store.
Antonia Candelaria, 9
Antonia loved to sing. She knew the words to most of the songs on the country radio station her family frequently had on and she would sing along, bringing joy to the house.
In an obituary, the family remembered the "gentle and loving spirit" of a girl with a sweet nickname, "ladybug," that complimented those of her two sisters, who are affectionately called "butterfly" and "dragonfly."
The third-grader recently auditioned to sing in a talent show scheduled for the last day of school at Plaza Towers Elementary. The girl died at the school with seven other children, including her best friend and next door neighbor, Emily Conatzer.
"Tonie always danced, not walked, to the beat of her own drum," the family wrote in her obit. "And she banged her drum very well. She would bang that drum so loud that others could not help but to start dancing to her beat as well."
Emily Conatzer, 9
Emily loved unicorns, Lady Gaga and dreamed of one day traveling to Paris to become a fashion designer.
The third-grader died at Plaza Towers Elementary with seven other children, including her best friend Antonia Candelaria, in Monday's tornado that tore through a part of Moore.
Emily "rode up to heaven on a unicorn traveling on a path of love leaving Moore," her family wrote in her obituary.
She was a beautiful princess, her family wrote, with a love for "all things girly."
A mother to a cat named Sabbath that wandered into her family's home one day, Conatzer was also a gifted dancer who could sing "Time Warp" in its entirety.
Shannon Quick, 40
Quick spent a lot of time watching her sons' baseball games. She loved cooking and was known for putting together a tasty Crock-Pot dinner for her family.
On Monday, she had picked up her 8-year-old Jackson and 13-year-old son Tanner from school early because the family was getting ready to go on a vacation to Virginia.
But an approaching tornado forced her to huddle in the closet of their home near Briarwood Elementary School with her children, mother and their dog, Luke. Quick was killed, and the dog had to be put to sleep because of the injuries.
Jackson was hospitalized with severe leg and pelvic injuries. Tanner escaped the tornado with scrapes and bruises. Her mother, Joy Waldroop, was taken to a hospital with a broken heel and a hole in her right arm.
"I couldn't ask for a better daughter," Waldroop, 61, told The Oklahoman newspaper, from the hospital. "She cared for her family."
Shannon Quick had been married to Mike Quick since 1995.


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MSDs are mostly caused because of the over-use of weak muscles, tendons, or ligaments. Vigorous vocational activities can cause musculoskeletal pain. In addition, as the population ages, the prevalence of conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and degenerative disc diseases increase. Unattended MSDs lead to chronic disruption of the day-to-day and vocational activities of the patient.
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Standing on the grounds of our state capitol in Raleigh is a life-sized statue of George Washington, whose birthday we remember in what has come to be known as "Presidents' Day." The bronze figure, by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, quietly tells a remarkable story that eclipses all the mythology that famously surrounds our nation's first president.
The year was 1783. Under the command of General Washington, the rag-tag Continental Army had defeated the British, finally securing American independence. In gratitude and admiration, many called on America's first hero to become America's first king.
But Washington turned them down. In December, he resigned his commission in a letter to Congress: "Having now finished the work assigned to me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life."
In his biography of Washington, His Excellency, acclaimed historian Joseph Ellis underscores the truly exceptional character of Washington's act: "Oliver Cromwell had not surrendered power after the English Revolution. Napoleon, Lenin, Mao, and Castro did not step aside to leave their respective revolutionary settlements to others in subsequent centuries. … Whereas Cromwell and later Napoleon made themselves synonymous with the revolution in order to justify the assumption of dictatorial power, Washington made himself synonymous with the American Revolution in order to declare that it was incompatible with dictatorial power."
When England's King George III was told what the celebrated American general planned to do, he said that history would consider Washington "the greatest man in the world."
Houdon's statue (a duplicate of which stands in the rotunda of the state Capitol in Virgina) depicts Washington as both a soldier and a citizen, dressed in his Continental army uniform and holding a walking cane in his right hand, a sign of his life as a civilian. To his left and behind him is a farmer's plowshare. Washington's left hand rests on a fasces, a bundle of rods that is an ancient symbol of authority. The sculptor included thirteen rods in the bundle, alluding to the original thirteen colonies.1
These objects portray Washington as a modern-day Cincinnatus, a farmer and general who — after leading the Roman army to victory — also relinquished his power and retired to his farm to live a peaceful life.
In 458 BC, Lucius Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus was plowing his fields on a farm outside Rome when messengers arrived to tell him that he had been named dictator to defend the city against an invading army. Leaving his plow behind in the field, Cincinnatus took up the supreme command and went on to defeat Rome's enemies in just 16 days of battle. But Cincinnatus chose to hold power only as long as was necessary to deliver his country to peace; like General Washington would do more than a thousand years later, he then resigned his command and returned home to work on his farm.
On this President's Day, George Washington still stands as a shining example of the citizen-patriot. He rose to the occasion when his beleaguered nation called — and then, foregoing all vainglory and power, retired to his former station when his country's good fortune had been secured.
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The Bachelorette's Jillian Harris finally did what everyone had been wanting for the past couple of weeks – Sent Wes Home! Jillian speaks out on the whole Wes issue in her new blog about the show. She admits she kept Wes for "way too long." For some strange reason, she still doubts Wes actually had a girlfriend – sighs.
"So … Wes! I know I kept him for WAY too long. I FULLY admit this. Someone on here wrote the truest way to explain it — it's like you're watching a horror movie that you starred in … And all your friends are yelling at you, "He's behind you! He's behind you!" Ha. There are so many ways to explain my connection with Wes. I cringe to admit this, but I truly was blinded by many of Wes's "good qualities" for the better half of his stay that I refused to see all the red flags (and there were a lot of them!).
I still don't know if Wes had a girlfriend, but I do think Wes was there for his career. Along the way, we did build a friendship but his presence on the show was a disservice to both of us. It made me look like a fool and like I had bad judge of character, and it made him look like someone he is not. I guess this is what you lay out on the line when you sign up for something like this, right? Ultimately, you are all still entitled to your opinion, but I am a huge supporter of forgiveness and I hope you can give Wes a break and lay this one to rest."
It's good to see her admit her bad choice. I am however surprised she still doubts he had a girlfriend. Wes's "girlfriend" Laurel Kagay spoke out last week defending Wes and claiming they were just friends.
Jake also spoke out on the issue and even said Wes and Laurel are still dating. I still choose to believe Jake on this one. Someone needs to tell Wes that he can pretty much kiss his country music career goodbye. No one is going so support a jerk. He has officially taken the crown of the biggest jerk title from Jason Mesnick.


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Nicki Minaj's penchant for outlandish fashion did her in while appearing on Good Morning America.
While performing on GMA's Summer Concert Series on Friday, the singer's low-cut top briefly revealed her nipple. "Although we had a five-second delay in place for the Nicki Minaj concert on GMA, the live East Coast feed of the concert regrettably included certain fleeting images of the performer that were taken out of later feeds of the broadcast in other time zones," an ABC spokesperson said.
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ABC added they were sorry for the incident.
President of the Parents Television Council Tim Winter initially accused the ABC morning show of not implementing a five-second delay. "For the umpteenth time in recent memory a morning news show has included inappropriate content for children and families," he told TMZ.com. "Instead of asking for forgiveness, they need to stop apologizing and implement the five second delay that so many Americans have been calling for."


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Are YOU Sick Of Kristen Stewart Whining About Having To Play Bella? We Are!
We know Kristen Stewart was acting long before being cast in the Twilight series, but we're getting a little tired of her constant complaining about the role that gave her the big break she was waiting for!
Twi-hards are already flocking to Louisiana in hopes of catching a glimpse of their favorite vampires and werewolves as they descend on Baton Rouge to begin filming of Breaking Dawn. Fans can't wait for filming to be complete, but the one person looking forward to the movie's completion the most is star, 20-year-old Kristen Stewart.
After all the attention she's received for being Bella Swan, the object of affection to 24-year-old Robert Pattinson's character Edward Cullen, she's continued to complain time after time about playing the same character over and over. She even opened up to Welcome to the Riley's director Jake Scott about her frustration.
"[Kristen]'s been playing this same character in—what?—two or three movies now, and that frustrates her," he said. "She wants to be taken seriously as an actress—and the crazy thing is, before Twilight, she was doing that kind of work…She's very proud of her work in this [Welcome to the Riley's] movie."
It doesn't help that her real-life boyfriend is co-star Robert Pattinson. Their relationship has kept their vampy personas firmly in place and the paparazzi around every corner. However, it's hard to have sympathy for Kristen, who was a virtual unknown before stepping into Bella Swan's shoes.
Luckily, she's already started to branch into different projects — so her Bella days are short-lived.
With Oscar buzz already generating over her role as Mallory in Welcome to the Riley's and her role as Marylou in the just-wrapped film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, we're pretty sure she's on the right track to getting the respect she desires. Kristen will just have to accept the fact that for some she'll always just be Bella.


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Billboard Music Awards Beauty Looks: Love It or Leave It?
Billboard Music Awards Beauty Looks: Love It or Leave It?
The Billboard Music Awards are always a showcase of the music industry's hottest talents and their wildest looks. This year, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, Rihanna, and a whole bevy of gorgeous songbirds showed up. Some, like Ke$ha, decided to go glamorously grungy, while others, like Selena Gomez, were subdued and classically pretty. Check out 15 of the most memorable looks from the night and vote on who managed to get it right.


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Resources & Development
Bingo: Bingo is played every Friday night. Doors open at 4:00 p.m. Food service begins at 5:30 p.m. and early bird games begin at 6:30 p.m. The regular games begin at 7:00 p.m. Funds raised from food sales benefit the school and funds raised from the bingo games go toward maintaining and upgrading our buildings and grounds. Bingo is a non-smoking environment held in the basement of the school.
Buildings and Grounds: Members of this committee oversee projects to renovate and/or improve the facilities and property. Currently we are working on a Master Plan to expand parking, provide better handicap access, connect the church, gym and school buildings to provide secure, centralized entrances, as well as many other improvements. For more information about the Master Plan click here.
The St. Christopher Mid-Summer Festival is one of the oldest festivals in the State of Indiana and is the fourth largest annual event held in Speedway. Since July 10, 1941, our annual festival has been known as "The Festival That's Tops in Food!" At St. Christopher's, we take great pride in preparing right in our own kitchen nearly all the food served. During our three day event, we serve over two tons of our famous hand-battered fish, representing about 15,000 fish sandwiches. Our made-from-scratch pork barbecue and coney sauce are made from recipes dating back to the 1940's. In addition to the food that is served, we offer a wide variety of amusement rides, children's games, bingo, live musical entertainment, and Monte Carlo. In order to continue our tradition of excellence, it takes the blending of more than 1,000 parish volunteers. Profits from the annual festival, along with that of Friday Night Bingo, are used to upgrade our facilities and grounds. The festival takes place during the month of July. Volunteers interested in signing up to help during the Festival can go toindyfestival.com
Parent/Teacher Partnership: The work of this group benefits the children and staff members of St. Christopher School. Volunteers from this group run the Market Day and Scrip programs, organize the annual Fall Feast, and provide various enrichment opportunities for the students.
Third Source Income: The Third Source Income Group is a very enthusiastic group of volunteers that research ways to raise money for St. Christopher School. In the fall of 2003, the school was challenged by the Parish Council to find ways to increase our school income. Up to this time there were only two sources of income: from the generous support of parishioners through the parish subsidy and directly from the parents in the form of tuition. As costs continued to rise, it became difficult for both the school parents and the parish to keep up with increases. So, the Third Source Income Group was formed to explore ways to increase income for the school and keep tuition increases to a minimum.
Volunteer Project Committee: The Volunteer Project Committee was formed in 2009 to address one of the initiatives identified in the recent strategic planning process. This committee will assist with improvement of overall parish staffing through volunteer support. A core group of volunteers will oversee the coordination of general volunteers for ministry support. This team will offer support with the selection of ministry leaders, assistance with the selection of staffing volunteers, and will help to connect parishioners who simply want to participate in parish ministries. This team will also assist with the record-keeping related to these tasks, such as tracking the results of volunteer placement, volunteer interests, and special skills of volunteers. For more information go to firstname.lastname@example.com
We now have an Online Giving portal: Please visit https://stchrisindy.weshareonline.org/to sign-up for online donations today!


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Monday, June 30, 2003
Editing c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
# For example:
# 220.127.116.11 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 220.127.116.11 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
22.214.171.124 www.comcast.net
Security Checklist for FreeBSD 4.8
Odd Activity in Argus Logs
16 Jun 03 03:12:08 tcp 18.104.22.168.4396 -> my_IP.2 TIM
23 Jun 03 07:59:05 tcp 184.108.40.206.4900 -> my_IP.2 TIM
I'm also seeing scans to port 57 TCP, which has history dating to Oct 02 and Nov 02 and is a signature of a tool called FX-Scanner (analysis). Apparently port 57 is used as a host discovery mechanism. Here are three examples.
First, recon for port 1433 TCP:
12 Jun 03 18:22:17 tcp 220.127.116.11.4464 -> my_IP.57 TIM
12 Jun 03 18:22:17 icmp 220.127.116.11 <-> my_IP ECO
12 Jun 03 18:23:04 tcp 188.8.131.52.1217 -> my_IP.1433 TIM
12 Jun 03 18:25:08 tcp 22.214.171.124.2036 -> my_IP.57 TIM
12 Jun 03 18:25:08 icmp 188.8.131.52 <-> my_IP.55 ECO
12 Jun 03 18:25:55 tcp 18.104.22.168.3590 -> my_IP.1433 TIM
Next, recon for ports 80 and 21 TCP:
18 Jun 03 15:02:53 tcp 126.96.36.199.3836 -> my_IP.80 TIM
18 Jun 03 15:03:14 tcp 188.8.131.52.4067 -> my_IP.57 TIM
18 Jun 03 15:02:53 icmp 184.108.40.206 <-> my_IP ECO
18 Jun 03 15:03:35 tcp 184.108.40.206.4325 -> my_IP.21 TIM
Third, recon for ports 1433 and 445 TCP:
19 Jun 03 11:35:14 tcp 184.108.40.206.1951 -> my_IP.57 TIM
19 Jun 03 11:35:38 tcp 126.96.36.199.1725 -> my_IP.1433 TIM
19 Jun 03 11:35:13 icmp 22.214.171.124 <-> my_IP ECO
19 Jun 03 11:37:50 tcp 22.214.171.124.2221 -> my_IP.445 TIM
I'm also seeing recon for 3410 TCP. This has only picked up in the last few days. It appears to be associated with the Backdoor.OptixPro.13:
18 Jun 03 01:03:52 tcp 18.104.22.168.4730 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
19 Jun 03 08:30:49 tcp 184.108.40.206.1414 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
19 Jun 03 17:27:04 tcp 22.214.171.124.2200 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
22 Jun 03 15:27:27 tcp 184.108.40.206.1055 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
26 Jun 03 19:25:01 tcp 126.96.36.199.3327 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
29 Jun 03 11:13:00 tcp 220.127.116.11.3554 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
29 Jun 03 12:09:59 tcp 126.96.36.199.1707 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
29 Jun 03 12:40:17 tcp 220.127.116.11.1730 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
30 Jun 03 00:56:29 tcp 188.8.131.52.2246 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
30 Jun 03 02:38:13 tcp 184.108.40.206.4191 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
30 Jun 03 03:29:07 tcp 18.104.22.168.2940 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
30 Jun 03 04:02:53 tcp 18.104.22.168.1500 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
30 Jun 03 04:51:57 tcp 188.8.131.52.1319 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
30 Jun 03 05:30:51 tcp 220.127.116.11.1395 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
30 Jun 03 07:53:05 tcp 126.96.36.199.4690 -> my_IP.3410 TIM
Sunday, June 29, 2003
TaoSecurity Web Down
Les Cottrell Network Monitoring Tools
Thursday, June 26, 2003
Packet Creation Tools
Anton Chuvakin profiles TaoSecurity Blog
Support for Windows NT 4.0
IPv6 in DoD
2003 Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
RPM Tips
Miscellaneous Hardware
OpenBSD Pf Scrubbing
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
openroot# ping www.google.com
ping: socket: Operation not permitted
openroot# w
12:40AM up 1 day, 14:13, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
w: proc size mismatch (8480 total, 1064 chunks): No such file or directory
openroot# last | head
openroot ttyp0 18.104.22.168 Fri Jun 27 00:39 still logged in
openroot ttyp0 22.214.171.124 Fri Jun 27 00:17 - 00:23 (00:06)
openroot ttyp1 csa.bu.edu Wed Jun 25 02:55 - 02:55 (00:00)
wtmp begins Wed Jun 25 02:55:49 GMT 2003
Small Form Factor Sensors
For the NSM box, I'm considering a Shuttle SB52G (support, review) with Intel 845VG chipset and FB52 motherboard sold by ExcaliburPC, NewEgg, and Knowledge MicroExpress. Crucial sells memory. Other options include the Slimpro 1BayPC (manufacturer?), LittlePC, MicroPC4 and Lex Light, For more information there's the mailing.freebsd.small list, the books Embedded FreeBSD Cookbook and Designing Embedded Hardware, or Slashdot.
One issue with these small form factor devices is having enough interfaces for serving as a firewall or router. Luckily FreeBSD 5.x supports the Linksys USB100TX and USB200M USB NICs. Iomega and others make USB floppy drives. One could always buy a full-fledged but cheap PC from TigerDirect.
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Commercial IDS Appliances Built on Snort
- Sourcefire Network Sensor
- Silicon Defense Sentarus
- PacketAlarm
- StillSecure Border Guard; check the FAQ -- they run Snort but hide it well
- Argus 1000; no relation to the one true Argus
- FidelisSec CyberHound
Snort isn't the only open source IDS engine in town. Check out Shoki or Tamandua.
Security Focus Vulnerability Database
Monday, June 23, 2003
Remote Capture Using Winpcap
Flow Tools
"Upon installation, Peakflow X monitors network traffic, automatically constructing a holistic real-time model of the entire network from the inside out. Identifying factors such as services (HTTP, FTP, Microsoft File Sharing, etc.), inbound and outbound traffic, and host-to-host behavior, Peakflow X dynamically clusters all hosts into groups based on similar operational policies. For example, hosts that communicate primarily HTTP only to hosts in the marketing department would be grouped together, indicating an organization's internal workgroup Web servers. Based on this detailed network-wide model, Peakflow X immediately detects anomalous behavior whether or not it stems from a known vulnerability. For example, should one of the internal Web servers initiate a file sharing connection to a system on the Internet, Peakflow X would immediately flag the activity as suspicious. As a result, Peakflow X can detect not only zero-day threats, like worms, but also internal misuse."
This seems like one of the best ways to deal with inspecting huge traffic flows. Readers may know I am a huge fan of products which independently capture network flows without processing stored libpcap data. Argus is the best stand-alone app, while Cisco NetFlow is an option. Luca Deri of ntop fame shared news of his nProbe, a PC-based NetFlow collector, and nBox, a Cyclades-TS100 appliance-based NetFlow collector. Commercial ntop support is available.
Sunday, June 22, 2003
Problems with CISSP Questions
"There's a chunk of questions that are difficult for all the wrong reasons. They're poorly worded, misleading or simply evasive. Evasive: that's the word that first came to mind when I walked out of the exam. It just seems like these questions serve no purpose other than to confuse and frustrate you.
It's because of these questions that you won't have an intuitive sense if you passed the exam. And it's because of these questions that the CISSP exam often gets a bad rap. Even though these questions comprise a comparatively small part of the exam, they're the ones that stick in your craw as you walk out the door."
I learned while reading Thomas Ptacek's commentaries of this article blasting the CISSP. I maintain that the main redeeming aspect of the CISSP is its code of ethics, which moves digital security closer to being a true profession with a code of ethics that matters.
Security "Return on Investment"
- "significant security breach": 5.6%, or $15-$20 million on average
- "theft of credit card data": 15%
- "denial of service": 3.6%
- "theft of customer information": 1.2%
Finally, I say forget all this talk about security providing "return on investment." Page 15 of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu 2003 Global Security Survey shows 63% of executives see security as "a necessary cost of doing business." Only 13% say security is "an investment in enabling infrastructure."
Network Tools
Friday, June 20, 2003
Network Computing on Foundstone
Guess and FTC Settlement
According to the FTC complaint, since at least October 2000, Guess' Web site has been vulnerable to commonly known attacks such as "Structured Query Language (SQL) injection attacks" and other web-based application attacks. Guess' online statements reassured consumers that their personal information would be secure and protected. The company's claims included "This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our control" and "All of your personal information, including your credit card information and sign-in password, are stored in an unreadable, encrypted format at all times." In fact, according to the FTC, the personal information was not stored in an unreadable, encrypted format at all times and Guess' security measures failed to protect against SQL and other commonly known attacks. In February 2002, a vistor to the Web site, using an SQL injection attack, was able to read in clear text credit card numbers stored in Guess' databases, according to the FTC.
Transforming the U.S. Air Force Enterprise Network
Thursday, June 19, 2003
FreeBSD X Configuration
-bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Section "Files"
Section "Module"
# Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "SysMouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
HorizSync 30.0 - 100.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050"
Also -- Happy 10th birdthday FreeBSD!
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Don't Hack Air Force Systems
An 18-year-old hacker who breached computers at Sandia National Laboratories and posted an anti-Israeli message on the Eglin Air Force Base Web site was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in federal prison.
Adil Yahya Zakaria Shakour also was ordered to pay $88,253 in restitution, and his computer use was restricted during the three years he will spend under supervised release after his prison term.
Shakour, a Pakistani national who lives in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty in March to computer and credit card fraud charges.
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Combining NIC interfaces on FreeBSD
Microsoft Patterns and Practices
Cisco IOS Licenses
Friday, June 13, 2003
You go Marty!
According to the Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB) Information Security Hype Cycle, IDSs have failed to provide value relative to its costs and will be obsolete by 2005.
From Marty's response:
Let me get this straight… better access control will completely remove the need for auditing? Auditing functions are a fundamental part of providing defense in depth in any security environment. Do they not understand this or, perhaps, have the economic challenges for industry analysts led them to the point where citing the outrageous is a competitive necessity?
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Stealing Network Address Space
Los Angeles County had been hit by a growing type of hi-tech fraud, in which large, and usually dormant, segments of the Internet's address space are taken away from their registered users through an elaborate shell game of forged letters, ephemeral domain names and anonymous corporate fronts. The patsies in the scheme are the four non-profit registries that parcel out address space around the world and keep track of who's using it. The prizes are the coveted "Class B" or "/16" (read "slash-sixteen") address blocks that Internet authorities passed out like candy in the days when address space was bountiful, but are harder to get legitimately now.


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|20 Ruy Lopez Puzzle special (+ bonus opening index!)
|By William T. Harvey
|June 1, 2006
This puzzle series is aimed to acquaint you with typical tactics in the Ruy Lopez. If you don't play the Ruy, you'll still find the exercise useful for general tactical training.
They're all from real Ruy games, and there are some recurring patterns. Notice how frequently the light squared Bishop plays a leading role in the tactical death of white. This should give you an idea of why it's uncommon for white to give up this bishop, even when it seems that it's not doing much. (problems 1- 4,6,9)
Watch how black often punishes white for slow development. Despite being the most popular opening against 1.e4 e5, many of the main lines of the Ruy, and not just the Marshall gambit, give black a temporary lead in development. (Problems 12-14 + 17-19)
The 20th problem is an opening trap first executed by Paul Keres that arises from a line in the Steinitz Deferred: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5.d4 ed4 6. Nd4?? Nxd4 7. Qxd4...
Browse through Harvey's opening index for an overview on Ruy Lopez
Finally comfort yourself with the thought that in addition to improving your tactical skills, you might also be improving your Ruy!
Puzzles compiled by W.T Harvey.


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Sandra Fauconnier
Aka Fokky. Born 1973 in Geraardsbergen, Belgium. She moved from Ghent to Antwerp in 2000, then to Rotterdam in 2004, where she currently lives.
She has (the equivalent of) a B.A. in architecture from Sint-Lucas (now known as WENK, Hogeschool Kunst en Wetenschappen), Ghent, Belgium (1994), and received an M.A. in art history (Kunstwetenschappen) from Ghent University with her dissertation 'Web-specific art: the World Wide Web as an artistic medium' (1997). She has also researched the design of participatory web-based resources at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
Sandra worked briefly at Madoc bvba (Ghent) as content and interface designer (1997). Later she was employed as web designer, webmistress, educator and educational technologist at the Teacher Training Department, Ghent University (1997-2000). Together with Guy van Belle she ran dBONANZAh!, a Flemish non-profit media art initiative focusing on digital audio projects and other related subjects (1998-2002). From 2000 to 2007 she was a media archivist at V2_, Rotterdam, where she designed a description model for electronic art activities, developed a thesaurus on media art, and worked on various research projects related to subjects such as alternative copyright models and the preservation of electronic art. Later she worked at the collection and mediatheque department of NIMk, Amsterdam (2007-2012). Currently she is the project lead of the successful online video channel ArtTube, launched by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, as well as a board member of Wikimedia Netherlands, focusing on projects that involve Wikipedia/Wikimedia and cultural and heritage institutions (GLAM).
She has published and lectured extensively on the subject of internet art and media art.


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What does it mean for my environment if I find that the
spt_monitor table in SQL Server is empty?
What is this table, how is it used and what populates it?
I am using SQL Server 2005.
My spt_monitor - table is not empty.
I just asked if it were empty....?


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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday amended its complaint against Richard Lee, a former portfolio manager at SAC Capital Advisors who the agency charged on July 25 with insider trading, to additionally charge Sandeep Aggarwal, the tipper of confidential information to Lee.
The SEC says that Aggarwal, a sell-side analyst, tipped Lee in advance of a July 2009 public announcement about an Internet search engine partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo.
Lee purchased large amounts of Yahoo stock in the SAC Capital hedge fund that he managed as well as in his personal trading account on the basis of the inside information.
In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday announced criminal charges against Aggarwal, who lives in India but recently returned to the U.S.
Sanjay Wadhwa, senior associate director of the SEC's New York Regional Office, said in a statement that "Rather than rely on legitimate research methods, Aggarwal obtained confidential information from a close friend at Microsoft and passed it along to Lee knowing that he would likely trade on it."
As a sell-side analyst, "Aggarwal knew the rules and yet he broke them, which is why he joins the growing ranks of those held accountable by the SEC for insider trading," Wadhwa said.
The SEC alleges that Aggarwal learned confidential details about the significant progress of the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations from his close friend at Microsoft on July 9, 2009, and he tipped Lee with the information during a telephone call the following day.
"When the information was reported in the media almost a week later, Yahoo's stock price rose approximately 4%," the SEC says. "SAC Capital and Lee reaped substantial profits from the Yahoo shares that he purchased after speaking to Aggarwal."
According to the SEC's amended complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, Aggarwal covered both Microsoft and Yahoo for his research firm and regularly received periodic updates from his inside source at Microsoft. "Upon learning that Microsoft and Yahoo were potentially within two weeks of finalizing a deal, Aggarwal shared very specific details with Lee," the SEC states. "Aggarwal assured him that the information came from a close friend at Microsoft who was reliable and accurate."
The SEC's amended complaint charges Aggarwal and Lee with violating Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5. The amended complaint seeks a final judgment ordering Aggarwal and Lee to pay disgorgement of ill-gotten gains plus prejudgment interest and financial penalties, and permanently enjoining them from future violations of these provisions of the federal securities laws.


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Jennifer Lopez Recreates Famous Grammys Look (and Dances with Half-Naked Men) in New Music Video
ennifer Lopez has hit us with a #throwback like no other. On Thursday night, the American Idol judge released the music video for her "I-know-you-want-me" urban pop track "I Luh Ya Papi," in which she brings us the 2014 version of her famous ultra-plunging Versace gown from the 2000 Grammys — a crazy low-cut jumpsuit with the same wild jungle print!
"We didn't really even plan that," Lopez tells PEOPLE. "The stylist just brought it on the rack and I saw it and was like, 'What's the jungle print doing there?' So it just kind of worked out."
The video shows the 44-year-old in various outfits that are reminiscent of some of her most iconic fashion moments whilst being surrounded by scantily clad men. "We decided to flip the script," Lopez says. "We were asking ourselves, 'Why do the guys always have the fun?' This video is for the girls!"
Apart from that green plunging neckline, you will also see Lopez in a white outfit on a yacht that looks a lot like the cover of her On the 6 album from 1999, short shorts and all. But instead of being a play thing for the boys, her role is a new one. "Why do men always objectify the women?" says one of her back up dancers at the beginning of the video (watch below) in which they foresee what their idea for flipping the script will look like. "Why can't we for once objectify the men?"
Though it looks effortless on all parts, working with male models as opposed to dancers proved to be a challenge for Lopez's choreographer beau Casper Smart, who was responsible for directing all their moves. "I mean they're beautiful," says Lopez of the male models she was flanked with in the video. "Lying there, it was genius! But when they had to get up and be like, 'I luh you,' it was like, 'OKAY guys maybe one more take.' This was the closest I would ever do to a rap video. It was a lot of fun."
It definitely looks like a lot of fun, but the mom of 6-year-old twins will be the first to admit that it's hard work bringing on the sexy. "It's the other job to the job! But it is what it is, you gotta buckle down," says the pop star. As for how she maintains her sexy figure (her body in the video is insane!), it's plain and simple: "You gotta work out and watch what you eat."
People Magazine


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Politics, Philosophy and Religion offers a wide range of undergraduate degree schemes, including single honours (one subject), joint honours (two subjects) and combined honours (three subjects) both within the department and with other departments in the University. Our degrees are designed to be flexible, allowing students to combine different subjects, and, if appropriate, to change their degree programme at the end of the first year.
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Let's be clear: Negative gearing is not much of a tax-saver.
Borrowing for investment is back in the news. Shadow Treasurer Bowen's office has confirmed that Labor's proposed changes to negative gearing will apply to all assets, including shares and managed funds – with the single exception of new residential property.
It's a highly controversial policy. Just this week Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond claimed that Labor's negative gearing "hand grenade" could tip Australia into recession.
From a purely philosophical point of view, I think the proposed changes are bad policy. Restricting the ability to deduct losses on investment borrowing to a single type of investment – new residential property – will add unnecessary complications to an already complicated tax system and give us more "grandfathering" to worry about. And it will undoubtedly lure some unsophisticated investors into financial strife.
Today let's stick to the basics and think about borrowing for investment in general, and negative gearing in particular. For starters, let's make one thing perfectly clear: negative gearing is not much of a tax-saver.
Think about a person earning between $90,000 and $180,000 a year. If they borrowed $500,000 at 5% to buy a residential property for $550,000 with a net yield of 4%, the cash shortfall would be $3000 a year (ignoring depreciation allowances, which depend on the property purchased and are clawed back on sale anyway). The tax refund would be just $1170 a year, including the Medicare levy. You would need to be a serious odds-on punter to borrow $500,000 just to save $1170 in tax.
So, the purpose of borrowing for investment is not to save tax, but to put the power of leverage to work for you. But leverage is a two-way street: it magnifies whatever is happening, positive or negative.
If the above property increases in value by 10%, the investor has made a profit, at least on paper, of $55,000 – more than doubling their original stake of $50,000. Conversely, if the property falls by 10%, the investor has lost their entire equity and more.
Obviously, the critical issue in choosing residential property for investment is not any tax breaks you may have at the outset. The key is to find a property that is under-priced and has the potential to increase in value over the long haul. For this, the vital thing is location, and the likelihood of increased demand for properties in that area. Successful property investors buy well, and add value by their own efforts and/or by growth in the area.
This is why astute real estate buyers look for the worst house in the best street. The best street will have location, and the worst house should be capable of having value added to it by refurbishment, and in some cases even by rezoning. They also look for a vendor who is highly motivated for a quick sale due to personal factors such as a job transfer, relationship breakup or financial strife. As one seasoned investor told me: "the day you make the money is the day you sign the contract".
It would be almost impossible to find these factors in a brand-new property, which is why I believe Labor's proposed changes to negative gearing will entice inexperienced "investors" into new properties to which they can't add value. It will be a bonanza for property spruikers, who are still unregulated.
The worst feature of all this talk about negative gearing is that it moves the focus of the investor from the potential of the asset to be purchased, to the investment strategy which will give the greatest tax breaks. Never forget the principle that any investment must stand on its merits – tax benefits, if any, are simply the cream on the cake.
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'The tie-up with Emirates is a big step in the right direction.'QANTAS boss Alan Joyce reckons the company is at an "inflection point" in its transformation from an airline plagued by patchy divisional performances to an integrated conglomerate of airline brands, all which make solid returns.
Not surprisingly, this is the glass half-full version. The half-empty version is that the airline is in the middle of the perfect storm, and getting through it will involve plenty of work.
If the sharemarket is the arbiter, the glass half-fulls have it. At the very least, the stock price experienced a positive response when Qantas released a series of announcements on Thursday.
The prospect of Qantas whittling down its debt by $650 million and engaging in a share buyback, albeit a smallish one, came as a welcome surprise.
Shareholders always take well to some capital management. In particular, they love extra dividends, but because Qantas does not have any excess franking credits. This was never going to be an option.
Instead, it used some excess cash from Boeing compensation payments and the sale of the Star Track freight business to pay back debt and buy some of its own stock.
The company takes the view that the stock price undervalues the book value of its businesses, which include Jetstar and Frequent Flyer.
Thus buying back its own stock is a better investment than buying another business or ploughing capital back into its own operations.
And given that highly geared companies with volatile earnings are an unpopular mix in today's uncertain environment, using its cash to pay down debt makes perfect sense.
Meanwhile, the buyback provides a sense to the market that Qantas is sufficiently confident in its strategy to revive earnings that it will not require the cash from the sale of Star Track as a buffer against lean times. In other words, the company is confident the work it is doing on fixing the international business will gain some traction.
Certainly, the tie-up with Emirates, which gives Qantas the use of a phantom network, is a big step in the right direction from a financial perspective. This was the focus on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Joyce told the market that in the first half this year, underlying profit would range between $180 million and $230 million. At first blush, this seems to stack up fairly well against the expectations of the analysts looking for $149 million to $220 million.
But reading the company's underlying performance is not all that simple. There is the underlying profit forecast that Joyce spoke of, and then there is the "underlying, underlying profit" as Macquarie Equities analyst Russell Shaw called it.
The forecast by Joyce for the current half to December includes a payment of about $135 million from Boeing. Qantas was upfront about this, but if one is to get a true gauge of performance it should really be backed out.
To do so would leave Qantas with a more meagre performance for the current half, of $30 million to $80 million.
In the previous corresponding period (the first half of financial year 2012) the company made $202 million.
But that was after taking into account $194 million of losses associated with the industrial relations action and the grounding of the fleet. Without that anchor, Qantas would have made closer to $400 million profit.
Thus if one strips out all these factors and takes the earnings back to the bare bones, the 2013 financial year is not shaping up to be a good one.
The good news is that Qantas will make some headway in stemming the losses from its international mainline business.
In the first half to December 2013 the work done on this will improve profits by $50 million, and in the second half it would get another $100 million.
The biggest plank in the international recovery strategy is the tie-up with Emirates.
While this partnership is yet to be approved by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, there is a broad expectation that it will tick the right boxes.
The flipside is that the domestic operations appear to be suffering more than many had expected. Joyce made it plain right from the start that engaging in a capacity war with Virgin would be costly, and he was right.
How painful this will be depends on when it finishes. To date it has played havoc with yields and has been a bonanza for passengers looking for cheap fares.
The growth in capacity appears to have started to ease, which could allow growth in demand time to catch up.
If Joyce is concerned about this outcome of this capacity glut, he isn't showing it.
He knows it is unsustainable, but points to several similar battles over the past 12 years.
The 2000 war took the life of Ansett, which was already in a parlous financial state. Those in 2003 and 2008 were ultimately resolved as the players took a more practical commercial view.
This time around, the Qantas and Virgin capacity war was triggered by Virgin's move to grab a larger share of the business market, and Qantas' fight to retain its 65 per cent share of the overall market.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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Exploring Causes of the Civil War – Part VI: The Contribution of Constitutional Ambiguity
This post continues a series on Exploring Causes of the Civil War. Other posts can be read by clicking on any of the following links: Part I: Introduction, Part II: Antebellum America, Part III: The Antebellum South, Part IV: The Antebellum North, and Part V: The Rise of Sectional Disputes.
Historian Gabor S. Boritt asserts that the American Constitution's "fundamental ambiguity" on a number of matters involving slavery contributed to the sectional controversy that stimulated the growing conflict between the North and the South.[i] The document was vague on the status of slavery in the territories, the power of Congress over the institution in the District of Columbia, whether the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce extended to the slave trade, whether it was a state or federal responsibility to return runaway slaves, and whether Congress could impose conditions on a new state or refuse to admit a new slave state to the Union.[ii] But the most important of these was whether a state had the right to secede from the Union.
Whereas the Articles of Confederation had proclaimed the Union to be perpetual, the Constitution contained no such statement. Indeed, nowhere did it discuss whether a state could secede or not. In the absence of any explicit provision, neither the nationalists nor the secessionists could present a conclusive argument on the subject. In upholding the perpetuity of the Union, Abraham Lincoln conceded that the language of the Constitution was not decisive.[iii]
This didn't stop either side from finding in these documents justification of their positions.
Topic of the next post: Political Discord, Slavery, and the Fight for Political Control.
© 2007 L. Rene Tyree
[i] Gabor S. Boritt, "'And the War Came'? Abraham Lincoln and the Question of Individual Responsibility," in Why the Civil War Came, ed. Gabor S. Boritt [book on-line] (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, accessed 1 September 2007), 85; available from questia.com http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=78779127; Internet.
[ii] Ibid.
[iii] Ibid.


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Gregory Hom is an accomplished designer who specializes in brand development. He has helped hundreds of companies express their business goals through compelling creative solutions. He has worked in the design field for more than twenty-five years, leading design teams through brand development programs from identity and packaging to collateral and digital solutions.
Over the years while working at other agencies he has created brand solutions for some of the most innovative companies around.
A short list of clients include: Acura, Disney, California Lottery, Dell, Esprit, Henk, HRV, i2 Technologies, Intershop, Microsoft, Motorola, Napster, Network Appliance, Oracle, SAP, Verizon, wine.com.
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Les Miles, LSU Agree to Raise, Extension
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - LSU athletic director Joe Alleva says football coach Les Miles is getting a raise and an extension.
Miles has had a previously scheduled news conference on Wednesday pushed back an hour so Alleva and Miles's agent, George Bass could finish work on the deal.
Alleva says details of the contract are still in the negotiation process and will be announced at a later date.
Miles previous contract paid about $3.75 million annually through 2017. He has not received a raise since 2008, though he has since received an extension and raises for assistants.
Miles is 85-20 at LSU since arriving in 2005, with one national title in the 2007 season and two BCS championship appearances. LSU's victory over Arkansas last Friday clinched Miles' fifth 10-win season with the Tigers.
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It was not a very busy day for the minor leagues on Tuesday as the AZL Cubs and Peoria were both off and Daytona was cancelled once again.
Boise got a great outing from Tayler Scott and the rest of the staff as they defeated Salem-Keizer 5-0. Scott was great once again pitching five scoreless innings giving up four hits and striking out one. He got the win and is now 5-1 on the season with a 1.88 ERA. Tyler Bremer and Eduardo Orozco completed the shutout combing to not allow a run over the final four innings. Jeimer Candelario was 1-for-4 with two RBIs and Xavier Batista hit his fourth home run of the season. Daniel Vogelbach got back on track knocking in his 22nd run since going to Boise. Trey Martin and Gioskar Amaya each had two hits, with Martin driving one run in. After a couple of losses it was nice to see Boise get back in the win column.
In a scoreless game until the sixth, Tennessee's offense came to life beating Birmingham 8-2. Jae-Hoon Ha hit his fifth home run of the season, a two-run shot in the sixth to get the scoring started. Junior Lake went 2-for-5 with a double and two RBIs. Logan Watkins had two hits and an RBI as did Rubi Silva who played his first game since being promoted from Daytona. Matt Szczur had another hit, this one a double and Elliot Soto knocked in a run of his own. The Smokies used five pitchers to get this win. Dallas Beeler started, but only lasted three innings. Austin Kirk threw one scoreless inning and Casey Harman gave up two runs in 2.2 innings. Trey McNutt got the win and Kevin Rhoderick closed things out tossing the ninth.
Iowa exploded for 12 runs on Tuesday defeating Tucson 12-7. This game was all about the offense as every starting position player had at least one hit, including the first six who had two a piece. Greg Rohan had two more hits and two more RBIs, he is now hitting .346 with 17 RBIs while in Iowa. Blake Lalli, James Adduci, and Dave Sappelt all had two hits and drove in one run. Tony Campana led things off and went 2-for-5 with two runs scored and a stolen base. Juan Apodaca had an RBI and Nate Samson went 3-for-5 with an RBI of his own. Marcus Hatley got the win in relief pitching two scoreless innings. Scott Maine and Jairo Asencio combined to toss the last three scoreless innings. Ty'Relle Harris started and struggled giving up seven runs on nine hits in four innings. Iowa hasn't had one like this in a while, it was nice to see the offense come around.
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Can Sleep Problems Make You Gain Weight?
The panel weighs in on how sleep issues can cause you to eat more and put on pounds.
Everyday Health: What's the connection between sleep and weight loss or weight gain?
David O. Volpi, MD, FACS (nycsnoringsleepapneacenter.com)
The connection is really a vicious cycle. Snoring is often caused because the person is overweight or obese to begin with. Then the lack of sleep caused by snoring leads to weight gain for two main reasons: It causes hormones to be secreted in the stomach that stimulate appetite, and we produce less of the hormone that helps us realize we're full, thus we eat more.
William Dement, MD, PhD (end-your-sleep-deprivation.com)
Sleep loss doesn't directly cause weight loss or weight gain. However, there is a correlation between losing sleep and eating more. Adequate sleep is less associated with obesity. There are a variety of metabolic consequences between the time spent awake versus the time spent asleep that are a part of this explanation (i.e., the more you are awake, the more energy expenditure and as a consequence, an increase in appetite).
Russell Rosenberg, PhD (sleepfoundation.org)
A number of both small- and large-scale studies have confirmed a link between sleep deprivation and weight gain. Physiologic studies suggest that sleep restriction has metabolic and hormonal effects that predispose a person to weight gain. People who get too little sleep may eat more because of changes in levels of the hormones leptin and ghrelin. We don't really understand all of the reasons why significant sleep deprivation predicts weight gain. If you are trying to lose weight or reduce risk for weight gain, get a full night of sleep on a daily basis.
Scott Eveloff, MD (somnitech.com)
There is a connection between sleep duration and weight. Most recent studies have shown that chronic sleep deprivation, defined as five or fewer hours per night, has been associated with higher rates of overweight and weight gain. Reduced sleep seems to affect the levels of hormones that control appetite as well as hormones that affect fat and sugar metabolism.
Conrad Iber, MD (hcmc.org/sleep)
Weight gain has been linked to insufficient sleep especially in night shift workers. While there is some uncertainty as to the cause, there are several studies showing this link. Sleep requirement varies a bit by age and certainly among individuals, though seven to eight hours of sleep is typical in adults. Mood disturbance and even higher mortality have been linked to very short sleep times and very long sleep times.
Brian Wind, PhD (sleepcenterinfo.com)
Sleep is closely tied to weight, in that hormones related to metabolism are replenished during sleep. These hormones serve to keep the metabolism at a sufficient rate to burn enough calories to avoid weight gain. Slowing of the metabolism (due to lack of good-quality sleep) increases our propensity to gain weight. Additionally, not getting enough sleep means that a person is awake longer per day, and there is more time for calorie consumption. Finally, poor-quality sleep also affects our "cravings" when it comes to food; those suffering from poor-quality sleep often crave foods that are sweet or high in fat content.


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Herd wins opener, two Cintron homers
The Buffalo Bisons, Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets, opened up the 2010 spring exhibition schedule with a 6-5 victory over the New Orleans Zephyrs (Marlins) on Friday afternoon from Port St. Lucie, FL.
The Bisons face the Memphis Redbirds tomorrow in Jupiter, FL. for the second game of their 10-game exhibition schedule.
Bisons INF Alex Citron was the hitting hero for the Herd, going 2-3 with a pair of home runs and 3RBI. The switch hitter homered from both the left side and right side of the plate.
On the mound, LHP Bobby Livingston threw three shutout innings, striking out three batters.
There are just 26 days until the Bisons' 2010 Home Opener on Wednesday, April 14 against the Pawtucket Red Sox (3:05 p.m.). Tickets are now on-sale at bisons.com or by calling THE-HERD at (843-4373).


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University of Tehran students are preparing for the anti-regime demonstrations on 22 Bahman (February 11, 2010).
Iran News Agency- Students from various departments are inviting others to join in on protests by spray painting slogans on the university walls.
The graffiti is visible everywhere from classrooms to the corridors. The slogans mainly express the students' condemnation of the government's murderous actions.
The students also made it clear that they are ready for 22 Bahman protests.
Editor's note: 22 Bahman commemorates the anniversary of the Islamic Republic. Since the June 2009 presidential election uprising, government oppositions have used such occasions to voice their discontent. Major anti-government demonstrations are expected to take place on 22 Bahman
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Handless man accused of throwing rocks at KFC
Man, 46, speaks only Swahili, claims to have been in America 2 years
A man who only speaks Swahili and has no hands has been accused of tossing boulders through windows at a KFC restaurant in Albuquerque.
Police identified the suspect in the Friday night incident at Central Avenue and Louisiana Boulevard as Koffi Mbairamadji, 46.
KFC employee Martin Ventura said he saw Mbairamadji use his arms to launch a rock the size of a volleyball through a window.
Mbairamadji spoke through a translator at his arraignment on Monday. The details of who he is and where he's from are limited.
A criminal complaint indicates that Mbairamadji was brought to the country by the United Nations.
Ventura said Mbairamadji had chased a woman into the restaurant earlier that day and ended up getting punched by a customer who was trying to protect her.
Ventura said he guesses that's what led the suspect to allegedly break the window hours later.
"All this glass is all over, and it's like, 'What the heck happened?'" Ventura said.
KFC employees said Mbairamadji also found a brick and launched it through a drive-through window.
Police said no one was hurt in either rock-throwing incident.
Mbairamadji said at his arraignment that Monday marked his second year in America. At last check, he was still in jail at the Metropolitan Detention Center.


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After finding his son dead at home, the man now charged with murder in the boy's death wanted to dump the 10-year-old's body and leave the country rather than face authorities, his wife and co-accused testified Wednesday.
In her second day of testimony, Nichelle Boothe-Rowe told a Toronto-area court that she asked her husband to "do the right thing" because Shakeil Boothe deserved a proper burial.
"Garfield was insisting on leaving Shakeil's body in the house or to dump it" before fleeing to his native Jamaica or the U.S., where he also has relatives, she said.
He also encouraged her to hide out with family members in Pennsylvania, since the couple wasn't supposed to be living together under the conditions of Boothe's probation, his wife said. The couple also had an infant son who was 8 months old at the time.
At the time, Boothe-Rowe believed her stepson had died from a bad cold and reassured her husband that he hadn't done anything to deliberately kill the child, she said.
Boothe-Rowe told the court that when she found Shakeil's lifeless body in the family's basement on May 26, 2011, she didn't know that he had been beaten shortly before his death.
She said Boothe told her not to call 911 and later moved the boy's body to his bedroom, where paramedics found him the next day, cold and foaming at the mouth.
Both Boothe and Boothe-Rowe are charged with second-degree murder.
Court has heard autopsy results showed widespread internal bleeding overwhelmed Shakeil's frail body, already weakened by malnutrition and severe infection.
The pathologist who examined Shakeil's body said the boy had sustained heavy blows minutes to hours before his death.
Previous testimony showed the couple arranged to transfer Boothe-Rowe's belongings and the baby's things to a storage locker on May 26. A taxi driver testified he dropped Boothe-Rowe and the baby at the Toronto bus terminal that night.
Boothe-Rowe and the baby took a bus to Buffalo, N.Y., where her sister waited to drive them to Pennsylvania, she said.
In that time, the couple was in near-constant communication by text message and BlackBerry Messenger, court heard.
Phone records presented at trial show Boothe-Rowe first messaged her husband around 1 a.m. to let him know she had crossed the border. But the messages soon turned to Shakeil's death and how the pair would handle it.
"Pray n make the rite decision u didn't do anything intentional u tried b strong n call ur dad 4 support he was still ur child n u owe him that much," Boothe-Rowe wrote her husband around 7:45 a.m. on May 27.
A flurry of messages followed over the next few minutes, with Boothe-Rowe urging her husband to call 911 and do something by noon or she would.
"I just just dnt want u and (the baby) to get involve," Boothe wrote around 7:50 a.m., immediately followed by: "Cause ur right I didn't do any ting wrong intentionally."
In another message, Boothe told his wife he would "make sure u have nuttin to do with this."
"I don't as a matter of fact," she replied. "But I cud have made you help him more. I so miss him I wish it didn't go like this."
Boothe-Rowe deleted all the messages on her phone before returning to Canada on May 30, knowing they would prove she had known Shakeil was dead, she said. She was arrested at the border.
The stepmother said she knew authorities would be looking for her, even though she "didn't have anything to do with Shakeil's death."
Court has heard she knew he was being beaten, had seen Boothe strike him with a belt repeadedly and, once, stomp on his chest.
Twice she noticed cuts on the boy's legs, but never saw the extent of his injuries since he always wore jeans and long-sleeved shirts, she said. His father was in charge of shower time, she said.
She admitted to lying to police officers and, later, withholding information from children's aid because she was "still protecting Garfield."
She described living in fear of the only man with whom she'd had a relationship, wanting to leave him but fearing he would hurt her or his sons.
"If I should ever leave the house, he'll hunt me down ... He also said that if I leave the house, I wouldn't be leaving alive," she testified.
"Why didn't you just call police to get help?" her lawyer, Brian Ross, asked.
"I was controlled by Garfield, I had fear and I was just paralyzed by fear," she replied.
Boothe-Rowe said she only fully realized what was happening to her while taking a course on domestic abuse during her incarceration.