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Humans account for less than 40% of Web traffic
Who's actually surfing the Internet? Lots and lots of bots, according to a new report, including benign search engine crawlers as well as malicious 'scrapers' and spammers.
By Yuval Rosenberg,
The Fiscal Times
The Internet is a sprawling and mysterious place, as anyone who's spent two minutes on Google (GOOG) -- and certainly anyone involved with web publishing -- can attest. It's a thrumming hive filled with vast amounts of data, knowledge, commerce and media and an equally vast number of gloriously bizarre arguments, grumpy cats and adorable sloths.
Also, bots. Lots and lots of bots.
Bots are software applications built to perform automated tasks. They can be valuable, as with search engines crawling and indexing websites. They can also be malicious, like those used by hackers and spammers.
A report released this week by Incapsula (IMPV), a cloud-based web-security service, found that 61.5 percent of all website traffic now comes from these non-human visitors. If you're reading this and you're human, you're apparently in the minority.
Incapsula based its findings on 1.45 billion bot visits, over a 90-day period, to 20,000 sites on its own network. That network may not be perfectly representative of the entire web, but it offers a sense of who, or what, is out there. (View an infographic of the results here.)
Bot traffic is up by a fifth from last year, according to Incapsula. Most of that growth comes from "good bots," like those from analytics companies and search engines that are crawling sites more frequently. Legitimate bot activity has jumped 55 percent, which Incapsula suggests is largely the result of new online services and increased crawling by search engines seeking the timeliest results. Those search engines and other good bots account for 31 percent of web traffic.
Another 30.5 percent of traffic comes from malicious bots, including "scrapers," which look to steal content or email addresses; "hacking tools"; a shrinking pool of spammers; and a growing group of what Incapsula calls "other impersonators" and describes as "unclassified bots with hostile intentions.
"Malicious bot traffic as a percentage of overall traffic hasn't changed, but the specific kinds of bot activity has shifted, Incapsula said. Spam bots have decreased from two percent of traffic in 2012 to 0.5 percent this year. "The most plausible explanation for this steep decrease is Google's anti-spam campaign," the report said.
Activity by more sophisticated impersonator bots -- "the tools of top-tier hackers who are proficient enough to create their own malware" -- has risen, though. These impersonators are usually custom-made for a specific activity that involves penetrating a website's security, according to the report. "The 8 percent increase in the number of such bots highlights the increased activity of such hackers," Incapsula said, "as well as the rise in targeted cyber-attacks."
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Serial rapist John Michael Enard has been on the run now for 117 days.
He became one of Texas's most wanted sex offenders soon after ditching his ankle monitor and jumping the fence at this halfway house on Beaumont Highway.
Because Enard is just one of 272 rapists and child molesters considered so deviant and dangerous the state had them civilly committed as sexually violent predators.
"We're dealing with the worst of the worst the most dangerous population of sex offenders," said Allison Taylor, director of the state's civil commitment program.
Fox 26 Investigates later learned Enard is one of 11 sexually violent predators the parole board actually allowed to leave prison early by granting parole.
When he absconded from the halfway house we were told Enard was under the most intensive form of parole supervision possible and was also under constant monitoring by the state's civil commitment program.
"I'd like to know who in the hell was looking after him that particular day," said State Senator John Whitmire.
Fearing Enard will keep his vow to rape again is the state's primary reason for tracking him down.
Another possible reason might be to shut me up.
Enard's the reason we found out the parole board was giving some sexually violent predators a break.
That dangerous practice was brought to a screeching halt by Whitmire.
"We're not talking about a shop lifter here," the state senator said. "We're talking about a sexual offender two or more offenses."
Enard's flight for freedom also prompted us to ask the state just how many other sex offenders and various paroled felons have fled from the halfway house once called The Reid Center.
Get this. In just over the last two years 719 convicted felons were at one time considered absconders from the halfway house.
The halfway house is not a lockdown facility.
"You don't have guards manning towers," said crime victims advocate Andy Kahan.
But yet the criminals sent there are still serving their sentences.
"If you had some 700 odd people break out of a prison facility we all know what would happen," Kahan said. "Everybody's eyes and ears would be on the lookout."
But the Texas Department of Criminal Justice does nothing to alert the public about paroled criminals from this halfway house.
Of course Enard is an exception because of his status as a sexually violent predator.
But we found scores of other sex offenders who ran from the old Reid Center and the state told no one.
In fact we had to pay the state money to gather the information since T.D.C.J. says it doesn't keep a running tally of wanted fugitives from the halfway house.
"If you really truly found out what was going on how many people are missing like you're pointing out now the public they'd be up in arms," Kahan said.
Out of the 719 paroled criminals who were named in fugitive warrants in the last 27 months, the bulk are either back at the halfway house or in jail facing possible parole revocation.
But according to the state's information 92 of the paroled convicts remain wanted fugitives.
No one knows where they are or what they are doing.
"And of that number one third of those are either violent offenders and or sex offenders," Kahan said. "That's a pretty high number."
The convicted sex offenders now considered fugitives by the state include 61-year-old Robert Kaska, convicted of molesting a 15-year-old girl.
50-year-old David Lee Williams also convicted in a sexual attack involving a 15-year-old and 29-year-old Douglas Raymond Lopez who went to prison for sexually assaulting a 4-year-old boy.
"I've never been happy with the current status of halfway houses in the state," Whitmire said.
The state senator says it's time to consider other ways to house and watch sex offenders and other dangerous criminals who've been paroled but aren't ready to live on their own.
"The general concept of a halfway house needs to be revisited," said Whitmire.
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Aid is being sent from all over the world to people who are still without food and clean water the Philippines, and one of the survivors is engaged to an East Texas man. The couple was on the phone when the storm hit then the Longview man says the line went dead."She had texted me 'oh my god the winds are so strong'. At that point winds were at 195-200 miles an hour. Then I lost all communication," says Tim Parker.For 3 days Parker didn't know if his fiancee Eileen was even alive in Ormoc , one of the hardest hit areas in the Philippines.Their romance started over a year ago."We corresponded over the Internet starting last January then I actually flew over to the Philippines in March. I fell in love with her when I first saw her'" he says.Parker proposed in July and was working on getting visa papers for Eileen and her daughter, when the typhoon hit.He says he was talking to Eileen on the phone when the line went dead."I told her to get water , food, and hunker down. All I saw was destruction and it scared the living daylights out of me," Parker says.Then finally , a call back. "She called me about 5:30 in the morning on the 10th," he says.Eileen told him the aftermath is a nightmare."A month before the typhoon they had an earthquake. Water and food is very scarce, and they had a prison breakout , and convicts are looting houses," says Parker. Parker says he is planning on flying to the Philippines to bring Eileen and her daughter to East Texas. Copyright 2013 KLTV. All rights reserved.
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The Fish Which Changes From Female to Male
By Geetika Anand; Illustration by Shridevi
The angel fish live in groups. And each group has one male fish, which is blue in colour, and four female fish, which are yellow in colour.
The male angelfish is the strongest and largest member of the group. He is the one who protects and looks after the females and acts like their 'security guard'. When the male dies, the group needs a 'security guard'. This is when the largest female fish in the group begins to change its appearance.
She begins to grow larger in size. After a week, she starts changing colour, from yellow to blue. Slowly, her behaviour towards the females changes. She begins behaving like a male. Two weeks later, black stripes appear on her body. This indicates that the gender change is complete. She is now completely male!
This process of changing gender is called hermaphroditism.
Another interesting fact about angelfish is that they have an occupation in the fish world. Most of them act as 'cleaners' for other fish. They pick parasites and dead tissue from the body of other fish.
The angel fish are among the most brightly coloured fish of the sea. You can also see them in home aquaria. People prefer to keep them because of the interesting patterns on them. These patterns help them to hide from predators. Often, the young ones are differently coloured than the adults.
At night, when these fish become inactive, their colours may change. Among the better-known species are the black and gold angelfish of the Indo-Pacific, the French angelfish, Pomacanthus paru (or P. arcuatus), a black and yellow species of the Atlantic, and the queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris), a blue and yellow fish of the Atlantic.
They can be found in the freshwaters of South America, in warm seas and coral reefs and can grow up to a length of 17 inches. They usually swim singly or in pairs. They have thinly compressed bodies and a strong spine located in the lower part of the cheekbone. Their diet consists mainly of sponge and algae.
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Mirrored Closet Doors
If we saw the phrase 'mirrored closet doors' in a rental ad, we'd immediately picture those sliding styles of the 70s and 80s framed in bright metallic trim, and probably move on to the next listing. It would be a shame then if these were what they actually looked like...
The closets in this 525 square-foot studio provide ample room for storage, while the mirrors create the illusion of more space. Best part? The closet doors are from Ikea, so they're a cheap and chic solution for maximizing the area of a small home.
(Image: Robert Pelletier for Canadian House and Home)
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Probably not what I would choose, but they look good and it helps that they are right across from a window to bounce the light. This picture reminds me of an apartment we lived in when I was little. The whole wall behind the dining area was mirrored and I loved it. I think kids like anything that allows showmanship. That's how our big windowseat in our house became a stage.
Hm, if I saw mirrored closet doors in a rental ad, I'd just think, "well, they can always be covered with pretty paper if they're awful" and see if the rest of the apartment was appealing. Nice mirrored doors like these are lovely, but ugly ones are too small of a thing to be a deal breaker.
I used to have mirrored doors and I'd kill to have them again. Not having to put up a big wall mirror saves tons of space in a small place. Hmm, wonder how hard these are to install.
Either these or the tacky 80's ones, I'd still skip. If I want a mirror, I'll hang a mirror. That's my problem.
I'm still not liking them.
I like them, and don't truly understand the objection people have to mirrored walls. Clean, timeless, versatile.
i love them. there is a whole section on martha stewart about decorating with mirrors. i want to do my whole hallway in them one day. like in dr No. wicked.
tenderleaf--i'm with you. i think it's all in the application, like all things. if it's clean and minimalist, i think it can be quite pretty. but yeah, i've seen tacky versions too. i like this particular example.
I'm a bit of a wuss. I would always be paranoid about seeing something out of the corner of my eye.
We had mirrored closet doors in our first condo, almost 30 years ago. They were wonderful and sure added light to the bedroom. Made the tiny room feel more spacious. I would be happy to have mirrored doors again, especially in a small space.
To my eye, what makes these stand out is that they lack the cheap, tacky frames that so many mirrored doors have. These look like simple, minimalist panes mounted on the doors.
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Whitefield Academy held Hebron Christian to 13 points in the Class A boys first round last week.
According to Becky Taylor of the Georgia Basketball Project, that's the fewest points allowed in the state tournament for a boys game since 1947, when Rabun Gap defeated Mansfield 64-10 in the Class C first round.
Mansfield, a little town in Newton County, ''really shouldn't even count,'' according to Taylor, ''as they were the only team in Class C in their region and didn't have to win any tournament to qualify for state.''
The last time a boys' team in the state tournament scored less than 20 points was 1963, when West Haralson defeated Surrency 47-19. Surrency is in Appling County.
Here are the 10 teams that scored the fewest points in a state tournament game since 1970 –
1) Hebron Christian 13, Whitefield Academy 65 (2/25/2011, 1st round)
2) Marist 24, Creekside 38 (02/28/2003, 2nd round)
3) Prince Avenue Christian 25, SACA 52 (2/21/2003, 1st round)
3) Miller County 25, Wilkinson County 88 (2/26/2010, 1st round)
5) Greenforest Christian 26, Walker 50 (2/27/2002, 2nd round)
5) Westminster 26, Cass 45 (2/28/2003, 2nd round)
5) St. Pius X 26, Columbia 49 (2/24/2005, 2nd round)
Pope 27, Redan 45 (2/22/2003, 1st round)
Wilcox County 27, ECI 60 (2/20/2004, 1st round)
Temple 27, GAC 87 (2/26/2010, 1st round)
February 28th, 2012
2:00 pm
Not only did they only score 13 points….they only had 2 fieldgoals…count em….2!! The rest of their points were from free-throws. What a joke!
February 28th, 2012
3:45 pm
1A is so lame.
February 28th, 2012
4:03 pm
that whitefield defense put the clamps on some of the top AA and AAAAA teams in the state.
February 28th, 2012
8:10 pm
I hear Andraya Carter dislocated her shoulder during the Buford (AA) game, but went back in to finish the game. Buford by 8.
February 29th, 2012
11:49 am
1A is lame comment….I hate disappoint you but Whitefield and Southwest Christian could beat most bigger schools in the state. If you dont remember there is some big guy who plays for Orlando that played at Southwest and he is pretty good. So lay off the smoked bananas and realize that 1A teams are pretty darn good.
March 1st, 2012
2:52 pm
Whitefield might be a top 5 or 6 team in any classification.
What has SW Christian done before or after Dwight Howard? One good player doesn't make your team historically significant.
March 1st, 2012
8:21 pm
I personally watched Whitefield BEAT 5A Harrison. They have one helluva basketball team
March 2nd, 2012
3:43 pm
ok, so Whitefield beat one 5 A team…what would happen if they played a strong 5 A region?
March 2nd, 2012
3:47 pm
Whitefield is the only 1A Christian school who play teams outside of the 1A class! They are repeatedly in the playoffs and state finals. Why? They have a coach (Tyrone Johnson) that not only thinks outside the box but trains each and every player. Now they have decided that these 1A class players aren't worthy of championship status and changes the rules. Why wasn't the ruling for all classes, not just 1A? Perhaps if the President at Whitefield would have fought this ruling with the help of others, the ruling may not have passed. Truth be told Whitefield is known for their basketball team, not for their school size or tuition cost.
March 2nd, 2012
3:52 pm
@1A is weak: I am positive Coach Johnson would play anyone who would be up to the chsllenge. Don't sleep on Christian schools the only difference between public and Christian schools is the education at a Christian school is better.
March 3rd, 2012
8:15 pm
Whitefield fan I think the Walton Raiders academics will hold their own against any so called Christian School, so find another difference to use.
May 3rd, 2012
2:09 pm
@Say It Ain't So: Yes, Georgia overall test scores, including your precious Walton Raiders (whom I've never heard of) is included in the stats, speaks VOLUME….those scores are a joke, speaks more like a whisper! I'm from Missouri SHOW ME THE STATS of your Walton Raiders. You may have a few within the school but truth be told its not all about sports, academics should come first.
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DC House Tour: Polly's Pomander Walk House
This is from DC finalist, Hilary. Comment away!
Name: Polly E.
Location: Georgetown
Size: 580 sq feet
Years Lived In: 2
We've always loved Pomander Walk, a secret alley of tiny, pastel-colored rowhouses in Georgetown. But even in our fantasies, it seems impossible to imagine where everything would fit. So we were delighted when Polly invited us into her 11-foot-wide, two-bedroom house. Although originally covered with "horrible 60s hairy rugs in lime green," Polly knew she could "open it up and keep it very simple."...
Polly moved from a large house, and kept only her bed and the long table with a slate top, cut from a West Virginia quarry (the other is on the two urns in the garden). Although her narrow front door meant she had to buy a small couch, she advises that people living in small spaces "can have large furniture, just not very much of it."
Paring down her possessions was difficult—especially her large book collection—but Polly now displays all her important pieces, such as the first artwork she and her late husband purchased. The maritime oil painting had a large frame, which overwhelmed the bedroom, and so she removed it and painted the wall instead. She also enjoys her William Nicholson alphabet prints, now rearranged several times: "You have no idea how hard it is to hang 26 prints—you can see all the holes if you look closely!"
We were especially charmed by her use of the garden as an extension of the house. Although she hated gardening as a child in England, she thinks "having your own makes all the difference," and now changes the plants with the seasons. Polly knocked down the back wall and put in glass doors, giving her a bright space where she can to pursue her painting and enjoy a secret garden in the heart of Georgetown.
Painting above the sink from Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum
Mirrors behind the couch from Ballard Designs
White table from Random Harvest
Custom-cut rug from Georgetown Rugs [no website, 2208 Wisconsin Avenue, 202-342-2262]
Pomander Walk has inspired a children's book, The People in Pineapple Place.
- Hilary
(Thanks, Hilary!)
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the first thing i thought when i saw the picture of the street was "the people in pineapple place" (didn't know it was the actual inspiration, i just thought it was g'town/foggy bottom in general). LOVED that book! the alphabet prints are very neat. definitely like seeing the dc house tour (but i will say that the decorations in the house itself aren't my style).
Amazing! I want to live there ...
Was this entered into the Smallest Coolest Competition? A shame if it wasn't.
Really enjoyed the tour, but I have a question- did you leave the two squares of brick unpained on purpose?
Is that a combo washer/dryer in the kitchen?
this is so awesome! i love your art - all of it! the folded books on the corner shelf, what are those and who made them?? i'm fascinated!
Aw....that takes me back. My husband and I lived in Georgetown about 10 years ago. We lived a few blocks over from Pomander Walk and when we'd walk by we'd always talk about how cute those houses were. Thanks for giving us a peak inside!
I knew of the Pomander Walk in NYC, but didn't realize that there were other private little blocks of mini-houses.
I like how the handrail on your stairs blends in with the wall. We took down a bannister to open up stairs in our house as well, but have realized that we eventually need something for safety/balance that doesn't sacrifice the "open-ness". Great use of space. Thanks for sharing!
I'm with Zack--I used to live in a building overlooking NYC's wonderful Pomander Walk, but had no idea there were others. Though the one on the UWS was built as a replica, if you can believe it, of the stage set of a play by the same name. Maybe the play was set on the Georgetown street?
IM IN LOVE!!!! not only is the space, adorable, but her use of neutrals do a great job of keeping it simple, personally I really enjoy the haphazard painting technique around the oil painting ad behind the dining table. It almost looks like an art instillation! wonderful Polly thank you for the tour!
ps. i don't know how you ever leave, I would curl upon the sofa by the garden and read until my eyes fell out!
Small and cool. I love the interesting way the wall paint has been applied in the bedroom. This would be an instafinalist in the competition!
Love the space, so serene. Love you bedroom wall, great effect. The decor isn't my personal taste either but the space is well used and well lived in and looks inviting.
There is a how-to on folded books in a decor book i have at home. "Home Cheap Home" I belive. I love idea but lack the space to display them.
i remember living in gtown in 1995 when one of these went up for sale for $150K... wish i would have had the foresight to have jumped into the market at that point... it's great to see inside one that's as nice as this one.
kdkaboom: I folded up some books to a similar effect a few years back - and I think I found the first patterns in a Real Simple or something. Once you have a sense of what it takes to get the end look right, you can do new and different page folds.
Absolutely darling! Wonderful job. :-)
Nora Rocket, that is rad! I'm going to have to try this, though I can't imagine which book is getting sacrificed for the test ;)
loved the house -
the reason I voted down a cupcake is this sentence: "Polly moved from a large house, and kept only her bed and the long table with a slate top, cut from a West Virginia quarry (the other is on the two urns in the garden)"
the parenthetical just didn't make sense to me - am I missing something?
who would ever vote this place one cupcake?! it's well but not overly designed, comfortable, serene, sophisticated, lovely but not too precious, etc. etc. etc.! Perfect blend of good basics and personal touches. love all the art. love the big swatches of paint on the walls. love it all! i think the biggest compliment is how we all want to come over and sit in that living room!
They look like Mews.
If I could, I would give this 4 cupcakes.
We're supposed to be voting on the post, not the house, yes?
Another great job, Hilary--I think you did a good job of picking which details about the owner's story to tell. This reminds me of that story in the Washington Post recently about the "spite house" in Alexandria, except you don't sound all aghast at the idea of a really small house like the WP did, which is of course the right tone for AT.
wow...love the house! great attention to detail and overall "feel" of the house - the back is amazing.
Beautiful home with great bones. Love how you've let the wood and details come out with a neutral, relaxing palette. I would get rid of that giant urn in the kitchen that takes up the light and window view, not to mention the counter space. Great art collection. I even love the paint-job-in-progress in the bedroom. It's cool.
lovely, lovely!
Did the finalist shoot the interior--or just do the interview?
Bravo! Excellent use of a small space! What time are drinkies on that patio? I'll be right over. ;)
As a blogger audition: 3 cupcakes!
I've lived in DC for more than a decade (including a few in Georgetown) and although I've seen a few of our old residential alleys, I had no idea this one existed! So, thumbs up for giving us something new.
Great that there were links to shops, local and national, for some of the pieces in the house. I thought Georgetown Carpet was gone, but now I'll have to take a second look. I must've just spaced out.
And a huge hooray for showing us something that looks like someone actually lives there, has both respected the architecture of the building while making it somewhere to live in the 21st century, and has a style that isn't, for once, MCM.
Siobhan -- There used to be lots of residential alleys in Washington. A century ago they were home to African American laborers and domestics who worked in the same neighborhoods. Lots of people who were freed slaves that came to the city after the Civil War. They look charming now, but until recent revivals were pretty grim slums without running water. They were outlawed a few decades ago and most were demolished in one of DC's foolish efforts at urban renewal. So places like Pomander Walk are a little bit of DC's surviving history.
I love all the artistic details that decorate the house without going overboard! It gives the whole house an almost dreamlike quality.
wow i enjoyed this place and for 2 seconds i thought i should move to DC......but maybe not now...
Its so simple and artsy at the same time.
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What a charming alley, and home!
Like a previous commenter, the parenthetical made me pause. Read it a few times and had to shrug and move on.
I recently toured an alley house in Baltimore, looks very similar to this one. However, I don't think the layout was as efficient as this one. When you talk about small, layout is everything!
Glad to see all of the DC exposure!! Can't wait until the site rolls out!
I'm not familiar with that block of DC, and I love the choice of location and home for the house tour. Thanks also for the link to Random Harvest - one of my favorite stores!
I want to be there right now!
hillary great job. did u take the pictures too? wonderful post and house.
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Glad everyone enjoyed peeking in Polly's house! She did the painting behind the dining room table as well in the bedroom.
I'm embarrassed by my mistake in the second paragraph! Polly had 2 pieces of slate cut, and she brought both with her. So it should read "(another slate top is on the two urns in the garden)." And that is why even editors need editors....
I don't think Pomander Walk is connected to the one in New York. It was renamed when its African-American tenants were evicted in the 50s so that the area could be gentrified (unfortunately, an ugly - and not uncommon - piece of Georgetown's past). It used to be called Bell's Court (I think). You can read more about it in Black Georgetown Remembered.....
I took most of the pictures and my boyfriend kindly contributed some as well.
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Charming yet sophisticated. It deserves more than three cupcakes. Bringing the garden space into the house was brilliant. Hope everyone caught the interesting ceiling in the living room.
Lovely home and great pictures, plus the People in Pineapple Place is one of my favorite books!
Lovely post. It looks so tiny from the outside but feels so big on the inside. My favorite part is the pith helmet on the statue head as a door-stop...
Slightly too cluttered for me but it's very expressive and stylish.
The ideas presented here are good ideas, only if the average person could remotely afford them... Sorry, this blog is just not helpful to me. However, you are talented with photography, just work on the writing portion.
thanks for giving us some inspiration.
Love that courtyard patio that extends your living space.
I've walked down that street a couple times and been dying to get a look inside. Thanks so much for a real treat of a post. What a lovely home!
what a great space! I lived in Georgetown for three years and never stumbled upon this street- thanks for sharing it with us.
I lived in one of those houses with an old friend in the 60's. It was beautifully furnished then (as a rental) but did not have the modern look as the one displayed above. Kitchen is better, but I think I liked the old back wall with the brick and French Doors better than the modern look. Certainly does bring back memories, though. I can still imagine how it looked.


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If anything, this means that Mists is farther away than anticipated. If mists was going to be running on something akin to the usual 6 month turnover between raiding tiers, they wouldn't bother implementing Strength of Wrynn 2.0, the original incarnation existed to allow guilds that reached the maximum extent of their abilities to continue raiding and progressing during the 12 month Doldrum of T10 content. They're doing this because guilds will be reaching their limits soon, and there's not going to be another relevant tier to allow players to improve their margin, so this patch is going to allow them to progress artificially beyond their actual limitations in order to keep them interested during the long wait until Mists comes out next winter.


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The Supreme Court finished hearing three days of arguments on President Obama's healthcare reform law. The Supremes now have to decide if a penalty is a tax, if the mandate is constitutional, and what happens if they decide to slice off a few pieces here and there.
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It's not good enough for Charlie Bewley to get up at first light and run 42.2 kilometres in the upcoming BMO Vancouver Marathon, he has to get up pre-dawn and run a half marathon first.
The Twilight star – he plays Volturi vampire Demetri – plans to hit the pavement at the appalling hour of 4 a.m. to run a 64-kilometre ultra marathon in memory of a friend who died of cancer.
Jocelyn Clarke, who worked as Dakota Fanning's stand-in on the set of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, died on Valentine's Day. She was 36.
Bewley said he called Clarke from Los Angeles when he heard about her terminal illness, and that the conversation had a huge impact on him.
"You must be so present at that point with life (when facing death)," he said.
"We surround ourselves with comfort everyday and we never really get to explore our inner strength. People just buzz along on a plateau and that for me is not living. (You should be) pushing yourself every day to become more."
"My stomach fell out of me a bit (when I heard she'd died)," he said. "This challenge is to put myself in a high-stakes situation and to summon from deep strength I know I have in there."
Between now and the race date – May 1 – Bewley is collecting funds to donate to the Lion's Gate Hospital Foundation which, together with the B.C. Cancer Agency, helped Jocelyn throughout her illness.
It was a no brainer, he said, to leverage his run to raise money for the organizations, to "turn it around and make it about whoever helped her the most."
In support of Bewley's run, Summit Entertainment has donated a private screening of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. Donors will be entered into the draw for each dollar they contribute.
"(The ultra marathon) is not something I know I can do for sure," he said. "It's all about visiting that dark place and overcoming it and pushing my own mental and physical boundaries."
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- Romney's returns: Candidate should release documents - Salt Lake Tribune Editorial
Mitt Romney has captured the Republican presidential nomination in all but name, and is running strong in the polls in his quest to become the next president of the United States. He has done so, largely, on his promise and his promises of doing a better job of managing the American economy than has the incumbent.
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Thus his refusal to release more than one or two years of his tax returns, along with the continuing confusion of when he really gave up control of the Bain Capital investment firm, strikes even many Republicans as troubling. In recent days, such conservative stalwarts as columnist George Will and the editors of The National Review have been among those tearing their hair over the What-does-he-have-to-hide? message that was being sent by Romney's stonewalling. ...
... Romney has resisted the call to release more of his returns because he doesn't want to serve up details for the Obama campaign to distort. But, without those details, speculation runs amok. And the speculation now is focusing on the theory that Romney's returns from before 2010 might show an even more aggressive pattern of tax sheltering and off-shoring of assets that, even if totally legal, might not be the picture any candidate would want to draw of himself in a nation still pulling itself out from a major recession.
Meanwhile, Romney's claim that he gave up management of Bain Capital in 1999 when he came to Utah to manage the Winter Olympics, while corporate documents show him as CEO and sole stockholder of that company through at least 2001, only feeds an image of Romney as someone who bends the rules, and reality, to suit his needs.
The release of a presidential candidate's tax returns is a general gesture toward transparency. And, in this case, it could specifically help untangle the Bain mess. Romney's returns should be released. For his benefit, and for the voters'.
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How Much Do CEOs Make in the United States?
GOOD magazine's most recent transparency contest asked designers to focus their powers on showing CEO compensation in the United States.
The above graphic, by Dee Adams, won top honors. Adams' graphic shows the eight CEOs with the highest compensations and the number of minimum wage earners that each respective CEO's compensation could have supported. Bruce Wasserstein of Lazard ltd. was the top earner at $133 million, or the annual salary of 8,866 minimum wage earners.
Below are the two runners up by Amanda Buck and Thomas Edwards, respectively.
Whether these salaries are justified, well, I'll leave that up to you to decide.
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Some great visual work there. I do have an issue with the assumed notion that the salaries are excessive or are only earned on the backs of ordinary workers (a notion made explicit in the winning visualization). Whether or not pay is excessive is a question best answered relationally (i.e. firm performance, earnings, workforce growth, pay relative to peer CEOs and firms, etc). It is a debate that we need to have, but the entries didn't really seem to attempt such a relational analysis (some touch on it, but the thrust to me seemed to be to focus on "outrageous" compensation). Just a thought.
@Bill – yeah, i think you're right. that's what i was getting at too. the winning graphic, for instance, implies that the CEO is stomping over the little guy, but he might be responsible for the jobs of thousands. So I don't think that just because these CEOs are making millions means they're overpaid. I think most of us don't know what it's like to run a company at that scale.
CEOs may indeed work hard, but they certainly don't work ten times harder than the average worker, much less hundreds of times harder.
it's not so much about amount of work (although that matters) than the type of work. Someone at a fast food joint can work just as hard or more hours than a doctor, but you're not going to give them the same wage.
I think it's disingenuous to claim that the CEO's salary is justified by the number of jobs "he" created. CEOs are responsible for making difficult decisions and understanding business logic, but in practice ideas are only as good as their implementations, which depend on the efforts of plenty of people besides the CEO, from his second in command all the way down to the minimum wage grunts on the front lines.
In reality, everybody within a company is mutually dependent on the performance of everyone else, though the magnitudes of those dependencies may vary, and so no single employee owes his job solely to the efforts of the CEO.
Interesting that the winner, although clearly the cleanest graphic, was also the most politically (small p) charged. The bottom graphic seems to be the most informative: comparing pay to performance, showing poverty rates and minimum wage; but probably offers too much information without drawing clear connections between it. I'm also not too keen on the image of the "top earner" as clean-cut tie-wearer and the "bottom earner" as shaggy-haired hobo.
I hadn't heard of Lazard Ltd or Bruce Wasserstein, the top CEO in the winning graphic. When I went to Google him, I quickly found out that he died about a week ago.
@Nick: you are assuming value is simply defined by raw effort. There are more inputs that you need to consider.
This is a great idea for a contest, but these are missing the mark for me. The top one may appear less busy than the bottom two, but how am I supposed to compare the men? If they were all copies of the same silhouette, not great but ok and in context of the rest pretty good. Unfortunately they are all in different positions and are obviously different people. So how am I supposed to compare? The numbers? I have to look to find them.
I do like the way to designer of #1 decided to take the politics and run with it. Just wish they had put more thought into how the viewer interprets the data in the chart.
I went back and read the details of the contest and it was actually sponsored by Michael Moore's new movie so I think the goal of these particular infographics was to be inflammatory. Hence I now see why the winner's was chosen as such.
No human should have the right to make that much more money than the average wage earner.
The top graphic is very accurate: The rich have always relied on poor workers to provide everything they need. They used to claim they were gods; now, they claim that their leadership qualities justify their inflated earnings. But studies have shown that, like the rest of us, their success can mainly be chalked up to sheer luck. Don't be fooled again, people.
The first compares CEO compensation with minimum wage, the second compares it with average salary. I would have liked to have seen it compared to the average income of those employed by their company.
The third place entry had an interesting idea of comparing it to the stock performance of the company, but didn't implement it very well, and apparently this info wasn't available for all of the entries. (It also has a broken border around Frederic M. Poses' performance table.)
Seriously? Do you think the "Average" CEO gets paid this much?? This graphic is skewed thanks to the AFL-CIO. Talk to a CEO of a local business in your town, see what his/her response is..
So why is it OK if an NBA or NFL star makes 30 Million a year? Steve Jobs is just as important to Apple as Labron is to the Cav's… Let them earn what the market bears… That is why they went to college and have excelled in the business world.
@Brad: Is it ok that a sports star makes millions? For playing a GAME? I don't agree at all.
As for CEOs making or breaking a company, most of the time it is sheer luck, not talent or personality, that determines success. (Though Jobs may be one of the exceptions here.) There's a lot of studies out there that back this statement up.
@tristan – Who cares if it is a game, business, whatever – all comes down to revenue. If you are responsible for creating/generating revenue, you should be paid accordingly.
Completely disagree with you as far as luck and CEO quality. I have worked with outstanding CEO's an horrible CEO's. It is their leadership, personality, and understanding of the business model that typically dictates the success of the organization.
Did anybody notice that the bar chart in the middle right hand side of the third one is horked? As you rise from the bottom, the bars get bigger from "Consumer Services" (4367.6) through "Utilities," Basic Materials," and "Industrials" (5638.8, 6552.2, 7121.0), then they _shrink down_ as you go to "Financials" (7604.5) and then grow again through "Oil & Gas," "Consumer Goods," "Technology," and "Health Care" (8167.5, 8725.7, 8827.2, 12446.6) but even the last bar representing 12446.6 isn't as big as the bar representing 7121.0.
@W – good catch. definitely some messed up labeling going on there.


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Step into a tropical wonderland. Lush rainforests, pristine white sand beaches and an abundant variety of exotic wildlife. This is Belize.
Belize, a small country located in Central America, is nestled between the countries of Guatemala and Mexico. Bordered by the dazzling turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea, it is a favorite for divers and those seeking a tranquil getaway. Along the coast are a series of tiny islands or cayes and a stunning coral reef system, second only to Australia's Great Barrier Reef in size. The Belize Barrier Reef offers refuge to an incredibly diverse marine ecosystem. It is home to many varieties of coral, playful dolphins, a stunning array of colorful fish and an underwater universe of intriguing marine life. Thanks to this amazing diversity, Belize has become one of the top diving destinations in the world.
Once home to the great Maya civilization, the jungles of Belize continue to reveal the secrets of this fierce people. The ruins that have been discovered offer a glimpse into Maya life and, due to the density of the jungle, there is no telling what other treasures are yet to be discovered. More than 15 Maya cities have been found to date with excavation ongoing.
These include the spectacular ancient city of Altun Ha or "Water on the Rock," Cahal Pech, the palace and former home of Maya royalty and Caracol, which is situated in the highlands on the Vaca Plateau. One of the most important Mayan cities discovered in northern Belize is Lamanai. Archaeological research has found evidence that the city was inhabited continuously beginning somewhere around 1500 BC and continued until the last known Maya civilization that ended in around the 18th century. To date, over 700 structures have been found at Lamanai.
Once coming in from the splendor of the Belizean landscape, it's time to sample the local cuisine! Seafood of all varieties is a staple in the coastal areas of Belize. Moving farther inland, the fare leans more toward beef, chicken and pork, frequently simmered in a savory stew served with rice and beans. No matter what part of Belize you visit the one thing that doesn't change are the delectable sweets of seemingly endless varieties. This is a natural outgrowth of the culture due to the main industry of the country: sugar production.
The people of Belize are very hospitable and friendly, making visitors feel welcome. The culture is relaxed and informal, adding to the charm of this lovely country. Several distinct cultural groups are found throughout Belize: Maya, Mestizos, Garifuna, Creole, Mennonite, Chinese, East Indian and Arab. The tranquil surroundings seem to bring out the best in people as most residents of Belize live in harmony. This harmony makes Belize a wonderful place to visit and live.
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al salter
Belize is known also for tequila worm races held in San Pedro every September. This like raquetball, was invented by the Maya around 400AD. It is an event not to be missed.
The rules are clearly displayed in the race program. Some of these include penalties for performance enhancing substances like coffee or sugar.
For a lot of the worms it's their first time out from the agave plant (also know as maguey) so nervousness is expected and anticipated. A new type of performance anxiety.
Each tequila worm is introduced as is any competitor in major sporting events. The worm backers cheer and spray their rivals with water, beer and any other substance they can locate. Others rise in Mexican waves, chant, or scream. It's a hubbub of noise and excitement.
When the head steward finally releases the worms it's the climax. The tequila worms wiggle in every direction. In some locations however the worms are placed in walled tracks, and given names and numbers. The entry fee is donated to charity and trophies are awarded. A unique Belize experience!
al salter
Correction: Tequila worm races were imported to Belize from the Yucatan by Mestizo refugees after the Caste Wars of the 19th century. I apologize for the error.
S King
We are looking to move to Belize…but we run internet businesses and the internet ther , from what I've read, is so stinking slow and extremely expensive.
256K for $100 US
2M for $250 US
That is ridiculous! And PM Darrow thinks that offering 128K for $50 is an improvement.
Belize…you've got to get with it. The Government controlled monopoly is just raping Belizians on this and really dissuading others like myself from moving, living and spending cash there.
We are on 1mb and pay $410.63 a month. It is expensive but small price to pay in the grand scheme of giving up winter to live on a tropical island.
al salter
S King:This article reads like a travelogue and is not at all misleading in this regard. But living there is another story. I paid 200/month for medium speed internet which was off line for several hours or days/month,not conducive to the work I was trying to do. Electricity is shamelessly high priced. The real crime was the cost of drinkable wine. Even Sharon would agree with that. Read BelizeBritts or Lan Sluder for what to expect before you move to Belize. And don't even think of working there. Belize is meant for retirement and visitation only. And the former only if you have a thick skin or can afford living in San Pedro
Laurie are you sure about that figure?
I have 1mb and pay $190.00 BZ a month before taxes. Now, that the PM said no taxes on internet it will be set at $190.00 BZ for me now.
Belize still has one of the lowest internet usage population wise (compared to its neighbors in the region) due to its high prices I imagine.
Something will have to give eventually. I wonder if the PUP will change things for the better if they win? The public should press both parties to change the internet prices for upcoming elections. Make our voices be heard!!
Mark my words…..things will change…but the question is…how soon?
Sharon Hiebing
S King – you don't have to use BTL if you don't want to. Make a one-time investment in a satellite dish and pay about $60 usd a month, and you can have much better speeds at a lower cost (speeds vary depending on provider).
Or if you live in Southern Belize, check out Southern Cable-speed fast, not too expensive, and they don't block Skype, VOIP, etc.
In Corozal, there's Stellar Links, $50 usd/month.
You do have options until BTL gets their act together. I use BTL for my internet based biz, find it sufficient 95% of the time, $109 bze/month for 2 mb. Hope that helps.
Sharon Hiebing
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Remo I am not sure about that figure as I am becoming convinced they charge differently in different places. That number was direct off our last bill. Price also includes cost of land line they are charging us for but we never use [do not even have that kind of phone]
Any chance you and Sharon could inquire why the internet is higher in San Pedro when you pay your next bill?
Things will change on Belize time ha ha.
Grain of salt Al, or in your case sometimes a pound You are right about affording to living in San Pedro am now on a quest to find out why Remo and Sharron have decently priced internet compared to us.
al salter
Sharon: Stellar links tries hard with complex technology. They are good at customer service unlike BTL. The rates are from 100 to 400 $ BZ. Still slow and off line at times that were critical for business reasons. Satellite which I tried was slow and expensive to install. Plus a gecko got inside the modem. If you google a comparison of download speeds by country Korea is at the top and Belize 123 out of 183 countries a notch above Syria. The internet however is not important if you are not in Belize for business reasons.
I just downloaded Richard Branson's loosing my virginity yesterday and it took under 20 min for 17 chapters to download on BTL.
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Must be a small book. After all loosing virginity is not a lengthy procedure. I called a friend, Soon Tek-Oh, in Seoul, Korea. He downloaded that book in 7 min:)
592 pages in small print – each chapter is about 1h long so not small and very decent download speed, considering we were both working at the time [no net slowdown]. I also get lots of music and tacoboy downloads tv shows movies. You can get it in 5 in Mexico Playa Del Carmen has lightening fast internet.
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S King: From Lan Sluder, Fodors Travel July,2011:"findings indicate that Belize is woefully poor and very expensive on Internet services and not up to the standards to compete in tourism with the rest of the world.
Mr. Sluder stated that Belize needs to urgently upgrade internet speed and introduce reasonable prices for the industry to stay competitive.
"On my recent trip around Belize, from Corozal to Punta Gorda and various points in between, plus San Pedro and Caulker, the internet ranged from pathetic (BTL DSL) to laughable (satellite).
"I love the hotels that have notices posted about their Wi Fi that it is for email only, not checking the web or downloading files. Really how can this entice people to live and start businesses in Belize?"
Sharon: Did you say you pay $109Bz a month for 2mb? That is a damn good price all things considered. Can you please confirm that figure? I am paying $190.00BZ for a 1mb connection.
Al Salter: the internet at 1mb speeds are more than adequate for many business owners. Of course, that depends on the type of business and its needs. Many average users I know think 512K or 1mb is plenty fast for them. As for me, the faster the better:D I want it downloaded in 20 seconds or less…lol!!
Laurie: Do you own one of those Black Zoom modems? The Zoom X6 5960 model to be exact. I am having connection time outs ever since I bought it three months ago. It gets very very hot and drops connection sporadically. I was told that its a modem issue and not an internet (BTL) issue. I want to replace the modem with another brand. I have zero faith in the Zoom models now.
What type of modem do you have? Any problems with overheating?
Been doing internet work here for 5.5 years now Al and while coral cable was a bit crap overall I would say we have managed fine since switching to higher speed and BTL for checking web, downloading and net related business – the other side of the story from a current, active net user in Belize
We do have a zoom model and no time outs, not sure the model number a6 ADSL series 1058. It does get hot but has never overheated. I raised ours up a bit on a plank so air circulates underneath it – we keep it on top of kitchen cupboards.
al salter
On escaping winter: Laurie, I lived in the Canadian arctic for several years. Went dog sleddding, out on the land with the locals. (near Cambridge Bay) Ate Muskox (sorta like goat) and raw frozen caribou. Found out that snow was good for sleddding, building shelter, and keeping my beer cold.. Lets see you do that with sand
Al my whole family is into skiing so of course I ended up on ski trips many times, thankfully parents also loved the tropics so we got beach vacations too. It was very clear to me from a young age which one I preferred. Isn't that what coolers are for keeping your stuff cold while enjoying sun and sand? Arctic is nice in pictures
Al Salter, you ever heard of the movie "The Mosquito Coast" with Harrison Ford?
It was filmed in Belize back in 1986 and River Phoenix was in it as well.
Storyline goes…..
"An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build an ice factory in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and with nature are only small obstacles to his obsession. Based upon a Paul Theroux novel."
What you said about ice reminded me of this movie. Harrison Ford's character in the movie said who has the ice has the power!! Ice will be the new gold in the jungle:)
Interesting movie and I urge you all to watch if you have not already done so?
al salter
Remo: yes I have seen this film more than once: "Ice is civilization" the hero said. Wonder if Laurie would agree. When I first came to Belize on the way to Chaa Creek ( the real Belize as opposed to San Pedro) the driver took us to a bar/restaurant on the western highway where Harrison Ford hung out while the film was filmed. Can't recall the name.
I am off on a grumpy break right now not agreeing to anything till I re-watch the movie I will say I was thankful for ice last night to wash up – the water on the boat was not turned on.
Love this post! Thanks for sharing Taco Girl. You've captured the beauty perfectly.
S King
Thanks for all the internet info. We are planning on living on Ambergris Caye for 6 months and then who knows what.
I'd be interested to know how Sharon gets 1mb at $50 US.
I'm okay with that figure.
I suppose it is what it is and since my husband is totally convinced that Belize is where he needs to be right now…we'll be forking over some $$$ for internet.
Add it to the cost of business, arg.
If anyone has got work arounds…let me know. I don't want to pay a huge deposit to get internet set up at the condo we are renting. (Another ARG)


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The first part seemed a bit flat, almost juvenile, but as I read further I became more engrossed and accepted that a story of Jean Patrick's childhood could be more simple. The complex politics became revealed interwoven with the lives of the people, so we learned the history of Rwanda without ever feeling lectured. As I finished the fourth part I was utterly depressed. While the last sections were probably necessary to keep the reading audience engaged in a positive future for Rwanda, it seemed too miraculous to be believed.
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Running the Rift is the story of Jean Patrick Nkuba, growing up in Rwanda, having a huge talent for running, a talent that could see him in the Olympics. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi in a country controlled and run by the Hutu and as the restrictions tighten and violence escalates will he survive the brutality much less make it to the Olympics?
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Beautifully written story of a young boy caught in the political upheaval in Rwanda. The characters were well written, the book was engrossing and emotional and conveyed the beauty and strength of the Rwandan people even through the horrors of the unspeakable genocide. The cultural references made the book so much richer and interesting and I learned a lot about Rwanda. A very rewarding read.
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Lately you must been suffering because the weather has turned out to be so cold, isn't it??
However, today's weather seems to be a little bit loose so I feel good!
Today is a white day…
Who made this kind of day actually?ㅡㅡ kkkkkk
Anyway, I hope the ladies receive a lot of candies~
if you did not… then till the next opportunity :)
These days I've been trying to work so hard day by day.
To be honest, even though every day I've made "Today's plans and goals" but there're still a little bit more things that I could not do~
But! Whatever we want to do, by doing it little by little to accomplish it, because of the sense of enthusiasm in myself, it makes me wanted to work on it even much harder! ^^
It's been a long time since I write messages(?), letters(?), it makes me worried what to write!
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