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The British government says cyber crime is now one of the biggest risks to national security. A new cyber crime unit is to be set up which will both defend from and be able to attack other nations. As more of the world comes online, so the number and location of PCs available for hijacking is changing. Spencer Kelly investigates what the latest threats look like, and how they can be avoided. For the full story on "How to avoid the fake security tool scam", click here
(Source: BBC)
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Identity theft and misuse of data is of top concern to people around the world as well as in the United States. That's a challenge for our society, our political leadership and the IT industry. It's also a challenge to our customers. End users are sensitive to security technology and security safeguards used for Internet banking and online transactions. Our belief is that it's best to let people see that you have good security rather than making it invisible to people. It's the equivalent of showing people the vault in the back room in your great grandmother's generation.
What people want to see now is that their Internet banking and identity data is safe. We've seen this more than we did three or four years ago. Our customers want two-factor identification not to be invisible. If you log onto your bank through a kiosk device it acknowledges that you haven't used this device before and it puts you through an extra handshake.
(Source: Forbes)
The increased interest in e-waste recycling comes as Kenya enters a new regulatory regime, with guidelines that are meant to steer the formation of a new policy to support recyclers of obsolete mobiles, fridges, televisions, and computers, among other electronic items.
"Providing IT e-waste recycling is a logical extension of our current work in providing technology for schools across Kenya. Our engagement with HP will allow us to manage our own end of life equipment from schools and provide a local service where there is currently no provision for IT e-waste recycling, said Eoghan Crosby, the technical director at Camara. The plant is expected to handle 500 tonnes of e-waste in a year.
(Source: All Africa)
All Africa
Facebook admitted late last week that some developers have sold user IDs (UIDs) to data brokers. The popular social-networking site said it has taken steps to prevent this in the future, including a six-month suspension of some developers. In a post Friday on the company's Developer Blog, Facebook's Mike Vernal said the company has "discovered some instances where a data broker was paying developers for UIDs." He noted that the developers were less than a dozen, mostly small developers, and that none of the apps were in the top 10 on the platform. He also noted that some sharing of UIDs happened "inadvertently" due to "an issue with the way that web browsers work." He added that no evidence was found that this "sharing" resulted in the collection of private user information. With a user ID, a user's public information, including name, can be found. The Journal found that at least one data broker, RapLeaf, had correlated the user IDs with its own database of Net users, and had shared the Facebook IDs with other firms.
This kind of data correlation can help to create a user behavioral profile. RapLeaf said the sharing wasn't intentional, and has agreed to remove all the UIDs it has. The company is no longer allowed to conduct activities on the Facebook platform.
(Source: News Factor Network)
News Factor Network
A former IT staffer has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing sensitive information belonging to his co-workers and using the data to make money filling out online health surveys. Cam Giang, 31, was fired from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center earlier this year after investigators discovered that he'd been using the names, birthdays and Social Security numbers of other UCSF employees to fill out hundreds of online surveys.
The point was to collect online vouchers, worth US$100 each. He had worked at the medical center's IT department for five years and had access to the sensitive information through his job, according to court records. Between January and April of this year, Giang filled out 382 surveys before the company that was paying for them, StayWell, figured out what was going on. StayWell had been offering UC employees the gift vouchers as incentives to fill out health surveys, but it grew wise to the scam. The company received complaints from employees who couldn't fill out the survey. When StayWell investigated, it turned out that Giang had already filled out surveys in their names.
(Source: Computer World)
Computer World
The European Commission is organizing a workshop on Understanding the role of ICT in the integration of Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities (IEM), on November 23rd, 2010, in Brussels that will encourage the sharing of good practices and research studies in the area of ICT-enabled or supported IEM participation in lifelong learning, improved employability and social integration.
Indeed, recent research has shown the importance of ICT (among which social computing applications seems to play a specifically important role) in the process of enabling the socio-economic integration of IEM people and fostering cultural diversity in our European knowledge societies. Different types of integration where ICT play a role can be distinguished, as top-down and mediated integration, which relies upon online welcoming and integration services provided by public or third sector social organisations which are increasingly taking advantage of ICT to facilitate the integration of IEM; or bottom-up integration, which relies on informal hospitality and is directly linked to social networking processes between migrants and members of the host society.
(Source: European Commission)
European Commission
ZDNet reported recently that a Western Australian man was the victim of a new bizarre twist of identity theft. According to the report, Roger Mildenhall, was contacted by a neighbor saying he had seen one of his investment houses for sale. Mildenhall looked into it and found that it was for sale . He was also surprised to learn that he sold another property in June. In this economy, you might jump for joy. Roger was dumbfounded since he never intended to sell these properties - this was done unauthorized by him.
ALL transactions were made via email, telephone, and fax. No human interaction. The report indicates that alleged scammers hacked into Mildenhall's email account. From there they were able to get to his personal and property documents.
(Source: Infosec Island)
Infosec Island
As technology advances, children are becoming quite adept at using smart phones, surfing the web, posting pictures, etc. So it may be important to sit your child down and teach them one quick lesson about the Internet:
What happens on the Internet, Stays on the Internet
And as parents, before you hand over that phone to provide some extra entertainment when you get stuck in line at a restaurant, you may want to make sure all other applications are locked down, you have signed out of your email and other social networking sites, and that before anything can be sent a passwords must be entered.
Google Inc admitted for the first time its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed -- including complete emails and passwords -- potentially breathing new life into probes in various countries. The disclosure comes just days after Canada's privacy watchdog said Google had collected complete emails and accused Google of violating the rights of thousands of Canadians. "If in fact laws were broken...then there's some serious question of culpability and Google may need to face significant fines," said Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington DC-based privacy advocacy group.
Regulators in France, Germany and Spain, among others, have opened investigations into the matter. A coalition of more than 30 state attorneys general in the United States also have launched a joint probe. It remains unclear how many people may have been affected by the privacy breach.
(Source: Reuters)
Nearly half of home wi-fi networks can be hacked in less than five seconds, according to a study carried out across the UK. Of the 40,000 networks identified across six cities, just under 20,000 had no password or the most basic form of security encryption, the research for card protection and insurance company CPP found. In the ethical hacking experiment, researchers spent half an hour in each city using freely-available software to use as many unsecured wireless connections as possible. Nearly a quarter of the private networks (9,249) had no password, despite 82% of Britons saying their network is secure. But the study found even password-protected networks were not secure, with hackers able to breach a typical password in seconds.
(Source: Belfast Telegragh)
Belfast Telegragh
All network security equipment, the strongest of which is used by the financial industry, is exposed to a new kind of online attack, Finnish data security vendor Stonesoft said on Monday. Stonesoft said it has found a new threat category -- advanced evasion techniques (AETs) -- which simultaneously combine different evasions in several layers of networks, and in the process become invisible for security gear. While evasions -- tools hackers often use to penetrate network security -- are nothing new, AETs package them in new ways to let attackers bypass most firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems (IPS) without being detected.
This could give them access to data on secure corporate networks and allow them to plant further attacks. "From the point of view of cybercriminals and hackers, advanced evasion techniques work like a master key to anywhere," said Klaus Majewski, business development chief at Stonesoft. "Current protection against advanced evasion techniques is next to zero. This is a new thing and there is no protection against it currently," Majewski said.
Canada is seeing e-health gains in the area of medication, with an estimated $436 million in cost savings and efficiencies this year, a report released Wednesday says. Drug information systems, which are hooked up now mainly in the western provinces and Prince Edward Island and to a lesser extent elsewhere, allow pharmacists and health-care providers to electronically access records of a patient's prescription medications. And they provide a full and accurate medication history so that potential drug interactions or allergies can be caught before they happen. The $436-million tally and report were compiled by Deloitte for Canada Health Infoway, a federally funded organization that was founded in 2001 and charged with helping provinces and territories to adopt electronic health-record projects.
"We expect that number to increase over time as drug information systems are more widely used in the country, and we get more experienced with their use," said Jennifer Zelmer, senior vice-president of clinical adoption and innovation at Infoway.
(Source: CBC)
Countries all over the world are facing manifold challenges regarding their healthcare delivery. Due to limited budgets and increasing demand for high-quality healthcare services, new cost-efficient, reliable and interconnected systems need to be developed. E-health can make a significant contribution to ensure high-quality, sustainable healthcare systems. The Global E-Health Forum, which will take place on October 25 + 26, 2010 in Hamburg, Germany, will address these challenges.
The primary aim of the organizers of the Global E-Health Forum, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, IBM and the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL), is to provide a cross-sector forum for representatives from hospitals and clinics, governments, health insurance organizations, service providers and the media. Policymakers, users, suppliers and implementation managers will have the opportunity to learn from each other and to develop collaborative working relationships.
(Source: Global E-Health Forum)
Global E-Health Forum
INTERPOL has launched an international initiative which will see the world police body provide a list of Internet domains containing severe child sexual abuse content to Internet Access Service Providers (ASPs) voluntarily participating in the scheme to reduce the availability of such material on the Web. Under the scheme, Internet users attempting to access severe child abuse material on the web will be re-directed away, either to an INTERPOL stop page or to an error page.
INTERPOLs Trafficking in Human Beings unit, which steers the world police bodys combat against child sexual exploitation, will work with the Organizations National Central Bureaus and international police forces amongst its 188 member countries in updating and enlarging this Worst of list of domains containing severe child sexual abuse material, according to criteria defined in collaboration with the pan-European police project CIRCAMP the COSPOL (Comprehensive Operational Strategic Planning for the Police) Internet Related Child Abusive Material Project.
(Source: Interpol)
PRE-TEENS should not be on Facebook, insists Queensland Premier Anna Bligh - and the social networking site needs to work harder at enforcing the 13-year age limit. "I think that parents are right when they say that primary school children should not be on Facebook and I support Queensland parents when they say that Facebook needs to do more to address their legitimate fears," Ms Bligh said. "Vigilant parents can email the company if their child is under 13 and the child's site will be shut down.
''Unfortunately, there really is nothing to stop their child setting up another site." Sandy White from Norman Park in Brisbane's inner east is the mother of Thomas, 13, and Ryan, 12. She believes the number of primary school children using Facebook is growing. "I do not allow my boys to have a Facebook account, even though they would love to. It seems the norm these days is for children as young as 10 or 11 to join up but I believe that children of that young age are defenceless to predators.
(Source: Queensland Newspapers)
Queensland Newspapers
Adult websites and applications are too easily accessible to adolescent smartphone users, with the Korean government unable to censor materials uploaded from foreign soil, a lawmaker said Monday. Rep. Han Sun-kyo of the governing Grand National Party (GNP) said that smartphone users, including minors, can access many applications containing sex-related material and games. Internet users cannot search sites containing adult materials by typing in sex-related words. But if you do that in the App Store and Google-backed Android market, you get up to 900 X-rated applications, he said during the National Assemblys audit of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports. In particular, those who are over 17 can download adult content from the App Store, Han said. Even if they are minors, they can have access to adult content as long as they type in passwords and click the approve button. Among the most downloaded applications, one involving sex acts ranked 40th, he said, stressing there are even applications allowing smartphone users to view adult video clips by providing their uniform resource locators (URL).
The Korea Communication Standards Commission (KOCSC) has recently decided to tighten applications on App Store and other online open application markets, believing there is too much sex-related material. But it is not certain that the commission will be able to apply local regulations to foreign companies, the lawmaker said.
(Source: The Korea Times)
The Korea Times
Addiction counsellors have told Newsbeat they're seeing more cases of people worried about being hooked on playing video games. There are now calls for the gaming industry to offer more support to people who can't switch off. Technology or computer addiction isn't officially recognised as a clinical condition. But the group representing games companies admits there needs to be more research into the problem.
"Most of the people that are getting into difficulties tend to be in their teenage years and early 20s. "As that generation moves through and others come on behind, I think the problem is going to get bigger."
Appropriately for a month that concludes with a holiday designed around scary things, October has been declared Cyber Security Awareness Month. President Obama recently signed a proclamation and urged everyone to back up files, keep Internet-surfing children safe, and "play an active role in securing the cyber networks we use every day." National Cyber Security Awareness Month is part of a campaign organized by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and backed by the Department of Homeland Security.
The government agency said, "America's competitiveness and economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on effective cybersecurity." NCSA said October's designation is part of the first Global Online Safety Campaign, called STOP | THINK | CONNECT, which began Monday. The public-private partnership is intended to "help all digital citizens employ universal behaviors to protect themselves," the organization said.
(Source: NewsFactor Network)
NewsFactor Network
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has sponsored a new online directory of Australia's security professionals and academia, which aims to highlight leaders in the industry. The National Security Research Directory is a brain's trust of hundreds of experts operating in a burgeoning list of fields across IT security, biometrics and counter-terrorism. It includes research topic areas such as applied cryptography, physical security and "ubervelliance" a system with the ability to automatically locate and identify individuals and predict their movements.
Deputy national security advisor Margot McCarthy said the network will tighten coordination on matters of national security in the public and private sectors. McCarthy also announced the National Security Advisor's Group within the Department of the Prime Minster and Cabinet, which will report directly to the National Security chief information officer, Rachael Noble, on issues including cybersecurity.
(Source: ZD Net)
ZD Net
Nearly six-in-ten adults (58%) have done research online about the products and services they buy, and about a quarter (24%) have posted comments or reviews online about the things they buy. On a typical day, 21% of adults search for product information online.
This is an increase from 15% in 2007 and 9% in 2004. The 2010 data come from a telephone survey by the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project conducted between August 9 and September 13, 2010. The survey was administered to a sample of 3,001 adults, age 18 and older, using a combination of landline and cellular telephones. Interviews were conducted in English or Spanish. The sample margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points for the general population and plus or minus 2.9 percentage points for internet users (n=2,065). Among internet users, 78% say that they at least occasionally conduct product research and 32% report that they have posted online product comments.
(Source: Pew Internet Research)
Pew Internet Research
500 million users worldwide and still growing, Facebook is now ubiquitous. Because of its popularity, minors have jumped onto the social media bandwagon, too, and they use networking the same way adults do--to share pictures, connect with friends, organize events, and play social games. And that can be a problem.
For the most part, Facebook provides a fun and safe way for users of all ages to communicate with their pals. But because kids and teens are, well, kids and teens, they're the ones most at risk of falling victim to the dangers of Facebook. With a bit of strategic parental guidance, you can educate your kids about the potential hazards of social media and give them the tools they need to protect themselves from online predators, guard their personal information, preserve their online reputation, and avoid suspicious downloads that could harm your PC.
(Source: PC World)
PC World
Students awaiting loans and grants should watch out for scam emails asking for bank details, Student Finance England warns Students were today warned to beware of scam emails purporting to be about loans and grants, after it emerged that 50 phishing websites targeting young people have been shut down during the last year.
Hundreds of thousands of people are starting university in the coming weeks, and Student Finance England, which processes English students' loans and grants, today urged students to "remain vigilant" and not disclose any personal or bank details in response to email requests that look like they are from either itself or its parent company, the Student Loans Company. Student Finance England expects to make payments to more than 600,000 students this week, and fraudsters are taking advantage of the timing to target students who are waiting for money to arrive. Heather Laing, its fraud manager, said: "Students are likely to receive a great deal of correspondence from Student Finance England at this time, with payment schedule letters or letters requesting further information coming through the door. Some students may fall victim to an email request that looks to be from Student Finance England or the Student Loans Company asking for confirmation of bank details. However, we will never ask students to confirm their bank details via email. If they do receive such a request, they should forward it on to us to investigate."
(Source: Guardian)
For the 10th eLearning Awards, European Schoolnet and ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, announce a new prize category called "Teaching online safety and citizenship".
The rapid spread of internet use among young people is making it essential to address eSafety and ePrivacy, in order to protect young people from online risks and threats and to prepare them to use digital technologies in a secure and responsible way. As a major European actor for eSafety and ePrivacy, ENISA highly encourages all teachers to address these issues with their young students. Young people and children are today amongst the biggest user groups of online technologies in Europe. It is important to equip them with the skills and knowledge to stay safe online, said Dr Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of ENISA.
(Source: ENISA)
Harrisburg University has banned these social media sites, as well as MySpace and AOL Instant Messenger, for one week on the Pennsylvania campus, starting September 13.
The ban is not because of any security or privacy issue. Rather, it is an experiment to make students and faculty members think about the significance of social media and how best to benefit from this channel in its absence. "We're not trying to stop all access to these sites," says Charles Palmer, executive director of the Center for Advanced Entertainment and Learning Technologies. "We're trying to enhance people's ability to reflect on how technology impacts their daily lives and really generate valuable conversations." According to Jeffery Mechling, a prominent author and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, "People depend a lot on those they trust. Making those connections easier is powerful, as social media have demonstrated. But this is a new phenomenon, so studying and understanding better is valuable."
(Source: Bank Info Security)
Bank Info Security
In UK, ISPs must pay 25 per cent of the cost of implementing new anti-piracy measures, it has been announced. The process of identifying and informing broadband customers suspected of copyright infringement will be paid for partially by ISPs and copyright holders, who will pay the other 75 per cent.
The decision comes as the government attempts to thrash out the details of how some parts of the controversial Digital Economy Act will actually work in practice. Minister for Communications, Ed Vaizey, said: "Protecting our valuable creative industries, which have already suffered significant losses as a result of people sharing digital content without paying for it, is at the heart of these measures. "The Digital Economy Act serves to reduce online copyright infringement through a fair and robust process and at the same time provides breathing space to develop better business models for consumers who buy music, films and books online.
(Source: Webuser)
The 2011 Global State of Information Security Survey is a worldwide security survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, CIO Magazine and CSO Magazine. It was conducted online from February 19, 2010 to March 4, 2010. Readers of CIO and CSO Magazines and clients of PricewaterhouseCoopers from around the globe were invited via email to take the survey. The results discussed in this report are based on the responses of more than 12,840 CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, vice presidents and directors of IT and information security from 135 countries. Thirty-seven percent of respondents were from Asia, 30% from Europe, 17% from North America, 14% from South America, and 2% from the Middle East and South Africa. For the main finadins please click here P <>
(Source: Price Waterhouse Coopers)
Germany is the first country to launch a large scale malware cleaning project backed by the government, Internet service providers and security companies.
The new Anti-Botnet Counseling Center (Anti-Botnet Beratungszentrum) is an organization dedicated to assisting German users with removing botnet infections from their computers. It was established with funding from the Federal Ministry of Interior and the technical assistance is provided by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The initiative was announced late last year as a collaboration between the Federal Government and the German Internet Industry Association (eco).
(Source: Softpedia)
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Location: Forage and Range ResearchTitle: Developing international research projects: the case of the Sino/US grass alliance Author
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Submitted to: International Symposium of Molecular Breeding of Forage Turf
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/15/2010
Publication Date: 10/8/2010
Citation: Staub, J.E. 2010. Developing international research projects: the case of the Sino/US grass alliance. International Symposium of Molecular Breeding of Forage Turf. Interpretive Summary: Several centers for agricultural research exist that foster efforts to reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem resilience [e.g., Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)]. Such institutions achieve their goals through high-quality international agricultural research and various partnerships. Active programs associated with international cooperative research efforts work to: 1) increase productivity and production of healthy food; 2) conserve and enhance the sustainable use of natural resources, and; 3) promote changes that will stimulate agricultural growth. Research collaborations between such centers and USDA, ARS laboratories have resulted in research outcomes that have provided dramatic societal impacts, and, thus, provide a template for the development of new international research associations. It may be possible to establish cooperative research efforts between the United States of America (US) and China (Sino) and among Chinese institutions that will result in measurable benefits to US agricultural production and human health. Forage and turfgrass is important to agriculture in the US and China. Broad-based research initiatives have been initiated between the Forage and Range Research Laboratory (FRRL) and diverse US/Sino public and private institutions to improve animal productivity and human health. The FRRL has had successful research projects with Chinese scientists (1980-1995), primarily in the areas of germplasm collection and grass breeding (e.g., cytogenetics). More recently, discussions with specific Chinese public and private institutions in 2008 led to the organization of a formal meeting in Harbin, China, in 2009, resulting in the development of cooperation research projects between the FRRL and a diverse array of Chinese institutions in the areas of grass breeding and genetics. This narrative discusses official legal instruments that foster collaborative and the potential of such research collaborations. The intent is that these cooperative research projects would achieve mutually beneficial goals associated that would improve US agricultural productivity and development of products (germplasm) and technologies (management practices) for sustainable agricultural systems to stimulate agricultural growth and thereby allow the US grower to become more competitive in a global market by increasing productivity.
Technical Abstract: In many cases, international cooperative research projects have yielded large dividends to its research participants and cliental as outcomes have been high-impact products. For these reasons, the development of productive and long-lasting international cooperative research efforts is important to the Forage and Range Research Laboratory (FRRL) and to Utah State University (USU), Logan, Utah. Historically, the FRRL has had successful research projects with Chinese scientists (1980-1995), primarily in the areas of germplasm collection and grass breeding (e.g., cytogenetics). More recently, initial discussion with specific Chinese public and private institutions in 2008 and then a formal meeting in Harbin, China in 2009, resulted in the development of cooperative research projects between the FRRL/USU and a diverse array of Chinese institutions in the areas of grass breeding and genetics [i.e., the formation of the U.S./Sino Grass Alliance (SUSGRA)]. These interactions resulted in the initiation of graduate student training at USU and the development of Specific Cooperative Agreements (SCAs) between the FRRL and Inner Mongolia University, Northeast University, Heilongjiang Agricultural Science-Grass Institute; Nanjing Agricultural University/Institute of Botany, and Northwest A&F University for research in pasture, rangeland, and turfgrass growing environments. During 2010, additional discussions with Ningxia Eco Agriculture Technology, Ltd. (Ningxia Province), and the Xinjiang Agricultural University led to the development SCAs in the areas of grass breeding and ecology for pasture, rangeland and turf. Similar negotiations are currently occurring with institutions in Beijing, China, and the scope of the alliance is being broadened to include legume research. With the proper long-term perspectives, goals, and implementation of cutting-edge research, SUSGRA will become an important facilitator of scientific exchange leading to high-impact scientific products (i.e., germplasm and best management practices) and academic achievement (e.g., through graduate and postdoctoral training and exchange of scientists).

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Information regarding health and nutrition is more plentiful and easily available than ever before, yet somehow, many of us are not quite exemplars of well-being, especially amid the 9-to-5 grind. Fortunately, there are folks out there devoted to spreading the... health! Red Carrot Wellness provides health and nutritional coaching to individuals, groups, and corporations. These folks will help you shop for groceries, cook, and dine out more wisely. They'll come to your place of business to lead weekly yoga classes (just $175 for up to 40 people — tell the boss!), monthly nutrition workshops, detoxification cleanses, and more. Who among us could not benefit from tapping into the power of Pilates or learning more about the perils of sugar consumption?
Whether for a big wedding or a random Wednesday, the good people of Flowers and Found Objects will help you celebrate life with their brilliant vision and creations. Arrangements for all occasions can be found within the fragrant Las Olas boutique. Browse the portfolio and discover tasteful displays like the "Vanda Orchid Assortment" ($70 to $125), "Tropical Garden Centerpiece" ($125 to $150), and "Casablanca Lilies in Cylinder Vase" ($125 to $250) — all of which look as poetic as their titles. You can work with them to customize an order, or Flowers and Found Objects will take care of it completely. Or if you'd just like to pick out a single rose or sunflower, that's fine too. As if flowers weren't enough, the shop also offers lovely gourmet gift packages ($75 and up) and interesting decorative pieces — "found objects" such as clocks, vases, and statuettes that their stylish buyers have gathered from across the U.S.
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Counterintuitive or just plain amazing? These were our first thoughts upon encountering Happy Pappy's, a drive-through liquor store in Hollywood. Located on Griffin Road across the street from a pawn shop and next door to Happy Pappy's Sub Shop, this standalone mom-and-pop establishment looks like a little hut of joy, complete with a terra-cotta-colored awning and rainbow bubble letters spelling out the Happy Pappy's name. While the selection and prices are pretty middle-of-the-road, the mom-and-pop quality gives the establishment a dose of charm. As soulless, warehouse-sized Disney Worlds of liquor stores like Total Wine continue to dominate suburban markets, we're content with rolling up and getting serviced with our usual brown-bagged adult beverage of choice, especially since we don't even have to get out of the car. Happy Pappy's, which has been around since the '80s, is a clear favorite among locals, while its proximity to Fort Lauderdale airport makes it all too convenient for tourists looking to stock up on weekend supplies.
"Look honey, we should talk. I know you've noticed that things have been a little — God, how can I say this? — slow in the bedroom lately. No, no, don't get mad. No tears, here. I wouldn't bring it up if I didn't care, right? But honesty is important. Remember what it was like back in the day? The honeymoon? That weekend in Marathon Key? The marathon in Marathon, right? Well, hon', I think we've lost that magic. We need some help relighting the fire. After you get the stroganoff out of the oven, why don't we swing by Megasex in Fort Lauderdale? The store has close to 20,000 adult films for rent and sale. Each week, they get 50 new titles, so there's a wide variety. I know you don't like renting the same movie twice. Also, they have dildos, cock rings, lube. If something catches your eye, we'll buy it. Cost doesn't matter when it comes to my gal. How's that sound? Perfect. I'll run to the garage to get the sex swing set up; you put the ball gags in the dishwasher. Then we'll hop in the Sienna. I know. I love you too."


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GSA Fulfills Administration's Recovery Act-Funded Greening of Federal Fleet
like those seen here using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Government's Advanced-Tech, Fuel-Efficient Buses Save Taxpayer Money
October 1, 2009
Contact: Caren Auchman, (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON — With the purchase of five compressed natural gas buses and 35 hybrid buses, the U.S. General Services Administration has successfully completed one of the Administration's key initiatives to green the federal fleet through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
"We're proud to have completed this program under such an aggressive schedule," said GSA Acting Administrator Paul F. Prouty. "By investing in more fuel-efficient federal vehicles, we're contributing to the nation's economic recovery while realizing significant long-term savings for both the taxpayer and the environment."
GSA had until September 30, 2009 to invest $300 million in new, more fuel-efficient vehicles for the federal fleet. Ahead of the deadline, GSA ordered 17,246 vehicles, including cars and buses from a total of six manufacturers. With the exception of the most recent purchase, GSA expects the majority of these vehicles to be delivered to the government by the end of October 2009. Allowing for production times, the buses are expected to be delivered in the third quarter of FY2010.
GSA will use the new vehicles to replace older, less-efficient models in the federal fleet. By increasing fuel efficiency, the Recovery Act vehicles will save an estimated 16.7 million gallons of fuel over the next seven years, prevent 334 million pounds of greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere, and save taxpayers at least $40 million in fuel costs. As the older vehicles being replaced are sold, the money from the sales will be used to make additional investments toward greening the federal fleet.
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We all know cons and pros of jailbreaking, how you want to use you device is entirely up to you, Personally I can't think of anything that is provided by the jailbreak community that I can't live without. Would you live to see the day apple united with saurik?doubt it. It more likely will be that apple devour them all which is what apple has been doing all along.at the rate apple is pushing out security upgrade these days, at some point jailbreak will become impossible. Then it's kiss apple goodby for you huh?no it won't, you will continue purchasing apple product like everybody out there complaining how dominating and manipulative apple is.
And, the window continues to close. We are looking at possibly seeing iOS 5.1 in February, but I still advise that people update to iOS 5.0.1 as soon as possible because the A5 jailbreak is continuing to make more progress toward release.


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Asking an architect to design a safe structure is like asking a chef to cook a safe meal: It is at once a high ethical requirement and a very low expectation. Food and shelter are absolutely essential to human survival. Because of this, their quality (or lack thereof) rises to an ethical concern that society takes seriously, protecting the public from getting sick or injured through a great umbrella of testing, codes, inspectors, and regulated professions.
Currently the legal authority of architects rests with their licensure, just as their moral authority rests on their unified commitment to high professional standards. But what if the raw primal power of aesthetics could trump that of law or ethics? If so, aesthetics may be the key to unlocking the real authority of architects, and therefore of architecture, to shape society.
Aesthetics is not what it used to be. Around the mid-19th century it became associated with ideas of beauty and taste. But this recent definition was a sharp detour away from its foundations in perception, sensing, and understanding. In Greek, it's aisthethikos, or "pertaining to sense perception," from aistheta, "perceptible things" and aisthenasthai/aesthesis, "to perceive." In Latin, it's percipere, "to seize wholly" or to "see all the way through."
The philosopher Immanuel Kant saw this definitional detour coming and tried to stop it, from fear of losing a crucial conceptual tool. If, as he believed, an aesthetic experience is simply a perceptible one (just as a medical anesthetic renders us unable to perceive), then to master such a fundamentally human kind of knowledge is to connect to the essence of life in a way that ethics never can. Aesthetics deals with physical truths, while ethics deals with social constructs dependent upon those truths. Peter Zumthor, Hon. FAIA, agrees and has said, "We all experience architecture before we have even heard the word." Or, as the poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky once said, "Aesthetics is the mother of ethics."
Nobody chooses a restaurant based on whether the meal will be safe; modern science makes food safety virtually a given. This allows chefs to move beyond the science, beyond the merely ethical and the merely edible, and on to the aesthetically engaging. And as with safe food, there are many actors who contribute to the ethical project of building safe shelter: building officials, licensing agencies, examiners, materials testers, engineers, contractors, and lawyers. Since architects contribute nothing unique to this arena, they should channel their inner chef and seek their competitive advantage with aesthetics—in the timeless sense not merely of beauty, but of profoundly understanding how humans interact with their surroundings.
Ironically, it is in this completely ungovernable, amoral arena of pure design, where nobody else is legally excluded, that they should find almost no competition. Aesthetics is the value architects add—better than anyone else—to safe shelter. Strong ethics can unite the profession, but strong aesthetics will distinguish it.
Furthermore, where ethics is transactional, aesthetics is sensory; and where ethics involves obligation, aesthetics involves instinct. Architecture, therefore, as the mother art, with a scale larger than most any other art, has the raw instinctual power to move people, to direct culture and society more than any moral code ever could—to inspire rather than regulate us toward lives better lived. Architects need only honestly and unabashedly embrace design to assume their natural authority.


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NARRATOR:  This is a specialist testing laboratory in Hoevelaken, Holland
NARRATOR:  First up, the weather test.  This helmet has to endure 6 hours of driving rain and 6 hours in 50 degree heat.
NARRATOR:  12 hours of punishment later, it's a pass
NARRATOR:  To test the outer shell's resistance to sharp objects,
a 3 kilogram weight is dropped onto the helmet from a height of 3 meters.  There's no room for manoeuvre - even momentary contact with the head form means a fail.
RENÉ STEENBEEK, TESTING ENGINEER: When this sharp point hits the head you hear a beep.
[Sensor Beeps] Only the smallest touch, you already give a beep.
NARRATOR:  The helmet's dented, but the buzzer doesn't sound.  It's a pass.
NARRATOR:  It must also be tested for penetration of the visor.
NARRATOR:  And imagine if you were happily riding along and a load of sand blew in your face.  Well, the visor has to be scratch resistant too.
NARRATOR:  A section of the visor is taken out. - 3 kilos of sand should do the trick.
NARRATOR:  And after it's cleaned, the visibility still has to be 75%.
OLAF VAN SCHINJNDEL, ARAI HELMETS: The inner shell is made of polystyrene with 3 kinds of densities.  The reason is because of the fact that the human skull on the top is quite thin and on the front side it's quite hard actually so you can have a different impact on the front side of the helmet or on top of the helmet.
NARRATOR:  The inner shell acts like a cushion to absorb impact energy.  Polystyrene beads are compressed one by one extending the time of impact and providing a stopping distance for the person inside, much like body panels being crushed in a car accident.
NARRATOR:  And how to test it?  You drop it head first.
NARRATOR:  Sensors in the 5 kilo head form measure its acceleration when it strikes.  The inner shell is there to slow the impact, so the lower the acceleration the better the shock absorption of the helmet.
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Does your shellcode have enough room to decode? Could be you need to add some more nops at the beginning of your buffer to let it breathe, or perform some stack adjustment. Then again, I may not know what I'm talking about
So I am working with a vulnerability and trying to get it to work. It is a client-side activeX vulnerability. So right now I have it in a .wsf file and am working on just getting it to work using cscript.exe before moving it over to Internet Explorer and dealing with its permanent DEP.
It is a SEH overwrite. Where I am at currently is I am able to pivot the stack to where my shellcode is so that ESP points to a JMP ESP and is followed by a NOP slide into my shellcode. I've watched in the debugger and can see that my shellcode begins to execute properly, but along the way I get an exception for an Access Violation because it manipulates one of the registers to a invalid memory location.
This particular application has many bad characters that I had to work around when generating the shellcode. Because of this, I don't have many encoding options that work, but the few that do work copy over correctly onto the stack.
Now, obviously I am not expecting specific help regarding why the particular shellcode or exploit I am working with isn't working because I haven't given you enough information to help me in that respect. However, if it is possible, I'd like maybe a few possibilities on why the shellcode wouldn't work. Bad characters have been accounted for. I generated the shellcode and encoded it with the latest Metasploit version. The shellcode begins to execute properly as I can see it executing in the debugger. I am executing it in a .wsf file using cscript.exe on a Windows XP SP3 box with no software DEP on that process.
I've really just been soaking up as much info as possible and I've made a ton of progress lately, but can't figure this out. Any help would be appreciated.
Does your shellcode have enough room to decode? Could be you need to add some more nops at the beginning of your buffer to let it breathe, or perform some stack adjustment. Then again, I may not know what I'm talking about
Maybe add some xor(all exept esp,ebp) at the start of the shellcode.
If you have ruled out mangling due to bad characters, and the exploit reaches the point where the CPU actually starts to execute your encoded shellcode, Id tend to agree with f1guref0ur and say that the problem lies in the decoding process. Try the same encoded shellcode in another simple exploit and watch how it decodes in a debugger - this should give you an idea of how the decoding works and where the problem may lie.
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Thanks for the replies. This is what I've tried so far. I added plenty of room to allow for decoding, so there really isn't much of an issue there. I have 80 bytes of NOPs prior to my shellcode on the stack and the shellcode decoding process never really gets to the point where it runs into any of that. I've also added the following before my shellcode to zero out the 2 registers that have values in them when the shellcode starts executing:
33 c9 xor ecx, ecx
33 d2 xor edx, edx
That didn't work either.
I don't know. Maybe there is an issue with the shellcode that I have generated due to the number of bad characters. I will try encoding it again and see if I get the same results. I'll post back how it goes.
So... Did you get it to work?
Try zeroing out the stack space, say a sub 40h esp is used for some function make sure all that space is zeroed, the function migh expect it to be zero with a normal function programI don't know. Maybe there is an issue with the shellcode that I have generated due to the number of bad characters. I will try encoding it again and see if I get the same results. I'll post back how it goes.
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Still haven't gotten the shellcode to execute properly on the stack without any exceptions. Like I said, it does start to execute, but I always get an exception midway through. I haven't tried zeroing out the stack space. But, I am beginning to realize why the original exploit used a JIT Spray method to load the shellcode into a different place in memory.
The original exploit is here: SigPlus Pro v3.74 ActiveX LCDWriteString() Remote BoF JIT Spray - aslr/dep bypass
I tried using a Heap Spray method, but I am trying to get the exploit to work under IE8 and I don't know any techniques of spraying the heap under IE8's memory protection.
It looks like interpreter exploitation techniques are the best way under IE8, but I haven't found a good JIT Spray tutorial after searching the internet far and wide. If anyone knows of any, let me know. Thanks for all the help!
Thanks Cryptik. Ya, I originally looked at that document when trying to learn about JIT Spray. It was about the only JIT spray doc I could find. I downloaded the scripts they had posted on dsecrg.com and was able to generate the Action Script and compile it to a SWF file. The only trouble I have with the process is determining the return address into the JIT stage-0 shellcode. The process is a bit above me at the moment. I'll have to read up on it several more times for it to make sense.
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The first official leg is on the 20th in Birmingham so who`s going?
I have 11 new lads so it`ll be a long day
The first official leg is on the 20th in Birmingham so who`s going?
I have 11 new lads so it`ll be a long day
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Not many then lol
Bushido MMA will be there, so you wont be on your own
ill be there, i dont know what to do though i weigh 70 now and got points for featherweight, will those points be carried over to other weightclass, or should i just cut for fw? maybe i should ask my coach but what should i do
yep i'll be going. Anyone know if your entitled to take a corner man with you even though its just one round. Excuse me if thats a stupid question its my first event
I should be there, hopefully.
Just got back from this, didn't fight but a friend of mine did. Was v. impressed with the whole set-up. Scheduling was spot on (at least for the first few hours or so!), referees excellent, standard high and everyone had really good attitudes. Only saw one guy get chinned, so most stuck to the no-headshot rule! Think I will definitely enter the next one. Thanks to all who organised it - can't have been easy but you pulled it off.
Great event, well-run, and unlike a lot of comps I've been to, actually fun to watch rather than something you have to suffer through until you get to your fight. Good standards overall, although a couple of criticisms:
If you're going to encourage shin pads, then you should require them. Some with and some without just doesn't look right and seems a bit dodgy.
Overall injury rate pretty high, although that was mostly down to the individual fighters rather than any organisational failings. Don't know how to deal with that, but the point above might be a start. Saw a couple of guys with bad toes/feet, so...might help.
A bit more clarity on the downward elbow rules. Saw a lot of them thrown, even if only to the body and legs, and very little referee action. To the best of my knowledge, they should be illegal, no?
...that's about it, really. Will be at the next one, looking forward to ordering the event DVD from this one shortly!
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3. Press the "enter/return" key or click your cursor arrow on "Google Search."
4. If your address information appears, click on "Map" located to the right of the address information.
5. To remove your name from the Google phonebook, click your cursor arrow on your phone number, and click on "Request to have your name removed from this list." Complete the form and click on "Submit Form." Your removal request will be processed in approximately 48 hours.
If you have an unlisted number or cell phone as a primary contact, this Google map issue will not apply to you.
Sites Of The Month - Great Sites To Check Out In December
Dare to Compare
http://www.farecompare.com - This site provides a variety of tools to help you get the best deals on your upcoming flights. Use the search function to compare fares on various airlines and sign up for an alert that tells you when those prices drop. You can also get text and video insider tips and an airline industry eNewsletter. Be sure to look at the cheap flights information for the airport nearest you.
Good Reads
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com - Ready to reach for that next book, but finding your bedside table bare? No worries! Just type the name of the last book you read into this site, and get a list of great recommendations for what to read next. Register to build your own favorites list and build the database to provide better answers for everyone who uses the site.
Mini Meals
http://recipe4living.com/Recipes/10-Appetizers.aspx - Want to give your guests something to munch on while you're putting the final touches on the meal? Explore this site for simple or gourmet appetizer ideas. Find finger foods, salads, spreads, dips, and sauces, or search for your favorite ingredient. The site also features helpful reference guides including a conversion calculator, food substitutions, and a dictionary of herbs and spices.
Best of B Ball
http://sportsinmovies.com/best-movies/basketball.asp - Hurricane Season, a film about a high-school basketball coach who leads a team to victory following Hurricane Katrina, comes out this month and joins a long list of other movies featuring basketball. This site lists the best basketball films ever made, and ranks them according to viewer ratings. You can contribute your own ratings, submit reviews, and watch trailers.
College Cash
http://www.finaid.org - If you are in the process of researching financial aid for college, this site can help. It provides detailed descriptions of sources for paying college expenses including scholarships, loans, savings, and military aid. It also demystifies financial aid applications and features calculators for determining things like costs, savings plans, and loan details. Still confused? Check out the FAQs.
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If you have an unlisted number or cell phone as a primary contact, this Google map issue will not apply to you.
Short Tutorial - Blocking A Sender's E-mail Address
Are you getting annoying e-mails from someone you know? If you are, you can block the sender's e-mail address so that you will no longer see their messages in your Inbox. Instead, any e-mails received from that address would go to your Deleted Items or Junk E-mail folder. Please note that blocking a sender's e-mail address is not an effective way to fight spam, since spammers will typically change their e-mail address frequently.
Blocking a Sender When Using ...
- E-mail Program: Outlook Express 6
- Computer Operating System: Windows XP SP2
1. With Outlook Express open, select a message whose sender you want to block.
2. Click your cursor arrow on "Message" in the menu bar, and drop down to and select "Block Sender..." from the resulting drop-down menu.
3. When the Outlook Express alert window opens, it will tell you it has added the sender to your Blocked Senders List. It will also ask you if you would like to remove all messages from this sender from the current folder. Click "Yes" to move all messages from the blocked sender to the Deleted Items folder. Click "No" to leave the messages where they are.
Blocking a Sender When Using ...
- E-mail Program: Windows Mail
- Computer Operating System: Windows Vista
1. With Windows Mail open, select a message whose sender you want to block.
2. Click your cursor arrow on "Message" in the menu bar, drop down to "Junk E-mail" from the resulting drop-down menu, and then select "Add Sender to Blocked Senders List."
3. When the Windows Mail alert window opens, it will tell you it has added the sender to your Blocked Senders List and the message has been moved to the Junk E-mail folder. Click "OK" to close the window.
Blocking a Sender When Using ...
- E-mail Program: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0
- Computer Operating System: Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista
1. With Mozilla Thunderbird open, click your cursor arrow on "Tools" in the menu bar. Select "Message Filters" from the resulting drop-down menu.
2. When the Message filters window opens, click on "New..."
3. When the Filter Rules window opens, type in a name for the filter in the "Filter name:" field.
4. Next, you will need to select the conditions that you want to use to filter messages. (This tutorial demonstrates how to filter by identifying specific senders in the "From" line.)
5. In the "For incoming messages that:" section, click the button next to "Match all of the following" or "Match any of the following," depending on how general or specific you want your filter to be. (Windows Vista also offers "Match all messages" as a selection.)
6. Select "From" and "is" from the drop-down menus.
7. Type in the sender's name that you want to filter in the empty box to the right of the drop-down menus. To add more names, click on the plus (+) sign.
8. In the "Perform these actions:" section, choose "Delete the message" for Windows XP SP2 and "Delete Message" from the drop-down menu for Windows Vista. Click "OK" to exit the Filter Rules window.
9. The Message Filters window will reappear and you should see the new filter you just created. Highlight the new filter and click on "Run Now" next to the "Run selected filter(s) on:" section. (By default, "Inbox" will already be selected.) Close the Message Filters by clicking on the red "X" in the upper right corner.
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Cubs add four players to 40-man roster
CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs today selected the contracts of four players and added them to the 40-man roster: right-handed pitcher Trey McNutt from Double-A Tennessee, infielder Christian Villanueva from Single-A Daytona, infielder Logan Watkins from Tennessee and right-handed pitcher Robert Whitenack from Daytona.
Infielder Bryan LaHair has been designated for assignment, as he and the Cubs are pursuing an opportunity for LaHair with a club in Japan. Additionally, right-handed pitcher Carlos Gutierrez cleared waivers and was assigned outright to Triple-A Iowa.
McNutt, 23, has gone 27-16 with a 3.45 ERA (128 ER/334.0 IP) in 95 appearances, including 70 starts, in four minor league seasons in the Cubs organization. A 32nd round selection by the Cubs in the 2009 Draft, McNutt started the Single-A Midwest League All-Star Game in 2010, was a mid-season Double-A Southern League All-Star in 2011 and a 2011 Arizona Fall League rising star despite being hampered by blister and abdominal injuries in 2011 and 2012.
The 6-foot-4, 220-pound McNutt entered the 2012 season ranked as the fourth-best prospect in the Cubs system by Baseball America and went 9-8 with a 4.26 ERA (45 ER/95.0 IP) in 34 appearances, 17 starts, with Tennessee. He finished the season strong by going 3-0 with a 1.20 ERA (2 ER/15.0 IP) in his final 10 appearances (all in relief) in August and September. The Birmingham, Ala., native was a non-roster invitee to Cubs major league spring training each of the last two seasons.
Villanueva, 21, was acquired by the Cubs from the Rangers as part of the trade that sent Ryan Dempster to Texas last July 31. The right-handed batter and thrower combined to bat .279 (128-for-459) with 24 doubles, one triple, 14 home runs, 68 RBI and 14 stolen bases between Daytona and Texas' Single-A Myrtle Beach affiliate. Villanueva turned in a .353 on-base percentage and a .427 slugging percentage, good for a .780 OPS. He began his Cubs career by hitting a home run in each of his first two at-bats in his first game with Daytona.
The 5-foot-11, 165-pound Villanueva entered 2012 as the ninth-best prospect in the Rangers farm system. He was a 2011 mid- and post-season All-Star in the South Atlantic League after finishing the year with a .278 batting average (130-for-467), 30 doubles, three triples, 17 homers, 32 stolen bases and 84 RBI in 126 games with Single-A Hickory. The Guadalajara, Mexico native originally signed with the Rangers as a non-drafted free agent on August 17, 2008.
Watkins, 23, was named Chicago's 2012 Minor League Player of the Year after batting .281 (137-for-488) with 93 runs, 20 doubles, 11 triples, nine home runs and 52 RBI in 133 games for Tennessee. He led the Southern League in runs scored, was second in triples and walks (76) and was fourth in on-base percentage (.383). The left-handed hitter hit .352 (31-for-88) in June, a month in which he recorded a team-high 13-game hitting streak en route to earning Cubs Minor League Player of the Month honors.
The 5-foot-11, 175-pound Watkins owns a .285 batting average (493-for-1,728) with 67 doubles, 33 triples, 15 home runs, 170 RBI and a .372 on-base percentage in 475 career minor league games. He has drawn 225 walks compared to 341 strikeouts in 2,035 plate appearances. The Wichita, Kan., native was originally selected in the 21st round of the 2008 Draft out of Goddard High School. Watkins just completed participation in the Arizona Fall League.
Whitenack, who turns 24 today, returned to the mound in 2012 after undergoing Tommy John ligament replacement surgery in the summer of 2011. The righthander began the 2011 season 7-0 with a 1.93 ERA (13 ER/60.2 IP) in 11 starts between Daytona and Tennessee, earning Southern League All-Star honors, before being sidelined due to injury. Whitenack joined Daytona last May and went 1-6 with a 5.96 ERA (34 ER/51.1 IP) in 15 starts.
Originally selected by the Cubs in the eighth round of the 2009 Draft, Whitenack is 19-18 with a 4.13 ERA (142 ER/309.1 IP) in 69 appearances (65 starts) in four minor league seasons with the Cubs. He became the first baseball player drafted out of SUNY Old Westbury.
A 2012 National League All-Star, LaHair batted .259 (88-for-340) with 16 home runs and 40 RBI in 130 games. He originally signed with the Cubs as a minor league free agent on December 23, 2009 and has combined to bat .263 (105-for-399) with 18 home runs and 46 RBI in 150 games with the Cubs covering two seasons (2011-12).
Gutierrez, 26, was claimed off waivers by the Cubs from the Minnesota Twins on October 24. He was originally selected by the Twins in the first round of the 2008 Draft and has gone 15-20 with a 4.11 ERA (154 ER/337.0 IP) in 136 appearances (32 starts) covering the last five seasons in the Twins minor league system.


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:''See [[Liberty City in GTA IV]]'' ''"Algonquin - "Self-proclaimed center of everything.'' ''Cultural center of the world, commercial center of the world, financial center of the world. If Algonquin residents could have it their way, the region would also be considered the epicenter of everything in the known universe. A word of warning to the inquisitive traveler: questioning the integrity of Algonquin's self-righteous and artificially-sweetened natives will likely get you shot."'' [[Image:Panorama.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Algonquin Skyline]] ==Overview== '''Algonquin''' is the largest borough in [[Liberty City in GTA IV|Liberty City]]. It serves as the core of the Liberty metropolitan area, and contains the two central business districts of the city. Downtown Algonquin and Midtown Algonquin hold the city's skyscrapers, some world famous. Algonquin is the most densely populated area in Liberty City, and is known to be the center of finance and economy. Recently, it is suggested that Algonquin has surpassed London as the "Financial Capital of the World". Algonquin is a major commercial, financial, and cultural center of the [[United States of America]] and the world. Most major radio, television, and telecommunications companies in the United States are based here, as well as many news, magazine, book, and other media publishers. Algonquin has many famous landmarks, tourist attractions, museums and theater shows . It is also home to the headquarters of the [[Civilization Committee]]. Algonquin is the largest central business district in the United States, and is the site of both [[The Exchange]] financial district and a Midtown based stock exchange, [[BAWSAQ]]. Algonquin is the home to the largest number of corporate headquarters in the nation. It is indisputably the center of Liberty City and the Liberty metropolitan region, holding the seat of city government, and the largest fraction of employment, business, and recreational activities. The name comes from a Native American tribe that lived in the Great Lakes region of the [[United States of America]], but now live in Quebec, Canada. History states that Algonquin is a Native American word for "place to build condo skyscrapers". Algonquin is unlocked after completing the mission [[Blow Your Cover]] for [[Elizabeta Torres]]. ==Transportation== ===Streets=== The borough is known for it's extensive street grid. Streets going east-west are named alphabetically for various minerals and elements, from Amethyst Street in the south to Xenotime Street in the north. North-south avenues are also named alphabetically from Albany Avenue in the east to Galveston Avenue in the west. Shorter streets often are named differently, for example: Burlesque. The city is surrounded by Union Drive (West and East) running around the Algonquin waterfront. ===Avenues=== Algonquin is divided into 5 major avenues, almost all carrying north/south bound traffic. Albany, Bismark, and Columbus Avenues divide the Eastern coast of the island. Some, like Columbus Avenue are famously known for it's world-wide shopping venues. Denver-Exeter, Frankfort, and Galveston Avenue make-up the Western coast of the island. The smaller sub-major avenues, Denver-Exeter and Burlesque Avenue comprise the [[Star Junction]] intersection. Both are the only avenues on the island to carry south-bound traffic only. ===Subways=== All of the subways in Liberty City converge on two lines looping through Algonquin: The A/J Outer Algonquin Line connects over the [[Algonquin Bridge]] to Broker, where it becomes the 3/8 Broker Line. The K/E Inner Algonquin Line connects to the B/C Bohan Line north of the Frankfort High/Low Stations. The two lines connect to one another at Easton Station. In addition, there is also a Skycar over the western portion of the [[Humboldt River]] south of the [[Algonquin Bridge]], connecting Algonquin with Colony Island. This is based on the [[Wikipedia:Roosevelt Island Tramway|Roosevelt Island Tramway]]. ==Places of Interest in Algonquin== [[Image:Rotterdam Night.JPG|350px|thumb|right|The [[Rotterdam Tower]], the highest building in Liberty City.]] *[[Civic Citadel]] *[[Civilization Committee]] *[[Getalife Building]] *[[Grand Easton Terminal]] *[[Happiness Island]] *[[The Libertonian]] *[[Live Central Music Venue]] *[[Middle Park]] *[[Randolf Art Center]] *[[Rotterdam Tower]] *[[Rubin Swinger Basketball Courts]] *[[Statue of Happiness]] *[[Star Junction]] *[[Zirconium Building]] ==Notable Residents== *[[Sammy Botino]] *[[Marlon Bridges]] *[[Alexandra Chilton]] *[[Lyle Cleethorpes]] *[[Joe Corrola]] *[[Bernie Crane]] *[[Bryce Dawkins]] *[[Dwayne Forge]] *[[Frank Garone]] *[[Cherise Glover]] *[[Alonso Gomez]] *[[Oscar Gomez]] *[[Clarence Little]] *[[Luis Fernando Lopez]] *[[Hossan Ramzy]] *[[Jayvon Simson]] *[[Anthony Spoleto]] *[[Playboy X]] (Trey Stewart) *[[Alfonso Vasquez]] *[[January Natasha Vasquez]] *[[Jill Von Crastenburg]] *[[Sara]] *[[Jeff]] *[[Pathos]] ==Businesses in Algonquin== [[Image:Star Junction.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Star Junction]]]] *[[Grotti]] ([[Middle Park East]]) *[[Memory Lanes]] ([[The Meat Quarter]]) *[[Modo]] (Vauxite Street/Exeter Avenue, [[North Holland]]) *[[Perseus]] (Bismarck Street/Pyrite Street, [[Middle Park East]]) *[[RS Haul]] *[[Split Sides]] ==Neighborhoods== *[[Castle Garden City]] (''[[wikipedia:Battery Park City|Battery Park City]]'') *[[Castle Gardens]] (''[[wikipedia:Battery Park|Battery Park]]'') *[[Chinatown, Algonquin|Chinatown]] (''[[wikipedia:Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]]'') *[[City Hall (Liberty City)|City Hall]] (''[[wikipedia:Civic Center, Manhattan|City Hall]]'') *[[East Holland]] (''[[wikipedia:Spanish Harlem|Spanish Harlem]]'') *[[Easton]] (''[[wikipedia:Midtown Manhattan|Midtown]]'') *[[Fishmarket North]] *[[Fishmarket South]] (''[[wikipedia:South Street Seaport|South Street Seaport]]'') *[[Happiness Island]] (''[[wikipedia:Liberty Island|Liberty Island]]'') *[[Hatton Gardens]] (''[[wikipedia:Tudor City|Tudor City]]'') *[[Lancaster]] (''[[wikipedia:Yorkville, Manhattan|Yorkville]]'') *[[Lancet]] (''[[Wikipedia:Kips Bay|Kips Bay]]'') *[[Little Italy]] (''[[wikipedia:Little Italy, Manhattan|Little Italy]]'') *[[Lower Easton]] (''[[wikipedia:Lower East Side|Lower East Side]]'') *[[Middle Park]] (''[[wikipedia:Central Park|Central Park]]'') *[[Middle Park East]] (''[[wikipedia:Upper East Side|Upper East Side]]'') *[[Middle Park West]] (''[[wikipedia:Upper West Side|Upper West Side]]'') *[[North Holland]] (''[[wikipedia:Harlem|Harlem]]'') *[[Northwood]] (''[[wikipedia:Inwood, Manhattan|Inwood]]'') *[[Presidents City]] (''[[wikipedia:Alphabet City, Manhattan|Alphabet City]]'') *[[Purgatory]] (''[[wikipedia:Hell's Kitchen|Hell's Kitchen]]'') *[[Star Junction]] (''[[wikipedia:Times square|Times Square]]'') *[[Suffolk]] (''[[wikipedia:SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]]'') *[[The Exchange (neighborhood)|The Exchange]] (''[[wikipedia:Financial District, Manhattan|Financial District]]'') *[[The Meat Quarter]] (''[[wikipedia:Meatpacking District, Manhattan|Meatpacking District]]'') *[[The Triangle]] (''[[wikipedia:Flatiron District|Flatiron District]]'') *[[Varsity Heights]] (''[[wikipedia:Morningside Heights|Morningside Heights]]'') *[[Westminster]] (''[[wikipedia:Greenwich Village|Greenwich Village]]'') {{gtaiv}} [[nl:Algonquin]] [[Category:Liberty City in GTA IV]]
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Next week's episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" may seem familiar to fans of Rihanna and Chris Brown.
The episode revolves around a young, rising pop star who has been beaten by her hip-hop star boyfriend. NBC has billed the episode, which is called "Funny Valentine," as a familiar story of two celebrities.
The trailer shows two 20-something African-Americans cast as the couple, whose story creates a media circus as the authorities attempt to investigate. But the SVU episode won't exactly follow what happened between Rihanna and Chris Brown in 2009.
The hip-hop star abuser is found dead on the show, complicating matters even further. The episode is set to air on Wednesday at 9 p.m. Eastern on NBC, and will include special appearances from Perez Hilton, Dave Navarro and Wendy Williams.
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COMIC Rik Mayall suffered an "acute cardiac event" after returning from a morning run, his widow has said.
The former Droitwich comedian, who shot to fame playing poetry-writing anarchist Rick in The Young Ones, was found dead at his London home on Monday, and Barbara Mayall said: "We now know that our darling Rik suffered an 'acute cardiac event' at our home around midday on June 9th.
"He had just returned from his usual run and many people had seen him that morning."
An earlier post-mortem at West London Coroner's Court had been inconclusive and more tests were being carried out in an attempt to determine how the 56-year-old star died.
Mrs Mayall also said her family had received "thousands and thousands of messages of condolence" from around the world.
She added: "We always knew that Rik was well loved but we are all overwhelmed by so many joining us in our grief."
His career, which also included roles such as Lord Flashheart in Blackadder and the conniving Conservative MP Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman, stretched back to the start of the alternative comedy scene.
Fans of the star have launched a campaign to send his failed football song, Noble England, into the charts in his memory.
According to data from the Official Charts Company, the track was sat just outside the top 10 at number 11 in the mid-week chart.