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Microsoft admitted Hotmail users had been tricked into revealing their passwords, 10,000 of which had been published online.
The spam is being sent from users' accounts to contacts in their address books - so recipients will think it came from one of their friends. While the new spam is not malicious in itself, it does point the contact in the direction of something that is a "shopping" website. The trick is, the shopping site is not a real one. The scam persuades victims to order goods online by credit card, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft and fraud.
(Source: Fox News)
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Hotmail and several other Web e-mail providers were recently hit by phishing attacks that gleaned usernames and passwords.It's terribly insecure, but the string of digits 1234567 is a popular password on Hotmail, according to security researcher Bogdan Calin, who analyzed 9,843 stolen Windows Live Hotmail passwords that were posted on a Web site.
In a blog post, Calin said the following were the most common passwords in the Hotmail collection: 123456, 123456789, alejandra, 111111, alberto, tequiero, alejandro and 12345678.
(Source: ComputerWorld)
Surfing the Internet just might be a way to preserve your mental skills as you age. Researchers found that older adults who started browsing the Web experienced improved brain function after only a few days.
"You can teach an old brain new technology tricks," said Dr. Gary Small, a psychiatry professor. With people who had little Internet experience, "we found that after just a week of practice, there was a much greater extent of activity particularly in the areas of the brain that make decisions, the thinking brain -- which makes sense because, when you're searching online, you're making a lot of decisions," he said. "It's interactive."
(Source: Health Day)
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A 15-year-old girl who posted her profile on a vampire website was allegedly murdered by two men who created a "fictional internet alter-ego" a court heard.
Carly Ryan's body was found by a swimmer on an Australian beach in 2007. Yesterday a father and son appeared before the South Australian supreme court accused of setting a trap that led to her alleged murder. The girl posted personal details and photographs of herself on the Gothic website www.vampirefreaks.com and soon began an internet romance with a fictitious teenager called Brandon.
(Source: Telegraph)
The founder of lastminute.com, Martha Lane Fox, has unveiled an ambitious policy to get everyone in Britain online by 2012, backed by a study that says it would save the government up to £1bn annually in customer service costs and boost the economy by more than £20bn.
Lane Fox, who is now chair of the government-created Digital Inclusion Task Force, says that getting the 10m Britons who have never used the internet to go online could generate at least £22.6bn in economic benefit including at least £10.6bn over the lifetimes of the 1.6m children who have never used it.
(Source: Guardian)
Tens of millions of U.S. computers are loaded with scam security software that their owners may have paid for but which only makes the machines more vulnerable, according to a new Symantec report on cybercrime.
Cyberthieves are increasingly planting fake security alerts that pop up when computer users access a legitimate website. The "alert" warns them of a virus and offers security software, sometimes for free and sometimes for a fee. "Lots of times, in fact they're a conduit for attackers to take over your machine. They'll take your credit card information, any personal information you've entered there and they've got your machine,"
(Source: Reuters)
Its the F word question that all parents now dread. Can I go on Facebook? your eleven year-old bullies you over dinner, declaring that absolutely everybody else in her class is not only on Facebook, but also on Twitter as well as Bebo and Orkut and other peculiarly named social networks.
So how should parents in todays social media age deal with the F word question? Is social networking bad for childrens brains? Should we allow our kids to freely expose their identities on the Internet?
Cyber-crime just doesn't pay like it used to. Security researchers say the cost of criminal services such as distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks has dropped in recent months. The reason? Market economics.
Criminals have gotten better at hacking into unsuspecting computers and linking them together into so-called botnet networks, which can then be centrally controlled. Botnets are used to send spam, steal passwords, and sometimes to launch DDoS attacks, which flood victims' servers with unwanted information.
A survey of 16 to 24 year olds has found that 75% of them feel they "couldn't live" without the internet. The report, published by online charity YouthNet, also found that four out of five young people used the web to look for advice.
About one third added that they felt no need to talk to a person face to face about their problems because of the resources available online. The survey looked at how the web influences the well-being of people aged between 16 and 24.
(Source: BBC)
Internet users in the North East of England have the most nervous attitude towards the web, according to research that highlights the country's "digital divide".
Online engagement will soon replace social class as the most powerful determiner of economic success, damaging the career prospects of internet refuseniks, according to the social anthologist who analysed the survey. Nearly one-third (31 per cent) of in the North East are reluctant to use the internet for anything more than sending email and occasional browsing, higher than the national average of 23 per cent.
Twitter users should refrain from changing their log-in data until further notice or else risk getting locked out of their accounts. Twitter is investigating instances of users who have lost access to their accounts after modifying their usernames, passwords or e-mail addresses, the microblogging company said on Tuesday.
Until the problem is resolved, Twitter users shouldn't modify their log-in data, according to an official posting on Twitter's Status Web site. "This seems to affect new users as well as long term users," the note reads.
Studies on whether mobile phones can cause cancer, especially brain tumors, vary widely in quality and there may be some bias in those showing the least risk, researchers reported on Tuesday. So far it is difficult to demonstrate any link, although the best studies do suggest some association between mobile phone use and cancer, the team led by Dr. Seung-Kwon Myung of South Korea's National Cancer Center found.
Myung and colleagues at Ewha Womans University and Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul and the University of California, Berkeley, examined 23 published studies of more than 37,000 people in what is called a meta-analysis.
About a third of UK employees throw sensitive documents in the bin instead of shredding them, research suggests. The study also found almost three-quarters of workers felt their organisations could do more to protect their customers' sensitive information.
The data was compiled for National Identity Fraud Prevention Week. Identity fraud costs the UK more than £1.2bn annually. The UK's Fraud Prevention Service says 60,000 people have fallen victim so far this year.
Facebook has seen an impressive bump in traffic versus this time last year. For September 2009, the site claimed 58.6 percent of U.S. social networking tracking, a jump of 194-percent over the same period last year. Twitter's increase, meanwhile, was downright absurd, jumping 1,170 percent over the past year.
In September 2008, Facebook recorded a 19.94 share, which increased to 58.59 percent for Sept. 2009. MySpace, by contrast, dominated the social-networking sites last September, with a 66.8 percent share. Since then, however, MySpace's market share has plunged to 30.3 percent, still leaving it second in U.S. traffic.
(Source: PC Magazine)
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For the fourth time this year, Adobe has admitted that hackers used malicious PDF documents to break into Windows PCs.
The bug in the popular Reader PDF viewer and the Acrobat PDF maker is being exploited in "limited targeted attacks," Adobe said yesterday. That phrasing generally means hackers are sending the rigged PDF documents to a short list of users, oftentimes company executives or others whose PCs contain a treasure trove of confidential information.
Security researchers are warning that Web-based applications are increasing the risk of identity theft or losing personal data more than ever before.
The best defense against data theft, malware and viruses in the cloud is self defense, researchers at the Hack In The Box (HITB) security conference said. But getting people to change how they use the Internet, such as what personal data they make public, won't be easy.
(Source: PCWorld)
Scammers have grabbed the Hotmail passwords that leaked to the Web and are using them in a plot involving a fake Chinese electronics seller to bilk users out of cash and their credit card information, a security researcher said.
"We've seen a 30% to 40% increase in these types of spam messages in the last several days," said Patrik Runald, senior manager of Websense's security research team. "By 'these types of spam,' I mean messages that are advertising great consumer electronics bargains, such as cameras and computers."
1. There's always a friend's computer. 2. They're a form of censorship. 3. They give you a false sense of security. 4. Kids resent them -- and you. 5. Kids can defeat them. 6. They catch too much. 7. They don't catch everything.
Most parental control programs use a combination of filtering techniques to block access to unwanted sites. But each method is vulnerable, and none promises 100% accuracy. Text-based filters can't really determine the context of words or phrases, so they can block access to perfectly acceptable sites. Words like "sucking," for example, might get caught in the filter and prevent your kid from researching, say, mosquitoes.
(Source: Common Sense)
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Meet "network man." He has basic desires of his own, but has many arbitrary preferences, such as in music or clothes, that have been influenced by the people he knows. Network man's likes and dislikes, in turn, affect the behavior of his friends, and their friends, and their friends.
People have profound influences on each other's behavior within three degrees of separation, the authors find. That means that your friends, your friends' friends, and your friends' friends' friends may all affect your eating habits, voting preferences, happiness, and more. At the fourth degree, however, the influence substantially weakens.
(Source: CNN)
The head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he recently came "just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scam" after receiving an e-mail that appeared to be from his bank.
In phishing scams, criminals send spam e-mails to their victims, hoping to trick them into entering sensitive information such as usernames and passwords at fake Web sites.
IPhone lovers and other smartphone users should take heed: A security researcher showed ways to spy on a BlackBerry user during a presentation Wednesday, including listening to phone conversations, stealing contact lists, reading text messages, taking and viewing photos and figuring out the handset's location via GPS.
And ironically, Sheran Gunasekera, head of research and development at ZenConsult, said the BlackBerry is one of the most secure smartphones available, in some ways better than the iPhone.
Investigators in the United States and Egypt have smashed a computer "phishing" identity theft scam described as the biggest cyber-crime investigation in US history, officials said Wednesday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said 33 people were arrested across the United States early Wednesday while authorities in Egypt charged 47 more people linked to the scam. A total of 53 suspects were named in connection with the scam in a federal grand jury indictment, the FBI said.
(Source: AFP)
Privacy and security are foundational to health care reform. Patients will trust electronic health care records only if they believe their confidentiality is protected via good security.
As vice chairman of the federal Healthcare Information Technology Standards Committee, I have been on the front lines in the debate over the standards and implementation guidance needed to support the exchange of health care information. Over the past few months, I've learned a great deal from the committee's privacy and security workgroup.
The social networking site said that its security teams had noticed an increase in scams where people's login information is collected through phishing sites, and then their accounts are accessed without permission to ask friends for money.
"While the total number of people who have been impacted is small, we take any threat to security seriously and are redoubling our efforts to combat the scam," The attacks, known as 419 scams, involve a fraudster accessing Facebook accounts and posing as the account owner.
Microsoft blocked access to thousands of Hotmail accounts in response to hackers plundering password information and posting it online.
Cyber-crooks evidently used "phishing" tactics to dupe users of Microsoft's free Web-based email service into revealing account and access information, according to the US technology giant. Phishing is an Internet bane and involves using what hackers refer to as "social engineering" to trick people into revealing information online or downloading malicious software onto computers.
In a somewhat unusual data breach, hackers recently stole the login credentials of an unknown number of customers of payroll processing company PayChoice Inc., and then attempted to use the data to steal additional information directly from the customers themselves.
Hackers broke into the site and managed to access the real legal name, username and the partially masked passwords used by customers to log into the site. They then used the information to send very realistic looking phishing e-mails to PayChoice's customers directing them to download a Web browser plug-in to be able to continue using the onlineemployer.com service.
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that her department has received the green light to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years.
Kicking off "National Cybersecurity Awareness Month," she said the new recruits would "help fulfill the department's broad mission to protect the nation's cyber infrastructure, systems and networks." "Effective cybersecurity requires all partners -- individuals, communities, government entities and the private sector -- to work together to protect our networks and strengthen our cyber resiliency," Napolitano said.
"We were at a restaurant for my mom's birthday. I looked over and there are my daughter and my oldest son texting, holding their phones under the table," said the mom of four in Lewiston, Idaho. "I just came unglued. I was like, `Are you kidding? You're at your grandma's birthday party. Put those phones away now!'"
We all know teens love their gadgets more for texting than talking. But the devices are posing some new challenges for parents. How can they teach their tech-savvy kids some electronic etiquette? So far, parents are learning on the fly, imposing new rules for their young offenders such as "no texting at dinner."
(Source: AP)
A long-time critic of the video game industry has sued Facebook for US$40 million, saying that the social networking site harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook gamers.
Thompson is best know for bringing suit against Grand Theft Auto's Take Two Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and Wal-Mart, arguing that the game caused violent behavior. In 2005 episode of CBS's 60 Minutes, Thompson likened the popular video game to a "murder simulator" and blamed it for the 2003 shooting deaths of two police officers and a 911 dispatcher in Fayette, Alabama.
It's your birthday. And thanks to your Facebook profile, everybody knows that. Your wall fills up with well wishes from hundreds of "friends." Sure, it's nice to be noticed. But security experts are skeptical about whether sharing information, such as birthdays, with a broad audience is a bright idea. "It's all about providing the bad guy with intelligence," said Robert Siciliano, CEO of IDtheftsecurity.com.
Many people use their birthdate in passwords and personal identification numbers, and security questions often ask for it to resend a lost password. So broadcasting a birthdate could help cybercriminals pose as others as they log on to various Web sites, experts warned.
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While many students spend their first few semesters as undergraduates building a foundation for writing that big research paper, freshmen enrolled in the Viral Discovery Course at James Madison University are one step ahead. Many of them are now co-authors on a scholarly article published in the January edition of the Public Library of Science journal, PLoS One.
Dr. Louise Temple, a professor of integrated science and technology and one of three faculty members teaching the course, said, "I have a collection of e-mails from students who authored the papers and they say, 'Wow, is this real? Can I really be an author?'" Not only are they authors, but at least half of the students who take the course want to continue with research through college and many of them are much more successful in getting internships than students who take the usual route, Temple said.
"The students enter the course expecting us to fill them up with knowledge, but what we actually try to teach them is how to be a scientist," said Dr. Steve Cresawn, an assistant professor of biology who also teaches the course. Having their work published provides numerous benefits, Cresawn said, including "helping make these students more competitive for whatever they decide to do after college, whether they pursue graduate school, a professional school or enter the work force."
Students enrolled in the course have already found it to be influential in their academic and life choices. "It gave me the opportunity to learn basic research skills and to discover something no one else discovered before," said junior Jonathan Barrett. "I would not currently be doing research if not for the Viral Discovery Course."
Tatjana Lyons took the course and advises other first-year students to consider taking it. While she switched from studying biology to studying health sciences, Lyons says, "You don't have to be a biology or biotech major to enjoy this research class. I believe it is an important aspect of learning and can be a fun way to learn how research works."
The two-semester class, which consists of 15 to 16 students per section, spends the fall semester finding viruses and then comes back in January to finish phage sequencing and to analyze the results for the second semester. While students typically categorize their findings into existing clusters, the JMU students discovered a brand new phage that did not fit into a cluster. It is a large phage that is so unique the students felt it should be named after someone who shares these characteristics. They decided to call it LeBron after the professional basketball star, LeBron James.
A phage is a virus that infects bacteria. Phages can be found almost anywhere, including in soil, which is precisely where the students found LeBron. Phages can be used as antibiotics, although they are not typically utilized that way in America, Temple said. They also can be used to spray produce to cut down on food poisoning. Besides having practical applications, phages have been instrumental in understanding genetics because of their unique ability to take their DNA and other DNA from one cell to another. Also, says Temple, they are interesting just because they are "cute."
The research article, Expanding the Diversity of Mycobacteriophages: Insights into Genome Architecture and Evolution was published January 27 and was authored by 192 students, 14 of them from JMU. The Viral Discovery Course was offered at 12 schools when it was started by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute three years ago and is expanding. HHMI hopes it will be offered at more than 60 schools next year. Temple said she hopes that in the future there will be even more student involvement in writing the research paper than there was in the initial paper. She said students who get their names on a paper feel they contributed in a way most students do not get to experience.
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Exhibit on Capitol Lawn Tells Story of Suicide Victims
SACRAMENTO -- More than 1,000 backpacks are displayed on a north lawn of Capitol Park this afternoon to represent the 1,100 college students who commit suicide each year.
Lost in thought, Chris was among those reading the stories and quietly wandering among the backpacks, which came in many colors, shapes and sizes -- just like the students they represent.
"It's very touching, very heart wrenching in many cases. There are some incredible stories here," he said.
Stories of a boy who was just months away from being named valedictorian and a girl described by friends as "always happy and smiling."
Brandon Doman of Active Minds says the award-winning display is part of the organization's effort to get people talking about mental health issues in an effort to reduce suicide rates.
"You know, if you break your arm and go to the doctor, nobody looks at you funny. But if you say you're struggling with depression, or something, there's still a little bit of stigma. And we want people to know that it's completely normal to talk about mental health," Doman said.
Donated in memory of loved ones who've taken their own lives, the exhibit is part of a 12-city California tour that concludes next Friday in San Francisco.


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Unlike most climbing gyms we've been in, Focus mainly is about bouldering. Housed in an industrial building in Mesa just east of the Tempe border on Broadway Road, it has several walls with ropes for belaying climbers and a few auto-belayers that allow a solo climber to ascend the 30-foot routes. But once you pass through the lobby after signing in (and paying $22 for a day pass and rental of harness and rock shoes), the first thing you'll notice in the main room is the impressive, 120-foot-long-by-18-foot-high inverted bouldering wall. The wall imparts on climbers a steady buzz of fear because they aren't roped in.
On our first time, we had to be trained on how to fall properly on the special ultra-cushiony floor surface. They made us hop backward off the wall and land on the mat with our butt, back, and head, arms folded over our chest. It all seemed reasonable until we were actually climbing on the inverted wall, all our weight hanging on our fingertips. Our first fall didn't look as pretty as in practice. But we didn't get hurt, either — the bouncy mat really works. Like other gyms, colored tape is used to designate specific routes up the wall, so you can judge when you're improving. Fortunately, the gym gives discounts for monthly and yearly memberships. With this sport, practice makes badass.
Whether you're out for a friendly stroll or training for a half-marathon, this in-town trail is the perfect place to get off the pavement for a change. You'll find families riding bikes, friends out for a power walk, cheerful joggers, and athletes prepping for the next big race. Right in the middle of Phoenix, this great-for-all-ages path accommodates bikers and hikers alike, and what's more, shade from olive and mesquite trees makes this stretch about 10 degrees cooler than the rest of town, even on the hottest day. Running from just south of Dunlap Road to well past Bethany Home Road, this popular city trail backs onto cozy residential neighborhoods and often intersects with the canal. Cool!
After a year of waiting, Camelback lovers returned in force on January 15 to the renovated Echo Canyon Trail. The short, conveniently located adventure hike, accessed near Tatum Boulevard and McDonald Drive, is one of the most visited attractions in Phoenix and a weekly, or even daily, routine for many locals. Now it's more popular than ever. Although the number of parking spaces has doubled to 135 as part of the $4.5 million project, the spaces still fill quickly each day as jubilant hikers flock to see what the city has done. Except for the parking situation, which eased as the seasonal heat arrived, the renovation generally has been seen as a success. Porta-potties were replaced by real toilets. The summit-bound trail grew slightly to 1.5 miles, with the first section receiving the most redevelopment. The path winds through scenic Echo Canyon before connecting with the old trail, most of which was untouched. Better-protected from erosion, the new trail's ready for years of monsoons and millions of footsteps — some of which could be yours.
If you've ever wanted to visit the moon, the landscape of the McDowell Mountains near the rock-skyscraper Tom's Thumb formation might just satisfy the craving — rolling, sparsely vegetated hills, boulders large and small. But first you have to get up there. We usually take Dynamite Boulevard, turn right on 128th Street, and head south until reaching the parking lot. Don't be fooled by the posh, resort-style entranceway at the trailhead — this is Scottsdale, yes, but it's not all easy living on the Tom's Thumb Trail. You'll ascend nearly the height of the Empire State Building over more than two miles of steep trail with switchbacks. Opened just two years ago, the new trail is smooth and mostly free of ankle-twisting rocks. It's tough, but you'll see people of all ages taking it on. Take more water than you think you'll need if the air temperature is anything close to warm, and be sure to save some energy to explore the otherworldly summit ridge for a while.
First published more than a decade ago, this hiking and biking guide will inspire even the least-outdoorsy among us to hit the trail. Expert and frequently updated trail descriptions are categorized by difficulty, length, and popularity among hikers, and the book's topographical maps make this book a must-have for any hiker. Step-by-step directions and some really great photography help both the novice and the seasoned hiker choose which trail to take. The "History and Legends" essays, published as part of each hike description, really sets this book apart from other guides covering the National Forest Wilderness of Arizona.
Bouldering in the Pima Canyon wash, near the east end of Phoenix's vast South Mountain Park/Preserve, requires extreme skill, not just because of the difficult routes, which are rated V0 (equivalent to about 5.10 at local rock-climbing gyms — not a beginner rating) to an insane V7, but also because of the scary landings. Bouldering typically involves rock climbing with rock shoes but no rope on routes low enough to fall off without serious injury. In this "developed" climbing area (the short climbing routes are detailed in a pamphlet published by local climber Marty Karabin and found in area outdoors shops), the routes go too high, and have wicked-angled boulders to fall on if you miss a handhold.
So why do we love it? Fact is, we've enjoyed the place many times without finishing a route — that is, we climb up only a few feet, and leave the top-outs for stronger, nuttier athletes. No shame in that — it's bouldering. The idea is to get a good pump. And that we do. The rock quality here is passable, considered "granitic" but not granite. Its boulders often have a veneer of desert varnish, which feels great to grip. Good cracks rise up high enough to practice fist jams and foot placement.
You've got to watch for the inevitable crumbly hand- and footholds. But the expansive, fun-to-explore area of dry waterfalls, varnished boulders, and arroyo sand is worth several hours of your life on a nice day. Often, you'll see some of the local hardmen and women who spend hours a day — every day — on the rock and maybe some of the overconfident klutzes who'll make you want to get your phone ready to call 911. If you spot someone staying safe and low but still having fun, that might be us.


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Best Joint: Campbell's Bar-B-Q
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What: Pork, Beef, Chicken & Sasauge
Lemme tell ya, you don't normally think of great, and I mean, great, BBQ coming from the Pacific Northwest but Cambells will match any other place in the nation. I recently took a smoke aficionado to Cambells who had never had the pleasure of the experience. We strolled in and took our place at one of the small tables by the windows. He looked at the menu and then at me and with a broad smile and remarked, "I like a simple menu. Meat!". His post meal expression of satisfaction while licking his fingers said it all. Cambell's not only has the best beef brisket, ribs, shoulder, on earth but their sides are excellent; collard greens, coleslaw, fantastic cornbread, and their deserts rival any shishi uptown resturaunt. Portions are ample and reletivly inexpensive. They sell their secrets in the form of rub and sauces to share with the masses. Like many other joints, they have mastered BBQ, but Cmpbell's sucess is wrapped up in the love of the craft, simply put, BBQ.


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Alhambra Theatre
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Located in the east Manchester district of Higher Openshaw. The Alhambra Theatre was due for demolition in 2004, after the closure of restaurant which had been using the building was due to be closed. The auditorium was blocked off from the entrance and the restaurant used the side entrance units. I have been in to the front end and taken pictures, but the rest of the building is unaccesable.
Following a fire in the enpty building in late-October 2009, demolition was begun in early-November 2009.
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Thats excellent Ken, thanks very much. I pass it every day going to work and had always wondered what its history was.
Thanks again
I remember walking into the nice looking cinema in the early 60s
I still recall the plush carpets, and a thick curtain leading to the auditorium, as well as the ice-cream ladies in the interval, when it closed I recall entering the dark building and somebody has placed a thick rope, on which from the screen area you could swing from the front to the rear of the cinema in total darkness, it was the scariest ride of my life..but all in all my memories of that building are nice, didnt it end up as a Bingo hall in the late 60s-early 70s?..possibly the star?…..hmm maybe somebody can confirm this, I seem to recall my friend mother being a caller there, a mrs Phythian.
Hi I'm a film location manager, looking to use a place like this for a forthcoming comedy drama. Does anybody have any idea whats happening to this location?
I'd appreciate all your comments
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The Alhambra Cinema closed in April 1960.
It is being demolished now. Started last week after someone set fire to it.
Someone needs to get some pictures of inside if possible. I would but am working.
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FSU's Winston cited for shoplifting crab legs
(Tallahassee, FL) -- Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is dealing with some legal issues after being cited for shoplifting. SB Nation reports the Heisman Trophy winner stole some crab legs from a Publix supermarket. Winston, who also pitches for the Seminoles' baseball team, has been suspended from the baseball team, will be fined 30-dollars and required to do community service. Winston was previously accused of sexually assaulting a woman at an off-campus apartment in December 2012, but was never charged.


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Stupid Debate Questions: Don't Answer Them
posted at 8:29 am on October 2, 2012 by Libby Sternberg
Note to Mitt Romney: don't think you have to answer every silly question thrown at you by the debate moderator on Wednesday.
During last night's Massachusetts Senate debate, host David Gregory of NBC asked Republican incumbent Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren who was their model Supreme Court justice.
As soon as I heard the question, I thought to myself: what the what the? What possible purpose does this question serve except as a trap for one of the candidates to say something that could be used against him or her?
And that's precisely what happened. Sen. Scott Brown's first impulse was to point to Antonin Scalia, but some negative crowd reaction alerted him to the misstep. Scalia is often seen as the court's most conservative member, and Brown is running in a blue, blue state emphasizing his own moderation and independence. Scalia is usually viewed as the enemy of all that is good and holy to the blue crowd (translation: he doesn't like Roe v. Wade so much). Brown went on to list some other justices he admires, including Sonia Sotomayor, appointed by President Obama, but the stories after the debate gasped out the shocking—shocking!—news: Republican Senator Likes Conservative Justice! Pass the smelling salts.
When the question came, though, I mentally shouted: you can't answer, you can't answer because you don't know, and it's okay not to know!
Think about it: Brown has been immersed in the business of the legislative branch of government. The chance he's spent his time poring through SCOTUS rulings is slim. He probably knows the opinions but not who wrote what about them. That's normal. He wasn't hired by the people of Massachusetts to be a Supreme Court expert. There are people who make a living out of the sort of thing. Say, law professors. More on that in a bit.
So the correct answer by Brown should have been something along these lines: My main business has been representing the good people of Massachusetts in the legislative branch. I think they'd prefer I spend my time analyzing bills—which I meticulously pay attention to—rather than analyzing every court ruling and who wrote the majority opinion, who wrote the concurrences and who wrote the dissents. So I respectfully decline to answer a question that I and many other elected officials would not be able to answer with any real expertise. That is Professor Warren's area, and I'm sure she'd be more than happy to give you a scholarly analysis of SCOTUS rulings from her favorite justice.
Meanwhile, let's take a look at Warren's answer. One would have expected she would have had the time to study SCOTUS opinions. One might, in fact, assume she is paid to do that sort of thing as a law professor.
With no hesitation, she chose "Elena Kagan" as her model Supreme Court justice.
Kagan has only been on the bench two terms. Prior to that, she wasn't a judge. Warren's main knowledge of Kagan would be from her days on the faculty of Harvard. Another shocking—shocking—revelation: Candidate Admires Former Colleague.
Warren's answer might have been swift and smug sure but couldn't have been based on much actual Supreme Court opinion analysis. Warren's answer was safe in Massachusetts, though, and Brown's was risky.
That brings me back to my original point: some debate questions are just dumb. It's okay not to answer them. I hope Mitt Romney remembers that on Wednesday.
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By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — A Lynnwood man faces a decade behind bars for a violent mugging in August, but he's not expected to be charged with murder for the 91-year-old victim's death.
Patrick Hartness admitted Friday that he robbed Harold E. Caywood outside a south Everett gas station. Caywood, who was punched in the face and knocked to the ground, died several weeks later.
The Snohomish County Medical Examiner wasn't able to determine if the attack killed Caywood or if another intervening cause, including a pre-existing medical condition, was responsible for the elderly man's death.
Because the medical examiner couldn't conclusively rule on a cause of death, prosecutors don't believe they can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that Hartness is guilty of murder.
Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Laura Twitchell charged Hartness with first-degree robbery before Caywood died. She alleged that the crime was particularly egregious because of the victim's age.
That allegation opens the door for a lengthier sentence.
As part of his plea, Hartness on Friday agreed that he deserves more time behind bars than what is allowed under the standard sentencing range, which is 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in prison.
Prosecutors plan to recommend a 10-year sentence. A judge could send Hartness away for longer, up to life in prison.
Court records say Hartness, 26, targeted Caywood, a World War II veteran, in the middle of the day as the older man walked toward the entrance of a south Everett store to pay for his gasoline. Caywood was holding several hundred dollars in his hand.
Hartness grabbed Caywood's wrist and punched him in the face, court papers said. The older man was knocked to the ground. The defendant grabbed the money out of Caywood's hand and left him lying on the ground, Twitchell wrote in charging papers.
Witnesses reported that Hartness ran to a nearby fast food restaurant, where he holed up in a restroom stall. That's where he stripped out of his shirt and donned his girlfriend's tank top in an attempt to disguise his appearance, police said.
Officers cornered Hartness in the stall. Police emptied his front pocket, turning up a pair of brass knuckles, drug paraphernalia and a wad of cash. A money clip belonging to the victim also was found in the bathroom stall.
Caywood was bleeding from the head when police arrived. He said his stomach and head hurt. He was hospitalized at least twice and also admitted to a rehabilitative care center. Caywood died Oct. 4.
The Silver Lake father and grandfather was active before being attacked, his family said. He lived on his own and went out almost every day. He had worked into his 80s, retiring after his wife of 55 years died in 2002. That's when Caywood took jewelry-making classes at Everett Community College. His elaborate beading projects won blue ribbons at the Evergreen State Fair.
When he robbed Caywood, Hartness was wanted on warrants for a domestic violence assault and driving with a suspended license. Everett police also uncovered evidence linking the convicted felon to a series of burglaries and other crimes targeting older victims.
Police believe Hartness selected people in their 80s and 90s to steal their checks and credit cards. He and others then allegedly would cash the stolen checks and withdraw money using the cards.
Hartness isn't expected to face additional charges in connection with those thefts.
In most of the theft cases, the victims were unable to identify Hartness as the suspect and there isn't enough other evidence to prove the charges, Twitchell said. Hartness has agreed to pay restitution to the theft victims.
Herald writer Julie Muhlstein contributed to this story.
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Up in the north east of the March of Brandenburg, wind turbines rotate on the horizon and the hustle and bustle of city life feels like a distant memory. And yet here is a place with its finger firmly on the pulse: regional producers, energy suppliers and small family businesses are all driving sustainable development as part of an eco-friendly tourism network.
Between land and water
When the glaciers of the last ice age thawed, they left behind more than 500 lakes, ponds, fens and streams. Today, around 60 per cent of this area is protected by nature and landscape conservation orders: to the west lies Uckermark Lakes Nature Park, bordered by the Havel river, to the east is Lower Oder Valley National Park and at the heart of it all is the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve. The people of Uckermark take pride in their unspoilt, unpretentious and authentic region. Protecting the environment has become part of the philosophy for many establishments here, and natural tourism is the goal. And as a tourist in the region, you can do your bit too – it's simple.
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The Märkischer Landweg Trail runs all the way through the Uckermark region. Covering 217 kilometres in ten sections, it crosses four protected landscapes from the Feldberg Lakes in Mecklenburg to the Oder river. Along the 170km Uckermärker Landrunde (Uckermark Country Loop), the scenery varies from shady oak forests to glistening lakes and medieval villages. Of the many established day routes for ambitious hikers and walkers, the Doppelte Boitzenburger (Double Boitzenburg) in the Uckermark region was voted Germany's most beautiful walking trail.
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Regional nature guides can show you how to get even more out of the great outdoors. Walking experts know where the black woodpeckers, owls, pine martens, dormice and bats dwell. Experts on the water guide you to hidden spots by canoe or raft. And one particular expert brings along a special long-eared travel companion. Join her for donkey walks in the biosphere reserve.
Listed country houses given a new lease of life
The collection of buildings on Gutshof Kraatz country estate have been converted into holiday homes using green building materials. The cider brewed on site here uses old fruit varieties that have been rediscovered. Gutshaus Friedenfelde serves wholegrain cakes and other dishes (including allergen-free options) from a sustainably managed café set within its cosy parlour. Meanwhile, the Immenstube restaurant near Chorin Abbey prepares dishes using honey varieties sourced from its very own beehives.
Pioneers in green energy
In Prenzlau the world's first ever hydrogen-hybrid power station is producing hydrogen from wind energy. This functions as an energy store that is used in a biogas generator to provide energy when the wind drops.
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- Spread a generous amount of icing on the bottom of a cookie, sandwich it with another cookie, pressing firmly so that the icing comes all the way out to the edge. Repeat with the remaining cookies.
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The guys in Avenged Sevenfold are donning their crowns again when it comes to the Billboard 200 this week.
The band's latest release, Hail to the King, debuted at number one on the album chart after selling 159,000 copies in its opening frame. The feat marks the second best bow for the heavy metal group after their previous effort, Nightmare, topped the chart with 163,000 in 2010.
Meanwhile, Hail to the King has brought hard rock to heights it hasn't seen in more than a year. The record gave the genre its best debut since Linkin Park's Living Things opened at number one with 223,000 copies sold back in July 2012.


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The Century 1/5th scale Robinson 22HP is ideal for the advanced novice and intermediate helicopter flier. We have designed the 10.6:1 gear ratio especially with the O.S.Max 50SX-H high performance engine in mind to provide a low speed main rotor RPM in the 1200-1450 range. Optimal performance can be achieved using 660mm semi symmetrical rotor blades (sold separately) that generate high lift, very low drag and smooth scale blade noise. The R22HP will be available as a modular R/C scale model that follows the high standards we have set with all our scale helicopters. Much of the Raven eCCPM derived mechanics provides the precision flight control comes assembled in separate modules which include the rotor head assembly, main frames and tail boom/drive system. Top quality epoxy fiberglass surrounds our mechanics with an elevated scale tail boom and tail fin set. Authentic wire landing gear completes the awesome scale appearance. Truly a model that again sets the standard for quality scale models in the R/C helicopter community.


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Trending Now: Titans release RB Chris Johnson
The Titans released RB Chris Johnson after 6 years with the team.
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Sometimes you just need to quit your finance job and paddle down the entire length of the Missouri River on a SUP. Right? Well, people like Scott Mestrezat do. The 27-year-old recently left on his 100-day, 2,341 mile-plus journey, forgoing his job, his girlfriend (she's waiting for him) and his friends. We gave him a riverside ring to get the scoop.
SUP mag: How are things going?
SM: I've been on the trip for 10 days now and the scenery has been amazing. I've been paddling by mountains and along amazing rock cliffs. The weather's been a factor: I've hit a few hailstorms and thunderstorms but nothing too bad.
SUP mag: What was your job before your journey?
SM: I worked in finance for about five years out of college. I was looking for something totally different.
SUP mag: Will you go back to that?
SM: No. I'm pretty much done with it. I'm going to pursue some residential real estate ventures trying to rehabilitate houses and sell them. I also want to do more photography.
SUP mag: So this is big shift for you?
SM: For as long as I could remember I just wanted to do a journey, something that would take a few months that I could get totally immersed in. Paddleboarding was it, I always liked it since I tried it in 2008. In 2009 I bought an inflatable. Since then, I've been on Lake Michigan a few times a week so I'm used to the waves.
SUP mag: How was the process of building the board?
SM: I found this kit for Chesapeake Light Craft where I could build it out of wood. I thought it would make it more interesting. I worked on it almost everyday. I had some experience with fiberglass so that helped but I think anyone could do it. It took about three-and-a-half weeks. You don't even need a lot of specialized tools.
SUP mag: How is the board holding up?
SM: Structurally it's doing really well. It's strong and light. It's scratched up but it's nothing to worry about. It still looks great when it's wet.
SUP mag: Your short was pretty dang good. What's your filmmaking background?
SM: I have no formal training or background. Three years ago I got a GoPro and I've always enjoyed making little films and stuff. When I got it, I pretty much took it everywhere with me. I've been reading a lot online about editing and I'm really driven to keep improving. I'm filming as much as I can so I can put together a little documentary at the end of this.
SUP mag: Has it been pretty remote so far?
SM: There have been days when I don't see people but civilization is not too far off. I know a couple miles off there's a road. The next couple weeks will be the most remote part of the trip. I won't have any cell service but I have a GPS tracker device if I run into life and death situations. I've never been that far away from civilization. I'm looking forward to it.
SUP mag: How's the girlfriend handling it?
SM: She's doing pretty well and has known about it before we started dating. She's very supportive. I couldn't ask for more from her. I'll see her in Bismarck (North Dakota) in about a month. My friends have been amazing too.
SUP mag: Any concerns for your route?
SM: My biggest concern is a week-and-a-half from now I'm going to hit 137 miles of hard winds. I met a guy whose canoe and gear was thrown into the water and blew away in the night. He hasn't recovered it.
SUP mag: Are you raising any money during the trip?
SM: I just got it set up where I can raise money for Big City Mountaineers, a program that gives wilderness experiences to under-served inner city kids. I'm doing it because I had tons of outdoor opportunities when I was younger and it shaped who I am. I think it's important for others to get that as well.
SUP mag: Be safe out there, Scott.
To donate to Mestrezat's cause, click here. Follow his journey here.
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Whether or not you are celebrating your reunion, join us for three days of fun on campus as we welcome all EOP alumni back home to Marquette University.
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When it started, it was as much a "social thing" as it was a sports group, but now the Manitoba Chinese Golf Association has become serious about its game.
"In the late '80s, I think 1986, one of the founders -- Dennis Toy, who still plays with us -- helped get the (club) started and then it was a social thing for the whole family," said the MCGA's president, Humphrey Yung.
"There was a tournament at Hecla Island; everybody stayed over on Saturday night. The family, they could play at the pool and the courtyard and the men, they would play golf on Saturday and another round on Sunday. Then there was a big barbecue for the whole group on Saturday night.
"That's how it started."
In addition to Toy, On Chan, Thomas Chan, Albert Leung, David Leung, Patrick Mah, and Woo Wai-Ching get the credit for bringing the organization to life, Yung said.
As it grew, the MCGA organized two events a year to try to bring together members of the Winnipeg and Manitoba Chinese community.
The spring tournament is a fun-oriented Texas Scramble. This year it was played at Quarry Oaks.
"We're trying to encourage new members," MCGA secretary Joe Chung said.
Later in the season, the mulligans are out the window and it's game on. The second tournament of the year is for the MCGA annual championship, and just as importantly in recent times, it's the qualifying day for Team China for the Asia Cup.
Begun as China versus Philippines in 2004, this year's Asia Cup will be contested by six teams at The Meadows at East St. Paul in late August. Competing against Team China will be the local members of teams India, Japan, Philippines, Korea and Laos.
Tom Sung, who shot 78 at The Meadows in early July to win the MCGA tournament and qualifier, will lead Team China, which is the host team this year. That allows it to decide the course and the format (best six individual of 16 scores to count on tournament day).
Yung, too, will be on the team. He owns up to a 14 handicap and said his participation in golf today surprises even him.
"My friends asked me to play golf a long, long time ago," he explained. "I told them I was not interested. It was boring. You have to get up too early.
"I had no interest until one day I was at work (for the city) and they sent me out to Windsor Park to fix some sprinklers on the course.
"I met the maintenance foreman there and he explained to me what he wanted me to do with the sprinklers in the fairway and the green, but I didn't know what a fairway or green was.
"When I was there... I saw the people playing golf, old guys, young guys, all carrying their bags and walking in all this nice scenery.
"I figured, look at me working and them enjoying this game. So I decided I would learn it."
That was 14 years ago when Yung's friend, Garry Eng, the MCGA treasurer, suggested Yung just needed a couple of clubs to get started -- a No. 7 and a putter.
Yung went out and bought a seven-wood and a putter, not realizing Eng had meant a seven-iron, but the mistake didn't deter him. After his first on-course experience, he bought a whole set of clubs and has been an avid player ever since.
The MCGA keeps its own website (www.mcga.ca), which includes some history, photos, contact information and a hole-in-one listing for any member.
That includes one by Yung, his first and a career thrill, in 2010 at Wildewood, his home club.


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what are chavs?
what you gonna do when I say I'm gonna leave with you tonighttttt?
no sulla mate we stay in scotland its nicer here not full of stupid american tourists like urself
i make angels scream and the devil cry
I live in England, its not bad, but it is spoiled by all the chavs and prostitute murderes, heh, poor suffolk, the streets were filled with prostetute fear.
EDIT: Chavs are gangsta wannabe's and the reason for all life's problems, also they are tards and like to stab people.
I'm in your house, kicking your ass at DDR
*holds up hand*
Crunchyroll's very own Wurzel, Vinniesama is here!
Will offer a cup of tea to anyone. *hugs for everyone*
England is a beautiful place, I loved it when I visited there.
Yes finally got my damn Wii!!
i live in england it's cool come on people show some patriotism englands awesome
we love you england, we do
we love you england, we do
we love you england, we do
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, england we love you
some of you people have mistaken the chav type to be stereotyped with you american eminem wannabes. also the cockney accent sounds much better than an american accent which you can only have if your from 'ere....'ave it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I live in England and it is really boring. Can't wait to get out of here.
I've never been in England .. but I'd like to =)
feel the way i feel <3
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I've never been in England .. but I'd like to =)
If it wasnt for the Brits the Netherlands would be French or German.
I wonder is the word Netherlands meant-A place that should not be.
Roll the flaming troll
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Are you serious??? Noooo!!! I live in the States and I wish to live in England!!!!!
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i'm from england, i want to live in america even tho BUSH SUX/. i really can't stand the chavs.
really truely serious!
there are so many types of people in the USA and i want to meet them!
but england, it's boring, it's small and the people here are of a closed variety. everyone seems to similar :S
rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr BIRD rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr
me mum was born in england
...Because it's cooler that way
just rename this to chav discussion or sumthing
lol cum on ppl...england aint all that bad....i luve ere too!! nd i luv the weather here....it surprises u all the time..lol quite kwl actualli!! haha!! i think englands a pretty decnt place to live...nd itz not boring...England has lots of great places....i quite like living here...!!
however...having sed that i too wudnt mind living sum wer else..hehe Japan....Canada....lol!! altho then again ive lived in england all ma life....if i moved...i mite get homesick...haha....m wierdoooo!!
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problem with being of a certain age (ie living with your folks) is that you have no choice in where you live.
when you are older you will be able to move away from the chavs i promise. they arent everywhere, it just feels like it.
but you will probablly have to rent and not buy because none of us can afford houses anymore
good news is house prices are going back down though
just remember - every country has its embarassing, irritating and pointless section of the community.
you might even want to leave your country becase of them
but you'll be back when you remember all the good things.
nothing wrong with wanting to move away though. youve only got one life, and its good to be able to experience other cultures and ways of living. doesnt mean you dont like where youre from
PS hilarious incidental experience i had once: i grew up in Windsor, where the queen lives sometimes. and one day, when i was coming out of a shop opposite the castle i heard an american tourist say to her husband:
"the castle is so beautiful, but why did they build it so near to the airport?"
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