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The 20th birthday of the first officially announced virus has just passed. Many other "milestones" in the development of viruses, worms and Trojans are contained in the following summary.
The theoretical preliminary work on computer viruses goes back as far as 1949. John von Neumann (1903-1957) developed the theory of self-reproducing automatons. However the details of the technical implementation were not conceivable at this time.
In Core Wars programs written in so-called Redcode are at war with each other. They fight to survive in the memory area. So-called impulses spread through memory and delete addresses at random. There were also a few versions which could copy themselves. This is where the roots of computer viruses lie.
Professor Leonard M. Adleman employs the term "computer virus" for the first time in conversation with Fred Cohen.
The first viruses for Apple II computers are exchanged within a small circle via diskette. Due to an error, the virus caused program crashes. This error was rectified in later versions..
As the first "in the wild" Apple / DOS 3.3 virus, the "Elk Cloner" virus plagues users with spoonerisms, inverted or false displays and clicking noises. It spread via diskettes, which with other operating systems - probably inadvertently - were made unusable.
In the Xerox Alto Research Centre, Jon Hepps and John Shock program the first worms. They are used for distributed calculations and spread independently in the network. Because of a program error, this spread took place in an uncontrolled manner, which after a short time crippled the computers.
In November Fred Cohen presents the concept of a virus for the first time in his seminar. For the implementation of a first functional virus running on UNIX, he needed only 8 hours. Within a few minutes he had full access rights to all computers.
Fred Cohen publishes his first articles about "Experiments with Computer Viruses," which were incorporated in his PhD thesis "Computer Viruses - Theory and Experiments" published in 1986. His rather mathematically-oriented definition of a virus is still recognised today and does not encompass the negative connotation that the term virus has acquired nowadays.
There is not long to wait before other viruses appear in the wild. Often these are just joke programs, which only annoy the computer user.
The Trojan horse Gotcha is truly virulent. After the EGABTR program starts, which supposedly enables graphical displays, the data on the hard drive are deleted and "Arf, arf, Gotcha" appears on the screen."
The "Surprise" program, written in BASIC, used the line command "kill *.*" to ensure that all accessible files were deleted. At the same time the text "Surprise" was displayed.
The source code of a virus for Apple II computers is printed in the journal "Apples". At the same time, the German hacker scene was getting to grips with viruses. The "BAYERISCHE HACKERPOST" is the first German magazine to report on computer viruses and Cohen's dissertation. At the time, the danger associated with computer viruses, relates only to mainframe computers. The danger to personal computers is not yet taken seriously.
The brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi run a small computer business called "Brain Computer Services" in Lahor, Pakistan. In order to punish illegal copying of their software, they created a boot sector virus for the DOS operating system. Spread by Pakistani students, the virus spread like an epidemic and even reached American universities. The program was, however, relatively harmless as all it did was rename the TOC of the infected diskettes to Brain. It remains to this day, the only virus program, which contains the author's address.
With "Virdem", Ralph Burger introduces the first file virus at a forum of the Hamburg Chaos Computer Club.
"PC-Write" was the first Trojan horse.
Thanks to the "Pakistani Brain", viruses entered into the public consciousness. John McAfee and other computer specialists founded the first anti-virus companies.
The first mainframe computer is attacked with viruses at the Free University of Berlin. The Chaos Computer Club warns of a virus epidemic within the next 18 months. The source code of a virus for Apple II computers is printed in the magazine "Computer Persönlich". The source code for the virus "Rushhour" (by B.Fix ) for MS-DOS computers is printed in the magazine "Datenschleuder".
Now viruses appear ever more frequently that infect files (at first only .COM files). The virus "Lehigh" arouses public interest for the first time. Lehigh infects "command.com" and is therefore, from a technical point of view, the first memory resident virus. After the virus has been copied to 4 diskettes, the data on all data media contained in the computer are deleted. This radical action leads however, to its rapid extinction. In connection with "Lehigh", the VIRUS-L/comp.virus mailing list and newsgroup is created and becomes an important source of information in the fight against viruses.
A student in Wellington, New Zealand writes the first, and one of the most successful, boot sector viruses called Stoned/New Zealand. It has no destructive harmful function. Form is just as successful as a boot sector virus.
After the first Macintosh viruses have surfaced in the form of nVir and Peace, Apple decided to load the virus search program Virus-Rx on every computer.
The so-called "Cascade-Virus" is the first encrypted virus. This causes, for the first time in Germany, the letters on a page to slide downwards where they collect in a little heap. The files were destroyed.
The first virus for Amiga (SCA) infects the boot sector and displays a message from time to time.
In December, a well-meaning American student crippled e-mail communication and networks worldwide with the first computer worm. The "Christmas tree" worm draws a Christmas tree on the screen while in the background, it sends itself to all the e-mail addresses it can find on the system.
in "c't" (German computer technology magazine), an article appears about computer viruses for the Atari ST, in which a source code listing is also printed. The virus can easily be adapted by the non-specialist. The subsequent wave of new viruses triggers a discussion about the publication of virus source codes.
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Fiscal Planningby Senator John Thune
Posted on 2013-01-24
THUNE. Madam President, I come to the floor to talk about the
debt crisis facing this country and the opportunity we have to address
this issue in a way that balances the budget and ensures the long-term
fiscal solvency for future generations.
The recent fiscal cliff agreement which enacted tax relief for 99 percent of Americans addressed the revenue side of the equation. But as everyone knows, revenue increases alone are not going to solve the debt crisis. In fact, the tax increases that went into effect as a part of the fiscal cliff deal generate enough revenue over the next 10 years-- and I should say if we annualize that over the next year--to fund the government for less than 1 week next year. So all the talk about the higher revenues and what that will do to address our long-term fiscal solvency and what it will do to address the deficit, if we think about it in those terms, it puts into perspective what the real problem is.
We have a debate in this city and in the Congress all the time about whether we can address the huge debt we have in front of us--the trillion-dollar annual deficits--by raising taxes on the so-called rich and people in the higher income categories. That was done. That was done as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations that occurred. Remember, those taxes were all scheduled to go up. They were scheduled to go up on everybody--anybody who had income tax liability on January 1. Because of the agreement that was reached, we were able to protect 99-- in my case in South Dakota more than 99--percent of taxpayers from those tax increases. That being said, there are those in the higher income categories and some businesses that will see higher taxes as a result of that. But those higher taxes represent enough revenue next year to fund the Federal Government for less than 1 week.
The question before us is, What do we do for the other 358 days of the year? That is what we have to start talking about, the real problem: What truly affects and afflicts Washington and our fiscal situation for the foreseeable future and for the long-term future; that is, government spending.
The reality is the Federal Government doesn't tax too little; it spends too much. Over the past 4 years, the deficit has exceeded $1 trillion each [[Page S244]] year. The long-term outlook is even worse. This country faces unsustainable fiscal imbalances largely because of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare that have not been reformed in a way that aligns our current demographics with the needs of these programs, which must be done if we are going to save and protect these programs for future generations.
Entitlement spending is the largest driver of our national debt over the long term. While it is true Federal revenues as a percentage of GDP have declined over the past few years, this was true because of the great recession, not because tax rates were too low. The average ratio of Federal revenue to GDP over the past 40 years has been roughly in the 18-percent range. Based on Congressional Budget Office data, it is expected that Federal revenues will exceed their historical averages within the next 10 years and remain there for the foreseeable future, even without additional tax increases.
I wish to illustrate with this chart which I think tells the story. We always talk about a picture telling a story in exchange for a thousand words. I can talk a lot about this, but I think this visually illustrates it perhaps as well as anything.
If we look at the green part, that represents Federal revenue historically, and this goes back to 1980. If we took this chart back to literally the 1970s, late 1960s, we would find, I think over that time period, the revenues stayed pretty static. They go up and down a little bit based on what is happening in the economy, and of course we have a downturn in the 2007 and 2008 timeframe, but revenues are starting to climb back up to that historical average. So it is about, give or take, 18 percent of GDP. That is what historical revenues are.
The black strip, which may be perhaps hard to see, is what was enacted in the fiscal cliff negotiation. Those are enacted tax increases that will add a little bit to the total as we project out. This chart takes us out literally to 2040.
The purple represents the additional taxes the President would like to get. If the President got everything he wanted in the form of taxes, the revenue picture would be about right here. Again, this takes us from where we are today out to about 2040. As we can see, even if the President got all the tax increases he wanted, represented by this line right here, it still doesn't come anywhere close to dealing with the spending that is going to explode in the outyears if we don't do something to rein that in by reforming many of these programs I just mentioned.
If we are going to save and protect Social Security and Medicare for future generations, we have to reform those programs in a way that doesn't create this huge red line that spikes into the future and literally bankrupts the country. In fact, Social Security ran a cash deficit in 2010. Medicare, we are told by the actuaries, will be insolvent by the year 2024. In fact, in the hospital portion of the Medicare trust fund, we are told it may be insolvent by the year 2016. These are important dates to remember because those are the dates at which the revenue coming in from the payroll taxes that support Social Security and Medicare no longer pay for the benefits paid out to beneficiaries.
We have this sort of train wreck coming. We know what drives Federal spending are these entitlement programs. What we call mandatory spending in the Federal budget is about 60 percent now of all Federal spending, largely imposed by Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. We have this crisis looming. We see the way this thing just starts exploding in the outyears because of the demographics of the country. We have more baby boomers who are reaching retirement age, people living longer--all good things--but we have to align those programs with the demographics of this country and today they are not. Today we are headed on a path that will take us toward a fiscal train wreck unless we do something about that.
I think it is important to point out the reason we are where we are, the reason we are running nearly $1 trillion deficits or north of $1 trillion deficits every single year for the past 4 years is because spending has increased dramatically over that timeframe. Again, just to put that into perspective, before the great recession in 2007, the Federal Government was generating about $2.5 trillion annually in tax revenue. At that time, the government was spending about $2.7 trillion each year. So we had somewhere on the order of a couple hundred billion dollars in annual deficits.
As I said, revenues dropped off a little bit from that period in 2008 in the financial meltdown, but those have started to pop back up to a more historic and traditional level. So now revenues are back up to roughly that $2.5 trillion annual range. What has changed over that same period of time, between 2007 and 2012, is the amount the Federal Government spends annually.
I just mentioned that in 2007 the Federal Government spent $2.7 trillion. We are now at the end of fiscal year 2012, which ended on September 30 of this year, and the Federal Government spent $3.5 trillion. We saw almost a $1 trillion increase in spending over that 5- year period at a time when revenues have stayed somewhat static, although they dipped into recession, but now they have come back, as I said, to that more historic level.
Essentially, what is driving these deficits is the massive runup in spending. What caused them? We had a stimulus program that was going to be one-time spending, much of which I think has gotten factored into the baseline. Eventually, we are going to have with the new health care mandates enormous amounts of new spending associated with that, which I think is going to make this picture much worse than it looks already. But my point is we have a fiscal crisis in this country which needs to be addressed. We have been kicking that can down the road for way too long and we have run out of road.
The Congressional Budget Office has made it abundantly clear that in each of their assessments of our fiscal situation as a country, most recently in November of 2012, a couple months ago, they said the following: With the population aging and health care costs per person likely to keep growing faster than the economy, the United States cannot sustain the Federal spending programs that are now in place.
That is from the CBO. They track this stuff on a daily basis for us.
We have a real challenge ahead of us. We have a major problem. I would argue, again, this is predominantly a spending problem, and I think it is illustrated, again, by this chart. When we look at government revenues, it is a fairly flat line. Even with the ups and downs in the economy, it averages about 18 percent of revenue. Actually, without any changes in the baseline, I think it ends up at about 18.6 percent of revenue a decade from now. But what we see is spending, which historically has been in the 20- to 25-percent range if we go back over the past 40 years, is going to explode. The spike we see right here is why we have a fiscal crisis on our hands and why it is so important we act to rein in out-of-control Federal spending.
I suggest to my colleagues in the Senate, as I have for a long time, that where this starts is with passing a budget. We have to go back a long time now. I mentioned this the other day, but the last time the Senate passed a budget the iPad didn't even exist. Most of us now take iPads for granted. Many Americans--not all but some Americans--have iPads. They came on the scene around April of 2010. There hasn't been a budget passed in the Senate since April of 2009.
We are going on 4 years and now 1,360-some days since the last time the Senate acted on a budget. That is irresponsible. It is especially irresponsible in light of this problem. We have a responsibility to the taxpayers of this country, as stewards of their tax dollars, to do what we can to ensure that we are putting the fiscal house of this country in order in a way that will ensure that future generations of Americans have at least as good, if not better, standard of living and quality of life than what the generation that came before us had.
That is not going to happen because we are piling on the backs of future generations enormous amounts of debt. In fact, the $16.4 trillion in debt the Nation has today, if you break that down an on an individual basis, that is about $53,000 for every man, woman, [[Page S245]] and child in America. That is what every individual owes, every individual in this country owes of that $16.4 trillion in debt. That is not fair to future generations.
It is up to us as leaders to look at these things and make decisions today that are in the best interests of future generations. I think it has been sort of a tradition in this country, a heritage, if you will, for one generation of Americans to sacrifice so that the future generation, the next generation of Americans may have a better life, a better standard of living, a better quality of life.
That is certainly something that is true where I come from in South Dakota and where the Chair comes from in North Dakota. We represent people who understand that you sacrifice so that the next generation and those who come after you have a better life than you had.
If we don't change the way we are doing things, this next generation will be the first generation of Americans where that is not true. Literally, they will have a lower standard of living and a lower quality of life than what we experienced because we weren't willing to live within our means. This is because we continued to spend money we didn't have, we continued to borrow money from China, and we will hand the bill to future generations.
It is unconscionable, given this picture--and, again, a picture speaks a thousand words--that we haven't done a budget in the Senate in the last 4 years. There is always a blame game played in Washington, DC, and I understand that both sides have contributed over the years. When my party was in charge of the Congress we spent too much. Obviously, since that time, since we have been out of the majority in Congress the numbers have increased dramatically.
If you look at the amount of debt we piled up just in the last 4 years under the current administration, it is about $6 trillion that we have added to the debt in that amount of time. The spending is exploding. The tax revenues are staying fairly steady over time, as I have pointed out with this particular graphic.
One thing we know for certain is that raising taxes doesn't solve the problem. If the President got everything he wanted in terms of additional tax increases, and that would be this purple line right here, it doesn't come anywhere close to addressing the amount of spending we have already put on the books. We are going to have to borrow to pay and hand that bill to future generations. You can only do that for so long. It is high time that the Senate got on board and started doing the budget.
I served on the Budget Committee for the last 2 years. I had hoped that being on the Budget Committee would be a place where a lot of big debates would occur about how to deal with these big fiscal issues that are facing our country. I turned out to be wrong. We didn't do a budget, we didn't mark up one, we didn't put one on the floor of the Senate. We didn't vote, we didn't have amendments, and we didn't do anything to address this fiscal crisis. To be fair, the House of Representatives, every single year, on time, has passed a budget.
The President of the United States, who needs to be a party to this, is the only 1 of 307 million Americans who can sign a bill into law, can engage the American public and the Congress in a way that would address this. The budgets he submitted to the Congress, when they have been voted on in the Senate and the House, haven't received a single vote, not a single vote. Neither Republicans or Democrats in the House or the Senate have voted for the budgets the President has submitted.
Why? Because they are not serious. The President hasn't taken this issue seriously. Neither has the majority in the Senate, where we haven't had a budget now for 4 consecutive years.
It is high time that changed. I hope it will. I am encouraged, actually, by what I have been hearing from my colleagues. This year, perhaps now, finally, after 4 years, we will actually do a budget. We may put a plan in place for how we are going to address this fiscal crisis, this amount of spending that is going to bankrupt the country unless we take steps to avert it.
There are lots of ideas out there. It is not like we don't know what the issues are, like we don't know what the problems are. We do. There have been many bipartisan commissions that have studied this and have examined it thoroughly, that have all come to the same conclusion with regard to what the various problems are--and, frankly, for that matter, what the solutions are.
My colleague, Senator Hatch, was down here earlier this morning talking about some of those suggestions. Many of those suggestions, as I have said, have come from bipartisan commissions. We know if we do nothing, we are going to bankrupt the country and ensure that the programs that many Americans rely on today are not going to be available to future generations of Americans.
I would hope this is the year in which we do a budget, and this is the year in which the President engages in this discussion in a meaningful way that allows us to put in place a path that will avert what is going to be a major crisis. The problem is not that we tax too little, it is that we spend too much.
Madam President, I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.

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SPRINGFIELD- State Senator Michael E. Hastings (D-Tinley Park) is outraged at Governor Rauner's administration for leaking false education funding numbers to one of his many political operations.
Hastings is joining his colleagues in urging the Illinois Executive Inspector General to investigate the misuse of state resources.
"Governor Rauner is bringing Washington politics to Springfield," Hastings said. "Governor Rauner has compromised his integrity, information and is hindering our children's ability to succeed. All of Illinois' children should receive a fair chance to receive a good education regardless of their financial or socioeconomic background."
The Illinois Senate passed Senate Bill 1, school funding reform, on Wednesday, May 17.
During the Senate debate, Hastings was informed that the governor's administration did not have finalized accurate funding levels for school districts.
However, on Thursday night, one of the governor's many political organizations starting contacting school districts throughout Illinois with false numbers to campaign against senators who voted in support of giving students across Illinois the opportunity to succeed.
"This is not the first example of the governor's misuse of state funds," Hastings said. "Within the last two months we have unveiled a $2.4 million warehouse leasing deal to benefit his buddies and using state resources for political purposes. What is next?"
Under Senate Bill 1, schools throughout the state would not see a decrease in funding. However, schools that are not at proper funding levels will receive an increase in state dollars to ensure children across Illinois are given the opportunity to receive a good education regardless of the zip code they live in.
"This is a clear violation of state law," Hastings said. "Entities that receive state dollars cannot use the Illinois taxpayers' dollars to campaign. We need to find who is responsible for attempting to sabotage negotiations to move our state forward and give our children a better future."
Illinois Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Illinois Executive Inspector General asking for a formal investigation.
"Governor Rauner, stop screwing around," Hastings said. "The children of Illinois need you to stop campaigning and do your job. They cannot afford to wait."


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The Joy of Bread
"Bread is bread." The Boy claimed. And I shook my head and told him he was completely and utterly wrong.
I have not had good bread — proper bread — for at least 15 years. That's when I became allergic to nuts and had to stop eating baked goods from bakeries. Most bakeries make things with nuts and the risk of cross-contamination is just too great. Ever since, I have obsessively read labels and been stuck eating the kind of bread that comes in plastic bags. Not bad for sandwiches or toast, but does it really qualify as bread?
I have longed for proper bread ever since. Good, crusty bread. Bread that bites back. Bread with flavour.
Also croissants.
Growing up in Denmark gave me free access to amazing bakeries that provided freshly baked bread and heavenly pastries every day. Once, coming home from a party held in celebration of graduation, a friend and I dropped by a bakery at 8 AM to bring home fresh bread and danishes still hot from the oven. Is there anything better?
And by the way, you haven't tasted danishes until you've had the real kind. From Denmark. I highly recommend you put that on your life list.
If you do an Internet search for nut free bakeries, you will find a plethora in the city of Toronto, but any lists tend to focus on the sorts that make cupcakes, cakes, cookies, and the like. And although some of them have absolutely wonderful products, it's no good when all you want is bread and pastries.
But then, thanks to someone with whom I work, I was introduced to that other kind of bakery. Because it turns out that kosher bakeries may at times be nut free. Apparently, nuts are not kosher, although I don't know why — do you?
But there was a bit of a wrinkle to that. Most of the time, our availability is on Saturdays and kosher bakeries tend to be closed on that day because of the Sabbath.
And then The Boy took Friday off. And went to Grodzinski's to pick up a selection.
There are many reasons why he is the best partner ever. His dedication to feed me yummy things is one of them.
There were three kinds of bread, fresh bagels, rugelach, wee danishes, and yes: croissants! And he arrived just in time for breakfast on Friday. I spent the next three days scarfing down an excessive amount of carbs and being very, very happy.
The thing about bread is that it also facilitates other foodstuffs. For instance, ham and cheese breads. I first learned how to make these in grade 4 Home Ec and ever since, my family has used them as a go-to dinner when we don't really want to cook. Except I haven't had them for a very long time, because they really do require somewhat sturdy bread.
Home Ec Ham and Cheese Breads: spread a thin layer of butter on slices of bread, then add ham of your choice. My mother swears by cooked ham, but I used a Tuscan pepper ham and it was delightful. Spread Dijon mustard on top of the ham (other mustards work as well, as long as they has a bit of a kick), then add slices of tomatoes and whatever cheese you have that's good at melting. Sprinkle a bit of paprika on top for colour. I didn't have regular paprika, so added smoked paprika. Turned out this brought out the smokiness of the ham, making everything even more delicious. Put in oven under the grill until the cheese is melted to your taste.
And then there was an added treat. The Boy also picked up a couple of Napoleons and Eclairs. Which had the most amazing aroma, leading to a new catchphrase among us: "I have to smell the Napoleon." Something I did at least five times a day (an act that's a lot less perverted than it sounds).
All of this yumminess was a bit of a shock to my system. I don't normally eat much bread or sugar at all — or any sugar — and usually stay away from cheese, as it tends to give me migraines (except I have recently discovered that Jarlsberg cheese doesn't). As a consequence, I've spent the last couple days with a bit of a roiling stomach and a significant migraine.
And it was absolutely worth it. I'd do it again, but perhaps not immediately. The rest of the goodies are in the freezer. We also have plans to check out Isaac's and Hermes, two other nut free kosher bakeries.
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Demi Lovato is getting in the patriotic spirit, y'all! Today she released a behind-the-scenes video for her Made in the USA music video and performed the single on Good Morning America. Oddly enough, she wore almost the same outfit in both instances. She ditched her typically edgy, all-black ensembles for a blonde-haired, all-American look, and we can barely handle it! I mean, this is such a far cry from her fierce Heart Attack music video ensembles, which involved a serious smoky eye and tons of metal hardware. Today's performance outfit consisted of layered white dress with a distressed denim vest, brown belt, layered necklaces, tons of turquoise hand jewelry and—the kicker—cowboy boots!
In her behind-the-scenes video (which also happens to be her directorial debut!), she wore a very similar crocheted white dress with a brown belt, denim jacket, and—you guessed it—cowboy boots. We first peeped this look back in May when noticed her freshly-dyed 'do, and, not to toot our horn or anything, but we totally guessed that this outfit was for her Made in the USA video. *hair flip* But what do you guys think of her new, all-American look? Let us know in the comments below!
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We returned yesterday from our trip round some of the Spanish Paradors. We just wanted to say how very much we have enjoyed our trip. The hotels are lovely, with a particularly high standard of cleanliness. It would be difficult to say which was our favourite as each one has something special.
Mr and Mrs Cooper 22/10/2018
We had a fantastic run round the five Paradores from 6-16 September. La Granja was absolutely outstanding.
D. Gunn 19/09/2018
I must thank you for the perfect arrangements which you made for our recent tour of 11 Paradors in Northern Spain. Your staff were as friendly, helpful and efficient as ever, and we had a most enjoyable holiday.
Mr and Mrs Pini. 22/05/2018
As ever, the Paradors and Pousadas selected with your help along the route suggested by our route master(!) proved to be (in the vast majority of bookings) absolutely superb. Generally plush and very good value, often luxurious with pleasant, helpful staff and by and large good parking facilities. Another hit for Keytel and yet a further star rating for you!!!!!
Mr Ingram 20/06/2017
We have stayed in several Paradors over the past years and have found them very comfortable and the staff are always most obliging. We are already thinking about where we might go next year so we will be in touch.
Mr Taylor 05/07/2017
We have just returned from touring Andalusia, staying in your Paradores at Ronda, Carmona, Cordoba and Granada. We were lucky enough always to have rooms with splendid views and are most grateful for the invariable helpfulness and cheerfulness of the staff and the great comfort. With our thanks and good wishes.
Mr and Mrs Bright, 23/09/2016
Just a short line to thank you for your invaluable help in planning our Parador holiday. It was one of our most enjoyable holiday experiences.You were quite right in pointing out that our own plans were a little ambitious. By spending 2 nights in each location and limiting the area covered, we were able to fill every minute in the wonderful villages you chose for us....Your suggestion of Bielsa was inspirational! Location absolutely idyllic (hotel car park in front) and by using the Bielsa tunnel we were in France in less than half an hour.
Mr Sanderson, 08/07/2017
We very much enjoyed our recent trip to Spain and thank you for your help in selecting the Paradors that we stayed in. As you know, I have mobility problems and walk on a tri-walker and occasionally go in a wheelchair. I thought it might be helpful if I gave you a little information about the disabled access in the Paradors that we stayed in as you may have clients who enquire about this. Although there is often a disabled sign on the websites and in the booklet, we have found that this can be rather misleading! I appreciate that you advise people to contact the Parador direct about this, as you have done for us in the past.
R.Shennan 19/07/2017
May I thank you for organising an amazing experience for my wife and myself in the Parador de Leon Spain. The Unique room was absolutely amazing, a table set for dinner with champagne, freshly cut fruit each and every day in the lower section. The higher section was set ready for breakfast also, if either was your preferred choice. Such was the relaxing atmosphere in the restaurant and the breakfast areas, each and every different dish was superb to the last detail. Breakfast was also to the highest standards. The Parador itself is a magnificent historic building. Thank you Keytel for arranging a truly great experience.
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August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered a profound message on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He had a dream, a dream that one day blacks would not be looked upon as Negros or coloreds, but as Americans.
King was on a mission, a mission for social, political, and economic equality. Despite the long way the blacks had already come, King was still not yet satisfied, and he would never be as long as "the Negro is the victim of police brutality" or "the Negro cannot vote nor has no reason to vote." He won't be satisfied until" justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
He has a dream that blacks and whites could "sit down at the table of brotherhood together." King wanted "Mississippi would be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice." He wanted his "four little children to one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
King wasn't looking to be treated better, just as a equal. He hoped that one day "black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sign in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last."


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Song: Good Country Friends
( © 2003 - Words by Betty J. Curtis )
( © 2003 - Music by J. Gale Kilgore )
Sung by group - led by Mario, one evening
at supper with the Johnsons - in appreciation.
GOOD COUNTRY FRIENDS 4:02 mins
I love my dear country friends !
I love the hours we spend,
listening to good country songs,
humming along,
like the trees hum along with the wind.
I like the way that we pray,
simple, with well-worn Faith.
Like an old well-worn sweater,
warms us in winter,
they chase the cold away.
Oh good country friends !
Down through the years,
I hear you singing sweet songs.
They dry all the tears,
and make the heart lighter,
like good country cider,
and the Lord, Who knows where we belong !
There's a light in a country window,
to guide the weary Home.
There are flowers in country meadows,
to brighten our trip on the Road.
Though the Journey be long,
there's comfort in good country song.
Wherever the Road begins,
whatever the miles it runs;
no matter the dips and the bends,
there's always starlight and sun,
there's always Faith, and good country smiles,
on the face of good country friends !
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Good Country Friends


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What To Bring To Campfire
Blue Ridge Assembly's housing includes hotel-style rooms, each with 2 double beds and a bathroom. Bedding and towels are included. Bring general necessities like clothing appropriate for the weather (conference attire is casual — most people wear jeans and T-shirts) and toiletries (there are a few small stores in Black Mountain – a 10-minute drive "down the mountain" – where you can buy whatever you forget to bring, and Asheville's about 30 minutes away).
Other suggested items:
– A skit or song to share at the "Campfire" talent show. Best performance gets an award!
– Your rag if you participate in the Raggers program
– Business cards for networking
– Items to sell in the auction (fundraiser for Campfire scholarships)
– Money to buy items from the auction!
– Leftover T-shirts from your camp for the ever-popular "T-shirt swap"
– Brochures from your camp program(s)
– The best idea for camping you can come up with! (You will have the opportunity to enter it into our annual "Brightest Idea" competition.)


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Was John Wayne wise to have handed off such winning westerns as these Ranowns? He could have kept them at Batjac and starred in the group to come as Scott did, but imagine the pall an eight hundred-pound gorilla like Wayne would have cast. As Ride Lonesome made brisk headway through eighteen days of no-frills shooting, his The Horse Soldiers bogged down on distant location with a script half-baked and stars (Wayne and William Holden) collecting three-quarters of a million just for showing up. The blessing of Ranown was to be spared all this, as no one booked their westerns with expectation beyond that of covering the house nut and maybe a little extra folding money. One Randolph Scott was good as another for any man's program. An exhibitor friend who, in 1941, started with assistant projecting (at age 10!) gave me a refresher course in cowboy showmanship, the ads here being visual aids and proof that westerns sold best in bunches. He paired an ancient Scott, 1933's To The Last Man, with sleek new 1954 model Riding Shotgun, to show how far the star (and motion pictures) had progressed in those intervening years. Also above, Ride Lonesome worked fine on a triple-header for two days at a Scotland Neck, NC hardtop (and note free admission if you rode your own horse to the theatre). Well, would there have been a better way to see these? While such as The Horse Soldiers was being sold on onerous percentage terms, Ranowns were in and out of such venues and pleasing at all stops. Even now, they play better than the biggies that rolled over them gross-wise. Some of us got together with a friend who was managing for UA theatres and ran The Man From Laramie with Ride Lonesome in 35mm. All in attendance preferred the Scott. It was lean filet against prime rib with (by comparison) too much back-story fat. The Man From Laramie seemed overwritten beside ultra-terse Burt Kennedy exchanges delivered in far less a running time (73 minutes vs. 104), with self-possessed Scott a calming alternative to neurosis-on-his-sleeve James Stewart. It takes but one pass through the Ranowns to recognize writer Burt Kennedy as essential cog in the wheel and undoubted most valuable member of the creative team. Decision At Sundown and Buchanan Rides Alone are notably weaker for his not having written them. We know and admire Kennedy's bumps for their being repeated with minimal variation in all four of those he did. Still, I never tire of watching … and listening. How many westerns find their audience wanting to get past indian attacks so they can hear more dialogue? Budd Boetticher recalled pretty much shooting the scripts Kennedy handed him. We can thank providence for that.
Burt Kennedy was also credited for an interim western at Warners, Yellowstone Kelly, but it's clear other cooks diluted his broth. For all the westerns he'd write and direct for another forty years, both theatrical and in television, Kennedy would not again scale the heights of Seven Men From Now, The Tall T, Ride Lonesome, and Comanche Station. He would promote up to directing, but that proved more a lateral move, for good as these are for what they are (The War Wagon, Support Your Local Sheriff, others), you come away wishing he'd written them instead and that Boetticher weren't in Mexico obsessing over bullfighters. Kennedy wrote and directed 1973's The Train Robbers, back with John Wayne, but that venerable star, older now and less given to patience than anyone left in his crews, was not about to hand Kennedy free creative rein. Other writers who'd earned with westerns in better days were reduced now to dismantling the genre for television spoofs done badly and on the cheap. Kennedy directed scripts by William (The Gunfighter) Bowers, yet this combination of talent beget nothing more than a pair of leaden Wild, Wild West revivals in 1979-80. It was hard reconciling these with work they'd done not so many years before. Seeing westerns die became sad ritual for us watching. Imagine what it was for those who began careers breathing fresh life into them. The sixties was scorched desert for cowboys and audiences that took westerns seriously. The Ranown team was as well advised to split, for commercial interest in economy westerns was now altogether restricted to those you'd make for television. Randolph Scott retired holsters after Ride The High Country at MGM in 1961, and Harry Joe Brown was done within a few more years and one last curtain call (A Time For Killing in 1967). Budd Boetticher subsisted on TV westerns before heading to Mexico and his own heart of darkness in bullrings there. For all our admiration of maverick directors, we like them best when they deliver goods, whatever the obstacles and all the more when those are overcome. Boetticher seems to me to have blown the sixties in worshipful documenting of a matador who died suddenly and left the director with a filmed profile no one cared to see. Wild man Budd further defied reason by dumping (shown here) wife Debra Paget, prima facie evidence of that Mexican sun having driven him balmy. Breakdowns and time served behind bars further suggested he had gone round the bend. By the time Boetticher came home seeking work, there was only 1969's A Time For Dying, so bottom-of-the-barrel as to help no one, and now tied up in rights dispute.
With regard rights, these were what kept Seven Men From Now buried for almost fifty years. John Wayne's deal with Warners called for all Batjac negatives to revert back upon expiration of a specified period, after which they'd belong to that independent company. Though Wayne continued producing features under the Batjac banner, he had less interest in reissuing old properties or making them available for rental and television. A 1960 lawsuit against Warner Bros. had perhaps soured the actor/producer on releasing his backlog to syndication. WB had lumped all of the Batjac features, including Hondo, The High and The Mighty, and Seven Men From Now, into a post-1949 package for sale to TV. That announcement came in July 1960 while Warners still controlled distribution of these films. Batjac immediately sought injunctive relief from the courts to keep its library off local television, but the ruling went against them. As soon as Warners' distribution rights in the films ended, Batjac withdrew them from US markets and most remained unseen for many years. Seven Men From Now was among those languishing, primarily due to the fact it did not star John Wayne and consequently drew less attention for having gone missing. Certainly there were no television runs after the early sixties. I remember seeing videotapes for sale at western cons, chained from 16mm prints long turned red and near unwatchable, but how else was one to see Seven Men From Now? I'd heard of Batjac's negative left in standing water at some storage locker in LA. Such rumors were as often true where estates ended up with fragile elements and neither resources nor expertise to preserve them. Commercial prospects of DVD and satellite broadcasting loosened many of these just short of extinction. Digital options for rescuing faded elements became the salvation of Seven Men From Now. What's there on DVD from Paramount (its having made distribution deals with Wayne's estate) is as good as this picture is ever going to look, release prints from 1956 and 16mm having faded or gone to red.
Columbia's negatives were compromised as well. Eastman fading and day-for-night scenes impenetrably dark are hazards in the preservation game and not all such damage can be fixed, whatever the technologies lately introduced (Ride Lonesome suffers most noticeably in sections where there's virtually no color contrast left). Columbia kept ownership of five Ranowns and all were in more or less constant circulation from their original release. Decision At Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, and Ride Lonesome were playing local television as of September 1962. The Tall T and Comanche Station followed in May of 1964. None had network runs, going directly into syndication and staying there. Columbia in those days was particularly inept at scanning anamorphic features for flat presentation on TV. You'd see Randolph Scott deliver dialogue on one side of the frame and only hear his companion speaking from the other. Compositions so carefully arranged by Boetticher were utterly destroyed in pan-and-scanned Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station, for years available no other way. Universities and film societies pushed for 16mm rental prints in scope, and by the late seventies, Ride Lonesome was added to Kit Parker's non-theatrical catalogue. Encore Westerns still plays them cropped on TV, however. Forthcoming high definition will presumably put end to such abuse, Columbia having prepared HD masters for the group. Widescreen televisions in more homes will best serve the growing reputations of Ranown westerns, a process already begun with TCM's broadcasts of Comanche Station in proper ratio. Columbia's DVD release of the five is a first opportunity for most of us to see them in the widescreen intended. The Tall T, Decision At Sundown, and Buchanan Rides Alone were originally released in 1.85 format, and though they looked adequate in standard TV ratio, this wider view lends size and stature to counter low-budget appearance these films otherwise have.


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Large commodity trading company Wilmar International Singapore has trumped the Bright Food Group China and bought the planned Chelsea Sugar Refinery Sucrogen spin-off, which includes majority control of the Chelsea sugar refinery in Auckland.
After months of negotiating with the Chinese company, CSR directors surprised the market yesterday with the announcement that it had accepted a $A1.75 billion bid from Wilmar. The planned demerger of Sucrogen will no longer go ahead . Investors immediately endorsed the offer, which is subject to overseas ownership approvals in both Australia and New Zealand.
The shares rose 4% to $A1.75, a gain of 6Ac. A big beneficiary will be GPG, which has a significant 5% shareholding in CSR. If successful, the deal is expected to net around $A1.6 billion, or $A1.06 a share for CSR, which will have a number of options to choose from to reward shareholders.
Shanghai-based Bright Food submitted its final bid of $A1.65 billion last Friday amid reports it had lowered its offer from its previous conditional bid of $A1.75 billion, first made in January, due to lower sugar prices. CSR chairman Ian Blackburne said the Wilmar offer was in the "best interests" of shareholders, valuing the sugar business at 14 times last year's earning before interest and tax (ebit) and 23 times the division's average earnings over the past decade.
He said Bright had been given "every opportunity" to revise its offer."At the end of the day they couldn't get there on value and certainty," he said.
The merger will combine Sucrogen, the world's eighth-biggest raw sugar producer, and Wilmar, the world's largest listed palm oil producer. CSR announced its plan to split off Sucrogen, which also included some renewable energy interests, from its main building products business in October last year. In January, Bright Food announced that it wanted to hold discussions with CSR about an offer for the sugar business of no more than $A1.5 billion. While that process dragged out, CSR also had to fight off a legal threat to the demarger over concerns about asbestos liabilities. That case went to the Australian Federal Court on appeal, which overturned the initial thumbs down to the demerger.
The New Zealand Refining Co, which owns the Chelsea brand and refinery, is 75% owned by CSR with the remaining shares held by the Mackay sugar cane growers' co-operative. Wilmar International is controlled by the Kuok family, one of the richest and most powerful in Southeast Asia.
Company chairman and chief executive Khoon Hong Kuok is the nephew of Robert Kuok, whose fortune is estimated at more than $US14.5 billion. Kuok Group's interests ranging from sugar and rice trading to shipping, real estate and the Shangri-la Hotel chain. Known as Asia's "sugar king," Tobert Kuok invested heavily in sugar refineries in the 1960s and controlled 80% of Malaysia's sugar market until he sold them last year to a government company.
In 2007, he merged his extensive palm oil interests stretching across Malaysia and Indonesia with Wilmar International, which is the second-largest company listed on the Singapore stock exchange and a capitalisation of more than $S30 billion.
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Hugger Orange Will Always be ... Hugger Orange.
TEXT: Ro McGonegal
PHOTO: Robert McGaffin
ONE quick scan of Ric Pinola's tight coupe tells you that he's a man of means, possibly of many means. He didn't take part in the actual build but he did plenty of research prior to the commencement. Here's the setup. "I'd driven the car as a stocker for most of the 20 years I've had it," Ric says. "When I discovered Pro Touring, I wanted to bring the car into the 21st century with a modern drivetrain and suspension."
Ric laid down cash for his prize in 1987, just prior to earning his driver's permit. He'd wanted a Camaro, though not one in Hugger Orange. He would have rather had it in red or black. The plan was to tool it around for a year, you know, to see how he liked driving a 20-year-old car, and then he'd have it repainted in a shade more to his liking. After the tenure was up he was convinced of his love for driving it. Then he did an about-face. "I had the car repainted Hugger Orange with white Rallye stripes. I had the interior redone in the original white. It was my daily transportation through high school and college. I was 'the guy with the orange car'."
When school was out forever, he parked his flame-colored raggie and got behind a series of BMWs for daily driving duty. Do you think that (compared to agrarian set of the original Camaro) a well-balanced chassis and the impressive handling indigenous to the German cars could have influenced him in the least?
"My Camaro still saw regular duty on sunny days and on the weekends, but more than 20 years had passed since I bought it, and the time for freshening was at hand. Initially, I wanted to have the interior redone and during my search for capable help, I came across websites, Pro-touring.com and Lateral-g.net among them." Then he got socked with a juicy double whammy, and Ric was enlightened beyond expectation.
"The idea of my car with the handling of a modern car was a dream come true. I had read about cars like Big Red [the iconic 220-mph Pro Touring poster child] but thought them too extreme to be a 'regular car.'" If there was any part of Ric that hadn't been converted to the new life, then following the build of [the] "Fuel" [Camaro] convinced him that G-Force Design Concepts [Chambersburg, Pennsylvania] could turn his dream into a four-wheeled tangibility. Accordingly, Ric got with illustrator Ben Hermance (Design) for a titillating preview of what was to eventually roll out the front of the G-Force barn.
Sure, the revamping gobbled up more than three years of toil, but Ric got exactly what he'd wished for: "There isn't anything terribly unique about my car and I wanted it that way. At first glance, it should look like a nice Hugger Orange Camaro with big wheels. At closer inspection, you will notice the upgraded suspension, subtle trim mods, and custom interior."
Yes, and much more than that, Ric. It'll give 'em a head full of spiders.
A simple, surefire formula applied here: instill the basically frame-less body with everything on the Detroit Speed wish list. For the back half, G-Force laid up the QuadraLink four-bar system, antisway bar, and DSE coilover shocks. Rear ride height is 2 inches lower than standard. DSE spindles adopt tubular upper and lower control arms, antisway bar and adjustable coilovers bookend the hydroformed stub. Total body drop is 2 inches. Steering is a power-assisted rack assembly.
These days, you can find an LS orphan just about everywhere. Most fans adhere to the larger displacement variants such as the LQ9, L92, LS2, or LS3. Since the 6.0L LQ9 in Ric's car wasn't going to be stressed to the max, it retained the original cast/nodular rotating assembly and was poked with a proprietary-spec camshaft from Bret Bauer, but undoubtedly a hydraulic roller-tappet assembly. COMP pushrods bump OE 1.7:1 ratio rocker arms. The top end was capped with efficient LS6 cylinder heads and a sexy FAST intake manifold fitted with a 90mm throttle body. The motor operates with a street-gas–friendly 10.5:1 compression ratio and is fed by a Bosch 044 fuel pump. Five quarts of lube circulate throughout and coalesce in an OE-cast sump for redistribution. Coolant is traced via a Stewart water pump and travels through a custom-built G-Force aluminum core. Ancillaries (Powermaster alternator, Sanden A/C compressor, and OE power steering pump) are captured by a Vintage Air front runner. On the exhaust side of the equation, Lemons Headers with 13/4-inch primaries (HPC-coated) feed into a G-Force designed stainless tract (with X-pipe), thence to a pair of fully packed MagnaFlow muffs. Output from this spicy hors d'oeuvre is estimated to be 427 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque. Moving that torque to a palpable application is the business of a Spec Stage 3+ clutch assembly, the Tremec T56 Magnum transmission, and the custom-length Dynotech Engineering propeller shaft. Terminus is a Moser 9-inch that's stocked with a 3.73:1 ratio and a Truetrac limited-slip differential.
When the rough stuff was happening, G-Force nailed the big back tire dilemma with DSE deep wheeltubs and the attendant "frame" modifications. Since Ric had cared for and respected the Camaro in its prior lives, and because there were no subtle metal modifications to attend, body prep was minimal — but finishing it could have been infinite. G-Force's Brad the Painter sprayed the Hugger Orange and corresponding stripes.
As might be expected in a super crate like this, the brakes are blue-plate big — Wilwood front and rear, featuring 14- and 13-inch rotors and six- and four-piston calipers. Wheel size is typical, too. HRE C21 rims are 18 inches in diameter, and 10 and 12 inches wide. Omnipotent rubber (for slalom, braking, straight-line acceleration, and road course) is 275/35 and 335/30 Michelin Pilot Sport 2.
Before things began to move along too quickly, G-Force made lots of room for the custom stereo install and center console installations. An Alpine iPod head is accompanied by an Alpine amp, front and rear speakers, and a JL Audio subwoofer. Moving along, Auto Meter Sport-Comp II gauges are socked in a clean, straight custom dash panel. Helman's Upholstery in Chambersburg dressed out the power-assisted Recaro-style Top Line seats and the backbench in a likely leather and suede combination to coincide with the Marquez door and side panels.


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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has confirmed striker Nicklas Bendtner will miss the start of the Barclays Premier League season due to a persistent groin injury.
Bendtner, 22, underwent surgery last November but the injury hampered his World Cup campaign and he will not ready for Arsenal's opener against Liverpool on August 15.
"Bendtner will not be available for the start of the season," Wenger told the club's official website.
Wenger also fears he could also be without Cesc Fabregas and Robin Van Persie, who played against each other in the World Cup final and are not due back until August 5.
"Fabregas and Van Persie are due to come back on August 5 and from then on we will see how much build-up work is needed physically and as well how they have recovered mentally from the World Cup.
"They might be short for the first game [of the season] but I don't know, that will depend on the fitness work they have done during the holiday."
Denilson and Abou Diaby are both expected to be fit for Arsenal's final pre-season match, against Legia Warsaw on August 7.
"Denilson should be [fit] - maybe not for the Emirates Cup but for the Warsaw game and Diaby as well," Wenger added.
Johan Djourou suffered a hamstring injury in Arsenal's 4-0 win over SC Neusiedl 1919 last night, while Tomas Rosicky missed the match with a groin problem.
But Wenger eased concerns over both players, saying: "Djourou has a small hamstring problem but it is not bad. Rosicky had a small, small alert. He was supposed to play in the first half. He could have played. I didn't want to take the gamble."
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