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The Dow Jones industrial average topped 16,000 for the first time ever Monday, while the S&P 500 briefly surpassed 1,800. But neither indexes closed above those milestones.
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StockTwits user Learnstocks101 quipped, "$SPY What happens if Ben yells 'taper' in a crowded bull market?"
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"$SPY, The only fear in this market is the fear to actually sell a stock and miss out on the greed," noted Hoyasparanoia. "Dangerous!"
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Are stocks overvalued? The big gains in stocks have also raised concerns about whether stocks may be in a bubble.
According to FactSet, the S&P 500 is trading at 15 times earnings expectations for the next 12 months. That puts the valuation of the stock market slightly above its 5-year and 10-year average.
A slightly different measurement also shows that stocks aren't overvalued. The S&P 500 is trading at 17 times earnings from last year, just slightly above the historical average of 16, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In the bubble days of 2000, the index was trading at nearly 30 times trailing earnings.
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Whether or not stocks are in a bubble, experts aren't expecting the robust gains from this year to keep coming.
Historically, when the market has advanced more than 25% in a year, that gain has been followed by a rise of no more than 10% the year after, said William Riegel, head of equity investments at TIAA-CREF.
What's moving: Boeing (BA) shares rose Monday after the aircraft maker said it sold more than $95 billion of its new 777X at the Dubai air show. Boeing said it was a record launch for a new aircraft and was far more than analysts had been forecasting. Boeing has been the biggest gainer in the Dow this year, soaring more than 85%.
Tesla (TSLA) shares dropped 10% Monday, extending the slide that began last month. A series of battery fires have triggered a nearly 40% plunge in shares of Tesla since early October. Still, the stock is up almost 270% so far this year.
Following such a huge rise, StockTwits user jamesb13 said "$TSLA hype is over for now," and predicted that the stock price may on its way down to below $100 per share. It ended below $122 Monday.
Trader damnmaxims pointed out that even Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been saying that his company's stock price had been higher than it had "any right to deserve."
"$TSLA Well Elon Musk himself called this in a very kindly worded way," he said.
Even if Tesla shares do drop sharply lower, sogenerous said it could make a comeback like Netflix (NFLX), which has soared more than 270% this year, making it the best performing stock in the S&P 500.
"$TSLA even if it it ever goes to 70-80, it will be just like $NFLX and come back to 200+ easy money," he said.
Sony (SNE) shares rose after the company said it sold more than 1 million units of its new PlayStation 4 gaming console in the first 24 hours since the game console went on sale early Friday. The game system is Sony's first in seven years and is going head-to-head with Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One this holiday season. Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) slipped.
Related: Why China wants to dominate Bitcoin
Bitcoin price surges: While stocks continued to soar, so did Bitcoin. The price of the digital currency touched an all-time high above $675 Monday, up almost 30% from Friday's closing price of $528.32.
Since the start of October, the price of Bitcoin has more than quadrupled in value.
The latest surge has been fueled by the interest of new investors, especially those in China, who are becoming increasingly optimistic about the digital currency's potential growth.


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Without further ado, I have to ask are you tired of corn yet? Is it possible to be tired of corn? Let's talk about corn. What is your favorite way to eat corn?
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I catered a party for about 40 people last week and as soon as I saw this recipe, I knew I needed it on the menu. I tested it several times beforehand and with one bite, I knew I had a winner. I'm sure there are some of you out there who stubbornly believe that you don't need to do much to corn to make it taste good and I encourage those of you to realize that not much is actually done here. The corn doesn't even cook for that long but the time it does spend in a hot pan, it is accompanied by a bit of butter, shallots, cumin seeds, and tons of herbs. Like, tons. The original recipe called for higher quantities of tarragon and dill, but I say use what you have. At this time of year, I always have a lot of bits and bobs of herbs floating around and I used them all. Cilantro, basil, tarragon, dill, mint, parsley, chives – all of them went in. We are coming to the end of corn season but before we do, please give this a try.
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Summer Corn Sauté with Tons of Herbs
Adapted from Bon Appétit
Serves 6-8
The only herb I wouldn't use here is rosemary – I don't think its unique flavor would mesh well with corn. Fresh oregano is pretty strong if you are using that, just add a bit. If you are doubling this for a party of 40, use two sauté pans and prepare for it all to be eaten.
2 tbsp. unsalted butter
2 large shallots, chopped
1 tsp. cumin seeds
6 cups fresh corn kernels (cut from about 8 large ears)
1 tsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
1 cup chopped assorted herbs
¼ cup chopped fresh dill
¼ cup chopped fresh tarragon
Melt the butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Add shallot and cumin seeds. Sauté until shallot is golden brown, about 4 minutes. Add corn kernels, 1 tsp. coarse salt, and 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper. Sauté until corn is tender, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and mix in all herbs. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

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You might recall I blogged a few months ago about Stephen Gurr who managed to get his hands on a lovely copy of Michael Golden's Marvel Universe post. Well, he's been kind enough to share some photos of the framed result! Thanks for sharing Stephen.
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Install Slackware using a bootable USB stick
You can find the USB bootable image file called
usbboot.img in the /usb-and-pxe-installers directory. Also, Slackware contains modified versions of my Wiki pages in that same directory. They are called README_USB.TXT and README_PXE.TXT.
The remainder of this Wiki article is basically preserved here as a technical reference, but you are no longer required to follow all the instructions below. Check out the Slackware READMEs instead.
Recently I have been exploring the Slackware installer, and especially looking for ways to use the installer other than running it from a CDROM/DVD. In a previous wiki article I detailed my experiences with creating a PXE installer that you can use if your computer is able to do a network boot. This is also fondly called PXE boot. This was fun, and it was the end of using CDROMs for my Slackware installations - as long as I had a PXE server configured in the local network. Of course, when you visit other places, such a server is not always available
So, I went on, and turned to USB sticks, also known as pen drives or thumb drives. These devices are small,lightweight, easy to carry around and modern PC's are usually able to boot from a suitable USB medium (such as the pendrive).
The result of my experiments is documented in this Wiki page. I will show you two methods of using a bootable USB stick to install Slackware. The first method - creating the USB equivalent of a boot/root floppy pair - is relatively easy to implement. The second method took quite a bit more research. It implements an image file containing two partitions. One (with a fat filesystem) contains the boot kernels and the root filesystem (initrd), while the other partition (fitted with a ext2 filesystem) contains packages to install. So, while the first method still needs a NFS server or another source of packages (such as a CDROM or a local hard disk partition), the second method is self-contained. If the USB stick is large enough (1 to 2 GB) you can carry the full Slackware install with you on your key chain! But even a small (256 MB) USB stick has room for the "
a", "
ap" and "
n" package series, so you can install a functional network-capable and console-based Slackware environment off it.
I am taking the convoluted path of first creating an image file and then copying that to a USB stick. It is easier to directly write to a USB stick and forget about the intermediate stage of creating the image file, and particularly much easier in the case of the multi-partition USB stick…
But USB Flash devices are not meant to be written an infinite amount of times, they have a limited lifetime regarding write operations. I wanted to keep my USB sticks out of harm's way, and also I should mention that writing to a file on hard disk is much faster than writing to the USB device. This sped up the development process considerably. Finally, it was a great learning experience in working with loop devices and image files.
Boot disk on a mini USB image
I had no idea how bootable USB sticks were configured, but by looking at the Slackware CD's isolinux bootloader, it turned out that it's sibling syslinux was the ideal candidate for creation of such a bootable USB image. I started small, by creating an image containing a single partition to which I copied the contents of the Slackware boot disk (i.e. large parts of the
/isolinux directory of the Slackware package tree and then some more). This worked great!
The result is a 37 MB small USB boot image that you can use to boot into the Slackware setup program (and then use a NFS server or another Slackware package source like a prepared local harddisk partition).The small image works great, especially when you don't have or don't want to use CDROM media as the carrier for the Slackware packages. I myself install Slackware from my own NFS server because my network is blazing fast compared to the much slower CDROM data transfer speeds.
The USB image is small enough to make it available for download on a web server, and is transfered to a USB stick in a matter of seconds. Even the oldest and tiniest of USB drives is well suited for this purpose.
So, how does one create this small image file, and how is it used?
We will need access to a local mirror of the Slackware directory tree, or at least the
isolinux and
kernels directories thereof. In the examples below, I am assuming the Slackware tree is located at
/mirror/Slackware/slackware-11.0. You will have to adapt the example commands so that they are correct for your own situation.
The mini image will not contain any installable Slackware package. Instead, we are relying on a nearby NFS server from which we can retrieve the packages. The usual way of installing Slackware from a NFS server repository, is to boot the Slackware CDROM, and run (
pcmcia and)
network to load all the drivers for your network card before starting
setup to commence the installation procedure. When you type
pcmcia and/or
network, the Slackware installer will look for the appropriate driver files on an available CDROM, and if no CDROM is found it prompts you to insert floppy disks.
Now, with a boot from our USB stick we are assuming there is no CDROM and no floppy drive available to us. So, we need to add all the drivers we need to the root filesystem where the setup program and related stuff is stored (this is what is in the
initrd.img file - initrd stands for initial ramdisk).
If you want the easy way out, you can either download the ready-made image file or download the script I wrote and which implements all the steps I'm about to describe. Otherwise, read on.
Creating a new initrd.img file
Let us do our work in a temporary directory I call the staging directory:
mkdir -p /tmp/slackboot
The fun thing is, a lot of the work looks exactly like the steps I described in my PXE installer article. Instead of duplicating my efforts, I am sending you over to that section of the article to read exactly how you build a modified
Assembling the USB image
Now that we have a
initrd.img file with all the functionality we need, it is time to create the larger USB image file.
- First, we calculate the sizes of the files we are going to copy into the USB image (the
initrd.imgand the boot kernels are the bulk). That target file must be larger than the sum of the sizes of those source files:
let USBIMG=$( du -sk /tmp/slackboot/initrd.img | cut -f1 ) for KERN in /mirror/Slackware/slackware-11.0/kernels/*.?/*zImage ; do let USBIMG=USBIMG+$(du -sk $KERN | cut -f1 ) done let USBIMG=USBIMG+512 # Add just that little extra..
This leaves us with a variable
${USBIMG}whose value is the estimated size in kB of the file we are about to create. You could of course also calculate this value by using your eyes and brain and looking at the
ls -loutput But the exercise is meant to enable you to copy/paste the example commands, and to create your own script from it.
- Create a DOS formatted image file:
mkfs.msdos -n USBSLACK -F 16 -C /tmp/slackboot/usbboot.img ${USBIMG}
You will notice that we use the switch "
-C" and the variable
${USBIMG}that we calculated in the previous step. With the
mkfs.msdoscommandline like that, we can omit the step where we would use the "
dd" command to create the file prior to formatting it -
mkfs.msdoswill do that for us at no cost.
The command also labels the new FAT filesystem with the name USBSLACK (the "
-n USBSLACK" option) but this is not required.
The important piece of information that is contained in the command is the fact that this FAT filesystem must be a FAT16 filesystem (
-F 16). It is tempting to use FAT32 but the
syslinuxbootloader will fail to make the USB stick bootable if the filesystem is not FAT16.
The file
/tmp/slackboot/usbboot.imgwill eventually be the file to copy to the USB stick.
- Loop-mount the image so that we have a mount point to where we can start copying files:
mkdir -p /tmp/slackboot/usb mount -o loop,rw /tmp/slackboot/usbboot.img /tmp/slackboot/usb
- Now, we copy the files that syslinux needs:
cp /mirror/Slackware/slackware-11.0/isolinux/isolinux.bin /tmp/slackboot/usb cp /mirror/Slackware/slackware-11.0/isolinux/setpkg /tmp/slackboot/usb/ cp /mirror/Slackware/slackware-11.0/isolinux/{f*.txt,message.txt} /tmp/slackboot/usb/ cp /tmp/slackboot/initrd.img /tmp/slackboot/usb/ cat /tmp/slackboot/pxelinux.cfg_default | sed -e 's# /kernels/# #g' -e 's#/.zImage##' > /tmp/slackboot/usb/syslinux.cfg
The file
/tmp/slackboot/pxelinux.cfg_defaultwas created together with our modified
initrd.imgfile. The difference with the file
/mirror/Slackware/slackware-11.0/isolinux/isolinux.cfgwhich you perhaps expected me to use, it that we need a much bigger ramdisk than the Slackware bootable CDROM, because we added all the network and pcmcia stuff to the initial ramdisk.
This of course means that this is not a suitable method to boot old PC's that are low on memory! The ramdisk will be more than 16 MB in size, and you will need RAM for your kernel as well.
- Syslinux can not cope with subdirectories, that is the reason we need to place all the files that syslinux uses in the root of the loopmounted FAT filesystem - including the bootkernels:
cd /mirror/Slackware/slackware-11.0/kernels/ for dir in `find -type d -name "*.?" -maxdepth 1` ; do cp $dir/*zImage /tmp/slackboot/usb/$dir ; done
- Finally, we "stamp" the file with the syslinux bootloader:
umount /tmp/slackboot/usb syslinux -s /tmp/slackboot/usbboot.img
This creates the file "
ldlinux.sys" in the root of the partition; it contains the bootloader code. If you ever change the content of the
syslinux.cfgfile, you will have to run the command
syslinux -s /tmp/slackboot/usbboot.imgagain, to update the bootloader.
Open the file
~/.mtoolsrcin an editor and add the line "mtools_skip_check=1" in case the
syslinuxcommand gives an error.
- This concludes the steps needed to create our image file! All that's left is to copy the file to a USB stick:
dd if=/tmp/slackboot/usbboot.img of=/dev/sda bs=512
dd command will wipe out any existing data on the device, so you had better be sure that it is not the SATA hard disk you're targeting!
Booting from the stick
Plug the stick into your computer's USB slot, and boot it up. Make sure you select "boot from USB-HDD" - how you should do this depends on the type of computer you have.
Many computers will display a message during the initial stages of the booting that says something like "
Press [F12] for a boot device list".
The Slackware installer will start just like when you had booted from a CDROM. Log in as "root". Start the install by partitioning your hard drive as usual, and running
If you want to install from a NFS server, you should run the commands
pcmcia (if your network card is PCMCIA) and/or
network prior to running
setup in order to load a driver for your network card.
If you want to install Slackware using a local hard disk partition in case you copied the Slackware tree there in advance, that is also an option. It would not make much sense to opt for the third install method "use a CDROM" (or DVD) since we just abandoned the use of a CDROM medium
On the other hand, I once dealt with an IBM server that was not able to boot off a DVD containing a distro that shall remain unnamed, but was able to boot from a USB stick. Remember, Slackware 11.0 is available on DVD, too! Many older servers are not equipped with a DVD drive, so a bootable USB stick will save the day.
fdisk -l you will see alarming output like this:
This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 ? 8563200 8326647 2088818490 1 FAT12 Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(124, 38, 11) logical=(8563199, 1, 16) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(344, 195, 26) logical=(8326646, 0, 49) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
… and so on, for partitions 2, 3 and 4 as well.
This is actually harmless. The usbboot.img uses the "raw" device, it did not create partitions at all. Fdisk reads the information in the first sector and incorrectly interprets that as a screwed-up partition table. Just ignore the warnings.
When I finally had my USB bootable pendrive, I sat back and evaluated.
What I had was nice enough, and a desirable addition, but I wanted to take this concept of a bootable Slackware USB stick a little further even. What if it were possible to copy all (or most) of the Slackware CD's to a bootable USB stick? You could carry your Slackware with you all the time and install it on your Mom's computer on your next visit (but she probably won't have the PC that is able to boot from a USB stick anyways…).
A complete Slackware setup on USB image
In the remainder of this article I want to explain the steps you have to take (aka the hoops you have to go through) in order to create this USB image file. No pendrives are being hurt in the development process - we are going to do this on our hard disk where we have access to a Slackware tree (you know, the directory structure with the
/extra and many more directories at it's root).
We will end up with a single file that we can transfer to a USB stick.
It all depends on the size of your USB stick whether you can copy all packages from the Slackware CDROMs onto it (so you can install KDE and a 2.6 kernel) or add only the basic packages to the image (take at least the "a" "ap" and "n" package sets). To contain all the packages that make a full Slackware install you'll need a USB stick that is larger than 1GB …
The reason for needing two partitions is that our bootloader syslinux requires the filesystem on which it is installed to be FAT16. This limits the filesystem to 2 GB and I wanted to be able to use the new 4 GB USB pen drives that are on the market. So, I kept the FAT partition to a minimum and crammed all the packages and other stuff into a ext2 partition.
This part remains to be written
Restoring a USB stick to its original state
When you have used the small 40 MB image to create a USB installer, your USB stick is no longer useful for anything else. Any remaining space on the stick (supposing you used a larger-than 40 MB stick for it) is inaccessible.
Fortunately, it is easy to re-create a FAT partition on the stick (thereby removing the Slackware installer of course) so that the USB stick again becomes available for carrying around your data.
/dev/sdX inaccessible by deleting it's partition table!!!
- First, wipe the bootsector of the USB stick:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1
- Then, create a new FAT16 partition (type '6' in fdisk terminology) on the stick and write a FAT32 (vfat) filesystem on it:
fdisk /dev/sdX <<EOF n p 1 t 6 w EOF mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sdX1
The 10 lines starting with "
fdisk /dev/sdX «EOF" and ending with the single word "
EOF" are actually one single command spread over ten lines, including the two empty lines. This format is called a here-document. It allows us to use a command which expects interactive input (fdisk) non-interactively, in a shell script for instance. If you're uncomfortable with it you can just run
fdisk /dev/sdX
and create a partition interactively


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You've heard the term "catch and release" used by fishermen (and -women). Here it is applied to books.
Kitsap Regional Library staff members will tour the county Saturday to "release" special copies of KRL's One Book, One Community selection to the public.
More than 100 copies of "The Leisure Seeker," by Michael Zadoorian, will be handed out, free and available to keep … or release to bring others enjoyment.
The books are not part of the library's collection and don't need to be returned. They were purchased with funds from the KRL Foundation. Each comes with special labeling urging temporary owners to enjoy and share.
The label on the cover of each book says, "Read & Release. Take this Book. Details inside." Inside the front cover is another label explaining the One Book, One Community program, coming up in October, which gets the whole community on the same page, so to speak. Online discussion of the chosen book and book groups around the county draw readers together.
Each "read and release" book has a unique identification number that has been registered at Bookcrossing.com. Readers can use that number to record their comments on the book, see the path it has taken through the community and to note where they have released it for the next person to take.
The "read and release" effort is aimed at getting people jazzed about the One Book, One Community program, said library Spokesman Jeff Brody. Copies of the book also will be available for checkout from the library.
The Leisure Seeker," announced in March as KRL's One Book selection for 2013, is "a story about making the most of your time, a celebration of love and partnership, of Old Route 66 and the challenges of modern life," according to a KRL news release. A couple, married 50 years, "goes on the lam against doctors' orders and the wishes of their grown children, piling into their RV, the Leisure Seeker, to take one last road trip together."
"KRL hopes to encourage more people to read this thought-provoking book by releasing these extra copies into the community and urging people who find them to read them and pass them along to family, friends or neighbors," Brody said.
Copies of the book will be released Saturday at the following
locations and events:
8 a.m.: A Port Orchard senior center (will it be yours?)
9 a.m.: Poulsbo Farmers Market
10:30 a.m.: Bainbridge Farmers Market or other Bainbridge location (they want to keep you guessing)
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Silverdale Whaling Days Festival
For more information on the special release of "The Leisure Seeker" copies in the community, contact KRL Marketing Manager Jeannie Allen, (360) 475-9033


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text: A Guide to Off-Roading For The Uninitiated So you own a 4x4 but don't know how to really use it. We're here to help get you off-road the right way, without breaking your truck ... or yourself. Today's trucks are amazing machines. They're built to comfortably handle highways, but are just as adept once your turn off the pavement and onto the dirt. And, really, what's the point of 4x4 if you're not actually going to use it, at least occasionally? But simply going off-road isn't as simple as it sounds. It's an adventure that can be challenging and confusing, especially if you're not prepared. To help remove a little of the worry, we talked to some experts and asked them to explain some of the basics of heading into the wilderness on four wheels.Understand Your VehicleYour truck has a number of key systems that play a role off-road. It's important to understand them, and what they do.Traction Control: Most modern 4x4 vehicles will have some level of traction control. Depending on what conditions the vehicle was designed to conquer, it could have a simple on/off setting, or a complex system with multiple settings programmed for different traction situations. No matter the system, traction control uses either the brakes and/or the 4x4 mechanicals to limit wheel slip and ensuring torque is being transferred from the tire to the trail. "Traction control tells the onboard computer how to monitor wheel spin and it will brake accordingly to keep the vehicle moving forward," adds Clay Croft, Creator and Expedition Leader of Expedition Overland. Since there are so many kinds of traction control systems, we encourage you to read up on yours and its many settings in your owner's manual.4WD High vs. 4WD Low: Low and High speeds refer to the gearing of your transfer case. 4WD High is what you drive around in day to day. It allows for better top-end speed but lower torque to the wheels when stopped. When you go to 4WD Low, you have more torque on low-end speeds, but your top speed is maxed out pretty quickly. "In short: when you need a lot of low-end power at low speeds on the trail, go to 4WD Low," Croft says. "When you need to travel fast and keep momentum, you need to be in 4WD High."Locking Differentials: A locking differential essentially locks the turning of the left and right wheel together. In normal on-road driving, the wheel on the inside of a corner turns more slowly, as it travels less distance than the outside. In this instance, you'd want the wheels to turn at different speeds. In an all-wheel-drive system, the computer is constantly making adjustments, shifting power to where it's needed most. On the trail, however, this inconsistent speed between the left and right sides can lead to a loss of traction, as the power will go to the wheel with the least resistance -- often the wheel that's slipping or not getting traction. That's why you want the ability to go full-time 4x4. Doing this forces both wheels to spin at the same rate, ensuring the power remains with the wheel with the most traction. In the old days you had to get out and manually lock the hubs, but most new 4x4s allow you to lock the differentials using just a button push. "If you can buy a vehicle with a factory locker in it, you are ahead of the game as a novice getting into this world," said Croft. "Being able to get into a vehicle that has a locking differential in it is a huge plus for the off-road capability of that vehicle."Do You Need Any Special Equipment?Tires: Getting a good set of tires to match the most common types of surfaces and terrain that you're going to encounter is essential. Tires are what ensure traction between your vehicle and the terrain. Their importance cannot be overstated. No matter how stout your rig, if it doesn't have good tires, it'll be feckless, and mud tires are different than tires for sand and rock. We suggest you go to a local tire shop and talk to some experts.Suspension:Don't make the common mistake of getting a cheap body lift kit. Believe it or not, a fundamental element to off-road vehicle reliability is the shock absorber; it's the thing that takes all the abuse of the trail and helps to not translate it to the vehicle or driver. Think of suspension as one of your biggest foundational elements to building your vehicle, because, as you go to add new things — a drawer system for organization, for example, or a rooftop tent — you'll burden the suspension even more. And the more your suspension can handle, the easier your trek will be.Bumpers:Sometimes referred to as bull bars, aftermarket front bumpers protect the front of your vehicle from rock, tree, brush, and animal strikes, as well as other unavoidable trail obstacles. off-roaders might also consider a back bumper, depending on what sort of driving you're doing. A lot of aftermarket bumpers allow you to relocate the spare tire from underneath the vehicle and put it on the back of the vehicle, which, in the event of having a flat tire or being stuck in the mud hole and needing to swap that tire out, ensures it's not buried under your vehicle when you need it.Maxtrax:Designed by Australian Brad McCarthy, this is a traction device that goes under your wheels and allows you to crawl out of a hole by regaining traction and momentum. When you lose either traction or momentum, you're more than likely going to get stuck or lose control. And when you start to lose traction, often you can't regain the momentum essential to getting your vehicle going again. Maxtrax help you regain traction, to get up out of whatever you're stuck in, and give you momentum back.Winch: A winch is one of the first things that people mention: I need a winch if I'm going to go out in the back country! And they're not wrong; it is an essential active recovery system. That said, winches require some pretty specific skill sets to use safely, and you'll need some training to operate one effectively. A winch is invaluable when a vehicle is in a precarious situation, and when slow methodical recovery needs to take place. Bear in mind, there are a lot of cheap winches out there. As tempting as it might be to purchase an inexpensive one, the last thing you want is a cheap winches failing on your right when you need it most. So invest in a high-quality winch. It's worth the money. Because you might not need a winch often, but when you do need it, you need it bad.Snatch Straps:Snatch straps are a dynamic recovery strap, which is different than a tow strap. Think of climbing ropes; you have static and dynamic lines. A static rope is good for rappelling because it doesn't stretch. A dynamic rope, however, is made for lead climbers; when they fall, it stretches and absorbs the energy of the fall. Snatch straps use that energy-absorbing stretch in reverse. "The recovery vehicle will back up with a little bit of momentum and load the stretch into that snap strap," says Croft. "That energy that is now stored into that snatch strap. It will pull and release a vehicle out of the mud or the snow or whatever. It's not a jerk; it's dynamic." This tactic should not be used with tow straps, though, as they do not stretch. Also, do not try to tow a stuck vehicle by attaching to a trailer hitch ball. They will snap and go flying off like a bullet.Snorkel:If the nose of your vehicle is going into deep water, you run the risk of injesting water into the engine through the air intake and ruining it. Three pumps of a water-filled cylinder will total an engine. A common way to mitigate water ingestion is to equip your vehicle with a snorkel, which draws in air from near the roof of the vehicle.Are you Prepared for Worst-Case Scenarios?First-Aid Kit:A basic first-aid kit is important to carry. Though the kit won't be able to solve all first-aid needs, a good one will have what you need to stop blood loss, patch and clean simple wounds, and tide you over until help arrives.Seat-belt Cutter & Glass Breaker: There are scenarios in which you may need to cut your seat belt, break a window, and make an emergency exit from your vehicle. "I keep the Benchmade Houdini in the ashtray of all my vehicles," Croft says. "Ashtrays aren't used much these days and it's an easily accessible place, if I should need to get out of my vehicle in a pinch."Fire Extinguisher: The last thing you need is for your rig to burn to the ground when you're out on the trail. Affixing a fire extinguisher in the cab is an easy way to prevent fire damage. Plus, it looks cool.Warm clothes:"Prepare your vehicle for the conditions you might encounter," Croft says. "You will need to have the adequate clothing to be able to survive 24 hours outside the vehicle." Even though your truck will have heat, if the engine isn't running or a window breaks, you will be exposed to the elements. This means more than a rain layer — bring cold-weather insulation as well. It's never bad to keep a couple blankets in the back or under a seat.Food & Water:Always carry enough food for the maximum occupancy of the vehicle — even if you're not hauling more than one passenger. The minimum should be at least one granola bar and one bottle of water per seat in the car. More is always welcome. "Iodine pills are also a good thing to carry," Croft adds. "They don't take up any space and can increase your access to drinkable water."Be Fully Aware of What You're in ForPrepare Your Recovery:You need to think ahead and prepare for recovery, should you encounter any problems. Have a plan for if you get stuck, and what you're going to do to get out, because that's going to aid in when you decide to call it quits. Another key: once you realize you're stuck, stop. Don't keep spinning, that just makes it worse. You'll know when you're about to get stuck when you're applying an even amount of throttle and you're slowing down or losing momentum. As soon as you realize you're losing momentum, stop the vehicle; don't wait for it to get stuck. If you stop before it sticks on its own, it's going to make the recovery much faster. Make sure you know where your tow strap is. Locate trees, etc. to which you can hook your winch. And have your Maxtrax easily accessible.Airing Down:The best off-roaders — the people who get into places where other people can't go — understand how to maintain traction. One quick way to help maintain traction is to air down your tires to around 20 to 25 psi. Airing down your tires increases the overall length of the tire tread in contact with the ground by 80 percent. Not only does airing down increase the traction patch, it also allows the rubber to transform to the shape of the ground, giving you more bite into whatever surface you're dealing with. That pertains to rocks, particularly, as well as mud and other slippery surfaces. When you get into tricky surfaces like very deep mud or snow, lengthening the tread by airing down increases your float — the ability for your vehicle to sit on top of the surface, versus digging down and just getting stuck.Activating Lockers:Remember that locking the differentials is critical to traction in slippery conditions — it essentially forces both wheels to turn at the same rate.Do You Understand the Different Kinds of Conditions?Mud, Sand, and Snow: Though seemingly distinct conditions, in terms of traction, mud, sand and snow are handled pretty much the same way. As such, many 4x4 makers will have a single traction control setting dedicated to all three.That said, let's focus on traversing mud, which can be the trickiest of the group. "First there are a couple things that you need to consider: How deep the mud is and how far you have to travel through it," Croft says. "If it's really deep and really far, you may not want do it at all. If it is within what you think you're capable of driving, these are the things to do." Air down to around 20 pounds of pressure. Then put your vehicle in 4WD high and turn traction control off. If you can select a gear, choose a higher gear so that you can toss more mud away and allow your mud tires to self-clean."Typically any off-roading, I would recommend going in four high," says Filip Tomik, 4x4 Systems Development /Calibration Engineer for Ford. "Four low is a unique 4x4 setting and it's predominantly used if you are doing a lot of sand dune driving." To tackle any of these three conditions, you're also going to need a lot of momentum, so you don't want to be in too low of a gear. For sand, as with mud, it's all about managing horsepower. So you want to put your vehicle in a position to maximize the horsepower and get through the tacky stuff. "In deep sand, you'd think that 4 Low is ideal," added Tomik."But actually you want 4 High, because when the sand starts grabbing the side of the tire, you start taxing the power train very quickly, which will start giving a lot of torque to negotiate the terrain."Rock:"When you get into rock, it's more than likely you're in what's called a 'crawl situation.'" says Croft."You need to be methodical and precise with the movement and the power and the traction of the vehicle. If not, you're going to get hung up on something. It's important to keep speed low, because you could cause vehicle damage from something that hits your vehicle."So, air down and put the vehicle into 4WD low. Then pick a line, knowing which one best suits the approach, breakover, and departure angles of your vehicle. You also need to know the height, width, wheelbase of the rig, and the clearance of your differentials. If you don't know these off-hand, your owner's manual should specify. If you have an adjustable suspension, raise it up. Also, if you can select a "Rock" setting on your traction control, do that as well. As you roll into the rock, use a very light and consistent throttle. Managing the power with a delicate foot is the key to success in rock. Because you're in a really low gear and the power is very responsive, you need to relax and slow down how you manage the throttle and keep it really smooth for a precise crawl.Water fording: "Water fording is one of the most dangerous things that you could do to your vehicle...and potentially to you, so it needs to be done correctly," Croft says. First, walk into the water source — especially if you can't see the bottom. At a minimum, you need to have a clear understanding of its depth and what's under the surface. The best way to do that is to check it out with your feet. Once you know how deep it is and what's underneath, you can make a plan to cross. But respect its power: Two feet of rushing water is enough to sweep a car away.When you're ready to go, angle the truck slightly upstream. When you enter the water, you'll create what is called a "wake bow." You'll then want to keep enough speed to maintain the wake bow, as it effectively lowers the level of water around the sides of your vehicle. As you drive across the water, it will push you downstream a little bit, so plan the drift on where you want to get out.Finally, if the water's deeper than your grill, you're going to want a snorkel. So study the route ahead of time.A Few Final Things to ConsiderBe Cautious of Whip:On difficult terrain, try to keep your thumbs outside the steering wheel, to account for something called "whip." If the wheel is suddenly snapped in one direction or another, it can hurt your wrists, or worse, break your thumbs. Keep in mind this is mostly a problem in vehicles without a power steering damper box. Generally speaking, newer cars with damper boxes won't suffer whip.Don't Over Steer:Try not to over steer when in ruts and on angles. When one side of your vehicle is up on an incline but the other is on flat ground, it feels natural to counteract the weight shift or unnatural lean by steering up toward the incline. Try to avoid it, as keeping the wheel straight is safest. Also, there will be times when your tires are locked into ruts previously cut by other vehicles. These ruts will be weirdly cut and cause your wheels to wander to the right or the left. Do not, however, let the steering wheel wander to the left or right. Even though the vehicle is still tracking straight, due to the ruts, your steering system could be at full lock. The issue there is that as soon as you leave the rut and fully regain traction, your vehicle might steer sharply to one side or the other, leading you into a tree, rocks, or other trail impediments.Left Foot Braking:If you're going to be doing lots of off-roading, it's a good idea to master a technique called left-foot braking. And it's as simple as it sounds. Keep your right foot on or over the accelerator pedal and apply the brakes with your left foot, rather than using your right foot for both pedals, the way we were all taught. Why? Because it can save you precious seconds and also give you a lot better vehicle control when you're in rocks or other technical terrain.This technique can also be used to apply power more evenly. You can use your right foot to keep your engine at 3,000 RPM and use the slow release of the brake with the left to apply that even level of torque to the ground. Utilize this technique sparingly, however, as you can burn out the brakes.C.A.R:"This acronym was taught to me by the famous off-road racing driver Ivan Stewart. It stands for: Comfortable, Accurate, and Relaxed," Croft says. What's it mean? If you can comfortably drive down the road in a relaxed enough manner to keep a cup of coffee in the cup holder, then you know that you are within the vehicle's and your capabilities and you're not in danger of hurting the vehicle or yourself.Article Originally published on roadandtrack.comby Nick Jaynes Posted 08/11/2021 in Off-Roading


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EU-U.S. Privacy Shield: Consumer Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 30th September 2016
ADELPHI GROUP and its operating subsidiaries Adelphi Values, Adelphi Research, Adelphi Communications, Excerpta Medica and The Planning Shop International (collectively, "Adelphi") respect your concerns about privacy. Adelphi participates in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework ("Privacy Shield") issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Adelphi commits to comply with the Privacy Shield Principles with respect to Consumer Personal Data the company receives from the EU in reliance on the Privacy Shield. This Policy describes how Adelphi implements the Privacy Shield Principles for Consumer Personal Data.
For purposes of this Policy:
"Consumer" means any natural person who is located in the EU, but excludes any individual
acting in his or her capacity as an Employee.
"Controller" means a person or organization which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
"Employee" means any current, former or prospective employee, temporary worker, intern or other non-permanent employee of any subsidiary or affiliate of Adelphi, who is located in the EU.
"EU" means the European Union and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
"Personal Data" means any information, including Sensitive Data, that is (i) about an identified or identifiable individual, (ii) received by Adelphi in the U.S. from the EU, and (iii) recorded in any form.
"Privacy Shield Principles" means the Principles and Supplemental Principles of the Privacy Shield.
"Processor" means any natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that processes Personal Data on behalf of a Controller.
"Sensitive Data" means Personal Data specifying medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, sex life, the commission or alleged commission of any offense, any proceedings for any offense committed or alleged to have been committed by the individual or the disposal of such proceedings, or the sentence of any court in such proceedings.
"Supplier" means any supplier, vendor or other third party located in the EU that provides services or products to Adelphi.
Adelphi's Privacy Shield certification, along with additional information about the Privacy Shield, can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/. For more information about Consumer Personal Data processing with respect to information obtained through Adelphi's website, please visit the Online Privacy Notice.
Types of Personal Data Adelphi Collects
Adelphi collects Personal Data directly from Consumers. This collection occurs, for example, when a Consumer visits Adelphi's website. The company may use this information for the purposes indicated in the Online Privacy Notice.
The types of Consumer Personal Data Adelphi collects includes:
- Contact information, such as name, postal address, email address and telephone number; and
- Personal Data in content Consumers provide on Adelphi's website and other data collected automatically through the website (such as IP addresses, browser characteristics, device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, information on actions taken on our website, and dates and times of website visits).
In addition, Adelphi obtains Personal Data, such as contact information and financial account information, of its Suppliers' representatives. Adelphi uses this information to manage its relationships with its Suppliers, process payments, expenses and reimbursements, and carry out Adelphi's obligations under its contracts with the Suppliers.
Adelphi also may obtain and use Consumer Personal Data in other ways for which Adelphi provides specific notice at the time of collection.
Adelphi's privacy practices regarding the processing of Consumer Personal Data comply with the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice; Choice; Accountability for Onward Transfer; Security; Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation; Access; and Recourse, Enforcement and Liability.
Adelphi provides information in this Policy and the Online Privacy Notice about its Consumer Personal Data practices, including the types of Personal Data Adelphi collects, the types of third parties to which Adelphi discloses the Personal Data and the purposes for doing so, the rights and choices Consumers have for limiting the use and disclosure of their Personal Data, and how to contact Adelphi about its practices concerning Personal Data.
Relevant information also may be found in notices pertaining to specific data processing activities.
Adelphi generally offers Consumers the opportunity to choose whether their Personal Data may be (i) disclosed to third-party Controllers or (ii) used for a purpose that is materially different from the purposes for which the information was originally collected or subsequently authorized by the relevant Consumer. To the extent required by the Privacy Shield Principles, Adelphi obtains opt-in consent for certain uses and disclosures of Sensitive Data. Consumers may contact Adelphi as indicated below regarding the company's use or disclosure of their Personal
Data. Unless Adelphi offers Consumers an appropriate choice, the company uses Personal Data only for purposes that are materially the same as those indicated in this Policy.
Adelphi shares Consumer Personal Data with its affiliates and subsidiaries. Adelphi may disclose Consumer Personal Data without offering an opportunity to opt out, and may be required to disclose the Personal Data, (i) to third-party Processors the company has retained to perform services on its behalf and pursuant to its instructions, (ii) if it is required to do so by law or legal process, or (iii) in response to lawful requests from public authorities, including to meet national security, public interest or law enforcement requirements. Adelphi also reserves the
right to transfer Personal Data in the event of an audit or if the company sells or transfers all or a portion of its business or assets (including in the event of a merger, acquisition, joint venture, reorganization, dissolution or liquidation).
Accountability for Onward Transfer of Personal Data
This Policy and the Online Privacy Notice describe Adelphi's sharing of Consumer Personal Data.
Except as permitted or required by applicable law, Adelphi provides Consumers with an opportunity to opt out of sharing their Personal Data with third-party Controllers. Adelphi requires third-party Controllers to whom it discloses Consumer Personal Data to contractually agree to (i) only process the Personal Data for limited and specified purposes consistent with the consent provided by the relevant Consumer, (ii) provide the same level of protection for Personal Data as is required by the Privacy Shield Principles, and (iii) notify Adelphi and cease processing Personal Data (or take other reasonable and appropriate remedial steps) if the third-party Controller determines that it cannot meet its obligation to provide the same level of protection for Personal Data as is required by the Privacy Shield Principles.
With respect to transfers of Consumer Personal Data to third-party Processors, Adelphi (i) enters into a contract with each relevant Processor, (ii) transfers Personal Data to each such Processor only for limited and specified purposes, (iii) ascertains that the Processor is obligated to provide the Personal Data with at least the same level of privacy protection as is required by the Privacy Shield Principles, (iv) takes reasonable and appropriate steps to ensure that the Processor effectively processes the Personal Data in a manner consistent with Adelphi's bligations under the Privacy Shield Principles, (v) requires the Processor to notify Adelphi if the Processor determines that it can no longer meet its obligation to provide the same level of protection as is required by the Privacy Shield Principles, (vi) upon notice, including under (v) above, takes reasonable and appropriate steps to stop and remediate unauthorized processing of the Personal Data by the Processor, and (vii) provides a summary or representative copy of the relevant privacy provisions of the Processor contract to the Department of Commerce, upon request. Adelphi remains liable under the Privacy Shield Principles if the company's third-party Processor onward transfer recipients process relevant Personal Data in a manner inconsistent with the Privacy Shield Principles, unless Adelphi proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.
Adelphi takes reasonable and appropriate measures to protect Consumer Personal Data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Data.
Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation
Adelphi limits the Consumer Personal Data it processes to that which is relevant for the purposes of the particular processing. Adelphi does not process Consumer Personal Data in ways that are incompatible with the purposes for which the information was collected or subsequently authorized by the relevant Consumer. In addition, to the extent necessary for these purposes, Adelphi takes reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Data the company processes is (i) reliable for its intended use, and (ii) accurate, complete and current. In this regard, Adelphi relies on its Consumers to update and correct the relevant Personal Data to the extent necessary for the purposes for which the information was collected or subsequently authorized. Consumers may contact Adelphi as indicated below to request that Adelphi update or correct relevant Personal Data.
Subject to applicable law, Adelphi retains Consumer Personal Data in a form that identifies or renders identifiable the relevant Consumer only for as long as it serves a purpose that is compatible with the purposes for which the Personal Data was collected or subsequently authorized by the Consumer.
Consumers generally have the right to access their Personal Data. Accordingly, where appropriate, Adelphi provides Consumers with reasonable access to the Personal Data Adelphi maintains about them. Adelphi also provides a reasonable opportunity for those Consumers to correct, amend or delete the information where it is inaccurate or has been processed in violation of the Privacy Shield Principles, as appropriate. Adelphi may limit or deny access to Personal Data where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the Consumer's privacy in the case in question, or where the rights of persons other than the Consumer would be violated. Consumers may request access to their Personal Data by contacting Adelphi as indicated below.
Recourse, Enforcement and Liability
Adelphi has mechanisms in place designed to help assure compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles. Adelphi conducts an annual self-assessment of its Consumer Personal Data practices to verify that the attestations and assertions Adelphi makes about its Privacy Shield privacy practices are true and that Adelphi's privacy practices have been implemented as represented and in accordance with the Privacy Shield Principles.
Consumers may file a complaint concerning Adelphi's processing of their Personal Data. Adelphi will take steps to remedy issues arising out of its alleged failure to comply with the Privacy Shield Principles. Consumers may contact Adelphi as specified below about complaints regarding Adelphi's Consumer Personal Data practices.
If a Consumer's complaint cannot be resolved through Adelphi's internal processes, Adelphi will cooperate with JAMS pursuant to the JAMS International Mediation Rules, available on the JAMS website at www.jamsadr.com/international-mediation-rules. JAMS mediation may be commenced as provided for in the relevant JAMS rules. The mediator may propose any appropriate remedy, such as deletion of the relevant Personal Data, publicity for findings of noncompliance, payment of compensation for losses incurred as a result of noncompliance, or cessation of processing of the Personal Data of the Consumer who brought the complaint. The
mediator or the Consumer also may refer the matter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which has Privacy Shield investigatory and enforcement powers over Adelphi. Under certain circumstances, Consumers also may be able to invoke binding arbitration to address complaints about Adelphi's compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles.
How to Contact Adelphi
To contact Adelphi with questions or concerns about this Policy or Adelphi's Consumer Personal Data practices:
Write to:
President, Adelphi Research, 2005 S. Easton Road, Suite 300, Doylestown, PA 18901, USA
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(WOMENSENEWS)–Deputy Detective Kevin Bickford, a member of the Oregon Human Trafficking Task Force, works with crime victims who may be as fearful of him as they are their assailants.
"Trying to track down foreign-born trafficking victims is very difficult because they don't call 911; they are often afraid to come and talk to the police," he said.
When Congress passed the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act in 2000, lawmakers had such dilemmas in mind.
Recognizing that immigrant crime victims often fear deportation, which hinders police investigations, Congress created the U visa to provide legal residency for immigrant crime victims who cooperate with law enforcement.
A U visa recipient is entitled to four years of legal residency and, crucially, to work authorization. After three years, a recipient may qualify for permanent resident status–a green card, which is a path to U.S. citizenship.
Bickford says the U visa helps him track down human traffickers by giving him a way to show their victims, who might otherwise fear deportation, that he is on their side and can actually help them stay in the United States.
Visa Holdup
But the U visas have been slow to reach their intended recipients.
Congress approved creation of U visas in 2000, but none were issued for seven years by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or U.S.C.I.S.
The agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, oversees the visa, asylum and citizenship processes. It issued the first U visa regulations in September 2007. No visas were actually issued until a year later.
As of January, when newly elected President Obama was moving into the White House, at least 13,000 U visa applications had been submitted. However, fewer than 100 visas had been awarded, far shy of the 10,000 annual cap approved by Congress.
Since Obama appointees have taken the reins at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency has been speeding up work on the backlog to fully implement the nine-year-old U visa process.
Chris Rhatigan, a spokesperson for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said in a recent interview that officials have already approved approximately 4,000 U visa applications.
Thousands more applications have been reviewed and sent back to petitioners with requests for more evidence. "If I gave you a number today," Rhatigan said, "it would already be outdated tomorrow. That's how quickly things are moving."
"It's very obvious that U.S.C.I.S. has been working really hard to reduce the backlog," said Natalie Nanansi, a fellow at the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization in Falls Church, Va. The group works to protect immigrant women and girls from violence.
"We've seen the adjudication times speed up and we've seen cases that had lingered for more than a year all of a sudden be adjudicated."
Institutional Mindset Shifts
Gail Pendleton, co-director of ASISTA Immigration Assistance, a nonprofit network with headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, that provides training and technical assistance on immigration law, calls the Obama-era change at the agency "a huge shift in the institutional mindset."
As co-founder of the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women, Pendleton helped draft the U visa provisions in 2000.
She says the U visa complements earlier immigration provisions included in the pioneering Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA.
That 1994 act allowed battered immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens or permanent residents to self-petition for legal residency. Previously, the citizen or legal resident spouse controlled his or her partner's immigration status, which sometimes allowed abusers to use threats of deportation to keep battered spouses from reporting violence to law enforcement or from attempting to escape.
However, many immigrant victims of partner violence are ineligible to self-petition under VAWA: those who married to a non-citizen or non-permanent resident and those who are not married at all, including victims of domestic violence within same-sex relationships.
For these individuals, the U visa can provide a path to safety without fear of deportation.
Visa Vital for Immigrant Victims
The U visa also extends protections to other immigrant crime victims, including those who have experienced incest, trafficking, kidnapping and female genital mutilation.
These special visas are emerging as a particularly important legal protection for immigrant victims of partner violence, who are mostly women.
In situations of domestic abuse, the threat of deportation can serve as another weapon in the abuser's arsenal to compel the victim's silence; the U visa undercuts that threat, turning the police into partners rather than adversaries.
Rosemary Willingham, an immigration attorney in San Diego, Calif., has worked on more than 30 U visa cases.
She recalls the case of one young immigrant woman who has four children. Her partner, a much older man, had been extremely physically abusive, at one point knocking out several of her teeth. As a result of this injury she received U visa interim status, a one-year temporary visa that was made available in the long limbo between passage of the U visa law and the issuance of its regulations.
After that she decided to go to school to become a dental hygienist.
"To have that young woman come back to me and tell me, 'I have my own apartment, my own car, a job, my children are starting school'," Willingham pauses, letting the sentence go unfinished before she resumes. "None of that would have been possible for her without the U visa."
Nadia Berenstein is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY, and Washington, D.C. She frequently writes about equal rights and reproductive justice.


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The Opposition of Mars
March 28, 2014: By the time you finish reading this story, you'll be about 1,000 km closer to the planet Mars.
Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter. As March gives way to April, the distance between the two planets is shrinking by about 300 km every minute. When the convergence ends in mid-April, the gulf between Earth and Mars will have narrowed to only 92 million km--a small number on the vast scale of the solar system.
Astronomers call this event an "opposition of Mars" because Mars and the Sun are on opposite sides of the sky. Mars rises in the east at sunset, and soars almost overhead at midnight, shining burnt-orange almost 10 times brighter than a 1st magnitude star.
Oppositions of Mars happen every 26 months. Of a similar encounter in the 19th century, astronomer Percival Lowell wrote that "[Mars] blazes forth against the dark background of space with a splendor that outshines Sirius and rivals the giant Jupiter himself."
In other words, it's really easy to see.
There are two dates of special significance:
April 8th is the date of opposition, when Mars, Earth, and the sun are arranged in a nearly-straight line.
If the orbits of Mars and Earth were perfectly circular, April 8th would also be the date of closest approach. However, planetary orbits are elliptical--that is, slightly egg-shaped--so the actual date of closest approach doesn't come until almost a week later.
On April 14th, Earth and Mars are at their minimum distance: 92 million km, a 6+ month flight for NASA's speediest rockets. You won't have any trouble finding Mars on this night. The full Moon will be gliding by the Red Planet in the constellation Virgo, providing a can't-miss "landmark" in the midnight sky.
Remarkably, on the same night that Mars is closest to Earth, there will be a total lunar eclipse. The full Moon of April 14-15 will turn as red as the Red Planet itself. A video from Science@NASA has the details.
Although these dates are special, any clear night in April is a good time to look at Mars. It will be easy to see with the unaided eye even from brightly-lit cities. With a modest backyard telescope, you can view the rusty disk of Mars as well as the planet's evaporating north polar cap, which has been tipped toward the sun since Martian summer began in February. Experienced astro-photographers using state-of-the-art digital cameras can tease out even more—for example, dust storms, orographic clouds over Martian volcanoes, and icy fogs in the great Hellas impact basin. The view has been described by some observers as "Hubblesque."
Update: You're now 1000 km closer to Mars.
Author: Dr. Tony Phillips | Production editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA
More information:
The distances and velocities cited in this story were calculated by JPL's online HORIZONS ephemeris. All velocities are correct for March 31, 2014.
Oppositions of Mars happen every 26 months. The racetrack model of planetary orbits explains why. Earth and Mars are like runners on a track. Earth is on the inside, Mars is on the outside. Every 26 months, speedy Earth catches up to slower Mars and laps it. Opposition occurs just as Earth takes the lead.
Because planetary orbits are elliptical, not all oppositions are the same. In 2003, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in 50,000 years, an apparition that mesmerized sky watchers all over the world. The 2014 opposition of Mars is a much more "run-of-the-mill" opposition--not historic, but beautiful nonetheless.


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Today 5th June 2018 is the Tenth birth anniversary of this blog. On this day in 2009 this blog was launched, and since then, albeit slowly, this blog has been progressing and continuing with the support of all who have been associated and visited this blog time to time.
This year the World Environment Day theme is 'Beat Plastic Pollution'!!
And this year our own country India is the host for celebration of this day World-wide.
Few years back I had penned a poem as a 'self-narrative' by a 'polybag (Panni)'.
The poem was in Hindi and for today's presentation I have got its translation into English done by my daughter Ashwini.
Keeping my write up simple and limited to this much only and once again Thanking all, I present this translation, as a post for today's occasion here;
I am a 'polybag' wandering places,
Wandering just like the other members of my species are,
Spreading throughout and travelling into the unknown,
Getting ignored with no hopes of getting cared and cured
Yet I keep wishing, for someone to pick me up in their loving arms,
I wish someone would take me to my rightful 'disposal', the place where I belong.
I wonder where my siblings are,
Maybe they're wretched just like me,
Maybe they too have a gruesome story to tell
Like PVC had to tell this other day;
"Oh! the ignorant Humans!
Why aren't you saving yourselves from me?
Don't you care about your future?
The future of you and your progeny…"
I wish you would have kept us away from your surroundings
Instead of letting I and my specie get all messed up with each other.
I myself have been through a lot,
Be it getting trapped in cluster of spikes
Or being wrapped up around the branch of a tree!
I've floated in the drains, muffled over cans and ducts
Just to become the culprit of everything filthy!
I am that tramp, who keeps wandering constantly,
Rotting through rivers and pools,
Ending up spreading pollution everywhere,
You ask me where I'll be found,
I am Omnipresent I say!
Flying, crashing through nowhere
Hoping for some day 'someone' will come,
And take me to my 'appropriate disposal'
Please embrace me, love me, care me
Help me to reach – 'my final destination'
Take me where I belong and save your Habitat,
Save your mother, Oh human,
Save your nature, Save 'mother earth'


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IO Announces New Customer Wins
IO, a worldwide leader in software-defined data center technology, services and solutions, today announced new customer wins. By selecting IO, these organizations gain access to high-performance data center capacity without incurring the cost of building and maintaining their own data center.
The new customers include:
* Bryan Vincent Associates, Inc. (BVA) – Since 1993, BVA has specialized in serving the IT consulting needs of small- and medium-sized companies in Arizona and greater Phoenix area, helping them realize the value of their information technology investments. BVA understands the impact that technology and computer-networking services has on its clients' business, and is committed to their success.
* CBWE Hosting, LLC – Providing an extensive suite of fully managed hosted services, CBWE Hosting LLC prides itself on partnering with world-class vendors to provide enterprise quality services to the worldwide SMB market. The latest addition to its datacenter space with IO Phoenix strengthens the company's position and highlights its dedication to service levels with global customers. While operating lower cost services out of other datacenters under the brand Three9's (www.three9s.com), CBWE Hosting specifically chose IO for its enterprise level services under the NXTGEN Hosting brand (www.nxtgenhosting.com) for their datacenter design, function and 100 percent uptime SLAs.
* Trinium Technologies, LLC – Trinium provides software solutions for intermodal trucking and multimodal trucking operations in the United States and Canada. Trinium's product suite offers a mid-level enterprise system designed to optimize intermodal drayage, cartage and transport operations. Trinium Fuel Systems is recognized as the industry leader in petroleum marketing systems, providing solutions for companies ranging from single site, three to five user deployments to multi-site operations encompassing over 100 users.
"IO makes it easy and cost-effective for our customers to deploy data center capacity," said Peter McNamara, Executive Leader, Global Sales and Customer Operations, IO. "They can start from a single cabinet in one of our data centers, and scale globally based on the needs of their applications."
Founded in 2007, IO is a worldwide leader in software defined data center technology, services and solutions that enable businesses and governments to intelligently control their information.
IO, the IO logo, Intelligent Control and all other IO trademarks are owned by IO Data Centers, LLC and its affiliates. © 2014.


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Many people use the same password for different online accounts. Even if the password is very strong, hackers don't need to break into your very secure financial and other important accounts directly. They can attack a weaker website, such as a web forum or subscription service, and use the password they stole from that website's database to steal your identity and log into any of your online accounts.
Both physical and electronic security are difficult skills to master, but most would agree that it's a bad idea to use a single key for every real-world lock you own. So why would you use the same digital key for all of your electronic locks? Many people complain that it is difficult to remember multiple passwords; in the real-world, you don't need to remember how every key on your keychain looks like. So I thought: what if you could have a keychain that keeps your digital keys for you? Zamek is the answer.
I turned to the physical keychain for inspiration, as a physical keychain is already very easy to use. When you need to unlock something, you choose the right key, insert it into the lock, and turn.
Zamek was designed to open your electronic locks as easily as a regular key opens physical locks, with an additional layer of security in case someone other than yourself picks up your digital keychain. The process can be described as:
1. Unlock your Zamek using a security PIN you choose
2. Use Zamek's joystick to change the account displayed on its screen to the one you wish to unlock
3. Insert the Zamek into your computer's USB port
4. Press the joystick to enter the password for the account
Zamek will type in the currently selected password into any field on your screen you select. If there is no USB port available, you can read the password for the account on Zamek's highly visible OLED screen and type it in manually.
Entering your account information into Zamek is intuitive and simple. After you enter your information once, it is stored permanently on Zamek's built-in memory. Your information is encrypted with an industry-recognized AES cipher, which means that if your Zamek is ever stolen, criminals will not be able to extract your information.
Zamek was designed to be your electronic key to the digital world. Smaller than a car remote, it easily clips to your keychain and can be carried everywhere. It features a highly visible screen and a long battery life, which is topped up every time you plug Zamek into your USB port. The joystick is comfortable to use, and the interface is intuitive enough to not require an instruction manual after the first set-up. Additional features currently in consideration are secure formatting and backup/restore options.
All the code and schematics for Zamek will be published under an Open Source license. This mean that anyone can read, validate, and critique the design of any part of the Zamek openly. My desire is that the Open Source process will lead to a device which is ultimately more secure, completely trusted, and reproducible in case I am not able to produce these in the future.
Lastly, Zamek is completely yours to own and use. It protects your data in a personal, respectful, and dignified manner: Zamek does not "phone home" to any remote servers, and it does not store any information anywhere other than its secure memory. Your information will never be anywhere but in your pocket.


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The creators of Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live want to take your family on an all new adventure – this time to the bottom of the ocean. Erth's Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure is an immersive experience that invites you to jump in and explore unknown ocean depths where prehistoric marine reptiles lived eons ago – and maybe live still today! Erth shows are at the forefront of family entertainment, using actors, technology, puppets, science and imagination to create an amazing visual experience that connects young audiences to the real science of paleontology.
Curriculum Connections: Life Science, Natural History & Paleontology, Making Observations, Predictions & Connections, Investigating & Exploring the Natural World, Puppetry


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More Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles Shipped to Middle East
By Sgt. Sara Wood, USA
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2007 – U.S. troops serving in Iraq will have a little more protection soon, as two of the military's newest armored vehicles are on their way to the theater.
Two Buffalo Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, known as "MRAPs," were loaded onto C-5 Galaxy aircraft last night at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., to be shipped to Iraq. This latest shipment is part of the Defense Department's push to get as many of the new vehicles to troops in combat as quickly as possible.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has been pushing the production and delivery of MRAPs, which boast a V-shaped hull that deflects bomb blasts and protects troops inside better than the military's current vehicles. The Defense Department awarded two more contracts for the vehicles the week of Aug. 10, which brings the number of vehicles on contract to 6,415. An estimated 3,500 MRAPs are expected to be shipped to Iraq by Dec. 31.
The MRAPs are shipped to Iraq by the 437th Airlift Wing, out of Charleston. The vehicles are part of the 300 tons of cargo the unit moves on a daily basis. It typically takes two days to airlift the MRAPs to Iraq, said Cynthia Bauer, a public affairs officer with U.S. Transportation Command, which oversees the movement of the vehicles. A small number of MRAPs are taken by sea, which takes between 22 and 30 days, she said.
As of Aug. 9, Transportation Command has shipped 701 MRAPs and MRAP-like vehicles to the Central Command area, Bauer said. The command will continue to ship the vehicles as the military commanders in theater request them, she said.
MRAPs come in three categories: Category I vehicles are designed for urban combat operations and can transport six people; Category II vehicles have multi-mission capabilities, including convoy lead, troop transport, ambulance, explosive ordnance disposal and combat engineering, and can transport up to 10 people; Category III vehicles perform mine and improvised-explosive-device clearance operations and explosive ordnance disposal and can transport six people, or five with additional equipment. The Buffalos that were shipped last night fall under Category III.
The troops who participated in loading the vehicles yesterday told local media that they feel their job is important, because the MRAPs have been proven to save lives in combat. "It's absolutely critical. It saves lives every day when they have them," Air Force Master Sgt. Jared Breyer, with the 437th Airlift Wing, told ABC News.
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Pumpkin Cheesecake
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
5 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
3 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup canned pumpkin
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice whipped cream
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 2. Make the crust by combining the graham cracker crumbs with the melted butter and 1 tablespoon sugar in a medium bowl. Stir well enough to coat all of the crumbs with the butter, but not so much as to turn the mixture into paste. Keep it crumbly.
3. Press the crumbs onto the bottom and about two-thirds of the way up the sides of a springform pan. You don't want the crust to form all of the way up the back of each slice of cheesecake. Bake the crust for 5 minutes, then set it aside until you are ready to fill it.
4. In a large mixing bowl combine the cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, and vanilla. Mix with an electric mixer until smooth.
5. Add the pumpkin, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice and continue to beat until smooth and creamy.
6. Pour the filling into the pan. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes. The top will turn a bit darker at this point. Remove from the oven and allow the cheesecake to cool.
7. When the cheesecake has come to room temperature, put it into the refrigerator. When the cheesecake has chilled, remove the pan sides and cut the cake into 8 equal pieces. Use dental floss to make a clean cut.
Serve with a generous portion of whipped cream on top.
Serves 8.


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If this feels like deja vu, it's because Jonathan Strong of Breitbart reported the same thing more than two weeks ago. According to his and National Journal's sources, there are now 40-50 Republicans in the House who are quietly committed to voting against Boehner in the next Speaker election in January — if he hasn't already retired by then. That would deny him the majority he needs to take the gavel. Faced with the prospect of that humiliation, the thinking goes, he'll quit before it ever comes to that. This story and Strong's are the insurgents' way of warning him to go away before he's fired.
One new key detail: Cantor's also on thin ice with tea partiers after orchestrating that embarrassing, and clearly fraudulent, voice vote on "doc fix" a few weeks ago. If he wants to succeed Boehner, he may have to appease the insurgents by replacing House whip Kevin McCarthy with a stalwart conservative as the new majority leader.
The masterminds of this mutiny are trying to stay in the shadows for as long as possible to avoid putting a target on their backs. But one Republican said the "nucleus"of the rebellion can be found inside the House Liberty Caucus, of which he and his comrades are members. This is not surprising, considering that some of the key players in that group—Justin Amash of Michigan, Raul Labrador of Idaho, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky—were among the 12 Republicans who refused to back Boehner's reelection in January 2012…
With Boehner out of town in late March, Cantor was charged with pushing a "doc fix" bill across the finish line. When it became apparent the measure might not clear the House floor, Cantor authorized a voice vote, allowing the bill to pass without registered resistance. This maneuver infuriated conservatives, who felt that leadership—Cantor in particular—had cheated them. Rep. Mick Mulvaney of South Caroline yelled "Bullshit!" outside the House chamber…
Cantor told conservatives that a voice vote was "the least-bad option," given the circumstances. But many Republicans aren't buying it. Moreover, they said that with Boehner out of town, Cantor had an opportunity to impress them with his management of the conference—and didn't.
"It's an issue of trust. If you want to have a majority that is governing, and a majority that is following the leader, the rest of us need to be in a position where we trust our leadership," Labrador said this week, adding, "When you have politicians actually playing tricks on their own party, and their own members of Congress, I think that erodes the trust the American people have in the rest of us."
Said one House GOPer, "If there's another vote like [that], Eric won't be speaker. Ever."
Could be this is all just a bluff to scare Boehner into appointing more conservatives to key committee posts. If, say, there are only 20-25 conservatives committed to ousting him, not 40-50, then he might survive a new insurrection from the right in January. By making him think now that their numbers are greater than they really are, House conservatives might muscle him into quitting or at least making concessions to them. (First concession: No more voice votes.) The problem, highlighted by National Journal, is that no one wants to risk Boehner's wrath by volunteering to be the insurgents' nominee for leadership. Both Jeb Hensarling and Jim Jordan have reportedly refused, maybe because they really don't want to be in leadership or maybe because they fear stepping on Boehner's toes right now when his future is still undetermined. Paul Ryan wants to lead Ways and Means, I think, not join the leadership, and even if he did, would he still have conservative support after the grumbling over his budget deal last fall? The insurgents could try something really bold and nominate someone new to Congress, like Labrador, but Boehner loyalists might dig in and block him right back in retaliation for ousting their guy. The insurgents need someone who's liked by both wings of the caucus and who has enough seniority that even their opponents would be comfortable with him as majority leader or Speaker.
Here's an out-of-the-box idea for you. Since Boehner's the most centrist option among Republicans who might plausibly be elected Speaker next year, and since there's at least a chance that conservatives will frighten him into retirement with threats of toppling him when the next House is seated, why doesn't Pelosi approach Boehner and promise to get Democrats to vote for him if need be so that he can keep the gavel? If he's stuck at, say, 210 votes because 40 conservatives refuse to vote for him, find 10 Dems who'll get him to 220. It's in their own interest to do it: Boehner would be much more pliable than a Speaker Cantor controlled by tea partiers would be, especially if Boehner owes his Speakership to Pelosi and the Dems. Democrats have nothing to lose in giving him those votes either, since there's zero chance that Pelosi or anyone else on their side is getting to 218. Why note vote strategically and protect a guy from the other party who's your least bad option as Speaker? Maybe he'll even reward them by bringing immigration reform to the floor and letting them pass it with a few dozen Boehner loyalists on the GOP side. Fun!


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EXCLUSIVE: Soda Pictures partners with UK producer David P. Kelly on production of Two Women; takes UK rights.
Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher of UK distributor Soda Pictures and UK producer David P. Kelly have joined the production of Ralph Fiennes drama Two Women
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As previously reported, the Russian and French-language drama, based on Ivan Turgenev's play A Month in the Country, is due to shoot in Smolensk, Russia, this summer.
A Russian-French-UK co-production, Two Women is to be directed by Vera Glagoleva (One War), with Natalia Ivanova of Russian outfit Horosho Productions as lead producer and a UK partnership between producer David P. Kelly (The Last Station, Desert Flower) and Soda Pictures co-directors Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher, who have backed the film creatively and financially. Support also comes from the Russian Cinema Fund.
The 19th century story, about a tangle of love affairs at a country home, marks the first production collaboration between Kelly and independent distributor Soda - whose credits include Barbara, Norwegian Wood and Bullhead - under its new production banner Soda Films. Screen understands the partnership has a number of films in development.
The film's cast will be predominantly Russian but Screen understands the production will cast a French actress in one of the female leads.
Agent Simon Beresford said on behalf of Fiennes: ''Ralph Fiennes is delighted to be involved in this exciting project, playing the wonderful role of Rakitin and as a sign of his deep commitment is studying Russian for the role. He has always been a great admirer of Russian culture and looks forward to working there this summer."
Fiennes previously starred in Russian adaptation Onegin.
Kelly was introduced to the project at the UK-Russian co-production roundtable held in London in November 2012.
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