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Emphasizes the development of communication skills that are so essential today. Students in forensics compete in a variety of oral interpretation and public speaking events.
Forensics club meets every Monday at 4 p.m. Meetings are open to all students interested in developing their public speaking and performance poise. Forensics doesn't require an audition.
Phi Rho Pi National Forensics Tournament 2016
MCC Forensics won its first team award in six years at the Phi Rho Pi National Forensics Tournament 2016 hosted by Irvine Valley Community College in Costa Mesa, CA.
- Individual Events Team Sweepstakes – Silver
- Overall Team Sweepstakes – Bronze
Individual awards included
- Gold: Duo Interpretation – Adrian Nuno and Andrew Nuno
- Bronze: Persuasive Speaking – Melissa Henry; Informative Speaking – Melissa Henry; Dramatic Interpretation – Julia Noack; Prose Interpretation – Dylan Eddy
Also competing was Liz Sullivan, team captain.
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Back row, from left: Jaqueesha Monique, Hayley Flores Jasmine Brown, Brianna McDevitt, Casey Slade, Liz Sullivan, Front row, from left: Lucas Hayden, Tom Vanichachiva.
- Gold Awards:
- Jaqueesha Jacobs - Dramatic Interpretation
- Hayley Flores - Duo
- Liz Sullivan - Informative
- Lucas Hayden - Duo
- Silver Awards:
- Jaqueesha Jacobs - Duo
- Jasmine Borwn - Dramatic Interpretation
- Brianna McDevitt - Duo
- Liz Sullivan - Duo
- Bronze Awards:
- Jaqueesha Jacobs - Poetry
- Brianna McDevitt - Dramatic Interpretation
- Liz Sullivan - Prose
- Lucas Hayden - Prose
- Tom Vanichachiva - Informative & Persuasion
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Default Convictions
A default conviction may be entered against you concerning your parking violation if you receive a parking summons and you DO NOT either:
- make the voluntary payment listed on the summons in advance of your court date listed in your summons
- contact the City Prosecutor to arrange for a different date to appear in court if you can't attend
- send an agent to court on the date listed in your summons to enter a plea
- appear on your agreed trial date
The Justice of the Peace enters a default conviction when you do not appear on your court date. A default conviction can be entered without holding a trial and it in effect deems you guilty of your offence.
If you receive a default conviction
After a default conviction is entered against you, you will be notified by mail of the default conviction. Your mailed notification will list the date set by the court for you to pay the fine listed in your default conviction letter. If you do not make your payments before the date listed in your Notice of Deemed Conviction Letter, the City of Regina:
- will impose a $40 late payment charge per parking ticket
- may register a lien against your vehicle(s)
- may seize, impound and sell your vehicle(s)
- may request the court to issue a Warrant of Committal
Note: If there were unusual circumstances or reasons why you could not appear at court, you can apply to have your case re-opened. To do this, you must complete and submit a re-opening application form within 30 days of becoming aware of your default conviction. These forms are available upon request from:
Office of the City Prosecutor
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Indian Point Orlando is actually located in Kissimmee Florida. Indian Point villas are a subdivision of mature vacation homes. The vacation home rentals in Indian Point Kissimmee are located approximately 11.6 miles+/- to the main entrance of the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort ® and 12.7 miles to Epcot.
The vacation homes in Indian Point are located in Kissimmee which south west of Orlando. Other attractions in proximity are Sea World 15.8 miles and Universal Studios at 18.6 miles (driving).
The vacation home rentals in Indian Point are typically mid size offering 4 and 5 bedroom homes sleeping from eight to 12 people comfortably depending on the bedroom configurations. Many of the homes also offer private pools so be sure to identify what amenities you need when making a reservation.
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The public is now invited to review and comment on CWM Chemical Services LLC's proposal for its facility in Model City, Niagara County, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced today. CWM's applications are to build and operate a new landfill to be designated as residuals management unit - two (RMU-2), and for other storage and treatment units. The proposed RMU-2 landfill and other units will be used to dispose of and manage hazardous and industrial non-hazardous wastes at CWM's existing facility. Public comments will be accepted from May 7 through July 7.
Under the environmental conservation law, the governor must constitute a facility siting board for CWM's proposed RMU-2 landfill project. The facility siting board is authorized to make a decision to grant the application for a certificate of environmental safety and public necessity for the project, deny it, or grant it subject to modifications or conditions. DEC will announce the appointments to the board when they are made.
"In the coming weeks, DEC will hold a public comment hearing on CWM's draft permit for its proposed facility," said DEC Regional Director Abby Snyder. "DEC will carefully consider all comments before making a final decision on the draft permit."
CWM currently owns and operates a commercial facility for the treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous and industrial non-hazardous wastes on an approximately 710-acre site in the towns of Lewiston and Porter in Niagara County. Wastes accepted at this facility are ultimately disposed of in an on-site landfill or shipped to another appropriate facility for further processing and disposal. CWM currently operates under a required part 373 hazardous waste permit. If approved, this would authorize an expansion in CWM's current operations to include a new landfill. The new landfill would:
•Occupy approximately 43.5 acres and be located just west of CWM's existing RMU-1 landfill (figure available on DEC's website below);
•Have a designed capacity of approximately 4 million cubic yards for the disposal of hazardous and industrial non-hazardous wastes;
•Reach its design capacity in a projected 10 to 20 years;
•Possess a double, composite liner system consisting of natural and synthetic materials with primary and secondary systems for leachate collection and removal; and
•Meet stringent regulatory operating and design requirements.
In addition to the development of the proposed RMU-2 landfill, CWM is proposing to construct and operate a number of new and modified waste storage treatment units, intended to replace existing units that would close during RMU-2 construction.
DEC will schedule a public hearing to accept comments. Written comments can be sent anytime throughout the comment period to:
James T. McClymonds
Chief Administrative Law Judge
NYSDEC Office of Hearings and Mediation Services
625 Broadway, 1st Floor
Albany, NY 12233-1550
Email: [email protected]
Electronic copies of CWM's application and other CWM documents are available through CWM's website at http://modelcity.wm.com/. Additional documents that provide further details on the draft permit, including DEC's fact sheet, positive declaration and copy of the draft permit are available on DEC's website at http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/9075.html.
Hard copies of DEC's fact sheet, draft permit and CWM's applications will also be available for public review at the following locations:
• DEC, Division of Environmental Remediation, 625 Broadway, 12th Floor, Albany, NY 12233-7017 (contact person: Matt Mortefolio at 518-402-9814);
• DEC Region 9 office, 270 Michigan Ave., Buffalo, NY 14203-2915 (contact person: Mark Passuite at 716-851-7165);
• Youngstown Free Library, 240 Lockport St., Youngstown, NY 14174 (Starting May 7); and
• Porter Town Hall, 3265 Creek Road, Youngstown, NY 14174 (Starting May 7).
"This site is vital to clean up efforts in New York state," said WM Spokesperson Lori Caso. "Brownfield and remediation efforts rely on CWM for safe disposal of their hazardous wastes. Industrial and manufacturing companies that need to dispose of residual wastes depend upon the facility as the only in-state option for such materials."


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Hello from northwest Wisconsin! I'm Peggy from Tall Pines Studio and Garden Cottage Wools and Crafts. Once located in Saint Germain WI, I am now in the lovely town of Stanley WI.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Yesterday was kiln fixing day
Once done I was limping around like a ninety yr old but the initial cone 04 burn out firing completed as usual. PTL! I got up at midnight to check on it and it was complete. Hopefully I won't have to do this for another year!
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RescueTime was initially imagined as a way to capture and evaluate data from the computerized workplace – essentially an online-activity meter. The core logging functions of RescueTime are meant to provide a precise measure of active time spent on the computer, with an eye towards maximizing productivity and efficiency. Our application retains this functionality, but it has been expanding its boundaries as the product develops and user demand dictates. It has become evident that users desire a broader spectrum of time-recording functionality with RescueTime, one that can include various activities spent outside of or away from work. Accompanying this demand is an increase among users in the use of measurement tools for these various life activities. There has been increasingly broad adoption of devices and applications recording various aspects of personal life, such as calendars and and health monitors (exercise, diet, sleep, etc.), and the wish for a way to include these details in RescueTime metrics. There are some engineering and future planning decisions that we face here at RescueTime as a result of these two, possibly competing viewpoints – work, in isolation from the rest of life, and work, incorporated into a holistic picture of a person's activities.
Here are two examples of situations where we are faced with development decisions.
1. Logging active vs. passive device usage
RescueTime works by recording the window titles of whatever application, document, or webpage currently has focus on a computer or mobile device. This recording is of active use, defined as regular keyboard or mouse input. After five minutes without such input, RescueTime times out and stops logging until there is input again. The result is a very precise record of "active" computer use, meant to capture user activity. But what if someone wants to record activities usually considered not to be work – watching videos, for example? Currently, RescueTime does not record extended use of most video players, but users generally expect it to and are surprised when it does not.
• Should RescueTime record all computer usage as inclusively as possible or retain a focus on work only?
• How should it include other non-work activities?
2. Offline time activity support
For Premium users, RescueTime does have the means to provide details about time spent away from the computer or not otherwise registered by the application. There are two options here – a time-away popup that asks users to categorize the time spent since the computer went idle, and the Enter Offline Time page, where users can select specific spans of non-categorized time and allocate them as desired.
• Are there ways that this functionality could be improved to better include life activities?
Users have suggested several ideas here: more options in the time-away popup; integration of calendar data from an external source; the ability to create new top-level categories to accommodate these types of activities.
• What can RescueTime do to better serve users here?
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First off, you should make it clear how you want people to respond to these very good questions.
• Should RescueTime record all computer usage as inclusively as possible or retain a focus on work only?
Yes. The divide between work and other aspects of life are continuing to blur. We all want balance. So making it so it's even easier to say what's productive or not is useful. Having the ability to see what and how much you spent your time on something is super useful.
The current way you're doing productivity though is not that useful. 50 vs 68 means little when I'm always over 50. Not sure about the solution, but the current 5 levels of productivity seems simple but still is not telling you a lot in that raw number of 50 or 68.
The bar graphs are super useful, so maybe the five levels is the best you can do. I wonder if there are other visuals. I thought about a pie chart and was even going to email you, but then realized how the bar graph and just a % # is better
• How should it include other non-work activities?
How ever the user wants. You have to make it easy for the user to define what they find as productive.
• Are there ways that this functionality could be improved to better include life activities?
I'm a premium user and I've used offline. Your html5 mobile site is amazing. Thank you. I still have not made this feature a consistent habit, but I want to. I'm not sure about the answer here other than keep on making it easier to add and categorize offline activities. It's really hard to group these if they occur more than once and so each instance is its own activity as opposed to my use of gmail. This should work better.
• What can RescueTime do to better serve users here?
Here's why I am so excited to respond to these questions. The next step is to yes integrate with everything and make Rescuetime even more like ifttt. That would be killer. If when I ended a phone call it trigger rescuetime to open a window on my phone to quickly log my activity, and even better if it opened up a timer that I set to 30 seconds (could be another app) to complete my entry I would be head over heels. Stuff like that. I'm sure it could work the other way too where when you've worked for a certain amount of time it triggers a photo to pop-up of something special or an important quote. I had thought of emailing about integrating with Tasker. I'm sure you have a lot of ideas on your plate and I hope some of this feedback helps and is the direction you're going in.
If you're a writer–especially a screenwriter–or musician, time spent watching videos could be very much work related.
How about distinguishing data from multiple devices (not just computer vs mobile, but e.g. laptop vs phone vs tablet)? Also, for mobile devices, the timing and frequency of "unlocks" can be more interesting than total time spent.
Calendar integration would be nice. There are two ways this could be done: Pull and Push
Pull based calendar integration would look at your calendar and use that information to fill the empty spots in your rescue time record. e.g. for meetings.
Push based calendar integration is something that would be even better. I would be nice if rescue time could publish a calendar rss feed that includes blocks of activities (say larger than half an hour). You could then subscribe to this calendar feed in your calendar application. There is a report in rescue time that shows what you worked on when in the week. I use this alongside my diary to help me reconstruct time sheets. The calendar feed would allow me to do that as a one stop shop as I could just look in my calendar and see what I spent my week on.
If I had to prioritise one over the other I would want a push based calendar feed.
Hi Roger – #1. I think the team at RescueTime needs to get together and decide where they want the business to go. Do you want to venture into an area where you did not initially intend to go? (Is it time to revisit your business plan/mission statement?) This could open up new opportunities to you; on the other hand, if you're known and are expert at doing one thing, "do it and do it well". Ask yourselves: what do YOU want RescueTime to be? As for #2, I don't think I have access to the "Enter Offline Time" page, as I'm not a Premium member; however, from what I can tell, maybe it's a good idea to allow users to create their own Categories?
It would be nice to have RescueTime integration with 3rd-party Quantified Self services like Fitbit. For example, if I want to compare my steps data with RescueTime productivity, it would be convenient to access this data through a single interface.
May I suggest a theme not mentionned in your post, but which seems related for me : when using both the Android app to record time (during a phone call, for example) and my PC, time records are cumulated. This results in false results. RescueTime should consider that records made on different appliances, at the same time, must merge. Hope I'm clear, please tell if I'm not.
Put in connections to other tracking services like Withing Pulse, Fitbit or Runkeeper.
And put in categories for rest and relaxation, sport, health and meditation.
It would also be great to have more flexible goals where days and times are concerned. As freelancer, I try to keep my Saturdays completely free and my Sundays about half.
I have a couple of other sources for information that I would love to be able to import to rescue time. If I could get the data from my moves app, runkeeper, my google calendar, my outlook calendar (published on Live) and a couple of other services I would be able to get a more complete picture of my time spent on different activites in my life. So, focus on beeing the central where I aggregate and analyze my data when it comes to how I spend my time.
I suggest connecting other types of devices like FitBit, Basis band etc, to get activities like sleeping, running, walking and biking.
It might be too much work to connect them all, but working together with one device and then releasing an API with examples might encourage other devices or 3rd party programmers to do the same.
Also might be interesting to look into the new Apple HealthKit and it's Google competitor, if all the devices will connect to those SDK's, it might save you guys a lot of work.
And last, you can have a look at Google Location History which stores all of your location history and display it on the map. might help a lot and add functionality to look at the location of your time spent.
Good luck, keep innovating!
Robby Macdonell recently wrote a blog post on how to combine your RescueTime data with data from other sources, see http://blog.rescuetime.com/2014/05/08/getting-the-most-out-of-rescuetime-for-your-quantified-self-projects/.
If you're using Fitbit and Moves (location data), check out https://zenobase.com/!
Point no. 1 not only applies to watching videos (which might count as training or not) but also to taking part in video conferences. Since these definitely are part of my work, I'd be happy to have them count as productive time [1] automatically. Clicking the offline time dialog every 5 minutes is just a hassle.
[1] Most of our video conferences actually are productive! 😉
I'm a little late to the party here, but I use RescueTime often, both at home and at work. So I have opinions. (Being human helps with that, too!)
1. I think RescueTime should include all computer activities as inclusively as possible. Everyone's work is different, and what's distracting for one person could actually be a core part of another's job. Also, content like videos can be instructional for something core to a job, and it could be helpful to have it already recorded and then easily updated for productivity ranking as needed.
That said, I have no idea what complications that adds if a computer really is idle — is it stuck counting 2 hours of file-folder activity or browser activity while you're in an impromptu meeting? At the very least, it could be beneficial to have some way of seeing what's guessed to be idle time versus active time, so the genuinely idle time could be easily cleared. These tradeoffs are the joys of being a developer!
2. I'm actually quite happy with the offline tracking options now available.
I'll add a vote for Mr. Grok'n'Roll's suggestion of categories that cover other elements of life like sports, rest, and meditation. Of course, I'm also happy to acknowledge that we have the freedom to add our own categories. It might be worth examining your database for trends and adding new categories that you see large groups of users creating for themselves.
Thanks for listening to your users, soliciting feedback, and generally always pushing to have RescueTime to meet the shifting challenges of the world around us head-on!
I use Rescuetime for Billing IT services, and it has paid dividends. One thing that irks me is that while rescuetime prompts for offline time when i've stepped away, , on quite a few occasions i've needed to get to a task immediately after returning from lunch, and forget to enter the offline time.
It would be nice to have a placeholder for these events, so I could go back and quantify that at a later time.
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When the sommelier in the overpriced Paris restaurant started to refill the glass without asking, Francois Simon stopped his hand in midair before a drop could fall.
"I like to control the temperature of my wine," he announced. "In a restaurant, I am horrified by having to obey. I want to be indulged."
Simon may be the most feared and most read figure in France's culinary world, an ordinary-looking man with a fountain pen as razor-sharp as a butcher's slaughter knife.
As food critic for the right-of-center Le Figaro newspaper for more than two decades, he has skinned, sliced, grilled and roasted his subjects, indifferent to the impact of his words on them, but can be thin-skinned when they hit back.
He once described a meal at the restaurant Guy Savoy, a Michelin favorite, as "a three-star crucifixion," faulting Savoy for serving his signature artichoke and truffle soup out of season. Marc Veyrat, who enjoys an unheard-of perfect 20-20 score in the Gault-Millau guide, is for him a "clown" and "a fake peasant" with megalomaniacal tendencies.
He has extended his reach with books, a weekly cable television show in which he hides his face, and a blog that includes his secret video recordings with a hand-held camera of some of the great and not-so-great tables of France.
Not content simply to pass judgment on others, Simon claims to be an accomplished cook himself. His blog, in both French and English, boasts that he can cook a chicken 200 ways.
Last month, though, he took a step that few of his colleagues would have dared. He closeted himself in the kitchen of the tiny, mural-tiled bistro, Le Cochon a l'Oreille, and cooked five nights in a row, each night for 20 or so diners who had won the free meals in a first-come-first-served Internet sign-up.
Simon's debut as a chef occurred during the annual "Le Fooding" week, sponsored by a French gastronomic movement that he strongly supports and that promotes an egalitarian, irreverent approach to dining. He announced his kitchen stint on his blog and in his column, and by the time he was ready to cook, much of the French media world had taken note.
The meal was barely adequate, according to five diners one night. The pumpkin soup, seasoned heavily with ginger, vanilla and black sesame oil, was grainy, undercooked and so dense it stood up in stiff peaks.
"I'm disappointed," said Julie Demarest, an administrator in a water purification company. "It's thick -- like oatmeal. I don't like it."
The spiced chicken with pine nuts and golden raisins filled the dinner plate, but was accompanied only by an underdressed green salad. The zabaglione with sake was frothy and thin rather than creamy; the centers of the macaroons were chewy rather than soft. When the maitre d'hotel offered seconds on the dessert, there were few takers.
"Those macaroons -- they're so hard they're like stuffed Christians," said Marc Beekenkamp, a Web designer, using an expression that means the dish is too heavy.
But his colleague and friend, Matthieu Zerafa, came to Simon's defense. "Every day he sits in judgment, and now it's his turn to be judged," he said. "You have to compliment him on one thing -- he has a lot of nerve."
That point, at least, has never been in dispute. Simon prides himself on being an outsider and a provocateur. His columns describe not only a restaurant's food, but also its service, decor and clientele, even down to the movement of the breasts of women around him.
Simon has created such a buzz around himself that some French reporters called him the model for Anton Ego, the dour, unforgiving food critic in the 2007 animated film "Ratatouille."
Brad Bird, the film's director, said through a spokesman that the character was a pastiche derived from many sources. No matter: Simon was quick to assume Anton Ego's persona.
"Since 'Ratatouille' it hasn't stopped: I've become the darling of my nephews," he wrote in his blog, "Simon Says." He said that he loved it when his friends started calling him Anton Ego, writing: "This low-life Anton is a good guy. He sacrifices his reputation to celebrate the cuisine of a rat."
Simon has little use for the Michelin and Gault-Millau grading systems that have created a rigid gastronomic hierarchy and transformed chefs into superstars.
He has charged that politics often drives Michelin to sprinkle stars on less-than-worthy chefs. He relentlessly attacks certain multi-starred French chefs and regularly proclaims that France has lost its "culinary supremacy."
Even before the British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay opened his restaurant in Versailles last spring, Simon panned it. "Dishes like his starter of cream of Jerusalem artichokes with lardons of bacon and cabbage can be found in 70 Parisian restaurants which are just as good," he told The Daily Telegraph. "What's more, he is British, and Parisians don't like going to Versailles -- it's much too far."
Simon accuses Alain Ducasse (with whom he once wrote a book on Provence) of empire-building commercialism, stratospheric prices, "photocopied cuisine" and, worst of all, absenteeism from his many restaurant kitchens. He said Le Jules Verne, the Ducasse restaurant at the top of the Eiffel Tower, serves food "worthy of an airplane, first class -- no, rather, business class."
He has nothing good and everything bad to say about many of Paris' gastronomic icons, including La Tour d'Argent, Helene Darroze, Le Procope, Allard, Maxim's and Brasserie Balzar.
"My real problem is that chefs are used to extremely excessive literary praise," Simon said in an interview over a lunch in a restaurant where the appetizers averaged more than $40 apiece. "They become insufferable, divas. They can't take the least criticism. But when you talk of them like they're Beethovens or Mozarts, you're lying."
As for sommeliers, he wrote, "Perhaps we should drown them, to allow us to drink as we please." For Nicolas de Rabaudy, a food writer who has reviewed Simon's books, Simon has become both mean-spirited and self-absorbed.
"His ego has surpassed him, the poor Francois," de Rabaudy said. "I mean, come on, Francois Simon is the only person who doesn't like Guy Savoy's artichoke and truffle soup. It's one of the great dishes of modern French cuisine."
Asked about Simon and his sharp pen, Savoy said: "Frankly, what he writes or says doesn't interest me one bit. Life's too short."
The most savage criticism of Simon came after the suicide of the Michelin three-star chef Bernard Loiseau in 2003.
Early that year, before Michelin announced its annual star ratings, Simon had written in two columns that Loiseau was to have lost one of his three stars, but had managed to hold onto it. Days after one column appeared, Loiseau killed himself.
The chef Jacques Pourcel, head of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Cuisine Francaise at the time, openly accused Simon of contributing to Loiseau's death.
Simon defended himself, saying in the interview that it was convenient for the chefs of France and Michelin to identify "a naughty boy who did villainous things." He added, "This misunderstanding will last forever."
Loiseau suffered from serious depression. Asked whether Simon's reviews played a role in her husband's death, his widow, Dominique, who runs the restaurant, said, "It's giving him too much importance."
Simon also showers criticism on other French food critics, faulting them for identifying themselves in restaurants, cozying up to chefs and taking free meals and gifts.
"It is much easier to turn into a courtesan, to be inside rather than outside the house of the chefs," he said.
But other critics call his aloof approach sterile. "I want to get to know the chef, to understand what he feels, his frame of reference, his roots," said Jean-Claude Ribaut, the longtime food critic at Le Monde. (Ribaut pays for his restaurant meals.) "I want to know if he grew up on a farm, if his father grew vegetables. If you go anonymously, you can't ever have this kind of dialogue."
Even though Simon books reservations under an alias and pays for his meals with alias credit cards, his face is known to many chefs, and his sideburns, flyaway hair and sartorial daring -- bold tweeds, loud ties, velvet vests -- sometimes give him away.
Simon portrays himself as close to his readers, soliciting their comments by printing his direct phone number at the bottom of his columns.
He shamelessly boosts his favorites, including Yannick Alleno of Le Meurice, Pascal Barbot of L'Astrance and his favorite bistro, Paul Bert, in the 11th Arrondissement. Ravioli with tomato sauce prepared by the Italian chef Fulvio Pierangelini at Gambero Rosso in San Vincenzo, "almost makes me cry with emotion," he said. He called a truffle a la croque au sel with a glass of Montee de Tonnerre chablis at Lucien Vanel in Toulouse, now defunct, "better than cocaine."
Even his admirers want him to tone down. "He's got a strong character, his articles are fun and he doesn't pontificate," said Christian Millau, co-author of the Gault-Millau guide, who gave Simon his first job as a critic 30 years ago.
But, he added,"Sometimes I tell him not to overdo it."
The critic gets criticized
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C'mon dude, Shaqiri may be mediocre by Bayern/Inter standards but he's been the best Swiss player for quite some time now and they have qualifed for all the Euros and WCs during his years. He would be such a luxury player for us, like Mkhitaryan for Armenia and honestly I don't think we'd know what to do with him and he'd have lost out on all those tournaments.Aurora Bulkualis wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 9:40 pmI honestly don't care about Rashica. My only hangups are Xhaka, Mustafi and Bardhi. Even Shaqiri/Januzaj turned out to be mediocre.
As for Rashica, ok he's not a world beater but when you bring in Andi fukcing Lila in from the Greek league, I don't see how you can leave Rashica out. He'd definitely be an upgrade over what we have. Grezda and Rashica on the flanks would be ideal. But I guess we have to do with Roshi now, a barely 20 minute player.


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There are now plenty of stats and surveys which show the growing importance of mobile marketing.
For example, recent stats from Knotice showed that 27% of emails are opened on mobile devices, while mobile commerce has grown steadily over the last two or three years.
So what is best practice for mobile marketing? Here are seven tips to maximise your mobile campaigns...
1. Simple beats pretty
As marketers, we want to make things pretty. As an example, let's consider email marketing. In email marketing, pretty usually means HTML email, but this practice will fall flat in many situations on mobile devices.
With limits and caps on mobile data plans, many users choose not to download images as a default setting or as a selection in each email. Graphics often can fail to load, leaving the recipient with an incomplete message or a hole in their email message.
Furthermore, graphics at the top of an email push the message out of sight, making it tough for people to get the point of your message, providing they can see your graphic in the first place.
Standards are evolving in mobile email software but not settled yet in any comfortable, normalized way. Consider sending simply styled emails consisting mostly of text to ensure you get your message across.
Remember that something always beats nothing.
In particular, consider simply styled emails for system messages, such as account activations, password-retrieval emails, alerts, or anything else that you need to be sure gets into people's hands.
2. Be brief
Short wins.
On mobile devices, displays are small and each line is precious real estate. Get your message to your customers as quickly in the email as possible even if it means forgoing fancy header graphics.
The same goes for sentences and paragraphs.
Keep them short, crisp and active.
The job of nearly every sentence in your email is to get the recipient to read the following sentence. Get out of their way with all your words.
Move your customers from sentence to sentence and you'll have a conversion faster.
3. Mobile is highly local
Mobile users have a higher tendency to be doing searches with a local intent.
Google's Marissa Mayer was quoted saying that 40% of all mobile searches are local. Microsoft has said that 53% of mobile searches on Bing have a local intent.
An earlier estimate of 33% local was frequently repeated throughout 2010. Exactly how much higher is up for debate but it's clearly a significant percentage.
Whatever figure we choose to cite, we know that people on mobile devices are seeking and interacting with things around them.
After all, mobile phones gives people a unique context where they are simultaneously browsing online and browsing the physical world.
We use our mobile devices all the time to navigate throughout the physical world: Where's the closest parking garage? What's the best breakfast place around here? Where can I post this package for my nephew?
If you've got local content or content that can be localized, optimize it for mobile.
4. Mobile search is focused and timely
It may seem counter-intuitive at first glance, but the average mobile search on Android and iPhone has roughly double the keywords of the average desktop search. The interface is smaller on mobile, but mobile usage is more task-focused and highly specific. The small screen seems to focus our attention.
Consider the following data from Microsoft: 70% of PC search tasks are completed in one week, while 70% of mobile search tasks are done in one hour. While someone shopping on their desktop computer takes on average a week to take action, someone on their mobile takes on average an hour. Talk about acceleration!
This difference in time to purchase has very real implications in any marketing seeking conversions. Mobile users are looking for information or assistance to help them make decisions literally right at the point of sale.
Consumer marketers need to understand that their prospective customers searching on a mobile device will make a purchase within 24 hours, while desktop searchers will buy over a longer period of time. Mobile usage increases velocity. As a result, marketers need to employ specific and granular tactics for each platform.
For example, on mobile search landing pages, offer very specific information about products and create clear calls to action to click on the web and call on the phone. Implementing click-to-call functionality is an especially great option because mobile searchers are ready to act and they're holding a device through which they can act.
Harness their intent with a focused number of clear actions and you'll boost your conversions.
5. Make it easy to share the love
As marketers, we all want to be loved.
We all want to be shared and have people advocate on behalf of our brands. Nothing beats an authentic recommendation.
Ask yourself how are you helping people share content across mobile, tablet and desktop platforms? How about across iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and other devices?
The foundation of successful social media marketing is the link.
Your marketing requires a clean and consistent URL structure that people can use and share. Links are the currency you need to invest in for social media success on mobile.
Make the links do the hard work, handling all visitors consistently, and avoiding using the dead-end "m.dot" domain names which results in mobile sites becoming disconnected and a dead end.
When people share your site, whether from mobile or desktop, you want to ensure a smooth experience that just works.
6. Mobile searchers make mistakes
It's unsurprising that mobile searchers are more prone to misspellings when compared to desktop searches.
Fingers tapping touch-screen keyboards are not nearly as precise, with small targets to hit and a variable location we're typing from. Try typing while walking or on a bumpy ride and you'll see. Make sure to include common misspellings in your campaigns and optimization efforts to tap into a new source of traffic.
What misspelled words should you include?
Turn off the auto-correcting spell checker on your mobile device and tap in each of your top 10-keyword phrases 10 times each. You'll end up with 100 keyword phrases.
Which ones are misspellings? Collect the results and start your list.
Along these lines, many marketers running paid search campaigns are finding it more effective to manage separate sets of keywords for mobile and desktop platforms.
7. Optimize your UX for mobile
At the heart of most marketing campaigns is a desire to drive some kind of user action: buy, register, request more information, etc.
When your campaign succeeds and the recipient takes action on their mobile device, what do they find on your website? How easy is it for your customers to take those critical next steps while still in the flow on their mobile device?
As a marketer, you know you worked hard to get that first action. There's no reason to lose the conversion with a lousy mobile experience. Don't make finding information your customer's problem by forcing them to pinch, zoom, and squint their way through your site on their phone.
Just make it work for them.
As data continually shows the rapid increase in mobile browsing, email, search and social media use, customers expect to be able to act — all on their mobile devices.
It's a new world
A good experience will accelerate the virtuous circle of discovery, sharing, traffic and additional sharing. A poor mobile experience will result in a lost opportunity for revenue, brand engagement and customer loyalty.
Take the right steps to make your website mobile friendly and you'll be closer to achieving your goals in our mobile world.
Mobify has released an eBook on best practices for mobile marketing, which can be viewed in full at http://www.mobify.com/go/mobile-marketing-ebook
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Really good post. Two other tips that I found useful are: 1- assure that your site layout is compatible with all devices, since I've seen some mobile sites that look zoomed in or out in some devices. 2- Make your mobile site as accesible as possible, sharing the same url as in your web version site.
This is a GREAT post. Thanks, Igor. One Web!
I would also consider adding the 5 Tips To Be Mobiletastic:
Looking forward to seeing you some of the mobile conferences this year. Be well.
Good post.
One thing that I would like to add from an affiliate marketing perspective is that if you have an affiliate campaign - make sure the affiliate tracking is included on the mobile version of the site.
We are seeing a considerable increase in mobile traffic for our advertisers but sales are growing at a slower rate. Advertisers are making great strides in developing mobile optimised sites to improve the user experience through mobile devices – following the sound advice in this post certainly helps.
Another reason for the discrepancy is that a number of advertisers are not adding affiliate tracking so affiliates are not rewarded for the sales that they drive. As a result, advertisers are missing out on numerous opportunities that present themselves through the channel – purely because of the oversight of not putting affiliate tracking in place.
I have put together an update on our mobile data and the importance of affiliate tracking that will hopefully be on this site soon.
Great Post!. I just started my free mobile web today. Its easy to do only thing that i need to consider is choosing the right web hosting plan when doing a mobile marketing. I heard hostmonster works well. Thanks


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As Southern California's experts in men's formalwear, we offer a large variety of suits and tuxedos for rental or purchase. Each of our styles are specifically selected by our expert fashion team, ensuring that we offer today's most modern and sophisticated trends in men's fashion. We also offer over 100s of colors to choose from for our men's accessories, such as ties, vest and more. Plus, our color options complement many key bridal designer colors, helping you find a perfect match!
When shopping at Friar Tux Shop, we know that you are planning for one of life's many celebrations, and understand how important is for you to look your best. That's why we offer free fittings of our suit and tuxedo styles, rather than having to select from a catalog like at other stores. To ensure that you find the perfect look with the right fit, each of our stores are staffed with highly-skilled stylists who work with you to create your look.
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Today's quote:
If you find yourself a bit irritated or overwhelmed, it's a sign that you're spending less time with God and more time with this world.
I saw this quote on Pinterest and it reminded me of my recent post on living at a frantic pace (how you don't need to do it).
And with that in mind....
Why is quotable Monday happening on a Wednesday?
Well I have four kids. And all four kids are sick. And one is cutting molars. And due to being sick and teething, it is late in the afternoon and Brinley has yet to nap today...And so my time is, well, stretched. And so I am taking my advice and not living frantically.
And I brought this on myself, really. I was talking to Kaitlyn's teacher on the phone this morning. I told her I wished my kids would all get sick at the same time so I don't have to have a sick kid here and a sick kid there for 2 weeks straight. And my wish came true! And I think in a day or two I will be glad! But not today.


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The TS7000 IMP Series Valve is based on the technology of Techcon's popular
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The TS7000 IMP Series Valve is available in three feed screw auger sizes (16-pitch, 8-pitch and high output 8-pitch), all made of precision hardened steel. An encoder motor version is available for applications that require closed-loop motor control with encoder feedback.
The TS7000 IMP Series Valve provides fast, repeatable dispensing of medium- to high-viscosity fluids and pastes. Typical applications include small-dot dispensing of dispensable-grade solder pastes, silver epoxies, surface mount adhesives, dispensing beads of structural adhesives, cavity & cam filling, and glob top dispensing.
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Touch and Tell
How do you learn about objects? In this activity, you and your family members will learn how to play a game using the sense of touch.
- empty cardboard box with lid
- scissors (to cut holes in box)
- soft objects
- hard objects (no sharp points)
- wooden objects
- metal objects (no sharp edges)
- rubber objects
- rough objects
- pair of winter gloves
Ask an adult in your family to cut two holes in the side of the box. Each hole should be big enough so that a hand can fit through. To play the game, have your partner put some objects in the box. Touch each object and try to tell what it is. Ask your partner to put different objects in the box. Now put the gloves on and play the game again. Trade places with your partner and play again.
Could you guess what the objects were by feeling them? Was it harder to recognize the objects with the gloves on or with the gloves off?


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I am drooling at the Excalibur.
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In my opinion, nothing beats the look of stainless steel pots and pans. When looking at pots and pans, there are a few things to consider. Depending on the kind of stove you have, you may want flat bottomed for a smooth topped stove, or magnetic for induction. What I look for in pots and pans is the depth of the bottom, and if it is all one piece. It should have some weight to it, yet not be too heavy for you to lift and move when full of hot food. Some stainless steel pots and pans clad a layer copper or aluminum in the base, which is a better heat conductor. If clad pots are out of your price range you can look for an aluminum or copper thick bottom plate extending over the whole bottom instead of just in the middle. Also, 18/0, 18/8 and 18/10 indicate the percentage of chromium (usually 18%) and then the number of nickel, higher being better (more rust resistant, better shine). Top of the line have 18/10.
If price is an issue, we can get by with a good saute pan, saucepan and stock pot instead of a whole set to start out, tailored to the size of your most common cooking preferences. My picks for today would be:
Cuisinart 722-36H Chef's Classic Stainless 14-Inch Open Skillet with Helper Handle. This has the 18/10 nickel content and the encapsulated alumimum base, a great saute pan.
Cuisinart MCP19-16N MultiClad Pro Stainless Steel 1-1/2-Quart Saucepan with Cover. Again the quality is there, and curved edges for drip free pouring, cool to the touch handles, a complete package.
Emeril by All-Clad E8847964 Chef's Stainless Steel Dishwasher Safe 8-Quart Stockpot with Lid Cookware, Silver. Its got all the good features I like in my pots, and sometimes its nice to have a glass lid on a stockpot to keep a better eye on the simmering level.


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April 23 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmFree
The Families Together Project will be running the 6 week Parenting Apart programme, starting on Monday 23rd April.
Starts: Monday 23rd April
Time: 10 am – 12 noon
Duration: Every Monday for 6 weeks
Location: New Strabane Community Project Building, Barrack Street
The Parenting Apart programme is aimed at parents who have separated, are separating, divorced or thinking of divorce.
The programme will provide practical advice and guidance about what children need to know, and what parents can do to meet their children's need. Although parents are immersed in their own difficulties, this programme can help parents focus on the child's needs with the aim of minimising the impact of the separation.
The programme explores:
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To register to attend contact Clare on 078 2539 2136 or complete the online expression of interest.
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Editor's note: Mary Anne Hitt is the director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign. Read more at Sierra Club's mercury information page.
(CNN) -- As the mother of a 10-month-old daughter, I love watching her figure out new things, be it crawling or giving a high-five. I often wonder which of my personality traits little Hazel will have, and I hope that just like her father and me, she will be a lover and a defender of our environment.
A real threat to Hazel and the millions of children around the United States -- as well as to our environment -- is mercury. A potent neurotoxin especially dangerous to young children, nursing mothers and women of childbearing age, mercury exposure affects a developing child's ability to walk, talk, read, write and learn.
Mercury comes from coal-fired power plants, where it rains down into rivers and streams and then contaminates our fish and enters the food chain. We are exposed to mercury when we eat fish that have high levels of it -- large predator fish like tuna, swordfish and king mackerel, which store up the mercury eaten by the smaller fish that are their prey. Like millions of women, I was careful not to eat these mercury-laden fish when I was pregnant with Hazel.
This statistic scared me when I was pregnant and still shocks me: The mercury problem in the United States is so widespread that one in 12 women has mercury levels in her blood high enough to put her baby at risk of development problems, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Our communities are paying for the costs of toxic air pollution with these dangerous health problems. Most states have warnings in place, telling residents not to eat fish they catch in rivers, streams and lakes, because of mercury contamination. Study after study shows that to protect public health, polluters must significantly reduce the amount of toxic air pollution coming out of their smokestacks, and that means cleaning up pollution from dirty coal plants, which are the No. 1 source of mercury pollution in the United States.
The good news is that there's something we can do about this critical problem. The Environmental Protection Agency is releasing a new rule to protect families from mercury pollution. If these proposed air toxics safeguards are strong, they will answer the demand of mothers around the country who are standing up and urging the EPA to protect our kids -- and future generations of kids -- from mercury pollution.
Fortunately, the EPA exists to develop and enforce much-needed safeguards to keep polluters from making us sick. In the 40 years since Americans demanded its creation, the EPA has saved millions of lives by enforcing clean air and water standards. More than 1.7 million asthma attacks and $110 billion in health care costs were avoided in 2010 alone thanks to the agency's efforts.
The agency's forthcoming long-overdue air toxics safeguard for power plants will not only save thousands of lives per year, it also will help prevent disease, avoid hospitalizations and create high-paying new jobs installing and operating the much-needed pollution control equipment.
But Big Coal and other polluters continue fighting any limits on their emissions, even when the pollution is shown to have adverse health effects on people. For decades, polluters have fought Clean Air Act requirements to reduce the toxic air emissions from their facilities, even though coal plants are among the largest sources of toxic air pollution. They are putting profits over children's health.
While I know I can't raise Hazel in a completely pollution-free world, I can protect her from the worst of it by encouraging EPA to stand up for kids. I hope other parents will join me in calling for stronger protections, so our children can grow up in a cleaner, safer world.
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Peoples State Forest Loop is a 7 mile loop trail located near Barkhamsted, Connecticut and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, and off road driving and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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This trail was listed as a 7 mile trail. However after my girlfriend and I finished the loop, it was a total of 9.4 miles. Beautiful hike from the beginning to the end. Breathtaking views from the south and north peaks. Along the trail we came upon the Cut Off Falls Trail. The falls were beautiful and only detoured us for about 100 feet. We came across two boulders on the path. In another review on this app, I read the boulders were nicknamed " Gods Dice ". We were exhausted after the hike but as always it was worth it!
I hiled thus loop with AMC this week and really enjoyed it. The soft pine needle covered trails were much nicer than anything I could find near my home town of Southington. Check out my video recap on my LightWalker Channel.
love this park ! A beautiful forests and great trails.
Great views from the blue blazed Robert Ross and blue/yellow blazed Jesse Gerard trails.
place is amazing so many trails that intertwine so many ways to change your hike and some vefy challing my favirite is elliot bronson trail not even mentioned on all trails but make sure to follow a map if your new it can get confusing
went here for the first time and man!!! what a delightful hike!! beautiful views from the top of the lighthouse trail and it definitely starts off a little moderate up a waterfall and from there it's smooth sailing... we did a 5.5 mile loop which was a combination of a few different trails but this is by far one of my favorite trails in Ct! Highly recommend!
I thought this was a great CT hike. You can choose to make it as lengthy as you want, good incline at times to get your heart rate up, not extremely difficult but a good day outside, and some good views along the trail where there are some clearings. I don't think there is a true "summit."
Parked in the Ullmann Grove Area, took the blue Robert Ross Trail all the way up to the blue-yellow Jessie Gerard Trail. This trail has some great lookouts. Stayed on the blue-yellow trail to take the Charles Pack Trail back to the car. These are the only spots where it might get a little confusing just because it crosses with the snowmobile road so you have to get on the road for a little to meet up with the hiking trail, but everything is well marked.
Meant to take the blue-orange trail back to the car but didn't check the map at the intersection and thought it was a blue-red trail. Ended up walking on King Road and taking the blue Robert Ross Trail back to the car. Total 6.3miles in about three hours, enough to enjoy being outside and build up an appetite.
Nice hike, incline at times, can be a little confusing to follow markers. Didn't make it to a real summit bc we got tired and couldn't seem to find a good sightseeing spot so that was a bummer. I would try it again!
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I'd like to point out that this is not a point to point hike. There are many loop options. Some are good for all ages, some should only be done by adults in decent shape. For my hike I chose a 7 mile loop which included 4 different trails. Each trail here is named after one of the founders. Very cute.
My hike started at the stone museum and followed the blue Ross trail across the side of the mountain. Good exercise. Would not recommend for children. The Charles trail (blue yellow) goes down the side to and meets up with a Falls junction trail, that goes almost straight back up the mountain side. This trail is not for the feint of heart! I am an avid hiker but this one kicked my butt! It boasts of 299 stone steps. They are not man made steps and more a cluster of rocks down the side of the mountain. That said, it was beautiful and an excellent challenge. I took this trail to see the falls for which the trail is named, but sadly in mid-August the falls were nothing but a trickle and it was a bit of a disappointment. My loop lead me back to the blue/yellow which brought me to the top of the mountain and some really amazing views. Blue/yellow brought me back down the other side of the mountain. I met up with the Agnes trail. Agnes is listed as blue/orange, but the blazes looked blue/red to me. I followed blue/ red through the low land/ valley back to my car at the stone house. There is a nice spot to relax on the grass and have a little picnic at the stone house before you drive away.
I really liked this hike and would recommend it. I didn't see more than a dozen groups of people, but if your looking to avoid children, I suggest going when school is in, as I saw two small youth groups. This loop can also be combined with other trails to make it longer, or you can shorten it. There are so many trails here, the options are limitless. Bring a map! Your going to need it!


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You Can't Detect What You Can't See: Illuminating the Entire Kill Chain
Cyber-security and cyber-criminals are engaged in a constant arms race. The minute a software vulnerability gets patched or a security tool is able to block a class of attacks, malware writers shift gears and look for something new to exploit.
For years, security professionals have strived to get ahead of attackers. But the status quo, unfortunately, is that security is reactive, and it's hard to imagine how it could be otherwise. How can you block cyber-crooks, after all, until you know what they're up to? We don't live in a Minority Report type of world, after all, where psychics can help us sniff out crimes before they happen.
That doesn't mean we don't try. In the physical world, the desire to get ahead of crime has led to all sorts of dubious practices, everything from stop-and-frisk to NSA snooping. In cyber-space, security professionals are now turning to big data to try to discover patterns that may indicate a crime is coming, even if it has not yet occurred.
This is the crux of the NSA surveillance controversy, after all.
Less invasive is the new Pleiades tool developed by researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia and security startup Damballa. Pleiades doesn't intuit coming crimes, but it can identify zero-day attacks before security researchers even know what exactly the malware is.
Pleiades monitors network traffic for specific patterns of behavior common to malware. Recently, it identified several attacks based on command-and-control (C&C) calls routed to Non-Existent Domains (NXDomains). NXDomains are important because infected devices communicate periodically with C&C servers in order to get instructions that tell it to, for instance, launch a DDoS attack or send out spam.
Legacy security tools block these types of botnets through blacklists of known C&C domains. Of course, once attackers learned this, they shifted tactics and started to rely on Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs), which dynamically produce a large number of random domain names. The latest version of Conficker, for instance, generates as many as 50,000 NXDomains per day.
A small subset of those domains are used for C&C, each of which is used for a very short period of time, making the C&C domain associated to the malware a hard-to-find moving target.
What the researchers did was use machine learning to help the Pleiades separate benign traffic anomalies (i.e., a bunch of people typing in Facbook.com, a common typo, not a malware signature) from suspicious ones, such as a large number of end devices connecting to a large number of NXDomains.
"We are able to correlate network patterns with other information we have, so we don't have to reverse engineer the malware or even know what it is," said Marshall Bockrath-Vandegrift, engineering lead on Damballa's R&D team.
It would seem to. While it's easy to imagine malware writers trying to mine big data insights from infected devices, it would be harder for them to see the forest for the trees. "To conduct this type of analysis, you have to have access to the network data," Bockrath-Vandegrift said. ISPs and major enterprises aren't going to hand over their data to cyber-crooks.
However, could criminals shift their sites, targeting, say, Hadoop databases?
"I suppose it's possible, but exfiltrating terabytes of data isn't easy," Bockrath-Vandegrift said.
That doesn't mean cyber-crooks will sit on their hands and accept this new reality. In fact, the Gameover variant of the ZeuS banking trojan didn't rely on standard C&C communications, instead taking advantage of peer-to-peer communications, which is much harder to detect.
"What no one realized, though, and what we were able to detect, is that Gameover has a backup command-and-control that uses DGAs," Bockrath-Vandegrift said. "We were able to analyze network data to identify pockets of behavior that we could correlate with known ZeuS command-and-control points, and we were able to learn something about this Trojan that other security experts missed when they reverse engineered it."
Pleiades has been flexing its muscles lately. Researchers at Georgia Tech, Damballa and Secureworks recently used it to discover a new form of the trojan Pushdo almost three months before the actual malware was discovered and publicized by major antivirus vendors.
Pleiades was also used to uncover the Flashback malware, which ultimately infected more than 600,000 Macintosh devices. Pleiades discovered this zero-day attack weeks before the malware was first discovered and announced by the security community.
Of course, for all of the good big data could do, there is also a dark side. Governments, ISPs and tech companies can all exploit big data to invade our privacy. The NSA surveillance scandal is only the latest example of this fact.
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Author: R.S. Grey
Genre: New Adult, Romance, Sports,
Release Date: May 2nd, 2016
Publisher: Self-Published
As an Olympic rookie, Andie Foster has spent far more time in her cleats than between the sheets. For 21 years, her Friday nights have consisted of blocking shots rather than taking them. But now that she's landed in Rio, she's ready to see for herself if the rumors about the Olympic Village are true: • The athletes are all sex-crazed maniacs... • The committee passes out condoms like candy... • The games continue long after the medals have been handed out... As Andie walks the line between rumor and reality, she's forced into the path of Frederick Archibald, a decorated Olympic swimmer and owner of a sexy British accent--too bad he's unavailable in a way that "it's complicated" doesn't even begin to explain. In other words: off limits. It doesn't matter that he has abs that could bring peace to the Middle East and a smile that makes even the Queen blush; Andie fully intends on keeping her focus on the soccer field. But the Village is small. Suffocating. Everywhere Andie goes, Freddie happens to be there--shirtless, wet from the pool, and determined to show her a whole new meaning of the phrase "international affairs".
R.S. Grey is back at it again with a novel that is sure to make you swoon! With sports, charming characters and a shocking scandal, The Summer Games delivers!
Settling the Score tells of Andie, a soccer player who at only twenty-one, is excited to be traveling to Rio de Janeiro to compete at the Olympics for the US women's soccer team. Andie has always been devoted to her soccer career, but before the Olympics begin, she wants to have a little fun off the field. As soon as she comes into the path of Fredrick Archibald - the British gold-medalist swimmer, Andie knows she hit's gold. Immediately the attraction builds, but she finds out the sexy heart throb is off limits, yet that doesn't stop the two from heating it up off the fields, no matter how hard they try to resist it.
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Out of all of Rachel's characters, Andie most definitely had to be my favorite. She was a badass on the field and a sassy and hilarious chick off it and I couldn't help but fall in love with her! With our love interest, good god! Rachel sure knows how to create the perfect book boyfriend, that's for sure! Freddie was all sorts of sexy and delicious and I am totally happy to say that I have added a new book boyfriend to my ever growing list. When we got to see Andie and Freddie together, the chemistry was hot, hot HOT! I loved their romance and I also loved the banter between them. Needless to say, this couple is my OTP now.
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By Angela
I'm happy to share that the Northern Kentucky Wine Festival is on October 15 from 3 – 10 p.m. at MainStrasse Village. The Sixth Street Promenade will feature over 15 Kentucky wineries. Local restaurants will be also offering delicious food items to complement the wines that will be available for sampling. You will also enjoy visiting with local artists who will be showcasing their works during the event. The $10 Admission includes a souvenir wine glass and 4 sample tickets. Additional sample tickets may be purchased for $1 each or 6 for $5. If an attendee wishes to purchase a full glass of wine, special tickets can be purchased for $5 each. Wines may also be purchased by the bottle or case. You must be 21 to attend.
This year, the Northern Kentucky Wine Festival at MainStrasse Village is partnering with Full Spectrum 2011. During October, the City of Covington celebrates the Full Spectrum Arts Festival to emphasize the celebration of artists and crafters.
MainStrasse Village is an historic neighborhood comprised of shops, restaurants, taverns and homes, located just off I-75/71. Take the Covington, 5th Street Exit (Exit 192). Free parking is available in the 5th Street Parking Lot, located between Philadelphia Street and Main Street. For more information please call 859-491-0458 or visit www.mainstrasse.org.
I'm very excited to see MainStrasse Village host the Northern Kentucky Wine Festival, please join me for the wine, art, and fun!
by Angela
Last night I decided to treat myself and go to the View Cucina Wine Dinner. This great deal happens every month for only $49 for a 5 course meal with wine pairings. (It's the third Thursday of every month) I must admit I walked in there and I didn't know anyone and I ended up knowing everyone, the staff and all the guest were very nice. The atmosphere is wonderful on Victory Parkway overlooking the river in this quaint little restaurant. Enough about the people and the atmosphere lets get down to the Wine and the Food Pairings.
This month's Wine Dinner was A Night of Pinot Noir. The Chef integrated the wines in each food pairing.
1st course – 2009 Cantaluna Pinot Noir, Maule Valley, Chile served with seafood ravioli, mornay sauce (which was made up of Nutmeg and Parmesan cheese). The wine leathery, jammy, and spicy like a Pinot Noir should taste but pair it with this food pairing and bam it knocks your socks off. My 2nd favorite wine, excellent Chilean wine thats great with food or enjoying with friends.
2nd course – 2008 Robin K. Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands Central Coast served with Endive, Pear & Pecorino salad with Honey balsamic dressing. Okay, not the best pairing, I mean the wine was great and so was this salad but they didn't compliment each other. The wine had hints of oak that was creamy and had tastes of black cherry. The salad was wonderful, the pears and the Parmesan with the balsamic dressing melted in your mouth. It is on View Cucina's regular menu, I suggest order it and indulge.
3rd course – 2008 Treasure Hunter Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma, CA – Wow, big Pinot with tastes of raspberry, oak, and leather. My suggestion is decant this bad boy for a good 30 minutes before drinking. This was served with Veal Involtini, pistachio risotto. Oh my goodness the veal was wrapped around asparagus…the asparagus was so crunchy and fresh. The veal tender and the sauce that was a made with this wine, I thought I was going to lick my plate. I hope they decide to go with this sauce instead of the regular sauce that goes with the veal. Best food and wine pairing of the night.
4th course – 2007 T.W.O. Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, CA served with Pork Shank, Butternut squash-mashed potatoes and pan drippings. This dish won 2nd place for best entree in the Taste of Cincinnati, I can't believe this dish didn't win! It was awesome the pork braised for 4 1/2 hours with white wine, sage, and prosciutto and the butternut squash mashed potatoes were so creamy/buttery. The wine was very jammy and peppery worked excellent with the pork.
Last course – 2007 Fiddlehead Cellars Lollapalooza Pinot Noir, Santa Ynez Valley, CA served with Sfogliatella. An Italian dessert that has a flaky pastry served filled with Ricotta cheese atop blackberries and fresh whipped cream. Another bad pair up but both were delightful! Excellent wine my favorite of the night and the dessert was to die for, the blackberries were so juicy and sweet. This dessert deserves a great cup of espresso or coffee not wine. The wine was jammy with tastes of plum and had a creamy/buttery taste. The wine maker is a female who won the Winemaker of the Year Award a couple of years back.
What a great night at the View Cucina, it's definitely a wonderful restaurant that I will frequent again. I can't wait till the next wine dinner in October…so why don't you join me.
By: Cresta
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Mollydooker Blending and Wine Making Celebration on behalf of wine-girl.net. The event, which took place at Morton's The Steakhouse Cincinnati, featured Sparky Marquis, award-winning winemaker and owner of Mollydooker Wines.
Before I get too far, Mollydooker is Aussie for left-hander. Both Sparky and wife, Sarah, are left-handed. The husband-and-wife team established Mollydooker in 2005 and they've won many awards for their wines since.
This event was entertaining and educational. We were first greeted with a tasting of Mollydooker's only white wine, The Violinist, made from the Verdelho grape. We all learned later in the evening that it was Sparky's mum, Janet, who greeted us with the wine! We munched on Miniature Crab Cakes and Blue Cheese Tenderloin Crostini, and Sparky came in to welcome us and chat for a while.
We were then led to another banquet room with assigned seating. There a personable and extremely entertaining Sparky told us the story behind Mollydooker. He also demonstrated the Mollydooker Shake – the best way to prepare and enjoy most Mollydooker wines. The vigorous shaking of the wine bottle releases nitrogen, which allows these young wines to show their full, creamy flavor profile.
Then it was time for the interactive part of the evening. We were paired up and challenged to create our own blend of wine. Each pair designed very different flavors using three Mollydooker Lefty Wines: a Merlot called The Scooter; The Maitre D', a classic Aussie Cabernet; and a Shiraz called The Boxer. Each table voted on the four creations and my team's blend was the ultimate favorite! Funny thing is Mollydooker makes a blend with the perfect combination of these three wines called Two Left Feet.
Finally, we tasted Mollydooker's Party Wines, including Gigglepot, a Cabernet Sauvignon named after the Marquis' daughter, Holly; and Blue Eyed Boy, a Shiraz named after their son, Luke. We also tried the Love Wines: Enchanted Path, a Shiraz/Cab; Carnival of Love, a Shiraz; and the fabulous Velvet Glove. Many thanks to the event organizers for comping my ticket.
Some fun Mollydooker facts:
– All Mollydooker bottles are screw caps so that no wines ever experience cork taint.
– Bottles include a Wine Find tear off tab on the back label so you always remember the name of the wine you just drank.
– Sarah is the inspiration behind all the labels. Each label tells a story about some aspect of Sparky and Sarah's lives.
By Kevin
On the drive across Kansas, a state that seems to be roughly 12,000 miles across, Michelle and I noticed a billboard for the Oz Museum. With her love of the Wizard of Oz and my desire to not be in the car for a few minutes, we decided to make a small detour to Wamego, KS. Wamego was a very nice little town and in addition to having coffee at The Daily Grind, next door was the Oz Winery.
The winery offers free samples while they are open and this gave us a chance to try what they had to offer. The dry whites were tasty, especially the Poppy Fields, a balanced Pinot Gris. The wine was well made and we ended up with a few bottles.
Oz Winery is worth a stop for anyone on their way through the Sunflower State.
And if you want to know more about our cross-country road trip, from Cincinnati to San Francisco, you can follow along over on the Posterous Blog.
By Angela L.
Hello all,
In my spare time I like to come up with my own recipes for drinks. This is a recipe that I came up with while waiting for my Italian dinner to finish baking. I thought about some of the key ingredients that are in a lot of Italian drinks or foods for example vanilla, lemon, and white wine. What I came up with was something called Italian Sparkle. Its light, has a hint of vanilla, and it adds to any dish.
The Italian Sparkle
¾ bottle of dry white wine
1 ½ oz of Ginger Ale
10 oz of club soda
1 ½ oz of Sugar-Free Vanilla Syrup
¾ oz of lemon juice
2 oz of Apricot Brandy
Mix in chilled pitcher
Chill champagne flutes or wine glasses
Garnish the flutes or glasses with lemon slice
Serves – 8 champagne flutes
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