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In our last installment, we were looking at the recent price history of the stock of a company called Nautilus Minerals Inc. and I presented a phase space portrait in two dimensions of the price action over the last four months (note that phase space and state space are often used interchangeably).
2-dimensional phase space portrait of the share price of Nautilus Minerals Inc. from April to August 2010. Look at those rabbit ears! That's what you get from a singular spike in the data. It would be worse in three dimensions. There would be a third spike coming right out of the screen.
The plot above begins in April (the curve starts at the little tail sticking out beside the "April" label above. It actually remains in the grey area (a Lyapunov-stable area, or LSA) near the middle of the plot through most of April making small straight side-to-side and up-and-down motions with a magnitude of about 10 p.
At the end of April, the price state drops out of the upper LSA and meanders its way through phase space towards the lower LSA, in the 100 p range, which is reached in late-May. The price state remains within this lower LSA until about mid-June, then abruptly rises, and by the beginning of July, it appears to be headed back to the upper LSA.
Then comes the sudden price spike. The price state veers up, down, then sharply right, and back left, veers around the upper LSA before plunging into it at the end of July and it has remained until the end of the analysis, which ended early in August.
The price spike seems to have simply resulted in a short-term (one month) detour around the higher price state areas of phase space, but probably did not have any effect on the ultimate destination. Of course, for those who were unfortunate enough to buy at the top of the spike, well . . . sorry about that.
It is extremely rare to see the rabbit-ear formation in these charts, in natural functions. I have seen it only once in some marine core data. Spikes like that are rare in nature, which is hard--so far as we know ;) -- to manipulate.
What actually is interesting is the drop from the upper LSA to the lower LSA and the subsequent return. What happened in that interval? Was there really a change in the perceived value of the company between April and June (and then again between June and August)? Was this a seasonal junior gold fluctuation?
Let's compare NUS against HUI. It isn't entirely a fair comparison, as NUS is not in commercial production. But we may be able to use HUI to get an idea of the mentality of the gold stock market. It might be better to use gold, or possibly BMO's new junior ETF, but I have numbers for HUI.
HUI chart for six months prior to the writing of this blog entry. There's no link through because I don't want the chart to update. An updated chart is available here.
The reconstructed phase space portrait for the HUI index is presented below. The graph isn't perfect, because I digitized the plot from the above graph, but I believe it will prove to be a reasonable construct.
There are two obvious areas of concentration--the area in phase space bounded by about 440 and 460 on both axes, and the area bounded by about 400 and 420 on both axes. Both of these might be considered to be LSAs. There may be a third above 480 on both axes but would need to see more time spent there first.
The system occupies the lower-priced LSA in the early part of the graph, and moves up to the higher-priced LSA at the end of April and remains there except for a few excursions to still higher prices in mid-May and late June.
So where Nautilus showed a steady decline through May, HUI was confined to the higher-priced LSA. When NUS began to rise in late June, this was in tandem with a similar rise in HUI. The spike in NUS was unique to itself.
The behaviour of NUS in May and June may be related to company news. In May, NUS announced that it had demobilized one drilling vessel and was seeking bids on another. Shareholders may have interpreted that this would be some time before there were to be any new results, leading to a drop in share price. The announcement in mid June that a drilling contract was signed suggested that activity would be renewed, which led to the rise in price towards the higher LSA.
One other note about phase space portraits, which I have not previously emphasized. There is no mathematical magic. The phase space is just a different presentation of the data. What appears as a cluster of scribbles in a LSA appears as a discontinuous series of price fluctuations in the original data series--what analysts might call a resistance level (which later becomes support after the price rises through it). Compare the higher-priced LSA in the HUI phase space to the original HUI plot. There are a lot fluctuations between 440 and 460, and these are manifested as that tangle of curves in the area between 440 and 460 in phase space. Later on we will see how the dynamics of a complex system manifests itself in similar areas of "resistance" and "support" even in natural time series.


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David Hurlbut started and gave up two runs over the first five innings. He gave up eight hits, walked four and struck out four. Yohan Pino came in and gave up two runs on four hits and a walk over the next three innings; both runs scored four batters into his outing before he settled in. John Curtiss walked one and struck out two over a scoreless inning.
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Chattanooga 3, Mississippi 2
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Elizabethton 8, Johnson City 1
Box Score
I don't know if the E-Twins bats really showed up, but their batter's eyes sure did. The Twins scored eight runs on just four hits, but they were helped out with 12 walks on their way to an easy win.
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GCL Twins 8, GCL Orioles 1
Box Score
Down 1-0 going into the bottom of the sixth inning, the Twins scored four, then two and then two more to take a commanding lead and win in this game. Jean Carlos Arias went 2-3 with two walks. Alex Robles went 2-4. Shane Kennedy went 1-2 with a walk and a double. Emmanuel Morel was 1-3 with two walks. He added his 12th stolen base. Victor Tademo walked twice. He stole his fifth bag.
Lefty Matt Jones made the start and gave up on run over 3.1 innings. He gave up three hits, walked three and struck out two. Jose Rosenstein gave up two hits and walked three but did not give up a run in his three innings of work. Zach Featherstone got the final two outs of the seventh inning. Derek Molina struck out three over the final two innings.
Twins Daily Minor League Pitcher of the Day - Nick Brown, Elizabethton Twins
Twins Daily Minor League Hitter of the Day – Byungho Park, Rochester Red Wings
Scranton/Wilkes Barre @ Rochester (6:05 CST) - RHP Aaron Slegers
Mississippi @ Chattanooga (6:15 CST) - RHP Dereck Rodriguez
Ft. Myers @ Clearwater (6:00 CST) - LHP Anthony McIver
Cedar Rapids @ Kane County (6:30 CST) - LHP Bryant Sammons
Johnson City @ Elizabethton (6:00 CST) - RHP Edwar Colina
GCL Twins @ GCL O's (11:00 CST) - TBD
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Woo Homebrew!! http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_OSX updated. I recommend upgrading erlang (and other pre-requisites) for better performance, and specifically for erlang, line numbers in error messages. For the lazy: brew remove --force openssl erlang couchdb icu4c spidermonkey nspr brew update brew install erlang --no-docs brew install couchdb & you're done. ====== For the pedants: There are still some edge cases where the erlang VM seems to die, on Lion only. This is largely transparent to couchdb users as the couch shell script wraps erlang and restarts automatically. It was first reported by Filipe, and Paul, Benoît & Bob have helped me with this over time. I've not been able to narrow down why this happens & how to fix it, but you might be able to help; references: https://gist.github.com/2219748 https://gist.github.com/1199903 ``` brew erlang --no-docs cd /tmp && curl -#LO https://raw.github.com/gist/2219748/erlbork.erl erlc +debug_info erlbork.erl erl -run erlbork ## & in another term I usually open lldb process attach -n beam.smp c ``` and wait You'll get this independent of erlang version. The code's highly contrived to to restart erlang continuously while running md5_init. If you Moving to openssl 1.0.1 *noticeably* reduces the frequency of this failure (for me) but I can't see how this is apparent in the output I get from lldb, other than the erlang code is only calling md5_init repeatedly. To use erlang with openssl 1.0.1: brew remove --force erlang openssl # in openssl.rb, update the openssl url and comment out the sha # in erlang.rb, add a depends_on "openssl" brew install erlang --no-docs and wait again. Insights very welcome! Dave
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New and Old
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I also have a great quilt heading across the pond soon and will post pictures once it has been delivered.
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Cooking on the Big Steel Keg
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If You Change Your Mind...
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I decided that I would focus on pet stories over at see with your nose and I will start posting all the other stuff of life over here. Good thing I didn't delete it all!
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Remember that time... *Originally posted June 6/14 on see with your nose*
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Well, we haven't done all of this yet, but the house selling and buying has happened. The wedding is 2 weeks from tomorrow and we get possession of the new place in a week and a half.
I think that when all of this is over we will take a deep breath and have a long nap!
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Congratulations to Virginia Johnson, CRRL's Web Content Librarian, for winning Virginia Press Women's 2013 first-place and second-place communications awards for her library blog entries! Read her award winning entries here:
1st place: Blogs: Non-profit, government, or educational
"The Seventeenth Child" and "Natalie Babbitt: Truth in Fairy Tales"
2nd Place: Specialty articles: Reviews
"The English Monster" and "The Uninvited Guests"
Congrats also to other local women who won awards: Marty van Duyne, Falmouth writer and photographer; Cathy Jett, assistant business editor at The Free Lance-Star; K.J. Mushung, Stafford County writer and photographer; and Donna Harter Raab, executive director of the University of Mary Washington's Advancement Campaign Initiative.


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P 52: GENERAL PROVISIONS, Ethics in government; prohibited financial transactions
PROPOSAL by Rich Newsome
GENERAL PROVISIONS, Ethics in government; prohibited financial transactions; Section 8 of Article II of the State Constitution to prohibit elected public officers, candidates for elected public office, and the immediate family members thereof, from self-dealing and participating in certain financial transactions with governmental entities, the officer's or candidate's campaign, or certain political organizations under specified circumstances.
Location: Withdrawn from consideration
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City of Kandy lies in centre of Sri Lanka at a elevation of about 485 metres above sea level and about 116 Kms from Colombo. Generally considered the capital of the hill country, Kandy was the last capital of last generation of Sri Lanka Kings which finally fell under British rule in 1815. The Name Kandy was given by the English as a derivation of "Kanda Uda Rata". The current Sri Lankan name is "Maha Nuwara" and the historical name of this city is Senkadagalapura.
sunset from Kandy
Sunset seen from Hotel Tree of Life in Kandy
According to folklore the name Senkadagala originated from a Brahmin called Senkadagala who lived in the area or from a queen (called Senkada) of King Wickramabahu or from a coloured stone called Senkada gala.
Senkadagalapura was established as a city by the King Wickramabahu III (of Gampola Era) during his reign from 1357-1374 AD. Senasammata Wickremabahu ascended the throne in the 15th century (1473-1511) making it the new capital of the Kandyan Kingdom. Until the 19th century, Kandy was the capital city and thus the home of the Royal Palace and the Temple of the Tooth relic.
View of the Bathale gala (Bible Rock) through thick mist from Kadugannawa - on the Colombo Kandy route
View of the Bathale Gala (Bible Rock) through thick morning mist from Kadugannawa - on the Colombo Kandy route
Despite fall of coastal regions to the foreign invaders ( Portuguese, Dutch and English) the Kingdom of Kandy managed to hold its independence surviving many invasions due to the torturous access routes through mountains. Kandy finally submitted to the British in 1815 when its chieftains voluntarily submitted to British rule by signing a pact with Britain at the "Magul Maduwa" which stands to this day near the Dalada Maligawa by the Kandy lakeside. The last king of Sri Lanka, King Sri Wickrama Rajasinhe was imprisoned by the British and sent to a prison in India and lived as a prisoner until his death. With his capture, probably the longest Royal Dynasty in the world which survived since 6th century BC (over 2350 years) came to an end .
Even after the invasion, Kandy has managed to preserve its function as the religious capital of Sri Lanka and a place of pilgrimage for practitioners of the most purest form of Buddhism.
View of Kandy City from a Hotel
View of Kandy from Thilanka Hotel in Kandy
Kandy is also popular because of the annual festival known as the " Esala Maha Perahera" in which the Tooth relic of Buddha is taken in a grand procession through the streets of the city. The tooth relic is taken on a royal tusker. The procession includes traditional dancers and drummers, flag bearers of the provinces of the old Kandyan kingdom, the Nilames (temple custodians) wearing their traditional dresses, torch bearers and also the grandly attired elephants. This ceremony which is annually held in the month of July, attracts large crowds fro all parts of the country and many foreign tourists.


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The California Highway Patrol: Academy and Agency Stats
The average age of a CHP cadet is 27 years old, and about 25 to 30 percent have prior military experience.
About 400-600 cadets are recruited to the academy each year, but more than 22,000 applied between March 2016 and May 2017.
Construction of the CHP Academy in West Sacramento began in July 1973 at a cost of $16 million. The compound was completed in 1976.
The CHP is made up of about 11,000 total employees and, as of a February 2017 tally, 7,608 are sworn officers.
As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a soldier.
It was the sort of life that would befit the son of 30-year Marine Corps Reserve veteran — rigid discipline, incessant drilling, and the structured regimentation of your daily schedule.
The California Highway Patrol: Academy and Agency Stats
The average age of a CHP cadet is 27 years old, and about 25 to 30 percent have prior military experience.
About 400-600 cadets are recruited to the academy each year, but more than 22,000 applied between March 2016 and May 2017.
Construction of the CHP Academy in West Sacramento began in July 1973 at a cost of $16 million. The compound was completed in 1976.
The CHP is made up of about 11,000 total employees and, as of a February 2017 tally, 7,608 are sworn officers.
But as it so often happens, childhood aspirations wane.
So it was a familiar, and perhaps even comforting, reminder of that upbringing when I jogged around a quarter-mile track at the California Highway Patrol Academy in West Sacramento at about 9 a.m. Wednesday, feeling little of the frigid morning haze puncture through my father's olive-green Marine Corps fleece pullover.
California Highway Patrol Sgt. Austin Matulonis quickened his pace, maintained a sidelong stare at the procession of a dozen Media Boot Camp participants, and bellowed from the precipice of his throat, "Right! Left! Right! Double-time — March!"
I strained my face to remain expressionless.
Less than a half hour before, the journalists learned that impersonating a CHP cadet, even for just a half-day, was not an invitation for even incidental mockery of the training apparatus undertaken daily at the academy.
We would be expected to perform under duress.
"Everything here has a purpose and a plan," Sgt. Damien Blue barked as he prowled the grounds with clenched fists, casting an unyielding glare over the guests from beneath his tan campaign cover.
All of us received the message loud and clear — we were here for a reason.
CHP mission and the sacred ceremony
Many might conceive of the CHP as road-bound AAA, a highway assistance service whose officers are incidentally equipped with a badge and a firearm.
But Wednesday it became clear that their state mandate has taken on a far more expansive role.
With an annual budget of about $2.3 billion, the agency has confronted a litany of California law enforcement crises, like homelessness, mental health and racial profiling, said CHP Acting Commissioner Warren Stanley.
"We've had more responsibilities handed to us as time has gone on," he said. "We're just asked to do so much more to help people out."
All the augmented obligations were reflected in cadet training: from hours-long textbook learning in tiered, alphabetically-organized classrooms, to facsimile vehicle collision scenarios and bouts of target practice at the academy shooting range.
But the mental conditioning of cadets always came first. A culture of history and a dogma of professional composure underwrites instruction.
The most-sacred of CHP traditions was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon when all 217 CHP cadets enrolled in the academy marched with practiced precision around the perimeter of the CHP Memorial Fountain.
"Company!" reverberated five times throughout the campus' central quad, as each cadet commander announced the arrival of their unit.
Sonora-area CHP Public Information Officer Faustino Pulido and Officer Avery Jones, 23, a Summerville High School graduate, bowed their heads in respect. Behind them, more than 30 additional CHP officers stood, sullen-faced, in rapt attention.
A single senior company, with each cadet clutching a polishing cloth, surrounded the circular fountain set with the CHP monogram and a bronze eagle, its wings outstretched.
Bending forward in unison, they burnished a series of small plaques commemorating the 226 CHP officers killed in the line of duty since the inception of the agency in 1929.
During the 15 minute ceremony, the cadets had undertaken a fraternal oath to a reminder of their own mortality and to a testament to the implicit dangers in law enforcement.
"The CHP is really big on tradition," Pulido said, standing astride the fountain. "Almost everything we do here has to do with tradition."
Pulido pointed to one plaque affixed to the fountain's edge, to his Academy classmate, Justin McGrory, killed June 27, 2010, in San Bernardino County.
"He was killed by an impaired driver who fell asleep at the wheel," he said. "He was on the side of the road performing a traffic stop."
Pulido's voice trailed off as he gazed at the reflection of the pool. In CHP careers that span more than a decade, some recollections were too difficult to relive.
Jones, though reverent to the ceremony, had not yet forged memories of professional trauma. Instead, standing outside of the senior cadet south dorms, he cringed to remember his more than six-month training, which concluded in June.
"It's like PTSD," he said. "That was my room up there."
The academy compound, which covers 457 acres, had felt like a prison, he added.
Fall leaves fluttered from reddening maple trees that dotted the wide, shorn grasslands. And despite an occasional yell or clatter of gunfire, the landscape rippled with a sensation of scenic solitude. Even the squat stone structures, unadorned and utilitarian, had a clarity of uniformity.
The wind rose to a torrent, and I realized I had, for a moment, lost track of my selected group.
Jones appeared from behind a pillar at an outdoor gazebo and called on me to hurry, they were all leaving.
"The schedule is rigid," I muttered.
"This is loose," he responded, bolting ahead of me along the concrete pathway.
Loaded guns and fast cars: the thrills
Hans Peter, a reporter at the Woodland Daily Democrat, took the wheel of a sputtering 2007 Dodge Charger and accelerated into the slick, water-lined "skid pan" during the emergency vehicles operations course.
Peter conducted the vehicle with ease, drifting and gliding through each twisting S-curve.
He had grown up in Minnesota, he said, so this test course, well, it wasn't such a challenge.
"Dirt roads and snow and a Jeep. Totally used to it."
The Charger skidded to the right, and the backseat passenger's stomach seemed as if it had been left behind somewhere on the road.
And that was all while a driver was traversing the course correctly.
CHP officer Josh Hawkins, who served five years at the San Andreas-area CHP from 2009 to 2014, performed vehicular acrobatics behind the wheel, pirouetting and surging a Durango like a rollercoaster.
"Turn and burst," he said, instructing maneuvers from the passenger seat.
I modulated the throttle, but couldn't catch the wheel on the counter steer. One erratic 180 degree later, the vehicle was dead in the center of the skid pan.
"I think I'm going to burst," said Michael Adams, a videographer and reporter for ABC10 Sacramento affiliate KXTV.
"You have to get over that hurdle," Hawkins cautioned me.
"I thought you said hurl," said Lilia Luciano, ABC10 investigative reporter.
The intention of the water-laden skid pan instruction for cadets, Hawkins explained, was to develop proficiency in vehicle operation despite dynamic or fluid circumstances which could require inventive driving tactics.
Hawkins always kept his eyes at least one corner ahead. I killed the car two more times after more haphazard and manic half-turns. The twisting of the vehicle was no doubt exhilarating, but sitting in the driver's seat, clutching the wheel, I realized I was keeping my eyes a few corners behind.
Most of us managed a few controlled skids, but even those brief respites of vehicular weightlessness could not match the ascendant sensation of shooting a Smith & Wesson 40 M&P pistol.
"Clack! Clack! Clack!"
Forty caliber bullets ripped through the eye of the target.
"Everything shot out here is real," announced Sgt. Wulf Corrington of the Weapons Training Unit, pacing in front of a firearm display of more than 30 weapons.
Pistols, rifles and shotguns on the left side were all issued by the state, he said. The firearms on the right, among them an Uzi, a refurbished World War II rifle, a .50 caliber revolver, and a gun seemingly constructed from scrap metal and industrial waste, were confiscated on the street.
It was worth the "training value for cadets" to be aware of the wide range of firearms they may encounter in the field, he said.
The danger and damage of those firearms were made evident by the bullet-riddled windshield of a CHP - Oakland area vehicle positioned just to the side of the shooting range. The destruction had been wrought by Byron Williams, a Groveland resident, who on July 18, 2010, had apparently been traveling to San Francisco to inflict a mass shooting.
Officer Vince Herrick, present at the shooting range Wednesday, conducted a traffic stop on Williams on the westbound 580 Freeway that July night, and in the 17-minute armed confrontation that ensued, hundreds of rounds had been fired.
It would be too gut-wrenching and difficult, he related, to fully recall the terror of that day.
"Clack! Clack! Clack!"
Peter was set up under Row 8, I was at 11, and Luciano had just finished a few rows to my right.
"When you're not shooting, I want you to keep your right pointer finger along the barrel," said Academy Rangemaster Mike Melton. "Now keep the pistol in your line of sight, finger on the trigger, pull the trigger slowly…"
Right through the 10-spot, bullseye.
Now I felt like a soldier. Clad in a martial uniform, and my arms taut in the direction of the target. The first shots had gone awry, but each successive round clipped closer to the center.
"It ranges from one to 100 percent," Corrington said, on the possibility of a CHP officer being involved in a combat shooting.
"It's like getting hit by lightning."
Looking through the glasses
Corrugated metal, twisted plastic, and shards of broken glass bent together on the ends of two vehicles, disavowed like morbid sculpture at the site of the traffic collision reconstruction scene.
This was the bread and butter of the CHP mandate, roadways incidents of accidents, injury, and driving under the influence.
"1179 VC," one of the officers said aloud, a traffic collision with an ambulance also on its way. Luciano approached the passenger window of a wrecked sedan, while Adams, his video camera in hand, filmed through the window on the other side.
With the guidance of a CHP officer, she determined that the driver of the sedan, struck in the rear bumper by the driver of an SUV, had sustained at least moderate injuries.
"You can detect the smell of burnt marijuana on the driver," Officer Paul Budrow said.
Then came the investigation interview, balance tests and an evaluation of the eyes, the "windows to the soul," Budrow said.
But you could draw shades over those windows with an instructional pair of "drunk goggles."
The striated, translucent goggles, meant to represent a .07 to .10 blood alcohol content, was unlike any sort of inebriation I had ever experienced.
"About four to five drinks probably," Pulido said, adding that instead of just simulating visual impairment, the goggles additionally distorted a person's sense of balance and coordination.
I could barely see ahead, and each step with my left foot emerged from somewhere far off in my periphery.
Toe to heel, toe to heel. But the lights were getting brighter, and even the instructional voices began to take on a guttural drawl.
"How many steps were you supposed to take?" asked Sgt. Glen Glaser, Jr.
"How many did you take?"
"Yeah, and in both directions. And you're not even impaired."
Right. But the goggles sure did a fine job of making you think you were, I thought.
I was on the other side now, playing the suspect, while for the better part of the day I had been playing the role of a cadet. The soldier's dream from the morning had outlived itself. The purpose of our being here began to take form and shape, rather than just a reconstruction of imagination.
This was the entire process of the CHP field work, I realized, the systematic development of an investigation. The boot camp was a look into the CHP toolbox, which constructed accident and arrest reports all of the journalists dealt with daily.
Through the looking glass of the impairment goggles, I saw that there was more to a story than what has been condensed into a single paragraph. A collection of words from an official release or in newsprint is a reproduction of the human toll that brought an incident to life.
At the end of the day, CHP Cadet Anthony Joseph Sterrett, 26, of Angels Camp, was seated in the cafeteria, his hands folded.
"Good afternoon, sir."
"You don't have to call me sir."
"It's OK, sir."
We were only in the academy for the better part of the day, I asked, so how much could we really understand your journey as a cadet?
"For what you got, it is very representative. I'd say the only difference for us is we know if we do something wrong or don't train hard enough, it could be our last day here," he said. "I expected it to be difficult, but there are definitely some parts that are more difficult than I expected. I'm just keeping my eye out for the light at the end of the tunnel."
Contact Giuseppe Ricapito at (209) 588-4526 or firstname.lastname@example.com . Follow him on Twitter @gsepinsonora.


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Most Chipotle restaurants hacked with credit card stealing malware
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The company first acknowledged the breach on April 25. But a blog post on Friday revealed the kind of malware used in the attack and the restaurants that were affected.
The list of attacked locations is extensive and includes many major U.S. cities. When CNNMoney asked the company Sunday about the scale of the attack, spokesman Chris Arnold said that "most, but not all restaurants may have been involved."
Chipotle (CMG) said in its blog post that it worked with law enforcement officials and cybersecurity firms on an investigation.
The breaches happened between March 24 and April 18. The malware worked by infecting cash registers and capturing information stored on the magnetic strip on credit cards, called "track data." Chipotle said track data sometimes includes the cardholder's name, card number, expiration date and internal verification code.
The company said there is "no indication" that other personal information was stolen.
"During the investigation we removed the malware, and we continue to work with cyber security firms to evaluate ways to enhance our security measures," the blog post reads.
A list of the restaurants and times they were affected can be found on Chipotle's website.
The company recommended that customers scan their credit card statements for potentially fraudulent purchases. It also said victims should contact the Federal Trade Commission, the attorney general in their home states or their local police department.
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First day receipts of Taylor Swift's new album Red suggest the country singer is on course to debut at number one with sales of over one million.
Billboard.com insiders claim the Love Story singer sold in excess of 500,000 copies of her new release on Monday (22Oct12), while industry experts predict she'll smash Mumford & Sons' first-week sales record at the iTunes Music Store.
The British folk act scored the feat just three weeks ago when their new album Babel opened with 390,000 download sales.
Taylor Swift's last album Speak Now debuted on the Billboard 200 chart almost two years ago (Nov10) with just over a million first-week sales, and only one other artist has managed to top those sales - Lady Gaga entered the countdown at number one with 1.1 million sales of Born This Way last year (11).
Only 17 albums have opened with sales of one million or more in the modern era of the charts.


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Tempe, AZ (PRWEB) February 07, 2013
Rio Salado College is one of five Maricopa Community College entities offering information technology career training as part of a national grant award.
The US Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant supports Rio Salado College as a partner in the National Information Security, and Geospatial Technology Consortium (NISGTC). The Consortium includes seven community colleges focused on developing and supporting curriculum and a student model for accelerated career path training.
Through the grant, students can earn certificates of completion or associate degrees in a variety of information technology areas.
Rio Salado College, along with Estrella Mountain Community College, Paradise Valley Community College and South Mountain Community College, offer various IT programs such as Computer Usage and Applications, Programming, Computer Technology, Cisco Network Professional, Networking Technology, Cisco Networking, Networking Administration, Linux Networking Administration, Microsoft Desktop Support Technology, Microsoft 7 Administration, Web Development and Web Design.
The Maricopa Skill Center offers a Computer Support Specialist certificate.
The TAACCT grant provides additional support to students who have a high school diploma or GED, want to pursue careers in IT, and fit at least one of the following profiles with eligible veterans and their spouses receiving priority service:
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) or displaced workers
Underrepresented individuals in the IT profession, including women and ethnic minorities
Unemployed or underemployed
As part of the grant, eligible students who apply for the IT programs are provided with a student success coach for guidance and support. They also receive IT specific tutoring, industry supported curriculum, and have access to the student support services offered by the Maricopa Community Colleges, including financial aid, counseling and disability resources, veterans' services and more.
To learn more about the TAACCCT grant programs visit yourtechnologycareer.com
About Rio Salado College
Rio Salado College is one of the 10 regionally accredited Maricopa Community Colleges, established in 1978 to provide the next step in education for non-traditional students. The college, headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, is one of the largest online public community colleges in the nation serving more than 67,000 students annually. In addition to providing high-quality instruction for 100+ degree and certificate pathways, Rio Salado is dedicated to providing flexible, affordable access through; adult basic education, collaborative partnerships, early college initiatives and online learning.


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Drake Releases New Song, Says Madonna Kiss Was Definitely Super-Chill
Sure, guy.
It's a big day for Drake! On Instagram, he responded to that disconcerting Madonna kiss that left many of us speculating what exactly happened midway to leave Drake with such a sharp look of distress: Did she bite him? Was her tongue work too aggressive? Did she suck out his youth? All good questions, but Drake's response will answer none of them. In the caption he wrote, "Don't misinterpret my shock!! I got to make out with the queen Madonna and I feel 💯 about that forever. Thank you Madonna."
Perhaps as a way to distract us, Drake released "My Side" — a bonus track on the physical album If You're Reading It's Too Late, which hits shelves April 21. Hopefully, in half a year, we'll actually get to hear Drake's side.


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There are grounds for fearing that the Post Office may struggle to maintain even its current level of profitability. Some consideration needs to be given to the desirable proportion between what the Government take from the Post Office by way of dividend and what it hands back as subsidy (paragraphs 5 and 6).
The Government has already reduced its financial demands on the Post Office by effectively halving the rate at which profits are taken out of the business. The Post Office is required to set aside the equivalent of a commercial dividend in its reserves which it will pay over to Government once it becomes a plc. The dividend is set at commercial levels, in keeping with the Government's intention that the Post Office and the future Post Office company should be driven by market disciplines. In allowing the organisation to retain more of its profits, the Government has increased its ability to invest in new technology and enhanced services in its core business as well as in new business areas. In time this retained investment should grow the value of the overall business.
We need to keep the question of any financial support for the counters' network separate from the financial targets set by Government for the business as a whole. As shareholder, the Government intends to set financial targets which are challenging, but fair and which are based on the Strategic Plan, external benchmarking, the regulatory environment and market expectations. It would not be in keeping with our policy of exposing the organisation to market disciplines if the target regime and the dividend policy that flows from it were compromised to take account of the need for subsidies for a specific part of the business. The need for any financial support must be looked at separately.
We expect the Post Office's next Annual Report to provide indications of the financial results for each business unit (paragraph 7).
The Government considers that it is a matter for the Post Office whether it will include in future Report and Accounts financial results for each business unit. The Post Office's response to this recommendation is shown at Appendix 2. The Government believes that the Post Office should operate in the same way as any other public limited company. Once it becomes a plc on 26 March 2001, it will be required to comply with company law and produce appropriate accounts as it does now. What appears in the accounts beyond the standard requirements will then be a matter for the Directors of the Post Office company. The Post Office will, however, be required to produce separate accounts for regulatory purposes. These will be submitted to the Postal Services Commission who will treat them as commercially confidential.
Vacant properties
Now that the Post Office property function has been separated out as a business unit, we expect a vigorous and focussed approach to be taken to disposing of vacant properties (paragraph 8).
This is a matter for the Post Office whose response is shown at Appendix 2. As owner/shareholder of the Post Office, the Government would expect it to manage its property holdings effectively in order to maximise the return from these assets for the benefit of the business and the shareholder.
We continue to regard the ability of the Post Office management to make Parcelforce a real success as a test of their entitlement to the commercial freedoms they now enjoy (paragraph 12).
The Government agrees that making Parcelforce a success will be a test for Post Office management. The modernisation and development programmes underway should enable Parcelforce to improve its performance. All this is happening against a background of fast changing internationalisation of the sector and responses to new developments such as e-commerce. The commercial freedoms given to the Post Office mean that Parcelforce should now be better placed to achieve success and the Government will be following this closely in connection with the development and monitoring of the Strategic Plan.
Industrial relations
We remain concerned at the work which remains to be done to produce an improvement in industrial relations in the Post Office, although we recognise that all concerned are pursuing this end with vigour (paragraph 16).
The Government considers that this is a matter for the Post Office and its response is shown at Appendix 2. The Government also wishes to see improvements in industrial relations in the Post Office. As the Committee quite rightly recognises, more still needs to be done. The Post Office's future success will depend on all those involved from the top to the bottom of the company being committed to respond positively to the challenges coming from other postal services providers, such as Deutsche Post and TPG in the Netherlands. Without such commitment the Post Office will be left behind with a dwindling share of the market.
Environmental guidance
We recommend that the draft environmental guidance to be issued soon for consultation address explicitly the issues raised by the heavy use made by postal services of road transport (paragraph 20).
The draft social and environmental guidance, which was published on 19 December, proposes that the Commission should encourage postal operators to take account of the issues raised by the heavy use of road transport in a number of ways. These include both encouraging more efficient, cleaner and less noisy operation and looking at alternative transport options.
Task of Postal Services Commission
We recommend that the Postal Services Commission take the necessary steps to ensure that it is adequately funded and staffed so as to be able to perform the additional tasks imposed on it by the Government's acceptance of the recommendations in the PIU Report (paragraph 22).
This is a matter for the Postal Services Commission and this recommendation has been drawn to its attention (see Appendix 3).
There is natural concern that the network should not be dependent in the longer term on subsidy from Government which can be switched off as readily as it can be switched on. Such a subsidy is no substitute for measures to provide a long-term sustainable network which pays its way and earns its living from transaction charges and fee payments (paragraph 24).
The Government agrees with Committee's conclusion. We are working with the Post Office to ensure that the network rises to the PIU's challenge to "grasp every opportunity to maximise the potential for the network". We are encouraging the Post Office to put in place a structure that will drive the network business to develop revenue-generating opportunities, minimising the need for subsidy.
Most of the £270 Million of ring-fenced in SR 2000 for the Post Office is targeted at developing the commercial viability of the network - for example by piloting potential new income generating opportunities such as the Government General Practitioner (GGP) project, and by modernising and improving the efficiency of the urban network.
Our long-term vision is of a network that will operate commercially, moving beyond Government subsidy to offer a profitable business proposition for Sub-Postmasters.
It is important to ensure that the DTI's budget properly reflects the calls to be made on it for support of the Post Office network both over the next three years and in the subsequent Spending Review period; that the sums are available for support of the network before the start of the 2000-01 financial year; and that there is full accounting to Parliament of how the money is spent (paragraph 26).
The Government has noted the amendment to this recommendation as set out in the Clerk of the Committee's letter of 14 November to the Department's Parliamentary Liaison Officer (year referred to should be 2001-02, rather than 2000-01).
We confirm that the DTI budget properly reflects the existing calls to be made on it by the Post Office over the next three years and that we will seek to make available additional funding as necessary against robust business cases. Appropriate levels of funding will be sought to cover the period commencing in 2004-5.
All of the Department's programme expenditure, including expenditure on the Post Office, is subject to approval by the Department's Accounting Officer who is accountable to Parliament for the expenditure.
Horizon programme
We are relieved that the failure a year ago to meet the first Horizon milestone, about which we expressed some concern in our 1999 Report, has not proved to be significant. It is obviously essential that the ambitious plans being developed by the Post Office to enable it to become a major financial services outlet do not stumble as a result of any technical deficiencies in the Horizon programme. If banks are in effect to be obliged to make their basic accounts accessible through post offices, and to pay for the privilege, they are entitled to know that the system will be resilient and cost effective (paragraphs 30 and 41).
Good progress continues to be made with the Horizon programme. The system is now installed in over 15,000 (83% of the network) post offices and the programme is on course for completion on schedule in Spring 2001. A major upgrade of software was introduced in October and now includes smartcard compatibility for the automated payments service, direct electronic links between branches and the stock and cash management systems. The system also integrates several stand-alone automated payment systems enabling payment of utilities' bills using magnetic swipecards and barcoded bills. The system infrastructure has a high level of security and resilience which will enable it to support a wide range of new or re-engineered financial transaction including those that require on-line authorisation such as counter services for High Street banks.
The Government agrees with the Committee that the Post Office's systems for providing banking services through post offices, including Horizon, need to be resilient and cost effective. The Post Office is currently considering different IT platforms through which it could connect to Banks. The platform chosen will need to work through the Horizon system. In this, as in other aspects of its work, the Post Office will need to ensure that it is competitive.
We welcome the positive duty now placed on the Post Office to prevent any avoidable closures, although we would be reassured if we had a clearer indication of the criteria to be applied. We also welcome the introduction of objective access criteria to be used by the Postal Services Commission in considering which closures to resist, and the availability of Government funds to assist in averting selected closures. While it must be understood that there is no magic wand which can keep a subpostoffice open for ever and a day, the onus is now on the Post Office to justify any closure, and on the Government to justify any refusal of funds needed to avert a closure (paragraph 32).
The Government is pleased that the Committee has welcomed the positive duty now placed on The Post Office to prevent avoidable closures in rural areas.
The Government believes strongly that the retention and modernisation of the rural network is vital to the quality of life in those areas. We have also stressed that every effort should be made to find creative, locally tailored solutions to the provision of postal services in rural communities. And we have insisted that all reasonable options must be explored fully before the Post Office could claim legitimately that a closure is unavoidable. We agree with the Committee that the onus is now on The Post Office to justify any closures.
The Post Office are reviewing with the Consumer Council and others the present Code of Practice on post office closures. We have urged the Post Office to ensure that the revised Code fully reflects all the necessary processes for avoiding rural closures. And we have asked The Post Office to discuss details of their approach to avoiding rural closures with the Postal Services Commission (PSC). The PSC, in consultation with the Consumer Council, is responsible for reporting to the Government on the network.
Ring-fenced funding has been set aside in the Spending Review for new investment of £270 million over the next three years to start the implementation of the PIU report recommendations, including support to modernise and maintain the rural network. As recommended by the PIU (conclusion 6) the PSC has been asked to advise on the best way to channel financial assistance to post offices. They are expected to report by Autumn 2001.
Universal Bank
Discussions on the Universal Bank are at a delicate stage. It is the declared intention of Ministers that a firm conclusion should be reached by the end of the year. The outcome needs to provide a fully funded, reliable and cost-effective means of ensuring that benefits can be received in cash, in full and free of charge at post offices. That this should also provide a source of income for rural and deprived urban post offices such as to ensure their survival is an added benefit. The Post Office bank facility must make provision for utility payment at least broadly similar to standard direct debit arrangements. Those millions of people who have a current account but now choose to collect benefits in cash at a post office must be able to continue to do so without obstacles being put in their way. We hope that an acceptable outcome is found. It must not be allowed to fail because of either a lack of Government funding or equivocation by the Post Office or retail banks in their commitment to the wider social goal of reducing financial exclusion (paragraph 46).
The Government is committed to tackling financial exclusion and to the migration of benefit payments to ACT from 2003. It is intended that this will be facilitated by the provision of universal banking services through post offices.
Following constructive negotiations with the banking industry, the Government announced on 20th December agreement in principle had been reached with Barclays, Lloyds TSB, RBS/NatWest, HSBC, Abbey National and the Halifax that they will contribute towards Universal Banking Services at the Post Office. We are continuing to discuss with other banks and building societies the contribution they can make
The agreement with the main High Street Banks means that Universal Banking Services can now be developed to provide a range of banking services available at post offices. It will bring those people currently without bank accounts into the financial mainstream by offering basic bank accounts but without overdraft or borrowing facilities.
These accounts will enable customers to access their benefits without charge in cash at post offices. Both before and after the change to ACT, those benefit and pension recipients who wish to continue drawing their money in cash, in full and free of charge, across a post office counter, will still be able to do so.
Universal Banking Services will provide facilities for customers who wish to do so to make utility payments by direct debit or similar arrangements.
We welcome the Post Office's plans to install ATMs in post offices, but are concerned that the Government's early optimism may prove unfounded (paragraph 52).
As the Committee has noted, developments since the Post Office's announcement of plans to install 3,000 additional ATMs at post offices by December 2001 have necessitated a reassessment of these plans. The Post Office is currently in negotiations with prospective partners and still believes it will be possible to build up to 3,000 ATMs across the network but over a longer timescale than originally planned.
Migration to ACT
We recommend that henceforth the undertaking to avoid additional steps to migrate benefit recipients to ACT before 2003 be strictly honoured (paragraph 53).
There have been no steps to migrate benefit recipients to ACT in advance of 2003. The Government is happy to give the Committee an undertaking that we will avoid additional steps to migrate benefit recipients before 2003.
Contracts with government departments
While it must be right that departments are free to seek the most cost-effective form of service delivery, they must also bear in mind that their customers have entitlements as citizens, are not free to chose other service providers, and may not be wired up to the internet. Government departments must be wary of pursuing policies of cost-effectiveness so blindly that they unintentionally hinder access to the services they are there to provide (paragraph 54).
The Government is committed to provision of a choice of access channels to public services and fully recognises the importance of post offices as an access point for many customers. The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has written to colleagues in relevant Departments emphasising the Government's commitment to the PIU conclusion that services should continue to be offered at post offices as long as there remains customer demand to make it cost effective to do so. A new contract between the Post Office and the UK Passport Agency for three years to April 2003 is now in place and a variant of the previous contract with the Department of Health will continue until April 2001 when a new contract, currently under negotiation, is expected to be signed.
While we share the vision of post offices benefiting from the fulfilment of electronic ordering, the details of the commercial arrangements now being made between Post Office Counters, Parcelforce and electronic retailers, and their effect on other private sector fulfilment companies, deserves careful scrutiny by the regulator (paragraph 62).
The Government agrees with the Committee's conclusion. It wants the Post Office network to operate on a commercial basis. That means making the most of its commercial freedom to develop new income streams whilst operating in accordance with domestic and European competition law.
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Educational pedagogy is a diverse field of study, one that all educators should be aware of and fluent in so that their classrooms may succeed. Curriculum Design and Classroom Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications presents cutting-edge research on the development and implementation of various tools used to maintain the learning environment and present information to pupils as effectively as possible. In addition to educators and students of education, this multi-volume reference is intended for educational theorists, administrators, and industry professionals at all levels.Retrieved from http://www. astd.org/astd/Publications/TD_Magazine/2003_ pdf/ 76031017.htm Osguthorpe, R. T., ... Journal of Educational Computing Research, 35(2), 103a122. doi:10.2190/Q435-7611-2561-720P Stockley, D. (2005).
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently released the findings of its latest Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted in July 2012.
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Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the communities within which they work. While insisting on the highest levels of investigation, we celebrate the different designs, concepts, scientific detection methods and recording systems applied - so embracing standards, but not standardisation. The book is organised in four parts: Part 1 offers a summary of field procedures. Part 2 reviews the principal methods applied, above and below ground, and how the results are analysed. Part 3 illustrates the huge variety confronted by field workers with a series of exemplary commercial and academic projects enacted in downland, jungle, desert, permafrost, road schemes and towns. Approaches also differ according to the traditional methodologies that have evolved in particular countries. In Part 4 we give examples of some the strongest and oldest of those practised on four continents. aIdeas and Approaches Martin Carver, Bisserka Gaydarska, Sandra Monton- Subias. Fig. ... The major repair project at Ightham Mote, Kent (UK), undertaken on behalf of the National Trust, had the benefit throughout of an archaeologist workinganbsp;...
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Towards the end of last summer, I decided that I wanted to grow my hair. I played around with darkening my hair a little and then at the start of this year, I headed to Hooker and Young in Wynyard to have my hair cut and brightened. You can read all about my first visit here.
I had a little bit cut off to get rid of the dead ends and some highlights put through it to lighten it back up and then I left it to do its thing until I visited in May, just before my holiday.
Aside from needing my highlights topping up to keep my hair looking ash toned rather than golden and warm, my hair was in really good condition and had grown quite a lot.
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This time, I had my hair cut into the side parting that I used to have with a long sweeping fringe that meant that I could easily switch it to a centre parting for nights out where I want to have my hair in big sweeping curls.
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