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It took about a minute for the result to become official and only a second for it to settle in.
A little more than a minute after the United States dropped a 1-0 decision Thursday to Germany, the Americans discovered they had booked a spot in the Round of 16 at the World Cup despite the loss in Group G.
The scoreboard at Arena Pernambuco flashed the final score from Brasilia: Portugal 2, Ghana 1. The fans cheered and the American supporters chanted, "USA! USA!" The players hugged each other on the field.
U.S. center back Matt Besler said he felt "joy, relief."
"We're proud of what we've accomplished," he added. "We're still hungry."
Besler and his teammates will get a chance to whet their appetites Tuesday, when they meet Belgium in the second round in Salvador. Belgium, 3-0-0, secured the Group H crown with a 1-0 victory Thursday over South Korea.
The Americans experienced mixed emotions after the game, played on rainy, soggy conditions after torrential rains caused massive flooding in the area. Some of the U.S. players' family, including those of center back Omar Gonzalez and captain Clint Demspey, could not attend the game because they could not travel out of the downtown area.
"Last game's a draw, felt like a loss, and today's loss felt like a win," Gonzalez said, referring to the U.S. team allowing an 11th-hour goal in a 2-2 draw with Portugal in Manaus on Sunday. "It's pretty weird. But our mission from the beginning was to get to the next round and job well done."
While it was hardly pretty, the Americans, 1-1-1 and four points, did accomplish their mission, finishing second to Germany, 2-0-1 and seven points, as they survived the "Group of Death" by reaching the knockout round in consecutive World Cups for the first time.
They edged Portugal, 1-1-1 and four points, on goal differential, zero to minus-three. In a match played at the same time, the Portuguese defeated Ghana, 0-2-1 and one point, 2-1.
"It's huge for us getting out of this group that everybody said, 'You have no chance,'" U.S. coach Jürgen Klinsmann said. "We really want to prove a point."
The Americans did not earn a point, but they managed to survive.
"It was weird conditions in terms of all the rain and not having a proper warm-up on the field," Dempsey said about both teams warming up behind the advertising signs. "You're having to go behind the goal, you're not even getting to do a possession game.
"Also in the back of your mind, a lot of your family not being able to make it to the game just wanting to make sure they were safe. There were a lot of factors going into today's game that made it a difficult."
The game, played in front of 41,876, certainly won't be among the most memorable in U.S. history. The Germans enjoyed a sizable time of possession having the ball 63 percent of the time, while outshooting the U.S. 13-4. The Americans had only one shot on goal — by Alejandro Bedoya in the second half.
But they persevered behind some usual and unlikely heroes.
Defensive midfielder Jermaine Jones, who feared he broke his nose in a second-half collision with Bedoya, played his normal hard-edged game at both ends. Goalkeeper Tim Howard was a rock, making eight saves, although he could not stop Thomas Muller from scoring his fourth goal of the tournament in the 54th minute.
Muller converted a rebound of a two-handed Howard save as he fired a shot from 20 yards into the lower right corner.
"As I was closing down Muller, I decided not to slide," said Besler, a member of Sporting Kansas City. "I tried to stand up and make myself big. He hit to a spot where no one could get to it."
Alongside Besler in the starting lineup was Gonzalez, a surprise selection in place of Geoff Cameron, whose mistake led to Portugal's first goal. Gonzalez, who has been hampered by a left knee injury, acquitted himself well, heading at least three dangerous balls out of harm's way, including a left-wing cross that was targeted for Mesuit Ozil's head in the 15th minute.
"He got thrown into the firing line, but he did well, had some good clearances, read the game well," Howard said. "It was just about managing it. Between him and Matty trying to manage the back line and the guys in front of them and really not allow Germany to open up and get in a flow."


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Florida's Office of Financial Regulation, the state securities regulator, is investigating Ft. Lauderdale broker/dealer Newbridge Securities, wealthmanagement.com has learned. It's just the latest in a long trail of regulatory woe for Newbridge, whose executives and brokers have fallen afoul of securities laws repeatedly since the firm started operating in 2000.
The broker/dealer has a little over 200 reps, each of which is required to generate a minimum of $80,000 in trailing 12-month commissions, according to its website. The firm reported revenues of $39 million and a net loss of $390,983 in 2011, a March filing with the Securities Exchange Commission shows.
The Florida state regulator confirmed that it has a case open on the firm, based on customer complaints, but could not discuss the case further or release the complaints. FINRA and the Securities Exchange Commission declined to comment on whether they are investigating the firm as well.
"We got two minor inquiries from the state of Florida but there's no investigation at this time," said James Todd Newton, President and Co-CEO of Newbridge. "One is relative to a past broker over an IRA account and the other is a small $900 complaint that is laughable. That's all we know of from the state of Florida and they are very inconsequential. They're being properly addressed by our firm."
Newbridge has 16 regulatory blemishes and six arbitrations on its record in the Central Registration Depository system, and many of its brokers have numerous dings on their U4s.
"They're between a rock and a hard place," says IBD recruiter Jonathan Henschen, who recruited to Newbridge three to four years ago. "It's tough to turn around a firm when you have this legacy going on. It turns off reps when firms have compliance legacy. More and more reps are catching on to the fact that when you have a lot of clutter in your past, it means a difficult compliance environment."
Like many other b/ds, Newbridge recently got caught up in sales of shoddy private placements and was sanctioned by FINRA, along with seven other firms, last fall. The firm was fined $25,000 and its former chief compliance officer Robin Fran Bush was suspended in any principal capacity for six months and fined $15,000 in connection with the sale of four DBSI private placements and a Medical Capital private placement.
It wasn't the first time a Newbridge executive was suspended from the industry. Former CEO Scott Goldstein was suspended from any principal capacity for one year from September 2010 to September 2011 and fined $100,000 for failure to supervise AML and other violations.
Currently, James Todd Newton and Thomas Joseph Casolaro share the CEO role at Newbridge. (Todd Newton has no dings on his record. Casolaro was charged with attempted burglary of a vehicle, but found not guilty. He was convicted of "prowling and loitering.")
Can they right the ship? In general, when firms get a reputation for trouble it is difficult to change; the firm begins to attract financial advisors with spotty records and dubious ethics and that can lead to more trouble, says Henschen. Then compliance and E&O costs go up, which eats into profits, and recruiting gets more difficult. And it's not like the owners can cash out as there are few buyers for such troubled firms. If things get really rough, a firm with lots of regulatory trouble may run out of excess net capital and get shut down by regulators.
"It's kind of a smaller version of Gunn Allen in a lot of ways," Henschen says, referring to the b/d that was shut down in March 2010 when regulators found it did not have enough capital to continue operating. "You have a lot of problematic reps, you don't seem to be able to supervise them, you tend to have FINRA camped out at the b/d."
Some firms do turn things around by cleaning house of reps with complaint histories, injecting new capital and hiring fee-based reps rather than those paid by transactions. For examply, Summit was a firm that also had a tarnished track record, but then it overhauled its advisor force, switching to less transactional reps.
"But they were never as bad as Newbrige," says Henschen. "They have good finances, $10 million excess net capital. They have reinvented themselves."
Remains to be seen if the same can be said for Newbridge. Much will depend on whether the current investigation tips the scales or turns out to be simply groundless accusations of disgruntled clients. Newbridge's net capital as of Dec. 31, 2011 was $597,152, exceeding its minimum net capital requirements by $333,555. Assets totaled $3.9 million and liabilities plus shareholder equity totaled $4.0 million. Newbridge has offices in Florida, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Arizona.


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Question put and agreed to.
Clause 130 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 131 and 132 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Mr. Waterson: I tabled amendments Nos. 308 and 309 to clause 133 because it seemed to us as though a draftsman's error had been made in two respects. I hope that they are reasonably clear. Amendment No. 308 would have inserted a reference to the definition in clause 126(2) after the words "adverse effect on competition", while amendment No. 309 would have inserted a reference to a different subsection of clause 126 after the phrase "customer benefits". The clause appears to contain no definition of "adverse effect on competition" or "customer benefits".
My initial instinct was that there had been a draftsman's error or oversight, but it is conceivable that there is a more sinister reason. This part of the Bill deals with public interest cases, and the draftsman may have thought that, if the definitions were left up in the air, then so be it. The Under-Secretary is shaking her head, so clearly the interpretation of something more sinister is not
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Miss Johnson: Perhaps I should intervene on the hon. Gentleman if he intends to continue at length, because the conspiracy view of history is seldom right. I hope that I can delight him by saying that the amendments make similar points to that made in amendment No. 304, which was accepted last week by my hon. Friend the Minister. I am grateful to hon. Members for raising the issue. We want to ensure that the Bill is improved where necessary, and I will give further consideration to their suggestions with a view to tabling drafting amendments on Report. I support the reasons given by the hon. Gentleman for proposing the amendments but, none the less, I ask him to withdraw them.
Mr. Waterson: I am almost overwhelmed. The Under-Secretary has been good enough to confirm that the conspiracy theory is wrong, so the reason must be the alternative, which I would not dream of mentioning in mixed company. I am delighted that we have found some gaps in drafting, and equally delighted that she is prepared to take them on board. It would be utterly churlish of me not to withdraw the amendments immediately.
The Chairman: Order, as the lead amendment has not been moved, it is not necessary to withdraw it.
Mr. Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire): In order to understand clause 133 better , I want ask some questions of the Under-Secretary. I confess that I am non-plussed. One does one's best to follow the drafting, but on this occasion I have lost it.
The explanatory notes make it clear that clause 133 is intended to enable the commission to decide the issues in a market investigation case. We are dealing with such a case, where a public interest intervention notice has been served. The explanatory notes suggest that the Competition Commission should have to consider not only the same questions as it would have considered under clause 126, where there was no public interest element, butin addition to issues about a competition-only market investigationwhat course of action would be appropriate in the light of any relevant public interest considerations. That is fine. I understand that we are dealing with a public interest element, but the structure of the clause suggests that the question to be decided by the commission is simply whether there is an adverse effect on competition. There is no other reference.
Clause 141 deals with when the Secretary of State has had the matter referred with an adverse effect on competition, but has not taken a decision and it reverts to the commission. However, no particular considerations that should be decided by the commission are specified. It seems to me, on the face of it, that the only issue is whether there is an adverse effect on competitionin which case, under this group of clauses, the matter is referred to the Secretary of State for a decision.
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It is also unclear to me whether the Competition Commission is required to decide whether there is an adverse effect on competition, bearing in mind the public interest considerations, and if there is such an adverse effect, which questions have to be decided by the Competition Commission on referral to the Secretary of State. That seems to be entirely a matter, subsequently, for the Secretary of State.
I conclude with a question, on which the matter rests. If the Competition Commission decides that there is no adverse effect on competition butfor the sake of argumentthe Secretary of State has issued an intervention notice on a national security consideration, where is it reflected in the clause that the Competition Commission must look to that national security consideration, and if it believes that there is a relevant public interest that should be subject to a decision by the Secretary of State, will so refer the matter rather than simply saying, "There is no adverse effect on competition," and publish a report? No question in relation to public interest is specified in the clause.
Miss Johnson: The hon. Gentleman raises a question about how the clause works, and how it relates to other clauses. The clause states that the Competition Commission must consider the case, in the light of the issue, in the intervention notice. The clause simply refers to the action by the Secretary of State under clause 139, thereby taking account of the public interest issue. Those are the terms in which the Bill is drafted.
I am unsure which bits of the clause the hon. Gentleman is especially confused about, but I draw his attention to the fact that subsection (4) requires the Competition Commission to decide the same questions with regard to action to be taken where a report delivered to the Secretary of State under the public interest provisions reverts to the Competition Commissionthat is, where the Secretary of State has failed to take a decision within 90 days of the receipt of a report from the commissionor where the Secretary of State decides that there is no public interest consideration that should be weighed against the competition issues identified by the commission.
I hope that that explains the nature of the clause, and what it does.
Mr. Lansley: I confess that it does not. Let me try to be a bit clearer: I understand that if the commission finds that there is an adverse effect on competition, it refers the matter to the Secretary of State. However, if it finds that there is no adverse effect on competition, but an intervention notice with a national security consideration may be relevant, does that mean that the Competition Commission simply says that there is no adverse effect on competitionthat the national security consideration is not a competition effectand then publishes its report? Subsequent clauses would suggest that, under those circumstances, no remedy is available to the Secretary of State.
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Miss Johnson: The hon. Gentleman is getting quite technical. I have listened carefully to the points and questions that he has raised, and I think that it would be most helpful for me to offer to write to him with regard to them.
Clause 133 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 134 and 135 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Mr. Waterson: I rise briefly to probe the Under-Secretary on a couple of matters with regard to this clause. The first echoes the previous debate about the two-year limit. My hon. Friends the Members for Huntingdon and for Cities of London and Westminster have made all the important points about that, and about the real problem that is caused to businesses by such uncertainty hanging over them for up to two years. It appears that that issue does not cut any ice with the Under-Secretary or her hon. Friends, but it remains a concern. At least there is a suggestion of movement in the clause.
Under subsection (2), the Secretary of State has the power to
Miss Johnson: The hon. Gentleman's points chime well with those I made in debate on clause 129 when we discussed amendment No. 35, which would have reduced the period to 12 months. I have said that we do not normally expect the process to take anything like two years; that is a long stop. I also said that there is a provision to vary the period downwards, as the hon. Gentleman says. Those points, which I made in relation to amendment No. 35, obviously hold true in our discussion on clause 136. I do not have a great deal to add, but I reassure the hon. Gentleman that he is right in what he says, and that our intentions are no different to his own on the subject.
Mr. Waterson: Again, we have an assurance that the Under-Secretary's intentions are entirely honourable. Who am I to argue with that?
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Clause 136 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 137 and 138 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Mr. Lansley: At the risk of being technical, I should like to be clear on a point that bears on the clause. My reading is that if the Competition Commission decides that there is no adverse effect on competition, we do not reach the provisions under this clause, and the Competition Commission simply publishes a report. However, if the commission concludes that there is an adverse effect, the report is put in the hands of the Secretary of State, who may take such decisions as flow from it.
It is interesting that the power provided on market investigations in which a public interest intervention notice is served is not simply the power to vary the remedies proposed by the Competition Commission in the relevant public interest. It is a wider power to decide which remedies should be taken, and the Secretary of State need only "have regard to" the commission's report. The only constraint on the Secretary of State is that, if the Competition Commission decides that there is an adverse effect on competition, the Secretary of State cannot decide that there is not. So far as I understand, the Secretary of State is otherwise free to vary any or all the remedies proposed for dealing with the "adverse effect on competition" or the "detrimental effect on customers".
I make that point in a stand part debate because I think that it would be far better if the whole clause were rewritten to make it clear that the Secretary of State should follow the advice of the Competition Commission on the effect on competition and how it is to be remedied. I would make changes to the clause as are required in relation to the public interest raised by the Secretary of State.
There are two dangers, perhaps the most obvious being that the Secretary of State will find it tempting to substitute his or her judgment for that of the Competition Commission on how competition effects should be dealt with. Secondly, I refer to the Secretary of State's temptation to find a relevant public interest consideration at any stage up to four months after a market investigation has been initiated. Having served an intervention notice on any public interest consideration that can be specified, the Secretary of State brings the whole of the subsequent process of determining all the remedies into his or her own hands. That is inherently undesirable because consistency and predictability of independent competition authorities require that the process be conducted
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The Chairman: Before I call the Under-Secretary to reply, I emphasise that we are discussing clause 139.
Miss Johnson: Indeed, Mr. Conway, I am happy for the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire to become technical, and delighted that he is getting stuck into the detail of the Bill. If there were no adverse competition finding, the Secretary of State could only mitigate or eliminate the competition remedy on the relevant public interest grounds. If there were no adverse competition finding, the Competition Commission would simply publish its report. It would not send it to the Secretary of State for a decision. In other words, a report will not reach the Secretary of State if there has been no adverse finding by the Competition Commission.


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Ray Tomlinson was an American computer programmer, inventor and electrical engineer. He was credited as the inventor of modern email and for using the "@" symbol to connect a username to the destination. Tomlinson was born on April 23, 1941 in Amsterdam, New York. He grew up in Vail Mills and attended Broadalbin Central School in Broadalbin, New York. Tomlinson studied at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There he participated in an internship program with IBM and graduated in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Two years later, he completed a master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT.
Tomlinson started out working for the research and development company, Bolt, Beranek and Newman in 1967. He helped with the development of the company's TENEX operating system. In 1971, Tomlinson was able to combine the CPYNET & SNDMSG programs to implement the first email program on the ARPANET system. He also chose the "@" symbol to separate a user from the host. When asked, Tomlinson claimed that the first email sent was gibberish and was entirely forgettable.
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Outside of diplomatic and political circles, Sergio was not a widely known public figure. What drew you to him?
It's true that Sergio was not a well-known international figure. But I think that in some ways he was one of the most important people of the past thirty years that most people haven't heard of. He often worked behind the scenes in a lot of the world's hotspots. He probably saw more war and human crises than any other person of his generation. And if you think back the last thirty years, all the world's crises from Cambodia to Kosovo to Iraq to Rwanda, Sergio was right in the middle of it. So the scope of his career was fascinating. But what really made him fascinating is that he was just an extraordinary individual. Complicated, charismatic, idealistic, pragmatic, a lover of life, a lover of women--all the characteristics that make just a compelling character for a film, and that's really what drew me to him.
How did you first cross paths with Sergio's story?
I had made a film about Rwanda some years ago, and in the course of doing that met some amazing individuals, sort of the real heroes of the international world out there, people who we don't really hear about who are doing incredible, idealistic work, and standing up for their principles. Some of those people went on to work for Sergio. And through them, I became familiar with his work. I also was friends with Samantha Power. She was a professor at Harvard, and knew Sergio, and after his death started writing a book about him. So I was intrigued by his story, but honestly it wasn't until I learned of the events surrounding the final hours of his life that I saw a way into the film. The story that unfolds in the rubble after the attack is simply one of the most extraordinary human dramas I have ever encountered. And in the course of the film we learn more about Sergio and the journey that he took that led him to that moment when he was the target of the attack.
In the late 60s in Paris, Sergio was kind of a revolutionary himself. After joining the United Nations, he eventually finds himself put in charge of the reconstruction of East Timor. It seems like many people would have abused that power, and lost their ideals. Sergio didn't. Why do think that is?
Sergio had this incredible ability, which he honed over the course of his career and� through some very hard lessons, that idealism alone is not enough. Idealism does not stop a war criminal who's bent on doing terrible things. The amazing thing about Sergio is that a lot of us are idealistic and even radical in our youth and then become more worldly or jaded with time. Sergio grew as a person intellectually, but he never lost his youthful idealism. He sort of shed his Marxism and shed the baggage of all of that.
But he kept his ideals intact. And fundamentally for him, what was most important was the idea and the cause of human dignity. And that was something much deeper to him than human rights, which often become very legalistic. Sergio believed that everyone was entitled to a dignified life, which means shelter, food, a job, not being stuck in a refugee camp for decades; basic human dignities. And he believed that the way to advance that was by getting his hands dirty and finding real-world, practical solutions. And that meant that he would have to deal with people who he would have condemned in his earlier incarnation as a student radical. People like President George Bush, who Sergio charmed during a meeting in the Oval Office just before he was sent off to Iraq. It meant dealing with--on the total opposite end of the spectrum--someone like the Khmer Rouge, the genocidal leaders who had been responsible for almost two million deaths in Cambodia. Sergio decided that to bring Cambodian refugees home who'd been displaced by the war there, he had to deal with the Khmer Rouge and bring them to the negotiating table. He was the first Western official to do that. And he did it successfully. And he was criticized by a lot of hardcore human rights idealists who thought that he was compromising his beliefs. Sergio would always listen to them and would take those criticisms on board, but he always came down to this idea of advancing human dignity and getting results through real-world solutions. What I found most admirable in him is this ability to work what I call the shades of gray between right or wrong, good and evil-but to immerse himself in the world's complexities; to revel in the complexities. And to never lose sight of his idealism, but still try to find ways of actually getting results.
In the film, Sergio's nephew tells a story about asking Sergio why he did this kind of
work, and put himself in harm's way. Sergio smiled, but didn't answer. What do you think
that smile said?
I think on one level he thought he was invincible. He'd been so many places; he'd seen so much war, he felt he could survive anything. I think also, on a deeper level, he was acutely aware of the risks that he was placing himself in, which is one of the reasons he didn't have his family with him as he was moving along through his career. Having said that, I think he never anticipated that the institution he loved so much, and to which he had devoted his life, the United Nations, would one day be the target of the kind of attack that happened on August 19, 2003.
I think Sergio had this belief--perhaps a na�ve belief--that the United Nations was seen by all parties in a conflict to be neutral. And he firmly believed in that neutrality and that he was there to serve the people, not to take sides. But he knew the dangers. Somebody asked him once how come he didn't wear a bullet-proof vest. And he would say, "Oh, those things make you fat." It was flippant but also, he would not wear a bullet-proof vest if the people he was meeting also were not protected. He didn't want to pretend that he was more important than they were. He realized that to be effective he had to be in the field confronting the world in all of its complexities and all of its dangers, and that inherent in that was an element of risk.
What do you hope audiences take away from Sergio's story?
I've always said that this is a story of hope. And I believe that that's what people will take from it: the sense of inspiration that they get from Sergio's life, and also from the incredible bravery that the rescuers display in the course of trying to save him. It's an inspirational story. I've also found that people feel not just touched by the bravery that they've experienced watching it, but feel compelled to do something with their lives.
I had one experience at a film festival where a young medical student had gone all the way out to her car, was about to drive away, and parked the car again, came back into the theater, and said, "I just have to tell you that this has changed my whole perception of what I want to do with my life. I want to get out there in the field and do something." Which is what Sergio was all about: get out in the field and do something. For him, the field meant the whole world. But I think also for me the lesson is actually deeper: it's that all of us can do something in the field, whether it's our neighborhood, our community, and for some of us, the wider world. But Sergio and the rescuers in the film are people who took enormous risks and put themselves on the line for other people. Often for people they didn't know at all, but they just felt like they had to do that. And I think that's an example for us all. It's an inspiring message. And along the way, you know, we tell a great story and we immerse people in amazing characters. But I think, in the end, the message is one of inspiration.


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Today marks the return of the live Android and Me podcast. The show is scheduled to start at 9:30 p.m. EST, but we're expecting to start broadcasting a few minutes late since we have not done this in a while.
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I know that test-first and test-driven development (TDD) are popular methodologies these days, but something about those processes has always met with a level of mental resistance from me. Even though it sounds good in theory, I have been intuitively wary of the "test-first" mentality for some reason. My own approach is closer "remember to code so you can test it later" and then "test-last" after the API is mostly stable. This comment from Slashdot is a good summary of my feelings on the matter.
Thinking about testing early — good. Writing unit tests — good. The test driven development mentality (write tests instead of design, write unit tests before coding) — bad. … Thinking about testing early is useful, it may cause you to think about corner cases. But writing them first causes 2 problems — you end up writing the code to solve the tests (rather than solving the problem) and/or you end up throwing away half the test suite in the middle when you refactor the design.
— AuMatar
Just that you have tests does not guarantee that you're solving the right problem, or solving it well, or that your solution is comprehensible to others.
In the same conversation, someone brings up the term "ravioli code", which I had never heard before. The idea is that instead of long strings of procedural "spaghetti" that are difficult to untangle, there are lumps of methods jumbled together:
The problem is that it [Ravioli Code] tends to lead to functions (methods, etc.) without true coherence, and it often leaves the code to implement even something fairly simple scattered over a very large number of functions. Anyone having to maintain the code has to understand how all the calls between all the bits work, recreating almost all the badness of Spaghetti Code except with function calls instead of GOTO. It is far better to ensure that each function has a strong consistent description … rather than splitting it up into smaller pieces ("stage 1 of preparing to frobnicate the foo part of the foobar", etc.) with less coherence. The principal reason why this is better is precisely that it makes the code easier overall to understand.
People who deliberately split code up into ravioli, and especially those who advocate that others do so, are "dangerous idiots" precisely because they've lost sight of the fundamental need for comprehensibility …
— dkf
I think that a lot of TDD and test-first idealists and evangelists* end up with ravioli code that is well-tested but still difficult to comprehend.
Some people will read this and think that I am against unit testing; that would be an incorrect interpretation. TDD and test-first dogmatism are what bother me, not testing per se.
(* Note that I said "idealists and evangelists" — not all of the test-firsties are like this.)


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Stay on Bush path or chart a new course?
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 8, 2008; Page A04
President-elect Barack Obama stepped carefully yesterday when he was asked about the unusual letter of congratulations that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent him — the first time an Iranian leader has congratulated the victor of a U.S. presidential election since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
"I will be reviewing the letter from President Ahmadinejad, and we will respond appropriately," he said, leaving open the question about whether he will reply. President Bush chose not to respond to a rambling 18-page letter he received from Ahmadinejad in 2006, but during the campaign Obama indicated he would be willing to meet with Iranian leaders.
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Kismet, Aircrack-ng, and Karmetasploit
Wireless Security
How to find, map, crack, and impersonate wireless networks.
Perhaps I'm one of the last few holdouts, staying wired to the Internet instead of computing wirelessly at home (like my friends, parents, etc.). Everyone seems to be getting laptops and $40 access points, which are way easier and cheaper than running Ethernet for most people. But, after reading this, you might want to keep your network wired, too.
Finding Wireless Networks
To see what I'm so worried about, the first step is to find some wireless networks. One of the best tools for this is Kismet, which comes in most distributions. Many distros ship with an old (2008) version, so to get started, download Kismet [1], unpack it, run the configure script, and make and install it. Note that Kismet needs root access to run because it talks directly to hardware, so you can run it either as root or with sudo, or you can install Kismet with suid root and add users to the kismet group. Please note that any user in this group will be able to fiddle with your network interfaces, so be careful.
cd /directory/kismet-source/ ./config make make dep make install
Kismet has three main components: the drone, the server, and the client. The drone captures network traffic and sends it to the server (which can be running on the same or a remote system). The server collects and collates the data, and the client connects to the server and provides a text-based interface to the data in real time. This allows you to take multiple systems, including wireless access points running custom firmware (like the WRT54G), and feed them all into a single server.
To run Kismet, simply start the kismet_client, which gives you the option of starting the server and collecting data. This in turn creates several files, including GPS data (mapping networks to physical locations if you have GPS on your system), network data (a list of networks and clients found, what channel they are on, and all the configuration details you could imagine), and a PCAP network capture file.
One thing you will notice is that, if you run Kismet with only one capture source (i.e., one wireless card), it will have to hop from channel to channel to cover all 11 (or 12 or 13, depending on where you are) channels. Although this detects all the available networks, it does make for fragmented capture files because you'll get a little network traffic from one, then some from another. Fortunately, the solution is easy – buy some wireless adapters (USB works really well) and add more capture interfaces. The sweet spot seems to be four sources. This allows you to dedicate one card to each major channel (1, 6, and 11) and leave one to hop the remaining channels, thereby ensuring that you find all the networks and maximize the amount of data you capture (Figure 1). To configure, simply add these lines to your kismet.conf file:
channellist=hoplist:2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10 ncsource=wlan0:hop=false,channel=1 ncsource=wlan1:hop=false,channel=6 ncsource=wlan2:hop=false,channel=11 ncsource=wlan3:hop=true,flfl channellist=hoplist
I went to a local coffee shop with Kismet, and within a few minutes, I discovered more than 40 networks. A second attempt at another coffee shop down the street (but on the second floor with a better line of sight to other buildings) netted more than 70 networks. On average, half of the networks had no encryption. Many were pay-for-access hot spots, and quite a few of the networks had only one client, most likely an individual's home network. What I found most interesting was the ability to capture the MAC addresses of clients on pay networks, most of which filter on the basis of MAC address once you have authenticated. So if you know which MAC addresses to spoof, you can get yourself free network access.
Wireless Network Channels
Although you can send data on up to 13 wireless channels (11 in North America, 12 in Japan, 13 in most of the rest of the world) [9], the channels overlap sightly, meaning only three of them (1, 6, and 11) are separate (Figure 2). If someone is broadcasting on channel 1 and someone else is on channel 2, they will be sharing a certain amount of frequency, which can lead to collisions and other issues that can reduce the amount of available bandwidth. This means that the majority of wireless networks will be on channels 1, 6, or 11.
Getting Past Encryption
The good news about getting past encryption is that about half the time you won't have to. When you do need access to an encrypted network, however, keep in mind that the wireless encryption standards WEP and WPA are quite weak. Most distributions ship with Aircrack-ng [2], a WEP and WPA key cracking program. To use it, just run the airoscript program, which will give you a text-based interface. If you're feeling lazy, choose the auto option and it will scan, select, and attack a network for you.
Wireless Encryption
Even if a wireless network has strong encryption, the password used to secure it must be shared with all the wireless clients. This means that anyone who buys access to the network gets a copy of the password. In a large network, there is a good chance that the password is leaked publicly. (The one coffee shop I have been to with an encrypted network has the password printed on a large sign behind the cash register, and it is never changed.) This means that you must ensure that your network traffic is protected by encryption and that you are connecting to legitimate servers and not some man-in-the-middle server, such as a Karmetasploit module.
Attacking Wireless Clients
People tend to focus on securing their wireless infrastructure (encryption, access controls, etc.) and tend to forget about clients. If you are within wireless range, you can pretend to be a legitimate wireless access point and convince clients to connect to you. Then, you can connect to the real access point, proxying and modifying their traffic on the fly. Such an attack is known as a "rogue access point." The tool for doing this is Karmetasploit (formerly Karma, now merged with Metasploit). Instructions for downloading and installing Metasploit are in an earlier article [3].
Once you have installed Metasploit and Aircrack-ng, simply run the airbase-ng program and run a DHCP server and attach it to the wireless interface so that clients can get network configuration information. Then run Metasploit with the server modules – to execute man-in-the-middle attacks – and browser autopwn (automatically attack) modules – to inject hostile content into web pages (see the Karmetasploit documentation [4]) – or you can set up a transparent web proxy and have some fun [5].
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To all who "participate" in discussions with Free Mason:
You may as well stop any pretense that this is actually a discussion. Mr. Free Mason is not open to discussion or debate, but dispute with any and all who may show up. He is certain that his view is the only appropriate view, and will argue his point ad-nasueum.
The "online discussion forum" phenomenon has seen his ilk time and time again. Experience has shown that the best strategy is to ignore the posts of these people with internalized grandeur intent on disruption, not discussion. (Free Mason, it may be entirely possible you do not even realize this aspect of your personality.) In time, he will either move on or learn to participate in a discussion whereby his own opinion is open to change.
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Agencies are responding to both heat-related health needs and the
economic burden the heat has caused for rural communities.
State agriculture officials estimate that agricultural and livestock producers have lost nearly $600 million
dollars this year due to the dry conditions. Conditions, reminiscent of the 1930s Dust Bowl era, are baking
crops and endangering the lives of elderly people and others vulnerable to heat.
Local churches and agencies are trying to prevent heat-related death and illnesses by offering people a cool
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The church, in what its has deemed a "heat abatement plan," also periodically offers Gatorade distribution,
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Another Texas-based program, Meals and Wheels and More in Austin, has started a campaign to offer air
conditioners to elderly people. "We have a lot of clients on a fixed income who don't have air conditioners,"
said Alison Unger, public relations manager. "We got an anonymous donation designated for the purpose
of providing air conditioners for people who need them."
The program has distributed some 25 air conditioners so far and plans to distribute more. It also sets aside
funds to help clients pay for their increased electric bills.
"You don't realize how hot it is until you have to sit there in it," she added. "Fans are inadequate. In fact,
they can be dangerous."
Unger is referring to the "convection oven" phenomenon that happens when someone turns on a fan and
seals a room when temperatures are already high. Instead of cooling the room, the fan action makes the
temperature dangerously high. "One of our clients said she felt like we saved her life," said Unger.
The last severe heat wave and drought to strike Texas was in 1998, said David Vaughan, spokesperson for
the Texas Department of Health's emergency preparedness division. "In that year, a lot of agencies were
bombarded with questions about what people should do and how they could recognize heat-related
illness," he said. "We realized we needed to produce some effective and versatile information."
The health department distributed bilingual flyers to churches and other community organizations with
tips on coping with the heat. "People don't of heat as being deadly, but it is, just as much as a hurricane or
tornado," said Vaughan. "People are unprepared."
Some medications can make people less aware of how hot they're feeling, he added. People using drugs
and alcohol also make themselves more susceptible to heat-related illness. "It's dangerous everywhere in
Texas right now," he said.
If the heat wave is lasting the longest in Texas, it's the highest in Kansas, which has sported the hottest
temperatures in the U.S. on Monday and Tuesday. Agencies are setting up cooling sites and checking on
vulnerable people, said Dante Gliniecki, statewide volunteer coordinator for Missouri State Emergency
Management. "This is something that's pretty amazing and it has a lot of people concerned," he said.
The city of Lawrence, KS had the distinction of being the hottest point within the hottest state in the U.S. on
Monday. But local officials report that they're prepared to deal with heat. They created a Heat Task Force
three years ago, along with a heat plan. "We had a lot of deaths three years ago," said Amy Griggs,
spokesperson for the American Red Cross. "Now we know each other's resources."
The task force includes faith-based organizations, community programs, and emergency management
officials. That group and its heat plan caught the eye of officials in Texas, who are planning to replicate it,
Griggs said.
Though a heat advisory has been in place in Kansas most of the summer, a heat emergency has yet to be
declared. When the heat index meets or exceeds 95 degrees at 11 a.m., a heat advisory is declared. A heat
warning is issued if the heat index meets or exceeds 105 degrees by 11 a.m. If a heat warning is issued in
Kansas City, the Salvation Army opens turns its nighttime shelters for the homeless into daytime cooling
shelters for the general public. Plus, libraries advertise themselves as cooling shelters, and bus fares are
decreased to encourage people to travel to cooler public locations.
A heat emergency is declared if the heat index meets or exceeds 105 degrees for three days in a row, and if
nighttime temperatures don't drop below 85 degrees. So far, nighttime temperatures -- even in Kansas --
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|Newsline No. 31-07
|April 23, 2007
Office will be closed Apr. 26-30
The California Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) is moving its Santa Monica district office to Marina del Rey on April 28. To accommodate the move, the Santa Monica office will be closed Thursday, Apr. 26 through Monday, Apr. 30. The office will open in its new location, at the Marina Square shopping center, on Tuesday, May 1.
The new address for Marina del Rey is:
4720 Lincoln Blvd.
Marina del Rey CA 90292
(310) 482-3820
The new office designation will be MDR.
DWC offices will be on the second and third floors, with the main reception area on the second floor.


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Morning Make Up- Simple Blue Eyes
A new segment I'm trying out where in I show my morning make up routine for various days and chat about what I'm doing that day. Not really a tutorial, more of a random girly chat while we get ready together in the bathroom 😉
Today's style features blue which is a colour I've recently started wearing a lot more. I am in love with blue eyeliner at the moment.
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Today's morning make up showcases my new obsession with blue eyeliner.
And also my lameness in debating if I need the new iphone 4s.
After my usual foundation routine I started by applying a thick winged line of liquid blue eyeliner.
James and I have a tradition of one upping each other in our phones.
My blue liner obsession started with this Mirenesse one, it'a such an interesting colour.
It started out when I got the iphone 3g and he swore he hated it.
To give definition I added a thin black line using liquid liner, very close to the lash line.
Then he stole it and I didn't see it for 6 months while he played Bejewelled.
Eyeshadow time.
I applied a light blue all over the lid. I kept it very pale so it wasn't too intense.
So after 6 months James got his own phone but he got the much better 3gs.
Blend up with some cream shimmer.
Finally this year I beat him again.
I added dark blue shadow matching the liner into the corner and crease to give a little depth.
My contract was up first so I got the iphone 4.
Use a fluffy brush to blend it in together well.
Of course now the 4s is out, his contract is up so I'm considering letting him upgrade.
I used a thick coat of mascara and regular false lashes.
Then stealing it to play bejewelled on as a payback.
Clearly we are both very mature.
With this look I only use a little bit of blush to avoid that 80's feel.
Hmm so who will win the battle of the phones?
As always lipgloss is the last step.
It's almost as bad as our scrabble games.
So there you have it, pale blue eyes which are quite wearable and a vicious cycle of phone out doing.
I hope this was a useful video, please check out the blog post linked in the description for more information and tutorials.
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Here's the real juicy scoop on what turns her on, and it's different than what you think!
I am Antoinette. I share the female perspective. I am here to share with you secrets on how to be with a Drama-Free Woman that most people aren't sharing. Can you keep a secret?
I remember dating a guy who had a humongous package. After he got hard, I thought to myself, "How is THAT going to fit inside of me?" After the whole ordeal, I felt disappointed and unsatisfied.
Because he thought that the size of his penis related to the size of his sexual performance. There wasn't enough foreplay, intimacy, touching, connection and all the juicy things that make lovemaking so enjoyable. Maybe he thought in his mind that he didn't need to do anything special because his penis was "special" already. That was a let down.
I did my research and found out that nearly all men watch porn. In one study in the UK, they could not find one man that did not watch porn. Getting your sex education from porn causes problems when it comes to turning her on. I know that you might not always have a women around, so you might be watching the sexy videos at night. I get it, but here's the scoop…
1. Men have unusually large penises. This creates most men to believe that their penis size isn't big enough.
2. The unrealistic expectations with women in sexual relationships. Porn treat women like sex objects instead of treating and connecting to her in the way that she deeply craves.
For a modern and Drama-free Woman, what turns her on is the "connection" that the two of you have. Women are biologically made different. Our limbic region, which controls feelings and emotions, is much deeper and larger than a man's.
For a woman, what turns her on is how you are treating her. Are you paying attention to her? Are you truly listening to her? Do you make her feel special? I share this secret with my men. She deeply craves the "connection", passion and intimacy. This is the real foreplay that a woman craves. When you learn how to be in your "modern masculine power" with her, and you can give her what she deeply craves. This in turn will create trust. Trust is the MUST when it comes to orgasm for a woman.
Here are 3 important steps to turn her on:
This is important, so listen up!
1. When you are with a woman that you love, while she is talking, look into her eyes. When she is sharing, notice the passion, depth or excitement that is being shared. Reflect this back to her. "I really like the passion when you are sharing." This will build connection and trust, which is a HUGE turn of for women.
2. For a woman, her heart is the center of her universe. When you can share from your heart to her heart, this will deepen the connection. Next, look into her eyes and say, "You are beautiful. I want you so badly!" This will bring out a new level of excitement to her. (Hint, hint!)
3. Last, say to her, "I want to learn how to please you. Let's explore each other's bodies. Let me know what you like and what you don't like by the sound of you moaning YES." You are now letting her know you want to please her and you are taking charge of this.
In addition, if you learn to communicate her language, then you will treat this woman like the piece of art that she is, instead of the sex object that is portrayed in porn. A real woman will like you for who authentically are and your ability to truly connect to her, penis size and all.
By John's Special Guest: Antoinette Cabral
Antoinette Cabral is a Dating Expert for Men. She teaches a powerful and proven 7-step System to guide men to find the Drama-free Woman of their dreams. If you are ready truly ready to find your dream woman, book your complimentary Get Your Special Girl Session. Sessions provide the most amount of breakthroughs. You can, also, download her FREE Guidebook for a limited time.
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HR Business Partner
Posted 11 months ago
As HR Business Partner at World Animal Protection, you will manage the delivery of our comprehensive operational and strategic HR and OD service for London and Europe based International staff, ensuring our international initiatives and people strategy are aligned and integrated with World Animal Protection's ambitious strategic goals to achieve lasting impact for animals worldwide.
You will business partner stakeholders and provide strategic and tactical HR support to global staff and managers. You will be a valued member of our HR team, and will contribute towards the review of policies, practices and guidelines to further drive high-level organisational performance through best practice people management.
This key role has a broad remit, covering a range of generalist HR needs. You will provide technical HR support on any complex issues, change initiatives and bespoke projects, update policies and procedures, and work with managers to deliver effective resource planning and on boarding. You will also play a key role in the Project management of implementing a new Global HR system.
Important will be the ability to coach and guide managers to help their understanding of the implications of employment issues and sharing your knowledge to enable them to make informed decisions to mitigate risk.
Keen to take your HR career to the next level? Join us as HR Business Partner, at World Animal Protection your career will have a global impact.
HR Business Partner – Requirements
You must have experience of supporting an international organisation as an HR generalist and be accustomed to working in cross-cultural environments. You will have managed the delivery of people strategies to high standards and are able to drive the successful achievement of strategic goals.
Your expertise will cover areas such as change management, employee relations, reward as well as recruitment and selection. You will be used to delivering bespoke HR projects too. You will be up-to-date with appropriate legislation and HR best practice.
You will be able to coach managers to enable them to manage people issues, such as identifying learning and development needs. Your knowledge will include business planning and policy implementation.
In addition to having excellent communication, organisational and planning skills, you will have an eye for detail as well as the ability to implement and sustain difficult decisions. Good knowledge of employment law in Europe would be an advantage.
You will have a natural passion for animal welfare and a strong commitment to the aims and values of World Animal Protection.
Who are we?
We are World Animal Protection.
For over 50 years we have moved the world to protect animals.
We protect animals because we believe a sustainable future for the planet can only be achieved if both animals and people are part of the solution.
We stop the exploitation of wild animals for entertainment and profit. We protect pets and working animals in communities across the globe. We campaign for better farm animal welfare and fight against factory farming. We also help animals when disaster strikes.
Our vision is a world where animals live free from suffering. We are working to help people to see how important animals are to all of us.
We are determined to influence decision makers to put animals on the global agenda and inspire people to change animals' lives for the better. Today we're working on projects to end animal suffering by helping governments and communities to protect and care for their animals.
Join us and together we can move the world for animals.
Please note that all candidates must have the right to work in the UK. We will not be able consider candidates who do not have the eligibility to work in the UK.
As we often receive a large number of applications from experienced and qualified candidates we will generally give priority to those who can demonstrate that they meet all of the essential criteria listed. It is important that you show how you meet all the essential criteria and your application will be stronger if you show that you meet at least some of the desirable criteria.
Due to the large volume of applications that we receive, we will not be acknowledging receipt of your application. If you do not hear from us within 3 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.
We kindly request Recruitment agencies should not approach us for this role as we will be considering direct applications.
Our new name is World Animal Protection. We were known as WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals)


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8 Food Blog Links We Love
We've scoured the web, found our favorite food blog posts, and now we're bringing them right to your desktop. It's hard work, but someone has to do it.
After a treat-filled Mother's Day, we're a little burned out on dessert at the moment. This weekend, kick your sweet tooth to the curb and fill up on savory goodness. Bake some falafel, whip up a pizza or two, and make chicken stock from scratch. Just make sure to read these links!
- Sauté some spring vegetables and serve them over this chickpea-chive mash. (Dolly and Oatmeal.)
- Your baked falafel is missing kale. Trust us. (My Name is Yeh.)
- Ramp aioli is now officially our new favorite condiment. (Brooklyn Supper.)
- Speaking of ramps, toss some with quinoa for a bright spring salad. (Earthsprout.)
- A pizza topped with bacon, feta, and figs? Swoon. (Dessert for Two.)
- For a Midwestern take on pizza, try this cracker crust recipe. (Lottie + Doof.)
- Why it's always good to have homemade chicken stock on hand. (Chocolate & Zucchini.)
- Grab some crackers and go to town on this roasted red pepper and lentil dip. (The Sunday Table.)
Which food blogs inspired you this week? Tell us in the comments!
Photos on top by (clockwise) Dolly and Oatmeal, My Name is Yeh, Brooklyn Supper, Earthsprout
Photos on bottom by (clockwise) Dessert for Two, Lottie + Doof, Chocolate & Zucchini, The Sunday Table


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Emma Livingston (b. 1976) has been represented in numerous exhibitions in Mexico, Argentina, Germany, US and Brazil. Awards and accolades include a Discovery of the Meeting Place, FotoFest (2010), nomination for Prix Pictet Earth award (2009) and PDNs 30 New and Emerging Photographers (2009). Her photographs have appeared in several print publications including European Photography, NY Arts Magazine, Dwell and Next Level, as well as numerous online cultural websites such as LensCulture, New Landscape Photography and Landscape Stories.
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Quebec girl told to stop reading book by school bus driver
Sarah Auger, 8, enjoyed reading to and from school, until the bus driver said it was dangerous
An eight-year-old girl in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. was told she's no longer allowed to read books on the school bus because it poses a risk to the safety of other students.
Sarah Auger loves reading and used to enjoy using her 20-minute ride to and from school to read for pleasure.
But recently, her bus driver told her she had to stop.
She says she was told reading posed a risk to other students on the bus.
He suggested they might stand up to see what she was reading, or she might poke herself in the eye with the corners of the book.
Father wants rule changed
The no-reading rule is not sitting well with her father, Daniel Abel.
Abel says he's proud of his daughter for loving to read, and wants to encourage her to do so as often as possible.
He wants to see the rule on her school bus change.
"I find it stupid and useless," he said.
Abel complained to the school board, which deferred to the driver, saying the person who drives the bus is allowed to make the rules.
"The responsibility of a school bus driver is to transport students safely," said Mario Champagne, general secretary and director of communications for the Hautes-Rivière school board.
In a statement, the board concedes that "obviously" reading is not dangerous.
The statement also specified that personal belongings of students, including books, must stay in their bags during the duration of their trip home.
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Jax LOOOOOOOOVES watching the popcorn pop in the air popper. It is so much fun to have him help pour the popcorn in and then wait for the magic to happen. He enjoys telling me it is hot and can't wait for the popping noise to start. He also likes to help eat the popcorn when it is done. Every time he sees the kernels or the popper, he starts begging!
So he really enjoyed making this. All you have to do is pop the corn, make a quick caramel and throw it in the microwave a couple of times. Ta da! Yummy peanut butter popcorn!
Peanut Butter Popcorn
8-10 cups of popped popcorn
2/3 cups brown sugar
2/3 cups light corn syrup
2 T butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
- Place popcorn in a large microwave safe bowl and lay out some waxed paper for later
- In a large sauce pan, mix together the brown sugar, corn syrup, butter and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat and boil for 3 minutes stirring occasionally
- Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. It will foam. Add peanut butter and vanilla and stir until completely combined
- Pour hot caramel over popcorn and stir until combined
- Place bowl in microwave and cook on high for 1 1/2 minutes. Stir and repeat two more times
- Spread popcorn out on waxed paper (be careful it is really hot!) and allow to completely cool and harden
- Store in an airtight container
We took this over to K.C. and Collin's house for the crab fest and it went over big! It was a nice snack for everyone as we sat around. Plenty sweet, but not sickeningly so. A little addictive crunch that makes you keep going back for more!


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text: About the Show Not Airing this week The series is a spin-off of the very popular segment, that has been airing for the past 15 years, as an element of the shows hosted by Mike Irvine. Now Shooting USA's Impossible Shots becomes a complete show, providing a half-hour of entertainment and amazement, as the world's best professional Exhibition Shooters demonstrate their skill performing shots that would be impossible for any one else to accomplish. The Impossible Shots Pro Team of Exhibition Shooters: Bob Munden – Tom Knapp – Byron Ferguson – Jerry Miculek – Tim Bradley Official Site: http://www.shootingusa.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ImpossibleShots Twitter: https://twitter.com/SUSAImpossShots Send feedback or comments about: Shooting USA's Impossible Shots Contact the Show: email@example.com To contact the show, please complete the form below. Thank you. All Fields Are Required To Name Email Address Re-enter Email Address Comment By entering your email address signifies you wish to receive our newsletter and have read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Meet The Host(s) Mike Irvine Mike first joined the Jim Scoutten's Shooting USA team, where he continues reporting national championships of a number of shooting disciplines, as well as new products in the industry. Read Full Bio Links Shooting USA Features Int'l Revolver Championship Participating Sponsors


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Dianne is an Australian author
In March 2016 Dianne was shortlisted top three in the Ruth Rendell short story awards
In 2012 Dianne's novel 'Soul's Child' won the YouWriteOn Book of the Year Award
List of writing awards:
1995 – Cairns Post Writers award (QLD AUS)
1996 – Harper Collins award publication (AUS)
1996 – Cambridge Writers award (AUS)
1997 – Harper Collins award (AUS)
1997 – FishPublishing top 100 (International)
2000 – University of Canberra award (AUS)
2002 – Kerry Greenwood award publication (AUS)
2002 – Scarlet Stiletto award publication (AUS)
2004 – Ginninderra Press award publication (AUS)
2005 – Scarlet Stiletto award publication (AUS)
2007 – Harlequin/MIRA press award publication (AUS)
2007 – IP Picks Press award (AUS/NZ)
2009 – IP Picks Press award (AUS/NZ)
2012 - YouWriteOn Book of the Year award (international)
2016 - Shortlist top three Ruth Rendell award
Review by:
Rohan Healy
on March 23, 2013 :
Introduction: As I started The Everything Theory and blasted through the first few pages I kept thinking to myself "Wow, so this is what award winning writing is like!". The ferocious pace of the opening chapters (and indeed the whole book), the extensive research that is on display (without showing off) and character descriptions that are some of the best I've read, really left an impression. There is real artistry in the physical descriptions of people and their background and personality. Never does the author halt the narrative to fill in back story; every description, mannerism, fear, fault or feature of a character is seamlessly woven into the action. This is story telling efficiency at it's best. Something is always going on, there is never a natural point at which to stop as the action jumps around from one exciting story thread to another, never taking a moment to catch it's breath. It's a sprint to the finish, and a very enjoyable one.
What It's About: Luke Canning is an Australian boy in his late teens who unwittingly stumbles into a world of international conspiracy, intrigue and adventure. When Murray, amateur astronomer and Luke's best friend, discovers that a planet (Eris) is on course to enter our solar system in the near future, a series of radical and life changing events are put into play. Astronomers all across the world are dying as an unseen and powerful force seeks to keep the information regarding the planet's path hidden from the public. Now that Luke Canning too knows about Eris and it's trajectory, those same forces have him in their sights. That's the plot synopsis but the book (to me at least) was all about ancient civilizations and the many unexplained man-made structures and technologies that are beyond humanity's current level of understanding and construction. The book calls into question the idea that human culture is one linear timeline from caveman to Bill Gates. That perhaps humanity has risen and then been all but wiped out, needing to start again many times during the Earth's long history. And the author provides some compelling, real world evidence to support the claim in the book. As I was reading on my laptop I kept a search page up in a browser just to see for myself all the incredible structures and artifacts mentioned in the book. This underlying theme is incredibly thought provoking and it asks us to reevaluate the way we think about human cultural evolution, it's really a lot of fun.
Who Should Read It: The potential readership for The Everything Theory is quite broad. It's a great Young Adult story full of action, suspense and highly relatable subjects like loss, fear, awkwardness and growing up. But this book is also a great read for anyone interested in archaeology, history, science, astronomy, anthropology, ancient texts and especially those who enjoy their conspiracies, alternative takes on history and even UFOs. As a fan of alternate takes on human history (I enjoy books like The Secret History of the World), ancient texts like the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana (both of which are mentioned in the book), and mysteries and cover ups of all kinds I thoroughly enjoyed finding out about all these unexplained inventions, structures and ancient passages. Some of which I was familiar with, but many were knew to me. The sheer amount of research that has gone into this book, and the wealth of information that's on display is really impressive, and it makes The Everything Theory a joy to read, I just love learning while I read fiction!
Closing Comments: The Everything Theory is extremely easy to recommend both as a YA fiction and to anyone into the subjects mentioned above. The writing is slick and the action and story development gives the term fast paced a whole new meaning. Dianne Gray has written a real cracker here that I really can't imagine anyone not enjoying. I'll definitely be checking out the author's other works. Go ahead and read the sample and find out the "real" history of humanity as told in The Everything Theory! All up I'm happy to give The Everything Theory 5/5 :) Check it out and have fun!
Rohan Healy.
Full Disclosure: I was offered a free copy of the book to give my honest review on my blog rohan7things.wordpress.com.
(reviewed 28 days after purchase)


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text: PHOENIX -- Phoenix police are searching for a man who robbed a convenience store twice overnight and shot the clerk in the leg. Police said the man stole beer and food during the first robbery at the AM/PM store on 23rd Avenue and Indian School Road.He then came back about an hour later, demanding cigarettes and money. That's when police say he shot the clerk.After leaving the store, he backed into concrete pillars, damaging the back of the vehicle. He still managed to get away.Police are reviewing surveillance footage of the suspect.The clerk remains in the hospital in stable condition.