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DREAM BLOG by Debbie Ihburg-Smith
Debbie has been blessed to reside in what she considers to be two of the most beautiful places in America; the San Francisco Bay Area where she raised her two sons, and the beautiful Hudson Valley area of New York where she was born and raised, and once again makes her home. Debbie and her sister Sherri Cortland often work together on metaphysical columns for Examiner.com, where Debbie specializes in the meaning of dreams, and Guide Group Fridays is their first book together. Debbie first became interested in communicating with spirit as a child, when her Mother would have psychic readings and share her experiences with her daughters.
To reach Debbie, please email her at: email@example.com
Sherri asked me to start this blog because so many of her Examiner.com readers are interested in the meaning of dreams, and she knows that's something I love to talk about! She has to write about different subjects for her column, but here on this page, I can focus on dreams–starting today! And down the road we'll move on to other subjects, including crystals and much more! Thank you for reading my blog!
October 8, 2014: Do you ever dream of numbers?
Do you ever dream of numbers? Our Guides and Higher self often use our dream state to relay messages to us, and the first step in making sense of our number dreams is to keep a dream journal. Why? Because while we might not understand the meaning immediately, we will down the road, and having our dreams written down makes them easier to analyze and contemplate. To help us make sense of our number dreams, here's a list of dream interpretations for the numbers one through ten from (1) The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Dream Symbols by psychologist , lecturer and author, Klaus Vollmar; and (2) Dream Bible.com:
- One: Unity. That which is indivisible, the self. The number 1 in a dream represents beginnings. When you see it in a dream it can mean that something new is starting in the way you think or in your life.
- Two: The number 2 in dreams symbolizes opposites & contradictions that are in need of differentiation & balance. Your ambivalence is becoming known, which is a positive development. The number 2 in a dream represents conflict. Two opposing sides struggling against each other. When you see it in a dream it represents a conflict in your life, or in the way you think or feel. Different ideas, beliefs or choices struggling with each other.
- Three: Three is tense, dynamic, rhythmic, & complete (the holy trinity). Three is the symbol of the spirit, since it is assigned to the third stage of human consciousness (after the physical & emotional). The number 3 in a dream represents creation or making something happen. Your plans, goals, or intentions are coming to life. Alternatively, the number 3 may reflect a creative process or chaos.
- Four: A symbol of wholeness. Four creates order in chaos. It is the symbol for becoming whole & becoming one. The number 4 in a dream represents balance, stability, and sacrifice of negativity. When you see it in a dream it's usually pointing to something negative in your life that has been removed, or that needs to be
- Five: The fundamental human being, a person in harmony, because a person, hands & legs extended, forms a pentagram. Five means "Quintessence," the fundamental sense, the essential. The number 5 in a dream represents change. When you see it in a dream it means that something in the way you think, or in your life is changing or being shaken up.
- Six: Usually a symbol of sexuality. The number 6 in a dream represents negativity. When you see it in a dream it's pointing to thoughts, emotions, behaviors, or life experiences that are negative. It may also reflect bad intentions, meanness, greed, or deception.
- Seven: The number 7 in a dream represents purity, purification, and wisdom gained after facing negativity. Negative situations are being dealt with or removed. It may also reflect negative beliefs or habits that are being stopped or cleansed in some way.
- Eight: Dreaming of the number 8 symbolizes wholeness, completeness & grounding. The number 8 in a dream represents completion. In a dream it means that something is coming to a close, and about to end. A final run up to an ending. It may also reflect feelings of having everything you need or being complete.
- Nine: With the number nine you have reached a level of completion. Nine symbolizes renewal. The number 9 in a a dream represents the end. In a dream it means that something is ending or already has ended. A situation is now over or will never happen again.
- Ten: To dream of the number 10 denotes a new beginning, after having reached the goal. The number 10 in a dream represents starting over or a new beginning. Something has ended in the way you think or in your life. A fresh start. A fresh start or doing something differently.
If you are dreaming of multiple numbers, you can break it down by adding the individual numbers together & focusing on the sum of the numbers. For example 619 = 6+1+9 and 16 = 1+6 =7. In this example the sum of 619 equals 7, and someone dreaming of 619 can refer to and concentrate on what the number 7 means to help figure out the meaning of the dream.
October 17, 2014: Dreams about Flying
I remember my first flying dreams as a child. I was able to run & gain speed & I would fly around the tree branches, giggling. They are rare for me, but I still have them. The one thing I find in common with ALL of them is that I am always aware that I am asleep and dreaming, and yet somehow I can control my flying & my actions in my dream, as if I am awake!
Gustavus Hindmand Miller is well known for his indepth studies on dream symbols & interpretation. His book The Dictionary of Dreams, with over 10,000 dream symbols for us to explore. With this dictionary, you will be well on you're way to interpreting your dreams in no time at all, and to get you going, here is a link to a free e-book of The Dictionary of Dreams. Below are six of Gustavus Hindmand Miller's interpretations of what flying in your dreams may symbolize:
- To dream of flying high through a space, denotes marital calamities.
- To fly low, almost to the ground, indicates sickness and uneasy states from which the dreamer will recover.
- To fly over muddy water, warns you to keep close with your private affairs, as enemies are watching to enthrall you.
- To fly over broken places, signifies ill luck and gloomy surroundings. If you notice green trees and vegetation below you in flying, you will suffer temporary embarrassment, but will have a flood of prosperity upon you.
- To dream of seeing the sun while flying, signifies useless worries, as your affairs will succeed despite your fears of evil.
- To dream of flying through the firmament passing the moon and other planets; foretells famine, wars, and troubles of all kinds.
At Dream Moods.com, I found the following possible interpretations of flying dreams:
- If you are flying with ease and are enjoying the scene and landscape below, then it suggests that you are on top of a situation. You have risen above something. It may also mean that you have gained a new and different perspective on things.
- Flying dreams and the ability to control your flight is representative of your own personal sense of power.
- Having difficulties staying in flight indicates a lack of power in controlling your own circumstances. You may be struggling to stay aloft or stay on set course. Things like power lines, trees, or mountains may be obstacles that you encounter in flight. These obstacles symbolize something or someone who is standing in your way in your waking life. You need to identify what or who is trying to prevent you from moving forward. Difficulty flying may also be an indication of a lack of confidence or some hesitation on your part. You need to believe in yourself and not be afraid.
And as always, keep that journal next to your bed and when you awaken, jot down every detail of your dreams that you can remember. This will help you recall more facts later as you contemplate on your dream.
November 18, 2014: Colors and Dreams
Have you ever wondered why you keep seeing the same color in your dreams? It may be that your Higher Self is attempting to alert you to an individual chakra that needs to be balanced or there may be a message for you in the basic interpretation of an individual color. For today's blog, we're going to look at the basic meanings of colors that frequently turn up in our dreams, but please keep in mind that there is more to dream interpretation than repeating colors. In addition to repeating colors, also look at the other aspects of your dream as you being to put together the puzzle and divine the correct interpretation. In researching repeated colors, I came upon the following list of meanings from www.ColourLovers.com:
- Red can symbolize passion, courage, or your emotional relationships… but it can also be the color of danger. You will need to think about what your personal associations are with red and look at the context of the rest of your dream to find out if you're seeing love or danger. Often they go hand in hand.
- Orange symbolizes sociability and friendliness. This color could be showing you new interests or things that are warm and friendly towards you… or maybe your thoughtfulness towards a particular interest.
- Yellow, like most colors, has both positive and negative connotations. It can be symbolic of intellect, energy, happiness, and wisdom… or if the dream is an unpleasant one, the color could represent cowardice and sickness.
- Green symbolizes positive change, growth, healing and peace. It can symbolize your efforts to gain recognition or establish your independence. The other side of green often represents greed and jealousy.
- Blue symbolizes truth, wisdom, and openness. This could represent your optimism for the future or your trust in a particular thing. Blue may also be a metaphor of "feeling blue" or sad depending on your dream.
- Violet, in darker shades, may denote a person who feels misunderstood or has obstacles to overcome. It too is a spiritual color, and brighter shades help inspire and stimulate, especially in relation to dream activity.
- Black is often regarded as the color of death, its appearance in our dreams may represent the death of old ideas or change. Another possible explanation is that it represents a hidden or rejected aspect of the dreamer. It is the color of mystery, the unconscious, and sometimes even protection.
- Gray can indicate fear, depression, ill health, or confusion. It may represent being emotionally distant or detached from something.
- White is often regarded as the color of purity and truth. Seeing this in your dreams may be a message from your subconscious telling you to regard the truth of a certain situation. It is also the color of completeness and innocence.
If you are seeing the same color repeatedly in your dreams, here is a list of colors and associated chakras, followed by a meditation that you can use to balance the chakra associated with the color you're dreaming about:
- ?1st Chakra (Root Chakra at Perineum) = Red & Black
- ?2nd Chakra (Sacrum Chakra at abdomen) = Orange
- ?3rd Chakra (Solar Plexus Chakra at solar plexus) = Yellow
- ?4th Chakra (Heart Chakra in center of chest ) = Green & Pink
- ?5th Chakra (Throat Chakra in center of throat) = Blue
- ?6th Chakra (Third Eye Chakra in between eyebrows on forehead) = Indigo or Purple
- ?7th Chakra (Crown Chakra at top of head) = Clear of Violet
Choose a stone the color of the chakra you wish to balance, and/or visualize a bright wheel of color (the color of the chakra you are balancing) turning in a clockwise direction. Watch the wheel of color and visualize and feel energy in the color you're visualizing begin to enter, and continuing to flow, into your chakra. Continue visualizing the wheel of color and feeling the energy enter your chakra until you feel balanced.
NOVEMBER 29th: LUCID DREAMING
Every now and again I have been blessed to experience what is known as Lucid Dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a dream in which you realize you are dreaming; you see things through your own eyes—unlike a regular dream where you don't actually see yourself. In lucid dreaming, in my experience, you are watching the dream, as if you were floating nearby, totally able to see yourself from a distance.
When I wake up from such a dream, I always try to fall right back to sleep and recapture it! I had a lucid dream recently, the first in quite a while, and it seemed to me that as I was dreaming and realized I was experiencing something out of normal realm of awareness, that's when I stepped back and started to question what was going on. That was the moment when I was able to actually view myself in the dream.
In the dream I just mentioned, I found myself in a situation that shocked me, a situation with people I know, but that was way out of the normal realm of things for me; and it was at that moment that I felt like I was both a participant and a viewer. When I woke up, I knew I wanted to learn more about lucid dreaming so I did some research, and here's what I learned at www.DreamMoods.com:
"Lucid dreams give you the ability to control your own dreams and steer them toward the direction you want. In the lucid state, you are more willing to confront threats and as a result, become more self-confident. When you achieve lucidity, you can use it as a tool to improve your sports game, to rehearse for a speech, to fulfill your fantasies, or to solve a problem in your waking life. In fact, some athletes utilize their lucid dreams to practice their tennis serve, golf stroke or bat swing. Even in your day-to-day life, you can use lucid dreams to ask the boss for a raise, prepare for a first date, overcome phobias, get over writer's block, etc. Lucid dreams can help you visualize and rehearse an event in your mind before it actually occurs. It helps to overcome fears and anxieties. The application of lucid dreams is limited only to your imagination. Because brain activity during the dream state is the same as during a real life event, what you "learn" or "practice" in your lucid dream state is similar to the training and preparation you do in the waking world. Your neuronal patterns are already being conditioned. At least half of all adults have had one lucid dream in their lifetime. Many have reported having lucid dreams without even trying. Often flying is associated with lucid dreams. With practice, lucid dreaming can be learned and achieved at your will."
December 30, 2014: Communicating with Spirit while we Sleep
my sister, Sherri Cortland, and I recently wrote an article together on this subject for Examiner.com. Here are some excerpts for our Dream Blog:
Can a dream be a setting for communication from Spirit, our Guides and Angels, and/or a loved one that has passed? Sherri and I took an in-depth look at the times we felt sure that we did indeed have communication from Spirit while we were sleeping, and the two of us are far from alone in this experience; especially when it comes to contact from our deceased loved ones.
Many of us experience after-death communication during sleep, and Sherri and I think it's because during the dream state, our vibrational levels are elevated, and we're in a state where we are much more accessible and probably more receptive to communication, too. Think about it—as we're shutting down our conscious mind, we drift into what is almost a meditative state. Combine that meditative state with an elevated vibrational level and it's the perfect forum for our loved ones to reach out to us. Here's some personal input on this subject from both of us:
From Debbie:
Communication with deceased loved ones through dreams is known as dream visitations and is the most common way to be visited by those in spirit. I have had two spirit visitation dreams that I recall, and they are much different than regular dreams.
The first was a visit from my Gram. While I cannot remember the details now, I know we were flying down hallways in a big house. We were having fun soaring along. We were laughing at times. I was left with a feeling that she was at peace. She had transitioned and there was no need to worry.
The second spirit visitation dream came after my mother passed away. I always wished that she would enter a dream and say hi. I wondered why she never did. I missed her so badly and I wanted to see her. Finally, she came into a dream. She came to my job at lunchtime, and sat at a picnic table with my friends and me. She didn't speak. Instead, my friend Kristin was telling me what Mom wanted. I couldn't understand why that was happening. Mom was telling Kristin to tell me that I had to go to Home Depot to fix some problem at the house.
Both of these dreams felt different from a normal dream. They were almost like having a lucid dream and when I woke up I could remember every detail of the dreams—the dreams didn't fade. And that's one way to tell the difference between a dream and communication from Spirit: even a year from when you first had the dream it is still as fresh in your mind as when you woke up from it.
From Sherri:
Interestingly, I've also had communication via dreams from our Mother and Grandmother and I concur with what Debbie says above about remembering the dreams so vividly long after the dreams took place. There is a reality aspect to communication dreams that doesn't exist in a standard dream. I had communication during a dream from my Guide, Gilbert, back in 2009, and I remember it 100% clearly to this day. My first book had just come out, and I wasn't even thinking about a second book. In this dream, Gilbert, a guide I had not consciously met yet during this incarnation, told me all about the new book we would be working on together (Raising Our Vibrations for the New Age). In this dream, Gilbert and I were very chummy, like we were the best of friends, and I knew that I knew him well when we were chatting in the dream. When I woke up, I called on my Guide, Jeremy, during automatic writing, and told him about the dream and asked him about Gilbert. Jeremy told me that Gilbert is an entity that I've done a lot of projects with, that we are very close, and that he would indeed be leading the "GG" (Guide Group) for my second book. About a month after that dream, Gilbert started working with me consciously through automatic writing.
As Sherri says, communication through dreams is all well and good, but why wait? If you want to connect, meditation with intent is a great way to do so, and Sherri would love to send you a free copy of the handout she gives to her workshop participants on direct communication with Spirit: just send a message to her at firstname.lastname@example.com and she'll email you a copy.
February 4, 2015: Daydreams
Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming?
I know I have. The technical definition of daydreaming, according to Wikipedia is "a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake." No wonder human beings love to daydream—it's like a mini-vacation! And daydreaming is important enough for many psychiatrists and psychologists to have studied them; here are some of their findings:
- As far as Freudian psychology is concerned, daydreaming is similar night dreams in that repressed feelings and instincts may surface in both because we're in a relaxed state and not censoring what we think about.
- In the late 1960s, pyschologists at the City College of New York created a daydream questionnaire, called the Imaginal Processes Inventory (IPI), to investigate daydreams. Psychologists Leonard Giambra and George Huba used the IPI and found that daydreamers' imaginary images vary in three ways: how vivid or enjoyable the daydreams are, how many guilt- or fear-filled daydreams they have, and how "deeply" into the daydream people go.
- There are many types of daydreams, and there is no consistent definition amongst psychologists, and the only common denominator when it comes to daydreams is that there is always some sort of dissociation from what's happening around the daydreamer.
- In an article I read by Rebecca Turner ( http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/ ) I found that contrary to popular belief, daydreaming is an important part of dream research. "As with all types of dreams, you enter a kind of hypnotic trance and allow your unconscious thoughts to rise to the surface." Daydreams are no different! Rebecca shares that scientific studies have revealed that most of us daydream between 70 & 120 minutes per day. While daydreaming, you are neither fully awake nor asleep. This made me start to daydream about what is the difference between daydreaming and meditating and I'll address in just a moment.
From the research I've with regard to daydreaming, it seems like in the past it was disregarded as part of dream studies because it was felt like daydreaming was nothing more than wandering thoughts. But this is changing and many now believe that the content of one's are useful in helping to understanding one's true feelings and goals.
When it comes to symbology of daydreams, many say that this is the same as our night dreams. So if you find your daydreaming about flying or dreaming at night about flying, both would have the same message for you.
Some say we can use our daydreams to produce positive outcomes. We all know that the universe gives us what we focus on, so instead of worrying try repeating positive images and outcomes in your mind—this will let the universe know that you do not want to be worried all the time, and that what you really want is a happy ending. To prove this point, Tiger Woods has said that he has used daydreams to improve his golf game. If Tiger can do it, so can we—for all kinds of things…even when studying for a test or preparing for a job interview.
When it comes to creativity, daydreaming is very helpful: I found a story about Albert Einstein coming up with the Theory of Relativity while he was daydreaming; and on June 5, 2012, The New Yorker published a story about daydreaming in which they said:
"A daydream is that fountain spurting, spilling strange new thoughts into the stream of consciousness. And these spurts turn out to be surprisingly useful."
I agree. And although while in meditation, we are trained to stay in the present, focus and dismiss errant thoughts, it seems to me that a version of meditation called meditation with intent, where we sit down and tell the universe what it is we are seeking, and then sit quietly and see what comes to us, might be worth a try. Meditating and daydreaming are both ways to make our desires known to us and to the universe–just don't go daydreaming while driving a car or operating machinery!
Me personally, I think I'm a 120 minute per day daydreamer. I daydream a lot about going to an island vacation resort for a week; and as soon as I finish this column, my mind will taking me back to Cancun, where I will be soaking up sun and having fun on my coffee break!


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The gluten-free lifestyle is one that certainly takes some getting used to. I've been gluten-free for 4 years and I've only just now perfected several gluten-free waffle recipes. Initially, I didn't bake much when I went gluten-free. I ate very low carbs in general (namely due to digestive issues) and felt quite overwhelmed by taking on the grandiose task of learning a whole new way of baking. I am well aware of how daunting a task it is to learn the art of gluten-free baking. Since, I'm finally mastering it a bit myself I'm happy to share a few of my most successful recipes.
This gluten-free waffle recipe came about after numerous attempts on my part, not failed attempts mind you, just not perfected ones either. I like to diversify my gluten-free flours a bit, rather than just working with one blend I've experimented with several options. I started out my gluten-free baking days with mostly coconut flour, arrowroot and almond flour. Now I'm using quite a wider variety. One thing I do not use is store bought gluten-free baking mixes.
Anyway, my kids put up with me for the first couple of years but finally got a bit sick of not being able to have more 'normal' baked goods at home. They wanted to enjoy things like waffles and pizza again, like they remembered it -not my health'ified' coconut flour baked goods or paleo'fied' ones either. An example of one of these would be Meatza, that never went over very well with the boys. They also never really loved my coconut flour pancakes as much as I do either.
- 2 cups buckwheat flour
- 2 cups tapioca flour
- 4 tablespoons coconut sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder (homemade preferably)
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt
- 2-4 eggs
- 1½ cups milk, cream, coconut milk, almond milk (whatever you tolerate)
- 2 tablespoons of melted butter, coconut oil or macadamia oil
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract (optional)
- In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients.
- In another large bowl mix all the wet ingredients, starting out with just two of the eggs.
- Pour half the dry mixture into the wet mixture until well combined, then add the remaining half. I
- f the batter is too thick you can add the extra eggs.
- Let the batter sit for a few minutes.
- In the meantime, plug in your waffle iron, brushing it first with oil or butter.
- Once it lights up and is ready to go you can start making your waffles.
- Measure about ½ cup to ⅔ cup batter into your waffle iron. Some waffle makers come with a special measuring ladle. Each will vary as to how much batter can be used for one waffle, so be sure to figure that out with your first waffle. Too much batter can make a huge mess and waste. This recipe is so easy, even your kids could be in charge of making them.
*Optional Add In: Try adding in 1/2 cup pureed organic pumpkin
*Note: I typically recommend that any pseudo-grains be properly soaked or prepared before their use. ( Read more on why sprouted flour here). I do recommend using sprouted buckwheat flour if you plan to make these often (it also makes a much nicer, lighter waffle). See the image below for a brand recommendation. I can get this at my local health food store, but you can also buy it online – HERE and HERE (<—-amazon affiliate link).
I like to use the already sprouted flour at this time so I do not have soak the flour myself. Plus, soaking the batter with the tapioca in it already does not work. I also like to be able to just make the recipe at a moment's notice rather than planning ahead and soaking overnight. (In case you haven't noticed -I don't do many soaked or sour dough recipes, it seems too tedious).
That shared, I hope have a soaked buckwheat waffle recipe in the works. If you are more traditional in your kitchen using soaking methods you could also try this recipe for gluten-free sourdough pancakes as a waffle batter as well, especially if you have issues with digestion or just prefer that method.
 Do you have any gluten-free baking stories to share so other can learn from your mistakes? Share in the comments….
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Orlando Bloom has sparked rumors he is romancing Brazilian actress/model Luisa Moraes after they were spotted kissing during a dinner date on Friday (26Jun15).
The Pirates of the Caribbean star was photographed getting cosy with Moraes at Zooma Sushi in Malibu, California, with an onlooker telling the U.K.'s Daily Mail, "Orlando and the woman also showed lots of PDA and couldn't keep their hands and lips off of each other throughout the entire dinner."
It is the first time Bloom has been spotted with a possible new girlfriend after splitting from his ex-wife, model Miranda Kerr, in 2013.
Last year (14), he was rumored to be dating Selena Gomez, but denied the reports.


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When someone visits a tutorial on YouTube page for the first time as it it used for business purposes, the ideal scenario would be for them to "Like" the page, thereby subscribing to the news feed from that page. When a landing page is not specified, a visitor will simply see your Facebook "Wall", which may not be very engaging or inviting because it is merely a stream of posts over which you have only partial control.
Facebook lets users control what visitors see when they visit a page. And while the mechanics have changed over time (w3schools.com, with tabs along the top to Twitter and links or tabs along the left hand side), the functionality is still the same. What's even better is that you can customize it so that fans get one view and non-fans will get another, allowing you to completely target your message based on the visitor's status.
I discovered a nice little12 of the BEST Facebook landing pages according to DesignM.ag explaining exactly how to create your very own landing page. If you are not familiar with HTML, you can easily learn a few vital key components at w3schools.com. Don't be intimidated by this! If you can navigate your way around Facebook, you will likely be able to figure out how to use a few tags in HTML in order to insert an image, text or other on your landing page. And if you can't, ask around. I'll bet you know someone who can!
For non-fans, a Facebook landing page is a great place to place photos, a video introduction of yourself or your business, and most importantly, a call to action for them to "Like" your page.
A landing page for fans might include offers on products, and opt-in box, links to your website and/or Twitter, or any other number of items relative to your business.
While these are from the days of FBML and the tabs along the top no longer still exist, they are still great examples of good landing pages and can give you some ideas to get the creative juices flowing:
12 of the BEST Facebook landing pages according to DesignM.ag


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In May this year, WannaCry ransomware was used to take data hostage from 200,000 computers across 150 countries. Devices were locked and owners were asked to pay US$300 in bitcoin to release their fi les. One month later, a cyber attack of a different kind occurred, when a malicious virus, called Petya, wiped data from businesses worldwide, again demanding US$300 bitcoin ransoms. This time, as the virus was incurable and the payments were quickly shut down, the attack appeared to intentionally cause damage, rather than collect funds—a true cyber attack.
And while these attacks have occurred in the past two months, it's clear that over time and with practice cybercriminals are getting better at what they do.
In recent years, the threat level from cyber attacks has risen exponentially, with global companies, public institutions and individuals all at risk. In 2014, a complex and sustained attack on Sony Pictures brought the company to its knees when yet-to-be-released films were stolen, along with sensitive company and personal information. Taking malice to a whole other level, macabre images of the CEO were posted across the company network and veiled threats of violence were made about the impending release of the movie, The Interview. Sony was forced to go dark—to shut down all of its digital systems.
With cyber attacks increasing, so too are the opportunities to protect against these, with the cybersecurity industry and associated businesses on the rise.
Cybersecurity is everyone's job: any organisation is only as secure as its weakest link.
Security by design: security should be baked into every aspect of the business (technology, people and processes).
Privacy and freedom will always be important: but to stop the bad guys you first need to verify that your staff are doing the right thing.
Bolt on technology can never work on its own: security technologies must provide a platform to inform leadership and cultural change.
People are at the core of everything you do: they are your greatest asset and your greatest risk.
Cyber attacks
Gartner Inc., the world's leading research and advisory company, is telling us that worldwide spending on cybersecurity will hit US$90 billion by the end of the year, with a predicted US$113 billion spend by 2020.
Australia's Cyber Security Strategy reports that attacks are estimated to cost economies around one percent of GDP per year. For Australia, this equates to approximately US$13.4 billion dollars (based on 2015 figures).
As incredible as this seems we didn't reach this point overnight.
"The potential for digital disruption to impact our lives and businesses is the sleeping giant we've preferred to ignore."
According to Australia's Cyber Security Strategy each Australian household will have 24 devices connected online by 2019. Additionally, we park personal data in the cloud, trusting that it will be safe or, most likely, not thinking too much about it. And while we, as consumers, have embraced every new digital gadget, with little thought for dangers, cyber criminals have been long honing their craft.
Meanwhile, fully aware of the impending cyber catastrophe, Mohan Koo, CTO of Dtex Systems, and his co-founder Chris Nillissen, have spent the past 17 years applying, refining and delivering world-class cybersecurity solutions.
"Attacks are becoming bolder. They're turning from straightforward phishing to spearphishing."
'Spearphishing' is where the attacker carefully researches their target, perhaps looking for someone in purchasing, then sends them a legitimate-looking email telling them to reset their Microsoft credentials," says Koo.
"Once they have those details, they assume that person's online identity to arrange bank transfers. They're even getting bold enough to follow up with a phone call to demand payment. It's identity fraud on a much larger scale."
This is just one example of a malicious attack, but, according to Koo, threats come from where we least expect them.
His company, Dtex Systems, focuses on intelligent 'User Behaviour Analytics' to detect three classes of cyber threats: malicious insiders, vulnerable insiders, and hijacked credentials. Dtex has shown that the highest number of cases relate to vulnerable insiders…and that's all of us. It's well-intentioned people who put their organisation at risk by ignoring or not understanding how to think or act in a security-minded way.
The Malicious Insider – the bad person who intends to cause harm.
The Vulnerable Insider – the good person who accidentally causes harm.
Hijacked Credentials – outsiders getting access to legitimate insider credentials.
The teachable moment
Turning cybersecurity on its head, Dtex Systems takes a people-centred approach, understanding that cultural change is the most effective security solution.
Dtex Systems uses its behavioural analysis technology to reach out and engage the user at the point they make the mistake—it's called the teachable moment.
"It's a real shift in thinking, but it's absolutely he only way forward. Gone are the days you can completely lock things down," says Koo.
"You should give your staff every freedom that they possibly can have to get the job done in an innovative, intuitive way."
"It's the only way to effectively change the security culture in an organisation, but what is even more positive and effective is security by design."
"When you're making products or designing services, you need to bake security into all of your processes and policies. You can't just bolt it on later. You need to look at the technology, the people and the processes around it. Technology should only ever be a platform from which you can influence human change."
To be fair, Koo and Nillissen were slightly ahead of the curve—17 years ahead to be precise. Yet their global success arrived only in recent years, tracking an increased global cyber threat and a greater awareness of the need to invest in security. Success also followed a move from Adelaide to Silicon Valley, California; a move that had to be made to find customers and achieve the global growth they're experiencing today. Koo, who has ensured Dtex Systems kept an office in Adelaide and other Australian cities, wants to stop the overseas exodus of cyber active entrepreneurs.
Tech innovation and opportunity
With the Turnbull Government's recent announcement that South Australia will get the lion's share of a future A$89 billion defence investment, together with a promised $400 million nation-wide to boost defence cyber security capability, the time is right to leverage peripheral opportunities.
"We punch above our weight here in Adelaide when it comes to tech innovation," says Koo. "Now is the perfect time to create a real cyber security economy in this state. Not just a branch economy where jobs can still be lost overseas; a real and vibrant economic hub of innovative cyber security companies that are agile enough to keep leading the world in managing cyber threat."
"We need to create an ecosystem here in South Australia," says Koo, "a collaborative and supportive ecosystem to shift the inertia that Australian entrepreneurs currently face. We know it's a conservative business culture, so let's give it what it needs to break out onto the global stage."
When you add to the mix what commentators call the 'democratisation of business'— increased accessibility to information, ideas, production, funding and distribution—there should be no limits to an entrepreneur's brand new start-up. Except, while the landscape and platforms are changing, the old rules of business still apply. Business plans need to be drawn, risks need to be taken, products and services need to be tested and refined, reliable funding must be accessed and brands need to be grown. Solid and trustworthy networks still need to be built in among the noise of social media chatter.
What's missing?
According to Koo, the most important thing is funding. It is the biggest missing gap for entrepreneurs in Australia.
Getting an initial round of funding as a new start-up, let alone making it through to a professional Series A investment round, takes serious preparation. It also takes an understanding of the marked differences between the small and conservative venture capital community here in Australia and the complex and vibrant venture capital scene in Silicon Valley.
"In order to be competitive on the global scene, Australian entrepreneurs and investors need a much healthier appetite for risk, and must get to the table quicker," says Koo.
"Just having a good idea is not going to get you there. You need to be trained how to pitch. You need to learn how to analyse the market and prepare for raising an investment. Crucial to this is finding a customer who will help you test your product. If you haven't tested and refined, if you don't have a business plan, no-one will invest."
It's a little more complicated than, 'if you build it they will come'. Timing becomes crucial. Start-ups must be ready to pitch and they need someone to pitch to. We need to stop people from working in silos and get them to collaborate, but this time we need true collaboration that requires trust and commitment. We need to be thinking—no-one can do this for us, we have to build this ecosystem ourselves.
At the moment we have a push to make this happen and some committed and influential people who can take a push and turn it into a groundswell. Can we truly change a conservative business culture that is underpinned by a conservative social culture? Can we build cybersecurity as an Australian export? Can we create a hub of cybersecurity innovation and expertise that draws people in and creates further wealth?
Of course we can, but we do have to build the structure, climb up to the top and hang our toes over the edge.
Talk about your idea with people, especially those outside your area of expertise.
And really listen to everyone…not just your mum.
Find supportive potential customers to help test and refine your product.
Be prepared to revise your initial idea, over and over again.
You can't move forward without it.
Nobody will invest if you can't clearly articulate your vision.
You need to validate the size of the opportunity and the hurdles to get there.
Venture capital, angel investors, what makes them tick?
There are people out there trying to help you. Find them.
Be prepared to take a risk…no risk, no reward.


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 109016
gdm does not match passwords containing accented caracters
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:59:06 EDT
Description of problem:
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
all tested versions of gdm package till red hat linux 9 updatepackage
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1.add new user
2.define password containing accented caracter
3.try to log in a text console ---> success
try to log in a graphical term using su ---> success
4.try to log using gdm ---> will fail
Actual results:
acts like if entered password was wrong
Expected results:
gmd accepts all passwords
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By Alex Baum
Few parts of the world are changing faster than Southeast Asia. Ancient is hurtling at breakneck speeds towards modern.
Malls and McDonald's might be lasting impressions for some. But pockets remain all but completely unaffected by the tendrils of globalization. Still as remote and pristine as ever, full to the brim with the kinds of adventures that dried up elsewhere on the tourist radar decades ago, it is here that many argue the real Southeast Asia still lingers. However, in Indonesia these pockets turn to vast swaths of untamed wilderness, especially once one crosses that threshold between the west of the country and its far less populated east. It's safe to say that eastern Indonesia represents the last great unknown of tropical Asia, and some inspired and intrepid travelers are beginning to feel the pull of its mystique. Those with a real lust for adventure are bringing their bicycles and traveling these lesser known islands by two wheels.
Indonesia is a land of multiple personalities – some might argue one for each of its 17,000 plus islands. In simpler terms, it can be described also as a land of two faces: its intense, busy, and decidedly Asian west; and its eastern half – one of the least populated and seldom-visited areas in Asia, dominated by myriad seas, and embodying a much more Pacific island feel. Separating these two worlds is the famed "Wallace Line", where in the late 1800's, explorer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace noticed the stark contrast in Asian flora and fauna of the western islands versus the distinctly more Australian life forms of the east. As he strode down the path to uncovering the secrets of tectonic drift, giving birth to the study of biogeography, and independently developing a parallel theory of evolution to Darwin's, it was this vast collection of eastern islands – known then as the Spice Islands and dubbed now "Wallacea" – that inspired such groundbreaking ideas.
Today, eastern Indonesia is known mainly to serious dive enthusiasts who seek in it's crystalline waters for what is widely considered to be the best diving on Earth. Others come in smaller numbers in search of unique anthropological phenomena and age-old tribal living on display in places like Sulawesi, Sumba, Flores, and New Guinea. Just as so many of the cultures in eastern Indonesia remain relatively untouched by tourism and consumerism, so too do its natural bounties. Bird watchers and wildlife enthusiasts trek into the sweeping jungles that cloak many of these islands in search of the weird and wonderful. Mountain climbers come in search of claiming never before-climbed peaks. And very quietly, a small stream of cyclists are beginning to test themselves on these remote roads.
As so many who have ever had the joy of cycle touring can attest, cycling is probably the best way to take in all that a place has to offer. You move fast enough to cover ground and slow enough to become a part of the landscape. The opportunities to be the first to fully experience a place by bicycle in Indonesia's eastern islands are seemingly as endless as the islands here themselves. Be the first westerner a village has interacted with on a remote Moluccan island. Take the maiden voyage down a single track in the mountains of Central Sulawesi. Set up a campsite on a lonely beach in Flores where no one has ever slept. Or even be the first ever cyclist to pedal down a brand new road in Papua! These are the kinds of opportunities that abound in Indonesia's east. You end up stumbling into them unknowingly, while in most other parts of Southeast Asia (and the rest of the world, for that matter), they're difficult to find when you're actively seeking them.
Eastern Indonesia offers adventure at a premium. For the cyclist, there are incredible cultures to encounter where the outsider is still a total novelty, immense areas of undisturbed and breathtakingly beautiful wilderness, and quiet roads almost devoid of traffic save for the smiling faces of surprised locals waving from the roadside. Perhaps most of all, there is the overwhelming feeling that you are among the first to ever do what you're doing.
For those hardened travelers accustomed to navigating their way through these kinds of adventures independently and on a solo budget, and for those who have a solid foundation in the language of Bahasa Indonesia (which you will absolutely need in this region) eastern Indonesia is a playground. If you do not fit this description, fear not! There are a handful of small tour companies that offer fully-supported guided tours through many of these islands. Some, operate on the basis of custom-tailored tours, while others provide small day trips based out of hotels and small bastions of tourism. Cycle Indonesia has been operating extensive, fully-supported tours through Sulawesi, Bali, and Flores (with plans to expand into Maluku and Papua) for the last two decades and they provide a highly experienced mix of Western and local guides fluent in both English and Indonesian.


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You remember the searches in the sky, hunting from the helicopter for the hospital until the landmarks loomed below: the old silos and the big hamburger joint across the street.
Transport nurse Kay Sucier watches an infant from her seat aboard a fixed-wing aircraft while enroute to Children's Hospital. Aircraft often were used in the early days of the transport program.
You remember stalking many more on the ground in other towns, the ambulance plowing over slippery back roads when the interstates were iced shut; or driving toward black skies cradling infant storms.
You remember hauling the incubator with the child inside, slogging some 300 feet across a yard of soupy mud where the ambulance couldn't go and where the parents waited to get their baby back.
This is your personal history, but it's also part of a larger story – the story of neonatal transport at UMMC, the struggles and risks, but also the things that kept you and your colleagues going: the Christmas cards from parents, the intimate expressions of gratitude from people who did not know how to thank you enough.
"There was a grandfather of a child we transported, and I told him I love blueberries," said Jamie Miller, who retired in May after almost three decades as a neonatal transport nurse.
"Well, he grew blueberries; so one day he showed up with a five-gallon can. I shared."
It's been that way since the neonatal transport service's beginnings. The technology may have changed, but the rewards haven't. The biggest are the lives of the children.
"You remember them forever," said April Davidson, a flight/transport nurse.
The Medical Center's original helicopter, Lifestar, was in service from 1983-1990.
"There's no better feeling than to run into a mom in the hallway here and have her give you a hug and thank you, and it could be a year after you took care of her baby."
Saving the life of a baby born too soon, or too sick, often depends on being able to move it to a place that can best take care of it. In Mississippi, that frequently means moving the baby to UMMC – by ground ambulance or helicopters fortified with equipment to help it survive.
The neonatal transport team here works at Batson Children's Hospital and the Winfred L. Wiser Hospital for Women & Infants, a team that includes a neonatal nurse practitioner and nurses with special training in transport and neonatal intensive care.
They are the only ones available 24/7 in a state that has the highest rate of premature births in the country: 17.1 percent, as reported by the March of Dimes last year.
This team counts on support from respiratory therapists, registered nurses and paramedics, along with UMMC physicians with training in neonatal and pediatric intensive care who handle referrals and stay in touch with the team on its journeys.
Transport teams at UMMC and elsewhere are "delivering state-of-the-art care," reported Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in July 2013. "Evidence shows such teams improve patient outcomes."
Jamie Miller
Using the oldest records she could find, Miller counted the babies – many of them preemies – her unit cared for and transported. The number is well more than 10,000 – enough babies to rival the populations of, say, Indianola, Petal and Picayune.Miller, who began working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in 1983 before becoming a member of the transport team a couple of years later, helped move 4,000 of them – almost three times the population of Sharkey County in the Delta, the region where many of them came from and were returned whole.
"We never turned away anybody," she said. "Ever."
It's hard to overestimate neonatal transport's impact on the health of newborns, not to mention on the emotions of their parents.
Beth Mullins
One particular dad may have summed it up when he took Beth Mullins aside and said, "You made us feel safe on the worst day of our life"
"You make a huge impression on them," said Mullins, nurse practitioner and neonatal transport coordinator, "because their baby is in your hands."
Until four decades ago, there really wasn't anyone the parents of these babies could turn to, especially in rural areas. That's when the concept of neonatal transports at UMMC began.
But, before that could happen, there had to be a reason to move a premature baby – that is, some hope that it would do any good. The truth is, until relatively recently, premature, or early-term, babies often didn't live long.
To be considered full-term today, babies must be born between 39 weeks and 40 weeks plus six days after conception, a guideline endorsed in 2013 by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Formerly, the span was thought to be between 37 and 42 weeks.
Even at 37 weeks, newborns have a higher risk of complications, particularly difficulty in breathing, reported a 2010 study conducted at the University of Illinois in conjunction with the Consortium on Safe Labor. These babies also have trouble staying warm.
At the turn of the 20th century, a baby born only a week or so early rarely made it. It wasn't until the 1920s that a hospital in Chicago created a station to care for premature infants; in this country, that marked the start of hospital-based intensive care for preemies and low-birth-weight babies.
The standards of care advanced at a crawl. Administering oxygen to the babies helped, as did early incubators, although they were notoriously fickle.
It wasn't until the 1960s that the country became mobilized, touched by the tragedy of one certain child: the son of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie. The boy was born 5 ¹/2 weeks early, at 4 pounds, 10 ¹/2 ounces. His premature birth, and death, in 1963 hit home with many Americans.
In 1960, a 1-kilogram (slightly more than 2 pounds) newborn had a 95 percent chance of dying, reports Stanford University's Department of Pediatrics
For the next 40 years or so, one innovation after another saved lives – although, Mullins said, "a 4-pound baby was a miracle, even 20 years ago."
Now, almost any baby who lives through birth has a chance, if given the proper care.
By 2000, a 1-kilogram baby had a 95 percent chance of survival, Stanford University reports.
Today, some surviving babies weigh in at around 1 pound, about as much as a loaf of bread. Some are born about four months too early, but must stay about that long, or longer, in intensive care. They are chronically ill and have birth defects.
The Neonatal Cradle, one of the earlier ambulances in the transport fleet, was donated in 1979 by the Junior League of Jackson.
"We've had babies who have been here more than a year," Mullins said. "We have birthday cakes sometimes."
"The staff gets attached to them," Davidson said.
Miller certainly did. "The ones I remember are the ones I stayed in touch with," she said.
"There was a baby I picked up who had a heart defect. I got Christmas cards from the family a long time afterwards. Unfortunately, he died when he was 4. I still have a picture of him in my bedroom."
Still, the longer she worked, Miller, along with her co-workers, saw more and more of these babies go home and grow up. Even the ones whose problems had nothing to do with being born too soon.
Cathy Delaney
It was Christmas Eve, said nurse Cathy Delaney.
A full-term baby was in shock from an infection, said Delaney, one of four neonatal transport nurses at Wiser. It was a one-hour and 15-minute drive back to Jackson and Delaney had to resuscitate the baby over and over the entire way.
"I got down on my hands and knees and prayed the baby wouldn't die on Christmas Eve," Delaney said.
The baby lived through Christmas Eve.
"And then it was, 'Please don't take this child on Christmas Day,'" she said. The prayer grew longer and longer, and so did the child's life.
"After two weeks," Delaney said, "the baby went home."
All newborn babies' chances grew, particularly preemies', with the use of oxygen and the development and improvement of breathing machines and ventilators that take over for their almost powerless lungs.
Then, there was artificial surfactant – a real godsend, Mullins said. Administered to the baby through a breathing tube that enters the windpipe, it mimics a natural substance that helps keep the lungs inflated.
In December 2013, the journal Pediatrics reaffirmed that surfactant "reduces mortality … and lowers the risk of chronic lung disease or death at 28 days of age."
It began making a "radical difference" in survival rates by the early 1990s, Mullins said.
But long before that, near the beginning of the renaissance in neonatal care, the Junior League of Jackson donated a special $45,000 ambulance to the City of Jackson. Dedicated to moving babies, the "Neonatal Cradle" could hold an incubator, nurses with specialized training, IVs, a breathing apparatus and more.
It was 1979, the year that neonatal transport at UMMC really got moving.
The donated ambulance transported premature and high-risk newborns from all over the state to the Medical Center and other Jackson-area hospitals that could deliver specialized care.
Over the years, members of UMMC's transport team have also traveled to just-over-the-border spots in Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama.
By the 1990s, many of their patients, almost as soon as they were born, were taking their first helicopter rides. Today, UMMC's flight program, AirCare, shuttles approximately 40 percent of these babies to Jackson – when the distance (more than 50 miles one way), the weather and the urgency permit.
"We fly and we drive," Davidson said.
Inside the copter and the two ground ambulances that are now available at all times are incubators, medicine, heart monitors, breathing machines, IVs and CPR equipment.
"Each one is a mobile intensive care unit," Delaney said. "We take intensive care to the patient.
One of the newer ambulances to transport babies and children around the state awaits the next call at the hospital.
"In the transport, it may be simple things: keeping the babies warm, giving them oxygen and fluids. But some community hospitals aren't equipped for that."
A lot of hospitals in this state don't handle deliveries, Mullins said.
"They are good people doing the best they can, but they don't have babies."
So, in such cases, even mothers of some full-term babies come to UMMC, or try to, Mullins said. Some don't make it here in time; they're born in a community hospital's emergency room or at home in a distant town.
The number of neonates (babies who have been under hospital care since birth) transferred each year from other hospitals to Wiser ranges from 250 to 450.
When neonatal transport started, UMMC was the only place in the state with specialized care for preemies. Now, other medical centers offer it as well, Mullins said. But this is still the place for infants who need such care as heart surgery: UMMC has the only pediatric cardiac surgeon in the state.
"And when there are certain complications of the intestines, and certain infections, it's a matter of hours before they die," Mullins said. "They need immediate surgery."
And they need the transport team to take them to the surgeon.
AirCare I, one of two emergency helicopters, is essentially a flying intensive care unit.
As for the 4,000 babies Miller saw in her career, not all of them were sick for long, she said.
"Some we transported back to community hospitals to complete their stay and be closer to their families."
That's what she was doing years ago on the day she helped bring those waiting parents their baby, after that 100-yard slog through the mud.
But the marathons through muck, over ice and under darkening clouds didn't bother her, she said.
"That was our job. You never got tired of traveling. You want to do what the babies need. That's what drives you.
"We had a good arrangement, where if you felt you got too tired to be safe and effective, you could call a co-worker and say, 'I've got to pass the torch on this one.'
"Of course, on the way there, there was no patient, so I napped in the ambulance quite a bit.
"But my husband could never figure out why I would never enjoy a Sunday drive."
UMMC Nurse Nancy Park helps Jackson Fire Department driver Pat Kelly move an infant from the Neonatal Cradle into the Children's Hospital in 1983.
Dr. Phil Rhodes, left, professor emeritus of pediatrics and former division chief of newborn medicine, lifts an infant into a fixed-wing airplane with help from a Jackson Fire Department driver.
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Animal control workers in Valencia County said two pit bulls mauled a horse Thursday in a pasture off Molina Road. One neighbor saw the dogs shortly after the attack and contacted animal control.
"I was driving back to my house. I saw a pit bull covered in blood walking back down the road," said Rob Sher "Our kids are at the bus stop right there every morning, and this happened 15 minutes before our kids go to the bus stop. So, it could have very well been our children out here being attacked and not this horse."
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By Nelson Coffin
A 59-46 loss to Indian Creek on Friday afternoon in Owings Mills never looked so good to Garrison Forest basketball coach T'lia Walker Dennis, whose positive attitude alone should carry the Grizzlies a long way this season.
She was obviously thrilled that her team was able to slice a 19-point fourth-quarter deficit to six points late in the period — until Indian Creek junior Maddy Evans restored order by notching the final six of her game-high 36 points down the stretch of the showdown between the teams that have won the past three C Conference titles.
"I told the girls that the hardest part of a game is digging out of a hole like we did," said Dennis, whose team claimed conference crowns 2015 and 2016. "I really liked our ball movement. I liked how we were breaking their press. A lot of times we beat ourselves, but we didn't do that today."
The Grizzlies' 14-1 run was ignited by a bank shot by sophomore guard Lexi Coldiron and sustained on a layup by freshman guard Rashiya Howell, a stick-back by freshman forward London Hicks and a Coldiron drive to get back in the game with two minutes remaining in regulation, forcing Indian Creek coach Jamie Smith to call a timeout.
"Because we don't have a JV this year, we gave a lot of girls the chance to play," Smith said about how quickly the big lead was slashed.
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In addition to her monster scoring game, Evans also totaled 11 rebounds and eight assists in the victory.
"We knew they'd have some fire under them to play us," said Evans, alluding to last year's C Conference championship game won by the Eagles, 43-36. "We were aware that they were coming back (in today's game), but we knew we could do it if we used our transition game."
Smith said that Evans does not look to score.
"Maddy just scores when it's the most obvious choice," he said. "She usually defers to others. She is really a team-oriented player."
He said that there is no clear-cut favorite to take the C Conference this winter, although his team is in the thick of things with a 7-5 overall record and a 5-2 conference mark. Garrison is now 2-4 and 2-3 in league play.
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"I'm excited about where we are now," she said. "We have all the pieces we need to get back. We have five players capable of double-doubles. And our freshmen are getting more comfortable and more productive."
Evans said that beating Garrison might be a springboard for the rest of the season.
"I think it's a good way of getting back on track," she said.
Her coach said that the pecking order in the C Conference behind 7-0 Bryn Mawr isn't clear at this point.
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- U.S. and Afghanistan agree on post-2014 security pact
- China relents and sends 'Peace Ark' hospital ship to Philippines
- Was Tuesday's suicide bombing in Beirut Lebanon self-inflicted?
U.S. and Afghanistan agree on post-2014 security pact
Almost 100 people were killed in and around Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, from ten coordinated car bomb attacks across the city and the country (CNN)
Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the U.S. and Afghangovernments have agreed on terms for a security arrangement to allowU.S. military presence to continue in Afghanistan after the main forcewithdrawal in 2014. There are currently 60,000 U.S. troops inAfghanistan, down from a peak of about 100,000. The agreement doesnot specify the size of the force that will remain after 2014.
The main area of contention in negotiating the agreement is aprovision that gives the U.S. military legal jurisdiction over itsforces. This means that if an American soldier commits a crime, thenhe'll be prosecuted in American courts, rather than in Afghan courts.Iraq had refused a similar provision in its joint security agreementwith the U.S., and so American forces were withdrawn completely inDecember 2011. Since then, al-Qaeda linked terrorist violence in Iraqhas surged.
However, the Afghan agreement still must be reviewed by a "loyajirga," or tribal council, that Afghan President Hamid Karzai hasconvened this week in Kabul. The council could raise objections thatmight delay or even prevent a signing. In particular, Karzai hasdemanded an apology for behavior of the U.S. troops, which the Obamaadministration has already refused to provide. USA Today
China relents and sends 'Peace Ark' hospital ship to Philippines
International pressure is forcing China again to reluctantly relent onits stingy aid response to the Philippines after the devastation ofTyphoon Haiyan. (See "19-Nov-13 World View — Philippine typhoon disaster draws clear lines between US and China")
China's initial offer of $100,000 aid was minuscule compared to whatwas offered by other countries, especially the United States thatprovided $20 million dollars and an entire carrier task force to aidtyphoon victims. An embarrassed China increased its aid donation to$1.6 million, but that amount was still criticized as being smallerthan the $2.7 million that furniture maker Ikea is providing in aid tothe Philippines.
Now China was forced to back down again. China has one of the largestand most modern hospital ships in the world, the "Peace Ark," butthey've refused to allow it to help the Philippine people. But onWednesday, China announced that the Peace Ark will travel to thePhilippines after all. According to a government spokesman:
"We hope its mission will help ease the lack ofmedical services in the disaster areas in the Philippines, as atoken of Chinese people's friendship to the Philippinepeople."
We hope that he didn't choke on the word "friendship". Xinhua
Was Tuesday's suicide bombing in Beirut Lebanon self-inflicted?
As we reported yesterday, theMideast sectarian conflict sharply escalated on Tuesday because of amajor double-suicide bombing targeting Iran's embassy in the mostsuper-secure area of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. 25 people werekilled, including a senior Iranian diplomat. The self-proclaimedperpetrators were the al-Qaeda linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades,presumably supported by Saudi Arabia, presumably taking revenge forIran's and Hezbollah's support for the bloody actions of Syria'sgenocidal monster president, Bashar al-Assad.
But a report by Debka, which sometimes gets things wrong, is quotingits intelligence sources as saying that there's no such group as theAbdullah Azzam Brigades, and that the whole attack was perpetrated byHezbollah itself, targeting the assets of its puppetmasters in Iran.According to the report, Hezbollah wanted to withdraw all its forcesfrom Syria, having suffered hundreds of casualties in Syria so far.Thus, it continues, Hezbollah staged the terrorist attack to justifykeeping its fighters home in Lebanon – to defend against furtherterrorist attacks. It's possible that the staged terrorist attack wasmore successful than planned, killing and injuring more people thanintended.
This story sounds so fantastical that it's hard to know what tobelieve, and it comes from Israel-linked Debka, which never hesitatesto show Iran and Hezbollah in as negative a light as possible. On theother hand, what are we dealing with is a terrorist group (Hezbollah),for whom slaughtering innocent civilians is an almost daily way oflife. If they're willing to blow up an innocent crowd of shoppersjust to create terror, why wouldn't be willing to blow up a bunch ofpeople walking by the Iranian embassy? Blowing up innocent people isjust a way of life. When you put it that way, the self-inflictedattack is really not so fantastical, after all.
If this story is true, Iran is certain to seek retribution againstHezbollah, probably by forcing Hezbollah to do its bidding and sendmany more thousands of Hezbollah fighters into Syria, furtherinflaming the Sunni jihadists. Either way, this massive attack on theIranian embassy is going to escalate the sectarian fighting in theMideast. Debka
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Start with a standing breathing exercise that moves your spine-
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-exhale back down to forward fold (round back, heavy head and arms, stretch hamstrings)
-inhale to reverse swan dive back up to standing with arms overhead
-exhale arms down to your sides (back to beginning standing pose)
Repeat this for 5-10 rounds. Notice the inhales are upward, lifting movements and the exhales are downward, folding movements. Really exaggerate the movements of the spine. Every other pose is lengthening of the spine and every other pose is rounding and releasing the spine. Feet stay planted in the same place the whole time. Make your breaths really long so the movements are pretty slow.
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REFLECTIONS: Talking with Paul Jenkins
Reflections, Volume 2, Number 13
Oh dear.
Back when I first started the first volume of this column, I thought it was cursed. One out of three creators I interviewed got sick before, during or directly after the interview. Ear infections, vomiting whilst on the phone with me, "the spins," temporary blindness, green flem and more were almost a weekly occurrence for me.
I thought I had that curse beat when I moved to Comic Book Resources.
However, my recent in-depth with Paul Jenkins, the guy behind "The Sentry," "Sidekicks," "Generation M," "Civil War: Front Line," and the excellent "Revelations" miniseries, I found out that a tornado wreaked havoc in his life just after he agreed to doing the interview. Way back when I did my first interview with Paul, he found out he needed knee surgery just before doing the interview. Oh crap…
Has the curse returned?
Perhaps I should start interviewing creators I don't like, just in case. I mean, I don't want my favorite artists going blind, or my favorite writers loosing fingers again!
I've split the interview I did with Paul in to two parts. This week the interview will be concentrating more on his current body of work, while next week gets personal (with a chaser where he discusses "Sidekicks").
Plus, if he gets hit by a bus between now and then because of the curse, I'll get one heck of a lot of publicity for a posthumous interview, right? Let's all hope that doesn't transpire.
Robert Taylor: How's life?
Paul Jenkins: Life is good. I have loads of interesting things going on. Plus we have this new baby.
RT: And what a cute baby he is.
PJ: He's not bad. We're gonna keep him on the trial period for a few more weeks.
RT: I would hope so! OK, switching from babies to comics, are you satisfied with what you've done on "The Sentry?"
PJ: When the miniseries began coming out, people started asking me about doing an ongoing. I like the character very much and think he's got some legs, so I'd like to do the ongoing series very much. I think there is plenty of stuff I can work with within the Marvel universe.
RT: How'd you like working with John Romita?
PJ: Johnny is really brilliant. We worked together on "The Hulk" before and he's such a really good "big" actiony storyteller. But people underestimate John's ability to tell a story in the small moments as well. People don't recognize that kind of thing, though. People react to John as a "big" artist. He's done Spider-Man and The Hulk, but here he is doing the Sentry and doing it wonderfully. People complain that it's going to be Johnny, but in the end, who else would it be?
RT: Let's talk about Senty's role in "New Avengers." Are you happy with the way it's being integrated into the main story? And how did you like your cameo?
PJ: I'm really happy with what Brian [Bendis] does, no matter what he's doing, because he's such a good writer. The cameo thing was funny. I almost gave myself a cameo in the last issue of the miniseries: The Void imagined there was a comic book writer living somewhere in Atlanta who was coming around and the Void was going to have to take care of it.
The buzzword seems to be decompression these days. I didn't even know what it was until I started reading a few posts about it, but apparently he does it and I do it.
If you think "The Sentry" is decompressed, you are crazy! We put tons of new concepts every time you turn the page. Brian might disagree but he's doing some really solid stuff without decompression over on "New Avengers."
If readers want it any quicker, it would be like a fast food restaurant.
RT: I think a lot of it is that fans mistake decompression for characterization: They think the writer is just being lazy and writing pages of dialogue when it's actually essential to the story.
PJ: Oh my God, yes! But doing pages of dialogue is really hard! You have to be pretty bold to do a story where people just walk through a mall and talk to set up the action stuff that comes up later.
RT: How are you enjoying your exclusivity to Marvel?
PJ: It's pretty damned good for me, isn't it? Obviously, I did it with Marvel instead of DC because I haven't been doing as much work for DC lately. I've had a lot of good success with Marvel lately. Basically, it meant nothing that I chose Marvel over DC, I just needed to do an exclusive because I had a little baby coming and needed security for the next three years. But it's been working out great.
RT: What's up with "Civil War: Front Line" and why did you decide to do that instead of just continuing "The Pulse?"
PJ: You almost answered your own question there. "The Pulse" is a great book, but I think that when it was announced we were going to do "The Pulse," the "Civil War" idea was swirling around. So I took the idea of using some of the characters from "The Pulse" and using them in a way that never had been done before. Obviously it's a bigger type of story, plus it will obviously outsell "The Pulse."
And if it's popular enough, I can always go back and revisit those characters. I have hundreds of stories in my mind, and the great thing is that with books like this, I can pretty much do anything I want with any character I choose.
RT: Well, if you can use any character you want, which characters do you want to use?
PJ: Typeface is in there. He's been universally panned as one of the worst characters of all time. Solo and Thunderclap are in there, because they'll all be in the situation in one way or another.
RT: Do you miss working on a Spider-Man book?
PJ: Not really. I'm writing Spider-Man occasionally anyway and get to use him like that.
For the sake of being clear, there was a lot of discussion about whether or not I was being forced to write stories and plot developments. It wasn't really being forced. The original concept for "Spectacular Spider-Man" was to reexamine old-style stories and characters from new angles. The focus changed editorially in Marvel. I found myself writing for the trade and that wasn't fitting me.
They didn't tell me to write stories; they just asked me things like including organic web shooters. That was very different from the original concept of the book. I agreed with Joe that maybe I should move on from the book, but I got to write a couple of great single-issue stories before I moved on.
RT: Let's talk "Revelations."
PJ: I'm really happy with the way it turned out. That one got a lot of positive interest. That last issue wrapped up in a way people didn't expect.
People really thought it was a murder mystery. We set it up, then set it up some more, and it ends up being something similar, but not quite the same.
You try to do the unexpected with the ends of stories. Going back to "The Sentry." I began to see people writing what they wanted the end of the miniseries should be. And in doing that they were gearing up not to like it because I was going to do something different. That can be really frustrating.
And it was different. I didn't see a single person online guess it. Because those people didn't guess it they are pissed and I've seen some people complain about it.
There's a little frustration when you write something you know is good, but you see people gearing themselves up to hate it, for some reason.
"Revelations" was a quiet story that ended with a bang whereas "The Sentry" was a madcap story that didn't end with a massive bang but a logical conclusion.
If it was the Watcher or Galactus showed up, where could you go from there? You can't go anywhere from there because you have a massive object in the way.
Next Week: Jenkins on "Sidekicks," the books that changed his life, his family, and much more!
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