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Hi everyone.Well I've created much fuss around in this forum through my last article on viruses that cannot be deteted by any AntiVirus software.I didn't know how I can get back the good image I've lost,so I wrote this 2 day report on NTFS ADS viruses.I've researched and researched this topic a lot of times before writing this report.I hope it somehow pays back for my last post.Since this is a 2 day report,I thought I shouldn't post the reports for both of the days here because it wouldn't make sense.Therefore,if you like this report,you can get the Day 2 for free from my website by the link given at the end of this article.
I hope it proves useful.
2 days to learning all about NTFS ADS viruses.
Day 1:
What is NTFS ADS?
Well,ADS stands for Alternate Data Streams.It is a feature of the NTFS file system.It allows data to be attached to files but this data remains completely invisible to some file reading utilities.This feature can be used by viruses to exploit systems.Wanna see how it works?Then may be we have to get started with some practical stuff.
Getting started.
What you'll need.....
Well,what we are going to do now isn't going to work unless you have got NTFS file system installed on the drive you'll work at.(I got almost half crazy trying to get it to work on one of my drives that had FAT32 and couldn't realize what was wrong.Then I checked the file system and was like OHH Stupid Me!Anyways...)However if you do not have FAT32 installed on any of your drives and you can't get one that has it installed,then just read the rest of this article....you'll get an idea of what I'm talking about.However if you do have a drive with NTFS installed,then great!Lets do it!
First of all,make a seperate folder in the drive that has NTFS installed.Name that folder "test".Now,you must be having a little knowledge of how to use Ms.DOS.If no,then visit this page.Learn Ms.DOS through the free tutorials provided and then return here.
If you already have a little know-how of Ms.DOS,then we can get started right away.
Learning how to create ADSs.
An ADS is really simple to create if you know have a little knowlegde of Ms.DOS.Just lauch Ms.DOS and point to the folder "test" on whatever drive you have the folder on.Lets say you have test installed on Drive C:\ so you'll have to point to the folder C:\Test.
Now,type the following line:
echo"this text is visible">1.txt
What's happening here,is that the echo command is creating the file "1.txt" and putting the words"this text is visible" into that file.
Now,when you open the folder C:\Test through windows explorer you should see the file 1.txt and when you double click that file,you should be able to read the words"this text is visible" in that file.Now,lets move on creating our first ADS in that file.
At the command prompt,type the following line:
echo "and this this text is invisible">1.txt:ads1.txt
This command creates an ADS,or a data stream in the file 1.txt.This data stream cannot be viewed by windows explorer or Ms.DOS.If you open the folder C:\test through Windows Explorer then you will see only one file,named 1.txt.You wouldn't see any other file.And,even if you try the DIR command through Ms.DOS,you will still see only one file named 1.txt in that folder.Also,by creating 1.txt and adding an ADS to it,we have used some 54 bytes of memory.However,we see that the DIR command shows only 24 bytes occupied by the folder.You may even check the size of the folder through Windows Explorer(you can do so by opening drive C,right clicking on the folder Test and choosing properties.)Still you would see only 24 bytes occupied by the folder.The only way you can view the ADS you just added to the file,is by typing the following command at the command prompt:
notepad 1.txt:ads1.txt
This will open up a notepad window and will show the file we just created.This is the only way you can read the ADSs attatched to a file.However,now there is a free tool available which scans the entire drive or a given directory for AdSs. It lists the names and size of all alternate data streams it finds.It is called Lads.You can download Lads now from http://www.heysoft.de.If you ever come across a file that you doubt has some ADSs attached to it and you want to read what's in the ADSs then LADS is the program for you. You can use LADS to find the names of all of the ADSs attached to that file/folder.Then you can use the notepad command to view the contents of the ADSs.This is very useful if you are not sure if a particular folder or file has ADSs attached to it or not and if you want to view the contents of the ADSs.
Well,that's all for now.Tomorrow I will show you how NTFS ADS can be used to create viruses,and also how you can remove ADSs from a file without losing the original data it contains.As for today,you may want to practice creating ADSs and experiment with them.
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Blue about November 2? As a labor lawyer in a Blue State, I'm ready to give up. Not because Bush will repeal the Wagner Act–I almost wish he would. The act is so screwed up, management could hardly have it any better. Worried about the National Labor Relations Board? Not really. No union serious about organizing uses it anymore.
The problem is, unions represent only about 8 percent of the workforce (private sector). When the airlines finish with Chapter 11, we could be even smaller. In four years, could labor in the private sector be more or less gone? I hope not. Anyway, I suppose someone will always be on strike at Yale.
The worst part about the next four years is that labor will be tied down, on Capitol Hill, fighting privatization of Social Security. We will be too bloodied, after that, to do much organizing in "the backlands."
Still, am I really that discouraged? You bet I am.
Let the real me step aside, then, and bring forward a me who pretends to believe why our defeat on November 2 is, or could be, a good thing. Because now, after November 2, we know that we are Two Nations. We should give up on DC.
Let's govern from the Blue States.
If we govern from the Blue States, it may be possible to bring the labor movement back. What do I mean by "governing from the Blue States"? Use state law as much as possible to set up the kind of social democracy we would like to see for the country as a whole.
How are we going to do this? It won't be easy, but it's a whole lot cheaper and easier than doing what we just did in the Kerry campaign. Let's keep intact America Coming Together and MoveOn. Let's give the kids who worked the streets something to do.
This will cost money, but if the voter breakdowns are right, the Democrats have dough, big dough. If the rich of the GOP can fund the Christian right, maybe Harvard can give a little more to labor, since at least a labor union is an institution of the Enlightenment.
First, we need places for people to meet. Instead of unions that people can join only if a majority of workers at a workplace decide they want to be members, we should have organizations, or clubs, that could include associate members, people like you and me who never dreamed we might have a union card. Let people, individually, one by one, sign up as union members, and not only as part of a "bargaining unit." In Europe, that's how they do it.
We need some place to go, and meet, and hang out, the way they do in the rural counties on the Christian right. Democrats will always be shy of a majority until we have places where we can be citizens. While the voting rate may have gone up, I have a hunch the number of real citizens keeps dropping. And the reason is that, as John Dewey wrote long ago, the last and least important thing about citizenship is voting. More important is to live a certain way of life. When many evangelical Christians went to the polls in 2004, they may have been voting for the first time. But they already were citizens, albeit not of this world, perhaps.


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Answer Man, The (US - BD)
Gabe gets all his questions answered by writer/director, John Hindman...
To make my job easier Answer Man writer/director John Hindman offered to do an e-mail interview concerning his film (well, technically I was contacted by a PR company rep, but that's beside the point). Here's a little plot synopsis to get you started, followed by my interview. Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) is the world famous author of the best-selling spiritual book 'Me and God', and unbeknownst to his adoring public, he doesn't actually speak to the almighty. What's worse, he's a sad hermit that hates his adoring public. Kris Lucas (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a small bookstore owner straight out of rehab. He and Faber connect when Faber tries to pawn off his collection of spiritual books, which Kris cannot afford to buy. During this power struggle Faber injures his back, and is forced to venture out of his house to a start-up chiropractor named Elizabeth (Lauren Graham). Elizabeth, a single mother and widow, has neuroses all her own. Through his connections with Kris and Elizabeth Faber begins a slow and difficult journey back to humanity.
Tell us about the inspiration behind the film, and more specifically plot elements like unwanted celebrity, self-help books, theological indecision, and beautiful chiropractors?
I wanted to tell a story about fathers and sons. Fathers who have died or left, surrogate fathers, what it is to be a son. What it means to need a dad in your life. If there's a Heavenly Father what's that relationship like?
I also liked the idea of someone being famous for something he could not do for himself. The studio version I suppose would be to have the character have written a book on relationships but can't find love himself. I wondered what the biggest thing was that you could be famous for and decided it would be the answers to all of the questions that have plagued mankind forever. We all want to know 'what's going on here?' It's something I wrestle with and so I decided my characters should have the same dilemma. This was also a good comedic topic for me as I wanted to point out what I find funny about the self-help movement.
As far as chiropractors go, I needed to find a way for two strangers to meet in a way that made sense. I was talking to my dad and he was complaining about his back. And, I thought 'She's a chiropractor!'.
What filmmakers and story writers inspired The Answer Man?
I set out to make what I guess you could call an old-fashioned movie. I love Frank Capra, Preston Sturgess, Woody Allen, and Billy Wilder. One of the things I miss most about their films is they didn't rely on sex. They weren't crass or cynical. They didn't make fun of their characters feelings or desires. There was a kind of sweetness to them. When something happens to you it's a big deal. Precisely, because it's happening to you! It doesn't matter what year it is or how we have changed as a society. The problems that people go through fundamentally haven't changed. So, in a sense, I was attempting to tell a story that was a bit more timeless than something that could only happen in 2009. It's why some of those older films still hold up.
Did you write the character arcs separate and then interweave them, or was the script written as a whole story?
I wrote it as one story all the way through. They need each other to 'get better'. If you take out any part of the other character's stories the whole thing falls apart.
Two of the three main characters are immediately set up as hypocrites. What inspired this, and is hypocrisy a theme you intend to explore in future films?
We are all hypocrites. There are so many things that we say are important to us and yet we act in direct contradiction to that all the time. Every day. We go to the gym but we smoke. We want to be more loving but we hold grudges. We are all a war of opposites and I wanted my characters to reflect that. It doesn't make you wrong. It just makes you human.
As a horror fan I notice that Arlen is a horror fan (or at least a monster fan). Can I assume you're a horror fan too, and could there a horror film in your future?
I love monster movies. Arlen (Jeff Daniels' character) needed something to humanize him a bit and so I put in his love of monsters that he got from watching those kinds of movies with his dad. Something I did a lot of.
I would love to make a monster movie.
This is probably a common question (sorry), but I'll ask anyway—what was it like being a first time writer/director? How long did it take to get producers on board? Was casting more difficult?
The trick isn't getting what you want. The trick is, still wanting it after you get it. It was the hardest thing I've ever done and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
We cast the movie first and then went to see if someone wanted to pay for it. The whole thing took less then a year. Five minutes in Hollywood time.
Was there a temptation to make the film thematically darker, and was it difficult to not fully embrace the schmaltzy route?
Not really. I like jokes. I want to keep things moving. Without that the movie could get bogged down and all of the sudden it feels like you're trying to say something 'important'. What is going on in the movie is important but only to the people it is happening to. It's hard to walk the line between sentiment and sentimentality. Drama and melodrama. I leave it to others to determine how successful we were but I am happy with the result.
Was it difficult deciding on how broad to play the comedy?
As long as it's real it works. And, when you have people like Jeff and Lauren you can really go farther than you could with actors who aren't as skilled in comedy. They keep it grounded and immediate.
The musical choices are interesting. Am I correct in assuming these are incredibly personal choices?
Nothing makes me want to make movies more than music. I love standards. I love Ella Fitzgerald. But more than that I love the feeling you get when a movie is married to beautiful music. I was lucky to get Teddy Castellucci as our composer. He has a real ear for a lovely melody and knows how to use it to hook the audience. I still walk around humming the score. Which is what I want from a score.
Were there any substantial deleted scenes? It seems that Anne was missing a bit from the last act, and there seems to be a protester seen outside the bookstore as Arlen enters to make his climactic speech.
Nothing was deleted. Since Kat Dennings and Olivia Thirlby are bright, up and coming stars I think people expected to see more of them than they did. I was surprised that they wanted to take such small roles but they were fans of the script and just wanted to do it.
As for the protestor, just an extra that got out of control.
The Answer Man takes a naturalistic approach to its imagery. Lighting is soft and natural, and the colours follow suit. There's no obvious theme colour, or overlying stylistic shade, and there aren't many poppy highlights. Some of the warmer browns (like wood) are slightly noisy, but overall the colours are warm and solid. The print is grainier than expected for the vintage (not to mention Magnolia's pedigree), but the naturalistic look is probably to blame, as a certain amount of grain is to be expected. The grain is most noticeable in the whites, and there are occasional minor white artefacts on the darker spots. The transfer's bigger issue is the middling detail levels. The details are even considering focus, and consistent despite placement, but they're never particularly impressive. With a handful of night time exceptions the transfer aim for super-sharpness, so edge-enhancement is only an occasional issue. If the SD extras are an indication the Blu-ray stands pretty far ahead of the DVD, but it's far from a standout 1080p transfer on its own.
The naturalistic approach extends to the film's sound design, which features some subtle incidental rear and stereo channel noise, but is most concerned with clear and centred dialogue. This disc's uncompressed DTS-HD 5.1 track doesn't give the sound system a workout, and is definitely lacking in LFE support, but most everything checks out according to the needs of the track. Eagle-eared (?) listeners might catch a couple of ever-so-slight bleeds on some of the centric dialogue, but there aren't any other notable errors or shortcomings on the track, at least based on the unassuming sound production. The film's music is a little on the predictable side (it actually reminds me a lot of an animated film score), but it's pretty effective, so long as it isn't getting too schmaltzy. As mentioned in the interview, there are plenty of pointed additional music choices, all of which add some bass and warmth to the track.
The disc's special features begin with 'The Characters of The Answer Man' (10:00, SD), an average EPK featuring writer/director John Hindman and the actors chatting about their characters and each other with a somewhat painful slant towards affection, intercut with select scenes from the film. 'The Answer Man: From Concept to Creation'(10:00, SD) is a continuation, or companion piece, with a more direct focus on the script and production development. It's short and a bit fluffy, but it's more informative than the first featurette, and is a close as we get to an in depth behind the scenes look. 'HDNet: A Look at The Answer Man' (04:30, HD) is more of the same, but clearly made for TV, and in HD. Magnolia Blu-ray trailers finish out the disc.
Big thanks to Answer Man writer/director John Hindman for taking the time to answer my questions. I recommend the film to fans of the lead actors, and fans of slightly skewed, Capra-esque love stories, though viewers expecting something like Wes Anderson-esque mega-quirk, or deep dark shades might be a bit disappointed. Comparing the film to a sit-com will probably come off as an insult, but it isn't meant as one. I'd watch a weekly [i]Answer Man[i] series, and imagine there'd be a susceptible audience out there. This Blu-ray release isn't an incredible A/V feast, but that's really not the point. I could do with a few more extras, at least a director's commentary, but perhaps this interview will answer a few fan questions.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 3rd November 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: The Characters of Answer Man, Answer Man: From Concept to Creation, HDNet: A Look at The Answer Man
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Director: John Hindman
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Kat Dennings, Lou Taylor Pucci, Tony Hale
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 97 minutes
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"We are a nation of laws and a jury has spoken," he said in a statement. "I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son."
The president said he was aware the Florida case has elicited strong feelings.
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A jury of six women acquitted Zimmerman of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the February 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Martin. Zimmerman said he acted in self-defense while civil rights activists said the shooting was racially motivated.
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The Humane Society of the United States applauds Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Foster City, Calif., for agreeing to not use chimpanzees for research and development. The decision is the latest in a series of recent moves to phase out the use of chimpanzees in research in the United States.
In November 2012, The HSUS submitted a shareholder proposal for consideration at Gilead's 2013 annual shareholder meeting which urged the company to end the use of chimpanzees in favor of available alternative research methods, citing the company's previous use of chimpanzees to test a drug developed to treat hepatitis B and C viruses.
Following the submission, Gilead representatives reached out to The HSUS to confirm that the company is not currently using chimpanzees and commited to not using them in the future. As a result, The HSUS has withdrawn the shareholder proposal.
"The Humane Society of the United States thanks Gilead for their consideration of the proposal and applauds them for taking this important step to protect chimpanzees in laboratories," said Kathleen Conlee, vice president of animal research issues for The HSUS.
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VOORHEES, N.J. – Max Talbot barnstormed through Quebec, laced up skates in Finland, and played for the Spengler Cup in Switzerland.
Looking for work because of the NHL lockout, Talbot's worldwide hockey tour at last brought him back to the one team he never wanted to leave:
The Flyers.
Talbot returned this week to Philadelphia, even as the lockout reached its 111th day with more than 625 lost games. As talks continued in the hunt for a new collective bargaining agreement, veterans like Talbot, defenceman Kimmo Timonen and forward Jody Shelley are working out at the Flyers' New Jersey training facility, so that when the call does come—if it comes—later this month with the announcement of a shortened season, they'll be ready.
"It's great to be back in the facility, skating with the guys, hopefully thinking you're getting ready for the season," Talbot said Friday. "It's all or nothing now. We all hope. We're not sure."
Talbot's return wasn't because of some inside information the labour dispute was about to be settled. Rather, he bought a townhouse in Philadelphia and had some last-minute financial details to sort out.
He joined a small group of teammates and former Flyers that included Andrej Meszaros, Andreas Nodl and Brian Boucher for a light, 60-minute workout. Most of the core, with a few additions and subtractions, have been skating together since September. All of them would trade drills for coach Peter Laviolette's training camp.
The sides have only one week to reach a deal on a collective bargaining agreement that would allow for a 48-game season—the minimum the NHL has said it will play. Commissioner Gary Bettman set a Jan. 11 deadline for an agreement so the season can begin eight days later.
The NHL and the union met separately with a federal mediator on Friday.
"Hopefully, we can all put this behind us and start playing hockey," Talbot said. "But who knows?"
Talbot needed his passport as much as his stick over the last four months, teaming with Flyers defenceman Bruno Gervais to start a goodwill barnstorming tour in Quebec. His games raised more than $400,000 for various foundations and charity-based groups, mostly helping sick children.
"That was a lot of work," Talbot said. "Pretty challenging, but awesome."
From there, Talbot signed for a five-week stint with Ilves, a Finnish team, before playing with HC Fribourg-Gotteron in Switzerland in the Spengler Cup. The Spengler Cup was first held in 1923 and is the world's oldest pro hockey tournament. He was back in North America on Jan. 2.
Where he goes from here? Like everything else in the NHL these days: To be determined.
"I want to play hockey," Talbot said, adding he would likely return overseas if the NHL season is wiped out.
Talbot, and most Flyers fans, need a refresher on the team's moves following a 103-point season and a second-round loss to New Jersey in the playoffs.
The Flyers lost out on free-agent stars Zach Parise and Ryan Suter. Jaromir Jagr and Matt Carle left. And they traded James van Riemsdyk. The biggest off-season additions, on the other hand, were Gervais, defenceman Luke Schenn and left wing Ruslan Fedotenko.
But the lineup is far from set. General manager Paul Holmgren, after all, may have quite a bit more manoeuvring ahead if the Flyers are forced to get under a slashed salary cap that could be put in place under a new labour deal.
Talbot and the rest of the scaled-back Flyers have to rent ice time at the team's practice rink and cannot dress in the Flyers' locker room. Meszaros, however, was allowed to work with team trainers because he was injured. He tore his right Achilles' tendon training in Slovakia and would not have been ready to start the season in October. Because of the lockout, Meszaros could be cleared if the puck really does drop in two weeks.
"It's still not there where I want it to be," Meszaros said. "I want to make sure it's 100 per cent because I don't want to come back soon."
Only injured players would consider a mid-January NHL return, "too soon." The rest of the league, meanwhile, can't wait to get a fair deal and get back on the ice.
But the time off hasn't been completely wasted. Shelley, a 12-year veteran, joked that he's been playing "Mr. Mom."
Timonen, who had surgery in May to remove a disc fragment from his lower back, passed on a chance to return to his native Finland to play. He's been a stay-at-home dad and tagged along on road trips to watch his 13-year-old son play on a youth hockey team.
"If there's something good about the lockout, at least I've been able to get healthy and spend time with my family," he said. "It's been great. I've got to be honest, there are a lot of weekends I didn't miss hockey that much. … I probably saw my son play now more than his whole life. It's been fun."
But it's time to get back to work.
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Diego Spitia is passionate about immigration reform, and works with a number of organizations to push for an attainable path to citizenship for thousands of people who come to this country. Spitia has participated in forums, marches, rallies, and classes both in Connecticut and in Washington, D.C. Spitia went to a Spanish immersion elementary school and had friends whose parents had come to the U.S. without papers. "We want to end the deportation and separation of families, and promote education through a strong DREAM Act," said Spitia. Spitia has the highest GPA at East Hartford's International Baccalaureate Academy, a rigorous college preperatory program that stresses writing, research projects, and extensive lab reports, scored against students around the world. Spitia excels in math and science classes, saying a physics class his sophomore year gave him a leg up for the top GPA honor. He plans on studying the sciences at Yale University next year, where he'll also participate in the Army ROTC program. "It's a complement to the skill set I'm going to develop at Yale -- it will make me stronger in a way that college never could," he said of his decision to join ROTC. "I'll be prepared for anything." Spitia will likely serve four years of active duty followed by four years in the Army Reserves. Spitia also plays guitar and enjoys boxing and mixed martial arts, and will work this summer at a catering company. --Chloe Miller
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Part One The Voting that was as intense as the California Recall Election.
Its My Party and Ill cry if I want to By Lesely Gore As sung by the Bachelorettes:
It's our party and well cry if we want toCry if we want to, cry if we want toYou would cry too if it happened to you
Nobody knows who will get to go out with Bob, but everyone thinks itll be them we have to vote for somebody other then ourselves. Who will it be?
we've got no reason to smileour tears are falling for miles But leave us alone for a whilewere all mad at Lee-Ann, She gets a date a-lone though she was least compatible with B-O-B.It's our party and we'll cry if we want toCry if we want to, cry if we want toYou would cry too if you found Meredith got to go without on a date with Bob without you.
Part Two: The Drama, oh the Drama of Please stop filming me
Big Girls Dont Cry by Frankie Valley and The Four Seasons, Sung by the Bachelorettes and Bob
All of The Bachelorettes:Big girls dont cry, big girls don't cry
Big girls don't cry (they don't cry)Meredith
(Silly girl) My mama called(Silly girl) and we all cried cause my grandma died.
(Silly girl) But my mama said to my surpriseBig girls don't cry, go on your date with Bob. The Bachelorettes Big girls don't cry (they don't cry)Big girls don't cry (who said they don't cry)
Bob to MeredithBaby I was cruel (I was cruel) I made you ride a horseBaby I'm a fool (I'm such a fool) I made you eat an oyster. (my oh my) Baby, it turned out ok cause you were with me. (my oh my)le-ann to Tracy and the girls in the Kitchen (Silly girls) Shame on you said cause you said I didnt get along with yall Whadda ya mean? Im here for Bob, not yallLee-Ann(Silly girls) Shame on you, youre mad causeyou know Im most compatible with Bob(Silly girls) Shame on you, you used to like me,till Bob kissed me, makes me wanna cry
All of the Bachelorettes Big girls do cry, (my oh my) What it is about the Bachelor that makes the tears fly?Big girls don't cry (they don't cry)Big girls don't cry (that's just an alibi)


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We've written before about how Yankee Stadium, the "cathedral of baseball" to many sports fans, looked like a real cathedral for the pope's Mass.
And we talked here yesterday about memorable moments and memorable quotes from the trip.
Well, following up on yesterday's post about people bringing memories of the papal trip home to their local communities, I'd like to nominate Mark Moeller of All Saints Church in Dunwoody, Ga., for quote-of-the-week honors. Obviously a fan who appreciates the history of baseball and Yankee Stadium, Moeller wrote:
As if the roof was pulled off of a great cathedral, Yankee Stadium opened wide, with a divine light shining on the surface below. Ruth and Gehrig could never have imagined it like this, as even Yankee and Red Sox fans were moved to civility.
Read Moeller's entire piece here. Thankful that he was able to represent his parish at a papal event, he also marvels about visiting St. Patrick's Cathedral the day before the papal Mass there as well as seeing the crowds lining the papal motorcade route. It's in The Georgia Bulletin of Atlanta.


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text: Dr. King edits a draft of a eulogy he wrote in the wake of four girls killed in a bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King applauded these martyrs, for their brief yet powerful appearance on this Earth and their contribution to the "holy crusade for freedom and human dignity." Reiterating these sentiments, Dr. King edits the eulogy to fit the life story of Jimmy Lee Jackson.


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California's 2007 pistachio crop was not only huge in size, but also alarmingly high in aflatoxin levels — almost 30 percent in at least one sampling.
For an industry facing future record-after-record crops, the prospect of a growing aflatoxin problem is not good. Handlers report unwanted high levels in the nuts processed from this crop.
The problem has become so alarming, handlers are now considering penalties for growers who deliver nuts unacceptably high in aflatoxin levels/Navel orangeworm damage and to reward those who avoid the problem with good management practices and deliver a clean crop.
And giving your handler a very clean crop is not that difficult, according to Bob Beede, University of California Cooperative Extension tree nut crop farm advisor for Kings and Tulare counties.
Beede told the recent Western Pistachio Association's U.S. Pistachio Conference in Santa Barbara that a team of UC entomologists have put together a thorough package of knowledge and control strategies to reduce Navel orangeworm populations, and therefore significantly reduce the chances of aflatoxin in California pistachios.
Food safety is hammered hard at just about every crop production and handling meeting these days. It was no different with pistachios which can ill afford a food contamination crisis.
Pistachios remain almost a niche snack food consumers would quickly avoid if they perceived there was a food safety issue.
Consuming high levels of aflatoxin can make people seriously ill. It has also been linked to liver cancer.
"Folks, we have a problem we have to solve collectively. You have to take Navel orangeworm management with extreme seriousness," Beede told about 400 growers, processors and PCAs at the conference.
Last season's high levels have been blamed on the "perfect storm" of a heavy crop with strung out maturity, a large percentage of early splits and a late harvest.
Beede acknowledged that it may have been ideal for NOW and aflatoxin, but the overwintering NOW population left behind will not go away.
Nor will the growing number of perennial crops that host NOW go away, particularly almonds, another crop seriously impacted by NOW.
Beede insists that a 7-step program will significantly reduce any overwintering or growing NOW problem.
It begins with sanitation; shaking mummies from trees, blowing mummies off berms into middles, and disking them in.
"It may cost $100 to $150 per acre to do the sanitation work," said Beede. It may pay off by not getting a call from your processor who says he does not want your pistachios because of high NOW damage/aflatoxin levels.
As important as sanitation and beneficial insects are in controlling NOW, those two things together or alone will not control damaging levels of NOW. Control will go beyond those.
Most all generations of NOW in a season overlap, some in as brief a time span as 10 days per generation. However, the first generation does not overlap with the second. It is that initial flush where growers have a shot at cleaning up overwinter populations with a pesticide.
Beede recommends using one of the new soft, non-disruptive insecticides to control worms then. Don't use an organophosphate early because it will take out beneficial parasites early.
"This first generation early treatment would be around the first week to 10 days of May in a normal year," said Beede.
He also suggested disking middles in June to break pest production cycles; applying soft materials in July if warranted.
"If you wait until August to do something about a NOW infestation, you will not be able to control NOW with pesticides then" he warned.
"And harvest early," he added. "Don't wait for all the nuts to split. They won't."
After harvest, Beede said, is another opportunity to break a NOW reproduction cycle. "Remember when you are harvesting nuts, Navel orangeworm also are harvesting nuts."
"Look at a post harvest treatment with Intrepid and a pyrethroid," he suggested.
Early splits create an ideal environment for NOW generations to enter the nut and reproduce rapidly. Early splits last year were correlated to deficit irrigation in many cases, according to one handler.
Emerging NOWs do not have to be high numbers initially to create problems. Beede said one entomologist collected 200,000 mummies, but only 190 adults emerged.
"Not a problem? Let's say there are only two Navel orangeworms per tree in an orchard. Each one can lay 100 eggs giving you 200 eggs per tree. Assuming 50 percent mortality in those eggs, that still leaves 100 worms per tree. That is a problem," Beede said.
In the pistachio industry, we are all in the same boat when it comes to NOW and aflatoxin ... all in the same boat without a commander," Beede said, indicating that NOW control is a grower-by-grower decision.
However, there is one common thread among growers and it is that there is plenty of information about this insect pest and how to control it.
"One thing we all have is knowledge and knowledge is power," Beede emphasized.
He encouraged growers to "seize the opportunity" to control NOW and reduce any aflatoxin threat and "preserve the food safety and preserve the market that California pistachios have always been recognized for."
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|Sesame Street
|Air date
|January 12, 1970
|Season 1 (1969-1970)
This episode guide has been compiled from materials at the CTW Archives. ⓘ
- Ernie and Bert: Ernie finds an egg on the counter. Bert tells him to put it away so he can eat it later. Ernie doesn't understand. Bert sighs, "Just drop it!"... and Ernie does. (First: Episode 0003)
- Cartoon: "Egg Chant": A girl skips rope and says the alphabet as a boy sits with an egg on his knee; the egg hatches, and a dancing lizard comes out. (First: Episode 0003)
- Buddy and Jim: New jacket. (First: Episode 0011)
- Ernie and Bert: Ernie invents a machine that makes A's -- you turn the crank over here, you push the button on top, and out comes an A. But it doesn't work when it rains -- it only makes A when the sun shines. (First: Episode 0006)
- The Anything Muppets sing "Octopus' Garden." (First: Episode 0019)
- Ernie and Bert: Ernie holds a hanky while Bert sneezes -- and Bert's nose comes off in Ernie's hand. Ernie teases Bert by putting his nose back in the wrong places. (First: Episode 0026)
- Ernie and Bert: What happened here? (First: Episode 0030)
- Speech Balloon: A -- Ape (First: Episode 0006)
- Cartoon: A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is...before he is eaten by one. (First: Episode 0006)
- Jim Henson clay animation: A red creature named Quincy talks about Q. (First: Episode 0043)
- Cartoon: "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers. (aired twice) (First: Episode 0036)
- Speech Balloon: "U" – Umbrella (First: Episode 0038)
- Jim Henson clay animation: The letter "U" is focused in a story involving a unicorn in his underwear and uniform upon a unicycle whilst under an unusually ugly umbrella. (First: Episode 0037)
- Countdown series: The rocket lifts early, and showers everyone in soot. (First: Episode 0018)
- Countdown series: After countdown, the director himself is launched into space as the rocket stays put. (First: Episode 0018)
- Countdown series: Minus his podium, the director laughs nervously as he accidentally launches the spectators into space. (First: Episode 0022)
- "Jazz #8" (First: Episode 0016)
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The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is reminding hunters that handguns may not be used to take game while archery deer hunting. Following the Sportsman Act of 2013, archery deer hunters in Vermont are permitted to carry a pistol or revolver.
"This provision was passed to create more consistency with rights currently afforded to hikers, wildlife watchers, and others," said Col. David LeCours, head of law enforcement for the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. "However, it was not intended to supplement a bow and arrow for legally taking other game during the archery season. Handguns may not be used for taking deer, bear or any other game animal while archery deer hunting, including downed deer."
Bowhunters are also reminded to practice treestand safety. "We see several hunters every year who seriously injure themselves while using treestands," said Col. LeCours. "These injuries can usually be avoided by following a few simple precautions."
Hunters should use a safety harness in a treestand, even while climbing. They should also not go too high. Staying lower in a tree not only improves safety, but also increases the size of the vital zone exposed on a deer. And hunters should choose large, stable trees and use stands certified by the Treestand Manufacturer's Association.
Media Contacts: Col. David LeCours, Maj. Dennis Reinhardt, 802-241-3727
Source: Department of Fish and Wildlife
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Trevor Lacey scored 17 points, and Rodney Cooper and Nick Jacobs had 10 each to lead Alabama to an easy 68-58 victory over South Carolina Saturday.
Levi Randolph contributed nine rebounds as the Crimson Tide (17-8, 9-3 Southeastern Conference) won its third straight game, while the Gamecocks (12-13, 2-10) lost their sixth straight.
For South Carolina, Brenton Williams had 14 points, Bruce Ellington and Laimonas Chatkevicius 11 and Eric Smith 10. Lakeem Jackson had nine rebounds.
Trevor Releford had two steals, giving him 170 for his career and moving him ahead of Robert Horry for third on the school's all-time steals list. The junior needs seven steals to tie Senario Hillman, Alabama's career leader.
The Tide, which had not scored more than 60 points in its last eight games, opened the game by bolting to a 32-9 lead, topped off by a field goal by Cooper at the 5:55 mark.
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Why Study Gerontology?
We live in an aging society, one in which the older population is growing both in absolute numbers and in proportion to all other age groups. Businesses, government agencies, service organizations, educational institutions, and self-employed professionals from every economic sector are recognizing the need for specialized knowledge and skills to meet the needs of this changing demography. People who are interested in this diverse field come from many disciplines, professions, and clinical areas, such as social work, nursing, counseling, recreation, public policy, long-term care administration, medicine, architecture, psychology, adult education, or rehabilitation therapy among others. Some people work directly with older persons in a wide variety of programs and services in the community. Others work on behalf of older persons in areas such as advocacy and education.
Gerontology is the multidisciplinary study of the aging processes and individuals as they grow from middle age through later life. It offers challenging and rewarding careers in an area that is growing rapidly, that needs people with a broad range of skills, and that will improve people's lives.
No matter your major. No matter your college. You will work with older adults in some capacity in the future. Come learn about the biology of aging, the sociology of aging, the psychology of aging, and more with the Center on Aging.
Read some of the testimonials from former students about how a gerontology background has affected their careers.
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AMHERST, Mass.—Researchers in five eastern U.S. states are getting federal support to study the decline in native bee populations.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's $3.3 million grant is intended to help researchers find ways to maintain a diverse community of wild bees. They're needed to keep pollinating apples, low-bush blueberries, pumpkins and other important crops.
The USDA awarded the grant to a University of Massachusetts-Amherst researcher last week.
She will work with more than a dozen scientists at the University of Maine; Cornell University in New York; the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; and the University of Tennessee.
Researchers plan to study how the bees' diversity is affected by factors such as landscapes, farm size and pesticide use. They will also study whether the bees are vulnerable to certain pathogens and parasites.


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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's navy detained a group of Gaza fishermen on Wednesday, saying they had gone beyond a recently expanded fishing zone off the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian enclave.
Fishermen on two boats were detained and taken to Israel's Mediterranean port of Ashdod for questioning, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. The Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza said nine men had been seized and at least one vessel sunk.
Eight days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza and cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks ended in an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement a week ago that called on Israel to ease restrictions on the territory.
Israel has since doubled to six miles the distance it permits Gaza fishermen to operate off the coast. It also has allowed Gaza farmers to tend land next to a border fence, in a "no-go" area where they had been barred for years.
Israel says its naval blockade is aimed at preventing the smuggling of weapons to militants in the Gaza Strip, which has been run by Hamas Islamists since 2007.
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan)


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SOURCE: SOA Software
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Recognized Technology Expert Alistair Farquharson to Speak on Enterprise API Platforms
Recognized Technology Expert Alistair Farquharson to Speak on Enterprise API Platforms
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 21, 2013) - Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, a leading provider of API management, and SOA governance products, will be delivering the keynote address at the API Strategy & Practice Conference this week in New York. The keynote, titled How Does My Enterprise API Platform Differ from Facebook, Twitter and Netflix?, focuses on how enterprises can take full advantage of application programming interfaces (APIs) to extend their business operations to customers and partners, and recognize increased volume in transactions.
The API Strategy & Practice Conference aims to provide smart insights from many of the world's leading API and technology providers. The event is held in New York on Thursday, February 21 and Friday, February 22. The conference is intended to be a one-stop event to help technologists bootstrap their API strategies, discover usable and relevant APIs for their use, and to encourage community among API developers. Speakers include API luminaries from such organizations as AT&T, Twilio, Tumbler, Cisco, Singly, Walgreens, and others.
Alistair Farquharson will have three speaker sessions:
Enabling the API Economy
Enterprises are increasingly making business applications available as APIs in order to drive business growth and expose new revenue and partnership opportunities, and ultimately to improve business effectiveness. Open APIs allow external developers to build applications that leverage core business capabilities. Enterprise APIs are offered to a more limited group to enable more sensitive B2B or B2E applications. Both enterprise and open APIs are typically built on a foundation of enterprise SOA services. As such, they require robust governance.
SOA Software's Enterprise API Platform is the highest performing, most comprehensive API management solution on the market today. It is a secure, robust platform that companies can use to share their APIs with the growing app developer community, their partners, and customers. The platform manages, monitors and secures companies' APIs, ensuring that these APIs deliver the level of service customers and partners require; that corporate and customer information and assets are secure; and that the integrity of the corporate brand is protected. For more details, please see http://www.soa.com/products/api-platform-as-a-service.
The SOA Software Open platform brings API providers and App developers together, offering easy access to powerful API Management capabilities combined with a social community in which developers collaborate to build dynamic, engaging apps with scalable APIs. The free SOA Software Open service allows users to manage up to 10 million API transactions per month, far higher than other solutions, and offers a powerful developer community platform unlike anything else in the industry. Developers can easily upgrade to SOA Software's Enterprise API Platform either on-premise or as-a-Service if they want additional capacity, their own brand for their APIs, or a guaranteed SLA. To sign up, please see http://open.soa.com.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities citing security concerns closed the country's only border crossing with Jordan on Wednesday, cutting a key route through a part of the country where anti-government protests have been raging for weeks.
Residents of Anbar province, the center of the Sunni-led demonstrations, rejected the closure and accused the government of trying to pressure them to end their protests against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated administration.
"The closure ... serves only one purpose, and that is to damage the image of the protesters and depict them as troublemakers who want to make the lives of Iraqis more difficult," one of the protest organizers, Saeed Humaim, told The Associated Press. "We will stand firm on our demands, and we will not be shaken by this irresponsible act."
Many Sunnis in Iraq complain of discrimination by the Shiite-led government. The mass protests in Anbar — and increasingly elsewhere in the country — are the largest and most sustained demonstration of Sunni discontent since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Sectarian tensions frequently boil over into bloody attacks, nowadays mostly by Sunni extremists against Shiite residents and pilgrims, threatening the country's stability.
The prime minister's spokesman, Ali al-Moussawi, did not specify the nature of the security fears that he said prompted the move. He denied that the closure was intended to pressure protesters, saying officials were responding to intelligence information.
The highway from Baghdad to the Jordanian border runs through Anbar, a vast Sunni-dominated province in Iraq's western desert. The heavily traveled road, which extends about 570 kilometers (350 miles) from the border to Baghdad, is one of Iraq's most vital routes for travelers and trade.
An Associated Press journalist crossing the border around midnight reported a chaotic scene ahead of the closure. Border police were seen yelling at drivers and truckers to hurry across, and many were let into Iraq without the customary inspections.
Dhari Arkan, the deputy governor of Anbar, said the provincial council plans to sue the government over the closure, which he said was imposed without local officials' knowledge.
A Jordanian border official said Iraq sealed the frontier unilaterally from the Iraqi side in the morning, without giving a clear explanation. He said the Jordanians were told it was "a temporary measure due to unspecified domestic reasons."
The official declined to be identified, saying he was not allowed to make statements to reporters.
Anbar has been the center of more than two weeks of demonstrations along the highway by Sunni residents angry over perceived second class treatment by the Shiite-dominated government.
About 2,000 people rallied near the provincial capital, Ramadi, on Wednesday, with some burning Iranian flags — a reference to what they see as the neighboring Shiite nation's influence over the Iraqi government.
Ahmed al-Alawani, a lawmaker from the Iraqiya bloc, which ran against the prime minister's coalition in the last election, was among the protesters at the Ramadi sit-in. He described the border closure as "a desperate move by the government to deter the protesters from continuing their struggle for their legitimate rights."
The ongoing demonstrations have blocked the highway near Ramadi, forcing motorists to take circuitous and potentially dangerous detours.
The protests erupted after the arrest of bodyguards assigned to Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi, one of the central government's most senior Sunni officials.
They have since spread to other areas populated by Iraq's minority Sunnis, who dominated Saddam Hussein's government until it was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion. Many Sunnis feel they have been mistreated by the central government and unfairly targeted by tough state security laws.
Associated Press writers Adam Schreck in Baghdad, Khalid Mohammed in Ramadi, and Jamal Halaby in Amman, Jordan, contributed.


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Yes, I admit the years are starting to blur together and it's hard to remember when things happened. I love the quote from Gretchen Rubin - The days are long, but the years are short. This perfectly describes how time seems to pass both very slowly and way too fast all at the same time!
Building Blocks Quilt Along, something we had never tried before. It was fun, and certainly an interesting way to spend time together, but also challenging. Have you ever tried to teach your husband something you're really good at....and FILM it too?!
Looking back, I think Josh's videos are some of the best we made last year. Josh honestly showed what it looks and feels like to begin free motion quilting, which isn't always pretty! His spoonflower quilt remains my favorite of the two we created.
One major change for our business was the type of business we own. In July we switched from a sole proprietorship in my name to a S-corp shared equally by both Josh and I. While we've always run the business together, making it official did change a few things, mostly in how we communicate (I'm not allowed to get my way all the time) and how we plan new projects (one thing at a time!).
Things also changed for the business when my dad joined us in June. He has learned loads about quilting too and is my solid "behind the scenes" guy for all fabric prep, cutting, and piecing. I'm amazed at how many tops we've put together this year and I know for a fact that I couldn't have published the new version of How to Piece Perfect Quilts without him.
With Dad's help we not only published that book, we also released the new Dancing Butterfly Quilt Pattern, our new quilt along pattern for 2015! This new quilt along is all about applique and beautiful free hand, free motion quilting.
The new posts for the Dancing Butterfly Quilt Along will start tomorrow, as well as new design posts and videos. I find myself once again dreaming of new textures in thread, and I'm looking forward to demonstrating these new designs in real quilts this year.
Dad and I have also worked together to learn embroidery design and digitizing. This is a new arena for me and I'm super excited about all the possibilities machine embroidery hold.
After five years of teaching teaching quilters to free motion quilt on home sewing machines, I know this technique requires practice, patience, and lots of effort. Learning more about machine embroidery, I find I'm able to digitize beautiful designs so that anyone with an embroidery machine can stitch them easily with the touch of a button. Yes, I love that instant gratification!
I'm especially interested in in-the-hoop projects that combine my love for construction, quilting, beautiful design, gorgeous thread, and functionality all in one go. This is very different from everything I've made before, but so fascinating, I find I'm brimming with ideas for new projects every day.
In 2014 my word for the year was Relax. I believe I accomplished so much, and so many things were able to change in my life because I finally learned how to relax successfully. This might sound odd, but if you're not taught how to do something, even something as simple as relax, you're probably not going to do it properly!
I now start most days with a 30 minute meditation, and have frequent alerts during the day to step away from my computer and take a break.
I've finally overcome the worst of my workaholic tendencies to work when I'm tired, angry, or overwhelmed. I've also learned how to give myself a break and stop being so hard on myself. When life gets challenging, I'm able to adapt and bend with the flow of my life rather than fight against it.
Being able to relax is a gift that has granted me buckets of happiness and contentment. I've been able to challenge my impulses to work constantly and learn how to relax and play again.
For this coming year, I didn't have to concentrate very hard for my word to pop into my head - it's Create. I want to make stuff! I don't even care what it looks like, I just want to dig in and enjoy the process of making new things.
I hope 2015 also finds me letting go of fear. I want to create with abandon, without the fear of messing something up or being imperfect. I also want to find easier ways to create more quickly, and learn how to stop myself from making things unnecessarily complicated or time consuming.
I believe my impulse to create will also lead to trying different crafts. I want to learn how to paint this year and finally let go of my issues with calling myself an "artist." I want to dig into my style and the messages behind my art, and maybe, just maybe, begin selling my art.
These ideas are just dreams right now, but I know that dreams can come true if they are taken seriously, given attention, and pursued with a vengeance. My word is CREATE and I plan to do just that! Come on 2015 - I'm ready go get started!
Let's go quilt,
Leah Day


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Monarchs win 3-1 at Worcester
Monarchs Press Release: The Manchester Monarchs grabbed an early lead and held on to defeat the Worcester Sharks, 3-1, at the DCU Center on Wednesday night.
Manchester (31-28-3-4) is in third place in the Atlantic Division with 69 points. Worcester (29-27-1-6) is in fourth place in the Atlantic Division with 65 points.
"Our first period and a half, we played poised and executed well," said Monarchs Head Coach Mark Morris. "We got off track and let Worcester back in the game with some risky decisions with the puck on our sticks. Thanks to Martin Jones, he kept the lead for us with a number of quality stops. The chaos we endured was self-inflicted. Hopefully, we learned something tonight. Every point is important, so we will need everyone making good smart decisions moving forward."
Defenseman David Kolomatis gave the Monarchs a 2-0 lead with a power play goal 29 seconds into the second period. Left wing Tanner Pearson played the puck to center Linden Vey at the right point. Vey fed Kolomatis at the left point. Kolomatis carried the puck down the left wing half wall and into the left wing face-off circle before wristing a shot high over the stick side shoulder of Sharks netminder Harri Sateri for his sixth goal of the season and the eventual game-winning goal.
Manchester opened the scoring with a goal by defenseman Vincent LoVerde at 8:59 of the first period. Right wing Brian O'Neill gained the Sharks zone on the right wing before laying it back for forward Ian O'Connor in between the face-off circles. O'Connor played the puck back to O'Neill on the right doorstep. O'Neill fed right wing Anthony Stewart inside the left wing circle where he took a quick wrist shot. Stewart's shot produced a rebound in the right wing face-off circle. LoVerde grabbed the loose puck and took a shot that was denied again by Sateri.. LoVerde got his own rebound and wristed a shot into the back of the net from the bottom of the right wing face-off circle for his second goal of the season.
Right wing Brandon Kozun scored at 7:18 of the second period to give the Monarchs a 3-0 lead. Center Jordan Weal grabbed a loose puck in the Monarchs zone and played it to Kozun on the left wing. Kozun gained speed through the neutral zone and skated to the top of the left wing face-off circle of the Sharks zone before skating across to the top of the right wing face-off circle. Kozun then wristed a shot midway up the stick side of Sateri for the goal. Left wing Colton Yellow Horn also tallied an assist on Kozun's 24th goal of the season.
Worcester cut the deficit to 3-1 with a goal by left wing Peter Sivak at 13:32 of the second period. Left wing John McCarthy sent an indirect pass off the boards on the right wing as the Sharks gained the zone. Center Bracken Kearns grabbed the indirect pass and skated down the right wing half wall and fed Sivak in the slot. Sivak finished the play burying the puck into the back of the net for his second goal of the season.
Sharks netminder Thomas Heemskerk relieved Sateri following the Monarchs third goal.
Monarchs netminder Martin Jones (21-22-4) earned his 21st victory of the season making 40 saves on 41 shots including 19 saves in the third period. Sateri (14-16-3) took his 16th loss of the season stopping all 25 shots faced. Heemskerk made saves on all nine shots he faced in relief of Sateri.
Manchester went 1-for-4 on the power play. Worcester went 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
Notables: The Monarchs sit in ninth place and two points behind the seventh and eighth place teams in the Eastern Conference with the top eight seeds making the 2013 Calder Cup Playoffs…Right wing Brandon Kozun has a three-game point streak (2-2=4)…Defenseman Vincent LoVerde is also on a three-game point streak (1-2=3).
The Monarchs travel to take on the Portland Pirates at the Cumberland County Civic Center for the 11th VIP Cup match-up of the season on Friday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m.


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Well it wasn't me who said it. The words actually came from the lips of one Robyn Hitchcock. But then again he has a new album to promote – which is very, very good – and it is his 60th birthday.
But it does strike me that there might be a grain of truth in his words, what with those hip young gunslingers The Rolling Stones headlining Glastonbury and the summer full of reunions of 80s and 90s bands hoping for one last big pay day.
And this week I had a bit of an epiphany in comparing the latest releases from NME's flavour of the month Peace and the new album from 80s indie rock legends The House Of Love.
The Peace album has its moments, but it clearly isn't anywhere near as good as the hyped review from the NME and others makes it out to be. It sounds like B list Brit Pop – and not in a good way.
As for The House of Love's She Paints Words In Red, it boasts lots of crafted tunes, inspired guitar and intelligent lyrics. It lacks a little of the oomph of the band in its heyday – especially on their epic pair of first two albums, but it is way better than the Peace album.
It also strikes me that the latest crop of hyped bands – like Peace, the Palma Violets etc aren't that great. Last year's mob – Jake Bugg, Toy, Temples etc were a lot more interesting.
However before you write me off as an ageing curmudgeon with a Suede fetish, I actually listen to more new music than at any point in my life courtesy of the wonder that is Spotify.
What is wrong with British music fans?
My theory is that rock music has become an old man's game – but only in the UK and that is because of the weird legacy of the old music press and the way it shaped how we saw new bands.
In the UK we are still suckers for the concept of the package – the band with the personalities, clothes, images and haircuts – as much as the music. Trouble is they don't come along very often. The last band to perfectly fit the bill were The Strokes (who took off in the UK long before they mean anything in the US) and they made, well one great album and one good one, and the new one is horrendous. Maybe The Arctic Monkeys too, though before Alexa rocked up they looked like a few northern plumbers on a Thursday night pub crawl. It is why we are still obsessed with The Libertines too, who were a great soap opera, but musically nowhere near as good as their heroes.
So the great stars of yesterday – who had the image and the music and something to say too – the Stones, Roses, Bowie etc still fit the bill of what we except from our rock stars.
It feels like the rest of the world doesn't share our obsession with the package. Tame Impala are a huge global band now and they are clearly way more passionate about their music than they are about their trousers. As are countless of other American, Australian and European bands.
So maybe it is time us Brits stopped fretting about outdated notions of what rock stars should and shouldn't be. It really is all about the music now. And until we embrace that hundreds of really great British bands and artists like The Horrors, Ulysses, The Clientele, Magic Theatre, The Real Tuesday Weld, Darren Hayman and The Soundcarriers to name but a few, aren't going to get the attention their superb music truly deserves.


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FARMINGTON � In stark contrast to new construction, infrastructure upgrades and storefront facelifts along Routes 96 and 332 in Farmington, two vacant buildings stand dormant, both casualties of New York�s Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act of 2013, according to their owner.
Supervisor Ted Fafinski concurred. Fafinski said until last spring, the two structures at 6162 and 6132 Route 96 were being completely renovated in preparation for the opening of a new showroom, a small arms training space and an indoor range. The properties were home to AR15.com, an Internet-based community, distributor and manufacturer of AR15 semi-automatic rifles and assorted firearms.
But within a few months of the SAFE Act passage in January, AR15 owners packed up and moved out of state, Fafinski said. Both properties are now for sale. The empty buildings display �Gone to Texas!� signs.
�Not only did we lose existing jobs because of the SAFE Act, but now there are two vacant buildings � and yet �New York is open for business,�� said Fafinski.
Cyber beginnings
AR15.com originated in 1996 as a mailing list, eventually morphing into a website for firearm enthusiasts as a means to collect, share, and explore information.
�Before we knew it we were the largest firearms website in the world,� said Edward Avila, AR15.com owner and administrator. �(Staff members) were working out of their homes, and we kind of wanted to find a central office.�
What they found was a three-piece parcel between Wade's Market and McDonald's in Farmington, where Avila and colleagues hoped to open up a showroom � something that doesn�t exist anywhere else in the state, Avila said.
�We put a lot of money and a lot of time into renovating that building and doing the cleanup � about $2 to $3 million,� said Avila. �And that�s nothing compared to the potential for jobs. We spent about a million and a half of that for three different properties and two different buildings.�
One of those was the former Griffin Technology Inc. site � the target of extensive toxic cleanup and part of New York�s Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) before it was finally declared an Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site in 2011. Over the years potential buyers had walked away, reluctant to take on potential liabilities associated with the property.
Avila said AR15 has funded the most recent remediation treatments, and cleanup and maintenance is still going on. The building at 6162 Route 96 was the focus of intensive renovations.
�We built everything from offices, a walk-in vault, a state-of-the-art training room with surround sound and projectors, retail space out front with hand-built display cases � it was all custom built for that facility,� Avila said. �Gun stores are just never built fancy, but we wanted this to be a real showcase. We wanted to make it a destination point in addition to a business.�
But just as finishing touches were completed on the Route 96 facility, the SAFE Act was announced.
�Overnight they banned the sale of AR15s and destroyed our business opportunity in New York State,� said Avila. �When we were about to open � that�s about the same time (Governor Andrew) Cuomo passed his midnight legislation.�
In January 2013, AR15.Com LLC, co-plaintiff with the Westchester County Firearms Owner's Association and the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, filed a lawsuit against New York for its gun-control law, saying it violates residents' "fundamental constitutional rights to lawfully possess, keep, bear and use firearms for self-defense and other lawful purposes."
The lawsuit is ongoing, and will be for years, Avila said.
�It has nothing to do with guns,� he said. �It has to do with common sense and the politics of downstate New York negatively affecting what the rest of upstate New York has to deal with.�
Farmington resident Jim Kinsman, a certified instructor for basic pistol, home firearms safety and personal defense, had informally spoken with AR15 owners about doing some firearms teaching in their classroom facilities in one building, and training and assisting at the indoor range at the building next door � plans that are now no more.
�They had a good business plan,� said Kinsman. �It is unfortunate that they, like other companies, are negatively impacted to such a degree by the SAFE Act.�
Tom Morrisey, a spokesman for state Senator Ted O�Brien who has spoken out in favor of the SAFE Act, said the new legislation doesn�t prohibit manufacturing of AR15s.
"Recent changes to New York gun laws did not affect the manufacture of weapons within this state," said Morrisey. "Senator O'Brien remains committed to fighting for New York's small businesses."
Sending a message
In the months that followed, the AR15 stakeholders had to make a tough decision: whether to stay in New York, adhere to the law and continue to fight the legislation ��or pack up and move.
Solely on principle, Avila said, they decided to take their business, real estate taxes, jobs and personal income tax, as well as that of their employees, out of state.
�We've spent the last two years and an immeasurable amount of blood, sweat and tears working on a retail location that, at this point, will never open, thanks to New York politics,� Avila told AR15.com members in March. �While we will continue to do all we can to attempt to �fix� New York and help the brothers and sisters we leave behind, we will do so from outside of the state where we have spent the last 35 years.�
AR15 employees and the contents of the Route 96 properties vacated at the end of June and finally moved the last boxes out in September. Everything that remains is for sale. Avila said it may be years until they can open up a new location and that�s only after the Farmington property sells.
Kinsman believes AR15 should not have had to be put in the position where they had to make a decision to move � and where the community loses a resource where people could learn how to use and store firearms safely.
�Some suppliers and wholesalers won�t ship certain products into New York now, and this has caused many business to evaluate new strategies,� said Kinsman. �From a business standpoint, there are many reasons that supported a move, or maybe even required it to a significant degree.�
A Texas welcome
With New York in the rear-view mirror, AR15.com employees moved the company to Texas, a place where they believe they can put down permanent roots and �never have to move again.�
Avila said he was impressed with the welcome he received.
�We�re a small business, and the attorney general of the state of Texas took time out of his day to meet with us and talk with us � to ask us how they could help us,� Avila said.
Of the town he and AR15.com employees leave behind, Avila has nothing but kind words.
�The Town of Farmington was exceptional and welcoming � we couldn�t be happier with the town,� he said.
What has grown up around AR15.com is literally a community, Avila said.�It has�united its members over a variety of charitable causes, from sending gifts to overseas troops at Christmas, to offering aid and encouragement to a single individual in the final stages of cancer.
�The real story of AR15.com has nothing to do with web traffic, retail stores, or the products that we make,� said Avila. �... This community, made up of civilians, industry, law enforcement, and military members who love life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, comes together to help those in need on a regular basis. This is what AR15.com is all about, and it exists regardless of where we set up shop.�
Business blames SAFE Act for move from Farmington
FARMINGTON � In stark contrast to new construction, infrastructure upgrades and storefront facelifts along Routes 96 and 332 in Farmington, two vacant buildings stand dormant, both casualties of New York�s Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act of 2013, according to their owner.


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Finns get Wild back into series against Blackhawks
ST. PAUL, MINN. – Not Finnished yet these Minnesota Wild.
With their playoff hopes on the verge of being point of desperation, the Wild needed somebody to step up and make the difference in the third period of Tuesday's crucial clash with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Erik Haula and Mikael Granlund — a pair of youngsters from Finland — provided the punch that led the Wild to a 4-0 win and into the win column in the Stanley Cup playoff series.
"Now it's a new series again," Granlund said. "That first goal was huge for us. It opened up the game a lot. We were playing against a really good team and the first goal is really big in these games."
Chicago still leads the best-of-seven series 2-1 with Game 4 slated for Friday in Minnesota.
Or, make that Finnesota based on the night's heroes.
After much ado about nothing through the first two periods, Haula finally gave the Xcel Energy Center record crowd of 19,416 a reason to erupt 101 seconds into the third period.
Until that point, he had the best scoring chance for the Wild, but couldn't get off a shot on a shorthanded breakway, although the tug of his arm by Chicago's Duncan Keith played a huge part.
"I just kept thinking in my head I hope I get another chance to bury one," Haula said. "And Fonzie (Justin Fontaine) made a great play for me to do that."
A couple of minutes later, the shifty Granlund doubled the lead, and the hosts were off and running.
Granlund also rounded the scoring with an empty netter, a huge night for the dynamic young duo.
"You see how important they are for our team, but also how much better they're getting, even in this post-season," said Zach Parise. "They've been so good for us at such big times in the games, and I think they're just going to get better. It's fun and I'm sure they're going to get better, too."
Parise also scored, netting a power-play goal that made it 3-0 with a couple of minutes left.
The Blackhawks pushed to claw back, awaking from their slumber when the deficit was at two, but Wild goalie Ilya Bryzgalov held strong against the onslaught, at his best when Chicago captain Jonathan Toews broke through the scrum for a wide-open shot from the slot.
Bryzgalov ended with 19 saves for his first playoff shutout in eight years.
"Thanks for reminding me," he said. "It's obviously nice, but I just enjoy winning the game.
"Today was a tremendous team effort. We played nice hockey. We tried to avoid big mistakes."
For the Blackhawks, it was a missed opportunity to take a big stranglehold.
"It just comes down to, at the end of the day, we hung around a couple periods where we were kind of waiting to see what would happen," Keith said. "We didn't have that killer instinct tonight that we're going to need."
The Wild, and all the faithful in the State of Hockey, had some tense moments when big-minute defenceman Ryan Suter left the game late in the second period after becoming entangled with Marian Hossa and landed awkwardly on his arm as he crashed to the ice.
However, Suter returned following the intermission and appeared none the worse for wear.
"To be honest, I didn't even know he left," Parise said. "I didn't know until after the intermission. But he seemed fine, so I didn't think too much about it."
Their mind is now on trying to find a way to even the series.
"We knew that we had to win this game. We can't fall down 3-0 against that team," Wild head coach Mike Yeo said. "We know we've got another really big challenge. We're not sitting here patting ourselves on the back. We know that we're still not leading the series, they are, so our goal is to come back and even it up."
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Gold ETP holdings gained 7.9 percent since the end of July and now account for almost a year of mine production, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and Barclays Plc. Speculators' wagers on a rally were the highest since August 2011 in the week to Oct. 9, CFTC data show. They cut their net-long position by 7 percent to 184,404 futures and options by Oct. 16, data show.
Gold dropped below $1,700 this week as "fatigue set in" among fund managers after they boosted bets and as prices failed to reach $1,800, said Edel Tully, an analyst at UBS AG in London. Higher prices also curbed physical demand, said Walter de Wet, an analyst at Standard Bank Plc in Johannesburg.
The U.S. Mint sold 48,500 ounces of American Eagle gold coins so far this month, 29 percent fewer than throughout September, data on its website show. This year's sales of 530,000 ounces are down 41 percent from the same period in 2011.
Indian Demand
Gold imports by India, last year's biggest buyer, slid to as low as 170 tons in the third quarter from 205 tons a year earlier, according to Bachhraj Bamalwa, chairman of the All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation. Local prices fell 5.7 percent since setting a record Sept. 13. Gold's drop this month may spur more physical demand in Asia, Standard Bank said in an Oct. 24 report. Indian consumers usually boost purchases before the wedding season and religious festivals later this year.
Central banks have been expanding bullion reserves to diversify from currencies. Nations may add almost 500 tons this year, the London-based World Gold Council said in August. Brazil raised its gold reserves last month for the first time since December 2008 and countries from South Korea to Russia increased holdings this year, International Monetary Fund data show.
In other commodities, 15 of 30 traders and analysts surveyed expect copper to gain next week and 10 were bearish. The metal for delivery in three months, the London Metal Exchange's benchmark contract, climbed 2.8 percent to $7,812.25 a ton this year.
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By Dena Aubin
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. investor activist group affiliated with large labor unions is asking Hewlett-Packard Co to replace its auditor, Ernst & Young, over the technology giant's troubled acquisition of UK software company Autonomy.
Change to Win Investment Group (CtW), based in Washington, D.C., also is seeking a revamp of HP's audit committee, which is responsible for overseeing Ernst & Young's long-standing relationship as the auditor that reviews HP's books.
Spokesmen for HP and Ernst & Young declined to comment.
Labor union pension funds own large stakes in many U.S. companies and often use them as platforms to push for changes in how those corporations are managed. Union pension funds tied to CtW invest more than $200 billion in stocks, including shares in HP, said CtW in a letter to an HP board member on Thursday.
CtW questioned why Ernst & Young did not spot problems at Autonomy. "HP is clearly a company facing serious challenges," CtW said in its letter. "Unfortunately, the highly conflicted, decade-long relationship between Ernst & Young and HP cannot provide shareholders with the reassurance they need."
Auditors are outside accounting firms retained by corporations to vet their books regularly and offer an opinion on the validity of financial results. The four firms that dominate auditing worldwide - Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers - are faced with ever-rising scrutiny of their role in investor losses and accounting lapses.
The CtW letter was addressed to Rajiv Gupta, chairman of the corporate governance committee of HP's board. It was signed by William Patterson, executive director of CtW Investment Group.
Gupta could not be reached for comment.
HP said in November that it overpaid for Autonomy in 2011. HP accused Autonomy of serious accounting improprieties. Autonomy has rejected the allegations and said HP was looking for "scapegoats."
CtW urged HP to name an independent special master to investigate and report to shareholders on the Autonomy deal, as well as on an earlier acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp (EDS), which CtW said was "equally disastrous."
HP has said it is deferring to U.S. and UK regulators to investigate the allegations it has made against Autonomy.
HP in August swung to an $8.9 billion quarterly loss as it swallowed a write-down linked to its $13.9 billion purchase of EDS. That was followed in November by an $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy's value, which HP blamed largely on improper accounting at the software company.
Ernst & Young was not Autonomy's auditor. But according to CtW, the accounting firm had an opportunity to spot Autonomy's problems when it reviewed the goodwill, or intangible value, that HP recorded for its acquisition of Autonomy.
However, one risk expert said CtW was putting the blame in the wrong place. A separate due diligence team, not the auditor, was responsible for determining the value of Autonomy, said Peter Bible, chief risk officer at EisnerAmper, an accounting and consulting firm.
"The auditors didn't buy the company, HP did. And the people inside HP ought to be the ones held accountable for the purchase price that was paid," Bible said.
CtW questioned whether Ernst & Young was independent enough to audit HP because of the large amount of non-audit services Ernst provided to HP, including tax consulting and lobbying.
Washington Council, a tax lobbying firm acquired by Ernst in 2000, lobbied for HP from 2000 to 2004, CtW said.
Government lobbying records and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings show that Ernst & Young was HP's auditor while Washington Council was registered as a lobbyist for HP.
Reuters reported last week that the SEC was investigating whether Ernst violated auditor rules by letting its lobbying unit perform work for some major audit clients.
Ernst has said all of its services for audit clients undergo considerable scrutiny to be sure they are within the rules.
U.S. independence rules bar auditors from serving in an "advocacy role" for audit clients. The goal of this rule is to ensure that auditors are objective regarding companies they audit so that they can serve as watchdogs for investors.
It is not clear what type of lobbying activities would be barred under the prohibition against advocacy.
The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act restricted the type of non-audit services that audit firms can provide, but broad exceptions were granted for tax consulting services.
CtW said that HP was out of step with its peers in using Ernst for significant services other than audit work. The other fees paid to Ernst are much higher than those paid by Dell Inc and Apple Inc to their audit firms, CtW said.
CtW also questioned the HP audit committee's willingness to allow Ernst to perform "multiple and conflicting roles" for HP.
Board audit committees hire and oversee outside auditors, while also governing non-audit services.
(Additional reporting by Sarah Lynch and David Ingram in Washington; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh)