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The main cliffs at the Gunks are The Trapps and The Near Trapps. The Trapps is several miles long, and ranges in height from 30' to over 250'. A convenient gravel carriage road traverses under the cliff for its entire length, and designated access trails climb from the carriage road through the talus to the cliff. Access to most climbs at the Trapps involves hiking along the carriage road for 5 minutes to a half hour, followed by a short hike up to the rock. Some of the climbs on the left end of the Trapps start right off the carriage road. Parking exists at the Mohonk Preserve and day passes are required for entry.
The Nears is also a popular destination, with climbs ranging in height from 30' to 200'. While not as extensive as The Trapps, the Nears offers many excellent routes with short approaches. The near (north) end is most popular, but there are good climbs farther down the cliff as well.
Around 2000, the Mohonk Preserve installed around 40 two-bolt belays spread out among routes in the Trapps, Nears, and Lost City. There is one dedicated rappel line, just north of High E, which can be rappelled with one 50m rope.
Millbrook is more remote and offers adventurous climbing for those wanting to get off the beaten path. This area is frequented more by Gunks locals than first-time visiting climbers. The approach is roughly an hour along pleasant rambling trails, and Westward Ha! is worth the walk!
Sky Top has many classic routes, and was closed for over ten years by the landowner (the Mohonk Mountain House, an exclusive and expensive resort). As of April 2007 climbing is LEGAL at Sky Top once again - IF, and only if, you are there as a client of their only approved guide service, Alpine Endeavors.
Peterskill, in Minnewaska State Park, is another popular Gunks climbing destination, offering single-pitch climbs, top-roping, and bouldering. Follow directions to The Trapps and continue on Rt. 44/55 for about a mile past the steel bridge to get to the park entrance. A separate admission fee is charged.
Other Gunks climbing areas, such as ?? and Bonticou, are under-documented by local tradition. Climbing here is by word of mouth; go with a Gunks local or perhaps get information at Rock & Snow, the local climbing shop in New Paltz.
Due to the abundance of horizontal cracks and the limited number of vertical cracks, most Gunks routes have "PG" protection: adequate but not great, although many gear ratings were applied before small cams were invented. The horizontal cracks are great for small Tricams: the pink and red are especially useful. Small-to-medium cams with flexible shafts also work well. Climbs rarely need pro larger than 3". Hexes are not often carried, but sometimes work well.
Fixed pro is sometimes available, but many of the pins are "old and rusted and shouldn't be trusted". Bring a screamer or two for the questionable pin or bolt.
A "Standard Rack" for the Gunks:
a set of micronuts (RPs, HB offsets, BD micro stoppers) - very often useful for 5.10 and above. a set of wired nuts (#3-#13 BD Stoppers or equivalent) black, pink, red, and brown Tricams (some climbers double up on the smaller sizes) blue, green, yellow, gray, and red Aliens (or equivalent) #.75, #1, #2, and #3 Camalots (or equivalent) 10-12 extendable runners (24" sewn slings) 1 or 2 long runners (48" sewn slings or rabbit runners) A Yates Screamer
Additional gear that is useful on some climbs:
extra cams in the .5" to 2" range - very useful for new Gunks leaders a very small cam (black Alien or equivalent) a large cam (#4 Camalot or equivalent) a set of Trango Ball Nutz (#1, #2, #3). There are several 'new' moderate routes in the Nears, put up by Dick Williams and partners, which rely heavily on Ball Nutz for protection; caveat emptor. larger Tricams (purple #2, black #2.5) medium-sized hexes (BD #6-#8)
The amount of gear that you carry will depend on the climb, your experience, ability, and familiarity with the route and with the Gunks. If you're new to the Gunks, err on the side of taking a little more gear rather than a little less.
Many routes can be climbed and rappelled with a single 60m rope. Double ropes can be handy, however, with the traverses, wandering pro, and roofs encountered on the typical Gunks climb, and come in handy to descend in fewer rappels.
Many popular routes have bolted rap stations, but sometimes trees are used for rap anchors. Bring some webbing along in case you need to beef up a sling anchor on a tree.
Two-way radios can be useful for communicating past the big roofs often encountered on Gunks climbs. High Exposure, Disneyland, and especially Shockley's Ceiling are routes where radios can be much more effective than shouting.
Did you know that you can create an account to record, track and share your climbing ascents? Thousands of climbers are already doing this.
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South Korea's president-elect asked the leaders of the country's big businesses, or chaebol, on Wednesday to think twice before cutting jobs, saying it was time for the conglomerates her father helped build four decades ago to look beyond profits.
The election last week of Park Geun-hye, the 60-year-old daughter of former military ruler Park Chung-hee, was welcomed by the country's big businesses which dominate the world's 14th largest economy. The five biggest chaebol control assets worth more than half of gross domestic product.
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A week after her victory, Park said in a meeting with leaders of the top conglomerates that she would make sure fair business activities were encouraged and uncertainties were minimized.
"At the same time, I have a request that I must make to you," Park told the heads of such conglomerates as Hyundai Motor <005380.KS>, Samsung , SK and POSCO <005490.KS>. "It is my feeling that big conglomerates should try to change."
"I believe that the management goal of conglomerates should not remain maximizing profit but should involve pursuing coexistence with the larger community."
"I ask that as you try to overcome management difficulties, that you do not start with restructuring or layoffs but instead with sharing wisdom and pain, by trying as much as you can to save the jobs of our workers."
Park's defeated left-wing challenger in the election had threatened to end the complex shareholding of subsidiaries that allows chaebol owners to control their sprawling business empires.
Park did not say she would introduce any changes to make it easier for companies to lay off workers.
South Korean employment law makes it nearly impossible for companies to dismiss salaried workers, which has led employers to use part-time, or contract, workers to ensure some degree of management flexibility in a notoriously rigid labor market.
South Korea has the third highest rate of temporary workers among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries.
Chung Mong-koo, chairman of Hyundai Motor Co., Chey Tae-won, chairman of the SK Group and Koo Bon-moo, chairman of the LG Group, were in attendance but not Lee Kun-hee, chairman of the Samsung Group, who was on a business trip abroad.
Park's father, Park Chung-hee, was responsible for building up the chaebol during the 1960s and 1970s with a mix of threats and inducements for their bosses, the fathers and grandfathers of the current company heads.
Analysts said the president-elect was not likely to use regulatory measures on conglomerates but she has pledged to share wealth more widely to try to ease social inequities.
Park is to succeed incumbent Lee Myung-bak in February, who himself was the chief executive of a Hyundai company, who oversaw South Korea's pull out of the 2008 global economic downturn faster than its peers although he has been criticized for favoring export-oriented chaebol.
(Editing by Robert Birsel)

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Jerry Craven receives Frank O. Connor Award for fiction
Jerry Craven, head of the Lamar University Press, recently received the Frank O. Connor Award for fiction for his short story "The Stone Salvation Barn." Craven was chosen by descant, the literary journal of Texas Christian University, in which the story will be published. More than 100 stories were considered for this prestigious award.
"I am quite happy with the award and was astounded to get it for two reasons. First, I was unaware that the story had been entered in a contest. Second, there were so many stories considered for the award," Craven said. "The journal, descant, publishes such distinguished writers that I was delighted just to have a story in the magazine."
Craven's story takes place in Jasper and Bevilport in the late 1800s and chronicles the main character's struggles with love and his interactions with the locals who believe they have found the face of Jesus on the side of a barn. Craven will use the award money to attend the annual Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference, where he will read a chapter from his new novel, The Wild Part.
"I hope the award helps call attention to the Lamar University Press, just as Jim Sanderson's winning the Kay Cattarulla short story award has done," Craven said.
LU Press is growing quickly, having recently published five books: High Tides, Low Tides, by Jean Andrews; With Our Baggage, by Alan Berecka; Flower, Song, Dance, by David Bowles; A Garden on the Brazos, by Dominique Inge; and Underground Musicians, by Carol Coffee Reposa. Other recent publications of note include A Shared Voice, a collection of short stories written in a call-and-response style and based on each other by 12 writers from Texas and 12 writers from South Carolina, and Louisiana Rogue, a work of fiction presented as a translation chronicling the life of Pierre Prospère-Tourmoulin.
"All across the region—and the state—literary presses are folding. LU Press is taking up that gap. It is trying to preserve that literary outlet," said James Sanderson, chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages. "LU Press is a general interest press for the general audience. The guiding principle is that a general audience and literary merit are not mutually exclusive."
Several writers whose works have been published by the LU Press will present at the annual Langdon Weekend Literary Conference, a Southwestern conference featuring Texas writers, on September 5-6 in Granbury.
"Both the LU Press and the Department are getting a reputation for their literary activities. LU Press is becoming a force and an example in the state," Sanderson said.
For more information on the LU Press, visit www.lamaruniversitypress.org.


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These last few gorgeous days have meant lots of brainless playground knitting time. So once, I had finished Starsky's sleeves, I needed a new project.
This yarn has been sitting around with Maya's name on it for a while. I think fellow Knitsmith Amber may have dyed it but am not sure. (Look - two links in one sentence!)
It's a soft worsted wool in sherbert colors and it looked great in simple garter stitch, so today at a playdate for Zoe and then the afterschool playground it became a matching set for the not so young one. She's pretty happy about it.
Next up, another set of Dinosaurs for one of the coming babies. And in my more focused hours, more of the Pumpkin Starsky - one front panel almost done - and both sleeves. The banana tree pattern scares me so I am going in the water slowly on this one.
But hey, for those of you in the mood to be impressed, look at the sidebar - it's only taken me a year to post a FO gallery!


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The International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, or IFRC, has launched a five-year initiative in southern Africa to address humanitarian issues arising from mass migration. The Societies plan to use their community-based volunteers to facilitate social inclusion in communities that are sending or receiving migrants.
In May 2008, an outbreak of mostly anti-migrant violence, centered around Johannesburg, killed 62 people, injured hundreds more and displaced about 16,000. Even though one-third of those killed were South African, the events of that month highlighted the ongoing problem of xenophobia in the country.
Following the end of apartheid, African migrants streamed into the country, with relatively few seeking to normalize their status by applying for asylum or other legal residence documents. Many of these individuals moved into traditionally poor black communities, where there were already shortages of housing, clinics, schools, and municipal services and where millions live on the fringes in informal settlements.
There was a perception among people in these deprived communities, sometimes based on fact and sometimes not, that they now had to compete for scarce resources with the growing number of foreign nationals. That tension, coupled with high levels of crime, helped spark the May 2008 violence.
In late 2009 the South African Red Cross launched a study in communities affected by the 2008 violence to further understanding of what had happened.
Winnie Ndebele, the group's acting secretary-general, says the study revealed that South Africans were feeling increasingly uncertain and threatened themselves.
"I am just saying from the study we were surprised to get what people were telling us, how much they were threatened themselves," she says. "And then we could see that actually some of them were victimized or they were victims - they were either victimized by foreign nationals or they were victims of the whole circumstances, as it was happening at that time."
Now the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies want to work with communities in South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe to emphasize the positive aspects of migration while also seeking to counteract its negative effects.
The five year program will be known as Ubuntu, a South African humanist philosophy described by Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu as the essence of being human. The philosophy emphasizes that people are interconnected and cannot exist in in isolation.
Ken Odur, IFRC Regional Representative, says "ubuntu" describes what the societies hope to achieve in communities either receiving or sending migrants, that being socially inclusive can bring benefits.
"Some of big economies in the world today were actually built by the expertise and the capital of migrants," he said. "So there could be a mutually reinforcing argument here to say look, if migration is well managed, it can be beneficial."
Odur says that because the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the five countries were established through acts of parliament, they have unique relationships with their governments which they will use to benefit the Ubuntu initiative.
"So we will do mobilization and social mobilization at various levels, at the community level, and also at the highest levels of government. I think our best advocate is our work," Odur added. "When disaster strikes, governments realize that they have a key partner in the Red Cross and through that it opens doors for more dialogue. So yes indeed, governments realize that we have a role to play and they have been engaging with us on a number of occasions."
Ndebele says the South African society has already started training its volunteers, and started programs in local communities and hopes to help the other countries do the same.
"This is exactly what we want to do in Ubuntu; we don't want to work in [information] silos because as I [told] you we have started in South Africa through our volunteers, but we want to do it in collaboration with other countries, so that we have one message that is very effective to our people who are victimized through displacement," she said.
Regional representative Odur says Ubuntu should begin yielding positive results within a year, but that benefits will accumulate over time.


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Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security.
Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
KillAV.ME is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
It reduces the security level of the computer:
it changes system permissions, decreasing the security level.
It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user:
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a client of mine told me that he uses a website that manages mailing lists to keep track of clients All subscribed in his case, But the possibility for this website to promote spam borthered me.
I went to the website looked at the start page and then left. End of story.
To my utter discomfort I received a message from the website in my mailbox addressed to me without me confirming clicking or anythinging on the site.
I have done some reading about this and have realised that a website can do a couple of things to get your browser to divulge a email address.
I use Firefox and IE and for interest sake I visisted the page in firefox to see if I get another mail from them.
All of this is only relevant to me as I would love to know how to prevent this from happening?
Some background:
My local mail server uses 3 blacklists and I have just added spamcop as a 4th.
I use spailator to filter rubbish - but I feel outlook 2003's junk filter is better as it.
I have a IPcop firewall and url filter to try and block ickky pages and adds.


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Captivity of the Oatman Girls
In 1851 the Oatman family set out alone in covered wagons along the Santa Fe trail to California. The family was attacked by Indians, and all but three members were killed. Lorenzo, a young boy, was left for dead but painfully made his way to a settlement and was saved. Two girls, Ann and Olive, were taken captives. This is the story of the family's massacre and of the captivity of the two girls, who lived among two different Indian tribes and serv...


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BROCKTON, Mass. – Charlie LaPaglia (Marshfield, Mass.) drove in the deciding run in a two-run bottom of the eighth to give baseball a 4-3 come-from-behind win over Roger Williams University Wednesday afternoon at Campanelli Stadium in a non-conference contest.
LaPaglia's game-clinching hit plated Jamill Moquete (Boston, Mass.) to help the Beacons end a two-game skid and improve their record to 11-12. For the Hawks, Wednesday's loss dropped their record to 19-11. The Marshfield native led UMB as he went 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI, and a run scored.
Matt Dziok (Southampton, Mass.) notched his second win of the year on the hill as he threw two shutout innings, allowing just one walk in that time.
Roger Williams University scored the first run of the day in the top of the first, but the Beacons quickly tied it at 1-1 in the bottom of the second on an error by the Hawks. With runners on the corners, Jose Pena (Boston, Mass.) initiated the double steal which prompted the throw down to second. The second baseman cut off the throw and fired the ball back to the catcher, but it did not find its mark allowing LaPaglia to score, while Pena moved over to third.
The Beacons then jumped out to a 2-1 lead in the fourth on an RBI double by Kyle Szatrowski (Agawam, Mass.). Roger Williams regained the lead in the top of the fifth scoring two runs to make it 3-2 Hawks.
After a scoreless sixth and seventh and top of the eighth, the Beacons got their first of two runs on another Hawks error to tie the game at 3-3. They then scored the game-winner when LaPaglia ripped a single to right field scoring Moquete, who reached on an intentional walk.
In the ninth, Dziok completely shut down the Hawks' bats to give the Beacons the hard fought victory. The senior righty led the Beacons pitching staff which allowed just six hits in the win. Fellow seniors Luca Ilges (Gloucester, Mass.) and Daniel Heefner (Tracy, Calif.) came out of the bullpen and surrendered just four hits and two runs, both of which were unearned. The two also struck out five respectively. Harlan Zeerip (Bridgewater, Conn.) earned the start and went the first two innings.
For the Hawks Jimmy Hamilton was handed his first loss of the year after lasting just a 1/3 of an inning, in which he surrendered the game-winning run. Tyler Campo got the start for Roger Williams and went five innings and struck out five.
Reid Nelson and Mike Pascarella each recorded two hits in the loss, with Pascarella driving in the Hawks two runs in the top of the fifth on a double.
Baseball returns to action tomorrow when they host the College of Mt. St. Vincent (N.Y.) at 12:00 p.m. in Campanelli Stadium.


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HTAN GONE, Myanmar (AP) — A tense calm returned Monday to a Myanmar town that was ripped apart by sectarian violence, leaving hundreds homeless after Buddhist mobs tore through the small, winding streets torching Muslim-owned houses and stores.
Some waved sticks and clubs as they sang the national anthem.
Authorities said they had arrested 12 suspects, and security forces were guarding the mosque in Htan Gone where some of the victims sought refuge late Saturday and early Sunday.
"We spent the whole night cowering at the back of the mosque," said 70-year-old Daw Tin Shwe, adding that police did not help them. "There was no one there to protect us."
The predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million has been grappling with sectarian violence since its military rulers handed over power to a nominally civilian government in 2011. More than 250 people have been killed in the last year and another 140,000 displaced, almost all of them Muslims.
The latest violence is part of a nationalistic trend, fueled by radical monks preaching that the minority Muslim community, representing 4 percent of the population, poses a threat to thousands of years of culture and tradition.
For the first time in decades, celebrations were held in several big cities across the country to commemorate the day in 1961 when then-Prime Minister U Nu signed legislation stating that Buddhism was the national religion. The law, however, is no longer in place.
"We couldn't celebrate this day in the past because people were not very united," said Sandara, a 33-year-old monk sitting in small wooden home on the outskirts of Yangon, the streets lined with yellow, red, blue and white striped religious flags.
"Now things have changed."
Asked how he felt about violence aimed at Muslims, he fired back with a question of his own: "If someone attacks your family, wouldn't you want to do something? We can't accept people who do bad things."
Religious tensions came to the forefront last year in the western state of Rakhine, where Buddhists accuse the Rohingya Muslim community of illegally entering the country and encroaching on their land.
Violence, on a smaller scale but still deadly, spread earlier this year to other parts of the country, fueling deep-seeded prejudices against the Islamic minority and threatening Myanmar's fragile transition to democracy.
The riot in Htan Gone village, 16 kilometers (10 miles) south of Kantbalu in the region of Sagaing, began late Saturday after a crowd surrounded a police station, demanding that a Muslim man accused of trying to sexually assault a young Buddhist woman be handed over.
The rioters, some carrying swords and sticks, dispersed after security forces arrived early Sunday, shooting into the air. State-run media reported that two people were injured.
Myint Naing, who represents constituents in Htan Gone and surrounding villages, said the Muslim man accused of sexual assault was among the 12 people arrested. The other suspects were all Buddhists, he said.
In total, 48 houses were burned down by Buddhist-led mobs and 318 people were left homeless.
Since the violence first broke out Myanmar, dozens of people have been arrested, tried and convicted.
Three verdicts were handed down last Friday for Buddhist-led violence in April that left one dead and nine injured in the town of Okkan, an official with the National Unity Party, Myint Thein, said Monday.
Dozens of Muslim homes were set on fire in that attack.
One of the suspects was sentenced to five years in jail and the others to seven, he said, saying the men were found guilty of charges ranging from arson to helping plan riots that led to deaths and injuries.


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- Non-Runner Nancy was recently diagnosed as being freakishly flexible which sounds like a good thing, but all it really means is that she can't run any more, which sucks more than a Keanu Reeves movie. In Nancy's honor US Jogger is hosting a virtual 5K race on February 14th because what better way to rub Nancy's face in the fact that she can't run anymore than to hold an event where we all go out and run? I kid, I kid. Nancy is the Queen of virtual races and I wish her the best. Head on over to JogAmericaBlog to join the Freakishly Flexible 5K and then go to Nancy's blog to show your support and leave a mildly inappropriate comment about how she's freakishly flexible.
- Glaven made me laugh this week, which for now, is the only time that I'm admitting to laughing at something that Glaven said, in his Jes For Fun post. NOTE: That link isn't working right now, in fact Glaven's blog is just totally gone which makes me fearful that something is happening to all the good bloggers out there, I mean first Nitmos disappears and now Glaven? Or maybe joyRuN finally took him down for good. Who knows?
- Meanwhile, Jes ran over London Bridge, the one in Arizona and posted some cool pictures.
Comment of the Week
Honors this week go to Ed Hammerbeck on my How to Annoy Other Runners post. Was it because he called me sir? Yes, yes it was.
I'm a swerver, but only because I run drunk. My hydration belt has four bottles in it.
Bottle #1) Gewürztraminer (warm up)
Bottle #2) Manhattan (replenishing my brown liquor stores)
Bottle #3) Mai Tai (stimulating the rum gland)
Bottle #4) Mimosa (cool down)
That, sir, is how I roll.
Random Non-Running Related Video of the Week
This week's video was featured on EverymanTri several months ago, and would have made an appearance here on the Weekend Splits sooner if I had been writing them. It's a compilation of people getting lucky (but not in the sexual sense, you pervert). I'm not featured on the video because I make my own luck, I use a unique blend of hard work, belittling others and chloroform. It works every time.
Enjoy the weekend everyone. Run hard.


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Reality Comes To Low-Information Voters
" If you go on Twitter you'll find lots of stuff like this. The clueless-cool set who voted overwhelmingly for Obama are now wondering how come he said taxes weren't going to go up on 98 percent of the American people when here's their first paycheck and taxes went up.
Call it Schadenfreude if you like. It's a nasty habit. But considering that Obama managed to get himself re-elected despite a record more suited for the guillotine by playing Santa Claus, and considering that the media has rightly cast the fiscal cliff deal as a victory for the president and a loss for the Republicans, there's a valuable silver lining here.
You can't blame this on the GOP. Obama owns this.
Sure, the media will spin this as John Boehner trying to cut taxes for rich people and screwing Joe Six Pack. But nobody's going to buy that. Not when they've got to stay home and dine on Mac & Cheese rather than get a burger at Applebee's this weekend and every other weekend for the foreseeable future; this is Obama's fault.
And that's actually good. It's good medicine for people who didn't think there were personal consequences to voting for Obama without a clue what they were voting for. Maybe some of these drones will develop a little empathy for people whose taxes went up a hell of a lot more than two percent this week. "
Related articles
- First Paycheck Of The Year: Schadenfreude Is A Poor Substitute For Cash (minx.cc)
- Boehner 2 Months Ago: 'Raising Tax Rates is Unacceptable' — 'Votes Aren't There' (cnsnews.com)
- Obama First Since Eisenhower to Win 51% of Vote Twice (politicalwire.com)
- Boehner critic goes public (wnd.com)
- Poll: Most suspect Santa Claus is a Democrat (thehill.com)
- What Happened to My Paycheck? (americanfreedombybarbara.com)
- Obama Trumpets Santa Claus Fiscal Cliff Position Vs GOP 'Scrooge' One (patdollard.com)
- Middle Class Got Creamed in Cliff Deal (rushlimbaugh.com)
- Poll Reveals Santa Is A Democrat (alan.com)


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t's to expensive for my wallet, but maybe someone can go and share the knowledge with the rest of us.
Hacking Workshop I, 10 - 11 October 2005
Internet-based information-gathering
Network-based attacks:
- Portscans
- Buffer overruns
- CGI-attacks
- Path climbing-attacks
- Meta character attacks & unicode-attacks
- DoS and dDoS
- Windows-Fileshareing (LanGuard)
Passwort-sniffing, ethernet based
Attacks using emails
Hardware-spys, keyghost
Installation of trojan horses
Virii and "virus construction sets"
Attacks on a browser (java, ActiveX, etc.)
Attacks during a systems boot sequence
Social engineering
Using L0phtcrack to crack windows passwords
Cracking unix-passwords with crack/john the ripper
Automised password guessing
Hacking Workshop II, 12 - 13 October 2005
Attacking cryptographic systems
Man-in-the-Middle-attacks against SSL
(Used in internetbanking) and SSH
Attacks on WLANs
Attacks on firewalls
Advanced scanning-techniques (ACK/SYN/FIN/XMAS/NULL, IDLE-scan)
Traffic-Based attacks
Session hijacking, hijacking using Ethereal
Sniffing on the switch, analyses using Ethereal
D.o.S. on connections
Attack tools (Nessus, Stealth Http Scanner
and others)
How to stay up to date
How to conduct security checks
SSH, VPN, IPSec and tunneling
In part II of the course we'll discuss the more sophisticated hacking techniques as for example the IDLE scan. Knowledge gained in part I will be put to use in practical exercises.
During the course we can check one or more of your systems. Please note down the IP-adresses which should be attacked during the course on the registration-form and give us explicit permission to perform attacks by signing it.
We must inform you that a security check may have an impact on your systems performance.
Hacking Workshops I + II
Standard Fee - 2000 EUR
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Participation fee:
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Standard Fee - 1100 EUR
* Early Bird Fee - 900 EUR
*Register untill 15th of September and pay the "Early Bird Fee"!
The fee includes the participation to the training, the documentation of the workshop, coffee breaks and business lunch.
Language of the conference: English
Target group:
· System administrators
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You're invited to use your own notebook in the course room network.
Required knowledge: Basic knowledge of operating systems and networking, linux/unix and TCP/IP.
Duration of workshops: 2 x 2 days
Trainer: Stefan Arbeiter
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Craseonycteris thonglongyai
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Craseonycteris thonglongyai Hill, 1974
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable C1 ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Bates, P., Bumrungsri, S. & Francis, C.
|Hutson, A.M., Racey, P.A. (Chiroptera Red List Authority), Chanson, J. & Chiozza, F. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Listed as Vulnerable as the population is estimated to be less than 10,000 individuals, and based on population declines in Thailand it is expected to decline by 10% in the next ten years.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species occurs in Thailand and Myanmar. The type locality in Thailand is Kanchanaburi, Ban Sai Yoke (= Yok), cave near the Forestry Station (14''26'N, 8''51'E). It potentially occurs further south in Myanmar, a genetic study is being undertaken to determine if the species exists in two isolated subpopulations. There are additional limestone caves near the Thai border in Myanmar although these have not been surveyed. Its elevational range is from 0-500 m asl.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Myanmar; Thailand
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|The total population is restricted to eight caves in Myanmar (Pereira et al. 2006) and 35 in Thailand (Yokubo et al. 2005; Redfield, 2006). The population in Thailand is estimated to be 5,100 individuals and the population has decreased. From 1983 to 1997, there has been a 10% decrease while from 1998 to the present a 14% decrease has been estimated. These figures are not based on the same cave samples, as the species disappeared from some caves and appeared in others and it is not known whether this simply reflects colonies moving from one cave to another (S. Bumrungsri pers. comm.) The population in Myanmar is over 1,500 individuals (P. Bates pers. comm.), all age classes are included although this is likely to be represented by mature individuals as the species matures quickly.
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|This species is always associated with limestone outcrops near rivers and can survive in degraded areas. It always roosts in caves. Weighing around two grams, this tiny bat is reputedly the world's smallest mammal. It is insectivorous and normal foraging range appears to be limited to an area of around 1 km from the roost site (Hutson et al. 2001).
|Major Threat(s):
|The species is affected by disturbance of roosts by religious visits, fertilizer collection and tourism - there has been development of 'show caves' (S. Bumrungsri pers. comm.). There is also the potential for the extraction of limestone which would cause habitat destruction.
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|There is a need for the protection of the cave roosts. A survey of the limestone caves just across the Thai border inside Myanmar is required to determine if the species occurs there. Education of monks to prevent burning of incense is also required (P. Bates pers. comm.) as well as improvement of transboundary collaboration on conservation of the species along with transboundary information exchange, and identification and establishment of protected areas (P. Bates pers. comm.).
|Bates, P., Bumrungsri, S. & Francis, C. 2008. Craseonycteris thonglongyai. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T5481A11205556. . Downloaded on 22 September 2018.
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Quirky signs with unwitting senses – part of the pleasure of travel in distant places.
This is the name of a well endowed cafe at Leipzig railway station. Not to be outdone, the ship from Riga to Stockholm sports a somewhat different culinary experience:
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W.A. Currier Daybooks
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W.A. Currier's daybooks document the activities of a hardware store merchant in mid-19th-century Haverhill, Massachusetts. A significant portion of his business appears to be with contractors of some sort, based on the volume and frequency of purchases. On September 16, 1865, for instance, Peter Gildea purchased $152 worth of brushes, brooms, lamps, trowels, baskets, and door stoppers. Three days later he charged another $178 worth of paint, trays, brushes, and other goods. George Adams, Samuel Griffin, W.P. Stacy, and J.W. O'Brine (of Newburyport) in addition to Gildea are all regular customers making large purchases. There is also a steady stream of customers making more limited purchases.
Another part of Currier's trade, however, involved the repair of and trade in stoves. In the 1867 Massachusetts Business Directory, Currier is listed as a stove dealer and tinsmith. He routinely bought old stoves, repaired them, and then resold them. Currier also did a fairly substantial trade in old rags. On July 9, 1866, for example, he purchased some 1400 pounds of rags from J.W. O'Brine. A month earlier he bought over 2800 pounds from another customer. He also made much smaller purchases of rags from local customers. The rags, in turn, he sold to O. Kimball and W.F. Daniels in large shipments, although it is not known for what purpose.
Currier's store was on Main Street in Haverhill, apparently in the section that used to be called Bradford but was later annexed to Haverhill.


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'The Mindy Project' (Sept. 25; Fox)
The first episode's a bit uneven, and the whole not-exactly-novel premise (an OB/GYN deals with work and life issues) really depends on whether you like Mindy Kaling's brand of quirky/awkward/dorky humor. For the record, we do, and we're excited to see "The Office" star/scribe get her own starring gig. Pencil this comedy in as the one that will surely grow over the season.
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BARTOW | Plans to expand an off-road vehicle park in a rural area between Frostproof and Fort Meade stalled Wednesday after a lawyer representing opponents questioned whether such a project was legally allowed under Polk's growth plan.
BARTOW | Plans to expand an off-road vehicle park in a rural area between Frostproof and Fort Meade stalled Wednesday after a lawyer representing opponents questioned whether such a project was legally allowed under Polk's growth plan.
"This involves the expansion of something that never should have been allowed in the first place," said David Theriaque, a Tallahassee lawyer representing area homeowners.
Planning commissioners — over Theriaque's objection — voted 5-2 to continue the case on Feb. 6, to give everyone an opportunity to research the legal questions.
Unresolved is whether the case can even be considered unless the County Commission amends its growth plan and whether last year's original approval should be nullified.
"This raises all kinds of legal questions," said Jack Brandon, the Lake Wales lawyer representing Dirty Foot Adventures, which originally was approved in 2011 for an 82-acre facility.
He said Theriaque's argument caught him by surprise and he hasn't had a chance to research the issue. Theriaque's legal argument goes this way:
The 1,150-acre tract between Singletary Road and West Bereah Road is classified as agriculture/residential rural on the county's growth map. Polk's growth plan allows only agriculture or low-density residential development in that classification.
Polk's growth plan is the document that controls planning and land-use decisions.
County officials' decisions are required to conform with the growth plan.
In addition, he argued the fact that the County Commission amended its development code in October to allow high-intensity recreation in the agricultural/rural residential areas is irrelevant because the growth plan's provisions govern.
Brandon said he had relied on the revision of the development code.
County Attorney Michael Craig said it appears a growth plan amendment will be necessary before the case can proceed.
Wednesday's three-hour hearing pitted off-road vehicle enthusiasts and the park's owner against area residents.
Colon Lambert of Bowling Green, the property's owner, said he was trying to make a profitable use of property he purchased in 2005 without clearing it for more intensive agriculture.
"I want to be a good neighbor; I believe we can coexist," he said, explaining he thinks his business would help the local economy by bringing people to the area.
Brandon acknowledged there have been problems in the past, but said that involved a "misunderstanding" and promised his client has worked out conditions to prevent future problems.
Area residents told a different story.
They complained about the noise from the vehicles and the park's loudspeakers that has affected their quiet rural neighborhood.
Resident James Dickinson said the noise from the vehicles has forced his cattle out of part of this pasture.
"This we can't tolerate,'' he said.
Resident Jim Butler said he's an all-terrain vehicle enthusiast himself, but thinks ATV tracks are not appropriate in his back yard.
Ben Hill Griffin Inc., a major landowner in the area, also objected to the expansion, according to a letter submitted by Ben Hill Griffin III.
The letter raised concerns about noise, late-night activities and the chance that off-road vehicles would be operated on adjacent public roads, which is illegal.
But ATV advocates dismissed the complaints.
"I hate it when someone's solitude gets in the way of my riding," said Brooks Tomblin of Ormond Beach, vice president of Florida Trail Riders.
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As a perennial Selke Trophy nominee, Ryan Kesler could get away with just playing a defensive role for Vancouver.
But the Canucks center scored 41 goals in the regular season, and in order to to finish the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs on top Vancouver needs him to be at his tw0-way best.
Last night Kesler's offense finally caught back up to his defense, as he scored his first two postseason goals, including the game-winner 10:45 into overtime. The Canucks downed Nashville, 3-2, in Game 3 of their Western Conference semifinal series and took a 2-1 series lead.
For his offensive eruption and sudden-death heroics, Kesler is the TheBruinsBlog.net Star of the Night.
As Iain MacIntyre of the Vancouver Sun wrote today, Kesler's scoreless ways were acceptable in the first round, when he was expected to slow down Chicago star Jonathan Toews during the Canucks' seven-game victory. Against the offense-challenged Predators, however, Kesler has to score.
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His offence is vitally important against [Pekka] Rinne, especially since Canucks first-liners Daniel and Henrik Sedin continue to struggle for a bottom line.
Kesler also added an assist on Vancouver's third goal. His point-production is finally up and so are the Canucks. If the Sedin brothers can join the fray now, Vancouver might heat up as a team at the right time.
Honorable mention: Steven Stamkos (GTG) and Ryan Malone (GWG) of Tampa Bay; Joel Ward (GTG) and Pekka Rinne (44-for-47 saves) of Nashville.
Last night's scores
Tampa Bay 4, Washington 3
Vancouver 3, Nashville 2 (OT)
Tonight's games
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2009 Top Truck Challenge Competitor: Corey Casper's 1998 Dodge DurangoPosted in Top Truck Challenge on November 1, 2009
Somewhere, there's a soccer mom missing an SUV. But hey, it's for the best. This is Corey Casper's Durango, and he knows how to build a rig. After all, he's the owner of Casper Customs 4x4 Parts. To create the rig you see here, Casper blended parts from Chrysler, Ford, and GM. The result is a unique rig that not only marries components from different manufacturers, but combines old and new tech to create a capable machine. You voted this rig the Alternate for 2009.
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NHIAA Roundup: Central, down 18, rallies to another win
February 08. 2013 12:43AM
Down by as many as 18 points in the first half to 13th-ranked Salem, Manchester Central battled back and kept its unbeaten season intact with a 69-60 Division I boys' basketball decision at Simon Gym in Manchester.
Central is 13-0 while Salem, which became only the second team this season to score 60 points against the Little Green, fell to 4-8.
Trailing 53-45 entering the fourth period, Central scored the first 14 points of the final frame to take control of the contest. Troy Pelletier (23 points), Brett Hanson (10 points) and Tyler Kelly (15 points) each scored six points during a 24-point fourth-period barrage to lead the comeback.
Salem, behind 13 first-half points from Andrew Ruffin (20 points), scored 38 in the first half and at one point led by 18 points before settling for a 38-24 halftime lead. Central cut the deficit to 50-45 before Ruffin sank a three-pointer to give Salem the eight-point advantage with eight minutes to play. Ruffin had four three-pointers in the game.
Central was clutch at the free throw line, hitting 20 of 30 attempts including nine-of-12 in the fourth frame. Salem was 9-of-15 in the game. Mike Plentzas contributed 11 points in the win.
Alvirne 52, Londonderry 45: In Hudson, Tyler Brown had a game-high 18 points to pace Alvirne. Alec Yoksh added 10 points for Alvirne (7-5). Maxwell Coleman led Londonderry (4-8) with 13 points and Brendan Enright chipped in 11 points.
Lebanon 67, Goffstown 53: In Goffstown, Dave Hampton exploded for 30 points with six three-point shots to lead Lebanon (10-3). Freshman Mike Bailey had a career high in points (16) and three-pointers (five) in the loss for Goffstown, 4-9. Lebanon (10-3) avenged an early-season 67-64 home loss to Goffstown.
Girls' basketball
Lebanon 61, Goffstown 36: In Lebanon, Alicia Minnich scored 10 points for Goffstown (9-6). Lebanon is 14-0.
Bedford 72, Spaulding 36: In Bedford, Nikki Tucci led all scorers with 17, McKenzie Brown had 12 points and Bri Purcell added 10 points and four assists for the Bulldogs. Bedford (13-2) led 37-9 at the half against 4-12 Spaulding.
Derryfield 44, Wilton 22: In Manchester, Rachel Larrivee had a double-double with 10 points and 17 boards as Derryfield rebounded from a 28-point loss to Wilton earlier in the season.
Hannah Comeau scored 12 points, Hannah Zinn added 11 points and Liz Krogman had 10 rebounds for Derryfield (7-9). Deanna Davidson had six points for Wilton (7-9).


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(Reuters) - Shares of Google Inc rose 6 percent in early trading on Wednesday as an improvement in the company's core search business in the fourth quarter allayed concerns that its growth would slow as advertising moves on to smartphones and tablets.
Google does not break down revenue for mobile advertising but its average cost-per-click, which measures the price advertisers pay Google, declined 6 percent from a year earlier, a big improvement over the third quarter's 15 percent slide.
"We come out of the fourth quarter feeling better about Google's mobile transition and segment growth rate going forward," J.P. Morgan Securities analyst Doug Anmuth said in a note to clients.
"As the business continues to shift toward mobile and advertisers think holistically about clicks rather than about which devices they're coming from ... the Street will as well," said Anmuth, who raised his share price target by $58 to $860.
Google shares were trading at $747.39 in early trade. The stock hit a high of $759.43 in October, before retreating 9 percent on worries about slow advertising growth and losses at its Motorola business.
The company's better-than-expected results triggered a rush of stock price target upgrades on Wednesday, with analysts saying the company's mobile advertisement business would boost revenue in the longer term.
At least 12 brokerages raised their price targets on Google's stock.
"Long term, Google will be able to tie offline activity/purchases to online/mobile ads, which will better demonstrate the value of mobile and could encourage advertisers to spend more," said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who raised his price target to $828 from $775.
On an average, the 12 analysts including J.P. Morgan, Raymond James, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, RBC Capital Markets and Piper Jaffray, raised their targets by $40. Cantor Fitzgerald was the most bullish, raising its target by $80 to $900.
"Fourth-quarter results highlight very healthy performances in both search and display, confirming Google's position as one of the best global plays on secular growth in online advertising and e-commerce," Cantor Fitzgerald analysts said.
"Motorola remains a show-me story, but one that seems on track for a turnaround, with only modest expectations."
Google bought the Motorola Mobility mobile phone business in 2011 to gain control of important mobile patents that would arm it better in its rivalry against Apple Inc and other large technology companies. (http://r.reuters.com/hut45t)
The business has been losing money but Google has said the acquisition will ultimately position it better in a changing technology landscape defined by mobile gadgets and social networking.
The company sold the television set-top box business that came along with the Motorola Mobility purchase in December.
Motorola Mobility posted an operating loss of $353 million for the fourth quarter.
(Additional reporting by Neha Alawadhi in Bangalore; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)


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After riding the No. 22 Clark bus last month, TJ Holly of Rogers Park noticed his pocket was a little lighter. Thankfully, his wallet was still there—but his Ventra card was gone.
He logged onto ventrachicago.com Dec. 15 to report his card missing and request a replacement card. And then he waited. And waited some more.
In the meantime, he walked instead of riding the bus. Then he bought a new card from a Ventra vending machine. His replacement card never came in the mail, though Ventra says normal delivery of replacement cards is seven to 10 business days.
He contacted Ventra customer service, which gave him incorrect information about a glitch with replacing cards through the website, the CTA said.
After Going Public forwarded Holly's Ventra customer service correspondence to the CTA media department, Ventra contacted Holly on Monday about his replacement card and salvaging the $15.50 on his old card.
Holly, 30, was not impressed with the process to replace his card. "It just seems a little unreasonable."
As more CTA riders continue to adopt Ventra, used to pay for 77 percent of CTA rides, they are starting to learn how to navigate Ventra protocol, including card replacement.
A CTA spokeswoman said the agency was aware of "a handful of cases" recently where some riders waited more than 10 business days to receive their replacement card.
"We've heard from a small number and we're investigating why," CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase said.
If riders lose their registered Ventra cards, they are encouraged to call 877-669-8368 or log onto the Ventra website to report the card as lost or stolen, which inactivates the card so the balance is protected.
Riders can choose to receive a new Ventra card either in the mail or by visiting the Ventra customer service center at 165 N. Jefferson St. The balance from the old card is transferred upon new card activation.
Riders without registered Ventra cards can buy a new card at a retailer or online. That balance is lost.
Adam Webb, 33, slipped on some ice on the Near North Side two weeks ago. The Edgewater resident said his Ventra card was in his coat pocket and the card cracked on the chip, rendering it useless.
On Ventra's website, he requested a replacement card, which had not arrived as of Monday afternoon. He bought a second card in the meantime but said he had 10 days left on the 30-day pass on his old card.
"The process is frustrating. [It] needs to be streamlined," he told Going Public.
A weekly dispatch from a CTA station of note
This week: 43rd Green Line station
One day you're in, the next day you're out. This Bronzeville stop was showcased in a chase scene in the 1973 Robert Redford movie "The Sting." Now, the historic dance hall by the stop also featured in the movie is abandoned (but hoping for revivial) and the lots next to the station are vacant. This station could use some nearby development to make it a star again.
Next up: Garfield Green Line


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Phillip Mills is founder and creative director of Les Mills International, whose eight exercise-to-music programs are in 12,000 fitness clubs worldwide with five million participants each week. Mills also developed the Group Fitness Management system for maximizing the commercial benefits of the Les Mills programs. He is a past winner of the Ernst & Young New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year award , and with his wife Dr. Jackie Mills co-wrote the book "Fighting Globesity."
It's time to turn the management of group exercise into a skilled and valued profession.
That, I believe, is the next big step in health clubs' success.
The truth is that many clubs have focused on sales and marketing without backing them with great products and customer experiences. Retention rates haven't changed much in the last 20 years. We've driven people into our clubs with advertising, marketing and sales, but most of us aren't any better at keeping those customers once we've made the sale. Among many people, our industry's reputation is as a "hard sell" sell operation, like car or insurance salesmen.
It's time for our industry to focus on being product-led rather than sales-led. We need to make our clubs more fun and more social places.
Let's make workouts an experience, not a tedious self-imposed tyranny that people do after a health scare or to get in shape for summer.
When fitness is fun and social, it becomes a deep and powerful part of people's lives. People join the gym to get in shape, but they stay because of the experience they have and the people they meet.
As my friend Michael Scott Scudder says, "No one ever left a gym because they made too many friends or were having too much fun."
In terms of simple, everyday activities, group exercise is the most powerful, systematizable way of creating social experiences in a health club. Group exercise classes combine social interaction and fun, offer unmatched fitness benefits compared with other group activities, are low cost for members compared with personal training, and are easy for club managers to implement with low-risk and a big return on investment.
Look at the comparison with other options:
- When you redecorate the club or add new machines, you might commonly hope for a 20 percent or 30 percent return on your investment. Professionalizing group fitness management commonly achieves returns of 200 percent to 300 percent.
- While a single great personal trainer can attract and retain a small group of members — maybe 10 or 12 regular clients — a great group fitness instructor can attract hundreds of members to a club, simply because that's how many members a group instructor can directly "touch" and inspire every week.
If you build a team of rock star instructors, they can attract thousands of members to your club.
That's the importance of developing world-class group fitness managers. Top-quality managers are the vital link to achieve the full potential of combining great instructors with world-class group fitness programs.
Many club owners and managers lack a frame of reference to know whether group fitness is performing well.
The most important benchmark is the most obvious — the number of people in your classes:
- How many people attend each of your classes? If classes are less than half full, then you have huge potential for growth at minimal cost.
- How many classes are on your timetable? While some clubs hold just 20 classes per week, others hold up to 200.
- How many attendees for each instructor? By finding out this information, you can see quickly which instructors need more training or motivation.
- What percentage of total visits to your club is for group fitness? If you're down around 10 percent or 20 percent, you know for sure you can make big gains.
Club owners must realize that they aren't on their own as they strive to improve group fitness. A systematic, tried-and-true path exists to set goals and achieve them. It's entirely realistic to raise group attendances from 300 people per week to 3,000 or more per week over a period of, say, three to five years. Over the same time frame, you can get your group fitness attendance up to 40 percent or 50 percent of all visits each week. You can achieve these improvements by professionally training your instructors; introducing standardized programming; providing incentives; actively managing your timetable; investing in sound, lighting and stages; and marketing group fitness inside and outside the club.
Pretty soon, your classes will be bursting at the seams. At that point, you will have achieved every club owner's dream because you will be out of the price war. Why would your members leave for some cut-rate place down the road when they love your club, love their friends at your club and are loyal to your programs?
At my family's biggest club in New Zealand, we have 12,000 current paying members. Our member retention rate is 80 percent, despite charging the highest fees in the city and serving a young, highly mobile demographic (average age 27). More than half of all attendances at our club are for group fitness classes. In November 2008, we set a record 9,000 group fitness attendances in one week. We average more than 8,500 per week. Half of our entire facility is given over to our group fitness building. At almost any time of the week, the group fitness building is bursting at the seams with up to 400 people across four studios, with classes peaking at more than 200 people. Words like "energy" and "buzz" fall way short of capturing the atmosphere.
In the near future, we will be automating much of the management of group fitness. Based on automatic class-counting technology that interfaces with a new software system we've developed, we'll be enabling managers to see their data online in real time, compare themselves with other clubs around the world, juggle their timetables to maximize attendance, rank classes and instructors and set goals with them, and measure group fitness's contribution to the business.


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The UWF Police welcome you to UWF.
Our Mission
The University of West Florida Police Department's role is to advance UWF's mission, vision, and priorities by providing a safe environment through professional service to the community.
Let's Fight Crime Together
Welcome to the University of West Florida. Because university campuses are reflective of the communities they serve, they are not immune to societal problems that may foster an atmosphere conducive to crime. The University has taken specific measures to ensure that you enjoy the safest possible living and learning environment. We encourage you to take an active role in making the University community safe.
Safety programs and mechanical alarm systems cannot be fully effective against crime without the cooperation of the citizens they are designed to protect. Alertness, common-sense precautions, and concern for fellow students, faculty, and employees are keys to preventing crime and helping us ensure that experiences at UWF are positive and enjoyable.
Preventing or reducing crime in any community is a tough job, but it can be done. Working together, we can make a difference. I encourage you to be pro-active in the fight against crime. Please do not hesitate to request our services. We are committed to the highest level of service to our community.
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Former U.S. representative and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Larry Combest sees more than a tad of irony in the Wall Street Journal and the other usual suspects criticizing farm programs while Congress debates massive bailouts of banks, borrowers and auto manufacturers.
Combest, who serves as an advisor to the Southwest Council of Agribusiness through Combest and Sell Associates, said the council's emphasis has changed.
"For the last two and a half years we concentrated on the farm bill," Combest said during the recent Texas Commodity Symposium, an annual event held in conjunction with the Amarillo Farm Show.
"For the next few months, maybe years, we'll be talking about a variety of new issues. Our opponents never go away."
He said environmental over-regulation may be a top priority with executive and legislative branches of government controlled by Democrats.
He criticized a "$1 trillion bailout to people who made dumb decisions, people who borrowed money they knew they couldn't repay. Most people who created the (economic) crisis did so by making dumb decisions."
In that context, he said the Wall Street Journal "took a shot at agriculture, calling the farm bill corporate welfare. It continues to amaze me that people worrying about making their Lexus payment don't have to worry about food."
He said food prices have risen despite lower commodity prices. "Gas (price) is also down. But they continue to take shots at agriculture.
"Farmers just get up every day and to what they need to do. You're doing the right thing and we don't have to apologize to anybody for doing the right thing for agriculture."
Combest expressed satisfaction at Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss' success in a runoff election in early December.
"We couldn't afford to lose (Senator) Chambliss, a champion for agriculture."
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Tim Robbins (yes, the Hollywood A-lister of such notable films as Shawshank Redemption and Mystic River) has a band, an album, and a record deal. He's going to be at World Cafe, giving a free performance with his superb backing band, this Friday. Don't miss the Americana stylings of this Academy Award winner--Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band know how to make the country blues come alive on stage.
Tim Robbins grew up surrounded by music. His parents met in the UCLA marching band, and his father eventually moved the family to Greenwich Village during the height of the '60s and '70s folk renaissance to pursue a career his band The Highwaymen. The result was an abiding love of blue-collar Americana for Robbins, as evidenced by the tone of The Rogues Gallery's eponymous debut. It's safe to say that Robbins draws a lot of his inspiration from country-blues and rock staples like Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, and Bob Dylan. With a stellar line up of supporting musicians like keyboardist Roger Eno, musical saw player David Coulter, multi-instrumentalist Kate St. John and vocal contributions by Joan As Policewoman, "Tim Robbins and The Rogues Gallery Band" is a solid release of mixed Appalachia. The songs are heartfelt and lovingly crafted. As Robbins described it, "I have too much respect for music to put out something that wasn't coming from a genuine place."
Don't miss out on this week's Free at Noon--Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band have a reputation for charming and also rousing live performances.
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Recent Release: Tim Robbins And The Rogues Gallery Band
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Constraining the Age and Evolution of an Axial Volcanic Ridge on the Mid Atlantic Ridge
DOEI Project Funded: 2007
Axial volcanic ridges (AVRs) are a common feature found within the median valley of slow spreading ridges such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). They are sinuous volcanic ridges tens of kilometers long, a few kilometers wide and few hundreds of meters high and comprised of a variety of volcanic products varying from pillow lava benches to hummocky lava to isolated cones, lava terraces and lava lakes. Occurring in over 90% of MAR ridge segments surveyed to date, AVRs are widely recognized as the fundamental volcanic accretionary "building block" in slowly spread crust. Despite this morphological characterization, very little is known about the age and genetic relationships between the various volcanic products that make up an AVR or the age span and episodicity of the volcanic processes involved in its construction. In fact, there are no quantitative age dates of any volcanic products from the median valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Part of the reason for this has been the lack of dating techniques to address the age ranges involved (<300000 yrs), however, this has now been remedied by the development of U-series disequilibria which has been successfully applied in a variety of environments. Another reason has been the lack of precise geological context for the samples with maps of sufficient spatial resolution to document sample locations in relation to the various volcanic units. This too has been remedied with the use of near-bottom multibeam bathymetric and optical mapping that provide not only sub-meter resolution but also extend such coverage over several kilometers. High-resolution magnetic mapping has also benefited from this scale of mapping and we have found that rapid changes in geomagnetic field intensity (as opposed to polarity reversals) also generate magnetic anomalies that allow us to provide chronological markers as well as infer patterns of crustal accretion.
With these tools and expertise resident here at WHOI we feel the time is ripe to take an important step forward in our knowledge of volcanic emplacement at the slow spreading MAR. We therefore propose to provide the first quantitative age constraints on midocean ridge basalts from the MAR and thereby constrain the evolutionary history of an AVR. We seek funds to participate in a British research expedition that will investigate the history, genesis and evolution of an AVR on the MAR at 45°N using the remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) ISIS and deep towed sidescan sonar vehicle, TOBI. The British team is led by Prof. Roger Searle of DurhamUniversity with a primarily geochemical science party focused on issues related to the evolution of magmas and melting processes with respect to an AVR. Our contribution will be to provide age constraints using high-resolution magnetic chronology with sensors mounted to TOBI and ISIS and absolute age-dating of samples collected by ROV. The cruise is scheduled for 2008 on board RRS James Cook.These data will be important as they will not only provide quantitative age constraints necessary for understanding the evolution of a slow spreading midocean ridge but also how volcanic ages are related to hydrologic and biologic systems. While we will measure only 5-10 samples using these funds, these preliminary data will provide 'proof-of-concept' necessary to obtain NSF funding for a more complete study.