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I had to work on a bunch of Apache on Win32 hosts. Typically, this is against my religion, however, I did it anyway.
While doing it, I went looking for some info on simply redirecting all traffic over HTTPS. I found all the info but some was in different places. I took a base tutorial and made some changes to it so that it had more clarity and also explained how to redirect traffic over HTTPS. Since this is not an original work, all references are cited.
This is tutorial only discusses how to get HTTPS setup with Apache for Win32. It's nothing more.
APACHE for Win32 with SSL support v 1.3
Original document found at:
Version 1.2 (Up from 1.1 thanks to Mike Young)
Version 1.3 (TheHorse13)
1. Assumptions
This tutorial assumes that you already have Apache2 installed and working on a Windows server. I have Apache 2.0.52 installed on Windows Server 2000.
_This guide also assumes that you have a standard SSL cert. If you have a supercert, youll need to add additional lines to your virtual host in httpd.conf and ssl.conf to deal with the intermediate cert. For more information on what a SuperCert is, please see SGC SuperCert - 256-bit ssl encryption from thawte
TIP: Backup your existing httpd.conf file before you begin. If you run into issues, at least you can revert back to the original.
2. Needed Files
These are not necessarily the most up-to-date, but they worked for my install so I have included them here. You will need to download both Apache_2.0.55-Openssl_0.9.8a-Win32.zip and Openssl-0.9.8a-Win32.zip
Unzip both of these files to seperate folders.
3. Setting Up OpenSSL
Copy the files ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll from the OpenSSL folder to WINNT\System32. Double check that you make sure you copied the dll's and not the lib's. Both of these DLL files will be located in the unzipped Openssl-0.9.8a-Win32 folder.
Copy mod_ssl.so from the unzipped Apache 2.0.55-Openssl 0.9.8a-Win32\modules folder into the \modules folder of your production Apache servers path.
You also need to download openssl.cnf into the same folder where you unzipped Openssl-0.9.8a-Win32. Windows will remove the .cnf and will make this file look like a dialup icon. Just ignore it. Just make sure you have the file in the right place.
Download ssl.conf and place it in the Apache2/conf directory.
4. Creating a test certificate
Open a command prompt. Navigate to where you unzipped Openssl-0.9.8a-Win32.
openssl req -config openssl.cnf -new -out my-server.csr
You can replace my-server.csr with whatever you want aslong as the extention is .csr. When asked for "Common Name (eg, your websites domain name)", give the exact domain name of your web server (e.g. www.my-server.dom). The certificate belongs to this server name and browsers complain if the name doesn't match.
openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out my-server.key
This removes the passphrase from the private key. You MUST understand what this means; my-server.key should be only readable by the apache server and the administrator. You should delete the .rnd file because it contains the entropy information for creating the key and could be used for cryptographic attacks against your private key.
openssl x509 -in my-server.csr -out my-server.cert -req -signkey my-server.key -days 365
This creates a self-signed certificate that you can use until you get a "real" one from a certificate authority. (Which is optional; if you know your users, you can tell them to install the certificate into their browsers.) Note that this certificate expires after one year, you can increase -days 365 if you don't want this.
TIP: Sometimes certs will have the suffix crt or cer. If this is the case, you can either rename the certificate file with the .cert suffix to match the lines in this guide or you can change the conf files to reflect whichever certificate suffix came with the certificate file. For example, if Windows sees the suffix cert, it wont assign the nifty certificate icon to it. It only sees crt and cer as certificate suffixes and will only assign the icon to these suffixes.
Create a directory in the Apache folder name Apache2/conf/ssl and move my-server.key and my-server.cert into it.
5. Configuring Apache and mod_ssl
Open the httpd.conf file and locate the LoadModule directives.
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
After </IfModule> add
SSLMutex default
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLSessionCache none
In the VirtualHost directives add
<VirtualHost www.my-domain.com:443>
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/my-server.cert
SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/my-server.key
TIP: To redirect all traffic to the console to the SSL automatically (otherwise, you will get pages served up on both http and https), add these lines beneath </VirtualHost>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/ [R]
Then be sure to uncomment the following module:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Open the ssl.conf file and set the correct ServerName (www.my-domain.com) and DocumentRoot. You will place the location of the secure material in the " " after DocumentRoot. So if your secure webpages are on your D: drive, in the folder called secure, the line should look like
DocumentRoot "D:/secure"
Provided that you havent made any typos, you should now be able to restart Apache and get SSL pages served up without issue. You can also remove both the zip files and the folders where you extracted Apache_2.0.55-Openssl_0.9.8a-Win32.zip and Openssl_0.9.8a-Win32.zip once you're sure that everything is working the way you want. However, I recommend keeping the Openssl directory in the event you need to cut certs and such in the future. As for the Apache zip, all we did was pillage the mod_ssl.so file compiled for Win32 so that download is of no use.


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Performed at U-M since 1955, Mohs Micrographic Surgery is an advanced treatment procedure for skin cancer that often offers the highest potential for cure--even if the skin cancer has been previously treated. This procedure is state-of-the-art treatment in which the physician serves as surgeon, pathologist and reconstructive surgeon. It relies on the accuracy of a microscope to trace and ensure removal of skin cancer down to its roots. This procedure allows dermatologists, trained in Mohs Surgery, to see beyond the visible disease, and to precisely identify and remove the entire tumor, leaving healthy tissue unharmed. This procedure is most often used in treating two of the most common forms of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
The cure rate for Mohs Micrographic Surgery is the highest of all treatments for many skin cancersoften approaching 99 percent even if other forms of treatment have failed. This procedure - the most exact and precise method of tumor removal - minimizes the chance of regrowth and lessens the potential for scarring or disfigurement by conserving as much normal tissue as possible. To learn more about this procedure please visit the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology Website.
Membership in the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology assures that the highest standards of physician training in Mohs Micrographic Surgery has occurred with specialized post graduate fellowship training. The Mohs surgeons at the University of Michigan have received the most extensive post-graduate training consisting of 2 years of advanced fellowship training in both Mohs surgery and complex reconstruction of surgical wounds.
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UPDATED: Chester police seek two men in armed home invasionBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
May 21. 2013 1:23PM
CHESTER - Police are searching for two men who allegedly tied up a man inside his Chester home, robbed him of money and his cellphone while threatening him with a gun, and then fled Tuesday morning.
Police were called to the home at 22 Lady Slipper Lane just after 11 a.m. to investigate a report of an armed home invasion.
Police Chief William Burke said the victim told police that the two men knocked on a back door and was let in by his sister who assumed they knew her brother because they asked for him by name.
"She thought it was no big deal," Burke said.
The men then entered the house and went to an upstairs bedroom where the unidentified victim, who is in his 20s, was just getting up and putting his clothes on, Burke said.
The victim told police that the men rushed at him, threw him on the bed, pulled out a gun and tied his hands behind his back using zip ties, Burke said.
At one point, the victim claimed the men put the gun in his mouth and threatened to harm him and his sister if he didn't tell them where they could find money in the house.
Burke said the men stole between $3,000 to $4,000 from one drawer and another $700 to $1,000 from another. They also snatched his cellphone.
The victim's sister eventually heard the men running down the stairs and then she rushed into her brother's bedroom, Burke said. He told his sister to lock herself in the attic.
Burke said the victim eventually freed his hands from the ties and went outside, where he grabbed a shotgun from the trunk of his car and fired a round as a warning shot after the two alleged assailants took off on foot.
No one was injured by the gunshot.
"He said he shot straight up in the air," Burke said.
Police were able to trace the cellphone to the area of Halls Village Road and Route 121. Chester police, state police, and other local police searched the area but were unable to find the phone or the two men.
Burke said the men may have thrown out the cellphone and at some point fled in a vehicle.
Burke said it's possible that the men were looking for another man associated with the victim who used to live at the residence.
"The victim said he clearly has no idea why this happened. He has no idea who these guys were," Burke said.
One of the men was described as Caucasian and the other Asian. Both were wearing dark clothing and are believed to be in their late teens or early 20s, Burke said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Chester Police Department at 887-2080.


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Faith in Jesus Christ is at the center of all of JBU life – from the classroom, to the athletic field, to the residence halls, even to work-study positions.
JBU's faculty and staff are here because they feel called by God to guide students to be the people God has created them to be. So, worship doesn't just happen in chapel services at JBU; it pervades all of life as we seek to do everything for the glory of God and in service of others.
Ask anyone on our campus what JBU is all about and they will tell you that JBU's original motto, "Christ Over All" with "Head, Heart and Hand" still unites us. It's what makes a college education more than just a way to get a job, but a way to get a life.


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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. – Five months before a gunman murdered four people during a pharmacy holdup for prescription painkillers, a police detective expressed concerns about the suspect being issued a pistol permit, but it appears no action was taken, according to a report published Friday.
Suffolk County Detective Kenneth Ripp contacted the department's Pistol License Bureau in January after interviewing David Laffer in a separate investigation, according to the Newsday report. Ripp was investigating the theft of $8,220 from Laffer's mother's bank account.
Ripp was told by an officer in the permit bureau that Laffer should be allowed to retain the permits, but there would be a follow-up investigation. It is not clear what, if any, follow-up took place.
Laffer pleaded guilty earlier this month to first-degree murder in the June killings of two employees and two customers at Haven Drugs in Medford, admitting he robbed the pharmacy of prescription painkillers. He is expected to receive consecutive life-without-parole sentences next month. Laffer's wife, who drove the getaway car during the holdup, is facing more than 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbery charges.
Laffer said in a jailhouse interview that also appeared Friday in Newsday that even if his pistol permit had been revoked and handgun confiscated, he likely still would have acquired a weapon to use in the holdup. "If someone's dedicated enough, they can get a gun," he said.
The killings were the worst on Long Island since a gunman shot up a commuter railroad train in 1993, killing six, and focused national attention on the growing problem of prescription drug robberies.
According to Newsday, which obtained a police report under a Freedom of Information request with the district attorney's office, Ripp expressed concerns over Laffer's possession of a pistol permit during an unrelated investigation. He and his partner had visited the Laffer home in Medford last January after Palma Laffer -- the gunman's mother -- reported money had been stolen from her bank account. By the time detectives arrived, Laffer had confessed the theft to his mother, who told police she did not want to press charges against her son.
Ripp interviewed Laffer outside the home, and after Laffer told him about the pistol permit, Ripp then contacted the pistol licensing bureau. Ripp's attorney, Jeffrey Goldberg, told The Associated Press on Friday that the detective's instincts were that Laffer should not have weapons. "His instincts were that something was going on," Goldberg said. "If the bureau was conscientious, they would have found a reason to confiscate the guns."
Among the reasons the bureau can use for confiscating guns is whether a person is behaving in a manner that would cause "a normal, rational person to be fearful or threatened," according to Suffolk's pistol license handbook.
Ripp, in a police report, said, "P.O. (Kelly) Smith stated to undersigned that she would inform her supervisor of the nature of our investigation and the incident that took place. P.O. Smith stated that the weapons could remain in the home and that the SCPD Pistol Licensing Bureau would follow up with their own investigation in the future."
Smith did not return a call for comment and her supervisor, Sgt. Michael Esposito, declined to comment, according to Newsday.
Police Commissioner Richard Dormer did not say whether an investigation was conducted by the licensing bureau.
"Prior to the horrific murders at Haven Drugs, the Suffolk County Police Department received no information from any source indicating that Mr. Laffer was a drug abuser," Dormer said in a statement.
"Any information or allegations of acts of violence or illegal drug use brought to the attention of the police department would have been forwarded to the Pistol License Bureau, and would have caused an immediate investigation and a suspension of a pistol license issued to a person accused of either act."
Authorities said Laffer walked into Haven Drugs in Medford shortly after 10 a.m. on June 19 -- Father's Day -- and opened fire without announcing a robbery, killing a pharmacist and a 17-year-old store clerk. He then fatally shot two customers who unwittingly walked in on the carnage, authorities said, before filling his backpack with hydrocodone-type painkillers.
Store surveillance video showed the assailant, disguised in a scruffy beard augmented by mascara, firing at the victims. The first shot was fired from a .45-caliber handgun hidden in the backpack, striking the pharmacist behind the counter. Laffer then found the store clerk and shot her. As he began filling a backpack with pills, two customers walked into the store and he sneaked up behind them and fired shots into their heads. He then fled with thousands of pills.
Laffer also claimed in the jailhouse interview that the first shot was an accident. District Attorney Thomas Spota called Laffer "an outrageous liar" and said video surveillance shows him deliberately firing the first shot at the pharmacist through his backpack."


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UH Board of Regents sets public meetings with presidential finalistsUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Director of Communications, External Affairs and University Relations
The University of Hawai'i Board of Regents has scheduled a special public meeting with both presidential candidate finalists on Tuesday, May 27 starting at 9 a.m. at the UH Information Technology Center on the UH Manoa campus.
The two candidates, David Lassner and Francis Wiercinski will each meet with the board in separate one hour sessions. They will be asked to give an introductory statement and participate in a question and answer session with the regents.
Following the candidates' meetings with the board, the regents will meet in executive session.
On Monday, June 2 at 1 p.m., at the UH Information Technology Center on the UH Manoa campus, the board will meet in an open session to conduct a formal vote on the next UH president.


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Seventeen members of a Queens grand jury — plus one court officer — yesterday learned that their shared $2 Powerball ticket, bought with other tickets on Wednesday, hit for a nifty $10,000 payout.
"Sometimes it pays to do jury duty," quipped Queens DA Richard Brown.
The jurors, whose identities are secret, beamed as they entered the Kew Gardens courthouse though sources said they were irked about missing the $587 million jackpot by just one number.
Still, each winner's share is $555. And they got an extra bonus — being released from jury service.


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Please welcome Cathy Perkins to the virtual offices this morning! Cathy is here to chat about her new release For Love or Money, and after the interview, she has an awesome giveaway for you to enter! Cathy is offering a Kindle Paperwhite to one lucky winner as part of her For Love of Money Blog Tour celebration! Simply fill out the rafflecopter form provided below for your chance to be entered. ?
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Describe yourself in 140 characters or less.
[Cathy Perkins] Oh wow, I'm so much better talking about someone else. Hmm, here's my favorite descriptive tweet: Award-winning mystery writer, financial geek, thinks the best part of the Mediterranean diet is the wine. And the cheese. Maybe the olives
Whew – 2 characters to spare 🙂
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you tell us a little about For Love Or Money?
[Cathy Perkins] For Love or Money just released from Entangled Publishing. After writing several dark stories, I moved to the lighter end of the mystery/suspense spectrum with this new series. Written from Holly Price's perspective, the mystery romps through eastern Washington State with its rivers, wineries, Native American casinos, and assorted farm animals. The relationship, some wicked fun chemistry between the CPA (Certified Pain in the Ass) amateur sleuth and a Franklin County detective, is a big part of the story. For Love or Money was huge fun to write and the advance reviews say readers like it!
Here's the official blurb:
When Holly Price trips over a friend's dead body while hiking, her life takes a nosedive into a world of intrigue and danger. The verdict is murder—and Holly is the prime suspect. Of course, the fact that the infinitely sexy—and very pissed off—cop threatening to arrest her is JC Dimitrak, who just happens to be Holly's jilted ex-fiancé, doesn't help matters.
To protect her future, her business…and her heart…the intrepid forensic accountant must use all her considerable investigative skills to follow the money through an intricate web of shadow companies, while staying one step ahead of her ex-fiancé. She better solve the case before the real killer decides CPA stands for Certified Pain in the Ass…and the next dead body found beside the river is Holly's.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How did you come up with the concept and the characters for the story?
[Cathy Perkins] Most of my stories start with either a daydream or a "what if," but inspiration can hit in the strangest places. My husband and I were hiking along the Snake River in a game management area called Big Flats (which happens to feature in For Love or Money) and had to push through some tangled foliage at the shoreline. Being a mystery writer whose mind can go all kinds of strange places, I glanced over my shoulder and said, "Wouldn't this be a great place to find a body?"
That germ of an idea kept growing. Why would the heroine be out at Big Flats to stumble over the body? How did the body end up beside the river in the first place?
The characters evolved as the story progressed. At first, I had Holly & JC simply meeting and rejecting the mutual attraction for assorted reasons. The chemistry between them kept growing and I realized they knew each other "before." While that earlier relationship ended badly, the attraction was very definitely still there. It was a lovely way to add to Holly's relationship conflict – was JC using her to get information or was he really interested in her? After the disastrous first time, could she ever trust him?
Writing the mystery from Holly's perspective put a different spin to the murder investigation. (It would've been a completely different story told from JC's perspective or even if they shared the POV role.) At times, though, I had to write scenes from JC's perspective to make sure I knew where his head was. Then I had to filter those thoughts and reactions through Holly's POV to get it on the page. A lovely challenge! I'll put the "JC scene" on my website under "extras."
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three words best describe Holly?
[Cathy Perkins] Smart; tenacious; witty
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If JC had a theme song, what would it be?
[Cathy Perkins] A theme song? JC has a theme song? Damn. He never shared that little detail. Then again, he does hold his cards close to his vest.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Name one thing Holly is never without.
[Cathy Perkins] Holly is never without her phone. She's constantly using it for notes, texts, calls… and maybe for rescue.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things will you never find in JC's bathroom?
[Cathy Perkins] JC wouldn't come close to qualifying as a metrosexual, so definitely no hair styling products. After a failed marriage, he's not about to let another woman move in and set up even temporary residence (although he would definitely make an exception for Holly), so no women's tampons. And no candles. The only thing he wants to smell is the unique fragrance that is all Holly.
I started to add a rubber duck to the list, but given there actually is a Duck Float on the Columbia River (huge fundraiser with yes, little rubber ducks 🙂 ), he might've ended up with one. Or two. Hmm… I can use that in the sequel…
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is Holly's greatest regret?
[Cathy Perkins] When Holly's staring at the wrong end of the killer's gun, she rather regrets she doesn't have super-powers or at least a Kevlar vest. But the rest of the time, she regrets not giving JC a chance.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things do you need in order to write?
[Cathy Perkins] My laptop – or a pad of paper and a pen with endless ink. I don't have to be at my desk or the counter in the kitchen. The location can be anywhere. I once wrote a scene on the back of my bank deposit slip while standing in line to vote. The only thing I need to write is a starting point – an idea or a direction to get the words flowing.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is the last book that you read that knocked your socks off?
[Cathy Perkins] I recently read Tana French's In the Woods and loved both her use of language and the characters.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If you had to pick one book that turned you on to reading, which would it be?
[Cathy Perkins] I've read so many books, I'm struggling to pick just one. (I was the kid who was always lost in a story.) I read My Friend Flicka (did you know there was a sequel titled, Thunderhead?) when I was in elementary school. It's the first time I remember actually writing myself into the story. Years later, the Anne McCaffrey novels had the same impact. Of course, I'd also have a dragon. I loved the world building and the characters became friends I couldn't wait to hang out with.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you like to do when you aren't writing?
[Cathy Perkins] Like most authors, I still have a day job that demands a lot of time. When I'm not doing that or writing, I'm usually at our place in the mountains. We bought land that was a complete mess – collapsed barns, miles of rusting barbed wire fence and acres of trees and grass that hadn't been maintained any better than the barns and fencing! (We've become close personal friends with everyone who works at the local dump!) It's coming together and I love sitting on our (new) deck with friends, sharing a glass of wine at the end of the day.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How can readers connect with you?
[Cathy Perkins] I'm active on Facebook and Twitter or you can check my website for the rest of the tour's schedule or other updates about new releases.
Thanks so much for inviting me to the Cafe – it's been fun chatting with you.
[Manga Maniac Café] Thank you!
Book Description:
When Holly Price trips over a friend's dead body while hiking, her life takes a nosedive into a world of intrigue and danger. The verdict is murder—and Holly is the prime suspect.
Of course, the fact that the infinitely sexy—and very pissed off—cop threatening to arrest her is JC Dimitrak, who just happens to be Holly's jilted ex-fiancé, doesn't help matters.
To protect her future, her business…and her heart…the intrepid forensic accountant must use all her considerable investigative skills to follow the money through an intricate web of shadow companies, while staying one step ahead of her ex-fiancé. She better solve the case before the real killer decides CPA stands for Certified Pain in the Ass…and the next dead body found beside the river is Holly's.
Book Information
Title: For Love or Money
Author: Cathy Perkins
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Length: 367 pages
Release Date: May 2013
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-62266-097-1
Imprint: Suspense
Buy Links:
Purchase from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/For-Love-or-Money-ebook/dp/B00CK51J3U/
Purchase from Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/for-love-or-money-cathy-perkins/1115213927
About the Author:
Author Website: http://cperkinswrites.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cperkinswrites
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5367341.Cathy_Perkins
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CathyPerkinsAuthor
Bio: Cathy Perkins is a member of the Sisters in Crime, Romance Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. She writes predominantly financial-based mysteries but enjoys exploring the relationship aspect of her characters' lives. Her suspense writing lurks behind a financial day-job, where she learned firsthand the camouflaged, hide in plain sight, skills employed by her villains.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest, the setting of FOR LOVE OR MONEY, with her work-a-holic husband, a 75-pound Lab who thinks she's still a lap-puppy and a Wirehair puppy's who's intent on digging her way to China. You can learn more about Cathy on her website http://cperkinswrites.com.


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Phil Jones InterviewFor the first time since the CRU-hack last autumn Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia answered to questions about the affair and some of the claims made by climate sceptics in a written interview with the BBC : Q&A with Professor Phil Jones
I noticed that instead of linking to the direct source many climate sceptics prefer linking to the distorted version by Jonathan Leake in Times Online. Deltoid's Tim Lambert takes a closer look at some of the problems with Leake's version of the facts : Leakegate scandal gets bigger.
UPDATE There's even more : Leakegate, the case for fraud
Don't hesitate also to compare the original version with what has been made out of it on Watts Up With Watts. The original piece isn't quite the bombshell sceptics want to make out of it, isn't it ?
Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick
Part of the CRU-mails involve the climate sceptical work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick.
Even though i think everyone who reads it can see it doesn't give the impression, many climate sceptics claim the Wegman-report is and an independent review on the Hockey stick affair. Deep Climate takes a closer look at the Wegman-report and finds that indeed is nowhere close to being independent. Very interesting reading : Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, part 1: In the beginning and Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, part 2: The story behind the Barton-Whitfield investigation and the Wegman Panel
FOI : Harassment ?
One of the things Phil Jones was most criticised for was his response towards the many requests he received under the freedom of information act and the fact the high number of FOI-requests started to feel like an harassment. The impression is even higher because many of the request were about data which CRU only processed while the raw data were available elsewhere and should be requested from the original source. Because of this, it isn't always that easy to fulfil such a request as cthulhu explains.
Contrary to the naïve believe i read all over the internet, fulfilling a FOI can be much more work than just taking the data out of the drawer. From my own experience i can say that it can incredibly time-consuming to collect historic data. For a project at my previous job i needed to find as much interesting data as we had in our archives.
The only way to do so was literally digging in the archive and sieving out the data i could use. After i gave up looking any further, my best estimate is in two weeks i managed to collect 70-80 % of all the data available. Before you go all crazy : It does not mean the other data is missing, it just means it would have been too great an effort to find them. Some of them are hidden in metres and metres of papers and reports, other are in an old database that has been out of order for years, etc.
For the younger generation : the prehistoric thing the girl on the picture is holding in her left hand is called a floppy. It was like a USB-stick but in the times before the DVD, the CD-ROM and the 3½-floppy. They were used in the early 1990's.
Anyway, all this just to say fulfilling a FOI-request can take an awful lot of time and it looks like indeed the FOI's were being used to harass scientists and keep them from doing their job. Eli Rabett, Bart Verheggen and Susan of the promising new blog The Policy Lass have more to say about this.
Tim Lambert debating Christopher Monckton
It's often hard to debate a science-sceptic (it's not just true for climate-sceptics) as they will often try to throw as much dirt as possible as they know the opponent isn't able to address all of it in into the time-amount of a debate, which often will give the wrong impression what they said was correct or even that they won the debate. I've long been planning to write a more extensive post about this actually.
Even though knowing this, Deltoid's Tim Lambert did debate Viscount Monckton. From the parts i heard Tim Lambert did reasonably well and the McLuhan moment is an instant classic. The debate isn't online (at least as far as i know) but you can watch a part of the final summing up
Real Climate on IPCC errors : facts and spin
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2013: Eric Kennedy has a lot of explaining to do. First, there's the matter of his fabricating a Massachusetts seaside childhood to hide his East German roots--and his appropriation of the Kennedy name at age 14, a switch he never mentioned to his wife. Then there's his desperate sort-of accidental post-divorce abduction of their precocious six-year-old daughter, Meadow. Inspired partly by a true story, Amity Gaige's novel tracks the week Eric and Meadow spend on the road, days he remembers as some of the best of his life. This gorgeously expressed, slippery apologia from the once and future Schroder--sympathetic, even in his appalling negligence--limns the limits of self-made American identity, while paying tribute to the irrational exuberance of parental love. --Mari Malcolm
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A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.

Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.

SCHRODER relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.

Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take on in our lives--those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.
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Q&A with Amity Gaige

Q. What events in your own life led you to write this book?

A. My son was about three years old when I started this book. He wasn't old enough to be as articulate as Meadow, but he said and did a lot of wise things. For some reason, when I realized how much he could actually understand, I started to get nervous. I hoped I was saying or doing the right thing. But no one is entirely "normal," and occasionally I wondered if what I said and did as a mother wasn't a little eccentric--nothing as inappropriate as Eric, but you know, on the playground it seems like either you're doing something questionable as a parent or somebody else is. So I was very interested in exploring what makes a "good parent," how both parent and child get through the crucible of the early years.

During this same time, my parents separated after forty-four years of marriage. This was a profound disorientation for me. Then, my father--who had been the first and most influential reader of my work, to whom this book is dedicated--fell terminally ill. I moved him up to a hospice home in my town and had to learn how to let him go. Meanwhile, I tried to be cheerful for my son--again, to project a sense of normalcy--but that was getting increasingly harder. Who was I kidding? Anyway, these things end up getting absorbed into the writing of Schroder. The writing heals. Or at least, the writing is a vessel to hold the experience.

Q. In Schroder, the bond between a parent and child dictates a lot of the action. What is it about the nature of this bond that drives Erik? Is there a difference between the bond of a mother and a child versus that of a father and a child?

A. Yes, I think the parental bond is different between genders because men and women are different. But I firmly believe that a bond between a father and child can be as strong as that between a mother and child. Maybe not in the infant years, but beyond. Personally, I think it's really the primary caregiver who knows the child best, whoever feeds and clothes the child and pries sharp objects out of his or her hand (what Eric calls "the relentless being-aware" of the child). For at least a year, Eric is a stay-at-home-dad. He's not a great one, but for the first time he actually pays attention. Anyone who pays attention to his or her child builds a bond. You can't help but respect their miniature successes and failures.
 Q. What is it about the theme of identity--from our formative years through how we present ourselves as adults--that attracted you as a writer?

A. Someone once said to me, "All your books are about identity." I think so. Who knows why? I had an early and unsettling awareness of the self as a construct. Sadly, I haven't shaken that. I think we all do a lot of "deciding" who we are; we train ourselves to have certain qualities. But who knows, maybe even then, maybe, some other god-given self shines through, a self that's better or worse than the one we're projecting.

I guess the same thing gets played out in Schroder. Although Erik reinvents himself as Eric, the capable American, he can't totally transform, not convincingly. His injured German boyhood self slips through. Even Laura begins to see this. Before she ever discovers he's a fraud, she senses there is something fraudulent about him. So maybe that's my answer. Maybe there is a "real self" that cannot be renamed or repackaged.

Q. America is a land of opportunity and reinvention. Could Schroder have taken place elsewhere? What is it about the nature of America that allows a boy named Erik Schroder to grow into Eric Kennedy?

A. Yes, this is an American story. America has accepted waves of immigrants throughout its history. Sometimes their names were changed by lazy immigration officials and sometimes the immigrants changed their own names. My mother was one of those people. She came to this country from Latvia when she was eleven, was one of the displaced people of World War II. Her childhood was very hard. She didn't want constant reminders of it, nor her ethnic background. Everyone made fun of her name. You see where this is going...

A lot of people come to the United States to reinvent themselves. It's understandable. Of course, Eric does not legalize his name change, and because he's not a citizen, he's actually committing fraud by accepting Pell Grants, etc. But for me, the only truly immoral thing he does is lie to Laura. A marriage can't be built upon a phony life history.

Q. In many ways, Laura's perspective is absent from the novel. She is a character created out of "negative space." Why did you decide to keep her voice out of the main narrative? Was it hard to exclude her from the central action of the novel?

A. I identify with Laura. Of course, it's kind of like hamstringing yourself to leave a character you relate to out of a novel. But she's there. I hope the reader might glean what she thinks of Eric, why she left him, etc., through the tidbits Eric reveals in the service of other things. But the novel isn't really about why Laura loves or doesn't love Eric. The novel is a love letter--Eric's. It's a long love letter that goes unanswered. I got sad myself writing the end of the letter/novel, when I realized that a "real" Laura probably wouldn't even read it...Meadow will always remain connected to her dad, if only by blood, but Laura can wash her hands of the whole thing. Grown-ups can divorce each other. Kids can't divorce their parents.


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School Choice and Segregation
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Many opponents of school choice say parents should not have more freedom to choose which schools their children attend. They think greater choice will lead to the re-segregation of students by race and income.
This argument not only displays a serious lack of confidence in the people of Michiganit isn't supported by the evidence.
It just so happens that Michigan schools already are among the most segregated in the country, according to a recent study by the Harvard University Civil Rights Project. If Michigan's schools are already segregated, how could school choice make them more so?
Another thing you may not know: Private schoolsthe very schools opponents of school choice fear parents will chooseare far more racially integrated than public schools. A study by the University of Texas confirms that "private schools tend to offer a more racially integrated environment than do public schools." Public schools replicate the segregation found in their attendance areas, while private schools draw from a variety of neighborhoods.
What it all boils down to is this: If you don't want to see a return to school segregation by race and income, that's no reason to oppose school choice. It's a reason to champion it.
For the Mackinac Center, I'm Catherine Martin.


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Ted Siefer's City Hall: Gatsas won't be driving this contract-negotiation busBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 17. 2012 11:36PM
The contract battle looming between the city and the teachers union may have higher stakes than other negotiations in recent years.
The Board of School Committee signaled it means business last week by voting, for the first time, to hire an outside negotiator.
The decision effectively relegates to the sidelines Mayor Ted Gatsas, a man who has long been comfortable in the role of negotiator-in-chief.
It was Gatsas who played a key role in the extension of the existing teacher contract three years ago, and last year he called on the union to reopen the contract and agree to health care concessions. The union refused, setting the stage for hundreds of layoffs - and the ongoing controversy over large class sizes since the start of the school year.
The contract expires at the end of the school year.
While the mayor hasn't said he's opposed to hiring the outside negotiator, he didn't exactly make things easy for some school board members Tuesday when it came time to vote on approving the contract.
The negotiator, a law firm, would be charging $175 an hour for its services. Board member John Avard, who will be chairing the board's negotiation subcommittee, did not want to allocate an exact dollar amount because this could give the union an early advantage. If union officials knew how much the district had to spend, they could run out the clock, he argued. At the very least, Avard said, the matter should be discussed in a non-public session.
The mayor wasn't having it.
"I think that's a discussion the public has to hear. What about transparency? We should not be writing blank checks," he said.
The mayor may not have been in the most accommodating mood, since earlier in the evening he had clashed with Avard over his plan to organize parent tours of the schools, which Avard justified in the interest of "transparency." (Gatsas said he is a strong advocate for parental involvement, but that the tours would be disruptive and nonproductive.)
In the end, the board did discuss the negotiator contract behind closed doors - and they emerged with an exact allocation: $20,000 from the district's legal budget. That would pay for 114 hours, or three weeks' full-time work.
Avard called the allocation a "starting point."
"After about 100 hours' worth of service, we're going to have a better idea (of what we'll need)," he said.
Avard said it was important to have a professional negotiator since this is the first time in six years that the entire teacher contract would be up for review, from health care benefits to teacher evaluations. "Everything is on the table," he said. "I think both sides have an opportunity to move forward instead of at a standstill, so I'm positive."
Ben Dick, the president of the teachers union, the Manchester Education Association, said he's willing to talk to anyone. "Certainly my communication up to this point has been with the mayor, but I don't see an issue either way," he said.
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The district's assistant superintendents regularly appear at school board meetings on all topics curricular and financial. On Wednesday, however, the issue was personal.
The Coordination Committee was considering whether to renew the contracts for Superintendent Tom Brennan's three trusted deputies, Assistant Superintendents Karen Burkush and Michael Tursi and Business Administrator Karen DeFrancis.
Committee members Art Beaudry and Debra Gagnon Langton have some reservations.
Both in the past have questioned the need for three highly paid administrators. Burkush is getting $111,000, and Tursi and DeFrancis are getting $105,000. The new contracts would likely include raises, contingent on reviews by their boss.
The new annual contracts begin in July, and Beaudry pointed out that Brennan, who is stepping down, will be gone by then. He proposed making the administrators at-will employees until the new superintendent is hired.
"I believe strongly that the individual should be able to interview the candidates and put together the team they want," Beaudry said.
Langton suggested that a curriculum coordinator could be hired at a lower salary, rather than having an assistant superintendent for curriculum, Tursi's title. "We could be saving the taxpayers money," she said.
Brennan offered his full endorsement of the administrators, and he noted that it would be a lot to expect of an incoming superintendent to find qualified people for the posts.
"You have to be concerned about the timing of these decisions," he said. "I don't know if (the superintendent) could be hired before the end of the school year."
In the end, the committee made no recommendation on the contracts, referring them instead to the full board for a vote.
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There hasn't been much noise on the school board so far about the fact that close to a third of high school freshman failed algebra last year, as reported in these pages.
But the matter is on Brennan's mind.
After it was pointed out at Tuesday's meeting that he made in addition error in a report he was presenting to the board, he quipped, "It must be that Everyday Math."
Everyday Math is the novel curriculum adopted by the district four years ago that critics have implicated in students' math troubles.
Have you considered stand-up comedy as a future career path, Dr. Brennan?
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After a slow few weeks, the aldermen are going to have a busy couple of days. On Monday and Tuesday, six subcommittee meetings are scheduled, along with a full Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting with a public comment period. Then on Wednesday, the aldermanic chambers will be the setting for the inaugural session of the 2013 Charter Commission. But then City Hall will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, giving the city's elected officials something to be especially thankful for.
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(Reuters) - Cash-strapped Detroit will get $20 million from the state of Michigan after substantially meeting goals aimed at restructuring the city's sagging finances, city and state officials said on Friday.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said an agreement was reached with Michigan to release the money, which was raised in a bond issue last year, from an escrow account held by the state.
"The release of these funds will occur at my discretion," Bing added in a statement.
However, Terry Stanton, a spokesman for Michigan's Treasury Department, said while the city is substantially in compliance with conditions the state set with Bing in November, Michigan has not yet received a request for the money.
"If and when the city submits a draw request for funds, we would begin the process of sending the funds to the city," he said.
The city of about 700,000 has been battered by a steep decline in population, years of severe budget deficits and escalating employee costs.
Since November, a majority of the nine-member city council has gradually approved the series of goals or conditions, including the hiring of companies to work on reform, restructuring and legal matters, in an effort to stave off a state takeover of the city.
In December, the state released $10 million of the bond proceeds tied to the so-called milestone agreement after the council dropped its opposition to the hiring of law firm Miller Canfield to work on issues related to a 2012 consent agreement that gave the state some oversight of Detroit's finances.
Despite action by the city council, the state also launched a review last month of the city that could culminate in the appointment of an emergency financial manager, who could recommend Detroit file for bankruptcy.
In its ongoing effort to stave off a state takeover, the city council voted 6-3 on Friday to reduce the pay of non-union workers in Detroit's legislative and executive branches by 10 percent.
Mayor Bing, who had originally sought a 20 percent reduction through unpaid days off, said the lower percentage was "adequate at this time," with savings to the city's general fund estimated at about $500,000 a month.
"We anticipate that we will furlough approximately 1,250 non-union employees, with no disruption in city services," the mayor said in a statement.
Earlier this month, the council approved a one-year pension freeze and a higher share of healthcare costs for non-union workers as the city planned to negotiate similar cost-cutting actions with its labor unions.
(Reporting by Karen Pierog; editing by Dan Grebler, G Crosse)


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Evravon wrote:I tell myself every night before bed "I will have a lucid dream tonight and I will remember it in the morning."
I can't remember any of my dreams. When I wake up I lay there completely motionless for a good 10 minutes, just trying to recall something.
And these "mechanical" habits with my phone have only been going on for 2 days now. Two weeks prior to that I was doing reality checks on my own. I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. I was unable to lucid dream, so I read more about it and downloaded these apps. You're saying these apps are going to make it HARDER to lucid dream?
Also, what's the "Wake Back to Sleep" method?
EDIT: Your "homework" analogy was extremely confusing. I don't understand the analogy at all. Especially the part about showing your teacher copied homework. If I'm reading about lucid dreaming every day and practicing the techniques, that's cheating?
Ok my analogy was a bit over the top, but here goes:
All I'm trying to say is that you have to really believe in it. I know it's hard to grasp, but it simply works that way. I, for one, was making several reality checks a day a year ago, but now I know that I wasn't really doing them. I was doing them because it was my "homework" to do them, but while I did them, I wasn't really thinking about doing them, so it didn't help at all. Hence the cheating reference. Thus, I couldn't LD.
Same thing for remembering your dreams. Try focusing on how it would feel to wake up in the morning, and remembering your dreams, writing them down. Repeating a sentence in your mind can help, but it is, after all, just a sentence. You can't tell the brain what to remember, it will, simply, remember what it wants to remember.
Lastly, I'm not saying the apps will make it harder, nor did I imply it. Refer to my first point in this very post to understand further. These apps might remind you to reality check while you're in the middle of something important in your daily life, which might or might not be the right time.
In a link in this thread I saw a guy making the gym training analogy, as when you go to the gym, you start seeing results of your training pretty soon. It doesn't work that way with lucid dreaming, you don't get rewarded proportionally to your efforts. The brain works in mysterious ways.


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Today's guest post is by my lovely writing buddy, Patricia Lynne, who has just published her second full length novel, Snapshots. She shares with readers how she tried to keep things original when telling a story that has been told before.
Say you go into a book store. A cover catches your eye, so you pick it up and read the back. It sounds interesting enough so you buy the book and take it home to read. As you read, you start to notice things. A cliché character. Predictable plot. An idea that has been done a million times (like vampires.) By the end of the book, you're a bit disappointed because you had read that story before. Different names and cities, but over all, the same.
I've heard it said that there is no originality left. All book ideas rehash something. And that is true. You can read two books that have the same basic elements. You can love them both. Or hate the second one because you were looking for something fresh and didn't find it.
When I wrote Being Human, I knew I'd have that obstacle. People were getting tired of vampires. (I saw a lot of agents say in their submission guidelines "NO vampires or werewolves!") But that didn't stop me from writing it. I had a twist on this creature that I thought was unique. That twist would be enough to give readers a new story. If reviews are anything to go by, then I managed quite well.
I had the same issue with Snapshots. Cyc is a seer. He can see into the future. I have a writer on twitter who has a seer character. I've seen movies with seers and read comics with seers. Nothing new at all. How do I make Cyc different? I started with his ability. He doesn't randomly see the future. Events don't send him into a trance-like state as he's walking down the street. He has to look in your eyes, both of them to see a future. Then it's the person's future. He never sees his own. To avoid this happening, he keeps one eye covered.
Another twist I gave Cyc is a lot of seer stories has the seer seeing a horrible vision and that drives the plot. Someone they love is going to be murdered. A tragic accident will bring down a plane full of children. The seer and friends try to stop the vision only to end up causing it. Not Cyc. By the time Snapshots starts, he's learned not to mess with the future. He knows what he sees is subjective and can change, so he doesn't try to stop or change what he sees. He just reports it to his adoptive father. In essence, his ability isn't a focal part of the story. It's just a part of him and he's learned to adapt so it doesn't hinder daily life.
It's hard to come up with a completely original idea now-a-days. There is always some overlap. But that doesn't mean you can create a fresh story. Add twists and turns that breath new life into thousands old mythical creature. Give a plotline a few unexpected stops. You can create a compelling story that will stand out in it's own way. You just may need to be a little creative, but hey, that's what writers do best!
**To help promote this awesome YA book, I'm holding a giveaway! Leave a comment letting us know what kind of stories you're tired of reading and what you hope will make a come back in a new way. Also add an email address so I can let you know if you've won a digital copy of Snapshots!** -Ed.
About the Author
Patricia Lynne never set out to become a writer, and in fact, was never gave it any thought during high school and college. But some stories are meant to be told and now she can't stop. Patricia lives with her husband in Michigan, hopes one day to have what will resemble a small petting zoo and has a fondness for dying her hair the colors of the rainbow.
Snapshots Synopsis
My name is Cyclop Blaine and I am a real person.
"You are mine."
I am a real person: heedless of a childhood spent under the supervision of an old man I only know as Master.
"You belong to me."
I am a real person: regardless of my teenage years bound by violence as the adoptive son of the Victory Street Gang's leader.
"You will obey me."
I am a real person: despite the visions I see in others' eyes. Snapshots of their futures.
"You will cower before me."
I am a real person: my life will be my own. I belong to no one.
"You. Are. MINE."


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Tennis may be one of the most expensive sports to play, but Jon Gerardi won't turn anyone away from his program if they can't pay the asking price.
The Yonkers resident runs Westchester Youth Organization, a not-for-profit tennis organization which provides lessons for adults and children.
The group leases the courts from the county, and welcomes all players from Westchester and surrounding areas.
Gerardi launched the program in 2003. Prior to that, he coached Division I tennis and played college tennis himself.
He founded the organization because he did not see a feeder program for tennis.
"There's a real gap for tennis," he said. "You don't see a feeder grassroots program that's dominant across the country. Entrance into the sport is intimidating for parents who don't come from the country club scene. My mission is to bridge that gap."
Gerardi funnels his time and energy into providing as close to year-round training for students as possible, hosting two sessions of lessons in the summer, and tournament training in the colder months.
He began offering scholarships to students in order to breach the income struggles many of their families were facing.
"I have people who pay me 10 bucks a week," he said. "We don't shoo a kid away if he can't pay."
Gerardi, who considers himself to be middle class, remembers being quoted $8,000 for lessons for his daughter.
"The real problem with tennis is the price point, and we're not producing quality tennis players because of it," he said.
Gerardi said that playing a sport like tennis is important for children, specifically those who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
"It creates an opportunity for kids to go participate in something," he said. "If you go to Trevor Park on the west side of Yonkers, kids are running around without parents. They're getting into other things, because their parents don't have the money for them to do anything else."
He hopes to eventually raise enough money to redo the tennis courts at Tibbets Brook Park and grow the organization to include other sports and provide educational assistance.
WYO offers summer lessons in two sessions. The next session starts in July and goes into mid-september.
For more information, visit their website here.
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Presented here are essential hand techniques ranging from the fundamentals to a detailed analysis of the Moeller Technique and Velocity Stroke. Jeff demonstrates how to apply these techniques to flams, diddles, rolls, and hybrid rudiments, and talks about timing, buzz roll control and more.
Also provided is invaluable information on solo construction and achieving speed, plus many backsticking and stick trick ideas.
The book/DVD package includes Jeff's acclaimed text, The Next Level.
Recommended for intermediate to advanced marching, drum set and concert drummers.


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About Mia Westerlund Roosen
Known for her monumental outdoor sculptures, including a group that was displayed along the Park Avenue median in New York in 2010, Mia Westerlund Roosen creates works full of sensuality and wit. Inspired by dance and feminism, Westerlund Roosen refers to the body, eroticism, and famous women in her hand-finished, cast concrete sculptures. Never literal, her works are interpretive and semi-abstract. French Kiss (2009), for example, is an enormous rendering of two curved, tongue-like forms locked in the expressive arch of a double lick.
American, b. 1942, New York, New York, based in New York and Buskirk, NY
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The Giants have won the World Series.
Every year, 30 teams play toward this end goal, and every year, only one of them actually achieves it. The odds are depressingly low.
And yet, the Giants have now won two championships in the last three years.
There were so many things that could have done the Giants in this year. They were fortunate enough to avoid another barrage of injuries. They faced an uphill battle down the stretch after losing all-star Melky Cabrera (especially in light of the strong additions the Dodgers had made).
The Giants played six potential elimination games in the playoffs, and won every single one of them.
And when they got to the final stage, they wasted no time in winning a championship. Carried by the same dominant pitching that brought them a title two years ago, the Giants played four games against the Detroit Tigers, and they won them all.
The front office did a masterful job building a contending team, acquiring the likes of Angel Pagan, Melky Cabrera, and George Kontos in the offseason, reinforcing the bullpen by bringing back Javier Lopez and Jeremy Affeldt, and adding guys like Marco Scutaro, Hunter Pence, and Jose Mijares along the way. (Not to mention Gregor Blanco and Joaquin Arias, who were both signed to minor-league contracts, and ended up playing important roles with the team.) I wasn't ecstatic about all of these moves, but most of the front office's decisions panned out very well, and of course, it's because of them that the Giants are champions.
The Giants won the World Series. Savor it. Bask in it. Seize the moment. These don't come too often.
It's been an amazing, unpredictable, thoroughly enjoyable ride. What a season.


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Eighth-inning rally carries Aces past Sky Sox
April 15, 2009
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. " Trailing 2-0 in the eighth inning, the Reno Aces rallied for five runs in the frame to capture a come-from-behind 5-2 victory on Wednesday at Security Service Field.
Reno sent 10 men to the plate in the eighth, using four singles, a double and two walks to tie the game and ultimately take the lead. The win brings the Aces back to .500 on the road trip with one left to play.
Aces starter Tony Barnette allowed two runs on seven hits over 4.1 innings pitched. Barnette walked three and struck out one. Esmerling Vasquez came on and tossed 1.2 scoreless innings, and Leo Rosales worked a spotless seventh. Jon Coutlangus then came on and delivered two innings of shutout baseball to close the door. Rosales (1-0) picked up the victory, and Coutlangus (1) was credited with the save, the first in franchise history.
Sky Sox starter Franklin Morales was sharp, allowing just two hits and no runs in his six innings of work. Randy Flores (0-1) surrendered three runs in the eighth and was tagged with the loss.
Both offenses were dormant through the first three innings, as Barnette and Morales battled pitch-for-pitch. In the fourth, Barnette worked out of a bases-loaded, nobody-out jam, but an inning later, the Sky Sox finally broke through. Four singles and a sacrifice bunt in the frame resulted in two runs and a Sky Sox lead.
That margin stood until the eighth, when Reno's bats came to life. After a lead-off single by Trent Oeltjen, Alex Romero followed with a single to right-center, scoring Oeltjen and putting the Aces on the board. Later in the inning, Josh Wilson singled home a run to tie the score at two apiece. But Reno wasn't finished there. Rusty Ryal hit a two-run double that snuck just inside the bag at third to give the Aces their first lead at 4-2, and then Oeltjen, who led-off the inning, came up again and singled home the fifth Reno run of the inning.
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Pitching with the lead, Coutlangus tossed two scoreless frames for his first save since 2006.
The Aces and Sky Sox round out the series on Thursday. Reno will send Seth Etherton (1-0, 1,80 earned run average) to the hill, and Colorado Springs will counter with Josh Fogg (0-0, 6.23 ERA). First pitch is set for 10:05 a.m. and can be heard live on Fox Sports Radio 1450.


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CEAttachments, Inc., a global supplier of attachments and accessories for compact equipment, announces new EDGE Low Profile Snow Push attachments for skid steer and track loaders.
The EDGE Low Profile Snow Pushes have been re-engineered for more efficient and reliable performance in moving snow, flood wastewater, manure or other materials.
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Russian stamps, Mao kitsch in China, and 35 winners of our Creativity + Commerce
competition. Plus, top designers reveal their favorite psychological tactics that are sometimes required for clients to say "yes."
A trove of postage stamps reveals the icons, aspirations, and failings of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.
By Bruce N. Wright
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Fifteen years ago, Milan-based company Moleskine bet on paper and won. Now it ponders its future in the digital world.
By Michael Silverberg
From a precocious pig named Olivia to that gold man known as Oscar, an introduction to Ireland's vibrant animation scene.
By John Canemaker
The Art of Seduction
Devilish ruses. Psychological tricks. Red herrings and poker faces. The many ways that designers get clients to say "yes."
By Peter Mendelsund and Peter Terzian
KNOCK's self-promotional identity
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A history of the Latin letterform; behind the scenes
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Current trends in music, book, and product packaging
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World View
Chairman Mao gets a pop-culture makeover.
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Interview by Steven Heller
Design is now about control—of our perceptions and emotions.
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FAO Director-General meets with Somalia's Minister for Agriculture
26 February 2014, Rome – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva met with Abdi Ahmed Mohamed, Minister of Agriculture of the Somali Federal Government, at FAO headquarters today.
Graziano da Silva thanked the Minister for his Government's continued support for FAO's work in Somalia and welcomed its efforts to improve the economy, food security, peace and state building through its engagement and endorsement of the New Deal Compact for fragile states. "It is time to move from emergency to development", he said.
The FAO chief and Minister Mohamed discussed the significant steps made towards improving food security in the country, where the food insecure population has gone down from 3.7 million people in August 2011 to less than a million by December 2013.
They also commented on the successful start of FAO's Near East Regional Conference (NERC-32).
"This was a very fruitful meeting. We have discussed the issues that concern agriculture in Somalia and I have asked Graziano's support in our efforts to reconstruct our country and the agriculture sector", the Minister said.
"FAO is the major partner of the Ministry of Agriculture. It plays a crucial role in assisting national institutions to gain capacity to lead the formulation of plans and the implementation of projects and programmes," he added.
"It is our intention to make the relationship with FAO the model for our relations with other UN agencies, transparency and accountability being the two basic pillars of such relations," he explained.
"There is a huge task ahead of us to build the institutions required for agriculture recovery," the Minister told Graziano da Silva.
"The situation has improved a lot in terms of food security from the last crisis that we had. Most of the farmers have gone back to their farms and production has restarted, but the gap is still very wide.
"There are a lot of internally displaced persons (IDPs) that need to go back to their farms, there is a collapse of infrastructure, particularly in irrigation and road infrastructure", he told the Director General. "Until we have tackled those issues, recovery will be a very arduous task", the Minister added.
"The Strategic Plan for Agriculture 2013-2016 requires the involvement of stakeholders at the international level aligned with national priorities".
Both agreed on the importance of continuously supporting capacity building as a key element for the country's recovery, and the Minister underlined that "FAO will only be able to develop programmes if there is a strong Ministry of Agriculture in the country."
Graziano da Silva encouraged the Minister to actively participate in the Country Programming Framework (CPF) for 2014-2017 which is being finalized now with focus on three main strategic pillars: resilience, institutional capacity development, and policy support and information for action.
Watch the video interview with Abdi Ahmed Mohamed, Minister of Agriculture of the Somali Federal Government.


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A Tribute to the Factory: Andy Warhol in our House Tours
After I heard of his death this past Sunday, Lou Reed has been on my mind. I'm not sure what I was looking for initially, but I started looking up house tours that feature works by Andy Warhol (Warhol was the Velvet Underground's manager, and Lou Reed credited his career to him). What I came to find was that people are continually incorporating Warhol into their homes in creative ways, making work that is so well-known and mass produced feel fresh and interesting.
The way people showcase Warhol reminds me of a great rock n' roll song: sure, everyone can access it, but it feels like you're the first one in the world to discover it, like it belongs to you. So, in this albeit left-field way, celebrating the far-reaching influence of the Factory scene on our modern aesthetic is my way of celebrating that scene's cantankerous troubadour, a man who lived his life in art, Lou Reed.
Top Row:
- Hallie's Whimsical Yet Sophisticated South Loop Loft. Hallie displays her bold "Jackie O" in a beautiful modern loft setting, which is so fittingly Factory.
- Scott's Silver Lake Bachelor Pad.
- Benjamin's DIY Pop Art. This is actually a Warhol-esque DIY that artist Benjamin Purvis created as a display in his kitchen.
- Daymon's Open Plan with an Open View. Daymon's a lucky guy, as this is an original poster from a Warhol-Basquiat show in the 1980s.
- Angie & Josh's Cat and Design Friendly Home. Their home features an incredibly cool skateboard deck created by Alien Workshop, a collaboration between Steve Berra and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Middle Row:
- Laurie's Thrifted Elegance. Laurie's Warhol piece is a photograph of the man himself, a gift to her from friend, photographer Mark Hanauer.
- Chris's 280-Square Foot Mini Modern
- The Craver Compound. I love how the Cravers accentuate the playful nature of Warhol's work by hanging it in their daughter's room.
- James and Mark's Haute Flea Market Style. Not only do James and Mark have a lot of Warhol on display, their space truly typifies the offbeat glam of the whole scene.
- Steve's Uptown Contemporary. Featured are autographs of Warhol and Lou Reed, but also featured in the tour are limited edition Campbell's Soup Cans Steve purchased at the Warhol Museum.
Bottom Row:
- Dina's Vibrant and Eclectic Home.
- Jen and Moi's Hilltop Hideaway. The contrast between Warhol's "Marilyn" and this "Swiss Family Robinson" (their term) setting is delightful.
- *Not a house tour but definitely worth checking out, as Fong crafted a whole Warhol-style kitchen makeover: Warhol Kitchen by Jonathan Fong.
PS - What's your favorite Lou Reed or Velvet Underground song?


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