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By the might of the Infernal Princes I am pissed I have already broken two quills and almost smashed a jar of ink to write this latest entry. For the past week we have ridden under the guise of merchants to try and be attacked by bandits to say it worked would be putting it mildly. At first everything is working we reached our first town we were supposed to travel to. Then it got ugly the towns chest with all of their money was stolen when we had chased them down we were trapped and forced to surrender and then locked in a cellar. We were able to break free of that. We then tracked them to their hid out ambushed the unaffiliated bandits. I used my mind control to deepen everyone's sleep so that the rest of the party could sneak up to join us. Only to be rewarded by getting recaptured this time by a bandit lord (hey that was the goal.) Raganash Volthar was able to negotiate with the leader because they had meet before somehow… We were taken to the main camp an old fort of some kind. The next day Lierin and I went to talk to all the lords and 'ladies' (if they even qualify as such) to inform them of the prince's terms.
The seemed skeptical of his ability to fulfill some of them mainly military training and aid. However, we did manage to convince two of the lords to join us. However, Hanging Hyr and Lady Slaughter said they would need a new fortress as the swamp would no longer be safe for them. They would like us to clean out a new fortress in the Simkin Lakes area.
Apparently Barius was staffing an old fort for his own purposes and if someone were to relieve the garrison there they would be willing to move there. After this we were escorted out of the swamp and taken back to the town with their chest of money. Where we were thanked profusely with pie and a box of cigars to replace the box the bandits had smoked And we finally returned to Elwier after a long time on the road.


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Other|August 01, 1995
Metastable diamond synthesis; principles and applications
Claus-Peter Klages
Claus-Peter Klages
Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Schicht- und Oberflaechentechnik (FhG-IST), Braunschweig, Federal Republic of Germany
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European Journal of Mineralogy (1995) 7 (4): 767-774.
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@tracygirl58 again, false. They paid for only a part of his care. Much was paid by the taxpayer
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@Olivianuzzi how about you do your job?
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What is an UnConference?
Why do people go to conferences? Is it for the speakers, or the other attendees? The chance to listen, or the chance to share ideas?
Most of today's traditional conferences are dry, boring, and brimming with mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations. Very few speakers and presentations merit 20-45 minutes of an audience's time while they await the final minutes set aside for Q & A. In a world of instant access to information and videos of the world's best speakers, why sit in a room and watch a series of talking heads drone on for hours?
Keynotes and panels are not what draw people to a conference. What's really valuable is the face-time for conversations about critical issues and emerging developments. People enjoy interacting and conversations. Great conferences let people talk.
Unconferences focus on audience-centered participation. The room is the panel. The main job for those on the podium is to draw out the wisdom in the room. Unconferences work best when the topic is emerging, when the wisdom is still forming. One of the underlying themes of unconferences is that 'everyone is an expert.' For those working in emerging fields, our peers are the ones leading the way forward. The intention is to recruit ideas and encourage cross-pollination from the people who are forming the wisdom--informally.
We all know instinctively that the best networking opportunities--the real magic--happens during coffee breaks, or over lunch or dinner. Think of an unconference as a day-long coffee break. Unconferencing captures the 'spirit of the lobby.' It brings the hallway conversations back into the main tent by supporting the emergence of unparalleled peer-to-peer learning opportunities and dynamic, participant-driven discussions. Community is what brings people together. Supporting community interactivity is what gives conferences value.
We also focus on the growing 'back channel' created by social networking through mobile devices. While the event takes place, technologies like Twitter can allow attendees to discuss the event in real-time, sending messages via their laptops or cell phones. Attendees are encouraged to IM, chat, blog, and email to facilitate the flow of useful ideas. Through Facebook, blogs, podcasts, and YouTube, participants extend the conference beyond the meeting room walls by capturing ideas, seeding future gatherings, and extending the learning and networking opportunities.


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London: Katy Perry's ex-husband Russell Brand is reportedly planning to tie the knot again.
The comedian, 41, whose marriage to the "Roar" singer lasted only 14 months, popped the question to long-term girlfriend Laura Gallacher recently, reported Daily Mirror.
He also shared the news with a select group of family members and friends over the weekend at their home in Oxfordshire, England.
There will be no big announcement, according to insiders, because both Laura and Russell are keen to keep their romance low-key.
The two lovers are longtime friends, who dated in 2007 and 2009.
They rekindled their relationship last year on a romantic break in Rome, Italy, and Laura is now pregnant with Russell's baby.


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The 3rd humorous PV for upcoming informative medical series Anime de Wakaru Shinryonaika ("Psychosomatic Medicine Understood Through Anime") has surfaced, giving some insight into what viewers can expect of the comedy series which seeks to deliver both humor and information about various mental disorders.
The latest 3rd PV, which unfortunately is only viewable on youTube:
The 2 previous PVs, which bear the same fate:
There is also the manga which started it all.
Anime de Wakaru Shinryonaika will be an online net anime and is scheduled for a February 13th premier.


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Have been here in Bratislava for a few days and the brilliant weather allowed me to explore a lot the town from old to new. I got to know the town on foot from the house passing by the Bratislava Castle to the historic centre and the walkway on the Danube river bank.
來到斯洛伐克天氣很好,和煦淸涼的可以自朋友家中度步往城中逛。從城堡往下眺望多瑙河至漫步河邊,遊走舊城石板步道到新發展的現代建築,Bratislava 沒有布拉格童話舊城的驚艷,但城中人很可親,本想重遊布拉格,但友人盛意邀請到匈牙利幾天,明早起行,這個又會是羊毛工藝小圈子活動了!
St Martin's Gate is the landmark of the Old Town
Up from the Bratislava Castle overlooking the St Martin's Gate and Danube river
The Old Town bronze statue art pieces
The "Man at Work" statue
This morning I crossed the bridge to have a view from the other side of Danube river. The Bratislava Castle looks like an upturn table
Bratislava is a city with incredibly rich history with the other part of mordern buildings.
The city is small. All historic sites are in walking distance. Almost everyday after a walk I spent some time in the coffee campus of a cozy book store.
Tomorrow I will be heading to Hungary for a few days. Will be back again in Bratislava.


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As you all know by now, Ben Affleck has stepped down as the director for The Batman because it was too daunting a task for him to take on. He wanted to make sure that he was able to give everything he had to the character as an actor.
There's been a lot of discussion among fans over who will replace Affleck as the director. One possible name already leaked, and that was Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves. Thanks to Forbes, we now have four other names to add to the shortlist of directors that the studio is reportedly looking at.
Those directors include Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller, who has previously been in talks for other DC movies like the Man of Steel sequel. There's also Gavin O'Connor, who has directed films such as Miracle, Warrior and, most recently, The Accountant, which starred Affleck. The next person on the list is Denis Villeneuve, who recently directed the highly acclaimed film Arrival. Finally, there's Matt Ross, the director of Viggo Mortensen's Captain Fantastic.
All of these are great and talented directors, and they each have their own unique styles which would work great for a Batman movie. If I had to choose one of these directors, though, it would have to be Miller, because I want to see what a George Miller Batman movie would be like! If he's available and willing, I hope Warner Bros. jumps on him!
WB hasn't confirmed any of these names, and even if they are on a list there's no guarantee that they'll end up choosing one of them. It could be someone completely different. Regardless, this is a strong list of talent, so the studio is going after someone with some strong directing skills, which is a plus.
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In an effort to cut down on negative pinning, Pinterest bans "thins" boards which promote self harm and eating disorders. (via Styleite)
Rumors of H&M's new line have been confirmed but the new retail chain launch may not be the luxury line expected. (via Fashionologie)
High end department store Neimen Marcus launched a Foursquare hunt where customers search for a prize and receive a discount good towards the new accessories for Spring. (via PR Newswire)
UK Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman has announced that the release of her new novel, Can We Still Be Friends, will be in early April. (via UK Vogue)
Countless fashion models have basic Twitter and Facebook pages, but which ones take social media to a whole new level? (via The High Low)
The second issue of Style.com's print edition is already headed to the newsstands with a couple of key changes. (via New York Times Style)
After a long drawn out berate, Gucci and Guess are headed to court to decide who owns the letter "G". (via Huffington Post Style)
Foursquare launched a new add on to the popular app with the integration of a profile bio in order to move into the direction of a more self contained application. (via TechCrunch)
LinkedIn is a great professional social media tool and these great tips will help you get the most out of the social networking site that many don't know how to use to it's full potential. (via PR Daily)
Ivanka Trump took her seat from front row to behind the runway when Lord and Taylor hosted the first runway show for her fashion label. (via WWD)
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A few nights after the recent presidential election, I saw that there was a peaceful candlelight vigil planned for outside the White House. We live nearby and I have been feeling very upset and sad about the election results, so I decided that this vigil would be a good way to surround myself with like-minded people and focus on peace and love.
|The White House the night of the candlelight vigil
As the event drew nearer, the organizers updated the Facebook invitation to clarify that no actual CANDLES would be allowed. The Parks Department said they would drip wax all over, and the organizers would have to pay a fine for clean-up of the mess. Although it was disappointing to imagine a "candlelight vigil" with no candles, it made sense. The invitation encouraged people to bring flashlights or glow sticks instead, but it really seemed like that wouldn't be the same, you know what I mean?
The night of the vigil we rushed around the house when it was time to go trying to find 2 working flashlights. Why is it that every time you actually NEED a flashlight, the batteries don't work anymore? Happens every single time… We finally found 2 lame flashlights and rushed to the vigil. We settled in amongst the crowd in Lafayette Park (across from the White House) and waited for the event to begin. There were quite a few people, and I soon realized that not only would real candles be MESSY, they would have been DANGEROUS, too. With that many bodies close together, most wearing big coats and scarves, candles could have easily caused a fire.
As we were waiting, the sweetest, most kind thing happened: a complete stranger was walking through the crowd handing out little battery operated TEA LIGHT candles. He came up to us and offered them. We had the lame flashlights, but his candles were SO PRETTY – they were delicate and perfect. I asked if he was working for the vigil and he explained that he was not, he just bought a bunch of tea lights to hand out because he thought the vigil needed them.
|Mystery kind man - passing through the crowd with LOVE
CAN YOU SAY KINDNESS ACTIVIST?? I snapped a photo of him, hoping to be able to do some P.I. work when I got home and figure out who he was, then interview him for this blog. As luck would have it, another vigil attendee in the Facebook group saw my message that I was hunting for him and helped me discover his identity! Meet JORDAN FIGUEIREDO – the kind man behind the tea lights.
|Our Kindness Activist in action!
It turns out he is not even a LOCAL – he lives in the San Francisco, CA area! He was in DC for work at just the right time for the vigil. He told me, "I signed up on Facebook to attend the event and was reading some of the posts and noticed the Parks department said no candles because of the wax. I thought this vigil would send a much nicer message with candles so I found the battery-operated LED tealights at Bed Bath and Beyond. I ended up buying about 200 of the tealights for about $143." You read that right – this man spent almost $150 to hand out candles to complete strangers. It was so wonderful!!! I saw loads of people holding the beautiful little tea lights that he so generously shared.
|A little girl on her dad's shoulders holding a tea light that Jordan handed out
I knew how happy I was when he gave us candles, but I wanted to know how other people reacted to his gift of a candle. "It was so great to see people's reactions and hear their thank you s. Some people did look at me like I was selling something at first, but I understand that from other events and people with bags of things to sell. Mostly people were surprised and thankful and seemingly touched when they noticed the "LOVE" message on them.
Yes, Jordan had taken time to write LOVE on each of the little candles. It made them so special! They were beautiful.
|My family - glowing with the kindness and love that Jordan shared
Jordan told me that the tea light is a good reminder for people to bring home with them, and I know in my case that is totally true - mine is now on our fireplace mantle and it makes me smile when I see it there. He said that writing "LOVE" on each tealight, can, "…hopefully send a ripple of hope and love with each person that receives one. It's a tough time for love and hope in the U.S. right now but most of us value civil liberties, freedom, and our beautifully diverse and usually welcoming nation. We just need to never forget these things and #LoveWillWin ."
|Kindness and love
THANK YOU Jordan. Thanks for the candle, and more importantly, thank you for the MESSAGE and the kindness. Yes, let's all work together and LOVE WILL WIN.
|#UglyReallyIsBeautiful (in reference to the CARROTS, not to Jordan!! He is LOVELY inside and out)
Be sure to "like" Kindness Activist on Facebook and follow @KindActivist on Twitter to see more inspiring stories of kindness. The world can certainly use more KINDNESS.


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JLL has been appointed exclusive agents to manage the sale of a strategically positioned 304sqm property in the heart of Subiaco's retail and restaurant precinct.<\/p>
The prime corner site at 25 Rowland Street is being offered for sale with development approval for a five storey mixed-use development comprising retail and residential apartments along with two levels of basement parking for 18 vehicles.<\/p>
JLL Director of Sales and Investments WA, Tom Nattrass said "The site, which currently comprises an older single level building, is just 75m west of Rokeby Road's high street shopping and dining precinct and is located in the City of Subiaco's Town Centre precinct," <\/p>
 "Its true potential, lies in its existing development approval, which envisages up to twelve one bedroom apartments with internal areas of about 54sqm along with generous balconies. In additional there are three proposed ground floor retail spaces," said Mr Nattrass.<\/p>
"These retail tenancies are only possible due to approval for the development's underground car park to be accessed through the basement car park of the adjacent building at 513 Hay Street. This removes the need for the development to have its own car park entry and ramp"<\/p>
"The existing DA allows a developer to come in and get moving on it straight away. Someone could feasibly commence site works early next year. All the hard work of approvals is done and the lead time will be greatly reduced."<\/p>
"Subiaco is one of Perth's most vibrant, diverse and liveable precincts while enjoying a rich pedigree that reaches back many generations. It offers residents, workers and visitors a host of established quality shopping, dining and cultural amenities. Added to these is its public transport infrastructure including the Perth to Fremantle rail line, ocean-to-city bus routes, and access to an extensive cycle route from the nearby Subiaco train station.<\/p>
"Over the last two decades Subiaco has undergone strong retail, commercial and residential growth stimulated by the Subi Centro project, which has capitalised on demand for medium to high density living options in its western and north precincts. Confidence in the future is continuing with commencement of construction of a major new retail, office, cinema and residential project at the nearby 500 Hay Street site."<\/p>
Mr Nattrass said that with Subiaco being just 3km west of Perth's CBD it is a magnet for those seeking the convenience and chic urban lifestyle of near city living combined with the many benefits and cache of Perth's sought after western suburbs.<\/p>
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Port Hudson State Historic Site's Trail is a 6 mile lightly trafficked loop trail located near Jackson, Louisiana. The trail is good for all skill levels and primarily used for hiking. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Great trail. Lots of shade. Lots of Banana Spiders. Bring a stick for some of the cobwebs. The occupied webs are easy to avoid. It rained a few times but the tree canopy kept us dry.
Great family friendly place with nice clean shaded trails for easy hiking. Clean restrooms and indoor museum with historical treasures. You could hike the creeks when the water is down for more adventure.
Nice easy hike. Very well maintained trails. Good trail for woodland photography.
Pretty nice for a south Louisiana jaunt.
Had a really great time. Trails marked well and really taken care off. And the historical information was an added bonus for us. LOVE!!
Great Hiking trails for the family. We walked over 9 miles on the trails.
well marked and clean trails.
Nice easy walk for kids. Can get a nice history lesson and if you're lucky the occasional Civil War Era firearm demonstration.
My family (my 50 year old dad, 11 year old brother, and 13 year old sister) and I hiked these trails for about two and a half hours. It was really easy to follow the trails and there were many maps posted along the way. There are also multiple signs identifying different types of trees and talking about the history of the historical site. We hiked all the way out to Sandy Creek and it was a really pretty view. The beginning of the trail is on a concrete sidewalk but after the first bridge it turns into a dirt trail. We really enjoyed it!
Today we hiked 5.5 miles of the trails here at the site. Great trails. Some very good hills too. And there's a great place to have a picnic lunch at the pond directly across from the Museum. If you enjoy civil war history you will really enjoy the hikes. Be sure to hike all the little "dead ends" as well. One or two of those have great views!
Fun trails
Really nice trail. You can also learn a little bit of history while you're there. There are plenty of banana spiders though.
This trail is beautiful and very well kept with great boardwalks but there were so many banana spiders everywhere! Don't go when they're making webs!


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It's Over. For Now.
Sony has announced that their legal battle with celebrity hacker George Hotz has reached a settlement. Both parties have agreed to put their differences aside, and Hotz has agreed to a permanent injunction to avoid any further investigation and litigation. Full details below.
According to Patrick Seybold, Sony's Communication and Social Media Director, an accord was reached at the end of last month. This marks the end of three months' worth of aggressive legal chicanery as Sony doggedly pursued the homebrew coder for alleged breaches of user license agreements, copyright infringment and good old fashioned piracy. Whilst George Hotz still admits no legal wrongdoing, he has agreed to a permanent injunction against owning Sony hardware from now on.
Sony is glad to put this litigation behind us. Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers. We believe this settlement and the permanent injunction achieve this goal.
We want our consumers to be able to enjoy our devices and products in a safe and fun environment and we want to protect the hard work of the talented engineers, artists, musicians and game designers who make PlayStation games and support the PlayStation Network. We appreciate Mr. Hotz's willingness to address the legal issues involved in this case and work with us to quickly bring this matter to an early resolution. - Riley Russell, General Counsel for SCEA
It was never my intention to cause any users trouble or to make piracy easier. I'm happy to have the litigation behind me. - George Hotz
Well, that's it for now... but Sony are still actively pursuing a large number of other individuals who are proving much more difficult to identify. Considering the recent attacks by hacker collective Anonymous, this certainly isn't the last we'll hear from Sony's legal team. [Playstation Blog]


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Discussion in 'Console Games' started by bobber205, Jun 3, 2007.
Just curious.
or the mini-firewire? (lol at all the companies giving the port their own name)
Aren't they used for the camera?
I use them for a keyboard and mouse. A friend has a camera plugged into his.
The accessories I have are the EyeToy camera and the Karaoke Revolution mic, both of which work on your Mac.
You can also hook up a keyboard for certain games for text chatting. I know you could use it Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, for example.
logitech made a force feedback flight controller that uses the usb ports
ive always used mine for my keyboard, usb headset for socom, and flash drive (used to upload cheats to a disc)
I believe there are, or are supposed to have been, a few games where you could connect two PS2s together using firewire and play multiplayer games. I believe Grand Turismo 3 has this capability.
Linux for the PS2 used the USB port I'd bet
Light Gun games use the USB port for the uh.. light gun attachment.
Keyboards, mice, printers, EyeToy, flash drives, headsets, microphones, force feedback steering wheels, charging stuff like your iPod or PSP (PSP if you have the right cable)
The mini FW port was used for linking together units. It was axed in the SCPH-50001 revision of the machine (Version 9)
Yep, GT3 has this, and I actually even used it a couple times. It's a pain though, because you have to have 2 PS2s, 2 TVs, 2 copies of the game, and it's not all that much better than split screen really.
I used a k/b when playing SOCOM. I think also a mouse can be used as a pointer rather than the controller.
...charging your XB360 controller 'cause you don't want anything sticking out of your 360 when you have a cool Halo faceplate on it...
If you're not streaming/networked to your PS3 through ethernet or WiFi, it's a great way to transfer files from a computer to your PS3 -- via USB flashdrive/ jumpdrive (movies, music, photos, etc.)


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Skip to comments.The Time Has Come to Ditch Email
Posted on 06/01/2006 12:20:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Back in 1972, by some accounts (http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm), a new form of communication known as email was born. It was a practical implementation of electronic messaging that was first seen on local timeshare computers in the 1960s. I can only imagine how much fun and revolutionary it must have been to use email in those early years, to have been at the bleeding edge of the curve.
Almost ten years later, in November 1981, Jonathan Postel published RFC 788 (http://rfc.sunsite.dk/rfc/rfc788.html) (later deprecated by RFC 821 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt), also by Postel, and RFC 822 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt) by David Crocker), thereby inventing the foundations of the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) - a proposal that would revolutionize email again. Since that time, email has become as important an invention to the world as the telegraph and the telephone, and it has long been synonymous with the internet itself.
Twenty five years later, we still use essentially the same protocol. And email is a terrible mess. It's dangerous, insecure, unreliable, mostly unwanted, and out-of-control. It's the starting point for a myriad of criminal activity, banking scams, virus outbreaks, identity theft, extortion, stock promotion scams, and of course, the giant iceberg of spam (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12480457/).
The problem is, email is now integral to the lives of perhaps a billion people, businesses, and critical applications around the world. It's a victim of its own success. It's a giant ship on a dangerous collision course. All sorts of brilliant, talented people today put far more work into fixing SMTP in various ways (with anti-virus, anti-phishing technologies, anti-spam, anti-spoofing cumbersome encryption technologies, and much more) than could have ever been foreseen in 1981. But it's all for naught.
A sinking ship
All the work spent fixing email is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Email is a sinking ship and it should be abandoned just as other insecure technologies like telnet, ftp and the beloved Usenet nntp were "abandoned" years ago. All these old technologies actually live on and in some cases thrive (and in the case of the Usenet, still consume (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet) enormous amounts (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=en&q=Usenet+binary&btnG=Search) of bandwidth and offer very useful (http://groups.google.com/) information) but have been mostly superceded by newer protocols. Email should be abandoned in much the same way. The problem is, more people depend on email than ever before.
The main reason we will never win the email war against the spammers-phishers-scammers-botnets and their assorted ilk is we're bound by legal standards that limit the ways we can combat email abuse unlike in the early days of the internet. The perpetrators are not bound by the law (http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11392). Therefore the good guys can't win. The only solution is to change the rules. We need to abandon our email infrastructure and concede that the spamming-phishing-virus-writing scumbags have won; moving on is only inevitable.
The problem is, we lack "something better" to abandon email for.
Starting from scratch Email in its current form will never, ever, ever be spam-free. It will never be virus-phishing-scam free. It will cost companies and individuals billions of dollars (http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3350891) in theft, criminal activity, and the reality of spam will grow from the 50-70 per cent it is today to 90 per cent of all traffic. Email will continue to harm millions of people through banking scams, identity theft, viruses, and more. Email will never be secure, because it was never designed to be secure.
The only solution is to start from scratch. Develop a new email system and make it secure. Use existing, proven technologies and a few new and novel ideas starting with the latest encoding mechanisms, a reliable hashing algorithm, fast compression, strong encryption and signatures. Build an electronic identity. Encode, hash, encrypt, compress, sign, and provide a novel way to share keys when needed, for example. I don't know how this will all turn out, but perhaps yEnc, MD5, AES, H.264, and GPG are some potential technologies that could be used together. A new transport protocol would need to be flexible enough that any of these technologies could be replaced, transparently to the user, as better and stronger options become available. It would need to be seamless for the client no more messy GPG or other stop-gap solutions that few people actually use. Secure email should be a mandatory "secure bundle" of email that is safe for sending a credit card number to a business or someone I know.
I don't want to think about any of this when I send secure e-mail, however. I just want to type my email and press Send. If I need my secure identity plugged in, say, from a USB key, fine.
The basics of communication One of the great joys of computers is that newer, better technologies supercede the older insecure ones, yet both the old and new generations still live happily together. There are so many examples of this, I won't even bother listing them here. A completely new, secure email system would be the internet's next big critical application. If it required IPv6 addressing, maybe secure email would also kill those ridiculous "tiered internet (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4552138.stm)" ideas with one stone. But I'm just thinking aloud.
I'm a messaging junkie. Today's store-and-forward email is fundamentally broken, but I still like the concept very much. Instant messaging is too instant, and peer-to-peer networking is, ironically, too anonymous. Video conferencing is fantastic if it's someone you know, and they're online (and you've combed your hair). Written communication is never going away. We're tied into an antiquated email system that needs to be abandoned and replaced.
I would love to see a secure email system that did all the hard-crunching on the client and perhaps generated a unique private-public key for each piece of mail, without user interaction. However it is done, let's make it rather mathematically difficult to send email, and even more difficult to send email to many recipients while the process remains very simple to the end user. Make it a requirement that one mail sent to a thousand recipients securely would require a very fast client doing unique encoding, hashing, compression, and encryption on each piece of mail just to send it. I enjoy the thought of a spammer needing a giant Bewolf cluster ranked rather high up in the Top 500 (http://www.top500.org/) list of supercomputers to send one piece of spam to ten million people. At that point, the source of spam and the spammer himself would be a little bit easier to track down.
Simply complex Before you skip to the end of this column and submit your comment, telling me that I'm crazy or uninformed, understand that I realize the problem with email is very complex. It would be nice if the solution "appeared" to be rather simple. I've spent the past 18 years with an email address of some sort, dating back to 1988, and I get more email than most. But like most people, I'm just an end-user of email and it's very clear that email is a sinking ship. And millions of people were online in the 1980s before me.
Getting email clients to work with a new infrastructure will be a major hurdle, and the plumbing itself will take some time. Getting major ISPs and Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail to adapt an open solution will be even harder. Fine. There are many technical hurdles. But time and again, truly innovative technology will catch on. With the rise of the web, HTTPS and SSL, Napster, SSH, BitTorrent, and so much more, superior technologies have created many new storms.
With all the security problems stemming from 1981's nuclear explosion of SMTP, it seems only fitting that the bright minds in the security community should develop the internet's next killer app.
A gateway Far too much effort is spent preserving today's firstname.lastname@example.com format, to the exclusion of everything else. The @ symbol was a novel hack, so let's find a similar new one.
Maybe I'm dreaming, but a gateway from e-mail to a new secure e-mail infrastructure, electronic identity or e-num system might be the first place to start. Perhaps using one of the reserved symbols first outlined way back in RFC 821 or 822, whether it's a bangpath firstname.lastname@example.com, or firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com might work but it would have to degrade nicely with current email systems. However it's done, a very simple, elegant solution would be a fantastic way to start.
I'm confident that there is no solution using today's massive email infrastructure problems, because so many bright people have been working on it for such a long time. Maybe I am indeed dreaming that we can "abandon" today's email SMTP much like the Usenet's NNTP was "abandoned" years ago for something better because that "something better" for email still doesn't even exist.
Copyright © 2006, SecurityFocus (http://www.securityfocus.com/)
Kelly Martin has been working with networks and security since 1986, and he's editor for SecurityFocus, Symantec's online magazine.
what?? Lets ditch the post office instead
so, we're waiting for the suggestion we were sure you were going to make....
Settle down.
The reason that email scams work is that people fall for them... there is no way for them to be dangerous on their own.
educate yourself, be aware, and don't do idiotic things like give your banking info to someone who claims to want to give you 2% of a hundred million dollars! If you don't know that certain emails (or the web links contained in them) are scams, you probably shouldn't be on the internet at all.
Yeah, and as soon as you make something idiot proof, sure enough, someone will invent a better idiot.
There's a neat little invention by Alexander Graham Bell that looks promising.
I came this (fingers about 1/16" apart) close to falling for a really, really good one about a month ago. PayPal phishing scam said someone had bought and paid for something (multi hundred dollar item) on my account and fraud was suspected, click here to acknowledge...
I use Opera and hover over any link in these kind of emails, so I can see the true address in the status bar, and he actually had a pretty believable URL, so between that and being livid about someone supposedly ripping me off, I almost went for it.
tacked it on the fridge.
The model would have to be something web-based, like Yahoo! Mail with superior spam filtering and accessible by devices that can't normally browse web pages.
Which one is Gore?
The company I work for maintains it's own email servers, and I rarely need to go out side the system. Only a few times per month. In the last three years I only receiveed two juck e-mails.
My account at home only accepts know senders.
You can avoid unwanted e-mails.
Huh? I use them every danged day.
Huh? I use them every danged day.
FTP, yeah, but even then, only anonymous ftp is worthwhile. I don't use telnet for anything anymore, when ssh/scp/sftp is soooooo much better. I take that back. I do use telnet for one thing... "telnet www.blah.com 80" is useful for diagnosing website issues. Even that one useful thing is pretty much supplanted by the firefox 'livehttpheaders' plugin though.
Yup. Good spam filters are a must though unless you change email addresses often. I have had the same email address for more than ten years now. Not only that, but my primary is just my initials, so I get hit with every automatic address generating spambot on the planet. Prior to moving to some extremely powerful filters at my email provider, I was getting 200 or so spam a day, and had created filters that were basically whitelists. If you weren't on the list, you got dumped to trash.
I support the author's idea of requiring computation be a part of generating the email, but see issues with this when it is applied to some of the mailing lists I'm on that have been ongoing concerns for years. I also don't much care for a system that will do away with anonymous email, as there is a place for even such things.
I've tried to encourage folks to use encryption for years, but have pretty much given up that battle, because people just don't care, even when they should.
"ftp and the beloved Usenet nntp were "abandoned" years ago"
holy crap, why didn't any of you here tell me!
i'm such a loser.
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The Vermont Health Department says the state is among the tops in the country for new mothers who breast feeding their children.
The state says the Breastfeeding Report Card published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed is one of four states to exceed 2020 breast feeding goals.
The report card showed Vermont women breastfeed their babies at rates well above the national average.
The report says that 90 percent of births at Vermont hospitals include skin-to-skin contact in which the just-born baby is placed into the mother's arms, an important first step to successful nursing. Only New Hampshire was higher, at 90.5 percent.
The health department's Dr. Breena Holmes says breastfeeding is the most nutritious way to way to feed a baby.


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County jail docket
The following people were booked into the Flagler County Inmate Facility on charges yet to be proven in court: Hector Echevarria, 24, Daytona Beach, probation violation; Matthew Wiley, 33, Palm Coast, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to appear; John Wall, Jr., 32, Bunnell, driving w/ suspended license habitual; William Hofer, 20, Palm Coast, probation violation, written threats to kill; Justin Douglas, 30, Ormond Beach, returned for court; Ronald Roscoe, 44, Palm Coast, trafficking oxycodone, possession of legend drug without prescription; Eric Worley, 27, Graceville, returned for court; Denise Jacobs, 19, Palm Coast, dealing in stolen property, grand theft; Ashley Minton, 26, Palm Coast, trafficking oxycodone; Tyler Dutton, 21, Palm Coast, obstructing justice; Edward Mullener, 54, Palm Coast, serving sentence for court; Randi Trabert, 30, Palm Coast, probation violation; Dominique Osceola, 25, Hollywood, failure to appear (2); Reginald Owens, 40, Bunnell; battery domestic violence; Kenneth Sarles, 41, Palm Coast, retail theft property value over $300 (2); David Chenowith, 20, Palm Coast, grand theft over $300, fraudulent use of credit card; Gabriel Arnauto,19, Doral, grand theft, forgery, organized fraud under $20,000; Melissa Rudisill, 47, Palm Coast, DUI; Ana Maiato, 39, Palm Coast, out of county warrant; Raymond Male, Jr., 40, Palm Coast, failure to appear; Raymond Vazquez, 52, Palm Coast, serving sentence for court (3); Clifford Harris, 27, Bunnell, probation violation; Willia Scott, Jr., 35, Palatka, use of anti-shoplifting device, shoplifting/retail theft; Delsin Carter 19, Palm Coast, possession of marijuana under 20 grams; William Lonergan 42, Palm Coast, criminal violation of injunction for protection; John Stucke, 47, Palm Coast, DUI & property damage, DUI; Issa Muhtadi, 27, Palm Coast, battery domestic violence; Tuwanna Robinson, 42, Palm Coast, domestic battery by strangulation; Natoshia Ogden, 25, Palm Coast, battery domestic violence; Edward Anzalone, Jr., 35, Palm Coast, robbery, tampering with witness, battery domestic violence; William Rembert, 47, Palm Coast, disorderly intoxication; Robin Thygesen, 44, Daytona Beach, failure to appear; Kiawan Stokes, 35, Palm Coast, probation violation; Willard Garland Jr., 45, Bunnell, battery, assault; Tamika Roland, 32, Daytona Beach, failure to appear; Alfred Shavers, Sr., 38, Bunnell, serving sentence for court; Albert Pigg, Jr. 47, Palm Coast, introduction of contraband into detention facility, possession of hydrocodone, probation violation, possession of marijuana under 20 grams, possession of controlled substance; Michael Betz, 46, Palm Coast, trespassing; Keith Johnson, 37, Daytona Beach, possession of cocaine with intent to sell; Troy Reddin, 22, Palm Coast, failure to pay child support, sale of cocaine; John Cruse, 54, Bunnell, failure to appear; Matthew Halsey, 32, Palm Coast, probation violation; Joseph Ronan, 45, Palm Coast, tampering with witness, aggravated battery on pregnant woman; Terance Johnson, 28, Palm Coast, returned for court; Tyche Duggans, 20, Ormond Beach, driving w/ suspended license with knowledge, felony flee & elude; Ricco Johnson, 25, Bunnell, possession of marijuana under 20 grams, failure to appear; Ernest Hall, 35, possession of controlled substance; Leslie Myers, 50, Ocklawaha, felony flee & elude; Kaitlin Leiner, 19, Palm Coast, leave scene of accident with injury, DUI & serious bodily injury to another; John Will, 61, battery on person over 65, battery domestic violence; Bryan Ruhl, 29, Palm Coast, DUI; James Harding, transient, 29, loitering or prowling, resisting arrest without violence; Maikel Fuentes-Rodriguez, 30, Cape Coral, out of county warrant (3); Thomas Underwood, 64, Palm Coast, lewd, lascivious molestation on elderly or disabled; Racheal Tate, 19, Bunnell, battery; Michael Celentano, 19, Palm Coast, possession of marijuana under 20 grams; Brian McKee, 44, Palm Coast, driving with suspended license with knowledge, failure to pay child support; Kadie Maddison, 26, St. Augustine, porbation violation; Shanese Buffin, 24, Palm Coast, battery domestic violence, aggravated assault/domestic violence; Deonte Youngblood, 31, Palm Coast, lewd lascivious act on child under 12 (3), sex battery child under 12/perpetrator 18 or older (5); Laura Gallien, 53, Bunnell, resisting arrest without violence (2); Harold Jurgensen, 21, Palm Coast, violation community control.
European Village Commercial Condominium Assn. v. Allan M. Matula, real property. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Curtiss D. Sturgill, Kethy Lynne Geddes, Jennifer A. Sturgill, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, EQ Financial, real property. Bridgewater at Flagler Beach Condominium Assn. v. Alexis R. and William F. Nixon, in excess of $1,380.12. Arbor Trace at Palm Coast Condominium Assn. v. Joycelyn A. Green Revocable Trust, in excess of $1,183.24. City of Palm Coast v. Iris Group, in excess of $245 (3), City of Palm Coast v. Iris Group, in excess of $350 (2). City of Palm Coast v. Iris Group, in excess of $245 (2), City of Palm Coast v. Iris Group, in excess of $390. Wells Fargo Bank, Harborview Mortgage v. Frank Louis Sanders, Internal Revenue Service, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, , American Partners Bank, Holly Anne Sanders, real property. JPMorgan Chase Bank v. David Teper, Third Federal Savings and Loan Assn. , Shannon H. Teper, real property. Suntrust Mortgage v. Dotsie Beaulieu, real property. Wells Fargo Bank, Wachovia Mortgage, World Savings Bank v. Albert Escueta, Marsha Escueta, Palm Club Association, real property. Bank of New York Mellon v. Carlton D. Smith, Flagler County Clerk of Circuit Court, State Attorney 7th Judicial Circuit, real property. American Builders & Contractors Supply Co. v. Your Suncoast Home Solutions, in excess of $2,720.29. Villas Neighorhood Assn. v. Entrust Retirement Services of Georgia, John Fowler, in excess of $3,190. Porto Mar Neighborhood Assn. v. Bruce Jardine Kimberly Hedrick in excess of $4,550.91. Hammock Beach Estates Owners Assn. v. Albert J. and Dixie L. Dicroce, in excess of $3215. Hammock Beach Estates Owners Assn. v. Kari Marquardt, in excess of $3215. JPMorgan Chase Bank v. George P. Kowsh, Sharon A. Kowsh, Compass Bank, real property. JPMorgan Chase Bank v. Gabriel Galisin, Lubica Cindy Galisin, Cindy Galisin, Lubica Galisin, Suntrust Bank, real property. Citimortgage v. Karen D. Jackson, John P. Jackson, real property. U S Bank v. Deborah A. McVicker, Deborah Ann Rigdon, Deborah A. McCrum, Scott Ryan McCrum, real property. Onewest Bank v. Dennis L. Vanlanduyt, Kerry Vanlanduyt. US Bank v. Joanne Simmerman, Ocean Marina Condominium Assoc. , Suntrust, real property. U S Bank v. Medjine Kulesa, Michael E. Kulesa, real property.
Tax liens
Internal Revenue Service v. Gary and Vicki L. Morris, in excess of $51,143.54. Internal Revenue Service v. John W. Watson, Jr., in excess of $309,539.83.
Marriage licenses
Fabio Carvajal of Deltona and Sheila Morales of Palm Coast. Gary Weis and Geraldine Belanger, both of Waterbury, CT. Kevan Watkins and Melja Seibert, both of Adairsville, GA.Joshua Knight of Jacksonville and Jaime Milanick of Palm Coast. Richard Brubaker and Geraldine Jonas, both of Palm Coast. Sergio Moreno and Paula Feliciano, both of Palm Coast. Jonathan Quintana and Denise Abreu-Alvarez, both of Palm Coast. Patrick McNally and Jasmine Canlas, both of Fairfax, VA. Michael Benz and Ashlee Arnold, both of Palm Coast. Russell Nulph of Bunnell and Nancy Errett of Palm Coast. Steven Lienhop and Lola Wrona, both of Palm Coast. Gregory Jelm and Rosalie Farnsworth, both of Satsuma. Fernando Rodriguez and Tina Zwernemann, both of Palm Coast.
Marriage dissolutions started
Patrick v. Jessica Nezolosky. Robert Brown, Jr. v. Sabrina Powers-Brown. Jacqueline v. Eugene Bannister. Karen Segee v. Michael Bunn. Scott v. Maureen Enegren. Theresa v. Ryan Poetssch. Karen v. Delvis Jimenez. Cynthia v. James Moore, Sr.
GERLING: Shayla and Mark Gerling, Palm Coast, are the parents of a daughter weighing 8 pounds, born at 6:07 p.m. Dec. 17, 2012, at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center, Daytona Beach.
SPEARMAN: Tandra Spearman, Bunnell, is the mother of a daughter weighing 5 pounds, 14 ounces born at 12:54 p.m. Dec. 19, 2012, at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center, Daytona Beach.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Two car bombs exploded in Shiite neighborhoods of Iraq's capital Thursday night, killing at least 16 people as violence roars on before a crucial election later this month, authorities said.
The first blast struck Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City in a commercial area, killing at least 11 people and wounding 21, police said. The second explosion hit a commercial street in Baghdad's southeastern al-Ameen district, killing at least five people and wounding 13, police said.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures from the attacks. All official spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to journalists.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, though they come as sectarian violence is surging across Iraq. Last year, Iraq weathered its deadliest bout of violence since it pulled back from the brink of civil war in 2008. United Nations figures show that violence killed 8,868 people in 2012.
The attacks also came as Iraq is heading toward a crucial parliamentary election on April 30, its first since the 2011 U.S. troop pullout.
More than 9,000 candidates will vie for 328 seats in parliament, but there will be no balloting in parts of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which is engulfed in clashes between security forces and al-Qaida-inspired militants. The militants have seized and are continuing to hold parts of the provincial capital, Ramadi, and nearly all of the nearby city of Fallujah.


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The consensus among most analysts is that the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, are unlikely to change current gun laws—that, despite the bloodshed and the outrage, our statues aren't up for radical reconsideration.
But that's not necessarily accurate—in fact, our existing gun laws are poised to get much weaker. In the current Congress and the one before it, pro-gun legislators have proposed and passed a variety of truly shocking measures that would weaken what laws are currently on the books—and remember, President Obama is only willing to enforce "existing law," whatever that might be.
Here are five of the most craven gun bills in the 111th and 112th Congresses:
More guns for veterans with mental issues. In October, the House passed HR 2349, the Veterans' Benefits Act of 2011. The bill, which is awaiting action in the Senate, contains a provision introduced by Representative Danny Rehberg of Montana that would forbid the Department of Veterans' Affairs "from determining a beneficiary to be mentally incompetent for the purposes of gun control, unless such a determination were made by a judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority based upon a finding that the beneficiary posed a danger to himself or others." In other words, the VA would no longer be able to alert federal authorities that a veteran is mentally unfit to own guns, unless they are able to get a judge to certify it. Currently, professionals at the VA simply make the determination and pass it on to the FBI.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, as of May 1, 2011, there were 130,886 files in the national gun-check database's mental-defective file, which had been referred to the FBI by the VA. This means that in the coming years, if Rehberg's provision passes, tens of thousands of veterans whom the VA considers unsuitable to have weapons would be able to buy them.
More guns for suspected terrorists. There are many things that will disqualify you from buying a gun—if you're a convicted felon, you won't pass a background check. But if you're on the federal government's watch list of terror suspects, you will pass the background check just fine. In 2010, in fact, 247 people suspected of ties to terrorism passed background checks and purchased weapons.


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Windhuk 2 October 1904
I, the great general of the German soldiers, send this letter to the Hereros. The Hereros are no longer German subjects. They have killed, stolen, cut off the ears and other parts of the body of wounded soldiers, and now are too cowardly to want to fight any longer. I announce to the people that anyone who hands in one of the chiefs as a prisoner to any of my stations shall receive 1,000 marks, whoever brings Samuel Maherero will receive 5,000 marks. The Herero nation must leave the country. If it refuses, I shall force it to do so with the 'Groot Rohr' (cannon).
Any Herero found inside the German frontier, with or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot dead. I shall spare neither women nor children. I shall give the order to drive them away and fire on them. These are my words to the Herero people. The Great General of the Mighty German Kaiser
(Written underneath to be read to troops) This proclamation is to read to the troops at roll-call, with the addition that the unit that catches a captain will also receive the appropriate reward, and that the shooting at women and children is to be understood as shooting above their heads, so as to force them to run [away]. I assume absolutely that this proclamation will result in taking no more male prisoners, but will not degenerate into atrocities against women and children. The latter will run away if one shoots at them a couple of times. The troops will remain conscious of the good reputation of the German soldier
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AdvisorShares Weekly Market Review – Week Ending 7/29/2016
Highlights of the Prior Week
There Is No Playbook
In this past week's AdvisorShares AlphaCall, Bob Boyd from Pacific Asset Management said that there was no playbook for how to come out of the type of recession that occurred in 2008. The various monetary and fiscal policies implemented have of course helped, there has been a recovery but the strength of that recovery, based on certain metrics, has been historically weak including when measured by GDP. Q2 GDP of course reported on Friday at 1.2% annualized growth which was a wide miss and Q1 was revised down to 0.8%.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this past week and decided to hold steady. The statement has been interpreted to mean a rate hike is extremely unlikely in September. The November meeting is right before the Presidential election which would seem to take that meeting out of play leaving the first possible opportunity for a hike in December. That is not to predict a December hike so much as to try to frame the remote possibility of a hike before December. The next big data point will be the nonfarm jobs report this Friday and after two very noisy months for this series, the expectation is that 175,000 jobs were created in July.
Although global equities were mixed last week, they were uniformly higher in July as the post-Brexit bounce that started in late June continued through most of July. The Dow Jones Industrial average was up 2.77% for the month, the S&P 500 gained 3.54%, the NASDAQ moved ahead 6.58% (much of the move attributed to mega cap tech and tech related companies that jumped on earnings) and the Russell 2000 was no slouch either at 5.92%. Looking at Europe, the FTSE 100 was better by 3.38%, France saw a 4.77% increase and Germany jumped 6.79%. In Asia the Shanghai Composite was muted with a 1.7% gain while the Hang Seng added 5.38% and the ASX 200 rallied 6.29%.
The Nikkei 225 was very strong in July as it gained 6.38% while the dollar gained slightly against the yen up until July 28th. On the last trading day of the month the yen had a very strong jump to trade with a 102 handle as the Bank of Japan announced an increase in asset purchases as part of its QE that was smaller than expected. It is going to almost double its purchase of equity ETFs and will do more aggressive lending but will not increase its bond purchases…for now? To the extent there is no playbook for coming out of the 2008 global recession, the BOJ has had the pedal to the floor yet over the last year the Nikkei is down 19%, the central bank recently cut its 2016 GDP estimate to 0.9% and its ten-year bond carries a negative yield at -0.19% which was actually higher for the week.
The yield on the Ten Year US Treasury Note fell on the week to 1.45%, the German bund swung back into negative territory to -0.11%, the Swiss ten year charges 0.56% and the UK gilt continued to move lower and now yields 0.68%.
Gold had a strong week with a 2.59% gain with half of the lift coming Friday perhaps in reaction to the weak GDP number in the US as an indication that it will be a long time before rates do indeed rise. West Texas Intermediate Crude continued its recent decline falling another 5.9% to close at $41.46. The painful correlation between equities in crude that plagued investors earlier in the year hasn't quite come into play again but this is something that participants will be following closely.
ETF News
Over the weekend, Barron's ran several articles about ETFs that included a look at the popularity of dividend focused ETFs, specifically ones that were overweight the utility sector. Defensive, higher yielding equity sectors have been bid higher as investors have rotated away from bonds in search of yield. Barron's points out that the sectors being viewed as bond proxies may get hit especially hard if interest rates ever start to rise.
There were four new funds listed last week including an new actively managed ETF from WBI.
Interesting Reads
As the fire season heats up Outside Magazine looks at The Tools They Carry: Wildland Firefighters Most Important Gear:
The hotshot's primary mission on a wildfire is to scratch in a dirt fire line, two- to five-feet wide, around the entire fire. The chingadera (apologies to Spanish speakers) is the most efficient tool for the job and the one most Tahoe Hotshots use in the field. It rakes and scrapes dirt as well as anything, and its stout 8.5-inch head and 40-inch handle are great for getting through roots. A reinforced tab on the top of the collar is used as a hammer to drive in wedges when felling trees.
Time Magazine had an interesting profile of Bobby Lea and his Road Back From Rio. That is not a typo for Lea who at 32 and a world class athlete in a low dollar sport will face some serious financial reality when the games are over as his career will wind down over the next few months.
Although the Olympics might seem like a gateway to a bright future, that won't necessarily be true for Lea. At 32, he's nearing the end of his professional cycling career. He's a top-level competitor, one of the hottest prospects on the 2016 cycling team, but he's no Lance Armstrong. His specialty—track cycling, not road racing—is obscure and has a limited fan base. Fame and fortune of the kind that have been showered on Olympians like Michael Phelps is simply not going to happen. Lea won't be on a Wheaties box. He won't guest-host Saturday Night Live. As, in fact, is the case for most Olympic athletes, there's no pot of gold at the end of his rainbow.
Source: Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal, SeekingAlpha, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barrons, ETF.com, XTF.com, Bespoke Investment Group, Outside Magazine, Time
For July 25th, 2016 to July 29th, 2016
S&P Sector Analysis
As for the sectors of the S&P 500, four outperformed the broad benchmark – Technology, Healthcare, Materials, and Discretionary. The remaining six – Financials, Industrials, Telecom, Utilities, Staples, and Energy – each underperformed. The dispersion between the top-performing and bottom-performing sectors was roughly 3.61% the week ending 7/29/16, with Technology outperforming all, and Energy coming in last.
For July 25th, 2016 to July 29th, 2016
As measured by the S&P 500 sector indices, respective performances were:


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People who have already had shingles can get the shingles vaccination as a way of preventing future bouts of shingles, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends. Someone with active shingles should let the rash subside before being vaccinated; no other restrictions exist regarding when to be vaccinated.
The shingles vaccine is approved for people 50 and over, but isn't recommended until the age of 60, as Mayo Clinic points out. While it's still possible to contract shingles after the vaccination, being vaccinated should reduce the severity of any shingles attack. Some people also develop a temporary rash similar to that of chicken pox after vaccination.


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These great vintage earrings are made of delicate milky opal lucite dating to the 1940s. The glass has a beautiful crackled effect and flecks of lilac and turquoise glow brightly when the light catches them. They are really beautiful and unusual. These are fairly small stud earrings, with the glass measuring just 6mm across. The earring posts are solid sterling silver.
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August Man Magazine annual women's issue, March 2013
Hi guys! Sorry for the MIA. Been traveling for a bit but I haven't forgotten about you!
Well, here's a quick and sweet update!!! I am one of the few beauty queens that is being featured in this month's August Man Magazine. I was approached by Mr. Rubin Khoo, the editor of the magazine and my former lecturer to be a part of this shoot which I really enjoyed.
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