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Decline in 2009 Foundation Giving Steeper Than Anticipated
November 10, 2009
Foundation giving will likely decline by more than 10 percent in 2009, reports the Foundation Center. Foundation giving will also decline further in 2010, it predicts.
U.S. foundation giving was not expected to rise in 2009, given an estimated 22 percent drop in foundation assets in 2008. Earlier this year, the Foundation Center estimated that 2009 giving by the nation's more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations would "decrease in the range of the high single digits to low double digits," or roughly 8 to 13 percent. It now appears likely that the decline will be on the steeper end of that range, the report explains.
Among respondents to the September 2009 survey who established a grants budget at the start of the year, the vast majority (70 percent) expect to distribute roughly what they budgeted earlier this year. However, one in five funders (20 percent) expect to give less than the budgeted amount; only about 11 percent anticipate giving more.
Most grantmakers believe that the economic crisis will actually strengthen the nonprofit sector. Some recommend that nonprofits pursue more creative fundraising strategies and less traditional sources of support, such as revenue-generating activities; develop concrete sustainability plans; and collaborate more. However, some funders expressed concern that nonprofits were not using the recession as an opportunity to review and rethink their activities.
"Our survey found that many foundations have made difficult strategic choices as a result of the economic crisis, including reducing staff," said Steven Lawrence, senior director of research at the Foundation Center and author of the advisory. "They expect that their grantees will be similarly committed to restructuring their operations to reflect the new reality."The report can be downloaded at no charge from the Gain Knowledge area of the Center's web site.


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Energy security
I have a slightly different take from Blue Sky's on the subject of overpaying for oil companies.
While I don't know whether we are anywhere near peak oil (we seem to start fretting over this whenever oil prices reach stratospheric levels) , I believe that over the next several years oil prices will continue on an upward spike ( In last sunday's NYT magazine Peter Maas had a good in-depth story on oil) and Indian oil consumption would continue to go up. A premimum of 21% on current market price may not be too high a price to pay under such circumstances. What may be a bigger deal is the political uncertainty in Kazakhstan. But then show me a third world country with large oil reserves that has political stability! From a geopolitical risk perspective – I am not sure that we can buy our way to energy security (our oily overtures to Iran run the same risk). But it is certainly worth trying.
Wall Street Journal had a front page story on this subject this morning ('Persuit of Oil Firm stokes Rivalry of Asian Giants'):
While the US remains the world's biggest consumer of oil by far, China and India are quickly emerging as the great markets of the future as their consumers trade in their bicycles and scooters for passenger cars. Faced with stagnant production at home, India now imports 70% of its crude oil.
India has pushed for collaboration between Indian and Chinese national oil companies on selected bids. But one senior official at an Indian oil compan said he didnt think it would lead to many joint bids anytime soon. "Both countries want all the equity oil and gas which is available," he said. "We can't suddenly become great griends."
…Although India's ONGC is starting with lucrative contracts, officials there and at other Indian Oil companies complaint that they are at a disadvantage next to Chinese companies, which they say have access to cheaper loans through the Chinese state and are better able to stomach the exorbitant cost of buying oil assets at a time of high oil costs."
Neither are we the only people agonizing about oil. – check out Fareed Zakaria in today's Washington Post.

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Successful pregnancy after ovarian cancer
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My friend had ovarian cancer when she was 16, had one tube and one ovary removed. She's 22 now and is trying for a baby, however she is concerned that her chances may be very low or non-existent. Could you tell me realistically what her chances are of becoming pregnant? Thank you for your time.
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
Without specifics regarding the type of tumor your friend suffered, exactly what was done and found at the time of surgery, and what kind of treatment she had after her diagnosis of "ovarian cancer" it is difficult to tell what her chances of successful pregnancy are. In general, patients who have one tube and ovary removed for reasons other than cancer (ectopic pregnancy, benign tumors, etc) have the same chance of getting pregnant as they had before their surgery, if the other tube and ovary appeared normal at the time of surgery. Many factors other than prior surgery may affect a woman's fertility such as regularity of menstrual cycles, endometriosis, prior pelvic or appendiceal infections. In your friend's case, additional factors such as the type of tumor, if she received chemotherapy after diagnosis, how the tube and ovary on the unaffected side looked at the time of surgery may all affect her chances of getting pregnant. I would advise her to talk to her gynecologist or the surgeon/oncologist who treated her for her initial tumor to discuss the particulars of her case to get more information.


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NOPD seeks 3 who may have info on Jan. 9 shooting in Freret area
NOPD seeks 3 who may have info on Jan. 9 shooting in Freret area
NOPD says it is seeking three men who may have information on a Freret neighborhood slaying.
The killing happened Thursday at about 9:15 p.m. in the 4500 block of South Robertson Street.
Police say they found a man shot to death in a front yard.
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Anyone with information is asked to call Homicide Detective Charles Hoffacker at 504-658-5324.
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Donald Trump recently gave a pair of speeches in Minnesota and Michigan where he argued that the Democrat Party had not just let down the African-American community, they had sold them out and were completely unworthy of black America's support.
We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes, not as individual human beings worthy of a better future. She doesn't care at all about the hurting people of this country, or the suffering she has caused them.
The African-American community has been taken for granted for decades by the Democratic Party. It's time to break with the failures of the past – I want to offer Americans a new future.
Over the weekend he continued that theme while making the rounds in the media.
Trending: Woke Progressives are a Tiny Minority
On Sunday, one of his biggest supporters, Judge Jeanine Pirro made the case for him on her show Justice with Judge Jeanine.
Democrat-inspired government support for the last century has become the most abusive form of suppression and oppression in our inner cities. It is keeping African Americans and minority communities from attaining not only the American Dream, but a normal safe, secure and productive life. A supposed well-intentioned support system is chaining our minority communities to an inter-generational cycle of poverty, dependency and depression.
Now I have spent more than three decades in the criminal justice system, watching crime, drugs and gangs ravage our inner cities – drawing no distinction between children, families and the elderly. But I have never heard anyone, especially someone running for office, have the audacity, the tenacity to turn a paradigm upside down the way Donald Trump did this week.
Donald Trump: "It is time for our society to address some honest and very different truths. The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African American community. Democratic crime policies, education policies and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken homes and more poverty."
Is he right? Let's take a look.
When Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton talk about the racial divide, they neglect to talk about the fact that 58% of young African Americans do not have jobs, that they are worse off since an African American president took office. So what makes anyone think they can make things better under the same policies?
When Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton talk about the economic divide in this country, what have they done about it? Other than Hillary Clinton magically going from dead broke to being worth more than a hundred million dollars (that she'll admit to) without a business, a company, or anything other than a so called not-for-profit corporation?
While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton talk about the needed conversations between the minority community and our law enforcement officers, they do so to the background chant "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now." More police are targeted and killed than ever before. While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton talk about the poor and the oppressed, the anarchists – the Black Lives Matter and the Occupy Wall Street group – burn down neighborhoods where the only ones suffering are African American mom and pop shops and African American small business owners.
And while they pontificate on the quality of justice for the minority communities – like Ferguson and Baltimore – juries, judges and even their own department of justice outright reject their make-believe, incendiary and divisive narrative.
And in case you haven't noticed gun crimes against African Americans only matter if law enforcement is involved. African American deaths even of children on playgrounds on the south side of Chicago just don't get the same outrage.
When this duo talk about the quality education that young African American and minority children need to compete, they talk force an education bureaucracy and unions that support them and sell slick ads as children in those communities fail. No talk of the few children lucky enough to have a voucher system or school choice, that allows them to break the bonds and soar to success.
Take a look at these cities populated by the minority community where murders are on the rise, where poverty is the norm, where guns are seen as the only form of protection, crime as the only way out, where hope is nonexistent, and ask yourselves: Who is running these cities? Democrats. Take a look at those numbers.
Folks, if something just doesn't work time after time, over and over, what does it tell you? Should you keep going with it? Should you do it again?
You know what, I can't say it any better than he can:
Donald Trump: "What the hell do you have to lose?"
If this powerful opening statement was not enough, Pirro then welcomed her favorite candidate to the show to reinforce the argument for why minority Americans should support him for President.


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01- Lincoln
For the first time in 31 years, Spielberg is firing on all cylinders. Lincoln signals the return of a major voice in cinema, a voice that could may just be the strongest of his own generation. There is no denying it, Lincoln is a masterpiece that may not be considered fully to some now, but will be in the history books. Through the extreme focus on two months of the life of Abraham Lincoln, Spielberg unearths the myth of Lincoln by fleshing out the man completely which could of not been done were it not for Tony Kushner's masterful screenplay (one I would consider to be one of the best of all time) and the impressive completely lived-in performance by Daniel Day-Lewis (which is by far the best performance he has ever given). The film begins with a dream that is a manifestation of Lincoln's guilt over not pushing the issue of passing the 13th Amendment sooner. We see two sets of soldiers (one white, one black) presented in front of Lincoln who argue the merits of Lincoln's presidency. A challenge is set forth as one of the black soldiers walks away, reciting Lincoln's famous Emancipation Proclamation. In this five minute scene, everything we need to know is set up for the story to delve into the bloody, dirty political battle over the passing of the 13th Amendment. Even though we know the outcome, the scenes with the congress rank to be the most thrilling of the year and the most thrilling of Spielberg's career which does not lack in thrill at all. Kushner and Spielberg go into some uncharted territory though, showing that Lincoln himself was not afraid of getting his hands dirty in order to abolish slavery. The question of "do the ends justify the means" is present in every one of these scenes because it is quite apparent that Lincoln himself is thinking about this. It is an unanswerable question that American politicians have struggled for decades to answer, coming to no easy conclusion. Kushner pushes through other uncharted territory as we uncover Abe's difficulty at dealing with family life as shown through his emotional distance to his wife and children. Daniel Day's dedication to the role is astonishing; after a outrageously over-the-top performance in There Will Be Blood, he is incredibly understated, building an impenetrable wall on his face that no character in the film can fight their way through. The key to Lincoln is that he opens himself up through his anecdotes and stories that will later serve as his points in a political argument. As a film maker whose films span five decades and countless productions, I see that Spielberg's story is very much Lincoln's. Both are fully blooded Americans who struggle to relate to society in conventional means – they must cling themselves to stories and anecdotes to get through the painful parts of life and to ultimately open themselves to other people. Abe himself is shown many times bonding with his younger son Tad which correlates to Spielberg's own auteur stamp of showing stories through the perspective of children. Lincoln and Spielberg are both hopelessly connected to their children and their inner child which brings an endless child-like wonder to their own world respective worlds. Lincoln is a truly transcendent experience in the way that it brings everything that I love about cinema and Spielberg together in a truly masterful way. It is the best film of 2012 and it is, without a doubt, the best film Steven Spielberg has ever made.
02- This is Not a Film
Of all of the films on this list, This is Not a Film is truly the best description of "mind-fuck" that I can come up with. As the film explains in the opening moments, Jafar Panahi, an Iranian film maker, was banned by Iran from making films for twenty years and put in house arrest for several. Yet, Jafar Panahi (with the help of his documentary friend Mojtaba Mirthahmasb), created this piece of art which I would also consider not a film because it is not shot on film, but by digital cameras (it is easier to transport SD cards across the Iranian border in birthday cakes than actually film). Defying the Iranian government, Panahi has turned censorship into art which is revolutionary in and of itself, but the movie itself is an enduring portrait of an artist struggling to come to terms with the fact that he cannot do what he has been his life's passion for the last twenty years. As he says to the camera after trying to describe a film he wanted to make before the ban, "If we can tell a film, then why make it?" The tragedy of the ban weighs heavily on the film, but Panahi moves on trying to document his personal life in the 24 hours before he hears the result of a trial of whether or not he will be imprisoned (if you're curious to the content of the films, they are strongly feminist in an fiercely anti-women regime). Panahi uses this time to comment on his situation, to comment on the politics in Iran, and to take care of his pet Iguana. It is strange how little happens can be absolutely riveting. In the final twenty minutes, Panahi rides an elevator to the ground and talks to a garbage man. Through the conversation, you can tell that Panahi is mining the young man for perspective on his own life as a garbage man. As an artist, Panahi perfectly understands that he must speak for those who are less fortunate than he and, despite the ban, he cannot stop himself from probing others to develop a worldview for a next possible film. This is Not a Film may be true to its title in the form it presents itself, but it is also everything the medium has been for its past 100 so years. Whatever it may be, it is definitely a masterpiece.
03- Holy Motors
The best way I can describe the plot of this film is that it follows Oscar as he travels around Paris to complete various assignments that force him to take on multiple identities. A lot of the so-called "plot" of the film is obscured by a vague thorough line connected to the limo he rides in between assignments. Every assignment tackles a different genre of film. We have proletariat drama, big budget CGI fests, period piece drama, surrealistic comedy, horror, musical, family drama, crime thriller, animated comedy, amongst others. Each assignment starts one way, then completely subverts the situation to the most extreme version of ridiculousness. While the narrative does this to you, the aesthetic also pulls you in to expect a certain development in the plot, then completely repulses you back. The film is not so much a piece of traditional art as it is a cinematic toy. You will only get the maximum amount of pleasure if you completely arrest yourself to its illogical and strange world. My take on the film is that it is the day in the life of an actor in a futuristic society where film is dead and actors create art through wreaking havoc throughout the city. The eye of the beholder is lost because the cameras just increasingly get smaller and smaller, the film argues. The scrutinizing of actors have led to them being increasingly distanced to their most personal family members as shown in the final frames of the film. Actors are never not acting. They can only truly connect to others under the guise of someone else.
04- Damsels in Distress
There is just nothing like this comedy out in American cinema right now. Damsels in Distress, in a lot of ways, is the antithesis of Bridesmaids; instead of physical and gross out humor, all of the laughs come from the witty banter and extremely offbeat characters. Greta Gerwig is gloriously hilarious and yet, strange and heartbreaking as Violet, a cult-like leader of female do-gooders at a New England college. They believe in dating men who are below in intelligence in order to change their lives for the better and that they can cure suicidal cases through the power of teaching them how to tap dance. This is their form of community social service that they fully believe will change the world. The cult is disrupted when Lily, a transfer, begins questioning the group's intentions by criticizing Violet's increasingly strange worldview that includes the belief that starting a dance craze is the ultimate gift that she can give the world. The film's narrative zaniness is a possible factor as why it was written off by the public, but I embrace it completely for it. I cannot praise the brilliance of the dialogue enough – lines like "You want to stop me from killing myself so you won't look bad" "No, I want to stop you from killing yourself so you don't make yourself look bad" are as ridiculously hilarious as they are intellectually stimulating. For those of you truly missing sex humor though, there is a anal sex subplot that reaches a rewarding punchline in a understated if outrageously humorous way. Damsels in Distress, more than any other film on this list, is one I simply cannot wait to return to.
05- The Master
To be honest, I don't know exactly where PTA is going. I still don't truly understand the film. The Master is less of a true masterpiece and more of a true mess-terpiece. At times it feels perfectly organized, but at others it feels like 1960s stream-of-consciousness writing. If you look past the marketing pretense of how the film is (apparently) about scientology, you will find that the film is a strong, multilayered character study of a Freddy Quell, a WWII veteran who is constantly searching for some sort of salvation for himself despite his inner reluctance to tame his inner, incredibly strong "animalistic" desires and sensibilities. He is recruited by The Cause, led by Lancaster Dodd (played in by a mannered Philip Seymour Hoffman in contrast to the chaotic performance given by Joaquin Phoenix) who takes it upon himself to reform Freddie by any means necessary. What follows is a decade long battle of different ideological bulls, a master/pet relationship, and, possibly, a romantic one. We are never quite sure what happens between Freddie and Dodd, why they are so magnetically attracted to each other despite being of two different attitudes and outlooks. Their relationship drives the film, emotionally, mentally, and intellectually as we see it dissolve and reassemble throughout the years the film follows. The Master is not an easy film, but is by far Paul Thomas Anderson's deepest and aesthetically immaculate film. Mihai Malaimaire Jr.'s work is simply extraordinary to behold – his images cannot be denied of power. As Freddie, Phoenix digs and digs into the hardened soul of the character until he reaches a place that is similarly as mysterious as DeNiro was in Raging Bull. The film's circular plot doesn't allow for easy resolutions; PTA has provided us his own meditation on the universal questions of the meaning of human life. Do we continue to search for meaning in our lives? Do we indulge ourselves in life's pleasures? Or is everything that surrounds is a master, and we are a servant to it?
06- The Day He Arrives
Every now and then I come across a film that is particularly inspiring because it is highly relatable and surprisingly universal. Hong Sangsoo's The Day He Arrives is much like if Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad married Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture. The film follows a film maker returning to his hometown (?) to see some of his friends. What follows is a cacophony of mixed scenes together that could very well relate to the scene previous or the scene following or could just be jumping around a timeline. Hong never gives you a straight answer, but he gives you enough room to take one lead and follow it down a rabbit hole and not feel wrong about it. My personal take on the film was that it was that the story is about the pitfalls of looking back, returning to your own home, but also an old girlfriend and the possible impossibility to avoid it all. Are we all cursed into trying our best to recreate the past? Are we all just attracted to one kind of man or woman? The film does not give any easy answers but only suggests that once we move forward, looking backwards may not ever be the best option.
07- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Several men led by a prosecutor, a police officer, and a doctor are looking for the body of a man with assistance by the convicted that murdered him. Nothing happens, but everything happens. As stakes are raised throughout the narrative, the three non-named characters outgrow their simple archetypical personalities and become flesh and blood characters. The methods they use to search for the body becomes a commentary upon themselves more than a commentary on the nature of crime. What is thought to be the most insignificant, rudimentary night of their lives becomes extremely important as their desperation to find the body grows. Nuri Bilge Ceylan creates the best argument for digital cinematography since Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. The images are as crisp and clear (and even sometimes more) than the master work by Mihai Malaimare Jr.'s work in The Master. Ceylan uses close-up incredibly well evoking a Dreyer-like style of directing actors – the focus is more on their silent actions and behaviors than the dialogue and the reactions to plot developments. The focus he gives to his close ups are given the same amount of weight to his beautiful landscape shots. Ceylan's background in digital photography roots him in a refreshing cinematographic approach to cinema opposed to many film makers who tend to believe cinema is more of an extension of theatre.
08- Jeff, Who Lives At Home
The Duplass Brothers are possibly the best American film makers alive right now that seamlessly blend laugh out loud humor with tearjerking drama. It is without a doubt a feat when the duo can do all of this within a 80 minute duration and not have any of the characters or plot feel slight in development at all. Jeff, Who Lives At Home is a story about a slacker loner Jeff who believes that the universe is connected and that every life is a meaningful piece to a gigantic puzzle. He is surrounded by cynics, most notable being his brother Pat who is in the middle of a crisis with his wife after he goes behind her back to buy a car. On his way to do an errand for his pissed-off but depressed widowed mom, he runs into Pat and they begin to track Pat's wife with belief that she is having an affair. The plot takes a lot of unexpected twists and turns with the last five minutes to be the most moving scenes in cinema of 2012. Jason Segel, as the stoner with a heart of gold, Jeff, gives an extraordinary performance that invites the audience to laugh at his incredulousness, not his extreme optimism. It is a difficult balancing act that would unhinge other actors. Susan Sarandon, meanwhile, is given a small subplot but fills it colorfully as a widow who has all but resigned to the monotony of life and eventual death until a secret admirer comes her way in another unexpected way. Very reminiscent of the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas of the 1970s, the Duplass Brothers have again out done themselves to pull the rug out under from me. Jeff, Who Lives At Home is a beautiful film about life, love, and the struggle to accept mortality.
09- Tabu
Miguel Gomes' sensuously gorgeous picture is a romance film on the surface, yet if you look closer at the small details he sprinkles the film with, it becomes almost an Adam & Eve like tale that explores a forbidden romance between two Portugese colonists in South Africa as much as it comments on romance films themselves. The first hour slowly delves into the later life of Aurora through the eyes of her close friend, Pilar. We see short scenes of Aurora who is brimming with mystery and life. In a bizarrely entrancing single take, Aurora retells a dream to Pilar that connects to her previous life. Another scene shows us Pilar, who is the audience's cypher for the first hour, protesting the colonization of African colonies. It is not until tragedy strikes that we are given the second hour of the film (our keyhole for the key that is the first hour) that is largely set in Africa many years before where a young Aurora engages in a torrid affair. What is particularly striking about Tabu is how it uses black and white cinematography to give a 1930s travelogue feel to the proceedings that take place roughly in the 1960s during the second half. Other than a narration, music, and sound, the entirety of the second half is completely without dialogue which draws us even closer to the characters. What makes the film particularly masterful is how it silently criticizes colonialization; the several white Portugese people show little concern for the people in Africa, they largely see Africa as an Eden-like paradise where they can indulge themselves in fully whether it be hunting down animals for the sake of it or engaging in steamy affairs with the African sunset as background. The euphoria of conquering land is dangerous to the invaders – it gives them too much power which they use to disobey the natural and political laws of the land.
10- The Kid with a Bike
The fairy tale storybook feel that is ever present in Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and Wright's Hanna is ever present here with the film only having a total of six to seven distinct locations and the characters seemingly never changing clothes. The film tells the story of Cyril, a kid who is abusively neglected by his own father who abandoned him to a orphanage at age 10. Thomas Doret, the actor who plays Cyril, is a force of nature. The Dardennes never let us into his psyche or thoughts, but this distance to character makes us observe him all the more closer to his painful journey to acceptance of his situation. Cecile De France takes the kid in on the weekends after he desparately clings to her after an escape from the orphanage ("You can hold me, just not so tight" she tells him). The boy is in desperate need of some sort of parental love. His story is utterly devastating as he continuously tries to get himself back into his dad's good graces who is simply not interested in being a father. The Dardennes follow the Campbellian narrative that George Lucas celebrated so gloriously in Star Wars to the T. Symbols abound in the film whether it is the freedom that Cyril feels in getting his bike back finally or the gang acceptance gift of a coca cola. Every last detail in the film pushes the narrative forward and develops the characters deeper. Sit back and appreciate the meticulousness.
Honorable Mentions: Moonrise Kingdom, Oslo August 31st, I Wish, Seven Psychopaths, & 21 Jump Street


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Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert called out Raw Story Thursday for reporting that he had explained how money could be laundered to Karl Rove's American Crossroads SuperPAC.
Unlike American Crossroads, Rove's Crossroads GPS is a 501c4 organization that does not have to disclose its donors. Crossroads GPS can then transfer donations to the Americans Crossroads SuperPAC and the original donors remain secret.
Following Rove's lead, Colbert created his own 501c4 organization called Colbert SuperPAC Shh! that would allow him to launder donations to the original Colbert SuperPAC.
"The blame-Steve media twisted my words with misleading articles," Colbert complained, referring to Raw Story's reporting and another report from The Christian Science Monitor.
"Hey, media, I wasn't talking about Karl Rove's shadowy, unaccountable organizations, I was talking about my identical shadowy, unaccountable organizations," the Comedy Central host explained. "I cannot believe that my show was deliberately misrepresented in the news. It's supposed to be the other way around, guys."
He added: "So to undo the damage that I have unwittingly done to Karl's otherwise spotless reputation, I will now issue a rare clarification. As his lawyer points out, Karl Rove has two pots of money: one that can take unlimited donations from anybody and has got to report who they are, and another way bigger pot of money that can take unlimited donations and they don't have to report jack squat… There is no evidence of money laundering. And Karl's lawyer specifically assures us that no money from Crossroads GPS will be laundered."
"That is a promise from Karl Rove that if there is any dirty money, it will stay dirty."
Watch this video from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, broadcast Oct. 6, 2011.
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Not mine, a friend Nick asked me a couple years ago if he could use my FNN name. Told him I didn't care.
Said he liked the name He started making LM bass Rat lures. Since then he has started making
Bluegill, Trout and even some aluminum squid saltwater jigs. He sent me this video the other day.


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The Reds are making their first postseason appearance since 1995 on the strength of their first winning season since 2000. That sudden turn-around is one of the best stories of the season, but the Phillies look ready to ruin the ending. Having won the last two National League pennants, the Phillies are heavily favored to win their third straight NL flag, and given the top three in their rotation and the way their offense is clicking right now, they have to be considered the favorites to win the World Series as well. The Reds may very well be the second-best team in the NL field, but beating the Phillies would be a sizable upset.
This series -- quite possibly this entire postseason -- will be about the Phillies' three aces:
Oswalt and Hamels enter this series with dominant postseasons under their belts. In 2005, Oswalt went 3-0 with a 2.11 ERA in the first two rounds of the playoffs and was NLCS MVP. Three years later, Hamels was the key performer in the Phillies' world championship run, going 4-0 with a 1.80 ERA in five postseason starts while winning NLCS and World Series MVP honors. Halladay, who has arguably been the best pitcher in baseball over the last three seasons (leading qualified starters in innings, ERA, ERA+, wins, shutouts, complete games, WHIP, K/BB, and BB/9 over that span), will make his postseason debut in Wednesday's Game 1 at Citizens Bank Park.
Halladay enters that start having likely just won his second Cy Young award by going 21-10 with a 2.44 ERA and a staggering 7.30 K/BB ratio. Oswalt, who will start Game Two, was acquired from the Astros at the non-waiver trading deadline. He began his Phillies career with a dud, then went 7-0 with a 1.31 ERA over his final 11 regular season starts for his new club. Game 3 starter Hamels was similarly dominant in his final seven regular season starts, going 5-1 with a 1.48 ERA.
The Reds ranked third and the Phillies fourth in the NL in defensive efficiency, the rate at which a defense turns balls in play (not counting home runs, which are hit out of play) into outs. To consider the impact defense can have on a pitcher, consider the Game 2 starters, Oswalt for the Phillies and
Oswalt shaved more than a run and a half off his ERA after joining the Phillies, and while he did make some improvements as a Phillie -- he allowed fewer line drives and induced more ground balls, which not only are easier outs but enabled a dramatic improvement in his double-play rate -- his strikeout-to-walk ratio was actually a tick better with the Astros. The most dramatic change in Oswalt's performance was that his opponents' batting average on balls in play (BABIP) dropped nearly 50 points after he joined the Phillies. Those ground balls certainly helped, but a large part of that drop can be attributed to luck and the Phillies' defense.
The only Phillie who isn't a superlative defender at his position is left fielder
These are the Senior Circuit's two highest-scoring offenses, but the Phillies' offensive output is even more impressive considering that two-thirds of their lineup hit the disabled list at one point this season.
While the Phillies offense was finally finding its stride, the Reds bats, which led the league with 790 runs, had pushed across 5.02 runs per game during the season's first five months, started to doze off, scoring just 4.23 over the season's final 30 games. The Reds, not coincidentally, went 14-16 over that stretch. The Reds bats now have to wake up against Halladay, Oswalt and Hamels.
The key players to watch in the Reds lineup are
Chapman, the 22-year-old Cuban defector signed by the Reds back in January, was called up on August 31 and immediately captured headlines with a dominant debut and a 105-mile-per-hour fastball. Though he has proven human since, he gives the Reds a dominant full-inning set-up man to complement fellow lefty
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The SN65DSI86 DSI
to embedded DisplayPort (eDP) bridge features a dual-channel MIPI D-PHY receiver front-end
configuration with four lanes per channel operating at 1.5 Gbps per lane and a maximum input
bandwidth of 12 Gbps. The bridge decodes MIPI DSI 18-bpp RGB666 and 24-bpp RGB888 packets and
converts the formatted video data stream to a DisplayPort with up to four lanes at either 1.62
Gbps, 2.16 Gbps, 2.43 Gbps, 2.7 Gbps, 3.24 Gbps, 4.32 Gbps, or 5.4 Gbps.
The SN65DSI86 is
well suited for WQXGA at 60 frames per second, as well as 3D graphics at 4K and true HD (1920 ×
1080) resolutions at an equivalent 120 fps with up to 24 bpp. Partial line buffering is implemented
to accommodate the data stream mismatch between the DSI and DisplayPort
Designed with industry compliant interface technology, the SN65DSI86 is compatible with a wide range of microprocessors, and is
designed with a range of power management features, including panel refresh support, and the MIPI
defined ultralow power state (ULPS) support.
The SN65DSI86 is implemented in a small outline, 5-mm
× 5-mm, MicroStar Junior ball-grid array (BGA) at 0.5-mm pitch package, and operates across a temperature range from –40°C to +85°C.
In the rest of this document, the SN65DSI86
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|Ruth has done two seasons on Mull as a wildlife guide for Sea Life Surveys and is currently completing a masters degree in Marine Biology based at Glasgow.
For me 2013 reached dizzy heights on the sightings scale with my first encounter with Scottish orca and Risso's dolphins. What creatures! When Jimbo first told me he had got a text from a fisherman friend who was with two orcas not far from us, I was convinced he was winding me up as I'm notoriously gullible (especially when it's something I want to hear!) But no, it was true and when I first heard that huge powerful blow and saw the big black sail of a male orca's dorsal fin, there were no words….. Well there was certainly a squeal! But wow. Surely no one who has ever experienced these burly dolphins in their natural habitat could ever think it wise to keep them in bath tubs, what power and yet elegance. They blew my mind.
And Risso's dolphins, unlike any encounter with bottlenose or commons, were modest and calm, just getting on with their journey westwards. They were stunning and so very mysterious.
And this was in Scotland…. Scotland!! How lucky we are to have such a mysteriously rich expanse of ocean on our doorsteps.
Another highlight of 2013 was of course the return of our good old friend Knobble. Isn't it nuts that it's possible to be on first name terms with a whale? A WHALE?! It's incredible and undeniably turns me into my five year old self every time he makes an appearance.


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All those planes and barges that arrive in and depart from Portland, Ore., use a lot of energy and resources, but the new headquarters for the Port of Portland — the regional authority that handles all that traffic — does not. The facility recently earned LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in recognition of its environmentally conscious construction, systems and design.
This 205,000-square foot office building was designed, according to the Port of Portland's Executive Director Bill Wyatt, to reflect a goal the Port set out at the beginning of the project , which was to "reflect this region's commitment to sustainability." Towards that end, the facility incorporates the usual laundry list of eco-features, including extensive use of daylighting, window glazing, exterior sun-shades, low-flow water fixtures, and an eco-roof, all of which will help the facility save energy and cash.
But make no mistake: in keeping with Portland's ultra-green reputation, the new Port of Portland headquarters features some ground-breaking uses of eco-tech as well. One of these technologies is a Living Machine water treatment system, which filters and treats 100 percent of the building's wastewater for reuse in the building's toilets and cooling tower. This is achieved via a series of wetlands on-site, where plants do the dirty work in a series of ponds (This facility is now the largest commercial facility with a Living Machine wastewater treatment system in the Western U.S.)
The heating and cooling system is also noteworthy, as it's powered by a closed loop ground source geothermal heating and cooling system, which serves the passive radiant ceiling panel heating and cooling inside. According to the Port of Portland, this is the first coupling of these heating and cooling systems in the United States.
All told, the building requires no fossil fuels to heat, cool, or power (through multi-year renewable energy contract); it uses 75 percent less water and 36 percent less energy than a standard building of the same size. It also boasts a recycling rate of 76 percent with on-site food composting, easily accessible recycling, and an office supply re-use program.
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One of the nice things about Linux is that it never asks to reboot after installing security other updates—unless, that is, you update the kernel, which traditionally does require a reboot. But CloudLinux hopes to change that for more enterprises through a new product called KernelCare, designed to keep a virtual or physical open source Linux OS updated without rebooting.
CloudLinux's main product is CloudLinux OS, which is, er, a Linux OS designed for cloud servers. KernelCare is a new offering from CloudLinux that will complement the company's hosting platform by making it possible to apply updates to the Linux kernel without rebooting the entire server. KernelCare runs as a single kernel module and works whether the OS in question exists on bare metal or inside a virtual environment.
Currently, KernelCare supports CentOS6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CloudLinux 6 and OpenVZ. "Virtuozzo, Debian, Ubuntu and other kernels will follow," according to the product website.
If you feel like you've already heard about the magical promise of having your server and eating it, too—by which I mean keeping it up to date while also maintaining 100 percent uptime—that may be because of Ksplice, a service similar to KernelCare that debuted in 2008.
But what makes KernelCare different from Ksplice—and what will undoubtedly serve as the main selling point of the new product for CloudLinux—is that Oracle (ORCL) now owns Ksplice, the company that originally developed the Ksplice software. And while the Ksplice code theoretically continues to support most Linux distributions, Oracle has tied the update service to Oracle Linux specifically. It has also not shown much interest in continuing to develop Ksplice, which has not issued a new software release since time of the acquisition by Oracle in 2011.
By being more OS-agnostic, then, CloudLinux, stands poised to tap into renewed demand for rebootless kernel updates. The company will probably need to add support for more Linux server distributions before achieving large-scale adoption, but there is clear value in the features KernelCare provides for enterprise datacenters, and the product is entering the market at a good time.


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Do you think Tiger Woods was trying to be his Caddie?
Tiger Woods' caddie Steve Williams has dedicated his New Zealand stock car championship to his embattled friend and employer.
"I realize Tiger's going through a difficult time and I hope my success on the track cheers him up a bit," Williams said.
In an interview with FOXSports.com from his Home in Auckland, Williams also said he had "no idea" when Woods would return to competitive Golf.
He said he'd spoken with Woods by telephone — their birthdays last week were a day apart — but declined to discuss those conversations.
Williams, who turned 47 the day before Woods turned 34, beat 60 drivers on Saturday night to win his country's Saloon Car championship at Maunganui's Baypark Speedway.
It was his first national championship in the saloon class and came on the heels of his victory in the North Island Saloon Championship.
On Friday night, Williams will again get behind the wheel of his Mustang as he attempts to sweep the treble with a win in the Super Saloon class, a title he won in 2006.
"It's been a great run and for sure it's helped in keeping my mind off what's going on (with Tiger)," he said.
"I work in a high-pressure environment as a caddie so racing's a great release for me and always has been."
Williams, whose team, Caddyshack Racing, is named after Tiger's favorite movie, said he treated stock car racing as "more than a hobby."
"People recognize me as a caddie, but I treat my racing equally as seriously as my career as a caddie," he said.
Woods said in a statement issued on his Web site last month that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf after admitting to marital infidelity. A string of women have gone public with claims of having affairs with the world's no. 1 golfer, who is married to Elin Nordegren, with whom he has two young children.


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QUEBEC, August 12th. 1958.
To the Prime Minister of Canada
To the Members of His Cabinet
To the Deputies.
- Civil Rights should be recognized to an individual irrelevant of race, religion or class.
- Natural law is the foundation of Civil Rights.
- Citizens, in a Democracy should not ask for favors from the State but should demand their Civil Rights or prerogatives.
- Life, Liberty and Property are inherent to Civil Rights.
- Civil Rights should be given to a citizen irrelevantly of the Province in which he lives; residence being a pure accident of birth or life.
- Impartiality and integrity in the administration of Justice is more important than Science, Knowledge, Learning or Competence.
- A judge should not hear and adjudge in a litigation of any kind whatsoever in which he is a party directly or indirectly and that in the broader sense.
- Basis and Conditions for the admission of a Case concerning Civil Rights to be heard should be fixed by rulings of that Court or determined by law.
- Notes pursuing a judgment should be made public or obtainable by the parties.
- One should not ask to a lower Court t o proceed to a higher one.
- A Court which might be designated as the Court of Civil Rights should be composed of members extracted from various learned professions or occupation.
- The Court should contain a paragraph establishing an organization to receive communications from Citizens making suggestions about Civil Rights of Canadian Citizens.
- That Court should be competent t o receive written or oral testimonies or opinions referring to Canadian Civil Rights.
- That Court should study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of the law granted by the Charter.
- Other branches of Government should cooperate with the Court so established in order that it may carry out fully and effectively its functions and duties.
- The established Court should have authority to deal with evident conflict of Justice or law when:
- it has been definitely proven that the Civil Rights of a citizen has been impaired;
- The Court should have the authority t o establish standards of violation of Civil Rights of an individual;
- The Court should have legal authority t o quash judgments rendered by any other Court in which violation of Civil Rights or injustice has been suffered by a citizen and grant due compensation.
- In order that Civil Rights be effective the Court should have the duty t o study outright the complaints or the litigation of a citizen falling under its jurisdiction, avoiding delay encountered
in any other jurisdiction.
- The judgment of the Civil Rights Court should be final or reviewable only by the Cabinet Ministers.
III - The following documents are offered for consideration which might be of help in the establishment of that Court:
a) "CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957"
The Government of the United States of America approved a Charter designated as "Public law 85-315 85th Congress H.R.6127" on September 9th. 1957. I extract from that document the following
dispositions :
Section l04 (a) The Commission shall - (2) study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of the laws under the Constitution.
Section 105 (c) The Commission may constitute such advisory committees within states composed of citizens of that state and may consult with governors, attorneys general and other representatives of state and local governments and private organizations as it deems advisable.
Section 105 (e) All Federal agencies should cooperate fully with the Commission to the end that it may effectively carry out its functions and duties.
b) THE CONSTITUTIOT\T OF THE UNITED STATES.
Article V of the amendments of the Constitution reads in part as follows:
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to
"be a witness against himself nor be deprived of
"life, liberty or property, without due process
"of law. . . . ."
Article X1V: Citizenship not t o be abridged.
"…no state shall make or enforce any law which
''shall abridge the priviledges or immunities of
"Citizens of the United States; nor shall any
"state deprive any person of life, liberty or pro-
"perty without due process of law nor deny to any
"person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
c ) THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT.
Our Constitution does not define or contain any provisions
referring to Civil Rights. Nothing specific about Civil Rights is
contained in that document.
d) The following stipulations of the Civil Right Charter
adopted by the United Nations are worthy of remarks:
Article 7 "All are equal before law and have a right
"without' any distinction to the protection of the law.
"Everybody has the right to an equal protection against
"any discrimination that should violate the present
"declaration and against any provocation to such a
Article 10 "Everybody has a right, in full equality
"that his case be heard with equity and publicly by
"an independent tribunal and impartial one that will
"decide of his rights and obligations."
Article .l6 (2) "Marriage cannot be celebrated without
" full liberty and consent of the parties."
Article 17 (1) "Everybody, either alone or collecti-
"vely has a right to ownership."
Article 17 (2) "Nobody should be deprived of his
Respectfully submitted,
Mas.Com. Chartered Accountant.


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amon.so: Hijacking System Calls For Hardening PHP - Debian Lenny And Squeeze
amon.so is a library that integrates with the PHP interpreter and intercepts and manipulates the system calls provided by libc6. It replace the execve() syscall with a custom function which does extra sanity checking in order to prevent that an attacker could execute arbitrary code on the system exploiting a vulnerability in a web-based application (such as a bugged cms). It's open-source software released under the terms of the GPL license and compatible with PHP running as a CGI process or Apache's DSO module. The official website is http://www.lucaercoli.it/
For this brand new project at the moment there aren't prebuilt packages, therefore to use it you must download the source code and compile it.
In order to install the compiler (gcc) with development libraries and header files, open a terminal and execute the following command:
apt-get install build-essential
The next step is to download source code so we can get the file using wget:
wget http://www.lucaercoli.it/amon/amon.c
Now that you have everything you needed for installing the software, execute this command to generate the shared library file:
gcc -fPIC -shared -ldl -o amon.so amon.c
Finally move "amon.so" in the directory /lib:
mv ./amon.so /lib/
Installation is complete and all that remains is to load modules into Apache.
Depending on your configuration you must follow one of the following methods:
1)If your PHP is executed via mod_fcgid, open the wrapper that calls the PHP and insert the string "export LD_PRELOAD=amon.so" inside it. For instance:
#!/bin/sh export PHPRC=/etc/php5/cgi export LD_PRELOAD = amon.so exec /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php
After that reload apache2:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
2) If the PHP interpreter works with Apache's suEXEC support, create a simple wrapper modifying your vhost configuration.
Add these directives:
ScriptAlias /php_amon/ "/usr/local/bin/" AddHandler php-script .php Action php-script /php_amon/php5-cgi
Create the file /usr/local/bin/php5-cgi and write in it:
#!/bin/sh export LD_PRELOAD=amon.so exec /path/of/the/real/php5 "[email protected]"
Reload apache2:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
3) If you run PHP with libapache2-mod-php5, write in /etc/apache2/envvars the instruction
export LD_PRELOAD=amon.so
and reload the web service:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
To check if the library is loaded, write in a file the following PHP code and call it with a web browser:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
That's all, your PHP installation has been hardened and you're protected from any web-based backdoor (such as r57shell) and script kiddies! If an attacker tries to execute a command not allowed (such as /bin/bash), an alert will be generated and saved in the site's error log.This is the log format:
sh: command_name: command not found
These are the only commands that the webuser can execute:
If you want to add or delete some commands edit the variable "char * cmds []" in the source code and recompile it.
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It's work with CentOS?
added to the file /etc/sysconfig/httpd
export LD_PRELOAD=amon.so
but nothing happens, and the phpinfo() can not see anything
This library isn't bound to one specific linux version, so it works also on centos.
Your php runs as module or cgi? Do you have copied the file amon.so into /lib?
What mean crash your vps?
Have you an error message?
I've been tested amon.so on various system and work properly.
This tutorial is great however the amon keeps crashing my VPS :(
Maybe because I'm testing it on OpenVZ ??
Here is my amon.c File:
I have no idea how long this will be online. If someone have the possibility please provide it on a permanent way.
The logging is very simple and ugly ;)
With the two variables the location and the name of the Logfile can be changed:
const char *acceptlog = "/var/log/amon/accept.log";
const char *rejectlog = "/var/log/amon/reject.log";
This will definitely slow down the code execution. I can not say how much, but every time the amon.so lib is used there is an extra disc write.
Don't forget to set the rights for the logging path. On an fastcgi environment every site logs with its own user so I use 777. If the Logfile is not writeable the complete amon lib does not work anymore!
Also do not forget do add lograotate for the logfiles!
Hi Yogg,
Thanks alot your solutions works just fine for me !
Bob Davis
Found the problem.
amon.so works "recursive"
"/usr/bin/gm identify" uses "/usr/bin/gs".
The "LD_PRELOAD=amon.so" option is passed to all child processes. So always when an process uses the "execve" command to start a child process, it would be checked if this process is in the allowed list.
In my case I have allowed "/usr/bin/gs" and everything works :)
I also have now implemented a very simple logging mechanism that logs all commands and if they are accepted or rejected.
So its very easy for me to see if there should be more commands in the accept list.
Hi Yogg,
Is there any possibility for you to share this logging mechanism ? Would be very much appreciated !
Thanks !
Best Regards,
How exactly did you implement the logging mechanism is there any chance for you to make this public ? If so would you mind pasting the difference and a little ex-plainer would appreciate it very much.
Kind Regards,
I use this lib on my new apache server.
It works really fine, but something is strange.
It seems that is not possible to execute "/usr/bin/gm identify /path/file" in the right way. If this command is executed there is no return value.
Without the extra lib the command works fine.
I have added a logging mechanism to see all commands. Also I have written an extra c file that uses the same command.
With the c file the " /usr/bin/gm identify /path/file" works without problems.
On php I get only 1 (for error) back :(
The command is used by Typo3 (4.5.2)
Good tips, I've written a PHP script to check all the additional security settings:
How to compile this in Debian 8 64 bit
command:gcc -fPIC -shared -ldl -o amon.so amon.c
send this or more errors:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/fcntl.h:40:5: error: unknown type name '__off_t'


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This is a recipe that gives you the taste of smores but in bar form. This gift would be great for teachers, neighbors, coaches, friends or anyone that has a sweet tooth. I am going to make these for my small group at church. I can't wait to share.
- Crush the graham crackers into fine pieces.
- Pour about 2/3 of the graham crackers into the bottom of the jar and press it down.
- Place the 8 peeps around the inside of the jar. Use a wooden spoon to press them up against the glass. (but don't squish them)
- Pour the rest of the graham crackers into the middle of the peeps. This will help hold the peeps in place.
- Pour 1/3 c of brown sugar into the center of the ring of peeps and pack it down.
- Fill the rest of the jar with the 1 1/4 c of candy. Try to pack it down with out squishing the peeps.
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Lapdancers kidnapped a club boss while wearing 'miniskirts, stilletos and Daisy Dukes'
A CLUB boss has said he was kidnapped by lapdancers wearing "miniskirts, stilettos and Daisy Duke shorts".
Curtis Woodman said the women and two men took him from his work premises in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
He told Bristol Crown Court they "surrounded him" before forcing him into one of two BMWs.
It is alleged that Mr Woodman, from Cheltenham, was kidnapped, robbed of £60 cash and his £4,650 Brietling watch, and assaulted on September 3 2012.
Mr Woodman also claims he was forced to transfer £4,800 into the bank account of the lapdancers' manager, Charlotte Devaney, while in the vehicle.
The women believed he owed them more than £42,000 for work they carried out at his pop-up nightclub during the Cheltenham Festival in March 2012.
Taking to the witness stand, Mr Woodman said he had received calls demanding the money from Charlotte Devaney, 34, for months.
He said he recognised Devaney and lapdancers Mandy Cool, 29, Stephanie Pye, 31, and Rachel Goodchild, 24, when they arrived at his work at around 4pm.
Brothers Robert Morris, 27, who Mr Woodman said looked like "Will Smith or Craig David" and Alexander Morris, 23, were also with the women.
Mr Woodman, who stood behind a screen to give evidence, said: "I wasn't given the chance to say anything, to be honest. They surrounded me.
"I was worried for my safety. He (Alexander Morris) pushed me in the car, he followed me and he sat next to me.
"He had a knife on him."
He denied claims he had told the group he did not want to discuss the matter there and suggested going elsewhere.
Mr Woodman also denied he was assaulted by Robert Morris after insulting his girlfriend, Mandy Cool, as they travelled in the car.
"You were saying to Robert Morris, 'what are you doing with her for? Look what she does with her money, she's not even good looking'.
"That's the first time Robert Morris punched you, because you were disrespecting his girlfriend."
He denied he had shown Robert Morris nude pictures of his girlfriend, who had recently undergone breast enhancement surgery.
He described his Brietling watch, later found in the anus of Alexander Morris, as his "pride and joy".
Yesterday, the jury heard Mr Woodman rented the Embassy Club in Cheltenham, which did not hold a lapdancing licence, for five days during the Cheltenham Festival. On the third night of the club opening, police and officials shut it down after receiving complaints.
The girls had already earned "considerable amounts of money", including £42,000 from one customer, but Mr Woodman refused to pay them, the court heard.
He felt that the girls were not entitled to the money, as they had failed to comply with the terms of their contracts.
Alexander Morris, from Southampton, has admitted carrying a Stanley knife, on September 3 2012, the day of the alleged kidnap.
He denies a charge of robbery, along with Robert Morris, also from Southampton, concerning Mr Woodman's Breitling watch.
The brothers are also charged with robbery, concerning £60 Mr Woodman gave them from his pocket before his release. They deny the charge.
Devaney, from London; Pye, from Sutton Coldfield; Cool, of Southampton; and Goodchild, of Southampton, each deny a charge of kidnap on September 3 2012.
The case continues.


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Utah legislators passed two measures Friday that set the state on a different course than Arizona. One measure is an enforcement one and would require police to check the immigration status of those stopped on suspicion of committing felonies and misdemeanors. The measure's most controversial provision - an Arizona-style section allowing police to stop people based on a "reasonal suspicion" that the person is illegally present - was removed.
The bill is making headlines as well for inclusion of a guest worker provision that will allow the state to issue two year work permits to persons illegally present in the state if they pass a criminal check and pay a $2500 fine. The bill calls on the governor to negotiation a waiver from the federal government to permit the program but also allows the state to proceed even if the federal government refuses.
While it is encouraging to see conservative Republicans recognize the need for compromise on dealing with the illegally present immigrant population, the fact is that the bill is probably unworkable and likely unconstitutional. For the same reason states cannot make their own immigration enformcement progams, they also are not authorized to establish their own work programs. It's the federal government's sole responsibility. Yes, the federal government can delegate responsibilities to the states. But if it does not, then states are not authorized to act on their own.
What might be interesting, however, is if the Obama Administration and Congress are interested in working a deal with Utah so the constitutional question could be sidestepped. I'm not sure how this would work - and I'm not sure those in Utah understand either - but it certainly will be interesting to follow developments.


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Sudan's Bashir to visit Uganda today
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, is scheduled to visit Uganda today, the official news agency reported.
The state-owned news agency SUNA reported that President Bashir's visit comes in response to an invitation by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
It added that al-Bashir and Museveni would hold talks on bilateral ties and means of enhancing relations as well as regional and international issues of mutual concern.
It was not immediately clear what led President Museveni of Uganda to invite President Bashir. The relations between the two countries have recently improved after tensions for many years.
The Sudanese leader will be accompanied by a high-level delegation which includes the ministers of the presidency, foreign affairs, trade, the director of the national security and the director of the president's office.


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The James Kenan football team is trying to run its way to a state championship.
The Tigers have perhaps the most powerful ground game in the area, and they'll get to showcase it again Friday against Southwest Onslow in the Class 1AA state semifinals. "We're going to have to play our best game on Friday," James Kenan coach Ken Avent Jr. said. For the Tigers, that means a whole lot of running; James Kenan has thrown only 38 passes the entire season on their way to a 13-0 record. In 2011, James Kenan transformed from a pass-first team to a triple-option team when an injury grounded its starting quarterback. The midseason switch worked so well – James Kenan won seven of its last nine games and finished second in the Tri-County Conference – that the Tigers stuck with the run. This year, the James Kenan took things one step further by unseating county rival Wallace-Rose Hill for the conference title. Avent lists a number of reasons for the success, but chief among them are an experienced offensive line and a set of talented underclassmen. The seniors open holes, and the juniors blow through them. Nobody's done that more effectively than Marcelias Sutton. As a sophomore in 2011, Sutton topped 1,000 yards rushing. This year he has 1,753 yards and 19 touchdowns on the ground – an average of 134 yards per game. "He's very talented," Avent said. "His work ethic is as good as we've ever had with everything he worked on this summer. He worked on getting faster and stronger." Teams have reacted by stacking eight and nine men near the line of scrimmage, only to find themselves looking backward. James Kenan has a touchdown run of 30 yards or more in every game except one this season. Sutton has four touchdowns from 50 or more yards. "The speed of our backs is a big key to that," Avent said. "Once they get through the line there's only one or two defenders back there. That's where the big runs have come from so far." Avent believed Southwest Onslow will probably be prepared for his team's speed but that the Tigers are ready to take their place among the best programs in the state. "They've won three state championships," Avent said of Southwest Onslow. "But we'd like to get two or three ourselves." Powell Latimer:343-2261 On Twitter: @StarNewsVarsity


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Cut cake into toast-size slices; spread 1 side with softened butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg. Lightly brown the buttered sides in a large skillet while preparing other sides the same way. After cooking both sides, remove toasted cake from skillet and place on a plate with about 1/3 cup melted vanilla ice cream, allowing cake to soak up the melted ice cream from the bottom.
Peel bananas and set aside.
In skillet over medium heat, melt 1 stick butter. Add orange juice and stir in brown sugar. Stir constantly over medium-low heat until mixture completely liquefies. Add bananas to coat, cooking for about 2 minutes. Remove bananas to grill and continue to cook until tender. Remove sauce from heat, add 2 tablespoons rum, and baste bananas with sauce while grilling. When bananas are cooked to your liking, return them to the skillet with the sauce. Slice as desired; diagonally works best.
Stir the remainder of the ice cream into a bowl of whipped cream and add 1 tablespoon rum.
Place a piece of cake on a dessert plate, cover with sliced grilled bananas, top with brown sugar sauce, and ladle vanilla rum sauce around the cake. Sprinkle with toasted coconut and serve.
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Aylesbury United were beaten 2-1 at AFC Rushden & Diamonds on Tuesday evening after Diamonds scored a last-gasp penalty following a late equaliser from Alex Collard looked to have secured a point for the Ducks.
The newly promoted United Counties League champions had drawn their opening three games, and were held by late goals in their last two matches.
This time though, the late action worked in their favour, as a late penalty awarded against Alex Tokarczyk saw Liam Dolman - a former United loan player when a Northampton Town youngster - scored for a stoppage time winner.
Claudio Hoban had given the hosts a first half lead, before Collard netted on 85 minutes with his second of the season.


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Queen's Diamond Jubilee: RCM
Being a very sporadic collector of new RCM products, I did recently look over the new offerings for the Queen's 60th year.
The last time this happened was of course during the reign of Victoria. Most of these RM & private mint offerings are still readily available, and have not seen much of an increase in value, with the exception of the gold piece. There is an article about this in the current issue of CCN.
I guess I am wondering if anyone on this site is planning on making the diamond jubilee purchases, and if they would care to comment on their choices and reason(s) for their selection.
Also, I am curious of any collectors out there plan to purchase any offerings from other British commonwealth countries? Thanks in advance.
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Avian flu: Don't fear the flocks yet
It's November, which means that the snow geese are pouring into Oregon's Klamath Basin in the hundreds of thousands. The sight of the undulating flocks, snow white against slate blue storm clouds, is unspeakably beautiful.
These are tundra geese, passing through en route to winter quarters in California's Central Valley. They have come all the way from arctic Canada, from Alaska, and perhaps a few even from Ostrov Vrangelya, in the Russian Far East. That is, from Asia, from the homeland of avian flu.
The news has been full of reports about avian flu and the possibility that this disease could become a deadly global epidemic. Increasingly, those reports have highlighted the possible role of wild birds in spreading avian flu along their migration routes. For years, I have looked forward to arrival of the great waterfowl flocks every fall. As the time approached this November, I found that anticipation was tinged with a trace of fear. So I decided to review the facts about avian flu and migratory birds.
Although many mild strains of avian flu occur in wild birds, especially waterfowl, the deadly varieties are thought to arise in domestic poultry flocks, where crowded conditions are ideal for their spread. The particular avian flu virus that is the center of all the current concern is called H5N1. This highly pathogenic strain was never recorded in wild birds before it appeared in poultry flocks in Southeast Asia. Since its appearance, H5N1 has killed uncounted thousands of wild birds as well as millions of domestic chickens and ducks.
So far, about 120 people — all in Southeast Asia — have been infected with H5N1, over 60 of whom have died. While this form of avian flu is a serious disease if it is acquired, it does not spread easily to humans, even those working closely with infected poultry. It is not the current strain that terrifies public heath officials: It is the possibility that this virus could mutate into a form that is highly infectious to, and between, humans. Such mutations have occurred in the past, most notoriously in the flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 40-50 million people worldwide.
But it's important to emphasize that this deadly transformation is only a possibility; there is nothing inevitable about it.
The H5N1 virus has now spread outside of Southeast Asia, to China, Russia, Romania and Turkey. Most of these cases are explained by trade in infected poultry. In a few instances, however, it appears that wild birds are carrying the virus along their migratory routes. It's easy to miss that the 'spread" being discussed in media reports is from wild birds to poultry, not to people. There is not a single case of human infection with H5N1 through contact with wild birds.
Nevertheless, the news that wild birds may carry the virus has led to some panicked reactions in Asia and the Middle East, including proposals to drain wetlands used by migratory waterfowl, and calls to kill (or 'cull") wild birds in an effort to contain the virus.
This would actually make the situation worse by dispersing infected individuals and stressing healthy birds, increasing their susceptibility to disease. This view is shared by the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health, and many other public health and environmental groups. These experts agree that the only effective containment strategy for H5N1 is to house poultry flocks in isolation from wild birds and infected water sources, and to conduct swift and complete culls of infected poultry flocks in the event of an outbreak.
H5N1 has not yet been reported from North America. Since the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has sampled more than 10,000 migratory waterfowl crossing the Bering Sea from Asia to Alaska, but has not found a single bird carrying the H5N1 virus. Government agencies are now seeking $5 million over the next three years to expand virus testing to birds along their migratory routes in the lower 48 states beginning next spring. This is a prudent step that deserves our full support.
For me and millions of others, the observation of wild birds provides a blessed escape from the worries of the world. Avian flu is now certainly among those worries, but that should not diminish our enjoyment, or our protection, of these beautiful creatures.
Pepper Trail is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a biologist who lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon.
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Evil Westboro Baptist Church founder close to death
THE founder of one of the most hated organisations on the planet is "on the edge of death".
Fred Phelps, the man who started the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, is close to dying at the Midland Hospice house – and his son revealed that his ailing dad was kicked out of the organisation last year.
Nathan Phelps himself left the church nearly 40 years ago but wrote a bitter post on Facebook about family members being blocked from saying goodbye to his dad.
He wrote: "I've learned that my father, Fred Phelps, Sr., pastor of the 'God Hates Fags' Westboro Baptist Church, was ex-communicated from the 'church' back in August of 2013.
"He is now on the edge of death at Midland Hospice house in Topeka, Kansas.
"I'm not sure how I feel about this. Terribly ironic that his devotion to his god ends this way. Destroyed by the monster he made.
"Terribly ironic that his devotion to his god ends this way"Nathan Phelps
"I feel sad for all the hurt he's caused so many. I feel sad for those who will lose the grandfather and father they loved.
"And I'm bitterly angry that my family is blocking the family members who left (the church) from seeing him and saying their good-byes."
The Westboro Baptist Church has provoked outrage by picketing the funerals of dead soldiers proclaiming that they would be going to hell.
Last year they threatened to protest at a One Direction gig, labelling the lads "crotch-grabbing little perverts".
They were the subject of a Louis Theroux documentary in 2007.


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How All Seater Stadiums Took The Environment Out Of Baseball Reasons
I have been to watch football matches from a very early age. My dad began taking me to watch my favorite group Birmingham City in the age of six. In this article I write about how for me, all seater arenas took the environment out of football grounds. Should people claim to get additional resources about address, we know about millions of on-line databases people might consider investigating.
From the as a child experience really threatened by the group at Birmingham City's home ground, called St Andrews. The sound and singing of the fans was also quite frightening sometimes.
The basketball team it self, always seemed to struggle each season and we seemed to lose more games than we'd get. I still however couldn't wait for the next match to arrive and had a desire that I myself would 1 day use the blue and white strip and play for Birmingham myself. Basketball you see was my enthusiasm at that time. Mop Agreement Information contains further concerning the meaning behind this view.
The fans had a significant number of songs which they would sing and each season would add a couple of new songs, generally criticising the rival team Aston Villa. To explore additional info, please have a glance at: open in a new browser.
The songs and shouted comments were always filled with humour and even when the group was losing, the supporters would continue to perform.
At certain periods in my teen-age years the crowds dropped to under twenty thousand per house match, though the atmosphere was still there and you may feel it at every match. We were holding the real supporters now watching the team losing often.
A few years before, all seater arenas were introduced for-a variety of factors. I seldom visit watch the football since the environment is not any longer there and the humour has all but gone. I still love the game but am disappointed at the change that's occured.
My staff themselves reach every home match and the top league is a sell out-with not quite forty thousand people arriving to each home match. Browse here at found it to check up the inner workings of this hypothesis. I think although set alongside the past, even with this many individuals within the surface, it feels like a morgue, with almost no noise and the sam-e three to four tracks been blasted out. That's when people may be bothered to perform..


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Kinneir Dufort are very proud to congratulate Raspberry Pi on winning the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award 2017. The award is the UK's longest running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation and recognises outstanding innovation, tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success.
Dr Frances Saunders, of the MacRobert Award judging panel described how such a small engineering team had "redefined home engineering". She went on to say:
The Raspberry Pi team has achieved something that mainstream multinational computer companies and leading processing chip designers not only failed to do, but failed even to spot a need for.
Raspberry Pi, the low-cost credit-card sized computer, launched in 2012, with the aim of perhaps selling a few thousands units. In hoping to redefine the education of computing science, the company has exceeded its own expectations, going on to become the UK's all-time best-selling computer in history, with total sales now topping 14 million.
We first worked with Eben and the team to design the official case for the original Raspberry Pi, and have continued to work with them on other models, such as the Pi Zero W.
From everyone at Kinneir Dufort, we are delighted to see their hard work recognised. Special congratulations also go to the two other finalists: VisionRT, another of our amazing clients, plus cyber-security company, Darktrace.
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