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The New York Times describes Robert McCloskey's Caldecott Medal-winning book as "one of the merriest picture books ever." Young children will delight in the story of a mother duck's search for the perfect place to lay her eggs, as well as her loving protection of the brood once they are hatched.
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard swim and fly around Boston looking for a safe place to nest, but they are always met with imperfect conditions, be it a lack of peanuts to eat, or heedless bicyclists who threaten to mow them down as they stroll innocently down the sidewalk. Finally, a spot near Boston's Public Garden offers them an adequate home; no foxes or turtles to vex them, lots of peanuts from kindly park-goers, and the benevolence of a local police officer.
When the ducklings are born, they are named for each letter of the alphabet from J to Q: Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack, the reading of which is sure to please the ears of every child. Mid-story, Mr. Mallard ventures over to the Public Garden, and asks Mrs. Mallard to meet him there in a week.
In a gently absurd scene, the police of Boston come to the aid of a proud Mrs. Mallard marching her brood through the streets to meet her husband. The family is reunited in the end, and finds a wonderful island in the Public Garden that becomes the best home of all.
McCloskey's soft, brown-toned illustrations evocatively bring to life the Boston of the 1940s. This book gives readers a fine opportunity to explore life in a simpler time, as well as discover facts about the habits and habitats of Mallard ducks.
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"...besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child." - Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
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Friday, July 3, 2015
Independence Day
Yep, this is a repost, but why re-write what already suits??
In writing the Declaration of Independence, in ratifying it, in signing their names to it, the men named at the bottom risked the very things they hoped to secure for themselves and for future generations. They were performing an act of treason, and by putting their names to it they made of themselves targets for the man, for the nation, they accused. They fought for the principles they named, fought for their families, for their lives, and for the burgeoning life of the tender new nation they hoped to nurture into a great place, a free place, a place where anyone could hope to not just survive, but thrive - a place where anyone willing to put their all into it, to do their very best, could find success, no matter what their gods, their nation of origin.
Since that time, people have tried to follow their lead, standing up and making their voices heard to help secure their rights, the rights of future generations. They have added color and sex to the list of things that cannot determine success, cannot be used as an excuse to deny equal opportunity.
You do the same when you vote. You do it when you attend council meetings, board meetings, town hall meetings, and speak your piece; when you ask the hard questions, protest with signs, songs, shouts; when you show people who think they own this nation to the exclusion of others, people who think they have the right to amend your rights to suit them, that you are watching them, that you SEE them, that you know better.
You do it when you tell our armed forces "Thank you for your service" whether you agree with whatever conflicts we're embroiled in or not - because they are standing up for our liberty doing a difficult, dirty, often thankless job - and they are there, ultimately, to preserve our nation and its principles (As an aside - thank you, men and women of the armed forces. Thank you, and blessed be, and come home safe to the families who love you, miss you, and hope only for your swift return.).
You do it when you teach the children in your life what it means to be free - freedom to fly means freedom to fall, and freedom to rise up again; freedom to succeed means freedom to fail, and to try once more; freedom to speak means freedom for dissenting opinions to be heard; freedom is not comfortable - at times, it is downright terrifying...but it is necessary to the human spirit.
Given a choice to be cold, hungry, ragged, poor, weary, worn and free, or to be clothed, fed, housed, succored, safe and bound - I will be free. Do not make the mistake of giving up your freedom for the illusion of safety - you will one day wake to find you have nothing left but the yoke you bound yourself to.
I could go on, but to what purpose? You understand or you don't - and my little rant won't sway anyone, I fear.
Here, then, is a transcript of our most essential document, the one that began it all, the one that first gave shape to our name, to our identity as a nation. Read, if nothing else, the first two paragraphs. They are as stirring, heartfelt, and powerful now as when they were first written.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1 - Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Column 2 - North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Column 3 - Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
Column 4 - Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Column 5 - New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Column 6 - New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple Massachusetts: Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire: Matthew Thornton
If you've made it this far, thank you. To support out troops, go visit Any Soldier or Troop BeBop (I know this woman - she's a force of nature!). I wish you a safe, joyous, and happy Independence Day.
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Oswald's TaleBy Norman Mailer
One of the rare books by Norman Mailer that got good reviews and sold poorly. British critics were more enthusiastic than their American counterparts. Mailer's attempt to make Oswald if not sympathetic at least human did appall many on this side of the Atlantic. But Andrew O'Hagan praised Mailer's fictional account of "Oswald's struggle to become a man—to become an important and effective male character—as the foundation of much of his adult distress …" Allen Massie found Mailer's Oswald, "both likeable and repulsive; to be pitied and feared. He is in many ways … like the young Hitler revealed in Mein Kampf."
Mailer disappointed numerous conspiracy theorists by coming to the conclusion that, as Mailer's biographer J. Michael Lennon put it, Mailer chose "no conspiracy, and a complex Oswald; a man dealt a bad hand, in no way heroic, but bold, idealistic in a twisted way, and sympathetic."
Thomas Powers spoke for many American critics in the New York Times Book Review, where he wrote, "I admire Mailer for his effort to understand Oswald, but at some level I feel invited to place a sympathetic arm around the killer's shoulder. I'm not about to do it." Nonetheless, most rank Mailer's foray into Kennedy assassination lit second only to Don DeLillo's.
Dallas 1963By Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
You might think that fifty years after JFK's death there is nothing new to be written about the most shocking American murder since Lincoln's assassination. Minutaglio and Davis have mined fresh material from the city of Dallas as it was half a century ago, a world created by such leading citizens as billionaire oil baron H.L. Hunt, who was rumored to have produced more oil during World War II than all the Axis powers combined; Stanley Marcus, a Harvard educated marketing genius who, it was said, "brought mink coats to Texas;" and Edwin A. Walker, a flamboyant and controversial infantry commander who believed that America's leading journalists—Walter Lippman, Edward R. Murrow, and Eric Sevareid—were "convinced Communists;" the leader of the country's largest Baptist congregation and a rock bed segregationist W. A. Criswell, who "surrounds things in Biblical inviolability;" and publisher of the Dallas Morning News, Ted Dealey, the self-proclaimed protector of "old Dallas" and of "the Dallas way of doing things." (His family name lives in infamy as it adorns the plaza where Kennedy was shot.)
These and many others just as extreme helped create an atmosphere rife with emotion and they were looking for an event to give focus to their passions. A month before Kennedy was shot, Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was assaulted in Dallas. In retrospect it's easy to see why so many warned JFK not to go to Dallas; the toxic mix of radical ideologies now make the assassination seem almost inevitable and explains, perhaps for the first time, the environment that spawned a plethora of conspiracy theories.
LibraBy Don DeLillo
In an author's note at the end of Libra, Don DeLillo writes that he has made "No attempt to furnish factual answers to any questions raised by the assassination." In other words, this is a novel and does not purport to solve any of the myriad mysteries surrounding the killing of JFK. But as a novel, Libra can go places where fact cannot go.
Published close to the 25th anniversary of the assassination, DeLillo, starting from the know facts available from the Warren Commission's report, court records and newspaper and magazine investigations, creates interior voices for the principal characters. He arrives at an explanation for the killing of the President far different from the official one presented by the Warren Commission, but one which ultimately depend on conspiracy.
Anne Tyler, reviewing Libra for the New York Times, wrote, "Lee Harvey Oswald has always seemed both much-too-familiar (his rabbity, weak-jawed face staring out of the grimmer sections of every city in America) and endlessly mysterious. To Mr. DeLillo's credit, that ambiguity is kept alive in Libra. It may even be heightened, because the portrait is so intimate—Oswald washing dishes, Oswald playing with his baby, Oswald cuffing his wife—and he still manages from time to time to surprise us. Oswald is a loser, a loner, pathetic and self-aggrandizing, one of those people who seize crazily upon the significance of every insignificant coincidence …"
Libra, then, is a painstakingly in-depth portrait of a shallow man who changed the world and the chaos that followed in his wake.
The Death of a President: November 20-November 25 1963By William Manchester
The Death of a President was commissioned by Jackie Kennedy in 1964 and published in 1967 to much critical acclaim but under a cloud of controversy involving changes demanded by the Kennedy family. The book was reprinted in 1988 with an updated foreward by Manchester, and this fall that edition was reissued in paperback.
Sober and meticulous almost to a fault, The Death of a President contains previously unpublished interview material from the President and Mrs. Kennedy gathered during the writing of his book Portrait of a President during which he had interviewed them together in the Oval Office in 1961.
Manchester recounts the last five days of Kennedy's life in intimate detail. How intimate? Their flight to Dallas is described: "Their life together now had nearly a full day to run. Yet this was to be their last hour of serenity. The tyranny of events and exhaustion would begin to close in … actually, they hadn't even an hour. In this plane the hop took only 45 minutes. Privacy was that limited, confined to a tiny blue cabin racing 30,000 feet above the tessellated green and brown plains of central Texas …Their time was up. The President emerged in a fresh shirt."
We now know that Manchester was telling us, in the politest manner possible, that the President and First Lady had sex on the plane before they arrived in Dallas.
Let's just say that whatever The Death of A President lacks in insight on the actual assassination, it makes up for it in personal detail of the Kennedys.
Case ClosedBy Gerald Posner
Conspiracy theorists have spent the last 19 years trying to nit-pick Case Closed, which was published on the 30th anniversary of Kennedy's death, into insignificance. Whatever factual errors they may have found, the book nonetheless stands as the definitive debunker of Kennedy conspiracy theories.
If you still believe that Oswald didn't act alone in killing JFK or that Jack Ruby didn't act alone in killing Oswald, then you need to sit down quietly with Case Closed and hear Posner out.


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Okidata C7300ccs Driver. English PCL driver for Windows 2000 & XP. This driver release includes Enhanced Parallel Support (ECP), and cannot be "pushed" in a network environment.File Contents:
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Here is a logo lesson that will show you "how to draw Puscifer", step by step. When filling requests I come across many things that I find interesting and this logo design is one of them. It is a weird creation of a being that looks like it could of came from hell or somewhere in between. I didn't draw the whole body version because I actually wanted folks to be able to tackle this tutorial pretty easily. All you will be drawing is the head which is fairly simple. If you have every heard of Puscifer, and you always wanted to know where to start when drawing the Puscifer logo, here is your chance to finally release your confusion on paper. It's really just a simple shape with some horns and eyes. Well, that's all for me. I will return tomorrow with some other stuff so be sure to come back around. Adios mi amigos and like always enjoy your drawing day.
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Sports games are no strangers to fans running on the field. Sometimes those individuals are drunk. Sometimes they're just naked—or naked and drunk. Rarely, if ever, are they wearing a Pikachu backpack and truly awful jeans.
As pointed out by Yahoo and ESPN, a fan with questionable fashion sense raced on the field early in the second half of the Bayern Munich vs. Borussia Dortmund soccer match.
Wearing a Pikachu knapsack and looking like he stepped out of 1997, the gentleman's upturned cap read, "Katze!" or "Cats!" The man heroically gave the peace sign and dual thumbs up as he slid on his knees. Security nabbed him and yanked the guy off field. You could say catching this crazed fan was the security guard's real test.
The game might have ended in a 1-1 tie, but the memories of this fan and his bad 1990s fashion sense will live on forever. Never forget!
Invasor 'anos 1980' e com mochila do Pikachu chama a atenção em clássico alemão [ESPN]
A grown man wearing a Pokemon backpack invaded the pitch during Bayern-Dortmund [Yahoo!]


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text: « Return to Search Lucy H.Y. Young, M.D., Ph.D., FACS Research Profile Specialties RetinaMacular DegenerationImmunology and Uveitis Language Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese Board Certification Ophthalmology Main Campus 243 Charles StreetBoston, MA 02114 Phone: 617-573-3710 Fax: 617-573-3698 Maps & Directions Stoneham - Retina Consultants 1 Montvale AvenueStoneham, MA 02180 Phone: 781-662-5520 Maps & Directions Accepting New Patients Overview Biography Dr. Lucy H. Y. Young is a multilingual retina specialist. She is a Surgeon in the Retina Service at Mass. Eye and Ear. A foremost expert in the diagnosis and management of infectious retinitis, Dr. Young receives referrals from retina specialists throughout New England and delivers lectures both nationally and internationally. She has a particular interest in treating patients with diabetic retinopathy, AIDS-related retinal infections, ocular toxoplasmosis, macular degeneration, retinal detachment, and uveitis. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, she obtained a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University. She then completed her ophthalmology residency at Harvard Medical School, followed by a fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at Mass. Eye and Ear. A Senior Scientist at Mass. Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Young conducts research on intravitreal drug toxicities, retinal infections, retinal complications associated with KPro implantation, ocular toxoplasmosis, retinal vascular occlusions, ocular immunology, and HIV-related retinal complications. Currently, she is interested in determining whether there are specific factors that determine disease outcome in patients infected with Toxoplasma gondii. Dr. Young has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, and book chapters. Additionally, she has been a member of the investigative team for 25 clinical trial reports. Committed to the education of medical students, residents, and clinical fellows, Dr. Young has formally supervised over 70 trainees, many of whom have gone on to faculty positions. Since 2002, she has served as Director of the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology, the world's oldest ophthalmic review course, drawing ophthalmology practitioners and trainees worldwide. For her work in ophthalmology education, Dr. Young was recognized with the First Annual Vitreoretinal Fellowship Teaching Award from Mass. Eye and Ear and was nominated for the A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring from HMS. Her clinical expertise has been recognized in America's Top Ophthalmologists, Best Doctors in America, Top Doctors by US News & World Report, and Boston Top Docs. Clinical Interests Diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal detachment, trauma-related retinal complications, AIDS-related retinal infections, uveitis, ocular toxoplasmosis, retinal vascular occlusions Research Interests Diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal detachment, trauma-related retinal complications, AIDS-related retinal infections, uveitis, ocular toxoplasmosis, retinal vascular occlusions, ocular immunology Publications For a full publication list, please see her CV. Transcriptional analysis of murine macrophages infected with different Toxoplasma strains identifies novel regulation of host signaling pathways. Melo MB, Nguyen, Cordeiro C, Hassan MA, Yang N, Mckell R, Rosowski EE, Julien L, Butty V, Darde ML, Ajzenberg D, Fitzgerald K, Young LH, Saeij JPJ. PLOS Pathog. 2013;9(12):e1003779. Interleukin-6 gene polymorphism (-174 G/C) is associated with Toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis. Cordeiro CA, Moreira PR, Bessa TF, Costa GC, Dutra WO, Campos WR, Orefice F, Young LH, Teixeira AL. Acta Ophthalmol. 2013 Jun; 91(4):e311-4. Progressive outer retinal necrosis presenting as cherry red spot. Yiu G, Young LH. Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2012 Oct; 20(5):384-6. Ocular toxoplasmosis: advanced in detection and treatment. Englander M, Young LH. Int Ophthalmol Clin. 2011 Fall;51(4)53-66. Increased serum levels of soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-2 (sTNFR2) in patients with active Toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis. Bessa TF, Cordeiro CA, Goncalves RM, Young LH, Campos WR, Orefice F, Teixeira AL. Braz J Infect Dis. 2012 Nov-Dec;16(6):540-4. View a list of publications on pubmed.gov>> View a list of publications on Google Scholar>> To learn more about Dr. Young, read her "Meet a Specialist" profile here. Education Education Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, BS University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, M.D. Biology, Harvard University, MA Biology, Harvard University, Ph.D. Residency Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Fellowship Vitreoretinal Surgery, Mass. Eye and Ear


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No no, it's a tale of how sometimes stuff that's been taken for granted isn't all that necessary and why sometimes nerfs and adjustments are a very good thing.
The nerf of cydstep (dun da dun, sounds like a shakespeare play) resulted in the overall difficulty curve going down instead of up and the game becoming much more acessible. It actually WAS weighting it down.


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Mr. Douglas Farah is the International Assessment and Strategy Center's (IASC) Senior Fellow, Financial Investigations and Transparency. He specializes in research, writing, and training on transnational criminal organizations and armed groups, and their effects on states and corruption; terrorism, terror finance, and proliferation; and, illicit financial flows, with a particular focus on the Western Hemisphere, Africa, and globalized networks. A veteran investigator with more than 25 years experience, Mr. Farah is a consultant on these and related issues to numerous U.S. Government departments, agencies, combatant commands, as well as private groups. He also applies his expertise on subjects such as drug trafficking and investigative journalism with leading academic centers in the United States and abroad, including the World Bank, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Endowment for Democracy, Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he is an Adjunct Fellow. Mr. Farah has testified numerous times before Congress, including the House Committees on Foreign Affairs; Financial Services; Oversight and Government Reform; Homeland Security; and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is a member of the Princeton Project for National Security. In 1992, Mr. Farah joined the Washington Post as a staff correspondent and was named bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean where, until 1997, he covered the drug wars in Colombia, Haiti, and Cuba, among other issues. From 1997 to 2000, he took on broader responsibilities at the Post as an international investigative reporter covering drug trafficking and organized crime, including the emergence of Russian organized crime groups in the western Hemisphere as well as the growth of Mexican drug cartels within the United States. In 2000, Farah again resumed the role of Post bureau chief, this time for West Africa, and was based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. After breaking the story of al-Qaeda's ties to "blood diamonds" and Liberia's Charles Taylor, death threats compelled him to leave Africa in 2003. He remained with the Washington Post until early 2004, investigating radical Islamic groups and terror finance. Mr. Farah is the author of Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror (2004) and Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (2007). His work has also been published by The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Journal of International Security Affairs, National Defense University-PRISM, and the Air Force Institute for National Security Studies, among others, and he is featured frequently in major U.S. and international media such as the Economist, CNN, Reuters, BBC, The New York Times, NPR, Univision, and Newsweek. In 1980 Farah enrolled at the University of Kansas, at which time he began working for United Press International (UPI). In 1985, he was named UPI bureau chief in El Salvador, covering the civil war there. In 1987 he left UPI to freelance for The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and US News & World Report. Mr. Farah holds a B.A. in Latin American studies and a B.S. in journalism.
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Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Criminalized States in Latin America: An Emerging Tier-One National Security Priority
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Authored by Mr. Douglas Farah.
The emergence of new hybrid (state and nonstate) transnational criminal/terrorist franchises in Latin America operating under broad state protection now pose a tier-one security threat for the United States. Similar hybrid franchise models are developing in other parts of the world, making understanding the new dynamics an important factor in a broader national security context.


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Thursday, 26 February 2009
Other commuters...
Another view of my commute, showing some of the other people cycling at the same time. There are always quite a few, and they cause a bit of a traffic jam on the cycle path sometimes.
I arrive in Groningen in time for 8 am, and leave for home again after 5 pm. It's a 63 km (39 mile) round trip, and on the day of making the video the total time recorded on the bike computer for both directions together was two hours and 8 minutes. I had a headwind in both directions. I dream of the day when I actually have a tailwind in both directions...
A few days later...
Finally I managed an average of over 32 km/h (20 mph) in both directions, on the same day as I made the video with the open bridge. Since then I've done it even quicker again in a borrowed velomobile.
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- Karl McCracken (twitter: @karlonsea) said...
Nice vid - and good to see some crowded cycle routes.
Now, I know you're an optimist, but you do know that McCracken's First Rule of Cycling is that you never, ever, ever get a tailwind in both directions. Sorry. Nope. Life's just not like that!
- 27 February 2009 at 15:44
- Tim Beadle said...
What do you use to film these videos, David? I'd like to do something similar, but specialist helmet cams etc. look quite pricey.
- 3 March 2009 at 14:53
Headwind and driving rain coming home today. If your mood's right though, it just makes you feel alive. ;-)
I for one would be in interested in hearing more about how the (dumbstrikingly sensible) bicycle priority at junctions thing came about.
- 3 March 2009 at 17:40
- David Hembrow said...
Oh, don't talk to me about headwinds. While it took me 58 minutes to get to work this morning, when the air was nearly still, it took nearly 1:10 to get home due to the headwind. Oh, and it had decided to rain too, though luckily only lightly.
I agree, though. It's basically quite pleasant cycling into the rain. Well, pleasant unless it goes on and on and on and it's horribly cold at the same time.
There are more examples of getting priority here. It's generally the case that you get priority unless crossing a very major road. What do you mean "how did it come about" ? You mean this isn't normal elsewhere ? ;-) It's just an example of thinking about cycling seriously.
- 3 March 2009 at 19:07
- David Hembrow said...
Tim, I've been asked a few times how I make my videos. Nothing at all fancy. The camera is always hand held. I've just put a description of the process on my other blog.
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Reverse-connect (or reverse tunnel) proxies are often a result of a compromise of a victim host residing behind NAT, firewall, or other filtering devices. Traditional proxy bots also typically involve compromises and may be deployed by the same exploits or methods (malware by email, etc.). However the key differentiator is the presence of a NAT or firewall device which would prevent the traditional inbound SOCKS requests described previously. What makes reverse-connect proxies unique is what happens afterwards. With traditional botnet malware, the infected system might initiate an outbound connection (using a protocol such as IRC, HTTP, or P2P) to a command and control system (C&C); wait for a command; then execute those commands on behalf of the controller. These outbound connections are allowed by default with many NAT and filtering devices. Reverse tunnel proxy botnets differ from classic IRC-based botnets in that they establish dedicated proxies, to which only their respective controller(s) may initiate tunnel service requests. This is accomplished after the victim host first establishes a persistent outbound TCP connection which enables the controller to establish new SOCKS connections from the outside as long as the persistent connection is maintained. These methods have been allowed to grow in popularity because many networks fail to enforce strong egress policies and many lack effective protocol inspection or enforcement capabilities. See figure 1 for a diagram demonstrating this capability.
So why are we calling these proxies ... and why the name Proxy v666? In the example below we demonstrate that these malware variants implement many similar functions found in the traditional SOCKS v5 proxy control protocol. The SOCKS v5 protocol uses a header (0x0501) to identify the protocol version when initiating a TCP connection . The reverse tunnel proxy protocol specifies its own custom header of (0x9a02) and the hex string (0x029a) equals "666" in ASCII. We can see that the criminal community maintains its own morbid sense of humor. The primary motivator for forming large networks of reverse-connect proxy bots is spam. We are seeing criminals actively using these reverse- connect proxies to relay millions of spam messages to victims around the world. There is a pre-existing underground economy revolving around proxies with numerous marketplaces, and tools which collect, validate, chain together, and abuse proxies of all types. There is a market incentive to provide SOCKS proxies compatible with existing tools. Additionally, the worldwide migration from dial-up networking to broadband connections utilizing NAT gateways (cable/DSL routers) has also been driving the need for criminals to come up with new ways to illegally leverage these resources. Additional advantages include:
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This great summer sewing project comes to us from Leigh Ann Tennant of The Object Project. Using a CD case for the pattern, this simple sewing project is an easy way to use up fabric scraps.
Summer brings long days, picnics, and sticky little hands! Skip the drip with these fun little, washable Ice Cream Cone Cozies!
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- buttons or embroidery floss to embellish if desired.
- You'll be using a CD case as your pattern!
- Using the CD case as a template, cut one square from the cotton and one square from the terry cloth. If you don't want to cut around the CD case with the rotary cutter, you can trace the CD case onto the fabric and then use scissors to cut it out.
- Place the squares right sides together and pin.
- Using a 3/8" seam, sew around the square. Stop sewing about an inch from where you started, leaving a space. Trim the corners diagonally.
- Reach inside the space you've created and turn the cozy right-side-out and press.
- Using a ¼" seam, topstitch around the square, closing the turning space. This is the point at which you can embellish with buttons or embroidery.
- Bring 2 sides of the square together, forming a triangle. A CD isn't a perfect square, so it will not form a perfect triangle, and this is fine. Stitch through the layers of terry cloth in the seam, from the point of the triangle to about 3 inches up the side.
- Insert an ice cream cone and enjoy! You can fold down the points of the triangle as you eat the cone!
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I wish I saw this a lot sooner but there is still some warm weather yet. These ice cream cozies are a great idea and so simple that I am going to make a lot of them using wash clothes or a towel instead of trying to find fabric. I am constantly washing my hands because the ice cream melts between my fingers and kids keep wiping theirs on clothes. Will save a lot of heartache by using something to catch the ice cream as it is melting. Love it anyone else?
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this is a cute idea! I will be making some for my grandkids.
May 06, 2010
Great idea! Thank you.
May 03, 2010
AWESOME IDEA!! Now that the warmer seasons are upon us, I still would like to sew, yet complete projects sooner, with a purpose. Thank You very much for sharing!! And the Lil'hands of summer thank you too ) !!
Apr 29, 2010
Could you use a couple of washcloths instead of doing all the cutting? Has anyone done that? Then you could wet the washclothcone holder and wash the little ones face and hands. Just curious.
Apr 20, 2010
Where was this item when my little ones were little and ice cream was dripping on the cloth seats in my car?
Apr 13, 2010
Better yet, instead of tracing around the CD case, measure the length, width and height and cut pieces appropriate size using those measurements. Its not rocket science and it could be done in a heart beat. Finished edges could be run through a serger for faster assembly with wrong sides together and no turning required!! Just another thought.
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Mar 02, 2010
It's not a CD, but a CD cover.
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What a terrific, creative and easy way to provide an inexpensive surprise gift to your grand kids, neighborhood kids, family and friends.....you could make them in all sizes if you are into the large cones! A loop could be added so that they could be kept somewhere in the car for handy use while out and about! There are any number of ways of decorating them too which would be great for a project for kids in groups aimed at their age level and ability. Never have thought of it but glad I found it!
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Cisco Flashmob! Did You See the Green Men? … and Other Cool Cable Show News
This year's Cable Show kicked off with a … well, with a flash mob! First one ever for this event. All very exciting, if you ask me, or the hundreds of other cable onlookers on hand at the Boston Convention Center this morning.
Here's how it went down: When the Show floor opened yesterday, at 11:00am, attendees mixed it up with 100 or so professional troupe dancers, some dressed in green stretchy suits, head to toe, with signage: "Don't miss the event of the Show! Imagine Park, today at 11:30am! Be there!" Mysterious.
When Cisco Fellow John Chapman took the Imagine Park stage at about 11:40am, it wasn't to talk about CCAP, or the future of DOCSIS, or anything else, for that matter – because the green people and flash mobbers took over, in a big way. See for yourself:
But flashmobbing isn't all we're doing in Boston to shine the spotlight on the many good things happening in cable technology. We're also glad to announce our work with Bright House Networks, to help businesses and school districts manage the security risks that come with the "BYOD" (bring your own device) realities of today.
Specifically, we're working with Bright House to help the nation's 10th-largest school district, serving 179,000 students, with a cloud-based managed services mix (IP VPNs, security; unified communications to come) to more than 250 sites. More here.
And today we announced another Videoscape deal with one of China's largest cable operators. Oriental Cable Network is working with Cisco to advance its multi-screen video efforts, using Videoscape Quickstart, featuring a mix of products including Videoscape Media Suite, Content Delivery System IS (CDS-IS), Cisco Media Processor (CMP) and Cisco Digital Content Manager (DCM).
On the floor, do please come by Booth #1453, to check out our brand spankin' new DS384 line cards, for our RF Gateway 10 chassis. Why you care: 10 cards, each capable of 10 Gbps. Apply one for redundancy, still get 160 Gbps of potential downstream throughput. Hello, full spectrum!
All in, it's a great cable week in Boston! We're here 'til Wednesday afternoon, come on by.
Meanwhile, check out what John Chapman has to say about DOCSIS:
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Part of me always knew I had a the gene.. I watched my Aunt fight breast cancer for 18 years, a fight she had lost. My 5 year old sister (now 11 and perfect!) had cancer. When the brac test came out at the time my dad pushed for me to get it done. I refused. I did not want to find out I had the gene and wait for it to get me. This was before I knew I could take care of it. I always joked well lets cut off my boobs and get new ones... as my real ones caused back probelms. Pardon if I sound cold and for my misspelling, I went on here venting I guess. That was about 5-6 years ago. After finding insurance would take care of reconstructing and it is my last year on my dad's GREAT insurance. I did the test. I got my results in the worst way possible. My doctor had only heard of Angelina Jolie doing such a surgery. Within 4 months of my results I had my surgery done at Northwestern.
I had my mind set from day one, I would not sit and wait. I had been in a 10 year bad relationship now starting a new one with a great guy who has been by my side but recently things have got rough. I am great to finish the rest on my own, I am in the expanding part.. I did't know this part would hurt so much. I am strong but have my moments of weakness. I am glad I did not wait though, some reason I am sure about that.
No the less the thinking the better, I want to be the change and for my cousins and for my generation to put an end to the breast cancer history in our family.
I just started. Today is my first night looking at this great site.
If anyone can share the expanding part please do so, I may be alone for this painful process I really didn't look into. I hate asking for help and not being able to do things on my own. Is it better to go as a fast as I can or slow? I went in head strong I was told over and over right after surgery how great I look and I know the doctors and nurses were not lying. I had prepared mentally and physically for this surgery, but this part I am not so strong.


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Operations in Sri Lanka & New B2C Residential Services Entity
MUMBAI, September 14, 2011 – On the occasion of International property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle's annual Global Board and Global Executive Committee annual meeting in Mumbai, Colin Dyer, President & CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle, gave an update on the global office space front.
"Investors and corporate occupiers have clearly become more cautious due to mounting concerns about sovereign debt and the pace of future global economic expansion," said Mr. Dyer. "Still, unless there is a major economic setback, we believe that such caution will be temporary and will be replaced by renewed confidence in the final months of 2011."
Alastair Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific at Jones Lang LaSalle, also announced two important business expansion initiatives. The first was the launch of its business operations in Sri Lanka
"Jones Lang LaSalle is opening a full-fledged operations branch in Sri Lanka. It is the first IPC to venture out into this lucrative country, based on its findings that Sri Lanka is a real estate boom unfolding even as we watch," said Mr. Hughes. "Apart from an immense market for organized commercial, residential and retail real estate services, Sri Lanka's progressive market policies give it an incredibly business-friendly environment that is very favourable to investment and economic growth. We see it as one of the most attractive investment destinations in the Asia-Pacific region."
Alastair Hughes also announced the launch of an enhanced residential property services model - a specialized services division created to cater specifically to the Business to Consumer (B2C) market segment.
"We are launching a dedicated B2C residential services wing in India, which will build on the success of its existing residential business operations in the Asia Pacific region," said Mr. Hughes. "The primary purpose is to sharp-focus on the broader opportunities of the residential business within the APAC region, particularly in China, Singapore and India."
As part of this realignment, this business line will now be an integral part of the parent brand - Jones Lang LaSalle – as a separate business entity, in order to boost business synergies and address diverse customer needs, from both brand and operational perspectives. within the Asia Pacific region.
Anuj Puri, Chairman & Country Head, Jones Lang LaSalle India, offered a snapshot of the Indian real estate market. "We are seeing high levels of new supply in the commercial space segment, and the absorption of this space is equally strong," he said.
"Approximately 24 million square feet of office projects have been completed in this year to date," Mr. Puri added, going on to state that though there is still an overall vacancy rate of 19%, the Indian office space sector is poised to grow by around 17% year-on-year between 2011 and 2013.
In 2011, office absorption will surpass the 2008 peak of 33 million square feet, with Information Technology driving most of the demand. "There is also strong demand from the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Interestingly, the banking and finance sectors are now focusing on outright purchase," said Mr. Puri.
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I wanted to redo an old project and convert it from SMD to "surface mounted thru hole parts" with the extra twist of having the parts *inside* the PCB.
The old design looks like this:
The prototype for the new design:
But Seeedstudio managed to not understand my instructions of how to do the milling. So all the holes are too small :-(
I made the milling layer with a 1.2mm milling bit in mind and should have got the correct hole sizes if they had followed my instructions to have the center of the 1.2mm bit follow the milling lines precisely.
Previously I've got a question from their pcb department how I wanted the milling to be done - inside or outside milling of the milling line. I then asked what milling bit sizes they had and how I would communicate my requirements to them in the future.
Discussion for a previous order:
Me: Can you tell me the size of the cutting tool so I can compensate for it future orders?
Seeed: Hi,there The size of the cutting tool is 0.8MM 1.2MM.1.5MM.1.6MM. Any helps needed ,please feel free to contact us. Thank you.
Me: What is the best way to tell Seeedstudio my cutting preferences and other information when I make an PCB order? Should I write in the TOP SILK layer? Write in the TOP COPPER layer? In a readme.txt file and include in the zip file? Just as general comments to the order?
Seeed: Hi,there You can put it on GML layer. Thank you.
And then for this order
Seeed:We find that about your file D82284_BlingTag_1_6mm_Green_10pcs.zip ,in your file we find you note that the thickness is 1.2mm,but when you place the order the thickness is 1.6mm. So i need to check with you about the thicknees,please answer me as soon as possible,if we don't receive your reply ,we will produce it as your file (1.2mm) to make it. Thank you.
Me:I want to use the 1.2mm cutting tool for the milling. And I want the *center* of the tool to follow the milling outlines in the GML layer. I have already adjusted the size of the milling outlines to give me the correct hole size if the 1.2 mm tool is used. If there is a way that I can give this information in a clearer way for my next orders please tell me how to write it.
And for this order I had written instructions in the .GML layer as instructed. And they apparently saw them since they asked about the 1.2 mm.
So I'll have to dremel them up a bit for the prototypes, and then complain to Seeed and see if they can make a free replacement set since they failed to follow my (at least to me) very clear instructions. Maybe they will, but I don't expect them to ship the replacements by DHL.


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Ann Peden Urbach donated bricks in honor of her daughters and members of the Athens High School 1944 football championship team to support Athens High School's new sports stadium, the Scott Riggs and Family Stadium R. Basil Rutter Field.
Photographer: Karissa Conrad
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Photo courtesy of: "OHIO Women Through the Decades: 1940s-2010s"
Executive Producer Peggy Viehweger, middle, and her sisters, Pat Seitsinger, left, and Mary Helen "Babe" Turner, right, at the premiere of Ohio University Women in Philanthropy's documentary, "OHIO Women Through the Decades: 1940s-2010s."
Photographer: Stephen Reiss
Nov 14, 2013
By Kelee Riesbeck
Athens native and Ohio University alumna Peggy Viehweger remembers when times were tough growing up in a house on Kurtz Street. She and her three sisters were raised by their mother, Ann Peden Urbach, who passed away in March of this year, and remembers well how her mom, a full-time professional in social work, used her creativity and resourceful nature to make ends meet.
"We rented rooms to college students—at one point we had five student renters. She also was a hostess at the restaurant in the Ohio University Inn and typed students' papers for $1 per page!" Viehweger said.
Urbach, like Viehweger, was an Athens native, an Athens High School and Ohio University graduate. Urbach was the daughter of OHIO football coaching legend Don Peden, for whom OHIO's football stadium is named. Viehweger said when the time came to consider how to honor their hard-working yet modest mother's amazing life and legacy, it was easy to decide what to do. She and her three sisters, Patricia "Pat" Seitsinger, Kathleen "Kate" Kuczaj, and Mary Helen "Babe" Turner, and her mother's brother Don C. Peden Jr., established the Ann Peden Urbach Scholarship, an endowed gift that will benefit students who graduated from Athens High School and who have choosen to attend Ohio University.
"It was easy to decide what to do to honor our mom and our uncle's sister: It was a natural choice," said Viehweger who graduated in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in English. "She was a very anti 'town verses gown' person. It bothered her when one put down the other. She supported Athens and the university both equally, so endowing a gift that recognizes both Athens and Ohio University seemed like a good choice."
Urbach had a robust support network of friends throughout the time she was raising her children on her own, Viehweger said.
"Our grandfather, Don Peden, essentially hired the next generation of coaches. Our mom was great friends with all of those coaches and their wives. All of the families would go to each other's houses to socialize. It was a solid social group."
When Urbach retired, she spent the rest of her life traveling and volunteering for a number of charities. But she did it quietly, and didn't look for recognition, said Viehweger, a corporate executive who serves as a National Trustee on the university's Board of Trustees, is a member of the university's Foundation Board, is a volunteer for OHIO's The Promise Lives: The Campaign for the College of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the university's Women in Philanthropy.
"My mom was very modest and low key, but very smart. She was not one to blow her own horn but she had strong convictions. She was classy," Viehweger said. "We felt like we had to choose a way to honor her that she would approve of. We were able to talk to her about this gift idea before she died and she approved of it because she recognized the value to students."
When the Athens High School's sports stadium was destroyed by a tornado in September, 2010, Urbach was proud to support the facility that replaced it, Viehweger said. The new stadium was paid for by a combination of insurance claim income and community support. Urbach was a cheerleader at Athens High School in the 1940s and, in keeping with her love of Athens, she purchased bricks in the new stadium's brick wall memorial section in honor of each of the members of the high school's 1944 champion football team. Separately, the family bought another brick commemorating the five Urbach women graduating from the high school.
"I remember mom called me and joked that she had spent our inheritance on that wall," Viehweger said.
Viehweger said Urbach lived life to the fullest as an Athenian. Having an Athenian headed to OHIO benefit from her estate is a natural fit, she said.
"Mom only lived about five years of her life outside Athens; she loved Athens. The atmosphere, the environment, the geography, and all the people she had grown up with, worked with, and called friends," Viehweger said. "She had a very full life in a small town with a big university and felt part of it all. She didn't have an easy life but she never complained about that ever. It's so appropriate to use her estate to help someone from Athens go to Ohio University."
The Ann Peden Urbach Scholarship is part of Ohio University's The Promise Lives Campaign, which will raise $450 million by June 30, 2015, and already has secured more than $438 million toward its goal in support of students, faculty, programs, partnerships and select facilities at Ohio University. Learn more at www.ohio.edu/campaign.
Viehweger is the executive producer of "OHIO Women Through the Decades: 1940s-2010s" a documentary film about the OHIO alumna experience as told by 10 OHIO alumna, which premiered in Athens November 6 at Baker University Center Theater. Copies are available for purchase at Ohio University Alumni Association's Bobcat Store.


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DCCC chair: Jan. record in member donations
Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told House Democrats Thursday the committee had a record-breaking month in terms of member participation, raking in roughly $2 million from members in January.
The previous best January for member donations was $1.3 million, and it's the most lucrative start to an election cycle for House Democrats, according to a Democratic source.
According to a the source present at the House Democratic retreat, where Israel briefed members, the DCCC chair told the caucus the committee again planned on making 2014 a "referendum on the tea party Congress."
"Republicans are in disarray and on defense going through makeovers and fakeovers while we are aggressive, on offense and united," he told members.
Israel told the caucus that President Barack Obama had committed to at least eight fundraisers for House and Senate Democratic committees campaign committees in 2013 alone.
Obama spoke with House Democrats earlier Thursday at their retreat in Lansdowne, Virginia. In a closed-press question-and-answer session, he told members he wanted Democrats to "to be back in charge of the House of Representatives in the last two years of my administration."


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What a fun week we had filming! Total family reunion.
Patrick & I are loving the writing & excited to be working. You won't see us on TV until Sept 26!
Sorry this is short, but I'm typing it on my phone and I have a bucket load of dialogue to learn.
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Today I make a retrospection on my work on the Glastopf Web Honeypot during the Google Summer of Code Program. My goal was to push forward the development on a Honeypot for an attack vector in web security which is really underestimated in current discussions. The main objectives could be merged into one intention: Increasing our attractiveness and answering every request as close as possible to a real world system. This got achieved with the new PHP file parser and the dynamic Google dork list which we provide for the Google crawler. Read more »
The number of attacks against the Webhoneypot depends strongly on his PHP parser. So keeping the pattern matching mechanism up to date was one of the major future works. One of my goals for the Google Summer of Code time is to improve the parser and to reduce upcoming changes in attack patterns. The old parser was very simple: collect all lines containing echo calls, look for known patterns and generate the appropriate response. Read more »


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The true spirit of the holidays has become apparent in the last few weeks as the Secret Santa movement has gained steam. The Secret Santa movement involves people visiting national retailers and paying off the balances of strangers' layaway accounts for items such as toys and clothes.
It seems to have started a few weeks ago in Michigan, when an anonymous donor showed up at a Kmart in Grand Rapids and spent $500 to pay off three accounts. After media coverage of that donation, a man showed up the next day to pay $2,000. The story soon went viral, spreading through Twitter, YouTube, blogs and local media coverage. From there it has spread across the nation…
So-called Secret Santas have shown up mostly at Kmarts in Michigan, Ohio, Florida and Colorado. Some have done their good deeds at Walmart, including one man who paid $8,880 to assure 23 families in Avon, Ohio could get their gifts. Another Secret Santa was a woman from Indianapolis in her mid-40's who paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. Before she left the store she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts full of toys for a woman in line at the cash register. Not all acts have been so large, but people have been paying what they can towards others' layaway accounts in an effort to make a difference.
To some $40 may not seem like a lot, but to others it can be the difference in making the holidays bright! It is these acts that bring a sense of community in the world.
Here's a video to show how the the trend of giving is taking off…
So let the holiday spirit fill you.
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It's amazing, the things I ran into. Events so obscure they tested my grip on reality. Most just crashed into my senses and demanded my attention as soon as they appeared. I had grown used to them, or at least they weren't as jarring anymore. One of the perks, I guess, of traveling alone for so long was that I forgot what was supposed to be 'normal'. Then again, nothing's ever been 'normal' for me in the Commonwealth and I'd like to meet someone who can tell me how things should be otherwise. So far, no one really has.
"Hey Mike!" I shouted and ducked as bullets chipped the thick wall at my back. "Mike, right?"
Mike, having spied a glance outside through a hole in the wall, passed me an affirmative nod which set me on edge. It wasn't the nod specifically; it was the way he did it. A group of raiders closed in on our position. I chose this house because it was the only one still standing, though I swear I've felt the foundation shift. This location and what was outside shouldn't elicit a calm, firm, nod. It warranted a hurried look, a rushed reaction, something else to ground him to the very real threat of a rusty demise at the hands of a bunch of crazies who could call a spiky dumpster a decent home. A collected nod from a cool gaze sizing up approaching death was not normal. If anything that nod confirmed this guy, 'Mike', knew danger like this, or worse. Red flags barely began to describe what my gut told me about him. How could I be certain he won't turn on me after the raiders are dealt with? I've only known him for a few minutes.
With a fresh .308 chambered in my rifle I snapped into the door frame. Some of the raiders began to reload and revealed an opening. My aim wasn't the best in such a scant moment and a few pot shots flung splinters into my forearm, but my iron sights were accurate and adrenaline was always a hell of a stimulant. A gawky teenager, clad in scrap metal and chain at first glance, reloaded above his cover and I took my shot.
Direct hit in his chest, though he dove for the ground. I snarled and regained my cover. Raiders were a pain to deal with. They were scavengers adept at fashioning armor from damn-near anything and I should have recognized the combat armor sooner. Of all the dangers the Commonwealth of post-war Massachusetts had, raiders were by and far the worst. I made a note to spare that kid and ask where he got that armor if all went well.
I established a better position inside the dilapidated building and scoured the room for Mike. The foyer was empty, the dining room across from my new position on the stairs was empty, and I failed to hear anyone moving in my vicinity. That keyed me on to one thing.
Mike the asshole abandoned me, which is what I got for offering hasty asylum to him after he crashed through the roof and took a tumble down the stairs a few moments ago. I decided he could get tetanus for all I cared. I didn't need his help to get out of this and I was glad to be rid of the liability. Besides, no one just recovered on the spot from an entrance like his.
The lingering pause was unsettling. I approached a window at the corner landing of the stairs to peer outside. The sun started showing in pockets across a desolate terrain of irradiated puddles and broken suburb. One shaft gave me a clear view of the raiders. Their woven movements through the debris of shattered concrete, splintered wood, and rusted cars closed the gap between us at an alarming pace. Maneuvers like that took coordination and I didn't hear orders being barked out. A series of hand signs and silent signals guided them I assumed, which meant someone in their gang had a military background. There went my advantage.
One of the raiders lobbed a grenade, though his aim was off and it bounced a foot into the dining room, well away from my old position near the entrance and far from where I relocated to. Where the hell were they aiming? Were they even trying for the foyer? What the hell kind of grenade even looked like - Realization struck harder than the flash-bang's burst of sound and light.
Doubling over from the fire in my eyes I scrambled back to the stair way corner and knocked over a lamp stand. I lost grip of my rifle and fumbled for my knife. They were going to rush me, no doubt about it, and I was determined to take at least one of them with me.


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YORK, PA – York College is proud to announce that senior men's cross country runner Tim Hartung (Mohnton, Pa./Governor Mifflin) has been named the Capital Athletic Conference Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week for the week ending on September 15.
Hartung won the Rich Achtzehn Classic held at John Rudy Park on Saturday in York. He captured the individual title in his last race at Rudy after earning top five finishes in his three previous Achtzehn Classic races.
Hartung cruised to the individual championship as he won the race in a time of 27:02.17, winning the race by over 12 seconds. He had previously notched two fifth place finishes and one runner-up at the event.
Hartung led the Spartans to a second place team finish at the 11-team invitational. The Spartans' returning All-American now has four career individual titles.
Hartung earned the weekly honor twice last year en route to the CAC Runner of the Year and a second CAC Championship.
Hartung is a senior nursing major and is the son of Daniel and Barb Hartung.