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The Office of the Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry Of Economy & Industry and Israel's National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office Announce Program to Promote Israeli Cyber-Security Industry. Will Be Launched in Early 2016 and Will Include a Series of Advanced Tools to Promote Israel's Cyber Industry
During the National Cyber Bureau Conference (Dec. 17), the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the Israeli Ministry of Economy & Industry and Israel's National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office announced it would launch a new phase of KIDMA, a comprehensive program to promote the Israeli cyber industry, in early 2016.
Reflecting Israel's role as a global powerhouse in the field and in seeking to boost the industry's competitiveness in the global market, the Bureau and the OCS teamed up three years ago to create the KIDMA program (which in Hebrew stands for "Promoting Cyber R&D"). KIDMA provided benefits to Israeli companies in order to encourage R&D activity aimed at developing technological solutions in the field of cyber-security. The overall funding for the program from both government agencies exceeded NIS 100 million and was executed by the OCS according to the R&D Law.
Chief Scientist Avi Hasson said: "In view of the great success of the KIDMA program, we are continuing with a new program that will answer the changing needs of the country's thriving cyber industry. The importance of maintaining the Israeli cyber industry's leadership position internationally is only growing, and as such we need to promote new and unique technologies in a creative way. The successful collaboration between the National Cyber Bureau and the Office of the Chief Scientist has proven that a national effort in the hi-tech sector is critical to the success of the private sector and to fulfilling the economic potential of the Israeli cyber industry."
Following the end of Phase I of the program in June 2015, a professional assessment conducted by the OCS revealed new obstacles and challenges facing the cyber-security industry. The continuation of the program, to be called KIDMA 2.0, seeks to answer these challenges with a restructured program and a new set of support tools for the Israeli cyber industry.
Hasson added: "KIDMA was one of the best and most sought-after programs we launched over the past several years. The Israeli cyber industry has grown and developed: we have seen many investments, countless new companies and a growing need for different types of support. Now we must move on to the next stage: long-term projects, connecting companies to clients, connecting Israeli firms with international companies and distributing budgets effectively."
Head of Israel's National Cyber Bureau Dr. Eviatar Matania said: "At a when the entire world is trying to cope with increasingly dangerous cyber threats, the Israeli cyber industry is a global source of innovation in a field that craves new solutions. Over the past few years, there has also been a trend of Israeli companies scaling up, with two Israeli companies going public on NASDAQ, several companies raising tens of millions of dollars and some Israeli companies acquiring local startups. In fact, more than a quarter of the exits in the field over the past three years were by Israeli companies. The government has an important role in building the scientific-technological groundwork necessary for the long-term and in offering support to the industry where it is most needed. I see special significance in the ongoing, deep discussion between government and industry."
The importance of Israel's cyber-security industry has grown immensely over the past several years, both in terms of its economic impact and in complimenting the development of other technological industries in Israel.
The KIDMA 2.0 program is designed to allow companies to grow and fulfill the economic potential of the cyber industry.


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The 6th Annual Fossil Preparation & Collections Symposium was held for the first time in Canada, at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in the scenic Alberta badlands, April 20 – 22, 2013.
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Thousands of protesters converged in New Delhi and other Indian cities Tuesday demanding the creation of an independent and powerful agency to prosecute corruption. The cause appears to be gaining momentum, posing a significant challenge to the weakening government.
Leading the charge is Anna Hazare, an elderly activist who began an "indefinite" fast today. The government detained him along with thousands of his supporters, many of whom voluntarily boarded police buses.
"This is a revolution. This is a new beginning. These people in government are burglars," says C.P. Thakur, a lawyer who joined the street marches, which included young and old, mostly middle class Indians.
Some of the activists are ambitiously reaching for the mantle of the Arab Spring or Mahatma Gandhi's independence struggle. But the debate hinges on ideas that would be more at home in the Federalist Papers, such as separation of powers and checks and balances.
Mr. Hazare wants the proposed anticorruption agency, known as Lokpal, to have police and prosecution powers over every level and branch of government. The government wants to restrict Lokpal to making recommendations, and to exempt judges, parliamentarians, and the prime minister.
Hazare's vision not only unnerves officials, but also some academics and activists concerned with the amount of power it would invest in an unelected body.
"When you have to deal with a local policeman, he has a stick to beat you. Now you have a bigger guy with a bigger stick to watch over him – but now you have to deal with him too," says Usha Ramanathan, a legal researcher. "I don't want to give anyone that kind of power."
The street protesters, however, clearly want a little more stick applied to the pervasive problem of corruption.
Examples of frustration
One protester, a retired colonel named J.P. Bhatia, gave an example from his own life. A faulty electricity meter at his home is overcharging him by more than $100 every month. He complained to the government engineer, who confirmed the problem and ordered it fixed in April – but it remains broken.
"Everywhere there is bureaucratic delay to extract money," he says.
Colonel Bhatia admits he could file a petition to find out who is sitting on the case. India's Right to Information Act (RTIA) forces government to respond to any citizen's questions within 30 days.
The dilemma: When information finally does come back proving wrongdoing, then what?
"I'll have to go to consumer court, but it could take my lifetime," says Bhatia. "There have been cases in the country going for 20 years, even 40 years."
Many protesters expressed frustration by the lack of punishment in the string of high-profile scams by top officials recently.
Vanita Deshmukh, a newspaper editor and Hazare supporter in Pune, pointed to the corruption surrounding last year's Commonwealth Games. RTIA requests uncovered misdeeds by organizers. Some have been arrested, but the process is moving too slowly for many Indians embarrassed by the tarnishing of the country's international image.
"All the documents proved so many things," says Ms. Deshmukh. "After finding this, what do you want to do, just scream and shout headlines in your newspaper?"
What the Lokpal could do
The Lokpal pushed by Hazare could reclaim money from officials by docking their salaries and seizing their assets. It also has the unilateral powers to suspend or dismiss officials – though criminal cases would still go through the current judicial system.
The power to dismiss officials would give the Lokpal powers close to a court, says Nikhil Dey, a pioneering RTIA activist.
"That to me is an indication of [the Lokpal] being investigator, prosecutor, and judge," says Mr. Dey. It puts "far too much power in one body, which could destroy checks and balances and separation of powers."
Ms. Ramanathan says Hazare's Lokpal would be a "huge, monstrous structure" with staff on the scale of 15,000 officials around the country. She and Dey argue for smaller, decentralized solutions – judicial reform among them.
Deshmukh says she would welcome judicial reform too, but many judges have been shown to be corrupt, so the first step is to make sure they are not exempted from Lokpal.
Critics of Lokpal, however, point out that the agency could become filled with corrupt people as well. Removing a top Lokpal official requires a Supreme Court inquiry, while adding one is the decision of government and civil society leaders – not voters.
Colonel Bhatia concedes this is a potential problem.
"Even the new Lokpal committee selected along the lines of Anna Hazare – they might turn corrupt," says Bhatia. "But it will take [them] time."


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Maryland Pre-Release Inmates Assist with Gleaning Efforts
ANNAPOLIS (September 24, 2011)—Twenty-three Eastern Shore farmers donated 423,000 pounds of produce to the Maryland Food Banks newly launched Farm to Food Bank program between mid-June and mid-September. That amount equates to 325,385 meals—or 81,346 meals for a family of four, according to the Maryland Food Bank.
Our farmers continue to show that agriculture is not just an industry, but a way of life one in which there is a strong concern for their neighbors, their land and the future of our state and its citizens, said Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance. With a strong agricultural industry, we not only keep land open and productive and people employed, we provide a local food supply for our most vulnerable citizens.
In a process called gleaning, farmers open their fields after harvest and allow others to take what is left for charitable purposes. Produce gleaned from the Eastern Shore so far includes watermelon, cantaloupe, zucchini, squash, sweet corn, peaches, green beans, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, broccoli, carrots, and green peppers. Inmates from the Maryland Division of Correction (DOC) have contributed to the effort for several weeks this summer by doing the gleaning for six Eastern Shore farms through an initiative called Public Safety Works.
After gleaning, the Maryland Food Bank redistributes the food to some of the 600 partnering agencies and organizations across the state that provide food directly to families and other agencies.
Bob Arnold of Arnold Farms in Chestertown was one of the first farmers to support the Farm to Food Bank program. The farm has donated more than 19,000 pounds of produce thus far this summer. We have excess product occasionally. Seems a shame to see it go to waste, said Arnold. As a farmer, I think about food all the time. Doesnt seem right to me that people should be hungry. Its in our genetic code that people shouldnt be hungry. Were in the business to feed people. So if you have extra product, you need to give it to those in need. We do give locally to churches but we have a lot more than the church can absorb.
Joe Bartenfelder of Bartenfelder Farms in Caroline County said: You don't grow with the intentions of giving to the Food Bank, but when it's planted and it's grown and there's excess, you want to help people. I'd rather know that people in need get to eat it."
In addition to helping local families, the donations from the Shore farmers made it possible for the Maryland Food Bank to provide more than 8,000 pounds of produce to Wicomico County Schools during the Maryland Department of Agricultures Homegrown School Lunch Week. Four Wicomico County Maryland Food Bank Partner Youth Program Agencies also received produce from the Food Bank.
Most farmers at heart just want to help people and they also hate waste, said Amy Cawley, Food Solicitor for the Maryland Food Bank - Eastern Shore. They feel a sense of pride in knowing that theyre feeding people all across our state and glad that they dont have to leave perfectly good produce to waste.
Public Safety Works Initiative
Some farmers harvest the produce off their fields and donate it themselves. Others open their fields to the Food Bank, which provides equipment and volunteers. If the farmer agrees, some of those volunteers will come from the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Public Safety Works initiative, which assigns DOC offenders nearing their release to help with the gleaning. Public Safety Works gives offenders the opportunity to give back to the community while also learning job skills through work projects. So far, nearly 200,000 pounds of produce have been gleaned from the fields by prisoners.
Harry and Janice Nagel, owners of Hay Jay Acres in Federalsburg, raise chickens and grain, and farm 1,000 acres of cucumbers. They were among the first farmers to allow inmates to glean their fields. The 31,000 pounds of cucumbers that have been gleaned from their farm have all been done by inmates. That amount comes out to 600 bushels, almost a tractor trailer load. Cucumbers aren't doing any good out there on the ground, said Janice Nagel. As long as its doing some good, were glad to see it go to the Food Bank.
The Food Banks Amy Cawley herself comes from a farm family with deep roots in the states agriculture community. She works closely with the USDAs Farm Service Agency and Maryland Extension offices across the Shore to make contact with local farmers and promote the program.
This is the first summer of the program and we havent had one problem. Its been a win for the farmers, a win for the food bank, a win for the prisoners, and a win for all those who are less fortunate, said Ms. Cawley. We hope the word will get out and more farmers will participate next year.
This gleaning partnership will continue through the fall harvests.
Source: Maryland Department of Agriculture


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Like any major city near a coast, Seattle likely won't be immune from rising sea levels and other effects of global warming. Mayor Mike McGinn discusses the city's plans for addressing climate change, including his push to divest Seattle's pension funds from fossil fuel investments, and the city council's plan to make Seattle carbon neutral by 2050.


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The NHL and its players' union agreed to the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement early Sunday morning that is expected to be ratified by both owners and players this week. The deal will salvage either a 48-game or 50-game schedule after a nearly four month lockout. The pact is expected to last 10 years and split revenues 50-50 between owners and players, similar to the CBAs in the NFL and NBA. The players are set to return to the ice, but will NHL fans come back as well?
The 2004-05 NHL lockout that wiped out an entire season did not keep fans away when hockey returned in October 2005. In fact, it was the exact opposite in many cases. Attendance increased for the majority of teams with nine teams experiencing a bump of at least 5% compared to the 2003-04 season. The Pittsburgh Penguins led the way with a 33% gain, as recent top draft picks Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin made their Pens' debut. Attendance for the Carolina Hurricanes rose 26% thanks to the team's Southeast Division crown and first Stanley Cup title.
Attendance fell for eight teams when hockey returned in 2005, but only four of those declines were more than 5%. The St. Louis Blues had the biggest drop at 23%, as they posted a league-worst 57 points that season. Fans gave the NHL a pass for its '04-05 lockout, but will they do it again in 2013? The NHL is counting on it because no league is more dependent on its core fan base than hockey.
NHL teams derived 47% of their revenues last season from arena revenues controlled by the fan. These include gate receipts, concessions and parking. The other half of revenues hail from media contracts, luxury suites, sponsors and non-hockey events. Of the major U.S. sports, baseball is the next highest at 46%, but that figure is set to drop with the explosion of local media deals in the sport like the impending Los Angeles Dodgers deal worth more than $6 billion. The corresponding percentages in the NBA and NFL are 34% and 24% respectively. The NHL simply does not have the media rights fee millions (or billions) the other sports possess.
The NHL's main U.S. broadcast partner, NBC Sports, has more riding on the NHL's return than just about any other organization. The Comcast subsidiary re-branded Versus as the NBC Sports Network last year. The centerpiece of the network is the NHL, which inked a 10-year deal with NBC Sports in 2011 worth $2 billion for media rights. NBCSN misses hockey. NHL telecasts averaged 600,000 viewers last season on NBCSN, while in December one of the network's top-rated shows was Elk Fever with 147,00 viewers, according to Adweek.
The NHL was on a roll before the lockout with revenues reaching a record $3.4 billion last season and franchise values hitting an all-time high of $282 million on average. Will it continue? An NBC Sports poll with 50,000 responses asked fans "Will you come back to the NHL." The results: 54% answered yes and 12% said they never followed the sport, while 12% are taking a wait-and-see approach and 18% responded no. The NHL desperately needs to get those 30% of people back on board to keep the momentum going.
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We should all be proud of The First Tee of Brunswick County. It is one of the highest ranked chapters of the nearly 200 chapters of The First Tee in the U.S. and in the world. It has achieved that level of success thanks to the amazing volunteers and generous donors in our area.
Each year, the South Brunswick Islands Rotary Club hosts the Fore! Kidz Golf Tournament. The event raises money for various youth-related projects in Brunswick County.
Anything for children always intrigues me, so last week I attended the weekly meeting of the SBI Rotary Club at Tamer's Restaurant at Ocean Ridge Plantation. (It meets from 7 to 8:30 a.m. each Friday.) I was impressed.
The South Brunswick Islands Rotary Club has about 70 members and is one of four clubs operating in Brunswick County (the others are in Shallotte, Leland and Southport).
I am so excited. This year's Tournament of Champions will take place Nov. 12-13 at the beautiful Farmstead/Meadowlands golf courses. This marks the 13th year of this prestigious event in which the club champions (men and women) from each of our clubs battle it out to decide who is the best of the best.
The format is two days of medal play. No handicaps allowed. It is fun to watch and each year the event attracts more and more spectators.
Brunswick County has a myriad of golfing opportunities year round. Each course has weekly play days and leagues. On a larger scale there are interclub matches, member-guest tournaments, gross and net championships and team events.
One of the most enjoyable tournaments ever designed is the pro-am. In this format a pro plays with an amateur as a team. Sometimes, it's a pro and three amateurs in a foursome against a field of similar teams.
A golf tournament for Tom Palka will begin with registration at 8 a.m. and golf at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Valley at Eastport. The fee is $75 per golfer.
Palka was struck on his motorcycle on Nov. 6, 2015, by an underinsured motorist who failed to yield the right of way.
Last summer, Lockwood Folly broke ground on its new clubhouse, a beautiful multi-function building. It is more than16,000 square feet and overlooks the Lockwood Folly River with the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and Holden Beach in the distance. The new clubhouse has a large banquet room, sports bar and restaurant, pro shop, fitness center, library, offices, meeting rooms and two kitchens.
Recently I learned Lockwood is installing new greens and renovating the course this summer.
We tend to think golf competitions are terribly serious affairs. We either look forward to or dread club championships, member-guest days and interclub matches. We take a deep breath, tee it up and try our best to shoot the lowest round of our career, thereby ensuring a good time.
What if we could have a great time, even if we didn't come close to our average score?
It can be done, and with every participant having a ripsnorting good time.
This past year has been one of the wettest in the history of Brunswick County. Many courses have been cart-path-only for weeks and weeks. This slows play because golfers must leave their carts on the path, walk to their ball (which may be on the far side of the fairway) and then hit.
A good tip is to take three clubs to the ball. The club you think you need, plus one longer and one shorter. Then you won't have to walk back and forth if the distance is too long or short for what you thought
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On a recent trip to Florida, my husband, Gene, and I took an extra day and visited the World Golf Hall of Fame, part of the World Golf Village near St. Augustine, Fla.
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- Mom2Mom provides peer counseling, support and referrals in New Jersey
- Peer supporters also have children with special needs
- Many mothers of special-needs children don't want to appear depressed
When Suzanne Jablonski moved to New Jersey to start a new life, she felt mostly alone in her struggles raising a special-needs child.
Her 18-year-old son, Brandon Timberwolf Munic, has emotional, learning and behavioral difficulties as well as mild cognitive impairment. A single mother, Jablonski often felt as though she were in crisis mode, until she found a support system last year called Mom2Mom.
Mom2Mom is the only helpline in the United States focused on mothers of special-needs children. The service, staffed by moms of special-needs kids, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and callers get follow-up support from a dedicated staff who checks up on them.
"I don't think, 'Oh, my God, this is the end of the world,' even though many times before ... I did," Jablonski said. "I don't feel so alone anymore."
Cherie Castellano, who launched Mom2Mom in 2010, has started a number of initiatives based on the idea of "reciprocal peer support": that people with similar experiences can help each other. Having experienced the stress of having a child with developmental delays, she wanted to provide a way for other mothers to have caregiving support.
Dads are welcome to call the Mom2Mom line too, Castellano said.
Mom2Mom now has about 20 mothers on staff, all of whom have children with some sort of special need, including medical illness and mental health problems. The program is part of University Behavioral HealthCare, which will be under Rutgers University as of July 1.
"It's not just good for the moms they're helping, it's also good for them because they get to feel connected and recognize their own strengths," Castellano said.
Along the same lines, she also founded a law enforcement crisis hot line called Cop2Cop and the veteran support line Vets4Warriors.
A staffer always picks up the hot line, no matter what time of day. In the initial call, the peer counselor mother will find out from the caller what she is calling about and then asks, "How are you?" The conversation then turns from the child's needs to the mother's own mental health and impact on the family.
Most of the time, the caller agrees to engage in ongoing peer support, Castellano said. Mom2Mom then assigns her a support partner with a child who has a similar condition.
The peer counselors check back often with these mothers, talking about what challenges might arise and the state of everyone's mental and physical health in the family. They can refer them to a network of service providers. Mom2Mom also hosts in-person support group meetings.
Because it's a state-funded program, Mom2Mom's activities are aimed at New Jersey residents, but no one is turned away; peer support counselors will research resources to try to find connections for the callers in their own states. The program has gotten calls from more than 20 states where moms struggle to find support as they care for special-needs children.
On Monday, more than 40 callers came to the Mom2Mom headquarters -- a call center -- in Piscataway, New Jersey, to meet their counselors in at an event to allow peer partners to meet each other for the first time, in honor of Mother's Day.
Castellano met a mother she had been speaking with for two years. Staff members spoke about how much comfort they've gotten from the callers as well.
"For like 20 minutes, there was just hugging, crying and chatter," she said.
Many mothers of special needs children want to appear as "supermoms," being able to balance all of their appointments and challenges and emotions, Castellano said.
"Moms don't want to seem like they're depressed about it or they're sad about it or they're afraid of what's going to happen to their child when they're gone," Castellano said. "There's a lot of shame and guilt and suffering that nobody wants to talk about."
Mom2Mom has been a big help to Debra Lee, 52, of Newark, New Jersey.
The youngest two of Lee's four children are on the autism spectrum: a 27-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter. Her son graduated from Rutgers and works part-time. She worries about both of them, but especially her daughter, who attends a public school with an autism program and doesn't go anywhere alone.
She was one of the first callers to Mom2Mom and connected with peer counselor Mary Beth Walsh. Today, she attends in-person support groups as well.
"You meet a lot of people that you can talk to," she said. "You do a lot of crying. At least you can talk to people who can understand what you're going through. It makes you feel much better."
Since connecting with Mom2Mom, Lee said, she realizes how hard she had been on herself. She had put her whole self into her children and had lost sight of taking care of herself.
Before, she would never buy nice clothes for herself; now, she'll buy suits.
"It just made me see that I could still look nice even though I'm overweight," she said.
Walsh, Lee's peer counselor, has a 14-year-old son with autism. She has been immersed in the world of autism advocacy since his diagnosis, and admires Lee's positive attitude toward everyone on the autism spectrum.
"I might say, 'Oh, he's so sensitive to sound,' but Debra will say, 'Oh, it's amazing how he's always listening to the environment and picking up all these cues.' "
Both these mothers took part in a Mom2Mom collaborative project expressing their feelings and struggles through artwork; each sculpture consists of two pieces of glass connected to look like a book. The result is called "Breathless: Mothers of Children with Special Needs."
Lee's glass panel depicts a tree; she wrote about "having faith."
The Mom2Mom helpline is 1-877-914-MOM2.


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I'm posting this as I'm reading the Whitedell Pride/Gilham Pack series by Catherine Lievens and that Keenan is so funny ! I almost choked a few times, cried another few, but so far managed to avoid coffee on keyboard.
Keenan doesn't have a brain-to-mouth filter and doesn't care about what people think. Nosy as hell, always up to mischief.
Phil ? He reminds me of Dill, I get the same kind of reactions.... For you guys who don't know who Dill is, he's one of Phil Harrison's secondary characters in one of his not-finished-yet-I-have-to-rewrite-the-whole-thing books, Just One Look. A great book, by the way.
Another character that I like too was Cecil and Co, in the Brac Pack series by Lynn Hagen.
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Potion Witch. Evil Editor. A real pain. Oh, and Evil Mod, too....
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text: What's the geo-caching etiquette for re-establishing a cache at a site that had a cache at one time, but has been archived for some time? I noticed while surfing the geo-caching site the other day that there was a cache relatively close to me that has been archived since May 2005 and it appears as though the owner hasn't done much with it since then . . . for that matter it appears as though the owner isn't doing much geo-caching at all . . . although he appears to have visited geocaching.com as recently as last week.


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The nine mysteries, are they more than just titles? Surley they must be, since the rules state that the Druid 'learns' the first Mysteries at second level, and then goes on to describe the new abilities (not just spells!). But that's the only description of Mysteries that I've found, and there are eight more.
I know about the fifth level abilites, and the stronghold, and I know about the challenges to become Arch, and Grand Druid.
Is there info somewhere that details the mysteries? Maybe a supplement? Or is this something that a GM should flesh out? Or, do they literally just become titles?
Thanks, in advance!


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See also: -nasty
Uncertain. Theories:
- It may be an alteration of, and in any case was reinforced by, nasky ("nasty") and its North Germanic cognates, Swedish naskug ("nasty, dirty"), Low German nask ("nasty"), Swedish snaskig ("dirty, messy").[1]
- It may be from Old French nastre ("bad, strange"), shortened form of villenastre ("infamous, bad"), from vilein ("villain") + -astre ("pejorative suffix"), from Latin -aster.[2]
- Dutch nestig ("dirty", literally "like a bird's nest").[1][3]
- Other suggestions include Old High German naz ("wet"), hardening of nesh(y) ("soft"), or alteration of naughty.
- Modern use of the word is sometimes attributed to the popular and often derogatory 19th century American political cartoons of Thomas Nast, but the word predates him.
- (AusE) IPA(key): /ˈnaː.sti/
- Rhymes: -ɑːsti
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɑː.sti/
- Rhymes: -ɑːsti
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈnæ.sti/
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- Rhymes: -æsti
nasty (comparative nastier, superlative nastiest)
- (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy. [from 14th c.]
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
- In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.
- 2006, Marie Fontaine, The Chronicles of my Ghetto Street Volume One, p. 156:
- I really don't have any friends at school Mama Mia. They talk about me all the time. They say my hair's nappy and my clothes are nasty.
- 2013 June 1, "Towards the end of poverty", in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
- But poverty's scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries' own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person). [from 15th c.]
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
- Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
- Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive. [from 16th c.]
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:
- 'It's a nasty trade,' said Mr. Limbkins, when Gamfield had again stated his wish.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:
- Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd. [from 17th c.]
- 1933, Dorothy L Sayers, Murder Must Advertise:
- He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind.
- 2009, Okera H, Be Your Priority, Not His Option, Mill City Press 2009, p. 45:
- We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies. That's just the way it is. We want the good girl who's nasty in bed.
- 1933, Dorothy L Sayers, Murder Must Advertise:
- Spiteful, unkind. [from 19th c.]
- 2012, The Guardian, 3 Jun 2012:
- She had said: "I love the block button on Twitter. I don't know how people expect to send a nasty comment and not get blocked."
- 2012, The Guardian, 3 Jun 2012:
- (chiefly Britain) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous. [from 19th c.]
- 2007, The Observer, 5 Aug 2007:
- There was a nasty period during the First World War when the family's allegiance was called into question - not least because one of the Schroders had been made a baron by the Kaiser.
- 2007, The Observer, 5 Aug 2007:
- (chiefly Britain) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.). [from 19th c.]
- 2012, James Ball, The Guardian, 2 Mar 2012:
- Moving into the middle ages, William the Conqueror managed to rout the English and rule the country, then see off numerous plots and assassination attempts, before his horse did for him in a nasty fall, killing him at 60.
- 2012, James Ball, The Guardian, 2 Mar 2012:
- (slang, chiefly US) Formidable, terrific; wicked. [from 20th c.]
dirty, filthy
contemptible of a person
indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd
nasty (plural nasties)
- (informal) Something nasty.
- Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties.
- This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.
- (euphemistic, preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse.
- A video nasty.
- 1984, ThirdWay (volume 7, number 5, page 17)
- In this way, it is hoped that the nasties will be dealt with, and the remainder regularized.
- 2014, mark Bernard, Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film
- Jones evokes the nasties discursively to brand the Splat Pack as 'authentic outlaws'.
- 1984, ThirdWay (volume 7, number 5, page 17)


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A creative statement that gives carte blanche
to our In-House Perfumer : Mathilde Laurent
A tribute to the great History of Perfumery
and the Art of Perfume
Carefully selected ingredients and authentic
compositions that keep their natural colors
A talent that was honored by two prestigious
FIFI awards for La Treizième Heure:
the prize of Specialists
and the prize of Perfumers Creators
Each Heure de Parfum is the expression
of the Cartier olfactory style
I. L'Heure
It was time to capture a life full of fresh early mornings
Petit grain, FRESH HERBS at the dawn of
intentions. Everything seemed possible – love, creation, belief.
The time had come to embrace the day, comforted by self-confidence
and honesty IRIS, and to fly or walk in the first glimmers of a
spring of existence. The sheer newness was just waiting
to be explored like an undiscovered continent bathed in hope,
with the promise of cherishing the moment
a little longer while everything remained quiet.
Prolonging, preserving the moment: L'HEURE PROMISE by Cartier.
An eiderdown of fragrance sandalwood,
for leaving the night behind without affronting sleep. Outside,
I sense, like a veil of tulle MUSK NOTES,
my own deciding scent – that of my destiny unfolding and
of an adventure that is anxious to take place.
II. L'Heure
It was red she wanted, the blush of excitement,
the tumescence of bitten lips strawberry flesh,
the carnation in his buttonhole.
Moving closer, driving him crazy, shedding her
shyness to wrap herself in filmy, playful, sensuous frills
CRÈME DE MARRON. No more stage fright, just a rhythmic
dance in the aura of a velvet stage curtain iris notes, spotlights
following her body. Look, here's my velvety shoulder
CLOVE NOTES, there my swaying curves, then I vanish
the better to come back to you, all legwork and pouting
lips. Do you love my legs? The nape of my neck? The
small of my back? Look, I'm your lover unveiled at the
coveted hour, dressed in my powdered skin, my red
lingerie red rose notes flying off in a peal of laughter
FRESH GREEN NOTES. And what if I said "vous" to
you, just for the show, like Juliette Gréco singing:
"Undress me, but not too soon, not too fast,
learn to covet me…"
III. L'Heure
Rosemary green and lavender blue… An old nursery
rhyme leads us back to a medicinal garden grown wild
with sprightly aromatic herbs, wise plants picked to cheer
body and soul. The apothecary's prescription: an infusion
of joy and courage lentiscus, a bracing cure for the
blues THYME, a secret antidote for bitterness
verbena, a teasing lash of green ABSINTH, a whiff of
wellbeing lavender, a soothing embrace ALMOND.
And so, in a halo of joyful kindness, the virtuous hour
chases the clouds away and revives our spirits…
Thyme and sweet marjoram, hyssop and rue.
IV. L'Heure
The horizon cleared, sparking the desire to escape. Was it dawn
or dusk? The moment smelt of the promised land, of alfalfa
and a shimmering summer of the soul magnolia,
BERGAMOT. An opportunity to be seized, as if hanging onto
life's wild collar HORSEHAIR NOTE. And there they went!
Together they charged towards the challenges that awaited
vetiver, grappling hand-to-hand with a tanned hide
YERBA-MATE and glistening fur, both accomplices
in their own abduction, romantic actors of
an overwhelming love musk notes.
Astride a steed galloping at full speed,
L'HEURE FOUGUEUSE, noble and imperious lavender,
rushed towards freedom enveloped in the humid heat of
straw struck by a storm COUMARIN, oak moss.
VI. L'Heure
The moment was electric, charged with high-tension energy
lemon, FLAXSEED. The unexpected laid down the law.
The start was announced. Outside, the world
accelerated. The hour when everything lights up, like a neon longing
to consume, had arrived. Refusing to abstain from anything,
invigorating yourself with acidity,
feeling the vibrating rhythm of the street and pounding
the asphalt in a wild yet lucid undertaking.
And drinking to life gin notes, to the falling night,
to parties past and to those that are yet to be invented
in moments of rapture. For Time is radiant
ALDEHYDES, and happiness is in tune with
these bodies that are charged with fantasy and the invigorating thrill
of L'HEURE BRILLANTE, which pours forth like a spicy drop.
VII. L'Heure
Deny yourself nothing and do not resist this desire
shrouded in voluptuous mystery amber note.
Yes, it is unreasonable, but it is down to that
silky bronzed skin SANDALWOOD and to that soft,
sun-kissed velvet, so beautiful, so warm tolu with a taste
that I imagine to be all the more addictive
because it is forbidden.
Deny yourself nothing, yield to the magnetic aura
MUSK NOTES and to the subtle scent of
L'HEURE DEFENDUE, succumb to this soft, deaf
temptation patchouli… Spellbound VANILLA and
sweetened with absolute black cocoa.
VIII. L'Heure
The world stirred, preparing its early morning with
freshness and joy…Washed. That first gleam of light
that caressed the eyelashes was soft peony notes, we
could have bathed in the clear fountain for its
transparency, for its sheer blossoming of life ROSE.
Mouth, neck and shoulders, it mingled with the air
naturally, untamed and fresh lychee notes, like a smile
that still recalls the child. Everything seemed new
and bright at the floral source of the silver thread
AMBER WOOD of this shining HEURE DIAPHANE whose
exquisite reflections dissolved everything, wrapping
ionones it a cloud of pure emotion.
X. L'Heure
If we were playing at being fortunate, we would
dream up countless desires, longings for champagne
and appearances on the arms of the most eligible. Of course,
the world would be our oyster and we would explore
it in our private jets. We would be diamond seekers, fond of all those sought-after fruits that are
rich in carats: red redcurrant, PINK PEPPERCORN,
grenadine, blue BLUEBERRY, blackcurrant,
BLACKBERRY, violet, green leafy notes, IVY,
boxwood, SHISO and white ALDEHYDES, polygonum.
They are miracle-makers for the skin and
"a girl's best friend" – "boop boop bi doo". Sleep in silk, live in
euphoria, take baths of champagne, go out in a convertible
and enrobe yourself in L'HEURE FOLLE
in self-congratulation for becoming
the princess of your own imperial extravagance.
XI. L'Heure
Tangible, delicate, concrete reality…
as long as you can find a way to reach it!
Imagine it were possible, as a time traveller,
to enter L'HEURE PERDUE - the lost hour in which
we could once again share the pleasure of a long-
forgotten childhood treat. Ah, that exquisite softness that flows
from all our childhoods, from a universal memory.
Where does it come from, this sensual hour with its creamy aroma,
fundamental and echoing the past?
From an elegant memory VANILLIN from one person's
appetite to another? Voluptuous and intimate
like the scent of familiarity. HELIOTROPE
Perhaps because everything is ruled by science,
so clever in posing as natural when in fact
it is a feat of alchemy, exploring the artificial through
a precipitate of large synthetic molecules,
particularly VANILLIN. This aldehyde with sensual aromas
and a silky aura floating over the 11th hour, the lost and
progressive hour, demystifying the conventional idea that
beauty is only worthwhile if it is NATURAL.
XII. L'Heure
Silence was on the prowl. You could hear it breathing,
lurking like desire. The calmness felt only temporary.
Drowsiness gained life, slowly jasmine
and heavily PATCHOULI.
This was the time for listening to your own pulse at the edge of
abandon, like a reverse countdown, a voyage into the intimate where
everything both takes shape and disintegrates.
Withdraw into yourself, escape and focus your mind on your inner
self, reaching that point where self-awareness resides. Was it day
elemi gum, CORIANDRE ? Was it night
incense, FRANKINCENSE ? Soon you must leave
the darkness juniper... but not quite yet. First, savour
L'HEURE MYSTÉRIEUSE for just one hour –
no longer, that's a promise – extracted from deep within,
and rediscover your own personal roots.
XIII. La Treizieme
There are moments when everything
can be transformed, when it is impossible to distinguish
the real from the unreal. An affaire of exact seduction
leather notes, MATÉ, birch, an object of desire
NARCISSUS, and a metamorphosis between shadow
and light bergamot is at work. This is a time for breathing
in emptiness and braving adventure patchouli where
LA TREIZIÈME HEURE glides sensually VANILLA and
fatally upon the skin like a sentiment,
an exquisite dizziness of the unknown. Then, we are no longer
able to distinguish the true from the false, the night from the day,
and we surrender to the realm of the vague, the clear darkness of
Nature that makes everything unique and possible.


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NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Derek Stepan scored twice during a big second period Sunday that carried the New York Rangers to a 6-1 thrashing of Florida.
Stepan started the four-goal barrage when he stole the puck at center ice, skated all the way in on Panthers goalie Jose Theodore and beat him between the pads with a forehand shot for an unassisted tally 5:45 into the decisive frame.
That was followed by goals from Steve Eminger and Marian Gaborik, making it 5-1 for New York. Stepan capped the outburst with his seventh of the season.
Artem Anisimov added a goal and an assist. Brad Richards also found the net for the Rangers, who won for the 14th time in 18 games.
Henrik Lundqvist stopped 20-of-21 shots to earn the victory.
Theodore was pulled after two periods for Florida, having yielded all six goals on 22 shots. Scott Clemmensen replaced him and turned aside all 11 shots he saw the rest of the way.
Erik Gudbranson, Florida's third-overall pick in the 2010 NHL draft, netted his first career goal for the Panthers' only score.


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April 30, 2007
The calendar reads April. The clock says it is 11 p.m. All is quiet in Allen Arena.
Well, not entirely.
Shattering the late night quiet and emptiness of the arena is the thump, thump, thump of a basketball hitting a hardwood floor. A subtler, but more important, sound is the swish of nylon netting as the ball goes effortlessly through the hoop.
These are the times when players get better at their craft. For rising Lipscomb senior forward Eddie Ard extra work is no big deal. But driven by the need to be a leader in the 2007-2008 season and a need to forget the inconsistencies of last season Ard is spending even more time
"Eddie has always been a guy who stays in the gym for long hours at a time," Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson said. `As good as he is he still has a lot of room to improve. I think he is going to have a breakout year.
"I want him to have the same type of passion for work that he had two-and-half years ago when he was trying to get off our bench.. He did everything he could do to get better."
Ard is quiet by nature. But he joins center Jason Hopkins and guard LaKory Daniels, who both transferred to the program, as one of only three seniors on the team next season. With five newcomers arriving in what many consider to be the best recruiting class in Sanderson's eight years as head coach, the need to lead has never been as important.
"We have had team meetings and individual meetings with our players," Sanderson said. "The one main theme from everybody was that `I hope he is our leader...I hope he evolves into being our leader.
"Eddie is an easy guy to follow. He is going to do all the things necessary to be a better player. He is going to lift weights. He is going to practice hard. He is going to work out in individual workouts. The guys want to follow his lead, but he has to learn to be a more effective leader. That is one of the things we are working through right now."
Ard, a Marketing major from LaPlace, La., knows he has to become a better communicator with his teammates both on and off of the court. Last season senior guards Trey Williams and Brian Fisk ran the show and Ard was content to let them.
"With those guys gone I have to step up," Ard said. "I have to be a lot more vocal on the court. It is an honor when people want you to be a leader.
"As of right now I am kind of uncomfortable about it because I really don't talk a lot. When I talk to my teammates I usually do it directly. There are a lot of things you have to work on that are uncomfortable at the start, but they become a part of your game."
Ard. 6-foot-5, earned second-team all-conference honors in the Atlantic Sun last season. He averaged 15 points per game, fifth in the league and 5.8 rebounds per game, eighth in the conference. He also led the conference in free throw shooting hitting 122-of-146 attempts (83.6 percent). Most players would be thrilled with statistics of that magnitude, but for Ard, who was the preseason pick of the A-Sun coaches for Player of the Year, it was a disappointment.
"Last year was a setback," Ard said. "I didn't perform to my capabilities on a consistent basis for various reasons. To make up for last season, and then some, I have to put in a lot of extra work and get better every day.
"I have to be a good leader to set the tone for the new guys. But I have to set a good example so those who lead after me will be even better leaders."
No one questions Ard's ability to shoot the basketball. But his ability to play without the basketball is the key to taking his game to an even higher level.
"Good players help to raise the level of play of their teammates," Sanderson said. "He can do that if he learns how to play without the ball more.
"Everyone was keying on him last season. If that happens this season his ability to get the ball to his teammates will really help him. He also has to work on his ballhandling and limit his mistakes and work on his defense."
Ard knows his shortcomings as a player. His primary concern is to make sure he is better in all of those areas.
"I don't want to take anything lightly," Ard said. "Leading this team next season is the opportunity of a lifetime. They say a good leader makes those around him better. That's the toughest part of it all."


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Providing outstanding client service is crucial for any financial advisor. If the client is happy, so is the advisor. Yet few advisors realize they are in a service industry and even fewer are committed to always doing the right thing for their clients. So how do you know what's best for your clients? The answer is simple: ask them.
Asking your clients what they want from you, as their advisor, is the most important step to providing an unmatched client experience. There are many ways to reach out and generate meaningful feedback, but today we'll cover two of what I believe are the most effective methods.
One technique is implementing a client advisory council, consisting of a handful of your best and most loyal clients to serve on a board that meets periodically to candidly discuss what they want out of their client experience. A simpler method is to administer client surveys to all of your clients.
Both ways can be effective, but the structure of your firm will determine which is right for you.
The Best Option for Large Firms
Client advisory boards are usually more effective than client surveys, with the exception for large firms. In the case of organizations with a large client base, taking a small sample to make up your client advisory board might not be a big enough percentage to represent the entire book of clients. In this case, administering a client survey can be more effective in order to poll a larger population of your clients and gain a better understanding of how your clients feel.
However, most surveys are structured in a way that makes it difficult for the response data to be useful. For example, if you ask your clients to rate the responsiveness of your firm and earn a low rating, it is impossible to know what that low rating truly means. Are they referring to your responsiveness as the senior advisor, a different advisor or the firm as a whole? Survey questions are usually not the most detailed, making the resulting data hard to analyze. Advisors often use a pre-made survey template and don't carefully consider the questions they are asking, rendering the answers worthless.
When a Client Advisory Council Makes Sense
On the other hand, if you have a smaller client base, choose the best 10 clients for your council and call it a day. It's a much more effective method in this scenario for one big reason. A client advisory council allows clients to effectively communicate with you and your team in a personable and open environment.
While a survey is more about reflection and ratings, a client advisory board allows you and your clients to brainstorm new ideas and gain new thoughts to improve their client experience. It gives you the opportunity to ask specific questions and gain meaningful feedback, with the ability for follow-up questions and comments that you would never have anticipated beforehand.
In addition, the clients participating will most likely want to participate, while the participation rate on surveys is very low and can skew your answers.
Before selecting your client advisory council, ensure you create a meeting agenda laying out the specific topics you are trying to accomplish or understand. The key to an effective meeting is to start with a detailed agenda. Next, choose a handful of clients you truly respect to include on your board. These clients should also be game-changers as far as your firm's revenue is concerned. Make sure these clients are as happy as possible.
Remember, if they were to walk away for some reason, it would greatly impact your practice in a negative way. If your council members are happy, more than likely the rest of your clients are satisfied as well.
While both client surveys and advisory boards can be helpful in understanding your clients' needs and lead to a better client experience, the option right for you will depend on the structure of your practice. For most advisors, a client advisory council is best for providing beneficial insights from clients and opportunities to create a uniquely great client experience. There's only one thing left to decide:
Which is right for you?


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QT Gold Coast also offers the perks of an outdoor pool and spa, two tennis courts, undercover and valet parking, 24 hour reception, wireless internet access, and full concierge facilities including a custom iPad application 'QT Concierge'.
Ideally situated 50 metres from the beach, QT Gold Coast is within easy walking distance of shopping, restaurants and nightlife. The hotel is a 35 minute drive to Coolangatta airport and only minute's driving to world-class golf courses, theme parks, nature and wildlife reserves.
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Arapahoe Basin
Beta: A-Basin is a small area with a big-mountain feel, set on the jagged western slope of the Continental Divide, half above tree line, and high enough to hold snow into June. Here local devotees rack up 150 days a year on seven chairs, including a new-this-year high speed quad, the Black Mountain Express. Historically, the hard core stick one chair: Pallavicini, an old double that's strung up 1,300 vertical feet of 40-degree bumps, spines, trees, and rocky dropoffs. In spring, when most areas close up shop, the soul of skiing comes to play here. The patch of ground on the skiing side of the parking lot is dubbed The Beach. The scene—kegs, Frisbees, Hawaiian shirts, no shirts—grows as the season dwindles and the temps rise.
Powder Day
Scream down the wide-open Spine, where the wind blows the snow into a powdery cream. Work your way skier's left through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Alleys—narrow tree shots farther down the ridge. Next hit 46-degree Gauthier. After lunch, launch the lip into West Wall off the Lenawee lift, an open, mellow slope that's often forgotten on big days.
3 Days Later
Head for the East Wall on the face of Lenawee Peak. Because patrol sometimes takes days to open its wide flanks, it could be a whole new powder day. Start with a 30-minute hike up the ridge to the North Pole. Then ride patrol's coattails along the East Wall Traverse, boot-packing up to make big GS turns in Willie's Wide or jump-turns in Corner Chute.
Spring Day
Because A-Basin is so high, spring feels like winter and summer feels like spring; sometimes close to 10 feet of snow falls in March and April. Hit the East Wall for powder in the a.m., anything off Pali for slush bumps at midday, and North Glade for afternoon corn.
The Riding
A-Basin is a vertical place—there are few, if any flat spots here. Avoid traversing too far along the Pali ridge or you'll end up on the whoop-de-doos of the Pali Wog runout. The East Wall Traverse can also be a bear.
Proving Grounds
Marquee route: It's more like marquee chair. Pallavicini.
Off-Broadway: Head to the west side of Montezuma Bowl and drop the cornice into Max or Groswold. Or, go east and hit the 14-ers trees: Grays, Torreys and Bierstadt.
Backcountry Access
There are three backcountry gates—one off of the Cornice Run, one just west of the North Pole gate, and the third at the bottom of Montezuma bowl. For a minimal hike back, ski The Beavers, north-facing chutes that drop into low-angle glades and finish with a half-hour walk back to the highway. Stick out a thumb to get back to the base. Before you go, stop in to the patrol shack at the top of the Norway lift, or call the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (970-668-0600) for conditions—the terrain can be killer, literally.
Drinking & Dancing
Chug cheap beer and bacon bloody marys on the 6th Alley's huge deck. Later, head five minutes down the road for live rock at the Snake River Saloon (970-468-2788), where fire-breathing bartenders—the fire department certifies them in pyrotechnics—blow flaming 151 shots at the ceiling. Then it's Pabst-fueled Foosball at The Goat (970-513-9344).
At the base, chow a Skier's Breakfast (potatoes, eggs, biscuits and gravy, bacon) and kick-start with java from the Coffee Corner (also in the lodge). Mid-mountain, the Black Mountain Lodge serves barbecue and a tasty portobello burger.
Sleeping in your van in the parking lot is ill advised, so your best option is down the road at Keystone. Key to the Rockies has deals on local lodging.
For true A-Basin hard core status enter the Grind, a ten-hour race to see who can ski the most laps off of the Pali chair. The record is 71 laps. The lift is not fast. You do the math. We hear past winners have worn diapers.
Essential Gear
If you can't afford a tow-along hot tub (some can) for the Beach, make do with a lawn chair and portable grill (try weber.com). Get the meat marinating, take a few laps, call it a day.
Elevation: 13,050 feet Vertical: 2,270 feet acres: 900 snowfall: 350 inches (at 10,820') Getting There: Take I-70 west from Denver to Silverthorne, to Highway 6 east (68 miles). Info: 970-468-0718, arapahoebasin.com


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We have had a couple requests to write a post about readpst which is included in the default path of Backtrack 5 and also located in the Backtrack menu underneath Forensics/Forensics Analysis Tools. The readpst application will read PST files which are also known as Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders and convert them to mbox, MH, or KMail formats. There are various other switches that can be used to output each email into a separate file, include attachments, modify contact formats, be recursive, etc. I will explain basic functionality below along with a couple of the formats and various switches.Details


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Don't look for the Roland Park Bakery & Deli in Roland Park.
The combination bakery and counter shop is in Hampden now and doing well, where it appears to have filled a niche between the fancy fare of the neighborhood's new spots and the slapdash grub you can still find at the old haunts.
A longtime fixture of Roland Park life, Anita Ward's combination bakery and sandwich shop reopened last year on Chestnut Street after 27 years in the Roland Park Shopping Center. The move wasn't entirely voluntary. The shopping center's owners wanted to expand the space and install a full-service, all-day restaurant. (That successor restaurant, Johnny's, opened in mid-October.)
The Roland Park offerings are simple and familiar -- hamburgers, hot dogs and breakfast sandwiches from the grill, salami and egg salad sandwiches from the cold case. When we dropped by, there were two soup specials, chicken noodle and cream of mushroom.
A friend and I each tried a soup-and-salad combination ($6.75), which made for a nice light lunch. The food is seasoned minimally, which is how generations of Roland Park residents liked it. The soup has the reassuring appearance and flavor of classic lunchroom fare. And, really, that's what Roland Park Bakery & Deli is -- a lunchroom. There aren't many of them left.
We saw a few customers taking their orders away, but there's a built-in advantage to eating at one of the eight or so tables in the neat, bright dining room. When you're done, you can march right back up to the counter and pick something out of the bakery case.
All of the cookies, brownies and other assorted pastries are baked on the premises, on the building's lower level. A raspberry-filled cinnamon stick was a real treat.
Roland Park Bakery & Deli
Where: 3500 Chestnut Ave.
Contact: 410-245-4422
Hours: Open Monday through Saturday for breakfast and lunch
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My sister has kept me pretty busy this holiday season making Christmas cards!
This was a HIT!
Working with a little acetate paper, some snowflakes, stamps, and a circle punch and this is what I get!
The background is actually an SVG (Birds Cards), but instead of cutting it, I blew the dust off of those Cri-Cut pens and out came this great background!
Thanks to Brandon (my 5 yr old grandson), we came up with this great card! We used the circle punch, a little bling, stickles, stamps, and glitter. The tree and the hat are SVG files. Great fun!
This was scrap lifted, but I couldn't help it. I just loved it when I saw it!
I was putting my Cricut to work and at the same time, I was learning a few things!
Making my tree 3D.....AWESOME! Yeah, I know everyone is doing it....lol.
I can't remember where I got this adorable corner moose!
An SVG, Nestabilities (Thank you Pam and Thelma) and a Cuttlebug. LUV IT!
Once I got the hang of the snow globes (without throwing glass beads everywhere....lol) it was too much fun to make just one.
Have a safe holiday and I will see you next year!
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September 26, 1919 - February 26, 2013
Goshen, NY
Maria "Abuela" Torres, a 15-year resident of the area, formerly of Elant at Goshen, passed away on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 in The Valley View Center for Nursing Care and Rehabilitation in Goshen. She was 93.
Daughter of the late Jose Elias Zayas and Maria Soto Zayas, she was born in Coamo, Puerto Rico on September 26, 1919. She was the widow of Segundo Torres.
She is survived by her sons: Peter Torres of Deltona, FL, Gil Torres and his wife, Emma of Brooklyn; daughters: Thelma Carrion and her husband, David of Monroe, Maria Walton and her husband, John of Mahopac; brother, Jerry Zayas of Florida; sister, Juanita Ubiles of South Carolina; eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by three great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 1st, at Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush, Inc. Funeral Home, 117 Maple Avenue, Monroe. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 2nd, at Sacred Heart Church, 26 Still Road, Monroe. Interment will be in Cementerio Municipal in Guayama, Puerto Rico.
Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of one's choice.
Funeral arrangements are by Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush, Inc. Funeral Home. 845-782-8185 or www.ssqfuneralhome.com


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PKP 2011 Hackfest - Integration and Interoperability
What is this?
Integration and Interoperability refers to the ability of PKP software (e.g. OJS or OCS) to interoperate and communicate with other applications.
For example:
- A journal website may include a blog and a journal. The two should be integrated seamlessly so as not to confuse the user who is trying to navigate both.
- A scholarly society may run both OJS and OCS and might wish to decrease the duplicated content.
- A university may want to connect OJS with their existing LDAP directory.
- A conference may want to publish a conference schedule in a format that's easily downloadable on handheld devices.
We hope that participants will bring ideas and examples with them from their own institutions.
What might be done in this project?
- specification of plug-ins
- usability and graphics design
- documentation
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2nd Global Conference,Spirituality in the 21st Century: At the Interface of Theory, Praxis and Pedag (SP21-2)
Venue: Michna Palace
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
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|End Date/Time: Mar 24, 2012
|Registration Date: Sep 30, 2011
|Abstract Submission Date: Sep 30, 2011
|Paper Submission Date: Jan 27, 2012
Spirituality in the 21st Century: At the Interface of Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy
21st March - 24th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic
Call for Papers:
The contemporary study of spirituality encompasses a wide range of interests. These have come not only from the more traditional areas of religious scholarship—theology, philosophy of religion, history of religion, comparative religion, mysticism—but also more recently from management, medicine, and many other fields.
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding spirituality in regard to theory, praxis and pedagogy. Our first Conference, held in March 2011, was highly successful, with more than 50 presenters from greater than 25 countries around the world participating.
We seek to expand the range of ideas, fields, and locales of Spiritual work for the 2nd Global Conference. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation, Business, Counseling, Ecology, Education, Healing, History, Management, Mass/Organizational/Speech Communication, Medicine, Nursing, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Reconciliation/Refugee/Resettlement Projects, Social Work, and Theatre. These disciplines are indicative only, as papers are welcomed from any area, profession and/or vocation in which Spirituality plays a part.
Papers, reports, works-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
* Conceptualizations of Spirituality
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The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 30th September 2010. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 27th January 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
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NEW YORK - Journalists from across the nation gathered tonight at New York City's Cipriani 42nd Street for the 2007 Gerald Loeb Awards Banquet. Celebrating their 50th anniversary, the Loeb Awards are among the highest honors in business journalism and recognize the work of journalists whose contributions illuminate the world of business, finance and the economy for readers and viewers around the world.
Judy D. Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, welcomed Loeb Awards honorees and their guests. Tyler Mathisen, CNBC managing editor for business news and host of "High Net Worth" served as the master of ceremonies.
Loeb Award winners were chosen from 12 competition categories and named at tonight's banquet, along with the recipients of two special career contribution awards. Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, received the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award went to Dan Kelly, news editor, page one with The Wall Street Journal. The Mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg, presented the award to Matthew Winkler. Following is the complete list of the 2007 Loeb Awards recipients, along with a brief synopsis of their award-winning work.
Large Newspaper Winners
Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont and Steve Stecklow of The Wall Street Journal for "The Secretive Backdating of Option Awards for Corporate Executives"
This detailed investigation of stock option abuses began with the reporting team's creative application of probability theory and evolved into one of the highest-impact business stories of the year. The piece exposed a number of companies whose stock option grant dates were consistently and suspiciously timed with low points in the stock's pricing. The exposure led to federal investigations of 140 companies and the firings or resignations of at least 70 top officials.
Medium Newspaper Winners
Chiaki Kawajiri, Gady A. Epstein and Stephanie Desmon of The Baltimore Sun for "Crab Factory"
This well-written tale of Maryland's storied blue crab is artfully woven into a saga of globalization and entrepreneurship, revealing both the winners and losers of outsourcing, fueled by the American consumer's demand for cheap products. As the Chesapeake Bay's crab industry struggled for survival, Maryland-based Phillips Crab House began importing Asian blue crab creating a $1 billion industry with their new "Maryland-style crab," and triggering economic and social effects in communities across the bay and in Asia.
Small Newspaper Winners
Mike McAndrew and Michelle Breidenbach of The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) for "The Great Empire Zone Giveaway"
This incisive series revealed New York's appallingly mismanaged Empire Zone program of tax incentives designed to promote and expand businesses, and exposed millions of dollars in waste. Despite fierce resistance from the city, the reporters crafted a classic piece of investigative journalism by scouring property records, federal securities disclosures and other public records. Their series sparked action by the state's lieutenant governor who cited the stories and promised to eliminate waste in the system.
Magazines Winner
Charles Fishman of Fast Company for "How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change the World? One"
With exquisite insight and humor, Charles Fishman tackles what might seem like a pedestrian topic - the use of lightbulbs in the home - and shapes a beautiful and persuasive story about energy conservation and personal responsibility. A wonderful example of explanatory journalism, his story impacted people across the country, influencing energy use in thousands, if not tens of thousands of homes.
Commentary Winner
Steve Bailey of The Boston Globe for "Steve Bailey Downtown"
Whether he's flying to Key West for the scoop on junkets enjoyed by board members of the Middlesex County retirement system or telling the saga of John Walsh, a boot-strapping first-generation millionaire trying to crack into a posh old-money Beacon Hill cooperative, Bailey brings both a sense of outrage and shoe-leather reporting to his columns. Giving voice to the common man, his thorough reporting often brings attention and change to questionable practices.
Deadline Writing Winners
Ann Davis, Henny Sender and Gregory Zuckerman of The Wall Street Journal for "The Implosion of a Highflying Hedge Fund"
This superbly written account of the biggest hedge-fund collapse ever is classic storytelling for a broad audience, while also reflecting the sophistication that serious business readers deserve. The collapse was the result of risky investments in natural gas made mainly by a single brash energy trader, who, due to the reporting team's careful perseverance, happened to be the main source for the story.
Beat Writing Winner
Heather Landy of Fort Worth Star-Telegram for "Radio Shack CEO's Resume in Question"
Also nominated in the medium newspaper category, Landy's piece is testament to how quality beat reporting can serve as an effective public watchdog. Displaying remarkable ingenuity, the reporter discovered the resume inflation of Radio Shack's chief executive officer and tenaciously pursued leads until the truth came out and the CEO resigned.
News Services or Online Content Winner
Alistair Barr of MarketWatch for "Who Are the Short Sellers?"
Alistair Barr found a way into the shadowy world of short sellers that would have eluded less intrepid reporters. Providing detailed and fair analysis of a complex topic, Barr gives all sides of the issue solid scrutiny, revealing both the upside and downside of short-selling, while shedding light on an extraordinary, but poorly covered area of the financial markets.
Feature Writing Winner
Louis Uchitelle of The New York Times for "Rewriting the Social Contract"
A veteran of financial journalism, Uchitelle's breath of experience and profound perspective is evidenced through his exemplary body of work and a storytelling style that mixes anecdotal material with hard-nosed analysis. One terrific example is last year's feature Uchitelle wrote about a doctor who decided he wasn't making enough money, so he became a consultant on Wall Street and quickly became a multi-millionaire.
Television Daily Winners
Jim Popkin, Lisa Myers and Adam Ciralsky of NBC News for "Trophy"
This report revealed a secret effort by the US Army to thwart development of a new Israeli device called "trophy," designed to defend soldiers from rocket-propelled grenades. Over an eight-month period, the reporting team uncovered the army's aim to protect a $70 million Raytheon contract to produce a competing product from scratch. Their timely story triggered a government accountability office investigation and a new law in Congress.
Television Enterprise Winners
Jeff Fager, Steve Kroft, Andy Court, Keith Sharman, Patti Hassler and Daniel J. Glucksman of CBS News 60 Minutes for "The Mother of All Heists"
In this stunning report, Steve Kroft and "60 Minutes" reveal the rampant corruption that has infected a succession of Iraqi governments since the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The investigation includes an allegation that at least half a billion dollars intended to equip the new Iraqi military was stolen by the very people the U.S. government had entrusted to run it.
Business Book Winner
Chris Anderson for "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" published by Hyperion Books
Anderson spins a thought-provoking argument about how the rise of the digital economy makes "hits" less important and niche products more dominant. From supermarket shelves to advertising agencies, the ability to offer vast choices is changing, from songs on iTunes to advertising on Google. Anderson argues that if the 20th century was about "hits," the 21st century will be about niches.
2007 Loeb Awards Honor Roll
Following are the 2007 Loeb Awards table sponsors:
Bloomberg News
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Bloomberg News
CBS News
Los Angeles Times
USA Today
The Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg News
Conde Nast Portfolio
Smith Barney
The Wall Street Journal
ABC News
Dow Jones Newswires
Fast Company
Financial Times
NBC News
The New York Times
In addition, we wish to express our gratitude to the underwriter of this year's Loeb Awards finalist seminar and all those who have donated items for this evening's gift bag.
Business Wire
Houghton Mifflin
The New York Times
The Penguin Press
UCLA Anderson School of Management
USA Today
The Loeb Awards also presented a career development seminar hosted by NASDAQ exclusively for the 2007 Loeb Awards finalists. The event took place this morning at the NASDAQ Marketsite headquarters. Featured presentations included: "Why Editing Matters" by Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Mathew Winkler and Lawrence Minard Editor Recipient Dan Kelly and "Winning on the Internet without Losing Your Soul" by several members of the Loeb Awards final judging panel.
About the Loeb Awards
Established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton, the Loeb Awards recognize journalists who have made significant contributions to the public's understanding of business, finance and the economy. The judges select winners based on quality of reporting and writing, news and analytical value, originality and exclusivity, and in the broadcast categories only, production value and visual impact. UCLA Anderson School of Management has presented the awards since 1973. For more information about the Loeb Awards, please visit the Loeb Awards Web site at http://loeb.anderson.ucla.edu or call the Loeb Awards office at (310) 206-1877.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the very best business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are ranked #1 in "intellectual capital" by BusinessWeek and are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,600 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 35,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.