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Hey dude. Give me a bit because christmas is just around the corner. I want to get 2-3 more of them heat sinks. I just got back in the house from kicking some ***. Ran the batteries down to 11.6 volts. The fan on the ESC came on once. I hit 89 degrees on the motor. It is 45 degrees outside but man I've been pushing it hard. When I first got that heat sink from you I didn't know if it was going to stay on my car. Thats why I zip tied the wire over the top of the brace. If you would like an updated pic... it is now where it is supposed to go. The heat sink is here to stay !!! I love it !!!
Yea it looks great on there and it's not going to go anywhere for sure. and if u ever need a few more sets same discount to you josh
Just got back in from some night bashing. Didn't crash but this happened. This is another thing that Traxxas should update for these cars. Front wheel drive sucks !!! Going to replace right now and go back out. YUCK !!!
WOW looks like it snapped like a twig!!! Good thing u have spares
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This has happened quite a few times already. Just got back in the house after replacing the junk. Everything is just fine again !!!! I guess things have to break otherwise Traxxas wouldn't make any money. But man if this stuff broke under hard acceleration someone might get hurt or killed !!! These parts need to be beefed up !!!!
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are you running traxxas steal cvd's? or the stock drivelines that come in a xo-1? if you have spare xo-1 drivelines you have some serious brass in your pockets (in other words alot of money lol) also if you have spare xo-1 drivelines, where are you purchassing them?
kawasaki summit, revo& slash; regular rusty, pede
Just stock Xo-1 axles. When I first bought this car and started breaking stuff I stocked up pretty well on parts. All that broke was the one part of the axle. $5.00. For whatever reason it broke is beyond me. Thats the third time that happened now. And they broke when either getting on the brakes or on the gas. Not from crashing. I think its a little crazy.
still unhappy with my rear so a little mod to remove the slop
what i did here is i cut the original suspension pin down, and replace the rear screw pins in the axle carrier. use a m3x4mm set screw to hold it in place.
after a while i notice my rod ends they're getting a little loose. i could actually spin the ball inside and not feel a bit of friction. use a lighter to soften the rod ends and use your finger and gently squeeze them together. dont get too happy with the fire though or you'll melt the thing.
Really great mods... Am following your lead with my new XO
XO-1 MD custom lipo tray for the fans.
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Of course What do you expect, there not going to do all the work for you. If they did all these mod refinements the price of the model would be more than $1000 new. They did manage to get the car to do 100 mph out of the box even with the stock sloppy susspension but i like and admire how you do these mods an i'm interested in doing what your doing on your x0-1, i'll following up on your list, thanks.
Yea I'm guessing my expectation was bit high. Love the car now and the way it handles
Hey send me your replies to my email address firstname.lastname@example.com from the ebay messages i was contacting you from, thanks
Thought this thread should be brought back to the top. FartOfDoom's Mods work awesome. If you are a new XO-1 owner you need to read this thread and get rid of steering slop. That is the biggest downfall to the XO-1. But after you do some or all of these Mods it makes this car drive like a dream !!!
I will be looking into these mods as well. Only 2 more hours till the end of the day, then I can FINALLY pick her up from the mailroom.
Got a cooling fan/heat sink from FartOfDoom and i must say its really good quality, and that little fan moves a lot of air. Thanks Vinh
Could you re-post your photos? I believe the links are dead....im currently in the process of removing the slop from front/rear.


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It started out as an embarrassment of riches for fans of hip-hop; not one but two rap bonanzas, each featuring some huge names in the field.
Sure, both Supafest 4 and the inaugural Movement Festival were to take place on the same days in Sydney (April 26), Melbourne (April 27) and Brisbane (April 28) but fans would at least get to choose between the classy, credible likes of Nas and 2 Chainz at Movement, and chart-conquering stars 50 Cent and T.I. at Supafest. Both festivals were also scheduled to visit Perth (Supafest on April 25 and Movement on April 30).
But now hip-hop fans will have to make alternative plans for their Anzac Day weekend. Movement has been cancelled and Supafest has been postponed until November.
A press release from Live Nation and Niche Productions, the joint promoters of Movement, said: "Recent developments, including the withdrawal of Angel Haze (due to a clash in recording commitments) and more recently 2 Chainz (due to visa issues resulting from a pending unresolved court case) led to a change of venues in some markets, which has prompted patron feedback that the event no longer reflected what had been advertised.
"Live Nation and Niche launched Movement with the intention of providing a well-organised, fully funded, multi-artist hip-hop and urban music festival to overcome the disappointment that has occurred in the past due to event cancellations and talent withdrawals from similar events in recent years.
"Despite their best endeavours, the producers have been unable to fulfil their commitment and, as such, it has been determined that the festival will not go ahead."
Meanwhile, a post on the Supafest website this afternoon stated that "there was difficulty completing venue contract arrangements for the Melbourne and Brisbane legs of the festival and, as such, [organisers have] been unable to proceed with the tour at this time".
Promoter Dwayne Cross said: "We want Supafest 4 to be the biggest and best urban-music festival in Australia and we want it to be here for our fans every year. This year we simply need more time to get it right."
Refunds to both events will be granted as required. Supafest fans also have the option of retaining their tickets for the rescheduled November event, at which organisers are "optimistic that all artists currently promoted on the bill will be available and willing to be part of".
And if all the great acts these events promised eventually do make it to Australia, perhaps next time someone will have the foresight to ensure they don't play on the same dates.

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Another boat with a crane would start lowering the box to the seafloor later in the day. Engineers hope it will be the best short-term solution to controlling the leak that has only worsened since it began two weeks ago.
The waters at the spill site Thursday morning were calm with some clouds in the sky, though visibility was good. Roughly a dozen other ships either surrounded the spill site or could be seen in the distance.
Thick, tar-like oil surrounded the boat for as far as the eye could see. The pungent scent of oil could be smelled even in the bridge of the boat.
The Joe Griffin was expected to meet up with another BP-chartered boat, the Boa Sub C, a Norwegian vessel that will use a crane to lower the contraption to cover the gusher of oil spewing from the seabed – something that has never been tried before at such depths. BP spokesman Bill Salvin said the drop is expected at about noon Thursday.
"We're even more anxious," the Joe Griffin's first mate, Douglas Peake, said. "Hopefully, it will work better than they expect."
A rapid response team planned to head to the Chandeleur Islands off Louisiana's coast Thursday to look into unconfirmed reports that oil from the spill had arrived there, Coast Guard Petty Officer Erik Swanson said.
The boat hauling the specially built containment box and dome structure pushed off Wednesday evening from the Louisiana coast. The dome-like top of the structure is designed to act like a funnel and siphon the oil up through 5,000 feet of pipe and onto a tanker at the surface. Oil has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of at least 200,000 gallons a day since an offshore drilling rig exploded and sank last month, killing 11 people.
"We're a little anxious. They're gonna try everything they can. If it don't work, they'll try something else," Capt. Demi Shaffer told The Associated Press aboard his boat just after it set off. The AP is the only news organization with access to the containment effort.
A 12-man crew aboard a supply boat was carrying the precious cargo. The 280-foot Joe Griffin, owned by Edison Chouest Offshore, also was involved in helping fight the fire that resulted from the oil rig explosion. The vessel is named for a boat captain who worked with company founder Edison Chouest, when Chouest was still in the shrimping business.
The operator of the oil rig, BP PLC, has tried several high-tech undersea tactics to cap the leak. The containment dome endeavor is unprecedented and engineers are fully aware of the risks.
First, crews need to properly position the four-story structure above the well as it sinks deep into the mud at the bottom of the Gulf with the help of a remote-controlled robotic submarine. A steel pipe will be attached to a tanker at the surface and connected to the top of the dome to move the oil.
"It's very dark down there … and we will have lights on the (submersibles), and we know exactly where to put this and guide it into place," said David Clarkson, BP's vice president for project execution.
That process presents several challenges because of the frigid water temperature – about 42 degrees Fahrenheit – and exceptionally high pressure at those depths. Those conditions could cause the pipe to clog with what are known in the drilling industry as "ice plugs." To combat that problem, crews plan to continuously pump warm water and methanol down the pipe to dissolve the clogging.
They are also worried about volatile cocktail of oil, gas and water when it arrives on the ship above. Engineers believe the liquids can be safely separated without an explosion.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry tried to moderate expectations that the containment box would be a silver bullet.
"I know we are all hoping that this containment system will work, but I want to remind everybody that this containment system is a first of its kind deployed in 5,000 feet of water," Landry said.
Asked to handicap the odds of success, Bob Fryer, a senior executive vice president for BP's Deep Water Angola, offered up this assessment: "This has never been done before. Typically you would put odds on something that has been done before."
Fryer also said BP is exploring a technique in which crews would reconfigure the well that would allow them to plug the leak, but that effort is a couple weeks off.
On Wednesday, good weather allowed 18 flights to drop 150,000 gallons of a chemical meant to break down the oil on the ocean surface, drag it into the water column and prevent it from floating to shore, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Blackwell, a spokesman for the oil spill command center in Robert, La.
Crews also skimmed a total of 588,000 gallons of an oil and water mixture and conducted five controlled burns. More fires are scheduled for Thursday.
The containment effort comes as dozens of boats were deployed across the Gulf to fight back the slick at the surface, including setting fires to burn off oil and laying booms to soak up the crude and block it from reaching the coast.
While people anxiously wait for the mess to wash up along the coast, globules of oil are already falling to the bottom of the sea, where they threaten virtually every link in the ocean food chain, from plankton to fish that are on dinner tables everywhere.
Hail-size gobs of oil with the consistency of tar or asphalt will roll around the bottom, while other bits will get trapped hundreds of feet below the surface and move with the current, said Robert S. Carney, a Louisiana State University oceanographer.
"The threat to the deep-sea habitat is already a done deal – it is happening now," said Paul Montagna, a marine scientist at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
Scientists say bacteria, plankton and other tiny, bottom-feeding creatures will consume oil, and will then be eaten by small fish, crabs and shrimp. They, in turn, will be eaten by bigger fish, such as red snapper, and marine mammals like dolphins.
The petroleum substances that concentrate in the sea creatures could kill them or render them unsafe for eating, scientists say.
"If the oil settles on the bottom, it will kill the smaller organisms like the copepods and small worms," Montagna said. "When we lose the forage, then you have an impact on the larger fish."
Making matters worse for the deep sea is the leaking well's location: It is near the continental shelf of the Gulf where a string of coral reefs flourishes. Coral is a living creature that excretes a hard calcium carbonate exoskeleton, and oil globs can kill it.
Scientists are watching carefully to see whether the slick will hitch a ride to the East Coast by way of a powerful eddy known as the "loop current," which could send the spill around Florida and into the Atlantic Ocean. If that happens, the oil could foul beaches and kill marine life on the East Coast.
The cause of the rig explosion is still not known, but investigators from multiple federal agencies are looking into the matter. The rig owner, Transocean Ltd., said in a filing with regulators Wednesday that it has received a request from the Justice Department to preserve information about the blast.
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A Texas man was indicted today for his role in a Ponzi Scheme estimated to have pulled in $4 million of investor funds. Christopher Blackwell, 32, was charged with two counts of wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. 1343. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of twenty years in federal prison along with a $250,000 fine.
Prosecutors allege that Blackwell, operating AV Bar Reg Inc. and Millers A Game LLC, claimed to have an established trading program in which investors could receive gains of 25% - 30% per month. In attempting to bolster his credibility and reputation, Blackwell made a variety of representations concerning his academic and professional background. These claims included masters and doctoral degrees from a Spanish university and previous employment at Goldman Sachs and the Bank of Madrid. All of these claims were false.
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Mark Wilson July 18th, 2010
Looking west over the Wasatch Mountains into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah. Note the beautiful syncline in the center of the image. Flying across the western United States is such a treat for a geologist. These are the kind of structures the Wooster Utah team is enjoying this summer.


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Brewers pile on runs to back Garza's solid effort
MILWAUKEE -- Short of Bernie Brewer flipping a hidden switch at Miller Park, how does one account for the sudden awakening of an offense from a summer slumber?
Brewers left fielder Khris Davis can't explain it, and did not seem particularly bothered.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- Short of Bernie Brewer flipping a hidden switch at Miller Park, how does one account for the sudden awakening of an offense from a summer slumber?
Brewers left fielder Khris Davis can't explain it, and did not seem particularly bothered.View Full Game Coverage
"When it comes," Davis said, "you just have to collect."
The Brewers collected Thursday to the tune of 10 hits including three home runs, more than enough to send a sensational Matt Garza to a 9-1 win over the Mets. It was Milwaukee's sixth victory in eight games after losing 11 of the previous 12.
Davis, Ryan Braun and Jonathan Lucroy homered for the home team -- Davis taking the team lead with No. 17 this season, Braun sending one 445 feet to left field and Lucroy belting his third home run of the homestand. Braun, Davis, Lucroy and Jean Segura drove in two runs apiece. Every starting position player but Braun and Aramis Ramirez had scored a run by the end of the third inning, and Braun joined that list in the seventh.
This offensive turnaround has happened in a hurry.
During the stretch in which the Brewers lost 11 of 12 games, they were outscored, 71-33, averaged 2.75 runs per game and hit only six home runs -- or one for every two games. But in winning six of their last eight, Brewers batters have outscored opponents, 45-24, averaged 5.63 runs per game and hit 13 home runs -- or better than three for every two games.
"I don't know why," manager Ron Roenicke said. "With the pitching staff we have, I'd like to hope and think the offense doesn't all go cold like we did, because I think if we're more consistent with it, I would think, with our staff, we would be able to -- we may have some bad stretches, but not have a streak where you're losing a lot in a row."
"That time when we were struggling to score runs, we just kept chipping away and got through the break," Davis said. "There was definitely frustration, being a younger player. At the same time, I had these vets around me that reminded me we're going to go through situations like this. They kept reminding me and Scooter [Gennett] to grind it out. These guys have been through it."
Their words carried weight.
"It's comforting," Davis said. "The confidence never goes away, but sometimes you have to get through it."
A homer for Lucroy put the Brewers on the board in the first inning Thursday against Mets right-hander Dillon Gee, who entered the night with a 2.92 ERA in 10 starts and saw it balloon to 3.49 after he allowed six runs on six hits in five innings. Segura's two-run triple highlighted a four-run second inning, and Rickie Weeks and Davis delivered back-to-back doubles with one out in the third inning to make it a 6-0 game.
"I thought a couple of them were actually decent pitches, but it just seemed like everything they swung at, they hit hard tonight," Gee said. "You just have those nights sometimes where it definitely just isn't your day to be out there, I guess."
Garza endured one of those days last week. He recorded only one out five days earlier against the Nationals, but pitched a 1-2-3 first inning against the Mets with help from third baseman Ramirez and first baseman Mark Reynolds on an inning-ending defensive gem.
"You could see him right away, attacking the zone with his fastball," Roenicke said. "He was very confident coming into it."
The Mets' only hit through six innings belonged to Wilmer Flores, who hit a sharp grounder that was snagged in foul ground by a diving Ramirez, who could not get enough on a throw across the diamond to record an out. The Mets didn't move a runner past first base until Lucas Duda hit a solo home run with one out in the seventh.
That briefly made it 7-1, but Braun answered with his long, two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to extend Milwaukee's lead.
Garza snapped a two-start losing streak and dropped his ERA back into the threes (3.87) by allowing only one run on two hits in eight innings, with one walk and four strikeouts.
"Personally, it was just getting back to where I've been," Garza said. "Keep pitching, keep attacking. The last outing was what it was. I threw good pitches but stuff kept falling. Tonight, it was ground balls to our guys and they kept most of the stuff in the yard.
"The bigger thing is just, I kept this thing rolling. … I didn't want to be the one to stop it."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy.


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(Corrects to July jobless rates report from June, paragraph 6)
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Sunday that a fresh round of monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve would not help the fragile U.S. economy.
A stream of disappointing economic news has underpinned expectations that the central bank will do more to stimulate growth with a third round of bond purchases, also known as quantitative easing or QE3.
"I am sure the Fed is watching, will try to encourage the economy, but I don't think a massive new QE3 is going to help this economy," Romney said in an interview with CNN's "State of the Union" television program that was aired on Sunday.
"The Fed's first action, quantitative easing was effective to a certain degree. But I believe that the QE2, the second round of easing, I don't think it had the impact that they were hoping for," he said.
Romney, who has been stressing his business acumen and years as Massachusetts governor as reasons he can help heal the economy, has vowed to create 12 million jobs in his first four years in office should he beat Democratic President Barack Obama in the November election.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent in July, a reported released last week showed, prompting Romney to tear into Obama's handling of the economy, a key election issue.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve signaled that a new round of major support could be on the way if the recovery does not pick up.
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The Imagine Foundation in Jacksonville lives up to its motto, "Reaching out through the arts," as it presents a night of other-worldly fun Aug. 17. Catered to adults 18 years and older, the soiree is called Dark Gypsy Jubilee. Besides an art exhibition, the "art experience," as Executive Director Clare Lynd-Porter calls it, includes vendors, artists, fortune tellers and entertainers filling two floors of the historic home, once part of the underground railroad. Springfield's Mary Tumulty paints henna tattoos for $1 per minute, Paul Jurgens paints live on Amanda Greive, Anna Mulch reads tarot cards for $1 a minute, Dr. Joseph Kozma reads palms, as he did in Germany during World War II, and Solatus performs glow in the dark Shibari rope work. Learn more about The Imagine Foundation and Asa Talcott House that houses TIF at www.imaginearts.org.
Gypsy Jubilee
Friday, Aug. 17, 7-10pm
The Imagine Foundation, Asa Talcott House
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News sources are quoting a figure of 1.5 million cubic feet per second for the current flow of the Mississippi River at the Morganza spillway. That is a lot of water!
To get a visceral idea of how much water that is, my brother Mike from Sandy, Utah sent me some calculations describing how the flow at Morganza (above Baton Rouge) compares to the flow of the Colorado River. 1.5 million cfs is equal to 34.43526 acre feet / second. By comparison, the total capacity of Lake Powell is 24,322,000 acre feet; currently 53.99% full, available capacity 11,205,145 acre feet. The Upper Colorado Basin is supposed to provide an average of 7.5 million acre feet each year past Lees Ferry, Arizona. On Wednesday (May 11, 2011) the flow into Lake Powell was 31,862 cfs, and outflow was 14,791 cfs. Little Cottonwood Creek flood stage is around 500 cfs (coming down into Sandy from Alta and Snowbird).
Lake Powell capacity and percent full numbers are taken from http://lakepowell.water-data.com/. Lake Mead capacity and percent full numbers are taken from from http://lakemead.water-data.com/.
So at 1.5 million cfs, the Mississippi would deliver the annual flow past Lees Ferry in 2.52 days, would fill the currently available storage in Lake Powell in 3.77 days, and would then fill the available capacity in Lake Mead in another 4.96 days. That's a lot of water! If I could somehow capture and store 1 second of the current Mississippi flow, I could easily water my yard for the rest of my life. And they would never miss it!
You can read more about this at "The Control of Nature: Atchafalaya": (February 23, 1987):
That link is an old article by John McPhee about attempts to control nature, which is probably getting a lot of web traffic these days. If the Old River Control Structure were to fail, most of the flow of the Mississippi would flow down the Atchafalaya River, taking a much shorter route to the sea and leaving New Orleans and Baton Rouge along a backwater channel.
The interesting thing to Mike is that in the long term, the Mississippi Delta is eroding and subsiding while most of the sediment is funneled into deeper waters in the Gulf of Mexico. He further observes that to prevent the loss of the Delta and associated flooding from the ocean (especially during hurricanes), they should allow flooding from the Mississippi River to deposit sediment (mud) on the land, and probably need to let the Mississippi River take new channels to the Gulf every few hundred years.
And he's right. That long lobe of the Mississippi delta past New Orleans is called a "bird's-foot delta" because it looks like one. It's unnatural for a delta to form like that, and it's a consequence of 100 years of levees upriver and in the delta itself. He's right – all the sediment is going to exactly the wrong place.
There is a way to fix this.
The Morganza diversion needs to be a sediment trap:
We need clean water to flow down the Mississippi to New Orleans (thereby eroding and deepening the built-up channel), and muddy water to pass down the Atchafalaya (thereby building up that lower-elevation lobe). How can we separate the muddy water from the clean water? Build a sediment trap!
The Army Corps of Engineers needs to create a small lake at the point of the diversion. When muddy water flows into a lake, the mud settles to the bottom as sediment. Clear water flows beyond that inflow delta, and eventually flows out of the lake. This is why Lake Powell is getting filled up with sediment in its upper reaches, and why the Grand Canyon is sediment-starved. The lake should have two major outflow pipes: one positioned at the lake bottom close to the inflow, and the second positioned near the lake surface at the downstream end of the lake. The "bottom near the inflow" pipe feeds sediment-laden water down the Atchafalaya river. The "surface downstream" pipe feeds clear water down the Mississippi. After decades, and some big floods like the current one, the Atchafalaya lobe will build up and the New Orleans bird's-foot will erode away.
The Morganza spillway already has a stilling basin, but that's designed to dissipate energy, not separate out the sediment.
Yes, it will cost a lot of money to build the sediment trap, but the alternatives are a lot more expensive. What is the cost of relocating New Orleans and Baton Rouge? We are hoping to accomplish here a controlled stream capture and relocation of the sediment load. By the way, the natural event when a river distributary carves a new channel is called a "crevasse event." The river catastrophically breaks through the natural levee and forms a crevasse where the new channel pours out. A lot of people in the John McPhee article were terrified of a crevasse event happening on its own.
We need a sediment trap and decades of patience to let it work.


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Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
In my work I explored the idea of what a person thinks about and looks at when they're left by themselves for a time. In our society, we are constantly bombarded by messages from the media, politics, each other… but what happens when you take that influence away for a while? You can begin to form your own thoughts and ideas, free from such influence. I was led to look at this concept through extensive experimentation with, and exploration of, the pinhole camera, soon realising that I as the artist was shutting myself away and cutting myself off from the rest of the world, often for hours at a time. The quiet and still nature of many of my pinholes reflects the environment I often choose to place myself in, as well as my preferred state of mind – peaceful, reflective, calm.


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Derry authorities have said that the bomb, discovered under a car at the family home of a Catholic police officer, had been lit.
Currently the chief suspects in this attack, which is seen as the attempted murder of parents of a police officer, is the Real IRA. The bomb was discovered on Sunday night in a nationalist housing estate in Derry.
Superintendent Chris Yates told the Evening Standard, "The device had been initiated; it had the fuse lit on it but it failed to fully explode. We are treating it as a terrorist investigation and as attempted murder because anyone next to this when it exploded would have been seriously injured and possibly killed."
This is the second time this elderly couple has been targeted, however, they intend on staying in their home.
Yates said the police officer in question is showing great resolve. He said, "He has no intention of changing his chosen profession."
Early this month, on 9th April, the Real IRA had pledged to maintain their campaign of violent attacks on police and other authorities in Northern Ireland.
Yates said, "This is the equivalent of a military hand grenade."
He said the authorities would leave no stone unturned and appealed to the public for information.
The couple who were attacked, at Drumleck Drive, Shantallow, are pensioners. In 2009 their home was attacked using a similar device.
Dissident republicans have a history of targeting the police. Last April, new constable Ronan Kerr was killed when a device exploded under his car in Omagh, County Tyrone.
Derry has been named the UK Capital of Culture for 2013. Last October the office which was established to organize these cultural events was targeted.
The threat level in the area remains at high levels, according to minister and senior police.
Local politicians have condemned the attack.
Foyle MP Mark Durkan told the Derry Journal that the attack "was carried out with malice and all the worst possible fallout with calculation and forethought from those involved."
Tony Hassan, a Sinn Fein councilor said, "I call on those responsible to explain to our community just exactly what they hope to achieve by these futile actions. Your total and callous disregard for the community you are a part of defies logic."
Monsignor Eamon Martin, Diocesan Administrator, said, "The bomb placed outside the home of relatives of a PSNI officer demonstrates a reckless disregard for the sanctity of human life. The bomb endangered the lives of people living in the house and many in the surrounding area.
"I reiterate the right of men and women to choose to build up our community through serving as police officers. Those who are engaged in serving and protecting the public are themselves deserving of the support of the community."


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|Hendersonville Christian HS
In Spring 2013 (Sophomore): Verble qualified for four events and carded an average of 79.64 over his 14 rounds… made his best finish at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate (Mar. 17-19), shooting a 73+82=155 to tie for 33rd and finish +11… also shot his single-round low score of the year at the event, carding a first-round 73.
In Fall 2012 (Sophomore): Verble participated in one tournament in the fall, finishing three rounds of play… scored a 77+78+74=229 at the Skyhawk Classic (Oct. 7-9) at Paris Landing State Park to finish +13, his second-best round of the year.
In Spring 2012 (Freshman): Verble did not participate in any spring tournaments.
In Fall 2011 (Freshman): Verble played in two tournaments during the fall season, totaling six rounds of golf… shot a low round of 75 in the second round at the Murray State Invitational (Oct. 3-4)… finished with a stroke average of 77.8.
High School: Verble lettered four years in golf and four years in basketball while at Hendersonville Christian Academy… named the Team MVP of the golf team three consecutive years from 2008-10… posted a nine-hole stroke average of 36 over his career with the Crusaders.
Personal: Son of Marc and Lynn Verble… born January 30, 1992… full name is Kenneth "Maxx" Verble… majoring in EXPW/physical education and wellness with an emphasis in coaching.


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In November 2004, the German Honeynet Project deployed a classic GenII honeynet with a Redhat Linux 7.3 honeypot. Although this is a relatively old operating system release and an easy target for attackers, it surprisingly took around 2.5 months before the honeypot was successfully compromised - a marked contrast with the relatively quick compromise of the honeypots discussed in the incidents above. More information on this trend can be found in a previous KYE white paper "Know your Enemy: Trends".
On January 11th 2005, an attacker did successfully compromise the honeypot, using an exploit for the OpenSSL SSLv2 Malformed Client Key Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability present in the default Redhat Linux 7.3 distribution. This incident was unusual in that once the attacker had gained access to the compromised system, no phishing content was uploaded directly. Instead, the attacker installed and configured a port redirection service on the honeypot.
This port redirection service was designed to re-route HTTP requests sent to the honeypot web server to another remote web server in a transparent manner, potentially making the location of the content source harder to trace. The attacker downloaded and installed a tool called redir on the honeypot, which was a port redirector utility designed to transparently forward incoming TCP connections to a remote destination host. In this incident the attacker configured the tool to redirect all incoming traffic on TCP port 80 (HTTP) of the honeypot to TCP Port 80 (HTTP) on a remote web server in China. Interestingly, the attacker did not bother to install a rootkit to hide their presence on the honeypot, which suggests that the attacker did not value the compromised server too highly and that they were not particularly worried about being detected.
The command used by the attacker to establish port redirection was:
redir --lport=80 --laddr=<IP address of honeypot> --cport=80 --caddr=221.4.XXX.XXX
In addition, the attacker modified the Linux system start up file /etc/rc.d/rc.local to ensure that the redir port redirector service would be restarted if the honeypot system was rebooted, improving the chance of survival for their port redirection service. They then began to send out spam phishing emails which advertised the honeypot, an example of which can be found here (note that relevant sensitive information has been obfuscated).
To further investigate the activities for the phisher, members of the German Honeynet Project intervened and covertly modified the configuration of the attacker's redir tool installed on the honeypot, enabling logging within the redir application itself, to more easily observe how many people received a spam email advertising the honeypot and then clicked on a hyperlink to access the transparently redirected phishing content. Within a period of about 36 hours, 721 unique IP addresses were redirected, and once again we were surprised by how many users were apparently being tricked into accessing such content through phishing emails. An analysis of the IP addresses accessing the port redirector honeypot can be found here (note that this information has been sanitized to protect the users who accessed the phishing content, and again only IP data was logged during this research. No confidential user data was captured).
A summary timeline of the incident is provided below:
|Date / Time
|1st Nov 2004
|First network probe data of honeypot
|11th Jan 2005 - 19:13
|Honeypot OpenSSL service compromised, port redirector installed and phishing spam sent
|11th Jan 2005 - 20:07
|Web requests for phishing content begins to arrive at honeypot
|13th Jan 2005 - 8:15
|Honeypot taken offline for forensic analysis


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The 10.5-inch iPad Pro is immensely powerful, portable, and capable, while the A10X Fusion chip delivers more power than most PC laptops. The redesigned Retina display is more responsive and immersive with smoother scrolling and swiping. Combined with Apple Pencil, the Smart Keyboard, a 12MP camera, 7MP FaceTime HD camera, up to 10 hours of battery life, Wi-Fi, LTE, Touch ID, Apple Pay, and iOS—the most advanced mobile operating system—iPad Pro is designed for the world we live in today.
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BERLIN — Police say a sapling cloned from the tree that lifted Anne Frank's spirits while she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam has been felled and stolen from outside a school in Frankfurt bearing the name of the Jewish teenage diarist.
Spokesman Manfred Fuellhardt said Wednesday the 8-foot tree was felled over the weekend in the grounds of the Anne Frank School.
Anne Frank, who was born in Frankfurt and died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, made several references to the original chestnut tree outside her home in the diary that she kept during the 25 months she hid indoors.
It blew over in a storm in 2010 but scores of cloned saplings have been planted around the world, including the one donated to the Frankfurt school in 2008.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern softball team returned home on Tuesday and split with Mississippi College, dropping the first game, 4-3, but winning game two 6-1.
The Panthers move to 9-3, while the Choctaws are now 10-6.
In the first game, BSC got on the board first with two runs in the bottom of the first inning, courtesy of an RBI double from freshman Taylor Bassett and an RBI single from junior Brittany Berkopec. MC responded with four runs in the top of the second. BSC scored once more in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI single by freshman Bethany Fronk, but was unable to score again, giving the Choctaws the 4-3 victory.
Senior Ronni Ferris took the loss in the circle after giving up four hits and all four earned runs in 1.1 innings. Fronk came in for the remaining 5.2 innings and allowed four hits with two strikeouts. Ferris also had one strikeout.
The Panthers recorded nine total hits, one more than Mississippi College, led by Bassett, Fronk, and senior Ashley Bice with two hits each.
In the nightcap, the Choctaws scored early, putting a run on the board in the top of the first, and kept the 1-0 lead until the bottom of the fifth, when an RBI double from Bice tied things up. After a pitching change, Bassett hit a two-run home run to put the Panthers up 3-1. BSC added three more runs in the bottom of the sixth on another RBI from Bice and a two-run single by Bassett.
Senior Beth Lefler was the pitcher of record, moving to 3-0 on the season after giving up seven hits with three strikeouts in five innings. Fronk came in for the final two innings and got the save, her third of the year, allowing three hits with two strikeouts.
Hits were even at 10 for each team, but MC committed four errors to BSC's one. Bice led at the plate, going 3-of-4, while Bassett was 2-of-3 and led with four RBI. Freshman Erin Lopez was also 2-of-4 at the plate.
The Panthers are at home again this Friday, taking on Marion Military Institute in a 4 p.m. doubleheader.


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The move comes as Vestas looks to cut costs and outsource parts of the business. It said 150 jobs across the EMEA region would be affected, although some of these would be transferred to to DB Schenker.
DB Schenker is a freight subsidiary of German train operator Deutsche Bahn.
Vestas said the new spare parts network would largely be located in Leipzig, Germany, with three additional warehouses in Bucharest, Romania, Ourense in Spain and Umea in Sweden. Elsewhere, 75 "emergency-stock locations'' would provide a 2-3 hour wait for parts.
Speaking about the move, Tommy Rahbek Nielsen, Vestas' global senior vice president of supply chain planning, said : "Our supply chain setup becomes more scalable because we can open and close depots depending on service contracts with customers and adjust our warehouse capacity as the demand fluctuates."
Earlier this year, Vestas said it was looking to offload some of its factories involved in machining or producing raw materials.
Vestas chief executive Ditlev Engel said earlier this month that the company was still looking to cut staff and costs: "More than 5,000 jobs were cut last year. So we're close to 17,000 staff and want to get to 16,000, so there's still another 1,000-plus that have to go, and that will come from further optimisation of the organisation and divestments."


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Ashley Brooke Harrison and Matthew Thomas Jones wed in Beulaville
Ashley Brooke Harrison and Matthew Thomas Jones were united in marriage at 6 p.m. May 25, 2013, at Mike�s Farm in Beulaville. The Rev. Brian Rogers officiated the double-ring ceremony.
Escorted by her father and given in marriage by her parents, the bride is the daughter of Allen and Bonnie Harrison of Snow Hill. She is the granddaughter of Lillie Harrison of Snow Hill and the late Ed Harrison, Lannie Moore of Hookerton and the late Gene Moore.
A graduate of Mt. Calvary Christian Academy, she received a cosmetology license from Lenoir Community College. She is an appointment secretary with Physicians East in Greenville.
The groom is the son of Lee and Pam Jones of Farmville. He is the grandson of Bud and Annie Johnson of Ormondsville, Jean Jones of Farmville and the late Jimmie Lee Jones.
A graduate of Bethel Christian Academy, he received an associate�s degree in animal science from Wayne Community College. He is employed with Lee Jones Farms.
Following a wedding trip to Aruba, the couple resides in Ormondsville.
The bride wore a fitted lace mermaid-style gown with a sweetheart neckline. She carried a bouquet by Cheryl�s Floral.
Stacey Howell of Ormondsville served as matron of honor.
Maid of honor was Hannah Fortune of Knightdale.
Bridesmaids were Megan Stern of Fort Leonardwood, Miss.; Sarah Young of Knightdale; Courtney Howell of Goldsboro; and Rebecca Harrison and Dana Newby, both of Ayden.
Kailyn Stern was flower girl.
The groom�s father served as his son�s best man.
Groomsmen were Jacob Sutton and Josh Potter of Kinston, Josh Harrison of Ayden, Josh Howell of Snow Hill, Justin Howell of Goldsboro and Billy Stern.
Cole Howell was ring bearer.
Lilly Howell and Colton Stern were miniature bride and groom.
Wedding music was provided by Duncan Butler, guitarist.
The wedding was directed by Connie Miller. Register attendants were Crystal Murphy, Micah Creel and Jordan Kennedy.
Immediately following the ceremony, the bride�s parents hosted a reception at Mike�s Farm. DJs Luke and Lisa Vail entertained guests.
The bride was honored with a lingerie shower given by Rebecca Harrison.
Pam Jones was hostess for a bridal shower at Grimsley Church.
The mother of the bride honored her daughter with a bridal shower at The Folded Napkin in Kinston.
A bachelorette party was given by Courtney Howell in Wilmington.
Stacey Howell hosted a bridal luncheon at the Old Plantation House in Snow Hill.
On May 24, the groom�s parents hosted a rehearsal dinner at Mike�s Farm.


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Let this post be a warning to anyone that considers themselves internet savvy: Older adults need just as much online literacy and safety classes as young kids when they go online. According to NPR, internet scams are up double to triple last year. Beware and warn your loved ones!
A company called Thrive Learning Institute out of Utah contacted my mother last Sunday and got her to sign up for online eBay and drop-ship marketing scheme where people buy into the pyramid (my opinion) for several thousand to $30,000 depending on how susceptible to the BS they are. In my mother's case she's in for $15,200. The RipOffReport has over 100 reports on Thrive Learning and their biller, Summit Group, and this post at Midwest Journal Press is good and also this one at Scam.com.
The "learning" they offer is the same as what one can get at the local library or community college for a couple hundred dollars. Her credit card company (Wells Fargo) has not been helpful. I've contacted the IC3 FBI white collar crime unit, the US Postal Police, and the BBB to investigate. Read beyond the jump for more details.


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Conflict of interest on Keystone?
A contractor that worked on the State Department's environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline is a member of several energy industry groups that have urged the government to support the project — news that is sure to further opponents' accusations of bias.
Climate activists have already complained about alleged conflicts of interest by the London-based firm Environmental Resources Management, a company that worked on a State Department draft study concluding that TransCanada's Alberta-to-Texas pipeline would pose little risk to the environment. The department's inspector general is also conducting a probe into possible conflicts of interest in the pipeline review process.
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While a previous State Department investigation found no conflicts of interest, the latest information could further roil a debate that has already turned Keystone into a political headache for the Obama administration, a campaign issue for Republicans in 2014 and a source of tension between the U.S. and Canada.
Websites or promotional material of the Western Energy Alliance, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association all list ERM as a member. In addition, two top ERM staffers are listed on the boards of the Western States Petroleum Association — another coalition of energy interests that supports the Keystone pipeline network.
Greens had already seized on ERM's membership in the powerful American Petroleum Institute, another supporter of the pipeline.
ERM declined to make a spokesperson available for comment Monday after POLITICO contacted the company four times at its Washington and Houston offices. But in documents the company provided to the State Department in 2012, the company said that "no conflict of interest exists" with respect to its work on Keystone. It also said it "has no business relationship with TransCanada or its affiliates."
Environmental activists and other pipeline opponents say the ties raise new questions about whether the contractor can provide an unbiased assessment of the project's impact.
"They can't seem to tell the most basic truth about their affiliations and work history," Ross Hammond, senior campaigner with the anti-Keystone, environmental nonprofit Friends of the Earth.
ERM helped prepare a draft report in March in which the State Department concluded that the pipeline poses no significant environmental risk. Both supporters and critics are awaiting the department's final environmental study, which could come at any time.
All five of the trade associations and coalitions that ERM is part of have been vocal in their support for the pipeline, which would be part of a network carrying oil from Alberta's oil-sands region to the Texas Gulf Coast. Supporters say the project would create thousands of jobs and boost North American energy independence. Liberal activists and environmental groups say the pipeline would encourage a spike in oil production in western Canada, unleashing huge amounts of greenhouses gases into the atmosphere.
API has spent more than $6 million on all lobbying issues in 2013 alone, and the group has been vocal in its support for Keystone. (It's unknown how much of the lobbying money specifically went to championing Keystone.) The other energy trade associations that ERM is part of have been similarly supportive of the pipeline.