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An analysis of a military dating website hack in March shows how hackers can exploit weaknesses on social media sites and crack poorly protected passwords, and raises the question of whether government employees should "be held to a higher standard" when using such sites.
Data security company Imperva performed a breakdown of the hacker group LulzSec's attack on MilitarySingles.com, after which user names and passwords of 170,937 subscribers were posted. A key finding was that the attack was made easy by the very lifeblood of social networking sites: user-generated content.
Once inside, the hackers were able to crack weakly protected passwords, many of them belonging to users with military e-mail addresses, leading the reports authors to warn: "Social networking and the public sector don't mix."
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Sites that thrive on content uploaded by users operate on a level of trust that can be exploited, according to the report, which detailed how hackers got past MilitarySingles' filters.
MilitarySingles allowed users to upload their profile pictures. And although it had filters designed to restrict uploads to picture files only, the filters determined a file's validity according to its file extension, such as common image formats as .jpg, .gif or .bmp. As a result, a hacker could add, say, .jpg to a text file containing malicious code and upload it to the site.
The site's filter also trusted browsers to specify file types, which would allow an attacker to use a proxy to change a file name to one ostensibly containing a picture file without changing the file's content.
Imperva researchers found evidence that the hackers use this approach to change uploaded file names to PHP, a scripting language that would make it executable on the server. The report notes that PHP, used by about 77 percent of Web applications, is vulnerable to Remote File Inclusion attacks. "That's probably how the LulzSec attacker has obtained control over the server," the report states.
Once hackers had control of the servers, they also had access to the data, including passwords, which were hashed but with the MD5 algorithm that hadn't been strengthened. The report cites an IQ Security analysis concluding that 92 percent of the password hashes were cracked within nine hours.
(On top of having weak protection, many of the passwords were easily guessed. A word graphic built from the passwords used on the site shows many of the usual suspects as the most popular choices: "123456," "password" and "iloveyou" lead the way, followed by some that could be common among other military sites, such as "military," "marines," "ranger" and "freedom." Some first names, some animals and at one least expletive also were popular.)
Web 2.0 applications, including social networking sites, are here to stay, the report notes, adding that user-generated content, "the main driver of today's Internet, is also its Achilles' Heel."
When combining the risks of these types of applications hackers' increasing use of social engineering tricks to get inside networks and frequent targeting of government users, the report suggests that public employees might need to do more than other people to protect themselves. "Imperva calls into question if military and government employees should be held to a higher standard when it comes to social networking," the authors write.
A start on those higher standards would be password encryption on top of strong password policies. The report recommends using SHA-2 hashes, such as SHA-256, as recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and adding "salt," or random bits that make cracking the algorithm even more difficult.
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It's nice to see the horror genre represented in the Tribeca Film Festival and one notable entry this year is the Korean thriller "Possessed." While its foundation is indeed a horror film, it's built upon a well-crafted police procedural with an abundance of the supernatural and macabre.
The film's protagonist, Hee-jin, returns to her hometown when her mother informs her that her 13-year-old sister, So-jin, has disappeared. So-jin, hasn't quite been the same since the recent car accident that killed their father, which she miraculously survived.
In fact, things around the apartment building they live in have been pretty strange of late, what with all the gruesome and bizarre suicides occurring there on a near daily basis.
As with any good horror film, we have a rational, ineffective police detective who dismisses Hee-jin's theory that other, darker forces are at work behind the suicides and possibly her sister's disappearance.
Add a religious zealot mother, a creepy female shaman neighbor, a nefarious cabal and some spiritual possession that would make Linda Blair proud and we've get an effectively spooky film.
The story unfolds at a deliberate pace that nicely ratchets up the tension when interspersed with an appropriate number of seat-jumping scares. Director and writer Lee Yong-ju has a knack for creating tension and anticipation, though a few of the startling frights are a tad cliché.
Lee Young-ju certainly has a grasp for successfully creating many horror elements that buttress the chilling mood of the film -- his surreal imagery, sparing use of an eerie soundtrack and smart visual style, all hold the film together nicely.
"Possessed" has many clever twists and plot elements that progress the tale, though it could stand some trimming of its narrative gristle. The minor detractions however do not sink the film and horror fans will be pleased as it delivers the ghoulish goods. "Possessed" is a creative and original work that is a nice edition to the Tribeca lineup.
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Unable to attend for the past two years, I marked MERFI 2012 on my calendar many months ago. Somehow time has flown by and it was already three years ago that I last landed in Urbana during the regional EAA fly-in. Gina made the trip with me this year. We took off from Stewart around 9:30 in the morning and were in the pattern at Grimes Field just over 30 minutes later. The place was hopping, the pattern full, and the CTAF clogged, but we sequenced in nicely and I made a safe landing.
2012 or 1942? Just your average summer morning in Waynesville...
First on the agenda was breakfast. It's not a proper fly-in without pancakes and sausage, now is it? Both of us scarfed down everything on our plates and then wandered around for a while.
The entrance, a nice homage to the infamous Brown Arch
Quite the tasty spread, especially for five bucks!
I went to an FAA Safety Team seminar at 11:00 about runway incursions that counted towards my WINGS credit. Gina wasn't very interested in the merits of proper phraseology on our taxiways so she continued to roam around the airport. After the seminar, which was pretty good, I had the chance to meet up with Samuel. He's another pilot who flies at Stewart who I'd only spoken with electronically up to this point. It's always enjoyable to meet folks who fly there and read the blog!
Gina wandered back over and I said goodbye to Samuel. My bride and I then headed over to the Champaign Aviation Museum for a few minutes to escape the heat and look at their B-25 and B-17. Eventually it was time to head home so we walked back over to the 150 around 1:00.
Here's where the day got interesting...
We took off and I noticed a weird sound shortly after leaving the ground, but beyond the point when I would have landed back on the runway. It quickly became an extremely loud banging noise. At first, I thought it might be an engine problem but all the gauges were in the green and I didn't see anything odd outside. Then I figured it was probably something hanging out the door, but we both checked our seatbelts and headsets and it felt like everything was inside the airplane.
Still, something wasn't right and the noise was really loud. I immediately decided it was best to sort this out on the ground and made a quick lap around the pattern, returning to land on Runway 20. In the end, it was my seatbelt; the very end of it, only an inch or so, had gotten stuck in the door when I pulled it closed. It was so small that I couldn't tell it was caught when I tugged on the belt to check it. But it was certainly big enough to make a heck of a racket banging against the airplane in the wind.
Unedited (other than some added commentary) video of the takeoff and precautionary landing
Problem solved, I started the airplane back up and we again taxied down to the end of the runway for departure. There were about four planes in front of us so we were sitting there at idle for a few minutes before it was our turn. Onto the runway, full power, and...
Well, just watch the video below.
Our second attempt to leave resulted in an aborted takeoff - here's the unedited footage
My best guess, as narrated in the video, is that we were in that magical temperature/humidity range and carburetor ice formed while we were waiting in line for takeoff. I had done a run-up and checked the carb heat; everything performed normally. However, it was a few minutes later that we finally rolled onto the runway for takeoff. Thankfully, it happened within seconds of pushing the throttle in and we were still on the ground.
You may be wondering if I felt we were doomed at this point. Honestly, I wasn't. Although at the time I was thought it was an issue with the carburetor accelerator pump (the carb ice idea didn't cross my mind until discussing it with other pilots later) everything else appeared normal. I did two extended, full-power run-ups and had no issues so I felt confident that everything checked out mechanically. We took off and - finally - headed home on an uneventful, 30-minute flight. Third time's the charm, eh?
More of Stewart's unique normalcy - all these planes were preparing for a stadium flyover
As you can imagine, this was a great learning experience. I feel as though I did the right thing in both instances. Diagnosing a problem on the ground and flying the airplane first (aviate, navigate, communicate!) is always the best option. I'm also a bit surprised that carb ice didn't cross my mind when the engine lost power and ultimately died. Still, I checked everything I could check prior to deciding to fly home and it all checked out. I also know that I'll likely never forget to consider carb ice in the future if I experience anything similar.
And lest I forget, the fly-in was a lot of fun too! :)
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and I want some of my old files..
But apparently this forum may have been visited by Jeb (KSP reference, keyword: The Day Jeb Was Left In Charge of the Servers) some time in the past..
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Does any1 still has HomingMissile.rar from this post?
I attempted to download it but I cannot open it at all...
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The Dillon Town Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a budget of more than $8.4 million for 2013. Salaries and benefits for employees take up 40 percent of the budget. Capital projects such as street maintenance and town center improvements claim 16 percent. The remainder goes toward operating costs and debt repayment.
When putting together the proposed 2013 budget this year, town officials kept revenue estimations static because of a sluggish economy. However, the presentation of the finalized budget did show some increases. Total revenues for the 2013 budget increased by more than $110,000 because of an increase in sales tax and lodging tax collections from August and September and updated business licenses, charges for services, interest earnings, water volume charges and marina revenues.
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Total expenditures increased from those reported in the proposed 2013 budget by more than $1,800. However, the additional revenues mentioned above "more than covered the increase in expenditures," said finance director Carri McDonnell.
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UPDATE: 11:45AM – Kumi has been arrested and is being taken to Greenland in a helicopter.
As he climbed the 30 metre ladder rig operators tried to stop him making it to the platform by dousing him with a freezing jet of water fired from a powerful water cannon.
But, despite being soaked to the skin and freezing cold, Kumi made it to the top to deliver the 50,000 strong petition and demand that Cairn immediately halt drilling operations and leave the Arctic.
In a final radio transmission to the Esperanza he said:
"It looks like I'm being arrested now. They say I'm going to be taken to Greenland, but what happens after that I don't know. I did this because Arctic oil drilling is one of the defining environmental battles of our age. I'm an African but I care deeply about what's happening up here. The rapidly melting cap of Arctic sea ice is a grave warning to all of us, so it's nothing short of madness that companies like Cairn see it as a chance to drill for the fossil fuels that got us into this climate change mess in the first place. We have to draw a line and say no more. I'm drawing that line here and now in the Arctic ice."
06:30 am - Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International has crossed into an exclusion zone and scaled a controversial Arctic oil rig 120km off the coast of Greenland.
At 6:45 am this morning an inflatable speedboat carrying Kumi was launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. It evaded a Danish navy warship that has been circling the rig for several weeks and delivered Kumi to the base of the rig where he climbed 30 metres up the outside of one of the platform's giant legs.
Before leaving the Esperanza he told us why he was doing it:After a freezing dash out from the coast of Greenland in a small boat to meet the Esperanza, I'm now preparing to leave again at first light to board the Cairn oil rig Leiv Eiriksson.With one companion I'll follow in the footsteps of the twenty Greenpeace activists who've gone before me in the past two weeks. Together they prevented Cairn's reckless deep sea oil drilling here in the Arctic for a total of five days.Most of them spent almost two weeks in jail and have been deported for their trouble. Cairn's response was an attempt to silence peaceful protest with a massive lawsuit against Greenpeace International. In it they demanded we pay 2 million euro for each day our action prevented their oil drilling operation. But, despite a small army of expensive lawyers, it didn't go Cairn's way in court. The judge awarded them far less than they asked for and even questioned why Cairn didn't publish its oil spill response plan as we asked.What's a spill response plan? It's the document that an oil company has to draw up explaining how it would clean up a spill. They are nearly always made public, but Cairn is keeping its one secret. Why? Because you can't clean up an Arctic oil spill, that's what the experts say, and publishing the plan would show that Cairn hasn't got a viable plan.We have made repeated requests for Cairn's oil spill plan, including phone calls, faxes, emails, a visit to the company's UK headquarters and finally our delegation of 18 boarding the rig. Cairn claims the Greenland authorities won't allow it to publish the spill plan, but Greenpeace has legal advice making it clear that Cairn could easily publish the plan if it wanted to. It's standard industry practice.Cairn is keeping the plan secret because it knows it is not worth the paper it is written on. Cairn is hiding it from the people of Greenland whose real economy depends on fisheries and a clean environment. It is hiding it from Greenpeace because it knows it cannot clean up a spill. It is hiding it from its investors who, if they knew the full extent of the risks, would think twice about investing. In the final hearing the court did stipulate that Greenpeace is liable for 50,000 euro for each further day we interfere with Cairn's drilling. It's far less than Cairn asked for, but still a significant sum.I have with me the names of 50,000 people who emailed Cairn to demand they publish their spill response plan. I am about to go aboard the rig to deliver those 50,000 names with a personal call that Cairn leaves the Arctic. For me this is one of the defining environmental battles of our age, it's a fight for sanity against the madness of those who see the disappearance of the Arctic sea ice as an opportunity to profit. As the ice retreats the oil companies want to send the rigs in and drill for the fossil fuels that got us into this mess in the first place. Fossil fuel driven climate change is already making life hard for millions. I have seen this first hand where I come from in Africa and it will only get worse unless we can phase out our addiction to oil.We have to draw a line somewhere and I say we draw that line here today.The Arctic oil rush is such a serious threat to the climate, to this beautiful fragile place and to our hopes for a better future that I felt we had no choice. So I volunteered to come to the rig and make a personal appeal backed by Greenpeace supporters everywhere to call for an end to this dangerous arctic oil drilling. Cairn has something to hide, they won't dare publish their plan to clean up an oil spill here in the Arctic, and that's because it can't be done. I'm going onto that rig to give them the names of fifty thousand people who've emailed them to demand they publish their plan, and I won't leave until I have it in my hands.
Born in 1965 and hailing from South Africa, Kumi Naidoo was Greenpeace's International Executive Director from November 2009 until December 2015.
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Thank you, from Norway :)
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Well done Kumi!
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Seriously badass!
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Greenpeace go home, Greenshit stay at home :D:D
You have no right to be en Greenlandic sea :P
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Aguante Kumi!!!!
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WASHINGTON -- The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex is getting a new headquarters and visitors' center courtesy of a big economic stimulus package.
A $9.8 million grant will enable the Los Banos-area network of refuges to build the long-deferred project. The newly announced grant is also making the San Luis refuge complex the nation's largest single recipient of new Fish and Wildlife Service economic recovery funds.
"This will provide for a much more welcoming opportunity for visitors," Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Alexandra Pitts said Monday.
The San Luis refuge complex funding is part of $280 million in Fish and Wildlife Service grants being spread nationwide. Other Central Valley refuges are getting a share, though the San Luis refuge is receiving more than any of the other 770 projects funded from coast to coast.
The money is new, billed as a way to support local jobs. The idea is familiar. Fish and Wildlife Service officials have been talking publicly about a new San Luis refuge center since at least 2002.
Once completed, the new center will host refuge visitors as well as Fish and Wildlife Service administrators currently stuffed into uninspiring quarters on West Pacheco Boulevard in Los Banos. The federal agency employs 30 full-time and 20 seasonal workers.
"They're in a strip mall," Pitts said. "They're not in a particularly functional space, because it was designed for retail."
The San Luis complex spans nearly 45,000 acres and includes the San Luis, Merced and San Joaquin River wildlife refuges as well as the Grasslands Management Area.
Migrating waterfowl love the region, as do endangered species including the San Joaquin kit fox. In the mid-1980s, the refuge complex also became notorious as the location of the since-drained Kesterson Reservoir, where selenium-tainted irrigation runoff accumulated and poisoned thousands of birds.
An estimated 120,000 visitors now come to the refuge complex annually. Officials estimate this could eventually triple, with the help of an attractive new interpretive center. The new center would be built on a two-acre site off Wolfsen Road, close to Los Banos and the southern entrance to the San Luis refuge.
"There would be increased opportunity for interaction between visitors and personnel, and increased environmental interpretation by refuge staff," an environmental assessment states, adding that local schools and colleges will also benefit.
The current leased facility in Los Banos costs more than any other Fish and Wildlife Service field office in California. The environmental assessment called this facility "inadequate for a large refuge complex" and one beset with "inherent problems" including poor communications, high energy and travel costs and undermined public safety.
The Merced National Wildlife Refuge, which is administered as part of the overall San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex, is separately receiving $25,000 for work on a canal. The Kern National Wildlife Refuge is receiving $67,000, and two refuges along the Sacramento River are receiving a total of $1.5 million.
All told, California refuges are receiving $22.3 million. This is considerably more than any other state. Texas refuges, which are second in funding, will receive $16 million.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the Fish and Wildlife Service grants Sunday, rolling out the latest wave of funding provided under a $787 billion economic stimulus package. National Park Service and Bureau of Reclamation grants have already been announced.


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RUSA STARS Workshop - Boston
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about ILL January 15, 2010
This system-neutral workshop will cover best practices in resource sharing, address ways you can best serve your users, and provide an excellent overview of the resources and support available to ILL practitioners. Whether you're new to resource sharing or have been providing services for years, this workshop will help you to reconsider your approaches, make decisions about user services,define best practices, and introduce you to ways you can best contribute to the resource sharing community while reflecting your own library's mission.
Our knowledgeable instructors are Cyril Oberlander (borrowing), Karen Janke (lending), Cindy Kristof (copyright), and Collette Mak (standards and resources).
This workshop will take place from 9:00-1:00 on Friday, January 15, 2010. Registration will begin at 9:00 and presentations will begin at 9:30. The workshop will be held in Room CO5/6 at the Boston Public Library. There is no charge to attend and refreshments will be served.
Registration has not yet opened for this workshop, but save the date and be on the lookout for an email with registration details coming soon. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Megan Gaffney <firstname.lastname@example.com>
RUSA STARS ILL Discussion Group
Saturday, January 16, 2010, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location and topics - to be determined
- Rethinking Resource Sharing
- International ILL issues
- Copyright
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FC Barcelona defeated Arsenal 3-1 this evening in Camp Nou. Lionel Messi scored twice — first on this pretty self-assist over the goalkeeper's head just before halftime, and second on a penalty kick in the 71st minute of play. With a 4-3 lead over Arsenal on aggregate, Barcelona will now go on to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League.
Arsenal played one man down after Robin van Persie was thrown out in the second half after a controversial second yellow card for "delaying time." He was called offside on a breakaway, and kicked the ball away after the whistle, which he claimed not to have heard over the din of nearly 100,000 drunk, screaming Spaniards. Likely story!:


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DOE doles out cash to AMD, Whamcloud for exascale research
Pushing compute, memory, and I/O to the limits
The burden of memory
On the memory front, DRAM failure rates are higher than expected and density improvements in memory chips are not coming fast enough. So DOE wants researchers to explore the use of in-memory processing – literally putting tiny compute elements in the memory to do vector math or scatter/gather operations – as well as the integration of various forms of non-volatile storage into exascale systems.
The nuke labs are thinking that 500GB of NVRAM Of some sort per socket will do the trick. While 4TB/sec of bandwidth is a baseline, DOE really wants 10TB/sec.
Parallel storage subsystems generally hold up better than compute nodes on exascale systems these days, with the DOE estimating that the meantime between application failure due to a storage issue being around 20 days. Without any substantial changes to storage architectures, that will drop to 14 days by 2020. Disk capacity is increasing at a decent clip, but disk performance is not. Solid state drives are fast, but they ain't cheap.
If availability is not as big of an issue for exabyte-class storage, then scale surely is. That exascale system in 2020 will have between 100,000 and 1 million nodes, and will have somewhere between 100 million and 1 billion computing elements, with somewhere between 30PB and 60PB of memory, and across which some sort of concurrency will have to be provided to run applications.
This behemoth will require from 600PB to 3,000PB of disk capacity. In effect, the disk array for an exascale compute farm will be an exascale system in its own right, with peak I/O burst rates on the order of 200TB/sec and metadata transaction rates on the order of 100MB/sec.
For the FastForward storage research projects, DOE wants a storage system that can keep the fully running exascale system fed, without crashing, for 30 days or more, and the mean time between unrecoverable data loss should be 120 days or higher – and do so with the storage array crammed to 80 per cent of capacity and performing full memory dumps from the system every hour.
Data integrity algorithms for storage can impose no more than 10 per cent overhead on the metadata servers at the heart of the storage array. Metadata insert rates are expected to be on the order of 1 million to 100 million per second, and lookup and retrievals are expected to be on the order of 100,000 to 10 million per second out of the metadata servers.
During peak system writing and reading operations, the metadata servers can't take any more than a 25 per cent performance degradation hit, and DOE would really like it to be 10 per cent.
No big deal, right?
So, good luck, AMD, Whamcloud, and friends.
The winners
AMD received research grants under the FastForward portion of the DOE Extreme-Scale Computing program for both processing and memory research, and according to Alan Lee, corporate vice president for advanced research and development at the chip maker, the reason is because the two are interrelated.
Lee was not able to elaborate much on the research plans AMD has put together, but he did confirm to El Reg that AMD would be focusing on research to push its hybrid CPU-GPU processors, what the company calls its Accelerated Processing Units or APUs. On the memory side, AMD is looking a different types of memory, different structures and hierarchies of memory, and different relationships between these memories and the APUs, and that this will, of course, necessarily involve system interconnect work.
"Moving data around to feed the beast is critical for exascale," explained Lee, adding that the SeaMicro acquisition earlier this year was not done for this DOE work, but the interconnect expertise that AMD gained through that acquisition would be put to good use.
AMD researchers have already identified a subset of key memory technologies that they think will be applicable to exascale-class systems, and this is what the research will focus on. AMD is not throwing the whole kitchen sink of possible volatile and non-volatile memories into the mix.
Lee was not at liberty to say what memory technologies AMD was looking at – that would be helping its inevitable competition. AMD has received a grant of $3m for the memory research and $12.6m for the processor research. It is interesting that AMD was able to bag these contracts all by its lonesome specifically after the DOE said that it wanted multiple companies cooperating on the work.
On the storage front, Whamcloud, the company that was formed in July 2010 to support and extend the open source Lustre file system, is the leading contractor and is soliciting help from a bunch of others.
Whamcloud is managing the project and lending its Lustre file system expertise and is relying on HDF Group for application I/O expertise, EMC for system I/O and I/O aggregation skills, and Cray for scale-out testing of the storage systems. This exascale storage system will have a mix of flash and disk drives.
The word on the street is that Whamcloud received around $8m for its FastForward grant. ®
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Graduate Programs
Should I get a graduate degree after completing my work at UW Oshkosh?
This is an important question, and the answer depends on many factors. Some careers do not call for a graduate degree; for some you have to get a graduate degree; and in some cases a graduate degree is not necessary, but it will give you more options and help you land a better job. It is important to start thinking early about what possible careers you might want to enter. Then you can start thinking about whether graduate school might make sense and what courses you need in order to get into a good graduate program. The Director of the Environmental Studies program Jim Feldman is happy to talk with you about careers and graduate school, and you can talk to other faculty as well.
What kinds of graduate programs are there?
There are many different kinds, depending on the career you are considering. In fact, there are probably more kinds of graduate programs than you have ever thought of. So it is important to get informed on what is out there and how different kinds of programs can empower you to do what you would like to do and be effective in environmental work.
Are there different types of masters programs?
There are two general types of masters programs. One is "professional," in which the programs are intended to be a terminal degree geared toward giving you what you need to enter a professional career. The other is "academic." These are primarily geared toward preparing you for a Ph.D. program, but they can also serve to prepare you for a career in research (especially in the sciences).
What is the difference between masters and Ph.D. programs?
A Ph.D. degree gives you the credential as a true expert in your field. Ph.D. programs are much more demanding than masters programs not only in requirements and ability but also the time required to complete them. The culminating requirement is a dissertation (virtually a book), which can be very difficult to complete. They are also riskier – not a few students fail to complete a Ph.D. program. And they are more limited in terms of what they allow you to do. Most people with Ph.D.s try to become a professor – not a great job market. But some Ph.D.s, especially in the sciences, can enable you to be a top-flight researcher.
Environmental Studies Graduate Programs
- Masters Programs in Environmental Studies in Wisconsin and Requirements for Admission
- Graduate Programs in Wisconsin Relevant to Environmental Issues
- Gradschools.com: searchable website for Environmental Programs across the U.S. and more.
- EnvironmentalScience.org
- Sustainability Degrees (undergrad & graduate)


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Sarah Moon 12345 is currently on view at Fotografiska in Stocklhom. The exhibition features over 200 photographs and two videos entitled The Red Thread and Contact.
Yssey Miyake
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Suzanne aux Tuileries
Les oiseaux de la porte doree
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F Rocco Grimaldi Agrees To Entry-Level Contract With Florida Panthersby Staff Writer / Florida Panthers
|Forward Rocco Grimaldi (UND Athletics/Eric Classen)
SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive Vice President and General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has agreed to an entry-level contract with F Rocco Grimaldi.
Grimaldi, 21, most recently led the University of North Dakota to the NCAA Frozen Four semifinals. He was named MVP of the NCAA Midwest Regional after leading UND past both Wisconsin and Ferris State. The Rossmoor, CA native completed the 2013-2014 season placing first among all UND players in goals (17) and assists (22).
"We are very pleased to have reached a contract agreement with Rocco," said Tallon. "He is a hard working forward who possesses speed along with great vision on the ice. We look forward to his continued growth and development within our organization."
During his freshman season at UND (2012-2013), Grimaldi was selected to the ALL-WCHA Rookie Team and placed third nationally recording 36 points (13-23-26) in 40 games played. For his career at North Dakota, the forward played in 86 games recording 77 points (31-46-77).
On the international level, Grimaldi won a gold medal with Team USA at the 2013 World Junior Championship, scoring the game-winner in the championship game against Sweden. He also won a gold medal at the 2010 Under-18 World Championship.
Grimaldi was drafted by Florida with their second choice (33rd overall) in the 2011 NHL Draft.
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Mission creep
CPRIT is supposed to help find treatments for cancer, not 'create wealth.'
In an interview with the Chronicle last week, Gov. Rick Perry astounded us ("Perry: Cancer agency should create wealth," January 10, A1). In his discussion of the scandal-plagued Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, we hoped he'd lay out a plan to clean up that $3 billion taxpayer-funded effort to fight cancer, Febreze-ing the stink of cronyism that clings to the agency and focusing the grant-making institute once more on its noble goal.
Instead, Perry only muddied the waters. CPRIT's job isn't just to fight cancer, he said. The agency is also supposed to "create economic avenues (from) which wealth can be created." In other words, CPRIT is supposed to make people rich.
Basic research, Perry complained, might not do that: "Basic research takes a long time and may or may not ever create wealth."
That's true - and that's exactly why government ought to fund basic research. If there's a high probability that a given line of research will create wealth in a short amount of time, you can bet that a pharmaceutical company will bankroll that project on its own - no government help needed.
To get the most cancer-fighting bang for its bucks, CPRIT ought to focus on important research that private companies won't do: the slow, might-not-pay-off basic research that sometimes yields enormous breakthroughs; and research on cheap therapies and prevention measures - stuff that, even if it works beautifully against cancer, won't yield a patentable, profitable drug. What if, for instance, an apple a day could keep carcinomas away, or yoga could slow the growth of gliomas? Pharma companies have no reason to bankroll research that would reveal protocols like that. They couldn't patent the Granny Smith or the half lotus, even if they turned out to be cheap, side-effect-free cancer fighters. There's no economic avenue from which wealth can be created, no way to get rich - just human lives at stake.
Saving and improving those lives ought to be CPRIT's only mission. Economic development is a distraction. It's already covered by other state agencies, the Emerging Technology Fund and the Enterprise Fund. And in CPRIT's case, it's already a proven recipe for scandal: It's the "commercialization" grants, not the scientific ones, that have skated around review panels, and that have too often appeared tied to donations to the politicians who appoint CPRIT's board. Perry, notably, is one of those politicians.
We agree with the legislators and anti-cancer activists who were appalled by the mission creep that would turn CPRIT into an economic-development agency. We want CPRIT to do what we, as voters, expected it to do when we supported its bond. Anti-cancer activist Cathy Bonner best summed up that sense of betrayal: "The vision was to make Texas the center for curing cancer," she said. "It wasn't to make Texas the center for capitalizing on cancer."
CPRIT needs to return to that original vision.


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Wine time! Whether you're in the mood for red, white or rosé, we've got a wonderful selection of fine wines and fizz for you to enjoy.
Perfect for a light summers evening, the crisp and refreshing Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand has subtle tropical flavours, or indulge yourself with the Argentine Silverland Malbec, for a velvety, rich forest fruit red refreshment. Why not add a splash of summer to your visit and treat yourself with the wonderfully crisp and light strawberry flavours of the Barefoot Cellars White Zinfandel.
Celebrate the occasion in style with our selection of bubbles. The Italian CA Belli Prosecco with fresh pear and apple notes is great for sharing, or the light, crisp and zesty Piccini 1882 is the perfect alternative to Prosecco.


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Working in partnership with Music Hubs, schools, and local community groups all over the UK, we are able to educate and inspire thousands of people every year; through school projects, such as Orchestra Unwrapped; community initiatives, such as Hear and Now; and a variety of study days, workshops, and master classes.
These projects would not be possible without the contributions towards the Education Fund that we receive from both Trusts and generous individuals. Your donation, however large or small, is of great value not only to the Orchestra, but also to the schools, community groups and individuals that we work with.
If you would like to make an online donation to the Philharmonia's Education Fund, please visit the Donate Now page. For more information on making a donation to the Education Fund, or about supporting a particular Education project, please contact the Development team at [email protected] or on 020 7921 3903.
We are grateful to the following for their generous support of the Philharmonia Orchestra's education and digital programmes:
We are also grateful to the following:
- D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
- Ernest Cook Charitable Trust
- Garrick Charitable Trust
- Harpur Trust
- Paul Morgan Charitable Trust
- The Edith Murphy Foundation
- Orchestras Live
- Sidney Perry Foundation
- Royal Philharmonic Society
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Add video to product page
Your Online Store product pages provide detailed information for each product, such as photos, price, SKU, category, a description, and video. Product pages can include videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Instagram, DailyMotion, or Youku.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- In your products list, click Online Store, and then click Manage next to the account you want.
- In your Online Store, from the Products menu, click Products.
- On the All Products page, click the name of the product page you want to edit.
- On the Description tab, click in the description where you want the video to appear.
- Click the video icon in the toolbar.
- Use your Web browser to find the video you want to use. Copy the video URL, paste it into the Insert Video textbox, and then click Insert Video.
- When the video appears in the Description tab, click the play button to test it, and then click Save. Or, if you want to add another video, click Save and Add Another.
- To see your change, click View Store at the top right of your product page.
- In your store, click Shop and then click the product page you changed. The video appears below the page's Add to Cart button.


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Foiling AC45
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(Source:Artemis Racing) A big step forward for Artemis Racing as we launched our foiling AC45 onto San Francisco Bay. This is the first step in our foiling training for our second AC72. The modifications from our one design AC45 to our now foiling AC45 took about a month to complete.
Adam May, our foiling expert at Artemis Racing was the project manager for this conversion. "We set up a little commando group of guys to get the 45 foiling. Things were kept simple to get foiling as quickly as possible, taking input from the ongoing work on boat 2, what we've seen in use by other teams, and a healthy dose of 'just do it' attitude. Our structural test day progressed quickly into controlled foiling flight, with the boat behaving really well and Nathan getting to grips with it in no time at all."
The moral on the team is very positive and we are all excited to be getting back out on the water after all the hard work that has been happening inside the Artemis shed.
"Our shore and sailing teams have been working long days and nights to get us back on the water and foiling. To foil the new AC45 with complete control on our first outing gives our team great momentum. It's going to be a very exciting summer!" explains helmsman, Nathan Outteridge.


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Target eported quarterly earnings on Thursday that surpassed nalysts' expectations as the discount chain lured shoppers with a wider variety of food products and 5-percent discounts for its cardholders.
Target eported quarterly earnings on Thursday that surpassed nalysts' expectations as the discount chain lured shoppers with a wider variety of food products and 5-percent discounts for its cardholders.
Following the announcement, the retailer's shares rose 1 percent in early trading. (Get real-time quotes for Target here.)
Target said it had earned $637 million, or 96 cents per share, in the third quarter, up from $555 million, or 82 cents a share, a year earlier.
Its adjusted earnings rose to 90 cents from 86 cents in year-ago quarter.
Revenue, which includes revenue from its credit card business, increased 3.2 percent to $16.93 billion from $16.40 billion a year ago. Sales at stores open at least a year were up 2.9 percent. That came largely from higher prices and customers' buying more items per transaction.
Analysts had been expecting earnings excluding items of 77 cents per share and $16.92 billion in revenue, according to Thomson Reuters estimates.
The company said it expected to earn between $1.45 and $1.55 a share in the holiday quarter, including expenses linked to its entry into Canada next year. That compares with analysts' forecasts of $1.51.
Adding more food to the stores and offering a 5-percent discount to cardholders has attracted shoppers but also weighed on profit rates. Gross margin during the quarter slipped 0.2 points to 30.3 percent of sales.
Target said 14 percent of sales during the quarter were paid for with its debit and credit cards, compared with 9.5 percent a year earlier.
The company has been opening smaller city stores and is set to open its first Canadian stores in 2013. It will also sell a line of holiday goods with upscale department store Neiman Marcus Group in December.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article said Target's revenue increased 3.4 percent to $16.6 billion and missed estimates. In fact, the company's revenue rose 3.2 percent to $16.93 billion and matched expectations.


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"[The pig] carcasses were piled so high there was no way they could be cremated, so a burial ditch was dug; but once again, water rose to the surface a couple of feet down, so that was out. Driven to desperation, farm personnel had no choice but to wait until the veterinarians left and, in the fading light of dusk, loaded the carcasses onto a flatbed wagon and hauled them down to the river, where they were tossed into the water to float downstream — out of sight, out of mind."
Who would have thought that this situation, described by China's Nobel Laureate Mo Yan (莫言) in his 2006 novel Life and Death are Wearing Me Out, would be re-enacted along a section of the Huangpu River near Shanghai last month?
Shanghai environmental authorities maintain there must be a reason for the deaths of all these pigs and there would be serious repercussions for upstream pig farmers if they had disposed of the carcasses.
The governments of Jiaxing City and Shanghai are reluctant to accept any blame, preferring to point the finger at each other.
The reason for the confusion is that pig farmers along the river and the authorities responsible for keeping tabs on epidemics have largely operated independently of each other. Communication and coordination between such authorities was also lacking, preventing the carcasses from being intercepted earlier. As it stands, the carcasses were only intercepted after they had reached the Huangpu River, so it has been impossible to identify where they came from. China sat on this information for three weeks before it reported it to the WHO.
However, the H7N9 avian flu virus comes not only from pigs, but also from chickens and ducks, and South China has a high density of fowl, an estimated 3 billion birds, and this, coupled with chicken and pigs being reared together, makes this part of China the world's primary area for avian flu outbreaks. If the excessive development and destruction of the environment that has taken place over the past 20 years is added to the mix, it is hardly surprising that frequent outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu have occurred in south China — Guangdong and Hong Kong — and also outbreaks of the H7N9 strain in Shanghai.
On Oct. 7, 2005, US virologist Jeffery Taubenberger, then of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, published an important paper in Nature magazine in which he detailed the genetic sequence of the H1N1 influenza virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
Taubenberger was puzzled as to why the H1N1 virus spread so quickly and why it killed so many people. The virus was extremely virulent, but needed to incubate in swine as an intermediary host so that it could mutate and be able to attach itself to the receptors of cells in the upper respiratory tract of humans, allowing for human-to-human infection.
In 1918 the First World War was still raging. Spanish flu occurred against the backdrop of environmental destruction on a huge scale and this seems to have caused a high incidence of avian and swine influenza, contributing to the deaths of large numbers of birds and pigs.
The succession of epidemics — the 1997 H5N1 avian flu outbreak in Hong Kong and Guangdong, the H7N9 avian flu outbreak in Shanghai this year, and the mass death of pigs — all tell us that the environment and disease prevention efforts in China are crisis-ridden. Excessive development and the destruction of the environment, and that avian flu has already established itself in major cities there, should serve as warning signs.


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The Crosse:
The crosse (lacrosse stick) is made of wood, laminated wood or synthetic material, with a shaped net pocket at the end. The crosse must be an overall length of 40 - 42 inches for attackmen and midfielders, or 52 - 72 inches for defensemen. The head of the crosse must be 6.5 - 10 inches wide, except a goalie's crosse which may be 10 - 12 inches wide. The pocket of a crosse shall be deemed illegal if the top surface of a lacrosse ball, when placed in the head of the crosse, is below the bottom edge of the side wall.
The Ball:
The ball must be made of solid rubber and can be white, yellow or orange. The ball is 7.75 - 8 inches in circumference and 5 - 5.25 ounces.
The Helmet:
A protective helmet, equipped with face mask, chin pad and a cupped four point chin strap fastened to all four hookups, must be worn by all players. All helmets and face masks should be NOCSAE(National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment) approved.
The Mouthpiece:
The mouthpiece must be a highly visible color and is mandatory.
The Glove:
All players are required to wear protective gloves. The cutting or altering of gloves is prohibited.
Other Protective Equipment:
All players, with the exception of the goalkeeper, must wear shoulder pads. Arm pads are required and rib pads are strongly recommended, and often required, as are athletic supporters and protective cups for all players.
The goalkeeper is required to wear a throat protector and chest protector, in addition to a helmet, mouthpiece, gloves and a protective cup.
Equipment for Girls' and Women's Lacrosse
The Crosse:
The crosse (lacrosse stick) is made of wood, laminated wood, or synthetic material, with a shaped net pocket at the end. A girl's crosse must be an overall length of 35.5 - 43.25 inches. The head of the crosse must be seven to nine inches wide. The pocket of the stick must be strung traditionally; no mesh is allowed. The top of the ball when dropped in the pocket must remain above the side walls.* The goalkeeper¹s crosse may be 35.5- 48 inches long. The head of the crosse may be mesh and up to 12 inches wide.
* Modified Pocket allowed in girls youth rules
The Ball:
The game ball must be yellow and made of solid rubber, smooth without dimples for games and must be visible color, other than clear or white. The ball must be 7.75 - 8 inches in circumference and weigh 5 - 5.25 ounces.
The Mouthpiece:
All players must wear mouthguards.
Protective Equipment:
Close-fitting gloves, nose guards and soft head gear are optional and may be worn by all players. All field players must properly wear eye protection that meets ASTM specification standard F803 for women's adult/ youth lacrosse for the appropriate level of play.
See approved listings for: Eyewear | Sticks
The Goalkeeper's Equipment:
The goalkeeper must wear a helmet with face mask (NOCSAE approved), separate throat protector, padded gloves, mouth piece, and chest protector. The goalkeeper may wear padding on arms, legs, and shoulders which does not excessively increase the size of those body parts. High school level and below must wear padding on thighs and shins. Youth level must wear some form of abdominal and pelvic protection.
Goalies are required to wear padded gloves.
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Power-smart disk systems
Disk drive systems use more power than just about any other data center gear, but storage vendors are addressing this problem with a variety of technologies.
Disk drive systems use more power than just about any other data center gear, but storage vendors are addressing this problem with a variety of technologies.
By Matt Perkins
Last fall, Adaptec Inc. kicked off its Green Power Initiative by introducing a new capability for many of its RAID controllers called Intelligent Power Management. The product was made available with the company's Series 5 and Series 2 Unified Serial RAID controllers, and was designed to help configure storage systems to reduce power consumption by up to 70% without forfeiting performance.
"What we decided to do was to address the whole storage package," said Suresh Panikar, director of worldwide marketing at Adaptec. "Our initiative said that from now on our products will have a flavor of power management." Storage administrators can configure banks of drives to operate at different power levels at different times, and set the drives to spin up and down according to usage patterns.
Adaptec is one of several storage providers eyeing green initiatives in the data center. Vendors such as Enhance Technology Inc., greenBytes Inc. and LSI Corp. are also trying to make their marks on the green storage map, as have larger vendors like Dell Inc., EMC Corp. and NetApp. Most vendor initiatives so far involve adding energy-efficient enhancements rather than reengineering products.
"We're making some refinements to our product lines in light of the need for reduced power, cooling, space and the whole greening of the data center," said Larry Freeman, NetApp's senior marketing manager of storage efficiency. "Thin provisioning is key in power consumption." In addition to thin provisioning, NetApp software features like data deduplication and snapshots are designed to save capacity in VMware environments. In October 2008, the company said its multiprotocol arrays were 50% more space-efficient than other systems supporting VMware. NetApp even pledged to make up the difference for free to users who didn't see an improvement.
NetApp has also embraced solid-state drives (SSDs) with its Performance Acceleration Module (PAM), a solid-state secondary cache that Freeman said will eventually become a flash implementation. "We see the benefit of using secondary memory to enhance performance without adding more disk drives," he said.
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The idea of slowing down or stopping disk drives when they're not in use was popularized by Copan Systems with its Revolution line of disk-based backup systems that use massive array of idle disks (MAID) technology.
In Copan's arrays, disks are shut down completely when they're not needed; and because only a handful of disks may be active at one time, you can cram many more disks into a single array. Running all of the densely packed disks would suck power and generate excessive heat, but MAID significantly reduces power and cooling requirements.
Other vendors use similar approaches, but some don't shut down disks completely. By reducing power to disks or parking their read/write heads, power consumption is reduced, but the disks can spin up to operational speed relatively quickly when needed. For example, EMC Corp. offers policy-based drive spin-down in its Clariion CX4 arrays and Disk Library backup systems that puts inactive drives in sleep mode.
Nexsan Technologies Inc.'s AutoMAID, available with its SASBeast and SASBoy arrays, also uses policies to spin drives down in three stages -- each stage offers greater power savings but also requires more time for the drive to get up to speed again.
Copan, EMC and Nexsan are just a few examples of disk system vendors that slow or stop disks to save power; many array vendors offer similar capabilities.
Other vendors are also focusing on ways to save power. GreenBytes' Cypress NAS appliance for archiving long-term data aims to cut energy consumption up to 80%, while Enhance Technology's products feature virtualization and auto spin-down RAID controllers. And last May, EMC Corp. unveiled virtual tape libraries (VTLs) featuring data dedupe. Moreover, EMC's Clariion CX4 storage arrays, which Dell also sells, released with built-in spin-down capabilities.
As for Dell, most of its energy-efficient focus has been on utilization, tiering, spin down and solid-state drives.
"If you had some set of data that requires very high performance but not a lot of data, solid-state drives may be very economical in power consumption," said Eric Schott, director of product management at Dell. "It's also about floor space consumed and heat output, because for every dollar you're spending to power the equipment, you're spending a dollar to cool the equipment."
But the environmental benefits aren't the only things on vendors' minds when pushing energy-efficient products. Economic benefits are deemed equally as important.
"The messaging is around 'Go green to save carbon footprint,'" said Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at Stillwater, Minn.-based StorageIO Group and author of The Green and Virtual Data Center. "Most IT organizations don't have a carbon footprint issue. What they have are issues to sustain business growth, economic enhancement and productivity."
|Seven ways to cut disk system power
As one of the few mechanical devices in the data center, disk arrays draw substantial power to keep disks spinning and make cooling systems work harder to dissipate the heat they throw off. Here are seven ways to cut a disk system's power requirements:
On the management side, the notion of intelligent management -- like that of Adaptec -- is something Schulz said can be expected to continue.
"We've seen many vendors adding intelligent management as a second feature, just like a RAID level," Schulz said. "You're seeing vendors bring that to the table, but in a granular approach: Use it when needed."
Adaptec's software allows drives to be operated in three power states, including normal operation with full power and full RPMs; standby, with low power that spins at a lower RPM during idle times; and power-off.
Dell's Schott said intelligent management can bring forth several benefits that otherwise aren't there. "It's very important for a storage array to be energy efficient," he said. "But it's also helpful if the applications could also clue us in more. It's one thing if the storage arrays are doing it in the background, it's another if the application is telling you."
While some vendors aren't sure to what extent the demand for energy efficiency will impact their storage products, most are sure that products aimed at conserving power will continue to gain momentum.
"Some of this greenness is much more of a philosophy over the work that we do, rather than just a product feature or release feature," Schott said. "And you can always do better. Even when you reduce and improve a few things, you're not done."
BIO: Matt Perkins is an assistant editor for TechTarget's Enterprise Applications Media Group.


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really like this course. nice hard steep greens and technical, varied shots throughout. lots of elevation change. great views of ukiah
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low gap all day!!!
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nice variety of shots and water fountain on course love it!
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Left hand dominant course with some tight alleys and lots of trees. Elevation gain makes for some interesting approaches and tons of downhill deathputs. I'd like to see some permanent tees placed at the alternates though, throwing from dirt in the rain makes for a slippery, muddy tee shot.


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This is a new rule for the Manti-La Sal National Forest where hunters have previously been allowed to take motorized vehicles 150 feet off road to retrieve game.
The Manti-La Sal has developed Motorized Vehicle Use Maps showing all official roads and trails on the Forest. It is available in district offices and on the forest web site: http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/mantilasal/maps/
Hunters are being asked to be prepared to hunt and retrieve game on foot or horseback.
The closures are coming as a surprise to many hunters, who are unable to access a large number of areas by vehicle. San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy reports he has received a number of complaints from residents and long-time hunters.
"We have been hunting this area since my dad was a kid," said one Blanding resident, who asked that his name not be used. "It seems like they have closed a thousand roads."
Others hunters welcome the new rule, believing that motorized vehicles spook game and ruin the hunting experience. "Animals stressed by motorized vehicles are not as healthy as those that are able to live in a naturally quiet habitat," explained Kelle Reynolds, Forest wildlife biologist.
Sheriff Lacy said, "The closures come from a 1991 study that was not implemented until now, 19 years later. I don't understand why they are doing this now."
Forest Service officials state that while hunting is an important and time-honored activity, watersheds and habitats recently have suffered from off-highway vehicle use.
In order to protect soils, vegetation, wildlife, fisheries, and wetlands, off-highway travel has been restricted to designated roads and trails.
Forest users found in violation of the rule will be cited and ordered to appear in federal court. Any violation of this rule is punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000 for an individual or $10,000 for an organization, and/or imprisonment for not more than six months and restitution for the damages.


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CAM::PDF::PageText - Extract text from PDF page tree
my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($filename); my $pageone_tree = $pdf->getPageContentTree(1); print CAM::PDF::PageText->render($pageone_tree);
This module attempts to extract sequential text from a PDF page. This is not a robust process, as PDF text is graphically laid out in arbitrary order. This module uses a few heuristics to try to guess what text goes next to what other text, but may be fooled easily by, say, subscripts, non-horizontal text, changes in font, form fields etc. All those disclaimers aside, it is useful for a quick dump of text from a simple PDF file.
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Dear Creatures is the love child of Bianca Benitez and Rob Sinclair. The inspiration behind their Spring 2010 line is Jack Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a French musical film from 1964. The chic clothing pays homage to 1960s Parisian life and delivers high drama through rich textural design. [ Continue Reading ]


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Mayor Chris Beutler today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for August to Police Officer Mark Fluitt. The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Fluitt is assigned to the Northwest Operations Team and has worked for the Police Department since 1983. Sergeant Robert Kubicek nominated him in the category of productivity to recognize his extensive investigation into harassing phone calls.
In the first case, Fluitt used victim phone records to identify a suspect and extracted a detailed confession. He suspected that the man had made calls for years in spite of three previous arrests. He tied the suspect to several open cases, and cleared another 17 obscene phone call cases. This investigation could have ended there, but Fluitt was troubled by a phone number several victims had captured through caller identification and reported to police. The number could not be linked to the previous suspect. A subpoena for those phone records and further investigation led to a new suspect with previous convictions for obscene phone calls.
Using intelligence reports and surveillance, Fluitt tied several cell phone numbers to the new suspect. Subpoenas for those phone records resulted in thousands of calls, including some to Lincoln area numbers. Fluitt compared them to numbers from known victims and developed local cases against the suspect. Search warrants resulted in the arrest of the suspect and the seizure of more cell phones. The suspect was eventually charged in 14 obscene phone call cases.
Sergeant Kubicek wrote that it was perhaps the most difficult phone call case he could recall. "Officer Fluitt has shown exceptional work throughout the investigation," he said. "The case incorporates varied police tactics and techniques to bring about a successful conclusion. Once again, Mark Fluitt has reminded us of why he is recognized as one of the most diligent, tenacious investigators on our department."
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are customer relations, loss prevention, safety and valor. Consideration also may be given to nominations that demonstrate self-initiated accomplishments or those completed outside of the nominee's job description.
All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected and appointed officials. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public. Nomination forms are available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: personnel) or from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program.
All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.


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We had a fantastic Halloween this year!
Eli was invited to a rollerskating party the Friday of Halloween weekend. It was a private party for a brother and sister. The brother, Wyatt, has CP and is in a wheelchair. It was a costume party...so it gave Eli a chance to wear his costume twice!
They allowed special accomodations for the boys to go out onto the floor! :)
I had so much fun skating with my boy!!!
I googled "costumes for wheelchairs" a few weeks before Halloween...and there really aren't a whole lot of options! But, the Fred Flintstone (and his car!) caught my eye. I think I spent about $5 to make his costume!
Saturday night it was pumpkin carving time:
Yes, we watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! It's tradition!
Sunday was Halloween. My husband was disappointed that I didn't get Eli's stroller decorated as Fred's car I bought the white material, and had the idea in my head, bu just didn't quite know how to make it all happen. So, he went to work out in the driveway....and came up with the most fabulous Flintstone Car ever!!!
Our community has a big Halloween party at our Civic Center. Eli's costume was a big hit!
I was so happy that we finally got to go out on Halloween!
(The last time we tried, Eli was 2, and he threw a fit for 1/2 an hour and we went home. He goes to sleep so early, that I hadn't tried it since.)
(Professional photographers were there taking pictures! Click the picture to go to their website)
Now, I'm trying to think what to do for Halloween next year! How do you top a Flintstone mobile?


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I was going to generalize an easy counting problem and I ended up not being able to solve it:
In how many ways can $n$ people $1,\dots,n$ be seated around a round table if person $i$ refuses to sit next to person $i+1$, for all $i\in\{1,\dots,n-1\}$, and person $n$ refuses to sit next to person 1.
I realized that I have to have $n\geq5$ in order to have at least one solution.
What I have done:
it's very tempting to use the principle of inclusion and exclusion, but I'm not sure how to exactly do it, since it gets really messy very soon. Any help with this will be appreciated.
Something else that I did was using recursion, but all I'm getting is a lower bound, since I'm not able to completely analyse it:
If $n-1$ people are seated around a table in $a_{n-1}$ ways, one can place $n$ among them except for the $4$ places around $1$ and $n-1$. But then we are not counting the cases like: $$\dots,2,n,3,\dots$$ All it says is that $a_n \geq (n-5)a_{n-1}$.
I assume I should connect it to the case when $i$ refuses to sit next to $i+1$ for $i\in\{1,\dots,n-1\}$. But still not sure how.
It is straight forward to calculate that $a_5=2$.
PS: Is there any relation to the Menage's problem?


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California has long been a leader in clean energy. We now can pass a truly visionary bill: SB 100, moving California to 100 percent renewable and carbon free power by 2045. This is the strongest step we can take as a state to demonstrate our commitment to fighting climate change and improving air quality while continuing to lead on job creation in California.
The current federal government won't help us - it'll attack our California values every step of the way. Of course Californians will defend our state. But SB 100 will show the White House that we're not just resisting - we're creating a better world. We'll build an economy running on clean energy. And we'll bring cleaner air to every Californian. It starts with the Assembly voting YES on SB 100. The bill, authored by Senate climate hawk Kevin de Leon, already passed the state Senate. Now it heads to the Assembly. Your assemblymember needs to hear from you: Yes on SB 100!
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