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You could try reading about wingates, socks and proxies (oh before i forget, turn off java, javascript, cookies, what's related, and smart update ... if you are using IE you're not very smart). Also try installing a firewall, or DHCP or you can learn from me!
There are situations in which you may want to visit a site without leaving a trace of the visit. For instance you want to check what's going on at your competitor's site. Your visit will generate a record in the log file. Frequent visits will generate many records. Do you want to know what kind of records? See in YOUR REQUEST, YOUR WHOIS RECORD, GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION and MAP, Privacy Analysis of your Internet Connection, Another Privacy Investigation Report, BrowserSpy Info, ShowMyIP - will tell you some scary info about what can be told about your computer via the internet.
Note that these tests are not very sophisticated. A dedicated "snooper" can often learn much more. Once I came across a server that tried to connect to my computer's disk while I was browsing ... that was an exciting experince. You should also remember about things like cookies, hostile applets and java scripts, browser security holes and so on. So why don't we send someone instead of ourselves? Good idea.
Remember that simple owner of Web server may collect information about requests you had performed in search engines, keywords you had typed, your browser and language, date, time, your operating system, physical and geographical position, pages from which you had clicked links and so on. See below some records generated by our server users (real IPs are slightly changed).. Note that large internet companies such as doubleclick, google, government institutions have tremendous possibilities to collect much more information about you and your behaviour..
22.214.171.124 - - [17/Oct/2006:07:03:22 +0000] "GET /proxy/howto.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 33104
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:126.96.36.199) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/126.96.36.199"
126.96.36.199 - - [17/Oct/2006:07:03:25 +0000] "GET /proxy/ HTTP/1.1" 200 37361
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:184.108.40.206) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/220.127.116.11"
Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique identifier called an IP Address. On many networks, the IP Address of a computer is always the same. On other networks, a random IP Address is assigned each time a computer connects to the network. This is what we are referring to when we ask if you have a static or a dynamic IP Address. If a system uses dynamic addressing, the IP can change quite often. Look into REMOTE_ADDR row in THIS LINK to determing your current IP Address.
One can surf anonymously and easy with the help of a nice services called CGI/Web proxies.
Simply type a URL
you want to visit -- the Page does the job for you, selecting random CGI/Web proxy from a hundreds of available services,
securing you from many potential
dangers. When you follow a link on a page viewed via CGI proxy you get there via the
this proxy again, so you don't have to type a new URL.
CGI/Web proxy has two more nice features. Firstly, there are WWW sites that are inaccessible from one place, but easily accessible from another. Once I was trying to load a page located in Australia for 20 minutes, all in vain. Using CGI/Web proxies immediately solved the problem. Secondly, there are certain sites that give you information depending on where you are "calling" from. Let's take an example. I was at Encyclopedia Britannica site, trying to check the price for their products. Clicking on Order Information button gave me the list of Britannica's dealers all over the world, no price info. Going to the same place via the Anonymizer led me to a different page, where I found the price list. As it turned out the local dealer's price for Encyclopedia Britannica CD was several times higher than the one at which it's sold in USA. Good savings!
Some CGI/Web proxies are able to encrypt URLs (uniform resource locator) in a way that these can be used as reference for a server. If a request with an encrypted URL occurs, they are able to decrypt the URL and forward it to the server, without enabling the user to get knowledge about the server address. All references in the servers response are again encrypted before the response is forwarded to the client.
Some CGI/Web proxies are able to use secure HTTPS protocol for exchanging data between proxy and your computer, even if original server is not secure. This option excluding possiblility to sniff a data flow between your computer and this proxy is very useful in some cases, for example, when you are forced to work in possibly scanned/sniffed insecure public network.
To get your personal CGI/Web/FTP proxy simply download free James Marshall CGIproxy script and install on your Web server (Apache as a rule, Perl or mod_perl support is required), Glype proxy is another CGI script written in PHP which allows webmasters to quickly and easily set up their own proxy sites or PHProxy. Our ProxySite Perl script allows to run your own Web proxy on any computer (Linux, Windows, ..) with only Perl interpreter installed.
The main purposes of proxy servers:
There are 3 types of HTTP proxies:
When Web Proxy Servers are Useful?
One can also anonymize one's web surfing by using a proxy server. Proxy servers are similar to the Anonymizer, i.e. web pages are retrieved by the proxy server rather than by the person actually browsing the Web (you). But there are several important distinctions: proxy servers don't help with cookies, hostile applets or code. In most of the cases they do just one thing: they conceal your real geograhic location.
Most of proxy servers restrict access based on the IP Address from which a user connects to them. In other words if you have an account with Bluh-Bluh-Com, you can't use La-Di-Da-Net's proxy server, access will be denied. Fortunately you can always find a "kind-hearted" proxy server on the Net the owners of which openly state that the service is publicly available, or a proxy server that doesn't restrict access that due to whatever reason, but the fact is not known to everyone.
How do you find a "kind-hearted" proxy server? Good news for lazy people: there are many lists of available proxy servers with periodic updates:
RSS feeds are also available for proxy lists syndication and to keep up with proxy lists in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays, such us Google Reader, Bloglines, etc.:
in browser,
in Google Reader,
planetlab in browser,
planetlab in Google Reader.
For those who are not so lazy: find your own proxy server, it's real easy. Go to your favorite search engine (Google.com for example) and type something like +":8080" +":3128" +":1080" filetype:txt OR filetype:html, and you'll get the list of Web pages where ISPs give complete instructions to their users of how they should configure their browsers. Try every proxy address and after 5 or 7 failures you will surely find a proxy server that works for you. So let's say you have found a proxy, e.g.: some.proxy.com, HTTP port 8080. To make your browser use a proxy server fill out the corresponding fields in Manual Proxy Configuration tab (hope you can find it yourself).
Testing proxy lists you have found.
As a rule a quality of proxies from proxy lists you have found by such ways is sufficiently low because of large number of requests to these proxies by many users which have found that lists in search engine, number of professional abusers and robots using these proxies very intensive for network adverising, spamming, flooding forums, bulletin boards, blogs and so on. Number of working proxies from such lists varies from 0.00% to 10-20%. Therefore manual selection of operable proxies is not possible. Fortunately, a few of proxy testing software exists such as our ProxyCheck Java application, Proxyrama for Windows with source code available, Charon for Windows and others. See our Related Links for more examples.
There are many different software that could be used to set up a proxy for your system. For example small and free SwitchProxy Tool Extension for Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird. SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes. Text proxy lists in host:port format are very flexible and can be used with most proxy software for Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera and other browsers.
Once you have carried out this simple operation, you can start surfing the Web leaving traces as if you are from Bulgaria, USA, North Korea (that would be fun!) or somewhere else, but ...there is one more very important privacy concern, "Is My Proxy Anonymous?".
Not all proxy servers are truly anonymous. Some of them let the system administrator of the site that you visit via a proxy server find out the IP Address from which the proxy server is accessed, i.e. your real IP Address. You can perform an anonymity check test: DETECT PROXY
If you get the message: Proxy server is detected! - then there is a security hole in your proxy, and information about your real IP Address will be listed. If the message is Proxy server is not detected - everything should be OK. In any case, carefully study the list of IP Addresses that is returned by this online tool. None of them should belong to you. You can also use alternative tests to check if your browser is anonymous. Such tests can give a complete list of the parametrs your browser passes to a remote server (this is called Environmental Variables).
Sometimes is required to determine Country, City or even geographical latitude and longitude to select from proxies list or servers list. Now it possible HERE, due to bulk interface to geoiplookup utility. Paste HERE your public proxies or simply hosts list in simple text format and press "Lookup GeoIP info" button. As a result you'll get your bulk proxies list opposite to corresponding Country, City, Longitude and Latitude and even link to Google Map of this server geographical location.
Anonymity and Caching for speedup surfing are priority aims of Proxy servers. But not all proxy servers sufficiently fast for comfortable surfing due to high server load, bad/slow client-server connection and so on. To determine does proxy you have selected have sufficient speed for you CLICK HERE to measure your connection speed twice, first, without proxy configured, second, with proxy configured. If you'll have received sufficiently similar results for measured speed in both cases, so the configured proxy has speed capabilities sufficient for your connection speed. Otherwise try to select and to test another proxy.
In spite of all of the the above said ... use proxies only when it's necessary. Working via proxy servers slows down data transfer rate and is an additional load on the network and the servers. Another important thing that is often forgotten by many people: use proxies for legal purposes. Hiding you identity is ok (at least in the free world) as long as you want to visit a site that offers, say, pornography. But if you use a proxy server for purchasing CDs or software with a bogus credit card number there is a good chance that you'll end up in prison, let alone the moral aspects. Remeber, all the connections are logged, and if you violate the law you can be tracked down. The site administrator can check the logs and contact the proxy's administrator, he can in turn check his own logs and find your real IP Address, then they both will contact your ISP, and your ISP keeps logs too ... Anyway, I hope you got it.
Look, different tools described above can be chained! For example you set up your browser to use Proxy A, and you know the addresses and port numbers of 2 more servers Proxy B and Proxy C. The URL that you type should look something like that:
As the result you go to the site via 3 servers: A,B and C. One of them can be the Anonymizer. WARNING: Not all the proxy servers allow chains like that. Such capabilities exist ONLY for CGI/Web proxies (pay attention to chaining CGI proxy combobox), HTTP proxies with CONNECT capabilities (additional software is required for chaining, usually such software supports both SOCKS and CONNECT proxies, see examples for SOCKS) and SOCKS proxies (such software is required as Prtunnel, Proxyrama and others).
Anonymity is derived from the greek word ανωνυμία, meaning without a name or name-less. In colloquial use, the term typically refers to a person, and often means that the Ppersonal identity, or personally identifiable information of that person is not known.
The main question is of course, what are you trying to hide? Closely following that is how important is it? The precautions you take have to weigh up to the value of the data you are trying to protect, in this case, you are trying to protect your anonymity. In the recent years privacy and anonymity have become big issues with CCTV cameras everywhere, and projects like Echelon reading all your e-mails and reporting back to the Orwellian 'Big Brother'. So just for normal surfing, or if you are planning on hacking a foreign governments personnel database (not that we recommend that of course), you need to protect yourself in different ways.
Remember Anonymity is not an absolute, there are varying degrees.
The Myths
Using a proxy I found on the web in my browser is enough.
People have been using proxies for years, normally open proxies found from scanning large IP ranges on the internet, what you have to think though, is this proxy open for a purpose? Is this purpose to listen to what you are doing? To collect your passwords? Also it's not infallible, remember the traffic has to go from your computer to the proxy, and come back in, those records can be corelated in your country alone and need to external aid. Plus the proxy may keep records of who access what and when, it make be a honeypot and keep full packet logs of all completed TCP/IP sessions. The problem is you just don't know.
If I chain proxies no one can find me.
Also not true, it doesn't matter if you cross through Taiwan, Korea, Russia and Iraq, your ISP just needs to see the packets going out and coming in at the right times to your machine from the last proxy hop in your chain.
The Reality
It can be said, pretty much whole heartedly, there is no such thing as real anonymity online, if you do something bad enough, the people in power can find you. IP Spoofing is misunderstood in 9/10 cases and is no protection against anything (I'll write an article about this later). And web proxies, as above, offer little or no protection. They are good enough if you just want to stop your school/parents/office from tracking your surfing habits, but they won't protect you from doing time if you commit a federal crime. The next best thing from this is Onion Routing, the common peer to peer implementation known as Tor.
Onion Routing prevents the transport medium from knowing who is communicating with whom — the network knows only that communication is taking place. In addition, the content of the communication is hidden from eavesdroppers up to the point where the traffic leaves the OR network.
Source: Onion Router
Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.
You can read more at the Tor site, the Wikipedia articles Onion routing and Tor (anonymity network).
Getting Tored Up
For most people Tor is enough, I recommend getting the Tor Bundle, which includes Tor, TorCP and Privoxy. All you need to do is set your applications to use a proxy, host is localhost and port is 8118. Instructions with screenshots are here: Linux/BSD/Unix, Windows. Then you're done, it works for most applications. Just remember though it's encrypted from your machine to the end point, not from the end point to wherever it's going, so that Tor node can see whatever traffic you are sending through Tor.. So make sure you encrypt (POPS, SMTP with TLS etc).
The h07 unix research team recognized that people paranoid enough to use tor are still dumb enough to use plaintext-authentication protocols like pop3 and telnet. They might think it's "secure because tor encrypts it". This isn't the case. It's encrypted, but …… communication from client to entry node and exit node to server will still remain as is. POP3, telnet and others will still be plain-text and thus subject to sniffing.
Freenet p2p software
Freenet project is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous.
Freenet can be thought of as a large storage device. When you store a file in it, you receive a key which can be used to retrieve the file. When you supply Freenet with a key, it returns the appropriate file (if it is located). The storage space is distributed among all connected nodes on Freenet.
Freenet is a Peer-to-peer network, which is both decentralized and anonymized. The nodes that you connect to only knows its nearest neighbours and has no idea about how the network as a whole is structured.
Freenet is built on the principle of small world networks. By connecting to nodes of people you already know, and the people you know in turn connect to people they know, one should be able to reach all nodes in a Freenet network.
XeroBank (aka Torpark) Browser and XeroBank anonymity network
xB Browser is an commercial anonymous web browser designed to run on both the Tor and XeroBank anonymity network. xB Browser was originally forked from Portable Firefox web browser with Tor access built into it, but was redesigned from scratch in 2007. It is designed for use on portable media such as a USB flash drive but it can also be used on any hard disk drive.
The XeroBank network routes traffic through at least two multi-jurisdictional hops. In contrast to Tor, the XeroBank network is immune to 3rd-party traffic injection, supports both TCP and UDP protocols, and performs channel multiplexing for low observability, however it is run by a single entity.
True Anonymity?
It may not be totally legal, but it's pretty much bulletproof (Unless of course you get caught in a car parking jacking off to porn downloaded from an open Wireless Access Point). When you do this, you should make sure you are using an anonymous operating system, so what better than a bootable distro especially for this purpose, called Anonym-OS, You can check it out here.
kaos.theory's Anonym.OS LiveCD is a bootable live cd based on OpenBSD that provides a hardened operating environment whereby all ingress traffic is denied and all egress traffic is automatically and transparently encrypted and/or anonymized.
HTTPort allows you to bypass your HTTP proxy, which is blocking you from the Internet. With HTTPort you may use various Internet software from behind the proxy, ex. e-mail, instant messengers, P2P file sharing, ICQ, News, FTP, IRC, etc.
The basic idea is that you set up your Internet software in such a manner, that it connects to your own local PC as if it was the remote server it needed. HTTPort then intercepts that connection and runs it through a tunnel through the proxy.
HTTPort doesn't really care for the proxy as such, it works perfectly with firewalls, transparent accelerators, NATs and basically anything that lets HTTP protocol through. HTTP is the basis for web surfing, so if you can freely surf the web from where you are, HTTPort will bring you the rest of the Internet applications.
HTTPort performs tunneling using one of two modes. The following schemes will give you the idea.
In SSL/CONNECT mode HTTPort can make a tunnel through a proxy all by itself. It requires that the proxy supports a certain HTTP feature, specifically CONNECT HTTP method. Most of the proxies have this method disabled by default, and administrators don't readily enable it, so if you find that this tunneling mode works for you, you must be lucky. SSL/CONNECT mode much faster, but encryption can't be used in this mode and as described here, your proxy tracks all your actions easily.
Remote host method is much more capable for tunneling through just about any proxy. In this mode HTTPort uses a special server software called HTTHost installed somewhere outside of your proxy-blocked network. HTTHost is basically a web server with a twist. When HTTPort is doing tunneling, it sends series of HTTP requests to the HTTHost. The proxy sees it af if you were surfing to some web site, and consciously allows you to. HTTHost in turn performs it's half of tunneling and talks to the target servers. This mode is much slower, but works in most cases, and it features strong data encryption which makes proxy logging useless.
Proxifier is a Windows/Mac program that allows network applications that do not support working through proxy servers operate through a HTTPS or SOCKS proxy server or a chain of proxy servers.
With Proxifier you can easily tunnel all connections on the system or separate applications.
You can work with any Internet client (browsers, FTP, IRC, BitTorrent, messengers, telnet, SSH, video/audio, games...) through a network that is separated from Internet by a firewall (only one open port is required for a proxy tunnel to bypass firewall).
Proxifier will provide you with added privacy in all your Internet activities. An example is sending and receiving email through a proxy server or by chaining multiple proxy servers together. Proxifier supports all mail clients while allowing you to remain anonymous.


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Barbeau Responds to HPC Conflict Editorial
Last Friday we posted an editorial by Matt Hansen (see Daily News: November 30/07 3:15 pm EST - CCA Selection: Interesting Conflicts or Conflicts of Interest?). The editorial was about the High Performance Committee, and how there is the potential for conflicts of interest among its members over the selection of athletes for national team projects such as the world championships.
Louis Barbeau is the Chair of the HPC, and also the Executive Director of the Quebec cycling federation - the FQSC. Mr Barbeau came under considerable scrutiny in the editorial; both because he is the Chair of the Committee, and because Quebec (the province) more directly ties funding of the provincial association to putting athletes on national team projects than do many other provinces.
However, it was also pointed out that other members of the Committee - Denise Kelly (Ontario Provincial Coach) and Luc Arseneau (Atlantic Cycling Centre Head Coach) - could also be in the same position. We do want to make clear that we did not and will not accuse any of the members of the HPC of having actually manipulated the selection process. Despite that, we stand by the position that there is the potential for manipulation, and that the issue needed to be raised.
Thus, we put forward the proposition that the HPC should restrict itself to setting selection criteria and High Performance policy, and leave the actual selection to staff and coaches.
When this article came out at the start of the CCA AGM it, as expected, provoked considerable discussion. The majority of feedback we have received (by e-mail and in direct conversations at the AGM) felt that we were correct, and that the HPC should not be making selections.
Louis and I had a long discussion about the editorial during the weekend, and here are his (paraphrased) feelings about the editorial and the HPC.
First, he stated that he was quite disappointed that he had not been contacted to discuss the editorial before it was printed, to be able to provide his perspective on the situation.
He feels that the HPC has a complicated and difficult task in dealing with all the different sectors of the sport - road, track, mountain bike, BMX, Paralympic (plus the non-Olympic downhill and cyclo-cross disciplines). There are not that many people in Canada that have the expertise and extensive knowledge required to be able to perform this function, and it is to be expected that they would be involved in the sport in a way that could lead to potential conflicts. The same situation could be pointed to for both the Events and Officials Committees also. Realistically, it is impossible to have competent people without these crossovers in responsibilities.
Louis also said that he rarely votes on selections, and usually there is a consensus among Committee members for decisions, based on recommendations from coaches and staff, plus predetermined selection criteria. Sometimes, they feel that their hands are so tied by preset criteria that it leaves little room for making a valid exception - he gave the example of Carding (the money that top athletes receive from the federal government).
Currently, Cycling receives 36 Cards, but according to criteria have 70 athletes that meet the requirements to be Carded. The determination of who gets Carding is made strictly on a formula (based on factors such as UCI ranking, Worlds results, Nationals results, etc.). While this removes any chance of bias, it also takes away to opportunity to recognize, say, a younger athlete who is beginning to perform at the world level and could probably benefit greatly from funding (possibly more than a more established athlete who might have a professional contract).
Should they go to a policy Committee and leave selections to coaches and staff, to avoid the perception or possibility of conflict? Possibly, he admits, but also points out that this leaves the door open to charges of conflict for coaches, who could be accused of trying to favour athletes they work with.
Louis Barbeau also provided the following comments by e-mail today:
I would like to point out that the level of funding of the FQSC High Performance programs is tied with many indicators, including the number of athletes on the National team in major events (World Championships and Major Games). Our evaluation is done every four years and takes into account several other aspects including the following:
- number of level 2 and above certified coaches
- performance at Canada Games
- performance (results) at national championships (senior and junior)
- number of athletes in professional teams
- depth of the sport both nationally and internationally
Most importantly, the level of funding is determined by our HP development plan (objectives over the four year cycle and activities and other means to achieve them).
Besides, without knowing of funding is allocated in other province, I can only presume that the level of performance is probably taken into account. This is exactly the same for the CCA with its level of funding from Sports Canada. I don't see anything unusual or strange about this.
I would also like to point out that I find rather offensive the fact that his article almost questions my integrity.
In conclusion, I would like to say that the fact that he did not bother contacting me is, to say the least, unprofessional in my view, as he talks about a subject (funding in Quebec) that he knows nothing about. Had he called me, I would have gladly provided him explanations before he would have written his article.
Editor's Note: This will be the final article on this editorial, since we do not intend to make it an ongoing series. Discussion can continue on the Forums.
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Homeland Defense Foundation Helps Military Families
|By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
|WASHINGTON, July 13, 2007 The National Homeland Defense Foundation distributed more than $500,000 in temporary financial assistance to over 300 families of deployed military personnel since 2005, according to the foundations president.
We have hundreds of heart-warming anecdotes resulting from our program, Donald E. Addy said.
Founded in 2004, the National Homeland Defense Foundation is a new member of America Supports You, a Defense Department program connecting citizens and corporations that support military personnel and their families serving at home and abroad.
In addition to the financial assistance, the foundation also offers military families educational and emotional support through its outreach programs.
But the foundation is not only involved in troop support activities. Through its humanitarian, security and preparedness programs, the foundation aims to secure the future of liberty for the United States, according to its Web site.
Our primary activity is conducting an annual symposium, which has become the nations leading public forum on homeland defense (and) homeland security, Addy said. (This years symposium) topics include border security, maritime domain awareness and port security.
Other topics include educational initiatives in homeland defense and security as well as Winning the War of Ideas, Addy said.
The foundation has invited top-levels government officials to speak at the event as well, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
The foundation will hold a one-day first-responders conference before the symposium. First Responders and the War on Terror, will address topics pertinent to issues facing law enforcement, fire and emergency personnel, as well as regional National Guardsmen. There is no registration fee for the conference.
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PORTSMOUTH — For the Portsmouth High School swim team, success can be measured not only in wins and losses, but in teamwork, friendships and camaraderie.
By either measure, the season has already been a success for the Clippers, with six athletes who have already qualified for states and more forged friendships and good times than statistics can calculate.
Portsmouth hosted a four-team meet on Saturday against Milford, St. Thomas and Winnacunnet, and while few of the kids could tell you the team scores at any given point, they were cheering and encouraging teammates, regardless of the outcome.
"There is definitely a good team dynamic this year," said Portsmouth coach Bridget Crompton. "We have a lot of kids who are really supportive of one another, and I think it has a positive impact on their performance. They are good about cheering and screaming for each other."
The team first attitude is clear when members of the team talk about the high points of the season to date and goals for the remainder of the year.
"I'm looking forward to seeing who will make states," said sophomore Olivia Nossiff.
Senior Saige Worley said that her goals are not only to make herself better, but also to help her younger teammates.
"As a senior, it is important to improve myself, but also to help the new kids," Worley said.
"This is a great team, we have great captains, and it is a lot of fun," added Griffin Moores. "Getting into the water is something you look forward to every day."
Crompton said those captains — seniors Katia Wyman, Lily McClure, Kyle Watson, Torey Aspinwall and Andrew Samonas, and junior Izzy Steucek — have really set the tone for her team, both in the water and out.
"Some of them lead by example, they are hard workers, the last to leave practice and help clean up," she said. "Others lead by being very enthusiastic and making sure things are fun, cheering on their teammates."
That leadership has led the team, which is 40-plus members strong, to steady improvement throughout the year.
Freshman Spencer Schwartz has set the tone in the water for the Clippers, qualifying for states in the 500 freestyle, 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke, 200 IM, and on Saturday he added the 100 free to that list.
Wyman has also had a strong showing already, qualifying in the 500 freestyle, the 100 breaststroke, the 200 IM, and the 200 freestyle.
Taylor Schwartz has qualified for states in the 50 freestyle, while Drew Layman has qualified in the 400 freestyle and the 100 butterfly, and McClure has qualified in diving.
Ian Lichtenstein has qualified in the 100 breaststroke, and Steucek has qualified in the 100 butterfly.
"Only one of our qualifiers so far is a senior also," Crompton stated. "So we have a strong foundation going forward."
For the younger members of the team, whether their efforts have translated to success in the pool, or not, the fact that the team is so close-knit has them striving for success.
"Last year was my first year on the team," said Nosiff. "Seeing the times improve, and getting to challenge yourself, and having the support of your friends is what makes this team great."
Nathanial Wilson, who said his goal is to reach states this year or next, said he thinks everyone pushes to improve, not just for themselves, but for the team.
"Everybody helps everybody else," Wilson said. "We all want to get better, but we want everyone else to improve also."


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|Novosibirsk, Russia
|High School:
|Gymnasium N1
Watch Ilya in Action
Ilya and Doubles Partner John Lamble after the NCAA Tournament Victory Over Then-No. 19 Texas
Ilya on Post Season Awards
2011-12 Awards:
WCC Freshman of the Year
All-WCC Honorable Mention Singles
Second Team All-WCC Doubles
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2011-12: SINGLES: Surged through his freshman campaign with a 20-3 singles record … appeared as the Broncos No. 6 singles player … won 14-straight matches after dropping his second match of the year against then-No. 48 Boise State … undefeated in the months of Feb. and Mar. … lost just one WCC match during his freshman campaign … won arguably the biggest singles match of the season tiebreaks in the first two sets against Ben Chen of then-No. 19 Texas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, which clinched Santa Clara's first-ever NCAA victory. DOUBLES: Played in Santa Clara's No. 1 Tandem with sophomore John Lamble … earned WCC Doubles Team of the Month honors during March for their stellar play, including a victory over the nation's then-No. 2 doubles team, Finn Tearney and Alex Lompart of Pepperdine … finished the season at No. 68 with Lamble … won totaled six WCC doubles wins including wins against: then-No. 38 BYU, LMU, then-No. 7 Pepperdine, Saint Mary's and Gonzaga … teamed up with Lamble to pick up two NCAA Tournament wins, defeating the nation's No. 39 ranked team of Chris Camillone and David Holiner of then-No. 19 Texas and a 8-6 victory over Denis Lin and Ryan Thacher of then-No. 11 Stanford … finished the 2011-12 season at No. 68 with Lamble … the tandem finish ranked No. 8 regionally.
PREP: Highest-ranked ITF player in the world at No. 221 ... earned an ATP doubles ranking of No. 1,187.
PERSONAL: From Novosibirsk, Russia ... graduated from Gymnasium N1 in 2010 ... son of Vadim and Svetlana Osintsev ... has an older sister Liliya Volnaya.
Why he chose Santa Clara?: "I chose Santa Clara beacause it is in a great location that gives me the chance to receive a good education while being able to compete on a high level of tennis."


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Download the Tournament Pairing Program "Even the Best" flyer in PDF format.
This comprehensive tournament program is leading the way with
its Windows development. With essentially no restrictions, the program is
commanding enough for the power user, yet designed so that the average user can
easily set up and score any tournament.
A brief tournament setup wizard steps users through setting up
the tournament. Players can be entered into the program from either a club
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The program allows teams and flights to be made with many
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has been introduced to allow users to conduct more than one event in the same
tournament with only one score entry being needed. Pairings may be done with
many powerful methods that include: randomly, entry number, sort sequence, sum
of gross score, sum of net score, Handicap Index, ABCD, and manually. Exchanges
are powerful and easy to use with simple drag-and-drop techniques. A simple
right mouse click from this screen can make cart assignments, insert an
additional pairing group, or add another position/column for another player for
any existing pairing group.
Players, teams or flights may play from different tees or a
different golf course altogether in the same tournament. Applying Section 3-5
(Players Playing from Different Tees) of the USGA Handicap System Manual can be
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Scorecards are designed with many custom options with the
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This program will allow the user to be as creative as possible
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This week has been hectic, which could have influenced the direction I took for Five Minute Friday.
Five Minute Friday is hosted by Lisa-Jo.
It's taking the prompt {new} and following it where it will go for five minutes of unedited, free writing.
Before I begin, and in the spirit of "new" I wanted to share with you some of my discoveries from this week:
- When your mom is allergic to flowers — and you live with her — swedish fish are an excellent substitute romantic gift from your husband! Thanks, Josh!
- My friend introduced me to the poetry of Billy Collins. I have never had much use for poetry — I'm more prosy — but I have really enjoyed his writing. If you get a chance, check him out!
- It is usually a good idea to reapply sunscreen on your children when you have them out in the sun swimming for five hours…even if you're in Washington, and you slathered them in SPF 50 beforehand. If you don't, they tend to turn a little pink. Ouch.
- Knitting groups are not just for old ladies. They can be fun, social and inspiring! Check out my newest project that I started last night!
New mom's crack me up. They read all the literature, they know all the statistics and they think they've got their plan all figured out.
I was that new mom once.
Seven years ago I knew it all. Today I realize I have no clue what I'm doing.
My four children are all different, and they keep changing, which makes it all the more challenging. This one sleeps, this one wakes up — then they switch, and sometimes they all decide that eight hours of sleep is overrated {who am I kidding, I haven't had eight hours of sleep in eight years}.
Looking back on the journey I've taken as a mother in the past few years, I wonder how that corresponds to my growth in other areas. And, what am I doing now that I will look back on and laugh about later?
I know I still make mistakes. I know that my philosophies and theories are flawed and skewed.
God chose me to be my children's mother, and He's walking me through it — step-by-step. Solely through His grace and wisdom am I capable of getting up each day and trying again. Through allowing Him to shape my words, actions, opinions and beliefs I am becoming a better mother, a better wife and a better person.
And all I can do is look at those new moms and say, "Sweetheart, it will all change — except for the fact that God is with you always."
Take five minutes yourself and share what "new" means to you, either here in the comments or link up yourself over at Lisa-Jo's place


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Consider the following linear Diophantine Equation::
ax + by + cz = d ------------ (1)
for all, a,b,c and d positive integers, and relatively prime, and assume a>b>c without loss of generality.
Can we find a lower bound on d which ensures at least one non-negative solution to this equation?
I know we can solve this problem easily for
ax+by = c. -------- (2)
The answer is
c>=ab, ------------(3)
which derives from the fact that the distance between two consecutive solutions of this equation is
$D = (\sqrt(a^2 + b^2))$ ----------(4)
and c>=ab ensures that the length of line in x-y plane is large enough to include at least one solution).
Since equation (1) is a plane in the xyz coordinate system, and the distance between consecutive solution can be shown to be DD = sqrt(b^2+c^2) (though this may not be smallest distance between solutions). I was thinking that if we can show that an inscribed circle with diameter DD can be enclosed within the triangle formed by x,y and z intercepts of Eq.(1), i.e. (c/a,0,0), (0,c/b,0) and (0,0,c/a), then we have at least one non-negative solution. But the in-circle radius has an inconvenient relationship with the original variables (a,b,c,d), and may not be a monotonic function of d.
Is there a smarter way to do this? and if such a bound exists, can it be extended to higher dimensions?


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Inspired as I was by Matt's Social Marketing entry, I wanted to add my 2 cents worth on the topic: embedded syndication.
By the way, we are completely open to your tips and tactics on how successful ways of promoting live online shows. Leave them in the comments, or write an entry about it in your own blog for us to link to.
Syndication: Get It Embedded
Sometimes it's hard to get people to watch a show at a prescribed time. Instead of getting viewers to come to you, try going to where the eyeballs are already at.
Whenever possible, embed your stream on web properties that already have inborn traffic. Get stakeholders involved in promoting the show, and while you're at it, give them your embed code to throw up alongside any online promotion they might do. Think strategically about all the stakeholders involved in your content, if/where they have an online presence, if any other web properties might be interested in these stakeholders, and how to get your stream up so that it makes sense for everyone involved.
For example, if you have a guest musician on your show, have them throw up an embed to the video right on the destination page they might be promoting their appearance, whether it be a Myspace, a blog, or any other online social media presence. Perhaps this artist has an online fan club that might be interested in the content – shoot 'em an embed code along with the URL. Perhaps the artist himself can put out a call in the beginning of the show to have his fans throw up the embedded video on their pages. And so on and so forth until the point of diminishing return.
It's a way to
hypnotize convert entice eyeballs that happen to be on any given stakeholder site during the actual live stream. The embed code is short, easy, and innately promiscuous; don't be shy about sharing it far and wide!


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Lastics Office Stretch by Lastics, LLC
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August 22, 2011
Filed under App DB, Healthcare & Fitness, Lifestyle, iPhone Apps
Being a trained dancer has given me a deep and lasting appreciation for flexibility and its benefits. I created Lastics® because most people think they are stretching when they actually aren't and often wonder why their flexibility does not improve over time. Lastics can change that. I've seen it work, transforming bodies, time and time again. Let's face it. No one can teach stretch quite like a dancer.
Endorsed by an NBA Player, Broadway Dancer and Top NY Orthopedic Surgeon, Lastics is a unique and highly effective way to loosen up your entire body from the inside out.
This app was created for busy professionals like you who need a short break from their demanding schedules. What's great about these stretches is that you can follow along with me and they don't require a lot of space and time. Try them anywhere, anytime throughout the day. Incorporate them into your daily routine and notice marked improvements in your flexibility.
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If anyone can refer me to a PCI-Ex slot adapter I can use on the sam440 I'd be happy to try a dual-card setup with both RadeonHD PCI-Express + Radeon 9xxx PCI cards here (I'm already looking for a 2-3 slot riser for the additional cards I have so I can bolt everything in here anyway (USB3 + Broadcom Wi-Fi cards).
I'm wanting to get more into device driver development so a riser to buffer possible damage and avoid breaking my sam440 seems more of a must get (Hot pluggable options may be preferable maybe?)
I know I generate a lot of static on occasion during hot days so want to avoid dumping that onto any boards after antistatic strapping myself to the machine, dumping residual power and yanking the power cable out completely.


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Bryce Harper had a phenomenal 3-for-4 day at the plate versus the Toronto Blue Jays Tuesday.
His biggest hit came in the third inning when he crushed a Henderson Alvarez pitch to deep centerfield. Were it not for a giant Blackberry sign at the Rogers Center who knows how far the ball would've traveled.
Here's Harper's mash:
And if you thought he couldn't out due himself, just watch Harper's reaction to a reporter's question about possibly going out for a celebratory beer afterward seeing as he's "of age" in Canada (via Getting Blanked):


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This is basically what it does:
- Upload a patch through thos form sendchange_test.cgi (You need credentials)
- The processchanges_test.pl in the build master checks the folder on the try server where the patch are and see if there is any one new. Right not it checks every 1 or 2mins but we will change this to incron (Upon new file creation - This means immediate response)
- The perl script copies all new patches locally and sends the buildbot a message "builbot sendchange"
- This triggers the buildbot to make the "tests" branch to get started
- It applies the patch to the latest source code, it builds, it uploads the build back to the try server through SCP and SSH (this allows the developer to download it) and it runs all 6 unit test suites against that build
Left to be done:
- Add incron for the processchanges_test.pl to run
- Put the waterfall view behind some security measures (We don't want random people to just "force builds" and loose CPU while we want identified users to be able to)
- Add ssh key pairs for the mac and the windows machine
- Create the slave on the windows machine
- Once done, clone all linux machines and the windows machines
- Modify the sendchange_test.cgi file to identify the user who uploaded the patch (right now, every patch says to be uploaded by "armenzg")
- Unify the sendchange_test.cgi form to allow users to upload patches and just get builds without "tests"
- It will be nice to notify the user when the builds are done OR when the unit tests are run (I do not know how)
Another idea - Regionalized builds
I believe that it would be a good project to allow the Hera server to spit back a regionalised build, using Rueen auto-localization tool. This obviously requires more research, but I believe it is viable project to try.
This post could have been much more technical and longer but I decided to KISS since I won't have time to spend time documenting until Tuesday or Wednesday.


text: The Courtyard by Marriott in Fairfield is centrally located between the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. The Courtyard is also just minutes away from the Napa Valley Wine Country as well as several popular attractions including Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, the Jelly Belly Factory and the Budweiser Brewery. So whether you are coming for the NASCAR Toyota/Save Mart 350 at the Sonoma Raceway or BottleRock Napa Valley, Fairfield is the place for family and fun. Not to mention Fairfield and neighboring Vacaville are also booming with new and exciting businesses like Genentech, Abbott Laboratories, Ball Corporation, Copart, Boeing and North Bay Medical. The Courtyard by Marriott is perfect for the weary traveler trying to stay close to work. Closely surrounded by premium outlets, award winning golf courses, and a diverse dining selection, Fairfield has something to offer everyone whether your business is work, or pleasure.


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Monday, February 7, 2011
Great drug rep moments
13 comments:
I'm a test subject, too, so let me tell you about how our company is actively involved in research... We're researching something....
- February 7, 2011 at 3:12 PM
- Kat's Kats said...
What was that about again? I'm afraid I can't remember. ::snicker::
I hate to tell them this but at a certain point remembering is rather useless. I helped take care of my late grandparents. My grandmother had several strokes & TIAs while my grandfather had Alzheimer's. I make a notebook with instructions on how to use the toaster, coffee maker and so on in LARGE print. We still got phone calls about how to do things which was when I finally managed to convince mom & my aunts that they needed 24/7 assistance. ::sigh::
- February 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Everybody and his brother is researching Alzheimers, because of the prospect of millions of aging baby boomers racing head on into the abyss. Just think what it will be like with 5 million or so untreated 80 y o where they hop in the car in NY, and arrive 6 days later in CA without a clue as to how they got there. Let the games begin, cause we aint seen nuttin yet.
- February 7, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- terri c said...
I suppose this drug rep was a college grad too? Let me ask, in the words of my late father, "Whatthehell are they teaching these kids in school nowadays?"
- February 7, 2011 at 4:29 PM
- The Mother said...
What??? Alzheimer's may cause memory loss??
- February 7, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- tottergirl said...
Puzzled expression, blink blink, blink blink
- February 7, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Jon said...
Sometimes I forget to worry about forgetting things. Is that bad?
- February 7, 2011 at 10:22 PM
"Did I mention that I'm really high right now?"
- February 8, 2011 at 12:45 AM
I forgot what I just said...or maybe I'm forgetting whether or not I said it. Aww, hell, I better say it again!
- February 8, 2011 at 10:26 AM
shoot. I forgot what I was going to say.................:-) ah hell, I'll just have a beer.if I can remember where I put it. Wait, I dont drink beer. I drink coke.....dont I? um, I'll just drink whats ever in this glass....
- February 8, 2011 at 2:10 PM
Does the drug do anything for pointless repetition?
- February 12, 2011 at 12:56 AM
Another reason I refer to them as "drug whores"...............
- February 13, 2011 at 6:24 PM
- Clint Cora Pharmaceutical Sales Author said...
Oh well, I was in the pharma industry for 14 years and I never got to use a line like that.
- February 27, 2011 at 12:42 AM


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1/2 onion, 1/2 tomato, 1/2 capsicum, chopped in to pieces
2tsp pizza sauce
1/2 cup of Grate Mozzarella cheese
Pre-heat the oven for 10 minutes in 200 degree Celsius, In the mean time prepare the pizza. On a pizza base apply the pizza sauce and arrange all the vegetable on top, now cover the vegetable with cheese, and bake the pizza in 180 degree Celsius for 8 to 10 minutes.
Serve hot with tomato sauce and other seasoning.


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There is a Native American figure that has been worshiped for fertility, and for agriculture. This deity is described as being a flute playing, humpbacked figure that has either feathers, or antenna like hairs sticking from his head. What exactly am I talking about? I'm talking about Kokopelli, the trickster god that Native Americans turn to when they want success in both childbirth and farming. Not only will I talk about this icon, you will be learning "how to draw Kokopelli, step by step" too. How long has this Indian concept been in existence? Well, it is said that the flute playing man has been worshiped way back when the Ancestral Puebloans existed around 1200 BC. Native Americans have many beliefs and carry out many rituals based on these beliefs. Not only is it believed that Kokopelli carries the unborn to expecting woman, he also watches over the reproduction over the forest animals that Native Americans depend on for food, and or clothing. There is questions as to what exactly Kokopelli has in his mouth. Some believe that it is a flute, and then there are some that believe it is a blowgun. Images or hand drawn pictures of Kokopelli appear on a series of Hohokam pottery that has been dated back to 750 AD and 850 AD. I personally think that his outlined silhouette is pretty cool and would make an awesome tattoo design. In fact, some Native Americans of today, actually get this god inked on their bodies. That is why I've included some tribal art on his back to make the drawing more exciting. Just by looking at the image you can already tell that it isn't going to be such a hard lesson to accomplish. Drawing Kokopelli, is going to be easy as 1, 2, 3. I will be back with one more tutorial that I think you will like. Peace out people and happy drawing!
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A retired local city manager who was in Boston when bombs went off earlier this week said authorities there reacted professionally � something he said he�s confident police in Jacksonville would as well.
A retired local city manager who was in Boston when bombs went off earlier this week said authorities there reacted professionally � something he said he�s confident police in Jacksonville would as well.
Boston native Ken Hagan retired in 2006 after 37 years with the City of Jacksonville, the last five as the city�s manager. He and his wife Cindy live in Jacksonville but were in Boston on Monday to watch Red Sox baseball.
�It was a good day,� Cindy Hagan said. �The Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays in the bottom of the ninth. We came out of Fenway Park to a crowd who were cheering on marathon runners. We decided to eat some seafood. It was the perfect day.�
Then two bombs exploded nearby.
Ken Hagan said they had made it into the subway and were waiting on a train when police told everyone to go topside. The Hagans were just a few blocks from where bombs killed three people and injured more than 100 others.
�It was chaotic and confusing,� Cindy Hagan said. �We couldn�t get a cell signal and all the transportation was shut down. We had nowhere to go, but they were telling us to get off the street.�
With Boston shutting down, the Hagans finally made it to an operating subway station and headed west out of town to a suburb where their car was parked.
�All you could hear was sirens for hours,� Cindy Hagan said.
A marathon runner sitting near the Hagans on their train ride out of town was worried because his girlfriend had been waiting for him at the finish line. She turned out OK, but the moments between the bombs going off and reaching the safety of the suburbs was harrowing, Cindy Hagan said.
�It was sad and filled with so much confusion,� she said.
But Ken Hagan�s years of experience in running local government allowed him to see a pattern amid the chaos.
�The police did an excellent job coordinating the scene,� he said in a phone interview Friday afternoon while driving back to Jacksonville.
The police were professional but emphatic with what they wanted crowds to do, Ken Hagan said.
�This could happen anywhere,� he said. �We should never say or think it can�t happen in Jacksonville.�
Ken Hagan said Jacksonville police are prepared for such a calamity.
�I know for a fact our police have had training on riot control and mass casualty drills,� he said. �I�m confident they could handle any situation that comes up.�
Ken Hagan said his greatest achievement as city manager was hiring current Police Chief Mike Yaniero.
�I have a great deal of admiration and confidence in Mike Yaniero,� Ken Hagan said. �He is a champion of full force training.�
Ken Hagan said he wasn�t as close to the local government reins as he once was, but knew Jacksonville�s leaders, first responders and residents would react appropriately to any situation.
Contact Daily News Senior Reporter Lindell Kay at 910-219-8455 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter and friend him on Facebook @ 1lindell.


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Barbra Streisand took a little time out from being honored to speak her mind in Israel today.
In town on Monday to receive an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the iconic singer voiced her concerns during the ceremony about how women are treated within the country's Orthodox Jewish community.
"It's distressing to read about women in Israel being forced to sit in the back of a bus or...having metal chairs hurled at them when they intend to peacefully and legally pray," Streisand said, per Reuters. "Or women being banned from singing in public ceremonies."
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There have been protests recently regarding a women's rights group's insistence that ladies be allowed to pray next to men at the Western Wall, where traditionally only men have gone to worship and read from the Torah.
"I know that solutions don't come easy," added Streisand, who is also scheduled to perform two concerts in Tel Aviv and sing for Israeli President Shimon Peres' birthday while in the Middle East. "And they don't in the United States, where women are still making 80 cents for every dollar that a man makes."
Well, she does have a PhD in philosophy now. This is Streisand's second honorary doctorate, having received her first--a Doctor of Humane Letters--from Brandeis University in 1995.


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A good Marriage must be created.
In the art of marriage, the little things are the
big things... It is never being told to hold hands.
It is remembering to say, "I love you", at least
once a day. It is never going to sleep angry. It is
having a mutual sense of values and common
objectives; It is standing together facing the
world. It is forming a circle of love that gathers
in the whole family. It is speaking words of
appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget. It
is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can
grow. It is a common search for the good and the
beautiful. It is not only marrying the right
partner. It is being the right partner. contributed by SUSAN E MAYO


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Pond & Lake Q & A
Q: How do I get rid of a chara infestation?
– Dave of Ohio
A: During the early beginnings of spring have you ever took that first stroll around the pond and discovered an awful musky smell that filled the air? That smell is chara, and it seems to take off like a wildfire during the early spring. Did you know that if you rake it out before treating it, you risk spreading it even more! So what do you do? The proper way to get rid of chara is the following:
First: Treat the chara using an algaecide
Since chara is a form of algae, using an algaecide such as Algae Defense® or Clipper™ is a great way to treat for the chara. Algae Defense® is best used when there are no koi, goldfish or trout in the pond. All other fish are fine. Also there are no water use restrictions with Algae Defense®. If your pond does contain koi, goldfish or trout then using Clipper™ is the way to go. The only downside with Clipper™ are its water use restrictions. Read more about those restrictions here.
Second: Wait 10 to 14 Days
The important step here is the wait the 10 to 14 days to make sure the chara has died from the algaecide treatment. Like I mentioned eariler, if you rake while the chara is still alive, it can spread.
Third & Final: Rake out the chara
Use the The Pond Guy® Pond & Beach Rake to rake out the chara from the pond. The Pond & Beach Rake includes a 25′ rope so you can throw the rake out into the pond and tug it in. I would rake the same area 2 or 3 times to make sure you removed all of the chara. Chara, fortunately is very easy to rake off of the bottom.
The other hidden benefit of raking chara, is the removal of the black muck on the bottom of the pond. This muck is a nutrient source for weeds and algae so removing it will help you that much more at maintaining the pond. Once finished with the raking, using MuckAway™ Pellets will help breakdown any future muck that may accumulate.
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Pushing the boundaries of traditional Tempranillo, Calo was created by fifth generation Riojan winemaker Javier Marua specifically for restaurants with minimal oak and intensely flavoured fruit – a perfect by the glass wine.
An expression of the Gypsy language from northern Spain, encapsulating the freedom Javier felt to create Calo, this joven style Tempranillo with just 10% oak influence is intended to be enjoyed in the full expression of its youth.
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There are 104 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Place value, you may find related items under Numbers and the Number System.Broad Topics > Numbers and the Number System > Place value
Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?
Who said that adding couldn't be fun?
Try out some calculations. Are you surprised by the results?
Have a go at balancing this equation. Can you find different ways of doing it?
Use two dice to generate two numbers with one decimal place. What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?
What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?
Can you work out some different ways to balance this equation?
Can you complete this calculation by filling in the missing numbers? In how many different ways can you do it?
What two-digit numbers can you make with these two dice? What can't you make?
Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?
These spinners will give you the tens and unit digits of a number. Can you choose sets of numbers to collect so that you spin six numbers belonging to your sets in as few spins as possible?
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.
Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?
Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
In this 100 square, look at the green square which contains the numbers 2, 3, 12 and 13. What is the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other? What do you notice?
How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?
Can you show that 1^99 + 2^99 + 3^99 + 4^99 + 5^99 is divisible by 5?
Can you replace the letters with numbers? Is there only one solution in each case?
Evaluate these powers of 67. What do you notice? Can you convince someone what the answer would be to (a million sixes followed by a 7) squared?
How many six digit numbers are there which DO NOT contain a 5?
Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?
Choose four different digits from 1-9 and put one in each box so that the resulting four two-digit numbers add to a total of 100.
This multiplication uses each of the digits 0 - 9 once and once only. Using the information given, can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?
Can you convince me of each of the following: If a square number is multiplied by a square number the product is ALWAYS a square number...
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?
Can you explain the surprising results Jo found when she calculated the difference between square numbers?
Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?
Three people chose this as a favourite problem. It is the sort of problem that needs thinking time - but once the connection is made it gives access to many similar ideas.
A 2-Digit number is squared. When this 2-digit number is reversed and squared, the difference between the squares is also a square. What is the 2-digit number?
Lee was writing all the counting numbers from 1 to 20. She stopped for a rest after writing seventeen digits. What was the last number she wrote?
The Number Jumbler can always work out your chosen symbol. Can you work out how?
A school song book contains 700 songs. The numbers of the songs are displayed by combining special small single-digit cards. What is the minimum number of small cards that is needed?
Number problems at primary level that may require resilience.
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
Number problems at primary level to work on with others.
Number problems for inquiring primary learners.
What happens when you round these three-digit numbers to the nearest 100?
Dicey Operations for an adult and child. Can you get close to 1000 than your partner?
Some Games That May Be Nice or Nasty for an adult and child. Use your knowledge of place value to beat your opponent.
What is the sum of: 6 + 66 + 666 + 6666 ............+ 666666666...6 where there are n sixes in the last term?
Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...
Becky created a number plumber which multiplies by 5 and subtracts 4. What do you notice about the numbers that it produces? Can you explain your findings?
Using balancing scales what is the least number of weights needed to weigh all integer masses from 1 to 1000? Placing some of the weights in the same pan as the object how many are needed?
Can you find the chosen number from the grid using the clues?
Investigate the different ways these aliens count in this challenge. You could start by thinking about how each of them would write our number 7.
This article for the young and old talks about the origins of our number system and the important role zero has to play in it.
This article, written for teachers, looks at the different kinds of recordings encountered in Primary Mathematics lessons and the importance of not jumping to conclusions!
Start by putting one million (1 000 000) into the display of your calculator. Can you reduce this to 7 using just the 7 key and add, subtract, multiply, divide and equals as many times as you like?


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The US Supreme Court refused on Monday to examine a California law that allows illegal immigrants to attend state colleges and universities at preferential in-state tuition rates that are roughly one-third the cost charged to students from out-of-state.
Under the state law any individual – regardless of immigration status – who graduates from a California high school after attending for three years qualifies for the same tuition discount offered to California residents.
The discounts apply at all public universities in the state, including the system's most prestigious and highly-competitive institutions.
Eight other states have enacted similar provisions, offering illegal immigrants in those states the same in-state tuition discount offered to state residents. Those states are Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington. Oklahoma passed a similar law, but later repealed it.
A group of out-of-state students filed a lawsuit challenging the California law. The suit says the state measure conflicts with and is preempted by a 1996 federal immigration statute that forbids states from offering resident tuition rates to any illegal immigrant unless the state offers the same preferential tuition rates to all US citizens regardless of their state residency.
A state judge dismissed the suit, but a California appeals court ruled that the state provision was preempted by the federal immigration law.
The California Supreme Court reversed that decision, ruling that the state law did not confer a benefit on illegal immigrants based on their residence in California.
The state law based the preferential tuition award on criteria other than the student's state of residence, the state high court said. The in-state tuition is granted on the basis of attendance at and graduation from a California high school. Although most graduates from California schools do, in fact, reside in California, the high court reasoned that not all graduates are residents.
Minor children of out-of-state parents who attend boarding schools in California qualify for resident tuition rates. So do students who live in an adjoining state or country and attend high school in California.
The state supreme court said if Congress intended to impose a ban on illegal immigrants receiving in-state tuition it could have done so. Instead, Congress restricted only the use of residence as a criterion, the court said, but it did not bar states from identifying other criteria to award the in-state discounts.
In urging the US Supreme Court to take up the case, Kris Kobach, a lawyer for the students, said the congressional measure is aimed at blocking the provision of benefits to illegal immigrants. He said Congress wanted to reduce any incentive for undocumented immigrants to enter or remain in the country unlawfully.
"Congress was concerned about states offering illegal aliens a particular benefit – resident tuition rates or the functional equivalent," he wrote in his brief. "California spends in excess of $208 million each year subsidizing the tuition of illegal aliens under the [California law]," he said.
Julie Weng-Gutierrez of the California attorney general's office urged the justices to dismiss the appeal, saying the out-of-state students lacked the necessary legal standing to bring the case. She said their lawsuit was aimed at fighting a generalized grievance over the state's alleged noncompliance with federal law rather than a particularized and personal injury the resolution of which would directly benefit them.
Even if they won their suit, a favorable ruling would not reduce their tuition rates, she wrote.
Ms. Weng-Gutierrez added that there was no disagreement among the circuit courts of appeal on the issue of in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants necessitating the high court's intervention.
She noted in her brief that 500 children who are residents of an adjoining state or country are attending California high schools. She added that 5,000 to 6,000 children of undocumented immigrants graduate each year from California high schools.
Ethan Schulman, a lawyer for the regents of the University of California, also urged the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal. He said the California legislature did not defy Congress in passing the in-state tuition law. State lawmakers "carefully tailored that statute to comply with federal law," he said.
The California law's criteria (graduation from a California high school and three years attendance) are not the same as residence, nor are they a de facto or surrogate residency requirement, Mr. Schulman wrote, echoing the California Supreme Court decision. The state court opinion continues: "Congress specifically referred to residence – not some form of surrogate for residence – as the prohibited basis for granting unlawful aliens a postsecondary education benefit."
The case is Martinez v. Regents of the University of California (10-1029).


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When I was planning a trip to Japan in 2007 I collected information madly. The craft blogs, more than any other source, had the information I was most interested in. I bookmarked blogs and travelled to Tokyo with a printout of many different blog posts that I stuffed into my bag and pulled out on the train or on Tokyo street corners.
Half the time I couldn't remember where I'd read some great travel advice. So this blog has been created out of a desire to have a central place that captures all that great information.
There are four contributors who have travelled to or live in Japan. We all love our Japanese craft and hope to bring you helpful information that will feed your love of it too.
We'd love your feedback and suggestions so feel free to comment or email us. Enjoy!
Friday, July 18, 2008
3 comments:
- Tamara said...
I so could have done with this site 12 months ago. My husband was travelling through Tokyo on his way home and I had no idea where to send him to buy all of the Japanese cuteness I have seen.
I look forward to reading what you clever girls have to say.
- July 20, 2008 at 10:38 PM
I am so happy I have found this blog. I am going to Japan in October for two whole weeks and this will be very helpfull :D Thanks!
- August 4, 2008 at 7:41 AM
- ILikePaperCutting said...
I have read all your posts and love it. I wanted to make a trip there this year for the zakka, fabric, and kawaii stuff.
- April 27, 2010 at 3:05 PM
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Keith Urban said the reason his third time in rehab did the trick was because of "love."
The four-years sober country star told Oprah Winfrey in an interview Monday that he'd only been married to actress Nicole Kidman a few months before she and a few friends staged an intervention over his addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
"This could destroy us," Urban said he remembered thinking about his new marriage.
But he told Winfrey he knew that he had to "make a decision which road I was going to take, once and for all," and reentered rehab in October 2006 despite his fears.
His relationship with Kidman only grew stronger because of the "perfect" way she "handled the moment," he said, according to excerpts of the interview posted on Oprah.com and Us.
"Everything was just designed, I believe, for that moment to fuse us together," Urban said, adding that he discovered how to love himself too.
In Kidman's own interview with Winfrey, the Oscar-winner described her relationship with Urban as "really tight."
"I think marriage is about, every day, trying to make it better and working through things and when things are tough, saying, 'I'm going to come to you and talk,'" she said.
The Australian actress, who lives with Urban and their 2.5-year-old daughter Sunday Rose in Nashville, Tennessee, is set to star in the upcoming film "Rabbit Hole."
Selected Reading: Oprah, Us, USA Today


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For information about this year's Induction Ceremony, click here.
The Induction Ceremony is the signature program of the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, where we bring our mission to life. From its inception in 1994, the Ceremony has been a forum for women to gather, share stories and celebrate the achievements of exceptional women who have paved the way for the current generation to enjoy freedoms and choices unheard of even a few decades ago. While we induct several living women into the Hall each year, we also place heavy emphasis on uncovering the stories of extraordinary women and their accomplishments, stories that heretofore have received little or no recognition. In the early years, we concentrated on honoring women who were firsts in their fields, and today celebrate the fact that "firsts" is a shrinking criteria for induction as women move toward more equal participation in society.
The Annual Induction Ceremony is held in the fall and welcomes over 800 of Connecticut's civic, corporate and government leaders. The celebration includes a cocktail reception, seated dinner and Induction Ceremony supported by individuals, foundations and corporations. Each Inductee is honored with a short tribute film which chronicles her struggles and achievements. These films are currently produced by Karyl Evans, a five-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker in collaboration with CPTV's film crew and are used as educational tools throughout the year. Indeed, our Inductees' stories, highlighted at the event, form the foundation for all of our programs designed to provide role models for women of all ages and inspire their continued achievements.
We hope that you will join us for this year's celebration!
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As we have dealt with here in the past, there is a usergroup for this printer on FB, but they filter/delete comments regularly with things they do not agree with.
Welcome those who want to discuss Skynet, Marlin, or any other firmware for your printer.
Feel free to talk, ask questions and spread the word about this forum. My hope is that it will help others actually be able to use your printer..


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FINALLY! We have gotten back to normal and ready for some of our own post-Cream NY blog posts. This series, aptly called "Through The Eyes Of..." will feature the images from some of the photographers, the videographers and quite honestly, anyone who took amazing images.
The First installment comes from the lovely husband and wife duo of Les Loups. Great people, great photos.


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2009 was a memorable year in books for me. Yes, it was a crazy, crazy year, but 2009 did have special personal highlights in terms of my love of reading. First, I started this blog this year. Then, there was this mention in BBC about my bookshelf project. I also became active in a book club this year -- Flips Flipping Pages. Finally, I came to know several book bloggers like myself who have a passion for books and reading.
Although I was only able to read 48 books this year, I did come across some truly wonderful ones. I usually come up with a list of the best books that I've read for the year. So for 2009, here are my top books (in random order) that I really, really enjoyed.
Incidentally, here are the books that I absolutely detested:
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
- The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney
- Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
So what's in store for KyusiReader next year? Well, I'm not really sure. I do plan on reading more classical (or non-contemporary) books in 2010, so let's see how that goes. But one thing's certain -- I'll always keep on reading! And I feel really good about 2010, the year of the Metal Tiger, since I was born in the year of the tiger myself.
- The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
- The Crimson Labyrinth by Yusuke Kishe
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
How about you, dear reader? What are your best and worst reads for 2009? What are your reading plans for 2010? And by the way, allow me, the KyusiReader, greet you a...
Happy New Year!
More books, more reading, more blogging in 2010!
More books, more reading, more blogging in 2010!


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Las Batuecas - Sierra de Francia Nature Reserve
Las Batuecas Nature Reserve
Contact details
(Castilla y Leon)
Visitor centre at the Reserve
Tel.:+34 923415141
Tel.:+34 923415213
Tel.:+34 923415421
- Autonomous region: Castilla y Leon
- Province/Island: Salamanca
"Q" for Tourism Quality, a mark that represents quality in Spain's tourism sector.
Ecotourism. ECST (European Charter for Sustainable Tourism) accreditation for certain natural areas.
Diversity of fauna and flora
This is a place of incomparable scenic value. The flat surfaces of the plains stand in stark contrast to deep canyons carved out by the rivers. It also has a distinct and contrasting vegetation which includes everything from Mediterranean farm crops, somewhat uncommon at this latitude, and other ecosystems with a more Atlantic influence such as Pyrenean oak forests. Its fauna includes more than 200 different species of vertebrates.
See tourist services and activities in the park
- Type of area Nature reserve
- Area 32300 hectares
Access and surroundings
Cultural information
The surrounding area has a wealth of cultural attractions and an important historic and artistic heritage, including rock art sites, remains of Roman mines and several shrines and monasteries scattered throughout the area.
Environmental information
The highest peaks have a predominance of broom and echinospartum. A little lower, forests of Pyrenean oak and some birch and other species of oak begin to make their appearance. As the altitude decreases to the south, the vegetation becomes much more Mediterranean, with numerous holm oaks, grapevines, and cherry and chestnut orchards, among others.
Information for visits
It is advisable to stop at the Visitor Centre to plan your visit. (Carretera Las Batuecas, s/n, La Alberca, Salamanca)