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Morenci native Chad King was recently interviewed on a Cleveland television station for tips about computer security issues.
King, the owner of KingPin Computer Services in Cleveland, offers a variety of services ranging from computer repair to data backup.
The WKYC report called December a season for shopping but also for scamming. The reporter gave the example of a woman who clicked on a link that led to a window asking if she would like to renew her anti-virus software. Clicking there actually allowed the virus to infect her computer.
When it comes to internet security, King said, the most common mistake people make is to use one password for all their websites.
King explained that websites can share password information, making it easier for scammers to hack into accounts.
King recommends purchasing YubiKey, an "electronic key" that stores passwords in a virtual vault. To log into a site, you first have to plug the key into your computer.
"This is two-layer security," King said. "One layer is, I type in my password. The other layer is that I put this key in and this key has to be present. If you don't have the key, you're not getting in my vault."
The report notes that scams generally have a sense of urgency to them, often saying that an account is suspended or a package won't arrive if information isn't sent online.
Common scams going around now include:
• A PayPal e-mail saying that your account is frozen.
• An airline confirmation titled: Your Flight Order NXXXXX
• An Amazon.com shipping order.
King also mentioned that fake charities are good at fooling internet users. The Federal Trade Commission website has a charity checklist to help people make sure their money is going to a legitimate group.


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hey, what's going on? except for Mozart Forever (yay!), no one wants to post to this group? did the bananas all turn brown?
anyone have ideas on how to improve the group?
Some folks have wanted to know, "who is chinadoll?" These one or two folks are musescore members with an abundance of free time and curiosity about trivial issues that have nothing to do with music composition. That said (written), let us (me, this is confusing) be clear, they are very nice people and chinadoll is deeply touched (in the head, most likely) by their interest. So here goes.
Chinadoll has beautiful glossy golden brown hair, large soft eyes, a very quiet shy disposition along with an exceptionally sweet and gentle nature. Chinadoll loves loves fresh fruit (especially bananas) and vegetables. Yes, chinadoll is a Syrian Hamster with a bit of a talent for composing music. Late at night when everyone is asleep, chinadoll will tap out the notes on the home computer using her little paws. She loves attention and lots of gentle petting (especially if you give her a treat).
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The first time I heard the book read at a toddler story time, I fell in love with My Many Colored Days. The way the colors and animals give children a connection to the meaning of the feelings described on each of the pages is simple yet profound. It is seemingly written for that tender toddler age.
As a baby steps (no pun intended) into toddlerhood they have a full range of emotions to grapple with, partly in relation to their reach towards independence. Another part of that is the attempt at effective communication that is often times cute and often times frustrating. Consider for a moment a baby who has graduated the world of cruising and now toddles towards things they want. Sometimes those things are off limits as we protect our baby from danger. Yet, from their perspective, the other walking people seem to have full reign and few limits. A whole new world is open to them, yet invisible boundaries still limit them. On the flip side, exhilaration abounds at all the new achievements toddlers experience; in part due the novelty of being able to do something they once could not do. So often times the feelings are felt in a big way.
Just as babies are not born with all of their teeth and teething seems an unfair painful experience, toddlers must undergo a lot of trial and error as they progress in their verbal language journey. And so baby sign language has been a tool of choice for the modern day parent. I knew right away that I would utilize this lesser known book of Dr. Seuss' in my Sign, Play & Learn classes as a tool to show parents how a book can connect the dots for complex ideas such as feelings.
Here I share with you a reading and signing of My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss. Let me know which of the signs you plan to show your baby/toddler.


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If I'm not mistaken in the topic, I want to ask a question. Admin if mistaken, then please do not delete, but postpone, as the forum is not so long ago and was lost with the search for a topic
Actually, I want to ask. Share an alternative, unlocking access to blocked sites. I use NORD, the subscription is coming to an end, I think to extend it or not. Everything suits, speed, traffic, service.
But they say that it is possible to bypass the lock for free. Who will tell me what? I'm interested in the speed of surfing and traffic (to watch videos, download files, etc.). Thank you in advance! Better in PM.
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A man who defeated Dave Grohl in a battle of the bands competition when the Foo Fighters' lead singer was in 9th grade reunited with the rockstar at the band's concert in Memphis, Tennessee, this week.
"Tonight, the man that beat me in the high school battle of the bands — don't boo him, he's a good man, evidently a better [expletive] musician than I am — if you're around here somewhere, ... get your [expletive] up here!" Grohl announced at the sold-out show.
Many requested. So here it is! My 15 minutes of fame.Posted by Chet Lott on Thursday, October 8, 2015
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After Grohl said it was time to get his revenge, Chet Lott, originally from Pascagoula, Mississippi, jogged onto the stage to help the grunge band sing a cover of Queen's "Under Pressure," according to NBC affiliate WMC.
Here is Dave telling the back story on the battle of the bands.Posted by Chet Lott on Thursday, October 8, 2015
The rivalvry between Grohl and Lott—the son of Senate Majority leader Chester "Trent" Lott—started decades ago at Thomas Jefferson High School in Washington, D.C., in 1984. Lott is a respected Kentucky-based singer himself and uses his music to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims, according to Lott's website.
"I may have won the battle, but you won the war," Lott told Grohl at the end of their set.


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At a government-run public middle school in Bangalore, the blackboard's cracking, the textbooks are tattered and most of the students are barefoot.
But with all those challenges, the biggest obstacle that teachers face in keeping kids in school is hunger. Many students show up at school having had nothing to eat for breakfast.
On mornings one student comes to school hungry, the thought of school makes her break down, she says.
"When I had to get on the bus, I would start crying," says K. Suchitra, 13.
Suchitra is an unusually talented student, says her teacher, Sheelavati Shakti. She shows a strong aptitude for music and dance, and is strong academically.
But when she joined this school a year ago, Suchitra looked unhealthy, Shakti says. Her skin was discolored, but she didn't have an infection; she was just malnourished.
Suchitra's life has recently been turned around, however. An ambitious school lunch program now supplies kids at her middle school with a nutritious, freshly cooked meal. On days she comes to school hungry, she knows she can eat at school.
"After eating this food I've become stronger," Suchitra says. "That's why I'm able to come to school and study and play."
The skin discoloration disappeared after she started the lunch program, Suchitra says. But the program has done more than improve her physical health; it's allowed her to dream of a better life. She now imagines going to college to study science. And one day, she says, she hopes to become a software engineer.
The lunch program that provides meals to Suchitra's school currently feeds 1.3 million children across India, making it one of the largest school lunch programs in the world.
It was initially begun more than a decade ago as part of the religious outreach of a Hindu group known as ISKCON, better known in the West as the Hare Krishna movement.
The Hindu group is still actively involved in the program. But the lunch program is now operated as a secular, public-private partnership, serving poor children of all backgrounds.
Government officials supply grain and other lunch ingredients at a discount, and provide a cash subsidy. Donors from India and around the world supply the rest.
"Feeding a child is not charity," says Shridhar Venkat, who directs the lunch program through the Akshaya Patra Foundation. He used to be a corporate executive. To him, a child like Suchitra is not a hungry 13-year-old girl in poverty. She's an opportunity, and giving her lunch is an investment. Tomorrow, an educated Suchitra could produce a huge return on that investment to her community, he said.
The program prepares most of the food using centralized kitchens. Some 17,000 pounds of rice and 4,500 gallons of soup are produced by one kitchen in Bangalore. Engineers have designed the kitchen and the logistics of delivering the food to schools.
"We have never failed to deliver a meal on any day in the last 11 years," Venkat says.
The program is so cost-effective it's become a Harvard Business School case study. Today it costs only about 11 cents to place a meal before each child. By 2020, the program hopes to feed 5 million children every day.
The combination of efficiency and high purpose makes for a strange marriage: ruthlessly efficient corporate management techniques married to a goal that is deeply emotional.
"We want to do things with heart," Venkat says. "It's not just, 'build large kitchens.' All these large kitchens have a big heart."
Venkat is constantly looking for ways to increase efficiency so the program can feed more children. He studies the data to see if the lunch program is having a discernible effect. He's recently noticed more children are coming to school on one particular day each week: the day the lunch program includes dessert.
Venkat said he was going to try to use the inducement of dessert to get kids to come to school. Typically, the children know on which day dessert is going to be included in lunch.
"We are trying to make it a secret, so they keep guessing and they come to school," he says with a laugh.
Independent audits of the program have found it's having a profound effect.
"The school attendance goes up, malnutrition level comes down, dropout rates comes down," Venkat says.
But besides the statistics, Venkat says he regularly sees the human face of the results.
A young man recently visited Venkat. He was in one of the earliest cohorts of children who've been helped by the lunch program.
The man told Venkat he was the son of a security guard. When the son was in the eighth grade, his father was earning less than a dollar a day. He was so hungry, he used to faint at school. Academically, he was scraping by. Then, the free lunch program started.
"He told me, 'My attention span went up. My concentration went up,'" Venkat says. So did the boy's grades. He went on to college and became an engineer. When the young man visited Venkat, he handed him an envelope.
"And the envelope ... had an offer letter from India's leading multinational software company as a software programmer," Venkat says.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
Nearly half of all small children in India are malnourished. And there's now an effort under way to change that using school lunch programs.
But NPR's Shankar Vedantam found during a recent visit that the math of the undertaking is, well, daunting. How can you provide a fresh, nutritious meal cooked from scratch every day to more than a million kids when all you have to spend on each meal is 11 cents?
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: The answer to that question means a lot to this 13-year-old girl I met at a middle school in Bangalore.
SUCHITRA: ...fairy went a-marketing. She bought a little fish.
VEDANTAM: Her name is Suchitra. Suchitra is struggling to learn English. When I meet her, she's reciting a poem about a fairy and a goldfish. She has pigtails and blue ribbons. With her bright eyes and quick mind, I can tell she's hungry to learn. But most of the time, she's just hungry.
On many mornings, there's nothing for breakfast. On those days, she tells me, the thought of school makes her cry. Her teacher said she looked unhealthy when she arrived about a year ago.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Foreign language spoken)
VEDANTAM: The teacher says Suchitra's skin was discolored. Medicines didn't help. She didn't have an infection. She was malnourished. The teacher tells me she's seen lots of kids drop out because of hunger. If that happens to Suchitra, all her potential - her love of music and dance, the fact she's so dedicated to learning - none of it will matter.
But Suchitra's story isn't a tale of woe. It's actually a success story. And it's built around a program that's figured out how you place a very nutritious, freshly cooked lunch every day before more than a million schoolchildren. And yes, it's found a way to do it at a cost of 11 cents per meal.
Outside Suchitra's classroom, I see men unloading giant containers of food. Lunch is being set up.
When they opened the containers, I see the food's piping hot. The kids have been waiting all morning. Dozens of them get in line.
VEDANTAM: Suchitra piles her plate and sits down on the floor to eat with her classmates. I ask her what she's eating.
(Foreign language spoken)
SUCHITRA: Tomato, beans, carrots.
VEDANTAM: Tomatoes, beans and carrots. Nutritious vegetables cooked just a couple of hours ago.
American parents would love their kids to eat food this fresh. All over India, hundreds of thousands of children are sitting down to eat lunches like this. They're the result of a public-private partnership that has turned into one of the world's largest school lunch programs. By 2020, it's expected to feed 5 million children every day.
Suchitra still comes to school with an empty stomach, but now she knows she'll eat at school. She says it's made it possible for her to come to school regularly.
SUCHITRA: (Through Translator) After eating this food, I have become stronger. That's why I'm able to come to school and study and play.
VEDANTAM: The lunch program has done more than fill her stomach. It's allowed Suchitra to dream of a life she wasn't supposed to have. She now imagines going to college to study science and one day to become a software engineer.
SHRIDHAR VENKAT: Feeding a child is not charity.
VEDANTAM: That's Shridhar Venkat, who directs this massive school lunch program through the Akshaya Patra Foundation. He used to be a corporate executive. To him, Suchitra is not a hungry 13-year-old girl in poverty. She's an opportunity. Giving her lunch is an investment. Tomorrow, an educated Suchitra can produce a huge return on that investment for her community.
VENKAT: Our vision is to see that no child in India is deprived of education because of hunger.
VEDANTAM: No child in India should be deprived of education because of hunger. That's a vision for tens of millions of children. It's a messiah-type vision. Venkat doesn't look like a messiah. He's a clean-cut guy - glasses, buttoned-down - an engineering-type. In fact, he is an engineer and his program has designed an engineering solution to keep hungry kids in school.
VENKAT: We have never failed to deliver a meal on any day in the last 11 years.
VEDANTAM: So you're saying that of the 1.3 million children you have right now, who get meals every single day, there has not been a single day the children have not gotten meals?
VENKAT: Yes, absolutely.
VEDANTAM: Giant centralized kitchens prepare hundreds of thousands of meals every day. Trucks deliver the food to schools. Every aspect of the program has been engineered for efficiency.
The program is so cost-effective it's become a Harvard Business School case study. To me, it looks like a strange marriage: ruthlessly efficient corporate management techniques married to a goal that's deeply emotional.
VENKAT: So we want to do things with heart. It's not to just build large kitchens. All these large kitchens have a big heart.
VEDANTAM: I had to find out how this marriage of heart and mind come together. On this morning, it's before 6:00 when I get to one of the centralized kitchens. Dozens of workers have been toiling since 3.
They chopped mountains of fresh vegetables. There's steamed lentils. Buckets of turmeric and other spices are ready. It's fresh cooking on an industrial scale. There's no butylated hydroxyanisole or sodium benzoate, no preservatives because everything made in this kitchen is going to be eaten by 100,000 children within four hours.
On the main floor, workers are attending to 10 large steel cauldrons. And giant bubbles are rising up in this cauldron making little splashes. I'm seeing turnips and beans and carrots and leaves.
Once the mixture of rice and lentils and vegetables is cooked, it's packed in a sterilized container. In seconds, the container's on a truck.
Within minutes of being cooked, the food is on its way to a school. When Venkat, the lunch program director, looks at this operation, he sees room for improvement. He's now developing algorithms so trucks take more efficient routes to school.
VENKAT: So we are trying to optimize here by doing route cost optimization.
VEDANTAM: The trucking and delivery cost of each meal is about 1 cent. With efficient routes, Venkat might save a fifth of that 1 cent. Multiply that tiny amount by a million and the savings feed another 20,000 kids.
Venkat's obsessed with data. He's recently noticed more children are coming to school on one particular day each week. It's the day the lunch program includes dessert.
Now, do the children know on which day the dessert is going to come?
VENKAT: They know. But we are trying to keep it a secret so that they keep guessing and they come to school.
VEDANTAM: Independent audits of the program have found it's having a profound effect.
VENKAT: The school attendance goes up, malnutrition level comes down, dropout rates come down.
VEDANTAM: Not only is the dropout rate falling, more girls are showing up at school. And children who started on the lunch program a decade ago are now finding jobs. Venkat eagerly tells me the story of one young man who came to visit him.
VENKAT: So he said, sir, I'm - I was the son of a security guard. My father used to earn 30 to 35 rupees every day...
VEDANTAM: His father used to earn 30 to 35 rupees. That's less than a dollar a day. The young man told Venkat he was in the eighth grade at the time. He was so hungry, he used to faint at school. Academically, he was scraping by. Then the free lunch program started.
VENKAT: So he told me: My attention span went up. My concentration went up. I was...
VEDANTAM: So did the boy's grades. He went on to college, became an engineer, and then Venkat says the young man handed him an envelope.
VENKAT: And the envelope was he had an offer letter from India's leading multinational software company as a software programmer.
SUCHITRA: (Foreign language spoken)
VEDANTAM: Remember that girl I met at the start of this story with the big dreams of becoming an engineer? This is the payoff Venkat is hoping to see in her life. If she turns out like that young man with the envelope, it's hard to imagine a smarter investment of 11 cents.
Shankar Vedantam, NPR News.
CORNISH: To see a slideshow about Suchitra and to learn more about this school lunch program, visit npr.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Forest Service warns hikers to about spring hazards on Mt Washington
PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. (AP) � Forest officials are strongly advising visitors to Mount Washington's Tuckerman Ravine to plan ahead and be prepared for the spring thaw.
The officials say conditions can change rapidly and having up-to-date information is vital to a safe and enjoyable outing. It's recommended that visitors check avalanche advisories first.
Ice fall is an annual hazard that has injured and killed many visitors. Each fall and winter, large ice cliffs form in Tuckerman ravine. They come down in the spring, often in pieces larger than a car.
U.S. Forest Service snow rangers are on the job daily to determine avalanche hazards, promote safety, and assist visitors.


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3 out of 5 stars to The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, the first in a fantasy and historical fiction series about Russian fairy tales.
Why This Book
I ordered this online many months ago based on the description I'd read in Goodreads. Then a friend of mine, Valerie, was planning to read it. We decided to do a buddy read together earlier this month.
Plot, Characters & Setting
A Russian girl loses her mother and her place in a family. She meets strange creatures who no one else can see. Her father remarries to provide her with a mother figure, then has more children. Something happens in the background where there is a war between religions, people and culture. It's a battle to maintain your village and your family, but also to connect the past with the future.
Approach & Style
I read the paperback version over a two-week period. It's 312 pages or 28 chapters long. Chapters are about 10 to 12 pages, told in third person.
It had absolutely beautiful imagery and lyrical prose. You truly feel transported to a new world full of complex characters, interesting plots and high imagination.
There is a lot of great history and views on religion, politics and royalty. You believe you are in Russia dealing with true occurrences and fantastic situations.
The language was too confusing for me, often leaving me wonder what was real and what was fantasy. I'm not normally a fantasy reader, so it might have been partially my fault.
Names on the characters change a bit too often, which made it slightly difficult for me to recall who each person was.
Final Thoughts
I had been in a reading slump and was working on the final chapters of my own book. I might have been distracted while reading this one. I wanted to love it, but I didn't. I think it's a strong book, and for that, I settled on a 3 rating. It is good, just not the right match for me.
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews… here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at https://thisismytruthnow.com, where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by. Note: All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them. Many thanks to their original creators.


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One Wisconsin Now is a statewide communications network specializing in effective earned media and online organizing to advance progressive leadership and values.
As the media and research war room for Wisconsin progressives, One Wisconsin Now provides a critical and unique service for the progressive infrastructure: a full-time counterbalance to the conservative spin machine and its elected advocates.
The comprehensive research program at One Wisconsin is central to the communications strategy of the Wisconsin progressive non-partisan, non-profit community.
One Wisconsin Now uses its research to drive individual and collaborative earned media campaigns to generate news coverage and online communications programs engaging its tens of thousands of online supporters to action.


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If the V's were real (no, not those, the good ones) they'd probably travel around in a bus like this one from Japan.
First of all, those are not seats you're seeing. Seats are archaic, uncomfortable things that we Americans are forced to sit in while traveling on Greyhound or the Bolt Bus from Boston to NYC. Nay! These are "cocoons" and they are seemingly glorious things that exude nothing but comfort all over the backsides of their voyaging occupants.
Willer Express, which runs from Osaka to Tokyo, only seats twelve people. But each of those people gets their own personal relaxation pod, complete with a seat that reclines 140 degrees, a personal entertainment system, free WiFi, dedicated power outlets, and high partitions to separate you from your annoying fellow passengers. - DVICE
Ticket price is about $130 for a one-way trip (6-7 hour ride) and is cheaper than a bullet train. I'm going to assume there's an onboard bathroom as well. It's probably this thing and Biddle's the attendant. [Willer Express via DVICE]


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Bind rules identify a set of users by using the following methods:
The users, groups, and roles that are granted access.
The location from which an entity must bind. The location from which a user authenticates can be spoofed and cannot be trusted. Do not base ACIs on this information alone.
The time or day on which binding must occur.
The type of authentication that must be in use during binding.
A simple bind rule might require a person accessing the directory to belong to a specific group. A complex bind rule can require a person to belong to a specific group and to log in from a machine with a specific IP address, between 8 am and 5 pm. Additionally, bind rules can be complex constructions that combine these criteria by using Boolean operators.
The server evaluates the logical expressions used in ACIs according to a three-valued logic, similar to the one used to evaluate LDAP filters, as described in section 188.8.131.52 of RFC 4511 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3). Therefore, if any component in the expression evaluates to Undefined (for example if the evaluation of the expression aborted due to a resource limitation), then the server handles this case correctly. The server does not erroneously grant access because an Undefined value occurred in a complex Boolean expression.


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Wallpaper Click for 1920x1080 HD wallpaper.
Download Them All Over a thousand HD 1920x1080 wallpapers in one giant bundle.
Download is updated frequently, so should contain almost all the desktops.
Each desktop image is 1920x1080, but since they're all made of blown-up pixelart, they're usually quite small in filesize.
At last count, the download was just over 20Mb, which is a lovely size when you consider there's over 1000 desktop images in there.
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Program Supports Ready Reserve Soldiers, Families
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After the Army Reserve initiated the program, Army Lt. Gen. William E. Ingram Jr., director of the Army National Guard, recognized its value and committed the Army Guard as a partner, bringing connections to hundreds of units through armories and family programs in communities nationwide.
"[The IRR Affiliation Program] is a total support network, and the [Army National Guard] wanted to be a part of it to ensure that soldiers and their families are connected to the Army family," said John Schmidt, a program lead from the Army Guard's personnel policy division.
A pilot program in several states determined the IRR Affiliation Program's potential benefits, as well as the impact on each unit's full-time staff and necessary changes to regulations, policies and systems. The five-month test connected more than 4,000 Individual Ready Reserve soldiers with local Army National Guard units.
The pilot program revealed that the program required minimal additional work for states, units, and local commands, because it provides access to networks and resources that already are in place, officials said.
"Most Guard units have a support network already built," explained Gregory Heffner, a program lead. "The program is simply about maintaining a connection -- it is more of a referral program. If a soldier has an issue, hopefully, they will pick up the phone."
Army Guard officials announced Jan. 26 that the IRR Affiliation Program will expand nationwide and encouraged all states and territories to participate.
"The director of the Army National Guard recognized that these soldiers are an important part of the Army family," Schmidt said. "From when the soldier joins the Army on the first day to their eight year re-up, we are going to keep them in touch with the Army family."
Through the program, soldiers can establish and maintain communications with their affiliated unit, which will be within 50 miles or 90 minutes of travel from their home of record. Soldiers and their families can participate in unit activities and access information and services such as medical readiness resources, employment programs, career counseling, state government and Veterans Affairs information, and family readiness services.
Affiliated soldiers continue to be assigned to Human Resources Command and are not assigned to the National Guard or the Army Reserve, officials said. Individual Ready Reserve soldiers may still receive orders to muster from Human Resources Command, they added, but are not required to participate in any activities, including training, with their affiliated unit.
Also, officials said, soldiers are not required to maintain contact with their affiliated unit. Soldiers who choose not to participate in any events will be required to acknowledge their awareness of the program, their affiliation with a reserve-component unit and their understanding that resources and support always will be available to them while assigned to the Individual Ready Reserve.
"The intent is to have every armory participating, and the expansion of the program will ensure that each soldier has access to a local community," Heffner said. "We want them to be able to walk into their local armory and ask questions."
The IRR Affiliation Program connects soldiers with the Army family, and "is their first stop to gain access to services that are their privilege and their right," Schmidt said.
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Hi, folks, Stuart Goldman here, your roving women's fitness fashion reporter with some late-breaking news about women's fitness fashion.
It appears the founder of Lululemon has made his last questionable comment about the company and its line of yoga pants. On Tuesday, Lululemon announced that Chip Wilson, who made some disparaging remarks about women's bodies during an interview with Bloomberg last month, is stepping down as chairman. Wilson made the remarks—"[The pants] don't work for some women's bodies...it's really about the rubbing through the thighs, how much pressure is there over a period of time and how much they use it."—during a segment called "Street Smart," a title that really doesn't apply to him.
In recent weeks, Lululemon customers continued to complain that the brand's pants were still too sheer, months after the company was blamed for stocking yoga pants that customers deemed were too see-through. After an exhaustive Google search by this intrepid reporter, I'll have to concur that the pants were in fact see-through.
Lululemon recently restocked its shelves with what it called its "Second Chance Pant" for $92. If you think $92 is outrageous for a pair of yoga pants (you'd be right, by the way), you should know that a new London-based company called Sweaty Betty charges 20 percent to 25 percent more for its yoga pants than Lululemon. Add that to the fact that according to one report, the workout clothes industry produced $31.6 billion in sales during a 12-month period that ended in August, a 7 percent increase from the same period a year ago. Now, I'm no economics reporter—I'm just a women's fitness fashion reporter, mind you—but I get the sense that $31.6 billion is a lot of cents.
Days after the Bloomberg video created a firestorm, Wilson apologized—sort of—in a YouTube video, but the damage was done. In its announcement on Tuesday, Lululemon appointed Laurent Potdevin as its new CEO. The former head of Toms Shoes will replace Christine Day, who announced her desire to leave the company in June, not long after the company's first sheer madness occurred in March.
The stock of Lululemon Athletica Inc. is reportedly down about 8 percent this year. Shareholders no doubt hope that under Potdevin's guidance, Lululemon's yoga pants will have the same durability and longevity as Toms shoes.


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If you happened to catch Tyra today, no you did not accidentally eat mold: it was a special show for kids celebrating Sesame Street's 40th anniversary. So everyone spoke very slowly and condescendingly, especially Tyra. (Yes, more than usual!)
In the clip above, Tyra teaches Cookie Monster how to smile with his eyes, or "smize," which, due to Cookie Monster's fixed plastic eyes, resulted in a Cookie Monster Smize Fail. Then, Tyra talks to Elmo about Twitter, and Elmo is all "Elmo tweets. Elmo tweets." And then Tyra shows the Tweet she made about Elmo, while an audience-baby cries in the background audio. That was the part of this extra-dumbed-down version of this already extra dumb show that send me over the edge. I was like, "Wait, why is the sobbing in my head also coming out of the TV set?"
Later, Tyra welcomed one of the passengers who was on the Miracle on the Hudson plane. Why the hell not? I don't even know anymore. Just make the crying stop.


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Book: Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers
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Feeling overwhelmed by society's pressure to stay constantly connected? Whether it be through mobile phones, email, text messaging, or social networking, today's digital tools present great benefits as well as disturbing side effects. With personal anecdotes and historical examples from some of the worlds best thinkers, the author provides ways we might overcome this pressure and return our "screens" to their proper place in our lives.
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Quest Haven Assylum&Elfin Forest
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The Elfin Forest (insert Keebler jokes here) was incredible, the branches on either side of the winding road touched, forming a canopy of skeletral arms overhead. Folklore claims the forest to be prowled by the Shadow Court, Unseelie Fae. While I myself didn't see any, I did feel a few presenses who seemed very curious but were content to watch unnoticed (my buddy had mentioned this was a popular shoot up place 'cause
of the concealment). The gig with the no-light camcorder fell through, so we were using my digital camera and flashlights. In other words, if there was a manifestation
we would have had to ask for a raincheck since lighting
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Quest Haven was an assylum 40 years back that was partly destroyed by flame. A Church was built several years back (Church of the Holy Quest) on the lot, had heard it had closed but the area was gated and guarded
and we were told-politely-that we had to call for permission from the Priest. All 4 of us had feelings of urgency about it that usually suggested ramming the gate. I felt a presense projected "Come Please! Help Please!" Will be calling tomorrow to explain and ask permission to investigate, want to have at least a full afternoon to get a feel for the place and to have better equipment at hand ;D
Hoping to get insights or advice, thanks for your time,
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Most of us wear religious talismans or at the least, charged jewelry (wards), mine's pewter since silver tends to tarnish if I wear it for more than a few days. Thanks for your thoughts Would you recommend the tape while meditating before the investigation or at the site?
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but its rare when I use stones and so my only exposure to the Shiva ling is from from (cough-IndianaJonesandtheTempleofDoom-cough)
The tea sounds like a good idea, ginsing and peppermint are great boosters.
We had a meeting tonight, going to try to secure permission for an investigation. Something was wrong with that Church, the sign itself kept drawing my attention, not sure what it was, but someone was sending me a message :-/
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shame>the color makes sense due to the iron content but didn't know they got hot
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:oThe stones get that hot?? I thought there needed to be a source of heat for the iron to react...in the movie. BTW, thanks for not swatting me for mentioning the IJ trilogy
Finally found a website for Quest Haven (Powers bless www.about.com) apparently the Church is a ministry retreat, emailed the Rev for permission to do some night photography. I truly dislike misleading someone, but I can't help but feeling that something there's not on the level
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Is that in the whole area or the assylum grounds? Felt some weak contact/presenses<proximity>in the Elfin Forest, but the stronger senses of presense/reaching out came from behind the gate
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had been bought from a community of alchemists :-/ Time to hit the library...um, Spiritdragon or anyone else,
what do you know abput Alchemists???? BTW, she's forwarding my request to the Board
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Bullying a Strong Risk Factor for Suicide in Gay YouthSupport from family, friends can help counter negative attacks, researchers add.
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As seemingly damning as the headlines may be, the results of the study don't prove that harassment directly causes young gay people to become suicidal or hurt themselves. Still, the research is the first to show what happens over time to teens who are bullied and victimized, said study co-author Brian Mustanski, an associate professor at Northwestern University's Department of Medical Social Sciences.
It may seem obvious that bullying and a lack of support from loved ones would make people more suicidal. But "sometimes the things that we think are important still have to get confirmed with science," Mustanski said.
"It's surprising how negative those effects are," he added. "Victimization turned out to be really important. It was far and away the most important risk factor."
Previous research has suggested that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children are more likely to be suicidal and hurt themselves. A study released in the journal Developmental Psychology last year found that these people who were bullied as children were about 2.5 times more likely as others to be clinically depressed as young adults.
In the new study, reported in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers surveyed 246 LGBT youth aged 16 to 20 and followed them over several years to see what happened to them. Fifty-seven percent of the participants were black; about half were female.
Being bullied (over the time period of the study) and a low level of support from others boosted the risk that the teens would become suicidal. Bullying also boosted the risk that they would try to harm themselves. Over the 2.5-year study, slightly more than 15 percent of the people in the survey reported trying to harm themselves.
On average, 8 percent of the participants reported hurting themselves in the prior six months, Mustanski said. Seven percent of those who didn't report being victimized said they'd harmed themselves, compared to 11 percent of those who'd reported being victimized. Overall, a history of being bullied more than doubled the odds for self-harm, the researchers found.
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N. Eugene Walls, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Denver, said the study confirms other findings about the effects of anti-gay bullying.
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Mustanski said young people themselves can find support through gay-straight alliances on campuses, youth programs at local gay community centers and online sites.
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The last month has been an adventure, but a good one. With Vision Forum closed, Perry's job of 10 years came to an end. However, God provided some very good temporary work. He is doing process improvement in various places. Process improvement is something that he has enjoyed for many years in the Vision Forum warehouse, constantly working to cut waste and streamline the way they did everything from picking and packing orders to organizing the break room. He has a natural talent for this work and finds it challenging, and it pays well – or rather, it will pay well. Life as a contractor means getting paid 30-45 days after work is finished, instead of a few days or a week after the close of a pay period.
Those are the pros, and we think they are very exciting.
There are also some significant cons.
The job requires constant travel – if he gets constant work. He is out of town five days a week, home for the weekend, then off again. Winter weather can make it even worse: last week, his Friday flight home was cancelled. He made it home eventually, but it was less than 24 hours before he had to fly out again. One week he got stuck in Atlanta overnight, and eventually the airline flew him home because his destination was snowed in.
It's also week by week. We usually don't know if he has work more than a week ahead of time, although it has been mostly steady so far.
So we find ourselves torn.
We are excited about this current opportunity. It is temporary, but provides experience and marketable skill in an area he would love to pursue. There seems to be a very real chance that it can become permanent. Not knowing makes it difficult to look for another job in the meantime, especially since we don't know if we want or need another job. That's not to say Perry hasn't been looking, but so far we have not been presented with any difficult decisions – meaning we have yet to receive a concrete offer that rivals what he is doing now.
But it's hard to have Perry gone so much after having him so near for the kids' entire lives, and it's hard on him to be gone. With Vision Forum, he could and did freely take children to work with him almost every day of every week. With his previous employer, he came home for lunch every single day. We have always seen him every day, not just morning and evening but often throughout the day. Now we see him on the weekends and on Skype. He is a big part of the life and energy in our house, so it's a big adjustment for all of us. It's as if our lives are black and white while he's gone, and everything bursts into full color when he walks through the door.
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alosurdo wrote:actually, i think i just worked it out. Use the Image with the black, then use the crop funtion in PanotourPro and works.
I am only using the low res file i have uploaded as i have left the full res at the office but it seems to be working
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Chromium6 wrote:Unfortunately, the theory doesn't work, report Heinrich Jaeger, a physicist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and colleagues. They mixed grains of insulating zirconium dioxide-silicate with diameters of 251 micrometers and 326 micrometers and dropped them through a horizontal electric field, which pushed positively charged particles one way and negatively charged particles the other. They tracked tens of thousands of particles—by dropping an $85,000 high-speed camera alongside them. (See video above.) Sure enough, the smaller ones tended to be charged negatively and the larger ones positively, each accumulating 2 million charges on average.
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Sparky wrote:What energy beam could ionize air to allow lightning to follow it down?
Lloyd wrote:Then laser beams wouldn't ionize a path for lightning either, Charles?
Chromium6 wrote:So Charles what do you think about this paper by Mathis?
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Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Esco Hall, Jr. made a motion to approve the option and purchase of property adjacent to the Water Works Park for the amount of $45,000.00 (for the appraised value) at the regularly scheduled Baxley City Council meeting held Tuesday morning, October 9. Councilwoman Betty Livingston seconded the motion and the motion was approved. Voting in favor were Hall, Livingston, Pat Williams and Tim Varnadore. Councilman Mickey Bass abstained. Councilman Kenneth Waithe was absent from the meeting.
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The Miller family has been serving delicious foods, including award winning fried catfish, at their waterfront location since 1984. Rebuilt after Hurricane Ike, Pine Tree Lodge offers Gulf Coast comfort foods in an atmosphere combining Southeast Texas hospitality and Cajun bayou customs.
Actually the catfish, tail and all, comes with two of Pine Tree Lodge's satisfying sides like a twice-baked potato. This tater is baked, loaded with cheese, sour cream, chives and bacon and then baked again. Before it's served, it's topped with more cheese for a melt-in-your-mouth experience. Another favorite side is red beans and rice, spiced the Acadian way. But there's also green beans, a cup of soup and marinated carrots.
What you don't eat of your catfish plate – 'cause it is so large – you can feed to the gators that line up outside the patio of Pine Tree Lodge. This "side" of culture doesn't cost extra.
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ACLU seeks info about Neb. lethal injection supply
The ACLU of Nebraska is calling on the state to surrender its supply of a lethal injection drug in the wake of a federal appeals court ruling this week.
The group said Wednesday that it has requested records from the state to see whether Nebraska has obtained any additional drugs since March. As of March, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services had two batches, one set to expire in May and another in December.
The request followed the appeals court ruling on Tuesday, which said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shouldn't have allowed the foreign-made sodium thiopental to be imported without inspection for use in executions.
The ACLU says the ruling makes it unlikely that the state's existing supply would withstand a legal challenge.


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Ginger ale: Almost as fizz-ful as Brie
Terminal Ready
at Outback Lodge and
Mike Brie
at R2
Saturday, August 21
Alcohol has never been my drug of choice. This has always put me at a disadvantage with the ladies on the bar scene. Somehow, the guy holding the ginger ale just isn't so cool and attractive. That's okay. I prefer to leave the lushes to their loves and losses while I post up in a corner, just me and my Ginger– so cool and refreshing. As a matter of fact, I've become somewhat of a connoisseur.
At the top of list for best fountain ginger ale in Charlottesville is the Outback Lodge. Ginger ale as a fountain drink is a very fine art. You must find the perfect balance between syrup and soda, sweetness and sparkle. Whenever I drink at Outback I'm happy from the first sip to the very last slurp. So, even if the music is less than desirable, I can still find something salvageable in my evening.
This Saturday I had no clue what I was getting into. I've been aware that goth shows have moved from their home at Tokyo Rose (decent ginger ale) to Outback (superlative), but I never had the opportunity to check one out. By chance a friend of a friend put my friend on the guest list and was kind enough to include me as well. We, two hip-hop headz, strolled into gothdom through a crowd of dark knights and dangerous dames like streaks of color in the blackest of worlds.
The band we came for, Terminal Ready, was already amassing a decent crowd in front of the stage. They perform sans drummer. In the drumset's place is a CD playing pre-programmed percussion, spliced samples, and synths. At first it was odd, but it quickly became all right as Terminal Ready executed with surgical precision a batch of electroclash goth rock that had me in a zone.
Even the supreme hater I was with found himself at a loss for negative comments (see last week's Music Review for more on supreme haters). Three things I loved about Terminal Ready: one, the lead singer has a personality (love it or hate it, at least he has one); two, they looked like they were having fun; three, their arrangements were well thought out. If only Outback could have dimmed the lights to correct the vibe to match the viciously spectacular tunes we were blessed with.
We left Outback to head to a place where the ginger ale is average at best. Luckily Rapture was featuring some above average DJ talent.
Mike Brie is probably one of the highest caliber musicians this town has ever had the privilege of housing. Yes, he's a DJ, but we're talking about a guy who just took second place in the head-to-head nationwide DMC competition and is arguably the best DJ from DC to South Carolina.
Did I mention he can produce and play instruments too? Anyway, all I'm saying is Brie is pretty much at the top of his game and Saturday night was no exception. This time out he hit R2 with the latest in down-south hip hop crunk-tacular selections. Brie mixed on three turntables with the help of his turntablist partner from Richmond, DJ Bust.
They had the dance floor packed, never once allowing a dead moment through their seamless mixes. Maybe Brie could give R2 advice on mixing their ginger ale. I should have asked before I left.
Terminal Ready


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For Kids Can Do week I made a doorway puppet theatre.
Then my son and a good friend of his made some paper bag puppets for a puppet show. I got the print outs for the puppets from DLTK's Growing Together website.
Here is a closer look at the puppet theatre. I used left over fabric from my Backyard Beach project. This would be super easy to create with a drop cloth or a sheet or a curtain, really anything that is already hemmed, just like this one from Kojo Designs. Since I was trying to use fabric that I already had, I added the red binding myself. I topped the theatre with a pleated awning. I also added a colorful bunting to the top of the window.
Here is a look at the backside of the theatre. I added a pocket to hold all of the puppets.
It is so fun to play with whether you are behind the curtain or just watching the show.
We love our new puppet theatre!
It also provides a fun new way to play with our Disney Pook-A-Looz Puppets.


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A patient who was battling the first confirmed U.S. case of a deadly new respiratory illness has been released from the hospital, officials said Friday.
"The patient has tested negative for MERS, is no longer symptomatic and poses no threat to the community," said Dr. Alan Kumar, chief medical information officer, Community Hospital in Munster. "Community Hospital finalized its discharge plan with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Indiana State Department of Health, and the patient was discharged from the hospital. We are proud of our medical staff for recognizing and responding quickly to this incident, and we wish to thank the CDC and the ISDH for their assistance and collaboration."
The hospital and state confirmed that the patient, who lives in Saudi Arabia and came to the United States on a planned trip to visit family, was the first confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in the United States.
The first tests on those who came in close contact with the patient, including his family members and about 50 hospital employees, have yielded no new cases. Indiana Health Commissioner William VanNess attributed that fact to the swift response by hospital staff and the cooperation of local, state and federal authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"At this point, it appears that MERS picked the wrong hospital, the wrong state and the wrong country to try to get a foothold," VanNess said at a Monday morning press briefing.
The patient checked himself into Community Hospital on April 28 after feeling ill. Dr. Daniel Feikin, an epidemiologist with the CDC, said the patient works in a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Ariabia. He flew from Riyadh through London to Chicago on April 24 before boarding a bus to Indiana.
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The man's symptoms appeared after he was in the United States, Feikin said.
"Although we didn't know where it would happen, we're not surprised that MERS-CoV has come to the United States," said Feikin. "We know that infectious diseases do not respect international boundaries. In this day and age of global travel and trade, infectious diseases can spread almost anywhere."
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- Illinois MERS-CoV Hotline: 844-565-0256
Feikin said CDC officials were using the flight manifest to contact about 100 other passengers who were on the plane with the patient. About 75 of them had been reached by Monday morning and none were exhibiting symptoms, he said. Additionally, none of the "about 10" people who were on the bus were symptomic.
MERS belongs to the coronavirus family that includes the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which caused some 800 deaths globally in 2003. Saudi Arabia has been at the center of a Middle East outbreak of MERS that began two years ago. The virus has spread among health care workers, most notably at four facilities in that country last spring.
Officials said Monday the patient did not recall working directly with a MERS patient in Riyadh but said the hospital where he worked did have some MERS cases.
Overall, at least 400 people have had the respiratory illness, and more than 100 people have died. All had ties to the Middle East region or to people who traveled there.
Officials said the disease isn't highly contagious, but there is no cure.
The MERS virus has been found in camels, but officials don't know how it is spreading to humans. It can spread from person to person, but officials believe that happens only after close contact. Not all those exposed to the virus become ill.


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Fast-food workers in California make so little money that taxpayers spend more than $700 million annually on government programs to assist their ability to live, a study released Tuesday says.
The study, jointly produced by the University of California
The report was released at time when labor unions are putting pressure on fast-food restaurant operators to pay at least $15 per hour to their workers.
California costs
Here are details from the study about programs used by fast-food workers in California:
Employment: 227,000
Earned income tax credit: $201 million
Medicaid: $244 million
Children's Health Insurance Program: $151 million
Food stamps: $86 million
Other assistance: $35 million
Total annual cost: $717 million
Source: UC Berkeley, University of Illinois
UC Berkeley economist Sylvia Allegretto said in a statement accompanying the data that low-paying jobs at fast-food restaurants are costly for government programs.
"This is the public cost of low-wage jobs in America," she said. "The cost is public because taxpayers bear it. Yet it remains hidden in national policy debates about poverty, employment and public spending."
Scott DeFife, executive vice president of the National Restaurant Association, countered that the data paint an inaccurate picture.
"America's restaurant industry provides opportunities for millions of Americans, women and men from all backgrounds, to move up the ladder and succeed," he said in a statement.
"These misleading efforts use a very narrow lens and selective data to attack the industry for their own purposes and fail to recognize that the majority of lower-wage employees works part-time to supplement a family income," he said. "Moreover, 40 percent of line staff workers in restaurants, the primary focus of the reports, are students."
California's minimum wage will increase to $9 per hour on July 1, 2014, and $10 per hour in January 2016, according to a bill recently signed by Gov.
In August, fast-food workers and their supporters took to the streets across the country to demand a minimum $15 per hour. That was reiterated on Tuesday in Mission Valley, when a handful of demonstrators spoke outside a McDonald's in light of the study.
"Taxpayers are picking up annually a $7 billion tab for low-wage fast-food workers because so many fast-food workers need to rely on public assistance to make ends meet," said Elizabeth Maldonado Robinson, program coordinator for the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice of San Diego County, which organized the demonstration.
Raquel Niri, who makes $9.55 per hour for 24 hours per week at a Wendy's downtown, said her wage went up 50 cents while her rent went up $50. She said she receives food stamps to help support her seven children.
According to the report, California's annual cost is the highest in the nation, at $717 million. New York pays $708 million, while Texas comes in third at $508 million.


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If you think the kind of people who say "games were better in the good old days" are bad, they're even worse when they're talking about PC games. Except, on rare occasions like this, they actually make a decent gag out of it.
This clip blends the original Deus Ex, which is eleven years old, with the sensibilities (and corporate realities) of its more recent prequel Human Revolution.
The point is made a little too bluntly in parts, but on the whole, funny stuff.
You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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- Support for endogenous as well as exogenous transformations
- Natural treatment and efficient in-place execution of endogenous transformations
- Meta-model and graphical syntax for transformations
- Rule-based with transformation units controlling rule application
- State space analysis for verification
- Support for massive parallel rule execution using Apache Giraph
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Facebook Stock Shares valued at $38 each – Total Worth $104 billion – www.nasdaq.com
Facebook has priced its shares ahead of one of the most eagerly-anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.
The social network said on Thursday that it valued shares at $38 (£24) each, and that its shares would begin trading in New York on Friday.
At this price the eight-year-old firm would be worth $104bn (£66bn).
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Facebook shares are scheduled to begin trading at 11 a.m. Eastern time Friday, 90 minutes after the Nasdaq Stock Market opens. The late start is designed to give sufficient time to process what is expected to be a crush of opening-day orders.
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) told traders Thursday that shares in Facebook Inc. are expected to be released for trading at approximately 11 a.m. EDT Friday.
The exchange group also is planning a live, two-hour conference call beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT Friday "to keep the industry informed leading up to and during the Facebook IPO," according to a separate notice.
Nasdaq OMX in recent days has taken extraordinary steps to ensure a smooth public debut for the social media giant, seen as the biggest IPO on record in terms of valuation at the time of the transaction, and the target of intense interest among both professional and individual investors.
Shares in the company priced Thursday at $38 a share, at the high end of a range that had already increased earlier this week.
The New York-based market operator has held four tests of its IPO auction systems in the past week, seen by traders as precautionary efforts following glitches that struck several recent flotations.
The initial public offering of the social media giant will be released for quotation at about 10:45 a.m. in the run-up to open trading, according to a notice issued by the exchange group. Live trading will begin about fifteen minutes later, exchange officials wrote in the notice.
Nasdaq's market-wide call on the Facebook roll-out won't be open to the media, according to exchange officials.
Other U.S. stock exchanges made their own preparations for the heavily anticipated IPO, while also notifying members that they would not be able to participate in the initial auction of shares.
After Nasdaq OMX completes the initial auction of Facebook shares, the first trade will print on its market before trading in the stock opens moments later for trading across all 13 U.S. stock exchanges.
"Members that wish to be executed at the Nasdaq opening print are advised to route their orders to Nasdaq," officials with stock exchange company Direct Edge told customers in an exchange notice.
NYSE Euronext's (NYX) electronic stock exchange Arca on Thursday rescinded its own plans to run an auction in the Facebook IPO, "in the interest of a fair and orderly market" and to remain consistent with Arca's own rules, according to a notice issued by that exchange.
"Any orders in FB routed to Arca prior to the first FB print on NASDAQ will be rejected," Arca officials wrote in the notice.
Demand is set to be high; earlier this week Facebook said it would be selling 25% more shares than planned.
But questions remain about the firm's ability to generate profits and take advantage of mobile phone platforms.
There are also concerns that once the company has to answer to shareholders, there may be a greater emphasis on advertising to generate profits.
Limited say
Earlier this week, the company indicated the price would be between $34-$38 a share, with about 421 million shares up for sale.
This would represent one of the highest value share sales, or initial public offerings (IPOs) in US history.
By selling shares at that value, Facebook raised $16bn for itself.
However, the new shareholders will not have much of a say in how the company is run.
The shares on offer are A shares, which carry one vote per share, whereas the current owners' shares are B shares, which
carry 10 votes each.
They will control more than 96% of the votes after the public listing, with founder Mark Zuckerberg holding just under 56% of the voting power of the company.
Mr Zuckerberg, who owns about 25% of the company, stands to gain the most from taking Facebook public. Fellow founders Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin will also become paper-billionares overnight, as will Napster founder and former employee Sean Parker.
US venture capital firm Accel Partners and Russian internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies also hold significant stakes in Facebook, while Microsoft and U2 frontman Bono also stand to make a huge profit on their investment in the company.
The social networking site has transformed the way in which hundreds of millions of people around the world communicate. It is also transforming the way companies advertise to existing and potential customers.
But Facebook's 900 million users helped the company generate just $1bn in profit last year, and there are concerns about its ability to grow profits in the future.
For while it holds a depth of personal information advertisers dream about, Facebook only generates about $5 a year per user.
This has led a number of commentators to question the company's valuation.
"Facebook will need to generate annual revenue of $30bn-$40bn in order to justify the likely valuation of the business," said Victor Basta at Magister Advisors.
"This is a tenfold increase over the revenues that it currently generates. The question is 'where from?'".
The potential revenue from online advertising is huge.
"We know our industry is $1tn worldwide," Martin Sorrell, chief executive of advertising giant WPP, told the BBC.
"We know internet advertising is currently 20% roughly [of the total]. We know people are spending almost a third of their time online in one way or another, so there's a vast opportunity for Facebook."
Generating greater revenues from this potential market is the first key challenge facing the company, both in terms of its own business model and in the face of strong competition from the likes of Amazon, Apple and Google.
"We're telling our investors to hold off," Oliver Pursche, president of Gary Goldberg Financial Services, told the BBC.
"Number one, we don't know what the guts and the balance sheet of the company looks like yet so that's a big red flag for us. We want to understand the business before we tell people to invest."
Facebook has identified mobile devices, phones and tablet computers as key areas for revenue growth, but observers say this will not be easy.
"[Facebook is] the holy grail for advertisers. It holds the minutiae of everybody's lives, the perfect concoction of information – age, sex and what you like," technology analyst Ernest Doku told the BBC.
"[But] so many people are engaged for so long, it's very difficult to lure them away to what you're trying to sell them."
The second big challenge is not alienating users while trying to maximise revenue.
"[The company] is balancing on a knife edge between servicing its users and pleasing its investors," Mr Doku said.
"It has been able put the user experience first and foremost, but now investors are going to want [a return]."


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The district, which was supposed to pay off about half the costs of building a municipal parking lot, has been at the crux of lawsuits
Commissioners moved Wednesday to abolish a special tax for Siesta Key Village property owners that is at the heart of an ongoing lawsuit by a restaurateur.
Property owners in the Village have been taxed every year since 2000 to pay off about half the costs of building a municipal parking lot. Chris Brown, owner of the Hub Baja Grill and the Cottage restaurants, is in the middle of a third lawsuit against the county alleging those taxes were unfairly applied to him.
The matter of abolishing the taxing district must next go to public hearings before a formal decision is made. County officials will have to determine how they will make up a shortfall of about $344,000 that was supposed to be collected from Village property owners through 2019 to pay for the parking lot. Commissioners on Wednesday agreed with the opinions of county staff and county attorneys that the way the government has applied the tax was problematic.
"It's been too confusing," said Commissioner Joe Barbetta, who was the first to suggest abolishing the tax when the matter came up unexpectedly at a commission meeting on Wednesday.
"Over the years it's been manipulated," Barbetta said. "Some are getting increased, some are getting decreased — I don't think it should be that way."
The move to get rid of the tax could mean the end of litigation from Brown, the restaurant owner. Brown argued in his lawsuit that his taxes went up while the taxes of other property owners went down, and is alleging a systematic campaign of discrimination against him.
"It seems like what I've been saying for almost five years actually makes sense," Brown said, referencing two prior lawsuits over the same issue.
Commissioners rejected a $277,000 settlement offer from Brown in August, though two commissioners wanted to accept it. Brown said Wednesday he will soon put another settlement offer on the table, and signalled it will likely be higher than his initial offer.
Brown's third lawsuit was based on his taxes from 2011, but he recently got his 2012 tax notice and said he was again overcharged by about $9,000, and will add that amount to the new settlement offer.
Commissioner Nora Patterson, whom Brown believes is one of those in the county who discriminated against him, was the lone vote against abolishing the taxing district. She said it would let Village property owners off the hook for promises made to help pay for the parking lot.
"While it's a complicated formula, I don't think that staff has been incorrect," Patterson said.
"I didn't think it was very fair given that money's tight."


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Rights group slams E.U. moves to block refugees
BERLIN (AP) — The European Union is using the drowning deaths of people fleeing to Europe as a pretext for ramping up border controls against unwanted migrants, a human rights group said Wednesday.
Human Rights Watch said the drowning of hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea this month should prompt the EU to chart a new policy course toward people fleeing war and dire poverty.
Leaders of the 28-nation bloc are to discuss how to avoid future boat disasters at a meeting Friday in Brussels.
"Though framed in terms of saving lives, many of the proposed policy responses reflect the EU's preoccupation with preventing departure and barring entry," Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
The New York-based group urged the EU to increase its sea patrols and discourage clandestine crossings by smugglers by guaranteeing that anyone picked up at sea will be taken to a safe European port.
According to the rights group, an estimated 35,000 people have crossed from North Africa to Italy and Malta this year alone — many of them fleeing persecution or fighting in Somalia, Eritrea or Syria. At least 500 have died this year, including about 365 people who drowned Oct. 3 when their boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa as it was coming from Libya.
In May, the EU created a 30 million-euro ($41-million) task force to train Libya's border guards to better control its vast desert frontiers. But European governments have been reluctant to provide more ways to enter the bloc legally, as demanded by rights campaigners.
One EU rule that has caused particular friction stipulates that refugees have to apply for asylum in the first EU nation they enter. This has placed particular burdens on Greece, Italy and Malta.
Human Rights Watch accused northern European countries such as Germany of blocking any meaningful reforms of the rules that allow Berlin to turn away refugees who arrived from another EU state. Thousands of refugees have still made their way from Italy to Germany in recent months, with many hiding their original port of entry into the EU to avoid being deported.
A German government spokesman insisted Wednesday there would be no change to the rules, despite recent protests and hunger strikes by refugees in several German cities.
"We treat refugees very well here, we take a lot of them in," spokesman Georg Streiter told reporters in Berlin.
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