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New York (CNN) -- Workers who were involved in the response to the World Trade Center attack will not have their cancer treatments compensated under a program set up after September 11, according to a controversial decision released Tuesday by the World Trade Center Health Program.
There is inadequate "published scientific and medical findings" that a causal link exists between September 11 exposures and the occurrence of cancer in responders and survivors, program Administrator John Howard said in a statement.
The decision forms part of the first periodic review of what the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act will provide.
After a lengthy battle, President Obama signed the $4.2 billion legislation in January to provide health care for those who helped clear the rubble and search for human remains at the World Trade Center site in New York.
"As new research and findings are released, we will continue to do periodic reviews of cancer" for the program, Howard said, with the next review expected in early to mid-2012.
Some of the New York lawmakers who originally hailed the legislation are now speaking out against the exclusion of cancer.
"As the sponsors of the Zadroga Act, we are disappointed that Dr. Howard has not yet found sufficient evidence to support covering cancers," Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler and Republican Rep. Peter King, who wrote the act, said in a joint statement.
"This is disappointing news for 9/11 responders and survivors who tragically have been diagnosed with cancer since the attacks and are suffering day to day and awaiting help," they said.
"So many people have gotten such rare cancers -- and at such young ages -- that it seems obvious there must be a link," Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer said in a statement.
He labeled the report "premature" and said revision will "demonstrate that those who were exposed to the witches' brew of toxins at ground zero have developed serious illnesses, including cancer, and deserve justice."
Many survivors are similarly disheartened.
"It's very disappointing, very heartbreaking," said Reggie Hillaire, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma cancer in 2005.
Doctors told the New York police officer, who's 34, that developing such a cancer was "really, really rare so young."
"I've met so many people who were police officers at the same time who have these cancers, and we're all about the same age."
Hillaire, who worked at the site for 11 days and then at the Staten Island Landfill for 63 days, has also been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Cancer treatment being covered by the program "would have brought some closure. ... It feels like it's never going to end," he said.
"It's very unfortunate. My doctors think (the cancer's) directly linked" to the September 11 exposure, said Al Schille, a New York Police Department detective who also suffers from multiple myeloma cancer.


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Manny Pacquiao was taken to the limit Saturday night before escaping with a majority decision win over Juan Manuel Marquez in their welterweight title fight.
Pacquiao won on two scorecards, while the third ringside judge had it a draw. It was a narrow escape for the Filipino congressman, who took as much punishment as he got over 12 rounds.
The third fight between the two was as close as the previous two, and by the time they finished 12 arounds the outcome was still in doubt. Pacquiao won some rounds with sheer agression, while Marquez won others with brilliant counterpunching, keeping Pacquiao from getting inside.
Marquez was a 7-1 underdog, but it was clear early he would be in this fight. He picked Pacquiao apart with right hands almost every time he tried to get inside, and landed good hard flurries throughout the fight.
Pacquiao was the aggressor throughout, and landed some sharp punches of his own. But when the decision was announced, the crowd booed roundly and, once again Marquez had lost a close fight.
One ringside judge had it a 114-114 draw, while two others favored Pacquiao by 115-113 and 116-112. The Associated Press had it 114-114.
The sellout crowd at the MGM Grand arena threw bottles and cans toward ringside after the decision was announced, with one full can hitting a ringside writer. Marquez, who had been bitter about the scoring in the first two fights, stormed out of the ring.
Pacquiao continued his remarkable run with the win, but it didn't come easy. He had trouble all night finding his range and, when he did get inside, Marquez often moved to the side and landed a counter right hand.
It was the third close fight between the two men, though this one was fought at 144 pounds instead of 125 as was their first fight seven years ago. That fight was a draw, while Pacquiao won a split decision in the second bout in 2008 at 130 pounds.
"My fans are very happy because they thought I won," Pacquiao said when asked about the crowd reaction.
Marquez fought going backward all night, and that might have been his undoing. While he landed well at times, Pacquiao was in his face most of the night.
"I got robbed," Marquez said. "I don't know what else I can do to win."
Pacquiao earned a minimum $22 million for the fight, while Marquez got $5 million

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The story of the stories in 100 words started in 2001 in Santiago de Chile. A group of university students had a dream to open a call for urban dwellers to write their stories, share their thoughts and feelings about their city. There were only two rules: the story has to be connected somehow to the city and it can be maximum 100 words.
This group of young university friends turned into a professional enterprise, called Plagio and in 2014 the competition was already running in 5 Chilean cities (Antofagasta, Valparaíso, Iquique, Concepción, Santiago), in one Mexican city (Puebla) and in Budapest, Hungary as first city in Europe.
The 12 stories of the finalists of each installment, chosen by a jury of prominent national writers, are made available for free in various formats and publicly displayed throughout the Metro de Santiago network.
During its first thirteen editions it has succeeded in receiving more than 500,000 original stories, becoming a phenomenon of mass participation. Thus, "Santiago en 100 Palabras" has positioned itself as the most popular literary project in the country and one of the most valuable urban interventions by the inhabitants of Santiago.
'Your city' in 100 words in Europe
Your city in 100 words In Europe was first organised in 2014 in Budapest by Mindspace, in cooperation with Plagio. Our goal is to spread the word and implement the '100 words' initiative in various European cities.
In 2015, the second literary contest Budapest in 100 Words were a record number of submissions, totalling 1,154 stories from citizens. The majority of stories were submitted electronically, but it was also incredibly special to receive works written by hand and then delivered by post. This year was characterized by inspiring and beautiful texts, impressive contemporary illustrations, wonderful people and touching life stories.
The members of this year's jury were Nóra Winkler, Balázs Szőllőssy and Dániel Viktor Nagy. The jury had the difficult task of selecting the best 100, the best 12 and the best 3 works from the submissions. The best 100 stories are available online on the MindSpace website and will also be available in print as a pocketbook collection.
The best 12 pieces were illustrated by Hungarian graphic designers and were exhibited at the public gallery event. At the awards ceremony, the participants could view the top stories with their illustrations and also listen to the three of the best 12 works read while accompanied by a musical composition.


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"Day of the Dove"
Written by Jerome Bixby
Directed by Marvin Chomsky
Season 3, Episode 7
Production episode 3×11
Original air date: November 1, 1968
Stardate Armageddon
Recap: David Mack
Kirk leads a small landing party to answer a vanished colony's distress signal. They find no trace of the colony or evidence of what made it disappear. Spock hails them to warn of a swiftly approaching Klingon battle cruiser. Kirk orders Spock to sound Red Alert, raise shields, and get ready to throw down, because he blames the Klingons for wiping out the missing colony, whether it was their fault or not.
But wait! The Klingon ship is critically damaged. Several of its officers, all looking like victims of the worst self-tanning disaster in history, beam down to the planet and confront the landing party. The Klingon commander, Kang, backhands Kirk to the ground, accuses him of an unprovoked attack upon his ship, and declares Kirk and his men are his prisoners and that he is claiming Enterprise for his own.
Meanwhile, a few yards away, a spinning blob of light and noise seems quite pleased with itself for spreading lies and fomenting rage, proving Fox News still exists in the 23rd century.
Kirk and Kang argue like an old married couple, accusing each other of faking a distress signal (from either the lost colony or a destroyed Klingon ship) and of trying to start a war. Kang demands Kirk order the Enterprise to beam up him and his crew; Kirk tells him to "go to the devil," prompting the revelation that the Klingons don't believe in a devil—but they sure do believe in torture. Kang asks for a volunteer; no one seems willing until the spinning light blob—can we call it a "splib," for short?—mucks with Chekov's brain and makes him start ranting about how Klingons killed his brother Piotr. That's enough to earn Chekov a date with the Klingons' portable pain gizmo.
Watching Chekov squirm in agony is more than Kirk can take. He agrees to have Kang and his men beamed up to the Enterprise. Kang warns that any tricks will result in mass fatalities. Kirk hails Spock and tells him to beam up the landing party and its guests—while slyly holding down the silent "we're in up to our necks, please save our butts" button on his communicator. Everyone is beamed up, but the Starfleet team materializes first, enabling Kirk to summon some redshirts to take Kang and his men into custody.
Unable to contact Starfleet Command for guidance because their signals are being blocked, and realizing the situation aboard the Klingon cruiser is urgent, Kirk orders the rest of the Klingon vessel's crew beamed over. Among the first wave of self-tanning victims is Mara, Kang's science officer and wife. (Nice to see at least one culture in the galaxy is progressive about integrating family life and space exploration).
Also hitching a ride inside the Enterprise is our pal, the splib.
Once all forty-odd Klingon survivors are aboard, Kirk orders their wreck of a ship destroyed, ostensibly for the safety of interstellar navigation, but more likely because it amuses him to do so. The Enterprise then warps out of orbit. Meanwhile, belowdecks, the splib wanders unnoticed, thanks to the deserted state of the ship's corridors during season three. Just think: if NBC had coughed up a bit more cash for extras, someone might have spotted that meddlesome thing before the situation got out of hand.
Down in the lounge, Mara complains they are outnumbered ten-to-one by the Enterprise crew, prompting the grand-prize winner of the Imperial Bad Goatee Contest to remark, "Four thousand throats may be cut in a single night by a running man." (Yeah, if that man is Usain Bolt and the four thousand intended victims are drugged, restrained, and lined up with their throats all at the same level, and it's winter solstice in the Arctic circle so that night lasts for two frickin' months. Otherwise? Less than helpful, genius.)
An unseen force (guess who?) seizes control of the ship, sends it hurtling at Warp Nine toward the edge of the galaxy, and traps nearly four hundred members of the Enterprise crew belowdecks—giving the Klingon prisoners even odds in their conflict with the Starfleet personnel. Kirk assumes the crisis is of Klingon making, so he and his men confront Kang, who quite justifiably calls Kirk an idiot. Then random objects turn into swords, enabling the Klingons to arm themselves. Kirk and his men draw phasers—which also become swords. As does every advanced weapon in the ship's armory.
O-kaaaay. Or should I say, en garde?
Spock tries to reason out what turned all the phasers into rapiers while Chekov rants about his dead brother—prompting Sulu to inform us Chekov was an only child. Scotty makes a token effort at doing his job before developing a crush on a bucket-hilt claymore. For some reason, the Enterprise computer stops talking like an adult woman and starts sounding like a teenage boy with a helium-sucking addiction.
Spock shows Kirk internal-sensor data that proves there is an unknown alien inside the Enterprise, something neither human nor Klingon that appears to be their mutual agent provocateur. They try to think up some way to negotiate a truce with the Klingons, but Kang trumps them by seizing engineering and shutting off the lights and life-support systems on the bridge. Scotty bursts in and starts ranting (more than usual, I mean), and within moments he, Spock, and Kirk nearly kick one another's asses.
Kirk figures it out: they're all pawns in a war orchestrated by the alien for its own purposes. So, what to do? First, they go after the alien itself. Instead, they catch Chekov in the process of molesting Kang's wife, Mara, and Kirk slaps Chekov half to death before Spock intervenes and reminds him the incident wasn't Chekov's fault. Mostly.
Seeing an opportunity to turn a foe into an ally, Kirk makes the case to Mara that his crew and Kang's are being used by an outside force, one against which they must unite. He and Spock bring Mara and Chekov to sickbay. McCoy says that crewmen who only hours earlier had been dealt mortal wounds have already healed. Kirk realizes the same entity that forces the two crews to fight will also keep them alive indefinitely—there can be no release from this vicious cycle, not even through death.
With Mara along as a witness, Spock and Kirk track the splib through the corridors. A confrontation with a crazed Enterprise crewman momentarily strengthens the splib—but after Spock's nerve pinch brings the conflict to a swift and nonviolent end, the entity's radiance fades. Kirk and Spock realize the being feeds on hostility, and that the only way to break its hold over the crews is to end the fighting, before the splib becomes too powerful to resist—and before the Enterprise's warp engines turn to slag.
Only minutes away from a main-power meltdown, Kirk tries to get Kang to talk truce by threatening to kill Mara, but Kang calls Kirk's bluff, saying Mara's death would be a "casualty of war." Mara is surprised to learn Kirk is bluffing, and that the Federation is not the savage entity described to her by Klingon propaganda. Impressed by Kirk, Mara agrees to help him reach and negotiate with Kang.
Mara and Kirk beam down to main engineering and confront Kang. Despite his wife's pleading, Kang's not in a talking mood. He faces off in single combat against Kirk, who tries to talk sense between thrusts and parries. Meanwhile, swordfights break out all over the ship, and the episode devolves into an Errol Flynn movie.
In the chaos, the splib gets so big and red that even the Klingons notice it. Kirk throws down his sword and spells it out for Kang: the splib is using them, laughing at them, counting on them to be useful idiots, good little soldiers who never question orders. It's an argument so clear and simple that even Kang takes it seriously.
Kang tosses aside his sword and declares:
KANG: Klingons kill for their own purposes.
Kirk and Kang order their respective crews to cease fighting, and together they laugh at the splib, they mock it, and they tell jokes about how fat its mother is. As its color fades, Kang declares:
KANG: Out! We need no urging to hate humans. For the present, only a fool fights in a burning house.
It's a back-slapping good time. Specifically, it's time for Kang to slap Kirk's back so hard that he nearly knocks the captain on his face. Now that's funny. Fade out.
This simple bottle show (one filmed using only standing sets) is surprisingly effective for being so corny. I always remembered this episode as one of my favorites from my youth. Watching it now, I'm not sure it completely lives up to my memories.
The entity's origin and powers are never explained, and there are long periods of inactivity throughout the episode, making its pacing less than stellar. It works well as an allegory for the rapaciousness of the military-industrial complex and the need for citizens of all nations to oppose it, but its resolution feels just a bit too pat to convey any lesson other than the absurdly trite, "Fighting is bad, mm-kay?"
Still, in a season that began with "Spock's Brain" and has "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" coming up next week, I think an episode such as this one deserves to be graded on a curve.
David's Rating: Warp 4 (on a scale of 1 to 6)
Analysis: Dayton Ward
"Day of the Dove" represents another "middle-of-the-pack" entry in Star Trek's third season, and it's one I don't mind watching from time to time, mostly because of Michael Ansara's memorable turn as Kang, the commander of the Klingons who are first prisoners and then adversaries of Captain Kirk and his crew. Kang is the first Klingon since Kor, from the first season's "Errand of Mercy," who I think lives up to the threat these prime foes of the Federation were supposed to represent. They're remarkably similar, which comes as no surprise when you think about it, as actor John Colicos allegedly was intended to reprise his role of Kor for this story. However, he had to be replaced when he was committed to filming a movie, resulting in Ansara's casting as Kang. That's to our benefit, as he would remain one of the enduring guest characters from the original series, and Ansara eventually would reprise the role twice, decades after his initial performance in this episode. First, he would join Colicos and William Campbell (returning as Koloth from "The Trouble With Tribbles") in the 1994 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Blood Oath." Two years later, he would provide a brief appearance for the "Flashback" episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
And since I'm talking about Klingons, can anyone else explain why they're carrying agonizers from the Mirror Universe? I'm honestly surprised that I or one of my fellow Star Trek novelists have not yet exploited this obvious dangling plot thread and found a way to tie "Mirror, Mirror" to "Day of the Dove." Perhaps Kang journeyed to the Mirror Universe some time before meeting Kirk, only to find that Klingons of the parallel dimension all sit around getting blazed, eating Doritos, and playing Hacky Sack. ("tlhingAn HoL, dudes!")
Or, maybe not.
As my fellow re-watcher Mr. Mack pointed out, "Day of the Dove" is yet another "bottle show," intended to contain production costs by telling a story utilizing only the show's standing sets. However, the budget-stretching strategy works here, thanks to a straightforward yet intriguing storyline. While the episode does reasonably well with the material provided, there are several questions left unanswered. The notion of a non-corporeal being that thrives on the "energy" generated by emotional responses of living organisms is something worth exploring, but we don't get any of that. Where does the mysterious energy being come from? Why is it compelled to "feed" in this way? Are there others? What happens to the entity once it's forced to leave the Enterprise? We're left to ponder such ideas while Kirk and company engage the Klingons in their version of Highlander: The Home Game.
(Star Trek novelist Greg Cox does revisit the creature a couple of times. First, in Q-Strike, the third novel in his Q-Continuum trilogy, and later in "Night of the Vulture," a short story from the Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War anthology.)
Given the ever-stressed budget afflicting most third-season episodes, quite a number of extra actors are employed this time around, filling out Starfleet and Klingon uniforms for the various fight scenes sprinkled throughout the story. It's nice to see all those red shirts running the halls and swinging swords, as they serve to give the episode an appearance of possessing additional "heft." Of course, it's possible that all of those guys simply were borrowed from the cafeteria, or are nephews of the producers, or maybe they just lost a bet.
Here's another Klingon-related question: When they escape from their confinement, why doesn't Kirk—or anyone, for that matter—think to position guards near the auxiliary control? Kang and the gang just mosey on in like they own the place, and get the info they need to take over the ship's vital systems. Remember this plot device, as in decades to come it will evolve into a regular occurrence, sometimes in multiple episodes, of every season of 24.
This episode is notable for providing us our first look at a female Klingon, something that won't happen again until 1984's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The presence of Mara, Kang's wife, as well as a second female, is also at odds with a comment made by Captain Koloth in "The Trouble With Tribbles," that Klingon ships don't carry women (referred to in that episode by the rather sexist euphemism "nonessentials"). Mara's presence also allows for what is arguably one of the more disturbing scenes from all of the original series: Chekov's attempted sexual assault. It's all presented in a mostly chaste manner, though their expressions and his unwanted kissing—to say nothing of the unmistakable sound of clothing being torn—are more than effective at conveying the intent of the scene.
Despite her attempts to help Kirk and convince Kang that they're all being influenced by the alien, Mara comes off for much of the episode in only slightly better fashion than most female television characters of the 1960s: window dressing. This is unfortunate, particularly as later Star Trek adventures would leave little doubt that Klingon women can stand toe to toe with their male counterparts, even if their culture doesn't view them on equal terms.
William Shatner is at his scenery-chewing best this time around. Whether he's railing against the effects of the alien's control over them, carrying an unconscious Chekov through the barren corridors as he laments their seemingly hopeless situation, or appealing to Mara (and later Kang) to listen to reason, the captain seems poised on multiple occasions to eat his way right through the bulkheads. Being manipulated by the energy creature also gives sufficient justification for the other cast members to let loose with The Drama™, most notably James Doohan, who confronts Spock on the bridge in a rather unsettling—and convincing—bout of race hatred. DeForest Kelley isn't left on the sidelines, either, as he basically tells Kirk and the others to extract their heads from whatever body cavity, and get on with fighting before the Klingons overrun them.
The one scene in this episode that never fails to make me laugh is near the end, when Kirk and Kang order their respective crews to end the fighting. There's a cut to a scene of crewmen and Klingons going at each other in a corridor, and once the command is given, everybody just stops, as though somebody off-camera rang a bell or something and called for Happy Hour.
And just for the hardcore Trekkies, here's another bit of trivia for you: "Day of the Dove" is one of two third-season episodes that eventually would be adapted as one of those twelve sweet "Fotonovels" published by Bantam Books in the late 1970s. It's #10 in the series, in case you're wondering or are about to point your browser to eBay or something.
In closing, "Day of the Dove" succeeds more often than it stumbles, and though tending to be a bit talky instead of giving us more of that delicious sword-fighting action, it does manage to make effective use of its premise and makes you wish one of the shows had revisited the alien in some form or another. Of course, I could still be suffering aftereffects of "And the Children Shall Lead."
Dayton's Rating: Warp 3.5 (on a scale of 1 to 6)
Next episode: Season 3, Episode 8 — "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky." U.S. residents can watch it for free at the CBS website.
Check the Star Trek Re-Watch Index for a complete list of posts in this series.
David Mack is amazed at how much Mara's makeup in this episode makes her look like one of his cats.
Dayton Ward is seriously considering pitching that whole Kang/Mirror Universe/Baked Klingons idea to his editor, just to get a reaction.


text: With so many elements in information security -- application, network infrastructure, the endpoint, perimeter defenses, and data-centric approaches -- it's easy to fall in the trap of touting one as more important than the other. But it's a mistake to consider information security as a series of silos when it's actually an intersection of different areas. That overlap is most evident with application and endpoint security.For Jeremiah Grossman, the new chief security strategist at security vendor Sentinel One, application security and endpoint security are just different steps in the kill chain. As the founder and former CTO of the consultancy WhiteHat Security, Grossman has been the go-to-expert for web application security for years, and his new focus on endpoint security at Sentinel One does not mean that he has given up on securing web applications."From an adversary kill-chain perspective, if we can get the bad guys not to be able to break into the website, great, let's do that. But if we can't, let's makes sure that if the system gets compromised and malware is on it, we can detect it really, really quickly and stop it, or eradicate it," Grossman said.Many of the latest data breaches began with the adversaries exploiting a vulnerability in a web application, and then pivoting in the network to find other vulnerabilities and weaknesses. The web application is the doorway, but the actual attack happens on the endpoint, whether that's valuable data stored in a database or, in the case of ransomware, documents that could be locked up to demand ransom. Web application security and endpoint security are intricately tied up together, he said.Back in 2001, when Grossman first started working on web application security, cross-site scripting flaws and SQL-injection errors were rampant, with pretty much every website affected. Fast-forward to 2016, and such attacks are incredibly rare among major sites. Cross-site scripting and SQL injection still exist on many websites, but it's no longer as widespread.App security still matters, but SDLC has to be done judiciouslyInformation security professionals frequently talk about inserting security throughout the SDLC (software development lifecycle): Developers adopt secure coding principles and perform regular testing to catch and fix bugs before the application goes to production. The SDLC is a good thing, and more organizations need to adopt the secure development mindset.But it isn't practical to demand all existing applications be rewritten under the SDLC. Legacy software, which powers the majority of the web and is installed on billions of endpoints around the world, has vulnerabilities. Fixing those flaws is part of what Grossman calls "legacy janitorial work." No company can shoulder the cost of rewriting all their applications and starting over with a secure coding mindset. And then there are all the open source projects out there for which there's often no one to shoulder any such legacy janitorial work.Microsoft is frequently touted as the poster child for how SDLC makes a difference, but that's an interesting -- and possibly unrepeatable -- case, Grossman said. The Microsoft that said it was going to start over and make its applications more secure was a monopoly, dominated the industry, had strong market share, and had "multiple billions" in the bank to spend on the effort, he noted. That's not the case for most companies faced with the prospect of revamping their software portfolio.And today, a decade after Microsoft made that commitment, Microsoft itself couldn't likely make that commitment.\u00a0"No one's going to disagree that the later versions of Windows, from Windows 7 to now, are solid. Microsoft did really good work. But what was the ROI for Microsoft in that?" Grossman said.Instead of trying to revamping all the software, the effort should be two-pronged: 1) improve the process for remediating vulnerabilities as they are found, and 2) run new code, or actively managed code, through the SDLC.\u00a0That doesn't mean just incorporating SDLC elements, but also assessing the effectiveness of the new practices.\u00a0"After you do a whole bunch of SDLC stuff, does the software actually come out more secure? If so, by how much? And is it worth it?" Grossmand said.Security investments aren't going where they're most neededThe industry has made progress finding vulnerabilities, but the immensity of the web -- at a billion-plus websites strong -- means the cleanup effort is going to take a lot of time and resources. That means there will be more compromises, attacks, and infections in the meantime.While the industry focuses the efforts toward fixing vulnerabilities and writing new code, there has to be a parallel effort to improve endpoint security to block the adversaries.\u00a0"You could compromise a company just by sending an email. That's a pretty attractive route" for criminals, Grossman said."The spending models are all backward," Grossman said. Enterprises spend most of their IT budgets on software, followed by endpoints, and very little on networks, whereas the lion's share of the IT security budget goes to perimeter defenses, such as firewalls and endpoint security, and very little is spent on software.\u00a0Ransomware must be tackled now, before it's too lateOrganizations need to look at what the adversaries are doing and allocate efforts and funding accordingly. And right now, the adversaries are looking at ransomware.\u00a0The FBI has estimated payments of $23 million to $25 million were made to ransomware gangs in 2015, but that figure has ballooned to more than $200 million in the first quarter of 2016 alone. That's a staggering growth rate, especially since the latest research indicate ransomware still account for less than 5 percent of overall malware attacks.While ransomware itself might not account for a big portion of the overall malware scourge, it is a serious problem, and creative minds need to start thinking of new methods and techniques to detect and foil these infections.\u00a0"While we're still going to have the big malware problem overall, we're going to have another one in the form of ransomware," Grossman predicted.Worse, it's not as if the general malware problem has been solved:\u00a0Despite nearly $8 billion to $12 billion spent annually fighting malware, malware is rampant, he said.Still, the latest anti-ransomware efforts, such as what Grossman will work on as part of his new role at Sentinel One, are an opportunity for information security professionals to get ahead of a problem before it becomes entrenched. There's no need to wait for ransomware to get bigger as a problem before coming up with new solutions. "We always seem to be ambulance chasers. But ransomware, we can see it coming. It's right there," Grossman said.Grossman believes ransomware will be a billion-dollar market by 2018, and at that point it will be too late to do something about it. "We can fight an uphill battle, but for those who want to get ahead of it, we can do it now," Grossman said.The web is too valuable not to actively protectMany in the security industry, whether they came into the field by design or by accident, view the work as a calling. The web is the "greatest invention we'll see in our lifetime," Grossman said, who called it his mission to protect it and the billions of people using it every day.Whether that's endpoint security or fixing vulnerabilities in web applications, the end result is the same. "I want to be able to protect people, protect websites, protect the web. It's that important. We're all using it today," he said.


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In the mix all day during a record 68 lead changes, Kanaan dipped inside defending IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay on a restart with three laps to go.
From there, he cruised to Victory Lane under the yellow caution flag, flipping up his visor to wipe tears from his eyes as the crowd roared.
"I have to say, the last lap was the longest lap of my life," the popular Brazilian said.
"I got a little bit of luck today," said Kanaan, drenched in the celebratory milk. "I was looking at the stands, and it was unbelievable. I'm speechless. This is it, man. I made it."
Kanaan had his fair share of chances to win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but came up short time and time again. He was leading when the rain came in 2007, only to lose to Dario Franchitti when the race resumed.
In all, Kanaan went into Sunday's race with 221 laps led -- more than any other non-winner except Michael Andretti and Rex Mays -- but his second-place finish to Buddy Rice in 2004 was the closest he had come to victory. He had a pair of third-place finishes, including last year, again to Franchitti.
This time, it was Franchitti whose crash brought out the final caution to seal Kanaan's victory.
"It's wonderful for him," said Mario Andretti, himself a victim to bad luck at Indy. "He's raced here long enough that he deserves it, no question. He was strong all day. Certainly he deserves this in every way."
The win for Kanaan and car owner Jimmy Vasser was celebrated throughout the paddock as the losers all enjoyed seeing the popular IndyCar duo celebrate. Alex Zanardi, who came from Italy to watch the Indianapolis 500 and gave Kanaan one of his 2012 London Paralympics medals as good luck, wept behind the pit wall as Kanaan took the checkered flag.
"I tell you I'm starting to think (the medal) really works," Zanardi said. "It's a dream come true to see Tony win, to see Jimmy Vasser win, my dear friend. I'm so happy, I'm so happy."
Fellow Brazilian Helio Castroneves, shooting for a record-tying fourth Indy win, was happy for his long-time friend.
"Finally he's able to win this race. He's so close so many times, but the good news is the good old boys are still able to run fast," Castroneves said.
Carlos Munoz, a 21-year-old rookie making his first IndyCar start, finished second and Hunter-Reay was third.
"He's certainly someone I'd want to see win it if I can't win it myself," Hunter-Reay said. "We were a sitting duck on the last restart, that's all I can say."
The leaders came to the finish line all bunched up around Kanaan, saluting the longtime IndyCar stalwart who had longed to add the one missing piece to his resume. That was about as slow as anyone had driven all day. The average speed was 187.433 mph, another Indy record.
Marco Andretti finished fourth, failing to win for the eighth time, and Justin Wilson was fifth in the highest-finishing Honda on a day that was dominated by Chevrolet. Castroneves was sixth.
For a time, it appeared the win would go to AJ Allmendinger, who led 23 laps in his Indy 500 debut for Roger Penske.
Fired by Penske from his NASCAR ride last year after failing a NASCAR drug test, Penske gave him a second chance with this IndyCar opportunity. Seven years after leaving open-wheel racing, Allmendinger finally ran "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" and was leading when his seat belt came undone, forcing him to pit.
It put Allmendinger off the pit cycle, and he was forced to stop for gas twice far in advance of the rest of the field. It meant Allmendinger had to drive his way back to the front each time, and he finally sputtered out at seventh.
"Once I figured it out, it was phenomenal. I could drive by guys at will when I wanted to," Allmendinger said. "I felt like we were up front running our own race, and, I don't know, belts come undone. It just popped.
"I'll be honest, pretty special moment to be leading at Indy. My body kind of went numb, my mind was racing and I could feel my heart beating really fast, and that's a special moment I'll never forget."
A year after 34 lead changes and a frantic finish created an Indianapolis 500 many considered to be the best ever, IndyCar had its hands full in trying to top itself.
So this one, with the slicing and dicing at the front, over and over and over again, might have been even better. There were a record 68 lead changes by 14 drivers.
"It was a hell of a race. That's all I can say," said Mario Andretti. "This is riveting competition, that's all I can tell you. It's just amazing. The reliability of the cars is there. The product is there. It's unbelievable racing, the best I've seen in years."


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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky freshman Nerlens Noel will have surgery on his injured left knee Tuesday, a move that could offer a hint about his future with the Wildcats.
Famed orthopedic surgeon James Andrews will perform the operation to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in Gulf Breeze, Fla. Scott Mair of University of Kentucky Sports Medicine will observe and coordinate Noel's rehabilitation, which is expected to take six to eight months.
Noel's NBA prospects played a major role in when the 6-foot-10 freshman will have the surgery and who is performing it.
"Due to the unique timetable for Nerlens' recovery in regards to the NBA Draft deadline, the University of Kentucky and Noel's family thought it was in his best interest to have his surgery performed by Dr. Andrews in Florida," Kentucky athletic department spokesman DeWayne Peevy said in a statement.
"Being one of the few surgeons that NBA franchises use regularly, Dr. Andrews' involvement will allow the NBA personnel to have the most updated post-surgery information available in regards to Nerlens' medical condition. Our medical staff and administrators are not permitted to talk to NBA teams and Nerlens is not allowed to be examined by the NBA, prior to the draft, without jeopardizing his eligibility."
Kentucky coach John Calipari wouldn't comment on Noel's return to the program, saying "all the other stuff will take time to play out" during a Monday teleconference.
Noel sustained the season-ending injury on Feb. 12 at Florida and was expected to have the surgery within two to three weeks
Considered the nation's top recruit and projected as an NBA draft lottery pick, Noel was leading the nation with 106 blocks when he sustained the devastating injury with eight minutes remaining in the Wildcats' eventual 69-52 loss to the Gators.
Noel, who has attended Wildcats home games since his injury, will not be with the team for the Southeastern Conference tournament beginning Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.
"After talking with my family, I decided to schedule my surgery over spring break so I wouldn't miss as much class," Noel said in a statement. "I wish all my teammates luck in the SEC tournament and look forward to getting back to Lexington as soon as I can to begin my rehab and finish my school work."
Kentucky (21-10, 12-6) struggled to play well consistently with a healthy Noel and the Wildcats are just 4-3 without him. Tennessee routed the Wildcats 88-58 in their first game without Noel before reeling off three straight wins.
But the Wildcats then lost two road games before rebounding with Saturday's 61-57 home win over the Gators that earned them the No. 2 seed for the conference tournament. Beating Florida also provided the late season signature victory that the defending national champions needed to improve their chances of earning an at-large NCAA tournament bid.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a tie: Last year equaled 2005 as the warmest year on record, government climate experts reported Wednesday.
The average worldwide temperature was 1.12 degrees Fahrenheit (0.62 degree Celsius) above normal last year. That's the same as six years ago, the National Climatic Data Center announced.
Climate experts have become increasingly concerned about rising global temperatures over the last century. Most atmospheric scientists attribute the change to gases released into the air by industrial processes and gasoline-burning engines.
In addition, the Global Historical Climatology Network said Wednesday that last year was the wettest on record. Rain and snowfall patterns varied greatly around the world.
"The warmth this year reinforces the notion that we are seeing climate change," said David Easterling, chief of scientific services at the climatic data center. Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2000, he noted. The exception was 1998, which is the third warmest year on record going back to 1880.
Easterling said the data "unequivocally" disproves claims that climate warming ended in 2005.
The temperature readings are collected at land stations and from ships and buoys at sea. The "normal" reading they use is the average worldwide temperature for the 20th century, which was 57.0 degrees Fahrenheit.
Temperatures over land surfaces were the warmest on record last year, averaging 1.80 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, while ocean temperatures were the third warmest on record at 0.88 degrees above average.
A La Nina condition took effect at the last half of the year, marked by below normal temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
While it was the wettest year on record, Easterling declined to link warmer temperatures with the unusual moisture, commenting that much more research would be needed in that area.
Other findings in the annual climate report included:
— There were just seven named storms and three hurricanes in the Pacific, the fewest since the mid-1960s. On the other hand the Atlantic hurricane season was very active with 19 named storms and 12 hurricanes.
— Arctic sea ice cover was the third smallest since records began in 1979, trailing only 2007 and 2008. The ice cover is considered a marker of climate change as global warming tends to be seen first at the poles.
— Despite the overall warmth, 2010 saw record cold and snow in January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly eastern North America.
— From mid-June to mid-August an unusually strong jet stream shifted northward, bringing an unprecedented two-month heat wave to Russia and adding to devastating floods in Pakistan.
— For the contiguous United States it was the 14th consecutive year with above average temperatures.


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Giraffe numbers have declined by as much as 40% since the 1980s in a "silent extinction" driven by illegal hunting and an expansion of farmland in Africa, the Red List of endangered species has reported.
Populations of the world's tallest land creature fell to about 98,000 from an estimated 152,000-163,000 in 1985, according to the list compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The Red List rated the giraffe "vulnerable" to extinction on current trends for the first time, against a previous rating of "least concern".
It said the plunge in numbers in large parts of sub-Saharan Africa had gone largely unnoticed.
"Whilst giraffes are commonly seen on safari, in the media and in zoos, people - including conservationists - are unaware that these majestic animals are undergoing a silent extinction," Julian Fennessy, an IUCN giraffe specialist, said in a statement.
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Giraffes are at risk from the expansion of farmland to feed a rising human population and from killings for their meat, often in areas of conflict such as South Sudan, according to the IUCN, which groups scientists, governments and activists.
"People are competing for fewer and fewer resources and the animals are worse off ... especially with civil strife," Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the Red List, told Reuters.
Drought and climate change are aggravating factors, he said.
Giraffe numbers have declined by as much as 40% since the 1980s in a "silent extinction", according to the Red List of endangered species. pic.twitter.com/gw7eVl70yF— RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 8, 2016
Among other changes on the list, the African grey parrot - famed for its skill in mimicking human speech - was rated endangered, one step worse than its earlier category as vulnerable. Trapping for the pet trade has driven down numbers.
The list also found that 11% of more than 700 other species of bird newly assessed were at risk of extinction, such as the Antioquia wren in Colombia, which is under threat from a hydro-electric dam.
A few were recovering against the trend – conservation efforts had reduced threats for birds including the Azores bullfinch, St Helena plover and Seychelles white-eye.
The Red List, the main global authority on risks to animals and plants, said 24,307 of 85,604 species assessed in recent decades were in danger of extinction.
UN studies say that man-made threats, led by the loss of natural habitats, may herald the worst extinction crisis since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago.


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About eight months ago, I wrote a post about the army and reserve's recruiting problems. I wrote then:
"One of the interesting things about being involved with the Clark campaign was getting to talk to the various military people who were involved. The ones I met were generally retired career officers, mostly quite senior; and most of them were people who not only served in Vietnam but stuck with the military afterwards, when it was, as they saw it, broken: demoralized, dispirited, with huge problems with discipline, readiness, and retention, especially in the army. The army officers I met were some of the people who stuck with the army through its worst period in living memory and worked their hearts out to put it back together again. And one of the things that really terrified them about the Bush administration and its war in Iraq was the thought that the institution they loved might be about to be broken again."
Eight months ago, I didn't think we were there yet. We're a lot closer now. The Pentagon has delayed releasing its recruiting figures for last month, citing the need to scrutinize the information and explain it to the public. Why either goal requires delaying the figures' release is unclear, which has prompted widespread speculation that the numbers are very, very bad. They'd have to be, since the numbers the Pentagon has released in earlier months were quite bad enough. From the same story:
"The regular Army missed its recruiting goals for three straight months entering May, falling short by a whopping 42 percent in April. The Army was 16 percent behind its year-to-date target entering May, with a goal of signing up 80,000 recruits in fiscal 2005, which ends Sept. 30.
The Marine Corps missed its goal for signing up new recruits for four straight months entering May and was 2 percent behind its year-to-date goal. It hopes to sign up 38,195 recruits in fiscal 2005."
But there is more bad news. Phil Carter and Owen West report the following, in an article in Slate:
"Now comes a new Army directive that attempts to alleviate the personnel crunch by retaining soldiers who are earmarked for early discharge during their first term of enlistment because of alcohol or drug abuse, unsatisfactory performance, or being overweight, among other reasons. By retaining these soldiers, the Army lowers the quality of its force and places a heavy burden on commanders who have to take the poor performers into harm's way. This is a quick fix that may create more problems than it solves. (...)
Make no mistake, however—these are not soldiers who field commanders want to retain. One lieutenant colonel currently commanding a civil-affairs battalion said these troops were the ones "who eat up my time and cause my hair to gray prematurely." A former infantry officer said he could "not recall a single soldier chaptered for the reasons identified ... that I would have wanted to deploy with."
This new retention directive represents a regression by the Army, from the vaunted all-volunteer force of today back in the direction of the all-volunteer force of the 1970s, when drug use, race riots, and AWOL incidents were common among all services. The Marine Corps Historical Branch traces its own severe spiral to "the end of the draft and the pressure of keeping up the size of the Marine Corps. In the process, a number of society's misfits had been recruited." By 1975, the corps had so decayed that newly appointed Commandant Lewis Wilson sought permission from Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger to implement a radical personnel proposal: Push the authority to discharge unworthy Marines down to the battalion level. Under the "expeditious discharge program," commanders quickly cut 6,000 undesirables, sending a message that reverberated throughout the military, paving the way for the subsequent military performance surge credited to President Reagan.
Now the Army intends to reverse the policy, implying that battalion commanders are not able to weigh the needs of the total force against those of their units. By the time a soldier reaches the discharge point, the officers above him have already invested a great deal of rehabilitative effort. Forcing units to keep these troops—and indeed, to take them to war—puts a very heavy rock in the rucksack of any field commander who must now balance managing these subpar performers with his mission and the needs of his unit."
(The full list of reasons for discharged covered by the new policy is: "FAILURE TO MEET PROCUREMENT MEDICAL FITNESS STANDARDS (PARAGRAPH 5-11); PREGNANCY (CHAPTER 8); ALCOHOL OR OTHER DRUG ABUSE REHABILITATION FAILURE (CHAPTER 9); ENTRY LEVEL PERFORMANCE AND CONDUCT (CHAPTER 11); UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE (CHAPTER 13); SELECTED CHANGES IN SERVICE OBLIGATIONS (CHAPTER 16, PARAGRAPHS 16-4 THRU 16-10); AND FAILURE TO MEET BODY FAT STANDARDS (CHAPTER 18).")
So: in order to minimize the effect of recruiting and retention problems, we are going to make it harder to discharge soldiers who have failed drug or alcohol rehab, performed inadequately, or who fail medical fitness standards. This just raises the odds that a soldier who is fighting his* heart out in Iraq will find that the person next to him, on whom his life may depend, is incompetent, medically unfit, an alcoholic or a drug addict. It also raises the odds that commanding officers will be dealing with intractable personnel issues when they could be trying to keep their troops safe. All in all, a great way to support the troops.
Carter and West propose a variety of better ways to keep numbers up; their discussion of how this might be done is very much worth reading. Unfortunately, all of them would take a fair amount of time to implement, and one, which I wholeheartedly support, would probably make things worse initially:
"The Pentagon must stop the proliferation of its private army. Today there are as many as 30,000 private military contractors serving in traditional military billets. They are paid up to five times as much as soldiers performing the same duties. Encouraging the privatization of soldiers when there is a severe shortage of riflemen is circular reasoning. While the Army and Marines struggle to increase their infantry ranks, the DoD is paying private companies lucrative contracts to act as personnel brokers. Where do these firms find the recruits? The military. So the government is paying hefty finders' fees to locate quality soldiers it recruited in the first place. Far from being castoffs, they are among America's best, mostly senior soldiers lured by pay and flexibility. They belong in the ranks of the Army and the USMC, not the NYSE."
In the meantime, the army is breaking. We need to stop this, and we need to stop it now. I do not know what the answer is -- a draft is the obvious answer, but since I don't know the answers to such questions as where we'd find the people to train a lot of draftees, I don't feel comfortable actually endorsing it. But we need to do something quickly. And I see no sign that our government is even beginning to consider taking any serious steps to address this issue.
* Pronoun reflects current restrictions on women in combat.


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OCEAN CITY – A resort man deemed one of the Ocean City Police Department's "most wanted" for a string of burglaries in an Ocean City trailer park in March was arrested this week in Florida and awaits extradition to Worcester County to face 34 charges of burglary.
The OCPD was informed this week a suspect on its "most wanted" list was recently arrested in Oakland Park, Fla. just north of Fort Lauderdale. Stavros "Steve" Kominos, 21, of West Ocean City, has been on the OCPD's most wanted list since March when he was connected as a suspect to a string of burglaries at the Isle of Wight trailer park in the resort in the area of 24th Street.
On March 4, OCPD officers responded to the trailer park in reference to a break-in. Initially, the officers believed they were responding to a single burglary, but a thorough search of the entire trailer park revealed an additional 14 trailers had been burglarized. Numerous items were removed from the burglarized residences including televisions, DVD players and a vacuum.
Evidence was gathered at the scene by the OCPD's Forensic Services unit and investigators were able to connect the crimes to a pair of individuals who were visiting Ocean City for the weekend including Kominos and Adam Woodson Queen, 21, of Bethel Park, Pa. Queen was arrested a short time later, but Kominos fled to Florida the next day and has been wanted by Ocean City Police ever since until he was taken into custody in Oakland Park this week.
He was arrested by Oakland Park Police and is currently being held in the Broward County Jail awaiting extradition to Worcester County to face 34 charges of burglary. Kominos is no stranger to the local court system. He was arrested in May 2007 on second-degree assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges. Kominos later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was placed on unsupervised probation for one year, which is set to expire in August. When he returned to Worcester County, he will also likely be charged with violating the terms of his probation for the incident in May 2007.
Meanwhile, Queen went to trial for his role in the trailer park burglaries in October and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary. He was sentenced to the 217 days he spent in jail while awaiting trial.


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OK, Black Friday has officially gotten out of hand. A 34-year-old WalMart employee was trying to hold back the crowds at a Long Island store this morning at 5am, when they took the doors off their hinges and stormed the store. The man fell down and was trampled by over 200 people as he gasped for air. It's sad and despicable, and it's equally the fault of the dehumanized shoppers and the WalMart store it happened at.
Why was there no line set up? Why didn't they let in a reasonable amount of people at a time? What kind of method is it to just allow hundreds of people to cram up against the doors, waiting for them to open? They may have wanted some photo op of people surging through the doors, but they willfully created a very dangerous situation.
Can you imagine if, say, the Apple store did this when the iPhone was launched? Or when the Wii was launched? When a large amount of people are expected for a retail event, organization is needed, otherwise it creates a dangerous situation. This man's death is on WalMart's hands.
As for the people who did the trampling, well, I hope their cheap crap was worth it. They'll have to live with the human costs of their deals for the rest of their lives. [NY Daily News]
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• Plus these late breaking ones from Cupertino: Apple Black Friday Deals Include Some Decent Third-Party Discounts
• Warnings: 7 Crappy Black Friday "Deals" That Aren't Really
• How To Choose an HDTV on Black Friday (or Any Day)
• How to set up that new HDTV you just got.
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Why You Might Want to Avoid Shopping on Black Friday, altogether:
• 10 Reasons We're Doomed: Black Friday Edition
• WalMart Worker Trampled to Death by Deal-Crazed Black Friday Shoppers


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|My newest must have kitchen tool, sort of.
So I have missed you all, I imagine that you are all "where the heck is the crazy lady?" And I would have to say "who me? Crazy?" And then you would roll your eyes, and I would sort of just stand there, it is just how it is you know?
Anyway I have been at my new job for over a week now, and I love it! But, I feel like an idiot, like I will never get it all. I also miss all the time I had to bake and blog. And so tonight I am jumping on to share a really simple cookie. One that didn't turn out so well for me, but you might have better luck. Anyway, life is really good, busy but good, and I hope to be back more often to read and blog. So here is a post I wrote way back last year when I was hoping to have a new cookie to share, then I never did, because it was so bad! Oh well, could be worse.
So here you go.
I had a dream. It was a simple dream. It involved me getting a new kitchen gadget and me using it and me making something so awesome and amazing that people would want my autograph; they would be like "you are the best thing since sliced bread!" And I would be all "duh was there ever any doubt?" And that would be wonderful!
|Never knew you could get this in the regular store, I was all panicked thinking I would have to go to a specialty store.
In real life; I got a new shortbread baking pan. I was all ready to become the famous shortbread baking lady. I even bought rice flour to make it. And well; it was no dream come true if you must know. So basically what happened was I used two cups of butter and ended up with a crumbling pan of half baked and half raw shortbread.
|I just lightly oiled the pan.
|The flour stuck on in globs so I had to use a pastry brush to get some of it off.
It was not a good day. I almost cried, I was all "how am I ever going to show my face in public again?" And then I tossed out almost all of it and sat on the sofa and pouted for a while. It was one of those things where I look back now and I know how I screwed up but I am not in the mood to try again, yet. So I figure if nothing else I have a post to share my pictures of failure of and it will fill some void in your heart. You know the void, the one where you need to see how badly I can screw up and still come back for more.
|See the dough was so soft and I bet you could even pipe it. Great now I want to try piping it.
|You can totally see how over full my pan is, but I was not going to stop.
It's what I do people; I think of you. But if we could have a moment of silence for those two cups of butter that I will never get back that would greatly help with my healing.
Thank you.
So I got this pan at the kitchen store and it had a recipe in it, but it was sort of vague. So I went on line to see if I could find out more about the pan and the recipe. Well for some reason the pan wasn't even on the manufactures site, which should have been a big sign that something was up. But I forged on I looked on google to see if there was anything special I had to do to prepare my pan. In the end I figured that seasoning my pan couldn't hurt and that is what I did. I rubbed some vegetable oil on the pan and then sprinkled some flour on it to make sure nothing stuck. Then I got to making the cookie dough.
|See, I should have taken a bunch out.
|It looked way worse in real life.
Short bread cookies
found on the pan instructions
1/2 pound butter
1/2 cup icing sugar
1/2 cake flour
1/4 cup rice flour
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
Pre heat oven to 350, and season your pan.
Blend the butter until creamy, add icing sugar and salt, blend well. Add rice flour and cake flour and blend well. Add half of the all purpose flour and blend, add the rest of the flour and blend. Press the dough into the mold and bake until golden brown.
|See all this was almost raw, I was so mad!
So the first thing about this is that I have not used rice flour before and I thought that it was a neat idea and figured it would make for a nice smooth cookie. So I measure out everything and mix it all together and that is when I notice how soft the dough is, the recipe says to press the dough into the pan and it was spreadable. Also the recipe didn't say how much it made so I figured I needed to put it all into the pan. But there was way too much. So instead of taking some out and doing two batched I smoothed it out and went ahead and baked the full pan. And that is where I messed up. I put the pan on a cookie sheet just to make sure that it would not over flow. But even after 30 minutes the middle was still sort of wet but the outside was getting dark. So I pulled the tray out and let it set to cool.
I let it cool a few minutes then flipped the whole thing onto a cookie tray and it fell apart. The middle was soft and not cooked and the outsides were really crusty. I even cut it to try it. Now I will admit it was a nice melt in your mouth soft short bread, or at least the few edges I ate were. So I cut it up thinking it would set up, but it didn't. So I took a few pieces to work and no one ate them. I really cannot blame them. Just means I need to try again, and I will and it will be amazing. I won't add this recipe to my index yet until I figure it out, so stay tuned I may be brave enough again before 2014 you know.
|This went to work, and it never got eaten.


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You want to expand your knowledge of mobile marketing but your time is precious and you may find it hard to spend time reading up on different topics. Use this article to quickly and clearly pick up some tips and tricks relevant to this subject and how to use it for your business.
If you want to increase your site traffic from users using mobile devices, develop a mobile application for your site, and offer it on your website. Apps are a convenient way for hand-held users to get to a service with one click. There are many tools and sites that can help you to develop your app, so take advantage of that.
Even though you're marketing in the mobile world, you still have to make sure that you keep improving your efforts outside of this realm. Allowing other areas of marketing to lapse and putting too much focus on mobile marketing will hurt your business, no matter how well your mobile marketing is doing. Use your calendar and task list to allot regular times for each kind of marketing campaign.
Enhance your text messages with other forms of communication. Make use of multi-channel marketing. One form communication isn't enough for today's audience. Each style of communication has its own set of pros and cons. This is why it is best to use more than one. Try sending direct mail, e-mail and a text right before something important happens.
It is a good thing to check what your competition is doing, but do not feel obligated to copy them. This means you do not have to use the same social networks. You must define your own objectives and study your market yourself. Your competitors might be doing a mistake.
Mobile phones have become very personal. People can download what apps they want, customize their phone to look how they like it, and many have all contacts and their calendar saved in their phone. You want to make your mobile marketing strategy hit people on a personal level. The more relevant your information is to your customers, they more personal it will feel.
Social media is one big and long conversation. Lots of it is meaningless and trivial. Do not link your mobile campaign to this kind of disastrous discourse. Keep your messages brief and to the point. Social media is a key to any marketing campaign, but you have to use it wisely to get beneficial results.
Only add telephone numbers from customers choosing to receive messages to build your mobile marketing database carefully. If you add telephone numbers of customers who have not elected to receive mobile marketing messages, you are likely to see a high volume of complaints and requests to be removed from your list.
To summarize, article marketing is something that you would like to get a better grasp of and you are normally pressed for time. As promised, you hopefully just read some of the best tips available, organized in a easy to read format. Take this expert advice and use it to your advantage.


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This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage.
The moon's large, distinguishing crater, Herschel, is seen on the map at left.
The map is an equidistant (simple cylindrical) projection and has a scale of 216 meters (710 feet) per pixel at the equator. The mean radius of Mimas used for projection of this map is 198.2 kilometers (123.2 miles). The resolution of the map is 16 pixels per degree. This mosaic map is an update to the version released in February 2010 (see PIA12780). These mosaics contain data from Cassini's June 5, 2012, flyby of Mimas.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.


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When I heard this past Friday that the New York Times Company had delivered a radical ultimatum to the Boston Globe's 13 unions — make $20 million in concessions in the next 30 days or we'll shut the paper down — I called Globe spokesman Bob Powers to check it out. He wasn't talking. No surprise there: the Times Co.'s demand had been delivered at a secret meeting (one that was supposed to be secret, anyway), and the Globe was working on its own story for Saturday's paper.
What came next was more befuddling: the Times Co. maintained its silence, even to its own reporters. That same day, April 3, after WBUR and the Phoenix had reported the situation, the Globe ran a short piece on its Web site. In that Globe item, written by staffers Robert Gavin and Robert Weisman, Times Co. chief spokesperson Catherine Mathis and Globe publisher P. Steven Ainsley both declined comment. Mathis also declined comment when contacted by New York Times reporter Richard Pérez-Peña for a Web piece published on Friday; for that matter, so did Times Co. chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
And so it went. On Saturday, the print versions of Friday's Times and Globe Web pieces were similarly devoid of comment from the brass in New York and Boston. So were the two stories that ran in Sunday's Globe. Ainsley finally broke his silence in a note sent to Globe employees on the evening of April 6, a full three days after the story first surfaced; the Times Co. still isn't talking.
Why the reticence? Here's a trusting, resolutely optimistic explanation: the Times Co. desperately wants to hammer out a deal with the Globe unions; hasn't weighed in because it thinks a resolution is close but could be derailed; and initially ordered Globe management to keep quiet too.
That's one possibility, anyway. Here's another: while the Times Co. has shielded the Globe from the worst nastiness seen at other papers — until March, for example, the newsroom had been cut through buyouts rather than layoffs — the Globe is a permanent second-class citizen in the Times Co. firmament. (After all, there's a reason it's called the New York Times Co.) When the Globe makes money, and wins Pulitzers, and sends promising young talent to New York, it's possible to ignore its inherent inferiority. But now — with the Globe poised to lose a whopping $135 million in 2008 and 2009 — the Times Co. knows it's time to get rough. And as it does so, it feels zero obligation to justify itself to the Globe — or to Boston.
As for Ainsley, the Globe's publisher, it's hard to know just what he was thinking. In his April 6 memo to employees, he said the paper never comments on labor negotiations, and expressed regret that the story of the Times Co. ultimatum leaked out the way it did. But given the stakes and the way the media work today, this explanation seems both legalistic and naive.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – When Frank Haith first spoke this week about the allegations against him as part of the NCAA's investigation into Miami, the Missouri basketball coach talked about how relieved he is that the long process is nearing an end.
That may be wishful thinking.
The NCAA has told Haith and others involved in the Miami matter that their cases may not be heard until July — so any penalties that are forthcoming might not arrive until next fall, at least.
On Wednesday, Missouri released documents that the NCAA sent Haith as part of the notice of allegations against Miami, where he coached from 2004 through 2011. Two key dates jump out in the NCAA's planning: May 20, when responses by those named in the allegations are due, and an undetermined period in July — when the governing body for college athletics is planning to convene its Committee on Infractions.
That is, "unless all parties ... agree to a shortened response time," the NCAA said.
And that could happen. If not, this long saga — which most people weren't aware of until August 2011, though in actuality started nearly a year earlier — may just keep dragging along.
That doesn't mean progress isn't happening. Miami President Donna Shalala is expected to talk to the infractions committee during their meeting later this week — she'll be on the phone and it's not expected to be "a formal hearing for Miami at this point," said a person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the information was not to be publicly released.
The AP reported Tuesday night, when the NCAA's allegations were delivered to Miami, that Haith was hit with a charge of failure "to promote an atmosphere for compliance." Missouri confirmed that Wednesday.
The charge stems from his actions when former booster and convicted felon Nevin Shapiro — whose claims sparked this investigation — allegedly wanted money in exchange for not going public with accusations that he paid to help the Hurricanes recruit a player. The same accusation also included Jake Morton, a former member of Haith's staff at Miami.
"After learning of the threat, Haith failed to alert anyone in the athletics department administration about Shapiro's threat, ask reasonable questions of Morton to ensure that Shapiro's claim lacked merit or disclose the fact that Morton engaged in financial dealings with Shapiro," read Haith's portion of the notice of allegations. "Rather, Haith gave Morton funds that Morton then provided to Shapiro."
Missouri has been told by the NCAA that it does not face any possible sanctions, but that Haith's ability to coach may be affected "if he is found in violation" of rules.
"Missouri, while not a subject of this NCAA investigation, will continue to monitor the process," the school said in a release.
Haith is one of a handful of former Miami coaches who were named in the report. Another former member of his staff, Jorge Fernandez, is one of three former Hurricanes assistants who the NCAA believe provided false or misleading information during the probe into the Hurricanes' athletic department.
Also on that list with Fernandez: Former football assistants Clint Hurtt, now a coach at Louisville, and former Miami and Florida football assistant Aubrey Hill.
The NCAA said all three violated "principles of ethical conduct" as part of the notice of allegations served against the Hurricanes, according to a person who spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity because the allegations were not yet released publicly.
Other coaches are named or referenced in the allegations, but only Hurtt, Hill and Fernandez are facing the ethical-conduct charge, commonly known as NCAA Rule 10.1.
Miami is facing the charge that it had a "lack of institutional control" — one of the worst things the NCAA can levy against a member school. The charge revolves around how the school allegedly failed to monitor the conduct of Shapiro, a convicted Ponzi scheme architect who provided cash, gifts and other items to players, coaches and recruits.
Shalala's stance is that Miami has already suffered enough through self-imposed sanctions. She declined to comment further on Wednesday.
The NCAA alleged Hurtt and Hill provided meals, transportation and lodging to a small number of recruits, current players, or both. Both were interviewed by the NCAA during the probe and allegedly denied providing those extra benefits, statements the NCAA said were contradicted by players.
Hurtt also took a $2,500 personal loan from Shapiro, which was repaid. The NCAA also believes he sent about 40 impermissible text messages to recruits.
Fernandez, the NCAA alleged, "knowingly provided extra benefits" in the form of an air ticket. The NCAA said Fernandez denied using air miles for the tickets for a men's basketball player and a high school coach, despite evidence to the contrary.
Several other former Miami coaches are named in the allegations as well, including Morton, who the NCAA said accepted "supplemental income" of at least $6,000 from Shapiro. Morton is now on the staff at Western Kentucky.
Also named in the report is former Miami football assistant Joe Pannunzio, who was found to have sent about 30 impermissible text messages. Pannunzio is now on the staff at Alabama, and is not believed to be facing major penalties.
Some of the allegations in the NCAA's letter are more than 10 years old, including one in which Shapiro allegedly bought a suit for former Miami star running back Willis McGahee to wear to the Heisman Trophy ceremony in 2002.
Other allegations include that he paid for dinners at Benihana, televisions, sneakers, Miami Heat tickets, bowling parties, one player's engagement ring, a used washer-dryer set for current New England Patriots lineman Vince Wilfork, and that he directed his girlfriend to give two former Hurricanes no-show jobs for a couple of months.


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Mounting platform for power supply (PSU) (either ac/dc or dc/dc) components.
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The National Standards Body of the UK, founded in 1901, develops standards and standardization solutions to meet the needs of business and society. (http://www.bsiglobal.com/)
The condition created when the electricity supply (usually ac) falls below the minimum level specified for the system. Some brownouts are made intentionally to prevent a full power outage during periods of electricity demand overload.
Abbreviation for British Standards Institute
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The energy storage capacitor at the front end of a regulator.
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This is the third of a three-part series about the relationship between nearsightedness and your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.
One of the first things that happens when people take their glasses off is they tell themselves they can't see, they take their glasses off and they start looking around, "Oh, I can't read those words, I can't tell if you're looking at me, I can't tell what that says over there, I can't read that exit sign and I can't see if you're smiling or if you're not smiling."
They go around and they catalog everything that they can't see. So what are you doing there? You're using your mind and your thoughts to reaffirm the not seeing. It's just like when I had that experience I described before [ed. note: in Parts 1 and 2].
I opened my eyes, I'm seeing perfectly clearly, but I won't let myself believe it. "Oh, that's not real, must be because I'm blinking," or, "That's not real because the sun is shining," or however I talk myself out of it. So here we are reaffirming that part of ourselves that can't see or that doesn't want to see, and so, there's a nearsighted Mr. Magoo personality inside of us that has the physical component, the emotional component, the mental component, the spiritual component. And it says to the world,, "I don't want to see what's going on around me, by seeing less, I feel safer." It's a good excuse—what's the first thing we say when we drive through a red light and the cop stops us? "Sorry officer, I didn't see it."
For some of us, not seeing is a way to avoid responsibility, to not take on the fullness of responsibility that may be available to us. Particularly, I find this as a personality aspect to the 7 to 9 year old nearsighted boy. They're getting the message from the world that they can't be a kid anymore, it's time to grow up, time to be serious, time to take on responsibility. And so there's a transition there, they no longer see themselves—or they see the expectations that people are placing on them and they don't want to see that.
Another way to describe all this is to say that what we have now, which is the physical manifestation that says, "I can't see," that really began as an emotional statement that said "I don't want to see." And so, when you have said in the past "I don't want to see," with emotion—I mean, that's a natural response.
What happens when we're watching a movie and something scary comes on? We cover our eyes, right? What happens though? There are a couple of things there that are very interesting, we begin to see something scary and we don't want to see it, because not seeing is a way of protecting ourselves. Or we're watching the movie and we can tell something scary is coming, we don't see it yet, but we can tell it's coming, and right before we can sense that it's coming we cover our eyes, right? There's that aspect to our vision that involves sensing what's coming and if we don't want to see what we sense is coming, we can shut down our vision.
That's what I referred to before when I talked about Louise Hay saying in her book that nearsighted people don't want to see into the future. They sense it, it's not just some vague sort of future; they sense what's coming and they don't want to see it.
What is that sensing into the future? It's also our intuitiveness, it's also our perceptiveness, so when we shut down on that kind of sensing, we're shutting down on much more than our physical sight and it's very often the shutting down on those other levels, those other ways of sensing, that then gets locked into the physical.
So there are two aspects that are important to talk about in our eyesight right now. One is central vision, what is it that you're directly looking at when you say, "Can you read the bottom line on the eye chart?" You look at one letter. The other is your total field of vision—as you're looking at that one letter, at the same time there's light and images coming in from all over, all around you, all at the same time.
There are a bazillion points of light, bazillion pieces of images that are coming into your eyes all at the same time that you're looking at one thing directly. So what happens for nearsighted people is that they over-focus their attention on what they're looking at directly. At a book, they're just looking at the book, they lose awareness of the total field of vision—if they're looking at the computer, they just see the computer, they don't see the total thing. So what happens is that they lose the balance between he central focus and the total field of vision, so nearsightedness, in that sense, is not just that you can't see the bottom line on the eye chart clearly, but nearsightedness is also the myopic view where you shut many things out to just focus on one thing.
So, part of reclaiming your vision is opening your eyes to everything that is coming into your eyes and not just one, small, little part of all that. What many intuitives say is that your sensitivities, your intuitiveness, come from your peripheral awareness, and your logic and your rationality are connected to your direct focus. So if you are opening up your total awareness you're also opening yourself up to that total sensing, because even though you may not be aware of it, there's light and images that are coming in all the time from everywhere.
So one great suggestion that I have for people is not only spend the time without glasses in the world so that you can experience the emotions and release the emotions I talked about before, but also spend time in the world without your glasses so that you can allow the total visual world to come into you. So take a walk in the woods and try to allow yourself to see everything all at once, don't be so centrally focused, but see everything all at once.
The result is action that comes out of the compassion that exists in the seeing, in the open seeing. Let me explain what I mean. Movies and entertainment are artificial, so there are things being thrown across our eyes designed to manipulate our emotions in an artificial way, so let's not talk about that superficial, artificial way, let's talk instead about real life. So you have kids who are very open, usually very loving, particularly the younger you find them, very loving, very curious.
For example, a little kid could be walking down the street with their parent and the little kid could see somebody in a wheelchair, maybe for the first time, and the little kid's initial, immediate, unfiltered response is to be curious, "What is that, why Mommy is that person in the chair?" He might even want to go up and touch the chair or something like that. And what's the parent's first response? "Don't look at that." Some version of, "Don't look at that." So in the child's way, in that pure, child's way, there is a relationship between what we see, what we feel, and what we do, but we are in our process of socialization, we are taught to separate that out. We are taught to not look at certain things, we are taught to not look at people in a certain way, we are taught to be separate and we are taught, in the process of being taught to not see, we are taught to not act.
The people we admire most in the world are the ones who have that open vision into the negativity and engage with it and do something to move it forward and to alleviate the suffering of the world. It's when we have lost touch with our own vision and have lost touch with the power of our own vision and our own ability to act with that vision that we then ask questions about what to do when we see things that we don't like. And so, healing your vision is healing your vision, and that brings forward the opportunity for you to act out of whatever that open eyes and that open heart call you to act out of.
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A winning ticket for a $636-million Mega Millions lottery was purchased in San Jose Tuesday, though the winner is yet to come forward, according to NBC Bay Area.
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The mystery customer bought the ticket at Jenny's Gift Shop on Tully Road. Owner Thuy Nguyen received a phone call from a local lottery official who was overjoyed to discover his store sold the ticket.
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"I feel good! I feel good! Come to my store!" Nguyen said Tuesday evening. "I don't even know. I cannot sleep tonight!"
Nguyen has another reason to celebrate: the large jackpot ensures he will become a millionaire as well. Though he doesn't know who bought the ticket, Nguyen says he would likely recognize them by face.
"Mostly my customer[s] here [are] my friend[s]," he added. The winning numbers were 8, 14, 17, 20, 39, and Mega Ball 7. Another Mega Ball winning ticket was purchased at Atlanta's Gateway Newsstand.
As for two other lottery tickets sold in the state that missed the Mega number — those winners will divide more than $5 million between themselves.
In addition, the two Mega Ball winners will also divide their winnings, per this Tweet:
The Mega Ball winners can choose to either be paid over time or receive a lump sum. If they go with the former, they will receive $318 million over time; the latter option will grant them $170 million each in cash.
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Haunt (PHP-GTK Twitter client)
Haunt is a Twitter client written in PHP-GTK. It uses PECL/OAuth for the authentication.
You can browse the source code at https://github.com/derickr/haunt or checkout the code with:
git clone git://github.com/derickr/haunt.git haunt
SRM: Script Running Machine
The Vulcan Logic Script Running Magic, SRM, was first conceived in the autumn of 2000. It is designed to solve some of the problems often encountered with PHP and other web scripting languages that result from the statelessness of the HTTP protocol. However, the idea was mostly ill contrived so the project has been suspended. This entry is for historical purposes.
SRM will use various methods to cope with the problems presented to programmers. It will offer caching of variables directly from supported scripting languages, and as they will be held in memory there will be considerable speed increases over a database-only approach.
Another feature of SRM will be it's ability to handle all database connections persistently; this will offer significant advantages in a variety of situations where you are either using multiple supported scripting languages or want to be able to control the amount of connections spawned to your database server in a more effective way. SRM does not spawn a connection to your database server for each connection but decides whether it is worth it or if it is better to share another connection.
Transliteration PHP Extension
This extension allows you to transliterate text in non-latin characters (such as Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek etc) to latin characters. Besides the transliteration the extension also contains filters to upper- and lowercase latin, cyrillic and greek, and perform special forms of transliteration such as converting ligatures such as the Norwegian "æ" to "ae" and normalizing punctuation and spacing.
At the moment the supported transliteration filters include: Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration, Greek-to-Latin transliteration, Han-to-Latin transliteration, Hebrew-to-Latin transliteration; case converting filters for Greek, Latin and Cyrillic and filters to remove diacriticals from text, normalizing ligatures and normalizing punctuation.
Example text:
ĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğ 大平矿难死者增至66人 郑煤所属煤矿全停产
<?php $string = file_get_contents( 'test-text.utf8' ); $res = transliterate( $string, array( 'han_transliterate', 'diacritical_remove' ), 'utf-8', 'utf-8' ); echo $res; ?>
Output text:
AaAaAaCcCcCcCcDdDdEeEeEeEeEeGgGg dapingkuangnansǐzhezengzhi66ren zhengmeisuǒshǔmeikuangquantingchǎn
Besides the transliterate() function, there is another function that returns all the available filters. This function is transliterate_filters_get(). It returns an array containing all filter names.
Download Source
Simply run the pear installer tool to install the extension:
pear install http://pecl.php.net/get/translit
Vulcan Logic Dumper
The Vulcan Logic Dumper hooks into the Zend Engine and dumps all the opcodes (execution units) of a script. It can be used to see what is going on in the Zend Engine.
This is an extension for advanced users and can not be used to un-encode PHP code that has been encoded with any encoder. If you can't make it work then this tool is not for you. If you are certain there is a bug, then please provide a patch (or a good bug report).
Download and Installation Instructions
The extension is not finished (and probably will never be finished). If you have questions, feel free to send me an e-mail.
You can get the source from Github:
git clone https://github.com/derickr/vld.git vld
Here are the instructions to get it to work:
cd into the newly checked-out directory.
Create the configure script: phpize
Now run "./configure" followed by "make install".
That's it, if you now run PHP from the command line and add the -dvld.active=1 parameter VLD will spit out the opcodes:
php -dvld.active=1 program.php
There is also a setting vld.execute to disable execution of code, and vld.verbosity to control how much output VLD generates.
Xdebug Extension for PHP
The Xdebug extension helps you debugging your script by providing a lot of valuable debug information. The debug information that Xdebug can provide includes the following:
stack traces and function traces in error messages with:
full parameter display for user defined functions
function name, file name and line indications
support for member functions
memory allocation
protection for infinite recursions
Xdebug also provides:
profiling information for PHP scripts
capabilities to debug your scripts interactively with a debug client
Information about Xdebug in more detail is available at http://xdebug.org.