text: Popular password manager LastPass said it fixed two vulnerabilities that were found last year. The disclosure comes just ahead of a security conference where a research paper describing the problems is due to be presented.Zhiwei Li, a research scientist at Shape Security, reported the flaws to LastPass in August 2013, which were "addressed immediately," LastPass wrote on its blog.Both flaws involved "bookmarklets," which assist in filling out stored password information when LastPass's plugin can't be used, such as when using a mobile browser.[The biggest data breaches of 2014 (so far)]One flaw could be exploited if a bookmarklet was used on a website rigged to attack it, LastPass wrote. The other vulnerability could allow an attacker to create a bogus one-time password (OTP) if a LastPass user was tricked into visiting a malicious website.The OTP attack would require a hacker to know a person's username in order to exploit it and also serve a custom attack, LastPass wrote."Even if this was exploited, the attacker would still not have the key to decrypt user data," the company said.Zhiwei co-authored a research paper that has been accepted by the Usenix Security Symposium, which starts in San Diego on Aug. 20.The study analyzed five popular Web-based password managers: LastPass, RoboForm, My1login, PasswordBox and NeedMyPassword, all of which run in a Web browser.The researchers wrote that "in four out of the five password managers we studied, an attacker can learn a user's credentials for arbitrary websites."LastPass wrote it didn't believe anyone other than Zhiwei exploited the flaws. Still, "if you are concerned that you've used bookmarklets before September 2013 on non-trustworthy sites, you may consider changing your master password and generating new passwords, though we don't think it is necessary."Send news tips and comments to email@example.com. Follow me on Twitter: @jeremy_kirk


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Old-line industries haven't seen much of a payoff from the Internet yet, but once they get moving they could become bigger users than either tech companies or consumers.
As tech boomed and consumer businesses like retail changed radically in the 1990s and 2000s, industrial productivity in the U.S. was only growing by about 4 percent per year, General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said Tuesday at a GE conference. Since 2010 growth has slowed to about 1 percent per year, he said.
IT advances have paid off for tech companies and some businesses, but heavy industries like energy and transportation haven't been able to take part to a great extent, Immelt said. Now there are tools to help them take advantage, and CIOs in industrial firms can become business heroes, he said. GE thinks it can help make that happen.
"As an industrial company, it's our turn," Immelt said. "The opportunity for industrial companies is to grab this next age of productivity."
Where Internet connections by themselves didn't do much for vertical industries, adding streams of data and advanced analytics to the equation could transform entire operations, he said. Most can start with asset performance optimization, a technique for monitoring how equipment is working and how it's being used. An early payoff may be ending unplanned downtime by keeping tabs on the condition of your infrastructure, Immelt said.
The scale of the industrial Internet could be huge just by the nature of the enterprises that use it. Using GE itself as an example, Immelt said the company has 400 factories, with just 100 so far taking advantage of Brilliant Manufacturing, its own sensor-powered analytics system to improve operations. And the stakes are high in connecting industrial systems, many of which are considered critical infrastructure. GE says preventing one failure of an offshore oil platform saves one of its customers $5.2 million.
"We believe the industrial Internet could be twice the size of the consumer Internet," Immelt said.
The centerpiece of GE's industrial Internet effort is software, especially Predix, a platform that's designed to run basic functions from GE as well as third-party applications for vertical industries like health care, transportation and manufacturing.
One area that's ripe for gains through IT is the electricity business. New renewable energy sources and distributed generation -- think homes with solar panels -- are making life more complicated for utilities. At the same time, things like smart meters and cheaper equipment sensors can help utilities understand their operations even better. GE wants to help power companies take advantage of these trends through its Predix-based Digital Power Plant, announced at Tuesday's event.
Exelon, a large national energy provider in the U.S., has signed on to use Predix across all its generation facilities. Exelon hopes to do things like get 2 percent more energy out of its wind farms. Railroad operator BNSF, consumer products vendor Proctor & Gamble and oil producer BP are also using GE software for industrial Internet deployments.
As industrial companies turn to the Internet and data analysis for savings and market gains, CIOs are more important players, Immelt said. At GE's businesses, CIOs have gone from software buyers to application creators and leaders in revenue growth.
"The nature of the CIO has really changed dramatically," he said.


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Ford Brakes - Brake-System Basics
Which Is More Important-Going Fast Or Stopping Quickly?
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We place emphasis on going faster and making more power, but how often do we address safe and effective stopping? Not often enough. We don't need to say this, but we will anyway-stopping is more important than all the horsepower and torque on the planet. Bling and speed aren't worth a flip when your investment is all smashed up because you couldn't stop in a safe distance.
Have you thought about your brakes lately?
Brakes just aren't a priority in the "fun" department when it's time to spend money on a classic Ford. We like speed equipment, and we like the bling that makes engine compartments, bodies, and interiors look sharp. Money wasted is the money you don't spend on good brakes.
Brakes tend to be a mystery for most of us because there are so many options available, and most of us are baffled as to how they work. What kind of braking system do you need? What type of friction material-organic, metallic, semimetallic, or carbon metallic? What size rotors? Slotted or cross-drilled? How many pistons in each caliper? Disc or drum? What about master-cylinder size and type? Power or manual brakes? Mineral-based or silicone brake fluid? Do you need a proportioning valve?Rubber or braided hoses? Man, it gets complicated.
To choose the right brakes, you need a basic understanding of braking systems. Hydraulic brakes date back to the beginning of the 20th century. They didn't become standard equipment on Fords until the '30s as power and speed increased respectively. Although this may sound like boring high-school physics, braking is nothing more than the absorption of kinetic energy (matter in motion), which is just a fancy term for friction bringing your Ford to a stop. Pads squeeze rotors and linings rub against drums, which turns linear motion (kinetic energy and friction) into heat.
The Necessity Of Stopping
How well your Ford stops depends on its stopping capacity. Capacity comes from having enough hydraulics and plenty of friction. Power to apply pads to rotors and shoes to drums comes from having enough hydro-mechanical advantage-simply put, plenty of leverage under the dashboard coupled with just the right master-cylinder bore/piston size to brake comfortably. We don't want too much braking or too little. We want brakes to become an extension of our minds, much as we would from engine, transmission, and handling performance.
We could not have achieved the kind of stopping power we have today without hydraulics. It has been said you could move the world via the power of hydraulics-putting fluid to work under pressure. Hydraulics enable us to do what is physically impossible-steer big construction equipment, move heavy loads, vector huge jets about the sky, run elevators, lift cars, press parts together, pry components apart, and dozens of other uses. Hydraulic clutches use hydraulic pressure to release the clutch. That little bottle jack used to put your Ford on jackstands is the application of hydraulics. Turning a corner in your power-steering-equipped Ford or Merc is applied hydraulics. The examples are endless.
When you step on the brake pedal, you are applying physical energy to a master cylinder to generate hydraulic power. Pedal pressure becomes linear motion-like a doctor using a hypodermic needle to inject medication into your body. A hypodermic syringe is hydraulics-moving fluid under pressure-just like we do with a brake pedal. The master cylinder consists of a cylinder, a piston, and a rod; the rod is tied to a brake pedal. When you step on the brake pedal, you push a piston in a sealed cylinder full of fluid. Fluid travels through steel lines to your brakes.
On vehicles built prior to 1967, a single-reservoir master cylinder applied pressure to all four brakes. From 1967-up, it became federally mandated to have a dual-braking system-with a two-reservoir, separated-bore master cylinder that divides front and rear braking systems. A dual-braking system enables you to have some braking pressure should one of the systems fail.
Braking systems rarely complain, considering what we ask of them. Did you know you're supposed to flush and bleed your brake system every one to two years? Doing so removes all air and moisture from the system. Air gives you a spongy pedal. Moisture boils during hard braking, creating air pockets, pedal hammering, and ineffective braking. Fluid cannot be compressed, which is why it is effective for hydraulics. A spongy pedal happens because air can be compressed. Solid brake fluid makes a pedal hard because fluid cannot be compressed. A hard pedal means solid fluid cohesion (contact) between your foot and all four brakes.
Air and moisture get into brake-system hydraulics through steel lines, master-cylinder castings, and reinforced rubber hoses because all of these components are porous. They soak up air and moisture from the atmosphere. If you live in a damp location, the problem becomes even worse. This is why regular, preventative brake maintenance is so important.
When moisture and air collect in brake lines, the result is corrosion, pitting, and eventually, line failure. Old, pitted brake lines must be replaced. You can fabricate them yourself with proper tools and procedure, or you can order a set of CNC-manufactured brake lines and parts. Classic Tube offers bolt-on kits, or if you have a Ford or Mercury that isn't mainstream, the company will take your existing brake lines and custom fabricate a set from your lines. The choice is yours.
Brake Fluid
There are two basic types of brake fluid: mineral-based (DOT 3 and 4) and silicone (DOT 5). Mineral-based fluids seem to perform best because they help maintain a hard pedal. The downsides to mineral-based fluids are moisture absorption, contamination, and paint damage if spilled. Even the tiniest drop of mineral-based fluid will lift paint.
Synthetic, mineral-based brake fluid is DOT 4 spec, which can some- times give the impression it is unique. However, synthetic, mineral-based brake fluid is more resistant to moisture and other contaminates. It also has a higher boiling point, which makes it more effective during hard braking.Silicone brake fluid doesn't absorb moisture. It stands up to the punishment of hard braking because it has a much higher boiling point.
Silicone brake fluid doesn't damage paint either. However, it is slippery, nasty stuff. It also yields a spongy pedal with even the best bleeding procedures. Silicone brake fluid takes getting used to because the pedal is spongy compared to mineral brake fluid. If you're going to change over to silicone brake fluid, it is best to begin with all-new components and seals.
Synthetic, mineral-based brake fluid (DOT 4) can be mixed with mineral (DOT 3) fluids without consequence. We suggest going to synthetic DOT 4 brake fluid when flushing and bleeding the brake system.
Hoses And Lines: What Type?
There are two basic types of brake hoses-rubber and braided. Reinforced rubber hoses are what you see from the factory. Braided hoses are super-reinforced hoses with braided stainless steel outer linings. Because they are stronger and don't give as much as reinforced rubber hoses, they make your brake pedal even harder. Unless you are hell-bent to have original-equipment- style, reinforced rubber hoses, we suggest the use of stainless-braided brake hoses for best results.
When it comes to brake lines, you have two options-galvanized steel and stainless steel. Galvanized lines are your best choice when it comes to ease of installation and an original-equipment look. They bend easily and are easy to seat when it's time to tighten everything. Flared line ends should be mated square on the fitting to achieve proper seating and a leak-tight union.
What makes stainless tubing particularly challenging is its hardness-it's not easy to bend or seat. Even under the best of circumstances, with exceptional flaring and perfect fit, stainless tubing tends to leak. Seasoned car builders tell us to be patient with stainless tubing. When it does leak, loosen and retighten it, and make sure the flare is seated squarely in the fitting. Give it an extra twist for good measure. Often, a drop of brake fluid on the threads will aid in tightening the fitting by acting as a thread lubricant. Don't overtighten and then watch the fitting for leakage. Don't forget to bleed the brakes.
One area that is overlooked all too often is fitting integrity. Lines leak due to poor flares and damaged fittings-the microscopic stuff we rarely pay attention to. If either contact surface is damaged or nicked in any way, you will not achieve a good seal. The smallest nick in the wrong place will cause a leak regardless of how tight you make it.
Brake Types
Most classic Fords and Mercs came from the factory with four-wheel drum brakes. Fewer still were power assisted. This means braking effectiveness was less than adequate when our old Fords were new. As drum brakes go, Ford's were among the worst, even when they were new. Chrysler and General Motors had better drum brakes than Ford.
As the name implies, drum brakes are shaped like a drum, with linings (shoes) positioned inside to stop drum rotation. When you step on the brake pedal, the master cylinder applies hydraulic pressure to the wheel cylinders. Wheel cylinders move shoes outward into the spinning drums.Friction material contacts the drums' inside surface.
Drum-brake performance hinges on lining condition, drum surface, and proper hydraulic function. Glazed linings and mirrored drums are ineffective. They won't stop your Ford. Overheated drum brakes won't stop your Ford. Wet linings won't stop your Ford. Are you beginning to understand why drum-brake condition is so important to safety? Drum brakes aren't as tolerant as disc brakes. Overall, disc brakes do a better job.
Disc brakes are nothing new. They came along early in the 20th century. Fords didn't get optional disc brakes until the mid-'60s. Mustangs didn't get power disc brakes until 1967.
Ford has tried different approaches to disc brakes through the years. Early on, a four-piston design from Kelsey-Hayes was utilized-and effective-because it applied even pressure on both sides of the rotor. Beginning in 1968, Ford went to a single-piston, floating-caliper design used throughout the '70s and '80s. The four-piston design's main shortcoming was sticking pistons-a problem solved by Stainless Steel Brakes Corporation during the '80s, making four-piston disc brakes more user-friendly.
Ford's decision to use a floating, single-piston caliper design was rooted in economics and quieter operation. Single-piston, Granada/Maverick-style disc brakes have been popular because they are so plentiful-with cheap, rebuildable cores out there for a song. Enthusiasts have looked to salvage yards for single-piston cores, making it easier to have front disc brakes.
The downside to single-piston front disc brakes is performance. They don't perform as well as the four-piston guys because there is a single pressure point, less fluid volume, and less pad. This is why Stainless Steel Brakes went to its own four-piston disc brake kit a few years ago. If you study the Force 10 disc brakes, an innovation from Stainless Steel Brakes, it's a simple, lightweight, four- or six-piston design to get you stopped. Other companies, like Baer, Wilwood, and JMC Motorsports, have time-proven four- and six-piston designs born of the need for serious braking efficiency in high-performance street and racing applications.
Drum Brakes Done Right
Likely the biggest problems behind drum-brake performance issues are inattention to detail and being a cheapskate about your brakes. Drum brakes are high maintenance and temperamental. They demand the best components and your closest attention. Whenever you rebuild drum brakes, start clean with new, high-quality components, including springs and hardware, riveted linings, wheel cylinders, and new or resurfaced drums.
When you go cheap with used components, you're asking for trouble. Drum-brake components last for one, maybe two brake jobs. Springs lose their tension. Hard parts wear out. Wheel cylinders develop leaks. Drums become too large internally. Drums should be machine turned by qualified personnel at every brake job and replaced at every other relining. Even though inside drum dimensions are within limits, drum brakes perform their best when shoes travel the shortest distance.
The bottom line with drum brakes is this-never cut corners. Use the best components, riveted linings, and new drums when it's time for an overhaul. When you don't turn drums, shoes can't bed like they need to. Whenever you push drums to their legal limit, brakes will not perform their best. They will also make unwanted noise because the shoe itself will rub the drum, causing an annoying squeal. Remember: one turning to a drum, then toss it.
What Are Power Brakes?
There are two basic types of power-brake systems-vacuum assist and hydroboost. Vacuum assist is most common, employing a chamber divided by a spring-loaded diaphragm. The engine's intake-manifold vacuum creates negative pressure (suction) on one side-the side nearest the master cylinder. The diaphragm is drawn toward negative pressure, which helps the driver apply pressure to the master cylinder's piston rod. Intake manifold vacuum helps the driver do the braking, easing pedal effort.
Hydroboost power brakes work like power steering. When you touch the brake pedal, you open a control valve that applies pressure to the master cylinder, easing pedal effort. Hydroboost isn't at the mercy of faltering intake-manifold vacuum when you have a hot cam. As long as the engine is running, hydroboost gives you power-brake assistance. Hydroboost pressure comes off the power-steering pump-even if your Ford doesn't have power steering.
Hydroboost power-brake units can be sourced a variety of places, including Power Brake Service [www.powerbrakesonline.com, (800) 504-1060] and Hydratech Braking Systems [www.hydratechbraking.com, (586) 427-6970]. Hoses can be fabricated at a hydraulic or air-conditioning shop. Mustangs from 1996 to 2004 with SOHC and DOHC V-8s have hydroboost power brakes. So did some Lincolns and Mercurys. These are good sources for the units if you decide to fabricate your own setup. If you can't find one in a salvage yard, order one from your favorite auto-parts store, and be prepared to pay the core charge.
Brake- Bleeding Technique
Through the years, we have seen a lot of different approaches to brake bleeding. Most of us subscribe to the shade-tree approach of having a buddy work the pedal while we work the bleeders.
There are also tools that enable you to bleed brakes by yourself. One is a pneumatic-pressure bleeder that places air pressure on top of the master cylinder's brake fluid, pushing fluid and air out through bleeders. Another tool uses a hand-pump method, pushing fluid and air back through the master cylinder. Both systems are quite affordable.
Choosing A Brake Pad
After the business of hydraulics is done, we have to create friction in order to soak up kinetic energy and stop the vehicle. Choosing the right brake pad boils down to what you want from your brakes. No one wants brakes that are unpredictable. You want to be confident of your brakes and know their limitations. Few things are worse than learning those limitations when you're out of control. What's more, it isn't just about stopping power, but driving comfort and noise levels as well. None of us wants noisy brakes on a daily basis because we didn't choose the right pads.
Organic pads are typically what we find as original equipment in most classic Ford applications. Semimetallic brake pads, as their name implies, have a percentage of metal in the pad for improved performance and heat resistance. The more metal there is in the pad, the more effective it will be. However, with more metal comes more noise and brake dust.
In recent years, we have seen more exotic brake pads and shoes for high-performance use. Carbon-metallic and ceramic pads are used in racing applications. Don't kid yourself-these materials are unacceptable for street use and will ruin brake rotors because they're engineered for one primary purpose-racing. High-performance brake pads do best when hot during the extremes of racing. In street use, they never get hot enough to be really effective. In street use, they make a lot of noise and yield an extremely hard pedal.
With all of the issues surrounding ceramic and carbon-metallic in mind, it is important to choose the right brake pads and shoes for the street. Organic brake pads tend to be the most affordable material for street use. They are also the quietest because they absorb noise, vibration, and heat adequately in street use. They are not adequate for racing. Semimetallic pads do a better stopping job, but they are noisier.
We have seen our share of bonded pads and shoes and riveted pads and shoes. Riveted linings get rid of heat better than bonded. Heat is carried away via the rivets. Less heat is a factor in better braking. A good rule is to go with whatever Ford used. Most classic Fords and Mercs had riveted linings from the factory. Bonded linings didn't come along until the '70s. We're convinced bonded linings are quieter. Ultimately, the choice is yours.
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"The song is about injustice and insurrection, and people can apply that to anything," Merchant says. "I made it ambiguous as far as what situation it could be applied to. The thing that I'm a little concerned about is that the song could be interpreted as a battle cry. That's what I'm afraid of, because that certainly isn't something I intended. The other dangerous interpretation is that I'm actually speaking on the part of the terrorists. But the fact the song could be used by either side in the conflict proves it's ambiguous enough that it wasn't written about either side."
Merchant speaks in a tone of voice that suggests this is not the first nor last time she will have to explain a song that sounds very different in a post-September 11 world. But she is not alone: After the terrorist attacks, suddenly handfuls of songs written and released just prior to September 11 have taken on entirely new meanings, often against the will of those who wrote them. And they are not the usual suspects, either--the rah-rah, flag-waving anthems resuscitated and repackaged by labels out to make a quick dime for relief funds or their own coffers, or the sappy songs about heroes now applied not to lovers but to firemen and cops. One could hardly misinterpret Enrique Iglesias when he swooningly croons, "Would you tremble if I touch your lips...I can be your hero, baby."
But the same can't be said for the likes of the Pernice Brothers' "Flaming Wreck," sung from the perspective of a passenger on a jetliner about to crash as "the cabin filled with smoke"; Wilco's "Ashes of an American Flag," in which front man Jeff Tweedy sighs, "I would like to salute the ashes of American flags/And all the fallen leaves filling up shopping bags"; or Sam Phillips' "Taking Pictures," in which she sings that "when I take a picture of the city it disappears/It's only a photograph the city is gone/The places I go are never there." They're but a few of the songs that become the accidental soundtrack to grief, anger and recovery. They have nothing at all to do with the attacks, but we can't listen to them without infusing them with our own pain, rage, fear and confusion.
"I think if you're successful in making a piece of art that's complete or can stand as art, it is no longer the creator's anymore," says Joe Pernice. "A song isn't yours, and you have to let it become what it will become." In the weeks after the attacks, Pernice couldn't perform the wrenching "Flaming Wreck," which is about nothing more than his fear of flying. Once it did creep back into the set list, even Pernice couldn't help but feel an anguish never before present. "That song encapsulated the sadness everyone was feeling," he says.
Certainly, no recent song has become more identified with a post-September 11 Manhattan than Ryan Adams' "New York, New York" off his just-released album Gold. Meant only as a love song, in which a woman's name is replaced by the city's, it has taken on anthemic duties and withstood the weight of such a burden. The video, in which Adams is seen strumming a guitar with the World Trade Center peeking over his shoulder, is almost on a constant loop on MTV2; after filmmakers have gone in and digitally removed the twin towers from the likes of Zoolander and Serendipity, Adams' video, filmed September 7, exists now almost as an act of defiance, though he would insist otherwise.
"We decided to stay with this video because it was what it was," he told The New York Times last week. "We shot it on September 7; it's the city as we knew it and saw it. If people don't want to show the video or don't like it, I understand. We're not pushing it or anything, saying, 'Here's the video with the towers.' It's just out there."
Album titles mean something different in the new context: The week after the attacks, Dreamworks artists Jimmy Eat World ditched the title of their latest album, released July 17. It is no longer called Bleed American. Even entire albums sound different, none more so than U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind, now a year old. Almost every song off that record sounds as though it could have been written on September 12: "Walk On" ("Who will only fly, fly for freedom"), "Peace on Earth" ("Tell the ones who hear no sound/Whose sons are living in the ground/Peace on Earth"), "New York" ("Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics/Religious nuts, political fanatics...living happily not like me and you"), "When I Look at the World" ("Can't see for the smoke/I think of you and your holy book"). "Beautiful Day," once a hit single accompanied by a video filled with airports and overhead jets, resonates on a different frequency. Little wonder that U2, which performed during the September 21 America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon and last month at Madison Square Garden for three sold-out nights, has been the house band at the world's largest and longest wake.
In the days and weeks immediately following the attacks, the music industry scrambled to eradicate any vestige of songs and images that might rekindle the televised nightmare. Clear Channel issued to its 1,200 radio stations a list of songs to be excised from the playlist; some were obvious (Dave Matthews Band's "Crash"), some were ridiculous (John Lennon's "Imagine"). Hip-hoppers The Coup were forced to redo the cover to their album Party Music, on which band members were depicted "detonating" the World Trade Center. The Cranberries pulled a video full of images of airplanes, skyscrapers and the chalk-mark outline of a corpse, and Dave Matthews rethought the decision to release "When the World Ends" as a single. The Strokes deleted the song "New York City Cops" off its disc Is This It, which was already out in Europe. "Not only did we not want the release of our record to be overshadowed by some, like, quasi-political event, but we felt it wasn't really appropriate," says Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi of the band's decision to pull the song.
But beneath the shadow of perpetual fear--our leaders try to calm us and call for us to return to "normal" even as they warn of impending attacks--music provides a balm and a tonic. The aforementioned songs, among so many older ones hauled out by Billy Joel or Paul McCartney or Paul Simon during various benefits and tributes, give us release: They let us cry, they make us smile, they take us away, they bring us home.
"A lot of people are now asking me, 'What's your role as an American artist?'" Merchant says. "I think I can give expression to thoughts and feelings that ordinary language can't. It's a heightened language of the emotion. It makes me cry, it calms my rage, it gives voice to my rage."
For a little while, Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World had the hardest time playing the gorgeous "Hear You Me" off Bleed American; it is, he reminds, a song "about death and loss and the ultimate regret of not being able to change something and leaving things unsaid." But after a while, he needed to play it, to sing such lines as, "On sleepless roads the sleepless go/May angels lead you in." And during Wilco shows, just after the attacks, Jeff Tweedy could be heard thanking the crowd for coming to make music with this band--"especially now," he always added.
Pop music for the longest time has felt hollow, cynical, bereft of honest emotion; it has become "our floozy," as Merchant likes to say, "a cheap whore." There have always been musicians making meaningful art, but they've been too long relegated to the sidelines; they don't top the charts, don't play TRL, don't get on Saturday Night Live. Perhaps recent events will change all that: What, after all, does Britney Spears' new album, out this week, have to offer save for more songs about why Britney loves being Britney (and why you should, too)? She and her ilk have always seemed trivial and superfluous; now, Spears exists in a vacuum, a fantasyland of silicone and hair gel.
"There's a lot of ego in music," Pernice says. "I write songs about what I'm feeling, and I spend time putting out product about my feelings. It's a really self-centered thing, and events like what happened in New York make me take stock in my own life and get a grip on what the word 'meaningful' means. It changed everything."
Never did music seem more important to Merchant than when she sang at the funeral of a man who died in the World Trade Center. His widow asked Merchant to sing a song by her late husband's favorite artist, John Hiatt; the wife asked to hear his song "Have a Little Faith in Me." It was not easy: Even now, recounting the moment, Merchant's voice catches when she recites the lines, "When your back's against the wall/I will catch you when you fall."
"Never in my life has my role as a musician been more obvious," Merchant says. "I was there to give people pause and to facilitate, to help them feel what they were feeling and to give them a place to feel it...The widow I sang for said that for her family, eating and music were the only things that make sense to her right now, and it's what's brought her some of the greatest comfort. That's coming from someone who's already lost a loved one in the war."


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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Spring Blog Hop and Comment Spree
2011 Spring Blog Hop Participants:
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Thanks! I already follow you and I added your button to my photo blog in the side bar "Linkies I Participate In" :)ReplyDelete
I added your picture thingy to my blog you might want to check that I did it right. who am I supposed to visit BHG and Autani Photo?ReplyDelete
Yes, you added the button right, Debbie V! You missed linking your own blog to the Linky, so I added it for you. And yes, flutter on over the Aulani Photography and BHG blogs *waves to Danelle* - and please feel free to return later when there are more blogs participating and explore any of them that appeal to you, as well.ReplyDelete
Thank you for hosting the blog hop. I love them! I added your button to my blog hop tab and am already a follower of your blog!ReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting the blog hop. I'm already following you and I added your button to my blog. Visited 2 other blogs and commented.ReplyDelete
I'm an EtsyTwitter team mate, too.
First blog hop and I follow most of the blogs shown above. Not sure what I'm really supposed to do now.ReplyDelete
Welcome to the hop, rebecca and Linda B!ReplyDelete
I'm honored that my hop is your first, CremeMagnolia! Just pick three blogs and give them feedback on a recent entry that grabs your attention - it's okay if you already follow them!
Hi! This is my first blog hop, too! Will mark and read all the entrants. Added your button to my sidebar and just followed your blog. Can't wait for Spring weather, we've had a little tease of warmth but snow for later this week.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2011 at 2:27 PM
Thanks for inviting me again! I always love your buttons best.ReplyDelete
I'll let you know about the job thing once I know. It's a nail biting good time.
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Thank you for hosting this! I just spent a while exploring some new blogs :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2011 at 7:43 PM
Yay! Thank you for inviting me back! I can't wait to see what new blogs I find to follow this time! :)ReplyDelete
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I'm in too, I added the link to my page. I need to go check out the twitter team. I didn't know there was one!ReplyDelete
thanks for the blog hop.. this is my first blog hop.. and i have got quiet a few visitors since then and i am very happy... thank youReplyDelete
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I'm so happy to have so many first-time and returning hoppers! Thanks to all for sharing your wondrous blogs.ReplyDelete
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Thanks so much for dropping by and sharing your thoughts on Blog Hops! Also, thanks for letting me know about your Spring Blog Hop - I love your seasonal hops and had not even considered something like this until you left your comment!ReplyDelete
I'm really excited by the caliber of creative blogs showing on the links (I love seeing the thumbnails, by the way!) and am looking forward to meeting some new bloggers this week!
Have a fabulous spring!
Hi, I just found your blog through M's place blog! Interesting posts and am loving the bloghop idea, thanks for hosting, I've added mine and really looking forward to following it.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 2, 2011 at 8:20 PM
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Have a great evening!
I appreciate that you took the time to visit and follow my blog. I'm here to return the favor ;-) Have a lucky week!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2011 at 8:04 AM
I love the idea of have a blog hop that lasts until June! Good thinking!!! I am a new follower I just happened to come across your blog :-)ReplyDelete
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Thanks for following my new blog . . . I am already a follower. Also appreciate the invitation to your new blog . . . I will be adding your button to my blog hop listing that appears on all of my blogs :)ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful weekend . . .
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- AnonymousApril 10, 2011 at 1:18 PM
Thank you for the linky, sweetie! I added your button to my sidebar, commented three blogs and added myself :) I wish you lovely and magical spring days!ReplyDelete
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I am going to save your email and as soon as I find something good to write about...I will be back to link in! Love this idea...and I do hate those who copy and paste comments...it's unfair to the rest of us who actually take the time to read and comment...we can't make as much coverage of the blogs as they can...lol....and it makes us look bad! lol
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Thank you for the invite! Interesting thumbnails! I'll be following - have a great day!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 13, 2011 at 2:06 PM
I found this through Create with Joy. So happy to have a chance to look around and get to know you.ReplyDelete
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I already follow you. :)
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Hi, Thanks for stopping by and following. I'm now following you back. Have a wonderful weekend and good luck starting to do reviews!ReplyDelete
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Found you in the Weekend Hop and dropped by to visit and follow you. I'd love it if you'd drop by A Helicopter Mom and follow me back!
What a FUN idea!!!I look forward to hopping around and meeting some new bloggy buddies! Thanks for visiting my blog and saying hello - I'm your newest follower!ReplyDelete
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The Hippest 'Save the Date' Video You'll Ever See (Updated)
Here's a pre-wedding invitation "Save the Date" video made by a couple living in, duh, Austin, TX. It's in the style of nü-vintage filmmaker Wes Anderson's work and we can't decide if it's annoying or not. You be the judge!
Update: The couple who made the video, Hayden and Sean, read all your comments and have responded. "The most interesting part about the video being on Gawker is the comments section. It seems like everyone's a critic and they all make hilarious assumptions about myself and Hayden (and the inevitable outcome of our marriage, of course). Almost none of their assumptions are true," Sean tells the Houston Press.
Oh, and it turns out that one of our assumptions was incorrect. Although their wedding is taking place in Austin, the couple actually lives in Denver, or "Colorado's version of Austin." Read the rest here.


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Are you being treated for high blood pressure or high cholesterol? Are you overweight with a majority of your fat around your waistline? If so, you may be suffering from a condition known as metabolic syndrome. Metabolic Syndrome is a combination of medical disorders that when occurring together increases your risk of heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes.
The five conditions described below are metabolic risk factors, and while you can be affected by these factors individually, they tend to occur together. You must have at least three metabolic risk factors to be diagnosed with metabolic syndrome.
- A large waistline: Also called abdominal obesity or "having an apple shape." Excess fat in the stomach area is a greater risk factor for heart disease than excess fat in other parts of the body, such as on the hips.
- High triglyceride level: Triglycerides are a type of fat found in the blood. High levels aren't good.
- Low HDL cholesterol level (or you're on medicine to treat low HDL cholesterol): HDL sometimes is called "good" cholesterol. This is because it helps remove cholesterol from your arteries. A low HDL cholesterol level raises your risk for heart disease.
- High blood pressure (or you're on medicine to treat high blood pressure): Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood. If this pressure rises and stays high over time, it can damage your heart and lead to plaque buildup.
- High fasting blood sugar (or you're on medicine to treat high blood sugar): Mildly high blood sugar may be an early sign of diabetes.
The last criteria, high fasting blood sugar, is a sign of insulin resistance, a condition in which the body can't use its insulin properly. (Insulin is a hormone that helps move blood sugar into cells, where it's used for energy.) Insulin resistance can lead to high blood sugar levels, and it's closely linked to being overweight and obesity.
Genetics (ethnicity and family history) and advanced age are other factors that may play a role in causing insulin resistance. Many patients are told they have prediabetes when this abnormality is found. And even if your insulin metabolism isn't abnormal as measured by fasting blood sugar, it's most likely on its way to becoming abnormal if you possess other risk factors.
Losing weight is the ultimate goal when treating metabolic syndrome.
Most patients respond to a diet that is low in refined sugars, which are found in bread, pasta, rice and other starchy foods. Cookies and cereals also have high levels of sugars, as do snacks such as pretzels, chips and popcorn. And you better believe all sugared beverages such as colas, sweet tea and fruit juice are sources of refined sugar.
Cutting back – or eliminating – these items usually results in a significant weight loss. If you are not metabolizing sugar efficiently, avoidance is the best treatment until you lose enough weight to normalize your metabolism.
If lifestyle changes do not result in weight loss and the reduction of metabolic risk factors, medical therapy will likely be needed to help lower your risk of heart disease, stroke and complications from diabetes such as kidney disease.
By Dr. Johnny Weeks, a primary care physician with Eagle Landing Adult Medicine


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With the loss of many jobs due to the decline of Central Appalachia's coal industry, the region's poor economy has taken an additional blow. The percentage of working age adults who have jobs is below 30%. Seventy-four percent of all Central Appalachian counties classified as "economically distressed" in the Appalachian Regional Commission's 2013 report are located within Alice Lloyd's 108-county service area.
Alice Lloyd College's Appalachian Entrepreneurial Development Program has been specifically designed to promote regional economic development by assisting, teaching, and training current and future entrepreneurs. Eighty-three percent of Alice Lloyd graduates return to work and serve in the region, which means that students involved with this program will be ready to have an immediate impact on the region's economic climate. The College intends for this new and innovative program to be a key factor in battling poverty and job loss in Appalachia, specifically in eastern Kentucky.
The College's Center for Entrepreneurship and Collaborative Learning will:
- serve as a forum in which we will bring in experts in entrepreneurial development, as well as civic and political leaders, to help us in our quest to create new businesses and jobs here in the mountains
- serve as a point of contact where aspiring entrepreneurs and others can get information and assistance
- encourage partnerships with local and regional businesses and organizations to support community and economic development
- aid current and new businesses in becoming more competitive
- encourage the use of technology in creating and making businesses more competitive
- support and promote community and economic development projects
The Appalachian Entrepreneurial Development Program offers many services to the college and surrounding communities that include:
- entrepreneurship training and workshops
- business model generation
- business plan development/consultation
- research assistance
- access to area professionals and networks
- entrepreneurship convocations
- general/small business coaching and advising
In addition to these services, the program offers many opportunities specifically for Alice Lloyd College students. These are:
- a minor in entrepreneurship
- social entrepreneurship retreats
- business plan/concept participation and assistance
- Entrepreneurship Club
Questions? Please contact:
Rachel Childers, Director of ALC's Appalachian Entrepreneurial Development Program
Phone: (606) 368-6200
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The man picked up by police in connection with a string of five fire bombings, four in Queens and one on Long Island, confessed to authorities and has been charged with a hate crime.
Ray Lazier Lengend, 40, was tracked through a stolen car eyewitnesses saw at the scene of at least two of the attacks. Authorities believe Lengend stole the car, a late-model Buick, from a rental lot at John F. Kennedy International Airport. He was arrested on Tuesday, January 3 and charged with one count of arson as a hate crime, four counts of arson and five counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
According to police, hours before he was charged, Lengend implicated himself in each of the five attacks, stating that he had personal grievances with each of his targets.
Authorities believe Lengend was kicked out of a convenience store on December 27 for trying to steal a glass Starbucks Frappuccino bottle and milk. The owner of the convenience store said that as Lengend was leaving the store, he threatened retaliation.
That deli was later firebombed by a homemade Molotov cocktail, along with four other targets. Four of the five firebombs thrown at the various locations were made from glass Starbucks bottles, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The fifth likely was made from a beer bottle.
Before the suspect's confession, Kelly, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other Queens elected officials, gathered at one of the targets, the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica, to condemn the attacks.
According to police, the incidents occurred between 8 and 10:15 p.m. on Sunday, January 1. No injuries were reported and damage to the mosque was minimal. On Monday, January 2, police released a sketch of the suspect and video showing the man hurling a flaming bottle at a home on 170th Street that doubles as a Hindu place of worship.
The other two targets were private homes, with one house sustaining heavy fire damage in the living room, though no injuries were reported.
After meeting with representatives of the mosque and elected officials, Bloomberg said that the city will not tolerate violence, whether it was a senseless act or a more targeted hate crime.
"In either case, one attack is too many," he said. "We all know that we are in this together and discrimination against one is discrimination against many."
Borough President Helen Marshall called it a "sad day" and said that she was extremely upset by the thought of attacks like these happening in a borough as diverse as Queens.
"This man must be punished by the fullest extent of the law," she said. "To throw bombs without knowing who is inside – it's just wrong, and it's not Queens."


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Rurouni Kenshin (sometimes known by the title Samurai X) is a manga and anime series that grew to great popularity around the turn of the millennium in both Japan and America. Half-fighting and half-romance, Kenshin is a historical fiction set in the years after Japan's final civil war and dissolution of the samurai caste. It follows Himura Kenshin, one of the civil war's greatest warriors, who has given up killing and now wanders Japan seeking nothing more than a peaceful life. Yet he finds himself constantly confronting the ghosts of his past.
Now, over ten years since the height of the franchise's popularity, comes its first live-action film. And while some have worried that this film would be nothing but a cheap attempt to cash in on the name, Rurouni Kenshin truly is an excellent film and perhaps the first step in revitalizing the franchise.
Good — The Adaptation
This live-action adaptation covers a mix of the first two story arcs of both the anime and manga. It deals with Kenshin fighting an opium dealer who is trying to carve out his own little kingdom in the heart of Tokyo and with a killer claiming to be Kenshin himself. The film also contains flashbacks to Kenshin's past during the civil war and includes the story of how he got the first cut of his cross-shaped scar.
While Kenshin retains his outwardly clueless appearance—including his "Oro" catchphrase—from past versions of the story, much of the slapstick humor has been removed from the overall story, making for a more serious tone in the film. That's not to say that there aren't any great lighthearted/funny moments, but that overall, the story is treated with a large amount of "life-or-death" seriousness.
And as with most movies, there are a few minor changes in the adaptation—and one or two semi-major ones. But all of these changes help the movie to be a stand-alone film (as opposed to part of a greater series) and to give each character a complete story arc regardless of whether the manga/anime did or not.
Good — The Fight Scenes
Right from the start Rurouni Kenshin shows its excellent direction and fight choreography. The fights are very fast and exciting, with both changing choreography and camera techniques used to keep the action consistently fresh and interesting.
Moreover, everything is done with practical effects—meaning there is no CG (except for the blood spray) in the entire movie. There is some amount of wirework, but unlike that in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it is used for making the characters move incredibly fast or slide across the ground instead of making them fly—adding a bit of the spectacle without looking fake. This makes everything in the film seem far more real and entertaining than many recent CG fests.
Good — The Music
One of the most surprising things about Rurouni Kenshin was the music. While it would have been simple to reuse the music from the anime or create a stereotypical "Japanese" soundtrack heavy on the Japanese flute and the shamisen, the score instead sounded more like something out of Berserk—it matched well and made everything more dramatic and exciting.
Mixed — The Casting
The cast for Kenshin is amazing and the actors channel their characters expertly—from Kenshin and his "Oro" face to Sanosuke's rough and tumble attitude. Yahiko does a great job in a semi-tough role for a child actor and the cast of villains—especially Kanryuu Takeda—are excellently over-the-top.
The only problem in casting is Emi Takei's Kaoru. This is not because of her acting ability or how her character is portrayed in the plot—she does a spot-on Kaoru. Rather it is due to her look. Emi Takei is far too pretty for the part. Kaoru, as a character, isn't supposed to be ugly, but she is supposed to be plain and somewhat strongly built for a Japanese woman. Megumi, in
comparison to Kaoru, is supposed to be a bombshell. Yet despite Megumi's actress being quite pretty in her own right, Emi Takei is even more beautiful. So while Kaoru is treated as the underdog beauty-wise in the film, she is anything but. It's not terrible, but it does stand out as a case of miscasting.
Final Thoughts
Going into the film I was expecting a mediocre, cheesy retelling of the Kenshin story, suitable only for diehard fans of the series. But Rurouni Kenshin completely blew away my meager expectations. It was not only a good adaptation but also a good movie in its own right. The sword fighting is amazing, the directing is brilliant, the casting nearly perfect, and the story is told correctly for its new, two-hour format. Simply put, aside from Gyakuten Saiban, Rurouni Kenshin may be the single best Japanese live-action adaptation I have ever seen.
Rurouni Kenshin was released in Japanese theaters on August 25, 2012. There are tentative plans for an international release.


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Believe it or not, they actually pay people to work at Philmont. And it gets better: They're hiring.
Now's the time for anyone 18 or older to submit an application for next summer. Technically, they accept applications any time of the year, but officials say that applying by Oct. 1 will give applicants the best chance to snag a key position.
That gives you or anyone you know who's interested in working at Philmont about three weeks to get in an application.
The majority of Philmont's 1,000-plus staff members work from late May to mid-August each year. That's the heavy season at Philmont, when crews of Scouts hit the trails for high-adventure fun. To be eligible to apply, you need to be a registered member of the Boy Scouts of America (or agree to register before you start working).
Jobs include on-trail rangers, trading post staff, gardeners, training center staff, conservation workers, and many more.
Find the application, a complete list of requirements, detailed job descriptions, and pretty much everything you'll need at the official "Working at Philmont" page on the Philmont site.


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(CNN) — A man with a knife hijacked a school bus in central Arkansas on Thursday morning, taking 11 elementary school students and their driver on a detour that police ended after a roughly 10-mile chase, authorities said.
Nicholas John Miller, 22, was arrested after the incident, which began in Jacksonville — about 12 miles northeast of Little Rock — and ended in nearby Cabot, Jacksonville Police Capt. Kenny Boyd said.
No one — including the 11 students of Pinewood Elementary School in Jacksonville and the bus driver — was injured, Boyd said.
The incident began with Miller allegedly demanding a car from a woman in Jacksonville, Boyd said. But she "did not have one to give," Jacksonville police added in a news release.
The bus had stopped nearby, and Miller left the woman, boarded the bus and, armed with the knife, took over the driver's seat, Jacksonville police said.
The woman called police, who eventually found the bus and pursued it north to Cabot.
A cell phone video of the chase, recorded by 17-year-old onlooker Kelsey Eggers and provided to CNN, shows a bus moving along a two-lane road pursued by 10 police cars with flashing lights.
Police stopped the bus roughly 20 minutes after the hijacking began, according to Boyd.
"We were able to get the bus stopped. The suspect was taken into custody, and nobody was injured," he said.
According to an arrest report, Miller told authorities that people were after him and that he needed to take the bus to save his life. He said he had no plans to hurt any of the children or the driver.
An office worker who answered the phone at the school Thursday morning said parents were being notified.
Miller was being charged Thursday with a felony count of vehicle piracy, 12 felony counts of kidnapping, and two felony counts of aggravated assault, Jacksonville police spokeswoman April Kiser said.
The incident was not his first brush with the law this year. In May, according to a police report, Miller was arrested on suspicion of breaking and entering a vehicle, and stealing a shotgun and money. He was sentenced in September to 24 months of probation.
Miller's grandmother, Elsie Miller, said she didn't know why he would have hijacked a bus, and she hadn't had a chance to speak with him since his arrest Thursday.
She said her grandson lives in Jacksonville.
"He has a good heart. I am totally surprised," she said.


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On your mark . . . get set . . . rent!
Looking for an apartment in NYC these days feels a little like being in a triathlon against Sacha Baron Cohen. Things happen quickly, and it can seem like ruthless opponents are out to kill you.
Vacancy rates are at historic lows and rents are at historic highs. And the number of new rental units coming to the Manhattan market in 2012 is relatively small: 2,596 apartments, according to Citi Habitats, the smallest figure in seven years. (To throw another obstacle in your path, a whole slew of late entries — college graduates — are jumping into the competition.)
All that being said, there are a number of new buildings, updated ones and condo-to-rental conversions that have recently hit the market in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens — and there are even more on the way.
Click here
for NYP Home's runner's guide to the rentals of 2012 and beyond.
The construction along the water isn't the only thing happening in Long Island City; one of the big rentals hitting the market in the next couple of weeks is the Crescent Club (4117 Crescent St.), which was originally conceived as a condo and comes with condo goodies: outdoor pool, fitness center, landscaped garden with BBQ. Studios start at $2,100; onebedrooms start at $2,600; twobedrooms at $3,900 and three bedrooms at $4,700 (Contact: 718-383-3444). Astoria is getting a 79unit building at 1115 Broadway that will be opening this summer. "Onebedrooms will probably be in the low $2,000s," says Cliff Finn of Citi Habitats. "Studios will be starting from about $1,800, give or take. Twobedrooms will be starting in the high $2,000s."A198unit sister building at 1215 Broadway will open in the first quarter of next year (Contact: 212-685-7777). Even Rego Park is getting in on the act with the LeFrak Organization's new building The Contour (9745 Queens Blvd.), 108 units in a former 12story office building. The units, ranging from studios to twobedrooms, go for $1,550 to $2,785 per month and include walkin closets, washer/dryers and kitchens with Whirlpool stainlesssteel appliances (Contact 888-852-9187).


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On October 19th, our company held a 25-kilometer hiking contest for the 25th Anniversary Celebration Series in Ningbo Dongqian Lake Scenic Area. There were 5 teams from various departments and member companies of the group and nearly 500 employees participated.
One person walks fast; a group of people walks far. With dreams in mind, Yuanda Products continues to forge ahead, and heads up to open a new chapter in the next five-year journey.


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Formerly Banned Graphic Novel 'Metro' Now Available in Cairo
Five years after its initial publication, Magdy al-Shafee's graphic novel Metro is once again available in Arabic in Egypt:
Metro is Egypt's first graphic novel and a vivid portrait of poverty and corruption under Mubarak's rule. When it was first published in January 2008, it was quickly banned on the ground of "offending public morals": the police raided the Malameh publishing house, confiscated all copies of the book, and banned Malameh from printing further copies. Al-Shafee as well as his publisher, Mohammed al-Sharkawi, were charged under article 178 of the Egyptian penal code (which criminalizes the printing or distribution of publications that "infringe upon public decency") and ultimately each fined 5,000 LE.
An English translation by Chip Rosetti was published in June 2012 and made available in Egypt, and Dar Merit was rumored to have acquired the rights in Arabic. Yet until recently, Metro was still unavailable in Egypt in its original language.
Five years later, Metro is back on the shelves in Arabic. It was republished in August 2012 by The Comic Shop, "the first publishing house in the Arab world specialized in comic books for adults," which launched in October 2011. (Much of their website is still under construction, but they do offer a small tantalizing selection of other graphic novels from the Middle East, in both Arabic and English). In Egypt, Metro is now being sold at Kotob Khan, which advertises itself as the only shop in the country carrying copies. (Editor's note: directions to the store.)
It's certainly an exciting time for graphic novels in Egypt: the collections Autostrade and خارج السيطرة (Out of Control) were published in 2011, the same year Division Publishing House was founded with the goal of 'spreading comics across Egypt and the Middle East like wildfire.' In 2012, الفن التاسع (The 9th Art) held a 24-hour comics workshop culminating in the publication of إنت حرّ (You Are Free), and the magazine TokTok is currently on its eighth issue. Yet with censorship concerns under Morsi's tenure, including attacks on freedom of the press and an increase in lawsuits for 'insulting the president,' it remains to be seen whether future graphic novels like Metro will be able to be published without similar concerns.
Previous coverage of Metro on ArabLit:
Magdy El Shafee on the English Edition of 'Metro,' Censorship
'Most Requested' Graphic Novel Available in English June 5
Egyptian Graphic Novelist Magdy Al-Shafee Speaks at Italian Festival
El Shafee to Try Again Publishing 'Metro'
Author Fined for 'Offensive' Graphic Novel
Elisabeth Jaquette is a MA student in Anthropology at Columbia University and a CASA fellow at the American University in Cairo. She has lived in Cairo since 2007, where she runs an Arabic-English book club and tweets at @lissiejaquette.


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I would like to work with an Iridologist not in my area. How do I get pictures of my eyes to them? Answer). Email your photos. If you are taking the pictures yourself, use a camera or camera phone and a flashlight to take 10 still, close-up photos of each eye. How do I do it? Simply shine the flashlight at the outer corner of the eye, and have someone take the photos for you close-up. The flashlight will illuminates the eye. Use your thumb and index finger to lift-up your top and bottom eyelid until the entire eye is visible (the top and bottom part of your eye must be visible); if that doesn't work, then open your eye wide enough to where the photographer can see the top and bottom part of your eye. Then Look Straight into the camera's eye, and shine a flashlight, or pin light directly at each corner of your eye (one eye at a time). This will illuminate your iris fibers so that the camera can pick-up the iris fibers. All is needed is a photo of your iris (eye) and not your entire face .
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Long Island Winery Reviews
Long Island Winery Reviews was created to make the trip to the East End a little easier for those of you new to the Long Island Wine Trails. We've done our best to organize winery listings according to the east-west or west-east path you would take to reach them, one by one, on each trail.
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The South Fork has a few wineries along (and off of) Rt. 27, or "The Hamptons Wine Trail," but the majority of Wine Country is located on the North Fork. Please note that the North Fork is split into two trails: Rt. 48/Sound Avenue and Rt. 25/Main Road.
- Rt. 25/Main Road (North Fork Southern Trail) wineries are listed west to east, the way you would happen upon them coming off the Long Island Expressway.
- Rt. 48/Sound Avenue (North Fork Northern Trail) wineries are listed east to west, the order in which you would find them on your way back from the eastern end of the North Fork (and also how you happen upon them after finishing the southern trail, or coming back from Orient Point or Greenport.
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- Aquebogue and Riverhead
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Republican presidential candidates gear up for Super Tuesday
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Super? Maybe not this time. But it is a Tuesday, one with the biggest payout of the Republican presidential primaries.
Super Tuesday, slimmed down to half its 2008 size but still doling out one-third of the delegates needed to win, probably won't settle much.
Sure, it could nudge Newt Gingrich out of the race, or lend Ron Paul more credibility. But it won't be easy for either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum to score a decisive advantage, because delegates are handed out by share. A close second in a state can pay off almost as well as first place.
Win some big states, especially Ohio, and the symbolism is powerful, of course.
Romney might cement the front-runner status that keeps slipping through his fingers. Santorum could prove he's the real thing. What's at stake, what's it mean and what might happen? A Super Tuesday tip sheet:
Delegates for grabs Tuesday: 419.
Delegates already won: 353. Romney, 203; Santorum, 92; Gingrich, 33; Paul, 25.
Delegates needed for the nomination: 1,144.
Super Tuesday is super expensive: A week's worth of heavy advertising in all 10 states would cost a candidate about $5 million. That's a lot even for Romney's well-financed campaign, prompting him to make a plea for donations amid his Michigan victory speech.
Gingrich is getting another multimillion-dollar boost from Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who donated the money to a special type f political action committee, known as a super PAC, that will run advertising in key states.
Ohio, Ohio, Ohio: It's the race to watch. Political junkies get all misty-eyed over this Rust Belt swing state, and not just because of the 63 delegates.
No Republican nominee has ever become president without winning the state. That makes it a powerful proving ground for the men trying to show they can take on President Barack Obama.
It's home to Joe the Plumber and tens of thousands of auto workers, but Ohio's not all blue-collar. It's also the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, high-tech science, medical and energy workers, suburbanites, soybean farmers and a quarter-million dairy cows (OK, the cows can't vote). The big issue is the economy, including Obama's bailout of the auto industry.
Santorum and Romney are duking it out in Ohio. Look for the outcome to generate more buzz than any other Super Tuesday contest.
Newt's last stand or Gingrich rises again? Get out the hook for Newt Gingrich if he loses in Georgia, the state he represented in the U.S. House for two decades.
Gingrich hopes to win decisively here and pick up enough other delegates to relaunch his up-and-down campaign, which has been mostly down-and-out since he lost Florida in January. He's got endorsements from Gov. Nathan Deal and Herman Cain, a fellow Georgian. He's got a new pitch, claiming he can bring the cost of gas down to $2.50 per gallon.
Santorum is pushing hard to wrest the state's Christian conservative and tea party voters away from Gingrich. Romney remains a force, even if the state is outside his comfort zone.
Georgia boasts the day's biggest cache of delegates: 76.
Elsewhere in the South: Two other Bible Belt states, Tennessee and Oklahoma, are central to Gingrich's hopes of revival. But Santorum insists he'll be the big story in both.
In Tennessee, a confident-sounding Santorum is trying to walk the footsteps of another outspoken Christian conservative, Mike Huckabee, who won this primary four years ago. Romney boasts the support of popular Gov. Bill Haslam, while Gingrich is getting plugs from one of the state's most colorful political figures, former senator, movie actor and Law & Order star Fred Thompson. At stake are 55 delegates.
Dotted with drilling rigs and cattle ranches, Oklahoma straddles the South and the Great Plains and sits squarely among the reddest of the red states. Santorum tagged it "ground zero of the conservative movement,'' and his anti-abortion, pro-family values message attracts enthusiastic crowds here. The other three hopefuls also have dropped in, hoping to prove their conservative bona fides to the Okies. It offers 40 delegates.
Paul's big night? The anti-war, libertarian-leaning, unorthodox Republican hasn't won a single state. Super Tuesday could change that. Paul is focusing on the three caucus states, Idaho, North Dakota and Alaska, where a big turnout by his cadre of enthusiastic followers would have the most impact. Even if he doesn't score a win, he's likely to pick up delegates to help power him into this summer's Republican convention with enough clout to promote his ideas.
But his rivals won't make it easy.
Idaho's big Mormon population, about a fourth of its voters, bodes well for Romney, who's a Mormon. Santorum's looking to win in North Dakota, and Romney's trying, too.
Paul, a Texas congressman, may be the only one to journey to Alaska, however; he was in the state Sunday. Meanwhile, Alaska's most famous Republican, Sarah Palin, has been saying some nice things about Gingrich.
Together, the three caucuses pay out 84 delegates. (Idaho 32, North Dakota 28, Alaska 24.)
What's the deal with Virginia? Gingrich would love to compete in this Southern state, but he's not. Only Romney and Paul landed spots on the ballot, by having early organizations strong enough to collect the required 10,000 signatures. That leaves Virginia mostly a curiosity. What kind of showing can Paul muster going mano-a-mano with Romney? The fight is over 46 delegates.
Romney territory: There's little drama in the Northeastern races. Romney's virtually unopposed in his power base of Massachusetts, where he was governor just over five years ago. Delegates: 38. He's expected to win neighboring Vermont handily, too, although Santorum seeks to peel away some of its 17 delegates.
Next up: Caucuses and primaries in Kansas, Wyoming, Alabama, Hawaii, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and Louisiana fill out the busiest month of the nomination season. Three territories, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, also get their say in March.


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Each player manages their own personal hospital, each round placing nurses and specialists in departments to heal the patients. Players gain points for discharging patients, with the goal to have the most points at the end of 8 rounds.
Before the Game
- Starting with the First Player, each player draw 3 dice at random as starting figures.
- They are set to 3, 4 and 5, which are decided by the players.
- Each player draw 2 hospital administrators, play one and return the other to the box.
Start of Round
Patient Intake
- The first player choose whether an extra department or an extra specialist to be revealed.
- Dice (representing patients) are rolled until they show 2 to 5, then placed in the ambulance from low to high.
- They are placed lowest to highest, but for any ties.
- The last player can choose which color goes where.
- Each player in turn picks a different ambulance, and places its dice on the bottom of their board.
- If there is not enough room for incoming patients, existing patients must be moved to the mortuary and the player takes a fatality token per patient moved.
- The First Player may not choose ambulance 1. The player taking the lowest ambulance also takes a "blood bag" and becomes the First Player for the next round.
Hospital Improvement
- If there are only 2 players, the first player can choose to reveal an additional department or specialist.
- Each player in turn (lowest to highest ambulance) takes one of the hospital department or specialists to add to their hospital board.
- Note a player can have multiples of a particular department or specialist, and where it's placed does not matter for usability. This helps heal more patients as the game goes on.
- Each player can return one improvement per round to get a blood bag token.
During the Round
Hospital Activation
- Each player individually "heals" patients, by moving a meeple of any color to a particular department on their hospital board.
- When moving the meeple, the department's effect then the meeple effect (if a specialist) is performed.
- Note that each meeple and department can only be used at most once per round.
- Any patient healed at least once is slid down to keep track for round end.
- If a department needs a group of patients, then that exact group must be present to use the department.
- However for departments that heal one patient multiple steps at once, the exact number of steps is not required if the patient would be discharged with fewer steps.
- Any patients healed when at 6 are instead moved to the discharge department and they will score points at the round end.
- As a free action, you can discard any "blood bag" tokens you have.
- Each one discarded can heal a die one step, or change the die's color.
- Players have the option to discard improvements at the start of this phase to gain blood bags.
End of Round
Neglected Patients
- Each player reduces any patients not healed that round by 1.
- If any were already at 1, they are instead moved to the mortuary, and that player takes a fatality token for each one moved.
- Some Administrator powers also prevent some patients from detorating.
Discharged Patients
- Each player scores their discharged patients for that round as in the chart below.
- Note discharging many patients in the same round is preferable to doing it over multiple rounds, since the more patients you discharge, the more each patient discharged is worth.
- First patient discharged: 1 point
- Second through Sixth Patient discharged : 2 points each
- Seventh and Eighth Patient discharged : 3 points each
- Ninth and Tenth Patient discharged : 4 points each
- Eleventh and Twelfth Patient discharged: 5 points each
- Bonus 5 points if the wards are empty.
So if they discharged 7 patients that round, they would score 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 = 14 points.
Shift Change
- To prepare for the next round, discharged patients are returned to the supply, all meeples are returned where they came from, ambulances are returned/refilled, and patients are slid back up.
- Last round's unchosen departments/specialists are removed, and new ones are dealt out for the next round.
End of Game
- At the end of 8 rounds, each player gains 1 point per "blood bag" remaining, and loses 2 points for each fatality token.
- The player with the highest score wins.
- In case of a tie, fewest patients remaining, then highest total value remaining.
- Opening Crisis: During setup, take 5 patients with value 3, 3, 4, 5 and 5 in any colour.
- Nationwide Epidemic: When a player takes an ambulance, roll an extra dice and place it into a ward.
- Resistant Superbug: If a patient is neglected, it deteriorates 2 steps instead of 1.
- Experimental Medicine: Add 8 department tiles and 12 specialists to the improvements.