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AT&T has begun to crack down on iPhone customers who use their smartphones to connect laptops to the wireless carrier's 3G network without the purchase of a tethering plan, reports OSX Daily.
Offending customers, which includes those who use the MyWi unofficial iPHone Wi-Fi hotspot app, have begun to receive letters and text messages indicating that AT&T requires the purchase of a $45-per-month tethering plan to use the functionality in an authorized manner. If off-contract tethering use continues, says AT&T, failure to sign up for a tethering plan will result in AT&T signing you up for one, whether you like it or not.
The letter in full:
Dear [Name of Account Holder],
We've noticed your service plan may need updating.
Many AT&T customers use their smartphones as a broadband connection for other devices, like laptops, netbooks or other smartphones– a practice commonly known as tethering. Tethering can be an efficient way for our customers to enjoy the benefits of AT&T's mobile broadband network and use more than one device to stay in touch with important people and information. To take advantage of this feature, we require that in addition to a data plan, you also have a tethering plan. Our records show that you use this capability, but are not subscribed to our tethering plan.
If you would like to continue tethering, please log into your account online at www.wireless.att.com, or call us at 1-888-860-6789 Monday – Friday, 7 a.m. – 9 p.m. CST or Saturday, 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. CST, by March 27, 2011 to sign up for DataPro 4GB for Smartphone Tethering. Here are details on the plan:
DataPro 4GB for Smartphone Tethering • $45 per month (this gives you 4GB in total, combining both your smartphone data plan for $25 and the tethering feature, $20) • $10 per each additional GB thereafter, added automatically as needed • Mobile Hotspot capabilities are included for compatible Smartphones
If we don't hear from you, we'll plan to automatically enroll you into DataPro 4GB after March 27, 2011. The new plan – whether you sign up on your own or we automatically enroll you – will replace your current smartphone data plan, including if you are on an unlimited data plan.
If you discontinue tethering, no changes to your current plan will be required.
It's easy to track your usage throughout the month so there are no bill surprises. For example, we send you free text messages when you reach 65, 90, and 100 percent of your plan's threshold. If you would like to monitor your account more closely, go to www.att.com/dataplans to learn about other ways to track your data usage.
As a reminder, our smartphone data plans also include unlimited usage of Wi-Fi at no additional charge. AT&T smartphone customers can use Wi-Fi at home or on-the-go at any one of our more than 23,000 U.S. hotspots already included in your data plan.
Thank you for bringing your account up to date. We appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve your mobile broadband needs.
Please update your data plan by March 27, 2011 if you intend to continue tethering
To learn more and update your plan, visit att.com/dataplans
Reach us for assistance during business hours: Monday – Friday 7 a.m. – 9 p.m. CST Saturday 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. CST at 1-888-860-6789
One of the main reasons people jailbreak their iPhones (i.e. remove the carrier-specific restrictions that come with the handset) is to use if for tethering without paying the $45 per month.
So far, reports have only mentioned AT&T contacting iPhone users, with no word whether the same applies to those customers using Android devices. Also, AT&T has not indicated that it will retroactively penalize anyone for tethering their phones without a plan.
If you're wondering how AT&T knows when customers are tethering without authorization, here's how it works, courtesy of Reddit.com user byu146:
All IP packets have something called a TTL associated with them. It stands for Time To Live. Every "hop" along the network from one router to the next reduces the TTL by one. When it reaches 0, the packet is dropped. This was introduced to keep routing problems from overloading the network. If for example, by some error a packet was going around in a circular path, the TTL would eventually reach 0 and prevent a packet storm.
The thing is, ALL routing devices do this. OSes use standard TTLs. For example, let's say both your iPhone and laptop use 127 for the TTL. AT&T will receive packets from your iPhone with a TTL of 127, but since the packets from your laptop pass through your iPhone first, they arrive at AT&T with a TTL of 126. They can detect a tethered device this way.
So there you have it — no unofficial tethering, unless you want to pay $45 extra per month for your service.
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One service administers Fingerprinting in Kingman, AZ.
Need to be fingerprinted in Kingman? Along with taking ink fingerprints, these Kingman fingerprinting locations may also provide live scan, notary public, mobile services, passport photos, and background checks.
Select a business or government agency below to view their list of services, location map, phone number, website address, and other pertinent data.


text: While waiting for his clothes to dry, our reader [xaio] decided to poke around and see how his building's coin laundry system worked. It turned out to be ridiculously simple. All he needed to do was jumper the cable coming from each machine and they'd run without issue. We wonder why the relay box is so big. In any event, it could certainly benefit from a more secure installation.


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Disney announced it's upcoming overhaul of the Downtown Disney area, which will be called Disney Springs. The Town Center (below, left), will be a mix of shopping and dining where guests can "relax, refresh and reconnect". The Landing (below, right) should have gorgeous waterfront views with dining.
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Not just as a vague concept, either. The famed science fiction author absolutely nails it, from the bank statements to the hardware to the social changes to the possibilities for communication.
Tears Of The Kingdom's Newspaper Questline And The State Of Hyrulean Journalism
"Visionary" is an awful, over-used word, but it's cases like this which are the rare exceptions you can actually use it and it fits.
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC [YouTube, via Neatorama]


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A judge on Thursday sentenced a 13-year-old boy, convicted of killing his neo-Nazi father, to a state youth correctional facility, making the legal finding that he would benefit from the commitment.
"It's a horrific outcome," said the boy's attorney Punam Grewal, who had argue he should instead by placed in a private therapeutic facility in the state of Utah. She and trial attorney Matt Hardy indicated intent to appeal the ruling.
Joseph Hall was sentenced to 40 years, but as a juvenile offender he must be released when he turns 23, or possibly sooner if a parole hearing finds he is rehabilitated. He could be eligible for a parole hearing in as early as five years.
He was convicted of second degree murder in the shooting death of his father, regional neo-Nazi leader Jeff Hall, in the early morning ours of May 1, 2011. Hall was sleeping on a couch after an argument with his companion. Krista McCary. Joseph Hall was 10 years old.
"The court finds he is a minor with exceptional needs," said Riverside Judge Jean Leonard, whose ruling included directives for the Department of Juvenile Justice to provide counseling and other measures.
In an unusual request, the prosecutor, Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Mike Soccio, requested to be able to stay in contact with Joseph while he is kept in custody and Hall's attorney did not object.
Soccio, who has expressed concern for the boy's well-being and rehabilitation, talked to Joseph after the hearing.
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Joseph, in a white dress shirt and vest, hair slicked down, tilted his head down during the ruling.
His paternal grandmother Joann Becker was in court and afterwards visited with him. Tuesday she told NBC4 that Joseph is a "good kid. But he does have some issues. And they have to adddressed, so he doesn't hurt anybody else--or himself."
The boy's parents had parted when he was only a year old. He remained with his mother Letcia Neal several years before custody was awarded to Jeff Hall. There was evidence the boy had been exposed to violence and abuse from an early age, and his behavioral and aggression issues were becoming apparent by pre-school.
In the public eye, the case had become associated to a large extent with the father's activism in the National Socialist Movement Party. After Thursday's ruling, in response to a reporter's question, Soccio said he did not believe Hall's politics were a direct motivating factor for the son. Instead, Soccio thinks the troubled boy may have been reacting to statements his father made to his stepmother during the argument just hours before the shooting. There was testimony that Hall threatened to leave McCary and set the house afire. In the boy's state of mind, Soccio said, the 10-year-old may have seen shooting his father as a way to prevent another family break-up.
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Editor's Note: Seth Goldstein co-founded Turntable.fm and DJZ, has received funding from Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures, was an EIR at Fred Wilson's Flatiron Partners, and is an angel investor in Betaworks, Gumroad, and more. Michael Simpson also co-founded DJZ where he handles raising capital from angels and VCs, and previously worked at Greenhill as a banker.
It's a 500,000 person party, and you're invited. It's 24/7, no charge for entrance, and when you leave you could go home with a pile of cash instead of a creeping hangover. As Fred Wilson says, "If you're working in tech and you're trying to raise an angel round, you have to be on AngelList. You just have to be there."
AngelList is one of the most impactful additions to the early-stage funding ecosystem. It's so crucial that we've dedicated a whole section to it in The Secret of Raising Money, our book on fundraising. We've used it to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, and know many others who have raised millions. Our companies have been featured, and we've also used it to hire top-notch developers.
Here's a framework for making it rain angel money as quickly as possible, followed by an interview with AngelList's own Ash Fontana.
1. Complete and launch your profile
First, complete your profile. How can you expect investors to give you money if you haven't even taken the time to fill in all your information? AngelList gives you a handy little icon at the top of your screen that tells you how close your profile is to completion:
As you are filling it out, be concise. You want to avoid 'tl;dr'. AngelList helps by imposing word limits to your answers and giving you thoughtful pop-up prompts as you type. Remember to add as many people as you can who are connected to your company in some way (e.g. customers, partners, attorneys, advisors, board members), as this will help you build your following and visibility.
Make sure that you are totally happy with your profile before you publish it. It may take a few hours, but it's well worth it. A sparsely populated profile poorly represents your business. Remember: AngelList is frequently the first port of call for investors when trying to find out about your company.
Once your profile is complete and launched, assign somebody on your team to be in charge of updating it and monitoring all inbound messages ('Contact' and 'recruitment contact' highlighted below). Many of the fundraising and hiring-related emails are time sensitive, so you can't afford to have them get lost in an inbox nobody is checking.
2. Complete your personal profile and those of your team members
The team is featured prominently on your home page. Interested investors are likely to click through to view your profile, and perhaps those of your key team members. Get those profiles filled out. This is especially important for founders.
An often overlooked part of your own profile is the 'reference' section. You and your team members should ask others to write some praise in the box. You would be surprised how effective these references are – it's just another form of Social Proof.
3. If you are new to the platform, follow as many people as possible
If you are fundraising, you want to do this for a few reasons. Firstly, it raises awareness about your startup by pointing folks to your profile. Secondly, in order to be able to message a new investor on AngelList, either the new investor must be following you, or you must have friends in common with the new investor. The system is built like this in order to avoid a lot of spam. That said, don't follow people who are entirely unlikely to be interested in your company or you'll look disingenuous.
4. First impression is key
Take particular care to manage the areas that new visitors see first when they arrive at your page. Give careful attention to the High Concept pitch (also visible in search results) and the primary image/video (both circled below).
The high concept pitch should powerfully communicate your business with the fewest words possible. This is not easy, but an exercise you will have to go through anyway for in-person pitching. It will also ideally contain some form of social proof, a concept which we explain in more detail in The Secret of Raising Money. Kivo's social proof (above) is the fact that they were in Y Combinator's S13 class. But the No. 1 goal is to keep this short and communicative. Here are some other good ones:
"On-demand evening package delivery"
"Sign anywhere, anytime"
"Scan and buy wine you love"
Choose a primary video / image that is very compelling. Viewers will likely prefer video, as a great video is typically more engaging and memorable than an image.
5. Populate your profile with praise from others
As already stated, AngelList enables entrepreneurs to utilize and amplify social proof, one of the most important tools at your disposal as a fundraiser.
To this end, solicit advisers, investors and customers to write doting commentary about your business. Some examples below:
On a similar note, monitor the 'Comments' section of your profile. Consider deleting any comments that may tarnish your company's image.
6. Add investors as they commit, and get them to confirm participation
Add each new investor as they commit to your round. Include the actual amount invested, as this will feed into your fundraising status bar. Also, ask your current investors to confirm their investment so that they appear in the 'Funding' section. This is yet another way to increase social proof.
7. Ask investors to share your company with their followers
Investors (and indeed anyone) can share your company's profile with their followings on AngelList, Facebook and Twitter. This kind of endorsement is even more valuable when you are trying to close out the last segment of a round because it can stir up interest very quickly.
8. Consider using Invest Online
Invest Online is a feature that allows investors to invest directly in your company via AngelList, with investments beginning from as little as $1,000. All investors have to do is click the blue button on your profile that says 'invest'.
We have used this feature to raise money and found it highly effective, especially when you are near the end of a round: the near-complete progress bar creates a sense of scarcity, compelling individuals to invest. A decent amount of these investors will often be a particular class of angels who invest $1-5K at a time in a large number of startups using the Invest Online feature.
9. Use tags to enhance your discoverability
AngelList allots you four 'markets' tags, one 'location' tag and an unlimited number of 'technology' tags. The 'markets' and 'location' tags are the most important, primarily because investors can 'follow' each of them. Choose your affiliation wisely.
By clicking on a tag, you can find out which other startups have classified themselves under the tag, and how many investors follow each tag. There is no exact science to this, but an advisable strategy is to pick a couple broad tags and a couple more specific tags. For example, if you are a website that sells products for infants, you could choose 'E-Commerce' (which has 76,674 followers at time of writing) as well as parenting (which has 2,772 followers).
10. Promote your profile
AngelList makes it really easy for you to share your own profile (there is a "share" button at the top right of your company's page), so spread the word. You can also ask your investors to share. The more followers you have, the more reach you have. For better or for worse, higher follower numbers also make you appear more important.
11. Reach out to inbound investors
When investors come across a startup on AngelList that they like, they can choose to 'follow' or 'get an intro'. You will be notified when somebody chooses either option. If you are raising money, and assuming you like the profile of the investor, you should reach out to them straight away.
In the email (in the case of 'get an intro') or AngelList message (in the case of 'follow'), you should thank them for their interest, update them on funding progress and, if appropriate, ask to set up a call so you can walk them through your business. We have had a very high close rate with investors who ask for an introduction, and an above average close rate with those who follow. This underscores why it's important to have somebody responsible for managing your AngelList campaign.
12. Mine the networks of your current investors for further suitable investors
Warm introductions from current investors are one of the most effective types of introductions you can receive as an entrepreneur. By definition, you are presented to the new individual with a stamp of approval. It is a natural human tendency to seek consistency with one's past decisions, and investors are no exception. Indeed, AngelList's introduction system functions based on this principle – you can only reach out cold to new investors if you have somebody in common or they already follow you.
So if you are having trouble filling out your round, consider asking for introductions from your current investors. You can use AngelList to find and vet investors within your current backers' networks.
13. Get featured if you can
AngelList consistently 'features' a handful of startups, which usually happens 72 hours or less following the publication of a startup's profile. These are chosen by the AngelList team and top VC analysts. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do to get featured, except build an awesome company. Of course, relationships and dialogues with individuals at AngelList can help get you on the radar screen.
14. Get your startup to 'trend'
Trending means that you will be featured on the 'trending startups' area of the AngelList website and (if you are one of the top four trending startups) you will be featured in a weekly email that goes out to investors registered on AngelList.
When a sufficiently high volume of high-quality investors and/or candidates show interest in your startup in a short period of time, your startup 'trends'. According to Babak Nivi, co-founder of AngelList "The rank of the person that is indicating interest matters. Rank is measured by track record: the valuation of the startups a person has invested in, founded, worked at, etc." Bear in mind that it's not easy to pro-actively orchestrate this process, but a handful have managed to do it. Ash goes into a little more detail in the interview below.
15. Pay attention to the Admin panel
This area gives you personalized tips for improving your profile, as well as statistics on how many folks are viewing your page and following you. The latter is especially helpful information to track if you are actively trying to stir up a lot of interest with many investors at once.
16. Post status updates and press mentions
Remember to continue to feed your followers with good news about the company. This is great for keeping existing investors excited about the company, as well as warming new prospects to the idea of investing.
17. Stay organized
You'd be surprised at how rapidly investor interest can pile up. Pretty soon you can be juggling a large list of names, all of whom have shown varying levels of interest in your startup. You must keep some central database (just a simple Google doc can do the trick) detailing all of your open leads, the stage of the conversation with each, next steps, etc.
On a similar note, prioritize investors who are most likely to invest. While not a hard and fast rule, the level of completeness of an investor's profile can give you a sense about how serious they are about investing. For example, if the investor has no profile picture, three followers and no confirmed investments, you should likely prioritize other investors ahead of him.
Interview with Ash Fontana of AngelList
What are some common mistakes that you see companies making on AngelList?
Firstly, many companies will wait until they have raised a certain percentage of their round before they begin raising on AngelList. You should raise money on AngelList in parallel with your other online and offline raising efforts. Investors want to be first to a deal. If you are out raising money for a while, and you wait too long before coming to AngelList, your deal will be stale by the time it hits our platform.
Second, people don't create an AngelList profile until they begin fundraising. This is a huge mistake. You should create an AngelList profile and begin building your following as early as you possibly can. You should think of it as your business's Facebook page. You need one in order to be discoverable.
Lastly, many companies don't take the time to complete their whole profile. If you're serious about raising money, you absolutely must build out your entire page.
How can a startup 'trend'?
You can't really game the system on this one. Make sure you get really good investors requesting introductions to your startup. Dollars invested on Invest Online / Syndicates factor into the algorithm, as well. Also, make sure to add new investors as they commit, along with dollar amounts
Any other advice?
Yes – use the "Find Investors" functionality. Our database is incredibly powerful. For example, if you're making drones and you want to find a local investor who has experience investing in drones, our database will probably be able to find one for you.
Be proactive about engaging on AngelList much like you would on Facebook or Instagram. Like things. Comment on things. That's how you pop up in users' news feeds, which is a major way companies are discovered. Remember – there are literally hundreds of thousands of profiles on AngelList. You have to put in effort in order to stand out.
The last thing to remember is that the core value of AngelList is that it gives you more leverage in your fundraising. You could meet the vast majority of the angels registered on AngelList via other channels (e.g. LinkedIn, going to conferences, etc.). But AngelList makes it ridiculously easy and super efficient. Similarly, you can use social proof to help you close your round via a series of phone calls, emails and back-channel conversations. AngelList streamlines that process by advertising and amplifying your list of investors and advisers with minimal effort on your part.


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AMERICA'S CUP: More misinformation and murky stuff
Published on March 25th, 2013
Rod Davis, coach for America's Cup challenger Emirates Team New Zealand, discusses the art of "espionage"…
People have been asking how teams manage to keep secrets when the opposition can approach to within 200 metres because cameras are more than capable of getting in close at that range.
That's true. In Valencia, at the 2007 LVC finals against Luna Rossa, we shot their notice board each morning from our roof top, at a range of 350 metres, to read little titbits of information.
Misinformation is a great counter-measure, other than not putting a notice board where people can photograph it.
Muddy the water enough and it's hard to pick fact from fiction and, as people are inclined to believe what they want to believe, teams do have some scope to cover their tracks.
For example, in the 2000 America's Cup, we (at Prada) had a boom that was way ahead of its time and only half the weight of all our competitors' booms, thanks to Gio Belgrano (now with Emirates Team New Zealand).
We knew we were on to a winner and did not want Paul Cayard and his boys next door to find out about it.
So whenever the boom was moved, four people did the job even though two could have easily lifted it. The opposition never caught on.
In 2003, again with Prada, we had a series of races with our 1992 boat against NZL39, the boat Chris Dickson had sailed in 1995.
On paper the new boat should have been all over the old design, and would have been had both masts been equal. But we were developing, with Southern Spars, a mast that was much stiffer than the others.
That performance increase shocked even us as the old boat was simply faster than the newer one. To take attention away from the mast, we leaked that the boat was not legal – it didn't measure.
We had moved outside the measurement rules to make it faster, and therefore competitive with the newer boats. A reasonable and plausible story. They swallowed it hook, line and sinker because they wanted to believe it.
Last year when we were finalizing our foiling on our scaled down 72 boats Oracle was sniffing around and being a general pain in the backside.
We definitely did not want them to know that we had figured out how to "fly" at that point, but we needed to test so we had to sail.
The boat with the flying (foiling) package appeared to break down, slowly being towed home. The other boat, with lots of interest from the shadowing chase boat, started sailing in the other direction, to draw the Oracle flies away.
Once separated, the boat with the foils could do their thing, without the spies knowing. The mistake Oracle made was not checking who was going with which boat … had they done that they might have seen through the smoke screen.
In the old days, Team New Zealand was the king of misinformation. I am still learning the lengths they would go to muddy the water. As for nowadays … well it is still the America's Cup.
Source: ETNZ blog


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Hello Everyone, welcome to Pretty Pink Posh's 4th Birthday! For today's project I used Birthday Friends Stamp set and Birthday Friends Die set.
Stitched Notes die for the background after distressing the background with Twisted Citron and Tattered Rose Ink pad. Next, I stamped the images and colored them with Copic markers, then die-cut. The sentiment is also from the same set Birthday Friends stamp set. Then, I also used the new Spring Bloom Sequins which you will love :)


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Prosecutor Says Hit-and-Run Suspect, Family Hid Evidence
Argues Lau Van Hyunh is Flight Risk, But Judge Reduces Bail to $200,000
The family of Lau Van Huynh — the 78-year-old Murrieta man arrested in connection with the hit-and-run death of Simon Chavez — impeded authorities' criminal investigation, thus proving he is a flight risk, a prosecutor alleged during a bail reduction hearing Friday morning in Santa Barbara Superior Court.
Chavez, a 22-year-old Santa Barbara resident, was walking in the southbound lanes of Highway 101 when he was struck and killed around 1 a.m. on January 15. No vehicle stopped. A spokesperson for the Sheriff's Department said Friday a toxicology report for Chavez was not yet available.
Prosecutor Sanford Horowitz said authorities were able to use security footage from the Chumash Casino — Huynh had apparently spent 13 hours there with his wife prior to the accident — to track him to his Murrieta home.
When a CHP investigator made a house call, Huynh's daughter answered the door but allegedly denied that she knew Lau Van Hyunh. She also denied knowing anything about a white Hyundai. But walking away from the home, the officer apparently spotted the Hyundai through a garage window. A search warrant was issued, and the vehicle was seized.
Horowitz said the car had been washed "in an attempt to destroy evidence," but that there were human hair fibers still lodged in parts of the exterior. Damage to the front of the car was consistent with a vehicle-versus-pedestrian collision, Sgt. Andrew Chapman said in testimony Friday, and evidence at the scene of the collision matched damage to the vehicle.
Horowitz also alleged that Huynh was planning to go to Las Vegas, and neighbors purportedly told authorities Huynh and his wife had packed bags and told them they were headed to Vietnam.
Huynh son, Viet Huynh, denied this. Viet Huynh said he and his siblings would've known if his parents were traveling internationally because he lives with them and would've made the travel arrangements. He said the trip to Vegas was not an attempt to flee, but a trip they had already talked about and planned.
Chavez was in between the highway's number two and three lanes when he was hit by the Hyundai, which Horowitz said was driven by Huynh with his wife in the passenger seat. "Neither party called law enforcement," Horowitz said. "Neither party called 911. Neither party stopped the car."
Horowitz said Huynh had back surgery less than a month ago and was prescribed to take a painkiller four times a day, which Horowitz suggested could have impaired his driving. Horowitz noted another driver, who was sober, saw Chavez on the highway before the accident and was able to slow down and avoid hitting him.
Sgt. Chapman also testified Friday that it appeared when Huynh came to the CHP station with his son that the son used "slight of hand" to delete text messages from a phone that was ultimately taken under a search warrant. A forensic look at the phone confirmed this, Chapman said.
All of this information, Horowitz said, was enough to show that Huynh is a flight risk, one of the top criteria for holding someone on a higher bail.
But Huynh's attorney Peter Chang said there were many assertions of fact that have yet to be proven in the case. He noted Hyunh had lived in California for 20 years, was advanced in age, had a clean criminal history and driving record, and possessed strong family ties to the state. He also noted Huynh is charged with a single count of hit-and-run.
While Horowitz asked Judge Clifford Anderson to keep bail at $1 million, Anderson lowered it to $200,000, an amount still too high for the family to pay, apparently. Should he post bail, Huynh would have to turn in his passport, enroll in an electronic monitoring program, refrain from driving, and stay out of Santa Barbara County except for court appearances.
Huynh will be back in court later this month for a preliminary hearing during which the judge will determine whether there is enough evidence for him to stand trial.


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Be Nice To The Moon. Stop Writing On It
This is the moon as Morse code.
Beautiful, yes, but not right. The moon isn't a dot. It's too elegant, too pale, too ghostly to be a bit of "information." It's got moods, changes, and on certain nights it's got a man on it, with eyes and a mouth, and yet some people treat the moon as if it's something you can write on.
All over the world, ham radio operators and Morse code enthusiasts beam dot, dash messages straight at the moon, then wait 2.7 seconds for the signal to bounce back. They call these "E.M.E." transmissions, which stands for "Earth-Moon-Earth" or — more popularly — "moonbouncing." I suppose it's fun to smack little beeps against a sleepy rock 239,000 miles away and have those beeps come flying back at you. Plus, it's easy.
Moonbouncing With The Morse Resource
Anybody with a good transmitter and an antenna "capable of being rotated in both the azimuth and elevation planes" (ask your hardware store or any ham radio jock to explain) can bounce messages off the moon. You don't even have to know Morse code. There's a shortcut. Just type your message ("Happy Birthday, Munchkins!") onto a screen at The Morse Resource and in less than a minute they translate it into long and short beeps you can hurtle moonward. The moon must be twitching.
Beethoven's Sonata In Morse Code
Not so long ago, a Scottish artist, Katie Paterson, turned Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata into Morse code (yup, you can do that, too) and bounced it off the moon. Some musical phrases got trapped in moon craters and didn't come back, which she found so intriguing, she put the ricocheted, fragmented Moonlight Sonata on a player piano and you can now see her moonbounced, Morse-coded piece being not performed by anyone, the keys going up and down on their own, on YouTube.
The latest insult (for those of us who think being Morse-coded upon is a kind of diss) took place in the dirt of Mars itself. A few weeks ago, NASA began testing its newest rover, Curiosity. They turned it on and let it move a little, and it turns out Curiosity's wheels have little grooves in them that are dots and dashes of Morse code, spelling J ... P ... and L ... for Jet Propulsion Laboratory. You can see them here.
Why dig Morse-coded signals into the soil on Mars? So that NASA can look down from orbiters above and measure how far the rover has gone. Every time they see a new "J", "P" and "L" in Morse, they know the rover has moved a full turn of its wheels, which is a specific distance. It's like a measuring stick. Here's JPL engineer Armen Toorian, to demonstrate ...
I have no argument with NASA's need to measure, or with artists' desire to play Beethoven in odd places, or with ham operators' idea of fun. In each case, the moon is being used as a tablet to write or bounce Samuel Morse's code on. The moon isn't going to complain. Walls don't complain when kids zap them with graffiti. But that doesn't make it right.
This is a Do Unto Others thing. The moon, in its quiet, moonish way, must be peeved.
A fantasy: If I were the moon goddess, Artemis, I'd be asking Zeus to take a bolt of lightning and zap 'em back, so they feel what it's like to be "bounced" on. Take that, Scottish composer! Rover engineer! Ham radio guy! Nothing too painful. Just pings. In Morse.


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You may not know the names Malik Boukhira and Simon Darveau but you've probably raved about some of their work. The co-founders of Montreal-based Spearhead Games once worked at Ubisoft, where they helped build entries in the Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed franchises. But they got frustrated toiling away inside of a huge corporation and what they call AAA fatigue.
Tiny Brains is centered on a quartet of lab animals who get superpowers thanks to all the weird experimentation that's been done on them. They team up to try to escape the lab they're trapped in and players will need to use powers like teleportation and ice block formation co-operatively to help set the mutated critters loose.
Sitting down to play Tiny Brains was one of the best times I had at PAX Prime. After crowding on a couch to partner up with a bunch of people I didn't know, I found myself laughing, yelling out strategies and high-fiving sweaty stranger palms when we beat challenges. The best co-op game ever? Maybe. You'll get your chance to try it out in November when the PS4 launches.


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KIDANEMARIAM, A; ENGELBRECHT, M e PICARD, J. Retrospective study on the incidence of Salmonella isolations in animals in South Africa, 1996 to 2006. J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. [online]. 2010, vol.81, n.1, pp.37-44. ISSN 2224-9435.
A retrospective study that involves the analysis of laboratory diagnostic data collected during the period 1996-2006 was conducted. A total of 3417 Salmonella isolations involving 183 different serotypes was recorded from 1999-2006, inclusive, at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, South Africa. The most common serotypes were Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhimurium (917 incidents), Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Dublin (248 incidents), Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Enteritidis (232 incidents), Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Muenchen (164 incidents), Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Heidelberg (118 incidents) and Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Chester (113 incidents). The number of recorded Salmonella isolations over the period 1996 to 2006 varies considerably from year to year. The peak of 693 isolations was recorded in 1997, and the lowest, 108 incidents, in 2001. Of the total incidents recorded during the period of survey, 2410 (70.5 %) occurred in poultry and other birds, 641 (18.75 %) occurred in cattle, 255 (7.46) in pigs and 111 (3.24 %) in sheep. Despite the large number of serotypes isolated (183), 52 % of incidents were due to only 6 serotypes in decreasing order of prevalence: S. Typhimurium, S. Dublin, S. Enteritidis, S. Muenchen, S. Heidelberg and S. Chester. Serovar Typhimurium was the most common serotype and was detected in all animal species sampled, with, 65 % (598) of the incidents occurring in poultry and 20 % (187) occurring in cattle. Of the total of 248 incidents of S. Dublin serotype, 95.6 % (237) of incidents occurred in cattle and of the 232 isolates of S. Enteritidis, 223 (96%) originated from poultry. Serovar Choleraesuis was identified in 16 isolates from pigs. The following 4 serotypes were each recorded in more than 50 incidents: S. Hadar (102), S. Schwarzengrund (99), S. Mbandaka (94) and S. Sandiego (73). The trends of annual incidence of Salmonella infection in cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and other birds during the 11-year period and the distribution of the main serotypes in individual species of animals from 1996-2006 are discussed.
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MS hands out gongs to star programmers
PowerPup engineers mysteriously snubbed
Microsoft has inaugurated a "Distinguished Engineers" programme and announced the first recipients. In a letter leaked to Dave Winer's Userland scripting website, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer says the first sixteen DEs are "visionaries... unparalleled and essential to our long-term success".
The gongs go to some familiar and well-respected names. Dave Cutler, ex-DECcie responsible for the design of Windows NT, heads the list, which also includes the great ex-IBM, Tandem, DEC survivor (and author of the TPC Benchmarks) Jim Gray, and ex-DEC and Xerox PARC veterans Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson. Thacker now heads the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, England.
They aren't the only ex-DECcies on the list. Others include Mark Lucovsky (NT design) and Wael Bahaa-El-Din (performance analysis).
Also honoured are Lou Perazzoli (NT design), Peter Spiro (SQL Server), Anders Hejlsberg (Visual J++, C#), Mohsen Al-Ghosein (middleware), Suryanarayanan Raman (apps and Internet), Brad Lovering (tools), Antoine Leblond (Office - and the man most culpable for letting the Power Pup slip through - thanks, Antoine), Michael Toutonghi (.NET) and software Veep Darryl Rubin.
Microsoft veteran Charles "lpfnChuck" Simonyi gets one too. Simonyi has spent the last ten years out of harm's way, working on Intentional Programming (as opposed to Unintentional Programming? - ed), but is still notorious for devising Hungarian Notation, a Byzantine variable naming convention christened in his honour
Register Footnote: We were intrigued that Michael Toutonghi's biog includes a reference to OmniView, whcih is described as a "multi-tasking environment". Once we'd composed ourselves after learning that that Microsoft actually has a multi-tasking environment, we set about trying to recall what OmniView was. We know that Microsoft made efforts to make its Windows 1.0 and 2.0 .PIF-compatible with TopView, the clunking DOS task-switcher IBM touted, then abandoned in the mid-80s. But between that and the task-switcher in DOS 5.0 which crept out in 1991, we can only draw a blank. Do any Register readers ever recall seeing OmniView? Come on, Michael. Don't be coy now... (Hint: This wasn't a Microsoft product, but whose was it? And what happened to it? - Ed) ®


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Puerto Mogan Travel Guide
Situated on the southwest coast, nine miles (14km) west of vibrant Puerto Rico, Puerto Mogan is one of the more up-market holiday resorts on Gran Canaria. The town is an old fishing village that has recently started to be developed into a modern resort town but retains an authentic Spanish charm. Tourism is centred around the marina which bustles with local boats, yachts and Atlantic cruisers. There are a selection of bars, shops and restaurants aimed at tourists, but the shops are less tacky than in some neighbouring resorts and the restaurants serve some of the best seafood on the island. Backed by the mountains, the picturesque old Puerto Mogan village is a maze of narrow roads and colonial style houses; the couple of canals running through the town has prompted tour operators to dub it 'Little Venice'. There is one small beach in the resort and another, Playa Taurito, three miles (5km) to the east; both have black volcanic sand and boulders. Although there is a disco or two in Puerto Mogan, those looking for a more energetic nightlife should head to Puerto Rico or Playa del Inglés.
Puerto Mogan has all the shops that you would expect from a holiday resort in the Canary Islands, but they are generally a little more arty-crafty and sell less of the rubbish that you usually find in souvenir shops; there is less quantity and more quality in Puerto Mogan than at many other resorts. Every Friday morning there is a large market in town, which is aimed at locals as well as tourists and sells everything from fresh fish to football shirts.
While there is no shortage of fast food stalls and restaurants offering full English breakfasts in Puerto Mogan there are also a few restaurants offering good Canarian cuisine, wines and cheeses. Puerto Mogan is best known for its excellent seafood restaurants serving locally caught fish. Some top choices include Restaurante El Castillo for paella or tapas, La Bodeguilla Juanana for great Canarian cuisine, and Casito Mediterraneo for some of the freshest fish in town. Most restaurants are located around the harbour.
While there is a disco or two and many restaurants offer some sort of entertainment, most visitors come to Puerto Morgan on holiday for peace and relaxation. The nightlife is limited and sedate and those in search of a party will need to travel to a more energetic resort.
Holiday activities
Sailing, jetskiing, boat tours, fishing trips and jeep safaris can be organised from Puerto Mogan. It is also one of the best scuba diving destinations on the island, with two wrecks just in front of the harbour and the Mogan Caves about a mile away where divers and snorkelers can expect to see large shoals of fish, moray eels, barracudas and yellow grunters. Non-divers on holiday can take a fascinating submarine trip to discover this underwater world. The actual village of Mogan is about six miles (10km) inland and is well worth a visit; it retains a strong rural Spanish ambience and is home to some good traditional Canarian restaurants.
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Visitors should be aware that there is some building work going on in Puerto Mogan, but this is mostly towards the back of the resort; it is worth checking that there is no building site near your accommodation. Those looking for large nightclubs and dance music will need to make the short trip to Playa del Ingles.


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Remember how we were sobbing over Bush's import tariffs on luxury eats from the E.U., the ones imposed in retaliation for Europe refusing to buy our hormone-addled beef? Great news! The European Commission and the U.S. have just announced a provisional agreement that would stave off taxes on goods such as Spanish ham, Italian mineral water and Roquefort cheese. The latter was especially hard hit, with a 300% tax making it so expensive, most cheesemongers planned to stop selling it entirely (Murray's Cheese Shop even had an "Au Revoir Roquefort" party where they served up samples of other blue cheeses they'd be offering once the tax kicked in).
The same agreement also triples the amount of beef from cattle untreated by hormones that the U.S. can export to the EU. Admittedly, this doesn't resolve the fundamental disagreement over whether hormone-treated beef is unsafe (the U.S. maintains it is, the E.U. isn't buying that), as the WSJ notes. But for now, we'll take what we can get: Conscientious U.S. farmers sell more beef, we get to eat European cheese without taking out a loan -- everybody wins.
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Round six of the Downhill at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Val d'Isere, France, turned out to be a much more difficult course than anyone anticipated, with many top riders crashing and performing below expectations. Rachel Atherton (GT Factory) took her fourth win of the season to extend her lead in the women's standings, while Brook MacDonald (MS Mondraker) took his first ever World Cup win in the men's race. Aaron Gwin (Trek World Racing), despite finishing fifth, locked up the men's overall title with one round remaining. Canada's Steve Smith (Devinci Global Racing), despite crashing in qualifying, actually moved up from fifth to fourth in the overall standings.
The rocky, open, alpine run was very different from most that the racers face on the World Cup circuit, and more than a few riders crashed in both training and qualifying.
In the women's race, Petra Bernhard (Alpine Commencal Austria) was the first to record a sub-2:50 run, but Myriam Nicole (Commencal / Riding Addiction) immediately took nearly seven seconds off the leading time, good enough to eventually finish fourth. Floriane Pugin (Scott 11) then knocked a further second off, but the final two riders were in a class of their own.
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World champion Emmeline Ragot (MS Mondraker) was 1.6 seconds faster than Pugin, but Atherton, the fastest qualifier, once again showed that her return this season, after struggling with injury, is complete - finishing a second and a half ahead of Ragot and recording the only sub-2:40 time of the day.
"I am so happy," stated Atherton. "I think this is the most nervous I have been all year. This track is very, very difficult. One day it's dry and then it's really, really wet, so tire and suspension changes are so important, and you don't know how it's gonna be on your race run. Everyone was just playing it like a guessing game.
"I almost crashed today [in training]; I landed on my seat. My stomach was hurting really bad, but I thought, this is like Fort William: I need to just switch off and then switch back on for the race. I have learned that from racing and crashing."
Atherton now holds an 80 point lead over Ragot, with Nicole a distant third at 892 points.
The men's competition for the last two seasons has been completely dominated by World Cup leader Aaron Gwin and his usual rival, Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate). Between the two of them, they have won every single World Cup in last season and this, until Val d'Isere. Every rider struggled on the fast, rough and rocky terrain, which was completely unforgiving of mistakes. Gwin crashed in qualifying, injuring his hand and finishing well back.
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In the Final, Thibaut Ruffin (Commencal / Riding Addiction) set the early best time, which stood for 16 riders until Matt Simmonds (Chain Reaction Cycles.Com / Nukeproof) bumped him by an infinitesimal six-thousandths of a second. Simmonds in turn was displaced by Andrew Neethling (Giant Factory), who barely finished before Mick Hannah (Hutchinson United Ride) took the lead. Gwin took the lead next by half a second, but Minnaar surpassed his rival by that same amount. Gee Atherton (GT Factory) then recorded the first sub-2:20 time, but it wasn't quite enough, as MacDonald knocked a final half second off the lead to record his first victory.
"I can't even explain how I feel," exclaimed MacDonald. "I had a solid run, no mistakes , it was one of those runs I was just pumped for. I am over the moon about this one. My early season has been a big struggle. I was at a point where I was hating riding. So I changed a few things on my bike, and it has all paid off."
"This track was hard. With the altitude, and being only two and a half minutes, you are just pushing the whole way. If you make a mistake you lose time and you can't really lose time on this kind of track. I put together a good run and I'm happy."
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Despite having his consecutive World Cup win streak stopped at four, Gwin wasn't too upset. "I have no excuses, I had a pretty good run. For how I felt I am happy. To win the overall again, it is so amazing, especially after this weekend. I came in feeling good, and kinda had a bonehead moment in Qualifying. Hurt myself a little bit. It [his hand] was better than I thought it was going to be in the Finals; it didn't hurt too bad. I just got a little tired at the bottom. So I had to back it down at the bottom to make sure I stayed on and I kinda backed it down too much, but it worked out. Everyone loses some and wins some. I have lost many more in my career. I am just stoked to be up here."
Gwin now has 1260 points with one race remaining, an insurmountable 260 point lead over Minnaar. The fight for second overall is far from over, with Atherton only 19 points out of second. Smith, who crashed in qualifying and finished 11th in the Final, moved ahead of world champion Danny Hart (Giant Factory) with 680 points (to Hart's 650) after the British rider did not score any points in Val d'Isere.
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One of the UK's most famous chefs, Jamie Oliver, has urged the British government to introduce cookery teaching into schools to help fight obesity. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Oliver, alongside leading health figures, call on him to introduce a minimum 24 hours of practical cooking lessons and food education for all pupils aged four to 14. The group laments that the "pride" of hosting the Olympic Games has been tainted by the shameful fact that Britain is officially "the fattest nation in Europe".
Teaching children through the National Curriculum how to prepare nutritious meals for themselves and their families would be an important step in tackling the rising obesity epidemic, the letter argues. Without these skills, people are less likely to exercise control over their diet and food intake, and tend to rely on pre-prepared food or takeaway meals, the campaigners add.
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WASHINGTON — AIDS is graying. By the end of the decade, the government estimates, more than half of Americans living with HIV will be over 50. Even in developing countries, more people with the AIDS virus are surviving to middle age and beyond.
That's good news – but it's also a challenge. There's growing evidence that people who have spent decades battling the virus may be aging prematurely. At the International AIDS Conference this week, numerous studies are examining how heart disease, thinning bones and a list of other health problems typically seen in the senior years seem to hit many people with HIV when they're only in their 50s.
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"I'm 54, but I feel older," said Carolyn Massey of Laurel, Md., who has lived with HIV for nearly 20 years.
"When I hear young people talk about, `Well you get HIV and you take your drugs and you'll be all right' – that's just not the truth," she said. "This is a lifelong thing we're talking about, and it unfolds every day on you."
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The graying isn't just because people like Massey are surviving longer. Some of it comes from older adults being newly diagnosed, a trend U.S. health officials say is small but slowly growing. Yes, grandparents still have sex – and that's an age group missed by all those hip safe-sex messages aimed at teens and 20-somethings.
"They let down their guard," is how Dr. Kevin Fenton of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts it.
Already, a third of the nearly 1.2 million people living with HIV in the U.S. are over 50, and by 2020 half will be, Fenton said at one of numerous sessions on aging at the world's largest AIDS meeting.
People 50 or older accounted for 17 percent of new HIV diagnoses in 2009, according to the CDC's latest data. That's up from 13 percent in 2001.
There aren't as good counts in poor regions of the world, where access to life-saving medications came years later than in developed countries.
But even in hard-hit sub-Saharan Africa, home to most of world's HIV-infected population, studies suggest 3 million people living with HIV are 50-plus, said Dr. Joel Negin of the University of Sydney in Australia. By 2040, he said, that could reach 9 million.
There, challenges are different. Ruth Waryaro of Kenya, addressing the conference on her 65th birthday, said clinic workers hassle her when she goes to pick up her monthly supply of medication – not believing a grandmother really needs it.
"If you're not strong enough, you just leave the medication and go home," said Waryaro, who raised four children of her own and now is raising four AIDS orphans. She also has diabetes and high blood pressure.
As Negin pointedly told the conference, "50 is not old." But for years, world health authorities didn't even measure HIV in people beyond age 49.
Today, people who are diagnosed and treated early can expect a near-normal life-span, Dr. Anthony Fauci, infectious disease chief at the National Institutes of Health, told The Associated Press.
The new focus is on what these pioneering survivors can expect as they reach their 50s, 60s and beyond. They're now getting chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and osteoporosis – some of the common ailments when anyone gets old. But studies suggest people with HIV may be at higher risk for some of those illnesses, or get them earlier than usual.
"It's almost created a new subspecialty of medicine," Fauci said.
Perhaps the strongest evidence links HIV and an increased risk of heart disease. Some AIDS medications raise that risk. But in research published for the AIDS meeting, scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital uncovered another reason.
They scanned the arteries of people with and without HIV, and found the HIV patients had more inflammation inside their arteries, putting them at risk for the kind of clots that trigger heart attacks. That's even though the HIV patients had their virus well-controlled and weren't that old – their average age was 52, the researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
HIV triggers body-wide inflammation as a person's immune system tries to fight the virus, a process that persists and can quietly damage organs even with good medications, CDC's Fenton said.
HIV is not acting in a vacuum, said Dr. Amy Justice of Yale University, noting that people's histories of smoking, for example, also contribute to inflammation.
But she pointed to data from a Veterans Affairs study that said older people with HIV use more medications for other diseases than HIV-free patients the same age.
At the conference, some older people with HIV lined up to have their photographs made and their personal histories recorded, part of a Web project called "The Graying of AIDS."
It's a chance to be counted, and share knowledge.
"We're so concerned about the youth factor, we forget about the people who've brought us thus far," said Massey, the Maryland woman, who leads an HIV group called Older Women Embracing Life and works with churches to raise HIV awareness.
CDC's Fenton noted that those voices can help other older adults realize they're at risk, when they're getting back onto the dating scene after years of monogamous relationships. Older people don't use condoms as much as younger people.
"We still have this huge issue with stigma so thick you can cut it with a knife," says Massey, who also wants HIV testing to become a routine part of health check-ups. "We have to normalize the conversation."
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Title – Undaunted
Series – No Rival, #2
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Book 2 in the No Rival series
What happens in the fight club stays in the fight club.
Brothers, Rhys and Knox, have been in love with the same woman for years. While Rhys has been open about his feelings toward Mandy, he's kept her firmly locked in the friend zone. That is, until a night filled with too much alcohol explodes into passion.
Unfortunately, while Rhys doesn't remember a minute of it, Mandy remembers every detail all too well. As secrets and betrayals begin to unravel their friendship, Knox seizes his chance to—finally—claim Mandy as his own.
With two sexy fighters squaring off to win her heart, Mandy must decide which to choose—the charming reprobate who's been the center of her desire, yet always wrecks her life, or the merciless bad boy who wants to give her the world.
Inside Scoop: This sexy tale includes male/male encounters that may have you wishing for two sexy fighters of your own.
A Romantica® contemporary erotic romance from Ellora's Cave
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"Just tell us what you need and we're your men."
Ryan's teasing, upbeat personality kept her smiling and she immediately felt at ease. "Get naked and act natural," she said, somehow managing to keep a straight face.
Max groaned. "Great. Now there's two of them. Don't give him permission, Mandy. We'll never get his clothes back on."
"Fine," she huffed, breaking out her best pout. "You will have to take your shirts off, though." Max flashed a flirtatious glance her way that left her blushing as he stripped his shirt off. Oddly, she knew he didn't mean it. Some people were overtly more sexual than others were. It was more of a vibe he owned. It was as if he couldn't help himself. Of course, the knowledge did nothing to stop her face from burning every time he turned it in her direction. The third time blood flooded her cheeks, she felt Knox's heat pressing into her back. Her heart slammed against her chest at the contact. He was everywhere. Overwhelming. Unmovable.
"He's not for you." His breath fanned across her neck as the whispered warning rang in her ears. The bite in his tone rolled over her skin. As he strode away, she watched the smooth movement of his body. Untamed. The word floated through her mind and she couldn't let it go. He was a predator. Each time he was near, a shot of adrenaline pumped through her veins when she survived the encounter. One day, she wouldn't.
After a few posed shots, Mandy focused on the action. "I'd love to get as many pictures as I can, if you want to take turns sparring. I'm not picky. However the three of you choose to pair up is fine with me."
Knox gave her a sharp nod, and Ryan came over to stand at her side on the edge of the mat. Squaring off, Max and Knox circled one another. Staring down at the digital screen, Mandy zoomed in on Knox and her chest tightened even as she continued snapping pictures.
"Better Max than me," Ryan said startling her with his tight tone.
Keeping her focus on her task, Mandy tried to keep the curiosity from showing in her voice. "Scared of getting your ass handed to you, huh?" she teased.
"An ass-kicking I can handle. I have no desire to die. Underground fighters train to compete with only one rule in mind. To the death. I mean, judging by Knox's lifestyle, the money is good, but it takes a certain mentality to go into every match to kill or be killed."
Mandy could hear her heart pounding in her ears. Her gaze slid over his body with a new eye as she searched for any truth to Ryan's claim. The light glimmered off the silver rings in his nipples. Sleek muscles flexed and rolled as he poised for any opening. There wasn't a hint of emotion on his face when he found one and took Max down to the mat. All the deep scars and bruises covering his body made themselves known in light of the new insight. Appearing content with a simple submission, Knox helped an unscathed Max to his feet.
"Oh, good. He didn't kill him. I am a bit attached to him, after all."
Knox looked in their direction at Ryan's words. Raw sensuality dripped from his pores. His eyes darkened with lust. Electricity charged the air between them. Excitement pounded through Mandy. Her nipples ached and a tingle began at the base of her spine.
Ryan cleared his throat. "Whoa," he muttered under his breath. "He's going to do such naughty things to you and I want details," he sang as he walked away heading in Max's direction.
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The big cat keeps coming back to Slocan City.
A young cougar that was chased around and inside a house early this month has returned to the area at least twice since.
Shayla Aumack, who now carries an airhorn and doesn't walk alone at night, first came upon the cougar as she returned home from her Slocan Village Market job at about 8:30 p.m. on March 3.
There was a knee-high tall cougar just inside the open door of her shed, which is attached to her home, just on the outskirts of Slocan City.
"I was shocked. Our eyes locked. I knew what I was looking at, but it was still hard to believe," said Aumack, 20, who began backing up away from the door towards her grandmother's home about 50 feet.
She was alerting a friend via Facebook messenger while yelling at Levi Grey, her roommate — who was inside the house — to not come outside.
"I said 'Don't open the door' but he only heard 'Open the door,'" said Aumack, adding that once Grey opened the door her large Akbash dog, Koda, ran from the house and began chasing the cougar. Within a minute, Grey was outside and the dog had chased the cougar back inside the house.
Aumack managed to grab Koda before the pet went inside, leaving the cougar alone inside the house with Aumack's four pet cats.
"I was freaking out about my cats," she said, worried about her four pets.
Then her grandmother, Leah Hernandez, in her 60s, grabbed an axe and hurried inside Kayla's house. She was soon followed by Grey, 23, armed with a baseball bat and a friend, Robin Henderson, who picked up a work hammer.
"They chased the cougar around inside the house. They were all really close to the cat. Just a few feet away," said Aumack, stressing that no one wanted to hurt the animal.
The cat was not aggressive, although Aumack said "It did hiss at my grandma once when she moved her axe towards it. "
At one point, the cougar was stuck between the door outside Aumack's bedroom and the door in an upstairs hallway. The cat finally freed itself, ran downstairs and hopped into the kitchen sink. Later the animal ran around the living room, breaking several wine glasses, knocking the phone on the floor and tossed papers and items off the piano.
"It just wanted to get out," said Aumack. Eventually the cougar ran out of the house after almost 30 minutes.
As the cougar took off into a wooded area "we all looked at each other and just laughed. it was so ridiculous. We can't believe it happened."
Her four cats — Kalala, Diablo, Wobble, Jiraiya — were all found safe hiding inside the house.
Aumack said she called animal conservation officers, but they did not respond to the scene "because the cougar had already gone."
About a week later "the cougar came back and was on my balcony," said Aumack, adding she easily shooed the big cat away, adding she now calls it "the big kitty."
Last week, the same cougar was found in a nearby home's greenhouse.
"He was chased out and down the road," said Aumack, who was told about the incident by neighhours.
To prevent the cougar from going into her home anymore, Aumack has now closed the shed door outside of her house.
"I'm still pretty careful," she said.
Conservation officer Nathan Smienk said the incident is "an important reminder to everyone to keep their pets inside and your doors closed."
He also reminded everyone who has a wildlife issue to call the RAPP line at 1-877-952-7277.


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Yep, Nole's already soaring high after that win over Rafa Nadal at yesterday's men's final at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. That three-setter — 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 — puts him at 18-0 so far this year; at No. 2 in the world (taking over for Roger); and puts him in that elite company of guys who've been both Rafa and Roger in the same tournament twice (the other two: Nalbandian and Kolya).
…Which made it the perfect time to release this video that he hinted at last week, the one of him recreating that image of two folks playing tennis on a plane. We're still not quite sure if Nole actually got air time (while strapped in, of course), but we wouldn't put it past him.
Watch: Click on that image above to watch the video.
(Djokovic picture courtesy of Head)