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The Secret Beyond Matter
Our Messengers Say
The Prophet Dawud (As)
"Dawud! We have made you a master [khalif] in the land, so rule with justice among men and do not yield to your own desires, lest they turn you away from the Path of Allah. Those who stray from the Path of Allah will receive a harsh punishment, because they forgot the Day of Reckoning." (Surah Sad, 26)
The Prophet Dawud (as) Commanded His People Not To Violate One Another's Rights The Prophet Dawud (as), to whom Allah granted true strength and vision, summoned his people to believe in Allah, as all other messengers had done. Allah gives believers the Prophet Dawud's (as) justice and judgement without swerving from righteousness as an example. The Prophet Dawud's (as) judgement between two litigants is exemplary for all believers:
Has the story of the litigants reached you? How they climbed up to the Upper Room and came in on Dawud who was alarmed by them. They said, "Do not be afraid. We are two litigants, one of whom has acted unjustly towards the other, so judge rightly between us and do not be unjust and guide us to the Right Path. This brother of mine has ninety-nine ewes and I have only one. He said, 'Let me have charge of it,' and got the better of me in the dispute." (Surah Sad, 21-23)
The Prophet Dawud's (as) answer to these litigants was as follows:
... "He has certainly wronged you by asking for your ewe to add to his flock. Truly, many partners are unjust to one another—except those who believe and do good works, and how few they are! …" (Surah Sad, 24)
As all other prophets, the Prophet Dawud (as) also summoned people to live by Allah's commands. The verse above is an example. After admonishing the litigants that they should not violate one another's rights, he reminded them that this is a kind of morality peculiar to believers.
The Prophet Dawud (as), who frequently turned to Allah, also turned to Him after this judgement. This is related in the Qur'an as follows:
… Dawud realised that We had put him to the test. He begged forgiveness from his Lord and fell down prone, prostrating himself in penitence. So We forgave him his sin, and in the world to come he shall be honoured and well received. (Surah Sad, 24-25)
This attitude of the Prophet Dawud (as), who was aware that Allah tested him in every deed in which he engaged, and that he had to seek His pleasure in every deed, sets an example for all believers. Every person of faith should take this attitude as an example and remember that Allah witnesses everything and that everyone will give an account of his deeds to Allah on the Day of Judgement.
Other Verses Relating To The Prophet Dawud (as) In The Qur'an
Be steadfast in the face of what they say and remember Our servant Dawud, who possessed true strength. He truly turned to his Lord. (Surah Sad, 17)
We made his kingdom strong and gave him wisdom and discriminating judgement. (Surah Sad, 20)
We forgave him his sin and in the world to come he shall be honoured and well received. (Surah Sad, 25)
We gave knowledge to Dawud and Sulayman who said, "Praise be to Allah Who has favoured us over many of His servants who are believers." (Surat an-Naml, 15)
We bestowed on Dawud Our great favour: "O mountains and birds! Echo his songs of praise!" And We made iron malleable for him. (Surah Saba, 10)


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CHOWCHILLA, Calif. – One of three men who kidnapped a busload of California school children has been released from prison after more than 35 years behind bars.
State prison officials said Thursday that Richard Allen Schoenfeld was released on parole to an undisclosed location late Wednesday. He will be monitored 24 hours a day with a GPS device.
An appeals court ordered his release earlier this year, ruling that the Board of Parole Hearings unfairly set his parole date for 2021 even though it concluded he wasn't a threat to society.
Schoenfeld and two others were convicted in the 1976 kidnapping. Their captives — students from Chowchilla and their bus driver — managed to escape when the kidnappers decided to take a nap before calling in their ransom demand.

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Technicolor was a 20th century pioneer when it came to video. Now in the 21st century, facing some financial troubles, the outfit might be content to innovate less and patent troll more, evidenced by its raid on the likes of Apple, HTC, and Samsung.
According to Bloomberg, Technicolor has a team of 220 people ripping apart every new phone and tablet looking at any features that infringe on the company's library of 40,000 video, audio and optical patents.
"We usually send manufacturers a big file, with photos of the guts of their products, pointing to where they've been using our technology without paying for it," said Beatrix de Russe, a lawyer and executive vice president of intellectual property at Technicolor. "Once those images have sunk in, we can start negotiating."
To be fair, Technicolor is looking for infringement of technologies they actually created (and not bought from some defunct company), and favor licensing deals that are fair and amiable. But still, when such a legendary company has to resort to patent trolling to keep the business afloat, you can't help but feel a little sad. [Bloomberg]


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Anonymous Hits Israel with a Massive Cyber Attack, Israel Attacks Back
To ring in this year's Holocaust Memorial Day, the classy hackers at Anonymous took down a bunch of Israeli government websites on Sunday and say they caused over $3 billion in damage. But they didn't totally get away with it. Within a few hours of the attack which Anonymous says affected 100,000 websites, 40,000 Facebook pages, 5,000 Twitter accounts and 30,000 bank accounts, an Israeli hacker broke into the website that Anonymous had set up for the attack, dubbed Operation Israel. Instead of the original anti-Israel messages that were originally on the site to protest Israel's treatment of Palestine, the Israeli hacker rejiggered the site to play "Hatikvah," Israel's national anthem.
Israel's playing this one super cool. Despite Anonymous's claims of massive damage, the country's cyber security officials say that the attack caused minimal damage. "So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage," Yitzhak Ben Yisrael from the government's National Cyber Bureau told the press. "Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the attack ahead of time. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart." This is more or less what Anonymous always does, often with varying levels of success.
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Regardless of the amount of damage done, the scale of the attack is bound to be embarrassing for the Israeli government. This is the second time that Anonymous has successfully taken down Israeli government websites. The original #OpIsrael attack happened last November and affected some 600 sites and resulted in the hackers released personal information for thousands of high-ranking officials. Israel denied then that the attack did any damage, and some tech writers balked at the effort, saying that Anonymous had lost its swagger.
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If that was the case then, Anonymous just looks insensitive now. The Holocaust and any holiday commemorating it is hardly a topic to goof around about. And given Israel's allege involvement in the infamous Stuxnet cyber attack, it's hard to believe a bunch of zany hackers with a bad DDoSing habit could really stand up to their security teams. They didn't either.


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Another day, another study that confirms the dispiriting reality that sitting is bad for you. Fortunately, says that same study on heart health published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, it doesn't take much to offset the harmful effects of sitting.
Because exercise has a more powerful effect in helping the heart than sitting does in harming it, one hour of physical exercise could counteract the effects of sitting for six to seven hours a day, according to researchers led by Dr. Jarett Berry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
(MORE: It's Lack of Exercise — Not Calories — That Makes Us Fat, Study Says)
The data Berry and his team reviewed came from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, an ongoing series of health studies maintained by the Centers for Disease Control. The 2,223 participants between the ages of 12 and 49 wore accelerometers for seven days (except while showering or swimming) to measure their activity levels and sedentary behavior, and the result showed that sitting, regardless of the total amount of physical activity the people did, was linked to lower heart fitness.
But it also found that men and women who logged less time sitting had better fitness, as measured on a treadmill test, than those who spent more hours in a chair or on the couch. So instead of focusing on working out, those worried about their health might think instead about sitting less. "Even people who exercise regularly spend the vast majority of their time not exercising," says Berry. "And it appears that what we do when we're not exercising is relevant to our health. Understanding this has the ability to shift the paradigm of thinking about exercise more dramatically than anything else in the field of exercise."
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In general, Berry says, any movement, from walking to taking the stairs and even fidgeting if you absolutely have to be in a chair, is likely better than sitting relatively motionless. "Much more work needs to be done, to develop small scale trials to test the impact that lifestyle changes have irrespective of volitional physical activity," he says. "We spend so much of our time sitting and doing non-exercise-related activities that it's relevant for us to understand that better."
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I absolutely loved this 1998 Esquire profile of Mister Rogers by Tom Junod. I was a big Mister Rogers fan...loved him even more than Sesame Street. One my favorite things I've read all year.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Then he took off his shoes and put on a pair of sneakers. His name was Fred Rogers. He was starting a television program, aimed at children, called Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. He had been on television before, but only as the voices and movements of puppets, on a program called The Children's Corner. Now he was stepping in front of the camera as Mister Rogers, and he wanted to do things right, and whatever he did right, he wanted to repeat. And so, once upon a time, Fred Rogers took off his jacket and put on a sweater his mother had made him, a cardigan with a zipper. Then he took off his shoes and put on a pair of navy-blue canvas boating sneakers. He did the same thing the next day, and then the next ... until he had done the same things, those things, 865 times, at the beginning of 865 television programs, over a span of thirty-one years. The first time I met Mister Rogers, he told me a story of how deeply his simple gestures had been felt, and received. He had just come back from visiting Koko, the gorilla who has learned — or who has been taught — American Sign Language. Koko watches television. Koko watches Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and when Mister Rogers, in his sweater and sneakers, entered the place where she lives, Koko immediately folded him in her long, black arms, as though he were a child, and then ... "She took my shoes off, Tom," Mister Rogers said.
Koko was much bigger than Mister Rogers. She weighed 280 pounds, and Mister Rogers weighed 143. Koko weighed 280 pounds because she is a gorilla, and Mister Rogers weighed 143 pounds because he has weighed 143 pounds as long as he has been Mister Rogers, because once upon a time, around thirty-one years ago, Mister Rogers stepped on a scale, and the scale told him that Mister Rogers weighs 143 pounds. No, not that he weighed 143 pounds, but that he weighs 143 pounds. ... And so, every day, Mister Rogers refuses to do anything that would make his weight change — he neither drinks, nor smokes, nor eats flesh of any kind, nor goes to bed late at night, nor sleeps late in the morning, nor even watches television — and every morning, when he swims, he steps on a scale in his bathing suit and his bathing cap and his goggles, and the scale tells him that he weighs 143 pounds. This has happened so many times that Mister Rogers has come to see that number as a gift, as a destiny fulfilled, because, as he says, "the number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?"
Here's the Emmy speech mentioned in the piece:
an NPR piece on Rogers' death with Junod as a guest, and a eulogy by Junod for Rogers.


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GLENDALE, Ariz. – Dayan Viciedo hit a grand slam and a two-run double, Dewayne Wise and Jordan Danks also homered, and Gavin Floyd allowed one run over 5 1-3 innings in the Chicago White Sox's 15-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday.
The Sox beat their crosstown rival for the second time in two games this season.
Wise homered for the third time this spring, and Paul Konerko raised his average to .394 with a single and a double. Konerko also walked and scored two runs.
Floyd, an important piece in the middle of the White Sox's starting rotation, did not walk a batter and struck out five.
"Everything was working pretty good today," Floyd said. "I threw some changeups in there that were pretty good and I was using everything, so that's a good place to be. Working both sides of the plate. It was fun."
Viciedo's homer was a deep blast to right-center field.


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We come to CSU with widely varying experiences in writing classes. There are numerous ways to teach writing and to write successfully; as a result, we think it is central to begin a description of the course you will be teaching by clarifying its goals. We hope (and fully expect) that your teaching styles will differ and that you will make the activities in the common syllabus "your own," based on your own writing experiences and knowledge about writing. However, in a multi-sectioned course such as CO150, common goals ensure a similar educational experience for all students in the course. No matter who is teaching an individual section, the following goals should be pursued in all CO150 classes:
Given the nature of writing situations, good writing can never be defined universally; rather, the appropriateness of a document can only be evaluated according to the choices a writer makes in light of his or her writing situation. For instance, is the purpose appropriate for the situation? Is the text appropriate for the readers' needs and interests? Is the document organized in a way that allows readers to follow it? Does the document take into account the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which it will be read? Does the writer recognize and address the limitations, requirements, and opportunities that are part of the writing situation? Rather than teaching writing as a set of rules on how to produce specific forms—such as a research essay or a review of literature—we focus on writing as a process involving questions that shape a writer's choices.
CO150 is designed to help student writers understand and make informed choices about their writing processes and the documents they produce. We assume that, by modeling the process and choice-making strategies within the contexts we set up in the syllabus, we can help student writers apply these ways of thinking to future writing situations. Thus, the writing assignments addressed in the course focus on educated audiences inside and outside the academy. The assignments help students use writing processes and strategies to write to public audiences for specific purposes. Moreover, the focus on publicly debated issues throughout the course offers a way to help students think about how reading and writing might serve them, not only as students in a university but also as educated citizens of a democracy.
For these reasons, the conversation metaphor used throughout the course is particularly important. By using this metaphor, we can help students build on their understanding of conversations as situated within larger social, historical, and cultural contexts. Students realize that they would be foolish to open their mouths the moment they join a group of people engaged in conversation - instead, they'd listen for a few moments to understand what's being discussed. Then, if they found they had something to offer, they would wait until an appropriate moment to contribute. Our students understand what happens to people who make off-topic, insensitive, inappropriate, or ill-considered remarks in a conversation. In CO150, we build on this understanding by suggesting that, prior to contributing to the debate about an issue, they should read and analyze what other writers have written. Then, when they've gained an understanding of the conversation about that issue, they can offer their own contribution to it.
To become more effective writers, then, students need to ask questions about their writing situations and make informed choices to respond to those situations. In a nutshell, this course helps students engage in the processes of learning what has already been written about a publicly debated issue, drafting a response to the conversation about the issue, and revising that response as they consider their writing situation.
· Learning how to contribute to the conversation—essentially, creating your own argumentative response to what others have written—involves learning how to generate ideas, develop claims and reasons, use evidence effectively, write effective and easy-to-follow prose, and organize documents that meet the needs of a specific context and take into account the needs and interests of readers. This will be the principal goal of Portfolio 3, for which students will select an audience, purpose, and specific publication context to offer their argumentative contribution to the conversation.
As students work on their assignments in CO150, they are likely to find themselves challenged by the ideas they encounter in their reading about the issue on which they've decided to focus and by their efforts to draft and revise a response to the conversation they've decided to join. Writers are influenced by social, historical, and cultural beliefs and pressures, which influence their choices as they produce a document. By helping student writers understand the complexity of the situations within which they find themselves, we can help students recognize writing as a social act and view revision as a way to effect change within society. Therefore, students can also begin to see how writing can serve not only academic but also cultural and civic purposes. To make this interaction of the four goals more concrete, consider the following example . . .
Writing a paper for a graduate course includes a variety of possible topic choices, such as which literary text you will choose, what reading approach you will take, and what aspect of the text is most important. All of these choices are influenced by the situation in which it was assigned and the audience for which it is being written, and includes such factors as what you've done in class, the nature of past discussions, and what you believe the professor might expect. Within this complicated writing situation, writers define goals for papers that, hopefully, also have something to do with what they want to express about the text to this audience. What such a situation creates is the need for writers to make a series of choices about the writing task based on an assessment of every aspect of the situation. Each choice limits the other kinds of choices to be made. If you choose, for instance, to write a feminist analysis of Pride and Prejudice, you've already limited which aspects of the novel you might focus on and what kinds of analyses you will have to conduct. As you clarify your ideas about the phallocentric nature of the "romance," you might also have to decide what to include based on what you think your audience will readily accept and what you will have to prove in detail. Perhaps you will complete a draft only to decide the professor is a bit threatened by feminism (because of her cultural experiences and positioning), so you might then go back and revise the essay to be a bit more attentive to the audience's concerns. Or, you might choose to stay with your original analysis to try to confront the audience's possible beliefs more directly. Thus, we can see the interaction of revision and asking questions about the rhetorical context and how they inform a writer's response to that context.
However, the writing process doesn't really end there. In a larger sense, writing always occurs within a cultural context. In writing an essay about Pride and Prejudice, you're also writing about culture. How does culture view romance? How do cultural forces influence our actions within relationships? In effect, as we write, whether we're aware of it or not, we're participating in culture. Writing is a way to gain a voice in the constantly changing nature of society. Yet, in order for this voice to be authentic, writers must be aware of the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which they write. If we return to the example above, we see that writing such an analysis is already analyzing cultural notions of how relationships are affected by the phallocentric culture of the time (e.g., the book may reproduce expectations about gender roles within a relationship that was dominant at that time). However, as the writing process unfolds, writers can also express and revise their own views of society and culture. For example, while writing a paragraph on how the novel reinforces traditional gender roles, you might be able to see how those roles are present in your own relationships. While the act of revision changes what you're saying in the text, it also may change your cultural views. If you then decide to stay with your original analysis rather than revise to more readily fit what you suspect are the views of the professor, you could make an active and direct attempt to change cultural notions of gender roles within relationships, thus representing your own (revised) beliefs more accurately.
We begin our common syllabus with this philosophical statement because it is easy, once you begin teaching, to focus only on how to produce the particular kinds of documents asked for in the major writing assignments. Keeping the goal of teaching choice within a context, however, can help prevent too much focus on producing an "A" paper of a particular genre. While success in particular genres will no doubt help your students succeed in CO150, it will not necessarily help them succeed in writing tasks beyond this individual class—the main purpose of a first-year course.
Although much of this syllabus focuses on specific essays and reports, it is important to keep in mind that the goal of CO150 is not simply to teach students to write these particular kinds of documents well. Although CO150 is meant to help students write for other courses, the variety of genres and assignments across the curriculum cannot be readily reproduced in this course. Instead, the major goal of CO150 is to teach students about writing in such a way that they can respond effectively to a variety of writing assignments, contexts, and tasks in the future. Therefore, we have designed the course so that students must choose and analyze real writing situations. Our hope is that this will help students learn how to apply academic thinking and writing strategies to new, more public contexts. In short, then, the main goal of the course is to create better writers rather than writers proficient only at producing certain kinds of documents.


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Coming on the heels of the UFC officially pulling him from a May 26th title bout against Junior Dos Santos, Alistair Overeem has broken his silence on his failed pre-UFC 146 drug test. In a statement released to the press, "The Reem" explained why his T/E ratio was so high and announced that he was withdrawn his application to fight in Nevada. You can read the full statement below:
"To my friends and fans,
I am deeply saddened to announce that on Friday, April 20, I respectfully withdrew from the May 26 event so that I can request a continuance until my situation with the Nevada State Athletic Commission is resolved.
I cannot express how sorry I am to the Commission, Junior Dos Santos, the fans, the owners and employees of the UFC, my friends and family and anyone else who this has affected.
I absolutely do not believe in, nor do I use performance-enhancing drugs. I am a clean fighter and I will do whatever it takes to prove this to everyone.
Prior to the UFC 146 press conference in March, I aggravated an old rib injury on my left side. My doctor prescribed, and I accepted, an anti-inflammatory medication that was mixed with testosterone. I was completely unaware that testosterone was one of the ingredients in the medication. Although I was unaware, I do realize it is my job to know what I am putting into my body.
I respect the Nevada Commissioners and Executive Director Keith Kizer and what they are doing to keep the sport of mixed martial arts regulated and safe for athletes. I look forward to working with them in the days and weeks ahead.
Friends and fans, I ask for your patience as I work through this matter. Please support me. I promise to return to the Octagon soon."


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You can't prove you won't want to be thereMonday, June 29th, 2009
Avi Wigderson has asked me to announce that Princeton's recently-founded and delightfully-named Center for Computational Intractability will be holding a week-long workshop on Barriers in Computational Complexity, this August 25th to 29th. Apparently I'm even co-organizing one of the sessions. So register now! Lowerbounderati, provers of meta-impossibility theorems, and other congenital pessimists are particularly discouraged from not attending.


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For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed and recorded a comet disintegrating in the Sun's atmosphere. The icy body — dubbed "comet C/2011 N3 (SOHO)" — was originally observed back in July. Today, the team that observed the comet flaming out of existence has published an in-depth analysis of what really happened.
So what can we learn from the final moments of a dirty snowball passing too close to the Sun? A lot more than you'd think.
First, some background. Comet C/2011 N3 (SOHO) - let's nickname it Icarus for short - belongs to a group of comets known as the Kreutz family. The Kreutz family is notorious for cruising perilously close to the sun's surface. When I say notorious I mean it — they do it all the time, and everybody knows it. In the last ten years, solar monitoring observatories have detected over 1,600 members of the Kreutz family playing chicken with the Sun's corona; but for all those daredevil comets, not a one had been tracked making an entrance into its roiling, plasma-laden atmosphere. Consequently, nobody had ever seen what happens to a Kreutz comet in its final moments.
But Icarus, as we're all aware, was different. When it made its death dive, researchers at NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory were able to capture a 20-minute movie of Icarus' transit, a time lapse of which is shown here (the coronal mass ejection that you see shortly after the comet passes in front of the sun, while awesome-looking, is entirely coincidental). With the comet traveling at speeds exceeding 600 kilometers per second, those 20 minutes were enough to capture the comet's approach, its complete obliteration in the Sun's lower corona, and everything in-between. And it's these in-between moments that are really interesting.
By combining data collected from three different solar observatories, astrophysicist Carolus Schrijver and his colleagues have managed to tease out impressive quantities of information about comet Icarus. How long it took to disintegrate, how far it was from the surface of the sun when it ceased to be, the varying rate at which mass was shed from the comet as it was exposed to temperatures approaching 2-million degrees fahrenheit — all of these things and more have been estimated and published in the latest issue of Science.
Pictured here is an extra-ultraviolet image of the Sun's solar corona, along with the projected orbit of Icarus between July 5, 2011 23:46 UTC and July 6, 2011 00:06 UTC. In a perspective also published in this week's Science, Carey M. Lisse — senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory — describes what you're looking at:
Insets (with UTC times) show a subframe region containing the comet nucleus, coma [the cloud of dust and gas surrounding the comet's nucleus], and debris trail… The comet is moving from right to left across the face of the Sun in this image, and the nucleus is on the extreme left of each subframe; the debris trail is becoming fainter with time, as the comet dissipates and disintegrates in the corona.
These observations, notes Lisse — who was not affiliated with the study — are the first of their kind. As such, she writes, the results of Schrijver and his colleagues are "pioneering a new method of cometary study."
This new method of study will inform our understanding of not only how comets fall apart, but how they are put together; and that, explains Lisse, has the potential to shed important light on everything from the formation of our early solar system (helping explain, for example, how matter transforms from micrometer-sized specks of dust into planetary bodies) to the three-dimensional properties of the solar corona (by observing the way comets evaporate and disintegrate while passing through the Sun's atmosphere, astrophysicists could use icy bodies like Icarus to "map" the atmosphere's density structure).
All that from watching a dirty snowball disappear as it crosses the face of the Sun.
The researchers' findings — along with Lisse's perspective piece — are published in the January 20th issue of Science.
Images via Science/AAAS


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Rickman Store celebrates 85 years
A community-wide open house celebration featuring a full day of entertainment and cultural events will mark the 85th anniversary of the historic Rickman Store from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 6.
Festivities begin at 10 a.m. with a Barter Day in remembrance of the first exchange at the store. On March 3, 1925, the store's first customer, Ms. Eva Bryson, traded three eggs for a spool of thread. Last year's bartering event was a great success and rekindled the tradition of exchanging goods without money. Everyone is invited to bring items to trade. Included will be a children's table for youngsters to learn about fair negotiations.
At 11 a.m. the Nikwasi Dulcimer Players will join the celebration. The Nikwasi Players have been among the most dedicated supporters of the Rickman Store.
At noon, stories about area mountain life and traditions will be shared by Gary Carden and Dave Waldrop. Storyteller, playwright, and novelist, Gary Carden has deep roots in the Cowee Community where he spent summers at his grandmother's farm.
The afternoon will feature even more music at 1:30 p.m. when the band "Deep Woods Frolic" performs and provides a great opening for a Music Jam where everyone is invited to bring an instrument and join in the celebration until 4 p.m.
The T.M. Rickman General Store was built by John Hall in 1895. It was purchased by Tom Rickman in 1925. A year later Tom married Fannie Holbrook who became his partner in business and life until her death in 1982. Tom Rickman continued operating the store until 1992. The store changed hands twice after Mr. Rickman, and in August 2007, The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee purchased the store for preservation.
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Located on Cowee Creek Road, seven miles north of Franklin by Hwy NC 28, next to the Cowee Elementary School, the Rickman Store has become a focal point for cultural, educational, and entertainment activities designed to preserve and honor the traditions of the Cowee-West's Mill Historic District and Cowee Community.


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Team Worldwide Expands in Upper Midwest Opening Newest Branch in Minneapolis
Team Worldwide is pleased to announce our newest Branch Office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The grand opening is scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, 2020. This new location is a great addition to the extensive network of over 45 Branches across North America.
Team was interested in offering service to/from Minneapolis due to the strong economy, diverse customer base, and large geographic territory in the neighboring states.


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text: The fingerprint sensor in Apple's new iPhone 5S has the potential to enhance the security of the device, but the devil will be in the details.Its effectiveness will depend on the strength of the implementation and whether it's used in conjunction with other security credentials, researchers said.Apple unveiled two new iPhone models Tuesday, the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, the latter of which has a fingerprint sensor dubbed Touch ID built into the home button. The sensor will allow users to use their fingerprints instead of a password to unlock the device and make purchases on iTunes.It's not clear if the feature will also be used in other scenarios that have yet to be revealed or if third-party applications will also be able to use it to authenticate users.In presenting the technology Tuesday, Apple said the fingerprint data is encrypted and locked in the device's new A7 chip, that it's never directly accessible to software and that it's not stored on Apple's servers or backed up to iCloud.Fingerprint scanners have historically been susceptible to errors and replay attacks that involve stealing fingerprints and using them to trick the scanners by employing a variety of techniques.According to Apple, Touch ID scans sub-epidermal skin layers, has a 500-ppi resolution and can recognize fingerprints at any rotation. But how well it will resist attempts by security researchers to bypass it remains to be seen."Common attacks against fingerprint readers include using photos of fingers or creating fingerprint molds based on captured prints," said Dirk Sigurdson, director of engineering for the Mobilisafe mobile risk management technology at security firm Rapid7, via email. "Hopefully the iPhone sensor will have strong protections against using copied fingers."Fingerprint technology is not a high-security feature, said Marc Rogers, principal security researcher at mobile security firm Lookout. That's why most military installations, for example, use hand geometry or retina scanners instead, he said."It is possible to copy a fingerprint and I think that as the technology sees wider usage, the techniques of copying fingerprints will only improve," the researcher said. However, a fingerprint is still better and more convenient than a four-digit PIN, he said.The best single factor of authentication is a strong password stored only in the user's brain, but it's inherently difficult for people to create and remember strong passwords, Sigurdson said. This often results in bad passwords being used, so a good fingerprint reader and matching algorithm will likely improve the security of iOS devices, he said.Many people probably don't even set a PIN because it's inconvenient to enter it every time, so a fingerprint gives them the opportunity to secure their device in a way that's better than nothing, Rogers said.Research suggests as many as half of users never set up a four-digit PIN or a more complex password to lock their devices, Apple said during its presentation.Rogers believes fingerprints could add great security if they're used in conjunction with other security credentials as part of two-factor authentication.For example, Apple could allow users to set a strong, complex password that's used to encrypt the file system and which would need to be entered only when the device is switched on. The user's fingerprint could then be used as a medium-strength access credential to unlock the device when it's on and needs to be used. This would provide both security and convenience for users, Rogers said.In addition, if Apple would allow other applications on the device to use the fingerprint sensor, it could increase the security of those applications. For example, a banking application could require users to authorize transactions by scanning their fingerprints, limiting what attackers can do if they steal those users' log-in passwords, he said.Overall, the sensor has the potential to increase the security of the device, but it depends on implementation and whether consumers will actually use it, Christopher Pogue, director of security vendor Trustwave's SpiderLabs security research team, said via email. "It is key that consumers can easily understand how to use the sensor."Like Rogers, Pogue believes that fingerprints would be most valuable if used as part of a two-factor authentication system."Like anything else that runs on a mobile device, the scanner itself is an application that interfaces with the underlying operating system and like other applications, regardless of function, there are vulnerabilities that exist due to a multitude of factors," Pogue said. "This application will likely be no different, and exploits will certainly be forthcoming if not already here."Unlike a password, a fingerprint is not something a person can forget or share with someone else, so in that regard it provides stronger access control than a password, Pogue said. However, there has to be a failsafe mechanism to prevent the device owner from being locked out in case his fingerprint is modified as a result of an injury, for example, he said. "It's this 'back door' access that, if present, would likely lead to unforeseen security vulnerabilities."Security best practices indicate that access control should always use at least two factors: "something you know," like a password or PIN; "something you have," like a physical token device; or "something you are," like a biometric feature, including fingerprints, Pogue said. Adding an additional layer of defense makes unauthorized access to the device through that mechanism exponentially more difficult, he said.The goal should always be to raise the bar for attackers and, keeping that in mind, if the fingerprint sensor would be used as part of a two-factor authentication system, it would greatly enhance security, Rogers said.However, Rogers and Pogue had different opinions on how useful this feature will be in enterprise environments.Rogers thinks that if the feature will be made available to third-party developers, enterprises could use it to secure their internal mobile applications and limit the risks resulting from phishing attacks that target employee access credentials.He also believes that it increases the physical security of devices and could, in conjunction with other technologies like remote device tracking, discourage mobile phone theft, which has become a serious problem in many countries.Meanwhile, Pogue thinks that the sensor only marginally improves security because there will likely be bypasses for it, and he doubts that enterprises will take advantage of the technology anytime soon.The FIDO Alliance, an industry group that wants to reduce reliance on passwords, welcomed Apple's inclusion of a fingerprint sensor, but didn't think it would result in widespread adoption of such technology, because its implementation is proprietary."Apple's decision to include authentication with the iPhone is a good dose of rocket fuel for the industry," said Michael Barrett, president of the FIDO Alliance. "Though any authentication technology unsupported by standards may take years, if ever, to achieve widespread market penetration. The marketplace seeks authentication capabilities that span computer, smartphone, and physical access authentication and federated identity applications. Open industry standards, such as FIDO authentication specifications, are required before we can achieve industry-wide adoption of strong authentication across all platforms."


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Team Fortress 2 patched
April 29, 2010
Valve has released a sizable update for Team Fortress 2. The latest patch, now available on Steam, includes a number of fixes, gameplay changes and some minor enhancements. Check out the lengthy patch notes after the jump.
Valve has released a sizable update for Team Fortress 2. The latest patch, now available on Steam, includes a number of fixes, gameplay changes and some minor enhancements.
Patch notes:
Team Fortress 2
- Added new community map cp_freight
- Added missing physics models for several items
- Added jiggle bones to the Sam & Max items, and The Buff Banner
- Added Crit-a-Cola
Dedicated Server
- Linux optimizations.
- Fixed Linux servers not relisting correctly after a master server restart
- Fixed a case where servers could have "ghost" players consuming player slots
- Marked the "snd_show" convar as a cheat
Gameplay Changes
- Pyro changes
- Flamethrower direct damage reduced 20%.
- Burn duration reduced (10 -> 6 seconds).
- Airblast re-fire delay reduced by 25%.
- Airblast ammo usage reduced by 20%.
- All reflected rockets/grenades/arrows now mini-crit.
- Airblasting enemies into environmental deaths now awards the death credit to the Pyro.
- Heavy changes
- Minigun spin-up/down time reduced by 25%
- Minigun firing movement speed increased to just under half-normal (from 80 to 110).
- Throwing a sandvich to a teammate now earns a full bonus point (was half a point).
- Bonk! changes
- Post-use movement penalty removed.
- Now has a re-use cooldown time, like The Sandman.
- The Chargin' Target changes
- Direct charge hit now does 50 damage + 10 per head (up to 5 heads).
- Capped the turn rate from +left and +right while charging.
- The Huntsman changes
- Removed restriction that arrows need to be aimed before they can be lit by a Pyro.
- Bow can now be lowered without losing the lit arrow.
- Changed bow so you can start charging it while you're jumping, but you can't fire until you're on the ground.
- Fixed bug where flame effect would get stuck on if you change weapons with a lit arrow.
- Backpack changes
- Moved Crafting button out to the root class/backpack selection panel.
- Dragging and dropping items in your backpack now makes appropriate sounds.
- Bot changes
- Bots don't retreat to gather health as readily if they are in combat.
- Bots no longer retreat when moving to block a point capture.
- Bots should now equip an appropriate combat weapon and fight while moving to collect health.
- Bots who are roaming the map and hunting now chase down their victims, following them around corners.
- Bots That fire projectiles (ie: rockets/grenades/etc) don't hold down their fire button for a minimum time. This was causing Soldier bots to fire rockets into nearby walls as they strafed, killing themselves.
- Soldiers bots now switch to their shotgun after firing all four rockets when engaging an enemy.
- Added a few more bot names from community suggestions.
- Fixed a behavior loop with Engineer metal gathering.
- The Sandman change
- Added a slight speed reduction to stunned players.
- Community requests
- Added ConVars log_verbose_enable and log_verbose_interval to report player positions in the server log at regular intervals
- log_verbose_enable default: 0
- log_verbose_interval default: 3 secs
- "Last-weapon" initialization on respawn now sets itself to be the melee weapon if you don't have a selectable secondary weapon (like The Razorback).
- Added ConVars log_verbose_enable and log_verbose_interval to report player positions in the server log at regular intervals
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an case where The Gunboats didn't apply their damage reduction properly.
- The amount count in the HUD now flashes red when you're low on ammo.
- Extinguishing a burning teammate now earns a full bonus point (was half a point).
- Fixed a permanent overheal exploit involving dispensers.
- Fixed a bug in spectator mode where the user aborted out of freezecam, setup a spec mode (like IN_EYE), and would then have the setting stomped after the freezecam timer expired.
- Fixed bug with disguised spy sometimes seeing his own name in the disguise status HUD.
- Fixed a client crash that could result from players with arrows embedded in them.
- Fixed items that can be worn by any class having the wrong model when worn by a disguised Spy.
- Added missing map prefixes to server browser game types.
- Killing yourself with your own sentry no longer increments the sentry's kill counter.
- Fixed dropped hats sometimes having the wrong team color.
- Fixed crit-boosted players not getting critical hits if their weapon has custom no-crit behavior.
- Fixed the achievement dialog taking a long time to pop up, and completed achievements now sort to the bottom of the list.
- Fixed Spies disguised as Medics hearing the autocaller sound.
Via [Steam]


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The Historic Riviera Theatre presents The Irish Rovers on Wednesday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. for one performance only.
Tickets are priced at $30 and $40 (plus handling fees).
For more information, call the Riviera Theatre Box Office at 716-692-2413 (weekdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), or order online atwww.rivieratheatre.org.


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Adventurer Alastair Humphreys
A seasoned world wanderer launches a campaign to create local adventures for everyone.
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"Break down the elitism in adventure—that was my goal," says Alastair Humphreys. The 35-year-old Brit has ridden his bike 46,000 miles around the world, crossed Iceland's rugged glacial highlands on foot, and set his sights on the longest unsupported journey to the South Pole. But in 2011, Humphreys never left his native U.K. He barely even left the county.
Instead he embarked on a year of microadventures—small, local trips that began and ended at his doorstep. He hiked Britain's most reviled stretch of road, the M25, a clogged transit artery that circles London through the swelling suburbs. He swam the Thames, used public transport to get out of the city and sleep out underneath the stars, and spent four days living off the land. Advanced Base Camp was his home in London's suburbs.
"Each trip ticked all the boxes of adventure. It was cold. It was physically challenging. I talked to people I wouldn't have otherwise met," says Humphreys. What he learned was clear—we find adventure by stepping outside of our day-to-day norms.
To share his idea and inspire others, Humphreys devised a series of ten challenges in the form of four-minute video trip reports encouraging would-be adventurers to sign up for a race, to take advantage of the hours before and after work, and to pick a random point on a map and visit it. The idea caught on through Twitter. Word spread and people began sending in trip reports and homemade videos via Twitter. They came in from as far away as Japan. This year the idea traveled farther than the adventurer.
"My hope is that come December, I will have other microadventurers who have taken this journey with me from that first challenge all the way to our final challenge, which will end up being quite a worthy adventure," says Humphreys, who plans on revealing his final challenge at the end of the year. "In life it doesn't matter what you do, just that you get off your backside and do something."
—Fitz Cahall
Adventure: How did you come up with the concept of microadventures?
Alastair Humphreys: I started to think that it was possible to have an adventure anywhere. That it was really just a state of mind, committing to get off your backside. If that were true, I figured you could do this anywhere.
I decided to do the most provocatively mundane adventure that I could think of—the M25, the highway that goes around London. It's filled with traffic. Everybody hates the road. I walked a lap of the M25. I set off in January. It was cold. It was snowy. It was physically challenging. I saw new places. I saw some beautiful places, which I hadn't expected to find at all. I met interesting people. That week ticked all of the boxes that my four-year bike trip around the world ticked. I came back buzzing. It was quite stupid and silly, but it had been a genuine adventure.
A: To a certain extent do you think all adventure is like that?
AH: In many ways it is totally pointless to trudge to the top of Mount Everest, risking life and limb just so that you can get to the top and turn back around again. It's not really about what people do, just that they do something. It's great to pause and slow, to think about what's going on in your life or about the environment. All adventure is a vessel for getting to the more important things in life.
A: With the economic troubles, riots in the streets of London, people tightening down on travel, it seems like maybe we are ready for an idea like this.
AH: The riots were pretty shocking. It was young people who were bored and angry. It feels like there is no hope. I didn't hear about it for the first day because I was sleeping on a clifftop in Wales, just having mountain biked through some gorgeous countryside to sleep underneath the moon and the stars. I came back to find that all hell had broken loose. I just wished I could take a busload of rioters and show them these wonderful places on our doorstep here in the U.K.
- Nat Geo Expeditions
A: Your series of video adventure challenges took off on Twitter. What were the challenges?
AH: I started with something tiny that everyone could do, so that they could join. My first challenge was to enter a race. It could be a five-mile race. It forced people to break up the mundane. The second was to go away for a weekend, grab some friends, jump in the car, go climb a hill, go to the pub. Break the routine. By the third one, it really started to get a good response. We always talk about the nine-to-five life, the office life. What about your five-to-nine? That's 16 hours a day. I decided to do something in those hours. I took the train, slept on top of a hill. Woke up. Jumped in a lake. Jumped on the train and was back home by nine o'clock.
A: What was you favorite microadventure?
AH: The River Thames is thought of as this horrible river. If you go a little ways out of London it becomes a nice countryside river. I decided to swim it. If you jump into the river, the banks are a meter above your head and you can't see any houses at all. You feel like you are completely in wilderness. I spent two days swimming down the river, sleeping on the banks.


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Technical requirements
Before downloading or installing anything, you need to provide a home for your PrestaShop online store. This means its files need to reside on a Web server. You might have a Web server of your own, but it is more likely that you have or will have your shop hosted by an Internet hosting service, which provides you with an online home for a few dollars per month.
You may also want to buy a domain-name for your shop. Many web hosts offer a free domain with every new account, but you could also buy one at an independent domain name registrar.
PrestaShop can host your online business on its in-house Web servers; please consult our PrestaBox website for details on our low-priced, secure Website hosting service. This is highly recommended for businesses with little to no experience with the Internet or computers. Naturally, we install and update PrestaShop for you.
Whichever hosting service you use must have the following components installed on your server space:
- System: Unix, Linux or Windows. Unix is highly recommended.
- Web server: Apache Web server 1.3 or later.
- PHP 5.2 or later. (You may have to activate PHP 5 on your hosting service, see below.)
- MySQL 5.0 or later.
- At least 32 Mb of RAM on your server (64 Mb is comfy, the more the better).
PrestaShop can work with PHP 5.1 or later, but versions inferior to 5.2 have bugs that might prevent some functionalities to work as expected (such as invalid date timezone).
PrestaShop can also work with Microsoft's IIS Web server 6.0 or later, and nginx 1.0 or later.
More information is available for system administrators in the System Administrators Guide.
Setting up a local environment
This guide is mainly targeted at users wishing to install PrestaShop on a remote server/host.
You may wish to install on your local machine, either in order to test PrestaShop before investing money in a server and domain name, or to customize your shop locally before you push your modifications to the PrestaShop installation that would already you have online.
Installing any web-application locally requires that you first install the adequate environment, namely the Apache web server, the PHP language interpreter, the MySQL database server, and ideally the phpMyAdmin tool. This is called an AMP package: Apache+MySQL+PHP and the operating system, giving WAMP (Windows+Apache+MySQL+PHP), MAMP (Mac+...) and LAMP (Linux+...). Since all of the items packaged are open-source, these installers are most of the time free.
This would require you to be quite technical; luckily there exist many pre-built packages that you can install easily. It does not prevent you from having to get technical here and there, but they do provide a huge help. Here is a selection of free AMP installer:
- XAMPP (Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris)
- WampServer (Windows)
- EasyPHP (Windows)
- MAMP (Mac)
Choose the package that you feel the most comfortable with, launch it, and make sure that everything it has installed does work before going on with this PrestaShop installation tutorial:
- The web server should be up and running. You should be able to access it through your browser, by typing "127.0.0.1" in the address bar. 127.0.0.1 is the "localhost", meaning "your computer": it is a loopback address which directs the browser to any local server. In effect, 127.0.0.1 and localhost are synonymous: you can use one or the other interchangeably.
- The database server should be up and running. MySQL is where all your data is stored. The AMP package should provide you with a clear indicator whether MySQL is running or not.
- The phpMyAdmin tool should be accessible. This is the web application that helps you handle data stored in MySQL. Its location depends on which AMP packaging you chose: it can be found at 127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin (XAMPP, WampServer, MAMP), 127.0.0.1/mysql (EasyPHP), or maybe at another location. Check your package's documentation – it might even provide a phpMyAdmin button of sort that would open the correct URL in your browser.
Once you have checked that the package is correctly installed and that all of its parts are running, you need to find the root folder. That's the local folder where you will place your files, and can be compared to the root folder of your online server, only its content is accessed with 127.0.0.1. The actual local location of the folder depends greatly on the AMP package, and can be customized:
- XAMPP: C:\xampp\htdocs
- WampServer: C:\wamp\www
- EasyPHP: C:\easyphp\www
- MAMP: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/
Finally, you need to know the root user name and password for MySQL, in order to install PrestaShop. Most packages use the user name "root" with an empty password. Read your package's documentation.
With all that clear and done, you can follow up on the rest of this Getting Started guide, keeping in mind that files are not to be uploaded via FTP to a server, but simply to be moved in the correct local folder.
Installing PrestaShop
Downloading and unzipping the PrestaShop archive
You can download the latest version of PrestaShop at http://www.prestashop.com/en/downloads. This page presents you with an informal form, which helps the PrestaShop team better know its users. Whether you fill the form or not, click the "Download" button to display the download page.
You have only one choice: the latest stable version, ready for all websites.
Click on the download buttons, and save the archive on your computer (such as on the desktop). You should get a file named "prestashop_220.127.116.11.zip" (or an equivalent, depending on the version numbers).
The downloaded file is an archive, meaning one file containing all of PrestaShop's files in compressed form. In order to continue with the process, you must uncompress the archive using a proper. If your operating system does not natively support Zip files, you can download and install a dedicated tool, such as 7-zip (% free), WinZip (30-day trial) or WinRAR (30-day trial).
Using a Zip-tool, extract the content of the archive to a known location on your hard-drive (such as on the desktop again). Do not upload the Zip file to your server.
Uploading PrestaShop
You should now have a hosting space at your disposal, and a folder on your hard-drive with the uncompressed PrestaShop archive. This step makes you upload the PrestaShop files on your hosting space. This is done using a FTP client.
Installing and configuring your FTP client
FTP is short for "File Transfer Protocol". A great and free FTP client is FileZilla. Download it and install it. Note: do not download FileZilla Server, only FileZilla Client!
Once FileZilla is installed, you will need to configure it with your site's log-in parameters, which should have been sent to you by your host. If not, ask for them to your host – or check your spam folder
Basically, the needed parameters are:
- a hostname or an IP address: the location of your hosting space's FTP server.
- a username: your hosting account identifier, which is unique to you.
- a password: obligatory security measure.
Open FileZilla, and open its Site Manager tool. You can do this in three different ways:
- Press Ctrl-S.
- Click the "Open the Site Manager" icon, at the top left.
- Open the "File" menu, and select the "Site Manager..." option.
A window opens.
To add your hosting space to the Site Manager:
- Click the "New Site" button. A new entry is created in the site list. Give it a recognizable name.
- On the right side, in the "General" tab, enter the parameters your host provided you with: host, user, and password. You should not have to change the other default parameters, unless told so by your host.
- Once all the fields are properly filled, click the "Connect" button. This will both save your site in the list, and log you into your account, so that you can make sure everything works right.
Uploading your files
Now that you are connected to your hosting space, it is time to transfer the PrestaShop files from your computer to your server.
In FileZilla (or any other FTP client), browse your local folders until you find the one that contains the PrestaShop files. Keep it open.
In the "Remote site" section (on the right), browse to the location where you want PrestaShop to be publicly available (root of the domain, sub-folder, sub-domain...). This can change a lot, depending on both your host and your needs:
- Your host:
- Some hosts may require you to place your files in a specific folder, such as
/yourdomainname.com, etc.
- Other hosts' FTP server will simply log you directly into the proper upload space.
- Some hosts may require you to place your files in a specific folder, such as
- Your needs:
- If you want your shop to be the main website for your domain name (i.e., http://www.myprestashop.com), upload PrestaShop at the root folder of the upload space (which may depend on the host).
- If you want your shop to be in a sub-folder of your domain name (http://www.mywebsite.com/shop), you must first create said folder through FileZilla (right-click and choose "Create directory"), then upload PrestaShop in that folder.
- If you want your shop to be in a sub-domain of your domain name (http://shop.mywebsite.com), you must first create said sub-domain. This depends on your host: you might be able to do it simply by adding a new folder with your FTP client, or you might have to create the sub-domain through your host's administration panel. Read you're hosts support documentation first. Once created, browse to the sub-domain's folder, and upload PrestaShop there.
On FileZilla's left side, you should now have the local folder where you uncompressed the PrestaShop files, and on the right side, the destination location. If you haven't done it yet, uploading is simple: select all files and folders from the local folder (use Ctrl-A), and either drag & drop them to the remote folder, or right-click on the selection and choose "Upload" in the context menu.
After a short while, all of PrestaShop's files and folders should be online. Great!
Creating a database for your shop
Before you can actually install PrestaShop, you need to make sure your MySQL server has a database ready for PrestaShop's data, and if not, create one. This can be done using the free phpMyAdmin tool, which should come pre-installed on your web server most of the time (read you host's documentation). Connect to it using your account credentials, which your host provided you with. It should be accessible through a standard URL, tied to your domain name, or that of your host.
In the left column, you can see the current databases. Some of them should be left alone, because they are either used by phpMyAdmin or by the host:
performance_schema and others. Read your host's documentation to know if one of these can be used as a default database.
Either way, you can create a brand new database using the central form named "Create new database". Simply enter a unique name, and click "Create". The name of the database will be added to the list on the left. You can now use it to store PrestaShop's data.
Some hosts prefer to have customers use a graphic control panel, such as cPanel, Plesk or a custom-made one. Make sure you read your host's support documentation about handling MySQL databases, and create a database for your shop by following their specific explanations.
Launching the auto-installer
Now comes the part where it all comes together: installing PrestaShop.
The installation process is quite easy, as it is streamlined by PrestaShop's auto-installer. To launch it, simply browse to PrestaShop's location on your hosting: the script will automatically detect that it is not yet installed, and will take you to the auto-installer. From there on, you just have to read and click.
Step 1: Welcome page
This page is a quick intro into the installation process.
- Select the language in which you wish the installer to be.
- Select whether you wish to install or update PrestaShop (if this is your first time, you can only install).
- Read the PrestaShop license (the Open Software License 3.0), and agree to it.
To access the next step, you must check the "I agree to the above terms and conditions" box, then click "Next". If you do not explicitly agree to the license, you cannot install PrestaShop.
Step 2 & 3: System compatibility & system configuration.
The second page makes a quick check of all the server parameters on your host, and if nothing wrong is found, takes you directly to the third step.
System compatibility
This page checks that everything is OK with your server configuration: PHP settings, permissions on files and folders.
If anything goes wrong, the installer stops you here, enabling you to see the few technical details that need fixing, be it changing the PHP configuration or updating the file permissions.
While changing the PHP configuration can only be done on a case-by-case basis depending on your level of access to your server, and therefore cannot be explained here, updating the file permissions is easier to explain. This will require you to access your remote files, and therefore use your FTP client (such as FileZilla).
Log-in to your server account using your FTP client, browse to the PrestaShop folder, and find the folders that are marked by the installer as in need of a permission change.
Changing file/folder permission on a Unix/Linux system is called a "CHMOD", after the command of the same name – you can find an explanation of file permissions here). Giving them "write permission" is called "doing a CHMOD 755" or "a CHMOD 775", depending on the host.
Some hosts might require you to use CHMOD 777, although it is not recommended for anything more than a one-time need.
In any case, thanks to FileZilla (and most FTP clients), you can change permissions easily and graphically: once you have found a file or folder that needs such a change, right-click on it from your FTP client, and in the context menu choose "File permissions...". It will open a small window.
Depending on your server configuration (which you don't always have a hand at), you'll need to both "Read" and "Execute" columns of boxes checked, and at least the "Owner" and "Group" rows for the "Write" column. Some host might require you to have the public "Write" box checked, but be careful with that: have anyone be able to edit the content of your folder is rarely a good thing.
For folders that the installer is needing a recursive permission change on, you can check the "Recurse in subdirectories" box.
Regularly check that you have made the correct check by relaunching the installer's compatibility checks: click "Refresh these settings" as often as necessary.
Once all indicators are green, you can click "Next". If you cannot have them all green, at least make sure the installer displays "Your configuration is valid, click next to continue!"
System configuration
This page contains a form that enables you to tell PrestaShop where the database server is, and which database it should use, along with a few other details.
Database configuration
Fill all the fields with the connection information provided by your web-host, along with the name of the database you chose/created for PrestaShop, then click the "Verify now!" button in order to check that everything is fine. If so, the installer will display the following message: "Database is connected".
Choose the prefix for your tables. "ps_" is the default, resulting in the PrestaShop SQL table having names such as "ps_cart" or "ps_wishlist"; but if you need to install more than one instances of PrestaShop on the same database, then you must use a unique prefix for each install.
Installation type
Two modes are available:
- Simple mode: a blank and empty PrestaShop will be installed. It will have no modules, no theme, and no demo products/categories: you will have to build it all yourself. This is great if you know what you are doing.
- Full mode: PrestaShop will be installed with a theme, more than a hundred modules, and some demo products and categories. This is great for newcomers, as it helps you learn how to use PrestaShop... and can of course server as a good basis for your own store, after removing the demo products and categories!
E-mail delivery set-up
PrestaShop relies heavily on e-mail for notifications, both for the shop owner and its customers. This form enables you to test whether the current server configuration lets you send e-mail using PHP's
mail() function. If this is not the case, then check the "Configure SMTP manually" box in order to configure your own mail server. Note that this is reserved to advanced users.
Click "Next", and the installer will start filling the database with tables and data. This might take a few minutes in the slower server.
Step 3: Shop configuration
This is where you can already start customizing your shop: give it a name and a logo, indicate its main activity, and indicate the personal information for the shop owner (which has legal binding in most countries)...
Note that the logo will appear:
- On all of your store's pages.
- In your back-office.
- In all of the e-mails sent to your customers.
- In all of your contract documents (bills, return authorizations, etc.)
It is highly recommended to not keep the default PrestaShop logo, for obvious reasons.
You can also choose to use PrestaShop simply as catalog, which will disable all purchase and payment features, even if temporarily. This is useful when you are setting your shop up for first time, as it insures that no purchase can be made until you are ready to let people shop on your site. You can remove the catalog mode later, in the "Preferences" > "Products" sub-tab.
The page ends with a couple of "Additional benefits", which are modules that are specially promoted in the installer. You can choose to install them or not.
Click "Next": your shop is online!
Completing the installation
As you can read about right on the final page of the installation process, there are a couple of last actions to perform before you can call it a success.
An easy way to improve your installation's security is to delete or rename some key files and folders. This is done using your FTP client, directly on the server.
Items to delete:
- "install" folder.
- "readme_*" files (5 of them).
- "CHANGELOG" file.
Item to rename:
- "admin" folder: you should give it a unique name, so that no attacker can access your admin files. For instance, "admin42", "secretFolder" or "xyz123" – anything unique.
Write down the new name for your admin folder, as you will from now on access it directly.
Congratulations! Installation is now complete.
Log in to the PrestaShop back-office and start filling out your products catalog and configuring the many settings to suit your tastes and needs.
Finally, in order to close all potential doors, use your FTP client to update the files and folders permissions to 664, or 666 if your host requires it. If it turns out low access rights prevent some modules to work, you should set permissions back to 755.
Regularly back up your database, ideally on different computers, in case of problems related to hardware or security.
Misc. information
Keep a test version at hand!
After you have completed setting up your shop to get it just the way you want it, but before officially opening it to the buying public, we strongly recommend that you install a local test version on your personal computer (using WAMP for Windows, MAMP for Mac, or LAMP for Linux, or XAMPP for any of those platforms), or elsewhere on your hosting server.
This second instance will be useful as a pre-production environment in which you can carry out all future changes to your PrestaShop online store, without affecting the live version. This way, if an error should occur, your live store remains intact and untouched.
This method is for modifying PrestaShop application files only. Do not use a test version of the SQL database.
After you have confirmed that your test version works as it should, copy the test version over the live version. It is best to do this after peak usage hours, and with your store properly and temporarily disabled from within the PrestaShop back-office.
Checking for the GD library
On a default installation of PHP, the GD Library should be turned on, but if that's not the case for your install, the standard Windows instructions are:
- In the root directory of your PHP folder, open the
- Uncomment the
extension=php_gd2.dllline (about half-way through the file, in the middle of a long list of extensions) by deleting the ";" at the start of the line.
- Restart the PHP services.
If you have no access to the
php.ini file (which is often the case in shared hosting), contact your host about your hosting needs.
Activating PHP5
Oftentimes, dedicated or shared servers have both PHP 4 and PHP 5 available, but only PHP4 is activated by default.
To install PrestaShop, PHP 5 must be activated. If you attempt to run PrestaShop using PHP 4, you will receive numerous errors, including this very common message:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in [php file] on line X.
Please do not hesitate to post a bug report concerning the tips needed to make PrestaShop run on your hosting service, on PrestaShop's Forge (you will need an account). We will add them to this guide as we receive them.
If the suggested way to activate PHP5 is to add some specific configuration rules to your
The only clean way to customize your PrestaShop install's
The following is a list of procedures of which we are currently aware of:
Add this line to the "Specific configuration" text-field from the Tools > Generators sub-tab:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
For URL re-writing, add these lines:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Add this line to the "Specific configuration" text-field from the Tools > Generators sub-tab:
php 1
Add this line to the "Specific configuration" text-field from the Tools > Generators sub-tab:
SetEnv PHP_VER 5
To deactivate global registers:
SetEnv REGISTER_GLOBALS 0
To View Your PHP Version:
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- From the Products section, click Web Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
In the Server section, your PHP Version displays.
To Change Your PHP Version:
- From the Content menu, select Programming Languages.
- Select the PHP version you want to use, and then click Continue.
- Click Update.
Changes can take up to 24 hours to complete.
Lunarpages shared hosting
- Enter cPanel. It should be located at http://www.(your_domain).(com/net/org/etc)/cpanel
- Enter your account username and password in the box that appears.
- A new page appears. Go to the bottom row of icons in the page and click the icon titled "Enable/Disable PHP 5"
- A new page appears. Click "Add PHP 5 To Your Account!".
Your language change request is submitted. Please allow up to 24 hours for the change to be processed by the hosting server.
Updating PrestaShop
We have a dedicated guide for that: Updating PrestaShop.
Uninstalling PrestaShop
PrestaShop is very easy to uninstall:
- Delete the
/prestaShop(or the name you gave it after the installation, if you renamed it) from the main directory of your Web server (generally
- Delete your PrestaShop database, using phpMyAdmin.
You will lose all information related to your customers, orders, invoices, and products.


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Veterans All
From earlier Gazette editions:
During the War of 1812, H.M. sloop Nimrod operated in American waters. In January, 1814, she was in Vineyard Sound and on the 26th of that month her pilot boat captured the American sloop Vineyard Ferry at Tarpaulin Cove. The following named were taken prisoner: Owen Hillman, John Nichols, Nathaniel North, John Luce, Erastus Beecher, Henry Hicox, Elias Smith. Altogether the Nimrod took 245 prisoners, "who were actually victualled at two thirds allowance to all species, and no Rum," according to the record in the log. It is to be presumed that this latter condition, depriving the unfortunates of their allowance of toddy, will have the approval of that section of the community which now favors this same doctrine to the other sections of the community.
In 1814 Capt. James Lawrence in the sloop of war Hornet dropped anchor in Vineyard Haven harbor. The intrepid captain was returning from victory over the British Peacock. It is narrated that he became a guest at the Ebenezer Smith house at Eastville on the day when a son was born to Ebenezer and his wife, Mary Hulsart Smith. This son was named James Lawrence Smith, in honor of the famous guest who, in token of his appreciation, cut off some gold buttons from his uniform and presented them to the mother.
At least one Edgartown man participated in the Mexican War and under circumstances which were, to say the least, unusual. Capt. Philander Smith of Martha's Vineyard was second mate of the whaleship Edward, which cleared from New Bedford, July 14, 1845, for a voyage in the Pacific. In the course of the voyage the Edward touched the shores of Mexico at a place called San Joseph, where they were spoken by a trading sloop to go to the rescue of the garrison of the place, which was in possession of a force of twenty-eight American troops, but was surrounded by several hundred Mexicans. Augmented by the crew of the whaleship Magnolia, which dropped anchor nearby, the men of the Edward landed, drove the enemy back and remained there until the United States ship Relief saved them.
Leonard F. Vanderhoop was born to Edwin D. Vanderhoop, a Civil War veteran and later a representative in the state legislature. Throughout the Civil War, Edwin D. Vanderhoop blocked shipments of British goods to the South.
Mr. Vanderhoop remembers: "Fighting for the North — absolutely. Gay Head was a district and they weren't supposed to be Americans. So he and a friend of his said they were from Nova Scotia and enlisted in the Civil War."
As a soldier in World War I, Mr. Vanderhoop fought in the 72-hour barrage battle that broke up the Hindenburg Line. He was decorated with the purple heart for an injury he received in battle near the Argonne Forest in France.
"The only time I felt fear in the war was after I was wounded," he says. He remembers "the sound of fire when they took me off the battleground to the camp."
Mr. Vanderhoop says he was proud to fight as an American in the war. "We went as two Indians from Gay Head. We were native Americans, George Belain and I." Mr. Vanderhoop was a student at Oak Grove Seminary in Maine when he was inducted to serve in the U.S. Army.
"They needed men at the front of the 306th field artillery. They took all the men trained in the artillery and put them in the infantry. We were marched up a long hill, miles long, with sacks and coats and rifles and everything else you could carry, in the blazing sun.
"It seemed the longest hill we ever climbed. I was 23, one of the youngest of the bunch, the leader of Battery B. They told the rolling kitchens not to make any fire that morning because it was calm and smoke went straight up in the air and that was all the Germans needed. They were a mile or so over the hill from us.
"That was when I got it. You could hear the shells come closer and closer every minute. The next thing I knew — whoosh — my leg was stretched out a mile. I hobbled up the hill to the battery. They were still shelling. They wound something around my leg to stop the bleeding and carried me over to the pup tent that was supposed to be the field hospital."
Mr. Vandehoop's four sons also went off to do military service for their country. "Leonard F. Jr. served in the Battle of the Bulge as a medic. He was captured and became a prisoner of war. He was later released. Edwin D. served in the air force. William D. Sr. was a corporal in the army. Major John O. spent one year in Viet Nam and 20 years in the air force.
"All my sons served. We served our country. We served our family and friends. Nobody likes war. When it comes to defending your home, you have to act."
Compiled by Cynthia Meisner


text: … the Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Kato Masakiyo, of course! Utaemon was a major star of the Osaka kabuki stage, but he also performed in Edo. His visits to both cities created great excitement and intensified his rivalries with other star actors, notably Arashi Kichisaburo in Osaka and Bando Mitsugoro III in Edo. Here, a close-up portrait by the Osaka artist Hokushu conveys Utaemon's projection of strength and determination as the character Kato Masakiyo, also known as Kato Kiyomasa, a symbol of loyalty in the face of lethal treachery. The print commemorates a performance at the Kado Theater in Osaka in 1820. A poem, a common feature of Osaka prints, is inscribed above the actor's head. It reads: Kiyomasa is the moon shining on the world at midday: an art of piercing insight. Translation of poem by Roger S. Keyes (Roger S. Keyes and Keiko Mizushima, The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973)


text: Back Cardiac Rehabilitation Physical activity is healthy for your heart—even after you've had a heart attack or bypass surgery. It's important to start out slowly, under the supervision of cardiac rehab specialists. In this video, you'll learn what's involved in cardiac rehab and how it can benefit your health in the long term.


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Libertyville company combines classic cars and movies
While very few of us are destined to become the next Hollywood star, it is quite possible that your four-wheeled creation may one day cruise across the silver screen.
The transition from rolling to your favorite burger joint to parking on a major motion picture set may seem intimidating. Yet that's where the Midwest Picture Car Group, or MWPCG, comes in. The Libertyville-based company was started in 2009 by three area friends who realized they all shared a common bond; a love of movies and cars.
One of the owners, Roger Halvorsen, got his foray into vehicles and motion pictures more than two decades ago.
"In 1987, my Model A car club was approached by the film company producing the 'Untouchables.' They wanted period vehicles like my 1930 Ford Model A Tudor," the Mundelein resident said. "I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and even got to do a set walk-on with Sean Connery."
Halvorsen took advantage of several other opportunities to have his vintage vehicle driven on location for films shot in Chicago and surrounding communities, like "Road to Perdition" and "Public Enemies." For Michael Mann's 2009 gangster flick starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, he was even given the position of assistant picture car coordinator. Working on "Public Enemies" is also where he met business partners Brad Buell of Libertyville and Ed Hovorka of Mundelein.
"We realized every time a production company needed something, we didn't have to keep reinventing the wheel and doing tons of legwork finding owners," Halvorsen said. "We started networking and compiling an online database."
Since then, the trio has accumulated more than 700 listings of collector, military, vintage and modern cars, trucks, motorcycles and other odd machines -- like vintage lawn mowers and even a submarine. They have provided vehicles for television shows such as "Boss," "Chicago Fire" and "The Playboy Club;" commercials for Chevrolet, Adidas and Ford; and photo shoots for publications like Gentleman's Quarterly.
Their feature film credits include "Superman: Man of Steel," "No God No Master" and the Bollywood feature "Dhoom 3." For now, the group is focused on Midwest productions but is looking to expand nationally.
"When a production company is looking for something particular, they can peruse our website until they find something they're interested in," said Halvorsen, a semiretired veterinarian who owned Rand Road Animal Hospital in Palatine for 30 years.
If a producer or client finds what they want, MWPCG (midwestpicturecars.net) contacts the car owner and helps explain the filming process.
"Every production is different with days being anywhere from four hours to 14," Halvorsen said. "It also makes a difference if a vehicle is a 'background' or 'feature' car."
Background cars are merely that, vehicles used to fill in an area or street to set the mood of a given time period. A typical day rate could be $150 to $250. Feature cars play a much more prominent role and can be driven by main characters. "If a car is picked for this, it can bring anywhere from $500 to $1,000 (per day) and up."
So what types of cars are movie directors looking for? "It can be anything," Halvorsen says. "The vehicle doesn't have to be a pristine, number's matching show car. Sometimes it's the beat-up clunkers that interest them most."
Halvorsen said it's possible that not only the ride, but also the owner who could be on camera for their big debut. "Owners who come are often used as drivers. If it's a period piece, they'll even get sent to wardrobe and makeup to fit the part."
It's not all work and no play. All three men and their spouses have been invited to attend several red carpet premieres, including director Mann's private after-party where they had the chance to rub elbows with the "Public Enemies" stars.
Acting classes are one way to break into the movies, but your first staring role may be as simple as polishing up your favorite four-wheeled classic and getting it ready for a close-up.