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Author's Note: I know that there is some speculation that Dorea Black and Charles Potter are actually James's parents (and I am usually one of those people), which would make James and Narcissa 1st cousins once removed. However, for obvious reasons, this is not the case in this story. And, obviously, I am not JK Rowling.
"Thank Merlin for the alcohol."
James wouldn't say it out loud, but he agreed with his best friend. Sirius was sitting in an overstuffed black leather armchair in the middle of his aunt and uncle's sitting room. He was leaning forward with his elbows by his knees and when he spoke, he sloshed around his glass, making the ice cubes clink and his Firewhiskey come dangerously close to spilling over the sides.
James gave a quick nod, but didn't agree too loudly. Even though he agreed with Sirius, he knew that it would do nothing but get his best friend in trouble if the Blacks knew that he was complaining. Instead, as a sign of agreement he took a long drink from his own glass. The rum burned his throat going down, but he tried to ignore the feeling.
Sirius had been dragged along to a celebration that was being held for his cousin Narcissa, who had recently graduated from Hogwarts. When it became evident that Sirius was going to be forced to attend, he tried to convince his parents to let his friends come along with him. From what James could understand, a long screaming match had ensued between Sirius and his mother before Orion Black had stepped in.
The next day, Sirius had come spinning out of James's fireplace, begging him to come along. "You're my best mate; you can't leave me to face them all on my own."
"Well… I… er…" James had stammered. As much as he loved Sirius and their Marauder's honour code made it clear that they should always help out the other when they were in trouble, he had no desire to go to a Black family get together again. He and Sirius had made it their mission to spend as little time as possible with Sirius's family over the past five summers, which suited him just fine.
"Prongs, please," Sirius pleaded.
James sighed. Sirius was not one to plead unless he was desperate. "Fine, I'll come with you," James said, running a hand through his hair. "Have you talked to Remus and Peter yet?"
Sirius raised his eyebrows. "You know my family, they won't want them around. The only reason my dad agreed to let you come is because you're a pureblood. I had to take whatever I could get from them."
That was how James found himself in the sitting room of Cygnus and Druella Black that Friday evening. He and Sirius had given up on talking to most of Sirius's family as soon as Walburga had gotten a few drinks into her. By nine o'clock she was on at least her fourth glass of red wine and Sirius had deemed it safe for him and James to sneak away from the rest of the partiers.
"I can't believe I'm related to these people," Sirius grumbled, downing the rest of his tumbler. "Most of them are fucking morons."
James grinned. One of the first signs that Sirius was getting tipsy was when he started to swear more often. "I knew your brother could be a bit of a prick, but your cousins are worse."
"Who've you been stuck talking to?" Sirius asked.
James opened his mouth to speak, but Sirius appeared to be not paying attention. He gestured to a house elf that he wanted another drink, which sent the elf scurrying off. The little elf came running back almost instantly, a new drink in his hands.
"Excellent," Sirius said with a grin, giving the house elf a rather forceful pat on the head. "You were saying?"
"Bellatrix," James replied. "She was saying that she has this new job that is supposed to be really beneficial to wizarding society. I'm not sure exactly, I stopped paying attention when she started rambling about…" he hesitated, before continuing, "Mudbloods and how we should just get rid of them all."
Sirius rolled his eyes. "Yeah, Bella's a real fucking peach. Andy's fine, but she was blasted off the tree years ago. I sometimes doubt Narcissa has a fully functioning brain, so it's hard to tell if she just mimics whatever her parents and sister tell her to do or if she's actually an idiot too."
The two boys sat in silence for a few minutes, each drinking their liquor. James was starting to get a pretty good buzz, which was helping him relax in a house full of people he knew would accuse him and Sirius of being blood traitors.
"Does your mum know I'm a blood traitor?" James asked slightly too loudly, smirking.
"Do you think I'm a troll or something?" Sirius asked, looking at James incredulously.
James laughed. "You would never know that you're not with your lovely mum."
Sirius grinned. "It's bad enough that she thinks I'm a blood traitor, she'd forbid you from seeing me again if she thought you would get 'nasty ideas' into my head."
"When has forbidding you from anything ever worked? Even if she did, you'd show up at my place by the evening just to spite her."
"Damn right I would. I'll be seventeen in October, it's not like she can really do anything."
"She could blast you off of the tree," James pointed out.
Sirius shrugged, seemingly unconcerned. "We're not official bloods traitor though. Not like Andy is, at least. As far as she's concerned, she'll be able to scream the blood traitor tendencies out of me."
"Next year I will be," James said with a grin. "Just watch." He then proceeded to down the rest of his rum in one gulp.
"Please tell me you're not going to be going on about this again. Did you not hear what Evans called you mate? And she said that she'd rather go out with the giant squid. You think you'd be put off by that."
James shook his head vigorously as he grabbed the glass the house elf had brought to him and took a sip of it. "I'll get her, just watch me." Sirius gave him a disbelieving look, so James flipped him off. "She's not friends with Snivelly anymore, now's my chance."
"All that proves is that she finally realized that he's a prick. It doesn't mean she's going to suddenly fall at your feet," Sirius pointed out.
"She'll see. She's going to realize that I'm awesome soon enough and when she does, I'll be there to sweep her off her feet.
The two friends looked at each other intently for a few moments, each one slowly sipping on his drink in silence. After a few seconds, Sirius sniggered. "Sorry mate. But Merlin, you need to get laid."
James glared at him. "Does your family know the girl you fucked has a Muggle father?"
Sirius opened his mouth to retort, but quickly closed it when his cousin came into the room.
From a purely physical standpoint, James had to admit that she was hot. Her long, silky white blonde hair fell to the middle of her back and her dress fit her quite nicely. James couldn't help but sneak a peek at her cleavage, telling himself that it was perfectly reasonable that any sixteen year old boy's automatic reaction would be the same. Narcissa's clear blue eyes widened slightly and a peculiar expression came across her pale face. She hesitated in the doorway for a moment, but after a moment she made her way into the room and sat down on the opposite end of the couch that James was on.
"Are you two enjoying yourself?" Narcissa asked stiffly.
Sirius nodded, gesturing to his glass. "A drink or four is always good to liven up the party."
"And you?" she asked, turning to James.
Now it was his turn to hesitate. He had never spoken to Narcissa before. She seed seemed to be much shier than her sister and was definitely less outspoken. She had spent most of this night on the arm of her boyfriend, Lucius Malfoy, who James and Sirius remembered as a rather obnoxious Prefect during their first few couple of years at Hogwarts. They had taken to avoiding him tonight and with him, Narcissa. "I've been enjoying myself talking to Sirius," James said, choosing his words carefully.
"I take it you boys came in here to escape the rest of the family." She said it like a statement, as though there was no question in her mind about what they had been doing. James wondered if she came to that conclusion so quickly because she had had the same intentions as them when she had made her way to the sitting room.
"Can you blame us?" Sirius asked, slurring his words slightly.
James gave Sirius a warning look. Perhaps that was one of the reasons that Sirius had wanted him to come here, he couldn't help but think to himself. He probably knew that he would need somebody to keep him in line, especially if he had been drinking. "Sirius," he said, warningly.
"No, it's alright," Narcissa said in a quiet voice. "I can understand."
James nearly choked on his rum and tried to turn his spluttering into a cough. Sirius, on the other hand, appeared to have just taken a sip because he sprayed a full mouthful of Firewhiskey all over the carpet white carpet. "Aw, shit," he muttered, fumbling for his wand. Quite intoxicated by this point, he slurred his words and instead of cleaning the carpet, he caused a leg of the table that was on it to buckle, resulting in the vase on it falling to the floor and shattering. "FUCK!" Sirius exclaimed, lunging to hold the table up with one hand while repeatedly saying, "Reparo, reparo!" and pointing his wand at the shattered vase.
The noise from the crash must have been audible over the rest of the noise from the party, because within a few moments, Sirius's mother had made her way into the room. While the mother and son did not get along very well at the best of times, it was soon evident that their drunkenness only made it worse. "What the hell did you do?" she yelled, walking over to her son.
"I spilled my drink and I was trying to clean it up. I have no idea how I broke the table." Seeming to sense that he was in trouble, Sirius was living up to his name. James looked between mother and son, interested in the showdown that was inevitably going to follow, and chugged the rest of his drink.
Walburga glared at her oldest son. "If I hadn't given birth to you myself, I'd think you were a Muggleborn," she sneered. "What kind of sixteen year old wizard can't even use scourgify properly?"
"I'd rather be a Muggleborn than be your son," Sirius spat, glaring at his mother.
If James hadn't been standing there, he would never have believed that Sirius would have said something like that to his mother. In private, he wouldn't have been too surprised. But he had to wonder if Sirius had a death wish to have the guts to say it to his mother.
"Come with me," a quiet voice beside him said, giving a gentle tug to his sleeve. James let himself be dragged away; even though he was transfixed by the argument that was taking place in front of him he knew it would be smartest to leave Sirius and his mother to it.
Once they left the sitting room, he found himself being half-dragged up a flight of stairs and down three corridors by Narcissa. Unsure of what she was leading him, he followed along blindly. He nearly bumped into her when she stopped abruptly in front of him. She took a quick glance in either direction, making sure that nobody was around, before grabbing James and pulling him into the room behind her.
"Where did you…" The question James was asking died on his lips as he looked around. His eyes drifted to the double bed by the corner, and his eyebrows shot up into his hairline.
"Why did you take me to… is this your bedroom?"
Narcissa nodded and gave James a gentle nudge out of the way, locking the door behind him. "I didn't think you would want to go back to the party. You didn't seem to be enjoying spending time with my family."
"I was having fun with Sirius," he said meekly, but she shook her head before he could continue.
"Not with the rest of us," she said, taking a step towards him.
James instinctively took a few steps backwards as she closed in on his personal space. "Maybe I just wasn't talking to the right people earlier. We can go back now and you can point out somebody you think I would get along with."
"But I don't want to go back to the party," Narcissa said in a quiet voice, a small smile coming over her lips as she continued to make her way towards James.
"But the party is for you," James said hurriedly, taking another step backwards. He could feel the heel of his shoe touch a wall. She had him trapped.
"I don't think that anybody is going to notice if I'm gone for a while," she said quietly, looking up so her blue eyes met his hazel ones. "We have time."
She was now standing less than a foot away from him. "Time for what?" He had tried to sound confident, but his voice had gotten unnaturally high.
Narcissa's tongue wet her lips, but she didn't speak. She closed the distance between them some more and stroked his arm with her fingertips. They were now so close that James could feel her breasts against his chest. He gulped, which caused her to smirk. She then leaned forward and her lips brushed against his.
Startled, James pulled back. "What about Lucius?"
"What about him?" Narcissa asked.
As she began kissing down James's jaw line, James gently pushed her away. "We can't do this. You're dating somebody else, and I'm…"
He could feel her breath on his ear as she whispered, "What are you exactly? Are you seeing somebody?"
"Well, no, but –"
She cut him off with another kiss. When he turned his head so she could no longer kiss his lips, she asked, "If you aren't seeing anybody right now, what's the problem?"
His head was spinning. He wished he hadn't drank so much, so that he was able to think more clearly and make more eloquent arguments. He wished that he had more experience with girls, so he wasn't so flustered by Narcissa standing so close to him. Most of all, he wished she was Lily. He was trying to think of how to say this without sounding mad when he felt Narcissa kiss him again.
He was pulling away and starting to babble again when she placed a finger over his lips. "Shh," she whispered. "Don't overthink this."
This time, he met her lips in the middle. Her arms wrapped around his neck and he wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her in closer to him. His heart started to pound faster as her lips parted and her tongue brushed against his gently. Narcissa wrapped her fingers around locks of James's messy black hair, before trailing them down his neck and to the front of his shirt. As she began to unbutton his shirt and kiss her way down his chest, James began to feel a definite physical reaction to what she was doing.
Apparently, Narcissa had noticed too. She smiled at his awkward reaction as she trailed a hand up the inside of his thigh and over his groin, before starting to work on his belt. "You shouldn't be nervous," she whispered, her hot breath tickling his ear. "I'll take care of you."
"Honestly, I'm flattered, but I don't think this is a good idea," James said. "I haven't…"
His voice trailed off as he watched Narcissa shimmy out of her dress, so it fell in a pile of dark brown silk at her feet. He wasn't sure what to do. He was fighting off the urge to look up, even though he knew that she wanted him to look. As much as he wanted to have a girl in front of him wearing nothing but her knickers, this wasn't the way he had wanted it to happen. How much had he had to drink? Better yet, how much had she had to drink?
He looked up as she started making her way towards him again. He tried to focus on her face, but his eyes kept drifting down her body. "Like what you see?" she asked, before grabbing his hand and pulling her towards her bed.
When he was settled on her bed, leaning back against the pillows, he said, "Narcissa, I haven't… er, how should I put this…"
"I guessed that," she said with a small giggle, before she started kissing down his chest again.
It took all the willpower he had to push her away from him. "I can't do this."
Narcissa stuck out her lower lip in a pout. "Why not?" she asked, running her fingertips over his abs.
"I've gotta go," he insisted as he stepped out into the hall, not giving himself time to second guess his decision to push away a tall, blonde, nearly naked woman who had been fawning all over him.
He managed to find a bathroom, which he promptly locked himself in. He ran his hand through his already disheveled hair and looked at himself in the mirror. He had pink lipstick smudged on his collar and down his chest, part of which was showing thanks to Narcissa's attempt at undressing him. His belt buckle was undone and below it there was a noticeable bulge in his trousers.
With a sigh, he grabbed a towel off of a towel rod and dampened it. He scrubbed at his skin hard enough that it hurt, making him snap out of his funk. Once he was content that he had gotten all the lipstick off of his chest, he began doing up the buttons. It took longer than usual with his drunken incoordination, but he managed it eventually. A quick scourgify got the lipstick off his collar, after which he was content that he looked pretty much the way he had when he went upstairs.
He did up his belt buckle and bounced around, trying to think about Quidditch scores until his body calmed down. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, he felt like he was ready to go downstairs.
Once he had made his way to the landing, James intended to look around, desperate to avoid Narcissa now as well as Sirius and his mum. He was about to set off in the direction of the party, but he found himself being pulled rather forcefully in the opposite direction.
"Where the hell have you been?" Sirius asked. He had a somewhat mad look in his eyes, which kept darting around the room.
James didn't know if there would ever be a good time or place to tell his best friend that his cousin had just tried to seduce him, if such a time or place even existed, so James tried to avoid the question. "I left when you and your mum got into that huge row. Why?"
"I was looking everywhere for you. C'mon, we're leaving."
"Shouldn't you say goodbye to your f…" James didn't dare finish his sentence after Sirius gave him a death glare. "Are we going back to your place?
"Er… yeah, sure," Sirius said absentmindedly. By this time he and James were back in the sitting room. Sirius walked up to the fireplace and grabbed a handful of floo powder. "Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place," Sirius called clearly, although there was an edge to his voice.
As soon as they were back, Sirius pounded up the stairs and began throwing his possessions into his school trunk. James looked on for a few moments, bewildered, before asking, "Going somewhere mate?"
"I'm leaving. That crazy bitch has finally done it, I've had enough. I'll get my own place, it can't be any worse than living here."
"Padfoot, don't be crazy..." James began, but Sirius cut him off.
"Don't say it can't be that bad," he snapped. "You don't know what it's like! Your parents love you and have spoiled you. My mum hates me and my dad is too much of a coward to stand up for me and I am done." By the end, he was yelling.
James raised his hands, showing that he meant no harm. "I wasn't talking about that. Hell, I'm surprised you haven't left sooner."
"Then what?" Sirius asked, returning to tossing his possessions into his trunk haphazardly.
"Come live with us."
This seemed to have caught Sirius off-guard. "You want me to live with you?"
"Of course!" James said. "My parents won't mind. You were over half the summer the past few years anyway."
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Attention Garden Dreamers and Schemers. July 8 is an excellent opportunity to visit gardens in the area to gather ideas and inspirations for your own gardens. The MSU Master Gardener volunteers are sponsoring a Garden Walk of eight gardens from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for $8 in advance or $10 on Saturday, July 8.
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When I first arrived in Baltimore, I was skeptical of the neon-and-spandex aesthetic of the local DIY culture, but this past weekend finally and completely changed my mind. Whartscape 2010 started off rather low-key, with some inspiring performances by local comedians, dancers, and theater troupes at the Charles Theatre, the highlights being the motion capture demonstration by Alan Resnick and the ventriloquism routine by April Camlin.
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Wadi Ghalilah:
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Khor Al beidah:
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Hi neighbors,
Our little town is beginning to awakennot that it's been soundly asleep. Plenty has been going on, but there is a marked difference in our seasons here.
We are seeing folks who have been away for the winter, charters and businesses are gearing up for a new season and school students are having a hard time keeping focused on their studies.
I appreciated the response from Lyle and Teresa Winters for sending in military news of our boys.
They wrote, "Erik is serving in the Army at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. He is in the signal brigade as a satellite system operator and maintainer.
He will be off to Georgia in September for more training on computers. Erik does not have to go back to Kuwait at this time."
And may I say, thank you, Erik, for serving our country. I appreciate you.
Don't forget the blood drive at the school Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The process takes from 45 minutes to an hour.
It's best to make an appointment, but not necessary. Call Mrs. Leman at 567-3722 for your appointment.
Put this on your calendar. The Ninilchik School sophomore class will have a car wash May 12. By that time the roads should be such that your car will stay clean for a while.
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This week, my spotlight is on senior Josh Wind Nelson.
Josh has been a student at Ninilchik for the past three years. Before that he attended schools in Slona and St. Paul, Minn. By the jobs he has held one can see that he is an avid outdoorsman: he has been an assistant big game guide, has worked with the Wrangell St. Elias National Park Services salmon weir studies, been a plant and wildlife tour guide and a park service biology assistant.
His volunteer work has included horse breaking, carpentry and excavation. He loves snowmachining, including high marking. He also lists as hobbies, literature, psychology, biology, botany and empathy practices.
Can you guess what his most enjoyable subjects in school are? They are biology, sociology, and literature. School sports that Josh has participated in are basketball, track and field and wrestling.
He is thankful for his sister, Melinda, for always being there when needed the most and for Eric, who inspired him to graduate. He said that without Eric he would have given up.
He said that an important lesson he has learned is to "be honest to others by being true to yourself; only then will you see the inner deviance and scandalousness in others which you should stray from."
His future goals and ambitions are to practice psychology, get a welding certificate and publish a couple of books that only a select few understand.
His advice to underclassmen is to "Learn from school, but choose what to believe. There's much more to this world than they want you to understand."
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The book is an analysis of commercial arbitration law and practice in South Korea, presenting in an accessible, yet comprehensive manner, the country's arbitration law, the major Korean arbitration institution and its rules, relevant court rulings, etc.
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Steelers' players didn't let the gloomy weather outside dampen the enthusiasm at the 2014 Muscle Team, an event held at Heinz Field that benefits the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Current and former Steelers' players, former Pittsburgh Pirates and Penguins, members of the Pittsburgh Power and Passion, and Pittsburgh firefighters were teamed with MDA Goodwill Ambassadors for an evening of fun and games for a good cause.
"It's good for the kids to get to see us and meet us off the football field," said fullback
"It's fun to do this for this cause. I am happy to be here. I never turn down something like this with the kids. And I love playing the games, as long as I don't lose."
The MDA Goodwill Ambassadors are children living with the neuromuscular disease and the Muscle Team event is an opportunity to show the strength that they have, and allow them to enjoy life the same as any other child does.
"I love it," said tackle
"We as athletes, especially here in Pittsburgh, are able to have a great impact. God has given us a platform to be able to go and touch kid's lives and the lives of others. To be able to spend some time with them at Heinz Field is awesome."
There was a live and silent auction held to help raise funds to support the fight against MDA and to help fund an annual camp for the kids. This year's Muscle Team event honored Pittsburgh Transportation Group President and CEO, Jamie Campolongo, with the Guy Buzzelli, Jr. Champion of Spirit Award.
But the most important aspect of the night was the kids battling muscular dystrophy.
"The fact that these children are MVPs tonight, the most valuable people we have, and partnering with the athletes and having fun is so special," said Cathy Majka, Director of Business Development for MDA. "Everyone comes together to spend time with the kids to make it a memorable night for them. It's an incredible feeling that we can make this happen for the kids. We have games the kids and athletes can both play. Sometimes the kids win and they have an amazing sense of accomplishment when they are playing against these professional athletes and win.
"These kids are so amazingly resilient. They have such positive attitudes. They are like any other child. They want to be the same. They adapt so well. For them, this night is sometimes the opportunity of a lifetime."


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Watch live Oscar awards 2017 nominee list, live stream, movies list: The Oscar awards are American twelve- monthly award event which is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and science (A.M.P.A.S) to be familiar with worthy creations in United Nation Cinematic Industry which are renegotiated by Academy members voting. The winners from different categories are honored by an Oscar trophy known in common as Academy awards of merit. In 1929 the awards were firstly granted at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. The event is governed by A.M.P.A.S. For the first time in 1930 the event was aired on radio and in 1953 it was broadcasted on televisions and Nowadays it was telecasted live in more than 200 countries and watched online also.
There are two more categories but in these categories, awards are not presented yearly. In 2004 Oscar Awards nominees have been declared to the public in January. The nominees are selected by the voting of the 5,783 members of the academy. Each member of the academy is further divided into the group of five members in different categories each one presenting different category of film making. There are several rules regarding the nomination procedure. According to the 2nd and 3rd rule in film production, the film must have to disclose in the last calendar year from mid-night till the end of the December and have to remain in the box-office for continuously seven days.
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In 1936 Best actor in a supporting role, best actress in a supporting role. Best animated feature in 2001, bests animated short film in 1931, best film editing in 1934, best makeup and hairstyling, best sound editing in 1963. Best sound mixing in 1930 and many more categories. Now in 2017 the event is coming back with some best-nominated movies, songs, direction and production as till now the dates and nominations are not publicized but for sure soon you get the latest news about the featuring of the award show. So keep in touch as you get all information regarding the event what you want only on our website exclusively.
The very simple and gentle answer to this is that Yes! They do matter, a lot.Over 39.3 million audiences came up last year, just to observe that who carried Louis Vuitton dress elegantly in the field of fashion industry. It was the Gawkers who were sitting peacefully, just to see the ultimate winner for the Best Picture. One must keep this thing in mind that these glittery fashions, the Best Actress or Actor are not the things that are important or matter.
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Most of the people have just worked on the back screen to make the movies successful. Don't you think that they deserve some appreciation too? Yes! Of course, they do. It is the season of these Oscar awards 2017 that make these superstars shine out of their shadows. The people of this category are the cinematographers, the editors; the famous songs are written by wonderful songwriters and much more. It is only with these Oscar awards that these deserving people are given recognition worldwide, making them realize their worth as well.
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These Oscar awards give recognition to all the films, including the foreign films. There are some animators, who are not known much. A platform is provided to them as well to showcase their talent and cross the old boundaries.
The money collected from these Oscar awards 2017 is used for a good cause. Firstly, the revenue is used to provide education to the less fortunate ones. Secondly, the amount is donated to the institutions which are working for film making, so that new and bright blood indulges in the process of filmmaking. The funds are also donated to the film houses so that they make technological advancements and more innovations in the field of movie making. With the passages of years, everybody is aware that the movies are breaking all the previous records as far as technological innovations are concerned. How can one forget about the "The Life of Pi," this was the movie which was breathtaking and people till now crave for it.
These Oscar awards 2017 are not just an award function. They are something big, or we can even say huge. They are helping the movie making departments by proving them with the funds so that there are much more advancements and innovations in the field of movie making technology. Helping the uneducated ones to get some knowledge and turning them into literates is very commendable. The final and the most important is that this award is encouraging the new blood to enter the world of cinema.


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Ladies and gentlemen, this is the penultimate Fancast before Halo 3. One week from today, we'll be Fancasting and dreaming of the glory that is soon to befall us (we hope). But, that's a week away, and now we must concentrate on the painfully wretched present. And what better way to do that than with a firm dose of sarcasm? And, if you want to do that, why not recruit the man behind Sarcastic Gamer, Jeromy "Doc" Adams. Together, we dissect the hype surrounding Halo 3, drool over Ninja Gaiden 2, laugh at the Engineer from TF2, and take a gander at the Xbox 360's sales numbers. We also discuss the dangers of keeping your Xbox 360 controllers within the general vicinity of children and toilets. Long story short: not the best idea. As always, you'll find links to all the Fancast topics after the break.
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The Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently issued a report expressing concern about the use of misleading "senior designations" by some financial professionals. The report reminded me of how easy it is for seniors to get in over their heads where money is concerned.
My own mom is 78, widowed and slowing down. As I have helped with her finances, I have learned you can't assume your folks have a handle on their bills or even that they are debt-free.
Seniors and credit card debt
You may think seniors are past the credit card stage, but a study conducted by the AARP Public Policy Institute and Demos indicates otherwise. According to their survey, older households have credit card balances that averaged out to $8,278 in 2012. Meanwhile, those younger than age 50 had average credit card debt of only $6,258.
For a third of those who are older than age 50, their credit card debt is related to basic living expenses and half have medical expenses charged to their credit card. Nearly one in four is in debt because they wanted to help family members financially.
Helping your parents manage credit cards
Stepping in to help your aging parents clean up credit card debt requires sensitivity. You simply can't swoop in and take over their finances.
Unless your parents have severe dementia, you need to respect their wishes. In addition, never fail to do everything possible to preserve your parents' dignity. For many seniors, it can be difficult and humbling to ask for help from adult children. Look for ways to gently broach the subject of money management.
- Use life events: There may be times when your parent is in transition, and a natural opening to offer help appears. After the death of my dad, for example, there was an opportunity for me to ask if I could help mom with her finances. Another example may be when a parent is starting Social Security and feeling overwhelmed with the prospect of creating a new budget and navigating Medicare choices.
- Ask them to help you: Start a conversation by asking your parents to help you plan for their future. When it comes to long-term care, if your parents mention they don't know how to pay, that might be your segue into learning more about what debt they carry and if they are in over their heads.
- Watch for clues: While I would never advocate snooping, keep your eyes open for signs of financial trouble. Are there unopened bills on the table or does your parent appear to avoid answering the phone? Both could be signs of accounts in collections. At my 80 year old aunt's house, it was the enormous stacks of magazines -- for head-scratching titles such as Early Parenting -- that led to the revelation she been bullied by telemarketers into buying dozens of subscriptions.
- Introduce other options: If your parent likes the convenience of plastic but tends to overspend, consider suggesting a prepaid card to replace their debit or credit card. You can also look for balance transfer offers and propose your parents consolidate their debt on a low interest credit card.
Whichever method you chose, remember not to demand and not to lecture. Unless you think your parent is a victim of fraud, it is best not to be too pushy. If your parent is resistant, back off and try again later.
Credit cards can be a great financial tool, but it can be easy for seniors on a limited income to quickly get in over their head. As your parents age, keep your eyes open for signs of trouble and don't be afraid to offer your help. It can be the least you do to repay all they have done for you.


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Seattle granted Redskins officials permission to interview Seahawks OC Darrell Bevell today, before Jan. 5 interview date for coaches on bye— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 1, 2014
They flew here and interviewed him TODAY. Guess they like him…..goddamnit.
Bevell hasn't done anything great here. I would love to see him coach the DC team. "GD" is a bit of an over reaction.
Redskins worst owner in the NFL
they gave permission today – they have to do it before the 5th or he won't be allowed to do it until out of playoffs
I just read the hawks live chat and saw at the end of it that cox was signed by the whiners…isn't it a bit rude and selfish to sign a bunch of our players, glean the info and discard em?? I mean really get a guys hopes up and then cut him again…
Snyder – Jones – Lerner all 3 of those guys are totally goofball owners
If Bevell stays, that's fine. If he goes, that's fine, too.
So much for the I knew he was gay assumptions.
Almost as ridicules as the Harvin going to IR assumptions.
Or Michaels refusing to Play special teams assumptions.
Unless someone molests children, I could care less about their sexuality and what they want to do behind closed doors. If they are good people, who cares?
The only thing that matters is getting your job done on the field if you're a football player. I'm pretty sure I'd rather have a Richard Sherman talent at CB (note I didn't say Sherman specifically) who was gay over a straight Kelly Jennings type of player any day of the week.
You guys ready for the next 4+ weeks of Seahawks football? It's going to be special. I have that feeling!
Let's not forget the impact Bevell has had on Russell Wilson. It would be a loss for him to go elsewhere.
I am kind of surprised to see the interest in Quinn at this point. After all he inherited a hugely talented defense.
Frankly I'd like to see the NFL incorporate a rule of no interviewing or hiring of ANY head coach positions until after the Super Bowl. But given the length of the season and relatively short time between the SB and the draft, that would put undue pressure on new coaching staffs.
I guess I am – more or less – in the if he goes or not is fine camp.
But if he DOES go, who would we the replacement OC be? Not saying Bevell is the best OC ever, but we have had worse…..
I'll ( try) to be like GeorgiaHawk ;
Go Bevell go, and don't you come back
no mo',no mo',no mo'
go Bevell to DC
and don't come back no mo'.
How many coaches has Snyder run through? Sure, it's a head coaching gig in the NFL, but not sure why anyone would want that job with that ownership.
The Texans hired Penn St's HC Bill O'Brien to replace Gary Kubiac. Whatever happened to the Rooney Rule?
And O'Brien was just making promises to new recruits. Not a good way to handle business.
I like Bevell. Quite a bit. He runs a style of offense I've always wished we would run. It's very attacking (as witnessed by RW's yards per pass attempt, and his completion percentage on passes over 20 yards).
We run an offense that is predicated on running the ball. But what you do off that is what I like: Lots of play action from under center (although Bevell will throw a straight-up 5 or 7-step dropback from under center as well, which is good, because teams can't key on anything when Wilson is under center).
But what I really love is his use of the shotgun, the 4WR and 5WR sets. He goes empty backfield a lot (when we have the healthy WR's to do it), and he spreads the field and makes everyone a receiver.
On top of that, he keeps Marshawn in the game and splits him out (much like Holmgren used to do), which creates all sorts of mismatch problems with the slot receiver to that side, or Lynch against a LB on the sideline, way out in space. Holmgren used to do that to create the slot receiver mismatch, because they never wanted to actually throw that pass to Alexander. But with Lynch, the defense has to respect it.
Anyway, I could go on. I like the offense a lot. Bevell does a couple of things I don't like (the WR screen is still too ineffective on a yards-per-play basis to merit how often he throws it) and I do wish he'd incorporate more draws and screens, but overall I really like his style. And I think he works well with Wilson.
Changing offense coordinators is always a crapshoot, and history has proven it can set QBs and whole offenses back. I like watching Bevell grow and trust Wilson. This offense that Bevell runs will only get better as we acquire and develop more receivers (like if Harvin and Tate could actually play together next year).
So… Maybe I'm the only guy, but I'm firmly in the "I don't him to go" camp.
And one last thing: Griffin can't run Bevell's offense. He's a 1-read QB. So that's not a good fit.
Considering that at least 6 head coaching jobs open up every year, I think if I were a hot prospect (I'm thinking of Dan Quinn) I would be pretty fussy about which owner I worked for. Snyder goes through coaches in D.C. fast enough to make me think he's really hard to work for but the Ford family in Detroit are loyal to a fault, as examples.
And I'm not hyper ambitious so maybe nothing I say about this has any real meaning, but I think I might be tempted to stay on as a coordinator working under JS&PC and for Paul Allen on a successful team in a nice city rather than be the HC in Detroit.
klm – I think the Texans interviewed Lovie Smith shortly after they fired Kubiak.


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Shark fin trade experiences sharp drop
Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 04:10 (GMT + 9)
The volume of shark fin products imported into Hong Kong in 2013 dropped from 8,285.1 tonnes to 5,412.2 tonnes, representing 34.7 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Census and Statistics Department.
Another decrease was that in re-export volumes, which changed from 2,428 tonnes to 2,003.7 tonnes (17.5 per cent), and a notable decline in shark fin re-export volumes to China, amounting to 90 per cent, with Vietnam becoming the top re-export destination in 2013, World Wildlife Fund-Hong Kong reported.
The drop could have something to do with China's ongoing austerity campaign, launched in 2013, which has pointedly cracked down on extravagance among party and government officials. In December last year, the central government officially banned the consumption of shark fin soup at government events, International Business Times reported.
It has also been informed that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora's (CITES) decision to include more shark species in its Appendix II was ratified, and Hong Kong government should now be preparing to follow the updated CITES requirements.
"For CITES implementation, the government should improve the existing HKHS [Hong Kong Harmonized System ] codes, following the coding practice used for bluefin tuna, to allow for the identification of shark species that need to be tracked. Scientific identification, through DNA testing of randomly-sampled shark fins, could also be deployed for verification purposes. To better regulate the shark fin trade and improve its transparency, WWF calls on the Hong Kong government to begin collecting and releasing full statistics on the shark fin trade, including the species, volumes and countries of origin," Tracy Tsang, WWF's Senior Programme Officer for Shark remarked.
Ricky Leung Lak-kee, chairman of the Hong Kong Marine Products Association, pointed out the local shark fin industry had been hit hard by the fall in demand in mainland China. And he added that the industry had suffered a 60 per cent decline in shark fin import prices and a roughly 20 to 30 per cent drop in business over the past year.
Besides, Leung rejected suggestions that the local shark fin trade was hurting the environment and he stated that about two-thirds of Hong Kong imports were from blue sharks, which were not listed as an endangered species under CITES.
Nevertheless, sharks still face threats. In January, the Hong Kong-based conservation group WildLifeRisk published a report on a factory that processes around 600 whale sharks annually, calling it the world's biggest slaughterhouse for the endangered species.
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Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid Crystals
AbstractNowadays, chemically synthesized proteins and peptides are attractive building blocks and have potential in many important applications as biomaterials. In this review, applications of biomaterials to thermotropic liquid crystals are discussed. The review covers the improvement of the performance of liquid crystal displays using liquid crystal physical gels consisting of a liquid crystal and amino acid-based gelators, and also new functionalization of liquid crystals. Moreover, the influence of DNA, which is one of the more attractive biomaterials, dispersed in thermotropic liquid crystals and its potential use in the liquid crystal industry is described. In addition, we found interesting results during electrooptical measurements of liquid crystals doped with DNA, and explain them from the point of view of biological applications. These recent approaches suggest that these biomaterials may be applicable in the electronic device industry and should be considered as an interesting material with their physical properties having the potential to create or refine an industrial product. View Full-Text
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Spread in ribbons over a steep mountain ridge, surrounded by emerald-green Tea plantations and with a backdrop of jagged white Himalayan peaks floating over distant clouds, the archetypal hill station of Darjeeling is rightly West Bengal's premier attraction. When you aren't gazing open-mouthed at Khangchendzonga (8598m), you can explore colonial-era architecture, visit Buddhist monasteries and spot snow leopards and red pandas at the nearby zoo.
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Day 1: Arrival New Jalpaiguri Railway Station / Bagdogra Airport To Darjeeling
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Tiger Hill
Tiger Hill is famous for its panoramic view of Mount Everest and Mt. Kangchenjunga together.The first rays of the sun shoot ahead and shed light on the twin peaks of ...
Batasia Loop
The Batasia loop situated almost 5 km away from the town is a gigantic railway loop where the Toy Train makes a 360 Degree turn. It was basically built to make it possible for...
Ghoom Monastery
Ghoom Monastery is also known as Yogachoeling Gompa. It is located in a place called Ghoom in Darjeeling, hence the name Ghoom Gompa. It was in the year 1875 that a Mongolian ...
Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park
Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park is a 67.56-acre zoo in the town of Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal. The zoo was opened in 1958, and an average elevation ...
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Together with his family author of detectives settled in a small town, in a house where about a year ago turned chilling tragedy - killed all the tenants. Writer accidentally finds videos that may be a key to the mystery of the crime. But nothing is given freely and terrible things begin to occur in the house, so now the life of his family is threatened. They were faced with something from which there is no escape.


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Seven-foot tall woman draws crowds in BengalJuly 3rd, 2012 - 6:11 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) Standing at over seven feet and weighing nearly 120 kg, 25-year-old Siddika Parvin from West Bengal's South Dinajpur district is hogging the limelight, specially after being hospitalised following a respiratory disorder.
After she was admitted to the Balurghat district hospital late Monday night, people have been thronging the hospital to see the "giant".
Unable to control the crowds, hospital authorities had to call police to disperse them.
Resident of Srirampur village under Banshihari block in the district which is some 462 km from Kolkata, Siddika's daily intake of food consists of nearly six kgs of rice, besides a big basket of puffed rice.
At the hospital, Siddika is being served with six bananas, four pounds of bread and two litres of milk as breakfast, two kg of boiled rice along with vegetables and fish for lunch and dinner.
The eldest of three daughters of daily wagers Afasuddin Mandal and Mansura Bibi, Siddika started growing abnormally since the age of 10, before which she was like any other girl going to school and doing regular chores.
Ever since her abnormal growth, she had to skip school as people started making fun of her, making it difficult to continue her studies, says her mother.
Sarthak Sensharma, the doctor treating Siddika, said a tumour in her pituitary gland has caused higher secretion of hormones resulting in her abnormal growth in height and weight which in medical parlance is called "gigantism".
"Gigantism refers to abnormally high linear growth due to excessive action of insulin-like growth factor while the epiphyseal growth plates are open during childhood," said Sensharma adding that she needs to go for an immediate surgery as her obesity was leading to other health problems including a respiratory disorder.
Contrary to reports that her daily wager parents were unable to feed her resulting to her hospitalisation, district magistrate Durga Das Goswami as well as Sensharma claimed Siddika was admitted due to health problems caused by her obesity.
"Though she has not been admitted due to starvation or lack of food, but if the administration is approached seeking help for her, we may provide it under any of the food schemes," Goswami said.
The most remarkable example of a person with gigantism was Robert Wadlow from the USA called the "Alton Giant" who stood 8 feet 11 inches tall and weighed almost 200 kg at the time of his death in 1940.
In India, Sharad Kulkarni stands at over 7 feet 1.5 inches and his wife Sanjot is 6 feet 2.6 inches tall. Their daughters Mruga and Sanya are 6 feet 1 inch and 6 feet 4 inches respectively.
The family's combined height is a staggering 26 feet. The couple was crowned India's tallest couple by Limca Book of Records after they married in 1989.
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Officials at English Heritage Lottery have announced that the Holm Cultram Abbey in Abbeytown, England has received a grant for UK£48,000 to carry out an extensive at the Cistercian abbey.
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Anand vs World was a joke.
Anand was hosting a simul in where people pay $200+ to play him (and 30 people were in the simul), and chess.com said can we host Anand v World simul where we input it on a laptop?
And Anand said yes, and chess.com made a big deal out of it but its really just some lame way to make an Anand vs World.. I am dissapointed. If it was Anand vs Us and ONLY that, I would have liked it.
Anand moves in 2 seconds vs us.. while other players he is thinking for over 30 seconds.. really sad indeed. He does not care about our game.
And then he takes a draw by repitition..
I am ashamed of chess.com staff for launching an unorganized Anand vs World, they thought they could enter a simul and do it like that? Wow that is really childish of the staff.
I lost respect for Anand's weak thinking, but also ashamed that we took a draw by repitition.. but the majority was 1200s who wanted to draw him so the minority couldnt outvote them.
Even the people who liked Anand-Gelfand thought that draw was premature.
Why do you keep repeating the same comment on every Anand vs. The World forum bwolf93? Its getting weird.
More to the point, why was a second thread created when the OP was already engaged in the first one?
I wasn't sure that anyone noticed lol
#6TheGrobe wrote:
More to the point, why was a second thread created when the OP was already engaged in the first one?
One thread (which is NOT mine), was a discussion of the moves as they went on.
I made this thread in view of my opinion of the match, and how pathetic it was.
It's evident that Anand didn't care about this game, and it is also clear that "we" played lamely ... what chess.com should arrange is instead a 1 day/move thing like for Kasparov v. the World in 1999.
Atleast in the Carlsen vs the World (I am biased because I like him), he took his time, he made his moves, he was only focused on our game (not 29 others), and it got great recognition.
Did Anand even know he was playing 6,000 other people?
The last 2 years or so he been performing below par, so it is not surprising to me.
Which world was he playing against? Was the match Federation of Planets sanctioned? Do the inhabitants get rating points from it?
He played against 1400s (on average) in "this" world. Inhabitants get pride for drawing a WC!
Sad thing is that is what it looked like he did lol.
He just took the money and said, "see ya!"
I knew it was going to be crap when I saw the first move played: 1...d5. No offence to anyone who plays that, but what it said to me was that the vote was going to be dominated by the average rating on chess.com.
And the time control meant no time for serious discussion of moves, so that the majority vote could let the stronger 2000+ rated opponents discuss why their alternatives were better.
And lastly, the scheduling of this was beyond belief. Does chess.com not realize that most of us have uhmm... jobs? Like, at 10 AM PST we are at that place called work, earning the money to pay for things like the diamond membership here. If they were going with 10 AM PST, why not pick a Saturday or Sunday to do that? Or if it has to be that early on a Monday, why not give us enough time between moves so we can at least pretend to earn our paychecks while still trying to participate.
Very disappointed.
I was going to start my own thread about this but some people beat me to the punch :(
Vishy Anand probsbly doesn't care that we got draw. Chess.com paid him, and that's what he cares about. :P
There was once a man who forced a well known draw in a simul against Kasparov. Kasparov didn't care- but he told the man one thing:
"You have wasted this opportunity to play the World Champion. Even if you drew me, you wasted a chance to have a learning experience."
I'm happy that that the man wasn't me.
#15ChessforFunn wrote:
I was going to start my own thread about this but some people beat me to the punch :(
Vishy Anand probsbly doesn't care that we got draw. Chess.com paid him, and that's what he cares about. :P
There was once a man who forced a well known draw in a simul against Kasparov. Kasparov didn't care- but he told the man one thing:
"You have wasted this opportunity to play the World Champion. Even if you drew me, you wasted a chance to have a learning experience."
I'm happy that that the man wasn't me.
What if the man was an aspiring portrait artist?
#17trimind wrote:
Well, I'm very dissapointed about the way the game went.
An uneventful draw, nothing more.
Looks like both sides didn't try to make anything, and both sides are content with a quick, easy draw. I would rather lose than draw in such position.
To be honest, I'm surprised at the very first move, when the majority went for d5 instead of Nf6. Soon after, a bunch of illogical moves from our sides came such as Bb4, 0-0, and Nb6,Nf8. Totally passive and lack of fighting spirit. I knew our team has composed of vastly lower rated players( no offence here), so they would need some strong IM or at least 2000+ to guide them on to a good fight by discussing the ongoing game.
I know for sure that people can learn from each other, and experience something new from the positions. However, 6000+ played their own games against the WC V.Anand. A lot of lame moves, I've seen during the game and actually I stopped playing after just 10 moves.
I am so sorry that the World's play did not live up to your expectations.
Your comments make us feel even lowlier than we usually do. Do you
mind if we still participate in this forum?
#18joeydvivre wrote:
What kind of nonsense is this disparaging 1..d5? The list of Super-GM's who play 1..d5 is huge. There are all kinds of interesting, fighting, great games that come out of 1..d5. Morozevich for example plays it all the time. You can accuse Morozevich of a few things, but you can't accuse him of not playing fighting chess.
This "we didn't play fighting chess because we played 1..d5" is dumb.
(I voted for Nf6, incidentally, FWIW because I have decided that I don't care of the Benoni sucks).
It wasn't the move itself that was the issue - you're missing the point. Myself, and at least one other person, took the symmetrical reply of 1... d5 as a hint that the game was headed toward the kind of solid and stodgy game that 1.d4 d5 can lead to... and did.
Its not that 1...d5 has to be boring and drawish. But it did turn out to be just that. I didn't see 1...d5 heralding one of the sharp lines that can come of it, I saw it as heralding solid, stodgy, boring play.
It just sucked all around. And it wasn't 1...d5 that made it suck. It was the game itself and the quick draw. 1... d5 just happened to be chess.com's first opportunity to take the game in the direction it went.
it seemed to me players were using top moves from the opening explorer.
which shouldn't be right next to the move button, if it's supposed to be an individual effort.
the game was lame. however there were over 1,000 participants, which is a positive. however, this lacked the excitement and atmosphere of magnus vs. the world of course.
It would have been better if it was a 960 game....


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Tiger Woods [Yahoo Class C]
Last week's T8 in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational gives Woods four finishes inside the top 10 over his last six starts, including two wins and a third-place result. Tiger ranks first in scoring average, fourth in ball striking, 13th in greens in regulation percentage, fourth in total driving and ninth in All-Around ranking.
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Rory McIlroy [Yahoo Class A] - World Ranking: #3
After poor showings in the U.S. Open and The Open Championship, McIlroy bounced right back in his next Tour outing, a T5 in last week's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. If McIlroy stays on track expect him to challenge for another top-five finish; he finished T3 in the PGA Championship in 2009 and 2010.
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I. most of ssh manual and all sshd manual present server and client as one machine, called host. All files mentioned are placed on one machine. This is incorrect, and makes the explanation unclear. For example, man sshd SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS FILE FORMAT suggests to copy keys from /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub into /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts, as if those files are on the same machine.
II. a general presentation of ssh workings is missing, and makes the decryption of those manuals even more difficult. i suppose, but i am not sure that:
both server and client encrypt their messages with the encryption keys in:
both server and client can memorize known hosts' public encryption keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts and ~/.ssh/known_hosts
only the server is protected through authorization. this happens in two ways:
1. server side (usually used methods):
a. the client provides an authorization key:
+ public part in //server/~/.ssh/authorized_keys
+ private part in //client/~/.ssh/id_dsa
(this could be using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsa#Signing_messages ?)
b. the client provides its password
this (#1) should happen for EVERY line sent from client to server.
2. client side:
the client verifies that it has the server's public encryption key:
a. with a question to the unknowing human at the client's console
b. verifying the server's public encryption key against the lists of servers' public encryption keys in:
//client/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts and //client/~/.ssh/known_hosts
//server/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts and //server/~/.ssh/known_hosts are not used habitually, because other authorization means are preferred. Probably IgnoreUserKnownHosts in sshd_config refers to this.
These few lines took me three frustating days of hard work, instead of two easy hours of learning, and I am still not sure I guessed rightly. I believe that this attitude makes Linux lose market in favour of Windows servers. Three expensive unpleasant days. I hope that the author of sshd manual is feeling better now and will correct his writing. And please verify my "discoveries" above and publish them somewhere. At the beginning of ssh man, for example.
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JUNEAU - The National Military Family Association recently recognized Petty Officer 1st Class Aaron Udland of Juneau as the recipient of the Coast Guard Family of the Year Award for his family's efforts in volunteering and significantly contributing to support cancer awareness through various national organizations.
Udland, his wife Shannon and their four children volunteer with the American Cancer Society to help raise money and gain community involvement and awareness. He and his wife are actively involved in the planning committee for the society's annual fundraiser, Relay For Life. Relay for Life is the family's passion, but they also enjoy volunteering and participating in other community events for a variety of organizations such as United Way.
"We look at the Coast Guard as a large organization with more than 40,000 people and to be selected to represent all of the Coast Guard families is just a great honor," Udland said.
The National Military Family Association receives nominations from active duty, Reserve Component and retiree families of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, Commissioned Corps of NOAA, the Public Health Service and families of fallen service members. One of the uniformed service families will be named the 2009 Military Family of the Year on Oct. 28.
Udland graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School in 1989 and joined the Coast Guard in 1997. He has been stationed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter's Long Island, Roanoke Island and Polar Star as well as Coast Guard Station Seattle. He is currently assigned to Station Juneau.


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