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MAJOR plans to create an innovative 'village' community in Hartlepool have been submitted in a move which could create 120 jobs.
Hartlepool Borough Council's planning department has received plans from Jersey-based Brenda Road Holdings for a development known as SECAAH Village, which stands for Seaton Carew Amenities And Housing.
The outline plans are to demolish existing buildings on the site off Brenda Road to create a "sustainable low cost village" providing care for older people and armed forces veterans, low cost starter homes and community facilities.
The area of land is bounded to the north by Seaton Lane - where there is already a housing estate - to the west by Brenda Road and to the east by the railway track.
Ambitious outline plans include:
• Demolition of existing buildings on the site;
• Building a 70-bed residential care home;
• 200 apartments with 24-hour care for people aged 55 and over;
• 80 homes for armed forces veterans and a further 80 affordable homes, plus 200 apartments.
If the plans are approved, it will also include a community centre with spaces for group classes, large car park, workshops and gatherings, a creche/nursery, doctor's surgery, shops, cafe, business units, office units, workshops, storage facilities, a bandstand and even a lake.
A design statement by the developers said: "By combining houses for older people with low cost homes aimed at families, key workers and armed service veterans SECAAH Village aims to create a shared community with a strong sense of integration between all the residents.
"A truly mixed community brings several benefits including improved welfare through the sharing of services and better security.
"On site support and training services offer occupants the reassurance of living within a supportive community while being able to make a valuable contribution to the community themselves.
"SECAAH Village aims to create a community which combines housing designed for the needs of older people with homes for armed services veterans, family homes and low cost one and two bed apartments.
"The development will include a 70 unit residential care home and 200 'Close Care Homes' for the over 55s.
'Close Care Homes' are private homes with varying levels of support available."
Over the past week public consultation letters have been sent out to neighbouring properties that back on to the development site from Chris Pipe, the council's planning services manager.
It read: "The proposal is an outline application for the demolition of buildings on the site and creation of a sustainable low cost village providing care for older people and armed forces veterans, low cost starter homes, community facilities and bandstand."
The plans have been submitted to the planning team within the local authority and a decision is expected to be taken in September, this year, for the outline application.
Developers say if it goes ahead there could be around 120 jobs created including 30 jobs within the studio care homes, 20 members of support staff, 10 jobs in the child care centres and 25 jobs in workshop training.


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I agree with other reveiwers that the icing is too sweet and the cakes are little dry. Sometimes they even taste so artificial. BUT! if you go for the tiny mini ones, you'll see how creamy and soft both of the cream and cakes are while they balance to each other so well. Downsides of the place are that the service is a little weird (it's not like they are really horroble or anything but they not kind..) and those cupcakes are pricey!


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Fewer than one in four GPs surgeries will be affected by doctors taking industrial action on Thursday over a pensions shakeup, according to a snapshot survey.
The medical magazine Pulse found that across 20 primary care trusts (PCTs) in England, 281 of the 1,265 surgeries had given notice of their intention to join the first industrial action by doctors since 1975.
In Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City PCT areas, for example, 28 of the 161 practices intended to take action, Pulse found.
Dr Greg Place, chair of the Nottinghamshire local medical committee, said GPs were "steaming furious" about pension changes but also concerned about their workload. "We will have to do everything we don't do on Thursday on Wednesday and Friday instead. The only people who will suffer is us", he said.
In Surrey, 15 out of 129 GP surgeries have indicated they will be taking action. Across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Suffolk, 134 of the 207 practices intend to be fully open as usual.
GPs in Tower Hamlets, east London, plan to hold a protest agsinst the government on Thursday. One GP, Kirsten Shirke, told Pulse: "All the doctors in our practice are supportive of action. We see the pension reforms as one part of an attack on the NHS. We all feel very angry about these proposals."
The British Medical Association (BMA) argues that the reforms will force doctors to contribute more during their careers, receive smaller sums in retirement and lose their final salary pension scheme. The NHS pension scheme was reviewed and modernised as recently as 2008 and the union says it does not need to be overhauled again as it generates a £2bn surplus each year.
It said last month that among 17,561 GPs who voted in a ballot, 79% backed industrial action short of a strike and 63% endorsed strike action. The BMA is proposing that GPs attend their surgery as usual on Thursday and continue to provide urgent and emergency care, but do not undertake routine apointments.
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The Department of Health said: "It is encouraging that some GP practices are putting the needs of their patients ahead of striking over pensions. Industrial action will mean there is a backlog of patients waiting to be seen by their GP in the following days and weeks – and as GPs understand better than anyone, today's routine appointments can become tomorrow's emergencies."
The Primary Care Trust Network has warned that some GPs could be in breach of their contracts by taking industrial action on Thursday, and may not be paid that day. The network, which represents the 52 PCT clusters in England, said: "There is no doubt that industrial action taken by GPs could lead to a breach of contract. But that would depend on the nature of the action and the detail of the contract with the practice.
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Geoffrey Sisk rolled in a pair of 25-foot par-saving putts on Friday and grabbed possession of the second-round lead at the Nationwide Tour's rain-delayed Mylan Classic. Play was suspended in mid-afternoon for 80 minutes because of rain and threatening conditions, preventing the completion of the round. A total of 27 players will return to the Southpointe Golf Club Saturday morning to finish things, including Sisk, who is at 10 under par through 15 holes.
Sisk holds a two-shot lead over Dave Schultz, who is at 8 under with one hole to go. Schultz eagled the par-5 eighth just before officials sounded the horn to stop play at 7:50 p.m.
Six players are currently tied for third place at 6 under par, including Steve Wheatcroft who grew up 10 minutes down the road and worked at Southpointe during his high school days. Wheatcroft birdied Nos. 16 an 17 but wasn't able to beat the darkness and will have to come back in the morning for the par-4 18th hole.
Kevin Kisner (68), Jason Gore (67), Rocco Mediate (69), Chris Nallen (67) and rookie Mark Anderson (68) are at 6-under 138 and the leaders in the clubhouse.
"I was a little nervous starting off because I just haven't been in this position in a while," said Sisk, who shared the first-day at 6 under with Scott Dunlap. "I hit some good shots the first three holes. The wind was very tricky to start the day but I managed to calm down."
Sisk chipped in for birdie at the par-3 third and made par at No. 4 just as storms rolled into the area and halted play.
"We came back out and the wind laid down and we basically had perfect conditions for the last 11 holes that we actually played," he said. "I missed some chances on the last couple of holes but I felt comfortable. It was a long day with the delay and we caught up to some groups and had some waits on the tees but I'm happy how I'm playing."
Early scores on Friday never threatened double digits as the wind picked up on the hilly course that features some of the longest and toughest rough on the Nationwide Tour this year.
"This golf course can jump up and grab you," said Sisk. "If it had a little more length it would remind you more of an Open (U.S.) course because there are some places where the rough is so deep that all you can do is chip it back to the fairway and we haven't had that in a long time."
Honorary Tournament Chairman Arnold Palmer visited the Southpointe GC to watch his grandson, Sam Saunders, play, and said he is working with his grandson on his game. "He's hitting the ball very well and it's just a question of getting it all together in a little time," he said. "It looks like we've hit the edge now and I think with some tournaments and a little practice he'll do very well."
Palmer had high praise for the Nationwide Tour, now in its 21st year.
"There's no question about the fact that the Nationwide Tour is the proving ground for the regular tour. I think that's wonderful," he said. "They can't do too much on that note and the more tournaments they get, the better the tournaments get, the better the players are going to get, and when they go to the regular Tour they're prepared for it. You see how many good players have off of this tour and on to the regular tour, and I'd like to see that continue. I'd like to see the Nationwide Tour gain in stature and as it gains in stature the players gain and the big tour is going to gain from that."
Second-Round Notes: Second-round play was suspended from 3:21 to 4:45 p.m. because of rain and threatening conditions in the area. … A total of 27 players will return Saturday morning to finish the round. Second-round play will resume at 7:45 a.m. The low 60 players and ties will advance to Round 3. … Third-round tee times will run from approximately 9:45-11:45 a.m. with play in threesomes off both the 1st and 10th tees.
Martin Flores had a 6-under eagle-birdie streak. Flores went B-E-B-B-B on holes 15-1. He finished with a 6-under 65 and is 3 under for the tournament. … Kevin Chappell, No. 5 on the money list, posted a 3-over 74 and missed the cut. Chappell shot a 3-over 38 on the front nine without the benefit of a par. Chappell had an eagle-2 at No. 1 and birdied Nos. 8 and 9. He bogeyed Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 and double bogeyed No. 4. … Chappell, J.J. Killeen and Jim Gallagher all eagled the 463-yard first hole. … Julien Trudeau bounced back from a 9-over 80 with a 4-under 67. Trudeau had a tournament-best string of four birdies in a row on holes 5-8.
Brad Elder withdrew prior to the start of the second round because of an injured neck. … Bubba Dickerson withdrew during the second round. … Jason Enloe withdrew during the second round due to injury. … Bryan DeCorso withdrew during second round due to injury. … Brady Schnell withdrew during the second round due to a back injury.


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Morsi says his Jewish comments misunderstood
Published: 30.01.13, 18:01
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1. In what context are Jews pigs and monkey descendants
Alan ,
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2. By his own definition
"I was talking about the practices and behavior of believers of any religion who shed blood or who attack innocent people or civilians. That's behavior that I condemn." Perfectly describes the Muslim Brotherhood's own Hamas terrorists (and all the other radical Islamists. He said it, not me.
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3. How do you take
Zoe ,
"Jews are descendents of apes and pigs" out of context?
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4. Why wasn't the question asked
Gee ,
Zikron Yaakov
Under what context would that racist comment would be acceptable? Or the comment about teaching his children and grandchildren "to hate Zionists - Jews"? His words.
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5. ok...I believe you
the mad zionist ,
san francisco
maybe you're right, it probably was taken out of context through the media of today. im gonna watch the video on YouTube real quick just as a reminder........just watched it, my as$ morsi. what amazes me is even attempting to lie about saying that. why not just grow a pair and say what you really believe. oh yeah, that's right, it's actually smarter to wait until Obama gives youbillions more US taxpayer money, and dozens more f-16's and hundreds of more Abram tanks and become a middle eastern super power, and then tell the truth. it's actually semi brilliant because as long as you tow the line, Obama will throw you all the US taxpayer money you would like. and then howgreat will it be when Israel and Egypt go to war again both funded and supplied by the worst US president in history....that's right, it's all being done by design. Obamamust of thru a fit when that video surfaced, but then he realized that congress cant stop the shipment of arms unless congress pulls the.purse, but until then, load em up.morsi, your people deserve better then you.
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6. Not even close on the science!
Jon S. ,
Virginia, USA
All humans, pigs, and apes, back far enough in time, share a common ancestor. I am not at all ashamed to have such a common ancestor but I am ashamed to have contemporary human cousins like Morsi and his group.
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7. All the true prophets were Jews- none Arabs!
Jouko ,
And there is only one God - the Holy One of Israel!
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8. who shed blood on innocent...
the mad zionist ,
san francisco
civilians? Didn't you just sentence 21 death, and then kill 80 civilian family members of those executed? I mean you've gotta come up with a better one than that. You're just lucky youre a radical Islamist dictator, because if you were a secular dictator like mubarak. Obama would be calling for your removal as we speak if you killed even one protestor. You just better be grateful morsi. And Obama wouldn't have minded if you just didn't say any apology. It just gets fox news going more. Just remember, if you want the Jews to believe anything you say, use big words like unshakable, unequivocal, and throw in a word too kind security or bond and you'll be fine.
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9. "Berlin was alarmed by video"
StevieT ,
What did they expect from the leader of the MB who was jailed by his own gov't for years? I think they were alarmed because this practitioner of the religion of peace was caught on tape, not by what he said. Send them some more planes and ships, after all, he was just 1 man. Ooops, just yesterday one of his ministers said the Holocaust is an invention of the Americans. Oh well, they're just a bunch of lovable rascals under their endemic hatreds and superstitions. On second thought, add some missles to their recent orders.
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11. Morsi's Comments
Gabriel ,
Dallas, TX, USA
Did anybody bother to ask Morsi in what context were his comment about the Jews being pigs and apes OK?
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12. Mohammed and Muslims are the biggest murderers and shedders
Play on words
of innocent blood in the history of the world...... But in their minds (by Muslim definition) infidels are not innocent.... Ahh tricky.
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13. He forgot he is descendant from same anscestor: Abraham!
jack ,
San Diego
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14. And Yet Germany Welcomes Him Still
ACortez ,
Anaheim, CA, USA
Jews better wake up and leave the EU before the euros send them to their death...again.
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15. Welcome still
Martin ,
Basel, Switzerland
What do you mean when you say that Jews should leave the EU? Do you believe Israel is in the EU? Or do you mean that Jews living in EU member countries should leave the EU - somehow linked to Morsi visiting Berlin?
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16. Morsi,your own Egyptians will get you like they got Mubarak
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17. In 2010 Morsi repeated the true word of Prophet Mohammad.
E.M Jordan is Pal.St ,
And he is layer if today he denied that he did not say against Jews.
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18. Morsi says....
Toledano Jean-Pierre ,
Maybe, not Merkel.... Maybe not the current German government... but Europe (the Eu) will kneel for the anti semitic behaviour of Morsi, the current Muslim Brotherhood government of Egypt, etc.... Maybe, I'm too pessimistic: Merkel, Germans,...please , please,... remember the past don't forget us!!!
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19. But, but, but ....
Sarah B ,
U.S.A. / Israel
Oh, pitiful. Hard to take "out of context" comments that were made in a complete taped clip that was not edited. Morsi's been outed. It may be the Pentagon that asks to send Egypt military hardware, but it is the Congress of the United States that makes the budgetary decisions.
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20. Obama will give $5 Billion for that Taqiyah.
BUTSeriousy ,
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21. I am Satisfied!
J. Streicher ,
Formerly Berlin
I am satisfied with this explanation. It seems quite arbitrary to criticize Morsi for comparing Jews to monkees and vermin...after all, he is a peace loving man who only seeks dar al Islam with Israel included in this warm blanket of comfort.
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22. Damage control?
Miami, Florida
WHAT A HYPOCRIT! Liar! The issues we have we all these people is trust!!! We have to constantly watch our backs! Get educated before opening up that filthy mouth! I'm discussed!
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23. Just like germany in the 1930's
Mahlon Drumgoole ,
Newark NJ USA
What in the world is going on with the Obama administration? Morsi's antisemitic rants and his advisor's Holocaust denial that accuses the US of bringing the 6000,000 Jews to the US and then making up the Holocaust has to be enough to put the brakes on arming Egypt with F-16's and Abrams tanks. Yet, this incompetent or idiotic administration sends weapons to a country that needs economic aid. During the 1930's, FDR and the state department knew of Hitler's brutality and crimes agai9nst humanity. Yet they didn't even begin to halt trade or stop Americans from visiting this devil country. Maybe the german army woould have ovefrthrown the monster if other countries had taken a firm stand.
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24. State-controlled AL AHRAM presents PM Netanyahu as a monster
Jouko ,
I read Al Ahram almost every week and the editorials about Israel leaders are just sickening!!! This week's Al Ahram represented PM Netanyahu as a monster. See for yourself!
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25. If i were Morsi I wouldn't try too hard! The Europeans,
tom ,
tel aviv
especially Germans won't hold it against him: they just KNOW where he's "coming from". They simply use different words& images to describe their own,inbred antisemitism.
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26. It gets better:
He then said that the American Media made a big deal out of those comments because it's controlled by "certain forces" that don't view him favorably...
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connie mack ,
We read: "The statement comes on the heels of the much-publicized comments made by President Morsi in 2010, that Jews are "the descendants of apes and pigs," remarks that Morsi insists were taken out of context." Please, readers and journalists, tell me and others what the actual context was. Please. Also, on the same topic: I acutely recall that a Jewish political know-it-all reprimanded and criticized the Netanyahu Government for not supporting the Arab Spring uprising against President Mubarak. Who articulated this unsolicited comment? Please help me recall. Had Israel indeed supported the uprising, would the Egyptians have elected Herzl, Ben Gurion or Peres President? Huh?
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28. Morsi- Just words, but clear at the time !
Get Real ,
Another example of Arab leader's 'diplomacy' of one set of statements for the internal Arab street and another for the world stage. When called to account the explanation is 'taken out of context' and with a more concise defined comment of what was said or the real meaning of what was said actually meant. So nothing is to taken at face value first time round, but it seemed pretty clear at the time. Anyway he now makes some further comments that appear to explain and more importantly that allows the visit to go ahead without concern for what was said or meant. .
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29. A Hitler Wannabe is Morsi
Chaim Ben Kahan ,
Efrat, Israel
Keep an eye on this Islamic extremist. He is a threat to Israel, the West and to secular Egyptian people. The Muslim world is going backwards, it is becoming more and more radical and violent. Look at Mali, note the Taliban, note Iran, look at Syria, and think about it.
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30. As usual Israel will put its own....
Robert ,
.....convenient interpretation on anything anyone says as it did in the fallacious "Wipe Israel off the map" interpretation of Ahmadinejad. This is of course in an effort to justify any aggressive "Self defensive" action Israel will carry out.
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October 28, 2001
Eight months old
Mini Rex Rabbit
Kingman, Kansas, USA
or my Christmas present last year, even though it was November, my two daughters, age 14 and 11, bought me a baby Mini Rex doe for $5 at a local show. Although my daughters show rabbits, this was meant to be my pet and not a show rabbit. Peppermint, a broken black (black and white), was given a cage in our bunny barn with another rabbit, since we didn't have another cage open. The other doe scratched up Peppi, so my new pet was brought inside to live in the bathroom. Since it was cold outside, she couldn't go back outside without getting sick.
I got her a cage, placed it on the counter, and planned for her to stay there the winter, then go back outside once it was warm again. Peppermint, however, had other plans. She first learned to open up her cage. The people in my family would walk in the bathroom, only to find Peppi sitting on the counter, or in the sink, or ripping off wallpaper. We soon allowed her free range of the house, and she'd follow everyone around, or beg for a treat, or just cuddle up next to us on the couch. My family realized how much of a personality one little rabbit could have.
It should have been no shock to us when she jumped in the bathtub while it was full of water, or when she followed my oldest daughter into the shower. It didn't surprise us any when she learned to jump on the furniture by herself. She has always had the habit of jumping up on the toilet seat lid and taking a little nap, looking terribly contented. The biggest surprise, and the one earning Peppi her new nickname, was definitely shocking, however. My oldest daughter walked into the bathroom, screamed and laughed at the same time, then came running out, holding my little wet black-and-white furball in her hands. My little bunny had jumped on the toilet seat lid, like usual, but someone had left the lid up. Peppermint had jumped into the toilet! You'd think our little Toilet Monster would be more careful, but she's just as irrepressible as ever. Now, though, she loves water even more.
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Baby-eating megacorp publisher to throw its gargantuan weight behind...HDMI and DVI cables?
It's tempting to take nonsense like that as a sign the maligned widget-maker and his ilk don't have the first clue about the market they nominally work in, but I dunno what Dell and HP are up to. You've been able to do this for years, but presumably he's talking about encouraging people actually to use the ability. Besides, he's probably just looking for leverage with Microsoft. Isn't that what Steamworks on PS3 amounted to?
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March 11, 2013
3D Printing Contest To Create Rockets – The Daily Orbit
The race is on for a 3D-Printed rocket engine.
Decoding a little dolphin-speak.
What's better than a Cheetah? A cheetah-bot!
And trading fat for cash on today's Daily Orbit!
Hello and welcome to the Daily Orbit. I'm Emerald Robinson.
What better to carry supplies to a 3D printed lunar base than a 3D printed rocket ship. I smell a competition. "DIYROCKETS" is partnering with cloud company "Sunglass" in the world's first open source competition to create 3D-printed rocket engines. The competition is intended to help serve the growing market for small payload delivery into low orbit. Experts from NASA, MIT, and TED will announce 3 winners on July 1. What's up for grabs? $5000 and bragging rights, of course. A student team will also be awarded $2500. Oh could someone please grab my fins out of the printer! Thanks! Shhh! I've already started
As if dolphins couldn't get any more adorable and fascinating! How cute is this? Scientists have found they give each other names. With a complex series of clicks and whistles, dolphins are able to communicate with each other. Now one marine biologist is saying these animals use vocalization to assign one another names, making it easier for them to communicate underwater. Studying recordings taken of 250 dolphins in the wild, the team found that one dolphin would identify himself with a unique whistle which other dolphins would mimic. He and his team called this behavior "vocal copying" – the act of mimicry to learn speech patterns. And here is my dolphin name [sound].
[Cheetah roar] Whoa…okay I guess that whistle attracts more than dolphins. Wait that cheetah ain't even real. A team of MIT mechanical engineers have developed a 70 lb. robotic cheetah that wastes very little energy. Usually, wasted energy comes from heat given off by the motor, energy lost through mechanical transmission, and inefficient control. So how'd they get by this? A little ingenuity and a customized high-torque-density motor. Energy would normally be lost from the impact of the robot's legs hitting the ground, but the Cheetah's impact energy goes back to the battery. The team also put motors and gears in the hip to cut energy loss by reducing leg inertia and then constructed a flexible spine that helps to restore elastic energy. After testing their design, engineers say their cheetah beat out the "Big Dog"—you know, the DARPA robot. See now, they need to work out how to make me more energy efficient as I run. Oh wait, I've got that covered [drinking can of red bull].
And after the good news that a child in Mississippi has been cured of HIV, here is more promising news in the fight against the virus. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that nanoparticles loaded with bee venom are capable of destroying HIV while leaving the body's cells unharmed. They say these nanoparticles could be used to develop a preventative prophylactic gel capable of stopping the initial infection and the spread of HIV. The key ingredient? A toxin in bee venom called Melittin, which is able to break through the virus' tough protective shell. Hmmm….science changing lives every day!
Want your employees to get trimmer and healthier? How about having them trade fat for cash. A new study looked at how cash incentives and "disincentives" helped people with their weight loss. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic took 100 overweight or obese employee volunteers and offered them $20 for every month in which they lost 4 lbs. If they didn't meet their 4 lb goal however, they had to pay a penalty. Turns out when there's cash on the line, participants anted up with sixty-two percent meeting or exceeding their weight-loss goals. Obviously, it would take more than $20 a month to get me to give up my French fries.
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I was forced to delete all my blogs because some one unknown to me reported my blogs as to having advertising within them I asked wordpress to reply to an email earlier today for an answer to the questions I asked but since I have been visiting other blogs in wordpress which to my view is advertising and yet they are still online.
I think it is really unfair that one is treated one way and others another way.
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My deleted blogs
I was forced to delete all my blogs because some one unknown to me reported my blogs as to having advertising within them I asked wordpress to reply to an email earlier today for an answer to the questions I asked but since I have been visiting other blogs in wordpress which to my view is advertising and yet they are still online.
You did not specify a blog address or reason for posting when you created this topic.
This support forum is for WordPress.com hosted blogs only. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog you need to seek help at the WordPress.org forums, not here.
If you don't understand the difference, you may find this information helpful.
While logged into wordpress.COM and when visiting a blog that you think violates the terms of service, go to the "blog info" menu in the grey bar at the top of the screen and select "report as spam."
Reporting other blogs won't help or change anything. It's just they haven't found those blogs but did yours. I was deflowered of my WordPress global tag privileges & IP banned by Digg. But I know far worse blogs and content are out there with nothing done.
You were not forced to delete your blogs because someone reported you: you were forced to delete your blogs because you were in violation of the Terms of Service. If you want to be a sore loser and run around ratting out other people, go ahead, but it won't get your blogs back and it only makes you look...like a sore loser.
I'm not a sore loser but I'm who believes in standing up and speaking out for the lower classes of the communities of the world.
Any way my blog didn't carry an advertising but out carried names of websites in which more help could be received, I am still to receive as answer to those questions.
As I know Iwas shut down by a third party.
You were not. You were shut down by WordPress.com staff. They are the ones who looked at your blog and made that call.
I know I'm right and I will keep fighting to get a much fairer bloging system for all users not one set of rules for some and another set of rules for others.
All I wanted to know is who reported my blog so I can state my case about my blog
If someone reported your blog, staff will not give out that information. They have said so in the past.
They quite truthfully don't care who reported a blog. If one is reported, then they check it out. If it is in violation, then the blog owner will either get a message in their dashboard telling them to contact staff, or their blog will be suspended. Which happens depends on the violation. Every case is looked at individually.
You state your case about your blog to Support, not to anyone else, and certainly not here in the forum. If I report you to the police for whatever crime I think you are guilty of, the police makes the call, and it's the police you answer to. Same thing with blogs that get reported on wordpress.com. It's wordpress.com staff that investigate the reported blog and delete it. There's no different set of rules for different blogs. The difference lies in who gets reported or not, or who is found out by wordpress.com staff without reporting. Some get away (for a while), some don't.
"With some many online schemes which promise you a rich income all temping us with all sorts of offers or gifts etc that is why we need to get as much information before signing up to find the good from the bad.
I want you to take a look at: ****** ******'s Blog"
"Yes your donation will go to help many who are looking at starting their own Online Business and secure a future they richly deserve."
Keep a watch out for this
Interesting method I use
To keep out debt
And how I beat
The banks and creditors
"There are some good teaching websites you can visit, which at a small cost would be good for you to learn more and do it just right. Heres one I use www. xxxxxxxxxxxxx .com"
We do not allow blogs to be used for this type of activity. If they are here and discovered they are suspended. The domain you linked to is one that now causes a blog to be instantly suspended. We do this because we want people to come and stay here knowing that we take our terms of Service seriously that they are constantly enforced. Pointless having rules and not using them and everyone who has a blog has read those.
If you want to use the blog for personal purposes and nothing to do with money making then I can sort that out. But if you want to have a blog where you can sell financial dreams you need to look elsewhere.
My blog had nothing to do with making money but more with to do with advice in living from day to day and been able to keep ones head above water in regards to keeping out of debt in these tuff times.
There is was no in tension to run the blog as a money making scheme Keep a watch out for this as seen below
Interesting method I use
To keep out debt
And how I beat
The banks and creditors
but away I use to keep all my debts under control.
"There are some good teaching websites you can visit, which at a small cost would be good for you to learn more and do it just right. Heres one I use www. xxxxxxxxxxxxx .com"
This blog was only giving advise.
The blog was not yet finished and the one interesting method and donations are two different blogs
Running around sulking about how your get rich quick scheme got killed is not going to make you rich quickly. I suggest you move on rather than continue to whine about the death of a pyramid scheme.
It seems to me that if your information is so fantastic, you would be rich beyond dreams, and thus you would have no need to complain about…
unless you want to get philosophical and discuss:
"money don't bring you happiness"
It isn't a pyramid scheme or a get rich scheme but something I practice week in week out for keeping above debts and also about keeping on good terms with all one's credtors and lenders as will be seen in my blog when it is released.
I myself am not rich in fact I don't want to be, in fact I spend my time mixing and living with the lower classes of the community in which I live.
You're not that good at keeping on good terms with people, are you? Especially if you persist in characterizing people as "the lower classes."
Oh! will raincoaster I'm one of the lower classes and the term doesn't upset me a bit in fact very happy that the Lord looks after my every need.
Then why are you still bitching here and looking for revenge?
I'm not complaining as you are saying raincoaster, but I'm only trying to get wordpress to see that they made a mistake in prejudging my blog.
That doesn't look like you're inquiring about a policy decision; it looks like you're aiming to make a victim of someone, anyone.
Why don't you move on? You've heard the official staff response already:
Why don't you move on like wise raincoaster as this matter isn't your concern.
what is this?
I am assembling a blog and someone comes in within 5 minutes ....and calls me a spammer?? And then deletes the whole thing?
Who is protecting who from whom??
@eljimb0, if the blog was deleted, contact staff directly at http://support.wordpress.com/contact/ . If the blog is not associated with your username, then you can log out of wordpress, go to the link I provided and click the "I don't have a blog" checkbox and then use the contact form.
The matter is my concern because it's in the forum. The forum is the province of the forum volunteers. They include me. As has been explained, this is not the place to communicate with staff; we can only assume that you wish to communicate with us when you post here.
@ psst: raincoaster:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
My point eljimp0 how could anyone say my blog was what in wasn't it would be better for support in the future to contact the owner of th blog pointing out any concerns they have and givie them a set time to put the matter rght. Because we are all human and we all can make mistakes even when creating blogs.
I pick you are talking about the photo 1tess that is and there is nothing false about me in fact there are more people admire me than hate me.
Pssst @1tess: nope. Provenance is where something has come FROM, it's geographical past. Province is a realm of authority.
What was I thinking? sorry—no authority here. (
"I'm a blogger, dammit, not a copyeditor!" You should always try to brazen it out.
Saying nothing seems to be the WordPress motto and I don't trust their we'll "As Soon As Possible" message after I sent two messages from their support page. Still waiting for a reply.
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The Skula, known as Skythai (Scythians) by the Greeks, lived an isolated life away from the troubles of the urbanized world, with a simple herdsman's life the nomad makes a living with his animals. Having only to move with them like one of the herd and take them to the favored grazing spots leaves much time for the practice of horsemanship and shooting the bow. A nomads life may seem simple to the rest of the world, but living in such harsh climates and travelling a great many miles a day on the steppes every day has made the Skula a fierce enemy. Whilst ordinarily the Skula are not bothered by the politics of distant nations with their cities and decadence, the time always comes around when the nomads must mount their warhorses, take up the spear and bow and raid the neighboring countries for gold, cattle and glory.
The Skula formed a loose network of nomadic tribes of horse-riding herdsmen and raiders. They invaded many areas in the steppes of Eurasia, including areas in present-day Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and southern Russia. Ruled by small, closely-allied elites, the Skula had a reputation for their skilled archers, and many gained employment as mercenaries. But the Skudata's main strength lies in their much practiced art of horse-archery and furthermore their developed use of heavily armoured cavalry. The Skula cavalry has a great reputation for its prowess in the charge and fire fight, but the Skythian infantry is underdeveloped as it is not surprising in a horse nomad society. In contrast, the shire presence of Skula nobles in their full iron armor on iron clad horses is enough to make any enemy tremble.
Without the desire to conquer new lands the Skula have led an arguably peaceful and isolated life disturbed only by raids into the south and internal strife. But with an ambitious ruler at the head of her army, Skula could sweep down from the northlands and conquer all who foolishly attempted resistance.
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Oir-La (Sakā Axemen) UNIT MADE BY THE ROP TEAM
The Oir-La are notoriously aggressive warriors. They fight to live and lived to fight, and drink the blood of their enemies and used the scalps as napkins; they also have the reputation for their skill in guerrilla warfare, and many gained employment as mercenaries. They use a couple of javelins to throw at the enemy before going in melee with the typical battle axe that most Sakā cultures use; for defence, their clothing consists of padded and quilted leather trousers tucked into boots, and open tunics.
The Sakā people live in confederated tribes, a political form of voluntary association which regulates pastures and organize a common defence against encroaching neighbors for the pastoral tribes of mostly equestrian herdsmen. While the productivity of domesticated animal-breeding greatly exceeded that of the settled agricultural societies, the pastoral economy also needed supplemental agricultural produce, and stable nomadic confederations developed either symbiotic or forced alliances with sedentary peoples in exchange for animal produce and military protection.
Ar-Ima (Sakā Slingers) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
These slingers are made from the lowest classes of Sakā society. Hunters, bandits and herdsmen, are some of the type of individuals that make this contingents of slingers; their morale is very low, and at any sign of trouble they will run.
The Sakā people live in confederated tribes, a political form of voluntary association which regulates pastures and organize a common defence against encroaching neighbors for the pastoral tribes of mostly equestrian herdsmen. While the productivity of domesticated animal-breeding greatly exceeded that of the settled agricultural societies, the pastoral economy also needed supplemental agricultural produce, and stable nomadic confederations developed either symbiotic or forced alliances with sedentary peoples in exchange for animal produce and military protection.
Luo-Skuda (Sakā Horse Archers) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
A swarm of nimble, mounted archers riding sturdy steppe horses is the backbone of most Scythian armies and, if adequately handled, they can be a very effective force all by themselves. Most enemies will be slower or have a shorter range. The horse archers can keep peppering them with arrows for hours or days, evading if approached and closing in only when casualties and loss of cohesion have sufficiently weakened their foes. Typical horse archers, however, are not particularly well-suited for hand-to-hand combat. Armour and heavy weapons are expensive and so are the big horses that can deal with the added weight: only nobles and kings can afford such luxuries. Hence, typical horse archers carry little or no armour and are likely to suffer if forced into melee against most adversaries.
Life as nomadic herders on the steppe produced highly skilled bowmen and riders who could put those abilities to very good use on a battlefield. For over two millennia, these warriors were levied from the diverse nomads that roamed the vast Eurasian steppe and were a central and iconic component of their armies. Horse archer armies relied on mobility (at the strategic and tactical levels) and their excellent composite bows to win their battles and wars and their victories could be truly devastating. Both Assyrians and Medians at the peak of their military power saw some of their armies totally annihilated by enemies relying on horse archers and steppe tactics.
Uluki (Sakā Riders) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
These Sakā skirmisher cavalry are best used in a harassing role and can be very useful in tempting enemy heavy cavalry to mount a charge in a vain attempt to catch them. They carry an abundant supply of javelins in saddle-cases. The traditional role of mounted archers is well known, but the javelin is more dangerous to armoured opponents. These wild tribesmen fill a vital role in the clan host. While they do make excellent skirmishers, this is not their only calling. They are warriors of the steppe and wield spears with skill and courage, willing to close with the enemy when the odds are in their favour.
Skuda (Sakā Archers) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
These Saka Foot Archers are foot bowmen. They are dismounted tribesmen who choose to fight on foot, utilizing the advantage of shooting more accurately and releasing longer, more powerful volleys as a result of standing upon a relatively more stable and level platform than on the back of a horse. However, given their advantages in returning fire from the ground, they are also extremely vulnerable to heavy infantry and cavalry charges since these foot bowmen are still suited to more of a harassing and supporting role due them being merely armed with a short sword, the akinakes of Scythian origin, and no other melee weapon.Steppe nomads at times employed infantry in their ranks, even though they usually fought as cavalry. They would mount these men on camels or horses so as to keep pace with the majority of the army, which was the cavalry, and when they did battle, they would dismount from their horses and release volleys of arrows with deadly accuracy and power against their foes.
Unageri (Sakā Heavy Riders) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
Although the horse archer is the backbone of any nomadic army, mounted javelineers are mostly used in close-quarters on rough terrain, in ambushes and night raids. When an arrow hit was not always lethal, a javelin one did the trick well. These Sakā minor nobles receive small shields, a bunch of good tipped javelins, and some leather and scale armor. They are skilled and can also fight dismounted with various weapons, but the most common were the sagaris battle-axe and the akinakes.
The Unageri, along with the Ulud-Skuda, are minor nobles from the Sakā tribes of the steppes north of the Achaemenid Empire; some of those consisted of the Auchatae, Catiaroi, Traspians, Chorasmii and the Apasiacae, just to mention a few. Their loyalty was always in question, so to bring these petty tribes to follow the main ruling tribe, they would receive small properties and cattle.
Ulud-Skuda (Sakā Heavy Horse Archers) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
Protected with helmets and good quality scale armor, riding horses with frontal barding and wielding a scythian sagaris, these Sakā from the lower nobility can give a good account of themselves in hand to hand combat. Also, they are no less adept with the strong, composite bows they carry than poorer, more lightly-equipped horse archers and only slightly less agile. This combination makes them suitable for a variety of tasks. These are warriors that can attack infantry under the right conditions, that can go toe to toe with most other cavalry (or evade and shoot horsemen they would rather not face in melee) and that will win archery duels with the elusive horse archers (or will chase them off the battlefield).Cavalry armed with the long, two-handed lances may prove their better in melee, and, of course, frontal charges against decent infantry in good order will likely be suicidal. Against such foes, cooperation with the lighter horse archers that should abound in any Sakā army and the Nobles own bows should prove very useful. All in all, the Ulud-Skuda are a valuable unit of great flexibility. Of course, the price of their expensive war gear will often mean than not many of them will be present in most Sakā armies.
Oir-Pata (Man Slayers) UNIT MADE BY THE CLASSICAL AGE: TOTAL WAR TEAM
The Man Slayers ride side by side with the men, to ensure victory for the Sakā cultures. They come from royal tribes that can afford their education and equippment; from the great tribal confederations like the Skula and the Ma-Sakā. Few in numbers and difficult to train, but ferocious and determined as any elite force; they also serve as a symbol of fear for the foreign enemy, for they never saw a women riding on the battlefield, dressed as a man.
Speculation that the idea of Amazons contains a core of reality is based on archaeological findings from burials, pointing to that possibility. About 20% of Scythian-Sarmatian "warrior graves" on the lower Don and lower Volga contained women dressed for battle similar to how men dress, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons. Whend the Scythian men were away fighting or hunting, nomadic women would have to be able to defend themselves, their animals and pasture-grounds competently. During the time that the Scythians advanced into Asia and achieved near-hegemony in the Near East, there was a period of twenty-eight years when the men would have been away on campaigns for long periods. During this time the women would not only have had to defend themselves, but to reproduce and this could well be the origin of the idea that Amazons mated once a year with their neighbours, if Herodotus actually based his accounts on fact.
Mah-Skuda (Scythian Heavy Archers) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
The Mah-Skuda often carry a slightly larger version of the composite bow that their fellow cavalrymen employ. This fact, together with the advantage of shooting from a more stable platform than a moving horse, tends to give their missiles somewhat longer range and more power than those typically shot by horse archers. To some extent, they compensate in this way for their comparative lack of mobility. The Skula used barbed arrowheads designed to tear a wound open on the way out. They also brewed their own poisons for their arrow tips, a mixture of snake venom, putrefied human blood, and, to hasten infection, dung. The secondary weapons of the Skula were the sagaris, a curved battle-axe, and the akinakes, a curved short-sword.
These Skula are veterans of war that are entrusted of maintaning new settlements after conquest, and to subjugate its people. These old men are made from the elite of the Paradrayâ nobility; to them are given great wealth and equipment to fight, since they don't have the strenght to ride horses anymore. This is the way that the Paradrayâ, the greatest Skula tribe (Skula meaning Scythian), have to control the lower tribes from rebelling and wanting to assume control over all Skula.
Skudata (Skula Spearmen) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
Men raised from the most prominent fighters of all Skula (Skula meaning Scythia). They have adapted the fighting style that most nations use, with the soldiers in close formation; shields and spears at their hands, so that they can hold the enemy at bay while the cavalry delivers the finishing blow. This typical battle formation is a great innovation for the people of the steppes; for they were only accustomed with frenetic hordes of ferocious fighters that are lightly armed to make their annual raids into enemy lands. With this warriors, however, you can make those lands yours.
These men are brought from the ruled tribes of Skula; the Auchatae, Catiari and Traspians are some of those that provide the Skula armies with the infantry, archers and light cavalry. The Paradraya, or Royal Skula, provide with their heavy cavalry and heavy archers; the symbol of the Skula armies.
Paradrayâ Vitaz (Paradrayâ Nobles) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
Paradrayâ nobles are among the few in their society that can actually afford the very high costs of reasonably good defensive gear and of the larger horses which are able to carry a rider wearing such heavy equipment. Those expenses pay off by conferring them the ability to engage in hand-to-hand combat with some guaranties and, not to be forgotten, better looks than their less wealthy fellows. Nonetheless, in the early stages of the Skula culture, even nobles carry only limited amounts of armour and are better thought of as medium or even light cavalry. Fortunately, they can still rely on their archery skills, in no way inferior to those of any other Skula warrior and, although modest, the improvement in their equipment does allow them to carry out certain special tasks. Thus, they can fight enemy light cavalry with good prospects of victory. They can deal with enemy horse archers by either winning archery duels with them (thanks to their better armor) or by chasing them and beating them in melee (if they manage to catch them). They can also accelerate the collapse of enemy infantry still in relatively good shape through rear or flank charges and take good care of foot skirmishers. However, they are not prepared to frontally charge any decent close order infantry.
After battle, Paradrayâ warriors would drink the blood of the first enemy he had killed. With the bloody taste still in his mouth, the Paradrayâ would decapitate the corpses of his slain enemies to use as grisly vouchers in the distribution of booty. Only warriors who presented the heads of their slain enemies would receive their share from the chieftain or king. Before the Paradrayâ can be dismissed as blood-thirsty barbarians, one really needs to see their elaborate golden artwork. Skula gold came from the Altai district and from frequent raids on Greek and Persian cities. Gold was sewn into their garments in the form of plates, fashioned into belts, broaches, necklaces, torques, scabbards, helmets, earrings, and ornaments, and worked into their weapons.
Katiari (Paradrayâ Kinsmen) TAKEN FROM THE SHADOWS OF WAR UNIT SUPPLEMENT
The retainers of a Paradrayâ warlord of the royal family have, like their master, access to the very best in terms of arms, armour and horses. In consequence, they are typically the warriors best equipped for hand-to-hand combat within a Skula army, often the only ones, and, as such, their intervention at critical points of a battle may well decide its outcome. However, not even a Paradrayâ prince may afford keeping a large retinue and hence, these select warriors are few in number. Therefore, it is imperative that they are judiciously used and committed only when and where they can really tip the balance of a fight.
Sarmatian nobles maintained a number of retainers, providing them with equipment and, possibly, some means of sustenance. In turn, those retainers followed their lord whenever he went to war. The richer the noble or chieftain, the better equipped his retinue, the extreme being those warriors that constituted the guard of members of royal families. Thus, while a lesser chieftain may be surrounded by just some light horse archers, a Paradrayâ prince led a group of armoured riders wielding the finest weaponry. Friendship was highly valued among the Paradrayâ and was often expressed in oaths of mutual loyalty between warriors which further enhanced the cohesion of such groups. The battlefield impact of such well equipped and highly motivated unit, even if they were not numerous, should not be lightly dismissed.


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JVC Mobile Multimedia Receivers have gone App Crazy!
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Motion-X GPS Drive iPhone Application Interface with JVC Receivers
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Tsovet SVT-AT76
Tsovet is a timepiece brand that can at times be hit or miss for me with their designs. An aviation inspired aesthetic is always going to be a favorite for me with a watch, but I find that less is more when it comes to the components and overall flashiness. The colour and exaggerated size of the font used on the dial is perfectly gauge appropriate alongside the subtle contrast of colour with the date calendar. And the thickness of the band works well without the taper you usually find with watches of this size. For me and Tsovet, I'd say it would be a toss up between this model and the round version of the SVT-LX73.
• 48mm Four Piece Case
• Case thickness: 14.5mm
• Aerospace-Grade 316l Stainless Steel
• Ronda 515 Swiss Quartz Movement W/Calendar
• PVD Coated Dial Non-Magnetic Etched W/Matte Finish
• Hardened Mineral Crystal Scratch Resistant
• Anti-Reflective
• Strap Screw Down 9mm Knurled Crown
• Hand Applied Four Screw Case Back
• PVD Finish Brushed Satin, Corrosion Resistant
• 22mm Italian Calf Leather Strap
• Water Resistant - 10 atm (100m/300 feet)


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Justin Bieber's Movember Mustache!
Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun attending (PoP) Pencils of Promise GALA on Thursday night.
Looks like someone needs to shave his mustache? no, it's not December yet. 🙂
So what is Movember? It's a slang word "mo" for moustache and "November".
Held in November, Movember is the month in which people gather together to grow and compare mustaches. Participants begin the month clean shaven and cultivate their mustaches throughout the month. The month climaxes with participants comparing and appeciating each others mustaches in a manly way. The ticker the better. It's all for a good cause; to raise awareness for Prostate Cancer.
You can look up the history of "Movember" on wikipedia. or "Movember" pictures on Google images. 🙂


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60 NDFCU members affected by scam
Marcela Berrios | Wednesday, September 5, 2007
More than 60 Notre Dame Federal Credit Union (NDFCU) accounts may have been compromised as a result of a multi-part e-mail scam Friday, NDFCU President Leo Ditchcreek said Tuesday.
The NDFCU information technology (IT) team tracked the origin of the fraudulent e-mails – which rerouted users to a counterfeit NDFCU Web site that asked for their debit card numbers and security codes, among other sensitive information – to the Netherlands, Ditchcreek said.
The scammers may never be found, he said.
"Unfortunately in these cases, it's almost impossible to track down the criminals, especially at the international level," Ditchcreek said. "Nine out of 10 times you'll never discover the identity of the fraudsters, and that's very frustrating for the law enforcers and the victims, but sadly, it would cost too much to launch a search abroad."
Over 60 NDFCU members have contacted the credit union to freeze their accounts after receiving one or more e-mails from an unknown scammer masquerading as the NDFCU.
Ditchcreek said the first wave of e-mails asked users to click on a link and fill out a survey for the NDFCU. A pop-up window asked them to enter their member number and password.
A different e-mail informed members their online access to their accounts had been limited until they reviewed and confirmed their information. A link on the e-mail directed them to a site where they could enter their user name and password, Ditchcreek said.
After the NDFCU learned of these e-mails Friday, a warning was posted on the credit union's homepage.
"If you have received an e-mail message that appears to have originated from Notre Dame Federal Credit Union telling you that 'your access has been limited' or asking you to participate in a survey, please do not click on any links that ask for your personal information," the warning said.
Late Friday, a second wave of fraudulent e-mails capitalized on the warning and the members' fear by telling them the credit union had noticed "one or more unsuccessful attempts to log in to your Online Banking Account on 08/31/2007 from a foreign IP address."
The e-mail – from an address that appeared to users as [email protected] – told users to sign in to the credit union's secure server by clicking on the attached link and review their accounts. The link directed them to a non-NDFCU Web site designed to look exactly like the NDFCU homepage, but it lacked the warning.
The credit union's IT staff tracked the e-mails and the Web site to the Netherlands Saturday, Ditchcreek said, but it was unable to contact the illegitimate site's service providers abroad during the weekend. The Web site was shut down Monday morning after the credit union was able to report it to the service provider, Ditchcreek said.
By Monday morning, however, more than 60 customers had viewed the site and entered their banking information. Ditchcreek said at least five customers who gave the scammers their debit and credit card information were facing transactions that added up to more than $2,000.
These costs, however, would not fall on the customers, Ditchcreek said.
"Besides the costs of reissuing more than 60 debit cards – which is fairly nominal – the credit union will also have to absorb those couple of thousands of dollars," he said. "Thankfully, the losses are not as large as they could be, but it's still money that we will lose to this hoax. But of course the member doesn't take the financial loss in these cases."
Ditchcreek said the scammers may have used the information they obtained from the credit union members to fabricate ATM cards and withdraw the cash abroad.
He said he did not have an estimate of the total loss the NDFCU would have to absorb, because he expected more customers would contact the credit union in the coming days. He encouraged customers to review their accounts and transaction and report any suspicious activity immediately.
Senior Zach Labrecque was among the students who received the second-wave e-mail and gave his debit card number, security code and expiration date to the fraudsters.
"I checked my e-mail Saturday morning and didn't stop to think too much about it," he said. "But as soon as I hit 'Enter' I realized banks don't need to ask for this information because they already have it."
He immediately tried to contact the NDFCU to put a red flag on his debit card – but he was told that couldn't happen since the card wasn't physically stolen. He also tried to freeze the account but that was not possible either since it was a football Saturday and Labor Day weekend, and the credit union branches were closed.
Labrecque said he preferred to transfer all the money in his NDFCU account to a different bank rather than wait until Monday to freeze the funds.
"I know how these scams work," he said. "I noticed the different URL and the strange nature of the information requests a minute too late, but I was definitively surprised to see how difficult it was for me to block the account."
Ditchcreek said the NDFCU's priority during the weekend was shutting off the illegitimate Web site.
He said he did not know how the fraudsters obtained the e-mail list, but the customers who filed reports to the credit union Monday were not all students.
"We don't know what e-mail list was used or how they got it, but it wasn't just students," he said. "The general public, members and non-members alike, also received the e-mails."


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Alexander Horwath, Michael Omasta, eds. Josef von Sternberg: "The Case of Lena Smith". FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen. Vienna: Österreichisches Filmmuseum / SYNEMA - Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, 2007. 304 pp. $32.50 (paper), ISBN 978-3-901644-22-1.
Reviewed by Katherine Arens (Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
Published on H-German (August, 2009)
Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher
Reconstructing a Lost Masterpiece
This volume (also available through Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press) is the fifth in an ongoing series of documentation volumes presented by the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna and SYNEMA, The Society for Film and Media in that city. Offering a catalogue of materials and texts to introduce and situate individual films and directors, these exemplary bilingual texts (German-English) address audiences ranging from film devotees to professionals and scholars. With this contribution, the editors turn their attention to Josef von Sternberg's The Case of Lena Smith (1929), a Hollywood film about a woman battling Vienna's class system. In the film, Lena Smith secretly marries a young officer with whom she has a child. After her husband's parents insist on raising the child, the officer kills himself and Lena's suit for custody is rejected by a Viennese court. Lena spirits her son away from his grandparents, only to see him go to war in 1914. Although it was acclaimed at the time, the film now survives only in a short fragment.
The volume opens with a letter from Meri von Sternberg (the director's wife), sent from Valencia, California, to support the film museum's retrospective of Sternberg films. It recalled their 1960 visit to the city when he was writing his memoirs, and sets the tone for the volume by stressing the many connections between Hollywood and the Austrian culture industries--connections all too often usurped by the master narrative of German film and UFA. The bulk of the work is taken up by a set of individual contributions (typeset in parallel German/English columns) that help to document, reconstruct, and situate the lost film, each copiously illustrated with stills and reproductions of documents.
The first, Alexander Horwath's "Working with Spirits," picks up gracefully from that letter to segue into Sternberg's biography, stressing his connections with and early experiences in Vienna, where he was born in 1894 and lived, with only a three-year interruption, until 1908. Horwarth situates Sternberg's experience of the city and the film's theme in its historical context, with the film's Lena representing a generation of immigrants to the city from the provinces. The essay brings up important issues for the early history of Hollywood: cross-over source materials and scenes (source material resembling Arthur Schnitzler's stories; set pieces from places like the Prater or other European amusement parks); the role of early emigrants in co-work (in this case, Sternberg and Erich von Stroheim); and the emigrant experience itself, as Jewish filmmakers in Hollywood themselves learned new ways of life. The social critique presented in Lena Smith, which is developed through the female protagonist's growing awareness of the futility of her struggles against class and social convention, was very progressive to Hollywood audiences, although it was more familiar to Europe's literary public. Horwath finishes this introduction by summarizing the film's reception, including reports by the last people able to see the film before Paramount destroyed all prints. Overall, he makes a compelling case for the Austrian dimensions of this film, and also for its eclipse in popularity in comparison to The Blue Angel (1930).
The second essay in the volume, by Janet Bergstrom, concentrates on the paradox in Sternberg's career: on the one hand he worked in a totally commercial context, while on the other, he often chose to work with challenging material that was almost guaranteed not to be commercially viable. Lena Smith was clearly one of the latter. Bergstrom traces the genesis of the film from the original story purchase, Samuel Ornitz's three scenarios, and the script development, stressing the difficulties in making this material work for an audience. The filmmaker and his team struggled to tell the story of an unacknowledged wife--or unwed mother, or prostitute--from the provinces whose child could not be acknowledged because of social prejudice. The material stays dark to the very end of the film: Lena is unjustly imprisoned in a workhouse on a morals charge. Though she escapes and steals her own child, the film's coda suggests that he will be destroyed by the war.
The bulk of the volume is devoted to reconstructing the film, using all available sources. The linear reconstruction is based on four documents (two sets of intertitles submitted to censors, a Japanese shot-by-shot commentary on the finished film, and excerpts from a script that was close to the final version). This linear reconstruction is supplemented by film stills and frame enlargements from the surviving film fragment (now archived in the Theater Museum of Waseda University, Tokyo), set designs and sequence breakdowns from the Paramount archives, and other materials (often autobiographical) from Sternberg's circle. This exemplary work models ways in which surviving information on lost films can be deployed.
The last section of the volume, "On the Reception of Lena Smith and One of Its Precursors," is comprised of several short essays. The first, by Komatsu Hiroshi, who discovered the surviving segment of the film in China in 2003, details the general evaluation and reception of the film. Gero Fandert follows with "Auch er hat den bösen Blick" on the film's reception in Weimar; Franz Graftl's "Lena X" adds material about the film's French reception (and is interesting in its own right for its method, which compares plot summaries from film magazines). Michael Omasta's "Vienna Gals" takes up the idea of reception in another way, analyzing how Töchter (1914), a short novel by Karl Adolph, was freely translated/adapted by Jo Sternberg as Daughters of Vienna (1922). The essay discusses the treatment of a story of lower-class girls who were essentially sold into prostitution, material with a close parallel to Lena Smith. Such parallels are perhaps broader than the essays in this volume can detail; for instance, I noticed clear similarities between the Lena Smith material and Arthur Schnitzler's late social-critical novel Therese: Chronicle of a Woman's Life (1928), which also stresses the social costs of being a single mother at the mercy of the upper classes. Finally, the volume's appendix reproduces contemporaneous reviews and biographies of major production figures.
To be sure, this volume aims to stress Sternberg's Austrian roots. Yet, it opens up our vision to the major contributions made to Hollywood film by Austro-Hungarian film professionals and actors well in advance of those of the World War II exiles, and to the very real cultural continuities between central Europe and the United States before World War II. The volume is a must for any serious film library or film aficionado.
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at: https://networks.h-net.org/h-german.
Katherine Arens. Review of Horwath, Alexander; Omasta, Michael, eds., Josef von Sternberg: "The Case of Lena Smith".
H-German, H-Net Reviews.
August, 2009.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25195
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