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A young Syrian couple with a tragic story did the unthinkable last week and turned to Israel, their sworn enemy, for help after it became clear they would find nothing but death and destruction in their own country.
Having been raised to believe the Jewish state was a blood-thirsty nation that hates all Arabs, the couple was shocked by the reality.
The couple's story, as reported by Israel Hayom, begins in their small village near the town of Daraa in southwestern Syria, just north of the border with Jordan.
Two months ago, the wife, who is only 23, gave birth to the couple's first child, a little girl. Sadly, the infant fell ill, and the couple was unable to leave their village for a nearby hospital because of military blockade imposed on the area. With no way out, the couple returned home and watched their precious baby succumb to the sickness and die.
The couple's situation went from tragic to worse two weeks ago when government forces began bombarding their village in order to root out rebel fighters. The girl's brother, who was one of those rebels, compelled the couple to flee the village. As they made their way out, the brother was shot and killed by government troops before his sister's eyes.
The couple, themselves wounded by the gunfire, returned to the village and were treated at a makeshift field hospital. But their injuries continued to worsen to the point that the girl's cousin smuggled them out of the village and to the border with Israel.
"We were surprised by the welcome and the treatment we received upon entering Israel," she told the newspaper.
The girl, whose identity was kept secret, continued: "We were afraid to come to Israel. They educated us to hate [Israel]. They taught us that this nation is a cruel enemy, but we found the reality to be different. People here have a conscience. Our enemy is in Syria, not in Israel. I wish we could stay here."
For now the couple is hospitalized at Poriyah Hospital near the Galilee town of Tiberias. As Israel Hayom reported, they can't stop hugging one another and crying over what they have gone through. But at least they are safe, and have come to find a compassionate benefactor where before they thought was only an enemy.
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Americans are growing increasingly concerned over their ability to afford to retire, and with good reason.
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Data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that only 46% of individuals have attempted to calculate how much they need to save for retirement to live comfortably. Another 57% of respondents report their total household savings and investments, excluding their home, is less than $25,000. Only 50% said they could definitely come up with $2,000 if a sudden expense arose. The silver lining to these numbers is that consumers are looking for ways to improve their budgeting and savings habits to help shore up their retirement savings.
The good news is that it's never too late to begin saving for retirement, but individuals will need to act aggressively to develop a comprehensive plan. The first step to any retirement plan is to calculate how much needs to be saved. Individuals can rely on a retirement calculator to determine the amount they will need for their post-working years, or they can work with a financial advisor or credit counselor to get a more comprehensive figure. It's also important that consumers calculate overlooked costs into their savings plan, such as health-care expenses which tend to increase as they age.
A Lifestyle Change can Yield Positive Results
Consumers can also start amassing more wealth by overhauling their lifestyle and focusing on a more disciplined money management plan. Paying off debt is essential, because unpaid balances and interest charges during retirement can quickly eat into money that is saved and make it more difficult for individuals to meet their needs. One way to make larger payments toward debt, while staying on course with a savings plan, is to live on less money. This includes curbing unnecessary purchases and spending, doing away with high-priced amenities, such as pricey cellphone and cable packages, and paring back on vacations, food bills and the like. In more dire cases, consumers might consider downsizing their homes or vehicles to lower their monthly payments, maintenance charges and other add-on costs.
Lastly, workers who are approaching retirement should be maxing out contributions to an employer-sponsored plan or IRA. While traditional savings is important to building a liquid retirement fund, tax-advantaged accounts are also central to a well-balanced retirement plan.
Howard Dvorkin, CPA, is the founder of ConsolidatedCredit.organd PowerWallet.com and is a personal finance expert and consumer advocate as well as the author of Credit Hell: How To Dig Out of Debt.

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Legg said he believes Kooteninchela deppi, which lived in shallow seas off the coast of British Columbia, would have been a hunter or scavenger, using its Edward Scissorhands-like claws to capture prey or probe the sea floor looking for sea creatures hiding in sediment.
It belonged to a group known as the "great-appendage" arthropods, an early relation of modern arthropods that include spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, insects and crabs.


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By Monica Pratt, ArcUser Editor
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Riverside County, located in Southern California, is known for many things. It was the birthplace of the California citrus industry. It is currently the fourth most populous county in the state. And it has been, over the past 50 years, one of the fastest-growing areas in the entire nation.
However, the county's CEO Jay Orr wants Riverside County to be known for something else—for being the best place in America to live. Orr believes that the delivery of "customer-centric public service that is better, faster, and fiscally prudent through technology" is critical to making this vision a reality. To help accomplish this, the county has adopted a new enterprise GIS strategy that makes extensive use of ArcGIS Online.
GIS is not new to Riverside County. It was an early adopter of Esri software and began integrating GIS technology into government functions in 1989. The county soon found innovative ways of applying GIS.
Riverside County uses ArcGIS Online for internally facing web maps like this one showing where bats were trapped and tested for rabies.
For example, in 1993, when fires burned thousands of acres in the county, the GIS team assisted the Emergency Operations Center with its response efforts by identifying the owners of destroyed or damaged properties to speed recovery assistance. Subsequently, GIS also helped determine the boundaries of burned areas so strategies for controlling flooding and mudslides could be developed and damage to environmentally sensitive areas evaluated.
As the cost and operational efficiency benefits of GIS were recognized, individual departments implemented GIS with great success. The county Transportation and Land Management Agency (TLMA) and sheriff and fire departments made extensive use of the technology and worked together to facilitate the creation, maintenance, and use of foundation GIS layers such as parcel, road network, and point locations. Other county departments that have made substantial use of GIS include the Riverside County Department of Public Health, the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, and the Assessor Clerk Recorder.
County leaders, who were dealing with the effects of the recent economic recession, began exploring ways that technology could be used to deliver more value for the county. Although it has had a successful history in Riverside County, GIS was identified as a technology with the potential to deliver even greater returns.
This three-panel map relates the occurrence, surveillance, and mitigation efforts in response to West Nile virus.
The decision was made to move from a collection of individual GIS implementations to a truly enterprise-wide GIS centralized in the Riverside County Information Technology (RCIT) department. The county's enterprise GIS is not designed to be a one-size-fits-all solution. Riverside County CIO Kevin K. Crawford noted that while it transcends departmental interests, enterprise GIS must support departmental and operational requirements. It must serve, not detract from, the business functions of each department and be implemented to meet the varied business requirements of county agencies. The goal is not just sharing automated data but improving business processes.
"The principle purpose is to implement a shared vision for the use of GIS and geographically based data," according to Colby Cataldi, assistant CIO, who oversees enterprise GIS. "The vision represents the crucial outcome of action, direction, purpose, collaboration, and willingness to bring the best thinking into discussion about global issues that may appear to be unique to a department or agency but may also affect departments countywide."
In 2012, the TLMA GIS group moved to RCIT and the county created the Geographic Solutions Division (GSD), which manages the county's enterprise GIS. GSD supplies a variety of geospatial services not only to internal customers but also to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG); University of California, Riverside (UCR); the Western Riverside Council of Governments (WRCOG); and the Coachella Valley Association of Governments (CVAG).
In 2011, the county entered into a public safety enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri. That experience led the county to evaluate a broader, countywide ELA. With wider access to GIS software, the county could more easily develop a common GIS framework that would improve collaboration within and across departments, make staff more efficient and productive, and enhance customer service. The countywide ELA, signed with Esri in November 2012, has enhanced sharing of GIS information across the organization, with business partners, and the public.
With its ELA, Riverside County gets an ArcGIS Online organizational account that provides a large block of named users and credits. This opens up GIS resources to the entire organization as maps, apps, data layers, and web services, eliminating the learning threshold that had limited access to and benefits from the county's GIS.
With ArcGIS Online, a cloud-based system for creating and sharing maps and geographic information, organizations can upload and easily publish data to create intelligent web maps that can be viewed on any device and embedded in websites, blogs, and applications. ArcGIS Online users have access to ready-to-use, high-quality global basemaps that are constantly updated and data that has been shared by others.
Previously, users of the system needed at least some level of GIS knowledge to directly use the system. Often, the value derived by those working directly with the system was dependent on their skill level with the software. Non-GIS staff members obtained maps and reports by making requests to GIS specialists.
The county will still require GIS professionals to perform analysis, create and maintain data, and develop web maps and apps. However, once created, those maps and apps can be made immediately accessible to knowledge workers, decision makers, other non-GIS staff, and the public via ArcGIS Online. Everyone in the organization can be empowered to get the maps and answers they need. They can also contribute back by adding data, refining information, and creating their own maps shared on ArcGIS Online. This helps the entire organization by allowing decisions to be made based on the best available information. This dramatically increases the value the county receives from its GIS.
ArcGIS Online is seen by the county as a key component of its enterprise strategy. Implementing ArcGIS Online "will transform the way we spatially interact with data and information," according to Tom Mullen II, assistant CIO. "The ability for policy makers to spatially see the affected areas of the county and how citizens are cared for, in an interactive map, adds to their depth of knowledge and understanding of the unfolding events and how best to effectively respond to the areas of greatest need in a dynamically changing environment. It provides a department [with] the ability to spatially visualize relationships between services they provide and the communities they serve in an interactive map," said Mullen.
In this cloud-based environment, users can quickly create maps utilizing standard templates and best-practice cartography. Using templates also gives maps on the county website a standard look and feel as well as helps county staff rapidly deploy them.
Policy makers can easily appreciate the changes over time to an area known as French Valley.
Shortly after signing the ELA in November 2012, the county started creating web maps and apps. By March 2013, the first ArcGIS Online maps were up.
The county's externally facing sites furnish information to county residents and the general public. These sites also promote government transparency. One of the first sites to take advantage of ArcGIS Online capabilities was the Meet the Supervisors site. Using an Esri story map template, this site introduces each supervisor, indicates the location of the district served by that supervisor, and links directly to individual district websites.
The County of Riverside Ag Trail website leverages ArcGIS Online through a collection of embedded web maps that show the location and give directions and website links to more than 100 businesses and events related to agriculture in the county. This information is of interest to both residents and tourists. Maps feature farms; wineries; fairs and festivals; and stands and markets that sell organically grown products, fresh fruits, and vegetables.
Because building healthy communities is a top priority for the county, the Riverside County Department of Public Health (DOPH) has used ArcGIS Online to create many kinds of information products, such as the County of Riverside Healthcare Inventory map, which helps residents locate health service providers near them such as hospitals and clinics.
Other county internally facing websites use ArcGIS Online maps to enhance communications within and between county agencies and departments to improve operations. The Department of Animal Services tracks the occurrence of rabies in bats by mapping locations where it has impounded bats and results of tests on those bats.
The West Nile Virus Activity map reports the location and status of surveillance traps, the location of spraying sites, and the boundaries of vector control districts in the county. Information on the occurrence of West Nile virus in the human population, as well as surveillance activities and mitigation efforts, can be compared using a three-paneled web mapping application. (Patient confidentiality is protected by supplying only approximate locations on the map.)
Some ArcGIS Online maps, like the Licensed Healthcare and Social Vulnerability map, help policy makers identify potential problems so they can be mitigated. On this map, care facilities, services, and clinics are mapped against the USA Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI), which measures the vulnerability of US counties to environmental hazards based on factors that may reduce a community's ability to recover from floods and other hazards.
Other maps provide greater perspective for policy makers. A three-panel map shows changes in the population density for the desert community of Mecca. Data for 2000 and 2010 can be compared with projections for 2050. Another map lets the user swipe across the map to compare the dramatic growth that has occurred between 1996 and 2011 in a portion of southwestern Riverside County known as French Valley. Maps like these can help county staff make better decisions regarding where to strategically locate resources to best serve the needs of residents today and tomorrow.
A clearly enunciated vision of the role of GIS in the county and buy-in by the top departmental leadership have contributed to the success and growth of enterprise GIS. By eliminating redundant and competing systems, the county is saving both time and money. ArcGIS Online is making information in the county's GIS directly available to knowledge workers and decision makers in a timely fashion.
The enterprise GIS remains a work in progress according to the county's CIO. The county will focus on the five patterns of GIS business behavior: data management, planning and analysis, field mobility, operational awareness, and citizen engagement. "Moving forward, Riverside County will develop and deploy a common GIS standard and continue to leverage the power of geographic data in an effort to expand the use of shared information; improve the business processes; and promote more timely, informed decisions," said Crawford.


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Following in Sinbad's wake
Seafaring and the sea have for centuries shaped Oman. Our author visited the last dhow shipyard, the port of Sur, and some spectacular fjord landscapes in the country's north
Two masts, an elongated prow, and an intricately engraved railing that sweeps upward. How old may it be, this ship, stand so majestically in the grounds of the dhow museum in Sur? Two hundred? Three hundred years old? Way off the mark! The Fatah al-Khair (Victory of Good), as the elegant cargo dhow is named, only went into service in 1952.
Into the 1990s, it continued to carry its freight of dates, incense and dried fish to Iran and India, Somalia and Zanzibar, returning from there laden with spices, rice and teak – exactly as Omani dhows had been doing for centuries. With the aid of dhows, Arabian seafarers built up a trading empire that extended across the entire Arabian Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean right up to the 19th century. That glorious past still lives on today, if only in scattered niches.
The dhows are built without a construction diagram, and entirely from the knowledge in one person's head
One such niche is the port of Sur, for a long time the center of the dhow-building industry on the Arabian Peninsula. Today, as ever, the lighthouse that stands out against the slender minarets of the white city symbolizes the significance of shipping. What's more, a couple of hundred meters along from the Maritime Museum, dhows are still being built at the shipyard of Ali Al-Araimi – and still in the time-honored way, entirely from teak, acacia and cedar wood and without reference to a single construction diagram.
"There are no plans, no construction instructions," explains Al-Araimi, the shipyard owner's son. "My father has every single step of the building process in his head. And from there, everything has to make its way into my head," says the 30-year-old, raising both hands to his forehead. On the outside, Al-Araimi seems pretty laid back: He's wearing flip-flops, sunglasses, a T-shirt, and the typical black wrap-over wazaar – casual Omani style. But as he uttered the sentence about the two heads, he appeared momentarily overwhelmed, as though he had suddenly become fully aware of the responsibility that comes with being the only person privy to centuries–old knowledge: His father is gradually retiring from the day-to-day business, and the Al-Araimi shipyard is the only one of its kind left in Oman.
Soon regaining his cool, the junior shipyard boss takes us to the courtyard where a large, gleaming, red-brown teak hull appears to be growing from a wooden structure. In the shadow it casts, two shipwrights are crouching over an all but forgotten boatbuilding technique – caulking. With caulking mallet and irons, they hammer the oil-soaked strips of cotton into the gaps between the planks.
The dhow should be ready in one to two months' time. Then it will be laid on its side and hauled across the beach on a bed of palm fronds and into the water. It is being built for a wealthy Qatari, who plans to spend his free days sailing in the Persian Gulf. Many businesspeople and high-ranking politicians place orders with Al-Araimi. They are the kind of people who can still afford to pay for traditional craftsmanship
Working dhows, in other words fishing boats and freighters, generally come from abroad and are made of glass fiber, rather than wood, although outwardly they follow the same, tried and tested, centuries-old design. Even the color has remained the same – from a distance, the brown material resembles wood. There are dozens of these dhows bobbing in the late-afternoon sun in Sur harbor, which consists of little more than a handful of concrete quays and a functional market hall. These dhows transport rice, oil and sugar from transshipment ports in the Emirates to destinations as far away as Yemen, a four- to five-day journey that takes them through the Strait of Hormuz and along the Omani coastline. Sometimes they even sail as far as Somalia, says one sailor, who introduces himself as Anwar. There are regular incidents with pirates along that route, he tells us. "They take the cargo and let the crew and ship go again after a couple of days." The way Anwar describes it, piracy sounds little more than a tedious evil that is tolerated provided the pirates don't overstep the mark – in other words, don't demand ransom money.
The pirates belong to the inventory of dhow shipping, just like the carpets stiff with saltwater on deck, where the helmsman has stood barefoot, a wooden tiller in his hand, for centuries. The only major difference: Where the mast once stood, there is now a tall funnel, and instead of sails, diesel engines propel the ships forward. Technical innovations are blended as unobtrusively as possible into the traditional dhow design – progress clothed in the mantle of the past.
The future of Oman's shipping industry lies not in trade, however, but in tourism. This is most apparent in Musandam, the country's remotest region. Musandam is an exclave situated 700 kilometers northwest of Sur, a peninsula protruding into the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow passage connecting the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf. Musandam is an archaic world of scree, rock and fjords, or khors, that slash deep into the landscape. The fishing villages in this barren, rugged region are more dependent on waterways than those in other parts the country – for getting the kids to school, for transporting shopping – for pretty much everything, in fact. And like few others in his country, Abdul Fatta Al-Shehhi has capitalized on the dhow tradition. Born into a simple fishing family, today he runs tours of the wild canyon world of Musandam for guests from around the world.
The cliffs of Musandam are a sublime, archaic sight
Dressed in a lily-white dishdasha, the traditional robe worn by Arabian men, and with a turban-like muzzar on his head, Abdul Fattah Al-Shehhi sits at the tiller of a small, blue wooden dhow that's chugging along beneath the peninsula's steep cliffs. With his glittering eyes, the striking gap in his teeth and the way he throws himself bodily into his job at the tiller, the 43-year-old looks rather like a large child. But when he tells you his story, his gestures become measured and dignified.
The first tourists came in the mid-1990s, says Al-Shehhi. An imaginative colleague took a couple of day trippers out with him in his dhow. "I thought: How could I make a better job of that?" Then he gave his dhow a fresh coat of paint, lined it with cushions, hauled a fridge and a crate of flippers and snorkels on board – and his tourist dhow was ready for action. He now uses it to glide deep into Khor Sham, Musandam's largest fjord.
Rising up to 900 meters into the sky, the cliffs here glow every shade from reddish-orange to ocher. They make a sublime, oddly monotonous sight. Our eyes take in the layers of rock and scree slopes, the folds in the earth's crust and the bizarre rock formations – and still, for all their fascination, there's nothing to hold our gaze, which slips away to a stretch of country entirely without vegetation.
He now owns six ships, Al-Shehhi tells us. His business, Musandam Sea Adventures, has 35 employees, two of whom are German and work as guides for his largest market. Al-Shehhi shows us his latest treasure the following morning. The gleaming white Rubba, a quirky cross between a motor yacht and a traditional dhow. Glass-fiber design meets handcrafted teak; a dashing hull, unmistakable dhow elements. Here, too, a landscape of carpets and cushions on the foredeck invites passengers to indulge in some stylish lounging, while luxurious cabins make multiday tours an option.
The captain welcomes me aboard with a broad smile. I hardly recognize him: Instead of his dishdasha, he's wearing shorts and a polo shirt; instead of a turban, he has donned a baseball cap. And instead of jamming his ample bodyweight comfortably against the tiller, he earnestly murmurs instructions into a walkie-talkie. With the gravity of a seasoned maritime patriarch, Al-Shehhi directs the yacht through the labyrinth of fjords, visibly enjoying his role.
Only a few hours later, we reach one of the most isolated spots in Oman, the small town of Kumzar, squeezed onto a narrow seam between the sand and the cliffs. Among linguists, the town is famous for its unique language, Kumzari, which is a mix of Farsi and Arabic with borrowings from Portuguese and English and these days only spoken by very few people. Al-Shehhi understands a little – his father's second wife is from Kumzar.
The sky drenched with stars, the water glittering with plankton
As we come in to land, we see some fishermen rinsing large chunks of tuna in salt water. Squatted down behind them on the pebble beach, their womenfolk are curing the fish with salt and spices. They are wearing the traditional, shimmering golden burka masks that cover nose and mouth – another sight that puts me in mind of centuries past. "Not much has changed here," says Al-Shehhi, pointing to a roofed-over promontory high above the harbor. "The fish lookout still sits up there and sounds the alarm when a shoal of sardines comes into the bay." A tiny dhow with decorative carvings is tied up at the quay, its nets laid ready for action. Behind the tool shed, I spot the fruits of the last fishing trip: thousands of tiny fish drying in the sunshine.
In the early evening, we drop anchor in the next fjord and Al-Shehhi invites me to disembark again. We climb aboard a dinghy and chug into a side branch, where Al-Shehhi plans to catch a barracuda for our dinner. But it's getting late, the light is beginning to fade. "Barracudas swim lower down in the water when it's dark," explains Al-Shehhi. He lets the bait and sinker down further and further as the mountains gradually merge into the darkness and the stars come out. Aside from the gentle slapping of the waves beneath the boat, the stillness is complete. When I look up, the sky is drenched with stars, and I can make out the Milky Way. And then, all at once, something glitters from below, as well. As Al-Shehhi gently guides the boat through the water, the marine plankton lights up. My thoughts of past and present stand still. This moment is beyond them both.
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Meet Krito, a Colombian Suicide Girl, who loves roller derby and watching South Park. This hot mama says her baby makes her happy.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
* Toilet Paper Tube Craft: Target Practice!
The girls invited a neighborhood friend over for an after-school play date this week.
It was super hot outside so, after popsicles...
we needed some water play!
I suggested that they make some "targets"
for their water guns out of toilet paper tubes.
We got out our "water shooters" (Thank You dollar bin at Target),
buckets of water, and made targets
out of empty toilet paper tubes,
colored masking tape,
and Sharpie brand permanent markers!
The toilet paper tube targets worked like a charm.
The girls made a score board chart (hello math!) and kept track of their "HIT"s.
I think they'd be fun to shoot with those Nerf foam guns too!
It was great hand-eye co-ordination practice and all three girls had a blast!
We'll be doing this a lot this summer!
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Celebs: Danica Patrick, Curtis Granderson, Prince Fielder, Theo Epstein, Pierre Thomas, Jake Peavy, John Danks, Edwin Jackson, Brent Morel, Tom and Todd Ricketts, Chris Zorich, CJ Watson, Troy Brouwer, Dustin Byfuglien, Brian Campbell, Jordan Hendry, Rene Bourque, Marcus Thames, Rickie Weeks, Jerry Hairston, Nyjer Morgan, Crystal McCahill, Ben Eager Star moment: When Prince Fielder and his Milwaukee Brewers teammates watched football at The Fifty/50 in September, the staff initially brought his table chicken wings, a skirt steak sandwich and the O-Face burger. Fielder didn't touch any of it, so the staff brought out another burger and ribs. Once again Fielder, who is listed at 275 pounds, passed. That's when one bartender, who is a die hard baseball fan, pointed out to the manager that Prince is a vegetarian. "Poor guy was sitting there and not saying anything about being a vegetarian and not eating," said Fifty/50 co-owner Scott Weiner by email.
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Jackie Battle's run as the short-yardage sidekick to Tennessee Titans tailback Chris Johnson might continue for a few more weeks.
Running back Shonn Greene underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Monday, coach Mike Munchak said Tuesday, via The Associated Press. The Tennessean first reported the news, per a source.
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Greene sat out Week 2 after injuring the knee in the season opener. Battle has averaged just 2.4 yards with one touchdown on 14 carries as the between-the-tackles hammer in Greene's stead.
The Titans have the NFL's run-heaviest offense through two weeks, attempting a pass on just 44 percent of their offensive snaps. As a corollary, only the Jacksonville Jaguars averaged fewer than Tennessee's 3.7 yards per play in Week 2.
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Facts & Figures
Sovereign: King Harald V (1991)
Prime Minister: Erna Solberg (2013)
Land area: 118,865 sq mi (307,860 sq km); total area: 125,181 sq mi (324,220 sq km)
Population (2014 census): 5,147,792 (growth rate: 1.19%); birth rate: 12.09/1000; infant mortality rate: 2.48/1000; life expectancy: 81.6
Capital and largest city (2011 est.): Oslo, 915,000
Other large cities: Bergen, 270,600; Stavanger, 197,852; Trondheim, 170,242
Monetary unit: Norwegian krone
- Norway Main Page
- The World Wars and 20th Century Norwegian Politics
- Politics In the 21st Century
- 2011 Terrorist Attacks
- 2013 Parliamentary Elections Brings Shift in Leadership
Norway is situated in the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula. It extends about 1,100 mi (1,770 km) from the North Sea along the Norwegian Sea to more than 300 mi (483 km) above the Arctic Circle, the farthest north of any European country. It is slightly larger than New Mexico. Nearly 70% of Norway is uninhabitable and covered by mountains, glaciers, moors, and rivers. The hundreds of deep fjords that cut into the coastline give Norway an overall oceanfront of more than 12,000 mi (19,312 km). Galdhø Peak, at 8,100 ft (2,469 m), is Norway's highest point and the Glåma (Glomma) is the principal river, at 372 mi (598 km) long.
Constitutional monarchy.
Norwegians, like the Danes and Swedes, are of Teutonic origin. The Norsemen, also known as Vikings, ravaged the coasts of northwest Europe from the 8th to the 11th century and were ruled by local chieftains. Olaf II Haraldsson became the first effective king of all Norway in 1015 and began converting the Norwegians to Christianity. After 1442, Norway was ruled by Danish kings until 1814, when it was united with Sweden—although retaining a degree of independence and receiving a new constitution—in an uneasy partnership. In 1905, the Norwegian parliament arranged a peaceful separation and invited a Danish prince to the Norwegian throne—King Haakon VII. A treaty with Sweden provided that all disputes be settled by arbitration and that no fortifications be erected on the common frontier.
The World Wars and 20th Century Norwegian Politics
When World War I broke out, Norway joined Sweden and Denmark in a decision to remain neutral and to cooperate in the joint interest of the three countries. In World War II, Norway was invaded by the Germans on April 9, 1940. It resisted for two months before the Nazis took complete control. King Haakon and his government fled to London, where they established a government-in-exile. Maj. Vidkun Quisling, who served as Norway's prime minister during the war, was the most notorious of the Nazi collaborators. The word for traitor, quisling, bears his name. He was executed by the Norwegians on Oct. 24, 1945. Despite severe losses in the war, Norway recovered quickly as its economy expanded. It joined NATO in 1949.
In the late 20th century, the Labor Party and the Conservative Party seesawed for control, each sometimes having to lead minority governments. An important debate was over Norway's membership in the European Union. In an advisory referendum held in Nov. 1994, voters rejected seeking membership for their nation in the EU. The country became the second-largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia in 1995. Norway continued to experience rapid economic growth into the new millennium.
Politics In the 21st Century
In March 2000, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik resigned after Parliament voted to build the country's first gas-fired power stations. Bondevik had objected to the project, asserting that the plants would emit too much carbon dioxide. Labor Party leader Jens Stoltenberg succeeded Bondevik. Stoltenberg and the Labor Party were defeated in Sept. 2001 elections, and no party emerged with a clear majority. After a month of talks, the Conservatives, the Christian People's Party, and the Liberals formed a coalition with Bondevik as prime minister. The governing coalition was backed by the far-right Progress Party. But in Sept. 2005 elections, the center-left Red-Green coalition gained a majority of seats, and Jens Stoltenberg of the Labor Party once again became prime minister.
In April 2008, government officials agreed to amend the 1814 Constitution to loosen the ties between church and state. The monarch must still be Lutheran, but citizens are no longer required to raise their children as Lutherans. In the future, the church will appoint bishops instead of the monarch, and equal financial backing for other faiths and atheist communities must be provided by the state.
In June 2008, Parliament voted 84–41 to pass a new marriage act, granting homosexual couples the same marriage and adoption rights as heterosexual couples.
2011 Terrorist Attacks
On Friday, July 22, 2011, Norway was hit with two related terrorist attacks. First, a bomb exploded in Regjeringskvartalet, the government quarter of Oslo. The explosion happened right outside the prime minister's office as well as other government buildings, killing eight people and wounding several others. Two hours later, a gunman disguised as a policeman opened fire on campers at a camp for young political activists on the island of Utoya in Tyrifjorden, Buskerud. The camp was organized by the youth organization of the Norwegian Labour Party. The gunman killed at least 68 campers, including personal friends of Prime Minister Stoltenberg. Police arrested Anders Behring Breivik who has been charged with both attacks. Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian and a right-wing fundamentalist Christian, has been linked to an anti-Islamic group and may be connected to other terrorist groups.
On July 24, Breivik admitted to "the facts" of the attacks. However, he did not admit criminal guilt and claimed that he was acting alone, which contrasted some of the statements given by witnesses. According to his lawyer, Breivik called the killings "atrocious", but "necessary". Authorities said Breivik was obsessed with the threat of Muslim immigration and multiculturalism to the cultural values of his country. Out of respect for the victims, stores in Norway removed certain war toys and computer games from shelves. Breivik was a talk forum regular for players of the online game, World of Warcraft. In the days following the attacks, Norway police were under scrutiny. It took SWAT units more than an hour to reach the camp. A police helicopter was unable to get off the ground. News crews arrived first, but could only watch Breivik's massacre. Police officers drove to the shore and used boats to get to the island.
2013 Parliamentary Elections Brings Shift in Leadership
On September 9, 2013, Norway held a parliamentary election. The right-of-center coalition won 96 seats, while the Red-Green incumbent government coalition kept 72 seats. The Green Party took one seat.
This was the fourth election for incumbent Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. He was defeated in the 2001 parliamentary election, but won in 2005 and 2009. If Stoltenberg would've won in 2013, he would have been the first prime minister in Norway's history to be elected for three consecutive terms. However, he lost and Erna Solberg, the leader of the Conservative Party, was named prime minister. Solberg took office on October 16, 2013. Solberg became Norway's second female prime minister. Gro Harlem Brundtland was the first.
See also Norwegian dependencies.
See also Encyclopedia: Norway .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Norway
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Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies are teaming up to break the continuing cycle of violence, drug dealing and gang activity crushing city neighborhoods and the residents who in many cases have become hostages in the neighborhoods.
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, along with Rochester Police and representatives from several other law enforcement agencies, announced Friday the arrest and indictment of three men allegedly connected to a west-side gang known as "M.D.B." or "The Broezel Boys".
Indicted are Jacob "JJ" Rivera, 22, Kevin "Nash" Feliciano, 19, and Marius "Florida" Johnson, 27, all of Rochester. They facing federal charges of narcotics trafficking, including conspiracy to possess and distribute crack cocaine and marijuana. The men are also facing gun charges in federal court.
If convicted, they could face a minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a maximum of life, authorities said.
"We are all committed to ridding the streets of Rochester of violent, drug-dealing organizations," said Hochul at a press conference Friday. "Yesterday, a federal grand jury indicted three particular individuals who were leaders and members of a particular gang."
The press conference was held at the corner of Dewey and Lexington avenues, the center of the alleged gang activity, according to police. The gang allegedly controlled an open-air drug market in the area surrounding the intersection and operated several drug houses, including apartments on Lexington Avenue, Lakeview Park and West Main Street.
Federal authorities said the houses were used for processing, manufacturing and distributing drugs. Members of the gang also frequently possessed guns and used violence and threats to control the sale of drugs in the area, investigators said.
"We are taking the fight literally to the streets of Rochester," Hochul said.
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Creating a Cloud Sponge in Corel® Painter™
Clouds are one of nature's amazing displays of fractals. What are fractals, you ask? The world is full of them. Fractals are self-similar patterns that are repeated at all scales of view. A fern is a prime example; the shape of a fern leaf is repeated whether the leaf is large or small. While not always obvious, clouds are also made up of pattern elements that repeat at any scale. Clouds can be very difficult to illustrate convincingly, so I'm going to show you how you can create a fractal-based Cloud Sponge in Painter. We'll be using an existing brush variant (Sponge) to create a new sponge variant with a cloud fractal as its Dab. Let's get fractalized!
Creating a Fractal Source Pattern
To make a convincing cloud sponge dab, we'll need a source of fractal imagery. Conveniently, Painter has a fractal generator built right into it: The Make Fractal Pattern dialog. This tool is located in the Tool palette's Pattern Selector flyout menu. Alternatively, you can use CTRL/CMD+9 to launch the Pattern palette to access the flyout menu. Note that you must have a document open in order for Make Fractal Pattern to be available (not grayed out). The Make Fractal Pattern dialog has several adjustable parameters which can be used to control the appearance of the fractal pattern field. Feel free to play around with the sliders to get a sense of how they affect the fractal preview. For my example, I've set Power=-98%, Feature Size=100%, Softness=35%, Angle=0%, and Thinness=100%. Output Size is toggled to 512 (512X512 pixels). Keep the Channel pop-up set to the default Height as Luminance setting. Press OK and Painter will generate a new file with the fractal pattern on the canvas. It is generally a good idea to apply the Negative command (Invert in Photoshop), found in Effects: Tonal Control, to the resulting fractal. Basically, you want the black areas of the fractal pattern to predominate over white. This is because the dark areas will become the mark made by the Cloud Sponge.
Modifying An Existing Variant
We are going to use an existing variant, the Sponge (Brush Selector Bar: Sponges) to create our Cloud Sponge. Select the Sponge variant. In order to preserve the existing Sponge variant, create a copy by using the Save Variant command (Brush Selector Bar: Flyout menu) and save a new variant named Cloud Sponge. This gives us an exact copy of the Sponge variant to modify while preserving the original Sponge variant. Be sure to now select the new Cloud Sponge variant from the Sponge Variant pop-up list in order to make it active for Dab surgery.
Selecting & Capturing a Cloud Dab
Select the Oval Selection Tool (Tool palette) by pressing the O key. Select a circular area in the central portion of your fractal pattern. We want this selection to have a soft edge so we'll feather it. Access the Feather command via the Selection menu. Set the feather amount to 50 pixels. This will give a nice soft edge. At this point, you have a soft-edged circular selection positioned over your fractal pattern. We are now going to set the stage for capturing a Dab for our Cloud Sponge. With the selection active, Cut the selection (Edit: Cut) or CTRL/CMD+X. Select All (Select: All) or CTRL/CMD+A and Clear the canvas (Edit: Clear or press the Backspace/Delete key). Now Paste (Edit: Paste) or CTRL/CMD+V to copy your soft-edged circular fractal pattern to the blank image. Using the Layer Adjuster Tool (Tool palette), position the circular pattern in the center of the document and Drop the layer (Effects: Drop) to the Canvas. Press the R key to activate the Rectangular Selection Tool and make a selection slightly larger than the visible soft edge of the circular fractal pattern. Select the Capture Dab command (Brush Selector Bar) to Capture your fractal pattern. We're almost done.
Adjusting the Cloud Sponge's Behavior
There are a couple of adjustments we need to make in order for the Cloud Sponge to properly behave. To make these adjustments, go to the Brush Controls: General palette. Change the Subcategory pop-up from Grainy Hard Cover to Soft Cover. Set the Opacity pop-up from None to Pressure. These changes will provide you with a pressure-controlled, soft-applying Cloud Sponge.
Try It Out
The most obvious use of the Cloud Sponge is to paint clouds! Fill a new canvas with blue (or a gradient of light to dark blue) and select white as your current color. Paint a few experimental strokes. Apply varying degrees of pressure to increase and decrease the cloud fractal. I also find the Cloud Sponge useful for creating a soft-edged vignette around images, particularly photographs. Create a new layer over an existing image. Select White as the current color. Paint from the outer edges inward toward the image. Apply lighter strokes as you get closer to the desired vignetted edge. The resulting vignette has a nice dreamy quality.
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Baseball Kicks Off Campus Doubleheader at 3 p.m.
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BATON ROUGE - The seventh-ranked LSU baseball team plays a rare midweek game at 3 p.m. Wednesday when the Tigers play host to McNeese State in Alex Box Stadium. The LSU-McNeese State game precedes the LSU men's basketball game versus Georgia, which tips off at 7 p.m. in the Maravich Center.
"We're looking forward to playing a 'businessman's special,'" said LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri. "We're so happy for (LSU basketball coach) Trent Johnson and his team - they've won three in a row and they're playing so well. It's a nice doubleheader for LSU fans - baseball in the afternoon and basketball after our game."
The LSU-McNeese State game will be carried by the affiliates of the LSU Sports Radio Network, with Baton Rouge affiliate WDGL 98.1 FM serving as the flagship station. Live video and audio of the game may be accessed in the Geaux Zone at www.LSUsports.net.
LSU climbed in the baseball rankings released Monday, moving up to No. 7 in the Baseball America poll and No. 9 in the Collegiate Baseball poll.
LSU (3-0) opened the 2012 season last weekend with two victories over Air Force and a win over Alcorn State. The Tigers began the year ranked No. 8 by Baseball America and No. 12 by Collegiate Baseball.
LSU outscored its opposition, 33-2, over the weekend, defeating Air Force 10-2 on Friday and 4-0 on Sunday, and Alcorn State 19-0 on Saturday. The Tigers recorded back-to-back shutouts over Alcorn State and Air Force, marking the first time LSU posted consecutive shutouts since April 2008 when it blanked Centenary and Alabama.
The Tigers' 19 runs in the Alcorn State game marked LSU's highest total since it scored 25 runs against Centenary on February 20, 2010. The Tigers' 19-run margin of victory was their largest since defeating Duquesne 24-5 on February 24, 2001.
McNeese State enters Wednesday's game with a 1-1 mark after splitting two games with Houston Baptist over the weekend. Cowboys coach Terry Burrows will send senior right-hander Ryan Sampere to the mound as the MSU starter.
"Terry Burrows is an outstanding coach, and he is building a great program at McNeese," Mainieri said. "We expect a tremendous challenge from their team. Two years ago we won a 2-1 game against them, and we had to make a great catch in the outfield in the ninth inning to preserve the win."
Mainieri said sophomore right-hander Joe Broussard will start Wednesday's game on the mound for the Tigers. Broussard made his 2012 season debut last Saturday against Alcorn State, when he recorded two shutout innings with three strikeouts.
Three LSU hitters collected four hits in the Tigers' three wins last weekend, including sophomore catcher Ty Ross (4-for-7, 2 RBI, 2 runs), sophomore outfielder Jackson Slaid (4-for-8, 1 double, 3 RBI, 2 runs) and junior outfielder Raph Rhymes (4-for-9, 2 RBI, 5 runs). Junior first baseman/outfielder Mason Katz collected three hits, including a triple, and a team-best five RBI, and sophomore outfielder JaCoby Jones produced a double and four RBI.
Freshman infielder/outfielder Jared Foster, a backup quarterback for the LSU football team last fall, was 2-for-5 at the plate over the weekend with a double, three RBI and one run. Senior infielder Beau Didier blasted a solo homer Saturday in LSU's win over Alcorn State, the second dinger of his career and his first since 2009, when he homered in his only at-bat of the season
LSU leads the all-time series with McNeese State, 24-9, including a 6-0 victory over the Cowboys last season in Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers have won six straight games over the Cowboys; McNeese State's last win over LSU came in 2000, a 4-3 decision in Lake Charles.
The teams will meet for a second time this season next Wednesday, February 29, at Cowboy Diamond in Lake Charles.
McNeese State Cowboys (1-1) at #7 LSU Fighting Tigers (3-0)
Wednesday, February 22 - 3 p.m. CT
Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, La. (10,326)
LSU - No. 7 by Baseball America; No. 9 by Collegiate Baseball
McNeese State - unranked
LSU Sports Radio Network affiliates
The Baton Rouge affiliate is WDGL 98.1 FM
Pregame show starts at 2:30 p.m.
www.LSUsports.net - live video, audio and stats
Fans who present their LSU-McNeese State baseball game ticket at the LSU-Georgia men's basketball game will be admitted to the basketball game for just $1.
LSU leads the series with McNeese State, 24-9, including a 6-0 victory over the Cowboys last season in Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers have won six straight games over the Cowboys; McNeese State's last win over LSU came in 2000, a 4-3 decision in Lake Charles. The teams will meet for a second time this season next Wednesday, February 29 at Cowboy Diamond in Lake Charles.
LSU - So. RHP Joe Broussard (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 2.0 IP, 0 BB, 3 SO)
MSU -- Sr. RHP Ryan Sampere (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 1.0 IP, 0 BB, 0 SO)


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TRENTON, NJ — A new poll shows a donor controversy is taking a toll on Sen. Robert Menendez's popularity.
The Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday shows the Democrat's job approval rating at a five-year low of 36 percent, compared with 41 percent who disapprove of his performance.
It also shows 44 percent think Menendez isn't honest and trustworthy, compared with 28 percent who believe he has those qualities.
Menendez was recently named chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. But his ties to a Florida eye doctor and political donor have been referred to a Senate ethics panel.
Menendez reimbursed the doctor $58,000 for flights to the Dominican Republican aboard his private plane.
The poll of 1,1,49 registered voters was taken Feb. 13-17 and has an error margin of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.


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Christian isn't about to let her marry that pompous prig . . .
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Three Ways to Hire Great People
By: Brian Tracy and Mark Thompson, authors of Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market
Successful managers know that recruiting the right people to work for you will make or break your business, while poor hiring decisions can cost three and five times the person's annual salary! Mistakes are expensive in terms of the effort and money that is paid and lost, the time that is wasted that could have been invested with a better candidate, as well as the demoralization that occurs in a company with high employee turnover.
Here's how companies like Google avoid these expensive hiring mistakes. We call it the "law of three" for interviewing candidates:
- Always interview at least three people for a position. Even if you like the first interviewee and feel that individual is suitable, discipline yourself to interview at least two others. Many large companies will not hire a person until they have interviewed ten or fifteen candidates for the spot. The more people you interview, the greater the selection of choices you will have, and the more likely it is that you will make the right choice.
- Interview the candidate you like in three different places. It is amazing how the personality of a person can change when you move the interview setting from your office to a coffee shop across the street. Candidates will usually be at their very best in the first interview. If they were pretending, the veneer will quickly come off in subsequent meetings.
There is another important reason to change venues for each meeting. That's exactly what many employees need to be able to do to be successful in their jobs: They will have to work with many different types of people in many different locations.
- Have the candidate interviewed by at least three different people for a post-game review. The more people on the team who buy-in to the selection of a particular candidate, the better chance that the staff will have a vested interest in helping the new person be successful.
One of the best interview strategies you can use is called the SWAN formula, named after John Swan, an executive recruiter. These letters also stand for Smart, Works hard, Ambitious, and Nice. This may sound Pollyannaish, but it's a good, practical prescription for hiring. Here's what we mean:
1. Successful people are smart, especially when it comes to the skills and competencies required for their specific job. This is what Jim Collins meant in his business classic, Good to Great, when he wrote about "getting the right people in the right seats on the bus." People who have a gift for their particular job tend to work faster, make fewer mistakes, and are more productive.
And how do you tell if a person is "smart"? Simple. They ask a lot of questions. The questions should demonstrate a passion for your business and, depending on the job, the skills that are necessary to succeed in that role.
2. People who actually want to "work hard" are more successful at their jobs. The basic rule is that "people don't change." A person who is unaccustomed to hard work is not suddenly going to transform under your supervision.
"Chances are nowadays that you're going to be working far more than forty hours a week. Most leaders spend fifty, sixty, seventy hours a week -- weekends and holidays -- in today's competitive environment," said Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world's best executive coaches. "You had better love what you're doing when you're committing so much of your life in the office."
3. Candidates should be "ambitious" and able to demonstrate to you why they want this particular job. Find people who are anxious to be effective and ambitious about this assignment, not some future promotion or benefit. They have to live for today in that job, not chase the flame of future possibilities. The more that the job candidate looks upon the potential job as an opportunity to perform well and then move ahead, the better he will do the job from day one.
4. "Nice" people are a nice fit for this specific job. When we say "nice," in this case, we mean people who are positive, cheerful, easy to get along with, and supportive of others. They fit within the culture of your organization. Their beliefs are in alignment with your values and the customers your organization serves.
To insiders, finding a nice fit for the job means you have found a person the team can trust and enjoys having around. Depending on the culture of the organization, that might mean someone who behaves with polite formality in a law office or who can snap a towel in the locker room.
At Google, "We beat on each other hard during my interviews," CEO Eric Schmidt remarked about his early conversations with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. "We tested each other's intelligence, our ambitions, our beliefs, our integrity. They kicked my assumptions about everything! We took each other to the mat. And we respect each other more for having done that. Part of our company culture is to continue to test each other's commitment to making Google great every day."
Great teams are composed of diverse, impassioned people who may have only a few things in common: SWAN. They are smart and savvy, hardworking, ambitious, and nice in a constructive way that adds value for their coworkers and customers.
© 2010 Mark Thompson & Brian Tracy authors of Now, Build a Great Business: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market
Author Bios
Mark Thompson, co-author of Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market, and co-author of the bestseller Success Built to Last, is a serial entrepreneur who sold his last company for $100 million and today coaches executives on how to lead growth companies. He is a venture investor who Forbes noted for having the "Midas touch:' He was Chief Customer Experience Officer at Schwab, reporting directly to founder Charles Schwab, and is a former director of many firms, including Best Buy and Korn Ferry.
Brian Tracy, co-author of Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market, is one of America's leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. In addition to being a remarkably successful entrepreneur, he is a dynamic and inspiring speaker, addressing thousands of people each year in companies such as IBM, Ford, Federal Express, Hewlett Packard, Pepsi, Northwestern Mutual, and hundreds of others worldwide.
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1) Cass Sunstein writes in the Wall Street Journal about new money-saving regulations.
2) Disney creates scarcity with its content.
3) New MPG labels for cars will include information about greenhouse gases.
4) A call for the Indian government to think about behavioral economics.
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6) The U.K. government wants to make digital delivery a default. Hat tip Amol Agrawal.
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text: As I'm new here let me say EHLO howtoforge.com So, couple of days ago I purchased an unmanaged root server and since then I'm trying to make emails work. I have followed couple of different tutorials but none of them took me to the final destination. I'm starting to believe that now, maybe whats blocking me is some old settings from some tutorial I followed but I simply have no clue what to look for and where to look for the answer. So, first let me give you some info what I have done (maybe this matters). Immidiatelly after i got my root credetials, I created a new user and gave him the sudo rights. Created cuple of new groups (neither of them interferre with those used in mail tutorials), and installed php, apache and mysql. I set up one website in apache and the last thing I did was changing the host name... That's about everything. Then i started with mail tutorials. Last mail tutorial I followed (http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/) gave me partial success. I can telnet to port 25 of the localhost, can send email, receivers receive email (no matter do I send the mail from localhost or from gmail!) so I guess that postfix + courier + virtual hosts saved in mysql work ok. I can see folders and files in /var/spool/mail/virtual/virtual_user_dir... Then I tryed to install roundcube, and set it up, but when I try to enter my virtual user credentials, roundcube alerts me with error Connection to IMAP server failed. I checked the logs: /var/log/auth.log and /var/log/mail.err give no error for this, but in /var/log/mail.log i found this: sunzone imapd-ssl: couriertls: /etc/ssl/certs/905b837e.0: No such file or directory. I tryed to see does /etc/ssl/certs/905b837e.0 exists and i found a symlink to a real file (lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 19 14:00 905b837e.0 -> /etc/mail/tls/sendmail-server.crt) but the real file doesn't exist! Even more in /etc/mail i have no /tls/ dir! I tryed to delete the symlink but, UBUNTU 12.04 is recreating it again with a new symlink name and the same destination. I remember that in on tutorial i followed before the last one, I did create certificates name sendmail-server... but honestly, i can't remember wich one was it... I strongly believe that IMAP error that Roundcube gives me is related to this certfile error, but again, I'm not sure... Please help me with this one - I'm rellay tired and sleepless for past three days trying to set this email up


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Think you know your Call of Duty? Take our quiz to find out just how much!
Bobby Kotick, Michael Pachter, and the tubes say it's coming. Activision, Infinity Ward, Treyarch say it isn't.
Is the real Modern Warfare killer another Call of Duty game?
We open the dossier on the next Call of Duty.
NFL wide out is evidently a big fan of the franchise, and he's willing to make a major trade.
Interview suggests fan demand made a Black Ops zombie mode a must.
And the developer might not be the only studio designing Black Ops multiplayer maps.
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This is my contribution to international soup day which recently just passed.
Roasted Tomato & Red Pepper Soup
1 kg tomatoes
2 biggish red peppers (deseeded)
1 onion
1 tsp garlic
½ spring fresh rosemary, chopped
1 cup beef / vegetable stock
2 tots sherry
1 tin tomato paste
olive Oil
fresh basil
Cut a cross into the top of the tomatoes, with the peppers place onto a roasting tray, sprinkle salt, pepper olive oil and rosemary. Roast at 200°C for 45 minutes.
Chop onions and fry off in a little olive oil and a sprinkle of sugar until nicely caramelized, deglaze the pot with 1 tot of sherry, add garlic and tomato paste, fry until the oils starts slowly splitting from the tomato paste, deglaze the pot once more with the 2nd tot of sherry.
Add your roasted tomatoes and peppers and cook off for 10 minutes. Add salt & pepper and blitz up. Add the fresh basil and blitz more until smooth. Your soup at this stage will be really thick.
Add 1 cup of stock of choice and cook over a low heat for about 3 hours. If your soup thickens up to much, just add a little more stock and cook out more. You want the end result to be thick but not to chunky.
Add desired seasoning to taste and enjoy with fresh bread.
I roasted 2 or 3 cloves of garlic and just rubbed my ciabatta with it, with some fresh goats cheese, and it complimented the soup wonderfully.
I like to add Chia seeds to my soup. I had done a little post about Chia seeds before, but here is a some more that I learnt and a slight update on how I am using it.
After further research on chia seeds, I have learnt the more nutritional way to use them. Take 1/3 cup of chia seeds to 2 cups of water, mix and place in the fridge. You are looking for a gel type substance that can last in your fridge for 3 weeks. That is the substance you add to your smoothies or soups to really get the full punch of the chia seeds. The gel that is formed is ready to eat in 10 minutes, however the longer the chia seeds stand in a liquid (water, juice smoothies etc) the more you will benefit from the nutritional value of it. Just an update on how chia seeds improve your lifestyle:
Provides energy
Boosts strength
Bolsters endurance
Levels blood sugar
Induces weight loss
Aids intestinal regularity
So I am going to start with a new challenge I have set myself this winter. I am going to start with having chia seeds 3 times a day, eat healthy and properly, and slowly bring in basic exercise again, and of course, take my yoga seriously again. Time for a change of life, maybe that will motivate me again!
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A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Our company provides prescription medicines for a range of conditions including schizophrenia.
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The website will also be a learning tool for patients, carers and members of the public who wish to know more about schizophrenia. The site will provide general information about choices in relation to the management of the condition. This website will also provide advocacy groups with another avenue for the provision of education and support for people touched by schizophrenia.
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Kesha Fans Launch Petition to Free Her From Dr. Luke
Free Kesha! At least that's what a number of Animals are requesting when it comes to her relationship with super-producer Dr. Luke.
Kesha fans have posted an online petition seeking to release the singer from her commitments to Luke, who has been behind some of her biggest hits, including 'Tik Tok' and 'We R Who We R.'
The petition offers a surprisingly large amount of insight onto the usually secretive artist-producer relationship, and doesn't mince words in the least. "Dr. Luke is controlling Kesha like a puppet, feeding her what she doesn't want, and her creativity is dwindling and affected negativity," the petition states.
Did it we say it's blunt? The petition continues, "Kesha makes it clear that her producer, Dr. Luke, is stunting her from growing as an artist by making her sing the same generic, predictable, recycled, pop song. Kesha also confesses that she has no say whatsoever in what makes the album not to mention what's released as a single which every artist should have a say in."
Um, Kesha, is that you? Whoever is behind it, more than 1,300 fans have signed it! Read the entire petition here.